TIME TO DEFEAT IGNORANCE WITH KNOWLEDGE
Educated people, like myself, are TIRED of hearing 2 arguments to JUSTIFY the Transatlantic Slave Trade
MYTH#1: Blacks sold other blacks into slavery WILLINGLY
MYTH#2: African and American/Western slavery were the SAME
SLAVERY IN AMERICA
Chattel Slavery:
Slaves in America were CHATTEL SLAVES, which mean they were considered/treated like “private property”—slaves could be purchased, traded, sold at auctions, or used as collateral. For example, it was VERY COMMON for slave masters to use their slaves as a DOWNPAYMENT or even a REPLACEMENT for their debt at Banks such as Bank of America and Wells Fargo. Since slaves were considered “private property” slave masters could get insurance on them. In fact, the health insurance company, Aetna, invested in the transatlantic slave trade and this company insured the slaves. For example, if a slave died and had insurance on them, the slave would be compensated for their “loss of property”
Perpetual Slaves:
Slaves in America were also lifetime slaves. African children inherited the status of their mother. So, if their mother was a slave, then that child would also be a slave. This is one of the reasons the “one drop rule” was created. The “one drop rule” is the idea if you have ANY AMOUNT of african ancestry, you were legally and socially classified as BLACK. Obviously the “one drop rule” created an abundance of mulattoes, and since they were considered black, they too were slaves if their mothers were. MOST mulattoes were products of a black mother and white father because it was NOT uncommon for masters to rape and have sex with their slaves. Slaves were LEGALLY considered 3/5 of a human being or subhuman
Condition:
When slaves arrived to America, they were FORCED to abandon their culture, language, belief systems, and traditional African ways of life. Slaves who attempted to preserve their identities, were savagely beaten and terrorized, as we seen in the movie, ROOTS. Africans had to adopt new identities in order to survive in the New World. The men, women, and children were RAPED repeatedly BY THEIR MASTERS. Slaves were TREATED LIKE ANIMALS and force to BREED with each other, to produce a LARGE POPULATION OF SLAVES
Slaves also experienced HORRIBLE TREATMENT. A slave master named William Byrd ll kept a diary about his slaves. Byrd explained how he FORCED one of his slaves, Eugene, to drink a pint of his own urine to punish Eugene for being a chronic bedwetter. This type of DEHUMANIZING was not uncommon for American slaves. They experienced this type of treated EVERY DAY FOR CENTURIES. Witnessing this type of violence broke slaves down mentally and discouraged them from rebelling against their masters because slave masters feared retaliation.Brutalizing and terrorizing slaves was a way slave masters kept their slaves submissive, terrified and under their control.
SLAVERY IN AFRICA
Condition:
Slavery in Africa was NOT the same kind of slavery in AMERICA. AFRICA DID NOT HAVE CHATTEL SLAVERY! Slaves were NOT treated like subhumans; they were NOT stripped of their identities, language, traditions, etc; They were NOT raped, beaten, and tortured. They were NOT forced to have sex with other slaves; They were NOT perpetual slaves; meaning they DID NOT PASS DOWN THEIR SLAVE STATUS TO THEIR CHILDREN. In fact, these African slaves ONLY WORKED FOR A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME (7 years or less). African slaves were MORE LIKE SERVANTS—they would cook, clean, serve the kings/queens, worked in the diamond, gold, and mineral mines, etc. Also, slaves ONLY became slaves AFTER they committed a crime—this was their punishment
Lastly, Africans DID NOT SELL THEIR PEOPLE WILLINGLY! They ONLY began selling each other AFTER EUROPEANS TRAPPED THEM. Remember, Europeans DID NOT simply come over to Africa and kidnapped Africans. BEFORE the transatlantic slave trade, Europeans STUDIED AFRICAN PEOPLE (language, culture, tribes, etc.) Once whites MASTERED this, they CREATED DIVISION AMONG TRIBAL GROUPS. For instance, whites would GIVE tribe A guns and tribe B no guns, and having them fighting each other. Africans DID NOT ALWAYS see each other as the SAME. White people are the ones started calling us ALL BLACK. So, because whites had ADVANCED WEAPONS, it made it easier to take over. So Africans would ONLY CAPTURE & SELL AFRICANS WHO WERE NOT FROM THEIR TRIBES. Africans, ultimately were back in a corner: either they were going to be killed by whites, taken as slaves OR capture Africans from OTHER TRIBES and have THEM SERVE AS SLAVES.
YOU CAN RESEARCH ALL THIS YOURSELVES. There are PLENTY of books, scholarly articles, and films that CONFIRM EVERYTHING I SAID. NONE OF THIS IS OPINION; IT IS FACTS!
FOR STARTERS, HERE ARE A FEW LINKS:
This movie, GOODBYE UNCLE TOMS, shows EVERYTHING that I said. (Please watch)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCtCEKzmMsQ#aid=P-TQMQozE_Q
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1h283t.html
Jordan, Winthrop D.. The white man's burden: historical origins of racism in the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974. Print.
Stampp, Kenneth M.. The peculiar institution: slavery in the ante-bellum South. Vintage Booked. New York: Vintage Books, 19961989. Print.
Sweet, John Wood. Bodies politic: negotiating race in the American North, 1730-1830. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. Print.
