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I read it somewhere at The Black Inventor Online Museum - a Look at Black Inventors and their Contributions to Society as well as other sites.
One of the fun things I like to do from time to time. Poet---
You think blacks didn't own slaves? Be it black or another race. Look up "black slave owners". Blaming whites for everything is just as ignorant as me saying that all blacks are "stupid" or incapable of running a country.
Time to start walking the walk and stop blaming whites for your problems.
oh, poet.
Black Slaveowners: Free Black Slave Masters in South Carolina, 1790-1860: Larry Koger: 9781570030376: Amazon.com: Books
LiveLeak.com - First Slave owner in the US was black and more history they don't want you to know
First Slave owner in the US was black and more history they don't want you to know
How many Americans know that the first slave owner in America was a black tobacco farmer? How many Americans are aware that thousands of free blacks in the South were, themselves, slave owners?
Answer: Very few.
Embedded in the minds of Americans is a grand distortion of black history.
Our perception depends largely on activists in Hollywood and revisionists in academia. Add those who parrot Hollywood and academia and you have a broad swath of ignorance prevailing in America.
DailyKenn.com is here to set the record straight; at least in part.
Did you know the following about black history in America?
The first slave owner in American history was black.
Anthony Johnson came to the American colonies in August, 1619 as an indentured servant. In 1623 Johnson had completed his indenture and was recognized as a free negro. In 1651 he acquired 250 acres of land in Virginia, later adding another 250 acres; a sizable holding at the time.
John Casor, a black indentured servant employed by Johnson, became America's first slave after a legal dispute with Robert Parker. Parker was a white colonist who employed Casor while Casor was still indentured to Johnson. Johnson sued Parker in Northampton Court in 1654. The court upheld Johnson's right to hold Casor as a slave on March 8, 1655. The court found:
The court seriously consideringe and maturely weighing the premisses, doe fynde that the saide Mr. Robert Parker most unjustly keepeth the said Negro from Anthony Johnson his master ... It is therefore the Judgement of the Court and ordered That the said John Casor Negro forthwith returne unto the service of the said master Anthony Johnson, And that Mr. Robert Parker make payment of all charges in the suit.
Five years later, in 1670, the colonial assembly passed legislation permitting blacks and Indians the right to own slaves of their own race, but prohibiting them from owning White slaves. [source]
Free blacks commonly owned black slaves in the antebellum South.
There were thousands of black slave owners in the South.
"In 1830 there were 3,775 such slaveholders in the South who owned 12,740 black slaves, with 80% of them located in Louisiana, South Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland. There were economic differences between free blacks of the Upper South and Deep South, with the latter fewer in number, but wealthier and typically of mixed race. Half of the black slaveholders lived in cities rather than the countryside, with most in New Orleans and Charleston."
The Black Slave Owners - SlaveRebellion.org
You can provide links from now until doomsday...I don't believe it. in any event, any slave ownership by blacks is obliterated by the overwhelming pervasiveness and ubiquity of white slave owners. You're preaching to the wrong choir.According to federal census reports, on June 1, 1860 there were nearly 4.5 million Negroes in the United States, with fewer than four million of them living in the southern slaveholding states. Of the blacks residing in the South, 261,988 were not slaves. Of this number, 10,689 lived in New Orleans. The country's leading African American historian, Duke University professor John Hope Franklin, records that in New Orleans over 3,000 free Negroes owned slaves, or 28 percent of the free Negroes in that city.
To return to the census figures quoted above, this 28 percent is certainly impressive when compared to less than 1.4 percent of all American whites and less than 4.8 percent of southern whites. The statistics show that, when free, blacks disproportionately became slave masters.
Black Slave Owners Civil War Article by Robert M Grooms
I read somewhere that a black woman invented the torpedo. Just throwing that out there.
I am indeed African American. Just because I freely racial pejorative doesn't mean I'm not black. I speak only the truth about our communities. If you question me because of that, well that's you.
Whites have done damage to a lot of races but we are living in a day and age where we can fix our own problems. Plus whites are not completely responsible. Slavery for instance existed in Africa. Ever watched roots? Black traitors?
You've confirmed my suspicions. Thanks.
