Once upon a time, there were no "africans" in North America.

[Tom Abboud]

That all changed when Northern yankee bankers persuaded Southern
plantation owners to stop using poor white men, and native
American indians, to do the farming work in the name of profits.

When the civil war began, 40 percent of the africans in the
South were black owned and operated.
 

[Barb Knox]

On 14/03/2016 21:18, Tom Abboud wrote:

True enough -- once there were only Asians in North America (a.k.a
American Indians).

Post by Tom Abboud
That all changed when Northern yankee bankers persuaded Southern
plantation owners to stop using poor white men, and native
American indians, to do the farming work in the name of profits.

No, African slavery came to N America much earlier. See for example
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery#Americas>.

Post by Tom Abboud
When the civil war began, 40 percent of the africans in the
South were black owned and operated.

Cite? (As if.)