"Black Man's Gift To Portugal" - The Best of Attack and National Vanguard Tabloid
Ref: Issue No. 6, 1971, was an article written by Ray Smith in the early 70's, and today, hosted by the American forum, Stormfront.
Often lifted in open Forums, Boards and Blogs by unconscious broadcasters.
Its article intent was to use a country as a template and to ruin its Historical, National and Racial identity, under falsity and counterfeit advertisement without sympathy and correct knowledge on how it would affect the image of the nation and its people.
The author himself propagated historical mistakes (lies, in fact), which would lead historians to palm their hands on their faces, in his radical attempt to reshape history, only in order for him to justify his racist pseudo-theories against Portugal as a virtuous nation.
Ray Smith source of information, alone, was not only the root for the so many accusations people have given to Portugal, but for its skepticism as well, when they rely in such misleading clause.
But foremost, when they don't know anything abut the country in question, and read such article for the first time.
Not for the lack of knowledge, but for the scarcity of interest.
People are not aware of the injuries that text has caused.
Which is why, there couldn't be any better way to start this refute, against the lies Ray Smith has written and keeps being unearthed by fanatics, than with a quote by Joseph Goebbels himself.
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."
- Joseph Goebbels
Ray Smiths fable has been going on for years...
And if it's repeated long enough, and by a great unit of people, it will indeed become a reality...
This little lie started out with a canard from the English against the Portuguese, who sought to destroy the identity of Portugal during Imperial power, through manifestation of impairment propaganda.
From there, that lie was enrolled in a book entitled "Britannica the 11th Edition", and afterwards, adopted by authors without credentials who copied Britannicas assumed writings, as a wellspring for a source.
This type of drivel, against other Europeans, continued through the years.
The use of 'Hun' popularized by the sections of the British media in World War 1 agin the Germans, and the promulgation of the Irish as the 'Niggers turned inside out' during the American Civil War, are just two examples of this Anglo perverse agenda.
Today, those malicious ads and verbal crimes committed against the Portuguese are becoming 'facts', of loath and mockery, by alien people who want to dictate Portugals National narrative.
Portuguese History, Race, Culture and Identity is being distorted, remodeled and insulted by people who spread false propaganda, in this new age of information.
If no one stands up to advocate ones identity, no one will.
And a lie might soon become a fact.
Up to address the red statements on quotes, written by Ray Smith.
The title of the article is not even honest to its head, which is why it is best to start refuting from there.
Ray Smith lies:
"
The Fact:
No Black man gave a present to Portugal, or the Portuguese.
This has been explained and concluded countless times, over Y-DNA frequency (or, male chromosome) tests, in the Portuguese population. It has been accounted to be negligible.
Without spoiling forth, It will be delivered the genetic composition of the Portuguese population, more forward on this apprise.
Ray Smith Lies:
"There is a wealth of material here for study in such places as Haiti, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Brazil, etc., but
The Fact:
First of all, one cannot compare Portugal to USA, since Portugal unlike the USA was not a colony.
Secondly, Portugal contrary to the USA was never a Melting Pot, nor aimed to such segment.
Ray Smith Lies:
"It may come as a surprise to hear of the
The Fact:
No one talks about the role of the negroes in Portugal, because the negroes never had a role.
In fact, if one did considerable digging, as Ray Smith claims, one could not find anything about the subject, since the article which started the whole lie is the same only article Ray Smith wrote.
The Negro input in Portugal is a fabricated novel by Americans, during the early 19th century Right-Wing movements, who needed to bring out a martyr in White history. And thus, to make a parallel comparison of White-America to another White country in decadence.
Americans have seem, therefore, to have their own version of History. Because no Portuguese person has ever heard of Racial mixing in its boarders or its History.
Ray Smith lies:
"...Poets and Explorers
By the middle of the 16th century, Portugal had risen to a position analogous to that of the United States today. Portugal was the wealthiest, most powerful country in the world, with a large empire and colonies in Asia, Africa and America. The Portuguese people
The Fact:
Portuguese people still are like the 'Elizabethans in England', to put it that way.
The only difference is that Portuguese people are not exposed to the mass global media, that Americans (and other Anglophone countries are) to the point of standing out of the crowd and advertise themselves as 'poets' through corporate adverts.
If someone asked, "Do you know any Polish poet ?" than the outcome of that question ought to be the same as "Do you know any Portuguese poet ?", Because of the Anglophone ignorance towards the rest of the world, as non-English speakers.
When was the last time someone within the Anglosphere bothered to search anything outside of English characters?
No one supposedly? Thereat, negligence from the Anglophones.
Ray Smith Lies:
"Portugal began the Negro slave trade after encountering Negroes in its explorations and forays into Africa.
...But,
The fact:
Portugal was never 10% Black.
