September 3, 2020

Snowflake Lullaby

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It didn’t have to happen the way it did. The trade in slaves/captives became a huge profit as Europeans would have to buy their people back from slavery. St Patrick: Kidnapped by Pirates and Enslaved at 16. Cutler Beckett was involved in slave-trading before he became the Governor of the East India Trading Company. These pirates raided villages in Spain, France, Italy, England, and sometimes even in Scandinavia. Saint Patrick Retold: The Legend and History of Ireland's Patron Saint, How St. Patrick's Day Was Made in America. But slavery was not part of the original plan for the colony. Slavery alongside democracy; oppression amidst freedom. Slavery can be traced back to the earliest records, such as the Code of Hammurabi (ca. Patrick wrote in the Confessio that six years into his captivity, an angel appeared in a dream and told him, “You have fasted well. “One of the most horrifying features of the period is the wholesale enslavement of freemen and -women,” writes Thomas Cahill in How the Irish Saved Civilization. Slave trade was practiced by all European colonial powers: England, France, Holland and Spain. Today, the old slave-trading hall outside the capital is a museum with whips and manacles and other artifacts of human bondage. Slavery typically required a shortage of labor and a surplus of land to be viable. Saint Patrick was a slave in Ireland for six years and eventually returned to his homeland, entering the clergy. They replaced Native American slaves, who were found to be susceptible to diseases of European origin. The timing coincided with the arrival in Virginia a month later of two ships, the White Lion and the Treasurer, carrying the enslaved whom the pirates sold to several leading settlers. The pirates found prisoners instead and took about 60 of the Africans and headed north toward Virginia, the closest port. Patrick had his first converts. According to the traditional narrative, Patrick was born into a well-to-do family around 386 A.D. and grew up along Great Britain’s western coast, likely in Wales, which was part of the Roman Empire at the time. He turned the ship into his own flagship and renamed her the Queen Anne's Revenge. “The probability that Patrick managed to cross from his alleged place of captivity in western Ireland back to Britain undetected, at a time when transportation was extremely complicated, is highly unlikely.”. The arrival of 20 and odd enslaved Africans in 1619 has been called the beginning of U.S. slavery. Calabar was one of the major slave-trading ports of the EITC on the west coast of Africa. The following year the two appear again in a census, this time along with “William theire Child Baptised’’ – the first identified child born of Africans parents on the mainland of English America. Patrick’s knowledge of Ireland’s language and customs facilitated his work in converting and baptizing Druid priests, chieftains and aristocrats by the thousands before his death on March 17 in 461 A.D. READ MORE: How St. Patrick's Day Was Made in America. But two decades ago, a researcher found a shipping document in the Spanish national archives that told of a raid by two pirate ships in July 1619 on a slave ship, the San Juan Bautista, en route to Mexico. As the governor of Bermuda wrote, slaves were “the most proper and cheap instruments’’ for raising tobacco. “In the slavery business, no tribe was fiercer or more feared than the Irish.” As Roman power waned, forays by Irish raiders grew more common. Share your story: Help record black history by leaving us a message. Roy Flechner, author of Saint Patrick Retold: The Legend and History of Ireland's Patron Saint, has raised doubts about the legend of the saint’s time in slavery. The “Barbary Coast” is the European term for the North African areas now called Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya. However, when Jack Sparrow, captain of the Wicked Wench, refused to carry out this sinful task, Cutler Beckett ordered Sparrow's ship destroyed and Sparrow himself branded a pirate. The East India Trading Company was also involved in the transport of slaves from Africa to the Caribbean. 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