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Yes, Virginia, there were indeed black slaveowners.


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2019 May 26, 2:30pm   1,901 views  15 comments

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What isn’t often taught is that there were many black people who not only participated in the slave trade but who often profited greatly from it. They owned slaves as property in order to enhance their own economical well-being by having free labor for their plantations. Many were biracial children of former white masters and were either freed or were left some property in a will. The American South is infamous for using slaves on their large plantations, and many of the black slave owners on this list are from South Carolina and Louisiana. Some were considered slave magnates (for owning more than 50 slaves), but others earned their place simply for their unique stories.

http://theweeklychallenger.com/top-10-black-slaveowners/

In the context of the history of slavery in the Americas, free people of color (French: gens de couleur libres; Spanish: gente de color libre) were people of mixed African and European descent who were not enslaved. The term arose in the French colonies, including La Louisiane and settlements on Caribbean islands, such as Saint-Domingue (Haiti), Guadeloupe, and Martinique, where a distinct group of free people of color developed.

Regardless of their ethnicity, in Saint-Domingue freedmen had been able to own land. Some acquired plantations and owned large numbers of slaves themselves. The slaves were generally not friendly with the freedmen, who sometimes portrayed themselves to whites as bulwarks against a slave uprising. As property owners, freedmen tended to support distinct lines set between their own class and that of slaves. Also often working as artisans, shopkeepers or landowners, the gens de couleur frequently became quite prosperous, and many prided themselves on their European culture and descent. They were often well-educated in the French language, and they tended to scorn the Haitian Creole language used by slaves. Most gens de couleur were reared as Roman Catholic, also part of French culture, and many denounced the Vodoun religion brought with slaves from Africa.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_people_of_color

One of the most vexing questions in African-American history is whether free African Americans themselves owned slaves. The short answer to this question, as you might suspect, is yes, of course; some free black people in this country bought and sold other black people, and did so at least since 1654, continuing to do so right through the Civil War.

https://www.theroot.com/did-black-people-own-slaves-1790895436


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1   HeadSet   2019 May 26, 2:45pm  

Blacks owning slaves is not new to any serious student of that period of history. Even PBS admitted Black slave owners on a documentary hosted by a Black man. The documentary traced the life story of a free Black from New England who moved to New Orleans and became very rich.
2   Ceffer   2019 May 26, 3:35pm  

Yes, but they were NICE slave owners, not the consummate cackling evil honky slave owners.
3   Patrick   2019 May 26, 8:05pm  

I can hear liberal heads asploding.
4   Expat01   2019 May 27, 7:15am  

personal
5   Shaman   2019 May 27, 9:53am  

Patrick says
I can hear liberal heads asploding.


“Asploding”... does that involve autistic screeching?
6   RWSGFY   2019 May 27, 10:20am  

Black people owe reparations to the black people then.
7   Rin   2019 May 27, 1:32pm  

Patrick says
I can hear liberal heads asploding.


That's mainly when they discover that the Pan-African slavery was led by Arabs/Muslims, before the arrival of the Dutch and British Empires.
8   NuttBoxer   2019 May 28, 10:21am  

I think this part is more well known, but most blacks were sold into slavery byyy, other blacks!
9   Patrick   2023 Jun 27, 1:29pm  

https://slaynews.com/news/investigation-reveals-every-living-president-except-donald-trump-is-descendent-of-slaveholders/


Investigation Reveals Every Living President Except Trump Is Descendent of Slaveholders
10   Patrick   2023 Jun 27, 1:30pm  

BTW, I've read that some American Indians also owned black slaves.
11   AD   2023 Jun 27, 6:51pm  

Patrick says

BTW, I've read that some American Indians also owned black slaves.


https://uncpress.org/book/9781469621876/black-slaves-indian-masters/

Black Slaves, Indian Masters
Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South
By Barbara Krauthamer

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12   Onvacation   2023 Jun 27, 7:01pm  

Ceffer says

consummate cackling evil honky slave owners.

