The Original Black Friday Slavery

The term “Black Friday” can be traced back to the 1860s, but it was neve

r used to describe a day after Thanksgiving “sale” on enslaved African-Americans. The claim that retailers borrowed “Black Friday” from slave traders lit up social media in both 2013 and 2014. According to the eRumor:

The first recorded use of the term “Black Friday” was applied not to hol

iday shopping but to financial crisis: specifically, the crash of the U.S. gold market on September 24, 1869. Two notoriously ruthless Wall Street financiers, Jay Gould and Jim Fisk, worked together to buy up as much as they could of the nation’s gold, hoping to drive ...

The first recorded use of the term “Black Friday” was applied not to hol

iday shopping but to financial crisis: specifically, the crash of the U.S. gold market on September 24, 1869.

Some link the term to the original Black Friday, which was the day on which

slave owners in America would sell off the slaves who had the least value to them for low amounts of money. Another...

Tyler Durden would be proud. E very year for the past several years, a rumor

tying slavery to the origins of “Black Friday” surfaces online around Thanksgiving. It’s unclear when this rumor...

The first reference to “Black Friday” in a Thanksgiving context was to r

efer to workers who called in sick the day after Thanksgiving in order to give themselves a long weekend. People lining up for Black Friday deals ... where it was common to sell slaves on the day after Thanksgiving. Among the many reasons that the rumor was so ...

The rumours that Black Friday got its name from the slave trade tend to beco

me prolific every November during the run-up to Thanksgiving, but alas they are entirely false, demonstrably so, since the term Black Friday was not in use until the 1950s, many, many years after slavery was abolished.

Some explanations of Black Friday claim that the holiday references a 19th-c

entury term for the day after Thanksgiving, during which plantation owners could buy slaves at discount prices. This...

Slavery Auction – The True Meaning of ‘Black Friday’. To almost all Am

ericans, ‘Black Friday’ is the day shoppers get up extra early, grab their Christmas lists, and head out the door for all of the pre-Christmas sales. You know, you get up, run down to Walmart, and hope you’ll be first in line to get that 50 inch TV for $100.

The first mentions of Black Friday as we know it are said to have occurred a

round the 1950s or ’60s in Philadelphia, coined by traffic police who dreaded the day. “The Philadelphia Police Department used the term to describe the traffic jams and intense crowding of the downtown retail stores,” said David Zyla, an Emmy-winning stylist and ...

The Black Friday gold panic of September 24, 1869 was caused by a conspiracy

between two investors, Jay Gould and his partner James Fisk, and Abel Corbin, a small time speculator who had married Virginia (Jennie) Grant, the younger sister of President Grant.

Black Friday was a bad day for police officers in Philadelphia. Now, this is

the one that is credited for actually starting the term as we know it. The New York Times report from 1975, above, says ...

The use of “Black Friday” as a descriptor for the day after Thanksgiving

has nothing to do with the selling of slaves, though, and the term didn’t originate until nearly a century after the...

The Facebook post claimed that Black Friday dated to the time of slavery in

America and when traders sold slaves at a discount. Celebrities shared the post and chimed in on the factual error. Then...

Back in the days of slavery, the African-American slaves would cook up that

nice Thanksgiving turkey meal for their masters, and entertain them throughout the night. They would force the slaves to entertain their friends and family, who would then vote on which slave was the best entertainer and which was the worst.

So at some point in the 1950s or 1960s — some put the date exactly at 1966

— the Philadelphia Police Department started to refer to the day after Thanksgiving as “Black Friday,” with the unrealistic hope that people would find the whole shebang distasteful and opt out of the collective consumer madness.

A Facebook post with an image claiming that the term ‘Black Friday’ orig

inated from selling of slaves in the US in 1904 at throwaway prices is false.. Black Friday occurs in November on the first Friday day after Thanksgiving, characterized by steep discounts on retail goods such as electronics and home appliances, but according to this post, the term originated from discounted slave prices.

Whoever wrote the article confesses that nobody knows for sure when the phra

se first came into common parlance, or indeed why the word ‘black’ is included. Well actually, to me it is rather obvious. You see, the dank lair in which capitalism dwells was built on slavery.

The history of slavery is a large and untellable story, full of tragedy and

cruelty that spans both centuries and continents. Although it is difficult to pinpoint the exact year that slavery began, historians can trace the roots of this inhumane practice back roughly 11,000 years.

The first recorded uses of the term "Black Friday" are a bit less rosy, thou

gh. According to researchers, the name "Black Friday" dates back to Philadelphia in the mid-1960s.

On December 6th of 1865 the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Consti

tution was adopted officially abolishing slavery in the United States. Of course this came nowhere close to ending the suffering, mistreatment, and suppression of the civil rights of African Americans but was in fact a very important event in black history.

A Google search linking Black Friday and slaves nets more than 11 million re

sults and dozens of Internet memes, about “the original Black Friday.”. But according to the website Snopes.com, the ...

