Looking at the 1860 slave Schedules I noticed that some were listed under owners and some under empl

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Looking at the 1860 slave Schedules I noticed that some were listed under owners and some under employer. Can you tell me the difference? Who actually owned them?

Steve Walker16

Accord to ancestry.com the following information about hte difference between owner and employer

 

In the pre-Civil War South, enslaved people were sometimes rented out to the highest bidders. Rental contracts often began on New Year’s Day and lasted a year, but start dates and durations varied. In the 1850s and early 1860s, about 5% of enslaved people were rented at any given time. In slave schedules, when a person was rented, the slave owner was listed as “owner,” and the person doing the renting was often listed under the owner’s name as the “employer.”

 

See https://support.ancestry.com/s/article/Searching-Slave-Schedules#:~:text=In%20slave%20schedules%2C%20when%20a,name%20as%20the%20%E2%80%9Cemployer.%E2%80%9D for more information.