Category Archives: Slave economy

Fantasy

Posted on July 2, 2015 by admin

If I am not who you say I am then you are not who you think you are. Whenever observance for July 4th approaches, historical reflection is appropriate. This year, 2015, has been a time when chickens came home to … Continue reading →

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Slave Power: A Nation by Any Means

Posted on June 29, 2012 by admin

“On all matters affecting slaves, concessions to the South was the price to be paid if there was to be any union at all.” Negro President by Gary Wills, Houghton Mifflin Company (2003) The power of slavery shaped how this … Continue reading →

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Myths of Creation

Posted on May 29, 2012 by admin

In the British Virginia Colony during the summer of 1619, two events took place within weeks of each other that would shape the United States of America in profoundly contradictory ways.  One event was the initial legislative assembly of Englishmen … Continue reading →

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A History Ignored

Posted on March 22, 2012 by admin

On St. Croix in the U.S Virgin Islands, both residents and visitors daily enjoy a visual paradise and few are aware of the history and people who created this beauty. From the Cay in the Christiansted Harbor, the view of … Continue reading →

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One in Every Home: The African American Presence, a Measure of Success

Posted on March 7, 2012 by admin

The pervasiveness of Africans and their enslavement in the Americas is not yet realized. We can present statistics such as seventy-seven percent of the immigrants to the “New World” were African until the 1820’s when European immigration began to be … Continue reading →

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Source Documents for Blog Visitors, February 2012

Posted on February 4, 2012 by admin

This project is committed to getting out information to those who are interested. We pledged to provide readers quarterly with materials that we base the posts upon, so here are the second quarter’s materials as promised by category with annotation. … Continue reading →

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Credit and Debt: A World of Trouble?

Posted on December 31, 2011 by admin

Although this blog writer is not a trained economist, patterns can be discerned. Debt, credit, and product are the means to power and control for a select group of people in the world. The history and development of the Western … Continue reading →

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The Warp and Weft: Why Are We So Black and Blue?

Posted on October 16, 2011 by admin

Numbers transformed into a human context is the skill of the social scientist: the anthropologist, psychologist, sociologist, historian and economist. But from the artisan, we might use a metaphor from weaving in arguing that much of the wealth of the … Continue reading →

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How Sweet It Is

Posted on October 8, 2011 by admin

A few months ago, a television ad in promoting its product challenged the notion that high fructose was a bad thing. In our culture the origin of sweetening and our conditioning to it has its roots in transatlantic slavery. This … Continue reading →

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Human Wastage: The Price of Doing Business

Posted on September 9, 2011 by admin

In researching this project, I have started reading The Slave Ship: A Human History by Marcus Rediker (2008). He argues that the African transatlantic slave trade was the first rung in the ladder of global capitalism, or what we know now as … Continue reading →

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