The simplesimon all inclusive thread

[simplesimon]

History of the African Slave Trade https://www.history.com/news/america...jamestown-1619
American Slavery https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/slavery
Largest African slave colony Brazil (Native Indians slaves too) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Brazil
Slavery in Spanish Floridahttps://www.nps.gov/casa/learn/histo...-1565-1821.htm

African Slave trade started in 1441 in North Africa (Mauritania) with the Portuguese. Then in 1490 in Hispaniola (the Dominican Republic and Haiti) by the Spanish. Then In 1526, on the North America Continent (South Carolina today) by the Spanish. The slaves rebelled and prevented the Spanish slave colony there. Then in 1540 in Brazil by the Portuguese. In 1565 in St. Augustine (state of Florida) by the Spanish. In 1619, slavery did unofficially start in America but was first legalized by the government in 1644 in the state of Massachusetts. African leaders also had a big involvement in the African slave trade. Many Anglo-Christians defended slavery using the Bible. For example, white Christian apologists for slavery argued that the curse of Ham in Genesis Chapter 9 and verses 20 to 25 provided a biblical rationale for the enslavement of Blacks.

https://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetec...nts-in-the-us/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa...olutionary_War


Indentured servitude is a form of labor in which a person is contracted to work without salary for a specific number of years.

It was often a way for Europeans to migrate to the American colonies: they signed an indenture in return for a costly passage. However, the system was also used to exploit many of them, as well as Asians (mostly from India and China) who wanted to migrate to the New World. These Asian people were used mainly to construct roads and railway systems. After their indenture expired, the immigrants were free to work for themselves or another employer.

Between one-half and two-thirds of European immigrants to the American Colonies between the 1630s and the American Revolution came under indentures.
In 1619 the first black Africans came to Virginia. With no slave laws in place, they were initially treated as indentured servants, and given the same opportunities for freedom dues as whites. However, slave laws were soon passed – in Massachusetts in 1641 and Virginia in 1661 –and any small freedoms that might have existed for blacks were taken away.

demands for labor grew, so did the cost of indentured servants. Many landowners also felt threatened by newly freed servants demand for land. The colonial elite realized the problems of indentured servitude. Landowners turned to African slaves as a more profitable and ever-renewable source of labor and the shift from indentured servants to racial slavery had begun.

Black slaves made up 9,000 of the Patriots army (US) and 20,000 escaped Black slaves of the British Loyalist army. Most of the Black Loyalists served in the south where they were formerly oppressed badly by American slave owners.

On November 7, 1775, Loyal Governor of Virginia, Lord Dunmore issued the Dunmore's Proclamation: "I do hereby further declare all indented servants, Negroes, or others, (appertaining to Rebels,) free, that are able and willing to bear arms, they joining His Majesty's Troops." By December 1775 the British army had 300 enslaved men wearing a military uniform. Sewn-on the breast of the uniform was the inscription "Liberty to Slaves". These enslaved men were designated as "Lord Dunmore's Ethiopian Regiment."

In Savannah, Augusta, and Charleston, when threatened by Patriot forces, the British filled gaps in their troops with African Americans. In October 1779, about 200 Black Loyalist soldiers assisted the British in successfully defending Savannah against a joint French and American Patriot attack.

At the Siege of Yorktown in 1781, Baron Closen, a German officer in the French Royal Deux-Ponts Regiment, estimated about one-quarter of the American army to be Black men. A famous Black patriot was Jack Peterson of Westchester whose quick thinking helped repel British forces in Croton, New York.[19] Peterson's actions threw Benedict Arnold’s treasonous plans into disarray and led to the capture of Major Andre.

Cornwallis declined to return slaves who served his forces unless "they are willing to go with" the owners who claimed them.[35] Following the Siege of Yorktown, however, General Washington issued an order for all "Negroes or Molattoes" fighting for the British to be held until they could be returned to their former owners.

The British evacuation of Charleston in December 1782 included many Loyalists and more than 5,000 Black men. More than half of these were enslaved by the Loyalists; they were taken by their masters for resettlement in the West Indies, where the Loyalists started or bought plantations. The British also settled freed African Americans in Jamaica and other West Indian islands, eventually granting them land. Another 500 enslaved people were taken alongside their Loyalist masters to East Florida, which remained under British control. About 200 formerly enslaved people were taken to London with British forces as free people.

