A Secret About The 1st Legal Slave Owner in America…

Conservative Tribune ^ | Addison Riddleberger on January 22, 2016 at 8:50am

[SandRat]

A Secret About The 1st Legal Slave Owner in America, but the Media Does not Want To Report This

Most liberals just cannot stand the sight or sound of truth. Facts go over their heads as they look for opportunities to call others “intolerant” of their worldviews, resort to logic that they don’t recognize as faulty, and stoop to ad hominem commentary because they have no foundation on which to stand.

Now, just imagine if I told them that slavery in American was started by a black man — yikes.

The black male I am referring to is Anthony Johnson, who died in 1670. He was an Angolan slave who was freed in the Colony of Virginia in 1635.

Johnson had been taken prisoner in the Portuguese colony of Angola by members of an enemy tribe and sold to Arab slave traders. He was eventually sold as an indentured servant to a merchant working for the Virginia Company.

By 1651, Johnson owned 250 acres and had five indentured servants — four white men and one black man. In March, John Casor, the black indentured servant, demanded that Johnson set him free upon the end of his seven years of indenture.

Johnson stubbornly retorted that Casor was his servant for life and that he knew of no such indentured servitude.

But Johnson wasn’t pleased with having been forced into letting Casor off the hook, so a lawsuit was filed. The case, Johnson v. Parker, was a pivotal precedent that set into motion the enslavement of blacks in America.

Here is the final ruling, provided by the court of Northampton County:

“This daye Anthony Johnson negro made his complaint to the court against mr. Robert Parker and declared that hee deteyneth his servant John Casor negro under the pretence that said negro was a free man. The court seriously consideringe and maturely weighing the premisses, doe fynde that the saide Mr. Robert Parker most unjustly keepeth the said Negro from Anthony Johnson his master … It is therefore the Judgement of the Court and ordered That the said John Casor Negro forthwith returne unto the service of the said master Anthony Johnson, And that Mr. Robert Parker make payment of all charges in the suit.”

[SandRat]

THAT’S OK. I JUST POST’EM AS I SEE’EM. I DON’T CREATE’EM.

[Just mythoughts]

I thought conservatives believed in individual personal responsibility. I had nothing to do with the institution of slavery or the evil Hitler and his disciples caused. I have never owned a human being... And if I wanted to take the time I could make a good case that under the US tax code I am an indentured servant. Whose fault is that?

[rollo tomasi]

I guess the irony is lost. Anthony Johnson was the first legal slave owner in British North America one in court and screwed over Casor. Your analogy needs to be modified by pointing out that a Jewish man convinced Hitler to execute the Final Solution in order to fit your premise.

[metmom]

I doubt many people know at all.

I don’t do FB, BTW.

[chaosagent]

I assume that the ‘false’ factoid you’re referring to, is about the first slave owner in the US being black, and you are saying that the source you gave proved this didn’t happen?

Where did it say it was false?

The only place in the article that mentions John Castor is this:

“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.”

So where does this say that this ‘factoid’ is false?

[minnesota_bound]

#11 Was it John Roberts ancestor that made the ruling? : )
The equivalent House leader at the time said it was the “law of the land and they could do nothing to change it.....

[Alter Kaker]

Are you responding to somebody else? Who said you were responsible for anything? I certainly didn’t.

[Just mythoughts]

I was responding to your phrase “shifting responsibility”.

[abclily]

Of course slavery started with blacks. Blacks sold blacks to Arabs. Arabs did not beat the bushes for them. Arabs bought blacks from blacks. Then Arabs took the blacks to market and sold them to white slave traders.

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

[Alter Kaker]

Except I named the people responsible. Unless you’re an active participant in the slave trade, I don’t believe I named you.

[Albion Wilde]

bump for later

[Carry me back]

Indentured servant had to be allowed to go free after 7 years. Parker went free and was going to become a servant of another man. That was Parkers choice. Johnson didnt like it and went to court to say he should be allowed to keep him. Johnson won.

[Paal Gulli]

Neither is it well known that only 4.8% of white Southerners owned slaves, but 28% of black freedmen owned slaves. Meaning that men who once had lived as slaves but won emancipation were more than 5x more likely to indulge in the practice than whites who never had borne the yoke.