I know if it happened Europeans made sure that chapter was wiped from Ancient history.-LOL
2007-05-24 23:30:24 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
No one is going to like my answer, and I'm sure to get some thumbs down, but my answer is yes.... Blacks DID own white slaves.
White slaves were owned by blacks in the South to the extent that the Virginia Assembly actually passed the following law in 1670: "It is enacted that no ***** or Indian though baptized and enjoying their own freedom shall be capable of any such purchase of Christians."
Records of that time also reveal that many free blacks owned black slaves themselves. Black historian, Duke University professor John Hope Franklin, records that over 3,000 free blacks owned slaves in New Orleans in 1860.
Back to white people: In 1717, it was proposed that a qualification for election to the South Carolina Assembly was to be "the ownership of one White man."
Regardless of who owned them, SEVERAL white people were owned as slaves for hundreds of years. And owning white slaves was actually very economical... Black slaves were expensive. Although they (black slaves) were treated cruelly, they were not used beyond the limits of human endurance as often as white people, because such would have been a waste of a HUGE investment. White slaves, however, consisted of the poor and unwanted. They were in huge "cheap" supply.
I could continue with a "ton" of history, but I doubt that anyone would believe it. We are the victims of "selective" education.
And, if you think I am saying this to somehow carry on some type of "white people want to be victims and make blacks look bad" claim, you are so wrong. Assume, just for a few moments, that I am telling the truth. Why do you think it has been excluded from our history books? Truth be told, since the "white man" had such a period of dominance, the "white man" could have told any story that "he" wanted to, truth or not, if he really wanted to be seen as a victim and make blacks look "bad". But it wasn't told. Why wasn't it told?
2007-05-25 01:19:09 · answer #1 · answered by SINDY 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Nope, but Black people enslaved black people. Egyptians enslaved hebrews. In the medieval times, royalty enslaved the lower class. The Spaniards (Magellan) tried to enslave the Filipinos, but the Filipinos fought back and killed Magellan...proud people, Pinoy power!
2007-05-25 06:36:17 · answer #2 · answered by gnomus12 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yeah they did. They ran the entire earth at one time. It's just someone else' turn but whites are doing a very poor job of it as in most things they do, you know?
They are causing a lot of problems worldwide to a point where we have foreigners committing extreme acts of terrorism in our country killing and maming thousands of innocents.
2007-05-25 07:03:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Moors ran so. Europe.
2007-05-25 06:38:13 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
i dont think blacks ever enslaved whites, but i do know blacks enslaved blacks and even sold their own people off to the whites as slaves
2007-05-25 06:33:49 · answer #5 · answered by matisyahu 1 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Do you know where the word slave come from?
2007-05-25 07:04:03 · answer #6 · answered by mand 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