Only Lisbon, reaffirm ONLY Lisbon (the capital of the country) and small parts of Evora, accounted for 10%, which means... no more than 1% of the population countrywide was Black.
Black slaves were neither being imported in large numbers to Portugal, but exported, through the 'Triangular Trade' system. The White population was neither declining.
Source:
"Portugal began this trade in Europe, and were the first nation to import a large number of Negroes. There was a time, in about anno Domini 1550, when Lisbon and Evora were 10 percent Negro, with the entire nation being about 1 percent so. However, the figures are misleading if not properly explained. The vast majority of Negroes in Portugal were subsequently shipped elsewhere, to Brazil primarily. The remaining ones were used as household servants and farm laborers, with many perishing in the latter capacity. There is much talk of the disproportionate absorption of Negroes into the Portuguese populace, but this is simply untrue. Certainly there was some, but no more than in the other nations discussed here, and their contribution to the overall ancestry of the Portuguese people, as well as the Spanish, Italian, French, English, Dutch and German peoples, is virtually nil. The European tended to view the Negro with suspicion and was not likely to engage in extra-curricular activity with him."
- ("Transatlantic Slavery: The Dark Passage", by Jonathan Kuzma Gill)
Ray Smith lies:
"...But,
The Fact:
Britain was in fact the major importer of Negro slaves.
As the highest ratio of Negroes imported, was to London, England. Not to Portugal.
From the 16th century, the employment of Africans became increasingly common in England. Wealthy - and not so wealthy - people in the kingdom might have one or two Black servants, footmen or musicians. Whether these retainers were enslaved or free is often unclear in the documents. However, there were certainly also free Black people in a variety of occupations.
The British participation in what has come to be called the Nefarious Trade' begun with Sir John Hawkins with the support and investment of Queen Elizabeth I in 1573.
By fair means and foul, Britain outwitted its European rivals and became the premier trader in the enslaved from the seventeenth century onwards, and retained this position till 1807.
The trade became a very lucrative business. Bristol grew rich on it, then Liverpool. London also dealt in slaves as did some of the smaller British ports.
As Historian Paul Lovejoy estimates between 1701 and 1800 about 40 per cent of the approximately more than 6 million enslaved Africans were transported in British vessels, to back Britain.
In addition, the Queen, like James IV, employed Black musicians. The queen also had a Black maidservant.
Source:
"In Britain Queen Elizabeth was complaining about the number of 'blackamoores' as early as 1596. By the mid 18th century London had the largest Black population, made up of free and enslaved people, as well as many runaways.
It was regarded as fashionable amongst the upper classes to have a Black servant and they sometimes feature in paintings, such as 'The family of Sir William Young' by Zoffany. There were Black people in many other towns, such as Liverpool, Bristol, Bath and Lancaster. Smaller number of Black people were also found in rural areas throughout the country."
- ("Black people in Europe", Liverpoolmuseums)
Ray Smith lies:
"...
"...
The Fact:
Interracial has always been a taboo, in Portugal. The slaves themselves were castrated for that matter.
Even in modern day Portugal, Interracial is still considered a form of taboo, and observable on a daily basis, where people outcast Blacks and immigrants from former colonies.
As for "there are no Negroes, as such, in Portugal", there are Blacks still living in Portugal, having remained segregated since then, and not assimilated, in areas such as 'Cova da Moura'.
Portugal remains one of the ex-colonial powers in Europe, with the lowest African diaspora, where only 2% of the population is Black. Whereas, in countries like France it reaches 8%, the UK 3,3% and Holland 3,1%, respectively.
As said before, in the prior paragraph plea.
Portugal wide was never 10% Black. Ray Smith tries to manipulate these numbers.
Below is an interview regarding the subject:
Ray Smith lies:
"...The Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th ed., 1911, in its article on Portugal states, "
The Fact:
The early Encyclopædia Britannica volumes, had the reputation for a discriminatory agenda, against non-Anglos, with constant diaries against Woman and non-WASPs.
It is risorious the fact that Ray Smith is quoting a passage from "Encyclopædia Britannica the 11th Edition", since "Encyclopædia Britannica the 11th Edition", was also the only edition that received a poor elaboration, based on mendacity.
The Eleventh Edition was not only known for its negativity, but for it's amiss and mischievous content.
It was also the volume which was publish under orthographic errors.
It received bad reviews among critics and a mean reception between readers (Thomas, Gillian (1992). "A Position to Command Respect: Women and the Eleventh Britannica", F. Graeme Chalmers (1992). "The Origins of Racism in the Public School Art Curriculum",to name a few), because of it's ongoing editions of Sexism and Racism.
One doesn't need to do a big research on this, because, Encyclopædia Britannica and the early Anglo publicity in America, also declared the Irish to be physically, intellectually and socially inferior, as Negroes.
