"America's"
Slaves
The enslavement of Africans and their shackled
transport to America is an historic event that enabled “America” to
be creatively imagined by the colonial slave masters. Africans were
first and foremost
free labor. Upon their sweat the mainly Christian (Evangelical, Pietistic,
Deistic) Enlightenment lifestyle of the Founding Fathers and Mothers
rested.
The “peculiar institution” of
African slavery defines a relationship between humans
as individuals and communally as
society. A vast academic
and popular media industry exists which continues to research,
interpret and debate all of the controversial
issues present
since the first chained slave set foot on this continent’s
soil. Another Source
We Earthfolk understand
slavery as an expression of the denial
of, or effort to
obliterate, the feminine and/or the
Goddess.
As with the prisoner
and the native Indian, the African black was seen
as an Intimate Enemy. Of significant difference,
however, the
Christian
American slave relationship was founded upon a
physical,
moral, sexual and spiritual
intimacy
more deeply personal than
those developed
with
prisoners and native peoples.
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