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Justus Angel and Mistress L. Horry were wealthy landowners in South Carolina’s Colleton District in the 1830s, in what is now Charleston County. The couple owned 84 slaves each for a total of 168, at a time when most of their peers owned a handful. Their slaves worked their plantation and made them rich. Angel and Horry also traded slaves for profit, showing no regard for dissolving slave families. They were no kinder or crueler to their slaves than anyone else. They were considered “slave magnates” because of the number of slaves they owned. They were referred to as the “economic elite.” They were also black.
Black people owned black people in all 13 original colonies and in every state that allowed slavery. Frequently, freed black people would go on to own more slaves than their white neighbors. In 1830, nearly a fourth of the free black slave masters in South Carolina owned 10 or more slaves, and several owned more than 30, far surpassing their white slave-owning neighbors.
Yes, black people, frequently former slaves themselves, owned slaves. While it can be said that many black people owned family members to protect them and keep them close, black slave owners also bought and sold slaves for profit. Renowned African-American historian and Duke University Professor, John Hope Franklin, wrote “The majority of Negro owners of slaves had some personal interest in their property. There were instances, however, in which free Negroes had a real economic interest in the institution of slavery and held slaves in order to improve their economic status.” Franklin also wrote that roughly 3,000 free black people in New Orleans alone owned slaves.
Dilsey Pope of Columbus, Georgia, a black woman born free, purchased the man she loved in order to marry him. After a particularly bad fight, Pope, in a move that would impress Lorena Bobbitt, sold her husband to a white slave owner. They soon reconciled but the white man refused to sell her husband back. more here
I read a great statement a couple of days ago. From memory so it isn’t exact.
Every civilization had slavery and wars. Only Western civilization ended slavery.
Only Communists and Fascists desire to redistribute what’s rightfully yours to others of their choosing. This is theft!
Free people pay zero taxes on labor just for starters. So your not free. Far from it!
Someone told me a long time ago that the world is an evil place, and very dangerous. I agree.
Someone once said to me: “It’s what money reveals within the human heart that makes money good or evil. I agree.
This rudiment all boils down to something we all know all too well.
Temptation equals: enticement, Charm, intrigue, fascination beguiling .
Anthony Johnson was the first slave owner in the colonies. In the 1600’s there was’nt actual slavery (Ownership for life), instead there was indentured servitude (ownership for a specified time) Johnson was an indentured servant who, upon gaining freedom after his servitude ended, acquired his own indentured servants. In the mid 1600’s one of Johnsons servants time was ended. But Johnson went to court and won the right to own this particular servant, thus making him the first slave owner in the states at that time. The kicker is that Johnson was black, but no one ever hears about this.
Slavery was fostered upon America through the British empire.
And now the descendants of slaves threaten to enslave the whites.
My favorite slave to slave owner story is of Coin-Coin. One of Louisiana’s richest plantation owners.
Slave to houseslave to mistress to cotton picker to slave owner to plantation owner ….who made enough to buy all 12 of her children out of slavery.
Amazing.
You won’t see this on ABCCBSNBCNYTWAPO their mo is to sew division just as the Jobama regime does. Don’t believe there hype.
Where is there literal slavery today?
Africa, Asia, Middle East. It’s out in the open.
As for the before days in this country, don’t forget there were indentured slaves of all ethnicities, including the Irish.
Your hubby died, or and left you- Congrats. You own all his bills.
Mom and the kids worked the plantation right along side the black kids.
There are tons of photos out there of black kids posing with white kids. (Cameras were invented around 1816)
Don’t get me started on Irish indentured servants….. those slippery bastards own my family 3.2 billion dollars. ( you know, compounded interest and all that)
Gah.
Anyway, Coin-Coin’s plantation is still standing and the bronze informative plaque tells her story briefly. But she’s worth looking up (smokin’ hott)
Look up Melrose Plantation in North Louisiana. It is a national park. It was owned by blacks who had the largest collection of slaves in the area. The owners were accepted as part of the elite in the area. Prior to the War of Northern Aggression, blacks constituted the largest segment of the middle class in the South, most were craftsman. There was hardly any racism in the South until about 1890, the change coming about secondary to Federal policies.
Slaves obviously came from Africa and represented tribes who had lost various wars. Ships with white and black captains and crews collected the slaves from points set up by the black leaders on the coast, whites did not venture inland. The largest port for slaves landing in the US was New York. More slaves entered there than any other area. Slavery required big time money, provided by Yankee banks and insurance was Yankee as well. If the people had not been sold in Africa, they would have been killed.
We owe nothing to anyone.
The world bought a flawed product from Africa and should be able to return them and get their money back with both interest and penalties! Hence the African Nations owe the rest of the world multi-billions of dollars and an abject apology for the harm and destruction that is still going to this day!!