Deluuxe
Deadly Jester
Returning to the thread title: There was a slave trade but its numbers were WAAYYYYYYY exaggerated. I've seen figures suggesting that max. 0.5 mn Africans were transported. The usual totals of 20-30 mn are lies from those with an agenda.
Blacks were present in the Americas and the Caribbean since prehistory. However not only those regions-even Europe. There are still many extant sculptures and artwork depicting black and mulatto European royalty. Many of the first Euro American settlers were these blacks. Here's the first known slave holder of the 1650s,Anthony Johnson,allegedly an Angolan who owned white slaves:
REAAALLLYYYY?? They kidnapped an Angolan,brought him here and a few years later allowed him to be a slave holder?BS!! Undoubtedly he was a black Euro,one of the many Black Catholics who lost the 100 years war and were banished. Fyi,the Mayflower carried some black Englishmen. IIRC,a site claimed that 40-60% of BAs have no history of slavery-why??
Between black Europeans and indigenous Americans,IMO,African slaves are the smallest component of todays BA population. We can dig deeper if coliers cooperate. How many of you are willing to examine family history for slavery? I'm also convinced there was a global race war,a series of local and wider conflicts in which we came off second best. For example the original Aztecs were black-now we're shown pics of Asian types.WTF happened?
Yep I already know a little about those black Europeans that were in Early Brittan and Scotland as well as Germany and stuff. There was definately a war waged on black folks. Queen Elizabeth wrote a letter speaking of too many "blackamoors and negars" and wishing to deport them
"In 1596, Queen Elizabeth issued an “open letter” to the Lord Mayor of London, announcing that “there are of late divers blackamoores brought into this realme, of which kinde of people there are allready here to manie,” and ordering that they be deported from the country."
Tellingly, within accounts of the voyage, it is the dividing line of war, more than any other marker, that defines encountered “Negroes”—and defines them as Spanish allies. Admittedly, this alliance may have been uneasy, if not also coerced, at least for
some “Negroes” who may have been “runaway slaves.” 35 Spanish accounts reveal that the Spanish were suspicious of “freed Ne-groes” who had come “to serve [the Spanish] in this war.”36 The Spanish surveyor Juan Bautista Antoneli cautions that “there is no trust nor confidence in any of these Negroes, and therefore we must take heede and beware of them, for they are our mortall enemies.”37. So they had these black prisoners of War as slaves, they were trying to make moves here and there but these cacs and spaniard didnt trust them one drop, I wonder why
https://www.press.jhu.edu/timeline/sel/Bartels_2006.pdf
These Europeans were going everywhere seeking moors and trade routes they had established with those maps they left, the americas, caribbean, south central america etc.
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