Black woman from New York commenting here. Eagerly looking forward to reading this book. Very thankful to the author for his research and documentation. Africans and Blacks in the diaspora must put aside antagonisms and biases across our many differences to unite. We must study the past to understand how slavery and colonization contributed to our fragmentation. Black people, wake up.
There’s no argument that slavery was evil. But to fully comprehend its heinous nature the genesis of it is necessary. What prompted kinsmen to sell their own into a future of unknown significance? Slavery didn’t start with the arrival of the evil white people. It had been part of the Africans experience. Before the transatlantic trade there had been several centuries of trans Sahara version which hardly receives mention even though it was more devastating.
@israelnwanne8401 arab slave trade was also devastating but the effects of the transatlantic trade and colonization (and neocolonization) are still being felt today even in the arab world
Thank you for this interview. I am glad that many Nigerians will have the opportunity to understand their history and help bridge the gap between their African diaspora in the Americas
Christianity took over Nigeria, the picture of yt savior is on billboards not just Nigeria over the African continent and inside African households.indoctrination generations after generations.
Imagine, easily 10 generations of a family line trapped in slavery. Our ancestors would be proud of most of us. We are rising and reclaiming our unity in the diaspora! 🇬🇾🙏🏾❤️❤️❤️
@@blueberryhill6948 Everything that one isn’t a direct witness to stands the risk of being inaccurate. However, looking at different perspectives may help narrow down grey areas. Would have been nice if you sited areas you think aren’t accurate though.
Fantastic! How I wish so strongly that African leaders will push aside personal interests and gains and work for posterity remembrance. AFRICA SHALL SOAR!
This is an excellent discussion of a much needed analysis of the facts behind the dastardly imposition and continuation of the worst period in human history. Never let the perpetrators of these crimes off the hook for the misery they imposed upon us! ✊🏿🌍
Thank you for the information. I’ve recently found out I am 36.8% Nigerian and although myself and my great grand parents were born in Jamaica, I don’t have much genetic link with the island, my links are approximately 70% African and the rest European. It was great listening to you, I have subscribed and look forward to listening to you regularly. 🇯🇲🇳🇬❤️
That was the reason Bob Marley sang that "No matter where you come from, once you are black man, you are an African. God does not make mistakes by making us Africans special people with our unique colour black.
Also really glad to see a continental Afrikan (at least born there) acknowledge that Haiti and other Afrikan revolutions in the Caribbean and americas was the real reason behind why the west chose to stop the slave trade. There are still many of us in the diaspora that believe the lie that the whites let us go and that it was their mercy and change of heart that we should be grateful for. Our ancestors fought them bravely everywhere they took us and the cost became too high. I wish you both much success and thank you for covering this topic
@@zazabrown732 Neither do the perspectives of Europe.... because they say it's legal it becomes business and when they say it's not then it's wrong? That's a lot of power to give anyone, everyone has the right to their OPINION I agree with the O.P it was organized crime no matter what you call it.
@@zazabrown732it wasn’t just business, if it was just business why did they fight the Moroccans when they enslaved British citizens. It was morally wrong and they knew it.
I loved A Fatherless People: The Story of how Nigerians Missed the Road to the Promised Land and this set to be another blockbuster. I’m going to get me a copy of this one.
Up untill today they punish Haiti for revolving. They will not Haiti to have peace. ❤ Let's pray that they defend their enemies. ❤This is why France and the U.S.A still frustrates them. We are Igbos, Yorubas, Ashantis, etc. ❤We fought ...but our fight was different from yours. ❤
What i can’t comprehend why is Afrikan history not taught in our schools, from primary to university and make it a compulsory subject to pass to be able to graduate? Our education system is controlled too🤦🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️
🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲 Look like this guy asking the questions have ZERO idea of the slave trade. Africans didn't sell Africans. But as long as Africans were busy blaming themselves the guilty Europeans would not be held accountable. Africans are just Africans, home and abroad. Be it living in Jamaica, USA, UK, Trinidad...🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
They named the ship Jesus and Amazing Grace doesn't make it christian 😄. By their fruit (greed) you shall know them. I'm glad you did research and in the process are enlightened.
The same place that brought the religion you call Christian ,brought the language you use,the governmental and social method we subscribe to,also brought you the name "Jesus" which is a false name and the whole doctrine of Christianity as it manipulates the bible with English language.don't try to detach one thing from another,its all the same mess of ignorance due to slavery
@@yaladal7392 but the origins of Christianity didn't come from the west (England, US, etc...). The bible was translated from Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic to English. If one understands the scriptures in "Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic" then one can read it in those languages. For the rest of us that understand English, the translation is sound and the name "Jesus" is the real deal. I see no falsehood there. Sir, please understand that people mixing truth for dubious means doesn't make the truth less truthful. They called the slave ship "Jesus and Amazing Grace" does not mean the gospel of Jesus Christ does not offer salvation (freedom from death) through his grace (which is truly amazing). 😊
Oh Africa, we really need to have a more critical mind set. We have learnt to be so rigid and concrete in our thinking. This book is not an attack on Christianity. It is an opportunity for us to think about how and why we are in our current situation called Africa and the diaspora.
@@jidefayase6420 that reason has a lot to do with Christianity and the bible ,abi as omniscient as God is he did not foresee something as heinous as transatlantic slavery?
@@yaladal7392am glad to comment on your post. Nothing happens that is unknown to God. In fact, all of the slavery predicament happened because God prophesied it against our forefathers. Deut 28 and the book of Jeremiah makes us to know this. They rebelled and disobeyed God who brought them out of Egypt and through the red sea to take them to the promised land. Christianity is from Africa and not from Europe.
