Did Black People Own Slaves?

[Ptarmigan]

Did Black People Own Slaves?
http://www.theroot.com/views/did-black-people-own-slaves?wpisrc=root_lightbox

This is old news for me. It is written by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

And for a time, free black people could even "own" the services of white indentured servants in Virginia as well. Free blacks owned slaves in Boston by 1724 and in Connecticut by 1783; by 1790, 48 black people in Maryland owned 143 slaves. One particularly notorious black Maryland farmer named Nat Butler "regularly purchased and sold Negroes for the Southern trade," Halliburton wrote.

Perhaps the most insidious or desperate attempt to defend the right of black people to own slaves was the statement made on the eve of the Civil War by a group of free people of color in New Orleans, offering their services to the Confederacy, in part because they were fearful for their own enslavement: "The free colored population [native] of Louisiana … own slaves, and they are dearly attached to their native land … and they are ready to shed their blood for her defense. They have no sympathy for abolitionism; no love for the North, but they have plenty for Louisiana … They will fight for her in 1861 as they fought [to defend New Orleans from the British] in 1814-1815." 

Pressly also shows that the percentage of free black slave owners as the total number of free black heads of families was quite high in several states, namely 43 percent in South Carolina, 40 percent in Louisiana, 26 percent in Mississippi, 25 percent in Alabama and 20 percent in Georgia. So why did these free black people own these slaves?

[debk]

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Pressly also shows that the percentage of free black slave owners as the total number of free black heads of families was quite high in several states, namely 43 percent in South Carolina, 40 percent in Louisiana, 26 percent in Mississippi, 25 percent in Alabama and 20 percent in Georgia. So why did these free black people own these slaves?
 

duh...

because they could.

[Dori]

Yes.  They still do too. 

The first slave holder in America was Anthony Johnson, a black indentured servant, as were whites.  When he became free he held the first black slave through a court case.  It took about 60 years for race based slavery to develope.

[JohnnyReb]

The Yamasee Indians in S.C. captured other Indians and sold them into slavery in the New England colonies in early colonial history.

[ColonelCarrots]

They're still owned just by the Democratic party and they don't know it.

[thundley4]

They're still owned just by the Democratic party and they don't know it.

I sometimes think that way also, but there are times I wonder if blacks and Democrats aren't some sort of mutual parasites with blacks on the losing end of it. 

[mrclose]

All you ever need to know is right here: http://slaverebellion.org/index.php?page=the-black-slave-owners

[Boudicca]

Black people still own slaves.  So do white, Asian and Arabs.  Slavery didn't begin nor did it end with one isolated period in time and place, although Lord knows that's what alot of idiots in this country have been brainwashed into believing.

Furthermore, if we all could trace far enough back, we'd find both slaves and slave owners in our own family histories.  As long as there's been war, there's been slavery.  Hello, Roman Empire!  Ancient Greece!  Babylonian captivity of the Jews!  Well, intelligent people already know this and people whose lavish livelihoods depend upon upholding the evil white slavemaster meme know it too, but their brainwashed followers don't and never will.

Here's a very interesting article about the Christian Balkan boys forcibly enslaved and converted to Islam (let's hope to hell the Left doesn't ever weaken us enough to repeat history)


http://www.jrnyquist.com/may14/balkan_boys.htm