I have noticed an irritating and spreading convention which I fear may be enforced by government decree. This is to refer to a man's slaves as the people he enslaved. For example, one will not write, "Thomas Jefferson owned one hundred slaves." One will write "Thomas Jefferson enslaved one hundred African Americans."
The intention of this convention is to deny the complicity of Negroes in the slave trade. Thomas Jefferson did not enslave anyone. He inherited some of his slaves. He bought others, The final number were born on his plantation to slaves he already owned.
The French Encyclopedia was published in France between 1751 and 1772. Famous French writers contributed to it, including Diderot, d'Alembert, and Voltaire.
It includes an essay entitled "Negroes," by Le Romain. Liker many whites at the time, he disapproved of slavery, and described it as "this loathsome commerce, which is opposed to natural law."
He also described how African Negroes contributed to the slave trade. He wrote:
"There are those Negroes who ambush each other while the European vessels are lying at anchor; and they bring those they have captured to the vessels to sell them and have them loaded on board against their wills. Then one sees sons selling their fathers, fathers their children,. Still more frequently one sees Negroes who are not linked by family ties put a price of a few bottles of brandy or bars of iron on each other's freedom."
Shortly after the end of the American Revolution the British Navy took the lead in suppressing the slave trade. While this happened, an African chief traveled to London to protest the actions of the British Navy, complaining that his tribe had made a fortune in the slave trade.
While the European trade in Negro slaves continued, the Arab trade in European wgutes existed. European whites did not contribute. Eventually European military actions crushed the Arab slave trace in whites. The passage "to the shores of Tripoli" in the Marine's Hymn celebrated efforts by the United States Marines to stop the trade in white slaves. Algeria was conquered by the French to stop the Arab slave trade in whites.
After slavery was outlawed by whites in European empires and the United States the Arab slave trade in Negroes continued. This was crushed by European military action.
The intention of this convention is to deny the complicity of Negroes in the slave trade. Thomas Jefferson did not enslave anyone. He inherited some of his slaves. He bought others, The final number were born on his plantation to slaves he already owned.
The French Encyclopedia was published in France between 1751 and 1772. Famous French writers contributed to it, including Diderot, d'Alembert, and Voltaire.
It includes an essay entitled "Negroes," by Le Romain. Liker many whites at the time, he disapproved of slavery, and described it as "this loathsome commerce, which is opposed to natural law."
He also described how African Negroes contributed to the slave trade. He wrote:
"There are those Negroes who ambush each other while the European vessels are lying at anchor; and they bring those they have captured to the vessels to sell them and have them loaded on board against their wills. Then one sees sons selling their fathers, fathers their children,. Still more frequently one sees Negroes who are not linked by family ties put a price of a few bottles of brandy or bars of iron on each other's freedom."
Shortly after the end of the American Revolution the British Navy took the lead in suppressing the slave trade. While this happened, an African chief traveled to London to protest the actions of the British Navy, complaining that his tribe had made a fortune in the slave trade.
While the European trade in Negro slaves continued, the Arab trade in European wgutes existed. European whites did not contribute. Eventually European military actions crushed the Arab slave trace in whites. The passage "to the shores of Tripoli" in the Marine's Hymn celebrated efforts by the United States Marines to stop the trade in white slaves. Algeria was conquered by the French to stop the Arab slave trade in whites.
After slavery was outlawed by whites in European empires and the United States the Arab slave trade in Negroes continued. This was crushed by European military action.
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