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Racially Incorrect Facts Regarding Race and Slavery (flashback 7/21/2016)
Townhall.com ^ | 7/21/2016 | jack kerwick

Posted on 07/01/2020 6:28:14 PM PDT by bitt

As was recently shown, the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, with its central claim that police around the country are hunting and killing innocent black men, is a lie.

Yet the BLM myth is enmeshed within a larger narrative, a narrative of eternal White Racism. And couched within this tale are distortions and outright crucially false ideas of slavery.

In the interest of that “honest discussion” of race that the Eric Holders and Barack Obamas of the world claim to want, I submit considerations without which no such discussion can be had.

One glaringly inconvenient truth that, odds are, few folks of any race are aware is that the very first legal slave owner in America was one Anthony Johnson—a black man. More specifically, Johnson was an Angolan who himself had been an indentured servant in the colony of Virginia before he became a tobacco planter himself. One of the African indentured servants who worked Johnson’s 300 acre plot of land was John Casor.

CARTOONS | MICHAEL RAMIREZ VIEW CARTOON When Casor had completed his seven year term of service to Johnson, he asked to be freed. Johnson refused. The latter did, however, agree to lend him out to a local white colonist, Robert Parker. Yet not long after having made this agreement Johnson had a change of heart and took Parker to court where he charged him with having robbed him of his “negro servant.”

In 1655, a white court sided with the black African over a white man and, in addition to making him pay damages to Johnson, ordered Parker to return Casor to Johnson.

However, Johnson v Parker issued a dramatic legal change: While making his case, Johnson, in referring to Casor, insisted that, “Thee had ye Negro for his life.”

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1 posted on 07/01/2020 6:28:14 PM PDT by bitt
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To: bitt; All

Slave trade map
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3818053/posts
Indian slave owners
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3856486/posts


2 posted on 07/01/2020 8:26:00 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin posting here for the record hoping somebody might read and pass around)
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“Eight million whites lived in the South, but of these, fewer than 325,000 owned slaves.”

“In glaring contrast, in this same year, there were 4.5 million blacks living in America, and 500,000 blacks in the South. Over half of these—261,988—were freed men.”

Am I missing something? If 325K whites in the South owned slaves and only half of 500K blacks in the South were slaves, there would be fewer than 1 black person for each white person who supposedly owned a slave.

Are they counting married couples who owned a slave? Or was there some sort of slave co-op whereby multiple families shared a slave?

Did the white people own Indians as slaves? Other whites as slaves? Are they counting indentured servants as slaves?

Something seems to be wrong or missing.


3 posted on 07/01/2020 10:17:23 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat ("Forgetting pain is convenient.Remembering it agonizing.But recovering truth is worth the suffering")
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To: bitt

Ping


4 posted on 07/01/2020 10:27:18 PM PDT by WhattheDickens? (Funny, I didnÂ’t think this was 1984Â…)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Something seems to be wrong or missing.

Both I think. Not sure if he is reading the same 1860 census I have read:

Total free population Northern/border states:21,907,357, slave: 432,632.

Total free population 11 seceding states: 5,582,222. slave: 3,521,110

In both cases the free population numbers included free blacks.

Total # slave owners Northern/border states: 99,435
Total # slave owners 11 seceding states: 286,781

Total free population of the United States:27,489,579
Total slave population of the United states: 3,953,742


5 posted on 07/02/2020 4:11:15 AM PDT by Bull Snipe
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According to “Slavery and Native Americans in British North America and the United States: 1600 to 1865,” by Tony

Seybert, “Most Native American tribal groups practiced some form of slavery before the European introduction of African slavery into North America.”

The paper itself
Slavery and Native Americans in British North America and the United States: 1600 to 1865 by Tony Seybert
https://mmslibrary.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/slavery-and-native-americans-in-british-north-america-and-the-united-
states.pdf


6 posted on 07/02/2020 9:30:31 AM PDT by tbw2
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