{"id":317855,"date":"2024-02-25T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2024-02-25T13:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=317855"},"modified":"2024-02-25T13:34:20","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T17:34:20","slug":"black-history-month-redefining-the-use-of-words-related-to-the-enslavement-of-africans-in-the-americas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/black-history-month\/black-history-month-redefining-the-use-of-words-related-to-the-enslavement-of-africans-in-the-americas\/","title":{"rendered":"BLACK HISTORY MONTH: Redefining the use of words related to the enslavement of Africans in the Americas"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_317856\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-317856\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-317856\" src=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/318344802_110202851929541_471994461358027661_n-642x657.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"655\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-317856\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Desmond Bollers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In an effort to diminish the heinousness of the crime against humanity represented by slavery, apologists for slavery have propagated the false narrative that the Africans who were transported across the Atlantic between 1500 and 1850 had already been slaves in Africa therefore no one should have a problem with slavery in the Americas.<\/p>\n<p>We Africans, both in the Americas and in Africa, need to be careful regarding the language we use lest we unwittingly subscribe to and promulgate that false narrative.<\/p>\n<p>Take the use of the terms \u2018slave trade\u2019, \u2018slave traders\u2019, and \u2018slave ships\u2019 to refer to the trafficking of kidnapped Africans across the Atlantic, the persons who engaged in that horrific endeavor, and the ships that transported the kidnap<br \/>\nvictims. We need to characterize the whole system correctly. The Africans were not slaves in Africa. They were captured in inter-tribal wars instigated by the Europeans either through threats or bribery.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, the persons transporting these kidnap victims\/prisoners of war across the Atlantic were not \u2018slave traders\u2019 they were human traffickers. The ships were human trafficking vessels, and the trade was human trafficking not \u2018slave trading\u2019. Our ancestors did not become enslaved until they were sold in the \u2018slave markets\u2019 after landing in the Americas at which point, they became enslaved Africans. We never talk about \u2018Irish indentures\u2019 or \u2018the indentures\u2019 when speaking about the indentured Irish, so why don\u2019t we accord Africans the same respect and refrain from using the terms \u2018African slaves\u2019 or \u2018the slaves\u2019 to refer to the enslaved Africans.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, we should never use the terms \u2018slave revolt\u2019 or \u2018slave uprising\u2019 to refer to their attempts to gain their freedom. Rather those were revolts or uprisings by enslaved Africans. Another example of the way in which apologists for slavery use language to influence our thinking about the institution is when they use the term \u201crunning away\u201d to describe marronage as if the maroons were unhappy or disgruntled children running away from home.<\/p>\n<p>We wouldn\u2019t say that Papillon \u201cran away\u201d from Devil\u2019s Island or that prisoners of war \u201cran away\u201d from POW camps. Enslaved Africans did not \u201crun away\u201d from plantations or mines, they escaped. Escaping or even planning an escape required tremendous courage, determination, and fortitude. The dangers included being tracked by Black Miskito\/Miskito Zambo trackers and being torn apart by Cuban \u201cBloodhounds\u201d which were not actually bloodhounds but were attack dogs (Dogo Cubano) bred specifically to hunt Africans.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, we should never say that \u201cslaves were imported into country x\u201d. This information should be rendered as \u201ckidnapped Africans were trafficked to country x and sold into slavery\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I emphasize these points when I teach the online course \u2018Freedom Fighters of the Caribbean\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>So, to sum it up, we need to think carefully about the message we are conveying when we use the words apologists for slavery have deliberately associated with slavery.<\/p>\n<p>Follow me on Facebook at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/desmondbollers2\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/desmondbollers2<\/a> or visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caribfree.net\/\">https:\/\/www.caribfree.net\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In an effort to diminish the heinousness of the crime against humanity represented by slavery, apologists for slavery have propagated the false narrative that the Africans who were transported across the Atlantic between 1500 and 1850 had already been 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