John Henrik Clarke Quotes
After the Moslem Africans lost control over Spain, they began to prey on the Africans further to the south. They destroyed the great independent states in West Africa, and subsequently set Africa up for the Western slave trade and the Arabs were in the slave trade before Islam and they are still in the slave trade.
Clarke, John Henrik. Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust: Slavery and the Rise of European Capitalism. A&B Publishers Group, 1992.
Earl of Cromer
In 1672, the English trading company, the Company Of Royal Adventurers, rechartered itself changing it name to the Royal African Company to focus on the Slave Trade. By 1687 the company was given the exclusive right to trade between the Gold Coast and the British colonies in America. James, Duke of York, (later to be King James II, was interested in this company, and it agreed to supply the West Indies with three thousand slaves annually. in 1698, on account of the incessant clamor of English merchants, the trade was opened generally, and any vessel carrying the British flag was, by act of Parliament, permitted to engage in it on payment of a duty.
American reformers followed slavery issues in Africa and elsewhere. The status of Africa was particularly important as the notion of extensive American Black colonization was still viable to many.
Often referred to as “The Dean of Black Historians.”. Although critical of the behavior of Africans involvement in the slave trade, Person-Lynn maintains that there was a qualitative difference between African concepts of slavery where the enslavement was conceptually of human beings whereas the chattel slavery of the Atlantic trade considered the slaves as sub-human property. It is arguable as to which of the two views is the greater moral failure, but many regard it as a difference not worth much in that both views were grossly immoral and had devastating consequences for a large number of people.
Often referred to as “The Dean of Black Historians.”
The colonists had united for a war against the Narraganset Indians. The Charter allowed them to keep captives as slaves.
St. Domingue was the name of Haiti which had had the only successful national slave revolt, but it was incredibly bloody with many casualties.
The Spaniardes have executed most outragious and more then Turkishe cruelties in all the west Indies
He was one of the strongest English advocates of colonization of the New World. At that time this was as strong an epithet of cruelty as could be made by Europeans. It was an accurate assessment.
See the Vermont Constitution for another variant of how slavery was abolished: {616994}
He was writing about the natives of what is today Indonesia. At the time Indonesia was controlled by the Dutch. Heurmius was writing about the difficulty in converting Indonesians to Christianity.
After his Presidency, Adams served in the House of Representatives for many years and was thus active in politics.
A Kafir is a non-Muslim. This statement is a distortion of a number of passages of the Koran.
Slavery is officially against the civil law in all nations including Muslim countries. However, nothing in Islamic law prohibits slavery. Those who would have Sharia law often forget that slavery would then be legal PROVIDED the slaves are not Muslims. The legal prohibitions against slavery are not enforced in a number of countries including Saudi Arabia. Even officially slavery was legal in that country until the early 1960s. Apologists for Islamic slavery point out that it is very humane and any individual who wants to be free can be just by becoming a Muslim. He is then no longer able to be held in slavery. They justify the practice as it encourages non believers to become Muslims, the most important goal.
When the first Southern States seceded, each appointed a whose job it was to persuade the other Southern States to also secede. In this case Hale was marketing secession to Kentucky which with Maryland were the only two Southern States to reject what they regarded as treason and rebellion. The importance of the quotation however is in his argument which was all based on enmity to racial equality and abolition. Later Southern apologists would argue that the Civil War was fought, not about slavery and racism butt about different philosophies of government. See {623715} .
The term “slave soldiers” oversimplifies the relationships which existed in Islamic societies. For example the Sultans of the Ottoman Turks established networks of non-Muslim minorities, Christians, Jews and others who while slaves could wield tremendous power. Grand Viziers were even slaves. The slavery concept meant that the Sultan had the power of arbitrary life and death over the soldier which is what he wanted for his key units. Islamic law prohibited Muslims from holding other Muslims as slaves.
The king knew the whites had designs on his kingdom. See Mwanga.
John Henrik Clarke was an American historian, professor, and pioneer in the creation of Pan-African and Africana studies and professional institutions in academia starting in the late 1960s.
