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Why does not the NAACP and the textbooks not talk about the "Free" Blacks of America who were?

not only slave owners...but were "slave breeders", they only refer to the White slave owners as the cruel and uncaring owners? Please do the research it is out there for all to find.

According to this article based on data from the Census Bureau:

"The fact is large numbers of free Negroes owned black slaves; in fact, in numbers disproportionate to their representation in society at large. In 1860 only a small minority of whites owned slaves. According to the U.S. census report for that last year before the Civil War, there were nearly 27 million whites in the country. Some eight million of them lived in the slave-holding states."

"The census also determined that there were fewer than 385,000 individuals who owned slaves (1). Even if all slaveholders had been white, that would amount to only 1.4 percent of whites in the country (or 4.8 percent of southern whites owning one or more slaves)."

So why is the NAACP condemning 80% of the White Population (the TEA Party Movement), why do they ignore the Free Black Slave Owners and not hold those descendants accountable for the sins of their ancestors as well?...this makes no sense whatsoever if only 1.4% of the population ever owned a slave in the history of the United States...according to Federal Census Records of the time.

Education of Americas' youth is one-sided.

It is time for the truth to be told about all good , bad or indifferent.

http://americancivilwar.com/authors/black_slaveown...

http://www.bing.com/search?q=Treatment+of+Blacks+b...

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    I've seen estimates that 60% of free blacks owned slaves. I didn't know that until I got to college.

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