[Hodar]

Does that shift the burden of responsibility away from the slavers, and the great plantation owners, all of whom were white? Of course not.

Google is your friend. Your "factoid" is FALSE. You would do yourself a sevice by reading up on actual history, and noting that your basic tenant is based upon fantasy, and not historical, documented fact - substanciatied with court cases, biographies, newpaper reports and other documentation.
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[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?