This is how the Irish and Iberians, were described in a whole, by the Anglo world criteria:
"Scientific Racism", Harper's Weekly (1899)
Source:
"In 1917, using the pseudonym of S. S. Van Dine, the US art critic and author Willard Huntington Wright published "Misinforming a Nation", a 200+ page criticism of inaccuracies and biases of the "Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition". Wright claimed that Britannica was "characterized by misstatement, inexcusable omissions, rabid and patriotic prejudices, personal animosities, blatant errors of fact, scholastic ignorance, gross neglect of non-British culture, an astounding egotism, and an undisguised contempt for American progress."
- ("Misinforming a Nation" Chapater I, by Willard Huntington Wright (1917))
Ray Smith lies:
"...
In effect, it is a
The Fact:
The Portuguese along side the with the Basques are among the oldest Europeans, having preserved their genetic patrimony since the Paleolithic. Hence, making them the one oldest Europeans alive, today.
Source:
"Portuguese people have also maintained a certain degree of cultural and ethnic-specific characteristics ratio with the Basques, since ancient times. The results of the present HLA study in Portuguese populations show that they have features in common with Basques and Spaniards from Madrid: a high frequency of the HLA-Haplotypes A29-B44-DR7 (ancient western Europeans) and A1-B8-DR3 are found as common characteristics. Portuguese and Basques do not show the Mediterranean A33-B14-DR1 haplotype, suggesting a lower admixture with Mediterraneans. The Portuguese have a characteristic unique among world populations: a high frequency of HLA-A25-B18-DR15 and A26-B38-DR13, which may reflect a still detectable founder effect coming from ancient Portuguese, i.e., Oestrimnios and Conios."
- (Department of Immunology, Hospital 12 de Octubre, Universidad Complutense, Avda. Andalucía s/n. E-28041, Madrid, Spain).
Below is a set of pictures comparing ones Portuguese physiognomy, Before 17th and After:
Afonso I de Portugal (1109) - Oliveira Salazar (1889)
João I of Portugal (1358) - Luís Esperteiro (1959)
Infante Dom Henrique (1394) - Henrique Viana (1936)
Diogo Cão (1440) - Joaquim de Almeida (1957)
Bartolomeu Dias (1450)- António Pedro Cerdeira (1970)
Vasco da Gama (1460) - João Reis (1965)
Pedro Alvares Cabral (1467/8) - António Feio (1954)
Fernão de Magalhães (1480) - António Variaçãoes (1944)
Luís Vaz de Camões (1524) - António Vilar (1912)
Luís Vaz de Camões (1524) - Diogo Amaral (1981)
Carvalho e Melo (1699) - Nicolau Breyner (1940)
As seen in the pictures above, the Portuguese remained the same, as opposed to the sklent statement made by Ray Smith.
Portuguese Anthropologist, Eusébio Tamagnini, of Portuguese anthropology noted:
"The Portuguese have been able to maintain relative ethnic purity."
- (Tamagnini (1940:22 in Santos 1996:145))
Source:
"...Portugal remains, as it has been since the days of the Muge shell-fish eaters, classic Mediterranean territory.
- ("The Races of Europe", Chapter XI, Section 15 - The Iberian Peninsula, by Carleton S. Coon (1933))
Ray Smith lies:
"...a race that has stagnated in apathy and produced virtually nothing in the last 400 years."
"The contribution of this new race to civilization in terms of literature, art, music, philosophy, science, etc. has been practically nothing. Portugal today is the most backwards country in Europe."
The Fact:
The Portuguese gave plenty of contributions in the field of Astronomy, Botanic, Zoology, Navigation, Flight, Medicine, Literature, Invention, and Law.
Portugal was the first country to abolish the enslavement of Native Americans (1570s), the first country to abolish all slavery in Portugal (1770s) and the first country to abolish the death penalty (1840s).
The best Literature, Art and Music, Portugal ever produced started from the late XVI, therefore AFTER that imaginary race mixing frenzy of Ray Smith.
Portugal produced the greatest names in the field of Literature, during the Romanticism and Realism movement in the 19th century, including such names as Alexandre Herculano, de Quental, Almeida Garrett, Camilo Castelo Branco and Eça de Queiroz, Camilo Pessanha, Ramalho Ortigão, Júlio Dinis among others.
Followed by Portuguese Modernism, with the works of Fernando Pessoa, José Régio, Miguel Torga, Mário de Sá Carneiro, Florbela Espanca, and others.
And the Carnation Revolution in 1974, after several decades of repression.
From which, José Saramago won the Nobel Prize for Literature (1998).
No one would be surprised if Ray Smith never heard anything about Portuguese Literature, given the low exposition Portuguese Bibliography has in the American book shelves. No one would know why on Earth would Ray Smith ever expect to read about the Portuguese mixing with slaves as some sort of world event.
