Posted on 06/01/2013 1:21:29 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
Timbuktu, Mali — Her light-skinned master no longer beats her with a camel whip. He no longer makes her work from dawn to night without pay. He fled with his family four months ago, along with the Islamists who briefly ruled this historic city.
“I am free,” said Aminaya Traore, a 50-year-old woman who was born a slave. “I can do whatever I want.”
Across this sand-swept city, hundreds of modern-day slaves are experiencing a sense of liberation, many for the first time. Nearly all the lighter-skinned Tuaregs and Arab Moors who for generations exploited them have fled the city, fearing reprisal attacks for supporting a separatist rebellion that helped ignite the Islamist takeover of Mali’s north last year.
“Under the Islamists, blacks were exploited even more by the pink-skinned people,” said Roukiatou Cisse, a social worker with Temedt, a human rights group, referring to the Tuaregs and Arab Moors. “They told them, ‘We are with the Islamists. We are in power. We are the masters and you are our slaves. We will do what we want.’ ”
“Now, the slaves have profited by the pink-skinned people leaving.”
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Some of the abolitionists knew and assumed that it would desolate the South for centuries. Some of them were aiming at that result.
Actually, and I am not being sarcastic, I would almost expect that our government is rushing people over there to sign up those newly freed people as refugees to populate some uncooperative town in the USA. Such has been happening for years.
Tuaregs have always had a romantic aura as desert camel nomads with bright blue robes and turbans. National Geographic spoke of their slaves as living in willing subjection because they loved their Tuareg masters who took care of them. NatGraph did mince words a bit though.
I think that’s why the Radical Republicans set up Reconstruction and The Freedmen’s Bank.
General William Tecumseh Sherman’s Special Field Orders #15 was “40 acres and a mule” to every freedman. It didn’t happen.
I think you’re referring to house slaves in the Middle East. Timbuktu is NOT in the ME.
What existed in Tumbuktu, which is the place the article refers to, probably doesn’t fit that scenario. The slaves would know how to acquire food and perform mundane house chores including the acquisition and preparation of meals. Slave masters from elsewhere, or even if local, would not do menial chores. (Tuareg people are migratory; Moors may be local, but they would not stoop to getting their own food.)
I guess I am just a low information type of guy.
That’s what I get for trying to be compassionate.
In fact I was thinking about the people who were turned loose on the United States 250 years ago and who still have no education, Affirmative Action Jobs and just elected a descendent of slave traders to occupy the White House.
That has to be one of the most idiotic things I have ever read in my life.
”Freedom” as you describe it - in a vaccuum of planning and structure after decades of slavery is like throwing someone out the door of a speeding car.
“Those who would deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.”
- Abraham Lincoln
>> “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.”
Sometimes Islamonazi filth is just Islamonazi filth.
(You OK with that?)
>> What did you expect from Hitler’s company?
heh... yeah, what was I thinking??!?
I read that the Plains Indians perceived Europeans as all having red hair in a range of shades.
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