I am from Mauritania and I want to say that I am satisfied even if the conditions of living are difficult, but the only thing that I cannot accept is the feeling that my dreams and hopes are shattered day after day. How naive I was since childhood to think that even someone like me could dream, but still I am happy because I live in a time when I can communicate with wonderful people from all over the world and witness how beautiful humanity is to unites us together. I hope that we will progress together and do our best to make the world a better place in which any children regardless of their location on the globe, can dream (Sorry if I made some grammar mistakes)
I am Mauritanian living in the West (college student) but you are definitely right about the dreaming. I dream every day, every hour. If not about this life then something ethereal. Our leaders are consumed by greed and nepotism, but it is the West that wants them this way. Unfortunately, Arabs and North Africans in general can be some of the most ignorant people on earth. If things do change, it may not be for another century.
This powerful documentary sheds light on the haunting similarities between historic slave trade and modern-day migration.The film urges us to reflect on our collective responsibility to address the root causes of migration and to strive for a more compassionate and just world.
@@pietrojenkins6901 without any qualifiers that is a preposterous claim that is simply false, and even somewhat offensive. There are many factors that contribute to poverty and some of them are beyond an individual's control or influence. Depending on the time & place of one's birth and the family they are born into, it may be virtually impossible, and certainly not feasible for a great portion of the world's population to change their socio-economic status. For most people born in industrialized nations if they live in lovey it is likely the result of choices they've made. Absolutely! But I also would not call it an abuse! That's absurd and silly!
Africa has Rulers, not leaders. Otherwise African continent would be democratic and warlords would roam around the continent and hundreds of militia groups..
This documentary is so well put. immediately after teaching the kids about the point of no return, we see our brothers setting off from the similar point except this time not in physical chains.
An estimated 10% to 20% of Mauritania’s 3.4 million people are enslaved - in “real slavery,” according to the United Nations’ special rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, Gulnara Shahinian. If that’s not unbelievable enough, consider that Mauritania was the last country in the world to abolish slavery. That happened in 1981
Slavery is still legal in the US under the 13th amendment. That's why private prisons make so much money. You're understanding of reality is mindbogglingly wrong.
@liamrode1 doesn't matter what is legal in the US....that's still besides the fuckn point. The stats say 10% of a certain group of citizens somewhere are SLAVES.....where exactly is your grip on this reality.
In life , one should have a purpose. That man teaching children about history of slavery has a great purpose in life. He could be poor but has a better purpose than a rich man with no purpose
The moral of the story is that the teacher talks about the slavery in Africa 400 years ago to the group of children. At the same time, the smugglers plan the illegal trip to bring Africans to Europe. It is so irony is that back in slavery time an umbrella was worth 40 slaves. But today an illegal trip to Europe costing an African men and $760 EURO. A well-done documentary film.
7:30. This father is so humble and the way he was with his kids wass amazing. Praying for your family. Even more sad is all these African countries are filled with minerals. Which are worth 💵💴💷💰. These people shouldn't have to live like this . But then again money is the root of evil
@@CMoore8539 it is not money that is evil, it is the love of money that is evil. Money is neutral, having the wrong relationship with money is what sometimes make people do evil things
Congo is the worst of all. It should be one of the richest countries with all of its natural resources. It has the most biodiversity in the world next to the Amazon rainforest. Instead the people still live in extreme poverty, their land is being destroyed with all its biodiversity and they get basically nothing from it. All so we can have smart phones and EV's. They've had nothing been misery since they were introduced to Europeans.
Our problem is the constant failing of our African leaders who continuous enrich themselves, living most African vulnerable and with no choice but to risk their lives in a Boat for greener pasture 💔
I agree but the way to solve that problem is to get enough of the population to rise up and overthrow the government, not abuse the immigration, refugee, or asylum laws in the West. Leaving never makes the government a better society for all of the population and it (daily migration as well as mass migration events) have been putting a strain on the West. The West is struggling w/their own populations who r struggling and suffering from the higher income and wealth inequality worldwide. Bad governments create all kinds of problems for the West aside from just the cost of migration. I’m not against immigration but it should be based on what the government needs for their societies, for example, ppl w/certain skills, not based on whenever and whatever skills, or lack of skills, a migrant decides. I’m in the US, massive amounts of migrants who simply want a better life abuse our asylum system everyday which is creating a big problem for my country. Russia and China use the issue to claim Dems and some gop r trying to replace the white race. It’s nonsense but the color of the population is changing bc the white race isn’t reproducing enough to maintain itself mostly bc of infertility, both parents needing to work, and not being able to afford the cost of children in the US. However, Russia and China r spreading disinformation, propaganda, etc trying to get far-right politicians, who r working for Russia and China’s interests and trying to make the US a corrupt dictatorship and the #1 reason voters r falling for this is bc of migration. If the US/West falls, all democracies fall and we will all have bad governments like Africa, Russia, Iran, China, etc. The solution is not bringing the rest of the world down with u but to rise up and fix ur own government. The West, especially the US aren’t the wealthy countries many think they r. A small group have a massive amount of money, they drive up the cost of living while the M&L classes r earning the same wages or less from 1980. Please stop coming to the West and make ur own countries better so that the West can fix their own countries!
The leaders you're complaining about are a product of their respective societies. Perhaps, a bit of a societal introspection may be required to examine, and if possible, remedy its apparent inabilty to produce quality leadership that is in short supply on the African Continent
Is Mauretania and Mauritania 2 different places? ah it's like region, like Europe for example constisting of many countries, didn't actual know this thing existed. Heard of Maghreb before... The title of the video is confusing tbh.
Ya all those billionaire African leaders that are enriching themselves. You mean like fucking Elon Musk? Like the white guy with colonial emerald mines? No you're insane to think any of the money that's extracted from these economies is staying in Africa.
It's sad to see people having hardly anything to eat, feeding sheep with cardboard. Yet, fertility rate in Mauritania is over 4 children. I will never understand this. If you have nothing to eat, you don't bring children into these conditions.
The point is that the kids are taught that slavery was a black and white thing. They don’t want to teach them that black Africans sold their brothers to the slavers. In this way young men have been indoctrinated that they are poor because of the west and that Europe owes them rather than pointing the finger at their own corrupt governments.
It's good because if im not mistaken, DW orga is financed by Germany tax payer money, so there's no obligations to some corporate sponsor, to push certain narratives or placed Ads via "news" objects.
The first sentence from the narrator indicates they were SOLD into slavery, the indication of who the slavers were/are is explicit. The issue has been fully deconstructed, the Africans and their slave trade has been ongoing for 1300 years.
