"Capital came into the world, from head to toe, every pore dripping with blood and filth." What did the capitalists that Marx refuted throughout his life bring to society? The slave trade became popular in the 15th century, with shiploads of slaves shipped from Africa to the Americas. Amazingly, everyone is naked, what is the reason?
Europe and the United States, where the slave trade was prevalent
The earliest slave trade occurred during the Arab Empire, when Arab colonists plundered African poor people and slaves and sold them to South America for agricultural work, forcing slaves to sell labor and participate in farm cultivation for free.
What was the first thing that colonists seized when they usurped one side's land, it was gold. European colonists looted their gold deposits in each area and then moved other natural resources.
With the advancement of time, the capitalists are no longer satisfied with mere colonial plunder, they pursue the thrill of power and conquest, after the opening of new shipping routes, many European countries embarked on the road of colonization, they began to burn and loot, seeking the pleasure of wreak havoc and killing, the sharp decline in the number of American Indians came from this. It was also the decline of Native American Indians that made the native labor force far from meeting the needs of plantation work.
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At the beginning of the 15th century, the industrial development of Europe began, there were many street factories in Europe, workshop work greatly improved work efficiency, the demand for raw materials in the American colonies rose sharply, and the number of Native American Indians could not meet the needs of industrial production, and contradictions arose.
How to solve the problem of serious labor shortage and high labor costs, capitalists think of "human trafficking". They transport cheap African labour to the Americas to participate in the acquisition of raw materials, but their practices are forceful, cruel and inhumane.
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They sailed empty ships across the oceans to Africa, forced blacks to board ships and sell themselves, drove ships full of blacks to American farms in desperate need of labor, shipped semi-finished products and other factories in the United States to produce raw materials for processing, and drove back to the European continent, which was the "triangular trade" that had flourished for hundreds of years.
The tragedy began the moment the colonists landed on the African continent, they attacked villages, burned houses, and abducted young men, but they were quickly met with strong resistance and huddles, so they thought of even worse methods.
They used guns and ammunition, textiles, laqueur and other small commodities to lure the chiefs of the local tribes into betraying their tribes, provoking them to engage in slave hunts and paying them very little to buy slaves. The most chilling thing is that when the slave trade was strictly forbidden and abolished, the chiefs openly stood up against it, without thinking about their own tribal people, and throughout the ages, human greed has been a sharp blade of inward.
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In this way, the black slave trade lasted for centuries, and groups of blacks landed on the American continent to become slaves who lost their dignity, accompanied by the loss of human rights, the defeat of tribes, the backwardness of Africa, the loss of Indian civilization, etc., and the profit was indeed a small number of ugly-faced capitalists, the source of all evil exploitation.
Naked bodies, scattered dignity
Every day there are ships coming and going, every day black people start an unfortunate life, they are either prime or young, from the moment they step on the imported ship, life begins to become unhappy, physical fatigue, mental destruction, strict control, every moment of every day is like waiting for death at work.
In the countless historical data preserved, in the records of books and video materials, we can often see black slaves naked exposed to vision, is this the humiliation of the invaders to the slaves? Is there any special historical significance and connotation?
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In fact, the reason is very simple, one is to save more space. Driving from the European continent to Africa, from Africa to the Americas, and finally back to Europe, the journey is expensive, and the time spent can be seen, for the capitalists, using all available resources and squeezing out all available value is the key to cost savings.
So they stripped the African slaves of their clothes and made them huddle in the cabin without an inch, fearing that the coarse fabric would infringe on their interests and due value, and did not allow them to wear any piece of fabric on the long voyage.
The second is to use clothing as a symbol of their identity. They proudly and confidently believed that their blood was superior, and how could low-ranking slaves be worthy of living in the same cloth as them, and they could only live naked, because they were a low-level "species".
Yes, species, in the minds of capitalists, they are not even considered human beings, they should not have a sense of self-independence, they are born inferior, both in personality and in life.
