Exposing Africa's Part In The Slave Trade
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- Опубликовано: 16 май 2024
- Slavery has existed in Africa for as long as recorded history. Ancient Egypt had slaves toiling away in its fields and on its monuments, ancient Carthage trafficked in slaves across the Mediterranean, and the Ethiopian kings of Aksum wrote proudly of the slaves they took in war. Slaves were also exported from Africa for centuries before Europeans arrived. The Trans-Saharan slave trade lasted for over a thousand years and dragged about 10 million people across the desert to be slaves in the Islamic world. The Indian Ocean also had a similarly long-lasting ocean-going slave trade with about 5 million ending up in slave ships, bound and branded for use in foreign lands. These slaves ended up as labourers, domestic servants, soldiers, or more. Male slaves in the Islamic world were typically castrated which meant that new slaves had to be regularly imported to maintain the population.
For this video, we’ll focus on Western Africa where the Atlantic slave trade was centred. West Africa was removed from the Indian Ocean trade and mostly secure from Islamic slave raids, but slavery was still a feature of life there long before the Atlantic slave trade began. A succession of powerful empires occupied the region which all rested on complex slave systems. The Ghanaian Empire from the 3rd to the 13th century began a tradition of powerful West African imperial states and built much of its wealth through trans-Saharan trading of slaves or goods acquired through slave labour.
The Salt, copper, and gold that made the Mali Empire and Mansa Musa fabulously wealthy were all extracted with slave labour. Domestic slavery was also common and Mali was known to import female slaves from the Mediterranean to act as domestic servants in the households of the elites. Most of the slaves were acquired through conquest of neighbouring kingdoms or tribal groups who were too weak to defend themselves from the organised imperial militaries. Successor empires like the Songhai, Jolof, and Kaabu inherited the social and economic structures of slavery and continued to acquire slaves as they scrambled to establish their own territories. Elites in these empires used slaves as a status symbol and ownership of slaves came to represent someone’s wealth and power.
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It's vital that we strive to know the complete history surrounding this deeply painful period in human history. Understanding the roles played by different regions and parties, including Africa, helps us paint a more accurate picture of the past. Thank you for tuning in.
I appreciate your work thank you
I learnt more about history here than I ever did in school
Important to bring light to this reality of "African complicity and origination" in slavery. Though, it should be noted that white racists will use this as an excuse to (1) justify slavery and (2) racism. I doubt that even the kings and rulers who procured slaves in Africa would ever agree to the kind of denigration and oppression that whites inflicted on blacks in the colonies. Also, I doubt these African sovereigns who developed the slave trade ever drafted, wrote, or created documents waxing on about the "liberties and freedoms" of man. They did not hide who they were - just powerful warlords and dynastic authorities who had the ability to enslave people. Show us constitutions and edicts written by these very same black enslavers if you are ever going to play the whole "Africa bad like Europe" card. Hypocrisy and deep-rooted contradictions in civilizational values play fundamental roles in the particular crimes that euros have committed against humanity.
Real Students of History & Historians have been saying this story for decades, yet every modern day college & university campus across the USA will say your video is a lie.
what a channel
Finally,OMG. Finally someone put Africa's responsibility. As someone who is biracial and have seen African's evil up close,i totally agree with you .
Enough hypocrisy and white men's burthen, black people are just as evil,racist and psychopaths.
Hilariously, when Hollywood made a big-budget film about the Dahomey a few years ago (The Woman King), it portrayed them as anti-slavery crusaders and fighters. This was the historical equivalent of a WWII movie where the Nazis fought against antisemitism. It just illustrates how the movies are a terrible place for people to get their history.
you brought up stupidity to support your argument (and hollywood a glom of something we know nothing about)
Slave trade was carried out by evil Caucasian Europeans in complicity with Arab Slave Traders. Do not blame the victims for being the victims. The British empire and America is built on slavery. Evil empires. It is a racially inspired vlog with nothing to contribute but miss-information.
