Black slaveholders — Bunk History

The Curious History of Anthony Johnson: From Captive African to Right-Wing Talking Point

Certain pundits are misrepresenting the biography of the "first black slaveholder."

by Tyler D. Parry via Black Perspectives on July 22, 2019

My Great-Grandfather, the Nigerian Slave-Trader

White traders couldn’t have loaded their ships without help from Africans like my great-grandfather.

by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani via The New Yorker on July 15, 2018

On Prejudice

An 18th-century creole slaveholder invented the idea of 'racial prejudice’ to defend diversity among a slaveowning elite.

by Blake Smith via Aeon on March 5, 2018

Slavery Myths Debunked

The Irish were slaves too; slaves had it better than factory workvers; black people fought for the Confederacy; and so on.

by Jamelle Bouie, Rebecca Onion via Slate on September 29, 2015

A painting by J. M. W. Turner depicting a slave ship throwing its dead into the stormy waters.

The Slave Trade and the Jews

Jews have long been feared as the power behind inexplicable evils. Responsibility for the African slave trade has recently been added to this list of crimes.

by David Brion Davis via New York Review of Books on December 22, 1994

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