Not long ago, the subject of slavery was in the news, and once again it was all the white plantation owners. There were statues removed, and the Confederate flag made people angry. What I would like to know is why it’s only one side of the slave owners’ story that is told? According to the 1830 census, there were 3,775 black plantation owners who owned 12,760 slaves. Sources suggest that at the peak of slavery in 1860, there were 20,000 slaves that were owned by black plantation owners.
If we are going to tell the story of the slave owners, we should tell the whole story and not just one side. There is no way any of us could understand what these people went through or why they had to be treated so badly.
There were several reasons that the Civil War happened, but it is time that we stop focusing on just the white slave owners and start telling the whole story.
