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"Steal Away" ("Steal Away to Jesus") is an American Negro spiritual. The song is well known by variations of the chorus: Steal away, steal away, steal away to Written: Prior to
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Page Scans. View Page. The repercussions echo down to us today. Slipping in and out of shadows, a small group of plantation slaves move silently through the woods. Much is at stake: it is far past curfew, assembly is strictly prohibited, and retribution would be brutally enforced. They must not be discovered. The makeshift materials have been painstakingly dampened to muffle the sound of voices from carrying on the night air. Caution is paramount. The encouraging words of a slave preacher, the heartfelt prayers, the soft sounds of song— simultaneously praise and plea, transport them away from bondage and fill their hearts with hope.
They defy the risks for such moments and the dream of freedom. Earlier that afternoon, men, women, and children had toiled in the blazing sun while methodically moving through the planted rows during the back-breaking labor of picking cotton.
A lone voice, conveying both praise and code, would often rise above the sounds of shuffling feet in the fields and the steely gaze of the overseers. Not all plantation owners were as unforgiving—some allowed open services. Still, they gathered. It was an unholy irony then and continued to be as the institution persisted. In the paradoxical world of Colonial America slavery was at the heart of a massive economy based on human bondage for profit.
As profits mounted, blind spots were everywhere. By African Americans, victims of the brutal Atlantic slave trade, comprised approximately 20 percent of the entire population of the 13 Colonies. Following the end of the French and Indian War, Britain had decided to maintain the expense of keeping 10, troops in the Colonies. A series of heavy taxes were pressed upon the Colonies leading up to the American Revolution: The Stamp Act of and the Tea Tax of stirred strong feelings of unfair taxation without representation. The infamous Boston Massacre of , during which five colonists were killed by British soldiers in an angry mob confrontation, fueled the flames of revolt.
Talk of freedom, liberty, and independence from Britain electrified the Colonies and spread like wildfire. Yet the irony of a fledgling nation seeking its own liberty while keeping others in bondage was not lost on them. In , two years before Thomas Jefferson penned the Declaration of Independence, an educated former slave from Boston, Prince Hall, petitioned the Massachusetts military governor, seeking the abolition of slavery. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the Christian king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where men should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce.
In retrospect Jefferson blamed the deletion on delegates who represented merchants with direct interests in the Atlantic slave trade. Early in his political career Jefferson spoke out against slavery; he even introduced a Virginia law prohibiting the importation of African slaves. After a time his public voice on the matter faded. Brilliant and visionary, Jefferson remains as the great paradox of the Founders, constantly convicted on the issue of slavery.
He went on to own slaves during his lifetime, at any one time approximately slaves lived at his Monticello estate. George Washington was also a slave owner. Reflecting on the incongruence of slavery with the ideals of liberty for which he had risked his life, over time his convictions changed.
He also stipulated that older slaves unable to work would be supported by the funds of his estate. Nonetheless, it is a sobering fact to realize that 41 of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence were slave owners. This ongoing contradiction in the founding of the new nation would continue to grind away at the very soul of liberty. As the emerging American nation began its epic journey of liberty, the brutal Atlantic slave trade still wreaked havoc on the coasts of Africa, and the oppressive slave ships continued their grisly voyages of captive human cargo. Behind the scenes the details of this inhuman subjugation of fellow humans are even more numbing.
From the mids to the late s, most European powers, notably Britain and Portugal, engaged in the trading of African slaves. It has been estimated that up to 15 million Africans were forcibly kidnapped, violently put in chains, and shipped to the Western Hemisphere during that span. They then sold captives and war prisoners to the European slave traders positioned along the coasts. It is staggering to comprehend the inhumanity of the Atlantic slave trade, but when human beings are reduced to property and morals bow to the lure of money, it is beyond nightmarish what can result.
The most notorious episode of the Atlantic slave trade involved the infamous slave ship Zong. During a voyage to Jamaica, with more than slaves aboard as cargo, water ran out as disease spread among the slaves.
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The disturbing diagram of the Brookes slave ship, first published in Britain during and widely distributed by anti-slavery groups, remains immoral and appalling in its graphic detail of captive human beings chained and jammed into the cargo holds, virtually unable to move. British growers established large sugarcane plantations in the Caribbean islands, such as Barbados and Jamaica, where plantation owners grew wealthy on the backs of African slave labor.
Simply put, the history of Atlantic commerce is inseparable from slavery, whether in the Caribbean, Brazil, or the Americas. With perverse justifications, economic profit, and distortions of religion, slavery blended into everyday life. Few citizens stopped to think that the basis of entire economies, their agricultural products, luxuries, and clothing, relied on slave labor. Meanwhile, generations of African men, women, and children were subjugated to lives of forced labor and cruelty. Of the estimated 12 million African slaves transported across the Atlantic, during the ss era, 2 million perished before reaching the shores of the Atlantic coast.
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During May of a dozen devout men met at a London printshop to form the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, among them several Quakers and Anglicans. William Wilberforce, a brilliant young politician, would use his formidable oratory skills to become the public voice of the abolitionist movement to end slavery in Britain. Wilberforce had experienced a life-changing conversion to Christianity and had considered leaving Parliament and entering the ministry. There is currently an issue with card submission on Safari with iOS7.
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