re: #535 HappyWarrior

en.wikipedia.org(colonist)

Slavery already existed in the Virginia colony long before 1657.

I heard this story many years ago on a Paul Harvey radio segment. It was a historical anomaly, an oddity, not HURR HURR TEH BLAHS IS TEH ORIGINAL SLAVE OWNERS!!!1!!!!!!!

Yes there were actually some Black people (actually mixed race) who owned slaves. I think their numbers were even in the double digits.