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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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To: metmom
THAT’S OK. I JUST POST’EM AS I SEE’EM. I DON’T CREATE’EM.
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posted on
01/24/2016 12:35:05 PM PST
by
SandRat
(Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
To: Alter Kaker
I thought conservatives believed in individual personal responsibility. I had nothing to do with the institution of slavery or the evil Hitler and his disciples caused. I have never owned a human being... And if I wanted to take the time I could make a good case that under the US tax code I am an indentured servant. Whose fault is that?
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posted on
01/24/2016 12:43:04 PM PST
by
Just mythoughts
(Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
To: Alter Kaker
I guess the irony is lost. Anthony Johnson was the first legal slave owner in British North America one in court and screwed over Casor. Your analogy needs to be modified by pointing out that a Jewish man convinced Hitler to execute the Final Solution in order to fit your premise.
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posted on
01/24/2016 12:49:19 PM PST
by
rollo tomasi
(Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
To: PapaBear3625
I doubt many people know at all.
I don’t do FB, BTW.
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posted on
01/24/2016 1:11:37 PM PST
by
metmom
(...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
To: Hodar
I assume that the ‘false’ factoid you’re referring to, is about the first slave owner in the US being black, and you are saying that the source you gave proved this didn’t happen?
Where did it say it was false?
The only place in the article that mentions John Castor is this:
“In a fascinating essay reviewing this controversy, R. Halliburton shows that free black people have owned slaves “in each of the thirteen original states and later in every state that countenanced slavery,” at least since Anthony Johnson and his wife Mary went to court in Virginia in 1654 to obtain the services of their indentured servant, a black man, John Castor, for life.”
So where does this say that this ‘factoid’ is false?
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posted on
01/24/2016 1:15:02 PM PST
by
chaosagent
(Remember, no matter how you slice it, forbidden fruit still tastes the sweetest!)
To: Bubba_Leroy
#11 Was it John Roberts ancestor that made the ruling? : )
The equivalent House leader at the time said it was the “law of the land and they could do nothing to change it.....
To: Just mythoughts
Are you responding to somebody else? Who said you were responsible for anything? I certainly didn’t.
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posted on
01/24/2016 2:06:03 PM PST
by
Alter Kaker
(Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
To: Alter Kaker
I was responding to your phrase “shifting responsibility”.
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posted on
01/24/2016 2:24:57 PM PST
by
Just mythoughts
(Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
To: SandRat
Of course slavery started with blacks. Blacks sold blacks to Arabs. Arabs did not beat the bushes for them. Arabs bought blacks from blacks. Then Arabs took the blacks to market and sold them to white slave traders.
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01/24/2016 2:40:20 PM PST
by
abclily
To: SandRat
To: Just mythoughts
Except I named the people responsible. Unless you’re an active participant in the slave trade, I don’t believe I named you.
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posted on
01/24/2016 3:51:15 PM PST
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Alter Kaker
(Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
To: SandRat
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posted on
01/24/2016 4:02:37 PM PST
by
Albion Wilde
(Who can actually defeat the Democrats in 2016? -- the most important thing about all candidates.)
To: ifinnegan
Indentured servant had to be allowed to go free after 7 years. Parker went free and was going to become a servant of another man. That was Parkers choice. Johnson didnt like it and went to court to say he should be allowed to keep him. Johnson won.
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posted on
01/24/2016 5:49:06 PM PST
by
Carry me back
(.Cut the feds by 90%)
To: SandRat
Neither is it well known that only 4.8% of white Southerners owned slaves, but 28% of black freedmen owned slaves. Meaning that men who once had lived as slaves but won emancipation were more than 5x more likely to indulge in the practice than whites who never had borne the yoke.
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