First-ever slavery plantation is discovered in Africa: Ruins of a nearly 500-year-old sugar mill and estate located on a tiny island to the west

[Doc7505]

First-ever slavery plantation is discovered in Africa: ​

Ruins of a nearly 500-year-old sugar mill and estate located on a tiny island to the west​

Plantation slavery roots are traced back to a tiny island in Africa

The 16th-century ruins of a sugar mill and estate found on a small West African island are deemed the oldest slavery plantation. Experts said the system was then adopted in the Americas.

www.dailymail.co.uk

22 Aug 21, 2023 ~~ By Stacy Liberatore

• The ruins of a sugar mill and estate found in Africa are the earliest plantation
• The site was operating in the 1530s - about 100 years before slavery in the US

Archaeologists have uncovered the earliest evidence of plantation slavery - the ruins of a 16th-century sugar mill and estate on a tiny West African island.
The island, named São Tomé, was the largest sugar producer globally in the 1530s, creating the blueprint for plantation economies across the Atlantic Ocean.
The ruins of the mill and estate were uncovered by researchers from the University of Cologne, who said the structure's scale reflects the large enslaved labor force who worked in the main room where sugar was boiled.
The Portuguese settled São Tomé in 1470 and became the largest sugar producer by the 1530s due to enslaved Africans from the Slave Coast of West Africa, the Niger Delta, the island of Fernando Po, and later from the Kongo and Angola.
~Snip~
The mill operated for about 400 years, but when slavery traveled across the Atlantic, it took the sugar business with it.
The island's prominence faded before the beginning of the seventeenth century due to the poor quality of its sugar, the rise of Brazilian production, and extensive slave insurrections.
Political instability and the destruction of mills led major landowners to move to Brazil.
The European population on the island dwindled, while the Creole elite and free Black people strengthened their political and social power, controlling landownership and trade, namely in human beings destined for Brazilian and Caribbean plantations


Commentary:
Yet another fascinating article! I'd never heard of this country before. São Tomé was at the core of the Islamic-African-European Slave trade.
See more: São Tomé - Wikipedia
History continues to show us that Slavery was once a part and still a part of life despite our modern advances.
See More: Human trafficking: A network of crime hidden across a vast American landscape
When it comes to reparations do we start with the relatives of people mentioned in Genesis in the Noah story (Genesis 9)?
I’d bet that our Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon ancestors made slaves out of captured enemies, they just hadn’t found a way to write down a bill of sale or trade yet. There doesn’t seem to be a lot of evidence showing people in prehistoric times being gentle or kind outside their own small group or tribe when it came to trade goods, wealth, property, etc...

 

[surada]

First-ever slavery plantation is discovered in Africa: ​

Ruins of a nearly 500-year-old sugar mill and estate located on a tiny island to the west​

Plantation slavery roots are traced back to a tiny island in Africa

The 16th-century ruins of a sugar mill and estate found on a small West African island are deemed the oldest slavery plantation. Experts said the system was then adopted in the Americas.

www.dailymail.co.uk

22 Aug 21, 2023 ~~ By Stacy Liberatore

• The ruins of a sugar mill and estate found in Africa are the earliest plantation
• The site was operating in the 1530s - about 100 years before slavery in the US

Archaeologists have uncovered the earliest evidence of plantation slavery - the ruins of a 16th-century sugar mill and estate on a tiny West African island.
The island, named São Tomé, was the largest sugar producer globally in the 1530s, creating the blueprint for plantation economies across the Atlantic Ocean.
The ruins of the mill and estate were uncovered by researchers from the University of Cologne, who said the structure's scale reflects the large enslaved labor force who worked in the main room where sugar was boiled.
The Portuguese settled São Tomé in 1470 and became the largest sugar producer by the 1530s due to enslaved Africans from the Slave Coast of West Africa, the Niger Delta, the island of Fernando Po, and later from the Kongo and Angola.
~Snip~
The mill operated for about 400 years, but when slavery traveled across the Atlantic, it took the sugar business with it.
The island's prominence faded before the beginning of the seventeenth century due to the poor quality of its sugar, the rise of Brazilian production, and extensive slave insurrections.
Political instability and the destruction of mills led major landowners to move to Brazil.
The European population on the island dwindled, while the Creole elite and free Black people strengthened their political and social power, controlling landownership and trade, namely in human beings destined for Brazilian and Caribbean plantations


Commentary:
Yet another fascinating article! I'd never heard of this country before. São Tomé was at the core of the Islamic-African-European Slave trade.
See more: São Tomé - Wikipedia
History continues to show us that Slavery was once a part and still a part of life despite our modern advances.
See More: Human trafficking: A network of crime hidden across a vast American landscape
When it comes to reparations do we start with the relatives of people mentioned in Genesis in the Noah story (Genesis 9)?
I’d bet that our Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon ancestors made slaves out of captured enemies, they just hadn’t found a way to write down a bill of sale or trade yet. There doesn’t seem to be a lot of evidence showing people in prehistoric times being gentle or kind outside their own small group or tribe when it came to trade goods, wealth, property, etc...

