Posted on 02/27/2024 2:11:09 PM PST by Eleutheria5
Anthony Johnson was a man known for achieving wealth in the early 17th-century Colony of Virginia. Born in Angola, he was one of the first African Americans whose right to own a slave for life was recognized by the Virginia courts. Held as an indentured servant in 1621, he earned his freedom after several years, and was granted land by the colony. He later became a tobacco farmer in Maryland. He attained great wealth after completing his term as an indentured servant, and has been referred to as "'the black patriarch' of the first community of Negro property owners in America."
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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.
IIRC the numbers, 350K to 500K blacks were brought as slaves to America. And 1 to 1.2 million whites (mostly from Europe but a few were Americans captured on ships) were taken to North Africa as slaves.
“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!
How uppity./sarc
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.
Thanks for your post.
I read a book several years ago: “White Gold”.
Truly fascinating.
It was about Moslems in North Africa capturing and enslaving people.
BTW - they tended to enslave white people and Europeans, but they didn’t discriminate a lot. Well, on second thought, they did discriminate a considerable amount.
According to Muslim tradition, Muhammad said that the best sex slaves are blondes. https://www.answering-islam.org/authors/shamoun/blonde_fetish.html. That may be the reason so many of the European women were used as sex slaves (harems).
The US was not born with Slavery, they inherited it. And the Founders tried to hem it in, but the cotton gin undid that.
Johnsons are big in Virginia.
Don’t forget the incredible number of European slaves brought back to africa and the middle east by the muslim hords as they swept across Europe.
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