Anthony Johnson is credited as the first man in the American colonies to legally own a slave. Anthony Johnson came to the United States as an indentured servant in 1621, who after earning his freedom, became wealthy over time and came into the ownership of 250 acres and the services of five indentured servants on his property by 1651. One of these indentured servants, the only one who was black, would become the first slave in America. This indentured servant, John Casor, was reported to have worked as an indentured servant for seven years past the date he was supposed to be freed. After complaining to a Captain Goldsmith about being held illegally, John Casor was eventually freed after Anthony Johnson was convinced to release John by their neighbor Robert Parker. John Casor eventually found employment with Robert Parker, who Anthony Johnson proceeded to sue in order to reacquire his indentured servant. After Robert Parker initially won the court case, a retrial was called for by Anthony Johnson and the verdict ultimately was that John Casor would serve out his life indefinitely as an indentured servant under Anthony Johnson. This was the first time in American history that someone was forced to be an indentured servant for their entire life, as the status had only been reserved for those who had committed serious crimes beforehand. In short, Anthony Johnson was the first slaveowner in American history and John Casor was America’s first slave.
The unique thing about this case was the fact that, contrary to what anyone who isn’t redpilled would expect, Mr. Anthony Johnson was black. This matters primarily because it shows how the bourgeois of any race, in trying to advance their own class interests, will often feel unbothered working at the expense of those who superficially resemble them. Despite the win in the courtroom, Anthony Johnson did not walk away from this legal victory completely scot-free, as Anthony Johnson would increasingly lose more of the wealth he had acquired later on in his life. During the rest of Mr. Johnson’s lifetime, laws in the United States became increasingly anti-black in nature as blacks were classified across the country as being property more and more. The precedent that Anthony Johnson set in that courtroom, in the case Johnson V. Parker, would have serious ramifications across America for centuries to come. Even today, the impact of slavery is still felt by countless Americans – in particular, millions of white Americans who get mild to severe migraines from hearing other people incessantly bitch about slavery and blame them for it.
Getting back to the point however, at the time of Anthony Johnson’s death in 1670, the colony of Maryland that Mr. Johnson then resided in no longer allowed blacks to have property. Mr. Johnson’s property was given to a white colonist, rather than to his own children, with a judge ruling that Anthony Johnson was not a citizen of the colony because he was black. Over the generations, the family’s fortunes would quickly whittle away until they lost all historical significance. In pursuing his own class interests to their furthest extent, Anthony Johnson had set back the group he was part of for centuries to come. While Anthony Johnson may have been a wealthy man, he inhabited an increasingly more inhospitable country and ultimately died with little left to give to his descendants. Thinking himself above the precedents that he had set for society’s treatment of his own people, Anthony Johnson would come to find that he would be treated the same as the other black people in due time regardless of his class or beliefs. The reason why Anthony Johnson is worth writing an article about is because we see many similar cases today in the western world, in which people wrongly identify more with their class than their race, on the wrong assumption that they can afford to be racist towards their own group. Just as the white upper classes of liberal republics across the world engage in similar acts of ethnic self-masochism, giving away the protections and rights of their own countrymen in return for short-term gains, so too will they find themselves unwanted strangers in hostile lands they once knew as home eventually.
Legal precedents change the course of civilizations, and in not standing up for your own group when your people’s resolve is tested, you are essentially selling yourself out. In white countries today, whites are unique in that they are not a protected class, largely aren’t beholden to voting for any given party based on identity, and any identify movements that revolve around them are condemned and their members are persecuted to the fullest extent. While I’m not a fan of any groups that currently identify as being pro-white, I am also not a fan of the fact that mainstream white conservatives sheepishly try to avoid the topic of anti-white discrimination altogether. In any society, every ethnic and racial group should have its own representation and protections in place to prevent abuses from occurring. Just as Anthony Johnson condemned almost his entire race in America to eventual slavery, wealthier white liberals can create conditions in which their white working class counterparts feel severe repercussions for simply existing. When we look at the current programs to provide subsidized or free housing, healthcare, food, and other benefits like affirmative action for almost exclusively non-white illegal immigrants in many parts of the west, our white political leaders make the likes of Anthony Johnson look like a fascist Hotep by comparison.
For those who ask what to do, in scenarios where your country’s working class population is essentially held hostage in their own country, the answer is simple: move somewhere else. Freed blacks and runaway slaves that fled to Canada enjoyed far greater rights and freedoms than their American counterparts, simply because of a change in jurisdiction. People are not condemned to living in countries that resemble open-air prisons simply because their bourgeois countrymen sell them out, and just as we’ve seen with countries like Zimbabwe and South Africa, your departure oftentimes hurts the people left in these country-sized carcasses more than it ever hurts you. When it all goes to shit, and those who sold you out seek refuge from the racist hells that they’ve created, just remember one thing: don’t let them in.