Yes you’re right, and Africans even enslaved Europeans in North Africa at one time, which is rarely spoken about. Anything is only ever condemned now if white people are to blame. Look at the Trans-Saharan Arab slave trade, which enslaved just as many Africans, but since when has any Arab country been called out on it? Non. In fact the Arabs are still enslaving people to this day, and there’s silence.
Every nation on earth were slaves at some point in their history. The teacher is teaching the children about the transatlantic slave trade- stay on topic. Same way children in the west get taught about the world wars- pertinent to their modern history.
This was heartbreaking for me this perilous journey not to have a luxurious life but to have an ordinary one their country has a tremendous amount of wealth but it has been exploited away from them let them be a slave under these circumstances. Thanks a lot for this prolific documentary 🌹🙏
France and England playing divide and conquer against North Africa is what did this. Make the Moroccans think they're superior to Algerians who think they're superior to Egyptians who think they're superior to etc. etc. In reality we all waste our life doing what the slave driver wants us to do (Europe)
@8:25 Feeding the goats/sheep torn up cardboard! This is common in many countries suffering from extreme poverty. Goats in particular are infamous for eating "anything", they can be very valuable resources for farmers if used wisely. But it is inconceivable that this dirty cardboard with all kinds of residual processing chemicals the ink printed on them does much more than merely fill the animals stomachs without providing calories or nutrients!
A truthful, informative documentary coverage about human trafficking from African countries involving ( Mauritania 🇲🇷)...to approaches European shorelines for illegal migrating purposes .... African youths are living in hopeless circumstances....good doing by an excellent (DW )documentary channel
Thank you DW team for bringing us such an eye opening documentary from the ground. I will never forget the words of the skipper saying to migrants that the boat does not have a toilet & eat light food such as biscuits. Local governments totally failed to take care of their population & forced them to take such horrendous journeys.
People need to challenge things to make things better for themselves. We can all look back at history.Better to look forward hearing the future imo. Maybe start by not having so many children that you can't afford to feed? Maybe that's a part of alleviating poverty?
Fascinating and mind opening documentary. It’s sad our leaders know our story as a race and continent but they’ve done little to transform our continent thereby making our people make treacherous journeys to Europe for greener pastures. Someday, our continent will be liberated from this wickedness!
@@clarkporter1340the fact that the majority of Mauritanians are enslaved in their own country by the minority Arabs that are left from those that subjugated them eons ago & still to this day have slaves for themselves is outrageous. It was outlawed in 1981, but is taboo to talk of it. All this is because of matters to do with it being permissible to a rich group of people & yet they get away with it. It happens in Saudi & many of the Persian Gulf states. Utter hypocrisy from those that are meant to be so righteous😢
There’s no point in the authorities telling the people how dangerous the journey is. They know the risks. It’s more dangerous to stay. That’s the entire point of seeking a better life elsewhere. Godspeed to them all. 🦋
True and very sad. However still Mauritania has fertility rates over 4 kids per family. If you know how bad your living conditions are, you don't bring child into this world. At least this is what I did ( or rather didn't do).
The fixer tells the skipper he will reach the Spanish coast in two days of sailing. How can a rickety, overloaded fishing boat cover 1400 miles in that short time? Smugglers are of the lowest vane of humanity. This boat will never reach the Spanish coast.
The Europeans just took over the Arab's slave racket in the 18th and 19th century since the ottoman empire was declining and the Europeans were thriving. How people don't ever mention it was the Arab's who started the African slave trade in the first place is baffling. The fact of the matter is every race has been enslaved. The word "slave" come from the latin word "slav" which is still an ethnicity in eastern Europe, who were enslaved by the Romans. People in Iceland and the British isles were sold into slavery by vikings in Arab slave markets since white slaves were desirable as wives. Barbary pirates from North Africa raided southern Europe for slaves for the ottoman slave market. Jannisarries were Christian children of Slavic aristocracy in the Balkans who were hostages to the Ottomans, who then were made into obedient Muslim soldiers. Coolies were indian and Chinese indentured servants who were worked in the Caribbean on plantations and as railroad workers after slavery was abolished, but weren't treated any better than slaves due to asian racism. And everyone seems to forget the Spanish and Portuguese used the indigenous peoples of the Americas as slaves as well. Slavery affects any vulnerable people group.
Look up "indentured servitude in Dubai", people from Bangladesh, India, and the Philippines are tricked into working for workforce contractors in Dubai on the promise of good pay, who then have their visas and passports confiscated under the guise of "contractual terms", and then force them to pay the travel fee back to get back their passport. Dubai has the most foreign workers per Capita in the world.
Slave trade existed long before white people started to trade slaves. In fact Arabs traded slaves long before that. Also, please remember that slaves were sold by Africans to white people. So literally Africans were selling their own people for the goods exchange.
DW is great at making documentaries. But I couldn't connect the dots between illegal migration and slavery (the topic being explained to the kids). I somehow missed this. Or does it means that an illegal migrant is a slave?
A free Black child will grow up, in many cases, to become an illegal migrant slave, for nothing will sadly change when the children are adults. Beautifully made; such a tragic story. Africa's full of riches the white men took. Now, it's full of riches the Black politicians take. How can they do this knowing the history of their continent's people? I'll never understand this greed, when there's enough for all to live comfortably, if done the right way.
The act of human trafficking is a form of slavery. People who get trafficked are forced through the poverty they live in often spending money that is the representation of the entire extended family’s savings with no guarantee to what the journey will turn out to be. Many drown or get captured and returned back. Often the traffickers take advantage of them and in the extreme cases of what the fisherman described as murder as he refused to throw some people of the boat as though they are no more than ballast.
What else do we need to suffer to understand that the glory remains in our countries of origin, we need to fight against ignorance, we need more education!
It is great to see the little kids in Mauritania playing with the cellphone. Even the poorest family can afford an older smartphone. Think of how that can bring all the world's knowledge to every corner of the earth.
Why don't they say that the slaves were captured by other tribes and sold to the slave traders. I'm tired of being blamed for what some merchants did 275 years ago. The Arabs castrated the slaves so there are no descendants. I do not confess original sin, and they are taught to hate Europeans,
There is no hate. They are taught to learn their history, so they don't make the same mistakes from the past. Teaching history is not about who to hate but learning so they don't fall into the same pit the people before them did.
Okay so in regards the "lesson on slavery" at the beginning of video. Wondering who these young people are taught to hate more. Their ancestors who they r told traded their people for guns or the people with the guns trading for slaves ? I doubt they hate both equally
There is no hate. They are taught to learn their history, so they don't make the same mistakes from the past. Teaching history is not about who to hate but learning so you don't fall into the same pit the people before them did.