Anglophones tend to blindfold non-English booklets, and then accuse one to be 'nothing'.
The Portuguese have also manage to stand out of the crowd, and excel, themselves as protagonists, having contributed and forged the image of the United States of America.
By reading Ray Smiths article, one could observe the presence of nationalism he manifested.
Which makes one wonder... if Ray Smith did march to sound of the infamous military symphony "Stars and Stripes forever" or "Semper Fi" on the 4th of July, composed by the Portuguese-American, John Philip de Sousa.
Pondering this, over the prospect that Ray Smith might not even be aware of the contributions the Portuguese gave to America.
Certain is to assert...
Portuguese create Art. Americans encourage Entertainment.
To list all of it's contributions, It would take a lifetime...
Ray Smith lies:
"...Portugal today is the most backwards country in Europe. The illiteracy rate is 38 percent (in the U.S., 2.2 percent, Japan, 1.0 percent). The infant mortality rate in Portugal is 59.2 per 1000 births (in Sweden, 12.9 percent, U.S., 20.7 percent, France, 20.4 percent)."
The Fact:
The most backward countries in Europe, are from Eastern Europe.
Portugal is not a backward country, nor the most backwards, as Ray Smith intends it to be.
Portugal has a very high Human Development Index, the world's 19th-highest quality-of-life as of 2005, and the 25th in 'Bloomberg's Global Innovation Index'.
It is one of the world's most globalized and peaceful nations according to the 'Institute for Economics and Peace' (2010), putting it in the 16th place.
A member of the European Union and the United Nations, and a founding member of the Latin Union, the Organization of Ibero-American States, OECD, NATO, the Community of Portuguese Language Countries, the eurozone and the Schengen Agreement.
Portugal further has the 3rd largest Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of the EU and the 10th largest EEZ in the world.
Portuguese education is within the European average.
And the illiteracy rate is only 5% (2010) and still dropping, according to the 'World Health Organisation' the child mortality was 6 per 1000 births (females) and 7 per 1000 births (males).
Below is the Chart for the Quality of Life (2011), in Health, Education, Wealth, Democracy, Peace and Environment: (Portugal scores 22th place, ahead of USA which ranks 31th).
Source:
"Only in the mid-1960s did the country make public education available for all children between the ages of six and twelve. ... Portuguese primary school enrollments were close to 100 percent in the early 1990s, and immense strides had been made in eliminating illiteracy, especially among the young, and an estimated literacy rate of 85 percent was achieved among those over age fifteen in 1990." (According to The World Factbook, by 2003, Portugal's literacy rate had climbed to 93.3%, or 95.5% for males.)
- ("Portugal: A Country Study". by Eric Solsten (1993))
Ergo, today, 95.2% of Portuguese people are literate, inasmuch, roughly only 5% is illiterate.
A brief lesson in history might help to contemplate, why Portugal had 33% (not 38%) illiteracy in the mid 90's.
During the corporatist and military regime 'Estado Novo' implemented by the Fascist dictator, Dr. Oliveira Salazar, a policy of austerity was placed to reorganize the country's finances appealing mainly to higher taxes and reduced public expenditure of all ministries (mainly in the fields of Health, Education and Wages of civil servants).
The Educational sector was affected and temporarily disabled, from the Public schools.
Of course this was all in the past.
In 2013, the president of the CNE (Concelho nacional de Educação), Ana Maria Bettencourt in the report of "State of Education", underlined the improved results achieved by Portuguese students on international assessments of reading, mathematics and science.
According to tests performed for students of 4th year, the Portuguese were in 13th place, with the same score as Germany, the Netherlands or Sweden and ahead of countries like France, Austria or Norway.
On the math test, students of 4th year Portuguese were in 14th place in a ranking of 50 countries, ahead of Germany, Sweden and Norway, stressed Ana Maria Bettencourt.
Source:
"In the last forty years, the Portuguese economy exhibited an outstanding growth performance. ... After a secular trend of divergence, [it] appears to have engaged in a convergence track towards the industrialised world. With real per capita GDP growing at an average rate of 4% per annum in the period 1960-1992, Portugal is ranked 11th in a sample of 119 countries. ... [P]er capita GDP, in current PPS3, rose from 41.5% of the EU average in 1960 to 73.8% in 2000. The evolution was not uniform along time. As shown...the relative income gap has widened during the oil shock period (1973-85)."
- ("Portuguese Economic Growth Re-Examined: An Anti-Fado Manifesto", by Lebre de Freitas (2001))
Somewhat, Baltic countries like Estonia, Latvia or Lithuania and Eastern ones alike, which didn't have contact with Blacks have Lower salaries, Higher illiteracy rates and a considerably Lower quality of life, compared Portugal. But, he refrains from mentioning it.
