Posted on 07/29/2016 10:57:21 AM PDT by Perseverando
Ask yourself this: In all of the gazillions of lectures and tirades (there have, as to date, been no genuine conversations) on slavery, have you ever heard of the names of John Currantee and Ephraim Robin John?
Such names—and there are many, many more—belong to a racially incorrect history of slavery, an historical account that threatens to rip asunder the ideological foundations of the Racism-Industrial-Complex (RIC), or Big Racism.
For centuries and centuries, courtesy of both Arabs and its indigenous peoples, slavery was endemic throughout the continent of Africa. Contrary to what contemporary mythical portraits like Roots would have us think, when Europeans began enslaving Africans in the 16th century, they—unlike Arabs—would not invade villages to obtain slaves. Rather, they would have to trade with the African flesh peddlers.
John Currantee, of the Fante people, was one such “caboceer” or trader. Ephraim Robin John, who the Europeans called “King George,” was another. The latter was the leader of the Efik people. Both had reputations for being particularly “canny and ruthless dealers” of human beings. Both were representative of African slave traders in two respects: They could communicate in several European and African languages, and they exploited the divisions between the Dutch, the English, and the French to maximize their profits.
These African traders invariably hailed from the most powerful tribes, tribes that would prey upon and conquer weaker peoples—who they would then sell off across the Atlantic. About 50 percent of all such enslaved Africans were prisoners of war. Roughly 30 percent were criminals or in debt. The 20 remaining percent consisted of those who African slave traders would kidnap.
Yet the enslavers exerted as well considerable power over their European partners, for in addition to getting the price that they wanted for the product that they were peddling, these
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The Negroes were sold into slavery by Negroes . . .
The real history lesson is that the Arabs were muslims who introduced the worst form of slavery to Europe. Prior to that slaves were not ‘property’ but war captives, children of slaves, and indentured persons - the were valued members of society even rising to political prominence.
‘Modern’ slavery is a product of Islam.
And Muslim Arabs.
And still going on today in African countries ruled by Muslims.
It is as if the African slave traders exploited and even victimized the European businessmen who were manipulated into purchasing slaves so that they too could sell the slaves at a retail level.
And I’d be willing to bet that when the African’s chose slaves they didn’t pick the smartest and brightest.
They more than likely chose stupid Negroes and trouble makers.
The POW figures appear to be larger than the kidnapping figures, but how much of this war was on various pretexts?
At any rate, sin found more sin and had a party.
Maybe another thing that really stinks for us is, not just that we got slaves, but we got slaves that were the losers even of their own society.
The devil has to grin at how diabolical this all was/is.
Sounds like if there are reparations to be paid these people’s descendants should be the ones paying them.
What is interesting is that the total amount of Negroes displaced to American is around 675,000 . . . The total amount of men killed during the Civil War ws around 660,000 . . . almost one for one.
And still they bitch about wanting us pay their rent, give them money, blah, blah, blah.
We don’t exactly see Africa rushing to say “We’re Sorry” to the progeny of former slaves from which they obscenely profited.
I wonder if the great great great great great great great daddies of Obama sold fellow Africans into slavery?
To many people the past does not matter if they cannot exploit it.
I am reminded of the song: "What have you done for me lately?"
For the most part "traditional" centuries-old Muslim slave owners would tend to take only female slaves...for sexual reasons...and then immediately kill the babies if they were male.
SLAVERY
June 1, 2016
The Myths of American Slavery
By Michael Kimmitt
As construction of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture progresses toward its September opening, Museum Director Lonnie Bunch joined CBS “60 Minutes”’ Scott Pelley on a visit to Mozambique in search of a ship that carried hundreds of African slaves to the bottom of the Indian Ocean when it foundered 220 years ago.
