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He owned slave but situations where freed men owned slaves was very few and far between. However what you are speaking on here is a smoke bomb. I mentioned native americans and not freed men who we knew were slaves with African ancestry and brought here by the slave trade. Among Native Americans however, more of them owned slaves in an attempt to integrate into white society. Some of them mixed with us but where is the proof that we were here before the slave trade.
William Ellison was Mulatto - which was another classification than Black/Negro back then. Do you really think South Carolina would let a Black/Dark skin man enslaved others.
South Carolina as N.O. had a high population of Mulattoes/French Creoles - and they were the sons of their white fathers. Their white fathers would allow them to buy their freedom or sometimes free them or sometimes allow them to run other family plantations -- which is what happened with Ellison. Ellison - did not classify or think of himself as Black. Nor did people see him as such.