Anonymous ID: aad75e Dec. 23, 2020, 5:57 a.m. No.12144968   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>4987 >>5026

>>12144837

>jewish

well that took an odd turn..

Anthony Johnson (AD 1600 – 1670) was an Angolan who achieved freedom in the early 17th century Colony of Virginia.

 

Johnson was captured in his native Angola by an enemy tribe and sold to Arab (Muslim) slave traders. He was eventually sold as an indentured servant to a merchant working for the Virginia Company.

 

Not only was Johnson the first slaveowner and black he was also a court winner and allowed to keep a slave FOREVER rather than follow the norms and let the indentured man go after a period of time.

 

In March of 1654, according to Delmarva Settlers, Anthony’s servant, a man named John Casar requested that Johnson release him from his indenture because it had long expired past the usual seven years. Johnson replied that he knew of no indenture and that Casar was to be his servant for life. Anthony Johnson’s neighbors, George and Robert Parker, stated that they knew of another indenture for the said Casar to a planter on the other side of the bay. They continued to threaten Johnson with the loss of the servant’s cattle if he were to deny him his freedom. Johnson, with the influence from his family, released the servant, and even went to see that John Casar received his freedom dues. Freedom dues are materials and supplies given to the freed person in order for them to start their new lives with the necessary materials. In the case of John Casar, clothing and corn. But after careful reflection, Johnson was certain that Casar was his servant for life; a slave. Johnson then sued the Parker brothers for unlawfully taking his property from him, and since there were no other indentures for John Casar, he was returned to the Johnsons.

 

The courts ruled in favor of Anthony Johnson and declared John Casor his property in 1655. Casor became the first person of African descent in Britain’s Thirteen Colonies to be declared as a slave for life as the result of Johnson’s civil suit.

Anonymous ID: aad75e Dec. 23, 2020, 6:22 a.m. No.12145175   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>5178

>>12144924

>Grateful Dead play Kent State protest

"50 years ago today on May 6th, 1970, the Grateful Dead performed a free show at Kresge Plaza on the campus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, MA. The Grateful Dead performance that day was part of a larger nationwide protest movement of events protesting the killing of four college students by National Guardsmen at a protest at Kent State University in Ohio two days earlier.

 

Songs performed for those in attendance at the event that day included “Dancin’ In The Street”, “China Cat Sunflower” into “I Know You Rider”, “Morning Dew”, “Good Lovin'”, “Casey Jones”, a very strong-sounding “St. Stephen”, “Not Fade Away” and more.

Related: Listen To Bob Weir’s Isolated Guitar Parts From Grateful Dead’s Final Show At Berkeley’s Greek Theatre In 1989 [Full-Show Video]

 

Revisit the May 1970 Grateful Dead performance at MIT in protest of the Kent State massacre with the full-show audio below:"

https://liveforlivemusic.com/news/grateful-dead-kent-state-shooting-protest-mit-1970/