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Title
Deprecation of Africa
Artist
David G Wilson
Medium
Painting - Acrylic On Canvas
Description
Bartolom� de las Casas was a friar who is credited with saving the native Americans of Mexico from slavery. He suggested to the king of Spain that Africans were stronger and more physically suited for the rigors of slavery. One may argue that De las Casas may have had a religious motive of revenge against Africans who were part of the Moorish contingent that occupied his native Spain for more than seven hundred years.
Spain had been under Moorish (Islamic) dominance from 711 - 1492, during which time Islam and Christianity were locked in continuous combat and posing a threat to the Christianity to which De las Casas was devout.
In seeking to enslave Africans, De las Casas chose to overlook the humanity of Africans perceiving them as chattel, in lieu of the brotherhood that his Christian faith professed. Slavery was a means to a Spanish meal ticket, and he percived the African as commercial property fit for sale as commmodity. Slavery and Christianity were incompatible according to Chistian belief in the brotherhood of man and therefore it required perception of the African as chattel, bereft of a human soul in order to justify that activity within the realms of the Christian faith. It was necessary to perceive the African as three fifths of a human in order to preclude any Christian guilt under the tenets of that faith. So, in spite of the perception of the beauty of a human presence, it was convenient to perceive them thus and deny their humanity in favor of that of perciving a dinette set.
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