Looking back on African history, slavery of one of the saddest things our ancestors had to go through, in this article, we will be highlighting one of the cruel acts the Western colonial masters used on our ancestors, it is a picture of an African in chains and a mask which covers his mouth. Popular African news-sharing account @Africa_Archives highlighted the use of the mask.
All the following reasons for the mask were searched and put together by @Africa_Archives, all rights reserved.
1) To prevent the slaves from eating fruits such as apples, pineapples, oranges, cashews, bananas, plantains, and sugarcanes, etc while harvesting them, they were made to work consistently in all the plantation farms.
2) To stop the slaves from chanting our African spiritual songs. Not only that those spiritual and war songs affected the slave masters, but they also motivated some slaves to rebel and fight back not minding losing their lives.
3) To stop slaves from teaching our African local dialects (languages) to their children...whereby destroyed our dialects and forced them to learn foreign languages.
Sometimes the slave masters would force an apple (a whole) into the mouths of slaves before they wore the metal mask on them with the padlocks so that they couldn't talk.
These researched by @African_Archives generated a whole lot of comments and a few of them are highlighted below;
@Sunousi
“The greatest irony is that Africans now do everything to crossover to the land of the former slave masters seeking medical care, education, or means of survival. Let's embrace self-appraisal. Where did we get it wrong”.
@oscar1716
They did unpaid jobs, they were thrown into the Atlantic Ocean. They were raped, they were treated like animals, and other types of dehumanization. Yet they do not want to talk about this history, make an apology, and recompense. Today there are still systematic racism and other problems”.
@TheSapient.
“It's an emotive subject, but I think it's worth
mentioning that Britain single-handedly halted the international slave trade. We policed the trade
routes. Until Britain banned slavery, it was the norm
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