On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 1:47 PM, La Vonda R. Staples <lrstaples@gmail.com> wrote:
And it's sad, again, that I have to step in. I'm the young child at the table and you big kids have got this thing more screwed up than a god damned tar baby on meff.It's true that the TAST was NEVER a principal mode of creating capital or an economy for ANY African nation.One simple fact: By the end of the 100 years way and the Treaty of Utrecht Britain was given the assiento for slave importation. This period, the last two decades of the 17th century, would see the beginning of international trade in humans and enslaved Africans as the first fruits of industrialized capitalism (see La Vonda R. Staples, "Psychological Effects of Close-Quarters Slavery" and Staples, "The Failed State of (Black) America"). At this point the primary ports of slavery into Europe, Ghana and Senegambia, were forced by ships' guns to continue (even after the legal end in 1808) to deliver people into the bowels of slave ships which were now being made SPECIFICALLY for the purposes of transported masses of people as if they were nothing more than inanimate objects. Before this time (1441-1687) the trade was a tool of monarchy and not merchant commerce. Slaves brought into Europe were either gifts or bought on cash. They were the oddities and eccentricities of kings, the top echelons of clergy, and aristocracy. Even the millions of souls taken into South America and the Caribbean were labouring to create wealth for kings.At no time did any African monarch become fully cognizant of the conditions under which Africans died under in the most brutal grounds of slavery which were the Caribbean and South America. There was no way to even make a cultural or historical cross or comparison. It is an effort in futility to attempt to find a segment of West African history where wars were fought, servants obtained, and sent to do labor which would have resulted in quick death. Going further, at no juncture can you illustrate a practice of descending miscegenation or failure to train a servant to his/her best use or potential (these are just a few of the characteristics of Old World slave systems vs. New world slave systems).That's enough. I would like for someone to refute my research and/or my claims.La Vonda R. StaplesIndependent Historian and AuthorSt. Louis MO--On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Ikhide <xokigbo@yahoo.com> wrote:--"There are some fundamental facts. First, no African kingdom used slavery as its principal mode of production. Africa has produced no economies based on slavery. It was left to Europe to create a system of slavery where humans were chattel to be used as tools in the development of wealth. Secondly, in all massive enterprises where there are oppressors and the oppressed there will be collaborators. It is no secret that some of Afriica's best minds, Fanon, Memni, Karenga, have isolated incidents of collaboration among victims of oppression. Blacks were police officers in the white minority regime of South Africa but one cannot blame apartheid on black people. So when Gates claims that Africans were involved in the slave trade one can accept this, but what one cannot accept is that Africans were equally culpable for the slave trade. Nor should one blame the Judenrats (Jewish Councils) of Germany for Nazi atrocities although they often collaborated with the Germans. Indians collaborated with the British colonialists in India and some Chinese collaborated with the Japanese in occupied China, and while there is no excuse there is certainly explanation for collaboration."- Molefi Kete Asante
http://www.asante.net/articles/44/where-is-the-white-professor-located/
Hmmm/ It is incorrect that "no African kingdom used slavery as its principal mode of production." That is silly hagiography. There are many ways to counter Bill Gates without minimizing the role of Africans in the transatlantic slave trade. Africans are just as culpable as those that came to take away our siblings. *cycles away slowly*
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La Vonda R. Staples, WriterBA Psychology 2005 and MA European History 2009"If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough."Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, This Child Will Be Great; Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President.
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BA Psychology 2005 and MA European History 2009
"If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough."
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