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learly clashes with the universal ethics of libertarianism and the equal natural rights of all men and women. February ...

Like many of you, I was always told that the first Africans to arrive in wha

t is now the United States were the "20 and odd" Africans who arrived as slaves in Jamestown, Va., from what is now the ...

Black Friday occurs in November on the first Friday day after Thanksgiving,

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Black Friday has become as synonymous with Thanksgiving as pumpkin pie, but

there are a lot of myths surrounding the origins of the shopping event, some even going back as far as the 1800s.

NEW YORK (PIX11) – A disturbing story wrongly tracing the origins of Black

Friday to slavery has been circulating on social media, but the real roots of the modern day shopping extravaganza can ...

What's the real story behind the term "Black Friday"? In this video we take

a look at how one of the biggest shopping events of the year got labelled with it...

The Truth About Black Friday! It’s totally understandable if you think the

term “Black Friday” is a direct linguistic descendent of “in the black,” accounting jargon for turning a profit ...

The Start of the Trans-Atlantic Trade of Enslaved People. When the Portugues

e first sailed down the Atlantic African coast in the 1430s, they were interested in one thing: gold. However, by 1500 they had already traded 81,000 enslaved Africans to Europe, nearby Atlantic islands, and to Muslim merchants in Africa.

Black Friday is known as Viernes Negro in Costa Rica. In Panama, Black Frida

y was first celebrated in 2012, as a move from the Government to attract local tourism to the country's capital city. During its first year, it was believed to have attracted an inflow of about 35,000 regional tourists according to the government's immigration census.

Twenty years later, in 1702, New York adopted its first comprehensive slave

code and it equated slave status with being African. The entire system of slavery was justified by an ideology of white supremacy that considers black Africans inferior and white Europeans superior — an ideology that still exists.

Black Friday, a.k.a. the day after Thanksgiving, is the most popular time to

shop in stores out of the entire year. The National Retail Federation (NRF) found that 77 million people, to be exact ...

How Slaves Spent Thanksgiving Day Might Surprise You. 7 Posted by Jae Jones

- November 25, 2015 - Holidays And Birthdays, SLAVERY. African-Americans have long embraced the tradition of honoring Thanksgiving. Even during #slavery time, Africans took time to be thankful for what they had, which of course was not much.

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and friday, and belongs to categories dark humor, events, memes, past, shopping, silly ...

Black Friday 2019 (Thanksgiving plus Black Friday) raked in $11.9 billion in

online sales. That's $7.5 billion spent on Black Friday and $4.4 billion spent on Thanksgiving. That's a 20.2% increase over 2108. (Source: Adobe Analytics) Black Friday 2018 (Thanksgiving Day plus Black Friday) raked in $9.9 billion in online sales. That's $6.2 ...

Black Codes and Pig Laws. Immediately after the Civil War ended, Southern st

ates enacted "black codes" that allowed African Americans certain rights, such as legalized marriage, ownership of ...

Taking a break from the regular news and chatter for a quick and guilty read

about my beloved and atrocious Knicks, I came across this story in the Daily News gleefully putting troubled shooting guard J.R. Smith in his place for posting an Instagram image claiming that the origin of the term Black Friday was in the slave trade. It’s not.

Black Friday, in U.S. history, Sept. 24, 1869, when plummeting gold prices p

recipitated a securities market panic. The crash was a consequence of an attempt by financier Jay Gould and railway magnate James Fisk to corner the gold market and drive up the price. The scheme depended on keeping government gold off the market, which the manipulators arranged through political influence.

The actual “Black Friday” stock market scare happened in 1869, was in Se

ptember, and had to do with gold prices. So neither stock market crash had anything to do with shopping or the Friday after Thanksgiving. Myth: Black Friday is the Biggest Shopping Day of the Year: Black Friday is not the biggest shopping day of the year.

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Black Americans are leading the charge when it comes to religious practice i

n America. According to Pew Research, nearly eight in 10 African Americans (79%) identify as Christian — more than any ...

William & Mary. By Maria Cramer. Feb. 26, 2021. For years, academics and res

earchers at William & Mary, a university in Virginia, had known about the Bray School, where Black children, free and ...

Nov 15, 2018 1:34 PM EST. Black Friday, the day where stores say they are sl

ashing their prices for a limited time and consumers camp out in front of them to wait for these sales, is such a ...

Congress held its first hearing on reparations for slavery since the May 202

0 death of George Floyd, which reignited the Black Lives Matter movement.. Members of the Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties met over Zoom Wednesday to discuss H.R. 40, which aims to ‘establish a commission to study and consider a national apology and proposal for ...

After 'Proud Boys' tore the original down and burned it, DC's oldest Black c

hurch gets new BLM banner. (ABC7) After George Floyd's death and even before, these types of messages appeared outside ...

HAMPTON, Va. (WAVY) — Fort Monroe, the site of the arrival of the first en

slaved Africans in English North America in 1619, has been named a UNESCO Slave Route Project site. Gov. Ralph Northam ...