History is full of of bad things happening to people of all persuasions, IT'S HISTORY. How about these Gimmee Dats show some concern for the people that ares still being enslaved by the past and still present slavers, the muslims?
Posted on 02/15/2018 6:57:45 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski
As was recently shown, the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, with its central claim that police around the country are hunting and killing innocent black men, is a lie. Yet the BLM myth is enmeshed within a larger narrative, a narrative of eternal White Racism. And couched within this tale are distortions and outright crucially false ideas of slavery.
In the interest of that "honest discussion" of race that the Eric Holders and Barack Obamas of the world claim to want, I submit considerations without which no such discussion can be had. One glaringly inconvenient truth that, odds are, few folks of any race are aware is that the very first legal slave owner in America was one Anthony Johnson—a black man. More specifically, Johnson was an Angolan who himself had been an indentured servant in the colony of Virginia before he became a tobacco planter himself. One of the African indentured servants who worked Johnson’s 300 acre plot of land was John Casor.
When Casor had completed his seven year term of service to Johnson, he asked to be freed. Johnson refused. The latter did, however, agree to lend him out to a local white colonist, Robert Parker. Yet not long after having made this agreement Johnson had a change of heart and took Parker to court where he charged him with having robbed him of his "negro servant."
In 1655, a white court sided with the black African over a white man and, in addition to making him pay damages to Johnson, ordered Parker to return Casor to Johnson. However, Johnson v Parker issued a dramatic legal change: While making his case, Johnson, in referring to Casor, insisted that, "Thee had ye Negro for his life."
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Relative to their numbers in the population (27 million according to the 1860 census), a miniscule number of whites owned slaves. Eight million whites lived in the South, but of these, fewer than 325,000 owned slaves. What this means is that only 1.4 percent of the total white population consisted of slave owners, and only 4.8 percent of the white Southern population did so.
In glaring contrast, in this same year, there were 4.5 million blacks living in America, and 500,000 blacks in the South. Over half of these—261, 988—were freed men. In the city of New Orleans alone, more than 3,000 blacks owned slaves. That is, 28 percent of the free black population consisted of slave holders.
In 1830, the Census Bureau notes that free blacks owned more than 10,000 slaves in the states of Louisiana, Maryland, Virginia, and South Carolina. As Halloway remarks, "Large numbers of free Blacks owned black slaves in numbers disproportionate to their representation in society."
Then there’s this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgVxc9aLs14
South Carolina’s ‘top’ slave owner was black.
In the case of many, though not all, black slave owners, that “ownership” had less to do with labor than simply being a freedman husband buying his wife, or parents, or kids, etc, in an effort to reunite family or friends. This would explain the disproportionate statistics.
And I guess that this was left out of our modern “Black History” stuff” Approximately 675,000 slaves were brought to American during the slave years, not 20,000,000 like Jessie Jackson would have you believe.
So, approximately 675,000 slave were brought here and approximately 660,000 men died in the Civil War., almost one-for-one. Kinda’ makes this reparations crap seem silly.
Wonder when that’ll be taught in our race-baiting, “hate-whites” history classes.
Wish I had some stats on that.
Slavery was an abomination and I had nothing to do with it and I don’t feel any guilt.
Does the fact that some blacks owned slaves absolve any slave owner or society that condoned slavery from the abomination of the institution of slavery?
Then both the black slave owners and the white slave owners are in the same place as the dead merderers, rapists and child molesters.
May they all be in hell.
It was the white, Christian, European cultures that fought to END slavery; that were the FIRST to condemn it and outlaw it!
Excellent, thanks for posting.
Lol
Oh yes
Still chuckling
I don’t give a whit
I don’t care who owned slaves 200 years ago
I care about more recent issues
But I like u as a poster make no mistake
History is full of of bad things happening to people of all persuasions, IT'S HISTORY. How about these Gimmee Dats show some concern for the people that ares still being enslaved by the past and still present slavers, the muslims?
bfl
Always the 1 percent. Somethings never change.
I have no connection whatsoever to Black slavery in the Americas or anywhere else on Earth, but also I am not going to lay continuous blame and outrage or monetary liability on someone because of what their ancestors may or may not have done at a time that society was different than ours.
Hell let's do what the liberals want, let's throw out the Constitution, it was conceived and written in a time that was socially different than the America of today.
“Does the fact that some blacks owned slaves absolve any slave owner or society that condoned slavery from the abomination of the institution of slavery?”
No, but what’s your REAL point?
Neither slaves nor a slave condoning society exist anymore (at least in this country). The” society” you’re talking about is long gone and a huge price was paid to banish it.
“It was the white, Christian, European cultures that fought to END slavery; that were the FIRST to condemn it and outlaw it!”
That’s what I don’t get about all the whites feeling guilty today for the supposed sins of their fathers.
All other races have committed equal or worse atrocities without contributing a tiny fraction of the cultural, philosophical, scientific, technical advances that the whites have given the world.
It’s way past time for whites to toss overboard their guilt trip. They have every right to be proud.
Exactly! That generation paid the price...both black and white slave owners. So why blame whites today?
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