As an immigrant myself, I want to make sure I understand slavery in the USA.
Beginning with indentured servants from the Barbary Coast (predominantly white) and Africa (predominantly black).
Then a black indentured servant who worked off his servitude conspired with the African ships for these servants to become slaves. He actually went to court, and won the right to own another person.
Of course, he owned the first black slaves, then sold to his black friends, native Americans, and whites. It took the north 10 years to repeal that law.
As the story was told today a white Republican President freed the slaves. At that time, thousands of black families owned slaves and the native Americans owned slaves and white people owned slaves.
William Ellison, a black tobacco farmer was one of the largest slave owners.
Ancestors of many prominent blacks including Barack Obama, were slave holders. Hundreds of thousands of white lives were sacrificed helping to get rid of slavery.
I believe slavery is wrong. However, we have slavery today with illegal immigration and human trafficking. I hope we can put an end to that.
And I wonder if there would have ever been slavery in this country without Mr. Johnson, a black man who won the right to own another human being?
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