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Anthony Johnson (b. c. 1600 – d. 1670) was an Angolan who achieved freedom in the early 17th-century Colony of Virginia, where he became one of the first African American property owners and slaveholders.
William Ellison Jr, born April Ellison, (C. April, 1790 – 5 December 1861) was a cotton gin maker and blacksmith in South Carolina, a free negro and former slave who achieved considerable success in business before the American Civil War. He eventually became a major planter and one of the medium property owners, and certainly the wealthiest "black" property owner, in the state. He held 40 slaves at his death and more than 1,000 acres of land.
originally posted by: okrian
Telling the truth about the history of our country shouldn't be a political issue. Admitting the gruesome horror of our faults, and coming to terms with the permanent destruction they have done is the only path to moving forward. And the only way to feel a true pride for all the good things our country has done. The only people that make this a political issue are those that don't want to admit what has actually happened here and fight to cover it up through revisionist history.
originally posted by: Annee
Texas again. What a surprise.
Didn't Texas pass some law that they can write their own history for school books.
originally posted by: Flatfish
originally posted by: Annee
Texas again. What a surprise.
Didn't Texas pass some law that they can write their own history for school books.
When it comes to text books for public schools, what's made in Texas doesn't necessarily stay there.
Unfortunately, Texas is one of the largest suppliers of text books to public schools across the nation and the board that approves these books is dominated by paranoid, neo-religious, right-wingers.
They're attempting to re-write everything from evolution, to slavery, to natural history while condemning all religion not based in Christianity.
Sad, ain't it?
originally posted by: Reallyfolks
As far as the op goes, the lady has a point sort of, they technically were workers. Just not paid and had no freedom, etc. Not sure this is the fight to spend time on. But hey she did and won.
originally posted by: CharlieSpeirs
While I fully understand the gripe...
It wouldn't be grammatically correct to say the slave trade brought over many slaves...
It's stating the obvious...
But yes, "workers" seems like a pretty whitewashed word to use.
originally posted by: Vroomfondel
The book was at least partially correct. It depends on the time frame really.
From the 1500's through the mid 1600's there were no slaves. There were indentured servants, and by far the majority of them were white. Indentured servants made a deal with a landowner to provide labor and their particular skill or trade in exchange for room and board, living essentials, and upon completion of the contract, a piece of land to call their own. There were paid for their services. No one forced them to become indentured servants. They entered into the contract willingly, albeit often for lack of other serviceable options.
It wasn't until 1654 when Anthony Johnson, a black man and former indentured servant, sued in Virginia for ownership of John Casor, another black man, and won. That decision made Anthony Johnson the very first legally recognized slave owner in America. It wasn't for another ~100 years that the colonies formed and eventually became the United States of America.
We really need to put political correctness aside and just tell the truth. There is no shame in the learning curve of this or any other nation. The only shame is in denying your own history or refusing to learn from it.
originally posted by: enlightenedservant
a reply to: Spider879
I agree with you. This is the whole reason we have Black History Month in the first place; because they keep whitewashing what really happened.
There's a saying that "Those who control the present, control the past. And those who control the past control the future." This is an example of that. If you can change what people believe to be their heritage, history, and precedent, you can shape their advancement & development. This is why there are still some people here who think African Americans were better off during slavery than today. That's because they're never exposed to the real incidences surrounding slavery.
Here's a nice article I want everyone to read about "slave punishments". And the notes at the bottom of the page are jaw dropping. There's no way someone can read this stuff then believe that we were simply brought over as workers & immigrants, or that we were better off then than now.
Slave Punishments
originally posted by: Sremmos80
In before the "we should just get over slavery because they were sold by black people".
Glad they were able to get the change done.
One solution to the problem of poor children was simply to send them away. In 1619 the first organised emigration of poor children took place when the London Common Council sent 100 vagrant children to join the first permanent English settlement in America at Jamestown, Virginia. After large-scale loss of life during attacks by native Americans in 1620 and 1622, further waves of children were sent to bolster the colonialists' numbers.
www.express.co.uk...
and pls folks I do not want to get into the whole who is responsible for slavery or why the " Blacks " can't stop braying over it or my Irish great grand daddy was a slave too or close to it, it's not that type of thread we have those aplenty, can we agree that history books are being fkwith for an obvious political agenda and that it needs to stop.
originally posted by: enlightenedservant
a reply to: DeadFoot
It's not "workers" or "immigrants" when you legally own someone and all of their descendants.