Maybe now Africa might get some shame and apologize for the greatest crimes committed on planet earth. However, they are writing books and allover the world making money off of our pain. SMMFH!
@@ernestmwape It’s new information to me as well. Scholars call it the “initial phase”. Colonizer sympathizers act like it never happened so that Africans seem more culpable. Many of us buy into it and become anti-black or anti-African. You can see it in some of the comments. Also, they like to point out that slave trading networks were already established before Europeans arrived. But they don’t mention anything about the trans-Sahara slave trade initiated by Arabs, who established those networks. It’s maddening how information is omitted just to turn us against each other.
Asiento de Negros was the contract or license that he is talking about that Spain gave merchants the right to provide enslaved Africans to the colonies in the Americas.
In the initial phase, Africans were kidnapped, period. Later on, some of those that had been kidnapped, were used as intermediaries to establish cooperation with other kingdoms. Also, there were known repercussions for not cooperating with the Europeans.
The Europeans have been doing this to the Africans using different names. Why did they name the ship Jesus? The deceived African that Europe is the heaven. Today Tinunu is there, what was his aim for destroying Igbo shops? I think his plan was not only to frustrate the Igbo but make them ready for sale again hear what Hope Uzodinma said promising some that he would send them to work in Canada that was how slavery begain.
When I say to my sister that I think that our ancestors came from Nigeria, she don't agree with me. She thinks it is Ghana, because the slavedepots were there. I am from Suriname, South America. Can I get a free copy from the author? I am going to write an a bookreview
You can trace which slave ships came from where on the online slave ship database. But if you also read academic work, you'll see they were taken primarily from -The Pepper Coast, Gold Coast, Slave Coast and the Loango Coast,
18€ on Amazon UK (without any possibility to ship it in other europeans countries) and 115€ on other Amazons in Europe. I like to support our writers but come ooon...
In 1564 queen Elizabeth I donated a ship to John Hawkins for the first official English slave trading voyage the name of Jesus of lubeck.such ships were also known " Guineamen" because involved human trafficking to and from the Guinea coast in west Africa.
Thus open slavery was replaced with hidden slavery just as open colonialism was substituted by neocolonialism. Visible slavery and visible colonialism were replaced by their invisible variants! In other words, the more things change, the more they remain the same.
The Most Honorable Elijah teaches that our fore-parents were first brought to America on a slave ship named Jesus in the year 1555 by a man named Sir. John Hawkins.
One thing I'd like to add when ppl talk about Africans selling other Africans is the slave traders were the minority compared to many ordinary folks who were just going about their business and many of who suffered the trauma of losing their loved ones to the transatlantic slve trade
@@Lieu_Tenant_Gambit your here opening your gutter but you can talk about islam and the worst it has done to the world. Some can use God's name to do evil but that doesn't mean God ask them to. I thought sometimes been old brings wisdom but now I know most old people are stupid also.
He is a wise writer ✍️, just the title alone will provoke you into reading the book. But as he is elucidating, you discover that it’s a just a little, more it reads, “Jesus of … “ Of course not the CHRIST.
The letter "J" was invited in 1524 by a guy in Italy named Gian Giorgio Trissino who lived from 1478 to 1550. Though it's the 10th letter in the english alphabet, it was the last letter added to the alphabet. It is no coincidence that "I" and "J" stand side by side-they actually started out as the same character. The letter "J" began as a swash, a typographical embellishment for the already existing "I". With the introduction of lowercase letters to the Roman numeric system, "J" was commonly used to denote the conclusion of a series of ones-as in “xiij” for the number 13. Jesus of Nazareth?? There was no such name in the time of Antiquity which was between the 8th century BC and the 5th century AD. But there was a "Jesus" after 1524AD, not from Nazareth but from Lubeck. Jesus was the name of a slave ship. Jesus of Lubeck was a cruising ship built in the City of Lübeck in the mid-sixteenth century. By the year 1540 the ship was purchased by Henry VIII, King of England, to expand his fleet. Jesus of Lubeck was later chartered to John Hawkins in 1562 by Queen Elizabeth I after it sank during a Battle. Jesus of Lubeck ( “The Good Ship Jesus”) and John Hawkins The ship became associated with the Atlantic slave exchange under John Hawkins. He effectively coordinated four journeys to West Africa and the West Indies somewhere in the range of 1562 and 1568. A record holds that Hawkins who professed to be a passionate Christian found the Sierra Leoneans harvesting their yields. He then, at that point, continued to tell the locals of a God named Jesus and of paradise and hell,. A while later he asked those among them who tried to have Jesus as their saviour to enter his ship “Jesus of Lubeck,” otherwise called “The Good Ship Jesus.” The people who entered soon out found they were barred from leaving the ship . They were shipped to Spanish estates in the Americas. There Hawkins exchanged them for pearls and sugar.
@@MaurisonAgbaNone because Jesus is the deception the name is YAHU-SHA after TMH Father YAHUAH scripture once had YAH before they removed it. Remember it’s not English writings.
The title of this book is also the figurative description of how the colonizers and slave masters used religion to enslave Africans literally and mentally.
Thank you. They are always taking cheap shots at Christianity because they know nothing will happen to them. The same cowards dare not write about slavery in Islam or the trans Saharan slave trade perpetrated by Arab Muslims for centuries before the Europeans ever came to sub Saharan Africa. And by the way, the Trans Saharan slave trade was much more cruel and devastating than the transatlantic slave trade.