“The story of slavery is everybody’s story,” Bunch explained to Pelley. “It is the story about how we’re all shaped by, regardless of race, regardless of how long we’ve been in this country. We hope that we can be a factor to both educate America around this subject but maybe more importantly help Americans finally wrestle with this, talk about it, debate it…”
So how are 21st Century citizens of the United States obliged to “finally wrestle” with, in this case, the long-ago deaths of Africans who were enslaved by other Africans, forcefully driven for many miles through a Mozambique port and on to a Portuguese slave ship bound for Brazil, while the descendants of all those who actually participated in this event are allowed to be wistfully unconcerned and guilt-free?
You see, Mr. Bunch is wrong on one key point. Slavery is not everybody’s story — it must remain exclusively a story for the United States and its people. Only we are required to bear the indelible stain of this country’s original sin — and it appears those who entered or will enter here assume this mantle of guilt themselves a century-and-a-half after the institution of slavery was ended.
It is a scab that must be picked at incessantly — not out of any real concern for those who suffered centuries ago, but to gain political advantage today. Our nation can nominally assuage its relentless shame with assorted forms of reparations from those who never were masters to those who never were slaves.
Hollywood again obliges this week with an eight-hour retelling of Alex Haley’s “Roots”, a venture apparently so vital it requires an unprecedented simultaneous airing on three television networks over four consecutive nights. Variety magazine suggested the new miniseries finally will provide the truth about the “cruel persistence” of this peculiar institution in our country to “generations of Americans who are uninformed about the true dimensions of slavery, or who prefer to remain willfully ignorant of its scope and lingering effects.”
However, those generations of American schoolchildren have been marinated in the notion that the institution of slavery sprang fully formed in 1619 when 20 Africans slaves landed in Jamestown, Virginia. (Actually, they originally were destined for Vera Cruz, Mexico aboard a Portuguese slave ship before being intercepted by a British privateer. It is believed the 20 were accepted as indentured servants and eventually were freed.)
Any discussion of slavery in this country should start with the recognition that the North American British colonies were remarkably small players in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Of the approximate 12.5 million Africans taken in bondage to the New World, the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Databases estimates only about 388,000 came to what is now the United States — and virtually all aboard European-flagged slave ships. That represents a little more than 3% of the Africans brought to the Western Hemisphere.
So is Washington D.C. really the most appropriate place for a museum that focuses so heavily on the desperate institution, or should other candidates be considered? Here are some possible alternatives:
Baghdad, Iraq — The institution of slavery predates recorded history but the earliest references were recorded in the Code of Hammurabi in about 1760 B.C.
Mecca, Saudi Arabia — Beginning in the 7th Century, adherents of Mohammed founded a series of caliphates that brought all of the Middle East, North Africa, and the Iberian peninsula under Muslim control. For eight centuries before the first European slavers arrived in Africa, Arab Muslims established a robust trans-Sahara trade that would eventually capture an estimated 18 million Africans. Slavery was not made illegal in the Arabian Peninsula until 1962.
Lagos, Nigeria — African slavery predated the arrival of the Arabs and Europeans and continues to this day. In some areas of Cameroon and Northern Nigeria, up to half the population lived in slavery. More than two million slaves were released by the British in Nigeria alone in the early 1900s.
Tripoli, Libya — Muslim pirates along the North African Barbary Coast didn’t stop with the enslavement of Africans, but also preyed upon Mediterranean shipping and coastal cities. An estimated 1.25 million Europeans and Americans were enslaved by these pirates, whose abuses forced Thomas Jefferson to send the nascent United States Navy to shut them down. The event is commemorated to this day in the Marine Corps hymn reference to their exploits on “the shores of Tripoli.”
Lisbon, Portugal — This Iberian peninsula country was by far and away the most prolific transporter of Africans to the New World and was, along with Spain, notorious for its ruthless in the treatment of those slaves.
Rome — It is estimated that 35% to 40% of the First Century B.C. Roman Empire population were slaves. They were drawn from throughout Europe and acquired by slave traders who followed the Roman army on its path of conquest.
