By Jermaine Broadnax
European kidnapping Indigenous and African children starts as early as 1613 with the kidnapping of Pocahontas. The entire story was told in reverse and made into a Disney movie. Pocahontas never defied her dad, her indigenous husband was murdered, and she was forced to give up her first child. Introducing a 400-year system of black babies being stolen by oppressors. Pocahontas was raped while in captivity and became pregnant with her second child. Pocahontas was then invited to England, where she was murdered at. The concept of kill the man, kidnap the woman, and brainwash the misplaced children is an old American tradition, that is over four hundred years old.
Slavery started in Boston first, around 1638 the Pequot War that started in 1637 was the first time in America children were kidnapped as slaves, because of war. Black native women and children were divided as “bootie of war” among the victorious colonizers, who then either kept them as servants or took them to Boston, selling them for export in the Atlantic and Caribbean slave trade. Black Native American children have been the target of child snatching from 1640’s-1660’s, so much that Virginia, had to make laws to stop Europeans from stealing native children and rebranding them, selling them to slavery in the Caribbean’s or household sex slaves. Because so many men, were being shipped to the U.K islands they conquered such as Barbados, new laws had to be created, to stop the import of warrior native America men captured in war. Barbados created a law in 1676 during the Bacons Rebellion/King Phillip wars to prevent the importation of Indian men to the island.
There are many different varieties of Black Americans being kidnapped by oppressors. Reverse kidnapping, a good example of this is Solomon Northup. A free black man from New York, who was kidnapped and sold into slavery into the south. Which is a modern-day correlation of black men being kidnapped and put into jails & prisons for petty stuff. This behavior originated from the first Fugitive Slave Act, that was passed by the House of Representatives on February 4, 1793. The law guaranteed a right for a slave master to recover an escaped slave or kill them with no punishment. (The ability to kill Black People with no impunity began 120 years before).
The second middle passage started in 1808 after the ban of importing slaves, also known as the domestic slave trade, this event opened more child kidnapping, because it introduced the separation of families, as more slave states would start popping up. During slavery in America, kidnapping was not considered a crime to whites, because the courts did not allow blacks to accuse whites of their crimes or allow black testimonies. Around the 1830’s in New York, they had an all-white police squad called ‘The Kidnapping Club’, corrupt cops who were backed by corrupt courts, focused on sending runaway blacks from the south, and free blacks in the north, and sent them to plantations in the south.
Two hundred years later, black people are still being kidnapped, especially children on a global scale. Black people are four times more likely to be reported as missing in the U.K. In the United States, one in six children who run away are likely to become victims of sex trafficking. Only in America, where missing white children receive far more media coverage than missing black children, despite higher rates of missing black children. The Emmett Till story is probably Americans most famous kidnapping case of a black child who was slaughtered. All the killers got off, maybe because none of the laws have been reversed in regard to slavery. One law created by Abraham Lincoln to help blacks, is not going to wipe away 250 years of other bias and discriminative laws to oppress them.
You have stories of black kids being adopted by white parents, On March 26, 2018, Jen, Sarah and three of their black adopted children were found dead after the two white lesbian parents drove them off a cliff. It’s no different than children from Africa being adopted by gay parents from Europe, and the children are never heard from again. Look at Madonna, look at how she is dressing up her adopted black boys as girls, this is still slavery. The real question is Why do middle-class couples of European descent adopt children from Africa and Asia? Why do American couples go to China or Somalia, when they have kids in their own back yards?
