"No, there is plenty wrong with Negroes.

Originally shared by Kevin Woolcock

"No, there is plenty wrong with Negroes. They have no society. They’re robots, automatons. No minds of their own. I hate to say that about us, but it’s the truth. They are a black body with a white brain."
~ Malcolm X

Here’s something you won’t read about in the US #History books.
The first legal slave owner in #America was #Black and he owned white slaves.

Anthony Johnson first arrived in Virginia in 1621. Referred to as "Antonio a Negro" in early records, Anthony went to work on a tobacco plantation. It's not clear whether he was an indentured servant (a servant contracted to work for a set amount of time) or a slave. 

#BlackHistoryMonth
In addition to being a landowner, #AnthonyJohnson was also a #slaveholder  Court records reveal that Johnson won a 1655 case against white planter, Robert Parker, to retain ownership of Johnson’s slave, John Casor.  Casor, with the help of Robert Parker, tried to claim that he was an indentured servant, not a #slavery  Although the courts initially found in Parker’s favor, temporarily freeing Casor, they subsequently reversed the decision, returning Casor to the service of his master, Anthony Johnson. A fire in 1653 destroyed much of the Johnson’s plantation.  As a result of the fire, Anthony and Mary petitioned the court for tax relief, which was granted on the grounds that they would have difficulty obtaining a livelihood.  Sometime in the 1660s Anthony and Mary Johnson, their dependent children, and their married sons, John and Richard, all moved north into Maryland.  In Maryland, Anthony leased a 300-acre farm, Tonies Vineyard, where he lived until his death in 1670.  Mary survived her husband, and in her 1672 will she bequeathed a cow to each of her grandsons.  Five years later, in 1677, Anthony and Mary’s grandson, John Jr., purchased a 44-acre farm which he named Angola.  John Jr. later died without leaving an heir, however, and by 1730, the Johnson family had vanished from the #historical records.

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