I read a book called 'The Slave Trade' by Nigel Sadler and
here are a collection of quotes from that book telling the story of the slave
trade which I have posted on various people’s profiles on Facebook:
'...the first known
British trader in Africans was John Hawkins. Between 1562 and 1567, Hawkins
made four journeys between the Sierra
Leone River
and Hispaniola (modern day Haiti and the Dominican Republic ),
taking a total of 1,200 enslaved Africans to sell to the Spanish settlers.'
'prices had already
been arranged with the quick for what quantity of each goods a female, male and
child slave would raise'
'Bristol owes ALL
her prosperity, nay, her existence to commerce with the West
Indies .'
'I never before
witnessed such a Christmas Day; the negroes have been beating their tambourines
and dancing the whole day and now between eight and nine o'clock they are pursuing their sport as
hotly as ever'.
'I feel great sorrow
when I hear some people in this country say that the slaves do not need better
usage, and do not want to be free.'
'The First Maroon War
was led by Cudjoe and Nanny of the Maroons'
'In 1806 Lord
Grenville formed a new government and argued that the slave trade was 'contrary
to the principles of justice, humanity and sound policy'. In 1807 the Abolition
of the Slave Trade bill was passed with clear majorities in both the House of
Commons and House of Lords'.
'Harriet Jacobs
recalled that 'the mistress, who ought to protect the helpless victim, has no
other feelings towards her but those of jealousy and rage'.'
'Harriet Jacobs wrote
in 1861, 'I now entered my fifteenth year... He tried his utmost to corrupt the
pure principles my grandmother had instilled... He told me I was his property;
that I must be subject to his will in all things.''
'1948 Universal
Declaration of Human rights 'No one shall be held in slavery or servitutde;
slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms''
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