Re: Master and Commander...


"Bill McKee" <bmckeespam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> <chuckgould.chuck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > Bob wrote:
> >> On 2 Nov 2005 08:18:12 -0800, dbohara@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >>
> >> >I once read an interesting statistic concerning ships transporting
> >> >slaves through the "Middle Passage". I believe the book was "The
Slave
> >> >Trade". It said that the death rate among the sailors on these ships
> >> >was about 15-20% whereas the death rate of the slaves being
transported
> >> >was normally lower than that. The reason was that slaves were
> >> >valueable cargo whereas seamen were considered expendable.
> >>
> >> too bad all the sailors didn't die. maybe they would have learned a
> >> lesson.
> >>
> >
> > It would be pretty tough to lay more than a portion the moral blame for
> > the slave trade at the feet of the sailors working the ships. In some
> > cases, these ships recruited a "crew" among natives on the Ivory Coast,
> > and after sailing to the West Indies these so-called "crewmen" were
> > sold into slavery as well.
> >
> > Blame for slave trade must be shared, IMO, by:
> >
> > Arab and African slavers who raided farms and villages to gather
> > prisoners to sell into slavery. (Forget the opening scenes of "Roots"
> > where a bunch of overweight Europeans are running alongside hounds to
> > catch the natives on their own turf.)
> >
> > European "factory" traders who established trading posts and holding
> > pens
> > on the E coast of Africa and traded cheap muskets, fabrics, trinkets,
> > and tiny amounts of currency for captives.
> >
> > European governments which profited from the trade.
> >
> > European churches and other social agencies which failed to adequately
> > condemn it.
> >
> > Colonial planters who depended upon it.
> >
> > Consumers of cheap goods and agricultural produce that resulted from a
> > slave economy.
> >
> > While the US gets the majority of attention for slavery in the American
> > SE, slavery was also common in the north during the earliest years of
> > the Republic. Slavery was legal in most corners of the British Empire
> > until some time around 1830, (or so). We now quite often mistakenly
> > view it as a particularly American disgrace, almost 150 years after the
> > Emancipation, but it was a world-wide economic model- and problem.
> >
>
> And the only reason we did not ban slavery when, actually before Britain,
> was the fact Whitney invented the cotton gin and cotton plantations
expanded
> greatly. Up until that time, was becoming an uneconomical model.

Slavery is still a problem in parts of Africa


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