From: jkgreen@function.mps.ohio-state.edu (Jere K Green)
Subject: Re: Sexist African Males
Organization: Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 18:17:21 GMT

In article <204933@unix.cis.pitt.edu> pmmst8@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Paul M Mweene) writes:
>And as for those who say that slavery was always prevalent in Africa,
>I challenge you to prove. I dispute it. Where and how did Africans
>enslave other Africans prior to the transantlantic trade ? True there
>were occasional wars, which resulted in people being colonised and
>assimilated in the process. However these were far and far between,
>Africa being more than adequate to provide for and accomodate all its
>citizens.  The demand for slaves in the new world was both the first
>cause of African slavery and the fuel for the wars that came to ravage
>the continent.

In the 7th century AD, Muhammad had a black African slave named Bilal
(whom he freed). In fact, in the 1970's some black Muslims tried to
replace the term "black" with "Bilalian" to acknowledge this. Blacks
have been sold into slavery along the east coast of Africa for
thousands of years, and is well-documented. Are you disputing this?

>The role of Africans who tacitly or otherwise participated in the
>enslaving of other Africans is analogous to that of the jews who
>operated the furnaces in th e conc. camps. It was a case of help to
>enslave or be yourself enslaved. And this is without any doubt.

>Africans were enslaved and the continent colonised by gun powder. It
>the naturesof socio economic forces in Europe that forced Europeans to
>wander as far as Ch ina where they acquired the knowledge to
>manufacture the gun powder by which they plundered the rest of the
>world.
>
>Slavery ended because the slave economy produced so much as to create
>conditionsfor the industrial revolution. The primitive industrial
>society however found it self in competetion with the slave economy.
>The slave economy therefore had to go. These events are all manifest
>first in the fact that the English, who havingbecome made the world's
>power by the trade decided in 1830 to actually deploy ships in the
>oceans to prohibit it. The only other reason for this was that the y
>wanted to preempt the emergence of a rival power by the same method
>they had made such good use of. In America this was evident in the
>civil war where the industrial half of the country took on and
>defeated the slave dependent economic region of the country. It should
>not be one of the illusions that morallity had a part to play in any
>of this..

The primary reason that the South seceeded from the union was that
they thought they were losing a balance of power on the issue of new
states entering the union being free states or slave states, and when
Abraham Lincoln, a strong abolitionist was elected president they felt
that their time as slave states was numbered (even though he said he
wouldn't abolish slavery then).

They had virulent debates on the evils of slavery with many finding
slavery immoral for religious reasons(Take _Uncle Tom's Cabin_ as an
example), yet we're supposed to believe that "it's an illusion that
morality had any part to play".

Yeah right.

The industrial revolution occured primarily because of breakthroughs
in understanding nature (science) and using this knowledge for
practical applications (industry).

>Makala
>

Jere
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