Richard Knight – The Unz Review June 29, 2023
White people commonly respond to demands for reparations for slavery and slave trading by pointing out that it was whites who abolished these things.[1] I don’t know whether they notice that this doesn’t get them the credit from their antagonists that they seem to expect; they certainly don’t appear to see why this is.
The reason they get no credit is that black people don’t see the abolition of slavery and slave trading as quite the boon for humanity that white people do. If Africans had wanted slavery and slave trading to be abolished, they could have abolished them themselves very easily, just by ceasing to indulge in them. Instead, they met white attempts at abolition with fierce resistance. This was quite natural. Slavery was their way. As for slave trading, it gave them a good profit, and they saw nothing wrong with it.
No, the reason black people go on about slavery and slave trading is not that they deplore them but that they see that white people deplore them, who might therefore be made to feel so guilty about their forefathers’ involvement as to give black people large amounts of money in restitution.
Indeed, if we set the white record on slavery and slave trading against the black record, it stands out as a shining example. The transatlantic slave trade lasted only a fraction of the time that Africans spent selling each other to Arabs, and the number of slaves bought by whites — perhaps ten or 12 million — was a fraction of the number bought by Arabs. As for the length of time Africans spent selling each other to other Africans, and the numbers involved, these were much greater still. The intra-African slave trade still predominated in the nineteenth century, when a European explorer reported that slave-hunting in Africa went on far more to supply the domestic than the foreign market.[2]
I am no expert on slavery in the Americas, but I get the impression that it could have been worse. Although Frederick Douglass mentions slaves being flogged, he doesn’t say that he was flogged himself.[3] Rather, as a boy he had to help look after farmyard animals, which can be quite an agreeable task, and he was later transferred to a mistress for whom he had nothing but praise. Olaudah Equiano was abducted as a child by Africans in his home country before being bought and sold by other Africans, then shipped to America, where he was bought by an English couple, who treated him like their own son. He wrote that he was “very warmly attached” to his master, who was in the Navy, and told him that “if he left me behind it would break my heart.”[4] As for Twelve Years a Slave, according to the historian Simon Webb this was written not by Solomon Northup, who could hardly write his name, but by a white abolitionist named David Wilson, who wanted to make slavery sound as bad as possible.[5]
Coming to the treatment of slaves in Africa, according to Herbert Ward, a nineteenth-century English explorer, in the Congo it was customary for feuding chiefs to mark the settling of their scores by buying a slave, breaking his bones, and burying him with just his head sticking out so that all could see him slowly starve to death. The same fate lay in store for anyone who gave him food or water.[6] The Portuguese explorer Francisco Valdez reported that when the chief of a certain tribe died, no one was allowed to mention the fact for a month or two on pain of being immediately decapitated and his family sold into slavery.[7] If no buyer could be found for his family, they too would be decapitated. The King of Dahomey had to honor his ancestors. To do this, he periodically killed a few hundred slaves so that their blood could be poured on his forebears’ graves. As the victims were slaughtered, the crowd shouted out in delight.[8]
To give two more examples, according to the adventurer Hugh Murray, writing in 1853, after the King of Coomassie died 200 slaves were sacrificed each week for three months.[9] Another writer stated that at the death of a King, large numbers of his favorite wives and slaves were put to death to keep him company.[10] We hear nothing comparable about the treatment of slaves in America.
