John Carruthers Stanley: A Wealthy Black Slave Owner
I think I may do a piece in my book about this man.What do you know about him?
I promise what you find out about him will shock you. I wonder what all these people that say that the White man oppressed me have to say.
John Carruthers Standley
Below is from Black Slave Owners & Free Slaves:
And we have fairly good statistics from 1830 that suggest about 191
Below is from Stanly, John Carruthers(1774–1846) - Barber, plantation owner, Chronology:
Regarding how many slaves Stanly owned, the 1830 census suggests he owned 163 slaves. He has been described as a harsh, profit-minded task master whose treatment of his slaves was no different than the treatment slaves received from white owners. Stanly’s goal, shared by white southern planters, was on expanding his operations and increasing his profits. Prior to a series of financial difficulties in the 1830s, his economic net worth exceeded $68,000.free black slaveholders owned about 650 slaves in North Carolina.
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