Posted on 06/20/2021 12:51:55 PM PDT by DeweyCA
Justus Angel and Mistress L. Horry were wealthy landowners in South Carolina’s Colleton District in the 1830s, in what is now Charleston County. The couple owned 84 slaves each for a total of 168, at a time when most of their peers owned a handful. Their slaves worked their plantation and made them rich. Angel and Horry also traded slaves for profit, showing no regard for dissolving slave families. They were no kinder or crueler to their slaves than anyone else. They were considered “slave magnates” because of the number of slaves they owned. They were referred to as the “economic elite.” They were also black.
Black people owned black people in all 13 original colonies and in every state that allowed slavery. Frequently, freed black people would go on to own more slaves than their white neighbors. In 1830, nearly a fourth of the free black slave masters in South Carolina owned 10 or more slaves, and several owned more than 30, far surpassing their white slave-owning neighbors.
Yes, black people, frequently former slaves themselves, owned slaves. While it can be said that many black people owned family members to protect them and keep them close, black slave owners also bought and sold slaves for profit. Renowned African-American historian and Duke University Professor, John Hope Franklin, wrote “The majority of Negro owners of slaves had some personal interest in their property. There were instances, however, in which free Negroes had a real economic interest in the institution of slavery and held slaves in order to improve their economic status.” Franklin also wrote that roughly 3,000 free black people in New Orleans alone owned slaves.
... it’s now about equity. YOU need to pay for what other white, and black, people stopped doing over 155 years ago.
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Not to mention they SOLD them too. And still do to this day.
Some fought for the Confederates.
The first legally-owned slave in America was owned by a black man.
It's too bad the victor of the war began revising history. Sure, slavery was part of the reason for the war in many peoples minds, but it was not the primary reason for the war.
In fact, the overwhelming majority of Southerners fighting the aggression of the North never owned a slave. They were too poor. So, what were they fighting for if not defending their right to own slaves?
They were fighting what they perceived as a federal behemoth attempting to control their lives, tax the hell outta them. Also the North was placing embargo's on goods from Europe, particularly farm equipment.
To be fair, there were also lots of stories of “beloved slaves”, the first chance they got, bolted towards Union lines and ratted out the Plantation owner’s gold and silver stash.
When I was in Africa, as we passed through villages, my interpreter would explain to me how those people has been his ancestors slaves.
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.
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.
I always call it the war of northern aggression.
All you hear is the stories written by victors, but a lot of people don’t realize that even those that owned slaves, they were expensive, and it didn’t make sense to mistreat expensive farm workers.
Of course there are horror stories, nobody is denying that, but not as common as the movies would have you believe.
Slavery was on the way out too because of industrialization, and was naturally ending. The war was to subjugate an independent south and consolidate power in DC.
I’m sure this is a standard item in ‘difficult’ race discussions.
Right?
About 15-20 years archeologist found a body in one of the old colonial houses in Annapolis.
The body was a young man in terrible condition so they assumed it was a slave.
When the genetic testing came back they found out he was white and it was felt that he must have been an indentured servant.
I was told during a tour of Williamsburg that slave ownership by free blacks was roughly the same percentage as white owner.
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.
“...Slavery was on the way out too because of industrialization, and was naturally ending. The war was to subjugate an independent south and consolidate power in DC...”
One of the most accurate statements about that war I have read....
Bkmk
as well as Indian slaves ! Sacegawa had been a Shoshone slave to a Crow tribe when her French trapper husband (Sort of !) bought her from the Crow.
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.....
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
“History” as told by modern intelligentsia is hardly near the truth.
The whole slave sham with “equity” is complete BS.
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