Slavery and New Zealand

But the main villain, I will call him–although he has robust competition–states at one point that his ancestors were slaves. He looks Maori to me, so I looked up Slavery in New Zealand. This is what I got, from Wikipedia:

“Before the arrival of European settlers, each Maori tribe (iwi) considered itself a separate entity equivalent to a nation. In traditional Maori society of Aotearoa, prisoners of war became taurekareka, slaves, unless released, ransomed or eaten.[355] With some exceptions, the child of a slave remained a slave.

As far as it is possible to tell, slavery seems to have increased in the early 19th century with increased numbers of prisoners being taken by Māori military leaders, such as Hongi Hika and Te Rauparaha to satisfy the need for labor in the Musket Wars, to supply whalers and traders with food, flax and timber in return for western goods. The intertribal Musket Wars lasted 1807 to 1843 when large numbers of slaves were captured by northern tribes who had acquired muskets. About 20,000 Maori died in the wars which were concentrated in the North Island. An unknown number of slaves were captured. Northern tribes used slaves (called mokai) to grow large areas of potatoes for trade with visiting ships. Chiefs started an extensive sex trade in the Bay of Islands in the 1830s using mainly slave girls. By 1835 about 70–80 ships per year called into the port. One French captain described the impossibility of getting rid of the girls who swarmed over his ship outnumbering his crew of 70 by 3 to 1. All payments to the girls were stolen by the chief.[356]

By 1833 Christianity had become established in the north and large numbers of slaves were freed. However two Taranaki tribes, Ngati Tama and Ngati Mutunga, displaced by the wars carried out a carefully planned invasion of the Chatham Islands, 800 km east of Christchurch, in 1835. About 15% of the Polynesian Moriori natives who had migrated to the islands at about 1500 CE were killed, with many women being tortured to death. The remaining population was enslaved for the purpose of growing food, especially potatoes. The Moriori were treated in an inhumane and degrading manner for many years. Their culture was banned and they were forbidden to marry.[357]

Slavery was outlawed when the British annexed New Zealand in 1840, immediately prior to the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, although it did not end completely until government was effectively extended over the whole of the country with the defeat of the Kingi movement in the Wars of the mid-1860s.

Some Maori took Moriori partners. The state of enslavement of Moriori lasted until the 1860s although it had been banned by British law since 1809 and discouraged by CMS missionaries in North New Zealand from the late 1820s. In 1870 Ngati Mutunga, one of the invading tribes, argued before the Native Land Court in New Zealand that their gross mistreatment of the Moriori was standard Maori practice or tikanga.[358]“

There is so much bullshit about Europeans and slavery that is preached, particularly in our universities, whose JOB it is to figure this stuff out. We presented with these images of peaceful people deprived of their land and rights. Well, in this case–and this applies around the world–the White People were the ones who ENDED slavery. The British Empire was BY FAR the most important weapon against slavery the world over that the planet has ever seen. Slavery has been practiced everywhere, with very few exceptions in any lands or peoples, the world over since the dawn of history.

And it was CHRISTIANITY which was the driving force against slavery. Islam has no issue with it whatever. Getting and keeping slaves was part of the appeal of jihad. Slavery is condoned in the Old Testament. And as I have noted a number of times, the main “product” of the Vikings was slaves. To be clear: WHITE slaves, to be sold most of the time to Arabs. Most of the major cities in Ireland were founded as trading hubs, where the main product was human beings taken in internal conflict.