Did Black People Own Slaves?

[rangerrebew]

Did Black People Own Slaves?
100 Amazing Facts About the Negro: Yes -- but why they did and how many they owned will surprise you.

    By: Henry Louis Gates Jr. | Posted: March 4, 2013 at 12:03 AM

 

 

Nicolas Augustin Metoyer of Louisiana owned 13 slaves in 1830. He and his 12 family members collectively owned 215 slaves.



Editor's note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black history series, please take a moment to learn about historian Joel A. Rogers, author of the 1934 book 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro With Complete Proof, to whom these "amazing facts" are an homage.


(The Root) -- 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro No. 21: Did black people own slaves? If so, why?

 

One of the most vexing questions in African-American history is whether free African Americans themselves owned slaves. The short answer to this question, as you might suspect, is yes, of course; some free black people in this country bought and sold other black people, and did so at least since 1654, continuing to do so right through the Civil War. For me, the really fascinating questions about black slave-owning are how many black "masters" were involved, how many slaves did they own and why did they own slaves?

http://www.africanamerica.org/topic/did-black-people-own-slaves

[The_Reader_David]

The article, by considering only the United States, understates the degree to which black people participated in the enslavement of other black people.  Although slavery was not actually abolished in Christian Europe, it had largely fallen into disuse until the "age of discovery" when the Portuguese sailed down the coast of Africa and found that what the people there had for sale, when trade was proposed, were other people.  In the "triangular trade", the trading partners on the African coast were black Africans selling the members of less powerful tribes, not white slavers who went into the African bush to capture slaves.  And of course, the slave trade in Africa had been a going concern for longer than that, with slaves being sent not west across the Atlantic, but north and east into to the Ottoman Empire and its Muslim predecessor states.

[bolobaby]

The article, by considering only the United States, understates the degree to which black people participated in the enslavement of other black people.  Although slavery was not actually abolished in Christian Europe, it had largely fallen into disuse until the "age of discovery" when the Portuguese sailed down the coast of Africa and found that what the people there had for sale, when trade was proposed, were other people.  In the "triangular trade", the trading partners on the African coast were black Africans selling the members of less powerful tribes, not white slavers who went into the African bush to capture slaves.  And of course, the slave trade in Africa had been a going concern for longer than that, with slaves being sent not west across the Atlantic, but north and east into to the Ottoman Empire and its Muslim predecessor states.

This.

This article is incredibly myopic in its view of black slave ownership. Blacks would like you to believe that Africans ONLY started taking slaves in order to fill the greedy requests of whites, but - if that were so - slavery would have ended when the Transatlantic Slave Trade ended.

Turns out it didn't. Moreover, slavery has been tradition in many of these African countries for thousands of years before whites showed up.

https://face2faceafrica.com/article/slavery-africa-today

Facts, man. They be stubborn things.

[GtHawk]

Did Black People Own Slaves?
100 Amazing Facts About the Negro: Yes -- but why they did and how many they owned will surprise you.

    By: Henry Louis Gates Jr. | Posted: March 4, 2013 at 12:03 AM

 

 

Nicolas Augustin Metoyer of Louisiana owned 13 slaves in 1830. He and his 12 family members collectively owned 215 slaves.



Editor's note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black history series, please take a moment to learn about historian Joel A. Rogers, author of the 1934 book 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro With Complete Proof, to whom these "amazing facts" are an homage.


(The Root) -- 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro No. 21: Did black people own slaves? If so, why?

 

One of the most vexing questions in African-American history is whether free African Americans themselves owned slaves. The short answer to this question, as you might suspect, is yes, of course; some free black people in this country bought and sold other black people, and did so at least since 1654, continuing to do so right through the Civil War. For me, the really fascinating questions about black slave-owning are how many black "masters" were involved, how many slaves did they own and why did they own slaves?

http://www.africanamerica.org/topic/did-black-people-own-slaves

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Johnson_(colonist)

Anthony Johnson ( b. c. 1600 – d. 1670) was a black Angolan who achieved freedom in the early 17th-century Colony of Virginia after serving his term of indenture. He became a property owner that owned slaves, and was one of the first people in Virginia to have his right to own a slave legally recognized. Held as an ...

[sneakypete]

Not only did black people own slaves,but the VERY FIRST slave owner in the English-Speaking New World was a black man himself that came to Jamestown as an indentured servant. When he worked off his debt and got his land grant,he imported an indentured servant to help him clear land and plan and process tobacco,and when the man had worked off his debt he went to court to make him a slave by claiming the debt could never be worked off.

When he died,he was a wealthy man that owned a horse farm in Maryland.