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Post by ♫anna♫ on Jan 7, 2016 15:21:40 GMT
In addition to the European bankers, who financed the slave trade, there was a 2nd major participant in the Black slave trade. These videos reveal the truth and refute many of the myths and lies surrounding slavery. Only 5 % of the slaves purchased from African slave traders were taken to the US and there they were treated much better than the slaves sold to Brazil, the Caribbean and elsewhere.
Slavery was a very bad product that was advertised in the pre civil war United States. Most slave owners thought they were playing a role in saving the souls of their Black slaves. The slaves converted to Christianity and went to church on Sunday with their owners. Of course slavery quickly showed itself to be an evil in America and led to the civil war and millions of Black Africans living in the US alienated from their cultural heritage.
The slave traders generally purchased enslaved Blacks from African rulers. The African descendants of Black African slave traders, like King Kpoto-Zounme Hakpon III are admitting this. The depiction of White slave traders landing on the African coast and kidnapping Black Africans into slavery appears to be largely or entirely a historical myth.www.yourblackworld.net/2013/07/black-news/african-king-apologizes-for-africas-role-in-slavery/ QUOTE: African King Apologizes for Africa’s Role in SlaveryIt is a painful part of our past that often goes unspoken. When exploring the trans-Atlantic slave trade, it is rare to discuss the role of Africans in the selling and trading of other Africans. Recently, Kpoto-Zounme Hakpon III, the king of Porto-Novo, a province of the West African country of Benin visited Hobson City, AL. Hakpon was the guest of a local family, the Cunninghams, of whom he is distantly related. While there, Hakpon offered his apologies to his American brothers and sisters. According to the Anniston Star: “I want to apologize for the role my ancestors played in the slave trade,” Hakpon said through his translator. “I knew one day I wanted to come to this land and ask forgiveness of my black brothers and sisters. I wanted to cross the ocean to see the land where my ancestors suffered.” To a loud applause, Hakpon told the Hobson City residents he was the first king of his nation to ever visit the United States. He hopes to maintain a relationship between Porto-Novo and Hobson City. After his speech, the king exchanged gifts with the mayor of Hobson City. The king answered a few questions from residents after his speech, gave a blessing to the town and said he felt a spiritual connection with Hobson City. Many of the residents were impressed by his visit. “For him to come all this way and to be interested in us here in little Hobson City, that means a lot,” said Dennis McKinney, the pastor at New Hope Ministry Baptist Church Is it time to have an open dialogue about the role of Africans in the slave trade?
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Post by DAS (formerly BushAdmirer) on Jan 7, 2016 16:25:56 GMT
The history of the slave trade is very interesting. The American south got the most publicity and most of the blame, yet they weren't major players on the world scale. Without those English owned and operated slave ships and the African tribes who would round up and sell members of opposing tribes, there wouldn't have been much slave trade.
Everyone agrees that the slave trade was an awful page in our history. What's overlooked is the fact that todays descendants of those American slaves are generally much better off than their African counterparts. So slavery was a tough go for the slaves themselves but actually benefitted their descendants.
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Post by blc on Jan 7, 2016 23:49:21 GMT
The history of the slave trade is very interesting. The American south got the most publicity and most of the blame, yet they weren't major players on the world scale. Without those English owned and operated slave ships and the African tribes who would round up and sell members of opposing tribes, there wouldn't have been much slave trade. Everyone agrees that the slave trade was an awful page in our history. What's overlooked is the fact that todays descendants of those American slaves are generally much better off than their African counterparts. So slavery was a tough go for the slaves themselves but actually benefitted their descendants. Agreed. They were initially brought to the American colonies on British ships while under British rule and the majority of the signer of the Declaration wanted to end it but the southern states said they wouldn't join if they outlawed it so they decided to revisit it at a later date. www.revolutionary-war.net/slavery-and-the-founding-fathers.html George Mason, called " the father of the bill of rights" said in his address to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, "As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union." and "The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind." Anti-Slavery Efforts Before we judge too harshly, we must understand that slavery was established long before the Revolutionary War. For centuries, slavery had been a growing part of the economy world-wide, not just in the Colonies. In North America, slavery was established somewhere in the 1500's, after Christopher Columbus visited. There isn't a specific date, of course, but it grew from there. Our Founding Fathers were born into a world whose economy relied on slave labor - from cotton, tobacco, and sugar cane plantations even to local businesses. Some believe that since slavery was so commonplace, growing a conscience about it might easily not have happened at all. They suggest that the fact that they opposed slavery at all is incredibly radical for their time. For whatever reason, they did, in fact "grow" consciences. By the quotes, letters, and documents they left behind, it is clear that most of our founding fathers wished to see slavery ended, though they did not believe it possible for it to happen in their lifetimes. Some of them, most notably Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay, were very supportive of the rapidly growing abolitionist movement. Benjamin Franklin was President of the Pennsylvania society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, which included Jay and Hamilton. The year he died, he signed a petition for the abolition of all slavery. He died before he got to see it become a reality. John Jay, as governor of New York, made numerous efforts to push anti-slavery laws. He founded the New York State Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves and New York's African Free School, which taught freed slaves reading, writing, and basic arithmetic. Alexander Hamilton grew up in the Caribbean islands. The majority of the sugar imported to the Colonies were exported from those islands and were maintained by rented out slaves. Almost everyone, no matter how poor, had several slaves that either worked for their masters or were rented out to make extra money for their masters. Hamilton grew up with a deep rooted hatred of the slave trade that fueled his work as an avid supporter of the abolitionists his entire life. snip
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Post by DAS (formerly BushAdmirer) on Jan 8, 2016 21:22:10 GMT
You're certainly correct when you say that slavery went back many years. Even native American tribes made slaves of their enemies long before Columbus arrived on the scene. The Romans used slave labor to build their huge empire. All those cobblestone roads were slave built. When we were in Italy a few years ago, I visited the Carrera Marble Quarry not far from the Cinque Terre. These mountainous marble deposits were the source of most of the Roman statues that you see in museums. Marble was also used as a building material. Important buildings were sheathed in it. This is a photo I took on that trip. When I stood looking at this quarry I couldn't help but wonder how they managed to harvest large chunks of this stuff before modern machinery became available. The Romans had slaves, lots of them, and they had a very tough job to perform. Incidentally, this quarry extends well back into the hills. This photo is just the tip of the iceberg so to speak. Attachments:
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