FYI - thousands of blacks in this country were slave owners. Some were slave breeders, selling their own offspring into slavery.
Slavery was about money and selfishness, not racism.
Bingo! WE have a winner!
Slavery was about money and selfishness, not racism. Yup. And let us not forget about those Confederate Soldiers that happened to be a "darker shade of grey."
We've allowed the revisionists to destroy both white and black history. Thankfully, there are those that will not let their heritage be forgotten.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqNacoW4dCE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GVIAypsnh8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSA64yKezx4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8hPo6mYnks
In April 1861, a Petersburg, Virginia newspaper proposed, "Three cheers for the patriotic free Negroes of Lynchburg." after 70 blacks offered "to act in whatever capacity may be assigned to them" in defense of Virginia. Erwin L. Jordan cites one case where a captured group of white slave owners and blacks were offered freedom if they would take an oath of allegiance to the United States. One free black indignantly replied, "I can't take no such oaf as dat. I'm a secesh nigger." A slave in the group upon learning that his master refused to take the oath said, "I can't take no oath dat Massa won't take." A second slave said, "I ain't going out here on no dishonorable terms." One of the slave owners took the oath but his slave, who didn't take the oath, returning to Virginia under a flag of truce, expressed disgust at his master's disloyalty saying, "Massa had no principles." [emphasis mine]
http://www.theburginfamily.org/blackman.html