Cempaka Culture and Tourism: The Black Dutchmen

"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)

“… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Thursday, November 8, 2007

The Black Dutchmen

Hélène Michaud, Radio Netherlands, 06-11-2007

In the 19th century, 3000 West Africans sailed off to the East Indies to serve in the Dutch East Indies colonial army. Most of them were former slaves. Many settled in Central Java, and took native wives. Their sons continued to serve in the colonial army, until Indonesia's independence.

The Belanda Hitam, or Black Dutchmen, as they were called, then sailed off the Netherlands, the homeland they had never seen.

In the early 19th century, the Dutch colonial army needed more soldiers to help crush increasing uprisings in the East Indies. A potential reservoir came from different parts of what we know as Ghana today, on the Guinea Coast. Between 1831 and 1872, about 3000 men were recruited from various places that are part of Ghana today.

Buying Freedom

Probably the largest contingent was recruited in Kumasi, the capital of the Ashanti Kingdom.

"The Dutch were not allowed by their government to recruit slaves," remarks Dutch historian, Ineke van Kessel, "but it was inconceivable that any Ashanti would volunteer for army service for foreign powers." So, Dutch agents recruited men enslaved by the Ashanti's, or bought them at different slave markets.

Free men

The slaves were then manumitted - told that they were now free men. They received an advance on their army pay to purchase their own freedom which they then had to work off serving in the East Indies Army.

Elmina Castle From Kumasi, the slave recruits were escorted to Elmina on the coast, and trained in Fort Saint Jago. waiting for the ship that would bring them to Batavia, now Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia. Just outside Elmina Castle, the men would leave the African continent, most of them never to return.

In colonial Indonesia, these African soldiers were given Dutch nationality, with many of the privileges of the colonial masters.

They were promised the same status and salaries as their European counterparts. "They apparently took this literally," says Van Kessel, "and they didn't accept any infringements on that promise." This gave rise to numerous mutinies.

Listen to the full programme (Real Player- 29.30)

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Black Dutchman Daan Cordus