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A Secret About The 1st Legal Slave Owner in America…
Conservative Tribune ^
| Addison Riddleberger on January 22, 2016 at 8:50am
Posted on 01/24/2016 9:58:59 AM PST by SandRat
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posted on
01/24/2016 9:58:59 AM PST
by
SandRat
To: SandRat
Arab MUSLIM slave traders ... who are still operating to this day.
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posted on
01/24/2016 10:06:26 AM PST
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: SandRat
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posted on
01/24/2016 10:08:51 AM PST
by
Fiddlstix
(Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! I reallyRead it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
To: SandRat
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posted on
01/24/2016 10:10:36 AM PST
by
KC Burke
(Two Corinthians walk into a bar...)
To: SandRat
A black man owning white slaves/indentured servants. Did not last very long.
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posted on
01/24/2016 10:10:51 AM PST
by
iowamark
(I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy)
To: SandRat
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posted on
01/24/2016 10:11:19 AM PST
by
aquila48
To: SandRat
This is horribly written so I will make it simple.
It was a black American, a former slave himself, who won the right to introduce chattel slavery in the US.
Irony of history that is not well known.
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posted on
01/24/2016 10:12:51 AM PST
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: SandRat
Every few years someone (often, but not always, a Palestinian sympathizer) will write an article claiming that a lot of Jews supported the Nazis. Or were Nazis. Or bankrolled the Nazis. Or something. The story often changes - and is always nonsense - but the point is the same: the writer is trying somehow to blame the Jews for the genocide perpetrated against them.
This, to me, seems kind of like the same thing. Did some free blacks own slaves? Sure. Does that shift the burden of responsibility away from the slavers, and the great plantation owners, all of whom were white? Of course not.
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posted on
01/24/2016 10:13:58 AM PST
by
Alter Kaker
(Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
To: SandRat
The Justus brothers taps foot.
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posted on
01/24/2016 10:18:47 AM PST
by
Vaduz
(women and children to be impacted the most.)
To: SandRat
I have known this little factoid for a long time...
Whenever I get into a discussion with a brain dead libtard about my white guilt and why we owe reparations for slavery, I bring this up...
They never believe it...
After all they are brain dead...
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posted on
01/24/2016 10:23:31 AM PST
by
Popman
(Christ alone: My Cornerstone...)
To: Alter Kaker
I believe that the relevance of this story is not that he was a free black who owned slaves but that he was reportedly the first person in America to establish a legal right to own another person as a chattel slave.
Previously, indentured servitude was a contractual relationship. You agree to pay for me to come to America and I will agree to work for you for an extended period of years, but you would not own me even during the period of servitude and certainly not after.
Courts recognizing a right of ownership of slaves was necessary for the existence of slavery.
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posted on
01/24/2016 10:29:49 AM PST
by
Bubba_Leroy
(The Obamanation Continues)
To: Alter Kaker
I think you miss an important point. The story illustrates that slavery is not a White invention; it is a human invention. Good and evil are distributed amongst all the races. Attempts to make out that that whites are intrinsically bad are political rather than historically factual.
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posted on
01/24/2016 10:31:35 AM PST
by
FairWitness
(Everything is easy, once you've done it once)
To: Bubba_Leroy
"Previously, indentured servitude was a contractual relationship. You agree to pay for me to come to America and I will agree to work for you for an extended period of years, but you would not own me even during the period of servitude and certainly not after."
Just so. My first ancestor in the new world was an indentured servant (wheelwright/carpenter)in New Amsterdam. He had to work for his patron until he had made a specified number of "wagons". Then he was free.
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posted on
01/24/2016 10:36:38 AM PST
by
FairWitness
(Everything is easy, once you've done it once)
To: PIF
“Arab MUSLIM slave traders ... who are still operating to this day.”
While blacks in US prisons sign up to be mud-slimes in droves.
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posted on
01/24/2016 10:44:46 AM PST
by
Let's Roll
(So much left-wing thought is playing with fire by those who don't even know fire is hot - Orwell)
To: Alter Kaker
Does that shift the burden of responsibility away from the slavers, and the great plantation owners, all of whom were white? Of course not. Google is your friend. Your "factoid" is FALSE. You would do yourself a sevice by reading up on actual history, and noting that your basic tenant is based upon fantasy, and not historical, documented fact - substanciatied with court cases, biographies, newpaper reports and other documentation.
Source
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posted on
01/24/2016 10:58:02 AM PST
by
Hodar
(A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.- Burroughs)
To: SandRat
It’s not a *secret*.
I’m so sick of headlines that try to drag people in with the idea that they have some new *secret* revelation and nobody else knows.
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posted on
01/24/2016 11:49:33 AM PST
by
metmom
(...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
To: SandRat
It’s not your fault the headline is awful.
I’m not going off on you. Sorry if it seemed that way.
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posted on
01/24/2016 11:50:31 AM PST
by
metmom
(...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
To: PIF
And by their silence, sharpton, jackson and all others of their phony ilk, approve by their silence.
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posted on
01/24/2016 11:53:32 AM PST
by
DPMD
To: metmom
Iâm so sick of headlines that try to drag people in with the idea that they have some new *secret* revelation and nobody else knows. It may not be a "secret", but it's not something that is likely to make it into the "Common Core", or be talked about much.
Ask your Facebook friends, how many knew that the first actual slave owner in Virginia was Black?
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posted on
01/24/2016 11:58:15 AM PST
by
PapaBear3625
(Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
To: SandRat
There were quite a few black slave owners before the War of Northern Aggression.
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posted on
01/24/2016 12:27:57 PM PST
by
dainbramaged
(Get out of my country now)
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