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Gullah Terminology


Ham is a European Biblical word for Khem (Black), just as Nubia, Sudan, Moors, and Ethiopian are their words for Black Africans. The Khemetic Africans, dating back to 1.7 million BCE [Before Common Era]came from Southern Africa from an area commonly called Sudan. They traveled to Egypt (KMT) before 5,000 BCE A drought around the Sahara Desert area in 2,500 BCE caused some Africans to move to Europe, India, China, Japan, and the Middle East. Ancient Africans brought the concept of one God and knowledge (Karate, Acupuncture) and basically civilized the colored and whites races. Despite this, the Europeans (whites) remain a predatory race that prey upon other humans and natural resources. They taught Africa's greatest gift to the world, "Human Relationship." The East Khemetic languages are spoken by the ethnic groups of Somalia, Masai and Galla. The Galla (gullah) moved to Africa's west coast. Galla were free Africans put into slavery by Arabs and then Europeans. They were not allowed to speak or write in African languages, dress in African clothes, use African jewelery, artifacts, customs, cermonies, rituals or treat women divinely. They could not use African moral values or their Khemetic religion (called Pagan Religion by Euro-Christians, Euro-Moslems, Euro-Jews) or practice "Maat" (truth, righteousness, and justice). Galla (Gullah) people brought their knowledge of "Human Relationship" and technology to America.

Dating back to 10,000 BCE and pre-Egypt, the documented ancient African skills and knowledge brought to America and the European world were many. They included engineering, agriculture, irrigation, the invention of the wheel, the zodiac, the fire sticks (matches), the process of boiling water, astronomy, navigation, mills, cultivation, the theater, construction, wheel barrow, metal (tin) work, carpentry, philosophy, music, cereals, the sail ships, pulleys, massage, metric system, government, law, pants, medicine, physics, calculus, sewing, architecture, business, textile industry, bowling, tic-tac-toe, money, chemistry, herbology, plumbing, dance therapy, gymnastics, language pendulums, bureaucracy, kingmanship, chess, priesthood, religions, cosmetology, swings, toilet soap, fans, magnets, preservation of nature (ecology), fairy tales (rites of passage), writing, natural birth, pharmacology, farming tools, dentistry, ophthalmology, hot (green) house, steam bath, clock, civilization, etc.

Gullah people were given names based upon African ethnic groups that they came from, such as the Krio (called Creole) and the Kissi people (called Geechee).
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Arab Slave Trade

While Europeans targeted men in West Africa, the 'Arab' trade primarily harvested the women of East Africa to serve as domestic slaves, wet nannies and sex-slaves in the infamous harems. This trade trickled over millennia is estimated to have taken 10 million Africans via the Eastern route to India, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey, and also via the Trans-Saharan route to North Africa and the Mediterranean, where in slave markets such as Ceuta, Morocco, Africans were purchased to work as servants in Spain, Portugal, and other European countries.


This trickle trade really only boomed in the 18 th and 19 th century, prior to this period the trade between Arabia and Africa was more focused on iron, ivory and animal products. There is very little evidence in the sources to support the claim that slaving was ever a major enterprise of any significance prior to the 18 the century boom.



LEGACY AND DIFFERENCE

Arab enslavement of Africans was radically different from its European counterpart. It was more complex and varied depending on time and place. Thus the slavery seen in Iraq with the zanj was not similar to slavery in Zanzibar. Also 'Arab' is not a racial group, some Arabs are African and some are White and Jewish.

One of the biggest differences between Arab slaving and European slaving was that slaves were drawn from all racial groups and they were rarely used as a means of crop production; slaves were not the economic engine behind Arab economies. Arab slavery generally lacked large droves of sugar plantations where slaves toiled to the crack of a whip in the hot sun . Unlike the European trade in enslaved Africans the physical remnants of this trade are very hard to measure. There are no Ghettos, mental institutions or prisons holding African people. Many women stolen from Africa were stolen to serve the infamous Arabian harems; their children were thus born free to Arab fathers and thus would have been heirs to wealth and status, fully and equally assimilated into the population. Many African people thus rose to great stations by virtue of their Arab fathers. The infamous eunuchs were infertile, and the other men who were enslaved would have gradually married non-African women, hence facilitating the absorption of African culture and lineage into an Arab one. The contrasting differences between racial definitions on the Arabian continent as oppose to Europe assist in blending the majority of Africans stolen from Africa into the general population of Arabia. However, in the West there was no transcending “racial stigmas.”

ISLAM AND SLAVERY

When Islam arrived, war and servitude were features of African and Arabian life. Judaism existed among certain Arab tribes as well as Christianity, and like them Islam did not blatantly out law slavery; Islam did however blatantly outlawed chattel enslavement. The Qu'ran with every reference to slavery ask the believer to free the slave as atonement for sin, the term "emancipating a slave and feeding an orphan" are repeated constantly throughout the Qu'ran as acts which gain God's favor. Also there were regulations which enhanced the pre-Islamic laws with respect to the treatment of enslaved people. They were entitled to good care, to the same clothing and food as their masters. These enslaved people were more akin to indentured servants in Europe than Chattel slaves in the Americas.

They are your brothers whom Allah placed under your hands. Feed them with what you eat, clothe them with what you wear and do not impose duties upon them which will overcome them. If you so impose duties, then assist them.

Whoever kills his slave, we will kill him.

Whoever slaps his slave or strikes him, his atonement is to free him" (narrated by Muslim by the way of ibn Umar).

It became a fundamental principle of Islamic jurisprudence that the natural condition, and therefore the presumed status, of mankind was freedom. Despite this, there were the greedy and the vindictive that sought to make slaves of their Muslim brothers and sisters as well as other Africans. There were also many Christian and Jewish Arab tribes and well as other indigenous Arabs that continued their tradition of slaving. Because Islamic Sharia had laws pertaining to slavery it was seen by the opportunist as a natural God sanctioned feature of life. Conveniently, the numerous laws of manumission were given a social back seat.


Overzealous Europeans have always over-documented the Arab trade in enslaved Africans to alleviate their guilt concerning their own trade. "Well the Arabs did it too " became the common tone of contemporary historians. Sadly, many African-American historians who have only these European sources to infer history from have taken these second-hand guilt-massaging accounts as gospel. However, it is a well-known fact that Europeans in their artistic depictions of slave raids have always intentionally portrayed slave raiders as Muslim Africans or Arabs .

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