African people killed there own children

Jump into the shoes of an African woman. You would be scared if you were pregnant on a plantation, the slave master may use you to instil fear in the other enslaved people by cutting the baby out of you when you are heavily pregnant. Would you like your child at the tender age of eight years old to be raped by a slave owner? Would you like your child to be branded with a hot iron? Would you like your child to be taken away from you at the age of five to be sold to another plantation? Would you like to watch you child being whipped to death? Killing your child would seem like a better alternative to life of misery.

African mothers aborted their pregnancies and killed their children to protect them from the hands of Europeans.

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African people were brainwashed

Willie Lynch a slave owner from the West Indies developed techniques to break the will of his enslaved Africans. He gave an infamous speech in 1712 in Georgia USA. He told fellow slave owners how to keep their slaves in order. He said you have to keep the slaves fighting amongst themselves, get them to distrust, breakdown their family relationships. He put on a show for the reluctant enslaved Africans. he would demonstrate his ultimate power by whipping the biggest person to a pulp, get a heavily pregnant woman and slicing her open.

 A remedial psychologist would tell you that this trauma will ripple through generations. Click here for the speech.

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The Church has blood on their hands

Since 1999, various denominations of the Church have issued a blasé styled apology, saying they apologise for their involvement in the slave trade. They will tell us that the Church owned plantations, that bishops and clergymen owned slaves, that slaves were used to build churches and that huge donations were received from devout slave traders. What they fail to say in their apology is that the Church deemed that all African people had no soul and they were savages. This gave Europeans the license to rob, rape, brutalised and kill African people at will.

Is this a honest mistake for over 450 years? Even during the battle for abolition the Church had not released all their slaves.

A lack of moral leadership in the Church fuelled the destruction of Africans. If the Church had said that it is wrong to kill others regardless of their skin colour or belief system, then Africa would be a very different place today. The church has blood on their hands and a simple apology is not enough to atone for their wrong doings?

How many times will the Church need to apologise for the destruction of hundreds of millions of lives? Is once enough?

Once a year, for the next five hundred years should be the absolute minimum.

Most Africans today are either Christians or Muslims, hence Africans are not able to fully condemn the actions of their institutions because of devotion to their faiths.

These institutions need to be publicly shamed so they can truly atone for there actions. They need to actively seek to repair the damage that has resonated through time. Only then the will be worthy of forgiveness.

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People of the West Indies were duped

When you speak to 99 percent of people in the West Indies they will tell that the most significant event for people in the West Indies in 2007 was the Cricket Cup. They have been slipped a Mickey (a drowsy pill) by England again, many of them took the blue pill which let them slip into the false reality.

England created a smoke screen to distract the West Indians from one of the most significant events in their life, the anniversary of the end of the slave trade.

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The Abolition farce

In 2007 Britain were patting themselves on their back so hard because of their involvement in abolishing the slave trade. The Nation sung the praises of their protagonists William Wilberforce, John Newton and others.

Amidst the cacophony of self commendations little was spoken of the African Abolitionists, the true horrors endured during enslavement and the consequences today.

Only the trade was abolished, this meant no more kidnapping, no more Africans were shipped by the British against their will to the British West Indies.

Slavery was still legal and it was still evil, it continued in the British West Indies for another 34 years. Church bishops still owned slaves. The Quakers still own companies which relied on the misery of slaves. The British economy heavily depended on the abuse of slaves.

After 34 years slavery was finally abolished. The African slaves then had to serve a four year voluntary apprenticeship, this apprenticeship was used to teach the slaves something I guess.

It is really hard to see where compassion fell into the equation for freedom.

A great sense of national honor and pride is associated with the Royal Navy’s role in policing the Atlantic to stop the slave trade. What you did not hear was Britain’s compulsion to rule and be the most dominant country in the world, well this was more of a relentless psychotic compulsion because it involved large amounts of killing and subjugation. Britain had to destroy the slave trade so that no other European nation would not gain an advantage in the quest for global domination.

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Africans were kept as pets

Ota Benga was a member of the Batwa people, he was a pygmy, and lived in equatorial forests of the Congo. Ota had the misfortune of having his lands colonised by the psychotic King Leopold II of Belgium. Belguim used ‘forced unpaid labour’ to mine Congo’s minerals Africans who resisted were slaughtered or had their hands cut off. Benga’s misfortune was to be captured after his family were slaughtered by Belgium soldiers. In 1904 Benga and other Pygmies were shipped to USA to fulfil an order for specimens to be studied. Benga became an exhibit at the Bronx Zoo in New York, he spent time in the "Monkey House" exhibit, and the zoo encouraged him to hang his hammock there, and to shoot his bow and arrow at a target. Benga was reported to be happy.

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Castration was profitable

In the Arab world a castrated enslaved African would be worth at least ten times the amount a normal African. When Arabs raided villages they would kill the older women and men and just take the children. Any female child over the age of four were raped and used a concubine. The Arabs erected Eunuch stations to castrate 4 to 12 year olds. It is estimated that one out of ten survived this ordeal. It was worth a gamble as Eunuchs were prized and well sort after because they could look after a harem or be servants to women.

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Slavery continued after the Abolition Act of 1807

After 1807 it was illegal to trade in slaves, but it was legal to keep slaves and breed them. Slavery was abolished thirty years later. After that former slaves had to serve a four year apprenticeship free of charge. Brazil abolished slavery in 1888.

Unofficially, European slavery continued during the colonial period in African under the guise forced labour. New players entered the arena of traumatising Africans, including Belgium, they felt a urge to play catchup for their lack of opportunities during the slave trade. Their savagery surpassed most of their neighbours at that time, anyone refusing to work for free had their hands cut off. In the 1920’s the Germans used their African colonies to practice genocide. Hundreds of Thousands of Africans in Namibia were slaughtered for their lands. All the colonial powers England, France, Portugal and Spain practised forced labour. Saudi Arabia abolished slavery in 1960. The hearts of Arabs in North Africa are made of stone. They have failed to realise that slavery is wrong. The Arabs of Sudan and Mauritania are still enslaving black African people. It would be nice if governments like Britain, US and France, began to set an example by saying what they did was wrong and apologise. This would set an example for others to follow. This may even help to stop the atrocities going on today. 

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The Middle Passage lasted for up to two years

The Middle Passage is the term used to define the journey from the Coast of Africa to the Coast of America. A ship would stay in the ports in Africa to wait until their human cargo had filled the ship. Sometimes this process took up to two years, some individuals were sold from ship to ship. An African person cargo would have to lay, sleep, defecate and eat in the same spot for a minimum of three months.

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People have already been compensated for slavery

Haiti was the first country to pay reparations for slavery. Haiti had to pay France $30 billion over 90 years to compensate them for being overthrown by slaves who sought liberty, equality and fraternity. This aided the underdevelopment of Haiti.

The Plantation owners were compensated by their governments when slavery was abolished.

The USA made a compensation promise of $40, a mule and an acre, African Americans are still waiting.

The victims, the Africans in the Diaspora, have received nothing.

Africans nations receive ‘hush hush money’ in the form of Aid from Western nations on conditions that they cut off a limb.

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