According to two independent estimates by nineteenth-century Scottish explorers, about three-quarters of the sub-Saharan African population were slaves.[11] Another observer put the proportion at four in five.[12] The slave was the unit of currency in Africa. Fines were paid in slaves, wives were bought in slaves. All the way from the coast to the remotest point in the interior, wrote the French-American anthropologist Paul Du Chaillu, the commercial unit of value was the slave. “As we say dollar, as the English say pound sterling, so these Africans say slave.”[13]
Africans did not object to slavery or slave trading, and this included slaves. In the 1800s the English explorer Richard Lander was surprised to see “the most perfect indifference” in Africans as they lost their liberty.[14] In the 1820s, a Frenchman who passed a group of women being put up for sale in the street noted that they “did not appear in the least mortified at being exhibited” for this purpose.[15] Male slaves, although shackled at the ankle, laughed, wrote two authors in 1826, and the females sang with the utmost glee as they worked in the fields.[16]
When an African slave obtained his liberty, he saw it as no cause for celebration. The naturalist Samuel Baker wrote that abolition only proved that Africans did not appreciate the blessings of freedom, nor did they show the slightest gratitude to the hand that broke the rivets of their fetters.[17] An African might even seek to become a slave, since then he would not have to fend for himself.[18] It was not unknown for former slaves in America to petition to be reenslaved.[19] In 1901, the black nationalist Booker T. Washington wrote that many emancipated slaves returned to their former owners asking to be taken back.[20]
It was only white people, with their elevated concept of the rights of man, who disapproved of slave trading, such as Francisco Valdez, who found it “detestable,”[21] and James Bruce, another explorer, who found it a “horrid practice.”[22] White people proceeded to impose their high-flown concept on those in whose minds it had never appeared.
Black people’s affinity for slavery can still be seen today, as in the many African countries where it still flourishes. For a second example, the Black Lives Matter activist Sasha Johnson reportedly said, “We don’t want to be equal, we want white people to be our slaves.”[23] Consistent with this, when I lived in a black part of London, I was quite often treated by the sort of young black man who in Africa would have been a slave owner as though I might be his slave. Finally, a senior black police officer was recently found guilty of, among other things, telling junior officers that he owned them and bellowing at them to make his porridge.[24] To many black people, today as in the past, the urge to enslave appears irrepressible.
According to Francis Moore, a Briton writing in 1738, a certain African King would amuse himself by going out with some troops from time to time to set fire to parts of the town. As people ran out of their burning huts, the troops caught them, tied them up, and took them off to be sold as slaves.[25] In 1870, Samuel Baker reported that when a slave hunt in East Africa netted some old women who could not keep up on the return march, they were clubbed to death.[26]
Nothing satisfied an African like witnessing a brutal killing. A missionary observed a group dancing round the mangled corpse of a beheaded female slave “at the very zenith of their happiness.”[27] In 1857, an explorer wrote that Africans appeared to take pleasure in cruelty: “The sight of suffering seems to bring them an enjoyment without which the world is tame.”[28] According to Sir Richard Burton, an English traveler, during fires in Zanzibar in the 1860s black people were seen adding fuel and singing and dancing, wild with delight.[29] In 1867, Paul Du Chaillu recalled seeing a young African woman’s corpse covered in lacerations into which red peppers had been rubbed, a “common mode of tormenting with these people.”[30] He could only hope that the woman, who had presumably been accused of witchcraft, had died of her wounds and not had to endure “the slower process of agonized starvation to which such victims are left.”
When I was at college, a lecturer told us that when he had staged Shakespeare’s tragedies in Soweto, the audience had laughed at the grimmest scenes. He thought that they were expressing pleasure at not being the victims. It seems possible that they were simply enjoying the sight of human suffering.
When Herbert Ward witnessed Africans walking among the putrefying bodies of victims of a mass human sacrifice, appearing to think nothing of it, he commented that the white man would never be able to conquer his repugnance at the callous indifference to human suffering found everywhere in Africa.[31] To us this seems strange, for we have been brought up to believe that no one’s indifference to human suffering could be more callous than a white person’s.
Yet, the old explorers thought that the life of a child could have intrinsic and not just economic value. Africans were different. In 1847, John Duncan wrote, “So little do they care for their offspring, that many offered to sell me any of their sons or daughters as slaves.”[32]. Sir William Cornwallis Harris wrote in 1843 that Africans would sell their children for the sordid love of gain.[33] All over Africa, according to Mungo Park, writing in 1815, parents might sell their children.[34]
Also in 1815, John Campbell wrote of seeing a child of about eight standing in the dust weeping and looking almost like a skeleton:[35] “Neither the men, women, nor children present seemed by their countenances to express the least sympathy or feeling for this forsaken, starving child”; instead, they laughed and told Campbell that he was welcome to take her with him if he wished. He felt sure that in London the sight of the girl would have excited pity in the hearts of thousands.[36] Think of that: White people feeling sorry for a strange black girl! But perhaps Campbell was right.
