"Oh! ...never mind."
As I recall, the actual import of slaves from Africa to the USA completely stopped around 1800.
As I recall, the total number of slaves brought to the USA from Africa was about 500,000.
As I recall, about 95% of African slaves were purchased in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Can someone help me out with some history?
As I recall, the actual import of slaves from Africa to the USA completely stopped around 1800.
Some basic help. The 18th century is from 1701 to 1800.
My great-grandfather~ was Adam
oh please....Washington, Jefferson etal all had slaves. no need to import after a while....they bred them
Don’t believe anything from Slate but GWH and GW Bush have done a fair amount of enslaving Freedom loving Americans....tools that they are!
So was 0bama’s great great great grandfather. Did Slate include that in the article?
So what, Obama’s dad was a Communist and that nut didn’t fall far from the tree...
And Obama’s Kenyan ancestors (Luo tribe) were slave traders.
Funny that they can still dig up stuff that a Bush ancestor was a slave trader several centuries ago but they still can’t find out anything on Obama.
Thanks for posting. I find this kind of stuff interesting. I have been doing genealogy for about 30 years. Most of what I have found on my family has been pretty mundane. Some of it hasn’t. I’m okay with it either way. That’s history. So Bush’s ancestor from over two centuries ago was a slave trader. The idea that he should be made to squirm about that is ludicrous.
Must have been a slow day for Simon today. The boy needs to get a real job.
I have a better response to this idea of demonizing the innocent of today with the sins of the past...
Who cares.
Virtually all of the British colonists, whether in the US or the Caribbean, were slave traders. And they traded in both African and American Indian slaves.
The Spanish colony of St Augustine (now known as Florida) permitted the African slaves of the English colonies to the north (Georgia and the Carolinas) to gain their freedom if they could get across the Florida border. They had to accept Christianity, swear allegiance to the Spanish Crown, and start learning Spanish.
This ended in the 19th century, when the pressure from the formerly British American colonies made it too dangerous for the Spanish to continue this policy.
Also, when the British destroyed the Florida mission chain in 1702-1704, some 11,000 Indians were captured and sent to the British Caribbean to be slaves on the sugar plantations.
Slavery was practiced in the Spanish colonies, but it was more like indentured servitude: slaves could earn money, buy their freedom, be freed by their masters (something not permitted in much of the South), had to be permitted to receive the sacraments of the Church (evangelization was actually forbidden in much of the non-Spanish South, and there were jail terms for the Protestant ministers who tried it), and marriages had to be respected.
The Spanish had been forbidden by the Pope and Queen Isabella to enslave the Indians, and Columbus actually went to jail for bringing back a few Indians to show off at court. Naturally, in the Spanish colonies, the Franciscan mssionaries and the Spanish governors had to fight constantly against the “property developers,” as we would call them now, who attempted to enslave the Indians in one form or another. And sometimes the missionaries had to fight against the governor.
But chattel slavery was not practiced in the Spanish colonies, while it was the norm in the British colonies.
Brazil, btw, being a Portuguese colony, was a separate case, because the Treaty of Tordesillas gave both Africa and Brazil to the Portuguese. They completely ignored the papal bull forbidding the enslavement of the native peoples and started buying slaves from the Arabs in Africa, since Portugal had been given the “rights” to Africa.
The British-American colonists were really the big US slavers in Africa, buying the slaves from the Arabs and shipping them to the US. The major Spanish participation was with the ships, and the “Amistad” (upon which the movie was based) was one of the ships that a Spanish captain had leased out for the transportation of slaves to New England. Being a Spaniard, he didn’t keep them chained up in the hold, he let them up on deck...and the rest is history.
Oh...for...God’s...sake... Enough already.
That's NOTHING. I'm a descendent of Jesus and directly related to him.
So.... Blame Bush for slavery.
"Oh! ...never mind."
The sins of the father are visited upon the fourth generation; or, in the case of white people, the sixth.
Emmitt Smith discovered on “Who Do You Think You Are” that his fifth great grandfather was likely a slave trader. He also found out the Africans are involved in the slave trading business to this day.
Who knows, maybe W's ancestor sold those slaves to Obama's ancestors.
Was he a muslim too?