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To: Tell It Right
...the 1/4 to 1/2 million black slaves the Anglos had in America.

Don't let the Left lie to control the narrative about "Anglos" owning slaves. Blacks owned slaves, including the ancestors of Kamala Harris.

https://thenewamerican.com/flashback-kamala-harris-ancestors-owned-slaves-father-didn-t-care-for-pot-smear/

The first legally recognized slave owner in America was black:

https://history101.com/first-legally-slaveholder-black-man/

-filed in court, fully documented, etc.

39 posted on 09/01/2022 8:45:24 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: T.B. Yoits
I agree that Antonio Johnson was both black and the first slave owner to have his "temporary" servant's status changed to "servant for life" (if I remember the court quote correctly). But I have a problem with us overusing that narrative.

The first slaves in the U.S. (colonial America) where white. And I'm not talking about voluntary servitude (though there are many instances where people who signed up for didn't do it under what we'd call voluntary situations --more like coercion and financial strapping English citizens and threatening them with debtors prison if they didn't comply). I'm talking about orphans and others captured in the streets of London and other places, brought here against their will, whipped and forced to work, and unable to escape. In other words -- the first real slaves where whites (unless you count the various ways indigenous tribes captured each other and used them as slaves). We may not have their names or have court records of them, but they are a historical fact. Us using Antonio Johnson to talk like slavery began as a black thing helps reinforce the lies of the left that the first slaves were black, even if you're intending to point out that blacks sometimes owned slaves.

Now back to the main point I was trying to make. The word "Hispanic" originally meant descendants of the Spanish conquistadors. Those folks brought 10 to 20 times as many black slaves to America than the Anglos did, yet today only the Anglo descendants are labeled with the "legacy of slavery" narrative while the Hispanics are treated like poor little oppressed folks of which nobody in their entire race ever hurt a fly.

69 posted on 09/01/2022 9:05:26 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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