Visiting old islands of slave trade/Carlos Pueblo

Visiting old islands of slave trade/Carlos Pueblo

After Columbus discovered the America, Caribbean Sea became the legend

of pirate and old islands of slave trade. I am going to visit the southern

Caribbean on a cruise and is recommended by a neighbor to visit a slave

Museum at Aruba. He was from a neighbor nation called Trinidad and

Tobago, of which used to be Spanish then British got it and when Britain

was under German threat became independent. He pointed it out Aruba was

Dutch Slave Trade, the first one among British, Spanish, and French slave trade

In the Caribbean. Very interesting conversation with my neighbors after that I

mentioned my trip plan, another neighbor who was from Venezuela indicated

the Dutch liked to mix and asked me to see myself. I thought of the Inquisition

and didn’t dare to mention here in my blog. Another neighbor indicated that

the fruit Queva of my favorite was actually from nearby Costa Rica. Anyway, I

am more interested in the old slavery into the connection of current day low

minimum wage, labor slave, and migrant worker in the modern world, especially

in China.

According to what I read on Chinese literature, novel or history, the defeated side

of a war became the slave of the side of victory. Slave could be traded like in the

Caribbean or New Orleans markets and the children of a slave family were called

home grown slave. This phenomenon officially prohibited in 1949 when the

Communist took over China, yet until recently Google search still lists China is

slave existed nation. I thought that was because of low wage or poverty until I

heard a story of a Chinese labor returned from Jamaica. We were waiting at

Frankfurt airport for planes. This gentleman was originally from Anhui Province

Not far from Shanghai and he was under a contract which I guessed as a capital

Investment from a Chinese Bank that means a Jamaica project funded by Chinese

and required to hire Chinese general contractor to hire Chinese labor. His general

contractor treated his Chinese labors as slave that what he said and he did give me

horrible details. I felt so sorry for him yet I did listen fully before I boarded my plane

to Heathrow. I asked myself what was happening of Chinese 2^nd largest GDP economy

in the world next to the great U.S.

Of course, I must admit that the poverty is still existed in the United States. I don’t

fully understand the reasons why; however, I do see the administration attempting

to solve the issue through welfare system and free education and I also know that

our family must step in to help our own family member to avoid failure. To China,

harassing Taiwan is not the priority of a national regime who is facing so much of

domestic issues such as labor slave, minority conflict, environmental crisis, and

territorial argument with neighboring nations.