@margaret Is there any place in this video where that teacher told the students that your supposed fancy country is the best place to live in and not Africa or you just imagining things here?
As a Black American documentaries like this hit hard. I'm thankful for the fight my ancestors put up so that I could be free, but I'm saddened that the world treats us like this till this day.
I'm so sorry 😞 but the first 25 seconds is hilarious. The way he started out had me thinking he wasn't gonna say something positive. But he got straight to the point it's not funny tho 😕
The man forgot to add that it was African leaders who were selling people to the Europeans in the first place. And the local chiefs accepting such "payments" for their own people does not tell anything good about them.
Why Dont Black Africans every speak on the fact that Islam ENSLAVED,TORTURED&MADE EUNUCHS of black people 900yrs before the Trans Atlantic slave trade and its still going on today ESPECIALLY in Africa ➡️ In 2017, African slaves were freed from captivity in Libya, where their Arab masters not only raped and starved them, but forced them to drink from toilets. Groups like CAIR, which pretend to be concerned with "human rights," never lifted a finger to help them.➡️ Sahih Muslim 3901 - Muhammad trades away two African slaves for one Muslim slave. Sahih Bukhari 8:73:182 - Muhammad had an African slave acting as his chauffeur. Sahih Bukhari 9:91:368 - Muhammad had an African slave acting as his butler. Sahih Bukari 4:53:344 - Aisha learns that Muhammad has acquired slave girls as "booty" and asks for one as a maid. Sahih Bukhari 7:65:344 - Muhammad kept as slave to act as his tailor. Sahih Bukhari 2:15:103 - "I was watching the display of black slaves in the mosque..."➡️ The Indian and Persian people suffered greatly as well - as did Africans. At least 17 million slaves (mostly black women and children) were brought out of Africa by Islamic traders - far more than the 11 million that were taken by the Europeans. However, these were only the survivors. As many as 85 million other Africans are thought to have died en route. Most telling, perhaps, is that slavery is still practiced in the Sudan, Niger, Mauritania and a few other corners of the Muslim world - and you won't see any of those Muslim apologists (who shamelessly repeat the lie that Islam abolished slavery) doing or saying anything about it!
The translation is wrong… he said he stop going to school not fishing… there were a lot of inconsistencies between what the guy is saying and what is been translated
0:25 what a nasty lies. The guy forgot to say that the slavery had begun between the tribes, not with Europeans. Omitting uncomfortable facts is very manipulative.
Interesting doc but I don't understand why they kept interrupting this story in Mauritania to show school children in Nigeria learning about the trans Atlantic slave trade. Completely unrelated, only thing they have in common is Africans riding boats to foreign lands.
Africans participating in the displacement and destruction of fellow Africans for economic gain - peanuts really, is the common theme. The demand for slave labor in European colonies was high back then. Now, all that is desired is for Africans to extract minerals and produce raw materials for export. Young Africans are not going along with the program. This is the difference. Complex but…
9:12 Queen Elizabeth I gave the ship to John Hawkins, not to be confused with Johns Hopkins who came 200 years later the captions automatically filled it in wrong, the teacher had definitely said John Hawkins
Some are born with privileges,some have to strive hard to become privileged,but in the end,I pray God blesses all our effort to become better and kudos to the skippers family that live in joy and harmony,God bless all the dreamers
The way to solve that problem of bad governments is to get enough of the population to rise up and overthrow the government, not abuse the immigration, refugee, or asylum laws in the West. Leaving never makes the government a better society for all of the population and it (daily migration as well as mass migration events) have been putting a strain on the West. The West is struggling w/their own populations who r struggling and suffering from the higher income and wealth inequality worldwide. Bad governments create all kinds of problems for the West aside from just the cost of migration. I’m not against immigration but it should be based on what the government needs for their societies, for example, ppl w/certain skills, not based on whenever and whatever skills, or lack of skills, a migrant decides. I’m in the US, massive amounts of migrants who simply want a better life abuse our asylum system everyday which is creating a big problem for my country. Russia and China use the issue to claim Dems and some gop r trying to replace the white race. It’s nonsense but the color of the population is changing bc the white race isn’t reproducing enough to maintain itself mostly bc of infertility, both parents needing to work, and not being able to afford the cost of children in the US. However, Russia and China r spreading disinformation, propaganda, etc trying to get far-right politicians, who r working for Russia and China’s interests, in our government and trying to make the US a corrupt dictatorship. The #1 reason voters r falling for this is bc of migration. If the US/West falls, all democracies fall and we will all have bad governments like Africa, Russia, Iran, China, etc. The solution is not bringing the rest of the world down with those who have bad governments but to rise up and fix ur own government. The West, especially the US aren’t the wealthy countries many think they r. A small group have a massive amount of money, they drive up the cost of living while the M&L classes r earning the same wages or less from 1980. Please stop coming to the West and make ur own countries better so that those in countries w/bad governments can create a better country for their entire population, their children, and so that the West can save their countries and solve the problems we have!
The West especially US have profits by these instabilities in Africa. Who do you think will give them permission and underpay mining workers in Democratic Republic of Congo if Congo is peaceful? Who do you think has benefits here when Africa is unstable? Why doesn't the west keep off Africa? Must they have interfered in a country like Libya which had all the resources for its people and they never migrated? If the west claims to be interfering in Africa's well-being, why don't they interfere in the unstable cases rather than the stable countries like Libya, Egypt and so on? If you want to help someone, you help someone in need and not someone who is already stable by convincing the stable person that he lacks something! LET THE WEST STOP INTERFERING WITH AFRICAN AFFAIRS. Why don't the people in the west arise and overthrow the government that is accommodating all those immigrants? If the western population which is stable can not overthrow their governments, what makes you think that weak people who just think about their daily lives will arise and otherthrow their government?
Its not about poverty...there is something more deeper than this...if your Spiritual youll know..read the book of revelations..its End times, this is coming...the WHITE HORSE-THE CONQUEROR...ONE OF THE HORSES OF THE APOCALYPSE...
@@momuridi114 in the west we have democracy so we don’t “overthrow” our government we vote, something most African and poor countries can’t do, but when discussing Africa why do ppl like to associate the US with most of their problems? Believe it or not America has little to do with the African continent other than being the largest supplier of humanitarian aid, remember it was European countries that carved up and colonized Africa. The problem is most African countries have bad or corrupt government leaders. Why do they allow themselves and their ppl to be taken advantage of by “the west”? The African leadership needs to stand up against the evil west and for their people but be careful cozying up to china tho…
Yeah that’s right, Africa’s population will double in size by 2050. Niger has the youngest median age (15) of any country in the world, with the average mother having 7 children. Niger is the poorest country in the world too.