Bound and shackled in chains and whipped like a beast, for 400 years the gory trade of slave trade carried on while the world watched. Uprooted from their families and transported to strange lands and cultures to adapt; We mustn’t forget that it is for slavery that black folks are in the Caribbean, United States and other parts of the world. No other continent in world history has been treated the way Africa has. All Black people wherever they be in the world are one. You do not need any other identity. You are an African.
@@ring-tone278are you talking about the way africa tribes treated each other? Im not good with history
So true. Africa still has the largest amount of slaves in the world today. ' The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty but to have a slave of his own.' -Richard Francis Burton.
One thing that many non-Africans (especially blacks in the Americas) don’t realise is that, there was never an “African” identity. There were countless individual city states, kingdoms and empires that did not see themselves as one, most of them were bitter adversaries for centuries. Europeans were very successful in colonialism because they were able to conquer each city state one by one, at times with the help of the vanquished’s local enemies. They then amalgamated the conquered tribes into colonies and these colonies went on to become sovereign countries after independence. The problem now is that, as a result of these countries being formed by multiple ethnic empires that were bitter rivals for centuries, they still harbour resentment towards each other and a house with opposing foundations cannot stand. This has lead to countless civil wars and skirmishes in almost all the modern countries on the continent.
A truly accurate comment
thanks for that and many of us Africans in America do knoe this. I am questioning though the phrase "non Africans especially Blacks..." Are we no longer African because some greedy bastards of many tribes decided to make money by selling our ancestors to Europeans? This is why the African peoples of the world continue to be divided in ways no other major group is. Please don't separate us further from where we came by excepting us from "Africa". If a Nigerians chikdren and grandchildren are born in the US are they not still Nigerian if also American by birth on that soil?
So the same thing that happened in the Middle East in terms of nations built for very different cultures/tribes explaining all the wars we see to this day
I agree with most of you're comment. I disagree with the first part of you're comment. I'm a so called black American and most of us are aware there was no such thing as Afrocentrism or Pan-Africanism in Africa prior to Transatlantic slave trade. We have a long tradition of black studies and African studies in our Colleges and universities. In fact, everything in this video, I learned 20 years ago in College So please don't assume we don't know our history.
If your from this country you would know Many blacks in America don’t know this because of the education system put in place they never taught that part of history in a lot of schools.
As an African, this story is often overlooked! Our so-called kings were involved in the slave trade
Yeah you're not an African
Yeah because they were getting rich af 🤑
Not in zimbabwe its not, the role of Africans in the slave trade is taught in schools. Stop generalisation
@@user-ks8kt2ck1d they're probably talking about America
African sold into slavery the Israelites who fled there to escape persecution, captivities of Assyrian and Babylonian. Furthermore, Spain Inquisition (Nebuchadnezzar put Israelites in Spain), French UK had expelled all black Jews to Portugal and Africa. The Pope gave permission to King of Portugal to send them into slavery.
I bet this won’t ever be played in any classroom
They already do I believe it’s white Americans that’s trying to take slavery out of the school books altogether so that they can sleep better at night or whatever
So is knowing supposed to make what happened to black people more acceptable or something? I understand Knowing the full story but people use this like it's supposed to change something?
@@tallmidget1395similar to why Japanese need to know what they did in the past. Not like can they change it or smt
The biggest reason why is it enables whites to TRY TO excuse their role..
@@tallmidget1395 it's supposed to enlighten those who choose ignorance over facts because they love being short sighted and self centered. Some people just want someone to blame for their woes and the idea of sharing blame with your own ancestors for any of it is just beyond comprehension for them. Slavery has always spanned countries and creeds, still does. But some are just too selfish to even acknowledge those still suffering today. Sad.
Something that utterly disgusted me was Dahomey being portrayed as freedom fighters in The Woman King.
Welcome to America brain washing everyone, everywhere you look.
You did not watch the movie because no where in the movie those it imply that. If you actually watched the movie you would see that they acknowledged their part in the slave trade with europeans and were looking for another means then enslaving their enemies.
