Posted on 11/15/2019 4:33:51 PM PST by robowombat
Slavery in British Territory, Circa 1875
It is astonishing to many that as their former Northern colonies began a war in 1861 upon their Southern neighbors ostensibly because of African slavery, England would not have intervened with offers of compensated emancipation due to a guilty conscience.
After all, the Royal African Company (RAC) was chartered by the Stuart family and London merchants in 1660 for the express purpose of trade along the West Coast of Africa. The RAC was led by the Duke of York, for whom New York City is named. In the 1680s, 5000 slaves were carried annually across the Atlantic by the RAC and branded with “DY” or “RAC” on their chests, clearly indicating whose property they were.
Therefore, those responsible for populating North and South America with African slaves should be arraigned for perpetuating slavery, as well as those in Africa who captured their own brethren and sold them to the Europeans in the first place.
Slavery in British Territory, Circa 1875
“It has been recently brought to light in England, by the indefatigable Dr. [Wilhelm] Leitner [1840-1899], the principal of the Government College at Lahore, that a large and barbarous slave-trade is carried on by the Ameer of Afghanistan, who is a quasi-feudatory [ally] of Great Britain, by who he is regularly supplied with improved Snider rifles and a large subsidy. Barbarous raids are continually carried on, on the neighboring tribe of Siah Posh Kafirs, which at present number about 300,000, but is threatened with destruction. The people are described as a noble race, supposed to the descendants of a settlement of Christians of remote antiquity. Armed only with rude weapons they are unable to resist the Afghans with the Sniders supplied to their enslavers by the Indian Government.
In reference to this this subject the Editor of Public Opinion, at Lahore, wrote in May 1874:
“It is well-known, that slaves are purchased by British subjects within the boundaries of British territory, and that many a beautiful Siah Posh girl has been torn from her relations and friends, and has ended her days in misery in the harems of our native fellow subjects. It is well-known, to everyone well acquainted with the Kafirs, that within the last few years numerous villages of Siah Posh have been conquered by the Afghan Mohammedans, almost solely on account of the high market value of female slaves from Kafiristan; and it ought to be well-known, although we believe it is not as well-known as it should be, that there are agents for the purchase of slaves, who carry on their unholy traffic even in British Territory.”
In speaking at a public meeting of the Anti-Slavery Society in London, Dr. Leitner said:
“Then it comes the case of Ameer of [Kabul] . . . and giving the Ameer money and arms, we have certainly assumed the position of a “paramount” power towards him. These Kafirs consider themselves the brothers of the Europeans – they are neither Hindoos nor Mohammedans, but is has been said have a sort of quasi-Christianity . . . this is the race that is now successfully preyed upon by the Ameer.
The slavery in the British settlements on the West Coast of Africa, which has long been a reproach to Great Britain, has now received its death blow [though] the greatest difficulties will probably be raised by European merchants.”
(The Lost Continent; or, Slavery and the Slave Trade in Africa, 1875, Joseph Cooper, Longman’s, Green & Company, 1875, excerpts pp. 19-22)
To summarize.
Muslims.
Muslims are responsible for bringing slaves to the New World? Hmmmm.
Slaves to the new world.
In 1875.
Hmmmmm.......
Hackneyed history at best. There certainly were no slaves in 1875.
Brazil did not abolish slavery until 1888. After that they went to a system of wage slaves like me.
No, but Afghans were engaged in slave raiding and disposing of their human loot via slave markets to British India, among other places. Slavery had been abolished in the British Empire but the muzzards did not recognize this non-Sharia law. They only follow ‘God’s Law’.
Bkmrk.
I hope you’re just being facetious.
No, they are responsible for rounding up Africans, bringing them to the West coast of Africa, then selling them to Europeans. Europeans transported these people to the Western Hemisphere.
Obama’a ancestors in Kenyan were Muslims well known as slavers who captured other Africans and sold them to slave traders.
Slaves were in Yucatán Mexico working jute as late as early 1900s. Life was ugly under Porfirio Dias. Well worth a read.
You should be able to find a free PDF of John Turners book Barbarous Mexico.
Otherwise free on kindle.
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Barbarous+Mexico&ref=nb_sb_noss_2
My error was in not specifying that there were no slaves in the US in 1875, slavery having been abolished ten years earlier. No doubt slaves still existed in the world, including Saudi Arabia today.
I’m sick to death of the entire ‘slavery’ issue. Slavery existed on this continent before Columbus discovered it. In fact, slavery has existed in every part of the world since the dawn of time, and still does in the muslim world. I’d be willing to bet pretty serious money that every single person you might know is a descendant of someone who was once a slave. Fortunately, we’ve largely done away with the practice in the civilized western world.
If people want to whine about slavery, I suggest they go to those few places where it is still practiced, and try to do something about it.
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