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Red Arrow Slaves Remains Shipwreck Discovered >May be The Last Boat Shipped to US

Shipwreck Discovered in Alabama May be Remains of Last Boat to Bring Slaves to US...

Illegal Cargo of Slaves was Smuggled into the US in 1859 by Slavers Who Had Placed a Bet on Successfully Flouting the Law


Independent UK, 26 Jan 2018...




Sketch of a ship used to transport slaves in the 1750s Getty
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The wreckage of a boat discovered on a riverbank in Alabama is thought to be that of the Clotilda, the last vessel to bring African slaves into the US.


The ship wreck, which has not been formally identified, was found when unusually low tides revealed charred wood and rusted metal in a river delta and were spotted by a reporter for Alabama website AL.com.


The 86-foot schooner was burned and scuttled after delivering its illegal human cargo at Mobile Bay in Autumn 1859.


Slavery was abolished six years later with the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution in 1865, but it had been illegal to import slaves to the US since 1808... after a lengthy court case in England UK.



Despite the law, slavers Captain Timothy Meaher and Captain William Foster had placed a bet that they could smuggle a shipment of 110 slaves from Africa into America.

“These were already rich men, they just did this to prove they could do it”, said Ben Raines, who found the wreck.

When Captain Foster returned, fearful of discovery by the federal authorities, he arrived in Mobile Bay at night and transferred the slaves to the shore by a separate riverboat, before returning to the Clotilda to burn and sink it.



The slaves were put to work in several nearby plantations. They and their descendants remained in the area after the abolition of slavery, naming the community Africatown.

Greg Cook, a University of West Florida archaeologist who examined the wreck, said there were many indications the find was the genuine article.


He told AL.com:

“You can definitely say maybe, and maybe even a little bit stronger, because the location is right, the construction seems to be right, from the proper time period, it appears to be burnt. So I'd say very compelling, for sure.”

John Bratten, who works alongside Mr Cook exploring shipwrecks, added there was “nothing here to say this isn't the Clotilda, and several things that say it might be”.

The location of the wreckage matches Captain Foster’s account of where he burnt the boat in an effort to cover his tracks.


In addition, the fire damage, the size and the construction of the vessel are in accordance with the build of the Clotilda and its eventual fate.

“Even to see it in this dilapidated state is remarkable, and I’m really touched”, said local shipwright Winthrop Turner who was examining the similarities between the wreck and the records of the Clotilda’s measurements.

Further excavation is required to verify the find. Mr Cook said the next step is to gather input from the Alabama Historical Commission, other state officials and the US Army Corps of Engineers.

“If it turns out to be the last slaver, it is going to be a very powerful site for many reasons,” Mr Cook said. “The structure of the vessel itself is not as important as its history, and the impact it is going to have on many, many people.”
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The Underground Railroad


The 'Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early-to-mid 19th century, and used by African American slaves to escape into free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause.


BBC 28 OCT 2019


The term is also applied to the abolitionists, both black and white, free and enslaved, who aided the fugitives.Various other routes led to Mexico or overseas. An earlier escape route running south toward Florida, then a Spanish possession, existed from the late 17th century until shortly after the American Revolution.

However, the network now generally known as the Underground Railroad was formed in the early 1800s, and reached its height between 1850 and 1860. One estimate suggests that by 1850, 100,000 slaves had escaped via the "Railroad". British North America (present-day Canada), where slavery was prohibited, was a popular destination, as its long border gave many points of access. Most former slaves settled in Ontario.

More than 30,000 people were said to have escaped there via the network during its 20-year peak period,[6] although U.S. Census figures account for only 6,000. Numerous fugitives' stories are documented in the 1872 book The Underground Railroad Records by William Still, an abolitionist who then headed the Philadelphia Vigilance Committee.

Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross; c. 1822 – March 10, 1913) was an American abolitionist, humanitarian, and an armed scout and spy for the United States Army during the American Civil War. Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made some thirteen missions to rescue approximately seventy enslaved families and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad.

She later helped abolitionist John Brown recruit men for his raid on Harpers Ferry, and in the post-war era was an active participant in the struggle for women's suffrage.

