America's First Slave Owner - was a black man.

[doodle-mcvee]

http://cofcc.org/2012/03/americas-first-slave-owner-was-a-black-man/


According to colonial records, the first slave owner in the United States was a black man.
Prior to 1655 there were no legal slaves in the colonies, only indentured servants. All masters were required to free their servants after their time was up. Seven years was the limit that an indentured servant could be held. Upon their release they were granted 50 acres of land. This included any Negro purchased from slave traders. Negros were also granted 50 acres upon their release.
Anthony Johnson was a Negro from modern-day Angola. He was brought to the US to work on a tobacco farm in 1619. In 1622 he was almost killed when Powhatan Indians attacked the farm. 52 out of 57 people on the farm perished in the attack. He married a female black servant while working on the farm.
When Anthony was released he was legally recognized as a “free Negro” and ran a successful farm. In 1651 he held 250 acres and five black indentured servants. In 1654, it was time for Anthony to release John Casor, a black indentured servant. Instead Anthony told Casor he was extending his time. Casor left and became employed by the free white man Robert Parker.
Anthony Johnson sued Robert Parker in the Northampton Court in 1654. In 1655, the court ruled that Anthony Johnson could hold John Casor indefinitely. The court gave judicial sanction for blacks to own slave of their own race. Thus Casor became the first permanent slave and Johnson the first slave owner.

Whites still could not legally hold a black servant as an indefinite slave until 1670. In that year, the colonial assembly passed legislation permitting free whites, blacks, and Indians the right to own blacks as slaves.

By 1699, the number of free blacks prompted fears of a “Negro insurrection.” Virginia Colonial ordered the repatriation of freed blacks back to Africa. Many blacks sold themselves to white masters so they would not have to go to Africa. This was the first effort to gently repatriate free blacks back to Africa. The modern nations of Sierra Leone and Liberia both originated as colonies of repatriated former black slaves.

However, black slave owners continued to thrive in the United States.

By 1830 there were 3,775 black families living in the South who owned black slaves. By 1860 there were about 3,000 slaves owned by black households in the city of New Orleans alone.


Actual drawing of Anthony Johnson, the first slave owner in the colonies.

[Byteryder]

Who woulda thunk it?

[KensanIV]

It wasn't exactly white people who went into the jungle and delivered these slaves to the ships... It was fellow blacks or Arabs who made a living raiding villages to obtain slaves to be sold. At first they were furnished for the plantations in the islands... from there to the cotton plantations in the south.
 
I don't think it really mattered who or what color the slave owners were... If they needed slaves, and they could afford them, there was a source who would sell them. It was the way life was in those days. The Eli Whitney invention of the Cotton Gin probably did more to free the slaves than anything else.
 
Didn't you ever watch Roots? Kunta Kintay and Chicken George? It was written by a black man... Alex Haley
 
It is and it was a shameful period in our history.. that one person could buy or sell another person regardless of the color.  At the same time such slavery is still going on today in other parts of this planet.

[chuck_curtis]

Many blacks sold themselves to white masters so they would not have to go to Africa.

Amazing what some humans will do for 3 squares and roof over their heads.

[doodle-mcvee]

Makes you wonder why this has been often omitted from the education indoctrination system.

Not to mention that most of the "southern" black slave owners in the New Orleans area were by today's standards be in the business of human trafficking rather than slave ownership. 

[Amazed]

It doesn't make me wonder why it is not taught in elementary or high school classes? It's not a significant factoid.  What do you think the significance of it is?
 
A minute percentage of the slaves in the south, primarily in louisiana were owned by blacks, and your point is? Does that make slavery ok?  Does it make it less wrong or that slavery should have never existed or that it should not be ended? Do you have a point here doodle brain?  Does it make white slaveholders less evil? Spell it out.

And doodle, you picked up on that 'neo-Nazi' whiterrabbit site? You're a gullible little prick aren't you, or had neo Nazi tendencies to begin with more like.
 
 

[Amazed]

"The Council of Conservative Citizens (CofCC) is an American political organization that supports a large variety of conservative and paleoconservative causes in addition to white nationalism, and white separatism. Several members of the CofCC Board of Directors are former leaders of the segregationist Citizens' Councils of America, founded by Major Bob Patterson, which is commonly referred to as the White Citizens' Council."
 
^{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_conservative_citizens}

[doodle-mcvee]

LOL - wiki- pedia.


Doesn't matter when it's true loser.

Rather than hating whites you should try thanking whites for setting up blockades and fighting wars in the name of ending slavery in the western world you ungrateful piece of shit.