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First Slave Owner in Colonial US
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Fri Jun 28, 2013 9:52 amby Night Strike
The first slave owner in the colonial US 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.
http://cofcc.org/2012/03/americas-first-slave-owner-was-a-black-man/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Johnson_%28colonist%29
Re: First Slave Owner in Colonial US
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Fri Jun 28, 2013 10:35 amby AndyDufresne
Is this a trap topic?
Kudos to you for thinking outside the box.
--Andy
Re: First Slave Owner in Colonial US
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Fri Jun 28, 2013 11:22 amby Army of GOD
See for most people this would be like, an interesting factoid, but for NightStrike I feel like this is like a reason to be more racist.
Re: First Slave Owner in Colonial US
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Fri Jun 28, 2013 5:07 pmby Woodruff
Night Strike wrote:The first slave owner in the colonial US was a black man.
Therefore, slavery is justified? I guess I don't really understand what your point for the thread is...
Re: First Slave Owner in Colonial US
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Fri Jun 28, 2013 5:24 pmby saxitoxin
The first person who died on the U.S. side in the American Revolution was a black man (Crispus Attucks).
Re: First Slave Owner in Colonial US
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Fri Jun 28, 2013 6:10 pmby Metsfanmax
Fascinating. According to
this page, there were 385,000 slaveowners in the US by 1860, but only a few thousand black slaveowners. It also raises the hypothesis that free blacks bought family and friends as slaves as a way to get them out of the hands of other slaveowners and circumvent the system that was precluding them from freeing those friends and family.
Re: First Slave Owner in Colonial US
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Fri Jun 28, 2013 6:54 pmby Night Strike
Woodruff wrote:Night Strike wrote:The first slave owner in the colonial US was a black man.
Therefore, slavery is justified? I guess I don't really understand what your point for the thread is...
Just trying to share the facts of what happened in the world to counter the people who work hard to rewrite history.
Re: First Slave Owner in Colonial US
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Fri Jun 28, 2013 8:38 pmby warmonger1981
Were there not slaves all throughout history far before America came to be? Egypt or Rome maybe? Slavery is used as a tool for political and religious gain.
Re: First Slave Owner in Colonial US
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Fri Jun 28, 2013 9:04 pmby AndyDufresne
Night Strike wrote:Woodruff wrote:Night Strike wrote:The first slave owner in the colonial US was a black man.
Therefore, slavery is justified? I guess I don't really understand what your point for the thread is...
Just trying to share the facts of what happened in the world to counter the people who work hard to rewrite history.
Can we have more of a history lesson?
--Andy
Re: First Slave Owner in Colonial US
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Fri Jun 28, 2013 9:54 pmby AAFitz
Night Strike wrote:Woodruff wrote:Night Strike wrote:The first slave owner in the colonial US was a black man.
Therefore, slavery is justified? I guess I don't really understand what your point for the thread is...
Just trying to share the facts of what happened in the world to counter the people who work hard to rewrite history.
You could fuel the Enterprise for a millenia with this one.
Re: First Slave Owner in Colonial US
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Sat Jun 29, 2013 12:02 amby john9blue
AAFitz wrote:Night Strike wrote:Woodruff wrote:Night Strike wrote:The first slave owner in the colonial US was a black man.
Therefore, slavery is justified? I guess I don't really understand what your point for the thread is...
Just trying to share the facts of what happened in the world to counter the people who work hard to rewrite history.
You could fuel the Enterprise for a millenia with this one.
what does the enterprise run on? i don't watch star trek
also, millennia is plural
Re: First Slave Owner in Colonial US
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Sat Jun 29, 2013 12:09 amby Dukasaur
john9blue wrote:AAFitz wrote:Night Strike wrote:Woodruff wrote:Night Strike wrote:The first slave owner in the colonial US was a black man.
Therefore, slavery is justified? I guess I don't really understand what your point for the thread is...
Just trying to share the facts of what happened in the world to counter the people who work hard to rewrite history.
You could fuel the Enterprise for a millenia with this one.
what does the enterprise run on? i don't watch star trek
also, millennia is plural
Di-lithium crystals. It's never fully explained if that is an element or a compound. In any case, I fail to see the connection.
