| Tribesman |
08-12-13 02:36 AM |
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What astounds me about the whole "slavery" issue to start with is that the first actual slave in the US - and the institution of slavery itself in America, arise because the very first slaveowner in America was in fact, black. The slave was named John Casor, the slaveowner was named Anthony Johnson.
Casor claimed he was an indentured servant who had been held past the standard 7 years indenture. Johnson successfully sued claiming that he owned Casor "for life".
How many of you actually knew that the first slaveowner in America was in fact, a free black man? More importantly, how many of our children learn that little tidbit in history when they learn about the pure evil of the white, southern racist?
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What a load of agenda driven rubbish.
The codification of slavery under the puritans was entered into the books a decade previously in that area, you do not formally legislate for business if the business does not exist.
Slavery in the Carolinas pre dates that by another 120 years, which also has the first slave rebellion in what was to become the US.
Narvaez slaves also in the 1520s were in Florida and Texas before Mexico, so that's more slaves in the US before the "magic" date of "Casor the 1st"
Then I suppose from another angle you have people like Hunt who ran into legal problems before the Casor case, where he ran into problems when selling slaves from America on the European market.
The Dutch brought slaves to NY in 1628, so that predates Casor too. Though their attempted slave sale in Virginia in 1619 ran into problems because someone had baptised the Africans they had.
To go full on though, slavery in what became the US predates the European arrival so it is a rather moot point about who is the first, but to claim that Casor was the first slave in America is clearly not true. |
