500 Years of Indigenous Resistance by Gord Hill

Author:Gord Hill
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: HIS028000
ISBN: 9781604862614
Publisher: PM Press
Published: 2009-10-31T16:00:00+00:00

Ostensibly a moral crusade to “abolish slavery”, the U.S. Civil War of 1861-65 was in reality a conflict between the commercial and industrial development of the North against the agrarian stagnation based on Afrikan peoples’ slave labour of the South.

By the 19th century, 10 to 15 million Afrikan peoples had been relocated to the Americas by first Portuguese, then English, Spanish, and U.S. colonialists.

These peoples came from all regions of Afrika: Senegal, the Ivory Coast, Angola, Mozambique, etc.-and from many Afrikan Nations: the Yoruba, Kissi, Senefu, Foulah, Fons, Adjas, and many others.

Enslaved, these peoples were forced to labour in the mines, textile mills, factories, and plantations that served first the European markets and, after the wars for independence, the newly-created nation-states of the Americas.

The slave-trade in both American and Afrikan Indigenous peoples was absolutely necessary for the European colonization of the Americas. The forced relocation of millions of Afrikan peoples also introduced new dynamics into the colonization process, not only in the economics of European occupation, but also in the development of Afrikan peoples’ resistance.

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