02-05-2019, 10:06 AM
(02-04-2019, 11:17 PM)guohua Wrote: Anthony Johnson and his wife Mary went to court in Virginia in 1654 to obtain the services of their indentured servant, a black man, John Castor, for life.
And for a time, free black people could even "own" the services of white indentured servants in Virginia as well.
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Anthony Johnson was the first slave owner in America, and he was a black man. The reason that they went to court was to obtain the services of their "slave" (and all "slaves" before that court case were "indentured servants", indentured for a period of 7 years, and no more), for life rather than the 7 prescribed years. As I recall, Johnson himself came to America via an indenture.
Anthony Johnson created permanent chattel slavery in America. It didn't apply to blacks only, but could be applied to whites as well, and there are numerous instances of, for example Irishmen who were imported as "indentured servants" who never survived their indenture, and became slaves for life.
The trade in white slaves from indentured servants is a little known, and mostly hidden, fact of slavery in America. It doesn't fit with the Liberal narrative, and gets swept under the rug. Some of my own ancestors came to these mountains as escaped slaves in the Scots-Irish "migration" to the frontiers.
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