re: Interesting facts about slavery I'll bet you didn't know.

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What does that have to do with the OP?

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The OP is a needle in the haystack. Just because the needle is found doesn't change the exceptionality of the thing.

The response to "reparations" can become as utterly ridiculous as the request for reparations itself. The OP does not take that path, but it certainly points in the direction of it.

All I'm saying is raising the fact of a handful of freedmen, who themselves became slaveholders, was rare. It could be viewed as attempted lessening of broader facts of both previous racism and slavery.

Perhaps that was the OP's intent.
I certainly did not read it that way.
Others might though.

I understood the OP to be directed toward difficulties of both sourcing hypothetical reparations funding, as well as assigning hypothetical distribution. The devil is always in the details. In case of arguments for reparations, there are many devils. The OP's observation points out one of those many.

There is no excuse for slavery. There is no excuse for atrocities directed at black Americans over the 100yrs following Reconstruction. None! In distinguishing the stupidity of various Reparations proposals, I'd just caution not to jump-the-shark. It isn't necessary.