Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Tobacco Slavery

The tobacco industry made slavery profitable and Virginia tobacco slave owners rich. It was precisely the success of this crop that led to the mass importation of stolen African labor, and the vast wealth of old England and New England. Cigarettes, cigars, snuff, chewing tobacco are just badges of slavery’s ongoing legacy. You see it’s always with us and it never goes away.

I haven't received any tobacco dividends from MY family's Virginia tobacco slavery. Nope not one dime...not even an honorable mention in Philip Morris' or its parent company Altria's annual report.

Since 1990 the tobacco industry has “donated” a total of $59,410,256 to politicians of which 74% or $44,218,744 has gone into the Republican coffers. Did the descendants of the former tobacco slaves see one penny? Oh, Hell no!

I didn't say reparations, since that would mean that SOMEBODY was actually SORRY for centuries of unpaid labor....but, this country would rather gas African Americans Nazi-style than pay one penny for the hundreds of years of chattel slavery. Nooo ain't nobody sorry for JACK!


The image of Obama with a cigarette hearkens back to who we are, and who brought us here, and for what purpose. The tobacco is greasing a lot of political palms in Washington, DC and it has enriched nations families like the Windsors of England and the the Virginia delegates to the Constitutional Convention in 1787.

Tobacco has long roots in this nation. But haha hehe, isn't dat what Sambo does fo Massa. Just grin and eat he watermelon. Hahaha teehee.

In the Old Dominion Virginia in 1620 the first Africans were sold to the English by the Dutch. Tobacco became the most profitable agricultural product in the Virginia colony; without which, the colony would have failed. In fact they paid each other in TOBACCO instead of money in Colonial Virginia. Slaves were often bought and sold for plantation work from slave blocks, in front of taverns and at courthouses and stores in Spotsylvania and Stafford.

Slaves planted and harvested the tobacco crop, built the tobacco shipping barrels (hogshead), delivered the tobacco crop to the inspections warehouses and loaded and unloaded the ships preparing for sail to England. Slaves did ALL the work to enrich those Virginia tobacco planters (George Washington, Thomas Jefferson et al) with no pay and not even a "Thank You for making me rich" card at Christmas.

Do you know any history of the tobacco industry, the original thirteen colonies and slavery? You can look at the nation's founders like the Virginia tobacco slavers George Washington and Thomas Jefferson they are like a tree while the slavery is the root system that feeds the tree and sustains its life. Slavery was the sine qua non to America's prosperity.

17 comments:

  1. Why should you get any money from the tabaccoo companies? Are you their former slave?

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    1. that's like telling family members why they should get pay out for industrial accidents that caused their family member's death... hello grieving family ... no compensation for you...since you were not employed by me and died.

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    2. Slaves were not considered as human back in time, so practically they been considered to be as machinery, and if machinery broke, the company just buy new one. So there is no reason for you to seek for compensation. Sorry for saying that, but after months of reading about economics of slavery and etc, people back in time were inhuman. Which makes the companies now days irresponsible for the mistakes of history.I am sorry for your loss.

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    3. Just because some and apparently including yourself may have considered them as machinery does not mean that they were in fact machinery. No, they were still human, it was still kidnapping, torture, murder, rape, and forced labor.

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    4. To Annins you seem to understand like a machine yourself
      So I expect you to understand and have the compassion of a machine, you only do what you are made for to excuse yourself for the bigotry your mouth spreads..I would love to know what are you a slave too.look up slavery you of little brain..and also look at the chain around your neck, named bigotry..

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    5. And it's all because of your reply, that slaves are not considered human but you a slave so are you human...oh forgot, you just a machine you wouldn't understand.....

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  2. There were Poor White Blond hair, blue eyed; Slaves in those days! The first Slaves in North was White slaves!

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    1. Those were indentured servants, not slaves. They were promised an end of the contract. African slaves were slaves for life and their children and grandchildren were born into the same fate instead of freely choosing to bind themselves into such a contract as the indentured servants did.

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  3. There were Poor White Blond hair, blue eyed; Slaves in those days! The first Slaves in North was White slaves!

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  4. There were Cotton Plantations Labor Camps in Northern States as there were in Southern States!

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  5. If the writer of this blog sees this I'd like to get in contact. My dad's ancestors were owned by the Morris's too.

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  6. If the writer of this blog sees this I'd like to get in contact. My dad's ancestors were owned by the Morris's too.

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