@@EPUEPUEPUEPU aight hotep american yikes stop your denial
@@EPUEPUEPUEPUExactly,this people are dangerous,stay away from them.
@@EPUEPUEPUEPUIf you actually watched the video, you would have heard that king Ghezo of the Dahomey point blank refused to stop enslaving their enemies because slavery was 'the ruling principle of my people ' . They then sought an alliance with the French so they could use french ports instead. So they weren't trying to look for other means at all were they? Haven't seen the film myself, but if what you say is correct, it's still a lie, just a different one.
Historians don't get enough credit for how vital their roles really are in society.
what roles are that?
@@flyingtoaster1427Education.
People prefer propagandists over historians. Truth is called, "whitewashing."
@@Korksbebig Big part of America thinks Knowledge is bad. example- "I love stupid people" - Donald J. Trump , "I love Donald Trump" - Stupid People.
@@EattheApple666lol DAT SALT
Too many people think Europeans showed up with nets and just started going to town.
Huh? So what Africans sold slaves. PEOPLE STILL CONTINUED THE PRACTICE FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS.
Exactly
They did once they figured out what was going on within the network of tribes in Africa and after they learned how to navigate Africans shores.
They knew of their " human chatels", for the benefits of ancient civilizations! Go figure. 😮
@@user-rl5hr7xl2d Exactly! He mentioned that very briefly and left it alone lol
I was looking for a video like this 4 months ago. Glad to see one giving a bit of perspective of this widely misunderstood subject.
Finally, someone not placing all the blame on Europe. People need to realize slavery wasn’t just one or two parts of the world, it was many different parts enslaving each other
Lol... This is common knowledge and he didn't 'expose' anything. also.. how a slave became enslaved and by who or how... is totally irrelevant.
@@lenudan What are you on about? Its completely relevant. Lumping slavery as a whole entirely on the West paints an overly simplified, and incorrect picture of the world at that time. Like the OP said, slavery was common across many societies, not just Europeans. This same bias narrative is still push to this day by dictators like Putin and Xi in order to portray the west as some evil group of nations, when in fact the very nations that are pushing this bias trash are responsible for the exact same acts, if not worse ones.
@@lenudan- You wouldn’t believe that this common knowledge if you heard most of our dialogue on slavery. I don’t think I’ve heard very many advocates, politicians or professors admit that slavery was a common part of human society from the first civilizations to the late 19th Century.
You’re making it sound like this guy said something new. You’re giving him way too much credit
@@lenudanso this is the first time you've ever been on yt? That's literally the only excuse you could possibly have, seeing as 3/4 of the videos on this subject get it completely wrong.
I've always found it amusing that lots of people (American's in particular) are so uninformed that they believe Europeans showed up, jumped off their ships, walked through half of Africa, found a village, grabbed some people, got back on their boats and left. The British abolishing what was a hugely profitable business simply on the basis of ethics and then enforcing that in every place they could is one of the most shocking moments in world history for me, they actually decided that it was so bad they had to go out of their way to stop it.
The British abolished it after they took a vantage of it. .
Here we go with the godly Europeans who abolished slavery cause it was so bad..I don't know why everyone has a fascination with slavery..slavery in Africa wasn't the same in America or other European countries..slavery was happening all over the place..everyone takes bits amd pieces to fit their narrative which is silly and laughable..
@@johnrambo6314 you don't think they could have kept taking advantage of it if they wanted to? Like you know, everyone else did? That line of thinking makes no logical sense.
It wasn't for moral reasons slavery just isn't that good for the state as it creates power structures that are not reliant on it. If some guy controls a large group of people and you need them for something, you basically have to deal with an evil middleman to get it. Think of it as a logistic system you start seeing how slavery just creates lazy idiots.
@@johnrambo6314 Of course they took advantage of it, but the entire world was also taking advantage of it. The British deserve some credit for abolishing slavery decades before the vast majority of the world. Their abolitionist movement inspired abolitionist movements throughout the world. It is highly unlikely that abolition would have occurred as early as it did in the Americas without the British paving a path forwards
This is my first video from your chanel and I love it! I was 100% focused the whole time. Even though the topic itself it's depressing the idea of being closer to truth bring me peace of mind. Being Paraguayan we don't learn a lot of this side of history, and because of the language barrier not all of us can access to these type of good quality content. 😊 Please consider dubbing your videos so more people can learn and enjoy. New subscriber🎉.
