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White Slavery and Servitude in the Colonies of the West Indies
Although it is an inarguable fact that Africans were cruelly enslaved en masse by many European empires, most notably the British and French, as well as within the American republic as forced labor, there was also, however, a far less commonly known and rarely mentioned dimension of White, in particular Irish, slavery which also occurred as a consequence of empire. Much like many unfortunate Africans, the collective memory of the Irish of this era of British imperialism is one of persecution, dispossession, enslavement, and other untold sufferings.
The brief but bloody reign of Oliver Cromwell following the English Civil War gave birth to an era of brutal oppression and exploitation of the subject Irish population. From 1652 until 1659 alone, it is estimated that well over 50,000 men, women, and children of Irish descent were forcibly transported to British imperial colonies in Barbados and Virginia to serve as slave labor in the plantation economy. Other prisoners of war, as well as political dissenters, taken from conquered regions of England, Wales, and Scotland were also sent into permanent exile as slaves to Barbados. This essentially enabled Cromwell to purge the subject population of any perceived opposing elements, as well as to provide a lucrative source of profit through their sale to plantation owners.
The extent to which White prisoners were transported to Barbados was so great, that by 1701, out of the roughly 25,000 slaves present on the island’s plantations, about 21,700 of them were of European descent. Later, as the African slave trade began to expand and flourish, the Irish slave population of Barbados began to drastically recede over time, due in part to the fact that many were worked to death early on in their arrival and also as a result of racial intermixing with Black slaves.
Darwin's Evolution Theory supporting Raicsm ,'In the Origin Of species', And 'The Descent of Man':
In Darwin’s day, slavery supporters believed black Africans were a species apart from white Europeans. And Africans were restricted to the lowest rung of a natural hierarchy. According to Darwin's survival of the fittest through natural selection, 'Races of the lower order', e.g ' african origin' are inferior than the races of the higher ,'white order'. Although he showed his displeasure at the witness of brutal slavery at the hands of white people metted out to black slaves, his theory did not help alleviate that misconception, infact if applied to humans, his theory painfully points to affirm the position of slaves as a lower order species than offering any suggestion to eradicate the discriminatory injustice suffered by the slaves.
Excerpt from Darwin's "Voyage of the Beagle"
“I thank God (Darwin believed in A God), I shall never again visit a slave country. To this day, if I hear a distant scream, it recalls with painful vividness my feelings, when passing a house near Pernambuco [Brazil], I heard the most pitiable moans, and could not suspect that some poor slave was being tortured…Near Rio de Janeiro I lived opposite to an old lady, who kept screws to crush the fingers of her female slaves. I have stayed in a house where a young household mulatto, daily and hourly, was reviled, beaten, and persecuted enough to break the spirit of the lowest animal. I have seen a little boy, six or seven years old, struck thrice with a horse-whip (before I could interfere) on his naked head, for having handed me a glass of water not quite clean.”
...It makes one's blood boil, yet heart tremble, to think that we Englishmen and our American descendants, with their boastful cry of liberty, have been and are so guilty of contributing enormously to the misery of races of the lower order...."
The subtitle of the book is very telling: The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life. Darwin's later book, The Descent of Man, is even worse then Origin of Species in its claim that some men (namely white men) were more highly evolved then others.
It is his obviously his observations of cruel slavery that had a huge impact on him to wish for ape -like ancestry and denounce any link with a man-like ancestry, rather than his observations of other species. The inference seems more to be wishful thinking, rather then an inference for the origin of species which the world so dearly sticks to as an explanation for the 'origin of species'.
>>A quote from "The Descent of Man", in a chapter called "The Races of Man.", in which Darwin wrote:
"At some future period not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace the savage races throughout the world. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes...will no doubt be exterminated. The break between man and his nearest Allies will then be wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilised state, as we may hope, even than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as the baboon, instead of as now between the Negro or Australian and the gorilla" (1874, p. 178).
