Posted on 05/11/2018 9:18:13 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Roughly 60 years after the abolition of slavery, anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston made an incredible connection: She located the last surviving captive of the last slave ship to bring Africans to the United States. ... In fact, they are only now being released to the public in a book called Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” that comes out on May 8, 2018... he was only 19 years old when members of the neighboring Dahomian tribe captured him and took him to the coast. There, he and about 120 others were sold into slavery and crammed onto the Clotilda, the last slave ship to reach the continental United States.
(Excerpt) Read more at history.com ...
“Where did I ever invoke white guilt?”
When you claimed “had white people not been willing to pay for slaves there wouldn’t have been a market”
“Will you agree that the KKK was started and fueled by whites who didn’t like losing the Civil War?”
Roughly. More specifically, by Democrats who opposed Republican influence, often motivated by racism.
“This slave ship would not have come to the US had people not been buying slaves
That is a true market statement. The white portion is because in all of the US more whites owned slaves than otherwise”
Your “white” assumption is the logical leap, and it fits the leftist narrative of white guilt for slavery. Were these slaves, on that ship, marketed in Indian territory (where more non-whites in the US owned slaves than otherwise), to the many black slave owners, or into nearby Mexico, or back to the Carribean?
I've put no words in your mouth that you didn't write yourself in your reply #23 to this thread, for which you've been repeatedly refuted but still here you are in denial.
It is not a logical leap. The majority of slave owners were white
There is no guilt associated with it that statement. I do not blame people for being if their times. Quit trying to put words in my mouth
Go peddle some list cause stories
Uh huh. There you go. Truth will out. You've got to pound the narrative otherwise you'll find yourself among those awful "lost causers." lol.
You're easily gulled yet oddly persistent.
...and their they remain enslaved for evermore.
"the story is a fascinating first person account, well written and much better than expected. Particularly good as a primary source. A very interesting look at the African end of the slave trade- he lived and worked with the African chieftans who captured the slaves for sale, in addition to running a slave ship. His adventure of being captured by pirates was a surprise."
It's free in the Kindle version
I thought there was some influence. I know the Irish R’s were dominant in American speech. But I imagine the plantation owners spoke a very high cultured English, and though the vowels were broadened naturally by the distance from England and the more pastoral /rural colony life, I had believed that the slaves’ accented English had an influence in the young children under their watch. Maybe even the rhythmic evenness of American English contrasted with the clipped British of today? Hard to say.
It would be foolish to count out the African influence in language since there was such influence in food and music. And I have seen so many little anglo toddlers here speaking with a Mexican accent our outright fluent Spanish thanks to their nannies.
This one could be good for my research, as I believe all the others were indeed interviewed by white people. I put this one on my list because maybe there is a difference when the interviewers are also of African ancestry. Thanks.
Is this the one wardaddy was talking about? Saving it too. Fascinating.
Well, to be fair, those they didn’t kill of, they sold. They were killing a bunch and then after victory, sold off those they didnt keep for ther own slaves or sex concubines.
Thanks, guys.
Excellent book.
You can download it FREE to a Kindle (or to your free Kindle reader on your PC or Mac).
The African slave trade was controlled by Africans and Moslems!
Transport to the US was by British and American slavers.
You are so right, and the culprits today are the same ones who were culprits in the 19th Century - blacks and Moslems!
“I know the Irish R’s were dominant in American speech.”
Don’t think that was true of the Virginia planters- Washington et alia prolly had the soft non-rhotic Tidewater accent. Kinda like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RzVKCWXrRA
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