Isaac Franklin: America’s Billionaire Slave Trader

A forerunner of America’s long-forgotten slave-trading past

An Advertisement for the trade of slaves, Source: Wikimedia

Slavery has been an integral part of almost every flourishing society of the past, wherein the rich & powerful oppressed and exploited the weaker sections of society in an attempt to acquire more money and satisfy their greed for wealth.

The Portuguese colonisers were the first to bring forth the idea of abducting native people and sending them forcefully, to work on their plantations across the continents.

Representation of African slaves being loaded onto a colonisers ship; Source: Pic

Soon every other European coloniser followed suit and began forcefully shipping individuals of the weaker sections of the society to their respective colonies which were spread all across the globe. The colonisers noted that it was highly cost-effective to make helpless-slaves work on their plantations for free instead of hiring normal workers.

This concept of using unpaid slaves to work in various agricultural and industrial sectors spread like wildfire and within no time slavery was being practised in numerous countries across the globe, the American society being no exception from this evil practice. This social…