MERRY CHRISTMAS FReepers.
IIRC, there were over 600 black (or was that negro) slave owners in Maryland at the outbreak of the Civil (between the states) War.
They are the ones who sold their own is how the whole thing started.
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For balance, let’s talk about “Arabic Slave Sellers: A Review”?
A year or so ago, I visited Williamsburg and saw a presentation by a black historian playing the part of a black slaveowner in the 1600s.
The black slaveowner was married by common law to an Irish woman. After the death of his first (and legal) wife, he hired a governess to take care of his children. He and the governess fell in love, but the law did not allow them to marry because at the time, the Irish were lower in social status than free blacks were. Legally, his children from either wife were not considered black.
Interesting stuff, although I tend to think the historian’s view might be biased. He was working on producing his own history channel, but I forget when it was supposed to launch and under what name. Maybe I’ll come across his business card sometime and refresh my memory.
I was in the Archives building in Manning, SC several years ago researching my own family history. There was a black woman in her mid thirties doing the same thing. When she discovered her ancestor had in fact been one of the largest slave holders in Clarendon County, SC, she demanded the lady making copies for her omit that part of the records. She did not want her son to know his great-great- grandfather had once owned slaves.
This reminds me of an interview I saw in the early 70's.Several Oakland A's players...one or two were white,one or two were black.They were *all* complaining about playing for the owner,Charlie Finley (who was very famous and very white).At one point one of the black players blurted out that Finley treated him like a "n*gger" (this was early 70's).At that point one of the white players,somewhat embarrassed,observed that Finley treated the *white* players like n*ggers too.
All types of people are capable of mistreating those of other groups *as well as* their own.
Anna Kingsley was the owner of one of he largest plantations in Jacksonville, FL.
As I’ve said here many times; If they want reparations, get all the black descendants of slave owners to kick in first, then we can talk.
Don’t be silly, revisionist history done by privilege whites assuaging their white guilt... / S