Would you like it translated into Kru pidgin? It was established to facilitate the sale of humans across the atlantic.I can't read it
The same humans that came back to organize your gov't. Say thank you.
Would you like it translated into Kru pidgin? It was established to facilitate the sale of humans across the atlantic.I can't read it
that's a strange way of describing colonizationWould you like it translated into Kru pidgin? It was established to facilitate the sale of humans across the atlantic.
The same humans that came back to organize your gov't. Say thank you.
Business is like war, there are winners and losers. Your leaders did business with Europeans using human capital as chess pieces - and lost.Jealous slave trader babble.
and just like in history, there are winners and losers. your ancestors lost to my ancestors in battles and wars. that why they were caught. you should have resentment for my your forefathers couldn't battle physically with real warriorschildren of slave master babble
Ebola?Not bad
I mean of course I have third world problems and we just had a year of Ebola, but despite that I am happy here
The Americo-Liberians are an indictment on black Americans and are an example of what would happen if black Americans ever gained power.
Many of those Americo-Liberians had ties to colonial black elite families who were the first proponents of the Back to Africa movement.
black yankess(northern free people of color) were around at the time of the people who left to liberia. Black Yankees were the ones who were against it.
African America’s First Protest Meeting: Black Philadelphians Reject the American Colonization Society Plans for Their Resettlem
African America’s First Protest Meeting: Black Philadelphians Reject the American Colonization Society Plans for Their Resettlem | The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed
they simply took their American snobberies, that they were practicing against other black Americans, with them.
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Thomas Sheridan (ca. 1787-1864) was an emancipated mulatto carpenter active in Bladen County during the antebellum period, whose only documented building is the Brown Marsh Presbyterian Church (1828) in that county.
Thomas Sheridan’s family background illustrates the complexities of race and status in his era. Probably born in Bladen County, he may have been the son of Nancy Sheridan (a woman of color who was emancipated after his birth) and Joseph R. Gautier, a wealthy Bladen County planter and merchant of French Huguenot background. Gautier, who was frequently listed among the leading men of the Cape Fear region, was a political figure in Elizabethtown, a state senator (1791), and an early supporter of the University of North Carolina noted for having left his library of some 100 volumes (mostly in French) to the university’s library. Gautier was the owner of several slaves, including Thomas Sheridan and his brother Louis Sheridan, and probably Nancy Sheridan. Circumstantial evidence also indicates that Joseph Gautier and Nancy Sheridan had a long-term domestic relationship: many white men who had such relationships with their enslaved women often freed their enslaved family members and provided for them (although emancipation became increasingly difficult in the early and mid-19th century).
Louis Sheridan (ca. 1793-1844), probably Thomas’s brother or half-brother, gained a good education and became an important merchant and large property owner in Elizabethtown with business connections throughout the state and even the nation. He owned as many as sixteen slaves. He also acquired many town lots in Elizabethtown, including those he sold as sites for the courthouse and for the Presbyterian and Methodist churches. Probably because of his father’s position and connections, Sheridan was aided by former governor John Owen and other leading men of the region and traveled widely for business to Philadelphia, New York, and elsewhere. Although he had initially opposed colonization, after the state placed tighter restrictions on free people of color in the 1830s, Louis Sheridan joined the Liberian colonization movement. He sold his slaves and moved with his family to Liberia in 1837, where he found a situation far less rosy than he anticipated and wrote (often negative) reports back to the United States. He remained there nevertheless and died there in 1844.
Sheridan occupied one of the best houses in Elizabethtown, and his household in 1829 was composed of himself, aged twenty-six, eight male and four female slaves, and three free blacks. In 1830 the household consisted of twenty-three persons including sixteen slaves, five free blacks, one of whom is said to have been his mother, and two white males under the age of thirty, who may have been clerks in his store since many of his customers were white. As a slave owner, Sheridan had the reputation of being "a severe master."
Although he had friends of both races, Sheridan had difficulty in finding his place in society. Until the liberties of free blacks in America began to be restricted following a slave insurrection in Virginia in 1831, he opposed the colonization of blacks in Africa. Legislative action and changes in the North Carolina Constitution in 1835, however, led him to yield to the suggestion of agents of the American Colonization Society that he move to Africa. They observed that "[f]or energy of mind, firmness of purpose and a variety of practical knowledge, Sheridan has no superior."
In 1836 Sheridan decided that he and "39 other persons of my family" would begin plans to move. He freed his own slaves in 1837 and sailed for Liberia two days before Christmas, taking with him between $15,000 to $20,000, a large quantity of lumber, and thirty tons of merchandise to be sold there. He had refused to take a ship from Norfolk and agreed to sail only when a ship was made available in Wilmington. He also insisted that ample good food and drinking water be provided for the voyage as well as comfortable accommodations for his family.
You really want to take this far? Because it can get real sharp.and just like in history, there are winners and losers. your ancestors lost to my ancestors in battles and wars. that why they were caught. you should have resentment for my your forefathers couldn't battle physically with real warriors
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and just like in history, there are winners and losers. your ancestors lost to my ancestors in battles and wars. that why they were caught. you should have resentment for my your forefathers couldn't battle physically with real warriors
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How about YOU pay up, VAi/KRU slave trader? You're still over there, too. You have no slave descent outside of INTERNAL Mande/Mende trade.
Pay US, fakkit.
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nikka tried to be funny "I'm made up of several mende tribes". You weren't clear about which one for a reason.
Trying to reverse things and scam - that's how y'all get down.
I'm gonna be cool before the coli's african strongman dictator decides to give me a "30 day break" like other people who go against y'all narrative.
the people who actually went to Liberia were largely from the South and took plantation-style colorline dynamics with them (remember, the south during these times had no unified "black" identity and there was no such thing as the One drop rule yet)
.Even darker skinned Americo-Liberians (ADOS) suffered to a degree
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Edward Roye was a dark skinned Americo-Liberian
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Joseph Roberts was a light skinned Americo-Liberian from the South
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that's pretty much how pre-Jim Crow/One Drop, South operated in the USA
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the elite Americo-Liberians were all from the pre-One Drop Rule South and were never part of the Black Yankee: Back To Africa Movement. For further context, this guy from North Carolina who owned slaves in the USA was also of the same ADOS segment that we now know today as "Lumbee Indians"
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I looked up more info on this Sheridan fellow:
Sheridan, Thomas (ca. 1787-1864)
Sheridan, Louis | NCpedia