Get your reparations from the descendants of Anthony Johnson, himself a freed servant having spent his seven years of service, who in 1655 decided his black servant was going to be his slave for life in America. Lifetime slavery was brought to America by a black man.
Anthony Johnson earned his freedom dues by serving his master for 7 years, which as was the custom those days bought him his freedom. Every freed indentured servant in the English colonies would receive a plot of land, a farmhouse, a mule, firearms, farming clothes and tools and a year's supply of corn seed to get him started. It was called receiving your freedom dues. Anthony Johnson looked at his black servant and told him he would never receive his freedom dues. The judge in his town in Virginia agreed that Johnson could bring that African custom to America. They probably played poker every Friday night together since Johnson had become quite wealthy and a man about town by that time. So we can thank Anthony Johnson for this mess, and he owes all Americans reparation dues.
Get your reparations from the descendants of Anthony Johnson, himself a freed servant having spent his seven years of service, who in 1655 decided his black servant was going to be his slave for life in America. Lifetime slavery was brought to America by a black man.
Anthony Johnson earned his freedom dues by serving his master for 7 years, which as was the custom those days bought him his freedom. Every freed indentured servant in the English colonies would receive a plot of land, a farmhouse, a mule, firearms, farming clothes and tools and a year's supply of corn seed to get him started. It was called receiving your freedom dues. Anthony Johnson looked at his black servant and told him he would never receive his freedom dues. The judge in his town in Virginia agreed that Johnson could bring that African custom to America. They probably played poker every Friday night together since Johnson had become quite wealthy and a man about town by that time. So we can thank Anthony Johnson for this mess, and he owes all Americans reparation dues.