By: Andrew Scott

SLAVERY

There is evidence that shows slavery existed before slavery was recorded in records.

Modern slavery began on the morning of August 8, 1444.

First cargo of 235 Africans, taken from what is now Senegal, were put ashore at the Portuguese port of Lagos.

Portuguese purchased their slaves from African and Arab middlemen.

Slavery effectively exterminated entire peoples in African hinterland.

SLAVERY CONT. Between 1492 and 1820, five or six times as many Africans went to America as

white Europeans.

Slavery made Brazil, the Caribbean, and southern North America into multiracial societies in which Africans soon outnumbered the dwindling indigenous inhabitants or replaced them altogether.

Both the Old Testament and the Qur’an accepted that it was legitimate to enslave individuals, and indeed entire populations, in the pursuit of supposedly just wars, and there is nothing in the gospels to contradict this.

The Pacific was in fact the final

frontier.

On April 4th, 1798 a French

nobleman, mathematician, and

explorer, landed on the island of

Tahiti, which he called “New

Cythera.”

It was thought that the Pacific islands

were potential states on the route to

the fabled southern continent-should

it have existed.

Tahiti was finally established as a

French colony in 1880 after having

been devastated by Protestant

missionaries, European traders, and

beachcombers for nearly a century.

Bougainville called Tahiti an earthly paradise where men and women live happily in innocence.

He also called the inhabitances; noble savages.

After many Europeans left the island the traditional society was disrupted by guns, prostitution, venereal disease, alcohol and Christianity.

In 1835 Charles

Darwin visited

Tahiti aboard the

HMS Beagle on

her

circumnavigation

.

SOURCES:

MetroBibleBlog. April 15, 2011. http://metrobibleblog.wordpress.com/2010/02/05/did-god-approve-of-slavery-in-the-old-testament/

Parksfacts Blog. April 15, 2011. http://parksfacts.blogspot.com/2011/01/slave-trade.html

P.A.P. Blog. April 14, 2011. http://filipspagnoli.wordpress.com/2010/12/30/human-rights-maps-113-slavery-in-the-u-s/

Pagden, Anthony. Peoples and Empires. London: Weidenfeld &Nicolson, 2001. Print

Ortzion. April 16, 2011. http://www.ortzion.org/bunny-trail_Joseph_3.html

Wikipedia. April 17, 2011. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyage_autour_du_monde

Wikipedia. April 17, 2011. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahiti