Seeking records free people of color who were slave owners

This is a link to an interesting article about free persons of color who were slave owners.  Just past midway through the article you will find a list of at least some of these slave owners in Louisiana.

https://www.theroot.com/did-black-people-own-slaves-1790895436

Dear Ms. Prather,

Thank you for posting your request on History Hub!

We searched the National Archives Catalog and located the Population Schedules for the 1830 Census, the Population Schedules for the 1840 Census, the Population Schedules for the 1850 Census (with separate slave schedules for those states in which slavery was protected by law),  the Population Schedules for the 1860 Census (with separate slave schedules for those states in which slavery was protected by law) in the Records of the Bureau of the Census (Record Group 29) that may contain information about free people of color who were slave holders in Louisiana.  For access to the non-digitized schedules, please contact the National Archives at Washington, DC - Textual Reference (RDT1) via email at archives1reference@nara.gov. 

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For information about the U.S. Census, see the Census Bureau technical documentation and questionnaires.

You may wish to search Ancestry.com or FamilySearch.org for the U.S. Census. There may be a fee for using Ancestry. Instead, check for access at your local library as many library systems subscribe to these sites, making them free for their patrons.

In addition to the information from the previous poster, we searched online and found several sites that may be of relevance to your research.  They include:

• Free People of Color in Louisiana: Revealing an Unknown Past
• Black Slaveowners
• A Peculiar Institution Within the Peculiar Institution: An Examination of Affluent Free Black Slave Owners in the Third Caste

We hope this is helpful. Best of luck with your research!

Michelle,

Take a look at this web site. It has some information on your question.

www.americancivilwar.com/authors/black_slaveowners.htm

Hope this helps.

Rebecca