Cracker!
13   Onvacation   2023 Jun 27, 7:06pm  

Expat01 says

Basically because you are inferior and need to co-opt the State to protect you.

You're projecting.
14   Patrick   2023 Jul 3, 10:22am  

https://twitter.com/KeithWoodsYT/status/1675566139382849536


@KeithWoodsYT
A look at slavery outside of the West:

It has become popular to blame White people for slavery, to the point that many actually believe slavery was invented by or exclusively practiced by Europeans.

But the history of slavery outside the West is far more brutal.

The Arab slave trade emerged in the 7th century, 10 centuries before the Atlantic slave trade

Arabs sold Africans to the Middle East for a variety of jobs such as domestic work or harem guards - castrating male slaves was common, causing over half of males to bleed to death.

The Arab slave trade was particularly brutal: it's estimated that 3/4 captured slaves died before they reached the market for sale

Historians estimate that between 10 and 18 million people were enslaved by Arab slave traders, including women and children taken as concubines.

Arabs did not create the slave trade out of nothing, in fact, enslaving conquered tribes was already common practice in Central Africa when they arrived.

The West African Songhai Empire relied heavily on captured slaves in all levels of society, even as soldiers.

Africans themselves also played a large role in facilitating the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

African tribes conducted raids on rival groups to provide slaves for sale. African middlemen facilitated trade between European traders and African suppliers.

The Arabs also had a slave trade in Europe. Estimates are that up to 1.25 million Europeans were enslaved by Barbary pirates, who would raid villages in coastal countries like Italy, France, England and Ireland, bringing them to North Africa for sale.

In some cases entire villages would be captured, such as the Irish coastal village of Baltimore, entirely raided in 1631.

These slaves faced a brutal future, engaging in hard labour or sexual servitude, and spending nights hot and overcrowded prisons called bagnios.

Many slaves captured by Barbary pirates were sold eastwards into the Ottoman Empire. Slavery was central to the Ottoman Empire, most towns had dedicated slavery markets called Yesirs.

Slaves came from Africa, the Caucasus, the Balkans and Eastern & Southern Europe.

Sexual slavery was a big part of Ottoman society. Slavic women were popular slaves, and Köçeks became a popular source of entertainment in the 19th century:

These were young boys, usually from European backgrounds, who were circumcised, cross-dressed and trained as dancers.

Hereditrary slavery is recorded in China dating back to the Xia Dynasty in 2100 BC. Africans purchased on the Silk Road were used as a sign of wealth.

After Chinese law began to treat women as property around 1000AD it was common to sell daughters and sisters into slavery.

The Mongols enslaves tens of thousands of Chinese as punishment for resistance.

In the post-Mongol Ming Dynasty, thousands of slaves were employed to do bureaucratic jobs for the government, and rich families also employed thousands of slaves to perform menial labour.

Slavery was common in American civilizations like the Aztec and Maya

Among the Aztecs, slavery was a punishment for a variety of crimes or even failure to pay taxes. Husbands and wives sold each other in times of economic hardship. Slaves were identified by wooden collars.

Slavery was also common practice in the civilizations of South-East Asia.

The Khmer Empire had a massive slave class that did much of the work building monuments like Angkor Wat. Historians estimate 25-35% of the population of Thailand/Burma were slaves in the 17th century.

Slavery also existed among Native American tribes. Slavery was common practice among Northwest tribes like the Tlingit, for whom one third of their population during the mid-1800s were slaves.

Various tribes practiced debt-slavery and enslaved captives of other tribes.

The only difference between these cases of slavery and that practiced by Europeans is that Europeans abolished slavery on humanitarian grounds, and spread this across the globe.

The intense focus on the White role in slavery is a product of widespread Anti-White animus.
15   richwicks   2023 Jul 4, 8:47am  

The first slave owner in the United States was a black man by the name of Anthony Johnson:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Johnson_(colonist)#Casor_lawsuit

There were others sentenced to lifetime indentured servitude, but only for punishment for crimes.

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