This is why ‘The 1619 Project’ is complete and total BULLSHIT!
That ship did not appear out of nowhere. It was absolutely NOT owned or manned by WHITE Americans.
In fact, white people did NOT even start the SLAVE TRADE.
Yes, slavery in America may have started in August 1619 off the coast of Virginia, but that is NOT the whole story. Here is MORE of the story to bring out some of the TRUTH!
The first Africans arrived in Virginia because of the transatlantic slave trade. Across three and a half centuries—from 1501 to 1867—more than 12.5 million Africans were captured, sold, and transported to the Americas. While Portugal and Spain were the first European powers engaged in this trade, eventually most of the European powers would get involved. It was as profitable as it was brutal.
The Africans who came to Virginia in 1619 had been taken from Angola in West Central Africa. They were captured in a series of wars that was part of much broader Portuguese hostilities against the Kongo and Ndongo kingdoms, and other states. These captives were then forced to march 100-200 miles to the coast to the major slave-trade port of Luanda. They were put on board the San Juan Bautista, which carried 350 captives bound for Vera Cruz, on the coast of Mexico, in the summer of 1619.
Nearing her destination, the slave ship was attacked by two English privateers, the White Lion and the Treasurer, in the Gulf of Mexico and robbed of 50-60 Africans. The two privateers then sailed to Virginia where the White Lion arrived at Point Comfort, or present-day Hampton, Virginia, toward the end of August. John Rolfe, a prominent planter and merchant (and formerly the husband of Pocahontas), reported that “20. and odd Negroes” were “bought for victuals,” (italics added). The majority of the Angolans were acquired by wealthy and well-connected English planters including Governor Sir George Yeardley and the cape, or head, merchant, Abraham Piersey. The Africans were sold into bondage despite Virginia having no clear-cut laws sanctioning slavery.
The Treasurer arrived at Point Comfort a few days after the White Lion but did not stay long, quickly setting sail for the English colony of Bermuda. Prior to leaving port, however, it is possible that 7 to 9 Africans were sold, including a woman named “Angelo” (Angela) who was taken to Lieutenant William Pierce’s Jamestown property, which Jamestown Rediscovery archaeologists excavated in partnership with the National Park Service. By March 1620, 32 Africans were recorded in a muster as living in Virginia but by 1625 only 23 were recorded. These Africans, scattered throughout homes and farms of the James River Valley, were the first of hundreds of thousands of Africans forced to endure slavery in colonial English America.
The First Africans | Historic Jamestownehistoricjamestowne.org › history › the-first-africans
That is actual HISTORY. Colonial English American HISTORY. Or at least part of it anyway. A part that some Black activist African-Americans today do NOT want YOU to know. Why don’t they want YOU to know ALL THE RELEVANT FACTS? Because they want MONEY!
SHOW DEM DA MONEY, HONEY!
They want to ‘GUILT’ ALL WHITE Americans into giving them FREE MONEY for something that never happened to them. It may have happened to SOME of their ancestors, by a few white people (white people who were NOT Americans at the time anyway), but today they want ALL WHITE AMERICANS to PAY MONEY to ALL BLACK AMERICANS, and that is ALL BULLSHIT!
The TRUTH IS ‘The 1619 Project’ is a BLACK ACTIVIST PROJECT to ‘GUILT’ White America into paying Tax Dollar REPARATIONS to Black Americans. That is what it really and truly is. It is all greedy self-centered BULLSHIT! THEY WANT MONEY!
There were Europeans, especially Spanish, Portuguese and English actively involved in the GLOBAL SLAVE TRADE since the year 1501 (and maybe even earlier)! Are they being ASKED to pay any REPARATIONS? No!
There were Mexicans and even Bermudans involved in the Slave Trade, in addition to English colonists on this side of the world. Are they being ASKED to pay any REPARATIONS? No!
The people who bought those slaves, stolen by the English, from the Portuguese on their way to Mexico, were English colonists and NOT Americans. Are they being ASKED to pay any REPARATIONS? No!
Even though the writing above only alludes to it, doing a little more research you will learn that the people who initially captured and enslaved those first Angolan Black Africans into slavery were BLACK AFRICANS themselves. Are they being ASKED to pay any REPARATIONS? No!
Yes! It is a FACT that BLACK AFRICANS captured and sold BLACK AFRICANS into slavery. That is a fact. That is a DIRTY LITTLE SECRET that the BLACK AFRICAN-AMERICANS of today do NOT want you to know. Instead, they want to lay all the blame on WHITE AMERICANS so as to get FREE TAX DOLLARS in FINANCIAL REPARATIONS from all WHITE AMERICANS, when in FACT it was NOT WHITE AMERICANS who started the slave trade in America at all.
And… in fact it was only a very small percentage of white people in America who owned black slaves anyway. The slave owners were mostly RICH SOUTHERNERS who owned LARGE PLANTATIONS, and they bought BLACK SLAVES so they would not have to pay decent wages to poor white people. They bought BLACK SLAVES to keep poor white “in their place” and deny them their rights! (Those kind of people are known as Republicans today.)
So, why should ALL WHITE AMERICANS of today have to pay their TAX money to BLACK AMERICANS now. GUILT! The BLACKS are trying to ‘GUILT’ all WHITES with their LIES and half truths. Greedy GUILT is all it is. That is ‘The’ entire “1619 Project’! It is all about ‘Guilt’ for ‘MONEY’!
‘The 1619 Project’ is a LIE! It is a BLACK LIE!
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