@@knowz2367 No they are having the same problem with population counts. No one seems to be having children anymore. It’s just a difficult time for the whole globe.
Since slavery is explained in its historical context, it's vital to keep this in mind because of the so-called "CRT" or Critical Race Theory that is spreading heinous racism on a large scale. Slavery was an internationally ubiquitous and accepted business practice conducted by Europeans, including Russia (serfdom) and Africans themselves against their own people. It permeated the entire globe, The Chinese and the Indians against their own kinfolk and so forth. But, unfortunately many people believe that slavery was only a European phenomenon, which is nothing but blatant deception that today perpetuates hate against Indo-European white caucasians.
American descendants of enslaved Africans are concerned only with the institutions and families who facilitated their enslavement. Let’s not gaslight and play the tired old game of what aboutism. American’s past is what it is: ugly. With proper education the future can be different. And might I add that the rest of the world looks to America for good examples? Let’s not disappoint by electing to keep our children ignorant of history.
Remember, England ended slavery worldwide almost singlehandedly. They chased slavers and shut down an entire industry that is as old as humanity. They even paid for slaves release in entire countries, a sum so large it wasn't paid back in full until 2015.
Hopefully things will become better that these young men fathers, carpenters , prospective lawyers, teachers, builders, etc etc can ignite a fire within themselves to educate themselves, build CREATE opportunities for themselves n others n save their lives. No one is saying that it is easy but we've got to try , build up our communities, towns, cities...we cannot totally depend on political officers who may be blinded themselves. Let us strive to build up our lands; get rid of this notion that europe is better. At what/ whose cost ?🤔
you say that like the burden is on them. if they're educated then what? will that education be valued when its in a Black mans mind and properly compensated? Or will he be disdained and given lopsided deals from arabs, europeans and east asians? Deals that maintain the poverty for all the people coming up underneath that African man and thus repeating the cycle. you see?
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I am from Mauritania and I want to say that I am satisfied even if the conditions of living are difficult, but the only thing that I cannot accept is the feeling that my dreams and hopes are shattered day after day. How naive I was since childhood to think that even someone like me could dream, but still I am happy because I live in a time when I can communicate with wonderful people from all over the world and witness how beautiful humanity is to unites us together. I hope that we will progress together and do our best to make the world a better place in which any children regardless of their location on the globe, can dream
(Sorry if I made some grammar mistakes)
This was touching to read. I speak blessing over you and yours that your days will be filled with joy, good health, and prosperity.
I am Mauritanian living in the West (college student) but you are definitely right about the dreaming. I dream every day, every hour. If not about this life then something ethereal. Our leaders are consumed by greed and nepotism, but it is the West that wants them this way. Unfortunately, Arabs and North Africans in general can be some of the most ignorant people on earth. If things do change, it may not be for another century.
Your comment was so touching and also heartbreaking to me, i wish i could knew more about
It’s really touching ❤
You never stop dreaming. May allah be with you!
I would like to visit Mauritania one day in sha Allah. But i Don't know anyone over there! Maybe you can tell me more about your country
This powerful documentary sheds light on the haunting similarities between historic slave trade and modern-day migration.The film urges us to reflect on our collective responsibility to address the root causes of migration and to strive for a more compassionate and just world.
This Documentary is so well Done. and my respect to the Narrators/ interpreters job well done wow 😮
Great documentary but the translations were terrible!
This is so sad. Poverty is the worst kind of abuse.
Poverty is one's own choice.
@@pietrojenkins6901 wtf is this dumb comment, you wouldn't last one day in their shoes
If you have enough to eat and good water and air not necessarily. Perhaps you are materialistic.
@@pietrojenkins6901 without any qualifiers that is a preposterous claim that is simply false, and even somewhat offensive.
There are many factors that contribute to poverty and some of them are beyond an individual's control or influence. Depending on the time & place of one's birth and the family they are born into, it may be virtually impossible, and certainly not feasible for a great portion of the world's population to change their socio-economic status.
For most people born in industrialized nations if they live in lovey it is likely the result of choices they've made. Absolutely!
But I also would not call it an abuse! That's absurd and silly!
@T How can poverty possibly be an abuse?! That doesn't even make any sense at all!
Who is the abuser?
This documentary is so well made it should be screened at top tier film festivals all over the world
Times have changed. They don't use chains anymore. They use contracts and loans.
FACTS
True like here in The gulf you sign a three year contract and they confiscated your passport
@@nyakadot.esq.2746 and they still use chains to keep them there
We Forgive Them🤍🇳🇬
@@ecsamuels4142 what?
amazing documentary.waiting for follow up Episode...
Thanks to entire team.
I'm yubraj all the way from nepal.🇳🇵
African leaders must see these things. Africa needs to provide jobs to her sons and daughters.
Money rules all. Only a small percent actually what to help their people sadly .
Did U.S. government started Walmart?
@@natgenesis5038 No it is China 🇨🇳. US is bad too.
Government is the people
Africa has Rulers, not leaders. Otherwise African continent would be democratic and warlords would roam around the continent and hundreds of militia groups..
This documentary is so well put. immediately after teaching the kids about the point of no return, we see our brothers setting off from the similar point except this time not in physical chains.
Thanks for this sophisticated Documentary DW.
An estimated 10% to 20% of Mauritania’s 3.4 million people are enslaved - in “real slavery,” according to the United Nations’ special rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, Gulnara Shahinian. If that’s not unbelievable enough, consider that Mauritania was the last country in the world to abolish slavery. That happened in 1981
Slavery is still legal in the US under the 13th amendment. That's why private prisons make so much money. You're understanding of reality is mindbogglingly wrong.
@liamrode1 doesn't matter what is legal in the US....that's still besides the fuckn point.
The stats say 10% of a certain group of citizens somewhere are SLAVES.....where exactly is your grip on this reality.
Many black people are still enslaved in Mauritania t this day
@@TherealRTZ973 That was rude!
@@TherealRTZ973 exactly 💯
In life , one should have a purpose. That man teaching children about history of slavery has a great purpose in life. He could be poor but has a better purpose than a rich man with no purpose
300 years ago when it’s still happening today. Is that a good purpose?
@@SeeLasSee Happening where?
