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I had already heard about black slave owners from historian David Barton. But I thought that maybe some FReepers maybe had not known about this, so I posted this article.
1 posted on 06/20/2021 12:51:55 PM PDT by DeweyCA
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To: DeweyCA

Not to mention they SOLD them too. And still do to this day.


2 posted on 06/20/2021 12:53:45 PM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to says it.)
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The first legally-owned slave in America was owned by a black man.

https://stillnessinthestorm.com/2020/06/history-the-first-legal-slave-owner-in-america-was-a-black-man/


4 posted on 06/20/2021 12:58:56 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Tse-tung)
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To: DeweyCA

When I was in Africa, as we passed through villages, my interpreter would explain to me how those people has been his ancestors slaves.


7 posted on 06/20/2021 1:09:41 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: DeweyCA
There were White slaves also.

Not indentured servants, but white slaves.

Those were the vagabonds, beggars and people who were in the poor houses in the UK and were ordered out in the 1600s.

Indentured servitude wasnt that much different.

8 posted on 06/20/2021 1:10:33 PM PDT by crz
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It appears my English GGGGGGF was an indentured servant to my Black GGGGGGGF and married his daughter who was half black quarter Indian and quarter German. So yes he was a slave to a black man.


9 posted on 06/20/2021 1:15:30 PM PDT by bray (Hating Whites is racist)
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To: DeweyCA

I’m sure this is a standard item in ‘difficult’ race discussions.

Right?


11 posted on 06/20/2021 1:33:49 PM PDT by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.d)
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To: DeweyCA

Blacks like LeBron James and Colin Kaepernick own modern-day slaves, but they outsource that ownership to the Chi-Coms, so they can pose as morally superior.


13 posted on 06/20/2021 1:35:19 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (Trump is the last legally elected U.S. President.)
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To: DeweyCA
Injuns owned African slaves as well...
14 posted on 06/20/2021 1:37:06 PM PDT by Hatteras
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Bkmk


16 posted on 06/20/2021 1:39:37 PM PDT by sauropod (The smartphone is the retina of the mind's eye.)
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History didn’t forget,,IT BURIED THE TRUTH...Last thing any black activist now or then wanted was to paint black people as slave owners.... The black activists today bury the fact that Africa was the one who sold them to the whites.....


18 posted on 06/20/2021 1:41:23 PM PDT by Hambone 1934 (Dems love playing Nazis.....The republicans love helping them)
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The history of slavery would not be complete without the story of the first slave owner in the colonies.

Anthony Johnson, a former indentured servant, upon serving out his indenture, got himself a black indentured servant.

Johnson later argued in court that his servant, John Casor, should be considered his slave for life, thus initiating slavery in the colonies.

Johnson was black.

https://www.facinghistory.org/reconstruction-era/anthony-johnson-man-control-his-own


19 posted on 06/20/2021 1:47:43 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (A Leftist can't enjoy life unless they are controlling, hurting, or destroying others)
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Hang our heads in shame.

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24 posted on 06/20/2021 1:59:14 PM PDT by upchuck (I am not afraid of the Chinese Virus or variants. I AM afraid of the unproven vaccines.)
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Black slave owners.


25 posted on 06/20/2021 2:03:49 PM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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The largest slave owner in Clarendon County, SC was a black man.


29 posted on 06/20/2021 2:12:11 PM PDT by MissEdie (Be the Light in Someone's Darkness.)
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The strange thing is that if you talk to anyone from the other countries where blacks were sold into slavery, all the blacks there know that blacks owned slaves.

It seems that only the American blacks are ignorant of this.

31 posted on 06/20/2021 2:15:44 PM PDT by PallMal
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I studied the Metoyer family from Louisiana. As my tag line might suggest, I am a descendent of slave owners. I have used the Metoyer story repeatedly to educate others. It’s not all my fault. https://www.lib.lsu.edu/sites/all/files/sc/fpoc/history.html


33 posted on 06/20/2021 2:22:12 PM PDT by hoe_cake (A Descendant of the Signers of the Constitution. )
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I hadn’t heard that there were that many black slave-owners.


36 posted on 06/20/2021 2:32:46 PM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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Franklin also wrote that roughly 3,000 free black people in New Orleans alone owned slaves.

Neat trick considering in 1860 there were fewer than 2500 free black people in all of Orleans Parish.

42 posted on 06/20/2021 3:13:37 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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Cherokee Indians had Black slaves too.
Cherokee Chief Major Ridge acquired the title "Major" in 1814, during his service leading the Cherokee alongside the United States General Andrew Jackson at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend during the Creek War against the Red Sticks. ... He developed a plantation, owned 30 African-American slaves as laborers, and became a wealthy planter.
Prominent Cherokee slaveowners included the families of Joseph Lynch, Joseph Vann, Major Ridge, Stand Watie, Elias Boudinot, and Principal Chief John Ross.

Built by Joseph Vann's father, James, the The Chief Vann House still stands near Chatsworth, GA.   Before the main Cherokee Removal to Oklahoma Territory began, in 1837, Joseph Vann voluntarily moved his whole family and slaves there before the Trail of Tears started.   He had his slaves build an identical replacement for this house in Oklahoma.   He died in 1844 when one of the boilers blew up on one of his Stream boats that he was piloting on the Mississippi River.

The Chief Vann House at Spring Place (Diamond Hill)

43 posted on 06/20/2021 3:17:42 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken )
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Hi.

Methinks you are correct in assuming most people don’t know this fact. Just like, in smaller numbers there were White slaves.

5.56mm


50 posted on 06/20/2021 3:26:39 PM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
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