I also heard there were black slave owners, but can't recall ever seeing evidence. Of course as usual there is not mention of who actually enslaved and sold slaves for shipment to America.
This article seems to be jumping through all kinds of hoops and playing with word definitions just so that it can “fact check” and prove that all white people are super bad.
Snopes?
Nope.
Snopes - a man, cat, and woman he left his wife for, operating from their basement.
Sine rented slaves. But whatever the numbers, you pretty much have to use the one drop rule to find anybody with a historical connection to slavery.
We did a plantation tour in Louisiana last year. Very interesting history and facts were presented that we never were taught in school. This particular plantation’s architect was a free black man who was also a slave owner. He was not the plantation owner.
So I will attest to the statement that there were free blacks that were also slave owners.
snopes should be banned from FR ... snopes is a super-hard-core leftist propaganda organ ...
I would like to know how many were actually abused. One of my best friends was beaten by her father...and we’re talking a little white girl from a good family in the days when whipping /spanking was still tolerated. I’m talking the 1950s. Our country wasn’t always rich...and whitey did more than their fair share.
There were not only black slave owners there weee black slave traders as well.
And there was zero chance newrly 10% of whites owned or even “mastered” black slaves.
Snopes is full if excrement for making such claims
African American Owners of Enslaved Persons in Kentucky
...A History of World Societies documents a total of 6,000 Negro slave owners in the U.S. for the year 1840 [p. 846]. The 1850 and 1860 Slave Schedules do not identify slave owners by race; the individual names of slave owners must be searched in the U.S. Federal Census to identify the individual's race...
Snopes lies again.
BKMK
So if you're non-black and live in the U.S., you owe reparations.
“Southerner.”
Ahem.
Delaware was the LAST state to abolish slavery.
Both DE and Maryland were slave-states DURING the war against northern aggression; Massa Lincoln had them slaves loading up federal trains while the boys in blue fought against the pellagra-ridden illiterate southern slave owners fighting for the same rights their grandfathers did in 1775-1783.
Right? Right.
Snopes=Libturdian BS and propaganda.
The FIRST chattel slave owned was a Black ex-slave named Anthony Johnson. He had an indentured servant named Castor. After Castor’s time as an indentured servant was over Castor left Johnson’s plantation. Johnson retrieved him and went to court. The court ruled Castor was owned by Johnson. Many slaves had side gigs. I have two books by a history professor from Augusts college about Augusta Ga during the Antebellum period and just after. Slaves also rented themselves out and owned businesses. Many were able to gain enough money to buy their freedom. In Augusta slaves could sell goods and food they grew or made but could not own a “brick and mortar” building or rent building space. So with a wink and node the slaves hired a white proprietor.
I once read about a major black slave owner in the South. Winds up that he was one of the nastiest in history towards his slaves, and yes, obviously, the treatment of slaves varied GREATLY from owner to owner.
Bottom line is, there is NO RACE on earth that has not been held as slaves at some point. Also there is no race on earth that has not held slaves. To this day, there are slaves being held all over the world, but not here unless you count diddys sex slaves.
Those self-deprecating wokeists know nothing about history or anything else for that matter.
I don’t care if 100% of the free population owned slaves. Over 160 years ago, our ancestors fought a bloody war that ended slavery in the United States, and we have paid trillions of dollars in reparations to the descendants of slaves since the advent of the “Great Society” in 1964. Time to move on.
Here’s an interesting fact, nearly every slave master, slave holder, and slave owner, were DEMOCRATS.
Anthony Johnson
The first documented slave owner in the colonies was a black man that owned a white man.