Old news. Literally.
Look up John Carruthers Stanley. He owned 163 slaves.
Many Irish sold themselves for passage to come to America. Their terms of servitude were often extended for little or no reason. At least Black slaves were taken care of until death but Whites were “set free” to fend for themselves when they were old.
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A 3270 year old man?
No small feat. Only one in 17 white indentured servants lived to the end of their indenture in 17th century Virginia. Slaves had it much better. At least they were worth more alive than dead.
The Educational System in America is phony. Slavery has been around since the beginning of times and has been glossed over to paint a picture that is not true.
What is the difference between a black slave captured by Arab slave traders and sold to Arab countries in the north as opposed to those sold to slave ships for the Americas?
Those slaves sold by Arab slavers to Arab countries were castrated. Those to the Americas were not.
This was real interesting.
Thanks!
This is not something MSM would emphasize.
I spect far far more slave owners were mulattoes than people know. Perfect thing to do with a bastard son, give him some slaves and see how he does with them.
Lots of blacks in New Orleans owned slaves.
Born in 1600 in Angola
Taken as a slave by Muslim slavers (a major issue then, and today)
Sold as an indentured servant to The Virginia Company (one of the first handful of actual corporations in history... like being bought out by Apple or Walmart today).
One of only 5 men allowed to survive, out of 57, in a Powhatan Indian Good Friday massacre on the Virginia settlement where he was laboring.
Married the only female slave on that farm, and never left her side in 40+ years of marriage.
Purchased his and her freedom, and then went into farming for himself.
He took advantage of the headright system granting 50ac homesteads pressing further into Indian lands, in exchange for purchasing indentured servants of his own. He bought 5... one was his son, and the other four were WHITE men. (How this story isn't a Django-style in-your-face Liberal celebration film yet is beyond me.)
One of his future servants claims that he should have been freed, which brought the famous Casor case to the courts. (Colony courts had recognized lifetime slavery before, but never for a person who had not committed a crime of some kind yet.)
2 years later, a neighbor tries to claim a written debt from Mr Johnson, with what was likely a forged document (Johnson couldn't read or write), and Johnson lost this one.
His farm had a terrible fire the next year, and on FEB 28, 1652, he was granted a tax exemption to help recover. However, in THIS court case, he also got his wife and daughters to be declared tax-exempt, which made them the same social standing of white women, another unprecedented decision. (People, not income or property, were taxed back then. Under the 1645 Virginia taxation act, "All negro men and women and all other men from the age of 16 to 60 shall be judged tithable.")
He actually lived to be 70, and helped many other blacks to start their own farms and businesses as well.
For a kid born in Angola in 1600, he certainly was a part of more of the big and unprecedented issues of his day than most.