Ray Smith lies:
"Portugal is a forgotten land - bypassed by the tourists and shunned by the scholars. It is a sad country, known mainly for its plaintive, mournful fado music - nostalgic music that looks to the past and sees no future."
The Fact:
As to Portugal being shunned by scholars: A team of Portuguese physicians led by Dr. José Pratas Vital made a groundbreaking discovery in 2003, which restores sensitivity to paraplegic patients by an auto-transplant of nasal cells.
The Portuguese Egas Moniz Hospital signed a protocol with the Detroit Medical Center, according to which American paraplegic patients are going to undergo through surgery in Portugal, while Portuguese patients operated in Portugal are going to use the therapy facilities of the American institution.
In 1998 for instance, 11,2 million tourists and 15,4 million backpackers (making a total of 26,6 million visitors) crossed the Portuguese borders. 26,6 million visitors is almost three times the total Portuguese population.
'Fado' is a music that revolves around yearning.
It embodies sadness and dejection, where feelings are projected through poetry.
Unapprehensive, why would Ray Smith criticize the Culture of a country, as "plaintive", taking into account that 'Fado' is one of the most daedal genres of music in the world, orbiting around complex themes.
This genre of music music is not only an intangible Cultural Heritage, it was also added to the World's Cultural Heritage List by UNESCO.
Then again, this is something Americans will never have, nor understand. Culture.
Ray Smith lies:
"It should be pointed out that the Negro-White ratio, 1:9, in Portugal in the 1550's does not represent the final percentage of Negro genes, for the Negro element was rapidly increasing while the White element was declining. The male Whites were leaving Portugal in large numbers - sailing, settling in the colonies, and marrying native women (the government encouraged this). Most of the Negro slaves brought to Portugal were adult males. The population was thus unbalanced - an excess of White women and Negro males, and a shortage of White men. Chronicles of the era relate that Portuguese women kept Negro slaves as "pets". They also married them."
The Fact:
The White element was NOT declining, but the other way around.
The few existing Black slaves living in Portugal were dying, because of weather maladaptation, sickness, and pursuant commercialized to Brazil.
Again, as stated before and continuing from the first impugnment.
The Y-DNA was accounted to be 0,06% (a range, in every Homo Sapiens).
So how can, according to Ray Smith, "...an excess of White women and Negro males...", when the Portuguese population does NOT show traces or excess of Negro Y-DNA.
Source:
"The mortality rate amongst the slaves was high, as they were not afforded proper medical attention. A large number, since they were already familiar with Portuguese culture and the language, were subsequently deported to Brasil, where their presence was needed far more than in Portugal itself."
- ("The History of Portugal", by João Ferreira)
This is was also confirmed by...
Source:
"...during the slave trade, a few tens of thousands of Negroes were brought to the metropolis of Lisboa. From there many were shipped to Brasil or to other European countries. Those who remained in Portugal were either sold to wealthy city-dwelling Portuguese, or distributed to the owners of large plantations in the south to provide farm labour..."
- ("My Portugal", by Carlos Machado)
And forth...
"...these unfortunate ones started gaining large bellies and eventually became sick..."
This informs why in every Genetic study, there is no significant Negro Y-DNA in your average Portuguese template.
Source:
"In a sample of 328 Northern and 57 Southern Portuguese, no Y-chromosomes of sub-Saharan African origin were detected. Another study found 3 E(xE3b) sequences in a sample of 99 Portuguese, evenly divided between Northerners and Southerners. The estimated grand total of Negroid paternal admixture in Portugal is therefore 0.6%."
- (Rosser et al. 2000, Cruciani et al. 2004)
There is no Negroid paternal (Y-DNA, or male) contribution in the Portuguese gene pool.
As to it, the closest thing is Zero.
Which means, no male Negro extensiveness.
As it was concluded again in 2006.
"...Y-DNA Sub-Saharan haplogroups are practically non-existent (in Portugal). In a 2006 study by Beleza et al. using 663 individual samples From North to South only 0.3% of Sub-Saharan Y-DNA was detected overall."
- (Beleza et al. 2006)
So much for the irrational title of Ray Smith's article, "The Black man's gift to Portugal".
In present day Portugal, if Y-DNA is encountered, then it's product of the migratory waves after the decolonization and immigration of African colonies, under 'Jus Solis'.
Hence, Brazilians, Cape Verdeans, Mozambicans, Angolans and etc living in Portugal and not Portuguese people themselves.
Due to racial xenophobia legislation laws, the immigrants are accounted as 'Portuguese citizens', even if they aren't Ethnic Portuguese, or of Portuguese background.
Which is why in statistics, the Racial Census casts people from ex-colonies accounted as 'Portuguese', and thus the presentation of foreign DNA. (In this case, African blood presented by Brazilians, Cape Verdeans and other immigrants alike, who consider themselves Portuguese and whom have did a DNA test in the name of Portuguese people).