Slaves in Babylon: 18th century BC
Although it is an inarguable fact that Africans were cruelly enslaved en masse by many European empires, most notably the British and French, as well as within the American republic as forced labor, there was also, however, a far less commonly known and rarely mentioned dimension of White, in particular Irish, slavery which also occurred as a consequence of empire. Much like many unfortunate Africans, the collective memory of the Irish of this era of British imperialism is one of persecution, dispossession, enslavement, and other untold sufferings.
The brief but bloody reign of Oliver Cromwell following the English Civil War gave birth to an era of brutal oppression and exploitation of the subject Irish population. From 1652 until 1659 alone, it is estimated that well over 50,000 men, women, and children of Irish descent were forcibly transported to British imperial colonies in Barbados and Virginia to serve as slave labor in the plantation economy. Other prisoners of war, as well as political dissenters, taken from conquered regions of England, Wales, and Scotland were also sent into permanent exile as slaves to Barbados. This essentially enabled Cromwell to purge the subject population of any perceived opposing elements, as well as to provide a lucrative source of profit through their sale to plantation owners.
The extent to which White prisoners were transported to Barbados was so great, that by 1701, out of the roughly 25,000 slaves present on the island’s plantations, about 21,700 of them were of European descent. Later, as the African slave trade began to expand and flourish, the Irish slave population of Barbados began to drastically recede over time, due in part to the fact that many were worked to death early on in their arrival and also as a result of racial intermixing with Black slaves.
Darwin's Evolution Theory supporting Raicsm ,'In the Origin Of species', And 'The Descent of Man':
In Darwin’s day, slavery supporters believed black Africans were a species apart from white Europeans. And Africans were restricted to the lowest rung of a natural hierarchy. According to Darwin's survival of the fittest through natural selection, 'Races of the lower order', e.g ' african origin' are inferior than the races of the higher ,'white order'. Although he showed his displeasure at the witness of brutal slavery at the hands of white people metted out to black slaves, his theory did not help alleviate that misconception, infact if applied to humans, his theory painfully points to affirm the position of slaves as a lower order species than offering any suggestion to eradicate the discriminatory injustice suffered by the slaves.
Excerpt from Darwin's "Voyage of the Beagle"
“I thank God (Darwin believed in A God), I shall never again visit a slave country. To this day, if I hear a distant scream, it recalls with painful vividness my feelings, when passing a house near Pernambuco [Brazil], I heard the most pitiable moans, and could not suspect that some poor slave was being tortured…Near Rio de Janeiro I lived opposite to an old lady, who kept screws to crush the fingers of her female slaves. I have stayed in a house where a young household mulatto, daily and hourly, was reviled, beaten, and persecuted enough to break the spirit of the lowest animal. I have seen a little boy, six or seven years old, struck thrice with a horse-whip (before I could interfere) on his naked head, for having handed me a glass of water not quite clean.”
...It makes one's blood boil, yet heart tremble, to think that we Englishmen and our American descendants, with their boastful cry of liberty, have been and are so guilty of contributing enormously to the misery of races of the lower order...."
The subtitle of the book is very telling: The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life. Darwin's later book, The Descent of Man, is even worse then Origin of Species in its claim that some men (namely white men) were more highly evolved then others.
It is his obviously his observations of cruel slavery that had a huge impact on him to wish for ape -like ancestry and denounce any link with a man-like ancestry, rather than his observations of other species. The inference seems more to be wishful thinking, rather then an inference for the origin of species which the world so dearly sticks to as an explanation for the 'origin of species'.
>>A quote from "The Descent of Man", in a chapter called "The Races of Man.", in which Darwin wrote:
"At some future period not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace the savage races throughout the world. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes...will no doubt be exterminated. The break between man and his nearest Allies will then be wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilised state, as we may hope, even than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as the baboon, instead of as now between the Negro or Australian and the gorilla" (1874, p. 178).
