Neil,
People will study whatever parts of history interest them. Putting the name
of an unknown African on a rock at Poquoson would not be correct, inasmuch
as the slaves came in initially at Jamestown.
But, if you want to make the point that Africans enslaved Africans before
the British came to the idea, go ahead and write a book or two and make your
case. In the meantime, those interested in naming the AMERICANS who were
complicit in this long chain of immorality, should not be challenged. The
CHRISTIANS and those who cheered for and/or signed the Declaration of
Independence were promising a NEW way of living, an attempt at true freedom
for man, and then a decade later turned their backs on those brought here as
slaves.
How can men claim morality when they profess their love of their own freedom
and deny that self-same freedom to their neighbors and workers?
Anne
Anne Pemberton
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From: "macbd1" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 10:26 AM
Subject: Re: Richmond and VA slave Traders, plus Africa
> In Henry's attempt to shift focus away from Africans' responsibility for
> maiming, killing, capturing and enslaving their own people for sale to the
> world, his analogy and logic fall short -- and he doesn't offer help with
> names that was my pursuit. Weapons of all sorts that were useful for
> hunting, fishing and cleaning game were also substitutes for maiming and
> killing people since time's beginning, by those who would find any means
> for that result, initially their bare hands, blunt objects, sharp rocks or
> sticks, then malleable metals, (all of these still used) etc. etc. I
> simply wish to see one African slave-trader's name emblazoned on the shore
> of the Potomac for all people to remember the representative great evil.
> It is 'not' my intent to belittle subsequent evils within countries where
> slaves were taken, the vastly greater numbers being to other than British
> colonial America and its subsequent United States where slavery finally
> was ended with great loss of military lives.
>
> ......and slavery still continues 'today' in some parts of the world,
> where are our concerns expressed toward this additional matter?
>
> Neil McDonald
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Henry Wiencek" <[log in to unmask]>
>
> ....Instead of focusing our judicial fury on murderers, the
> "secondary few" who pull the trigger, we should hunt down the gun
> manufacturers, those who are "primarily responsible for the endless
> supply"
> of guns in our country and "share accountabilities" for gun violence. I
> think that's where we end up with this line of reasoning.
>
> Henry Wiencek
>
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