re: Interesting facts about slavery I'll bet you didn't know.

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The first legal Slave owner in American history was a Black tobacco farmer named Anthony Johnson.
• North Carolina’s largest Slave holder in 1860 was a Black plantation owner named William Ellison.
• American Indians owned thousands of Black Slaves.
• In 1830 there were 3,775 free Black people who owned 12,740 Black Slaves.
• Many Black Slaves were allowed to hold jobs, own businesses and own real estate.

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This would be the biggest issue about deciding who is eligible for reparations. How can you collect if you were a slave owner? Shouldn’t you have to forfeit you portion to someone who was not a slave owner?

There would be no way to separate all that but if you go with any % of “black” it gets even murkier. My great, great grandfather was 100% sub-Saharan African. Do I qualify for reparations?