Posted on 08/31/2019 12:21:35 PM PDT by Cecily
For many thousands, it was the last glimpse of Africa.
Through a door, made narrow so that they would have to walk through in single file, Africans trudged out of the darkness of Ghana’s Elmina Castle or nearby Cape Coast Castle into the blinding sunlight bouncing off the Atlantic Ocean. Then they were chained and stacked like cordwood onto awaiting boats.
That “Door of No Return” was the grim gateway west to a life of enslavement in Brazil, the Caribbean, and America.
“When you walk out of that door today, even now, it is terrifying,” said Debra Santos, an Atlantan visiting Ghana now. “So they had to be terrified to look out in the distance and see no land and know they weren’t coming back.”
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First they would have to “made the trip” to be sold as a slave (or captured as a slave) from another African tribe.
Years ago, I worked with a retired USAF MSGT who had been a diplomatic courier. In a conversation with some co-workers, a couple of which were young Blacks, who said they were interested in going back to Africa and living among their ancestral countrymen. The retired MSGT, who was also Black, told them not to be too eager; he said that they, being Americans, would be seen to be “as white as Frank.” They were a bit shocked and dismissive, he then gave them several examples of his trips to sub-Saharan Africa, often in civilian clothes, where “my blackness was ignored” to them “I was a rich American.”
I was surprised at his comments as the young man and woman he was talking to.
Sold down the river.
Africans are still enslaved today in various places.
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“Roughly 389,000, or about 3% of the enslaved, landed in America.”
Approximately 97% of those slaves went to other countries other than America. Also, who ran the capture and enslavement operations in Ghana....got any guess?
How long how long? O’Lord?
12th of never.
” For many thousands, it was the last glimpse of Africa. “
“Thank God my granddaddy got on that boat.” - Muhammad Ali
10 Million slaves were exported from Africa to The New World. 400,000 (4%) were brought to the US - the rest to the Caribbean and South America.
- Ethnic America
They suffered enormously...but their succeeding generations have lived a life of plenty previously unknown to human civilization.
I've traveled Africa and have encountered many "African Africans". I'm confident that every one of them would,if allowed to come here,1) kiss the ground on arrival and then 2) proceed to make lives for themselves that so many "African Americans" just don't seem to have the desire...or maybe the incentive...to achieve.
Wow.
its a two way door now for any who choose to use it.
Yeah...RIGHT!!
And the 700,000 who died in that civil war are STILL DEAD!
REPARATIONS FOR SLAVERY? GIVE ME A BREAK!!
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I believe they should stake their claim to the USA which their ancestors helped to found and build, whether slave or free. Their families have been here for centuries.
Americans of Hispanic descent are treated negatively and viewed with jealousy in central America. Simply put, they are seldom or never treated as a fellow Hispanic. It is even worst for those of Incan descent.
And yet the progs want to teach the kids that America bear sole responsible for slavery.
Who ran that operation in Ghana?
Who bought the other 97% that did NOT go to America?
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Before his fight with Archie Moore (1962), as quoted in “Muhammad Ali was also ..... And then fought like gladiator in the ring. .... A Newsweek article at the time of the match attributed the quote “Thank God our grandpappies caught that boat!
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