The moral of the story is that the teacher talks about the slavery in Africa 400 years ago to the group of children. At the same time, the smugglers plan the illegal trip to bring Africans to Europe. It is so irony is that back in slavery time an umbrella was worth 40 slaves. But today an illegal trip to Europe costing an African men and $760 EURO. A well-done documentary film.
nice documentary...the teacher with the kids enlightened the history and story More
Sadly, they likely will remember this history lesson when they grow older and tragically, nothing has changed. Heartbreaking.
7:30. This father is so humble and the way he was with his kids wass amazing. Praying for your family. Even more sad is all these African countries are filled with minerals. Which are worth 💵💴💷💰. These people shouldn't have to live like this . But then again money is the root of evil
True. Yes money is the root of all evil. It’s very sad.💔
@@CMoore8539 it is not money that is evil, it is the love of money that is evil. Money is neutral, having the wrong relationship with money is what sometimes make people do evil things
@@CMoore8539 The LOVE of money is the root of all evil. Money answereth ALLLLL things.
Congo is the worst of all. It should be one of the richest countries with all of its natural resources. It has the most biodiversity in the world next to the Amazon rainforest. Instead the people still live in extreme poverty, their land is being destroyed with all its biodiversity and they get basically nothing from it. All so we can have smart phones and EV's. They've had nothing been misery since they were introduced to Europeans.
@@bohobabie5987 that''s true, it is wrongly said that money changes people .Reality is money just unmasks people for who they are.
Our problem is the constant failing of our African leaders who continuous enrich themselves, living most African vulnerable and with no choice but to risk their lives in a Boat for greener pasture 💔
I agree but the way to solve that problem is to get enough of the population to rise up and overthrow the government, not abuse the immigration, refugee, or asylum laws in the West. Leaving never makes the government a better society for all of the population and it (daily migration as well as mass migration events) have been putting a strain on the West. The West is struggling w/their own populations who r struggling and suffering from the higher income and wealth inequality worldwide. Bad governments create all kinds of problems for the West aside from just the cost of migration. I’m not against immigration but it should be based on what the government needs for their societies, for example, ppl w/certain skills, not based on whenever and whatever skills, or lack of skills, a migrant decides. I’m in the US, massive amounts of migrants who simply want a better life abuse our asylum system everyday which is creating a big problem for my country. Russia and China use the issue to claim Dems and some gop r trying to replace the white race. It’s nonsense but the color of the population is changing bc the white race isn’t reproducing enough to maintain itself mostly bc of infertility, both parents needing to work, and not being able to afford the cost of children in the US. However, Russia and China r spreading disinformation, propaganda, etc trying to get far-right politicians, who r working for Russia and China’s interests and trying to make the US a corrupt dictatorship and the #1 reason voters r falling for this is bc of migration. If the US/West falls, all democracies fall and we will all have bad governments like Africa, Russia, Iran, China, etc. The solution is not bringing the rest of the world down with u but to rise up and fix ur own government. The West, especially the US aren’t the wealthy countries many think they r. A small group have a massive amount of money, they drive up the cost of living while the M&L classes r earning the same wages or less from 1980. Please stop coming to the West and make ur own countries better so that the West can fix their own countries!
The leaders you're complaining about are a product of their respective societies. Perhaps, a bit of a societal introspection may be required to examine, and if possible, remedy its apparent inabilty to produce quality leadership that is in short supply on the African Continent
Is Mauretania and Mauritania 2 different places?
ah it's like region, like Europe for example constisting of many countries, didn't actual know this thing existed. Heard of Maghreb before...
The title of the video is confusing tbh.
The grass is never greener on the otherside, it's a myth/pipedream.
Ya all those billionaire African leaders that are enriching themselves. You mean like fucking Elon Musk? Like the white guy with colonial emerald mines? No you're insane to think any of the money that's extracted from these economies is staying in Africa.
An awesome story. Fascinating to see this thing I see the fallout of all the time from the source. I hope these guys are all good.
It's sad to see people having hardly anything to eat, feeding sheep with cardboard. Yet, fertility rate in Mauritania is over 4 children. I will never understand this.
If you have nothing to eat, you don't bring children into these conditions.
Children = social safety net.
yea.. the cardboard part. i wonder how these animals will be nourished😅
The UN , and Eu governments should be doing something about traffickers , and also about the NGOs who are encouraging unauthorised migration
Is it them that created the situation? It's bad greedy selfish governments
Corruption destroys all.
Such a shame the documentary totally failed to discuss who was actually selling the people as slaves and for how long this had been happening.
And for how geographically extensive the trade was.
The point is that the kids are taught that slavery was a black and white thing. They don’t want to teach them that black Africans sold their brothers to the slavers. In this way young men have been indoctrinated that they are poor because of the west and that Europe owes them rather than pointing the finger at their own corrupt governments.
Wasnt it hugely facilitated by Africans? Especially our African chiefs?
Not to forget Arabs who also had their own slave trafficking business
Who should they have mentioned? Like exact names or something?
I have seen documentaries on European-African immigration, but this video is so informative, thank you.
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Another great documentary,thank you!!
i wish we had journalism this good in the U S A .
It's good because if im not mistaken, DW orga is financed by Germany tax payer money, so there's no obligations to some corporate sponsor, to push certain narratives or placed Ads via "news" objects.
We do, it's PBS
You have.
DW didn't translate what they were really saying and just followed it's own narrative.
@@terra7066 I saw that too. Nothing the locals were saying had nothing to do with his documentary
So sad ..but must say brilliant documentary by all stands 👌🏾
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@@DWDocumentary You gotta be joking. This is absolutely horrible "documentary". Its obviously actors all of them. And extremely bad actors also
Slavery was already practiced long before Europeans came and it was still practiced long after they left.
The first sentence from the narrator indicates they were SOLD into slavery, the indication of who the slavers were/are is explicit. The issue has been fully deconstructed, the Africans and their slave trade has been ongoing for 1300 years.
Yes you’re right, and Africans even enslaved Europeans in North Africa at one time, which is rarely spoken about. Anything is only ever condemned now if white people are to blame. Look at the Trans-Saharan Arab slave trade, which enslaved just as many Africans, but since when has any Arab country been called out on it? Non. In fact the Arabs are still enslaving people to this day, and there’s silence.
Every nation on earth were slaves at some point in their history. The teacher is teaching the children about the transatlantic slave trade- stay on topic. Same way children in the west get taught about the world wars- pertinent to their modern history.
This was heartbreaking for me this perilous journey not to have a luxurious life but to have an ordinary one their country has a tremendous amount of wealth but it has been exploited away from them let them be a slave under these circumstances.
