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Title: First Slave Owner in America was Black
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URL Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Johnson_(colonist)
Published: Jun 23, 2015
Author: Wikipedia
Post Date: 2015-06-23 14:28:57 by cranko
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Johnson was captured in his native Angola by an enemy tribe and sold to Arab slave traders. He was eventually sold as an indentured servant to a merchant working for the Virginia Company. Johnson was sold to a white planter named Bennet as an indentured servant to work on his Virginia tobacco farm. Servants typically worked under an indenture contract for four to seven years to pay off their passage, room, board, lodging and freedom dues. In the early colonial years, most Africans in the Thirteen Colonies were held under such contracts of indentured servitude. When Anthony Johnson was released from servitude, he was legally recognized as a "free Negro." He developed a successful farm. In 1651 he owned 250 acres, and the services of four white and one black indentured servants. In 1653, John Casor, a black indentured servant whose contract Johnson appeared to have bought in the early 1640s, approached Captain Goldsmith, claiming his indenture had expired seven years earlier and that he was being held illegally by Johnson. A neighbor, Robert Parker, intervened and persuaded Johnson to free Casor. Parker offered Casor work, and he signed a term of indenture to the planter. Johnson sued Parker in the Northampton Court in 1654 for the return of Casor. The court initially found in favor of Parker, but Johnson appealed. In 1655, the court reversed its ruling.[10] Finding that Anthony Johnson still "owned" John Casor, the court ordered that he be returned with the court dues paid by Robert Parker. This was the first instance of a judicial determination in the Thirteen Colonies holding that a person who had committed no crime could be held in servitude for life. I love actual history. Not the stuff the left makes up, but real, actual history.
Anthony Johnson was an Angolan who achieved freedom in the early 17th century Colony of Virginia, where he became one of the first black property owners and slaveholders. Held as an indentured servant in 1621, he earned his freedom after several years, which was accompanied by a grant of land. He later became a successful tobacco farmer. Notably, he is recognized for attaining great wealth after having been an indentured servant and has been referred to as “'the black patriarch' of the first community of Negro property owners in America".
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#5. To: cranko, Justified, BobCeleste (#0)
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Blacks and free slaves has much more rights before the Revolution and a generation after for a while - then the Southern Slave states forced free blacks out of the states in many cases. In fact laws were passed that a free slave needed to move on or they would be re-enslaved again. So by the start of the Civil War southern blacks were less free with fewer rights than ever before. So your effort to white wash (pun not intended but it works) the south is a fail. If the USA was such a great nation it would have outlawed slavery before the British did between 1833 and 1843.
Oh please. A couple of decades is the difference between Britain being "great" and America being evil? Give us a break. America has a federalist system, not a a central one. It is also much larger than the U.K. So, change doesn't happen all at once -- it happens over time, one state at a time. Here are the U.S. States that abolished slavery before Great Britain: Vermont (1777), Pennsylvania (1780), New Hampshire (1783), Massachusetts (1783), Connecticut (1784), Rhode Island (1784), Northwest Territory (1787 - - Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota were never slave states), New York (1799), New Jersey (1804), and Maine (1820). Who still practices Slavery today? Black Africans. This is yet another fact that the American left doesn't want us to know.
And the Civil War over slavery which killed like 10-30% of the American population.
Nope. The American Civil War resulted in 620,000 dead Americans, which was less than 2% of a population of 32 million. NOT 10% to 30%. Less than 2%. Since we're talking about racism and slavery, the Rwandan Genocide killed 800,000 out of a measly population of 7 million. This didn't happen in the 1860's, it happened in the 1990's. How many did Hilter, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot and the other 20th century totalitarian dictators murder? Over 100 million. As I stated earlier, Africa still has a slavery problem today. Yet, America is held out as being uniquely evil by leftist dimwits. What a load of crap.
At the time of the civil war I believe that was the percentage of slave owners in America. 2-3% The poor white farms wanted slavery so they could compete with slave labor from the big slave farms! Yes slavery was the reason we had the civil war!/s States rights was just a ruse to get the poor dumb white people to die in mass for the big slave farms.
#23. To: Justified (#19)
States rights was just a ruse to get the poor dumb white people to die in mass for the big slave farms. The South fought for the dream of a slave empire stretching southwards, and the 90% of Southern soldiers who owed no slaves hoped to get them–like Wallenstein’s mercenaries or Napoleon’s foot-soldiers with field marshall’s batons in their rucksacks. Like Wallenstein’s and Napoleon’s armies, the Confederates fought with desperate courage, but for rapine rather than right. Crushing them was the noblest thing the United States ever did. http://pjmedia.com/spengler/
It sort of depends on what numbers, or subset of numbers are used. Below as some of the Census numbers. http://mapserver.lib.virginia.edu/php/start.php?year=V1860 1860 census 393,975 TOTAL slaveholders (8 in KS & NE territories) UNION 77,343 = 2.4% of total population of these states. CONFEDERACY 316,632 = 3.5% of total population of these states. The Confederacy had 4.1 times as many slaveholders as the Union states. TOTAL POPULATION OF SLAVE STATES/Territories UNION CONFEDERACY
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#7. To: Pericles (#5)
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If the USA was such a great nation it would have outlawed slavery before the British did between 1833 and 1843.
#8. To: cranko (#7)
Oh please. A couple of decades is the difference between Britain being "great" and America being evil?
#9. To: Pericles (#8)
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And the Civil War over slavery which killed like 10-30% of the American population.
#19. To: cranko, Pericles (#9)
Nope. The American Civil War resulted in 620,000 dead Americans, which was less than 2% of a population of 32 million. NOT 10% to 30%. Less than 2%.
Replies to Comment # 19. The poor white farms wanted slavery so they could compete with slave labor from the big slave farms! Yes slavery was the reason we had the civil war!/s
#40. To: Justified, cranko, Pericles (#19)
At the time of the civil war I believe that was the percentage of slave owners in America. 2-3%
Slaveholders Number Delaware 587 Kansas (T) 2 Kentucky 38,645 Maryland 13,783 Missouri 24,320 Nebraska (T) 6 TOTAL 77,343 Slaveholders Number Alabama 33,730 Arkansas 11,481 Georgia 41,084 Florida 5,152 Louisiana 22,033 Mississippi 30,943 North Carolina 34,658 South Carolina 26,701 Tennessee 36,844 Texas 21,878 Virginia 52,128 TOTAL 316,632 State Population Delaware 112,216 Kansas (T) 107,206 Kentucky 1,155,684 Maryland 687,049 Missouri 1,182,012 Nebraska (T) 28,841 TOTAL 3,273,008 State Population Alabama 964,201 Arkansas 435,450 Florida 140,424 Georgia 1,057,286 Louisiana 708,002 Mississippi 791,305 North Carolina 992,622 South Carolina 703,708 Tennessee 1,109,801 Texas 604,215 Virginia 1,596,318 TOTAL 9,103,332
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