Slaves in Babylon: 18th century BC
The code of hammurabi, from babylon in the 18th century BC, gives chilling details of the different Rewards and penalties for surgeons operating on free men or slaves. The slaves were pinned by iron nails in their hands to wooden boards and their feet tied by thick ropes, sometimes big stones were kept on them to restrict their movement.
Slaves in Greece: from the 7th century BC
Both the leading states of Greece - Sparta and Athens - depend entirely upon forced labour, though the system in Sparta is more properly described as 'serfdom' rather than slavery, an attempt to replace the negative impact the word 'slave' .
The Slaves of Athens by far had no conventional rights. The most unfortunate Athenian slaves were the miners who were driven laboriously to the point of death by their owners.
The majority of athenian slaves were domestic slaves, their fortune dependent entirely upon their relationship with their owners.
African Slaves: During the 1400s portugese sailors started to explore the coast of west africa to ship african people as slaves to Europe.
The expansion of European colonies in 1500s brought about huge expansion of slavery. The spaniards needed large number of slaves to mine gold and other precious metal. Portugese colonists planted huge sugar colonies in Brazil. These Europeans enslaved, thousands of Indians, some of which died with european disease and the rest with harsh treatment.The spaniards and portugese then imported vast numbers of slaves from West Africa, the then called , blacks.
During the 1600s: France, England and Netherland established colonies in the west indies to significantly increase the African slave trade. Soon , the Europeans enslaved only blacks. The rising sugar demand in Europe created fierce Competition for african slaves( they were good slaves) and more demand for sugar colonies. Settlers also developed profitable Coffee, cotton and tobbacco plantation utilizing the slaves.
The whole West literally developed, progressed and EVOLVED as a better race, feasting leisurely on the Blood, sweat, tears and the lives of these African slaves. And to have a look over their 'return of gratitude' for the Africans, just watch Africa's poverty , economy and miserable living conditions.
From 1500s to mid 1800s :The Europeans shipped about 12 MILLION black slaves from Africa to the western hemisphere. Nearly 2 million of these slaves died on the way.
The slaves received physical torture, beatings, and severe punishments if they refused to work more, or attempted to run away against the cruelty of their owners.
Source:
Encyclopedia Britannica.
Slaves in Greece: from the 7th century BC
Both the leading states of Greece - Sparta and Athens - depend entirely upon forced labour, though the system in Sparta is more properly described as 'serfdom' rather than slavery, an attempt to replace the negative impact the word 'slave' .
The Slaves of Athens by far had no conventional rights. The most unfortunate Athenian slaves were the miners who were driven laboriously to the point of death by their owners.
The majority of athenian slaves were domestic slaves, their fortune dependent entirely upon their relationship with their owners.
African Slaves: During the 1400s portugese sailors started to explore the coast of west africa to ship african people as slaves to Europe.
The expansion of European colonies in 1500s brought about huge expansion of slavery. The spaniards needed large number of slaves to mine gold and other precious metal. Portugese colonists planted huge sugar colonies in Brazil. These Europeans enslaved, thousands of Indians, some of which died with european disease and the rest with harsh treatment.The spaniards and portugese then imported vast numbers of slaves from West Africa, the then called , blacks.
During the 1600s: France, England and Netherland established colonies in the west indies to significantly increase the African slave trade. Soon , the Europeans enslaved only blacks. The rising sugar demand in Europe created fierce Competition for african slaves( they were good slaves) and more demand for sugar colonies. Settlers also developed profitable Coffee, cotton and tobbacco plantation utilizing the slaves.
The whole West literally developed, progressed and EVOLVED as a better race, feasting leisurely on the Blood, sweat, tears and the lives of these African slaves. And to have a look over their 'return of gratitude' for the Africans, just watch Africa's poverty , economy and miserable living conditions.
From 1500s to mid 1800s :The Europeans shipped about 12 MILLION black slaves from Africa to the western hemisphere. Nearly 2 million of these slaves died on the way.
The slaves received physical torture, beatings, and severe punishments if they refused to work more, or attempted to run away against the cruelty of their owners.
Source:
Encyclopedia Britannica.
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