Ray Smith lies:
"...The British, French, Dutch, Spanish, and Portuguese all engaged in the Negro slave trade, but only Portugal brought them to their own country..."
The Fact:
Ray Smith tries to conceal the fact that all European Colonial powers brought slaves onto their own territory.
All Colonial powers brought slaves into their own territory, selling them to other countries.
With England, being the major importer of Negro slaves.
Queen Elisabeth I, herself, assisted the early merchant adventurers in 1561 by supplying ships and provisions.
Source:
When they returned to English ports they brought not only valuable cargoes of commodities, but also more Africans, some of whom had probably become sailors on these merchant ships. Queen Elizabeth soon realised the economic value of this overseas trade. She granted a patent to eight merchants from London and Exeter to trade exclusively with Senegambia, between the Senegal and Gambia rivers, for a 10-year period.
-"Black Settlers in Britain 1555-1958", by File, N. and Power (1981) @ nationalarchives.gov.uk
Further...
"As the transatlantic trade developed, ships' captains and plantation owners brought Africans back to the countries of Northern Europe. They sold them to work, mainly as domestic servants."
- ("Black people in Europe", Liverpoolmuseums)
This goes on...
"Spain and Italy generally made use of Negroes in the same way their Portuguese brethren did, with Spain deporting many of theirs to their overseas colonies. As an interesting sidenote, fully ten percent of Argentina's population consisted of Negroes and Mulattos in the early to middle years of the XIX century. What became of this population, considering how now there are virtually no Negroes there, is a matter of intense debate, but not for this author. It is known that upon their being freed, many fled the nation while others perished; some absorption took place, but again not enough for the Negro to make up a substantial part of the Argentines' ancestry.
In France, the Netherlands, England and Germany the Negro was used mainly as a household attendant. In many cases Negroes were given charge of their Masters' children. Interestingly, France during the XVI and XVII centuries explicitly stated that slavery did not exist on French soil. This was of course a falsehood used to deceive the working classes. In a few cases, however, Negroes fought for their freedom and won. Negroes, both slave and free, were treated surprisingly well in France. In Germany, they were concentrated mostly in cities and in the Hesse district. In the Netherlands, they were to be found mainly in Amsterdam and Rotterdam. In England, they were in most of the large cities and a number of smaller ones, with London having a 20,000 Negro population during the XVII and XVIII centuries. It is known that some of the Negroes in England were absorbed into the lower-class White populations, but again, as mentioned previously, this did not occur disproportionately anywhere in Europe."
- ("Transatlantic Slavery: The Dark Passage", by Jonathan Kuzma Gill)
As for Portugal, in the second half of the 16th century, the Crown abandoned the monopoly on Slave trade shifting from importation to exportation directly to tropical colonies in the Americas (Brazil), to work in the sugar cane plantations.
Back in the 15th century one third of the slaves were resold to the African market in exchange of gold.
Source:
"This sort of thing was not peculiar to Portugal alone; in fact, it occurred in nearly all of the slave-owning European nations, including Spain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, and Britain. The percentage of blacks was highest for Portugal, but the actual numerical figure was higher for Britain."
- ("The History of Portugal", by João Ferreira)
Ray Smith lies:
"As of 1975 it had lost all of its outside territories."
The Fact:
Portugal didn't lose anything. It gave up it's colonies...which were causing Colonial wars and a fragile economy for the core country.
With the Portuguese Revolution of the Carnations (in 1974), the new Government decided to accept the Overseas provinces independence.
Further and foremost, it was only in 1999, that Portugal did the handover of it's 'last' colony, giving Macau back to China, under 'de Facto', and the sovereignty status to East Timor in 2002 (not in 1974), under 'de Jure'.
Again, Portugal didn't cede all of its outside territory.
Portugal still owns overseas territory. The first landmass ever acquired, the autonomous region of Madeira, the archipelago that lies in the middle of the Atlantic ocean, the Azores, and the natural reserve, the Savage Islands.
Maybe Ray Smith never heard that, what goes up must come down?
One must wonder what were the reasons for the decline of the British (1499-1997), Dutch (1543-1950), Spanish (1492-1976) and French Empire's (1534-1980), having in mind that the Portuguese Empire (1415-2002) was the longest Global Empire, in History.
Ray Smith lies:
"History Rewritten
The Fact:
There's only one person trying to injury and rewrite European history, through delusive manifestation.
That person, is Ray Smith.
Encyclopædia Britannica the Eleventh Edition (1911) is the only dictionary that lists the Negroes as a composite for the Portuguese Genotype. No other Dictionary or Encyclopedia lists such, because as said before, Encyclopædia Britannica was characterized by misstatement, inexcusable omissions, rabid and patriotic prejudices, personal animosities, blatant errors of fact, scholastic ignorance, gross neglect of non-British culture...
