what’s the betting that obama never told his daughters on his trip over to Africa about Johnson or how blacks caught blacks and then sold them to whites in Africa .
Johnson was so mean to his slaves that one of them ran away and asked the white neighbour to let his stay with him.
It was that time that Johnson went to court and had slavery legalised.
Funny how many teachers do not tell their kids this on Black history month or in history
A neat story, but like so many Lost Cause stories it's inaccurate.
"Whereas Hugh Gwyn hath . . . brought back from Maryland three servants formerly run away . . . the court doth . . . order [that] the first serve out their times with their master according to their indentures, . . . and that [the] third being a negro named John Punch shall serve his said master or his assigns for the time of his natural life here or elsewhere." A Virginia Court Decision (1640) from Virginia Magazine of History and Biography (January 1898), vol. 5, no. 3, p. 236.
Hugh Gwyn was white. In addition, Massachusetts was the first colony to legalize slavery in 1641, 9 years before your story. But 15 years after the Dutch had legalized slavery in New Amsterdam.