The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-08
Where is Atlamtas
NEGROES OWNING NEGROES.
Many Cases of That Sort are Recorded
 In the South.


 In the South.
 Mir. George P. Floyd, who lived in Montsomery during thes war. and short time thereafter. writes the fol- lowing letter to The Detroit Journal: During slave times before the enian- einat tion of the slaves of tffe Southern states by Abraham Lincoln in 1863, there were many negro slave owners. who owned and paid taxes on members her capita. Those negro slave owners came into possession of their slaves exactly as did the white people anu they managed them in much the same manner, often hiring them out to other employers and taking all the wages the workers earned. There were many cases of the kind, and some Of them are interesting.
 one case was that of Daisy Clifford | of Montgomery, Ala. who owned her own husband. She hired him out py the year to work for the winter Tn my stage and transfer stables until ne offended her in some way, when pur- chased him from her for $500. l Kept possession of the negro until me war closed. when I set him up in business on a truck farm. . | Another negro. Bob Jacobs. owned and worked negroes that he had pur- chased. He had a cotton plantation near Montgomery. and worked some | fifty negroes, a number of whom ne | had purchased. Jim Thomas. negro slave owner, operated a line Of drays lin Montgomery, owning both the ne- ligro drivers and mules. also number of women and children slaves. Tom Rutherford. of Montgomery, was a slave, of his wife. Toms wife permit ted him to work for others TOT wages and reserve a part of his wages to De applied to the purchase of his free dom, $l.000 being the price stipulated. He paid $500. to his wife towards his freedom, when his wife died. leaving no record of her private arrangement. By some trick Tom was sold after his wife's death to man named waters. In the meantime Tom married another colored woman. who was free. She purchased Tom from Waters, agree ing to pay $1,000 on the installment plan. Before all the installments had been paid the war broke out Lincoln freed all the slaves in the South and Tom became free.
 Lag Jackson was slave owned by Henry Clark of Montgomery. Lag married a free woman, who purchased her husband for $1.000, and gave her note in payment. Jacob Whitesides. a neighbor. endorsed the note. Lag worked and paid part of the note The war broke out and his wife died. A part of the note was still due when the war closed, but Lag did not repu- diate the debt although he could have done so. He continued to work ana save money. Several years after the slaves were set free and after the war had closed Lag paid the last dollar or the note his wife had given to secure his freedom.
 Moses Hill was a slave belonging to D. Hill of Wetumpka, Ala. Nose was hired out by the year to my brother who kept the Exchange Hotel in Mont gomerY. and was made head waiter {: He saved the money which he picked up in tips. Nose married slave wo. man also belonging to MT. Hill. He continued to accumulate money and bought his wife's freedom for $500 Nose and his wife remained in Mont gomery until after the civil war closed They then went to Chicago. where Nose
 was employed as head waiter at } Kingsley's hotel for years. Many cases of this kind occurred in the Southern States during slave times.
 Geo. P. Floyd
 Detroit New IA. 1903.