Actually she was an indentured servant among 19 other Africans traded for tobacco in the Virginia English colony. At that time their position immediately became "permanent slaves" called blackamoors named for Arab Moors who invaded, attacked and occupied Spain in the eighth century. The cages for their capture were called barracoon cells.
When they tried to escape these human beings were whipped and branded with an R for runaway, archaic punishment stemming back to the vast Roman Empire. Such brutality gave them the feeling of inferiority even though they deserved inherent human equality and justice as their birthright.
Dear Ones,
It is quite obvious that racism is still ingrained like ancient oak trees in the United States even after 150 years following the Civil War fought between the North and the South who all had slaves. Today many of these slave quarters are now historical landmarks in the U.S., in particularly at the stone house with stone slave quarters flanking both sides. The owner was Isaac Meason, iron master, in Connelsville, Pennsylvania. In 1780 this state was the first to abolish slavery.
Human beings have many things in common, such as both the North and South, Caucasians, fight one another over license to enslave America Africans as they also enslaved American Indians.
Today much of the futile rhetoric is concentrated on "black on black" and "white on white" crimes. However, human nature in regard to criminal activity has always been among people having different or same tones of complexion from how long their ancestors lived along the equator in the tropics for millions of years, with skin color a tell-tale sign of DNA. No matter how much protective pigment people have they all have differences including hatred of one enough to kill.
This reality also applies to religion as people of the same faiths often fight with one another, such as the three big mainstream related family persuasions slaughtering one another for centuries.
Up until when I was a girl, for a Negro to even date a Caucasian was taboo. And not that many years before it was illegal by church and state for such a mixed marriage. But now with marriage permitted as it should be, an inherited human right, all people are at last free to follow their hearts, even though some old fogies hang on to their bigotry with clenched fists.
Mame,
helenesmith1.blog spot.com certified historian and authority on how race began, author of Erase Race!, a compilation of all my essays of on subject within my main blog
