Did Black People Own Slaves?
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. For me, the really fascinating questions about black slave-owning are how many black “masters” were involved, how many slaves did they own and why did they own slaves?
The answers to these questions are complex, and historians have been arguing for some time over whether free blacks purchased family members as slaves in order to protect them—motivated, on the one hand, by benevolence and philanthropy, as historian Carter G. Woodson put it, or whether, on the other hand, they purchased other black people “as an act of exploitation,” primarily to exploit their free labor for profit, just as white slave owners did. The evidence shows that, unfortunately, both things are true.
In a fascinating essay reviewing this controversy, R. Halliburton shows that free black people have owned slaves “in each of the thirteen original states and later in every state that countenanced slavery,” at least since Anthony Johnson and his wife Mary went to court in Virginia in 1654 to obtain the services of their indentured servant, a black man, John Castor, for life.
And for a time, free black people could even “own” the services of white indentured servants in Virginia as well. Free blacks owned slaves in Boston by 1724 and in Connecticut by 1783; by 1790, 48 black people in Maryland owned 143 slaves. One particularly notorious black Maryland farmer named Nat Butler “regularly purchased and sold Negroes for the Southern trade,” Halliburton wrote.
Remember black blockchain your next village is your enemy so make sure you keep it a secret from the next village because it was your next village who sold you and cut you up to bits all for guns and what not..
See in our lands we are getting told to mix BUT in Africa they are getting told to kill the whites PLUS they don't want us having nothing to do with black blockchains
WHY? I can rap and dance you know
so why am I not welcome
OH and I smoke a doobie doo
Hmmm maybe I buy some dredlocks and some black shoe polishi might get in the summit like ALEX JONES ..
jes some black people owned slaves, and also some white people, does that matter the majority never had slaves, though for both groups black and white. plus many where enslaved, by their central bank, during the abscence of slavery (abolishment), the rich in those societies had also their slavemaster (rights movements, criminals) so its difficult to see there where ever societies where everyone was free except he got mentally deuluded.
central bank enslavement is also a form of enslavement and it affected both white and black