Category: Black History

• Top 10 Black Slaveowners – Listverse
• Black slave owners in the United States
• “Popular Science Monthly/Volume 81/November 1912/Negroes Who Owned Slaves”
• Did Black People Own Slaves?
• Slavery by the Numbers | Encyclopedia Virginia, The Blog
• “Dixie’s Censored Subject: Black Slave Owners”
• 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro: Henry Louis Gates Jr. 
• Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South: Michael P. Johnson, James L. Roark   
• Black Property Owners in the South, 1790-1915 (Blacks in the New World): Loren Schweninger  
• Black Slave Owners Civil War Article by Robert M Grooms  
• Black Slaveowners: Free Black Slave Masters in South Carolina, 1790-1860 
• 1830 Overview – History – U.S. Census Bureau  

While I typically vlog about technology (and HR related topics before that), this post marks my doing something different. In honor of black history month, I am doing a 3-part video series on slavery in America. I am not a historian. However, I can read what other historians and academics have detailed in their findings and present them to you in a witty and (hopefully) remarkable way.

In episode one of three…

Why were black people made slaves in America? How did it all begin? In the first part of this video series, Jim Stroud explores the legal precedent that set the stage for the enslavement of Africans in America. Tune in for a very controversial video.

DISCLAIMER: All views expressed in this video series are my own and do not represent the opinion of any entity whatsoever with which I have been, am now or will be affiliated.

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Click here for part 2: Black Slave Owners

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RELATED LINKS

• The Horrible Fate of John Casor, The First Black Man to be Declared Slave for Life in America
• White slaves, Black slave owners in America
• Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South, by Barbara Krauthamer (2013)
• Anthony Johnson (colonist) – Wikipedia
• John Casor – Wikipedia
• John Punch (slave) – Wikipedia
• The Anthony Johnson Story
• BBC NEWS | Africa | African slavery apology ‘needed’
• UN panel says the U.S. owes reparations to African-Americans
• UN: USA Owes Reparations to African-Americans
• Reparations for slavery debate in the United States – Wikipedia
• West Africans to African-Americans: “We Apologize for Slavery”
• Ghana apologizes to slaves’ descendants
• African chiefs urged to apologise for slave trade
• Denmark Extends Belated Apology for Slave Trade in Africa‘s ‘Gold Coast’
• Africa Apologizes for Slavery…Share Away
• Indentured Servants In The U.S. | History Detectives | PBS
• Indentured Servants in Colonial Virginia
• The Arab Muslim Slave Trade Of Africans, The Untold Story
• The founding of Virginia – North Carolina Digital History
• Lusty Beggars, Dissolute Women, Sorners, Gypsies, and Vagabonds for Virginia
• Convicts and Indentured Servants to America | Alternative
• Interdependence: A Colonial Example | Scholastic
• This Day (Accidentally Brilliant Edition) | Encyclopedia Virginia, The Blog
• Slavery and Indentured Servants:Law Library of Congress
• Horton, James Oliver and Lois E. Horton, Hard Road to Freedom: The Story of African America, Rutgers University Press, 2002. [p. 29]
• Breen, Timothy and Stephen Innes. “Myne Own Ground” Race and Freedom on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, 1979/reprint 2004, 25th anniversary edition: Oxford University Press [pg 8]