If the entire black race was born into slavery, how were there free blacks? Were the free ones not really black? You were wrong and now you are just making yourself look ridiculous to try to spin your way out of it. But at least your thought is consistent. You don't consider free blacks back then as real black people, the same way you don't consider black people today who have left the democratic plantation to be real black people.No one said every single person of color in America was a slave. I said in American slavery one was born into slavery because of their race. Individuals could be free, the race was enslaved. As opposed to historical slavery where it wasn’t generational and individuals could be slaves but races were free. Sowell was trying to equate the two when they’re fundamentally different.