1619 and the 64 Hidden Years

Conventional American history teaches us that American slavery began in 1619 with the import of slaves to the colony of Jamestown, Virginia.  But is that fact?

The Congressional Library documents the inception of American slavery in 1555 with the arrival Sir John Hawkins and dozens of slaves on the good ship ‘Jesus’ also known as Jesus of Lubeck.

Prior to his arrival to the colony, Hawkins lived amongst Africans for nearly 30 years.  In that time he studied them and learned their language, culture, mores and traditions.  This Hawkins did at the bequest of Queen Elizabeth who sought a workforce strong enough, enduring enough and submissive enough to bear the arduous labor of building up her New World colonies.

Hawkins, ever her faithful servant, informed her that there was a people who lived along the Nile River who were the most fit, wise and who did not know lies or guile.  He instituted their 100 year plan to get this manpower to the New World as free laborers.

Hawkins made a promise to the Africans of more gold for their labor and tricked them with his false promise onto his slave ships.  Thus began the journey in which the worst treatment ever rendered upon humans in history started.

What then occurred in the next 64 years that the history has been excluded from conventional education?

The answer to this question explains how a formerly free, intelligent and dignified people became the most mindless, dead and disgraced people on the planet.

How does one make a free people one who becomes subject to another?  How does one imbed fear in a people who feared none but God?  How does one convert a proud people into a people who incline to self destructive behavior?  How would a prominent people lose their language, honor, heritage, religion, valor and traditions and function on the level of a savage?

Surely one cannot make a free man a slave.  He has to be de-conditioned to the level of a beast to make him function as a beast.  And it is this de-conditioning that occurred in this 64 years that have been hidden from our history.

The early slaves brought to this wilderness by Sir John Hawkins produced children.  And it was with those children with whom the de-conditioning began.

The European slave traders employed many techniques to alter the spiritual and moral constitution of the captured Africans.  But of his greatest and most true methods was the installation of fear.

The traders would tether the African male and force him to watch as he sliced open the pregnant belly of African women forcing unborn babies onto the ground.  Then he would stomp the babies dead with his big black boot!  In other cases he would be force African men to watch the woman and baby burned alive.  These barbarous acts put fear into the seed of the fathers.  And it began the severance of the man and the woman.

Even children were forced to watch their parents murdered ordaining them too with the fear of the European trader.

Slavers cut the tongues of the adult slaves so they could not speak in their native language and share their traditions, intellect, religion or even their own names with the children they bore.

Infants born to the Africans were separated from their parents and raised by the European trader’s nurses.  When they cried they were pacified with sugar ninnies and the traders rubbed hog fat into their skin to allow the trichinosis worms in the lard to dull their senses and further terminate any sense of self-will.

The absence of his parents left the child to be totally at the will of his master and he was  taught and trained in what pleased him.

The European slaver employed these traumas to disconnect the slave from his identity, his autonomy, his family and his will.

And it was the viciousness described above and certainly much more cruelty that was endured by the slaves for three generations in this 64 year period.  Thus we glimpse the experience that reduced them from a proud, free people to a senseless, shameful slave.

It has been written that what happened to our people would “make a dog weep and fight that her pups were treated in such manner as our foreparts and their children were treated.”

Remember!  This is what the European enslaver rendered upon a people who allowed him to live amongst them peacefully and untroubled.

This is the period missing from mainstream history.

In February 2019 we watched as the governor of Virginia tried unsuccessfully to clarify that enslaved Africans brought to America were ‘indentured servants.’  We continue to witness, in this 464 years from the inception of American slavery, hatred spewing at Blacks from every corner of this country.

One is forced to wonder, why are we hated so much but have offended so little…yet have been offended so much?

I suggest that without knowledge of this concealed 64 year period in which we were broken down into animals, it is easy to misunderstand our current presentation.  Even many of us misunderstand our history and blame the victim for the condition of our own victimization.

Research the 64 hidden years but do not expect to read about them in conventional reference books.  Revisionist historians have whitewashed American slavery as an unfortunate moral misstep of American history when it was something far greater with much further reaching consequences than we can begin to imagine.

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