What a shame it is that our intellectuals have made such a thorough job of suppressing facts such as those mentioned above, leaving us to seek moral instruction from black people as we ask them how much money they require! They peddle their tales in the name of the idea of racial equality, yet this is not the idea that they drive at, which is one of extreme racial inequality, where blacks, pure and innocent, are being incessantly mistreated by their psychopathic white persecutors.
I wonder what it will take to set the record straight.
Notes
[1] For example, the point is made that from the early nineteenth century until the end of the British Empire 250 years later, the British expended vast resources attempting to wipe out slavery and slave trading. In the 1830s or 1840s, a full 13% of the manpower of the Royal Navy was devoted to stopping slave ships leaving West Africa for the Americas, quite apart from stopping slavery elsewhere. (Triggernometry, March 26, 2023, “The Truth About Colonialism with Nigel Biggar.”)
[2] This note and others below refer to Hinton Rowan Helper (“HH”), compiler of The Negroes in Negroland (New York: G. W. Carleton, 1868). Helper’s notes give abbreviated references, such as her, to Barth’s Africa, Vol. I., page 12. Where possible these references have been expanded to give the author’s full name and the title and date of the book presumably referred to. In this case, on page 40 HH quotes Johann Barth, 1857, Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa, Vol. I, p. 12, stating that slave-hunting went on “not only for the purpose of supplying the foreign market, but, in a far more extensive degree, for supplying the wants of domestic slavery.”
[3] Frederick Douglass, Narrative of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself (New York: Penguin, 1986). Originally published 1845.
[4] History Debunked, Nov. 1, 2020, “An authentic account of slavery in West Africa.” The book is available here.
[5] See History Debunked (1), July 24, 2020, “Multicultural Education,” and (2) March 13, 2022, “The Twelve Years a Slave hoax revisited.”
[6] Herbert Ward, Five Years with the Congo Cannibals (Ostara Publications, 2019), p. 73. Originally published 1891.
[7] On page 31 HH quotes Francisco Valdez, Six Years of a Traveller’s Life in Western Africa, Vol. 2, 1861, p. 331.
[8] On page 19 HH quotes Hugh Murray, The African Continent: A Narrative of Discovery and Adventure, 1853, p. 199.
[9] On page 20 HH quotes Hugh Murray 1853, op. cit., p. 204.
[10] On page 21 HH quotes “Wilson’s Africa,” p. 219.
[11] On page 87 HH quotes Mungo Park, The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa in the Year 1805, 1815, p. 216. On page 39 he quotes Sir William Cornwallis Harris, Major Harris’s Sports and Adventures in Africa, 1843, p. 314.
[12] On page 109 HH quotes “Lander’s Africa,” Vol. I, p. 377, which could be The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa (1836) by Robert Huish or Lander’s Travels in Africa by Richard Lander.
[13] On p. 44 HH quotes Paul Du Chaillu, Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa or A Journey to Ashango-Land, 1867, p. 380.
[14] On page 37 HH quotes “Lander’s Africa,” op cit, p. 208.
[15] On page 43 HH quotes René Caillié, Travels through Central Africa to Timbuctoo, Vol. II, 1830, p. 63.
[16] On page 38 HH quotes Dixon Denham and Hugh Clapperton, Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa, Vol. IV, 1826, p. 184.
[17] On page 123 HH quotes Samuel White Baker, Great Basin of the Nile, 1870, p. 197.
[18] On page 40 HH quotes “Wilson’s Africa,” p. 156, saying that the African “not infrequently by his own choice places himself in [the] condition” of slavery.
[19] HH gives several examples of freed slaves petitioning to be reenslaved in his book Nojoque: A Question for a Continent (New York: George W Carleton, 1867), available here, p. 195.
[20] In “The Day Freedom Came” (1901), Booker T. Washington wrote of the feeling of gloom that descended on many emancipated slaves when they realised that freedom meant that they would have to provide for themselves. “Gradually, one by one, stealthily at first, the older slaves began to wander from the slave quarters back to the ‘big house’ to have whispered conversations with their former owners as to the future” (quoted by Christopher Ricks and William A. Vance [eds.], The Faber Book of America [London: Faber and Faber, 1994], pp. 198-99).
[21] On page 43 HH quotes Valdez 1861, op. cit., p. 293.