Doesn't matter. Slavery in the Islamic world is not a source of identity or conflict, but a historical fact. My ancestors were former slaves who became part of Arab society, regardless of their skin color. Today, slavery is not an issue in my country. However, slavery in America is a source of trauma and injustice, not of freedom. The whites exploited and discriminated against the blacks for more than a century, even after they were freed. Today, the legacy of segregation still affects the lives of whites and blacks
The Arab Muslim slave trade, also known as the trans-Saharan trade or Eastern slave trade is talked about too but should be talked about more. The European-Christian Transatlantic slave trade is talked about more because it is recent and was more brutal. The transatlantic slave trade also had a more significant economic impact.
Im from America, I frfr didn't know the cuzins ain't know what happened to us 😂😅 We just been over here and nobody knows how we got here..? I'm legit a lil confused and interested to hear more about how this history got lost (i know colonialism but I want details)... Just so it's known, we are a very proud people and have no shame in our history. It is a valuable experience to reflect on because it has shaped our world today and our culture is being manipulated and sold to the world with so little context. Talk to us and ask questions, we have a lot of different perspectives and have also been miseducated in so many ways. P.s if you haven't heard "The miseducation of Lauryn hill" do it rn...it will show you a side of black America that is not exported to the world.
I'll come back later to shed some light as to why continental Africans tend to be ignorant of the transatlantic slave trade. I'm an African who is currently based in North America.
@@nana4lyfe Please, because I know a lot about our history as African Americans but I didn't know others didn't know about this aspect. My knowledge of Nigerian history is small so I would love to learn more as well. This information has shifted my paradigm and I still don't think I'm stable yet 😅.... I'm trying to contextualize this and I don't think I have a good perspective to do so because of my ignorance on Nigerian history. .
@@user-jv8kr4im1t it’s mostly because and I can only speak of Nigeria, different ethnic groups clashed with each other and sold prisoners of the other into slavery. The British forced everyone into one country and didn’t care if we were rivals. Teaching this history opens up old wounds, so the government tries to hide the facts or gloss over details.
@@user-jv8kr4im1t ok so from my perspective it comes down to education within a colonial system. After independence, the newly formed country (Ghana imo) just continued with the British way of doing things. Even before colonialism technically began, Africans on the coast through contact with the Europeans became like them so there really isn't a real conversation of slavery and colonialism. It's sort of glossed over. Some even think going back to that way of life will serve us better because after independence development is still laggy. Now due to our economical background alot of Africans who come out West are there solely to make financial means for themselves and try not to rock the boat. They become passive of sort because they have a financial goal in mind. Only people who furthered their education beyond high school get to learn more about the transatlantic slave trade. Majority don't grow up learning about it either from family or in school. They only know about African Americans through the Western media lens ie Hollywood. The internet now is helping bridge the gap so we'll see what the future holds.
@@nana4lyfe I appreciate your time and energy in explaining this to me really. How do people think we got to America though? What fills in that gap of information for people or is it just not thought about?....or do they think we are native to here...? I am sure the last one is least likely...😅
In 1441, building on years of previous Portuguese trading, hunting, and fishing expeditions that scoured the Atlantic coastline south of Cape Bajador, a small fleet of caravels anchored at Lagos on the southern Portuguese coast. As the returning crew discharged their cargo in the presence of Infante Dom Henrique, popularly known as Henry the Navigator, the spectacle of the handful of “captives” drew the attention of the royal party. Though few in number, the captives sparked commentary but also expectations. Recalling this event and anticipating the future it foretold, the royal chronicler Gomes de Zurara speculated about royal sentiment. “May we not think thou didst feel joy,” Zurara conjectured about the prince’s reaction, “not so much for the number of the captives taken, as for the hope thou didst conceive of the others thou couldst take?” In projecting royal will, the chronicler envisioned how the prince’s imaginary transformed “captives” into slaves while conjuring a robust slave trade into existence. Zurara was quick to add that t
Dead on arrival, the slave masters didn't bring Jesus to AFRICA, the missionaries did, WITHOUT the missionaries who enlightened the blacks through education contrary to the wish of slave Masters, it would have been worse.🇳🇬 If you're an author you should be an historian
Talk about the Arabs who started the Slave Trade in Africa long before the European traders arrived. The first Europeans didn't come with the Bible but to trade.
All africa people talk about slavery, but afraid to mention slavery in Coran and Islam. All hadiths mention black people in a very miserable way. Slavery still alive with Islam.
23:16 when you realize revelation 6:8 &13:1 -8 is the opening of the 4th seal 🟢 Columbus coming to the 4th part of Earth, with IeSus Christos. And the 2nd horn/Anti-MessiYAh is Protestant Jesus
I would like to write on this title and do a rebuttal to the way people have used it to promote lies against Christian and its presence in Africa. Also I would like to show how the history on this regards has been mixture of truth and big lies. Also how Christians lost their lives fighting hard to end this same slavery in Europe starting from the same time the business started. We can as well go as far back as earlier church fathers take on slavery and slaves. We will like to look at history of slavery across the world at the time even among us and how our people pioneered the selling of their people into slavery and profiting from it. And lots more.
I often wonder why no author has NEVER written about the biggest and longest slave Trade, which is the Muslim/Islamist Slave Trade. No, matter who they always write about the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The Islamic slave trade is the most horrific, nefarious and demented killing, slaughtering of babies, women, children, men and the elderly. But most writers never write about it.
Not a lot of info about it. Not lots of survivors to really even talk about it since the tradition was to neuter the men and place the women in harems. The west confronted their past of slavery and documented it, but it seems like the Arabian peninsula never did. And almost no one remains to call them out. There's also the fact that the Arabs didn't control half the world and thereby stand in the spotlight. So not as many people have a reason to directly criticize it. Note how during the world cup people talked about the poor, almost slavelike treatment of workers in Qatar. But once the spotlight moved away no one cares. I think that's the core reason. People hear about the West everyday so everyone is going to talk about it. Everyone is talking about Israel and Ukraine, almost no one is talking about the congo, Sudan or the Sahel unless the west is directly involved.
