None of my family owned slaves, they were northerners that had white indentured servants. Historically 1.4% of White Americans owned slaves, and there were around 3,000 Black American slave owners. The first legitimate slave owner in the modern United States was Anthony Johnson, a Black man. So slavery is hardly all…

Carter Woodson, the historian who started the modern Black History Month, chose February for the main reason that it was the month of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglas’ births. Please, know the history before bitching about someone giving credit to a man that died to end slavery.