Slavery Profit Tidy Must Have Fair Trade Laws Poem by Terence George Craddock
Slavery Profit Tidy Must Have Fair Trade Laws
in 1698 'Parliament allowed competition
among importers of enslaved Africans
raising purchase prices for slaves in Africa'
Native Americans were cheaper in cost
than enslaved Africans closer to source
slavery was a capital idea British settlers
especially in southern colonies purchased
captured Native Americans forced labor
cultivating crops tobacco rice and indigo
slaves classed as a caste of people foreign
Native Americans Africans non-Christians
the English civilized must have code laws
in 1705 the Virginia General Assembly
will define fair laws for terms of slavery
injustice slave laws echoes down history
all servants imported brought into country
be they not Christians in native Country
shall be accounted shall be property slaves
all assets Negro mulatto Indian slaves within
this dominion 'shall be held to be real estate'
Written in September 2020 on the 14.9.2020.
A split image from the poem 'Abraham Lincoln And Native American Slavery' by the poet Terence George Craddock.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
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