On July 4, 1776, thirteen rogue English colonies declared, their independence from England. This historic divestiture of English immigrants resulted in the eventual creation of the United States of America. I’m proud to be a natural-born American, but I am aghast by America’s savage history.
Prior to America’s Independence Day (July 4, 1776), this country’s early immigrant colonists had been importing and enslaving Africans for 157 years to build this country!
“In 1619, the Dutch introduced the first captured Africans to America, planting the seeds of a slavery system that evolved into a nightmare of abuse and cruelty that would ultimately divide the nation,” The History Channel (“Slavery in America”).
Those of us of African ancestry know that our early African forefathers were brought to this land by force. From 1619 to 1776, America’s slave trade was booming, African children were separated from their parents. Our African ancestors were brutally beaten, raped, and killed for trivial-arbitrary reasons–and wealthy family dynasties were built on the FREE labor produced by the sweat, blood, tears, and ignored deaths of millions of slaves that toiled the land and factories! Old affluent families like the Vanderbilts, the John Batts family in Georgia, and the Thomas Walker family (a direct ancestor of U.S. Presidents George W. Bush and George H.W. Bush), just to name a few, became rich and politically powerful from slave labor/slave ownership/slave trading.
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