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| Guess Who the 1st Legal Slave Owner in America Was? |
| 2015-07-03 |
| h/t Jerry Pournelle Most Americans think they know the history of slavery because it has been an abhorrent part of the American narrative taught in schools, portrayed in Hollywood, and mentioned frequently in the media. But here is something you probably didn't know: The first recorded American slave owner was a black man. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #9 I lived in West Africa for two years from 2009 to 2011. The people in the north still hated the people in the south. Know why?? The southern tribes were the the ones that sold the northern tribes to slavers on the coast 200 hundred years ago. #3 below - Dutch ran the trade during the peak years 1650ish to early 1800s but the Mooselimbs had been taking people from West Africa for 600 years by then. Funny - never hear too much about the slaves moving east under moose limb control. Only west under gringo control. |
| Posted by: Bangkok Billy 2015-07-03 21:46 |
| #8 Here is an enlightening summary: http://www.ironbarkresources.com/slaves/whiteslaves05.htm |
| Posted by: Lone Ranger 2015-07-03 20:50 |
| #7 More likely the guy he met was a descendant of those who sold Kunta-Kinte into slavery in the first place! |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2015-07-03 12:15 |
| #6 And the "history" presented in "Roots" was an almost total fabrication. Not to mention that at the end the guy returns to Africa and seems moved to tears after meeting a distant cousin: a Muslim, so we are left with the impression that they are the good guys. Someone just forgot about Muslim tribes raiding their neighbors in order to supply Middle East harems with "material". |
| Posted by: JFM 2015-07-03 11:34 |
| #5 A lot were Arab. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2015-07-03 11:27 |
| #4 And how many slavers were actually Black? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2015-07-03 11:18 |
| #3 And the "history" presented in "Roots" was an almost total fabrication. African tribal members were, in most cases, property of their Chief and could be sold/traded without onlookers raising an eyebrow. Why chase Kunta Kinte through the jungle when a simple barter would have taken care of things very efficiently? And don't get me started about how the slavers are usually represented as either American or British but the Dutch, who really dominated the trade, are strangely absent. |
| Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 2015-07-03 11:13 |
| #2 About Obama asking reparations for slavery Here is my answr as an European whose ancestors never hemld slaves (just like many Americans whose ancestors came to Ameerica welle after 1865): "Go f;ck yourself and ask them instead to your masters the Saudis" |
| Posted by: JFM 2015-07-03 07:41 |
| #1 I am sure he was a Democrat. :-) |
| Posted by: JFM 2015-07-03 07:34 |