Ted Smith Son Goku Maurice Chandler Kemetic Queen
Educated people, like myself, are TIRED of hearing 2 arguments to JUSTIFY the Transatlantic Slave Trade
MYTH#1: Blacks sold other blacks into slavery WILLINGLY
MYTH#2: African and American/Western slavery were the SAME
SLAVERY IN AMERICA
Chattel Slavery:
Slaves in America were CHATTEL SLAVES, which mean they were considered/treated like “private property”—slaves could be purchased, traded, sold at auctions, or used as collateral. For example, it was VERY COMMON for slave masters to use their slaves as a DOWNPAYMENT or even a REPLACEMENT for their debt at Banks such as Bank of America and Wells Fargo. Since slaves were considered “private property” slave masters could get insurance on them. In fact, the health insurance company, Aetna, invested in the transatlantic slave trade and this company insured the slaves. For example, if a slave died and had insurance on them, the slave would be compensated for their “loss of property”
Perpetual Slaves:
Slaves in America were also lifetime slaves. African children inherited the status of their mother. So, if their mother was a slave, then that child would also be a slave. This is one of the reasons the “one drop rule” was created. The “one drop rule” is the idea if you have ANY AMOUNT of african ancestry, you were legally and socially classified as BLACK. Obviously the “one drop rule” created an abundance of mulattoes, and since they were considered black, they too were slaves if their mothers were. MOST mulattoes were products of a black mother and white father because it was NOT uncommon for masters to rape and have sex with their slaves. Slaves were LEGALLY considered 3/5 of a human being or subhuman
Condition:
When slaves arrived to America, they were FORCED to abandon their culture, language, belief systems, and traditional African ways of life. Slaves who attempted to preserve their identities, were savagely beaten and terrorized, as we seen in the movie, ROOTS. Africans had to adopt new identities in order to survive in the New World. The men, women, and children were RAPED repeatedly BY THEIR MASTERS. Slaves were TREATED LIKE ANIMALS and force to BREED with each other, to produce a LARGE POPULATION OF SLAVES
Slaves also experienced HORRIBLE TREATMENT. A slave master named William Byrd ll kept a diary about his slaves. Byrd explained how he FORCED one of his slaves, Eugene, to drink a pint of his own urine to punish Eugene for being a chronic bedwetter. This type of DEHUMANIZING was not uncommon for American slaves. They experienced this type of treated EVERY DAY FOR CENTURIES. Witnessing this type of violence broke slaves down mentally and discouraged them from rebelling against their masters because slave masters feared retaliation.Brutalizing and terrorizing slaves was a way slave masters kept their slaves submissive, terrified and under their control.
SLAVERY IN AFRICA
Condition:
Slavery in Africa was NOT the same kind of slavery in AMERICA. AFRICA DID NOT HAVE CHATTEL SLAVERY! Slaves were NOT treated like subhumans; they were NOT stripped of their identities, language, traditions, etc; They were NOT raped, beaten, and tortured. They were NOT forced to have sex with other slaves; They were NOT perpetual slaves; meaning they DID NOT PASS DOWN THEIR SLAVE STATUS TO THEIR CHILDREN. In fact, these African slaves ONLY WORKED FOR A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME (7 years or less). African slaves were MORE LIKE SERVANTS—they would cook, clean, serve the kings/queens, worked in the diamond, gold, and mineral mines, etc. Also, slaves ONLY became slaves AFTER they committed a crime—this was their punishment
Lastly, Africans DID NOT SELL THEIR PEOPLE WILLINGLY! They ONLY began selling each other AFTER EUROPEANS TRAPPED THEM. Remember, Europeans DID NOT simply come over to Africa and kidnapped Africans. BEFORE the transatlantic slave trade, Europeans STUDIED AFRICAN PEOPLE (language, culture, tribes, etc.) Once whites MASTERED this, they CREATED DIVISION AMONG TRIBAL GROUPS. For instance, whites would GIVE tribe A guns and tribe B no guns, and having them fighting each other. Africans DID NOT ALWAYS see each other as the SAME. White people are the ones started calling us ALL BLACK. So, because whites had ADVANCED WEAPONS, it made it easier to take over. So Africans would ONLY CAPTURE & SELL AFRICANS WHO WERE NOT FROM THEIR TRIBES. Africans, ultimately were back in a corner: either they were going to be killed by whites, taken as slaves OR capture Africans from OTHER TRIBES and have THEM SERVE AS SLAVES.
YOU CAN RESEARCH ALL THIS YOURSELVES. There are PLENTY of books, scholarly articles, and films that CONFIRM EVERYTHING I SAID. NONE OF THIS IS OPINION; IT IS FACTS!
FOR STARTERS, HERE ARE A FEW LINKS:
This movie, GOODBYE UNCLE TOMS, shows EVERYTHING that I said. (Please watch)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCtCEKzmMsQ#aid=P-TQMQozE_Q
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1h283t.html
Jordan, Winthrop D.. The white man's burden: historical origins of racism in the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974. Print.
Stampp, Kenneth M.. The peculiar institution: slavery in the ante-bellum South. Vintage Booked. New York: Vintage Books, 19961989. Print.
Sweet, John Wood. Bodies politic: negotiating race in the American North, 1730-1830. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. Print.
Ted Smith Son Goku Maurice Chandler Kemetic Queen