Born a slave in Dorchester County, Maryland, Tubman was beaten and whipped by her various masters as a child. Early in life, she suffered a traumatic head wound when an irate slave owner threw a heavy metal weight intending to hit another slave and hit her instead.

The injury caused dizziness, pain, and spells of hypersomnia, which occurred throughout her life. She was a devout Christian and experienced strange visions and vivid dreams, which she ascribed to premonitions from God.

In 1849, Tubman escaped to Philadelphia, then immediately returned to Maryland to rescue her family. Slowly, one group at a time, she brought relatives with her out of the state, and eventually guided dozens of other slaves to freedom.

Traveling by night and in extreme secrecy, Tubman (or "Moses", as she was called) "never lost a passenger". After the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was passed, she helped guide fugitives farther north into British North America, and helped newly freed slaves find work.

When the Civil War began, Tubman worked for the Union Army, first as a cook and nurse, and then as an armed scout and spy. The first woman to lead an armed expedition in the war, she guided the raid at Combahee Ferry, which liberated more than 700 slaves.

After the war, she retired to the family home on property she had purchased in 1859 in Auburn, New York, where she cared for her aging parents. She was active in the women's suffrage movement until illness overtook her and she had to be admitted to a home for elderly African Americans that she had helped to establish years earlier.

After she died in 1913, she became an icon of American courage and freedom. On April 20, 2016, the U.S. Treasury Department announced a plan for Tubman to replace Andrew Jackson as the portrait gracing the $20 bill.



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Time For Irish to Disavow Slavery Champion John Mitchel

It's time for the Irish and Irish Americans to disavow the rabid pro-slavery advocate who was virulently anti-Jewish as well.

Irish Central, 15 JUN 2020




John Mitchel, Young Ireland revolutionary and author of “Jail Journal,” is often memorialized as a hero in both the US and Ireland, but it is time Irish and Irish Americans disavow the rabid pro-slavery advocate who was virulently anti-Jewish as well.


Already there is a move in Newry, County Down to change the name of Mitchel Place and remove a statute of Mitchel. A petition to rename John Mitchel Place in the city reached over 1,000 names.

With the chants of “Black Lives Matter” ringing out all over the world should Ireland and Irish America still be honoring a man who said the following about slaves?




Mitchel called blacks "an innately inferior people" and stated,
“We deny that it is a crime, or a wrong, or even a peccadillo to hold slaves, to buy slaves, to keep slaves to their work by flogging or other needful correction. We wish we had a good plantation well-stocked with healthy negroes in Alabama.
”...


In letters, he stated that he wanted to make the people of the US "proud and fond of [slavery] as a national institution, and advocate its extension by re-opening the trade in Negroes." He claimed that slavery was inherently moral and "good in itself" and stated that he "promotes it for its own sake."

In 1857 in Knoxville, Tennessee he founded a new paper, the Southern Citizen, to promote "the value and virtue of slavery, both for negroes and white men."

He called for the reopening of the African slave trade and encouraged the spread of slavery into the American West.

Yet there are throughout Ireland, streets, squares, statues and football clubs dedicated to the Irish revolutionary of the mid-19th Century famous for his newspaper “The United Irishman” and his book “Jail Journal” about his love for Irish freedom and his insistence on the common bond between all Irish, Catholic, Protestant, and Dissenter.

Mitchel, a Presbyterian, was a giant of the Young Ireland movement and a close confidant of Thomas Francis Meagher, the Irish American hero.

The British feared Mitchel’s pen and in a show, trial convicted him of sedition and treason. Transported to Tasmania, he escaped from the penal colony in 1853 and eventually found his way to America. He settled in New York and later moved to Knoxville, Tennessee.

He has been revered as a leading revolutionary in Ireland, a man whose defiance of British rule, especially during the Famine era, has rightly been held up as an example of patriotism and commitment to equality and justice.

To this day he survives among the greats in the pantheon of Irish Americans and Irish heroes. His name is all over Ireland.

Yet he was deeply racist even by the standards of the time.

Fellow Young Irelander Charles Gavan Duffy refused to print articles from Mitchell in the Nation newspaper because Duffy found Mitchel’s pro-slavery beliefs to be repellent. Duffy recounted why he refused to publish some of Mitchel’s writings.