Thanks a lot for this prolific documentary 🌹🙏
France and England playing divide and conquer against North Africa is what did this. Make the Moroccans think they're superior to Algerians who think they're superior to Egyptians who think they're superior to etc. etc. In reality we all waste our life doing what the slave driver wants us to do (Europe)
@8:25 Feeding the goats/sheep torn up cardboard!
This is common in many countries suffering from extreme poverty.
Goats in particular are infamous for eating "anything", they can be very valuable resources for farmers if used wisely.
But it is inconceivable that this dirty cardboard with all kinds of residual processing chemicals the ink printed on them does much more than merely fill the animals stomachs without providing calories or nutrients!
wonderful insight thank you 👍👍
This is so painful to watch.
I love it so much. I've been in both Nouakchott and nouadhibu for 5years❤
I hope the teacher teaches the real threat. The human traffickers living in the area!
We need part 2 please
Yes I want to know the fate of the people in the boat!
thank you for information
A truthful, informative documentary coverage about human trafficking from African countries involving ( Mauritania 🇲🇷)...to approaches European shorelines for illegal migrating purposes .... African youths are living in hopeless circumstances....good doing by an excellent (DW )documentary channel
Translator lie at the first, where he say how he started fishing not asking for boat to Europe
Great documentary! ❤
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Touching, thank you brother for sharing its important to know about history
Thank you DW team for bringing us such an eye opening documentary from the ground. I will never forget the words of the skipper saying to migrants that the boat does not have a toilet & eat light food such as biscuits. Local governments totally failed to take care of their population & forced them to take such horrendous journeys.
People need to challenge things to make things better for themselves. We can all look back at history.Better to look forward hearing the future imo. Maybe start by not having so many children that you can't afford to feed? Maybe that's a part of alleviating poverty?
I remember the guide from tayo aina video 😅
Damn as a African from Nigeria 8:51 I don't feed my goat paper/cardboard
Fascinating and mind opening documentary. It’s sad our leaders know our story as a race and continent but they’ve done little to transform our continent thereby making our people make treacherous journeys to Europe for greener pastures. Someday, our continent will be liberated from this wickedness!
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and experiences.
Are you just talking or are you living in Africa improving things?
Just forget about it. Our continent will never be okay. Lets prepare for more suffering
@@SeeLasSeeare you trying to be a simp or are you sitting in privilege of wealth stolen from Africans
@@clarkporter1340the fact that the majority of Mauritanians are enslaved in their own country by the minority Arabs that are left from those that subjugated them eons ago & still to this day have slaves for themselves is outrageous.
It was outlawed in 1981, but is taboo to talk of it. All this is because of matters to do with it being permissible to a rich group of people & yet they get away with it. It happens in Saudi & many of the Persian Gulf states. Utter hypocrisy from those that are meant to be so righteous😢
There’s no point in the authorities telling the people how dangerous the journey is. They know the risks. It’s more dangerous to stay. That’s the entire point of seeking a better life elsewhere. Godspeed to them all. 🦋
True and very sad. However still Mauritania has fertility rates over 4 kids per family.
If you know how bad your living conditions are, you don't bring child into this world. At least this is what I did ( or rather didn't do).
The fixer tells the skipper he will reach the Spanish coast in two days of sailing. How can a rickety, overloaded fishing boat cover 1400 miles in that short time? Smugglers are of the lowest vane of humanity. This boat will never reach the Spanish coast.
There just dumping them in the ocean
Mauritania only banned slavery a few decades ago, but, apparently, it remains an institution: people are plentiful; everything else is scarce
Rest in peace ☮️
How horrid that the forefathers sold people, irrespective of the price.
Awesome documentary, thanks for sharing
Thank you for your comment!
mauritania was the last country in the world to officially abolish slavery in 1982........1 third of the population still live in slavery.....
It is shameful that EVERYONE under 40..REFUSES to tell the TRUTH of how the whiteman was able to just take people away like that! God Bless Africans🌺
The Europeans just took over the Arab's slave racket in the 18th and 19th century since the ottoman empire was declining and the Europeans were thriving. How people don't ever mention it was the Arab's who started the African slave trade in the first place is baffling. The fact of the matter is every race has been enslaved. The word "slave" come from the latin word "slav" which is still an ethnicity in eastern Europe, who were enslaved by the Romans. People in Iceland and the British isles were sold into slavery by vikings in Arab slave markets since white slaves were desirable as wives. Barbary pirates from North Africa raided southern Europe for slaves for the ottoman slave market. Jannisarries were Christian children of Slavic aristocracy in the Balkans who were hostages to the Ottomans, who then were made into obedient Muslim soldiers. Coolies were indian and Chinese indentured servants who were worked in the Caribbean on plantations and as railroad workers after slavery was abolished, but weren't treated any better than slaves due to asian racism. And everyone seems to forget the Spanish and Portuguese used the indigenous peoples of the Americas as slaves as well. Slavery affects any vulnerable people group.
Look up "indentured servitude in Dubai", people from Bangladesh, India, and the Philippines are tricked into working for workforce contractors in Dubai on the promise of good pay, who then have their visas and passports confiscated under the guise of "contractual terms", and then force them to pay the travel fee back to get back their passport. Dubai has the most foreign workers per Capita in the world.
Slave trade existed long before white people started to trade slaves.
In fact Arabs traded slaves long before that.
Also, please remember that slaves were sold by Africans to white people. So literally Africans were selling their own people for the goods exchange.
DW is great at making documentaries. But I couldn't connect the dots between illegal migration and slavery (the topic being explained to the kids). I somehow missed this. Or does it means that an illegal migrant is a slave?
It means that the white man is somehow responsible for everything bad in the world.
A free Black child will grow up, in many cases, to become an illegal migrant slave, for nothing will sadly change when the children are adults. Beautifully made; such a tragic story. Africa's full of riches the white men took. Now, it's full of riches the Black politicians take. How can they do this knowing the history of their continent's people? I'll never understand this greed, when there's enough for all to live comfortably, if done the right way.
@@GladysAlicea There are a lot of heartless people in the world.
The act of human trafficking is a form of slavery. People who get trafficked are forced through the poverty they live in often spending money that is the representation of the entire extended family’s savings with no guarantee to what the journey will turn out to be. Many drown or get captured and returned back. Often the traffickers take advantage of them and in the extreme cases of what the fisherman described as murder as he refused to throw some people of the boat as though they are no more than ballast.
Previously, the white bought Africans as slaves, and now economic hardship created by bad leaders and traffickers are selling Africans into slavery.
