Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2016 17:48:16 GMT 7
............................."They also want to make sure that a practice known as "Blackbirding" done in the 1800s in Qld where low paid labor was imported to work the sugar as locals wanted too much paydoes not occur.".........................
I entered "England + slavery" into Google and there were 22,800,000 results ! Don't worry, England was one of the major players in the slave trade.
I doubt if they would have been the least concerned with a bit of blackbirding.
abolition.e2bn.org/slavery_45.html
..............................."Captain John Hawkins made the first known English slaving voyage to Africa, in 1562, in the reign of Elizabeth 1. Hawkins made three such journeys over a period of six years. He captured over 1200 Africans and sold them as goods in the Spanish colonies in the Americas.
To start with, British traders supplied slaves for the Spanish and Portuguese colonists in America. However, as British settlements in the Caribbean and North America grew, often through wars with European countries such as Holland, Spain and France, British slave traders increasingly supplied British colonies
The exact number of British ships that took part in the Slave Trade will probably never be known but, in the 245 years between Hawkins first voyage and the abolition of the Slave Trade in 1807, merchants in Britain despatched about 10,000 voyages to Africa for slaves, with merchants in other parts of the British Empire perhaps fitting out a further 1,150 voyages.".........................................
I entered "England + slavery" into Google and there were 22,800,000 results ! Don't worry, England was one of the major players in the slave trade.
I doubt if they would have been the least concerned with a bit of blackbirding.
abolition.e2bn.org/slavery_45.html
..............................."Captain John Hawkins made the first known English slaving voyage to Africa, in 1562, in the reign of Elizabeth 1. Hawkins made three such journeys over a period of six years. He captured over 1200 Africans and sold them as goods in the Spanish colonies in the Americas.
To start with, British traders supplied slaves for the Spanish and Portuguese colonists in America. However, as British settlements in the Caribbean and North America grew, often through wars with European countries such as Holland, Spain and France, British slave traders increasingly supplied British colonies
The exact number of British ships that took part in the Slave Trade will probably never be known but, in the 245 years between Hawkins first voyage and the abolition of the Slave Trade in 1807, merchants in Britain despatched about 10,000 voyages to Africa for slaves, with merchants in other parts of the British Empire perhaps fitting out a further 1,150 voyages.".........................................