He repented and stopped dealing im saves..and Africans dedicated the monies they got from slavery to shango and all those other deities...so what is the point?
@@kala-adaidakariopusunju6809 people like john newton is the reason why black people outside of Africa dont know and answer to the name of their ancestors. No amount of repenting can compensate for this.
While he may be right, was it not our Traditional Rulers that sold other tribes for mirrors, and tobacco, I agree the white men raided some villages but they also had middlemen (just watch the movie Woman King). Let's balance the argument.
Even in the author voice and accent i see and hear an enslaved person the enskaved in mind will strive to pronounce the englush word even better than the owners, lets just call a spade what it is. But for this slavery we all will not be speaking English sa uf our life depends on it
Nothing to gain in this world. The slaves and the slave masters all died and left their wealth and their poverty. We shold be reading the book of Ecclesiastes everyday.
I hope you lot will include the Islamic Trans Saharan slave trade that started earlier than the European Trans Atlantic slave trade and were forced by the European colonial authorities the FORCEFULLY STOP THE TRANS SAHARAN SLAVE TRADE that lasted for approximately 1300 years (1980 Maurtania is officially the last Nation to end slavery and BTW Slavery has resumed in post Gadaffi Libya a Muslim country)? Also European slavery was inspired by the Arab caliphates who practiced slavery. They certainly affected the Spanish who after 700years of Muslim domination took that habit to South America. I hope you will mention these historical facts?
Appreciating your channel, subscribed. More and more I find that American and british youtubers are a narrow and relatively uninformative and uninformed group. Increasingly looking at work from everywhere else, particularly the global south.
Black woman from New York commenting here. Eagerly looking forward to reading this book. Very thankful to the author for his research and documentation.
Africans and Blacks in the diaspora must put aside antagonisms and biases across our many differences to unite. We must study the past to understand how slavery and colonization contributed to our fragmentation. Black people, wake up.
This is powerful. I am not Nigerian. But this IS wisdom and knowledge for all of us Africans. I hope I can buy the book here in the UK.
There’s no argument that slavery was evil. But to fully comprehend its heinous nature the genesis of it is necessary. What prompted kinsmen to sell their own into a future of unknown significance? Slavery didn’t start with the arrival of the evil white people. It had been part of the Africans experience. Before the transatlantic trade there had been several centuries of trans Sahara version which hardly receives mention even though it was more devastating.
@israelnwanne8401 arab slave trade was also devastating but the effects of the transatlantic trade and colonization (and neocolonization) are still being felt today even in the arab world
Thank you for this interview. I am glad that many Nigerians will have the opportunity to understand their history and help bridge the gap between their African diaspora in the Americas
Christianity took over Nigeria, the picture of yt savior is on billboards not just Nigeria over the African continent and inside African households.indoctrination generations after generations.
If someone could bridge the gap on how a black jew got sold into slavery..
It is also the Negroes because they were the slaves sold and they are not just slaves, but the biblical House of YAHUDAH (Judah).
This book needs to required reading for the entire world, especially the Global black family! Thank you adupeeee ooooo
From his explanation, he demonstrated a sound knowledge of what the situation really looks like then. Kudos yo him. The book is a must read.
Imagine, easily 10 generations of a family line trapped in slavery. Our ancestors would be proud of most of us. We are rising and reclaiming our unity in the diaspora! 🇬🇾🙏🏾❤️❤️❤️
Fantastic interviewee and essential subject matter. People _must_ know where they’re from and how we got to where we are _(or aren’t)_ today… 👏
Thank you Dele, I'm a student of history and I never get tired of digging into our past. Just ordered your book.
Please dig properly because some of what is being said on this clip isn’t entirely accurate
@@blueberryhill6948 Everything that one isn’t a direct witness to stands the risk of being inaccurate. However, looking at different perspectives may help narrow down grey areas. Would have been nice if you sited areas you think aren’t accurate though.
Study ourstory to get rid of invaders mystery
Wonderful book that reveals our dark past which is hunting our present.
Fantastic! How I wish so strongly that African leaders will push aside personal interests and gains and work for posterity remembrance. AFRICA SHALL SOAR!
Greeting from Chicago, we are a family reuniting after a great tragedy, our future begins here.
Great insight. Our education system is doing us a disservice as Africans. It needs an overhaul. The same should apply to Africans abroad.
Brainwashed, indoctrinated, programmed
This is an excellent discussion of a much needed analysis of the facts behind the dastardly imposition and continuation of the worst period in human history. Never let the perpetrators of these crimes off the hook for the misery they imposed upon us! ✊🏿🌍
Greetings from Paris and from global Black family
This truth needs to be spread throughout the world , everywhere!
Thank you for the information. I’ve recently found out I am 36.8% Nigerian and although myself and my great grand parents were born in Jamaica, I don’t have much genetic link with the island, my links are approximately 70% African and the rest European. It was great listening to you, I have subscribed and look forward to listening to you regularly. 🇯🇲🇳🇬❤️
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That was the reason Bob Marley sang that "No matter where you come from, once you are black man, you are an African. God does not make mistakes by making us Africans special people with our unique colour black.