[22] On page 15 HH quotes James Bruce, Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile in the Years 1768–73, Vol. I, 1790, p. 393.
[23] The New Culture Forum, April 26, 2022, “The War on Whiteness & The West: Murray’s Brave New Book Exposes How We’re Taught to Hate Ourselves.”
[24] MailOnline, Jan. 17, 2022. “Two senior police officers are kicked out of Met after Commander shouted at juniors, called pregnant colleague a ‘f******* nutter’ and approved £5,500 of his own invalid expenses, including alcohol and flight upgrade.”
[25] On page 80 HH quotes Francis Moore, Travels into the Inland Parts of Africa, 1738, p. 87.
[26] On page 34 HH quotes Baker 1870, op. cit., p. 405.
[27] On pages 21-22 HH quotes “Freeman’s Africa,” op cit., p.47.
[28] On page 29 HH quotes Thomas Henry Hutchinson, Impressions of Western Africa, 1858, p. 283.
[29] On page 142 HH quotes “Burton’s Africa,” p. 493, which could be any of Burton’s books about Africa, most of which were published in the 1860s.
[30] On page 57 HH quotes Paul Du Chaillu, 1867, op. cit., p. 156.
[31] Ward 2019, op. cit., p. 186.
[32] On page 39 HH quotes John Duncan, 1847, Travels in Western Africa, Vol. I, p. 79.
[33] On page 39 HH quotes Harris 1843, op. cit., p. 314. Also, on p. 153 he quotes Richard Lander noting that an African parent would sell his child for the merest trifle (“Lander’s Africa”, p. 348. This could be Robert Huish, The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa, 1836, or there could be a book by Richard Lander himself.)
[34] On page 87 HH quotes Park 1815, op. cit., p. 216.
[35] On page 93 HH quotes John Campbell, Travels in South Africa, 1815, p. 266.
[36] This racial difference has been described in terms of “r/K theory.” Animals with an “r” strategy, such as rabbits, have many offspring after a short gestation and put little effort into looking after them. Those with a “K” strategy, like kangaroos, have fewer offspring after a longer gestation and invest more time in raising them. Compared to white and Asian people, people have an “r” strategy. (The gestation period in black women is slightly shorter than in others.) This was illustrated by the Scottish explorer Robert Moffat, who in 1842 wrote that African children “cease to be the objects of a mother’s care as soon as they are able to crawl about in the field.” (On page 92 HH quotes Robert Moffat, Missionary Labours and Scenes in South Africa, 1842, p. 49, quoting Kicherer.)
(Republished from Counter-Currents Publishing by permission of author or representative)
Books, on the true facts of slavery: in Africa and every other country should be quietly seeded into secondary school libraries, not books on gay sex etc. Almost comical, how the white man’s higher principles are being used to throttle and suppress him.
I am a product of the US gov’t experiment called “bussing to achieve racial integration.” They took a skinny white kid and put him on a bus and drove him past three other high schools to a ghetto ‘high’ school where full grown ghetto denizens with the minds of eight year-olds awaited. Nothing in this article surprises me.
“What a shame it is that our intellectuals have made such a thorough job of suppressing facts such as those mentioned above,…”
Intellectuals? That’s an interesting euphemism for jews LOL.
A few weeks ago a young boy scout wrote about what happened to him
as a young teenager in the Scouts.
The campaign he started, asks that the Scouts urgently upgrade their safeguarding approach.
In the USA the whole scouting movement collapsed due to homosexual abuse
Thank you to those of you who have signed the petition already, and a special thanks to those who bravely submitted a story.
The Scouts say 93% of abuse cases are from before 2018 but so far many new stories have been submitted that occured after 2014. We need to know how many others there are, in order to understand the scale of the problem and ensure survivors get justice.
Rememeber Jimmy Savile was an assistant cubmaster
Could you help spread the word and ensure others are aware of Homosexuals?
https://prepareforchange.net/2020/04/26/homosexual-pedophilia-destroyed-the-boy-scouts/
I would like the article even better if it mentioned that allmost all Presidents of the US were descendants of slave-owners except for one President.
For every cause there’s an effect. This is historical BS that’s totally manufactured. Nice try.
if it were not for us jews black folk would still be in the jungles of africa
We did them a huge favour buying them and putting them in slavery in the USA
thats gratitude for you
ELTON JOHN AT GLASTONBURY
yes he was at the festival
Elton is well known for using young rent boys
there seems to be a great attraction for this type to go for boys in school uniform
maybe its the close connection with the royals which kept him safe
same as jimmy saville sir anthony blunt tony lair etc
but yes elton is a massive pervert
possibly like carl jones
It was not the Whites who put an end to slavery. It was the developing realization through windows in Christianity where at various times in our sordid history, a little light has shone into our very dull little minds showing us that all humans are children of God, separated from animals through our potential to know and love him and live for eternal ends. “What we do to the least of my brothers that you do unto me.”
BOYCOTT ALL JEWISH GOODS AND SUPERMARKETS
until they stop the terorism
The government has tabled its long threatened ‘Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) bill,’ or anti-boycott bill. If passed, this toxic piece of legislation will prevent public bodies, like local councils or universities, from cutting ties with companies engaged in human rights abuses or environmental destruction in any foreign country. This past week Israeli planes bombed a palestinian refugee camp kiling 24 adults and children and injuring a large number.
This bill must be defeated. Help us oppose it by signing our petition calling on Parliament to reject the bill.
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Although this bill affects many campaigns for justice, the government has made clear that its specific target is campaigns in support of Palestinian rights. Within the bill they have made a special unique exception for Israel, granting it immunity from accountability not extended to any other state in the world. Whilst the bill allows a government minister to grant permission to public bodies to divest from companies involved in rights abuses by some states e.g Russia for its invasion of the Ukraine, this singling-out clause says that no future government can give permission to divest from a company because of actions in support of Israel’s rights violations, including within the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
The bill is released on the day Israeli forces killed at least 5 Palestinians in Jenin adding to the more than 170 killed in the West Bank and East Jerusalem since the beginning of 2023. It is released on the day the Israeli Government announced plans to continue expansion of illegal settlements, with nearly 5000 more units about to be approved.
The government is on the wrong side of history, just as it was in the 1980’s when it introduced a similar law in an attempt to prevent local councils taking action to divest from South African apartheid.
The voices lined up to oppose this bill in the coalition PSC has brought together are broad and strong. We need your help to make sure that together we can win this fight.
Not so fast. You left out a little detail about the owners and organizers of the African slave trade.
https://gtvflyers.com/2023/02/02/slavery-is-jewish/
Jewish Owned Slave Ships by CLIFFORD HERRINGTON
The following is a partial listing of ships that are recorded as having Jewish owners
and are known to have transported slaves. This list, it must be emphasized, is indeed a partial
list. It excludes, for instance, evidence of the transport of slaves by Southern Confederate
Moses Cohen Mordecai, who was described as “a prominent merchant and probably the larg-
est shipowner in the United States.”732 There can be no serious doubt that as a Southern ship-
per from Charleston he engaged extensively in slave shipping. Also excluded from this list are
Abraham Gradis and the Gradis family, who are the recorded owners of at least 26 ships
which they used to ship Africans around the Caribbean and the world.733 The Jessurin family
of Curaqao alone “owned over one hundred ships sailing the seven seas in the 1800s,” when
Jews were masters of the slave trade.734
Certainly, much more research is required to assemble a truly representative list
which, when complete, would be expanded manifold.735
Abigail Aaron Lopez, Moses Levy, Jacob Franks
Active Aaron Lopez
Africa Jacob Rivera, Aaron Lopez
Albany Rodrigo Pacheco
Ann Aaron Lopez
Anne & Eliza Justus Bosch, John Abrams
Antigua Nathan Marston, Abram Lyell
Betsy Jacob Rivera, Aaron Lopez
Caracoa Moses and Sam Levy
Charlotte Moses and Sam Levy, Jacob Franks
Cleopatra Jacob Rivera, Aaron Lopez
Crown Isaac Levy, Nathan Simpson
De Vrijheid David Senior, Jacob Senior
Eagle Moses Seixas
Elizabeth Mordecai and David Gomez
Fortunate Aaron Lopez
Four Sisters Moses Levy
George Aaron Lopez
Greyhound Jacob Rivera, Aaron Lopez (later by Moses Levy)
Hannah Jacob Rivera, Aaron Lopez
Hester Mordecai, David Gomez, also Rodrigo Pacheco Hetty Mordecai Sheftall
Hiram Moses Seixas
Hope Aaron Lopez (also owned by Myer Pollack)
Juffr. Gerebrecht Philippe Henriquez, David Senior & Co.
