William Ellison, Slave owner

by James Mixon 17 Replies latest jw friends

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  James Mixon

  I be damn, the guy an ex slave. South Carolina, a free black man and former slave. He owned

  40 slaves when he died 1867.... WTF......
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  Harvard Illiterate 411

  I'm surprised you didn't know that already. Do you know who Anthony Johnson was? Did you know that less than 6% of all slaves that were shipped from Africa ended in America? Lots of facts they don't teach you in school.
  
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  LoveUniHateExams

  He was clearly a man of his time. I'm not condoning it (it's obviously wrong) but slavery was ubiquitous before the British outlawed it.

  Everyone did it. Black Africans sold other black Africans into slavery and profited from it.

  Some Native American tribes also owned many slaves and fought on the South's side.

  Having been a slave himself, how did this guy treat his slaves? Did he show them some compassion?
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  LoveUniHateExams

  Agree, Harvard.

  Most slaves were shipped to Brazil, if I remember rightly.
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  James Mixon

  I ask my kids and not one was aware of this. My wife never heard of it and my golf friends I ask them

  did they know, they thought it was BS. He supported the south and gave money to help in the cause.

  I missed out on a lot of that, I was schooled in JW higher learning.
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  James Mixon

  LoveUniHate: That's what I was thinking about "how did guy treat his slaves? Did he show them some

  compassion". I know about the slave trade in Africa" Africans selling other blacks, and Native Americans

  but it's weird that a ex slave purchasing slaves. You would think, Ok come work for me and I will pay you

  after you work off your purchase price.

  I never heard of A. Johnson but I will look him up.
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  brandnew

  Schooled in jw higher learning..........😝😝😀😀😁😁😂😂

  Holy shitballs that was freeeeakin funny dude!!!!!

  Mad Puppy
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  LoveUniHateExams

  @James

  I'm ignorant of this guy so at this stage can only speculate.

  Perhaps he bought and owned slaves but treated them well - giving them a choice of working for him or going it alone (but free).

  Or perhaps times were tough and he thought nothing of owning slaves - along the lines of: 'well, I've been one so why can't people slave for me?'

  I remember reading a book about exHW champ Sonny Liston. His father (b.1870, so one generation away from slavery) was a sharecropper and treated his children like slaves - apparently, if they were old enough to attend school, they were old enough to pick cotton.

  I guess some people are nice, some people are a$$holes.
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  talesin

  Was he a FreeMason?

  Or an OddFellow?
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  James Mixon

  I wonder, how can one justify in their mind to own another person. It doesn't matter, black, white,

  red or brown your property is another human being.

  I can't except the idea, you know the Henderson down the street own slaves, I want one.

  I know slavery has been around a long, long time but why did it take so long for people to figure it

  out, it's wrong.

  Talesin: OddFellow...