The thing about ACTUAL History is?
Things you THINK happened?
Often did NOT…..
Slavery for America end in 1865 after the Civil War , Right?
After the United States was founded in 1776, the country split into slave states (states permitting slavery) and free states (states prohibiting slavery). Slavery became concentrated in the Southern United States. The Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves of 1807 banned the Atlantic slave trade, but not slavery itself. Slavery was finally ended throughout the entire country after the American Civil War(1861-1865), in which the U.S. government defeated a confederation of rebelling slave states that attempted to secede from the U.S. in order to preserve the institution of slavery. During the war, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which ordered the liberation of all slaves in states “in rebellion”. In December 1865, the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitutionwas ratified, abolishing chattel slavery nationwide. Native American slave ownership also persisted until 1866, when the federal government negotiated new treaties with the “Five Civilized Tribes” in which they agreed to end slavery…..
The Gardian is out with a piece based on a book ( Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade) that says things did NOT end when we thought it ended for America and Cuba…..
Dr Hannah Durkin, an historian and former Newcastle University lecturer, has unearthed evidence that two slave ships landed in Cuba in 1872. One vessel, flying the Portuguese flag, had 200 captives aged from 10 to 40, and the second is believed to have been a US ship with 630 prisoners packed into its hold.
Durkin said she found references in US newspapers from that year to the landings of these ships. “It shows how recently the slave trade ended. The thefts of people’s lives have been written out of history and haven’t been recorded.”
Other newly discovered evidence includes an 1872 Hansard parliamentary record of a British politician challenging “assurances of the Spanish government that there had been no importation of slaves into Cuba of late years”.
Durkin said that, while Spain officially ended its slave trade in 1867, she had come across an account by the explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley, who had travelled to Benin and visited the slave port of Ouidah in 1873. He wrote of seeing 300 people locked in a barracoon, a slave pen, and noted that two slave ships had recently sailed from that port….
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Although Stanley’s account had appeared in the New York Herald at the time, Durkin said it was another overlooked key piece of evidence that she unearthed. There had been rumours of later trade but this evidence supported findings by Cuban historians that trafficking continued into the 1870s…..