Quote from peilthetraveler:
What? In 1704 Virginia passed a law that said blacks were not allowed to own white Christian slaves anymore. That implies that the free blacks that were out there some had white slaves.
The world slave was also originally meant for white people. It comes from the word Slav which were the people from eastern europe.
In new orleans in the 1860s, 1.4% of all free whites owned slaves, compared to 28% of all free blacks who owned slaves.
And why don't people know about the 100s of thousands of Irish slaves brought to the new world in the 1600s? Oh thats right...because we don't bitch about what happened to our ancestors 100s of years ago because it has nothing to do with our life today.