It started with White slaving holding America. That is a fact.
The first person in America to declare a slave as a piece of property....... was a black man, Anthony Johnson. He also owned white slaves.
He was the first African (born in Angola) to be recognized by the Virginia courts as a property owner. Yes, he had slaves. He wasn't the first to have slaves.
John Rolfe was the first colonist to bring slaves in 1619 to Jamestown.
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Slavery began LONG before then.
Also, there were very few black folk in Virginia at the time, Johnson was one of the original 20, arriving in 1621.
But what is important to note, from Anthony Johnson, is that his slave was the first slave to become property for life. Mostly there was indentured servants at that time.
Poor John Casor's indentured servitude contract became void, thus becoming the first black man to become a slave for life. To a black man.
Oh, and.....
Slaves, usually captured and sold by other African tribes, were transported across the Atlantic to the Americas. Around 11 million people were transported from 1500 to 1850, mostly to Brazil and the Caribbean islands. If they arrived in America, originally they became indentured servants; if they arrived elsewhere, they became slaves.
Both African slaves and European indentured servants labored in Virginia in the 1620s.
Originally, but slavery evolved in the colonies to become chattel slavery in the US. Sorry, you can't erase the past by pretending it was different than i9t really was.
Oh, Im not trying to erase any past, I just like to shine the light on things that folks usually dont know.
Most people these days, simply think "Evil White Southern Slave Owners!" when it comes to slavery, when there is SO much more to the story.
Most folk dont know of Anthony Johnson and John Casor. Most folks dont know of black slave owners, or how African tribes captured other tribesmen, and sold them. Most folk dont know there was white slaves. Most folk dont know there was slaves in the North, and the slaves were sold to the South from the North. How the South was the first to abolish the Slave Trade. SO much more to the story than folks realize.