You won't find anything about the role of the Negroes in Portugal, because the Negroes never had a role, in the History of Portugal.
Needless is to say, Portuguese History books don't list such element.
Again. Ray Smith seems deemed and determined to dictate the identity of the Portuguese, and the reason for it's Empire downfall was a due over miscegenation, of puzzling slaves in a painted number.
Without sources, Ray Smith can't back up his claims, which is why he resorts a nonsensical and paranoid conceit that History was rewritten by Jews.
Ray Smith lies:
"The article on Portugal in the 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica contains more real information than you can get in reading a hundred history books of more recent vintage."
The Fact:
Ray Smith afterwards, tries to advert and brainwash the readers of the article, not to read anything else but Britannica the 11th Edition's single page.
He wants to keep readers away from History.
Ray Smith lies:
"Stout Hearts - and Pure Blood
The Fact:
Ray Smith tries to quote and manipulate H. More Stephens's book, entitled "The History of Portugal", which he also failed to quote the Book properly.
Ray Smith lies:
"...by the end of the 16th century, the quality of the people was lacking. Other European nations suffered military defeat, but continued to grow and develop. Portugal stopped dead in its tracks. It had nothing to build on. Portugal can now only look nostalgically to the past. We Americans must use this information as insight into our future. It is too late to save the White Aryan people of Portugal, but we must save ourselves."
The Fact:
Portugal did not stop dead in its tracks.
It's endurance was triumphant. It should not only serve as an example but a role model as well.
It is amazing how someone is so willingly to throw a comrade over board.
Source:
"Portugal is one of history's most successful survivors. It is but a small country whose population rose slowly from one million to nine million over eight hundred years.
In that time it acquired a political and cultural autonomy within Europe. It also made it's mark on every corner of the globe through colonization, emigration and commerce.
Unlike the more prosperous Catalonia it succeeded in escaping from Spanish captivity in the seventh century. Unlike the equally dynamic Scotland it was not politically absorbed by its English economic patron in the eighteenth century.
Unlike the middle-ranking kingdoms of Naples or Bavaria it was not cannibalized in the unification of the great nineteenth-century land empires of Europe. Unlike Germany and Italy it did not lose its African colonies in either the First or the Second World War. And unlike other farming countries such as Ireland or Denmark it remained outside the European Economic Community until 1980's."
- ("A Concise History of Portugal", David Birmingham (1993))
Under a chronological timetable, the events that led the decline of the Portuguese Empire were as follows:
1640 - The constant attacks on colonies and core from competing countries (France, Netherlands and Britain).
1755 - The Big earthquake of Lisbon.
1807-1814 - The three Napoleonic invasions, plus looting (and the escape of the Portuguese royal family to Brazil, letting Portugal unprotected). Followed by the British looters in Portuguese territory (until the D. Miguel I reign) under a strict dictatorship.
1822 - Brazil becomes independent, leading to the decline of Portugal's world position, in the 19th century.
1828-1834 - The Liberal Wars.
1914 - Portugal participates in the WWI. But, the country's help is ignored by the big winners.
1939 - 1945 - Strict dictatorship, Estado Novo.
1961 - 1974 - Colonial war.
1974 - The unstable start of the third republic.
Portugal lost it's protagonism as a world power, because of other rising nations.
As a small country, with small armies, with no ties to anyone, but Spain (under the Iberian Union, which was broken) and vulnerable as to geographical allocation, Portugal had difficulty defending itself from the constant attacks of fellow Europeans.
It gradually lost it's power because of the attacks of 3 bigger countries, namely France, Netherlands and Britain (supposedly and ally, under the Treaty of Windsor) which wanted to get a hold of the Spice trades.
Source:
"Between 1580 and 1640 Portugal became a partner, with Spain, in a personal union of the two countries' crowns. Though the empires continued to be administered separately, Portuguese colonies became the subject of attacks by three rival European powers hostile to Spain and envious of Iberian successes overseas: the Netherlands, Britain and France. With its smaller population, Portugal was unable to effectively defend its overstretched network of trading posts, and the empire began a long and gradual decline."
- (Mario Paz)
Post that.
All European countries the most affected by each respective Fascist Regimes, during WWII, received a grand monetary aid through the Marshal plan, to help rebuild it's correspondent economies. Except for Portugal.
Countries like, the United Kingdom, France, West Germany (present-day Germany), Italy and the Netherlands were the biggest beneficiaries of such aid packages, which brings them to their present-day positions, as world and economical powers.
Below is the Chart for the European Recovery Program expenditures, by country:
Portugal did NOT peremptory benefit from the Marshal plan, it had to stand up all by itself, from and after WWII and the 'Estado Novo'.
