Friday, May 31, 2019
THE BLACK LEGEND CONFUTED SPAIN AS BONA FIDE WHITE MALES IN THE FIRST PLACE
The legend had also a racial element, ascribing Moorish (negro) and Jewish (half negro Islamic) blood to all Spaniards.
Ditto: Portugal (For my large Portugal audience...)
Ditto: Portugal (For my large Portugal audience...)
Thus, the Spanish and Portuguese slave trade was a species of black on black, or people of color oppressing other people of color, a really great topic to pursue throughout history really.
The Black Legend (Spain), Wikipedia
It is worlds apart from the story in the BBC about Catalan bourgeoisie slave traders painted as white on black. It was really people of color, Catalans, trading with negroes on negroes, of Africa:
It is worlds apart from the story in the BBC about Catalan bourgeoisie slave traders painted as white on black. It was really people of color, Catalans, trading with negroes on negroes, of Africa:
Friday, May 31, 2019
ALL WHITE MALES REALLY MUST GO SPAIN NOW IN THE VANGUARD RE ITS WHITE MALE PAST
How I discovered that my ancestors participated in the slave trade
In the 19th century, the city of Barcelona was an important port in the transatlantic trade between Spain and its colonies.
In 2018, an intense polemic broke out in the Catalan capital after the city council decided to remove a statue of Antonio López, a well-known merchant and patron who was linked to the slave trade.
This controversy led BBC News Mundo journalist Jaime González to consider whether it was possible that any of his ancestors, who, like López, were part of the economic elites of nineteenth-century Barcelona, participated in the slave trade.
González traveled to Chile and Barcelona to trace the trajectory of two of his ancestors and to meet the descendants of the people who were enslaved, who today continue to demand recognition of their history and rights.
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