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Slave Stories History 'Forgot.' Black People Owned Slaves Too
PJ Media ^ | 6-19-21 | Kevin Downey Jr.

Posted on 06/20/2021 12:51:55 PM PDT by DeweyCA

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To: crz

I was always under the impression it dependent on who owned their “contract”.

Good people let them go, the others didn’t.


41 posted on 06/20/2021 2:48:41 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: DeweyCA
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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To: DeweyCA
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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44 posted on 06/20/2021 3:17:44 PM PDT by caww ( )
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45 posted on 06/20/2021 3:22:06 PM PDT by caww ( )
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To: higgmeister; stand watie

Ping.

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46 posted on 06/20/2021 3:22:49 PM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
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To: lizma2

The involuntary was “court” ordered, or ordered by the nobility in the UK.

I have read they even went so far and to order prostitutes to the colonies for “breeding” purposes.

My one ancestor came over under contract by his uncle who was trying to set up a nobility in the Conn River valley. Once he got off ship he hightailed it and somehow was made a freeman at Salem MA around 1636-38. How we do not know. Had to have been before 38 cause he filed law suit against a neighbor for livestock that knocked his fence down that year.

That is how I studied up on this stuff-genealogy is a time consuming thing.


47 posted on 06/20/2021 3:24:30 PM PDT by crz
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To: .44 Special
Of course you are correct, and I have a full understanding of how slavery worked.

My point is that American blacks are taught that some white guys came on boats with nets and kidnapped Africans. If what they claim is true, then Africans are some of the weakest races of people that have walked the earth to let some foreigners come and just "take" people with nets.

That's how you shut down any argument when you hear the claim of people with nets "kidnapping blacks". It brings to light the absurdity of their argument.

48 posted on 06/20/2021 3:25:52 PM PDT by PallMal
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To: caww

That Murkowski next to her?


49 posted on 06/20/2021 3:26:00 PM PDT by crz
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To: DeweyCA

Hi.

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

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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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To: crz

Honored of all things sitting right next to Kamala.... ....and look who’s across the table from her.


51 posted on 06/20/2021 3:28:38 PM PDT by caww ( )
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To: Bull Snipe

Sorry Sir, I’ve seen your posts and you seem to be a one trick pony.

Worldwide acceptance of slavery was dying off fast, unless you were a moslem, then it’s business as usual.

What about all those Irish slaves? They were very numerous.

Who was responsible for capturing slaves (and still does to this day). You rail against the wrong people.

Many have been lucky that their ancestors got on the boats and have said so themselves.

Is life perfect for people? No, it is not, but you do not see a mass exodus for Africa either, do you?

I don’t agree with slavery, I never did, I believe God made all men free, but that doesn’t change what people did and continue to do.

To pretend that war though was about that and not about consolidating power is quite naive and hurtful to everyone.

A lot of blacks back in the day didn’t want to be “liberated” and pushed into service of the north. They were happy where they were. Of course nobody wants to talk about that.

I especially don’t think that anyone alive today should be paying money for things they had no part of. The BLM and similar groups have done nothing but harm relations. Nobody is denying any black people these days any advantages etc that anyone else has, at least not around here.


52 posted on 06/20/2021 3:29:44 PM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: M Kehoe

In the fwiw department, Black slaves fought for the CSA (about 60 thousand). They were offered their freedom if they survived their enlistment.

Do know the number who survived.

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53 posted on 06/20/2021 3:29:56 PM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
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To: servantboy777

“even to the point of placing embargos on European goods”

What European goods would those be?


54 posted on 06/20/2021 3:32:27 PM PDT by Bull Snipe
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To: crz

Susan Collins across the table. But not a single dark face sitting at that table...not one.


55 posted on 06/20/2021 3:34:14 PM PDT by caww ( )
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To: MuttTheHoople
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.

To be even more fair, General Sherman had all of the United States Census Records with him on the march to pin point where the locations of wealth were.

It's rather ludicrous to think that Union officers would get personal information from Southern slaves.   A Northern Officer would not even understand the dialect of a White Southerner let alone a Black Slave.

That language barrier still exists today, but back then was vastly more of an obstacle.   After all, we have had seventy years of the homogenizing effect of television to dilute the dialect differences.

56 posted on 06/20/2021 3:36:51 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken )
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To: M Kehoe

Interesting, since it was against Confederate law to enlist blacks into the Confederate Army.
Would like to know the source that cites 60,000 slaves fought for the Confederacy.


57 posted on 06/20/2021 3:37:35 PM PDT by Bull Snipe
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To: kickstart

>>If blacks cannot portray themselves as victims, then they lose the narrative and their money bag.<<

It’s really sad though. Conservative leaders like Larry Elder, Leo Terrell, Adam West, Candice Owens, Thomas Sowell, Ben Carson, Van Jones, Hershel Walker...and so on are great role models.

There has got to be a way to change that culture to make them more productive, stable part of society.


58 posted on 06/20/2021 3:38:33 PM PDT by servantboy777
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To: Bull Snipe

Farm products. Seed, equipment and so forth.


59 posted on 06/20/2021 3:39:34 PM PDT by servantboy777
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To: Bull Snipe

You’re exactly right. Ready Shelby Foote’s three volume set on the Civil War and if the south had had 1/2 the manufacturing of the north, they may have won.


60 posted on 06/20/2021 3:43:42 PM PDT by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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