Thousands of free blacks owned slaves in the antebellum South. And, years after the Emancipation Proclamation in the United States, whites as well as blacks were still being bought and sold as slaves in North Africa and the Middle East.
— Thomas Sowell, Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays (1999)
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