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Originally Posted by soopaman2
Funny how slave owners cried about life liberty and the pursuit of happyness, while owning slaves. (only for honkies)
Any other facts I missed?
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#1) The first legally recognized slave owner in what is now the US was not one of us "honkies". He was a black man by the name of Anthony Johnson.
#2) While the first slave (John Casor) was black, historical documents show that the same Anthony Johnson also bought 5 whites in 1651.
#3) John Johnson (Anthony Johnson's eldest son) purchased 11 white men and women in 1652.
#4) Not all slavery was in the south. Do some research on Nat Butler - a Maryland (that's in the North, btw) farmer who was black and was notorious for his activities in the business of selling blacks into slavery.
#5) Free blacks are documented in Boston, Mass that owned slaves in 1724 and in Connecticut by 1783. Note - 1783 is AFTER the formation of the US as an independent nation - and both locations are again "in the North".
#6) Research John Stanley - who in the early 1820's owned 3 plantations and 163 slaves. He even hired
white overseers to run his interests and property....
#7) Or try the story of William Ellison - who was born a slave, bought his freedom, and became richer than 9 out of 10 whites in South Carolina. When he passed away, he owned 900 acres of land and 63 slaves - none of which did he allow to purchase their own freedom.
#8)1830 in Louisiana alone - here are just a few black folks that owned numerous slaves:
Sophie Delhonde owned 38 slaves.
Lefroix Decuire owned 59 slaves
Antoine Decuire owned 70 slaves
Leandre Severin owned 60 slaves
Victor Duperon owned 10
Victoire Deslondes owned 52 slaves
Martin Donatto owned 75 slaves
Jean B. Muillion owned 52 slaves
Martin Lenormand owned 44 slaves
Verret Polen owned 69 slaves
Francis Jerod owned 33 slaves
Cecee McCarty owned 32 slaves.
The 13 members of the Metoyer family in Natchitoches Parish, LA collectively owned 215 slaves.
Madame Antoine Dublucet owned 44 slaves
Madame Ciprien Ricard owned 35 slaves
Louise Divivier owned 17 slaves
Genevieve Rigobert owned 16 slaves
Rose Lanoix and Caroline Miller both owned 13 slaves each
#9) In 1860 - in Charleston, SC alone:
Marie Weston owned 14 slaves and had a net worth of over $40,000 - when the average white man would make $100 dollars a year.
Justus Angel owned 84 slaves .
Mistress L. Horry owned 84 slaves as well.
The two above were the largest black slave-owners in the city at the time.
#10)According to economic historian Stanley Engerman, "In Charleston, South Carolina about 42 percent of free blacks owned slaves in 1850."
I could go on - but there really isn't any point. Most people adhere to the politically correct "the south was all evil white men wanting to own black slave men to work in the fields and black women to work in the kitchen and "serve the masta" in other ways in the home".
Factually history shows that the issue of slavery is a whole lot more complex than just race or geography.....