"Traed Mewn Cyffion": Cymru a Chaethwasiaeth

Mae'r rhan fwyaf o gymdeithasau wedi elwa ar lafur caethweision ar ryw adeg yn eu hanes. Mae hyn yn wir am Gymru hefyd.

Roedd y fasnach ryngwladol mewn caethweision yn fynnu o ddechrau'r 16fed ganrif (tua 500 mlynedd yn ôl) hyd at 200 mlynedd yn ôl. Ym 1807, pasiodd senedd Prydain Ddeddf i ddiddymu masnachu caethweision o fewn yr Ymerodraeth Brydeinig.

Roedd pobl dduon a phobl wynion wedi bod yn ymgyrchu i atal caethwasiaeth am dros 30 o flynyddoedd cyn i'r Ddeddf ddod i rym. Hyd yn oed ar ôl 1807, ni chafodd y caethweision a oedd eisoes yn byw mewn trefedigaethau Prydeinig eu rhyddhau tan 1838.

Roedd caethwasiaeth yn parhau i fod yn gyfreithlon mewn rhai gwledydd eraill am fwy na 50 mlynedd arall.

Heddiw, mae caethwasiaeth anghyfreithlon yn dal i fodoli mewn llawer rhan o'r byd — hyd yn oed yng Nghymru.

Caethwasiaeth

Iron slave-chain from Llyn Cerrig Bach, Anglesey

Ail-luniad o sut y gallai cadwyn Llyn Cerrig Bach fod wedi cael ei defnyddio.

Byddai copr Cymreig wedi ei ddefnyddio i wneud y pres ar gyfer y manilas hyn yn Birmingham neu Fryste.

Comisiynwyd y crochenydd Josiah Wedgwood gan y Gymdeithas Ddiddymu i greu'r ddelwedd hon o gaethwas yn penlinio ym 1788.

Cynhyrchwyd y poster hwn ar gyfer taith ddarlithio gan gaethwas wedi ei ryddhau yn ymgyrchu dros ddiddymu yn Unol Daleithiau America

Cefnogodd y bardd Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg, 1747-1826) y boicot o nwyddau a gynhyrchid gan gaethweision

Gini yn dangos y Brenin William III a'r Frenhines Mary II a fathwyd ym 1694.

Castiwyd y caronâd hwn (math o fagnel) ym 1802 yng Ngweithfeydd Haearn Cyfarthfa

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Nid yw sylwadau ar gael ar hyn o bryd. Ymddiheuriadau am yr anghyfleustra.

Edward Selwyn Roberts

31 Hydref 2021, 06:04

My sister and I, Welsh by birth and descent, have a number of DNA matches with African-Americans who have ancestral links with either Jamacia or Barbados. As our ancestors were from Anglesey and Caernarfonshire, I can only assume that a male member of our family was employed by the Pennant's, who not only owned the slate quarries in and around Bethesda but also over 600 slaves who laboured in the Pennant sugar plantations of Jamacia.

I've been in touch with many of our newfound cousins, to exchange information, and I'm delighted to say that firm friendships have been formed. Though, the search for our common ancestor continues.

Magic.

11 Tachwedd 2020, 14:13

A CRIME IN TIME IS ALWAYS A CRIME. From Africans, American Indian's, African American, Australia Aborigines, Indian's, Chinese, Japanese, The Middle East if people of colour lived there they were in-Slaved. Estimated 7 billion Blacks killed & 60 billion IN-SLAVED Globally for the CROWN & European Government's, LETS NOT GET TWISTED, A Crime in Time is always a CRIME. If you think well England in-slaved it's people, that's a crime. As soon as you invade others Lands for profit at some point in time it will come back to bight you. Did you know that Winston Churchill told his white people to hide the bodies of black Soldiers & send the families their SCALPS. If for some reason think All Lives Matters, then you must be lost, without empathy, a total racist or you love yourself way to much. Remember this, white cops look after white people, black cops look after white people. Bob Marley = Buffalo Soldiers, Dr King = I Have A Dream, Malcolm X said by any means Necessary. How long will colours suffer without Compensation for 400 years of working for just enough food to survive that day & maybe they will see their children grow up, 90% of the time that child would be SOLD. AFRICANS NEVER IN-SLAVED THEMSELVES, The Arubas hunted Africans for slaves & sold them to Europeans. Look it up. Once Europeans had the gun we were destroyed globally. Banks paid for this, look it up. Victim Support by understanding. Peace and tranquillity maybe a reality one day. ⏰

Matthew S Carr

21 Hydref 2020, 14:49

I wondered being part African part Welsh if my ancestors from Wales took part in the slave trade like other parts of Britain it’s very interesting and in some areas very hard to take in information of such vile treatment of my African ancestors and it was hard to take on that part of me may of been responsible for such acts which hurt me when I came to learn about it!!!

Annette Wyatt

10 Hydref 2020, 05:49

Not all big landowners had plantations and used slaves. In GB children, as young as 6 yrs old went down pits with their Mother's until this was abolished, this act called the Mining and Collery act 1847. 40 yrs after slavery was abolished. This act stated a child had to be at least 10 years old before going down a pit!

Rashid Ahmed

9 Awst 2020, 05:24

Wales like everyone else involved in slavery should hang their heads in shame. The trading of humans has got to be an all time low in History.

DianaSomervilleArthur

24 Ebrill 2020, 23:44

I believe my great grandmother was a slave or descendant of slaves in Wales. Sarah Salisbury Munro Somerville. She married my great grandfather in 1888 in Yarmouth Elgin county Ontario Canada. She is listed on census in 1891 she is recorded as black

Laurence Daley

30 Ionawr 2016, 02:16

thank you

Did the actual John Brown (of the battle hymn "John Brown's body lies a rotting in the grave but we go marching on..") lecture there ?

A figure legend of my book in long preparation "Love and War in Cuba" which discussed the Roman invasion of Anglesey reads:

Figure XXX The sacred lake of Llyn Cerrig Bach, “… Perhaps one of the most important iron age sites in the country. A Sacred Lake, into which many votive goods were offered from the late Iron Age (2nd century BC), until just before the Conquest of Anglesey by the Romans. Eleven swords, eight spearheads, wheels of up to 22 different chariots, parts of a shield, and slave chains were found during peat extraction in the Second World War.” Image is from a google site photograph by Tim Prevett. The first discovery, that of the slave chains, was made first by the hard laboring Irish navvies working for Lord McAlpine in the years Dad was stationed there. Strangely similar slave chains were captured by putative maternal ancestor Sancho el Fuerte, from the slave-warriors of the Arab Chief Miramamolins, defeated in the battle of Las Navas de Tolosa in 1212.

The old shield of (now Spanish) Navarra can be found at Navarra (accessed 1-20-2016) in: Heráldica Española - Spanish Civic Heraldry http://www.ngw.nl/int/spa/prov/navarra.htm. Some of these chains are found in the little chapel of Sancho El Fuerte in Roncevalle, Spain. Somewhere in my reading, if memory serves, there is a note on the friendship between Richard the Lionheart and Sancho El Fuerte,