I hope that everyone who can will buy their copies of these books. ❤
Great discussion. Greatly done
Also really glad to see a continental Afrikan (at least born there) acknowledge that Haiti and other Afrikan revolutions in the Caribbean and americas was the real reason behind why the west chose to stop the slave trade. There are still many of us in the diaspora that believe the lie that the whites let us go and that it was their mercy and change of heart that we should be grateful for. Our ancestors fought them bravely everywhere they took us and the cost became too high. I wish you both much success and thank you for covering this topic
They trying so hard to spin narratives to absolve them of their atrocities including pinning the blame on the enslaved for their predicament
@@michaelmaps2004 exactly. But the truth didn't change. And even they themselves documented these things
@@Lieu_Tenant_Gambit You are right. They can run but they cannot hide
Also the industrial revolution happened, they didn’t have a lot of need for slaves anymore
@@Chigo-nr8jg the always in need of cheap labor to maximize profits
It was structured organized criminal enterprise, not business.
not from their perspective, slavery was not against the european law back then
It was business because it was legal per the laws of the time. Your emotions don't determine definitions
@@zazabrown732
Neither do the perspectives of Europe.... because they say it's legal it becomes business and when they say it's not then it's wrong?
That's a lot of power to give anyone, everyone has the right to their OPINION I agree with the O.P it was organized crime no matter what you call it.
@@zazabrown732it wasn’t just business, if it was just business why did they fight the Moroccans when they enslaved British citizens. It was morally wrong and they knew it.
@goldbluetears I'm not sure that is true.
Thank you so much our lovely brother l love ❤️ you you are very very right
Malcolm X talked about John Hawkins and the Slave Ship Jesus 60 years ago
I loved A Fatherless People: The Story of how Nigerians Missed the Road to the Promised Land and this set to be another blockbuster. I’m going to get me a copy of this one.
Amazing interview!! I learned so much!!! I will get this book! Thank you!!
Up untill today they punish Haiti for revolving. They will not Haiti to have peace. ❤ Let's pray that they defend their enemies. ❤This is why France and the U.S.A still frustrates them. We are Igbos, Yorubas, Ashantis, etc. ❤We fought ...but our fight was different from yours. ❤
History will forever be grateful to Haiti, their revolution serve as an eye opener
Thank you for the enlightenment, it is a gripping story that should be read by all Africans just as they read the "bible"
Thanks for sharing.This is well needed.
The " Devil " remains in the details, this insidious deceit goes a whole lot deeper than the names of slave ships.
And their Christian "God" ignored the details and the slaves too.....
What i can’t comprehend why is Afrikan history not taught in our schools, from primary to university and make it a compulsory subject to pass to be able to graduate? Our education system is controlled too🤦🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️
🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲 Look like this guy asking the questions have ZERO idea of the slave trade.
Africans didn't sell Africans.
But as long as Africans were busy blaming themselves the guilty Europeans would not be held accountable.
Africans are just Africans, home and abroad. Be it living in Jamaica, USA, UK, Trinidad...🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
Thank you. Just placed my order. I trust this will be a good read.
They named the ship Jesus and Amazing Grace doesn't make it christian 😄. By their fruit (greed) you shall know them. I'm glad you did research and in the process are enlightened.
The same place that brought the religion you call Christian ,brought the language you use,the governmental and social method we subscribe to,also brought you the name "Jesus" which is a false name and the whole doctrine of Christianity as it manipulates the bible with English language.don't try to detach one thing from another,its all the same mess of ignorance due to slavery
@@yaladal7392 but the origins of Christianity didn't come from the west (England, US, etc...). The bible was translated from Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic to English. If one understands the scriptures in "Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic" then one can read it in those languages. For the rest of us that understand English, the translation is sound and the name "Jesus" is the real deal. I see no falsehood there.
Sir, please understand that people mixing truth for dubious means doesn't make the truth less truthful. They called the slave ship "Jesus and Amazing Grace" does not mean the gospel of Jesus Christ does not offer salvation (freedom from death) through his grace (which is truly amazing). 😊
Oh Africa, we really need to have a more critical mind set. We have learnt to be so rigid and concrete in our thinking. This book is not an attack on Christianity. It is an opportunity for us to think about how and why we are in our current situation called Africa and the diaspora.
@@jidefayase6420 that reason has a lot to do with Christianity and the bible ,abi as omniscient as God is he did not foresee something as heinous as transatlantic slavery?
@@yaladal7392am glad to comment on your post. Nothing happens that is unknown to God. In fact, all of the slavery predicament happened because God prophesied it against our forefathers. Deut 28 and the book of Jeremiah makes us to know this. They rebelled and disobeyed God who brought them out of Egypt and through the red sea to take them to the promised land. Christianity is from Africa and not from Europe.
Can't wait to get the book
Least we overlook, the Slave Vessel named: 'Wheels Of Fortune' ... This story gets deeper.
This information need to be given to our people at the old slave ports. We need to stop the lie that we sold ourselves
Every generation as a part to play on liberation and decolonize the African mind
I need it in french ❤❤❤
Wonderful narration
Great book
Maybe now Africa might get some shame and apologize for the greatest crimes committed on planet earth. However, they are writing books and allover the world making money off of our pain. SMMFH!
Interesting
Anti-black black folk might find this section starting at 19:15 too difficult to accept.
After watching Thomas Sowell, I totally agree with yo observation - very frustrating how some of our people sell their souls
@@ernestmwape It’s new information to me as well.
Scholars call it the “initial phase”.
Colonizer sympathizers act like it never happened so that Africans seem more culpable. Many of us buy into it and become anti-black or anti-African. You can see it in some of the comments.
Also, they like to point out that slave trading networks were already established before Europeans arrived. But they don’t mention anything about the trans-Sahara slave trade initiated by Arabs, who established those networks.
It’s maddening how information is omitted just to turn us against each other.
