And what about the thousands of blacks who were slave owners? Their ancestors don’t have to apologize?
Only if you’re white do you have to apologize for something your ancestors probably never did. It all makes sense. LOL
I read somewhere, in going through sources for some discussion about something else, that the first blacks to land in Virginia weren't chattel slaves, but indentured servants bound on the same terms as great numbers of Europeans who came over in bondage.
The Virginia burgesses instituted chattel slavery, or life indenture as it was at first called reflecting its origins, when a master of some African bonded servants brought suit demanding satisfaction. The servants had run away some considerable time before their indentures expired, and had been recaptured years later, after the bond had expired. So he demanded that they be placed in an indefinite bondage so that he could receive the balance of the service he was owed. This was the beginning of chattel slavery.
The master who brought suit was himself black, an African bondman who'd served out his own indenture and started a farm of his own as a freeman of the community, importing other black indentured servants on his own.
I don't recall the exact year the magistrates handed down their decision, but it was about 1645.
As for Nebraska, the 1860 census showed that the territory indeed had slaves. Two of them. Two whole slaves.
Someone needs to get a life.