You can provide links from now until doomsday...I don't believe it. in any event, any slave ownership by blacks is obliterated by the overwhelming pervasiveness and ubiquity of white slave owners. You're preaching to the wrong choir.According to federal census reports, on June 1, 1860 there were nearly 4.5 million Negroes in the United States, with fewer than four million of them living in the southern slaveholding states. Of the blacks residing in the South, 261,988 were not slaves. Of this number, 10,689 lived in New Orleans. The country's leading African American historian, Duke University professor John Hope Franklin, records that in New Orleans over 3,000 free Negroes owned slaves, or 28 percent of the free Negroes in that city.
To return to the census figures quoted above, this 28 percent is certainly impressive when compared to less than 1.4 percent of all American whites and less than 4.8 percent of southern whites. The statistics show that, when free, blacks disproportionately became slave masters.
Black Slave Owners Civil War Article by Robert M Grooms
You can provide links from now until doomsday...I don't believe it. in any event, any slave ownership by blacks is obliterated by the overwhelming pervasiveness and ubiquity of white slave owners. You're preaching to the wrong choir.According to federal census reports, on June 1, 1860 there were nearly 4.5 million Negroes in the United States, with fewer than four million of them living in the southern slaveholding states. Of the blacks residing in the South, 261,988 were not slaves. Of this number, 10,689 lived in New Orleans. The country's leading African American historian, Duke University professor John Hope Franklin, records that in New Orleans over 3,000 free Negroes owned slaves, or 28 percent of the free Negroes in that city.
To return to the census figures quoted above, this 28 percent is certainly impressive when compared to less than 1.4 percent of all American whites and less than 4.8 percent of southern whites. The statistics show that, when free, blacks disproportionately became slave masters.
Black Slave Owners Civil War Article by Robert M Grooms
About.com said:Historians normally date the start of slavery in the North American colonies to 1619. That year, a Dutch ship carrying African slaves docked at Point Comfort, which served as Jamestown's checkpoint for ships wanting to trade with the colonists.
The crew of the Dutch ship was starving, and as John Rolfe noted in a letter to the Virginia Company's treasurer Edwin Sandys, the Dutch traded 20 African slaves for food and supplies.
Yes I am African American and like the others say, I speak the truth about my community. Every community has their faults, so as a community we should rise up and actually make a change. I'm tired of mostly black on black crime. I've lost a few of my cousins to it.
We have potential and now it's time to use it and stop completely blaming whitey. Most of the stuff humans do overall is by free will.
I don't think you're African-American, by the fact that you "freely" used a racial pejorative to describe white people. A thinking black person, would never do that, no matter what his or her ideology. Whites are to blame for much...there is no need to lower one's self and describe them using racial pejoratives, which makes you look suspect.
Speaking as a white man, "whitey" does not offend me. I do not see it as pejorative at all. And I doubt that any white person on this board would take offense to being called whitey.
You see us whites don't give anyone that kind of power over us. We don't take offense at words like honky, whitey, cracker, redneck etc... We understand that it's just a feeble attempt to insult and we laugh at those attempts.
America owes China a LOT of money so I wouldn't say that.
A debt we don't have to pay since we have the strongest military in history.
She got the idea from her vibrator.I read somewhere that a black woman invented the torpedo. Just throwing that out there.
She was probably pissed off at her husband and wanted to teach him a lesson. lol
22-Year-Old Nigerian Student Breaks GPA Record at Johns Hopkins University
Emmanuel Ohuabunwa not only graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a degree in neuroscience, but he did so with a 3.98 GPA.
Thats an academic record!
Ohuabunwa who hails from Abia State, has been able to make the nation proud and with his efforts has won himself a scholarship to Yale University to get a degree in Medicine.
He has also become a member of Phi Beta Kappa Society, a prestigious honor group that features membership of 17 US Presidents, 37 US Supreme Court Justices, and 136 Nobel Prize winner.
Oops.
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Good for him. Hard work paid off.
A couple of hundred thousand more like that and Africa will have caught up with Asia.
Yeah I sure am mentally inferior. I'm so jealous of the evil white men that constantly bring me down and rule the world. I can't read, dropped out at 13, and have 5 kids as trying to get a rap career. Gotta keep it real!
LOL!!!!