Juf Gracia Raphael Jesurun Sasportas (captain)
Leghorn Rodrigo Pacheco
Mary Jacob Rivera, Aaron Lopez
Nancy Myer Pollack
Nassau Moses Levy
Nina Luis de Santagel, Juan Cabrero
Pinta Luis de Santagel, Juan Cabrero
Prince George Isaac Elizer, Samuel Moses
Prudent Betty Jacob Phoenix
Royal Charlotte Aaron Lopez
Sally Saul Brown (Pardo) & Bros.
Santa Maria Luis de Santagel, Juan Cabrero
Sherbo Jacob Rivera
Shiprah Naphtali Hart
Spry Jacob Rivera, Aaron Lopez
Three Friends Jacob Rivera & Co.
Union Moses Seixas
[194]
The below listed ships were owned by Jews who are known to have participated in the
slave trade (*asterisk means ownership is presurned):736
Year Owner Ship Name (tons)
1702 Moses, Joseph, and Samuel Frazon Joseph & Rachel (130)
1713 Abraham de Lucena and Justus Bosch Mary & Abigail
1720 Mordecai Cornez and Rodrigo Pacheco Young Catherine, Young
Adrian
1737 Rachel Marks, and others Lydia (54)
1743 Joseph Marks Barbadoes Factor (50)
1743 Joseph Marks Charming Sally (60)
1746 Joseph Marks Hannah (40)
1747 Joseph Marks Polly (40)
1748 Joseph Marks Dolphin (50)
1749 Joseph Marks Prince Orange (70)
1751 Joseph Marks Charming Polly (50)
1743 Nathan Levy and David Franks Drake
1745 Nathan Levy and David Franks Sea Flower (30), Myr-
tilla(100), Phila (105), 1758 Naphthali, Isaac, and Abraham Hart General Well, Deflance, Per-
fect Union, Dolphin, Con-
firnwtion, Diamond, Rising
Sun, Lord Howe, Rabbit
1759 Naphtali Hart and Company General Webb*
1760 Naphtali Hart Peggy*
1760 Samuel Levy Charming Betsey (80)
1760 John Franks Two Sisters (30)
1771 Aaron Lopez New York*
1771 Samson Levy and another Deborah (40)
1772 Moses & David Franks, Isaac Levy Glouœster (230)
1773 Moses and David Franks Delaware (300), Belle (170),
Mars (400)
1774 Aaron Lopez Lark*
1783 Abraham Cradis Polly, David, Patriarch
Abraham, le Parfait, l’Alli-
ance, le Vainqueur
1806 David G. Seixas Jane
1806 David G. Seixas & Benjamin S. Spitzer Nancy
Joseph Bueno Rebecca
1806 James DeWolf Ann
Isaac Levy; and others
Crown Gally
Postillion
Hayman Levy Orleans, Dreadnought
Judah Hays Duke of Cumberland
Jacob Franks Duke of York
Samuel jacobs Betsey
Emanuel Alvares Correa, Moses Pearl737
Cardozo Abraham Hart
Moses Levy Mary and Ann
Moses Levy General Well
Moses Lopez Rebecca
Naphthali Hart King George
[195]
Seized Slave Ships
Ownership of sorne vessels, as well as the financial backers and insurers of
slave expeditions, are difficult tc, trace until a seized vessel is reclaimed.738
• The Braman was taken into custody on June 9, 1856 and the owners charged with
being engaged in the slave trade. It was bonded by John Levi and Henriques da Costa. • The Orion was seized on June 21, 1859 and bonded by Rudolph Blumenberg.
• The Charlotte E. Tay was arrested on April 24, 1860 and bonded by Fred K. Myer.
• The Josephine was arrested on May 28, 1860 and was bonded by Benjamin Isaacs.