Re: First Slave Owner in Colonial US
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Sat Jun 29, 2013 12:37 amby BigBallinStalin
Metsfanmax wrote:Fascinating. According to
this page, there were 385,000 slaveowners in the US by 1860, but only a few thousand black slaveowners. It also raises the hypothesis that free blacks bought family and friends as slaves as a way to get them out of the hands of other slaveowners and circumvent the system that was precluding them from freeing those friends and family.
Suppose a free black buys his family and friends, one of whom he falls in love with.
Is this rape?
Re: First Slave Owner in Colonial US
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Sat Jun 29, 2013 1:37 amby Woodruff
Night Strike wrote:Woodruff wrote:Night Strike wrote:The first slave owner in the colonial US was a black man.
Therefore, slavery is justified? I guess I don't really understand what your point for the thread is...
Just trying to share the facts of what happened in the world to counter the people who work hard to rewrite history.
I thought you liked Fox News?
Re: First Slave Owner in Colonial US
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Sat Jun 29, 2013 1:39 amby Woodruff
john9blue wrote:AAFitz wrote:Night Strike wrote:Woodruff wrote:Night Strike wrote:The first slave owner in the colonial US was a black man.
Therefore, slavery is justified? I guess I don't really understand what your point for the thread is...
Just trying to share the facts of what happened in the world to counter the people who work hard to rewrite history.
You could fuel the Enterprise for a millenia with this one.
what does the enterprise run on? i don't watch star trek
I'm a big Star Trek geek, and his comment confused the hell out of me too. I have no idea what he was referring to...and I've spent at least THREE WHOLE MINUTES trying to figure it out. Maybe he's saying it doesn't matter (anti-matter)...that's the best I got.
Re: First Slave Owner in Colonial US
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Sat Jun 29, 2013 3:42 amby oVo
"By 1830 there were 3,775 black families living in the South who owned black slaves."
Now I have to research the population of America before the Mexican-American War.
A lot of "History" is re-written on the internet. Slavery was a global thing and continues
to this very day.
Re: First Slave Owner in Colonial US
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Sat Jun 29, 2013 3:44 amby oVo
"By 1830 there were 3,775 black families living in the South who owned black slaves."
Now I have to research the population of America before the Mexican-American War.
A lot of "History" is re-written on the internet and slavery was a global thing that still
continues to this very day.
Re: First Slave Owner in Colonial US
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Sat Jun 29, 2013 8:01 amby notyou2
oVo wrote:"By 1830 there were 3,775 black families living in the South who owned black slaves."
Now I have to research the population of America before the Mexican-American War.
A lot of "History" is re-written on the internet and slavery was a global thing that still
continues to this very day.
Re: First Slave Owner in Colonial US
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Sat Jun 29, 2013 8:03 amby notyou2
Nightstrike, may I purchase you to free you from the tyranny you are experiencing in the USA?
Re: First Slave Owner in Colonial US
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Sat Jun 29, 2013 12:30 pmby oVo
Free his mind and the rest may follow.
Re: First Slave Owner in Colonial US
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Sat Jun 29, 2013 2:36 pmby warmonger1981
Slavery was the capital for capitalism.
Re: First Slave Owner in Colonial US
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Sat Jun 29, 2013 2:43 pmby tzor
john9blue wrote:what does the enterprise run on? i don't watch star trek
Technically it runs on anti-matter. The collection of this anti-matter is never quite explained. It also runs on hydrogen (the impulse drives) through fusion reactions, but the collection of that resource is easier.
It is often incorrectly stated that it "runs" on dilithuium. That is actually the material where mater and anti-mater are combined in such a way as to make a plasma that forms the warp fields. The process degrades the crystals and so they need to be replaced. By the later parts of the series, the use of high energy particles allowed these crystals to self regenerate allowing them to run non stop forever.
Re: First Slave Owner in Colonial US
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Sat Jun 29, 2013 3:35 pmby Army of GOD
"By 1830 there were 3,775 black families living in the South who owned black slaves."
Now I have to research the population of America before the Mexican-American War.
A lot of "History" is re-written on the internet. Slavery was a global thing and continues
to this very day.
Re: First Slave Owner in Colonial US
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Sat Jun 29, 2013 4:48 pmby Nola_Lifer
Seems history shows that Night Strike is still racist as all hell.
Re: First Slave Owner in Colonial US
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Sat Jun 29, 2013 5:27 pmby Night Strike
Nola_Lifer wrote:Seems history shows that Night Strike is still racist as all hell.
In what way?