Black Spirituality Religion : First Slave Ship Was Named Jesus!

According to Christian Scripture, "They were first call Christians in the city of Antioch. This is very interesting, for no where in any Scripture does it tell us "WHAT THEY WERE CALLED BEFORE ANTIOCH". I say that some serious research needs to be done by those professing this faith. For in doing so, one might find that "They Are Indeed Following Something Else.

However in responce to your issue of Jesus...What Jesus are you following? The one in the Scriptures is a fabrication and copy of someone thousands of years before his time. Jesus Who? Does he have a last name, a trible name or a totem name? Jesus Who? It can't be Christ, for Christ is a title and there were many Christ. So what jesus are you talking about?

Furthermore, since we All as you claim, know Jeus wasn't white, then why is that the image in our churches and many of our peoples homes? Obviously there are many who don't know.
 
Keita said:
According to Christian Scripture, "They were first call Christians in the city of Antioch. This is very interesting, for no where in any Scripture does it tell us "WHAT THEY WERE CALLED BEFORE ANTIOCH". I say that some serious research needs to be done by those professing this faith. For in doing so, one might find that "They Are Indeed Following Something Else.

However in responce to your issue of Jesus...What Jesus are you following? The one in the Scriptures is a fabrication and copy of someone thousands of years before his time. Jesus Who? Does he have a last name, a trible name or a totem name? Jesus Who? It can't be Christ, for Christ is a title and there were many Christ. So what jesus are you talking about?

Furthermore, since we All as you claim, know Jeus wasn't white, then why is that the image in our churches and many of our peoples homes? Obviously there are many who don't know.

The bible speaks of only one Christ and that is Jesus.

I know some people keep an image of a white Jesus but this is just a made up image made by a white person who wanted Jesus to look like him. What Jesus looked like wasnt important anyway whats important is his message.
 
Greetings:

For those who cannot accept the word of a black man (the Honorable Elijah Muhammad) regarding the so-called "good ship Jesus," here is the white man exposing the exact same truth. The only "significant" difference appears to be a seven year difference in the year of departure and arrival, 1555 vs. 1562.

Shame on you that I should have to go to this extreme.


The Transatlantic Slave Trade
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A Christian Response

by David Pott



In 1562, Sir John Hawkins sailed from Plymouth to West Africa. His flagship was The Jesus of Lubeck and it was on this voyage that slaves were first taken by Englishmen to the New World. Sir John Hawkins is known as one of the heroes of the Spanish Armada, but not so many know about this more dubious claim to fame. What an irony that the first English vessel to take slaves should be called by the name of Him who came “to release the captives” and that Hawkins personal standard was a bound African woman! On another slaving voyage, Hawkins captured a Portuguese slave ship and renamed it The Grace of God before he continued his business.1

It is important for Christians today to face up to the issue of the slave trade and especially the misrepresentation of the gospel which was passed on to so many through it and still causes deep offence in our own time.

Estimates for the number of Africans transported to the Americas between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries vary greatly. Even the conservative estimate of 11 million is an appalling figure. All the West European nations were involved as well as New England which later became the USA. Up to 3 million slaves perished on the infamous Middle Passage and many more died in the “seasoning” period of the first few months on the plantations. The biggest loss of life created by the trade was however in Africa itself. The Portuguese and the Spanish did not trade guns for slaves, but when the Dutch and the English entered the trade, they traded in guns. In his book “Black Ivory” historian James Walvin writes:

“The export of arms to Africa was a massive business. By the eighteenth century, Europeans imported between 283,000 and 394,000 guns each year into West Africa. In 1802 the value of weapons shipped to Africa was £145,661.”2

A report to Parliament in 1788 found that Birmingham had over 4,000 gun makers, with 100,000 guns a year going to slave traders. Although Quakers were later leaders in the cause of abolition, one of the leading gun manufacturers in Birmingham was the Quaker firm of Farmer and Galton. It is known that that firm also sent a ship, the Perseverance, to the West Indies with 527 slaves on board.3


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Mr. Z
 
Very Interesting Destee. Thanks for sharing.
 
Another excerpt...

The Transatlantic Slave Trade
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Another little known fact is that by the early nineteenth century the slave trade had become primarily a trade in children. By that time, traders had discovered that children survived the rigours of both the inland and sea voyages better than adults and they could pack more of them in the holds. In addition, there was no fear of children rising up against the crew.

The history of the slave trade is full of ironies and glaring inconsistencies for those who call themselves Christians. The trade involved people of all the major denominations. In France, Huguenots were proportionately more involved than Catholics in ports like La Rochelle, Bourdeaux, Nantes and Le Havre. In 1642, the Protestant Synod in Rouen censured “over scrupulous persons who thought it unlawful for Protestant merchants to deal in slaves” 14 In New England, before the Quakers became prominent in the cause of abolition, they both kept slaves and financed voyages to obtain slaves. So we have the contradiction of ships like the Reformation sailing for slaves from Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love!15 The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel kept slaves on the Codrington estate in Barbados and branded them with the name “SOCIETY.” When slavery was finally abolished in 1833, churchmen were still benefiting. The Bishop of Exeter, the Right Rev Henry Philpotts and his three patrners received £12,729 5sh 2d in compensation for the 665 slaves they owned in the parishes of Vere and Clarendon in County Middlesex, Jamaica.16 No money was paid to the slaves who had contributed so much to his wealth.

The names of slave ships often bore testimony to the distorted theologies prevalent at the time. One of the first slave ships from Liverpool was the Blessing and the blessing of God was sought in many a slave trading voyage. Foster Cunliffe, a successful slave trader and three times mayor of Liverpool, was described on the plaque to his memory in St Peter’s Church as “a Christian devout and exemplary in the exercise of every private and public duty, friend to mercy, patron to distress, an enemy only to vice and sloth.”17 A director of the Royal Africa Company, Richard Craddocke, was said, “...to live with his prayer book in his left hand and a company prospectus in his right, without letting either know what the other held.”18


 

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