That’s Racist! Oh wait, I forgot, only White people can be racist.
When someone claims reparations owed, they can claim it from the black man who actually sued to legitimize the institution of slavery.
Before both of those were white slaves brought from Europe (and for this discussion I'm not talking about voluntary servitude). Before that were indigenous Americans enslaving each other.
white slaves: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/90034279
indigenous American slaves: https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1742/native-american-enslavement-in-colonial-america/
It's time to quit entertaining the left's discussion of treating the black slave trade like it was some new thing...even when talking about America.
From Gemini:
“Anthony Johnson (colonist):
An Angolan man born around 1600, who was enslaved and brought to the Virginia colony in the early 1620s.
Gained his freedom after serving as an indentured servant for several years.
Became a landowner and tobacco farmer in Maryland, accumulating wealth and even owning indentured servants and enslaved people himself.
Died in 1670.”
At least it’s owening up to it.
“African American” in 1621?
He was a colonist from Africa.
Dang, I hate political correctness.
Old news, and everyone knows that blacks cannot be slave owners, just as Indians are in touch with the land.
He and later, his son both owned White Slaves!
Explains all the Johnsons out there
"It can't go on forever. But ain't nobody gonna win.
Somebody's gonna win.
Who?
I mean, you, you get to go on back to Boston, big house and all that. What about us? What do we get?
Well, you won't get anything if we lose. What do you wanna do?
I don't know, sir. It stinks, I suppose.
Yeah. It stinks bad.
Denzel: And we all covered up in it too. I mean, ain't nobody clean. Be nice to get clean though. How do we do that?
We ante up and kick in, sir.
Slavery is committed by great sinners, not ethnicity-dependent. So are genocides. Lots of sinners have destroyed lots of people.
Have mercy on us Jesus.
Negro property owners in America
Biden and his Clan members miss the good old days as they call them.
For starters, slavery traditionally was not necessarily a permanent condition. In many ancient civilizations (including classic Rome, where a slave owner had unlimited power of life and death over his slaves), slavery ordinarily was a life-long condition except slaves could (and did) routinely negotiate for (or buy) their emancipation. Americans tend to think it can't be slavery if it's a temporary condition but that's a historically inaccurate perception.
Second, chattel slavery existed among some Indian tribes even before the first Europeans arrived. All of the "Five Civilized Tribes" of the American Indians practiced chattel slavery.
Third, there are several types of slavery apart from chattel slavery (if it was the only form of slavery, why did it need be qualified as "chattel" slavery?), and there were many indentured servants, bond slaves, child slaves, forced child marriages and forced domestic servants in the Colonies long before the American form of chattel slavery that was limited exclusively to black Africans arose.
It's ironic that someone who writes a a column called "forgotten history" knows so little about it himself.