“The fact that blacks in the US also owned slaves has been totally ignored.“
If I’m not mistaken the first slave owner WAS black.
Your right! I forgot that.
Anthony Johnson was NOT the 1st slave owner in North America, but the actual history is even more interesting.
Anthony Johnson was bought to the Virginia Colony as a slave in 1621. By 1655, he had obtained his freedom, and by then he was a fairly successful planter and rancher.
His claim to a slave named John Casor was the first in the English colonies of North America to be validated by a Virginia court in 1655.
Johnson was defending his “right” to own Casor against a wealthy white planter who claimed that Casor actually belonged to him