That general was Samori Touré. The West African chieftain is honored today by black nationalists for resisting French imperialism in the Mandingo Wars of the late nineteenth century, but thousands of Africans were enslaved by Samori’s raiders in the course of building up his empire. After his final defeat in 1898, for more than a decade, columns of refugees tramped into French Guinea to return to their home villages as they escaped or were liberated from Banamba or Bamako or wherever Samori’s men had sold them.
-WiscoDave
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Massive immigration from the late 19th century and early 20th is to blame for most of the present problems. We took in too many Europeans, who, Ruth Bader Ginsberg and other Progressive eugenicists would say, were the wrong kind. Not because so many were from Southern Europe or Eastern Europe or European Russia, but because too many had been propagandized with ideas of socialism. Socialism is a European disease. This is far too lengthy a topic to go into here. In American history studies, I wondered why the nativists opposed large scale immigration. The new socialists, with no idea of American history, show why.
ReplyDeleteGinsberg came from those Eastern European/Russian immigrants. The trouble started years earlier with the invasion of hordes of Irish and Germans in the 1830s-1850s. Both of those groups started tearing down the country left to us by the Founders. The Eastern Europeans were just vultures devouring the corpse of these United States. We should have slammed the borders shut in 1810.
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ReplyDeleteNamed for my dad who was named for his dad who was named for Light Horse Harry Lee, Robert E's dad. And proud of it.
ReplyDeleteThe history of the centuries of the West African slave trade and the Inner Sahara trade (=slavery) routes is well known due to extensive research of this matter. While slavery has been outlawed it still exists; just visit North West Africa (e.g. Mauritania) and see for yourself.
ReplyDeleteHowever, the subject is carefully muted; especially so by the opinion-makers in the MSM and in the UN as it does not fit in with the politically correct narrative. Additionally, it is still a very lucrative business ... and in the end the Western world is paying for it. Just look at the whole immigration/asylum scam.