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Isaac Franklin: America’s Billionaire Slave Trader
A forerunner of America’s long-forgotten slave-trading past
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.
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 evil was embedded in the society to such an extent that, some American presidents, despite residing in the White House had enslaved individuals who were forced to toil for hours together for their masters unquestionably.
These enslaved individuals lacked basic human rights and were made to slog like animals on the plantations owned by the wealthy & educated white families (with a few exceptions though). One of the primary reasons for their enslavement was their dark skin colour which they had no control off but were unconditionally forced to pay a heavy price for it. They were always shown-down and humiliated by the whites who considered dark skin colour to be a symbol of inferiority.
