A brief history of slavery, revolt, suppression and semantic repression intended as an introduction to the social concepts that framed, working conditions and “the customs of the country” in Plantation America.
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Bondage & Carnage is a brief history of slavery, revolt, suppression and semantic repression intended as an introduction to the social concepts that framed working conditions and “the customs of the country” in Plantation America.
Counter Frame
“The People living in Nature saw the Brutality of Nature on a daily basis. Unborn calves ripped alive from the womb and devoured alive. Babies of all species killed and eaten, because it was easier and safe to kill them. Old and wounded or sick animals torn to shreds while alive by a score of wolves. Combine all of that with seeing your Heroes, the Warriors returning from raids and battle with scalps and body parts and covered with the blood of enemies, and then your beloved Grandma dancing with those parts on a stick. FEW get this part of it.”
-Michael Bad Hand on the reality of Plains Indian Life
Author’s Note
The culture above, as I explored in Sons of Aryas, was only superficially different than ancient Arуan cultures 2,000 years earlier on the other side of the world, using similar horse and bow technology. From this “Scythian” origin, we gain the word Slave, from Slav, through the Latin and French, a word denoting the bound working class of Western Eurasia who served those warriors in much the same way my ancestor McQuaid served the equestrian class of Plantation Maryland. I remain curious, if weary, of this brutal inquiry.
Contents
1) Ingression
2) Annihilation
3) Antiquity
4) Medieval Europe
5) Early Modern Europe
6) American Interactions
7) Postmodern Reflections
After 13 years of investigation into the mass grave decorated in our collective mind’s eye by white picket fences, the ghosts of the Flushing, New York potters field will not rest. I walked that scene in 2017. An unknown number of European slaves had been worked to death and buried in an Indian graveyard over some hundreds of years. Then, in the 1800s, six African Americas were buried above them, across the street from their masters, the only internments with head stones. The site was named an African American and Native American Historical Site, erasing the majority of those buried there. The Tribal people and the Africans deserve the light of Time’s recollecting eye we call history. But why must the English, Irish, Scottish and German folk be erased, not forgotten, but deleted?
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