Mitchell “…attempted to employ the journal which was recognized throughout the world as the mouthpiece of Irish rights in the monstrous task of applauding negro slavery and denouncing the emancipation of the Jews. I would not permit him to make me responsible for these opinions at that time, nor would I permit any man in the world to do so today.”

Yet, a significant number of Gaelic Athletic Association clubs are named in his honor, including Newry Mitchel’s football club in his home town, John Mitchel's Claudy, Castlebar Mitchel’s GAA, John Mitchel's Glenullin, John Mitchel's Liverpool, and others both north and south of the border, as well as several in England and Australia.

A statue to Mitchel was also erected by the people of Newry and is located at John Mitchel Place, an extension of Newry's main street, Hill Street.

Mitchel Park in Dungiven, Northern Ireland is named after him as is Mitchel County, Iowa, in the United States.

Fort Mitchell on Spike Island in Cork Harbour is also named in his honor. There are Mitchel Streets throughout Ireland.

Yet, as journalist Patsy McGarry cogently argued in The Irish Times all the monuments and football clubs and streets are commemorating one of the most extreme pro-slavery advocates of the American Civil War. Simply put he had an unforgivable passion for slavery

Mitchel feuded with Jefferson Davis, whom he regarded as too moderate. He described Abraham Lincoln as "... an ignoramus and a boor; not an apostle at all; no grand reformer, not so much as an abolitionist, except by accident – a man of very small account in every way.” He lost two sons fighting for the confederacy. When it came to supporting slavery he was all in.

As the excellent McGarry article points out, in Mitchell’s view the “peculiar gentleness of demeanor and quiet courtesy” of the south in the US could be attributed to slavery, while he felt the southern custom of speaking gently to servants and slaves created “a softness of manner and tone which, in educated people, being united with dignity, and self-possession, gives me the ideal of a well-bred person.”

His Young Ireland colleagues such as Meagher violently disagreed with him. The plain fact is that one of Ireland’s most revered freedom fighters was rabidly pro-slavery.

McGarry poses the question: are we right to honor Michel? The answer seems clear, a resounding "No". It is time he was held accountable for his advocacy of slavery. Time to strike him from the list of Irish American heroes. Time to rename the streets, take down the statues. What good John Mitchel did was surely overshadowed by his desire to keep and expand slavery and keep fellow human beings in bondage. Even by Civil War standards, his vicious advocacy of slavery stands out.
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Important re: Britain to Make Black Slave Trade Reparations-What About The WHITE Slaves?

Lloyd's of London and Greene King to Make Black Slave Trade Reparations

Firms will make payments to benefit the BAME community and promote diversity

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The English to Think Seriously About Reparations for WHITE IRISH Slavery...

The Guardian UK / Irish Central, 19 JUN 2020


Two major British firms have pledged to make payments to representatives of black people, as well as those of other minority ethnic backgrounds, as they seek to address their founders’ roles in the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

The pub chain and brewer Greene King and the insurance market Lloyd’s of London both revealed on Wednesday evening that they would be making the reparations.

The news, first reported by the Telegraph, comes as people outraged by the killing of an African American man in Minnesota, George Floyd, as well as continuing racial discrimination closer to home, demand that the UK recognise the ongoing legacy of the British empire’s extensive role in the enslavement of millions of Africans.

Records archived by researchers at University College London (UCL) show that one of Greene King’s founders, Benjamin Greene, held at least 231 human beings in slavery and became an enthusiastic supporter of the practice.

When slavery was abolished in the British empire in 1833, the government agreed to pay compensation; not to the enslaved people, but to the slaveholders.


The records show Greene was given the equivalent of about £500,000 at today’s rate when he surrendered rights to plantations in Montserrat and Saint Kitts.

He handed over control of his brewery to his son three years later and it was given its current name after a merger in 1887. Several of Greene’s descendants went on to hold prominent positions in British society, including a Bank of England governor, Conservative MP and BBC director general.

“It is inexcusable that one of our founders profited from slavery and argued against its abolition in the 1800s,” said Nick Mackenzie, Greene King’s chief executive officer on Wednesday.

“We don’t have all the answers, so that is why we are taking time to listen and learn from all the voices, including our team members and charity partners as we strengthen our diversity and inclusion work.”

