White people's fault!
I find this mentions an interesting detail that he was captured by another tribe before being sold off to come to the US, funny I thought some white guy captured him and brought him here.
Interesting. Thanks for posting.
Here we go again. The ever revolving museum of forced black slavery and presumed white guilt.
Just ordered this book. This is the history I love to read.
If anyone really cared about slavery, they’d complain about it happening in Africa now, not about it happening here more than 150 years ago.
Funny that blacks are not upset at the other blacks that beat their tribes and sold them into slavery.
Hurston was a great Anerican.
She came up against political correctness back then. The leftist victocrats if the day hated her and apparently stopped this from being published.
“When Hurston tried to get Barracoon published in 1931, she couldn’t find a taker. There was concern among “black intellectuals and political leaders” that the book laid uncomfortably bare Africans’ involvement in the slave trade, according to novelist Alice Walker’s foreword to the book, which is finally being published in May. Walker is responsible for reintroducing the world to a forgotten Zora Neale Hurston, who’d died penniless and alone in 1960, in a 1975 Ms. magazine essay. As Walker writes, “Who would want to know, via a blow-by-blow account, how African chiefs deliberately set out to capture Africans from neighboring tribes, to provoke wars of conquest in order to capture for the slave trade. This is, make no mistake, a harrowing read.””
http://www.vulture.com/2018/04/zora-neale-hurston-barracoon-excerpt.html
*ping*
Such sadness in his eyes
“...he was only 19 years old when members of the NEIGHBORING DAHOMIAN TRIBE captured him and took him to the coast.”
So, it wasn’t the ‘white man’ who captured the slaves and sold them down the river, it was ‘brothers’.
Actually, I did know that. There was a PBS show a while back where the reporter, a descendant of slaves, went back to track down his ruts. He talked about how he had to come to terms with the fact that it was OTHER BLACKS who captured his ancestors, and then sold them to the whites at the ports - as the whites were not about to venture into the jungle to try to capture slaves - way too dangerous. Needless to say, he wasn’t happy about that aspect of his past, but to his credit, he was totally honest about it.
Lived to be 95. Unlikely he would have lived 95 years in Africa.
He was captured and sold into bondage by a neighboring African tribe, the Dahomians?
Why should I feel white guilt?
My ancestors from Glenelg , Scotland were placed into indentured servitude, put into the wilderness in October without any food or housing. Half of the 120 person settlement died. Why should today’s black folk feel black guilt? Because they should have taken their places before they were indentured ?
Dahomians...blame them. They ran the sl;ave coast of West Africa.
Its a laugh to watch these present day black nationalist radicals try to keep themselves and their friends on the slave plantation instead of moving on to be productive American citizens. They’d rather get handouts from Massa’s back porch at the White Hut.
“Frustrated by the refusal of the government to provide him with land to live on after stealing him away from his homeland, he and a group of 31 other freepeople saved up money to buy land near the state capital of Mobile, which they called Africatown.”
So the “government” didn’t steal him away, morons.
Someone should ping Kanye on twitter, let him know that the first documented slave owner in America was a black man.
It would break the internet.
Slavery is one of the most hideous evils ever devised by man or the devil. Give thanks that it is nonexistent in the USA and the rest of the civilized world. Pray that one day it will be nonexistent everywhere and forever.
Bkmk
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The reason she was enslaved was because she was unequal.She and her’s were inferior to those that enslaved them