Monday, August 03, 2020

Stuff You Don't Know About Slavery

Yes, slavery in the US was a terrible crime against humanity.  No one disputes that.

So of all the Africans who were slave-traded, which part of the New World got the most in percentage terms?

Brazil, at >30%.

What was the percentage brought to the territory now called "United States"?

4%.

You all recall the text of the Marine Hymn....."From the halls.........to the shores of Tripoli"........right?

There's a reason for "Tripoli."

...“More whites were brought as slaves to North Africa than blacks brought as slaves to the United States or to the 13 colonies from which it was formed. White slaves were still being bought and sold in the Ottoman Empire, decades after blacks were freed in the United States.”...

...In fact, the white slave trade was a terrifying reality for generations of Westerners from the 1400s to the 1800s. Several sovereign North African entities—the Sultanate of Morocco, and the independent Ottoman provinces of Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli—were all active in the capture and sale of European and American slaves. Some whites were taken from ships on the high seas in acts of piracy; others were captured during coastal raids on the European mainland and Newfoundland. ...

...During the later phase of the white slave trade, European powers paid large sums to the North African powers to protect their citizens from enslavement. After the United States declared its independence, it refused to make such payments, which resulted in the taking of American seamen by Arab pirates. In 1786, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams met in London with the ambassador from Tripoli to discuss the matter. When they asked why Tripolitanians would “make war upon nations who had done them no injury,” the ambassador replied “that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Musselman who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise.”..Bawer quoted at Cold Fury

Well, the Muslims still use the Koran and still believe exactly what's highlighted above.  Ain't that nice?  Shall we ask Ilhan Omar about that?  Rashida Tlaib?  Or will they claim "Taqiyya" and lie like.........ahh.........Muslims about it?


2 comments:

  1. Slavery was the way of the world until rather recently. On every continent. All the way back to at least 18th century BC China. Man’s inhumanity to man has been the norm rather than the exception.

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  2. The desire of the powerful to dominate the weak appears to be human nature, and human nature hasn’t changed no matter how enlightened the dominate class think they are. If humans then human nature you might say.

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