All countries who received the aid had a jump head start.
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"It gave a new impetus to reconstruction in Western Europe and made a decisive contribution to the renewal of the transport system, the modernization of industrial and agricultural equipment, the resumption of normal production, the raising of productivity, and the facilitating of intra-European trade."
- ("Prosperity and Upheaval: The World Economy", 1945-1980 (1984) p. 44, Herman Van der Wee)
For such a small country, taking into account it's landmass size country, Portugal changed the world.
It managed to keep his track on.
It's Empire was the longest Global Empire in History.
Just to rephrase it, the First and Longest Empire, in History.
English story tellers, those in particular of the new world, greatly distort history. They over exaggerate their achievements and degrade those of the rest of Europe, for personal acquisition.
It's not a surprise that the Anglophone Supremacists are envious about this remarkable achievement, which can only be downgraded with rants, of degeneration, to elevate their lack of amplitude and success.
Ultimately, Ray Smith's article entitled "Black Man's Gift To Portugal" is nothing more than an offense result of envy, whereby the author tries to discredit Portugal, Portuguese people, and thus, Portuguese History and it's accomplishments, just in order for him to replace and emulate the need of manufactured glory.
Portugal is one of the patriarch countries of Europe, and its people one of the oldest inhabitants, of the continent.
Ray Smith's article should be taken as an insult to Europe, Europeans and its History, where Americans such as he, want to dupe readers and viewers of the world with irregular publicity against Europeans.
Genotype:
The Portuguese genetic composition is an opus of mainly Celtic extraction (of Paleolithic origin), where the Haplogroup R1b (*s-113) comprises 60% to 78% of an individual's composite, reaching higher values in the North-Western regions of the country to 90%, followed by other minor Haplogroup segments, found all over Europe.
Portuguese people are best characterized by the Atlantic Modal Haplotype (AMH).
See maps below for main Haplogroups scattered through out Europe:
It clusters right between Spain and Northern Italy. And falls in the Europid Spectrum, according to the Trilateral Y-DNA gene flow. (Edwards et Al. 2008)
- (Edwards et al. 2008)
As Dr. Kayser, Dr. Oscar Lao and etc. of the Erasmus University Medical Center, in Netherlands indicate.
The genetic map of Europe bears a clear structural similarity to the geographic map.
- Dr. Kayser, Dr. Oscar Lao & etc. Visual Science (2008)
Moreover, the a team of Swiss and American researchers led by John Novembre at UCLA concluded, on genetic map, you can make out Italy’s boot and the Iberian peninsula where Spain and Portugal sit.
- John Novermbere, UCLA @ Discovermagazine (2008)
Well designed pigmentation field studies by Tamagnini (1916, 1936), Correa (1919) and others recorded national average fair hair 'blondism' frequencies of between 18 and 20%.
Light eyes run between 20-49% for the Portuguese, according to recently published pigmentation maps of Europe (see P. Frost, 2006).
- CIERA, Peter Frost (2006)
And according to the latest (GWAS) Genome-Wide Association Studies of Quantitatively Measured Skin, Hair, and Eye Pigmentation in Four European Populations, the Portuguese Hair, Eyes and Skin pigmentation does not differ from the other 3 test samples (Irish, Polish and Italians) as seen in the table and journal below.
Table for the Skin, Eyes and Hair pigmentation:
The Phenotype:
The Portuguese populations general traits are West-European, from which it shares a great affinity with Spain.
Clear connections to Atlantic Europe and Western European populations are the major features among the Portuguese.
Dark to medium Brown hair and Brown or Hazel eyes predominate the majority of the population, although, Blond hair and Blue or Green eyes is also found at a great frequency within the Portuguese.
Chestnut and auburn-colored hair types occur generally . Light Red hair is seen in occasion, but less frequent.
Click the following link, for the Phenotype of Portuguese people.
The Average Portuguese person:
It should be noted that, immigrants and descendants of immigrants living in Portugal are not Portuguese, nor do they represent the country in question.
A Brazilian (or any sort of immigrant) is not a Portuguese, just like an Algerian is not French, a Pakistani is not English nor a Turk is German.
http://www3.stormfront.org/posterity/race/blackgift.html
This refute, should also serve as an input to malcontent Arthur Kemp's nordicist book as well, entitled "March of the Titans" - Chapter 22, Lessons in Decline: Spain and Portugal, since Kemp himself did not have the faculty to make a rant of his own, but to replicate this preposterous article.
Anyone interested in Portuguese History, ought to rent or buy the complete six volume set of DVD or VHS, entitled "História Essensial de Portugal - Das Origens á Revolução" © Videofono, narrated by the great Portuguese Historian, of Portuguese History, Professor Hermano Saraiva.
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