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France’s ‘new world’ exploits against blacks: Part Two

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APART from the language, the French are no different to the British.
If it was not for the Roman Catholic versus Protestant relationship between the two, they probably would have worked together to conduct slave and colonial conquests in the same way as the two nations did in the time of the Crusades.
Britain established the most pervasive influence in the world because it was the European power which colonised the largest number of countries in the most recent times.
The Spanish and Portuguese preceded Britain as the biggest colonial powers but were eventually outrun.
The Dutch were also quite active colonial adventurers while the Jews owned most of the companies that facilitated the European imperial expeditions, among them, the Dutch West India Company.
France colonised the second largest number of countries after Britain, most of which were inhabited by black people.
The earliest of France’s world expeditions took place during the Columbus inspired European invasions of the lands that were to be known as the Americas.
In that period, France like all other European nations began to navigate the seas. This was the post-Moorish period, after 1492 CE, a period that is remembered by the Europeans as the era of the new world, owing to the European invasions of the Americas.
One of the first places that Columbus set foot on was a piece of land in the West Indies called Ayiti.
Ayiti meant heights and this land was inhabited by the Arawaks, among other indigenous people.
Though these indigenous people were called Indians, it is important to note that the great majority of the indigenes found in the lands of the Americas in Columbus’ time were black skinned and wooly haired people, like the African.
The term India was coined from a Greek name of a black woman whom they revered.
Upon Alexander’s colonisation of the land, the Greeks named it India as the inhabitants were black.
However, after the ages of miscegenation in those lands, the people of the modern era now picture everyone who is called an Indian as resembling the mixed race Indians, which historically is incorrect.
As the Greeks were the first European invaders of the known world, the Europeans of the new world period customarily named all lands that comprised of black people India or Indies.
There were the East Indies which comprised India and Indochina, and also West Indies which comprised the Caribbean Islands of America.
The land which was eventually called Africa, which is the nest and origin of black people, was known to the Greeks as Hither India (mainland of blacks), again because of the blackness of its inhabitants.
Therefore, it is important to note that the Indians that were found to be the indigenous people of the Americas were black, and when they were enslaved and sent to European slave markets such as Seville Spain, they were sold and written down as Negros.
The land which was then known as Ayiti is now known as Haiti.
Many of the first Haitians were slain as they tried to fight off the European invaders.
Many more died from European diseases like small pox and measles; diseases that they had no acquired immunities to.
A large number, particularly the Arawak women were abducted and sold to European slave markets, with their men having been killed en masse.
In 1655 CE, a British governor called Elias Watts set up base in England’s newly acquired colony of Jamaica.
In 1660 CE, the British government appointed a French man called Jeremie Deschamp as Elias’ replacement. Governor Jeremie sold out the British and the territory went under the French monarch’s authority.
In 1663 CE, Jeremie set up a French settlement at Leogane, Haiti and from then on, Haiti became a French colony and was then known as Saint Dominigue.
In 1664 CE, the French West India Company was formed and would become an agent of trade in strategic goods, including human cargo from the West African coast.
The Rothschild Company, which is Jewish, was another large firm which aided France and other European nations in its slave trade exploits.
It was because of the Rothschild Company that France emerged on the world economic market.
The King of France, Louis XIV, was instrumental in promoting slavery to raise labour to grow tobacco and cotton in Haiti.
It was Louis XIV who called for the need for the French colony of Haiti to join the rest of the Europeans in the importation of black slaves from the West African coast.
The cultivation of sugar and coffee was also introduced and proved to be most profitable, thus raising the need for even more slave labour in Haiti.
Most of the blacks brought into Haiti were kidnapped and sold from Guinea, Congo and Dahomey.
It is estimated from written accounts that as many as 40 000 blacks were imported into Haiti as slaves every year.
Many of the blacks would die during the three-month journey to the Americas because of the unsanitary conditions on the bottom of the slave ships.
They succumbed to overcrowding.
The blacks that survived the journey to Haiti had a low life expectancy.
Many of them lived for only six years after arriving because they were made to work under terrible conditions.
The French enslavers found it cheaper for a slave to work and die quickly than to live long, because the latter would incur greater cost to maintain in old age.
In 1685 CE, Louis XIV introduced what was known as ‘Code Noir’.
Code Noir in essence was much like the infamous Negro Act of the USA.
Code Noir reduced blacks to the level of livestock.
It was a code of chattered slavery, whereby the black slave had to be reared and used like a beast of burden.
That entailed housing, clothing and feeding the slave on the part of the enslaver, and the slave submitting to any work or punishment imposed on him or her.
Code Noir also specified the punishments that a black slave would be subjected to if he or she ran away, rebelled, protested or committed any type of violation against the master.
Catholicism was imposed on the slaves and is still strongly engraved in the Haitians of today.
As in Africa, Catholic missionary work was used to fool the blacks into believing they were inferior to whites and therefore made to serve and to worship them, as the white missionaries falsely portrayed themselves as God’s messengers.

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