There were a number of black slave owners, and slave runners, and as well, there were white slaves (who the left ignorantly call “indentured servants”, but who were in every sense of th3 word really slaves with no way out. White slaves were actuslly easier to obtain, and much cheaper because slaves didn’t have to go as far to round them up, and slave owners often worked them to death or beat them to death because they were cheaper to replace.)
The word “slave” comes from slav. This is because the main source of slaves came from the slavic countries in Europe.
The main slave takers and holders, after the Muslim conquest, were Muslims. They took slaves from both the Slavic countries in Europe ( any anywhere else in Europe they could reach), but from Africa as well.
Most of Islam never gave up slavery.
I’ve posted this before but..
My son lived in S Virginia for his first job for a few years, Danville. Most people don’t know they were briefly the States (south’s?) capital for a few months. After Richmond fell.
Anyway a lot of the states records were taken there and are in a museum now. I saw them.
One of the thick ledgers was a slave owners data book. It listed all Slave owners in Virginia and even classified them by gender, age, wealth and yes …RACE.
You guessed it! A few hundred were black. Now those black slave owners in All states total must have descendants/relatives numbering in the 100s of thousands, which makes the whole idea of reparations sort of confusing.
One other thing, about your indentured servants comment. I’m originally from Ky and around Lexington there are many of these old horse farms with equally old stone fences. Common lore has it they were built by slaves which is almost universally a lie. They were nearly all built by indentured Irish. They even look almost exactly like the images of the ancient ones in Ireland.
White slaves were (actually) easier to obtain, and much cheaper because slaves didn’t have to go as far to round them up, and slave owners often worked them to death or beat them to death because they were cheaper to replace.
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The only reason why the US doesn’t have military conscription today is that our young people are wealthy enough to evade it.
Slavery worked the same way. The economy rules everything. The reason why Democrat totalitarians are trying to destroy our economy through deficit spending is to make our population into their slaves.