Don’t overstate black slave owners
In the article “Anti-reparations points poorly reasoned” by Ellen Buller (ODE, March 14), she calculates that 3,000 slave owners in 1860 were black, compared to nearly 4.5 million black Americans, “therefore only 0.7 percent of blacks in America at the time owned slaves.” Actually, these numbers point out that only 0.07 percent of blacks in America at the time owned slaves.
Lori Kessler
graduate student
architecture
