Slavery: The Rite to Freedom

Slavery:

The Rite of Passage

When the large grandiose Portuguese ships arrived off the Guinea Coast it was known to everyone why they had come. Mainly it was for the riches of gold, ivory and pepper. Yet there was a deeper darker commodity that they craved as well, the growing demand for production workers, they called slaves.

                Columbus’s voyage changed the trade world so dramatically that supply and demand grew to gregarious proportions. Similarly the African Government was in the midst of their expansion into The Kingdom of the Congo’s. Therefore the immigrants’ of Africa made themselves for easy targets and prisoners’ of war as they further sabotaged their people by selling off their own enemies and oppressors to trade groups many called the Atlantic Slave Trade Society (Darlene Hine, 2004,p.15).

                It did not happen overnight; rather the main intentions of the european foreigners were to purchace the Africans at a fair price to do the job of serventry. After all, African tribesman were no strangers to this type of debauchery, they traded ethnic family members within their tribes for centuries simply because there was no racial solidarity (Darlene Hine,p. 16).

                Europeanist didn’t instigate the war but they waited in the wings to capture their prisioners and ship them to the Americas. The passage of these slaves was horrible and brutal that many generations had to endure as prisioners of war. The slaves never gained their right of passage they so richly deserved. The africans had no idea what it was to discriminate the mortality of human beings and because of their ignornace they were attacked and preyed upon for mnay years.

                Unfortunatly, greed and self serving goverments led to the demise of the African American descendants as slaves. Europeanism craved the prosperity of the Americas and the riches of Spanish Gold. The Carribbean islands provided anappealing array of spices to sweeten the soul. These very things that were to provide comfort had a high price tag on it. To many the Americas was  a second chance at a newl ife of freedom from debauchery and the force of the King. Even though  the founding fathers did just that, many years of suffering came and the ground was rich  in blood as the high price for passage to America and freedom.

                It’s a funny thing, Freedom in all respects is freedom from war, government communisim, and discrimination of race. After all these years we have lived in the Americas, the price is stil being paid with bloodshed. Many Men have stood up like Martin Luther King, to illiminate the bloodshed and dsicrimination even the new impending President Elect Obama. As we look to the future for the first time in peace, and hope to finnally earn our right of passage in the Americas, land of the free.

 

Sources

Darlene Hine, W. H. African Americans: A Concise History. Upper Saddle , New Jersey Vol.1 p 15-124.