MacKenzie added that the firm will “make a substantial investment to benefit the BAME community and support our race diversity in the business”. He added that the firm now employs people “across the UK from all backgrounds”, adding that “racism and discrimination have no place at Greene King”.

Lloyd’s of London said it would “invest in positive programmes to attract, retain and develop black and minority ethnic talent”, as well as providing “financial support to charities and organisations promoting opportunity and inclusion for black and minority ethnic groups”.

A spokesman said Lloyd’s was in the process of identifying suitable groups, while Greene King is understood to be consulting on which would be most appropriate. Neither firm was able to say on Wednesday evening how much money they intended to pay in charitable donations or investments in relevant schemes.


The UCL records show that Simon Fraser, a founder subscriber member of Lloyd’s, held at least 162 people in slavery and was paid the equivalent of nearly £400,000 at today’s rate for ceding a plantation in Dominica, while yet more were held at a site in British Guiana researchers believe either belonged to him or to his son.

“Lloyd’s has a long and rich history dating back over 330 years, but there are some aspects of our history that we are not proud of. In particular, we are sorry for the role played by the Lloyd’s market in the eighteenth and nineteenth century slave trade. This was an appalling and shameful period of English history, as well as our own, and we condemn the indefensible wrongdoing that occurred during this period,” a spokesman said on Wednesday.

The firm said it wanted to both acknowledge its history and identify what it could do to foster a more inclusive culture in the present. Besides the investments, it said it intended to provide education and research, as well as reviewing its “organisational artefacts to ensure that they are explicitly non-racist”.

The spokesman added: “We are grateful to our black and minority ethnic colleagues who have helped to shape our conversations and actions to ensure that we create an environment free from injustice for them and for all. Our commitment is that we will continue to listen and learn as we act and to measure our progress.

“There is a long way to go but we are determined that we can and will create a culture in the Lloyd’s market in which everybody can flourish.”

Records show that, far from a system involving a few wealthy slaveholders, many ordinary Britons benefited directly from fairly small stakes in the trans-Atlantic slave trade, while the country in general grew rich as a result of its proceeds.

It's Time for Britain to Think Seriously About Reparations for WHITE IRISH Slavery...
The English enslaved Irish people years before black people were
enslaved...

& Early in America's history, white Irish slaves outnumbered black slaves and endured worse treatment at the hands of their masters.

Like impoverished people of other nationalities, many emigrated from Ireland to the Americas in the 17th and 18th centuries as indentured servants; a smaller number were forcibly banished into indentured servitude during the period of the English Civil Wars ,
indentured servants often lived and worked under harsh conditions and were treated cruelly.
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Man Unknowingly Buys Former Plantation House Where His Ancestors Were Enslaved

An Air Force veteran wanted a new house for large family gatherings; he ended up getting an incredible link to his family’s past.

24 May 2022 60 Minutes

Sharswood




The house that unveiled the history of a family








Fred Miller (left) and his sister Karen Dixon-Rexroth (right).



When Fred Miller, a 56-year-old Air Force veteran, bought the Gothic Revival-style white house with a green roof near his childhood home in southern Virginia, he wanted a big space to accommodate gatherings for his close extended family. He never expected to unlock hidden chapters of his family’s past.

Miller didn’t know it at the time, but his new property was once a plantation. Named Sharswood, it was built in the 1850s by a slave-owning uncle and nephew who shared his surname.

“If I had known there was a ‘Miller Plantation,’ maybe I could have… made a connection to the Miller surname and this plantation,” Miller told 60 Minutes. “But I had never heard of a ‘Miller Plantation’ or a ‘Miller’ anything.”



This Sunday on 60 Minutes, Correspondent Lesley Stahl interviewed Fred Miller and members of his family in Sharswood, talking about what they discovered about the property and its former inhabitants.

Fred Miller’s sister Karen Dixon-Rexroth, who first convinced her older brother to buy the property, and their cousins ​​Dexter Miller and Sonya Womack-Miranda, did most of the research on Sharswood’s past .

“Something made me know the history of this place,” Dixon-Rexroth told Stahl. “I knew it was an old place from the 1800s, so I started from there, as far as previous owners, plus any records available online.”

