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Originally Posted by Guest
It was the beginning of big business. White privateers went to Africa and bought slaves from other blacks, returned to America and sold them at a profit. Before I get screamed at by a liberal, I am being just a bit facetious.
But, actually the first slave owner was a black man from Virginia. Oh, and by the way, he also owned white slaves and black slaves.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthon...%28colonist%29 |
Everyone seems to forget that slavery was introduced and thrived in the Southern Colonies by virtue of the endorsement and encouragement of the British Monarchy .
The vast number of years during which sadly slavery became rooted as an institution in what is today the US was under the control of the Monarchy .
It took until after the War of 1812 for our very young and untested system of centralized self-government began to establish itself . Finally 5 decades later the ugly
practice of the enslavement of human beings became regarded as so repulsive that citizens went to war against it .