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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]Fascinating. “Mansplaining” and “whitesplaining” all rolled into one. [/quote] same thought process as when people describe Sally Hemmings  as  a "mistress " to Jefferson, when she was a slave[/quote]

Not the same. Hemmings was a slave. There is no dispute about that. But the first Africans who came to Virginia came before slavery was established. There has been a lot of focus on one of them, "Anthony", whose grave Northam visited last August. BTW, that's probably why Northam had a grasp of this. He just didn't learn it in the last couple of days. But, back to Anthony, he was one of those captured from the Dutch ship and brought to Virginia. In Virginia, he earned his freedom, got married, and owned property. He later moved to Maryland where he owned a 300-acre plantation. I posted this article earlier, but here it is again:

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1narr3.html

[/quote]how was "Anthony" on that ship? Was he a willing conscript? Was he sentenced to indentureship by a judge? Was his name even "Anthony"? I doubt the answer to any of those questions is "Yes"
"Anthony" was a CAPTIVE, not a volunteer or criminal, which makes him 100% different from an indentured servant[/quote]

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