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>>>>> Let’s >>>>>ignore the inconvenient fact that we suppressed the >>>>>Atlantic Slave trade in the teeth of opposition >from >>>>>Black and Muslim Africa. After all acknowledging >>>that >>>>>would not be PC. >>> >>>Sorry to deflate your PC brigade conspiracies, but >>>there was a radio 4 program about his the other >night. >> >>Sir Francis Drake did not start the slave trade. He >>was a slave trader as were many pirates, privateers, >>and merchants of the time but he did not start the >>slave trade. Slavery has been around since the >>beginning and it’s not limited to Europe. It did not >>temporarily end with the end of the Roman Empire, then >>suddenly reappear after the discovery of the Americas, >>and it’s not limited to only the Roman Empire or >>Europe. They have slavery in the pre-Columbian >>Americas, Far East Asia (Northern Asia and South East >>Asia), and Sub-Sahara black Africa itself. Slavery in >>the Middle East was thriving until it was “officially” >>abolished in the mid-20th century in Saudi Arabia. >>Europeans were still enslaved by their own people as >>serfs and indentured servants even after the Roman >>Empire. In fact majority of the European colonists >>that came to the British and Dutch Americas were >>indentured servants and bonded apprentice. British >>people were also enslaved. When they invaded, the >>Vikings enslaved British (both Saxons tribes and >>British Celtic kingdoms). Some people in Iceland have >>medieval Irish heritage. >>As for the slave trade in Africa during the >>Renaissance era/Age of Exploration (Sir Franics >>Drake’s time), the Europeans did not go into the heart >>of Sub-Sahara Africa and kidnap a whole village of >>black Africans. That is a myth. First off they could >>not go there because the African kings did not allow >>them into their country without their permission. >>Western Africa was a militaristic warrior state as >>European colonists found out later on in the 19th >>century. The African Kings set up war canoes manned by >>African warriors to guard their coasts from invaders. >>So the African Kings and African merchants set up >>trading ports/posts with the European merchants where >>they can trade goods for slaves. It was a good deal >>for both groups. The Europeans gave arquebusier guns, >>brandy, and other goods for African slaves and gold >>that the African King’s warriors captured in battle or >>a raid or the African slaves were enslaved by their >>own families to pay off debts. The Europeans could not >>go inside Africa during the African slave trade >>triangle (1500’s-late 1700’s) because they would >>susceptible to some diseases there like malaria as >>we’ve seen in the 19th century. >>If the Europeans could go inside Africa and take all >>the Africans they would but their arquebusier and >>musket rifles during the Renaissance era were >>ineffective against large hordes of African warriors >>that could easily kept throwing javelins and spears at >>the European merchants and their European mercenaries. >>It was until in the 19th century, that they had better >>firearms and artillery like the repeating rifles, >>carbine rifles, shotguns, sidarms, and the gattling >>machine gun were the Europeans able to colonize all of >>Africa. But by that time in the 19th century, slave >>trade in the Atlantic was officially outlawed and the >>Europeans had no use for slaves because of the >>Industrial Revolution except as low paid westernized >>porters and servants or maybe miners. >> >>African Slave Stories >><a rel=nofollow target=_blank >>href="http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/nof/slavery/" >> >>http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/nof/slavery/</a> >> >>Modern day slavery >><a rel=nofollow target=_blank >>href="http://www.rugmark.org/home.php">http://www.rugm >a >>rk.org/home.php</a> >><a rel=nofollow target=_blank >>href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/12/17/world/ >m >>ain321549.shtml">http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/1 >2 >>/17/world/main321549.shtml</a> >><a rel=nofollow target=_blank >>href="http://www.iabolish.com/">http://www.iabolish.co >m >>/</a> >> >>Modern day slavery in the Middle East >><a rel=nofollow target=_blank >>href="http://www.sauduction.com/12issue.html">http://w >w >>w.sauduction.com/12issue.html</a> >><a rel=nofollow target=_blank >>href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagenam >e >>=article&contentId=A6645-2004Jan10¬Found=true">http: >>//www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&c >o >>ntentId=A6645-2004Jan10¬Found=true</a> >>Robot camel Jockies Alternative to Bangladesh boy >>jockies >><a rel=nofollow target=_blank >>href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.11/camel.h >t >>ml?tw=wn_tophead_3">http://www.wired.com/wired/archive >/ >>13.11/camel.html?tw=wn_tophead_3</a> > >I'd agree with all that. > >The reason the complex issues of African involvement >aren't always covered by the history of the era is >partly because it's complicated, but mainly because it >in no way exonerates the whites who were involved in >this terrible business.
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