“I, John Brown, am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood.”  These were the last written words of John Brown, set down the day he died; which made the mightiest Abolition document that America has known.  Spoken in the very shadow of death. “There are no ministers of Christ here. These ministers who profess to be Christian, …your prayers would be an abomination to God. I would not insult God by bowing down in prayer with any one who had the blood of the slave on his skirts.”  (W.E.B. DuBois)

The Walls of the Legacy Museum, Montgomery reveals that Charleston was North America’s largest Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade point of entry.  By 1776 the low country was one of the wealthiest regions in the world having 9 out of 10 of America’s wealthiest people —all by unpaid, slave labor.  By mid 1800 Charleston’s Enslaved made up 70% of its population. More than 150,000 Kidnaped Enslaved Africans came through Charleston.

“And to you who argued in favor of slavery as ‘a Christian institution’…  I find you quite ignorant of what the word Christianity means.”  ‘Abhor that arrant whore of Rome.’ ‘abhor, with undying hatred; that sum of all villainies, —slavery. I go joyfully in behalf of millions that ‘have no rights’ that this Christian republic ‘is bound to respect.’ Strange change in morals, political as well as Christian, since 1776.”  (John Brown)

“What now does the present hegemony of the white races threaten? It threatens by means of brute force a survival of some of the worst stocks of mankind.  …and put in absolute authority over the rest, its greed and degradation. —but also, to make the slums of white society in all cases and under all circumstances the superior of any colored group.  And the average citizen is voting ships and guns to carry out this program. …a variety of terms meaning the right of white men of any kind to beat blacks into submission, make them surrender their wealth and the use of their women. …the classing of all darker women with prostitutes.” (DuBois)

Since 1699, French, then Spanish control of New Orleans, saw more than 102 ships from Africa; of over 21,000 enslaved from SeneGambia. By 1731 in American control, active Intra-America Slave Trade trafficked  thousands of enslaved Africans from the West Indies controlled by the “Mississippi Company”.  By 1787 half of all kidnaped enslaved arrived from Kingston Jamaica to Louisiana.

Du Bois speaks further: “…organized murder proves the fitness of a people for liberty. This is a fearful and dangerous doctrine. It encourages wrong leadership and perverted ideals… Conversely, it leads the shallow and unthinking to brand as demagogue and radical every group leader, who in the day of slavery and struggle cries out for freedom.  “John Brown stands to-day as a mighty warning to his country. He saw, he felt in his soul the wrong and danger of that most daring and insolent system of human repression known as American slavery. …vicious blows on human liberty have caused—lynching, lawlessness, lying, stealing, and bribery —but it can look for darker deeds to come.”

Over 4,000,000 bales of cotton, 25,000,000 pounds of rice, 10,000,000 bushels of potatoes, 90,000,000 pounds of tobacco and 100,000,000 bushels of corn; labor on the farms of others. They have given America music, inspired art and literature, made its bread, dug its ditches, fought its battles, and suffered in its misfortunes. Heart-searching is in order. It is not well with this land of ours; wealth is being wantonly wasted; bribery is poisoning our public life; theft is honeycombing our private business; and voting is largely unintelligent. There are brave men and women striving for social betterment, for the curbing of the vicious power of wealth, for the uplift of women and the downfall of thieves. But their battle is hard, and how much harder because of the race problem —because of the calloused conscience of caste.  (Du Bois)

Richmond, founded 1733 by William Byrd II, an Enslaver and Trafficker created Richmond as a hub for human trafficking. By 1850 Richmond had over 29,000 slaves in this city built entirely on unpaid labor. With the banning of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, Richmond became the hub for Domestic Slave Trading… with the selling away of enslaved children from their mothers, and husbands from their wives. Here, the systemization of ‘Caste’ was legalized —every enslaved born in America is now enslaved… FOR LIFE!

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