Features of Colonialism...LESSON FOR SABAH/SARAWAK.

FEATURES OF COLONIALISM

HISTORY OF SLAVE TRADE- 1492-1900

A SORRY HISTORY THAT SHIPPED UP TO 60 MILLION AFRICANS INTO SLAVERY

Portuguese traders built sub-Saharan Africa's first permanent slave trading post at Elmina in 1492.

It passed into Dutch and English hands and by the 18th century they shipped tens of thousands of Africans a year through 'the door of no return' onto squalid slave ships bound for the plantations of the Americas.

European traders would sail to the west coast of Africa with manufactured goods which they exchanged for people captured by African traders.

The European merchants would then cross the Atlantic with ships full of slaves on the notorious 'Middle Passage'.

Conditions were so torrid that many of the captors, who often had barely any space to move, did not survive the journey.

Those who made the voyage were destined to work on plantations that produced products such as sugar or tobacco for consumption back in Europe. 

(Does this sound familiar as Sabah and Sarawak is full of plantation such as oil palm, rubber, pepper, etc. and then, all the taxes, and the products will be sold  and transfer "SOMEWHERE" out of Sarawak and Sabah, for "THEIR" benefits in term of money and development fund?)

By the end of the 18th Century, campaigners called for the abolition of the trade, but this was fiercely opposed because it was so profitable.

(Does this again sound so familiar with the so-called CABOTAGE POLICY imposed on Sabah and Sarawak and "THEY" feel so opposed to abolished it because it was so profitable?)

After years of campaigning by anti-slavery activists like politician William Wilberforce, Britain banned the trade in slaves from Africa on March 25, 1807.

Slavery itself was not outlawed in Britain for another generation, in 1833, and the transatlantic trade continued under foreign flags for many years.

(How many generations will Sabah and Sarawak to continue living under "FOREIGN FLAGS"?)

Some estimates say as many as 60 million people were shipped into bondage.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2451891/14-Caribbean-nations-sue-Britain-Holland-France-slavery-reparations.html#ixzz2j1VLf8Nt

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