With time and the help of Karice Luck-Brimmer, a local historian and genealogist, the Millers were able to uncover documents proving that their own ancestors were once enslaved in Sharswood.

“Since the revelation…I know that when the slaves brought food into the main house, they came up the basement stairs,” Fred Miller told 60 Minutes. “And there’s a distinct wear and tear on the basement stairs from years and years of traffic, people coming up those stairs, I think, ‘Wow, those are my people.'”

When the 60 Minute production team of Shari Finkelstein and Braden Cleveland Bergan first traveled to Sharswood to meet the family and scout the location, they were part of a conversation between Dexter Miller and his former colleague Bill Thompson, whose family bought the property in 1917 and had owned it for over a century. Thompson’s sister sold it to Fred Miller in May 2020.






Bill Thompson (left) and Dexter Miller (right) worked together in the 1980s.


It was during this conversation that Miller asked Thompson the only question that had been on his mind for a long time.

“I said, ‘Bill, there’s a question that’s bothering me: where is the slave graveyard?’ He said, ‘Dexter, it’s right over there.’ I said, ‘Just on where?’ He said, ‘See those trees over there?'”

And with that revelation, as seen in the video above, the 60 Minutes crew walked the Millers to a group of trees just beyond Fred’s property line, where for the first time times they saw the probable burial place of their enslaved ancestors. Several weeks later, Lesley Stahl visited the site with Fred, who lives in California, and her sister Karen.





A headstone at the Sharswood Slave Cemetery.



“It was heartbreaking, I’ll tell you,” Fred Miller said of the first time he saw the cemetery. “Just to think that all those years of wondering, and it’s was right under my nose the whole time, right here.”

Fred Miller told 60 Minutes that he plans to clean up the cemetery and is in the process of creating a non-profit foundation to also restore slave quarters on the property to help educate those interested in the history of slavery. Her sister said that for her, Sharswood had become a place of deep meaning and connection with the past.

“I would say without a doubt in this property that I can feel something inside me when I walk around, do anything,” said Karen Dixon-Rexroth. “I know our ancestors look at us with a smile.”

You can watch Lesley Stahl’s full report on Sharswood below.





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Wealthy UK Family to Apologise in Grenada Over Slave-Owning Past

A UK family will publicly apologise to the people of the Caribbean island of Grenada, where its ancestors had
more than 1,000 slaves in the 19th Century.


BBC 6 FEB 2023




The aristocratic Trevelyan family, who owned six sugar plantations in Grenada, will also pay reparations.

BBC reporter Laura Trevelyan, a family member, visited Grenada in 2022.

She was shocked that her ancestors had been compensated by the UK government when slavery was abolished
in 1833 - but freed African slaves got nothing.

--- Church sets up £100m fund to ‘address slavery wrongs'



Speaking to the BBC in a personal capacity on Saturday, Ms Trevelyan recalled her visit to the island for a documentary.

"It was really horrific... I saw for myself the plantations where slaves were punished, when I saw the instruments of torture that were used to restrain them."

"I felt ashamed, and I also felt that it was my duty. You can't repair the past - but you can acknowledge the pain."

Ms Trevelyan said seven members of her family would travel to Grenada later in February to issue a public apology.

The family will give £100,000 ($120,000) to establish a community fund for economic development on the impoverished island and in the eastern Caribbean.



You can't repair the past - but you can acknowledge the pain
Laura Trevelyan BBC correspondent, New York

Ms Trevelyan said that in 1834, the Trevelyans received about £34,000 for the loss of their "property" on Grenada

- the equivalent of about £3m in today's money.



"For me to be giving £100,000 almost 200 years later... maybe that seems like really inadequate," she said.

"But I hope that we're setting an example by apologising for what our ancestors did."

The Grenada National Reparations Commission described the gesture as commendable.


Ms Trevelyan, currently a BBC correspondent in New York, said she had wanted to go to Grenada in the wake of the racial reckoning in the US.

A series of killings of African Americans in recent years led to the rise of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement in the US, which spread to other countries.

The BLM's stated key aims are the fight against racially motivated violence - including incidents of police
brutality - against black people and other minorities.

The movement also boosted public pressure in several countries for compensation to address the historic injustice of slavery.



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