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To: goat granny
Guess what? The first slaves in VA were brought in by a black guy (I forgot his name). He had been brought in as an indentured servant as many folks who came to America were, and after he served his time, he got a whole bunch of acres and brought in VA's first slaves to work on his land.

There were also black slaveowners in the Civil War.

193 posted on 12/27/2010 4:27:40 PM PST by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis (Want to make $$$? It's easy! Use FR to pimp your blog!!!)
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
The first slaves in VA were brought in by a black guy (I forgot his name).

It doesn't matter because your claim is incorrect anyway. The first case of servitude for life, i.e. slavery, was recorded in 1640.

"Whereas Hugh Gwyn hath . . . brought back from Maryland three servants formerly run away . . . the court doth . . . order [that] the first serve out their times with their master according to their indentures, . . . and that [the] third being a negro named John Punch shall serve his said master or his assigns for the time of his natural life here or elsewhere." A Virginia Court Decision (1640) from Virginia Magazine of History and Biography (January 1898), vol. 5, no. 3, p. 236.

197 posted on 12/27/2010 4:46:17 PM PST by Drennan Whyte
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
I know that is why I asked trumandogz the question...blacks also fought against the north. I'll bet no school teaches that blacks also had slaves..it would just confuse their message.. :o)
199 posted on 12/27/2010 5:07:15 PM PST by goat granny (Great dad's are a blessing to son's but more so to daughters...)
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

He was an Angolan indentured servant. His name was Antonio/Anthony Johnson of Northhampton County, Virginia.

He served his term of indenture, became a freeman and bought a large acreage of land with money he had saved during his indenture. Not only was he the first recognized owner of a “slave” in the sense of lifetime ownership or chattel slavery, John Casor being the name of that first slave, but he bought and owned his own wife.

Anthony Johnson was far from the only colored freeman on record in Virginia who owned slaves after the advent of chattel slavery, the first legal instance of which is attributed to him. Prior to that, indentured servants from Africa were fairly rare, regarded as exotic and were sought after in Virginia, as there was an element of status involved.

It’s far more complicated and not nearly so black and white an issue as modern polemicists would have us believe.


200 posted on 12/27/2010 5:14:42 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

I think there were a lot of indentured servants that never got their freedom. These were from europe and I believe from the orient...


202 posted on 12/27/2010 5:22:24 PM PST by goat granny (Great dad's are a blessing to son's but more so to daughters...)
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