Odd slavery facts. 3,775 black people in the 1830 US census owned 12,000 plus slaves.

Slavery was an abomination and the worst thing that ever happened in this wonderful country. But likely there are very few white people and even fewer black folks alive in America who do not have either slave owner/holders, traders, those who captured or held and sold slaves in their native country or shippers in their family tree.

Washington and Jefferson of course are two of the founding fathers who owned slaves. And btw, Lincoln denied freeing slaves was his reason for going to war and then backed that up with an offer to allow slavery to continue as is in the states already practicing the despicable practice if the states who rebelled would come back into the union. Strangely enough Lincoln's VP, Johnson was an ex-slave himself. Having been sold, along with his brother, by his own mother to a man as a child. He ran away and with a reward on his head, avoided capture by various slave hunters and made his way to hiding in Greenville, Tn. So the only ex-slave ever to be president was A. Johnson, a white man. Strange facts about the curse on mankind. Further it is still practiced among many. And American whites are the only people in world history who rose up and expended over 600,000 lives in a war to end it per Thomas Sowell.