Indentured servants began with whites from the Barbary Coast and blacks from Africa. A former black indentured servant, Anthony Johnson, worked off his servitude. He then had Indentured servants. One servant left and Johnson sued by stating he (a black man) owned the Indentured servant. He won. When a white Republican freed the slaves, thousands of black families owned slaves. The natives owned tens of thousands of slaves. The north did away with slavery after 10 years. Reparations? Would there ever have been slavery except for this black man? Hmmm. Amazing what I learned in another country.
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