[196]
On December 14, 1722, Louis and Mordecai Gomez “petitioned concerning merchan-
dise and negroes imported in the ship Greyhound as they were the agents for the several own-
ers of the cargo saved by the Greyhound.”739
My first exposure to the wretched history of the Trans Atlantic slave trade and to the unhappy plight of the African captives, forced to labour a lifetime in cotton or corn fields in America, was late in 1977, when the BBC aired the six part mini-series, Roots, based on Alex Haley’s account of his family history in the US. I was ten years old at the time and I ate it up.
Unalert to its emotive craft, being young, I was aghast at the gratuitous cruelty of the white man and couldn’t comprehend why anyone would enjoy humiliating anyone else. In 1977, I didn’t know anyone who was black. There was a black girl in my class at school briefly, before her family moved back to London. My notion of black people derived from watching Richard Rowntree, Mohammed Ali and Huggy Bear on tv. I freely conceded that black people were effortlessly cool. Roots won nine Emmy Awards that season.
What a surprise it was then, to discover, years later, that Alex Haley’s book was completely fraudulent.
Haley claimed that he researched ships’ manifests, plantation records, wills and census registries to exhaustively research the detail of his dynastic history.
However, after exhaustive investigation, of all extant records covering the time period, not one single entry recording the existence of a Haley family could be found.
The Toby Waller (formerly Kunta Kinte) who supposedly founded the Haley dynasty was shown, in the documents, to be a different man entirely, who lived in times too early, to fit into the chronology of the fiction.
In the article, the author, intriguingly, reports that “Twelve Years A Slave” was, in fact, written by a white abolitionist called David Wilson and not by the accredited author, Solomon Northup. Similar revelations beset Alex Haley, who it transpired, was not the author of Roots at all.
A court of law in the US upheld Harry Courlander’s litigation against Alex Haley for plagiarising his late sixties novel, “The African.” The court agreed that Haley had copied 81 lengthy passages verbatim from Courlander’s book and inserted them into Roots, as if they were his own.
It was further revealed, when Haley’s personal correspondances were availed to public scrutiny, following his death, that it was revealed that the unplagiarised parts of Roots were written by Haley’s agent, Murray Fischer. Neither Courlander nor Fischer are African-Americans.
What is truly exasperating, however, is that, despite being fully conversant with the fact that the book is a hoax, the History Channel chose to remake the emotionally turpid exploitation piece, Roots, for a modern audience, in 2016. Wreckless lies, it seems, are worthy of a second accounting.
When the African American academic and economics scholar, Milton Samuel J. Wright met Adolf Hitler in Heidelberg in 1932, Wright reported that Hitler had expressed his admiration for the work of Booker T. Washington during their conversation. A little curio for you.
There’s a little known side to slavery that’s known or talked about. Slaves were made to work in coal mines. In many mines they had to make there way to the coal face along passage ways that they couldn’t stand upright to walk. The distance to the coal face could be over five miles. If they broke tools they had to pay for them out of the food ration.
I’m sorry. What I’m describing is Yorkshire miners in the 1920s. The miners weren’t paid until they got to the face. If the pit owner decided to shut the pit the miners didn’t get paid. This when the wages were only subsistence in the first place.
The source for this is George Orwell’s ‘The Road to Wigan Pier’. He actually lived and worked with the miners for awhile.
I suppose slavery was a career choice to Tory regular sh!t-for-brains Johnny Mercer? Soldiers’ families claim they have to rely on food banks to get by, and since military accommodation was privatised and they pay higher rents, and as they’re in full-time employment they won’t qualify for council tax breaks and school meals etc, so I don’t doubt at all they’re struggling. A soldier’s pay isn’t that great after all.
Former army officer now MP Mercer says it’s their budgeting choices to blame not the cost of living. When critics condemned him he called it collective bed-wetting and said food banks don’t reflect the real levels of poverty in Britain. No they don’t, because without them far more people would be hungry and out shoplifting food. Without food banks people would stop us in the streets and beg some change to buy food.
