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Intresting Facts About The Slave Era by coolsegun2002(op): 8:11pm On Oct 23, 2015
It was a dark time especially for blacks, too bad we still have slaves in this our era....anyways hope i don bore u with these facts


Only 388,000 slaves were brought to the U.S. One million went to Jamaica and nearly five million went to Brazil.

When the slaves were freed from the USA, some went back to Africa and promptly enslaved the native Africans based on the plantation methods they learnt in the states.

The Romans had a celebratory day once in a year where the roles of master and slave were reversed

William Whipple freed his slaves when he signed the Declaration of Independence, because he believed that he could not fight for freedom and own slaves –

U.S. President James Buchanan regularly bought slaves in Washington, D.C. and quietly freed them in Pennsylvania.


A kingdom in the Niger Delta which held no military authority over its citizens whatsoever, believed all violence was an abomination, and served as a safe haven for all refugees and slaves for a thousand years, all the way up until 1911.

Harriet Tubman a slave escape expert carried a gun with her on the Underground Railroad. If a runaway slave threatened to give up and go back to the plantation, she would point the gun at him and threaten to shoot him dead.

Harriet Tubman never lost a slave in 19 trips on the Underground Railroad. One of her secrets for not getting caught was drugging kids with opium to keep them from crying


In the 1650s Anthony Johnson, an African man, won a court case that let him keep another African, John Casor, as his slave instead of ending his indentured servitude. This meant that the first legally recognized owner of a permanent slave in America was an African man

Spartans would often force their slaves to get debilitatingly drunk and make a fool of themselves in public to encourage self-control and show the youth how they should not act.

The first foreigner to become a samurai was an African slave.

An African slave named Onesimus taught colonists in Boston how to inoculate themselves against smallpox. The treatment had been common in China and Africa for centuries.

The term “white trash” was invented by black slaves as a racial epithet against whites too poor to own slaves. –

Every autumn, the Spartans had a period wherein their young men would go into the countryside with daggers and kill slaves as part of a “manhood test”. They were punished if they were discovered doing it. The test was to be able to do it without getting caught
The first foreigner to become a samurai was an African slave.

An African slave named Onesimus taught colonists in Boston how to inoculate themselves against smallpox. The treatment had been common in China and Africa for centuries.

The term “white trash” was invented by blacks as a racial epithet against whites too poor to own slaves.

Every autumn, the Spartans had a period wherein their young men would go into the countryside with daggers and kill slaves as part of a “manhood test”. They were punished if they were discovered doing it. The test was to be able to do it without getting caught

There are more slaves now than at any point in history, even though slavery is illegal in all countries



Source: http://www.kickassfacts.com/25-interesting-facts-about-slavery/


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Re: Intresting Facts About The Slave Era by skondo09(m): 8:27pm On Oct 23, 2015
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Re: Intresting Facts About The Slave Era by Nobody: 8:32pm On Oct 23, 2015
You mean to tell me africans are not still slaveshuh
Re: Intresting Facts About The Slave Era by Nobody: 9:08pm On Oct 23, 2015
coolsegun2002:
A kingdom in the Niger Delta which held no military authority over its citizens whatsoever, believed all violence was an abomination, and served as a safe haven for all refugees and slaves for a thousand years, all the way up until 1911.



Source: http://www.kickassfacts.com/25-interesting-facts-about-slavery/
I don't think this kingdom you speak of was in the Niger Delta.
Re: Intresting Facts About The Slave Era by bigfrancis21(mod): 2:28pm On Oct 24, 2015
When did slave in the Americas return to Africa and enslaved the native Africans? Since when did this piece of trashy nonsense begin? huh
Re: Intresting Facts About The Slave Era by tpiah11: 2:39pm On Oct 24, 2015
SirWere:
You mean to tell me africans are not still slaveshuh
slavery was abolished in the ninteenth century..
Re: Intresting Facts About The Slave Era by tpiah11: 2:41pm On Oct 24, 2015
A kingdom in the Niger Delta which held no military authority over its citizens whatsoever, believed all violence was an abomination, and served as a safe haven for all refugees and slaves for a thousand years, all the way up until 1911.
where was that?

there is no such thing as a safe haven in the absence of a defence apparatus.
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