Monday, November 13, 2017

Slavery + History... Oh my!


( Warning: These facts have not been independently verified )



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Below is a small slice of Slavery and History...
A practice that most likely goes back as far as prostitution.
Who was the first to have his lifetime ownership of a slave legally sanctioned by a court in what would become the united states? Note.. (see #1 at bottom)
Fact
Answer = Anthony Johnson (colonist) 1600-1670 Black man
Fun little FACT. Dear old Anthony Johnson owned a total of 5 indentured servants 3 of them were white. Turns out Our buddy Anthony Johnson didn't want to give up his brother from another mother so he went to court In 1653 to force John Casor (A black Indentured man) to remain his slave forever... So history was made when the court said to a black man..OK you can enslave for life this other black man. (Note #2)
Google indentured servitude... You Will find out that many people both white and black were slaves all but in name under the system.
Fact
South Carolina’s largest Black slaveholder in 1860 was a black plantation owner named William Ellison.
William Ellison was a very wealthy black plantation owner and cotton gin manufacturer who lived in South Carolina. According to the 1860 census (in which his surname was listed as “Ellerson”), he owned 63 black slaves, making him the largest of the 171 black slaveholders in South Carolina.
Fact
American Indians owned thousands of black slaves.
http://www.slate.com/articl...
Fact
There were approximately 319,599 free blacks in the United States in 1830. Approximately 13.7 percent of the total black population was free. A significant number of these free blacks were the owners of slaves. The census of 1830 lists 3,775 free Negroes who owned a total of 12,760 slaves.
Fact
The truth on how Black slaves were bought/captured in Africa.
Some independent slave merchants did, in fact, stage raids on unprotected African villages and kidnap and enslave Africans. Most professional slave traders, however, set up bases along the west African coast where they
purchased slaves from Africans in exchange for firearms and other goods. Before the end of the seventeenth century, England, France, Denmark, Holland, and Portugal had all established slave trading posts on
the West African coast.

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