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Saw this on TBB – jolly nice little vid
Slave Traders:
Edward Colston (1636-1721) and John Newton(1725-1807)
It is difficult and hard for a person to understand a time when it is far from any living memory and so hard to comprehend what we would have done if it were we in their position at a time when life or a sole was as cheap as a loaf of bread and more easily attainable commodity to purchase.
Edward Colston (a merchant) sailed to Africa with the blessings of the Royal African Trading Co of 1662 in the infamous Triangle of the trading corporations (East India, French, American and English etc) and traded with tribal leaders, the soles they had captured from neighboring tribes (men, women and children) with more than half expected to be killed in the battle and onslaught of capture of which would have been all, if it was not for the personal greed of Rum and cloth.
Then shipped in woeful, unspeakable conditions with chains and shackles so heavy as not to prevent escape but inhibit the ability to swim, to the new lands of the Americas to be traded for sugar and molasses to work as slaves on plantations if lucky enough. As to not be in the forty percent that did not endure the journey and perish aboard to be tossed over the side of the ship like wasted peelings from a forgotten and unappreciated meal.
The sugar and Molasses was then sailed and traded in Bristol and London England for Rum and Cloth- Yes!! Rum and Cloth. For what was the end and beginning of the ongoing trading triangle that the average Brittan ignored, as everyone was a part of a shameless goods and commodity trading of slaves.
Only people like the slaves them self’s would ever now the true pain personally and physically suffered and endured to their person then shamelessly given a second chance in the new unforgiving world.
Men like Edward Colston saw the pain inflicted and pleaded for forgiveness in the only means available by searching for redemption from God for their shameful involvements in a dark and hard time in history past buy building Schools for children and Churches or becoming priests and writing hymns ( John Newton 1772 Amazing Grace) that have affected us all in their journey for grace and pardon. The tune is said to be derived from the slaves them self’s upon the journeys haunting the minds of their captors.
John Newton joined with William Wilberforce and the help of the prim minister of England William Pitt to abolish the trade of soles in 1707, three days before his passing, to be completed by 1737. It was a mammoth task, like abolishing crude oil completely today- a staple commodity that rules the worlds economy.
Men like Edward Colston and John Newton had a regretful beginning but with the help of other brilliant historical people such as William Wilberforce and William Pitt changed history for the greater good and finally releasing those most courageous souls from the bondage of slavery and the equals that they truly are.
Neil A Colston (Descendant 2008)