They keep referring to the "fictional character" Anthony Johnson whenever they bring this up...
What they neglect to mention is that he was born in Angola not the US (not American) and there is no actual record of his birth, he never LEGALLY owned slaves (as blacks were not legally able to own land or property at the time), the slaves he had in his possession were actually family which he held to get them free, and after his death all his possessions were conveniently passed down to a white man, leaving his remaining family nothing, including no freeman papers.
His story is so outlandish its probably not true, and at best fabricated and exaggerated to a great extent. Its hard to believe a kidnapped slave that actually survived being carried from his country could so quickly learn to read, write and adapt to a foreign culture and outsmart the local, state, federal governments ALONG with making good with his entire community of local whites that they accepted his claims of ownership. Homie is either not real or the GREATEST example of Black Excellence to ever exist.
