Posted on 05/28/2014 12:12:26 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
So I should be expecting a repations check from the Arabs?
It’s ironic that some blacks in America who resent past slavery convert to Islam when it’s the Muslims who sold blacks into slavery in the first place, and the Christians helped to free them.
consider the Ottoman empire.
subjects were considered slaves. not allowed to learn to read, or practice their faith.
For instance, the very word “slave” stems from “Slav,” i.e. a reference to the experience of millions of (white) Slavish people who endured centuries of slavery at the hands of African Muslims. This, of course, is a most inconvenient truth, for it is a most Politically Incorrect truth. But it is the truth.
Yet the Slavish aren’t the only whites who spent centuries in captivity: Europeans of various backgrounds were enslaved by African Muslims as well. All of this is heavily documented in such neglected pieces of scholarship as Robert Davis’s Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast, and Italy, 1500-1800 and Paul Baepler’s White Slaves, African Masters: An Anthology of American Barbary Captivity Narratives.
Nor is it just that millions of whites in Europe were made to toil in bondage for hundreds of years. Don Jordan’s White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain’s White Slaves in America and Michael Hoffman’s They Were White and They Were Slaves: The Untold History of the Enslavement of Whites in Early America impeccably establish that whites were enslaved in colonial America as well. Moreover, these brave authors show that the conditions that whites, including, most tragically, white children, had to endure both en route to the colonies as well as once they arrived were at least as dreadful as those experienced by Africans.
This last point would as well be included in an honest discussion of slavery. The word “kidnapping” that is so often, but erroneously, used to describe the circumstances that allegedly resulted in the transportation of Africans to the New World derives from the fact that British children—kids—were regularly “nabbed’ off of the streets of England and sold into slavery in America.
An honest discussion of race would mention what no less a figure than black Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates recently discovered: free blacks were in America before slavery. While researching the book and documentary The African-Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, Gates admits to having been shocked to discover that blacks freely came to America, to Florida, as early as 1513—over 100 years earlier than the standard date of 1619. And the one black man whose name is now known was a conquistador who came in search of the Fountain of Youth with Ponce de Leon.
SOURCE:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/jack-kerwick/inconvenient-truths-about-race-slavery/
4,000 free black families owned slaves in the antebellum South. More stunning still is that, arguably, the first slave master in early America was a black man.
Anthony Johnson—a name, doubtless, of which few people today, black or white, would have heard—was an Angolan who was first sold by Africans to Arabs before winding up as an indentured servant in Virginia. There, he attained his freedom, became a planter, and acquired his own indentured servants. One of the latter, John Casor, a black man, served his mandatory seven years—but Johnson refused to set him free.
Through a long, windy series of court battles, Johnson succeeded in prevailing upon the courts to declare Casor Johnson’s servant for life. Slavery was born, as this was the very first time in the colonies when it was legally determined that a person who had committed no crime had to spend the rest of his remaining existence in bondage.
Somebody owes me some $$$$$ baby, and I be’s WANTS’N it!!!!
Google sack of baltimore ireland.
http://www.baltimore.ie/heritage-history/the-sack-of-baltimore-1631.html
And some Gub’mint CHEESE TOO!!!
Da kind with the li’l red specks and stuff!!!!!
Interesting indeed, although not very useful in today’s climate since truth must take second place to political correctness. If it doesn’t make the right people feel good about themselves, it must be wrong.
It appears some Muslim traders were equal-ethnicity enslavers ....
I have seen numbers of up 2.4 million.
Bookmarked.
Black Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates researched and discovered that of the 12.5 million Africans sold during the era of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, only about 388,000 were shipped to America.
SEE HERE:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/jack-kerwick/inconvenient-truths-about-race-slavery/
WHERE’S MY REPARATIONS!!??
People forget that Americans brought slaves from Africa because THAT IS WHERE THE SLAVE MARKET WAS.
They didn’t just go there and decide to kidnap people and make them slaves, the marketplaces existed long before the USA was formed.
10 times as many slaves were sold to other countries, it was the basis for the economy back then.
Whole towns in IRELAND were taken as slaves by the muslims. That is how bad it was...
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