They Were Her Property: Frequency of Female Ownership

I have a fan of Stephanie Jones-Rogers, They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South.  (I have blogged about three years ago.)  And I want to write some Jones-Rogers. But this concerns Benton Wishart and Trevon D Logan's Her Property Transactions: White Women and the Frequency of Female Ownership in the Antebellum Era (National Bureau Economic Research).

Wishart and Logan are crucial for understanding white women as slave owners in the South. In the antebellum New Orleans market, the women were about 16% sellers and 17% buyers. Pp. 17-18. That is an extraordinary number of white women's slavery transactions, but that is less than 40% of white women's slavery transactions. That is 16% sellers or 17% buyers. Substantial and important.