livesandliesofwizards:Slavery favored no African, magical or non-magical. It is a well-worn but no
livesandliesofwizards: Slavery favored no African, magical or non-magical. It is a well-worn but not often talked about fact of magical history that colonial American wizards owned Muggle slaves if they had the money, but what of their magical brethren? Some were half-blood and Muggle-born children stripped of their wands and sold away by West African pure-bloods who wished to align themselves with rising anti-Muggle sentiment. Others were captured by European “blood hunters” who wished to purge wizardkind of its “lesser” kind. Despite this gruesome history, Afro-American witches and wizards who were brought out of slavery established some of the earliest all-magical villages, and even served as renegade guardians of their Muggle brethren, sometimes (but not always) intermarrying freely with them. It was a complicated history, yet a beautiful one nonetheless. (written and submitted by il-tenore-regina) -- source link