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 ...
That was tribal warfare in Africa over money and power.
Transplanted to modern times among the inner cities tribes for...money and power.
Nothing has changed that paradigm in hundreds of years.
Such sadness in his eyes
In some ways yes....had white people not been willing to pay for slaves there wouldn’t have been a market
No. It is the history of a man, a fellow human, sold into slavery by other humans. It is part of a sad and tragic practise that is still practised today.
If we cannot look at our past, recognize the good and the bad, we will be doomed to repeat it.
My ancestors never engaged in this practise. Why would I carry guilt for something I never did? I can however understand his pain and confusion and suffering. That he accomplished as much as he did is a testament to the human spirit
Precisely
If you’re interested buy the original WPA interviews with surviving slaves I from all over the South...
Be sure to only buy pre 1960 publishing dates if you can find them
All the newer ones are edited for the worse to fit today’s bias that white people suck
Many modern academia and literary houses detest these studies because frequently the slaves speak kindly of their masters and how they were treated and so progressives dismiss them or rewrite them ....i kid you not...they rewrite these slaves own words to suit their bias and claim its for the common good
The early ones are truthful and more fairly representational of the slaves experience which ran from fairly benign to sorta rough but nothing like say Cuba or Brasil
Very enlightening
Some slaves truly feared the overseer and whippings for runaways etc so don’t misunderstand but some adored their masters
It’s a view highly unpopular today and doesn’t fit the narrative
Why did the great migration take the invention of the assembly line?
Why didn’t they all run north in 1866...I mean they were free and Yankees were their liberators
You’re mixing up a much earlier short piece.
Africans were not captured by white men. They were prisoners of other tribes who’s chief sold them to the white or Muslim slavers.
Interesting that Alice Walker was once a rational human being. For the past 30 years, at least, she has been a raving maniac supporter of Communist Cuba and Fidel Castro. Has signed or supported many communist organization causes from the CPUSA to the Workers World Party, etc.
Hurston seems to have stayed out of the ideology game and tried to be a good historian and writer. Kudos to her for being honest.
“...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.
If you go and review African history....tribal warfare was ongoing, and as the victor emerged out of a ‘battle’, the losers fell into two categories...either dead or local slaves. As you get into the very early 1600s...commerce traffic occurs between Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean. Traders realize value in the manpower market, and the tribes now have a third category...tradable assets.
Anyone who thinks they were better off in staying in Africa, are totally wrong. You were on a losing tribal side in a ‘war’, and leaving became the better option.
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.
Fact is that it is primarily blacks that are still trying to subjugate other blacks even here in the USA ... must be a cultural thing,
Muhammad Ali was also being honest when, after an eye opening trip to Africa, he expressed happiness that his ancestors were put on that slave ship.
There’s an old Clark Gable civil war genre movie that weaves into the plot the fact that black African kings were slave traders: “BAND OF ANGELS”.
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.
More black Africans were enslaved in the Islamic world than in the Americas. Of course, Arabs and other Middle Easterners are only considered "white" when it's convenient for quota-mongers.
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