How Slavery Started in North America

(Blacks and Whites Work Together)

Being a white U.S. citizen has been a point of receiving blame for "benefiting from crimes against the black community" going as far back as pre-colonial times. It is almost as if I have been left with no choice but to accept that, without my personal involvement in the slave trade or racial pride groups, I have been pre-ordained by many in the black community as acting in concert with the "white devil" stigma merely because I am a white member of society. The purpose of this article is to clear up who and what exactly brought about the international negro slave trade, so that our common society is not stuck on the botched laymen history lessons from school textbooks and otherwise.

Although blacks were transported around the world for slavery purposes prior to 1713, the Peace Treaty of Utrecht brought about an agreement between Queen Anne of England and the then Supreme Pontiff of Rome, Clement XI. This private agreement, the Asiento, relied on performance where Queen Anne arranged to have 4,800 negroes transported to the West Indies (North America) annually for 30 years tantamount to 144,000 black slaves by the end of 1733. The South Sea Company commissioned by the Britannic Crown was used for this trade once Spain ceded both Gibraltar and Minorca to England in the treaty. The Asiento ultimately lasted from 1543 to 1834 and sold slaves at a loss during England's ownership interest.

So, if there is any blame for the matter of great injustices committed against the black community throughout the entire history of the United States, look no further than the Asiento and the parties to the history of this master agreement.

As a little-known fact, African Muslims enslaved upwards of 1.25 million white pre-European Christians in Africa along its Barbary Coast between 1530 and 1780. I do not personally know any whites who still blame black people for these injustices. What this all boils down to is that every race has enslaved every other race at one point in time or another and it is now time to accept responsibility for ourselves and work together in an effort to benefit and advance our humanity. Allow us to commemorate history for what it is as it cannot ever be changed and blaming others will not solve anything. The future is what is ahead and hopefully we can allow ourselves to make the best of it.