Posted on 09/02/2020 8:53:29 AM PDT by Hojczyk
"My roots go back, within my lifetime, to my paternal grandmother Miss Chrishy (née Christiana Brown), descendant of Hamilton Brown, who is on record as plantation and slave owner and founder of Brown's Town," wrote Donald J. Harris in a 2018 essay for Jamaica Global.
Hamilton Brown was born in County Atrium, Ireland in 1776. He owned several sugar plantations in Jamaica across St. Anne's Parish and represented the parish in the Jamaican House of Assembly for 22 years.
Hamilton owned over 1,100 slaves over the years. According to Jamaican slave registers from the National Archives, London going back to the early 1800s, Hamilton owned babies as young as the one-month-old recorded in an 1817 registry.
Hamilton lent his name to Hamilton Town in St. Anne's Parish, which he founded and which is called Brown's Town today. Hamilton not only built St. Mark's Anglican Church, he is buried in its graveyard with an imposing statue.
After the African slave trade was shut down by the U.K. parliament, Brown began to bring Irish immigrants to Jamaica. The Irish government stopped it because Brown was turning the Irish immigrants into slaves.
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Good article an education on the slave trade..
Kamala pay reparations to all of Jamaica!
So?
Harris never owned slaves herself so, for the few rational people left in the US, this is irrelevant.
Besides, there are so many other things for which we should despise her that she actually did!
“Harris never owned slaves herself so, for the few rational people left in the US, this is irrelevant.”
All true. However, “they” demand that 21st century whiteys must pay for ancestors’ sins. So let’s see how they like it when they have to play by the same rules. Rub their noses in it, non-stop.
Why is she not cancelled?
Oooh! I know!!
Cancel culture is only a weapon against the Right.
The left doesn’t really give a rat’s ass about slavery, blacks or black lives.
The left only wants power over your life and death and they will stop at
nothing to get it.
County Atrium?
You’re right. But it’s still fun to use their own tactics against them.
Kamala’s family owned slaves.
“Hamilton not only built St. Mark’s Anglican Church, he is buried in its graveyard with an imposing statue..”
It looks like there’s another slave owner statue that needs toppling.
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Democrat Party Slavers - bump for later....
Dunno.
IMHO it lends credibility to the Left’s argument for reparations, white guilt, and other such crap. We don’t need that.
Same thing for Hate Crimes. That whole concept is an atrocity - it is a thought crime and the foundation on which further thought crime legislation will eventually be built. When we worry about whether or not some brutal criminal is charged with a ‘hate crime’ we give it further credibility.
Probably Scots-Irish.
“Dad, you are NOT helping!”
Oh man, I hope she brings up reparations in a debate with Pence. Or maybe he can somehow make her talk about it then BAM!
Kamala Harris ancestor was slave owner in Jamaica, her father says
Lets not forget the rest of the Despicable Party. Between their insistence on continuing slavery to their KKK army to enforce a kind of slavery after the Civil War.
Biden also had slave-owning ancestors.
Neither Trump nor Pence did.
Isn’t this interesting!!!!
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