Comments on: No compensation for slaves

By: Linda Edwards, Class of 1967

Linda Edwards, Class of 1967 — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 19:34:00 +0000

The transatlantic trade was mostly a triangle between Europe, West Africa and the Caribbean, and between North America, West Africa and the Caribbean. However, the most famous slave dealer in the area of Tanganika/Zanzibar, and reaching far into Central Africa,was a muslim named Tippu Tib. If you search him online you would learn how extensive his holding pens were in central Africa, from which he supplied slaves to whoever could pay for the.- Arabs supplying Saudi Arabia, slave traders to the western Hemisphere and those rajahs in India who wanted an exotic poodle in the form of a small page boy, who was African.Remember the little slave boy page in Pirates of the Caribbean? Such children were the toy poodles of the late eighteenth andearly nineteenth century.I hope this gives you enough to find what you are seeking.

By: PJEFFREY

PJEFFREY — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 14:39:20 +0000

Good info Ms.Edwards OF 67′. Clarify something for me….cause my head just got real HOT; Did the Indians get in on the Transatlantic atrocities too or are you referring to another trade bet them and the muslims of India?

By: Linda Edwards, Class of 1967

Linda Edwards, Class of 1967 — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 23:47:23 +0000

Revisionism is part of all political history. When once the state gets hold of the textbook printing business, watch out. I heard the Indian Nobel Laureate, Armatya Sen speak at a World Council Forum in Houston some years ago, and bought his book- The Argumentative Indian. He has chapters on how the Janata Hindu Party tried to revise Indian history to erase the Muslins of the Munghal period
from the textbooks, and the Congress Party had to fight them continuously on that.The Taj Mahal was built during the Munghal period, the most beautiful Muslim shrine in the world. I went to see the Classical Dancers of Rajastan- a Muslim state, and group, and they were wonderful. They are distinctly Muslim, they do the dance of the Sufi(dervishes who whirl in ecstacy for God), but the majority Hindu parties in India, do not give them full rights. (Go see the movie Slum Dog Millioniare, and recognize that the children who are being blinded to become beggars are Muslim and their handlers are not). You may begin to understand why they think it is the same thing. Slavery also existed in British India and was not abolished until 1888.They enslaved Africans and poor Indians of the lower castes. Debt slavery still exists in many parts of rural India. There are many unlettered, and therefore ignorant people in Trinidad, posing as sages and Guru-jis. They need exposing with the facts.
It is a fact that for one hundred miles inland from Mali to the Congo River, in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, there were no people living. The slave raiders had emptied the coastal towns.Estimates of the people forcibly removed from the continent go as high as twenty million, with about half of them dying on the Middle Passage. Some historians think those figures are too low, and have projected one hundred million instead. Indians, Arabs and Europeans were slave traders.

By: PJEFFREY

PJEFFREY — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:32:51 +0000

Salient words Ms edwards of 67′. Who am i to judge him…..that’s what anger does to the soul i guess. If in later life he evolved into something special then that in itself is highly commendable…most of us NEVER reach to that realm.

Why are some of these people posting here trying to create mischief by denying slavery existed? And why are they further comparing it to the Hindu / Muslim struggle? They are not the same. Never will be! I always say walk a mile in my ancestors’ footsteps and come again!