@@ernestmwape Thomas Sowell is absolutely brilliant
Looks an interesting read
Asiento de Negros was the contract or license that he is talking about that Spain gave merchants the right to provide enslaved Africans to the colonies in the Americas.
I must have this book
In the initial phase, Africans were kidnapped, period. Later on, some of those that had been kidnapped, were used as intermediaries to establish cooperation with other kingdoms. Also, there were known repercussions for not cooperating with the Europeans.
Nice interview ❤ I will be back. Subscribed
Lord Lord this is so informative and really sad😮😮
Pls I need this book were I can get it. Pls also make it available in all Nigerian bookshops.
This is awesome, cause we never seem to acknowledge Spain’s role in the slave trade
The Europeans have been doing this to the Africans using different names. Why did they name the ship Jesus? The deceived African that Europe is the heaven. Today Tinunu is there, what was his aim for destroying Igbo shops? I think his plan was not only to frustrate the Igbo but make them ready for sale again hear what Hope Uzodinma said promising some that
he would send them to work in Canada that was how slavery begain.
When I say to my sister that I think that our ancestors came from Nigeria, she don't agree with me. She thinks it is Ghana, because the slavedepots were there.
I am from Suriname, South America. Can I get a free copy from the author? I am going to write an a bookreview
You can trace which slave ships came from where on the online slave ship database. But if you also read academic work, you'll see they were taken primarily from -The Pepper Coast, Gold Coast, Slave Coast and the Loango Coast,
Can you tell me something? Where does the word 'pikin' come from?
@@zazabrown732almost 3 million was taken from the coast of Biafra and Benin, don’t take them out.
@@blowthehornPortuguese work picanini or something similar
@@Chigo-nr8jg what do you think the Slave Coast refers to?
18€ on Amazon UK (without any possibility to ship it in other europeans countries) and 115€ on other Amazons in Europe. I like to support our writers but come ooon...
In 1564 queen Elizabeth I donated a ship to John Hawkins for the first official English slave trading voyage the name of Jesus of lubeck.such ships were also known " Guineamen" because involved human trafficking to and from the Guinea coast in west Africa.
Relating to the same topic, Dr. Akinwumi Ogundiran's book, The Yoruba: a new history would also be a good take
Please put this in audiobook
We need a similar study of the Sub Saharan slave trade too.
Saharan slave trade just continued with democraty. Dont see it ?
You always like to see something wrong the other side to cover this truth unveiled. Open up your mind man.
Trans Sahara not sub sahara
@@ademola6017so additional study is covering up another study?😂
@@manofculture584 lol. With that suit. I already understood the point He is trying to make
This is the missing piece in my jigsaw
I was thinking the same thing. The missing pieces are slowly coming together.
GTA ONLINE 😂
People needs to learn
Thus open slavery was replaced with hidden slavery just as open colonialism was substituted by neocolonialism. Visible slavery and visible colonialism were replaced by their invisible variants! In other words, the more things change, the more they remain the same.
This is how African and diaspora intellectuals should present themselves - not the lame excuses being parroted by black American conservatives today🎉❤
What excuses exactly
Can we get the PDF online?
Please I need this book
The Most Honorable Elijah teaches that our fore-parents were first brought to America on a slave ship named Jesus in the year 1555 by a man named Sir. John Hawkins.
One thing I'd like to add when ppl talk about Africans selling other Africans is the slave traders were the minority compared to many ordinary folks who were just going about their business and many of who suffered the trauma of losing their loved ones to the transatlantic slve trade
That's not true ,all slaves came out a European fort in West Africa . Many of times we hear African sold African but that's incorrect
🤣This title is about to piss off so many christians.
They hate such bitter truth
Talk about islam also
@@monacre1it helps to have been taught Islam to fight it. Most Christians know nothing about it
@monacre1 we're talking about Christianity right now.
@@Lieu_Tenant_Gambit your here opening your gutter but you can talk about islam and the worst it has done to the world. Some can use God's name to do evil but that doesn't mean God ask them to. I thought sometimes been old brings wisdom but now I know most old people are stupid also.
He is a wise writer ✍️, just the title alone will provoke you into reading the book. But as he is elucidating, you discover that it’s a just a little, more it reads, “Jesus of … “
Of course not the CHRIST.
How do I get this work
Although the host says he read the book, it doesn't appear that he has.
And, a good interview would atleast compare the information here with other well researched historical sources.
...great interview...does Dele Ogun have a site for purchase rather than Amazon?
Liking for the title alone.
The letter "J" was invited in 1524 by a guy in Italy named Gian Giorgio Trissino who lived from 1478 to 1550. Though it's the 10th letter in the english alphabet, it was the last letter added to the alphabet. It is no coincidence that "I" and "J" stand side by side-they actually started out as the same character. The letter "J" began as a swash, a typographical embellishment for the already existing "I". With the introduction of lowercase letters to the Roman numeric system, "J" was commonly used to denote the conclusion of a series of ones-as in “xiij” for the number 13.
Jesus of Nazareth?? There was no such name in the time of Antiquity which was between the 8th century BC and the 5th century AD. But there was a "Jesus" after 1524AD, not from Nazareth but from Lubeck.
Jesus was the name of a slave ship.
Jesus of Lubeck was a cruising ship built in the City of Lübeck in the mid-sixteenth century.
By the year 1540 the ship was purchased by Henry VIII, King of England, to expand his fleet.
Jesus of Lubeck was later chartered to John Hawkins in 1562 by Queen Elizabeth I after it sank during a Battle.
Jesus of Lubeck ( “The Good Ship Jesus”) and John Hawkins
The ship became associated with the Atlantic slave exchange under John Hawkins.
