[Chickensoup]

one of the first politicians — and slave owners — in the American colonies.

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Certainly not the first slave owner in Americas.

Indians were often slave owners.

[Col Frank Slade]

Looks like he ran afoul of Hillary..

[centurion316]

Yardley died in 1627. Slaves were quite rare in the Jamestown settlement at that time. Most servants were English and were bound to a master by an indenture. The terms of the indenture were usually for a period of seven years after which the servant was set free and given a parcel of land and farming implements. The indenture usually paid for the cost of their passage to Virginia.

Christians could not be made slaves, but Indians could be made slaves and the settlers tried to do that, but since they could easily escape, that practice did not last. The Portuguese began the slave trade buying Africans from Africans and selling them in Brazil and later in the Caribbean and America.

[Popman]

——Indians were often slave owners.——

Now you did it.....triggered a bunch of Howard Zinn sychophants...

...and you right....

[Delta 21]

That same year (1619), America received its first group of enslaved Africans. The slaves, taken from Angola in west central Africa, were on a Spanish ship bound for Vera Cruz, Mexico, until two English privateer ships attacked and took up to 60 of the Africans to Point Comfort, in what is now Hampton, Virginia...

Civilizing the civilization aint easy. Pretty obvious who everybody blames in spite of these facts mentioned in the article.

[Vermont Lt]

You guys cannot stop deflecting away from the whole slaveholder thing, can you?