Reparations? Maybe; however, understand that the first slave owner was a black man, Anthony Johnson. He went to court for the right to own another individual, and won. A former indentured servant himself, he began selling slaves to his black friends, then expanded to the natives and the whites. It is estimated that about 15% of blacks had ancestors, subject to slavery. For instance, Obama's ancestors were slave owners.The north did away with slavery after about 10 years. When a white Republican freed the slaves, thousands of black families owned at least one slave and the natives owned tens of thousands. Hundreds of thousands of whites gave their lives defending repealing slavery in the Civil War.Slavery is wrong. I wonder if there would ever had been slavery in the USA without the first slave owner, Anthony Johnson, a black man. So, should the families of the whites who gave their lives get reparations? Or, is it time to move on?
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