Alter Thought: A Requiem of Slavery Ep.8

<p><strong>Transatlantic Slave Trade</strong></p><p>From 1662 to 1807 the British empire focused on strengthening their capitalist economy by means of inhuman and cruel enslavement of free persons from the continent of Africa. Stolen People. This was undoubtedly a deliberate intent to profit off the free labor provided by these enslaved Africans. Around 3.1 million enslaved Africans were transported across the mid-Atlantic route during the active Transatlantic Slave Trade. <em>When Whites came to Africa, we had the land, and they had the Bible. They taught us to pray with our eyes closed: when we opened them, the Whites had our lands and we had the Bible…</em><strong><em>[1]</em></strong>  The aboriginal Africans were abducted with no warning by local slavers. The local slavers took the abducted people to the shores were they were prepped and organized for trade with White British Slave traders. Weapons from Europe were typically traded for abducted aboriginal Africans. However, it was imperative that these abducted individuals were of increasingly high value; meaning they had to know a sought-after trade like blacksmith or farmer. These aboriginal Africans were hand-selected to meet the appetite of the British Slave Traders.[2] The British needed strong and smart people to aid them in successfully mining and farming in the Caribbean. Once an abducted aboriginal African began in processing:</p><p> </p><p>The purchasers examined them for defects, looked at the teeth, pinched the skin, sometimes tasted the perspiration to see if the slaves’s blood was pure and their health as good as their appearance. Some of the women affected a curiosity, the indulgence of which, with a horse, would have caused them to be kicked 20 yards across the deck. But the stolen Person had to stand it. Then in order to restore the dignity which have been lost by too intimate an examination, the purchaser spat in the face of the stolen Person. Having become the property of their owner, they were branded on both sides of the breast