The Slave Rebellion

[mrclose]

Being a member of more than one board, (sorry) I often encounter the tired and worn arguments, (most often from the liberals) of slavery and who is at fault!

Because of my postings .. Most board members are surprised when they learn that I am mulatto!

That being said, I pride myself in knowing my own history but .. tonight I was thrown for quite a surprise myself!

We all want to put the 'blame' on whitey but as the following will reveal .. There is plenty of guilt to go around 'except' .. it's rarely spoken of!

(btw: I also live in Virginia)

Anthony Johnson was believed to be the first Black to set foot on Virginia soil. 

He was the first black indentured servant, the first free black, and the first to establish the first black community, first black  landowner, first black slave owner, and the first person based on his court case to establish slavery legally in North America.  One could argue that he was the founder of slavery in Virginia.


The majority of black slave owners were members of the mulatto class, and in some cases were the sons and daughters of white slave masters.  Many of the mulatto slave owners separated themselves from the masses of black people and attempted to establish a caste system based on color, wealth, and free status. According to Martin Delany, the colored community of Charleston City clung to the assumptions of the superiority of white blood and brown skin complexion.

These mulattoes of the old free Black elite did not attend church with the dark-skinned blacks of Charleston City.  They not only formed congregations which excluded freedmen of dark complexion, but they only married among other mulattoes to “keep the color in the family.”

Large numbers of free Blacks owned black slaves in numbers disproportionate to their representation in society.  According to the federal census of 1830, free blacks owned more than 10,000 slaves in Louisiana, Maryland, South Carolina, and Virginia.  The majority of black slave-owners lived in Louisiana and planted sugar cane.

Slave holding among the mulatto class in South Carolina was widespread according to the first census of 1790, which revealed that 36 out of 102, or 35.2 percent of the free Black heads of family held slaves in Charleston City.  By 1800 one out of every three free black recorded owning slave property.  Between 1820 and 1840 the percentage of slaveholding heads of family ranged from 72.1 to 77.7 percent, however, by 1850 the percentage felt to 42.3 percent.

According to the U.S. Census report in 1860 only a small minority of whites owned slaves.  Out of a population of 27 million whites only eight million  lived in the South, and out of this population fewer than 385,000 owned slaves. In short, the total white population own about 1.4, while the southern white population own about 4.8 enslaved Africans.

On the other hand the black population in 1860 was 4.5 million, with about 500,000 living in the South.  Of the blacks residing in the South, 261,988 were not slaves.  Of this number, 10,689 lived in New Orleans.  In New Orleans over 3,000 free blacks owned slaves, about 28 percent of the free Black population in the city.

See! Everyone's guilty!

(Don't tell Sharpton or Jackson please .. It'll end their lucrative business! )

Much, Much More HERE: The Black Slave Owners - SlaveRebellion.org

[vesta111]

Being a member of more than one board, (sorry) I often encounter the tired and worn arguments, (most often from the liberals) of slavery and who is at fault!

Because of my postings .. Most board members are surprised when they learn that I am mulatto!

That being said, I pride myself in knowing my own history but .. tonight I was thrown for quite a surprise myself!

We all want to put the 'blame' on whitey but as the following will reveal .. There is plenty of guilt to go around 'except' .. it's rarely spoken of!

(btw: I also live in Virginia)

See! Everyone's guilty!

(Don't tell Sharpton or Jackson please .. It'll end their lucrative business! )

Much, Much More HERE: The Black Slave Owners - SlaveRebellion.org

WOW-------They forgot to mention that George Washington and wife owned slaves separately.   George in his will freed his slaves, Martha however gave them as inheritance  and gifts to her children. 

Sad but for the life of me I cannot remember the name of the book this came from but it was in the free bin at the library for early teen reading.  labeled local history.   History in N.H.   history of Portsmouth N.H. ?????

Seems Martha had a favorite slave little girl who's parents had come over and sold when she was an infant.
The parents were sold to George and the baby to Martha.    Unfortunately the father was sold and the mother and she lived together on the plantation. The mother turned out to be mentally ill and dangerous so the girl at 6-7 was taken from the slave quarters into the house and put to work in the kitchen.

 As most slaves were forbidden to be educated, the child learned to read and write and do sums as a cookers helper as the cooks had to read Martha's family cook books.   Martha found out some how that the child was a whiz at sewing and soon had her helping to make her clothing.          At about 16 Martha's daughter was getting married and the young girl began to get [the willie wazz] from the looks the bride groom gave to her.

To her horror she was told that Martha was giving her to her daughter as a wedding present.   She thought she had belonged to George  and freed one day.

Some how she managed to get passage on a boat headed north and for a couple weeks slept below the water line on a sailing " Slave Stealing vessel."  She ended up in Portsmouth N.H. smuggled in ,in the dark of night and was taken to a safe house.

Martha had a conniption fit, her private property had run away,  Martha's daughter had a fit as did the soon to be groom.   

George put out a bounty and sent up north a reward of a small fortune.   News of this went up and down the East coast past Boston, all the way past Portland Maine and into New York and Philadelphia  Find that woman and be set for life.  Every kid was on the look out for her as kids do see things adults miss.

Meanwhile safe in Portsmouth she found a way to make a living as a seamstress, those who knew who she was kept their mouths shut and after a couple of years everyone stopped looking.

She went on to marry , no one says the race of the husband, live in a nice home and have 8-10 children.

The Study of race relations up here is very interesting,     It is not spoken of too often but after the Civil War with so many widows I bet according to the census that with men in short supply the freed black men married the widows, the Ploy first family's have more then they believe is black blood in them.

Could be the reason that occasionally a child back in the 1870 was born tan.    Mother says it is the Indian that somehow could out run our female ancestress.       

 

[DumbAss Tanker]

Thanks, mrclose, I've been thinking lately that Obama's main tie to slavery was that his alleged father's people captured and sold an awful lot of Africans as slaves.

[Bondai]

That's a damn interesting post. Many people believe that slavery was a black and white issue (no pun intended) but we are finding out just how complicated it really was. It changed the face of the nation. Members of our black communities in this country would be doing themselves a big favor if they would just take the time to read about the history of slavery in the US. After all it is a huge part of their personal history. I think that many people would come to realize that not everything is as it seems when it comes to this subject. I also think that a great many people would discover that they have been lied to about the subject.