Supporters in England organized to establish a colony in West Africa for the resettlement of Poor Blacks of London, most of whom were formerly enslaved in America. Freetown was the first settlement established of what became the colony of Sierra Leone.

In the first two decades following the Revolution, most northern states abolished slavery, some by a gradual method others such as Vermont and Massachusetts did so during the Revolutionary period. Northern states abolished slavery by law or in their new constitutions. By 1810, about 75 percent of all African Americans in the North were free. By 1840, virtually all African Americans in the North were either free or living in free state jurisdiction.

At the time of the ratification of the Constitution in 1789, free Black men could vote in five of the thirteen states, including North Carolina. That demonstrated that they were considered citizens not only of their states but of the United States.

Some revolutionary leaders began to be fearful of using Black men in the armed forces. They were afraid that enslaved people who were armed would cause slave rebellions. Slave owners became concerned that military service would eventually free their people.

In 1792, the United States Congress formally excluded African Americans from military service, allowing only "free able-bodied white male citizens" to serve. Southern states also banned all enslaved men from their militias. North Carolina was among the states that allowed free people of color to serve in their militias and bear arms until the 1830s.

[simplesimon]

The Revolutionary War Troops

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/a...ing-revolution

https://historycollection.com/africa...ts-and-things/

Allies:

United States 40,000
France 10,800
Spain 12,000
9,000 African Americans


Opponents:

Britain 48,000
Germany 29,875
Native Americans 13,000
African Americans 20,000
US Americans: 5,000

[Moe the Crow]

The Revolutionary War Troops

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/a...ing-revolution

https://historycollection.com/africa...ts-and-things/

Allies:

United States 40,000
France 10,800
Spain 12,000
9,000 African Americans


Opponents:

Britain 48,000
Germany 29,875
Native Americans 13,000
African Americans 20,000
US Americans: 5,000

Do the demographic breakdown of ww2 deaths simp.

[PGCountyRaven85]

The Revolutionary War Troops

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/a...ing-revolution

https://historycollection.com/africa...ts-and-things/

Allies:

United States 40,000
France 10,800
Spain 12,000
9,000 African Americans


Opponents:

Britain 48,000
Germany 29,875
Native Americans 13,000
African Americans 20,000
US Americans: 5,000

Wow. This is interesting, I didn’t know this.


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[simplesimon]

Wow. This is interesting, I didn’t know this.


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Yes, and there more things too. The way things are going in this country, I decided to do a history checkup of how the colonists became wealthy, like when you go to the doctor and he/she want to look at your medical history. Not only did the wealth come from the slave trade, it also came from drug dealing opium which is known today as heroin and in the medicinal field morphine for severe pain. Foreign traders (primarily British) had been illegally exporting opium mainly from India to China since the 18th century, but that trade grew dramatically from about 1820. The resulting widespread addiction in China was causing serious social and economic disruption there. The Opium Wars arose from China’s attempts to suppress the opium addiction of its people.

Link: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Opium-Wars

You can check my other topics that were moved to the trash heap by the moderator. More things about history there.

[simplesimon]

The true identities of the natives before the colonial invasions:

https://shorturl.at/crsvg Native North American Indian

https://www.lifegate.com/app/uploads...mazzonica1.jpg Native Central American Indian


https://shorturl.at/FFkwm Native South American Indian

[Greg]

Do us a favor and just put all of your stuff in here. Either that or they will be moved.

[jonboy79]

Do us a favor and just put all of your stuff in here. Either that or they will be moved.

I feel sorry that you can’t have him on ignore like the rest of us.


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[Culex]

Simon all you have been doing lately is polluting this site with nonsense

[blah3]

I hate to help keep this thread going but i gotta comment on this….

Simon’s assertion that the US (or any nation) became wealthy because of slavery is flat wrong.

[Culex]

I hate to help keep this thread going but i gotta comment on this….

Simon’s assertion that the US (or any nation) became wealthy because of slavery is flat wrong.

Lol im about as patriotic as you can possibly get and even I am not going to act as if the U.S. didn't economically prosper from slavery when we clearly did. Cotton was responsible for about 60% of all exports.

[blah3]

Lol im about as patriotic as you can possibly get and even I am not going to act as if the U.S. didn't economically prosper from slavery when we clearly did. Cotton was responsible for about 60% of all exports.

Sorry 1860 northern economy was much much better than the southern economy.
Its also not patriotic thing. England didnt become rich because of slavery. And brazil who had twice as maby slaves was basically a pauper nation before it got rid of slavery.