The First Blacks in America
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Better title would have been, first Black slaves in North America.
Blacks had been in America prior to the Jamestown Settlement. -
Better title would have been, first Black slaves in North America.
Blacks had been in America prior to the Jamestown Settlement.
are you refering to the ideas of Van Sertima and others ?
I never understood how everyone just figured that the only africans with boats where egyptian. like know one else looked at the water and said i wonder how far it goes
the believe vikings could do it but no anyone of african origin its crazy
you know what more interesting when you look at the early slaver is how the issue of free blacks only poses a problem when black began to own property ( thus allowing them to vote ) and when the threat of white women and black men marring. miscegination it the reason slaver become "chattle slavery' and based on rase -
Better title would have been, first Black slaves in North America.
Blacks had been in America prior to the Jamestown Settlement.
do you think this claim would hurt the efforts to gain reparations for slavery? -
stillmatic_01 wrote: »do you think this claim would hurt the efforts to gain reparations for slavery?
Not for the descendants of slaves.
We will never get it but I don't think it would be hard to prove our lineage. -
stillmatic_01 wrote: »do you think this claim would hurt the efforts to gain reparations for slavery?
(not discussing reparations)
But.
The land those blacks owned was eventually stolen from them, and some of them were kidnapped and enslaved. Also, some of them owned slaves, but the majority treated them like they were apart of the family, unlike a lot of their white counterparts.