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The third is to avoid nourishing bacteria and viruses. The maritime transportation environment is relatively harsh, and marine pollution and the presence of microorganisms make the seawater environment poor. At the same time, the lack of necessary medical supplies and disinfection tools made it easier for slaves to wear clothing that could trigger the spread of bacteria and fungi, which in turn caused a large-scale epidemic.
At that time, medical means and resources were seriously backward, and once unfortunately infected with epidemic diseases, once they spread, a large number of deaths would inevitably occur, and even more epidemic viruses would be brought to the American continent, causing more people to die under the erosion of germs.
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The fourth is the historical tradition of African indigenous peoples. The climate is hotter in the inhabited areas of Africa, and technological backwardness prevents them from wearing yarn and other relatively light fabrics. Only the skins of animals and animals are made into simple clothing, and the leaves of plants are used for daily covering.
The low level of local productivity forced people to participate in hard manual labor, and the heavy animal fur and the inoperable grass skirt were not easy to wear, so they often worked naked every day to adapt to the local hot climate.
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This is the "naked" slave trade, naked ambition, naked means, naked exchange of interests. The real historical fact that everyone who reads the past records should be disgusted and scoffed at happened on the continent hundreds of years ago, leaving one wound after another on our civilization and leaving painful historical memories for countless people.
"Cheaper" and "cheaper" labor
How can the capitalists who have already tasted the sweetness be willing to stop here, the cruel exploitation will not stop, but will only intensify. They gradually are not satisfied with vested interests, and want to make themselves more and more valuable. What terrible things did they do?
Although the loading and unloading of the triangular trade reduced the cost of transportation, they still wanted to reduce expenses, and what to do was to find a way to transport more black slaves at once. They loaded each ship with twice the number of slaves, obviously only able to carry 500 people, and forced more than 1,000 people into the cargo, transporting to the maximum.
Excess personnel bring crowded cabins, and infinitely squeezed activity space, and efforts should not be autonomous. Each slave was tied head to head and foot to foot, lying side by side in the cabin, trying to reduce the size of the area, and in this way, even with difficulty raising his arms or even breathing, he was transported to the Americas to work.
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Due to the heat of the weather and the humidity of the sea, infectious diseases often came, and when a black slave contracted the infectious disease, the spread would be very widespread and uncontrollable. To preserve more labor, infected blacks were often killed on the spot or sunk directly into the sea. The sometimes calm and sometimes choppy sea has thus buried tens of thousands of lives.
Many chose to escape, even if the price of being captured was death, but to try to break out of the dark cage, after all, they landed on the American continent, and the pain that awaited them was no less than death. Unfortunately, most of the slaves who were undernourished and had no means of self-defense were recovered, and few escaped successfully, and those who were captured were also killed in the sea.
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With the hunt and killing of the invaders, the number of young and middle-aged blacks gradually decreased, and "demand exceeded supply." In order to be able to obtain a steady stream of labor to replenish resources, they extended their claws to women and children, so that few people on the African continent could escape the hands of the devil.
They bundled children to the American continent at a lower cost and took up less space, and in a few years they could participate in manual labor, forming a tight industrial chain to supply the farmers' urgent need for slaves.
Women could not escape, and African women at that time were used as reproductive tools, and their mission and obligation was to reproduce and create a steady stream of labor for the capitalists. They reward women for giving birth and give them a number of days' rations for each healthy and surviving child.
What's more, in order to speed up the rate of reproduction and replenish the demand and the growing labor gap, they told women that they could be free with only ten children left. The desire for a free life forces many women to do whatever it takes to have sex with men, but due to the low fertility rate and medical level, many women do not wait for the moment of freedom throughout their lives.
In this way, the cycle of labor was replenished like parts of the production workshop, supplying the slave trade for hundreds of years, transporting the Americas, and killing hundreds of millions of Africans, until it was gradually abolished in the 18th century.
epilogue
The slave trade is a painful memory in human history, bringing discrimination between races and limiting Africa's development for more than a century. The loss of a large number of labor forces has left the agricultural planting industry in the native African region unworked and gradually abandoned, resulting in African society still in a backward stage of development.
With the cheapest or even zero cost, countless high returns and high returns have been obtained, which is the capitalist, the capitalist written by Marx.
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