Potato ENTHUSIAST on Nostr: It's juneteenth and I'm gonna talk about at least one part of Aotearoa and ...
It's juneteenth and I'm gonna talk about at least one part of Aotearoa and Australia's role in slavery in the americas
Blackbirding
This is a term for sailing to a Pacific island, stealing away people from their families, sometimes taking a whole island nation of people, forced into the cargo hold and then sail to the Americas to sell as slaves.
Then taking a cargo of things back to Australia and New Zealand.
Ships did the trip back and forth.
And Polynesians end up in brutal lives.
Blackbirding
This is a term for sailing to a Pacific island, stealing away people from their families, sometimes taking a whole island nation of people, forced into the cargo hold and then sail to the Americas to sell as slaves.
Then taking a cargo of things back to Australia and New Zealand.
Ships did the trip back and forth.
And Polynesians end up in brutal lives.