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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.
And the Civil War over slavery which killed like 10-30% of the MALE American population. Your feeble attempts to make America look great comparing it to Rowan aside. Britain freed her slaves and not one death.............
Less than 2% of the population. If everyone who died was male, it would have been approximately 4% of the population. It's simple arithmetic (except for dimwitted leftists): 620,000 dead / 32,000,000 population = 0.019375. That's 1.9375% of the population dead. It's 3rd grade math, bozo. Perhaps this is why Greece is in so much trouble -- they can't add, subtract, multiply or divide!
http://pjmedia.com/spengler/
If you are going to quote lunatics from the Lyndon LaRouche cult, then you are much, much sicker in the head than I originally thought. In all honesty, I've had a hard time pegging who you really are. At times you sound like a disgruntled American black. Other times you sound like a lazy anti-American Greek. Now we know who you are -- a crazy Lyndon LaRouche cultist. God help you.
All Americans look the same to me and Goldman worked for Ronald St. Reagan administration.
Utter nonsense. There is a self-serving reference on Wikipedia that he "consulted" for the Reagan administration. The reference points to a list of articles that have nothing to do with him. I don't know if this is possible, but can you engage your brain just for 30 seconds? Who do Presidents appoint to their administrations? Long term donors and activists. Goldman was part of the LaRouche cult until at least 1982. So, the Reagan administration was going to appoint him to what??? ROTFLMAO... You are much sicker in the head than I originally thought. Much sicker.
Yea, he worked for Reagan. I did not claim he was a cabinet member. And Reagan was an ex new dealer in his youth also.
David Goldman is not telling the full truth about his years in the LaRouche movement When did he really join? The picture and caption/article here show Goldman at a Labor Committee (LaRouche cadre org) demonstration at Columbia University in 1969--seven years prior to when he now says he joined up. When did he really leave? Goldman writes that "[LaRouche] cashiered me as economics editor for his publications in 1982." He claims that he then moved to Europe,[FN 1] pursued "musical research under the auspices of [LaRouche's] Schiller Institute," and worked for former National Security Council aide Norman Bailey's consulting business before finally severing his emotional ties with the LaRouche group in 1986. However, the masthead of LaRouche's EIR shows Goldman continuing in his job as economics intelligence director (essentially an editorial post) during 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987 and 1988 (see mastheads from each of these years here), while ex-members say he was a member of the org's National Committee throughout this period until the day he left. Goldman's name was removed from the EIR masthead sometime in the first half of 1988--two years after the "Confessions" narrative says he severed his ties to the LaRouche movement, and six years after the narrative says he was removed from his editorial post. Essentially what Goldman has done is take the period of at least 19 years he spent as an active LaRouche follower and condense it down to six years--and then tack on four more years in which he supposedly was pursuing his own interests while continuing to have an ambiguous relationship with the LaRouche org involving harmless musical pursuits. So, when did he work for the Reagan Administration??? LOL!!!!!
How does that disprove his claim that 10-30% of the fighting age males lost their lives?
You have made three contradictory claims on this thread: First, you said that upwards of 30% of the American population lost their lives in the Civil War. I showed you that it was less than 2%. Second, you said that upwards of 30% of American males lost their lives in the civil war. No, it was 4%. Third, you said that upwards of 30% of "fighting age" American males lost their lives in the Civil War. The figure accepted by historians is that 1 in 13 (7.7%) of military age men lost their lives in the Civil War. What claim would you like to make now? That the British secretly control the world and that the Queen of England is a drug dealer? That is what you LaRouchers believe isn't it?
I did not make three contradictory claims - I remembered it was 10-30% casualties but I did not clarify what % of the population was being talked about - 10% for Union and - 30% for Confederate casualties of fight age males. So I found you a source. You attack the source but not the %. All because I said that the USA was INFERIOR because of how it freed its slaves - through a bloody war that depopulated the South. Even Czar freed the Serfs there was no war and those Russians love a drunken fight.
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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.
#11. To: cranko (#9)
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#20. To: Pericles (#11)
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And the Civil War over slavery which killed like 10-30% of the MALE American population. Your feeble attempts...
#21. To: cranko (#20)
10% of military-age Northern men, 30% of military-age Southern men.
#25. To: Pericles (#21)
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http://pjmedia.com/spengler/
#27. To: cranko (#25)
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#28. To: Pericles (#27)
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Goldman worked for Ronald St. Reagan administration.
#31. To: cranko (#28)
that he "consulted" for the Reagan administration.
#35. To: Pericles (#31)
Goldman writes that he "spent some years--from 1976 to 1986--in a gnostic cult under the leadership of a man named Lyndon LaRouche."
#37. To: cranko (#35)
So, when did he work for the Reagan Administration??? LOL!!!!!
#38. To: Pericles (#37)
How does that disprove his claim that 10-30% of the fighting age males lost their lives?
#39. To: cranko (#38)
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