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 ...
Its an interesting article, and no doubt an interesting book.
Glenelg, Scotland
The Clearances?
Before that my Great ^6 and his brother left Beech Green, Scotland and ended up fighting for Cornwallis, AGAINST Washington.
After Yorktown, Cornwallis told the troops to ‘write if you find work’; and sailed home.
Thank God my G^6 was on that boat! (Cassius Marcellus Clay)
The Clotilda brought its captives to Alabama in 1860, just a year before the outbreak of the Civil War. Even though slavery was legal at that time in the U.S., the international slave trade was not, and hadn’t been for over 50 years. Along with many European nations, the U.S. had outlawed the practice in 1807, but Lewis’ journey is an example of how slave traders went around the law to continue bringing over human cargo. To avoid detection, Lewis’ captors snuck him and the other survivors into Alabama at night and made them hide in a swamp for several days. To hide the evidence of their crime, the 86-foot sailboat was then set ablaze on the banks of the Mobile-Tensaw Delta (its remains may have been uncovered in January 2018
Many of the dominant groups in West Africa today, like the Ibo in Nigeria, gained their wealth and prominence by preying on and enslaving their neighbors - selling them to muslim slave traders, who exported them through their markets on the coasts. Virtually all of the slaves exported from Africa, were enslaved by Africans.
Of the slaves exported to the Americas, those sent to what is now the USA enjoyed dramatically higher survival rates - 10 times higher. Many Argentinians take pride that their residual slave population was effectively killed off in total.
The British and the Americans are to thank for the greatest restriction on slavery and the slave trade, in the history of humanity.
“the whites were not about to venture into the jungle to try to capture slaves - way too dangerous.”
Before the discovery of quinine (after the elimination of the transatlantic slave trade), malaria in Africa would kill half of whites within a year. Western slave ships were just loaded at the muslim slave markets on the coasts - with Africans who had been enslaved by their African neighbors.
“I think maybe I die in my sleep when I dream about my mama.”
“had white people not been willing to pay for slaves there wouldn’t have been a market”
Had muslims not provided the market (and predatory black Africans not provided their neighbors as product), there would not have been the option available for the white people.
Islam is the greatest force in the history of slavery. From their earliest conquests, the taking of slaves was among the largest components of the booty.
Muslims maintained a large scale enslavement and slave trading system, well into the 20th century (the reigning Sultan of Oman, freed the slaves of Oman early in his reign). The coasts of Southern Italy remained sparsely populated into the 1800’s, because of constant muslim slave raids, and America’s first foreign war was against muslim slavers (Barbary Pirates).
Although muslim slave markets historically emphasized women and boys for domestic and sexual service, there was always some market for young men as laborers, such as for mines and galley slaves to row ships. European customers simply shifted their product mix.
Europeans largely lacked legal means to enslave people, when their colonies were pressed with labor shortages. Only the availability of a ready (and long pre-existing) supply of slaves from muslim markets in Africa, made it a feasible option.
“Frustrated by the refusal of the government to provide him with land to live on after stealing him away from his homeland...”
He was stolen away (and sold) from his homeland by a neighboring tribe, not “the government.”
Funny that blacks are not upset at the other blacks that beat their tribes and sold them into slavery.
Because it is still going on TODAY on almost the entire African Continent.
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The reason Hurston could not get her book published was because she wrote it in Cudjoe’s own dialect. Even back then the elitists were offended and upset at that cultural African speak. So no one published her.
One of the few good things I’ve gotten from the government. https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/about-this-collection/
You can read them online. Absolutely fascinating - I have a hard bound book with a lot of them. It gives you the FULL picture of the true life back then. Slave owners were as different as people always are. There were slaves that became part of the family, treated well (though not free), beloved, love going both ways between the families, and there were the cruel masters who beat and raped, etc. The slaves themselves were extremely different. These narratives were written down (THANK Gd before PC!) exactly as the teller told them. So you can see that some barely had any command of English, and some were more literate than most FReepers.
Somewhere to 1/3 or so of the ex slaves telling their life story had it easier and better before they were freed and they look on their childhoods somewhat fondly. It was not all bad, but slavery is abhorrent. Like war is abhorrent. My dad was a child in the war and his schools were bombed but he just had a good attitude and remembers not the bombings so much but the chocolate bar every kid got in his govt gas mask. Any of us could have been born into slavery. Sometimes life is what you make of it, in any situation.
I was pointing out the factual error in the contention that African slavery would not have existed without the market’s being created by “white” people.
It landed near Mobile Bay. The slaves were hid out for a period of time and the ship was burned by the owners to avoid detection. The article goes on to say that the owners of the ship had bet $100,000 that they could import slaves into the US, even though that was against the law.
Jean Lafitte, the pirate and War of 1812 hero, made a good part of his fortune illegally importing slaves to the U.S.
Again pointing at others is a form of deflection
In the US the majority of slavery owners were white
Again pointing at others is a form of deflection
No, it’s not. It’s a discussion of the trade in African slaves as a larger economic concept, incorporating regions of the world other than the United States and people other than Euro-Americans.
Yes, the majority of slave owners in U.S. history were white. Is there a larger argument in which this fact goes somewhere?
“pointing at others is a form of deflection”
Ignoring reality is self-delusion. Or active lying.
Fool or knave.
Your proposition:
“had white people not been willing to pay for slaves there wouldn’t have been a market”
is demonstrably false.
The markets demonstrably existed for a millennia prior to the transatlantic slave trade.
Deflection from this fact is willful ignorance, or willful deception.
Fool or knave?
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