I get tired of BLACKS talking about "wanting reparations" for being slaves. Let them go to Africa and get their REPARATIONS from the TRIBES that SOLD them to the slave traders.

FOR THOSE WHO THINK "SLAVERY" WAS ONLY A SOUTHERN THING, BELOW IS A TIMELINE OF SLAVERY IN THE EARLY AMERICAS. YOU WILL NOTICE MOST  OF THE EARLIER "SLAVE OWNERS" WERE IN THE NORTH. For more on slavery in the Americas and elsewhere, ...look up "History of Slavery" in Wikipedia and learn the truth about slavery all over the world. Look up also..."BLACKS WHO OWNED SLAVES"

Slavery in American colonial law

 

plantation owner and family visiting the slave quarters.

• 1640: Virginia courts sentence John Punch to lifetime slavery, marking the earliest legal sanctioning of slavery in English colonies.^[73]
• 1641: Massachusetts legalizes slavery.^[74]
• 1650: Connecticut legalizes slavery.
• 1654: Virginia sanctions "the right of Negros to own slaves of their own race" after African Anthony Johnson, former indentured servant, sued to have fellow African John Casor declared not an indentured servant but "slave for life." ^[75]
• 1661: Virginia officially recognizes slavery by statute.
• 1662: A Virginia statute declares that children born would have the same status as their mother.
• 1663: Maryland legalizes slavery.
• 1664: Slavery is legalized in New York and New Jersey.^[76]
• 1670: Carolina (later, South Carolina and North Carolina) is founded mainly by planters from the overpopulated British sugar island colony of Barbados, who brought relatively large numbers of African slaves from that island.^[77]

North American slavery.........OTHER LINKS.

Main articles: Slavery in Canada, Slavery in the colonial United States, Slavery in the United States, History of slavery in Kentucky, History of slavery in Missouri, History of slavery in Pennsylvania, Atlantic slave trade, Slavery among the indigenous people of the Americas and Slavery among the Cherokee