LATER FOR ALL! GET ENOUGH
"All" ain't never gonna do nothing. All never has. All never will. So stop wasting your time, money, energy , and opportunities waiting and worrying ; waiting and worrying; just waiting and worrying for nothing. Instead, gather enough! Gather what is sufficient for the purpose at hand. Enough is quite enough! And it is all that you need!
These thoughts come to mind as I reflect on the brig "Creole" which was taken over by some savvy slaves, while it was en route to New Orleans. The first smart thing that they did was to direct the crew to steer the ship to Nassau, Bahamas.
One such slave leader was named Madison Washington, the leader of this most successful slave revolt of 1841, in United States history. He had escaped to Canada, but returned to Virginia to attempt to rescue his wife, who had stayed behind. He failed to rescue her, and was recaptured himself and sold South. Not discouraged by failure, he plotted again, recruited enough allies, and succeeded in taking the ship, under control of the blacks.
These Caribbean British possessions had earlier in 1834, liberated its slaves. In fact, Britain was patrolling the African coastline attempting to stamp out the remaining slave trade led that was by then largely by American ships under the flags of foreign nations.
Armed with this knowledge the mutineers, Madison Washington, specifically, had correctly surmised that since the 1808 date clause in the U. S. Constitution outlawed the slave trade, that the mutineers- former slaves, would be free in the Bahamas from being recaptured and returned to America again and for re-enslavement and resale.
Therefore , they did not kill all of the crew. They killed enough. But they did not kill the captain or the crew needed to steer ship to port.
Similarly, when they reached the port in Nassau, Bahamas they did not require that all of the other 128 Africans to leave the ship, which sailed on to New Orleans, carrying 4 black slave women, who clearly preferred slavery in America to their freedom in the West Indies.
Enough were freed! Enough said!
http://www.blackpast.org/gah/creole-case-1841
Sunday, May 14, 2017
NOT "ALL" BUT ENOUGH
LATER FOR ALL! GET ENOUGH
"All" ain't never gonna do nothing. All never has. All never will. So stop wasting your time, money, energy , and opportunities waiting and worrying ; waiting and worrying; just waiting and worrying for nothing. Instead, gather enough! Gather what is sufficient for the purpose at hand. Enough is quite enough! And it is all that you need!
These thoughts come to mind as I reflect on the brig "Creole" which was taken over by some savvy slaves, while it was en route to New Orleans. The first smart thing that they did was to direct the crew to steer the ship to Nassau, Bahamas.
One such slave leader was named Madison Washington, the leader of this most successful slave revolt of 1841, in United States history. He had escaped to Canada, but returned to Virginia to attempt to rescue his wife, who had stayed behind. He failed to rescue her, and was recaptured himself and sold South. Not discouraged by failure, he plotted again, recruited enough allies, and succeeded in taking the ship, under control of the blacks.
These Caribbean British possessions had earlier in 1834, liberated its slaves. In fact, Britain was patrolling the African coastline attempting to stamp out the remaining slave trade led that was by then largely by American ships under the flags of foreign nations.
Armed with this knowledge the mutineers, Madison Washington, specifically, had correctly surmised that since the 1808 date clause in the U. S. Constitution outlawed the slave trade, that the mutineers- former slaves, would be free in the Bahamas from being recaptured and returned to America again and for re-enslavement and resale.
Therefore , they did not kill all of the crew. They killed enough. But they did not kill the captain or the crew needed to steer ship to port.
Similarly, when they reached the port in Nassau, Bahamas they did not require that all of the other 128 Africans to leave the ship, which sailed on to New Orleans, carrying 4 black slave women, who clearly preferred slavery in America to their freedom in the West Indies.
Enough were freed! Enough said!
http://www.blackpast.org/gah/creole-case-1841