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 respectfully disagree. Johnson was black, and he is the first chattel slave owner we know the name of (here in what we today call the United States). But there were whites who were chattel slaves before Johnson owned Castor, we just don't have the names of those slave owners or slaves. Basically it was a while before it was feasible for whites to go buy slaves from Africa (that the Africans themselves were catching and transporting to the coasts).
When I'm talking about white slaves I'm not talking about voluntary servitude, though that did exist. I'm talking about whites being captured in Europe and brought against their will to America, unable to escape, they were abused, and worked, and their babies born in slavery. Mixed in that were some voluntary servitude whites, and some that were a mixed story. (i.e. In debtors prison in Europe but granted leave if he "voluntarily" signed up for slavery in America.)
And before the whites were chattel slaves here, the indigenous Americans treated each other as slaves. Basically, before blacks or whites were slaves here, the indigenous Americans were slaves here. Plus, during the centuries of black slavery here in which there were 300K to 500K black slaves brought to what we today call the U.S., there were a million white slaves taken to Africa.
Frankly it's ridiculous for blacks to talk like slavery is all about them.