The building is two stories high, rectangular in plan, and divided into three areas.University of Cologne
The building is two stories high, rectangular in plan, and divided into three areas.University of Cologne
Can anyone else hear Ross Perot warning about the giant sucking sound of jobs leaving the country?
do these idiots think slavery came into being in the 1500s?!
are you kidding?
have they forgotten who Moses was or his stroll out of Egypt?
even that wasn’t the start of slavery...
“We Wuz Kangz, N Sheeeit!”
From Wiki...
São Tomé and Príncipe (English: "Saint Thomas and Prince"), officially the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe,, is a Portuguese-speaking island country in the Gulf of Guinea, off the western equatorial coast of Central Africa. It consists of two archipelagos around the two main islands of São Tomé and Príncipe, 93 miles apart and 140 mi) off the northwestern coast of Gabon. With a population of 201,800, São Tomé and Príncipe is the second-smallest and second-least populous African sovereign state after Seychelles.It's always amazing following the linkages throughout history. The Portuguese sent Sephardic CHILDREN to be slaves in the sugar plantation around 1493 (which was no doubt a death sentence for them).Cycles of social unrest and economic instability throughout the 19th and 20th centuries culminated in peaceful independence in 1975. São Tomé and Príncipe has since remained one of Africa's most stable and democratic countries. São Tomé and Príncipe is a developing economy with a medium Human Development Index.
The islands of São Tomé and Príncipe were uninhabited when the Portuguese arrived sometime around 1470. The first Europeans to put ashore were João de Santarém and Pêro Escobar. Portuguese navigators explored the islands and decided that they would be good locations for bases to trade with the mainland.
The first successful settlement of São Tomé was established in 1493 by Álvaro Caminha, who received the land as a grant from the crown. Príncipe was settled in 1500 under a similar arrangement. Attracting settlers proved difficult, however, and most of the earliest inhabitants were "undesirables" sent from Portugal, mostly Sephardic Jews. 2,000 Jewish children, eight years old and under, were taken from the Iberian peninsula for work on the sugar plantations. In time, these settlers found the volcanic soil of the region suitable for agriculture, especially the growing of sugar.
Spain instituted the Spanish Inquisition in 1478 before decreeing the expulsion of all Jews from Spain in 1492. Tens of thousands of Spanish Jews fled Spain, including to Portugal, where King John II granted them asylum in return for payment. However, the asylum was withdrawn after eight months, with the Portuguese government decreeing the enslavement of all Jews who had not left Portugal. In 1493, King John deported several hundred Jewish children to the newly formed colony of São Tomé, where many of them perished.The growth of demand for cheap sugar in Europe and North America shaped so much of the Western Hemisphere's history.
And they know this because...
Did they grow slavery on the slavery plantation, like they grew cotton on cotton plantations and sugar cane on sugar cane plantations?
São Tomé was at the core of the Islamic-African-European Slave trade.
This has been known for years. Well, *I* have been aware of it since the 70s.
0/0 island?
THAT’S IMPOSSIBLE!!
The angry, evil white men of America who invented slavery weren’t even born at that time!!
I guess it needed to be two stories for the necessary height. In the 1500’s they must have dropped rocks on a pile of cane stalks to squeeze the juice out. The hardest work was hauling the sticky rocks back up to the drop floor. Early rock crushers worked the same way.
1st slave owner in the US was black. If that was taught to everyone in the 3rd grade, half our problems would go away.
Bad headline.
First-ever slavery plantation is discovered in Africa: Ruins of a nearly 500-year-old sugar mill and estate located on a tiny island to the west
We have no idea if it is the first.
