When Frederick Douglass spent time in Ireland in 1845, upon seeing the conditions of Irish peasants, he was stunned by their deprivation; “a board on a box for a table, rags on straw for a bed, and a picture of the crucifixion on the wall.” It reminded him of the conditions he saw in slave…
Author: Shahid Bolsen
Shahid Bolsen is the founder of the Middle Nation Movement.
As we know, the overwhelming majority of African slaves in the T…
As we know, the overwhelming majority of African slaves in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade were enslaved by fellow Africans and sold to European traders. They were not, as the mythology suggests, seized from their villages by marauding White raiders, chained and packed on slave ships bound for far-flung destinations — they were already in chains,…