Black History Month: When 1/2 of the black population gets mad at whites for the other 1/2 enslaving their ancestors.
Ping
First Mr. H.K. Edgerton integrates the Battle Flag, and now slavery itself? <more swooning>
No surprise here bump.........
That little fact is to be wiped from the history books due to political correctness, meaning you can only hate white people, and blame them for whatever you want in order to justify it.
A freeper had a thread awhile ago. Back in the 1600’s it was common in the colonies to have people work for you for 7 years and then you would give them a parcel of land.
One owner didn’t want the guy to leave after the seven years, and won in court to have him stay on as a permanent slave. The first true slave. Both the owner and the slave were black!
Reparations now!
I just saw this article on reddit. it is a very pro liberal site as most of you know. most of those posting comments there have the opinion that who ever posted it was a troll and that just bringing up black ownership of slaves is racist in it self. I think it would be interesting if we could link slave ownership to Jessie Jackson or al Sharpton.
Never heard this before.
I’d like to know if it is really true or just anecdotal.
Anthony Johnson (1600-1670) was one of the first Free Negroes to own indentured servants (4 white and 1 black).
Famous for a suit to reclaim a black slave who tried to get a neighboring landowner to claim him as property.
It’s up on WIKI
I saw two TV shows to this effect, maybe both on PBS.
One of them had a black journalist trying to deal with how the slave trade worked in Africa. The bottom line was that there was NO WAY the whites were going to go up the river to catch blacks - instead they simply paid the local blacks to do that. It was almost exclusively blacks capturing blacks for the slave trade.
The second dealt with this. Not only did blacks own slaves, some were VICIOUS owners, much worse than most whites. Slavery was far from monolithic and while any type of slavery is clearly immoral, there were places where life was tolerable as a slave, and there were places where life was pure hell, and those places had plenty of black slave masters.
In Africa, he had to hire bearers to help in his trip to the interior. They wanted money and weapons.
As soon as they were paid, they bought slaves, who by Burton's account, were so badly treated it was appalling.
One bearer bought a slave woman and on the return trip, she couldn't keep up.
None of the other bearers could afford to buy her and he wouldn't leave his valuable ‘property’ behind.
So... the bearer cut off her feet so she wouldn't be taken by anyone else and she couldn't leave on her own. Then the bearer left her to die, so he could continue the trip out.
THAT'S how African people treated other African people as late as the 1890’s.
For later
That’s still whitey’s fault.
There’s a similar history about an ex-slave from the New Bern, NC area that my ancestors are from.
He was a local plantation owner who became quite well respected by the white folks from what little I have read....interesting history.
I knew blacks owned slaves, and yes, whites were slaves to. Slaves is from the same root as Slavics, the eastern European people.
Black slave holder bump
Henry Louis Gates has recently been producing a lot of stuff about slavery that does not fit the narrative.
He does seem to be an honest historian.
Good for him!
A white historian producing similar stuff would be denounced as racist.
The comments are also interesting.
Some try to equate indentured servitude with slavery. While they were similar in many ways, at their root they were utterly different. Indenture was by its nature temporary, and indentured servants were never considered chattel. Indenture was in many ways the same as the common practice at the time of apprenticeship.
The worst part about American slavery relative to slavery in other societies was not that it existed, but that it became race based. In all earlier slave societies, there was no such link.
Romans, for instance, had slaves of all colors and thought nothing of it. Cicero, in one famous case, bitched to a friend in a letter about what crappy slaves those from what is now England made.
In pre-Christian Ireland,”slave girl” was a unit of currency used to calculate fines and such.
Read the diary of William Johnson, a freed Black businessman in Natchez. He owned slaves. My GGG Grandfather was one of his clients.
http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/maai/identity/text4/williamjohnsondiary.pdf