An appointee by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to an oversight board of Disney’s special tax district taught a seminar in 2021 falsely claiming “Whites were also slaves in America,” using discredited research to say there was an “Irish slave trade.”
There were white settlers who paid for their trip to the new world with indenture once they got there, but indenture was not slavery, and every single indentured servant worked for a white man.
Then in 1619, the Portuguese sold a bunch of African slaves to Jamestown. At first, these Africans were treated like any other indenture, paid a wage to pay off their debt. The main difference was that the debt incurred by the Africans was involuntary.
It was some time in the 1680s when the white business owners decided that no, they weren’t going to pretend anymore, and made race based slavery the name of the game.
As to this chucklefuck’s claims of black slave owners in the Antebellum South. No. just no.
There were white settlers who paid for their trip to the new world with indenture once they got there, but indenture was not slavery, and every single indentured servant worked for a white man.
Then in 1619, the Portuguese sold a bunch of African slaves to Jamestown. At first, these Africans were treated like any other indenture, paid a wage to pay off their debt. The main difference was that the debt incurred by the Africans was involuntary.
It was some time in the 1680s when the white business owners decided that no, they weren’t going to pretend anymore, and made race based slavery the name of the game.
As to this chucklefuck’s claims of black slave owners in the Antebellum South. No. just no.