ninja007
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That has been debunked several times already and even if were true is irrelevant to the point. The first documented slave owner was a white boy by the name of Gwyn. That wont change no matter how many internet memes trick your simple mind. Interesting footnote is that the first slave is actually an ancestor of our current POTUS through his moms white side of the family.
Is it okay to blame 'whites' for Jim Crow?
Slavery has been in America since like 1619...So how is this guy the first slave owner 40 years later? Dont answer, this is just a pathetic attempt for whites to wash their hands of all the blood on them by pointing at one black guy picture and text boxes saying something happened
Slavery has been in America since like 1619...So how is this guy the first slave owner 40 years later? Dont answer, this is just a pathetic attempt for whites to wash their hands of all the blood on them by pointing at one black guy picture and text boxes saying something happened
If the facts disturb you then your problem is not that the whites are trying to wash their hands of blood but rather your hands are tied from accusing them falsely on the matter.
Examine the research material posted here on this thread, Caption. It isn't politically correct but it is the truth and that is what we need to examine. The truth. Not the lefts agenda to bury it. Truth is sovereign. It outlives every lie and in the end it is known by those who care to know it. The rest of you remain in eternal ignorance because you condemn it without thinking to examine it first. That is another truth for you to think on. You've listened to Hollywood and their false depictions of slavery rather than researching the truth for yourselves. Therein lies another one of your problems.
You already lost credibility on the issue Jeramiah. No need to plaster the thread with more wild claims that are less valid than your claim regarding Anthony Johnson.The Origins of the Slave Trade
In 1807 Britain outlawed slavery. In 1820 the king of the African kingdom of Ashanti inquired why the Christians did not want to trade slaves with him anymore, since they worshipped the same god as the Muslims and the Muslims were continuing the trade like before.
The civil rights movement of the 1960's have left many people with the belief that the slave trade was exclusively a European/USA phenomenon and only evil white people were to blame for it. This is a simplistic scenario that hardly reflects the facts.
Thousands of records of transactions are available on a CDROM prepared by Harvard University and several comprehensive books have been published recently on the origins of modern slavery (namely, Hugh Thomas' The Slave Trade and Robin Blackburn's The Making Of New World Slavery) that shed new light on centuries of slave trading.
What these records show is that the modern slave trade flourished in the early middle ages, as early as 869, especially between Muslim traders and western African kingdoms. For moralists, the most important aspect of that trade should be that Muslims were selling goods to the African kingdoms and the African kingdoms were paying with their own people. In most instances, no violence was necessary to obtain those slaves. Contrary to legends and novels and Hollywood movies, the white traders did not need to savagely kill entire tribes in order to exact their tribute in slaves. All they needed to do is bring goods that appealed to the kings of those tribes. The kings would gladly sell their own subjects. (Of course, this neither condones the white traders who bought the slaves nor deny that many white traders still committed atrocities to maximize their business).
This explains why slavery became "black".
Ancient slavery, e.g. under the Roman empire, would not discriminate: slaves were both white and black (so were Emperors and Popes). In the middle ages, all European countries outlawed slavery (of course, Western powers retained countless "civilized" ways to enslave their citizens, but that's another story), whereas the African kingdoms happily continued in their trade.
Therefore, only colored people could be slaves, and that is how the stereotype for African-American slavery was born. It was not based on an ancestral hatred of blacks by whites, but simply on the fact that blacks were the only ones selling slaves, and they were selling people of their own race.