The first line of this indenture agreement has something you never saw on any slave "agreement."
Maybe they identified as Unwilling Tourists.
Maybe they identified as Unwilling Tourists.
The first line of this indenture agreement has something you never saw on any slave "agreement."
When Lincoln freed the Democrats’ slaves it made them pretty mad.
I love when liberals fail to live up to their impossible politically correct standards.
Many Irish were sold into slavery in Jamaica.
It wasn't until quite a few years latter that the strong color lines were drawn.
But they were only brought to America because the Virginia basketball team was losing... < /sarc >
It is not often that you get to watch a political self-immolation.
If I was a black man I would insist that he remained governor. They’ll be able to pound this pinata for anything they want whenever they want. They won’t even have to hit him very hard, he’ll be dropping goodies on his own.
Is it fair to say that the only reason he is keeping his job is that he favors infanticide, as dictated by his Planned Parenthood handlers?
In the first 100 years, many many Europeans came to the colonies as indentured servants... They did not consider themselves to be defined as slaves...
In 1619 the first boatload of Africans were technically indentured servants to work for a specified term of years. The first official slave owner was an African immigrant, perhaps formerly one of those indentured servants.
The first “indentured servants”/slaves in the colonies were the Irish and the Scots.
Slavery happened, is still happening but this whole kit-n- caboodle is to overshadow Govern Gosnell’s infanticide comments and get them off the front page.
Northam's crude, unemotional statements about Mothers and abortionists casually discussing terminating the lives of just-born babies have been buried.
You have to hand it to the Left, they are the masters of propaganda and narratives.
He’s safer as a governor instead of a medical doctor.
Technically he is correct. The first Africans were sold as indentured servants. It wasn’t until an an ‘owner’ sued to make the indentures permanent that they became slaves. I’ve read but can not verify that the owner was, in fact black.
Is it going to be forbidden to state that simple fact from now on?
Northam is actually correct. Unsurprisingly, he knows a bit more about early Virginia history than those outside the state.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1narr3.html
“Historically, the English only enslaved non-Christians, and not, in particular, Africans. And the status of slave (Europeans had African slaves prior to the colonization of the Americas) was not one that was life-long. A slave could become free by converting to Christianity. The first Virginia colonists did not even think of themselves as “white” or use that word to describe themselves. They saw themselves as Christians or Englishmen, or in terms of their social class. They were nobility, gentry, artisans, or servants.
“One of the few recorded histories of an African in America that we can glean from early court records is that of “Antonio the negro,” as he was named in the 1625 Virginia census. He was brought to the colony in 1621. At this time, English and Colonial law did not define racial slavery; the census calls him not a slave but a “servant.” Later, Antonio changed his name to Anthony Johnson, married an African American servant named Mary, and they had four children. Mary and Anthony also became free, and he soon owned land and cattle and even indentured servants of his own. By 1650, Anthony was still one of only 400 Africans in the colony among nearly 19,000 settlers. In Johnson’s own county, at least 20 African men and women were free, and 13 owned their own homes....
“...In 1641, Massachusetts became the first colony to legally recognize slavery. Other states, such as Virginia, followed. In 1662, Virginia decided all children born in the colony to a slave mother would be enslaved. Slavery was not only a life-long condition; now it could be passed, like skin color, from generation to generation.”
Did he learn that from his son, the brain surgeon?
https://www.med.unc.edu/neurosurgery/education/residency/2872-2/