Mercer forgets when the Covid con started all MPs got £10K tax free for new digital gear which would buy a lot of food–except a lot of MPs claim meal expenses. This cad won’t know hunger but he should know shame.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/tory-minister-johnny-mercer-food-bank-comments-bed-wetting-122554015.html
Nog on the street says “Gimme yo money!” and nog in the University, by co-incidence, says the same thing; and the article does well to note that nog likes slavery but knows we don’t
Addendum to Bob Smith post
https://stillnessinthestorm.com/2018/11/slavery-in-america-who-really-owned-and-operated-the-slave-trade/
Excellent if depressing article with good comments from the regulars…One to bookmark…
To achieve power requires psychopathy and complete indifference to one’s fellows. I’m currently reading “Too Big Too Jail” about the HSBC drug money laundering scandal. A Mexican drug lord tortured and killed his way to the top. His counterpart at HSBC preaches in church as an ordained vicar and is now a baron.
Where in the history of humanity has black meant light?. It is a modern liberal(((Marxist))) construct that all of humanity thinks the same but facts are the different races don’t think the same and how can they, humans beings are diverse all across this planet that’s just a fact of life.
I got no doubt the black takes pleasure in killing another human. I’ve spent enough time around Australian Aboriginals to know this is true. Just look at the way American blacks kill each other and whites across the expansion of America.
Whites have to be psychopathic to kill another human they say but for many a black it is just part of their nature.
Anyway it is clear that
international corporate slavery is the new thing. Be a slave to debt it says, be a slave to its LGBT globohomo rights it says, be a slave to the great reset and UN agenda 2021/2030 it says. If you thought slavery was bad centuries ago you ain’t seen nothing yet. Slavery of times past killed millions but future slavery has the potential to kill billions.
Think we can stop with the slave bs. Every race has been a slave to some other race somewhere. Read history… limos…
You might try this book, it explains it all……The Secret Relationship
Between Blacks and Jews
//www.rodriguezuribe.co/histories/The%20Secret%20Relationship%20between%20Blacks%20and%20Jews.pdf
Some interesting things to note on slavery:
1. More people died, on route to Arabia, during the Sub Saharan Slave Trade, compared to the number of slaves taken during the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade.
2. 80% of jews owned slaves compared to between 5-15% of non jews.
3. Jews own the slave ships, the crews and the slave auctions. In fact, there were no auctions on jewish religious holidays due to the fact that those buying slaves were overwhelmingly jews.
4. Ask yourself a question? Considering that the majority of European slave owners, in the US, would have been Scottish & Irish, who were the first slaves in the US, before the blacks; why would they have badly treated the blacks, when not only were they slaves and persecuted by the English before them in their own lands and the US, but as Christians it would have gone against their teachings as well as the fact they were also teaching the gospel to them?
The jews most certainly never taught them about Christ did they? It was the Europeans who taught the blacks how to read & write. I am inclined to believe that the mistreatment of slaves was most certainly done by the jews. They do, hate blacks, seeing them as the curse of Ham after all.
Re “Roots” fraud.
If NASA and the US government would fake a moon landing, you don’t think some Negro grifter would fake his family history like this, or the organized Jews would fake the holocaust?
In all cases, it’s done for three reasons:
1.) To get money
2.) To influence people
3.) To make up for defects and shortcomings.
It’s amazing how much Jewish meddling has destroyed the world, and even more amazing that they never pay their crimes.
Perhaps, I should have been more explicit in my post about Alex Haley and Roots. I should have explained that the book was crafted from its inception, compiled or otherwise authored, by the masquerading literary/ theatre agent, Murray Fischer.
The day’s not far away, when Murray Fischer will, at last, receive the publical recognition that’s befitting of his loyal endeavours on behalf of the ADL.
The biopic will tell the true story of a humble but heroic jewish theatre impressario, a Mr. Fischer, of meagre means, who clandestinely dedicates his life and monies to exposing the horrors, too long denied, of the treatment of African slaves in the US.
Even the minister Louis Farrakhan will wipe away a tear, at the matinee.
Maybe, I should write the screenplay and pitch it to a mogul or two. I bet that there’d be interest.
My working title is “The Secret Saviour Of Black America: The Murray Fischer Story.” Or I might call it, “The Jew Beloved Of Every Black.”
It’s a bit of a pity, actually, that I have no intention whatsoever of writing such a screenplay.
You could though, if you wanted to. I waive my intellectual copyright.