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 ...
Slavery is one of the most hideous evils ever devised by man or the devil. Give thanks that it is nonexistent in the USA and the rest of the civilized world. Pray that one day it will be nonexistent everywhere and forever.
There is not one race of people on earth that has not at some point in time been held in slavery, and there is not one race on earth that has not held slaves at some point.
Umm, no. There would have been a market. Just as there had been for hundreds of years before the US. It just not have been here.
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The reason she was enslaved was because she was unequal.She and her’s were inferior to those that enslaved them
Obama’s ancestral tribe in Kenya is said to have been Muslim and have been slavers in that their main means of income was capturing other Africans and selling them into slavery.
Lot of hypocrites
Importing of slaves was outlawed by constitution in 1808
Smuggling of slaves continued for 50 years, until Civil War
put end to it. Many prominent business people in places like NY would invest in such deals. Would buy a ship, build
tiers of bunks in holds, hire captain and crew
When confronted by naval frigate would often dump the slaves
overboard to get rid of evidence
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“..had white people not been willing to pay for slaves there wouldnt have been a market ..”
I don’t believe that is correct. Many slaves were sold to other Africans, Arabs and Orientals.
You are correct. Also little known is the fact that 95% of the slaves shipped across the Atlantic were bound for other places. The US/Colonies only took about 5% of those "imports".
Wrong!
Read this:
Slavery: Trans-Saharan Trade
http://www.worldhistory.biz/sundries/27773-slavery-trans-saharan-trade.html
No to mention the Arabs emasculated a significant portion of their black African slaves and turned them into eunochs to guard their harems which were full of horny women.
All of his progeny are welcome to leave the USA and go back to the “homeland”.
http://www.worldhistory.biz/sundries/27773-slavery-trans-saharan-trade.html
While probably true, when the tribes found out they could get money for them, they may have started capturing and selling people they wouldn’t have normally went after.
When I was in Africa, My interpreter would explain as we drove thru villages how those people used to be his ancestors slaves.......................
Black History Month: Where black people get angry at white people for half their ancestors enslaving the other half.
I’ve never heard of a slave ship landing in the US in 1860.
Kudos to her for remaining true to "primary sources"
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