The West insists on forced labor in Xinjiang? They themselves have a dark history of enslaving black people to grow cotton

Saying that in the past few days,

, ​​a number of internationally renowned fast fashion and sports brands that rely on Chinese consumers to "eat" all the year round suddenly resemble "collective evil", and have successively issued boycott statements against my country's high-yield and high-quality Xinjiang long-staple cotton. , These brands threatened to resolutely not use Xinjiang cotton in the future, nor outsource factory business in Xinjiang,

and the reason is that Xinjiang cotton is all "blood cotton"? ? !

H&M, Nike and many other famous international brands have made this statement for no reason,

. According to their claims, we are forcing cotton to work in Xinjiang. Xinjiang cotton is the product of exploitation and oppression of human rights, and it is absolutely intolerable. These sudden statements of

were just born, and the hearts of the people of the whole country were daunting-

forced labor, squeezed and exploited? What age is this, not decades ago, it's not guilty at all? ? ?

And this rigid and paranoid unilateral thinking out of thin air, how did it come out? The huge question of

is now enshrouded in the hearts of domestic consumers who are now angry and shocked, but in fact, as our Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying pointed out,

"I have never seen the forced labor of picking cotton in our country. , But you in the Western world seem to have this rich and colorful history."

Actually, the western world should be very impressed by the history of the black slaves’ hard work for picking cotton, because zz

from 1831 to 1870. In just 40 years, the United States has grown from a little-known cotton exporter to a major cotton exporter in the world that provides large amounts of cotton to the major cotton-using countries in Britain, Germany, and Italy. It has transformed into a world-leading economy and has truly caught up with the world. The fastest cotton train.

This is the "white gold" of the United States, and the southern region has therefore become one of the most prosperous regions in the world.

Among them, it is not the "hard-working and brave" Americans who have really made a great contribution to this "Rise of America", but the imported labor who has done all the hard work for them and has not been treated as human beings.

The black slaves legally trafficked from Africa are the real American motors.

Before the cotton business went on the right track, the United States had imported a large number of black slaves from Africa as manpower to ensure the country’s agricultural development and the smooth development of the western region. In 1793, the black slaves had a better life in the plantation. These productions Tobacco, sugar cane, cocoa (chocolate raw materials) and other low-consumption products in slave farms, the work of the slaves is not large-

suitable for the growth of these cash crops climate and natural environment make these crops grow well, and later processing Processing and transportation are also relatively easy.

According to the documentary literature at the time, in these plantations, the children of black slaves could still gather and play in the master’s kitchen, which seemed to have a happier life.

However, in 1793, something that changed the ecology of the entire cotton industry appeared-

23-year-old American Eli Whitney (Eli Whitney) invented a cotton gin that can quickly remove cottonseed .

Previously, American slave owners tried to participate in this booming world business, but the local linter cotton was too difficult to efficiently separate cottonseeds, and many farms ended up using these initial raw materials as garbage. .

And this machine has completely rewritten the ecology of the American cotton industry, and has also completely changed the living conditions of American slaves.

International cotton prices continue to rise, and the huge efficiency improvement brought by new machines means that for farmers who have a large number of life-long black slaves in their hands, large-scale cotton planting and labor can start to give it a go!

And cotton work is the most difficult of all crops. The slaves start to get up before dawn and rush to the cotton field to weed.

In the long cotton field, the tiny figures of slaves fighting alone are hardly to mention. The hard work of

from dawn to dusk made the slaves exhausted. In the cotton harvest season, the amount of work doubled.

How can the slaves who used to live relatively comfortable lives now become non-sleeping working machines? The answer found by the farmers of

is a harsh and cruel system and a brain filled with fear.

Corporal punishment has become the biggest "feature" of this system.

whipping, public punishment, these abuses, which people now hear, began to take place on a large scale in cotton plantations. The black slave writer Henry Walton Bibb (Henry Walton Bibb) who fled to Canada for

recalled the dark days he used to live in: "Amidst the overseer’s horn, all the slaves gathered-witnessing my punishment.

I was stripped of my clothes and forced to lie face down on the ground. My hands and feet are tied to the four stakes on the ground. Go on. Then the overseer whipped me with a whip." The

whipping is to punish the "slacker" slaves, but it is also to kill the slackers, so that the tragic screams will shock the hearts of all the slaves present.

And the reason may be that the person's picking speed lags behind the collective a small step, creating a little bit of "value" for the slave owner.

Any resistance meant a more tragic ending. In Mississippi at the time, an eyewitness named Alan Sidney later recalled a cruel scene:

When a man fell behind the front row, a The black artificial head tried to use a whip to keep him up, but he resisted.

Next, the white overseer who was riding on the horse threw down his umbrella, galloped over, shouting: "Take him down."

Then, the overseer took out the pistol that was attached to his waist, and was killed if nothing else. The rebellious slave.

And in this bloody scene, no slave spoke, and no one turned to look. they continue to work, "It seems that nothing happened."

These black slaves who are exhausted and ill by endless labor every day can only avoid this early ending in fear.

According to statistics, in the 60 years from 1801 to 1862, the amount of cotton picked by black slaves has increased by 400% every day, which is the result of force and mental deterrence.

What makes it even more unacceptable is that as long as the child can walk, he will immediately become a new labor for the farmer,

, ​​these words are still not clear about their own body, the child is still longer than the bag. Women who worked in cotton for a long time under the scorching sun,

women became a special asset of the farmer,

"Female slaves who give birth every two years are far more economical than male slaves on the farm "The cruel cycle of

happened year after year in the cotton fields of the United States, silent and never stopped...

After several generations of forced labor like cows and horses, the United States finally made cotton a national export giant. , Making enough money from the world's major countries. This tragic history of

really comes from the same place as the white cotton in the hands of blacks.

The United States has dominated such oppressive labor. It seems that there is some inspiration for the story that takes place in the world's most productive and high-quality vast cotton fields...

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Look at this vast field, picking cotton by hand, does it take decades to pick cotton? ?

Is modern technology not fragrant?

only needs a driver to guide the cotton picking machine, and the cotton farmland can return to the "initial state" from the cotton blossoms in an instant,

This neat and vast farmland is more like an army-like cotton picking machine after passing by these minutes. People are more comfortable,

Cotton farmers have long seen through the human capital and machine cost,

"What labor cost is 2.5 yuan/kg, the machine is only 2z

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In the past, we used to have seasonal workers from other provinces and provinces, and we gloriously carried the "cotton train" to Xinjiang to help pick cotton, so as to achieve a large increase in income in a short period of time. Which one does not regard this as sweet pastry,

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These brands have come to say "you forced labor" to destroy our Xinjiang cotton reputation and slander our achievements,

Who is forced to work more professionally, and who is sparing no effort to use technology to achieve a bumper harvest in agriculture and improve people’s lives,

The answers cannot be false...