why do we always say that we were slaves for 400 years?

[call_me_step_daddy]

i just calculated it up and ummm...that shyt don't add up..somebody enlighten me

 

[G-Zeus]

i just calculated it up and ummm...that shyt don't add up..somebody enlighten me

2012-1620= ?

edit.. forgot we dont stop counting till yall get 40 yard (lol acres) and a mule.

 

[Wildin]

Funny shyt in class the other day these mf2'ers (black and white) tried to say slavery was over 400 years ago. I don't speak up much in this class, but I raised my voice (a cat I know says I yelled) .

These fools alike were both saying they never knew slaves and their parents and grandparents never knew slaves...i was like "Be serious, the 13th amendment was signed in 1865 its 2012, that's like 147 years ago...". I kinda trailed of and started shaking my head because I did the numbers in my head and thought I was like 10 years off or so, but my point still got across I was like 147 years =400 hundred years huh? There wasn't even an America 400 years ago.

 

[daze23]

I don't know who says that

sounds like a b*stardization of Peter's powerful words

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM4GG2Y4PsE[/ame]

 

[Mook]

And by my calculations..... none of you were slaves.

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[teacher]

Slavery in the new world began before America came to be as a country

But

I think it has to do moreso with the Willie Lynch Document that stated if you follow his slave breaking rules you will have them under your control for at least 400 years....where did he get that number from

 

[newworldafro]

WEEEEELLLLLLLL............

a. It doesn't mean slavery only in the U.S., it means the entire New World/Western Hemisphere..........not long after Columbus accidentally "discovered" the Caribbean....

1502

http://www.brycchancarey.com/slavery/chrono3.htm

1502: Juan de Córdoba of Seville becomes the first merchant we can identify to send an African slave to the New World. Córdoba, like other merchants, is permitted by the Spanish authorities to send only one slave. Others send two or three.
1504
1504: a small group of Africans - probably slaves captured from a Portuguese vessel - are brought to the court of King James IV of Scotland.
1505
1505: first record of sugar cane being grown in the New World, in Santo Domingo (modern Dominican Republic).
1509
1509: Columbus's son, Diego Cólon, becomes governor of the new Spanish empire in the Carribean. He soon complains that Native American slaves do not work hard enough.

b. Slavery didn't end everywhere in the New World/Western Hemisphere at the same time, the last two holdouts were Cuba .......

End of Slavery in Cuba
Under the terms of the Pact of Zanjón, which ended the The Ten Year War in 1878, slaves who fought on either side of the war were set free, but those who did not fight had to endure almost another decade of slavery.

Two years later the Spanish Cortes approved an abolition law (1880) that provided for an eight-year period of patronato (tutelage) for all slaves liberated according to the law. This only amounted to indentured servitude, as slaves were required to spend those 8 years working for their masters at no charge. On October 7 1886, slavery was finally abolished in Cuba by a royal decree that also made the patronato illegal.

On October 7 1886, slavery was finally abolished in Cuba by a royal decree that also made the patronato illegal.

and Brazil.........................................

Slavery in Brazil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Slavery was legally ended nationwide on May 13 by the Lei Áurea ("Golden Law") of 1888, by a legal act of Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil. In fact, it was an institution in decline by this time (since the 1880s the country began to attract European immigrant labor instead). Brazil was the last nation in the Western world to abolish slavery.

c. So 1502 - 1888 is 386 years is almost 400 years , thus the 400 years of slavery is ACCURATE .........throw in Jim Crow years and you go way past 400 years.. ........

 

[Shogun]

Muslims & Indians were enslaving Africans long before Europeans were.

 

[ExodusNirvana]

Oooo this thread could turn out to be very entertaining

 

[Type Username Here]

Muslims & Indians were enslaving Africans long before Europeans were.

Brother, be careful, you might accidentally educate some people around here.

As far as the topic goes, slavery in the Americas ran pretty strong from 1500-1900.

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

Slavery in the new world began before America came to be as a country

But

I think it has to do moreso with the Willie Lynch Document that stated if you follow his slave breaking rules you will have them under your control for at least 400 years....where did he get that number from

@people still believing the Willie Lynch letter is a real document in 2012.

 

[Mowgli]

This is a good thread. nikkas really dont know their history.

 

[newworldafro]

This is a good thread. nikkas really dont know their history.

That's cool though..............we're all here to share, learn, dialogue, correct misconceptions.........everybody in here is ignorant about something...

We out chere in these intellectual streets.........

 

[keon]

1509: Columbus's son, Diego Cólon, becomes governor of the new Spanish empire in the Carribean. He soon complains that Native American slaves do not work hard enough.

Ain't that a bytch

Maybe they didn't just want to work hard for Some sac's(Spanish ass crackas)

Much respect to the lazy natives..you all are the original nikkas

 

[theworldismine13]

That's cool though..............we're all here to share, learn, dialogue, correct misconceptions.........everybody in here is ignorant about something...

We out chere in these intellectual streets.........

word, RZA broke it down a long time ago too, one of the greatest verses evah

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TiQ6QPWkPk&feature=related]Gravediggaz "The Night The Earth Cried" [HD] - YouTube[/ame]

This dates back to 1555
When they captured the first tribe of men
And piled them in a pen
Fifty feet high
They took em all on a 9000 mile ride
And landed on the shore of a place they never seen before
But read about this inside the ancient books of war
Bonded in stainless steel, stripped of their language
Still survived the anguish of slavery but still remained nameless
Separated to portions and tricked by John Haughty Hawkins
And sold on the auction, taught birth control and abortion
Rulers of the first part became slaves of the worst part
The devils cursed God and reversed God
And turned God into dog and made people search hard
No relief came to the prophet of W.D. Feraud
To a trauma, dropped our mommas off in Bahamas and Barbados
Tobagos, separated us from slave boats
Made our own brothers hate us
From Virgin Isle to Jamaica
Trinidad, Honduras, Haiti, Grenada
Bermuda to Cayman, mental enslavement
You black gods become awaken
At night time you can hear the earth cry
How many more black gods got to die
Before we realize there's no God in the sky
The devil tricked us, that's the worst lie
At night time I can hear the earth cry
How many more black gods got to die
You realize there's no God in the sky
The devils tricked us, that's the worst lie