There were slaves owned by African Americans. How were those slaves treated?

by ash412

When slaves became free, some of them went on to become slave owners and sellers themselves. How did those free-men treat their slaves?

tropical_chancer

Henry Louis Gates did a good write up with links to the relevant articles of Blacks who owned slaves here

Basically it seems most Black people who owned slaves owned their relatives, or purchased a slave to ease that slave's burden. Some of these owners did require some work or some sort of payment from the slave. There are also a few instances of Black people owning their relatives and then selling their relative off for some reason. There were also a few Black slave owners who owned many slaves and ran farms/plantations with that labor, especially in Louisiana. It seems that these owners had expectations of their slaves not too dissimilar to white owners.