London — While England played a key role in reducing the trans-Atlantic slave trade in the early 19th Century, it had previously been involved in selling Irish and African human cargo. More than 30,000 Irish prisoners were sent in bondage by King James II to work on English plantations in the West Indies beginning in 1625. In a single decade more than half a million Irish were killed and another 300,000 sold as slaves — reducing the population of Ireland by more than 60%. Many hundreds of thousands of Irish peasants were shipped to Barbados, Jamaica, and British North American colonies. Over a period of two-and-a-half centuries, more than 10,000 voyages by British ships also carried an estimate five million Africans in bondage to the New World — second only to Portugal.
Mexico City — Slavery was widely practiced by the Aztec and Mayan nations long before the arrival of the Spanish. Ritualistic human sacrifices and cannibalism were commonplace, with tens of thousands of slaves slaughtered each year. African slaves arrived in Mexico almost a century prior their appearance in what is now the United States. Violent slave revolts against their brutal treatment occurred as early as 1537 in Mexico, 82 years before the first Africans were brought to what is now the United States.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — Long before the first Portuguese settlement in 1532, indigenous tribes routinely enslaved one another. However, Brazil soon became by far the leading New World importer with more than 4.8 million African slaves toiling in the most brutal working conditions in this nation’s plantations and gold mines. Brazil also was the last Western country to abolish slavery in 1888.
It is a pretty good rule of thumb to conclude that wherever humans have existed, so has slavery. It was far more brutally practiced throughout the Caribbean and Latin America, where the death rate was so high the slave population could not be sustained without continual importations from Africa. In the U.S. there was a near balance of male and females so the slave population crew by natural reproduction after the trans-Atlantic slave trade was banned in 1809.
Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates caused a firestorm among his colleagues in the African-American studies ranks when he shared the facts of the relatively low number of slaves transported to British North America and primary role of African slave traders.
“People wanted to kill me,” Gates said. “Black people were so angry at me. But we need to get some distance from the binary opposition we are raised in: evil white people and good black people. The world just isn’t like that.”
This is a message unlikely to resonate among those with a vested interest in fostering racial discord in this country.
As construction of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture progresses toward its September opening, Museum Director Lonnie Bunch joined CBS “60 Minutes”’ Scott Pelley on a visit to Mozambique in search of a ship that carried hundreds of African slaves to the bottom of the Indian Ocean when it foundered 220 years ago.
“The story of slavery is everybody’s story,” Bunch explained to Pelley. “It is the story about how we’re all shaped by, regardless of race, regardless of how long we’ve been in this country. We hope that we can be a factor to both educate America around this subject but maybe more importantly help Americans finally wrestle with this, talk about it, debate it…”
So how are 21st Century citizens of the United States obliged to “finally wrestle” with, in this case, the long-ago deaths of Africans who were enslaved by other Africans, forcefully driven for many miles through a Mozambique port and on to a Portuguese slave ship bound for Brazil, while the descendants of all those who actually participated in this event are allowed to be wistfully unconcerned and guilt-free?
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Tell that to the eunuchs. Castoriums were still running in Morocco in the 60s.
Sin incurs penalties and this was no exception.
The Civil War was never directly about slaves until the Emancipation Proclamation. Still, it has seemed obvious to me (call me a spirit head if you like) that in this wise, both the original America/North and the Confederate states were acting the hypocrite before God when they claimed the rights of being independent and free while keeping up slavery. Something had to give. Sin made people blind and a punishment was incurred.
The sad story after official emancipation can mostly be tied to what we call Democrats. They kept trying to keep the black man down. And through sleight of hand, the Republicans got the blame.
Great name, that. I wonder why nobody much names his son "Mungo" anymore...
True; from my understanding, tho...most of those Moroccan eunuchs we know about were 16th century onward...
And then among those eunuchs in the Ottoman empire, the 19th century onward...
Arab-based Muslim slavery of Africans goes back to the 7th century...so that's 8+ full centuries of killing off newborn males.
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