What else do we need to suffer to understand that the glory remains in our countries of origin, we need to fight against ignorance, we need more education!
Instead of helping mankind, they destroy them.
@BROODJE KAAS Absolutely right.
The translations are extremely off, that aside, the rest of the documentary is well produced.
awesome docu. 👍🏼
I cannot abide ignorance. These human traffickers are the vilest of actors! What is worse? Those that tolerate this due to their moral decay...
The Old Proverb is true. "......the more things change the more they stay the same" 🙄
The French writer, Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, wrote that - in 1849. He was right.
@@TheStockwell
I knew it had French origins but wasn't sure who it was. Thx for the FYI 👍
It’s not a proverb. It’s thought provoking though.
The Islamic slave trade needs to be discussed more
No one to blame but this African Leaders AKA Rulers
Everything will be okay ❤️
Make Africa great again
It is great to see the little kids in Mauritania playing with the cellphone. Even the poorest family can afford an older smartphone. Think of how that can bring all the world's knowledge to every corner of the earth.
Why don't they say that the slaves were captured by other tribes and sold to the slave traders. I'm tired of being blamed for what some merchants did 275 years ago. The Arabs castrated the slaves so there are no descendants. I do not confess original sin, and
they are taught to hate Europeans,
Yet they will risk their lives just to get to Europe.
There is no hate. They are taught to learn their history, so they don't make the same mistakes from the past. Teaching history is not about who to hate but learning so they don't fall into the same pit the people before them did.
Okay so in regards the "lesson on slavery" at the beginning of video. Wondering who these young people are taught to hate more. Their ancestors who they r told traded their people for guns or the people with the guns trading for slaves ? I doubt they hate both equally
Are the children in the class American children or are they local children?
There is no hate. They are taught to learn their history, so they don't make the same mistakes from the past. Teaching history is not about who to hate but learning so you don't fall into the same pit the people before them did.
@@cherylk.2474 local to that country from what I gather
@margaret exactly
@margaret Is there any place in this video where that teacher told the students that your supposed fancy country is the best place to live in and not Africa or you just imagining things here?
As a Black American documentaries like this hit hard. I'm thankful for the fight my ancestors put up so that I could be free, but I'm saddened that the world treats us like this till this day.
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I thought only Ghanaian fishermen sing as they pull their net.
The children's guide teaching slavery omitted a certain information:
Who chased those soon-to-be-slaves in them villages?
They were captured, mainly by the coastal peoples that were supplied superior weapons. . .
Africans and Arabs. Anyhow, the world has more present day slaves than ever before.
@@ebierekoroye2327 Europeans joined the party late. Centuries after being raided by the barber tribes themselves.
Human traffic or modern slavery !!!! wich one is that? its so sad to see it happening still...
They got umbrellas in exchange for slaves? Interesting.
Sad sad story.
I'm so sorry 😞 but the first 25 seconds is hilarious. The way he started out had me thinking he wasn't gonna say something positive. But he got straight to the point it's not funny tho 😕
The man forgot to add that it was African leaders who were selling people to the Europeans in the first place. And the local chiefs accepting such "payments" for their own people does not tell anything good about them.
@Dragonji14 your absolutely correct 👏 👌
Why Dont Black Africans every speak on the fact that Islam ENSLAVED,TORTURED&MADE EUNUCHS of black people 900yrs before the Trans Atlantic slave trade and its still going on today ESPECIALLY in Africa ➡️ In 2017, African slaves were freed from captivity in Libya, where their Arab masters not only raped and starved them, but forced them to drink from toilets. Groups like CAIR, which pretend to be concerned with "human rights," never lifted a finger to help them.➡️ Sahih Muslim 3901 - Muhammad trades away two African slaves for one Muslim slave.
Sahih Bukhari 8:73:182 - Muhammad had an African slave acting as his chauffeur.
Sahih Bukhari 9:91:368 - Muhammad had an African slave acting as his butler.
Sahih Bukari 4:53:344 - Aisha learns that Muhammad has acquired slave girls as "booty" and asks for one as a maid.
Sahih Bukhari 7:65:344 - Muhammad kept as slave to act as his tailor.
Sahih Bukhari 2:15:103 - "I was watching the display of black slaves in the mosque..."➡️ The Indian and Persian people suffered greatly as well - as did Africans. At least 17 million slaves (mostly black women and children) were brought out of Africa by Islamic traders - far more than the 11 million that were taken by the Europeans. However, these were only the survivors. As many as 85 million other Africans are thought to have died en route.
Most telling, perhaps, is that slavery is still practiced in the Sudan, Niger, Mauritania and a few other corners of the Muslim world - and you won't see any of those Muslim apologists (who shamelessly repeat the lie that Islam abolished slavery) doing or saying anything about it!
Feeding the sheep cardboard..oof
Terrible people! 🤦♂️
@@lewisc6539 they cant find grass.
they are probaly drinking posioned goat milk as well.
May Allah grant them very sad and heartbroken
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The translation is wrong… he said he stop going to school not fishing… there were a lot of inconsistencies between what the guy is saying and what is been translated
The topic of slavery in the world today doesn't get enough coverage or exposure from the Media.
I blame our forefathers for accepting small gifts from European in exchange of our people...
great content
Cardboard for the sheep’s? That’s wild
So they find money to pay the smugglers, but can't invest in a business in their homeland? How sad. Smh
You don't live there you don't understand, any successful project gets stolen by the ruler his friends and their families
Because their country's economy is restricted if not centrally planned.
Please correct your title spelling. Mauretania was a ship. Mauritania is a country.
Why is no one pointing out the fact that this is clearly not slavery...
0:25 what a nasty lies. The guy forgot to say that the slavery had begun between the tribes, not with Europeans. Omitting uncomfortable facts is very manipulative.
some wrongs just can never be righted....and trying makes it even worse.
I agree. There doesn’t seem to be any Justice anymore anywhere. Just greed.
Dear DW, how do you manage to document??
Interesting doc but I don't understand why they kept interrupting this story in Mauritania to show school children in Nigeria learning about the trans Atlantic slave trade. Completely unrelated, only thing they have in common is Africans riding boats to foreign lands.
Africans participating in the displacement and destruction of fellow Africans for economic gain - peanuts really, is the common theme. The demand for slave labor in European colonies was high back then. Now, all that is desired is for Africans to extract minerals and produce raw materials for export. Young Africans are not going along with the program. This is the difference. Complex but…
To show the contrast between past and present. Forceful trafficking to west in the past and consensual in the present.
