Tuesday, July 31, 2007

I will be back in 5 or 10 years...


Coolies - How Britain Reinvented Slavery
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Everywhere across the globe that the European travelled to, he discovered Afrikans had come before him. Everywhere Europeans settled, he displaced the native population, and brought in migrants as suppliers of slave-wage labour.

This video shows how Afrikan-Asians from India came to be migrated to the "New World". Britain continued direct slavery for 100 years after 1807, the year it was supposed to have outlawed the human trade that it had perfected under the Royal African Company. The new slaves were "indentured servants" pimped by royalist and former slave-trader John Gladstone, father of the supremacist British prime minister, William Gladstone, with complicity of Asia's own aryan-hindu people.

As coolies, Indians laboured under similar terms of slavery as an earlier caste of European serfs who, as punishment for vagrancy and poverty, had been kidnapped, sold as slaves and transported to penal colonies by their own English people.

Today, rather than transport slaves to work on New World plantations, Europe invests in the exports of slave labour in plantations located within its former colonies.

Just like most contemporary economic migrants, many coolies left home with dreams of a better life abroad, and a promise to loved ones "I will be back in 5 years, or 10 years..."

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