Desantis/EVERYONE needs to require AA studies in all schools, in all grades. Start with these:
Some black slave owners …
An early example was Anthony Johnson. Sometime in the mid-1650s, Johnson, who was black, forced John Casor into slavery. Johnson had served his own indentureship, acquired property and his freedom and hired indentured servants, among whom was Casor. Johnson fought successfully in the courts of Virginia in the United States for Casor to become his slave when the latter wanted to leave his service, asserting he had completed his indentureship.
A well-known example is William Ellison. Formerly enslaved, Ellison gained his freedom, purchased property, owned slaves and became one of the wealthiest men in Louisiana. He owned approximately 1,000 acres of land and several dozen enslaved persons at his death.
-Another was Anna Kingsley of Florida, African wife of a white plantation owner. Formerly enslaved by the man who became her husband, she became a landowner and slaveholder in her own right. https://archive.is/wip/MpLft https://oletimesumting.com/2018/09/16/black-slave-owners/
Anna Kingsley born in West AFRICA, sold by AFRICANS at age 13 http://archive.today/MpLft
New York Is Named After A Horrendous Slave Trader. New York, both the city and the state, is named after the house of York and particularly for James Stuart, then Duke of York, one of the most successful slavers in colonial American history. DailyCaller: https://archive.ph/ZnNT6
New York Was Named After Slaver Who Shipped 90,000 Africans to America, Has 24+ Streets Named for Slave Owners Both New York and New York City were named after the prestigious house of York, specifically the Duke of York during the mid 17th century, James Stuart. Stuart captured Dutch settlements along the east coast, eventually capturing New Amsterdam, which was quickly changed to New York to reflect Stuart’s role in capturing the town for the British Empire. Stuart would go on to facilitate the slave trade of between 90,000 and 100,000 Africans through the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
The Duke of York, who later became King James II of England (and James VII of Scotland), created Britain’s greatest slave empire known as the Royal African Company, which transported between 90,000 and 100,000 African slaves to the Caribbean and American colonies between 1672 and 1689. National File: https://archive.ph/XW7NC
An astounding tale of slavery and deceit: Yale University's Madras connection
"In the 1680s, when Yale served on the governing council at Fort St. George on the Madras coast, a devastating famine led to an uptick in the local slave trade. As more and more bodies became available on the open market, Yale and other company officials took advantage of the labor surplus, buying hundreds of slaves and shipping them to the English colony on Saint Helena,”… "Yale participated in a meeting that ordered a minimum of ten slaves sent on every outbound European ship. In just one month in 1687, Fort St. George exported at least 665 individuals. As governor and president of the Madras settlement, Yale enforced the ten-slaves-per-vessel rule. On two separate occasions, he sentenced 'black Criminalls' accused of burglary to suffer whipping, branding, and foreign enslavement. https://archive.ph/kNxQL
Elihu Yale was a Slave Trader https://archive.ph/1C681
Oh, and did MLK know a man named Bayard Rustin? If so, were they close?