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This was just
the beginning of the Islamic jihads or “holy wars”
which were equivalent to the European Crusades throughout
this continent. Remaining Jewish tribes were scattered
throughout the African continent and the African Muslims
found much pleasure in defeating our splintered nation
and enslaving us. Jewish tribes were already at risk
because we were settled in amongst Hamitic or African
nations in their lands. As time went on many Jewish
tribes began to be known as Falasha or “alien
nation”. And alien nation described the Jews well,
maintaining the culture passed down in the Scriptures,
our practices were completely foreign to those of the
surrounding pagan nations.
Many of our people were transported along the rivers
for sale throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. African Muslims
used similar sales methods as the later Europeans, utilizing
slave markets for slave inspection and sale. The Jewish
women were most often sold for harems. Some of the enslaved
Jews were taken to the Mediterranean area to serve as
domestic help. The sale and trade of portions of the
Jews went on up until the legendary Triangular Slave
Trade. By this time it was the native Africans that
had become masters in human commodity trade. Europeans
had utilized our people’s resources in the Mediterranean
during previous centuries through trade with the Muslims,
but when the colonization of the New World began they
realized that such a large source of labor would be
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So often people are led to believe the lie, often promoted
by the media how many people will forget Kunta Kinte running
from White slave catchers in Africa? This scene from Roots
by Alex Haley helps us believe the lie that Europeans came
into the interior of Africa and beat up and kidnapped a whole
continent of people This couldn’t be further from the
truth. In fact, Europeans often acted as junior partners to
African rulers and merchants in the slave trade along the
West African coast.
Unfamiliar with the immense African lands, fear of native
diseases like malaria, harsh offshore reefs and sandbars,
and developed system of African war methods made the possibility
of European invasion at this time infeasible. Beyond this
let’s recall the name given to this slave system. It
was called the Triangular Slave Trade. A triangle has three
points. The first was Europe, second was the African shores
the third was the American shores, then back to Europe. Some
form of trade took place at each location. The Africans sold
our people to the Europeans. They did not sell their own sons
and daughters, they sold the same people that they had been
selling for centuries, the Hebrew Israelites, the Jews.
Margaret Washingtion, Associate Professor of History at Cornell
University spoke about the African European Relationship.
In speaking of the trade that went on between the Africans
and the Europeans she stated that ..”..For Africans,
it’s mainly wanting to get extras, not the necessities
…But it is a trade that is controlled by the Africans”
So, truly we were sold not for important valuable goods but
sold for trinkets to Africa’s elites. A record kept
by an English slave merchant showed examples of items offered
like brandy and cloth as trade for 250 of our people.
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