This was sad to watch my god bless Africa
This traslator can lie😂 18:34
9:12 Queen Elizabeth I gave the ship to John Hawkins, not to be confused with Johns Hopkins who came 200 years later
the captions automatically filled it in wrong, the teacher had definitely said John Hawkins
Some are born with privileges,some have to strive hard to become privileged,but in the end,I pray God blesses all our effort to become better and kudos to the skippers family that live in joy and harmony,God bless all the dreamers
The way to solve that problem of bad governments is to get enough of the population to rise up and overthrow the government, not abuse the immigration, refugee, or asylum laws in the West. Leaving never makes the government a better society for all of the population and it (daily migration as well as mass migration events) have been putting a strain on the West. The West is struggling w/their own populations who r struggling and suffering from the higher income and wealth inequality worldwide. Bad governments create all kinds of problems for the West aside from just the cost of migration. I’m not against immigration but it should be based on what the government needs for their societies, for example, ppl w/certain skills, not based on whenever and whatever skills, or lack of skills, a migrant decides. I’m in the US, massive amounts of migrants who simply want a better life abuse our asylum system everyday which is creating a big problem for my country. Russia and China use the issue to claim Dems and some gop r trying to replace the white race. It’s nonsense but the color of the population is changing bc the white race isn’t reproducing enough to maintain itself mostly bc of infertility, both parents needing to work, and not being able to afford the cost of children in the US. However, Russia and China r spreading disinformation, propaganda, etc trying to get far-right politicians, who r working for Russia and China’s interests, in our government and trying to make the US a corrupt dictatorship. The #1 reason voters r falling for this is bc of migration. If the US/West falls, all democracies fall and we will all have bad governments like Africa, Russia, Iran, China, etc. The solution is not bringing the rest of the world down with those who have bad governments but to rise up and fix ur own government. The West, especially the US aren’t the wealthy countries many think they r. A small group have a massive amount of money, they drive up the cost of living while the M&L classes r earning the same wages or less from 1980. Please stop coming to the West and make ur own countries better so that those in countries w/bad governments can create a better country for their entire population, their children, and so that the West can save their countries and solve the problems we have!
The West especially US have profits by these instabilities in Africa. Who do you think will give them permission and underpay mining workers in Democratic Republic of Congo if Congo is peaceful? Who do you think has benefits here when Africa is unstable? Why doesn't the west keep off Africa? Must they have interfered in a country like Libya which had all the resources for its people and they never migrated? If the west claims to be interfering in Africa's well-being, why don't they interfere in the unstable cases rather than the stable countries like Libya, Egypt and so on? If you want to help someone, you help someone in need and not someone who is already stable by convincing the stable person that he lacks something! LET THE WEST STOP INTERFERING WITH AFRICAN AFFAIRS. Why don't the people in the west arise and overthrow the government that is accommodating all those immigrants? If the western population which is stable can not overthrow their governments, what makes you think that weak people who just think about their daily lives will arise and otherthrow their government?
Jane doe please don't speak for other Americans.
Its not about poverty...there is something more deeper than this...if your Spiritual youll know..read the book of revelations..its End times, this is coming...the WHITE HORSE-THE CONQUEROR...ONE OF THE HORSES OF THE APOCALYPSE...
@@momuridi114 in the west we have democracy so we don’t “overthrow” our government we vote, something most African and poor countries can’t do, but when discussing Africa why do ppl like to associate the US with most of their problems? Believe it or not America has little to do with the African continent other than being the largest supplier of humanitarian aid, remember it was European countries that carved up and colonized Africa. The problem is most African countries have bad or corrupt government leaders. Why do they allow themselves and their ppl to be taken advantage of by “the west”? The African leadership needs to stand up against the evil west and for their people but be careful cozying up to china tho…
@@jaklinhyde if you hate China,we don't
The only continent with an enormous increase in population
Yeah that’s right, Africa’s population will double in size by 2050. Niger has the youngest median age (15) of any country in the world, with the average mother having 7 children. Niger is the poorest country in the world too.
They can't feed'em yet they keep on breeding'em.
Doesn't Asia have a population four times that of Africa?
@@knowz2367 No they are having the same problem with population counts. No one seems to be having children anymore. It’s just a difficult time for the whole globe.
@@knowz2367 It currently has a much bigger population than Africa but not for long!
It's a prime example of a too-complex-to-solve problem. I can't come up with any valuable remarks. Just feeling for everyone.
I want to contact the tour guide
What do they think they'll be doing in Spain?
Since slavery is explained in its historical context, it's vital to keep this in mind because of the so-called "CRT" or Critical Race Theory that is spreading heinous racism on a large scale. Slavery was an internationally ubiquitous and accepted business practice conducted by Europeans, including Russia (serfdom) and Africans themselves against their own people. It permeated the entire globe, The Chinese and the Indians against their own kinfolk and so forth. But, unfortunately many people believe that slavery was only a European phenomenon, which is nothing but blatant deception that today perpetuates hate against Indo-European white caucasians.
@@rcc8506 India had Black African slaves too.
American descendants of enslaved Africans are concerned only with the institutions and families who facilitated their enslavement. Let’s not gaslight and play the tired old game of what aboutism. American’s past is what it is: ugly. With proper education the future can be different. And might I add that the rest of the world looks to America for good examples? Let’s not disappoint by electing to keep our children ignorant of history.
Remember, England ended slavery worldwide almost singlehandedly. They chased slavers and shut down an entire industry that is as old as humanity. They even paid for slaves release in entire countries, a sum so large it wasn't paid back in full until 2015.
Wow 😢
Hopefully things will become better that these young men fathers, carpenters , prospective lawyers, teachers, builders, etc etc can ignite a fire within themselves to educate themselves, build CREATE opportunities for themselves n others n save their lives. No one is saying that it is easy but we've got to try , build up our communities, towns, cities...we cannot totally depend on political officers who may be blinded themselves. Let us strive to build up our lands; get rid of this notion that europe is better. At what/ whose cost ?🤔
Agreed. I hope you’re living in Africa and improving it rather than living off public money in Europe.
THOMAS SONKARA tried.
@@tuforu4 indeed he did - thus his untimely death🤔
@@SeeLasSee what about Australia.
you say that like the burden is on them. if they're educated then what? will that education be valued when its in a Black mans mind and properly compensated? Or will he be disdained and given lopsided deals from arabs, europeans and east asians? Deals that maintain the poverty for all the people coming up underneath that African man and thus repeating the cycle. you see?
The translation of the Fisherman's words is not accurate, half the time it tells a totally different story
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