{"id":30592,"date":"2023-06-08T10:16:51","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T10:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/the-extraordinary-story-of-harry-george-washingtons-slave"},"modified":"2023-06-08T12:07:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T12:07:53","slug":"the-extraordinary-story-of-harry-george-washingtons-slave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/the-extraordinary-story-of-harry-george-washingtons-slave","title":{"rendered":"The extraordinary story of Harry, George Washington\u2019s slave"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Olivier Marbot<\/b><\/p>\n

Africa-Press – Mauritius. <\/strong><\/span>Harry Washington\u201d was born in the 1740s in West Africa, probably in the Gambia River region. It is assumed that he was captured in the early 1760s to be sold into slavery and sent to America.<\/p>\n

It is believed that he was taken on board an English ship which may have taken him directly to Alexandria on the Potomac River. This makes \u201cHarry\u201d a \u201csaltwater slave\u201d, i. e.<\/p>\n

a slave transported directly from Africa to America, as opposed to the many slaves that traders first deposited in the Caribbean\u2019s \u201csugar islands\u201d before selling them to owners on the continent.<\/p>\n

One of the only facts that historical records can definitively confirm is that \u201cHarry\u201d was bought from Potomac planters by one of their neighbours in 1763.<\/p>\n

This neighbour \u2013 who was a farmer and slave owner \u2013 was none other than George Washington, the first president (1789-1797) and one of the mythical founding fathers of the United States of America.<\/p>\n

This is why the hero of Thierry Paulais\u2019 book bears the name \u201cWashington\u201d, which is obviously no more his birth name than \u201cHarry\u201d was his African first name.<\/p>\n

Fascinated by the character\u2019s extraordinary life, the author of the book clearly explains that he wanted to write what he describes as a \u201cbiographical essay\u201d.<\/p>\n

It is impossible to write a complete biography, due to the lack of reliable historical sources. However, we do know the main episodes of \u201cHarry\u2019s\u201d life, which took place during a particularly rich and turbulent historical period.<\/p>\n

\u201cHarry\u201d was captured in Senegambia (modern day The Gambia and Senegal), crossed the Atlantic, sold and resold as a slave, and worked on plantations.<\/p>\n

He escaped several times, was recaptured and then fought for the British \u2013 who promised freedom to slaves who joined their ranks \u2013 in the American War of Independence.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Now a free man, \u201cHarry\u201d was sheltered with some of his fellow Black Loyalists in Nova Scotia, near Canada, before being sent back to Africa as one of the \u201csettlers\u201d tasked with helping create a new independent and free state supported by several British abolitionist groups: Sierra Leone.<\/p>\n

He was eventually betrayed by these British \u2018allies\u2019, a story Paulais has already told in a previous book. Since he cannot really follow the character, the author carefully and precisely describes the historical context in which he was immersed.<\/p>\n

Paulais details how the constraints of the navy influenced the route of the ships involved in the slave trade and the absolute horror of the ocean crossings, deciphering the game played by the various European powers but also by the privateers and pirates who swarmed between Africa and America.<\/p>\n

Instead of talking about the \u201cslave trade\u201d or the \u201ctriangular trade\u201d, Paulais insists on the notion of the \u201cAtlantic World\u201d, which he considers particularly helpful in understanding the context, even if it remains little known in Europe.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is an idea born in the United States and linked to globalisation,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is very present, for example, in the writings of W. E. B.<\/p>\n

Du Bois, and particularly in The Souls of Black Folk (1903), the idea is to evoke the cultural dimension of relations between the two Atlantic shores. It also relates to the concept of \u2018double consciousness\u2019, i. e.<\/p>\n

the fact that African-Americans have the feeling of being divided between two cultures, which makes them a specific population, whose heritage is different, for example, from that of the Caribbean\u2019s inhabitants.<\/p>\n

This can also be linked to the more recent trend of so-called Afro-pessimism, which unfortunately concludes that this past is so heavy that we will never overcome it.
\nThe story of Harry\u2019s journey \u2013 which coincides historically with the first debates regarding the abolition of slavery in Europe, the French Revolution and the emergence of the concept of human rights \u2013 also crudely highlights the cynicism of the Europeans and Americans.<\/p>\n

The English promised freedom to the slaves who fought on their side, but this was primarily because they desperately needed men and also wanted to undermine the economies of their rebellious New World colonies.<\/p>\n

The Americans, on the other hand, rose up in the name of freedom and were well aware of the paradox between the principles they claimed and the practice of slavery; but when the idea of abolishing it was broached, it was rejected by an overwhelming majority.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Americans considered offering freedom to some slaves,\u201d says Paulais, \u201cbut on the other hand the very idea of \u2018free Black people\u2019 frightened them.<\/p>\n

It was a bad example for the slaves, there was the fear of miscegenation, about which Jefferson wrote some very violent things. Basically, as soon as a slave was captured, they were no longer a person but an asset, an investment, and this investment had to be protected. The slaveholders had no doubt about that, they were truly convinced of their right. \u201d<\/p>\n

This marked such a significant departure from the ideals held by the most enlightened minds of the time that it inspired the French general La Fayette, who had come to fight alongside the American rebels, to make a disillusioned and little-known statement: \u201cI would never have drawn my sword for the cause of America if I had known that, in doing so, I was founding a country based on slavery.<\/p>\n

\u201d Paulais\u2019 book is also very severe in its critique of the founding fathers of the United States, and Washington, Harry\u2019s owner, is no exception.<\/p>\n

\u201cPersonally, I think he was rather a bad guy,\u201d says the author.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was a cynic, a businessman, a cheapskate.
\n. But interestingly enough, this is not really mentioned in the United States. Of course people know that he owned slaves, but they don\u2019t talk about it.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t even think the Black Lives Matter movement has ever proposed taking down his statues, changing the name of the capital. . . Washington remains generally untouchable.<\/p>\n

\u201d Although the other Washington, \u201cHarry\u201d, managed to escape his fate as a slave, his story did not have a happy ending. This was simply not possible at the time. Even after he returned to Africa, he continued to bear his former master\u2019s name.<\/p>\n

According to Paulais, this sums up quite well the deep traces left by slavery on American culture: \u201cThis is also why these questions remain so present in the minds of African-Americans.<\/p>\n

They know that even today they bear the names of the slaveholders who exploited their ancestors. This was why Malcolm Little decided to change his name to \u2018Malcolm X\u2019.<\/p>\n

This kind of stigma remains for centuries and there\u2019s no way out. Some people thought that this story would pass, so to speak, with time. . . We now realise that this is not the case.<\/p>\n

Harry Washington et le Monde Atlantique \u2013 L\u2019extraordinaire Histoire d\u2019un Esclave de George Washington (Harry Washington and the Atlantic World \u2013 The Extraordinary Story of George Washington\u2019s Slave), by Thierry Paulais, Le Cavalier Editions, 2023<\/p>\n

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