He effectively coordinated four journeys to West Africa and the West Indies somewhere in the range of 1562 and 1568.
A record holds that Hawkins who professed to be a passionate Christian found the Sierra Leoneans harvesting their yields.
He then, at that point, continued to tell the locals of a God named Jesus and of paradise and hell,.
A while later he asked those among them who tried to have Jesus as their saviour to enter his ship “Jesus of Lubeck,” otherwise called “The Good Ship Jesus.”
The people who entered soon out found they were barred from leaving the ship .
They were shipped to Spanish estates in the Americas. There Hawkins exchanged them for pearls and sugar.
What language did he use to tell them about Jesus?
@@MaurisonAgbaNone because Jesus is the deception the name is YAHU-SHA after TMH Father YAHUAH scripture once had YAH before they removed it. Remember it’s not English writings.
Please how can i get hold of this book, i am intrigued.
The title of this book is also the figurative description of how the colonizers and slave masters used religion to enslave Africans literally and mentally.
Where can i get this book
The name of the Ship is Jesus of Lubeck and not Jesus. Let us be clear if his history claim is correct. Why remove Lubeck removed?????
All the same SMH
Okay...I don't understand the title ooo. Jesus never supported slavery.I hope he mentioned the Arabian slave trade of too.
Thank you.
They are always taking cheap shots at Christianity because they know nothing will happen to them.
The same cowards dare not write about slavery in Islam or the trans Saharan slave trade perpetrated by Arab Muslims for centuries before the Europeans ever came to sub Saharan Africa. And by the way, the Trans Saharan slave trade was much more cruel and devastating than the transatlantic slave trade.
I'm also lost oo cos why a slave ship named Jesus?
It's Jesus of Lubeck. The author choose Jesus to make it a bait
@@nnejichukwuebuka514 That's is wrong of the author. He should have written the whole thing o.
What about islam, talk about the people that sold them too
Doesn't matter.
Slavery in the Islamic world is not a source of identity or conflict, but a historical fact. My ancestors were former slaves who became part of Arab society, regardless of their skin color. Today, slavery is not an issue in my country. However, slavery in America is a source of trauma and injustice, not of freedom. The whites exploited and discriminated against the blacks for more than a century, even after they were freed. Today, the legacy of segregation still affects the lives of whites and blacks
They fear that if they say The truth about Islam.. they would be haramed and killed or punished.
Stop with your nonsense. Muzungu tricked, and kidnapped our peoples.he who control the printing page control the thinking of the age
The Arab Muslim slave trade, also known as the trans-Saharan trade or Eastern slave trade is talked about too but should be talked about more. The European-Christian Transatlantic slave trade is talked about more because it is recent and was more brutal. The transatlantic slave trade also had a more significant economic impact.
@@JoyFay it’s not brutal the Islamic trade was worst than what is been said and mind you Christians where already in Africa before Europe took it.
Im from America, I frfr didn't know the cuzins ain't know what happened to us 😂😅
We just been over here and nobody knows how we got here..?
I'm legit a lil confused and interested to hear more about how this history got lost (i know colonialism but I want details)...
Just so it's known, we are a very proud people and have no shame in our history. It is a valuable experience to reflect on because it has shaped our world today and our culture is being manipulated and sold to the world with so little context.
Talk to us and ask questions, we have a lot of different perspectives and have also been miseducated in so many ways.
P.s if you haven't heard "The miseducation of Lauryn hill" do it rn...it will show you a side of black America that is not exported to the world.
I'll come back later to shed some light as to why continental Africans tend to be ignorant of the transatlantic slave trade. I'm an African who is currently based in North America.
@@nana4lyfe
Please, because I know a lot about our history as African Americans but I didn't know others didn't know about this aspect. My knowledge of Nigerian history is small so I would love to learn more as well. This information has shifted my paradigm and I still don't think I'm stable yet 😅.... I'm trying to contextualize this and I don't think I have a good perspective to do so because of my ignorance on Nigerian history. .
@@user-jv8kr4im1t it’s mostly because and I can only speak of Nigeria, different ethnic groups clashed with each other and sold prisoners of the other into slavery. The British forced everyone into one country and didn’t care if we were rivals. Teaching this history opens up old wounds, so the government tries to hide the facts or gloss over details.
@@user-jv8kr4im1t ok so from my perspective it comes down to education within a colonial system. After independence, the newly formed country (Ghana imo) just continued with the British way of doing things. Even before colonialism technically began, Africans on the coast through contact with the Europeans became like them so there really isn't a real conversation of slavery and colonialism. It's sort of glossed over. Some even think going back to that way of life will serve us better because after independence development is still laggy. Now due to our economical background alot of Africans who come out West are there solely to make financial means for themselves and try not to rock the boat. They become passive of sort because they have a financial goal in mind. Only people who furthered their education beyond high school get to learn more about the transatlantic slave trade. Majority don't grow up learning about it either from family or in school. They only know about African Americans through the Western media lens ie Hollywood. The internet now is helping bridge the gap so we'll see what the future holds.
@@nana4lyfe I appreciate your time and energy in explaining this to me really.
