chithappens
Senior Member
I don't think black slaveholders are news to anyone on the board. It is a known fact that blacks owned slaves. Something as simple as Behn's story, "Oroonoko" makes it clear that same blacks had more privilege than others.
It is also a well known fact that only a minority of whites owned slaves but that is a "duh" fact. In today's currency, a slave would amount to around $200,000. You were affluent or you were not - that's about as complex as that gets, but do not say "minority" as if blacks had more.
I do not trust the census back then anyway because around 1860 they said that around 4,000,000 slaves were captive. So assuming they only brought 500,000, that would mean that they killed most of the slaves (and i don't think you just throw off $200,000 that could easily multiply through childbirth) including the children slave masters would have simply to sell off in an auction. In fact, I have sources (books) that say those numbers are off by at least 10,000,000 which would explain why the South was saying no to freeing slaves (do the math if you feel like it).
Slavery is not wrong only because it cast down a certain race - IT DEVALUES LIFE AND MAKES A HUMAN SIMPLY PROPERTY (although one could argue capitalism is strikingly similar).
People are people. Slave owners are slave owners. Who gives a ****? It's wrong no matter what.
Czarina certainly is not the ambassador for what black people are "really thinking." It is just an insult that Czarina assumes she can speak to the thinking and actions of an entire race. That's what FOTN is doing also, but she claims she can guide FOTN through it and read his life. Damn PEOPLE are a trip.