The first slaves from Africa were sent to Recif, Brazil to the sugar plantations. Have you looked at the history of the Sugar Jews, circa 1580?

 

[Doc7505]

The first slaves from Africa were sent to Recif, Brazil to the sugar plantations. Have you looked at the history of the Sugar Jews, circa 1580?

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Indeed, transported to and for Portuguese plantations.
That was much later by 60 to 110 years after the establishment of São Tomé
See:
The Portuguese settled São Tomé in 1470 and became the largest sugar producer by the 1530s due to enslaved Africans from the Slave Coast of West Africa, the Niger Delta, the island of Fernando Po, and later from the Kongo and Angola.

 

[lg325]

Of course, slavery was used for labor since the start of civilization as far as plantations are concerned the one in Africa may be the oldest found but large agriculture projects have always used slaves all over the globe until recent history.

 

[Damaged Eagle]

Like Egypt didn't have plantations to feed all those slaves building the pyramids?

SMILE

 

[candycorn]

Yet another lame attempt by conservatives to minimize slavery.

 

[surada]

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Like Egypt didn't have plantations to feed all those slaves building the pyramids?

SMILE

Slaves didn't build the pyramids. They were national projects between the Nile floods.

 

[surada]

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Like Egypt didn't have plantations to feed all those slaves building the pyramids?

SMILE

Slaves didn't build the pyramids. They were national projects between the Nile floods.

 

[Damaged Eagle]

Slaves didn't build the pyramids. They were national projects between the Nile floods.

So now you're saying Jewish history is all a bunch of lies and should be under conspiracy theories?

CHUCKLE

 

[surada]

First-ever slavery plantation is discovered in Africa: ​

Ruins of a nearly 500-year-old sugar mill and estate located on a tiny island to the west​

Plantation slavery roots are traced back to a tiny island in Africa

The 16th-century ruins of a sugar mill and estate found on a small West African island are deemed the oldest slavery plantation. Experts said the system was then adopted in the Americas.

www.dailymail.co.uk

22 Aug 21, 2023 ~~ By Stacy Liberatore

• The ruins of a sugar mill and estate found in Africa are the earliest plantation
• The site was operating in the 1530s - about 100 years before slavery in the US

Archaeologists have uncovered the earliest evidence of plantation slavery - the ruins of a 16th-century sugar mill and estate on a tiny West African island.
The island, named São Tomé, was the largest sugar producer globally in the 1530s, creating the blueprint for plantation economies across the Atlantic Ocean.
The ruins of the mill and estate were uncovered by researchers from the University of Cologne, who said the structure's scale reflects the large enslaved labor force who worked in the main room where sugar was boiled.
The Portuguese settled São Tomé in 1470 and became the largest sugar producer by the 1530s due to enslaved Africans from the Slave Coast of West Africa, the Niger Delta, the island of Fernando Po, and later from the Kongo and Angola.
~Snip~
The mill operated for about 400 years, but when slavery traveled across the Atlantic, it took the sugar business with it.
The island's prominence faded before the beginning of the seventeenth century due to the poor quality of its sugar, the rise of Brazilian production, and extensive slave insurrections.
Political instability and the destruction of mills led major landowners to move to Brazil.
The European population on the island dwindled, while the Creole elite and free Black people strengthened their political and social power, controlling landownership and trade, namely in human beings destined for Brazilian and Caribbean plantations


Commentary:
Yet another fascinating article! I'd never heard of this country before. São Tomé was at the core of the Islamic-African-European Slave trade.
See more: São Tomé - Wikipedia
History continues to show us that Slavery was once a part and still a part of life despite our modern advances.
See More: Human trafficking: A network of crime hidden across a vast American landscape
When it comes to reparations do we start with the relatives of people mentioned in Genesis in the Noah story (Genesis 9)?
I’d bet that our Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon ancestors made slaves out of captured enemies, they just hadn’t found a way to write down a bill of sale or trade yet. There doesn’t seem to be a lot of evidence showing people in prehistoric times being gentle or kind outside their own small group or tribe when it came to trade goods, wealth, property, etc...

The sugar Jews already had plantations in Recife, Brazil by 1530.

 

[surada]

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So now you're saying Jewish history is all a bunch of lies and should be under conspiracy theories?

CHUCKLE

The Jews did not build pyramids. They were finished long before Abraham.

 

[Flash]

The Jews did not build pyramids. They were finished long before Abraham.

They were built by aliens. Everybody knows that.

 

[surada]

They were built by aliens. Everybody knows that.

They were built by Egyptians.

 

[sparky]

Have you looked at the history of the Sugar Jews

they've a sweet side???? ~S~