Today in History: Today is International Day for the Abolition of Slavery. There are a few things everyone should know about slavery. We are all descendants of slaves. The first legal slave owner in America was black and he owned white slaves. His name was Anthony Johnson and he was himself a slave at one time by an enemy tribe in Africa and he was sold to Arab (Muslim) slave traders. In fact, most of the slaves brought here from Africa were purchased from black slave owners in Africa.
The very first slaves in America were white.
Brazil was actually THE hotbed of slavery in the Americas. During the Atlantic slave trade era, Brazil received more African slaves than any other country. Even before the slave trade, members of one tribe would enslave captured members of another.
It has been recently discovered that a million or more European Christians were enslaved by Muslims in North Africa between 1530 and 1780 - a far greater number than had ever been estimated before.
Thousands of slave owners in America were black. Native Americans also owned slaves, which makes reparations a very tricky proposition.
The book "The Renegade History of the United States" tells of a lesser known side of slavery: "Contrary to what popular images of emancipation tell us, when given the opportunity to leave the plantation, most slaves stayed...By contrast, only 9 percent left immediately after emancipation...Again and again, the ex-slaves told of regret when freedom came."
Oh, and both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris ancestors were slaveholders.
See also: See also: They Were White and They Were Slaves: The Untold History of the Enslavement of Whites in Early America on Amazon
See also: When Blacks Owned Slaves, by Calvin Dill Wilson 1905
https://thebookshelf2015.blogspot.com/2017/02/when-blacks-owned-slaves-by-calvin-dill.html
See also: A History of White Slavery by Charles Sumner 1853 and When the Irish were Slaves, article in The Month 1890
See also Bible Defense of Slavery and other Southern books on CDrom - Join my Facebook Group - For a list of all of my digital books and books on disk click here
The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America
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