How do people think we got to America though? What fills in that gap of information for people or is it just not thought about?....or do they think we are native to here...? I am sure the last one is least likely...😅
We are Hebrew Egyptians
There's AAC o. African Action Congress
Kidnapped 😢😢😢
In 1441, building on years of previous Portuguese trading, hunting, and fishing expeditions that scoured the Atlantic coastline south of Cape Bajador, a small fleet of caravels anchored at Lagos on the southern Portuguese coast. As the returning crew discharged their cargo in the presence of Infante Dom Henrique, popularly known as Henry the Navigator, the spectacle of the handful of “captives” drew the attention of the royal party. Though few in number, the captives sparked commentary but also expectations. Recalling this event and anticipating the future it foretold, the royal chronicler Gomes de Zurara speculated about royal sentiment. “May we not think thou didst feel joy,” Zurara conjectured about the prince’s reaction, “not so much for the number of the captives taken, as for the hope thou didst conceive of the others thou couldst take?” In projecting royal will, the chronicler envisioned how the prince’s imaginary transformed “captives” into slaves while conjuring a robust slave trade into existence. Zurara was quick to add that t
Dead on arrival, the slave masters didn't bring Jesus to AFRICA, the missionaries did, WITHOUT the missionaries who enlightened the blacks through education contrary to the wish of slave Masters, it would have been worse.🇳🇬 If you're an author you should be an historian
Talk about the Arabs who started the Slave Trade in Africa long before the European traders arrived. The first Europeans didn't come with the Bible but to trade.
They afraid to talk about the true, this is the true and none to talk about. Thank broh.
All africa people talk about slavery, but afraid to mention slavery in Coran and Islam. All hadiths mention black people in a very miserable way. Slavery still alive with Islam.
The invasions started with KMT more than 4000 yrs ago
23:16 when you realize revelation 6:8 &13:1 -8 is the opening of the 4th seal 🟢 Columbus coming to the 4th part of Earth, with IeSus Christos. And the 2nd horn/Anti-MessiYAh is Protestant Jesus
Yes..All evil worship Idol jezuz
I would like to write on this title and do a rebuttal to the way people have used it to promote lies against Christian and its presence in Africa. Also I would like to show how the history on this regards has been mixture of truth and big lies.
Also how Christians lost their lives fighting hard to end this same slavery in Europe starting from the same time the business started. We can as well go as far back as earlier church fathers take on slavery and slaves.
We will like to look at history of slavery across the world at the time even among us and how our people pioneered the selling of their people into slavery and profiting from it. And lots more.
I often wonder why no author has NEVER written about the biggest and longest slave Trade, which is the Muslim/Islamist Slave Trade.
No, matter who they always write about the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
The Islamic slave trade is the most horrific, nefarious and demented killing, slaughtering of babies, women, children, men and the elderly. But most writers never write about it.
Not a lot of info about it. Not lots of survivors to really even talk about it since the tradition was to neuter the men and place the women in harems.
The west confronted their past of slavery and documented it, but it seems like the Arabian peninsula never did. And almost no one remains to call them out.
There's also the fact that the Arabs didn't control half the world and thereby stand in the spotlight. So not as many people have a reason to directly criticize it. Note how during the world cup people talked about the poor, almost slavelike treatment of workers in Qatar. But once the spotlight moved away no one cares. I think that's the core reason. People hear about the West everyday so everyone is going to talk about it. Everyone is talking about Israel and Ukraine, almost no one is talking about the congo, Sudan or the Sahel unless the west is directly involved.
The amazing grace hymn that Christian's love dearly was written by John newton a slave trader.
He repented and stopped dealing im saves..and Africans dedicated the monies they got from slavery to shango and all those other deities...so what is the point?
@@kala-adaidakariopusunju6809 people like john newton is the reason why black people outside of Africa dont know and answer to the name of their ancestors. No amount of repenting can compensate for this.
@@donnawilliams5647 so who is mote guilty the slave trader or the one that sold to the slave trader?
NOT 'Slaves'. PRISONERS OF WAR (POW'S).
While he may be right, was it not our Traditional Rulers that sold other tribes for mirrors, and tobacco, I agree the white men raided some villages but they also had middlemen (just watch the movie Woman King). Let's balance the argument.
Since when do Movies and TV showsbecome historical fact? Make una dey try get sense na!
He did balance the argument. From 19:15 watch the video again, perhaps slowly this time
Imagine if the title was a slave ship called Mohammed?
The interviewer could not engage with the book indepth and that is disappointing.
Well, saying that the African leaders who were involved in the slave trade were being manipulated to doing it is not wholesome.
Did you go back to who were the first slaves sent to the island of St Thomas from Portugal and Spain. Please research that for part 2
Even in the author voice and accent i see and hear an enslaved person the enskaved in mind will strive to pronounce the englush word even better than the owners, lets just call a spade what it is. But for this slavery we all will not be speaking English sa uf our life depends on it
Nothing to gain in this world. The slaves and the slave masters all died and left their wealth and their poverty. We shold be reading the book of Ecclesiastes everyday.
I hope you lot will include the Islamic Trans Saharan slave trade that started earlier than the European Trans Atlantic slave trade and were forced by the European colonial authorities the FORCEFULLY STOP THE TRANS SAHARAN SLAVE TRADE that lasted for approximately 1300 years (1980 Maurtania is officially the last Nation to end slavery and BTW Slavery has resumed in post Gadaffi Libya a Muslim country)? Also European slavery was inspired by the Arab caliphates who practiced slavery. They certainly affected the Spanish who after 700years of Muslim domination took that habit to South America. I hope you will mention these historical facts?
Is this literally unknown knowledge in Nigeria? Speaking from the u.s. The colonizer stays busy.
The mess will be fix . It will take 2 generations
It has been longer than that.....
Thank God it was not Jesus of Nazareth.The name Jesus was a common name in Bible days.Hence the distinction Jesus of Nazarrth..
Appreciating your channel, subscribed. More and more I find that American and british youtubers are a narrow and relatively uninformative and uninformed group. Increasingly looking at work from everywhere else, particularly the global south.
What the Hell made you a Nigeria-British?