During Ottoman empire, many Europeans had to face persecution and slavery as well.
Exactly...
Yup, and the Irish were actually the first slaves taken to the Americas by Jewish slavers
The eastern Europeans were enslaved 6 centuries earlier before trans atlantic slave trade
to be fair, back in the day people actually wanted to be slaves for Ottomans, because of how dignified that position was compared to other empires treating their slaves.
they were driven to death like in Alabama .. right? oh. maybe they were not as expendable
This isn't talked about enough. The transatlantic slave trade was horrendous. But nowadays people act like Europeans invented slavery when the transatlantic slave trade began. Never any mention of the Indian Ocean slave trade, never any mention of how normal slavery had been for centuries. Context matters. The full story, which is to say, the full *truth* matters. It's possible to tell the full story without justifying the horrors of the only thing people want us to remember or care about.
Exactly. It was not only presence but really important part of every empire and nation before the Industrial Revolution. The transatlantic slave trade was a lucrative business for both Europeans and some African nations who sold their captives as slaves.
What was going after in the US is a different and awful scenario, but in American is you say slavery that automatically means white on black slavery, and the educational system must be blamed. And the agenda that most of the teachers bring into the classrooms.
and the biggest gripe i have with the awful shite was what happened after slavery in America... to ALL poc here. Residential schools, jim crow laws, redlining, sundown towns, the Chinese exclusion act... and they had the factor of race to rely upon during the 17th century. I like don't need to say more cause i'm guessing you know.
Europeans invented racism not slavery.
@@donq2957yep, it was their means to justify it when folks questioned chattel slavery, and the treatment of those people. I'm aware it's deffo not unique to America.
*People just need to face facts. Slavery was a normal part in human history at one point - Europeans and their descendants benefitted the most from slavery. That's why they always get the so called "blame" and will continue to do so. Crying about it, isn't going to do anything. It's not going to fix the damage that was caused by European slavery either.*
Truth is all cultures, colours and creeds have been enslaved at some point in history. In all cases though, there is one common theme, the 'elite' or rich enslaving the poor and vulnerable. Thanks for a well put together account of history!
i unfortunately had a very left leaning teacher so we only ever heard about le evil white man during the topic of slave trade during the colonization age, thankfully the age of empires series instilled an interest in history in me, learning about history from all sides really does change your perspective on life and the world a lot
Left Leaning Teacher, because he told the truth 🤦🏾 The white man was complicit in the slave trade also. You cannot absolve Europeans of what they did in Africa and is still doing to this day!!!
@@MNard-sy1kfwhat do you mean? Africans are mostly the ones enslaving themselves still such as countries as Niger where 8 percent of the population are slaves still.
@@MNard-sy1kf But the truth is that slaves trading started in African but somehow they don't seems to don't to teach it in school. Why is that?
I been playing age of empires since the late 90s and still do played aoe3 yesterday and it to drove my interest in history
@@MNard-sy1kfNo one dusputes that but the African sold them the slaves so were equally complicit! Slavery abounded in Africa and Asia long before the British, French Dutch, Belgium, Spanish or Portuguese Empires began. But Britain fought and died to end it whilst the Africans and Arabs fought to keep it going! Across the world even now, many African and arab countries still have slaves! Britain never brought slaves to work here anyway. We did not have plantations or need them, as we used the poor white people and children in our factories, mines, and as servants etc. You clearly have been brainwashed ahd need to educate yourself about slavery, rather than listen just to the bits you want to hear!
The truth hurts. I've been telling folks this for years and have lost friends because they wanted to blame European folks for this evil deed. African Kings sold their enemies from different tribes to them for gold and modern weaponry the time.
Ok here cultural context is VERY important. Let's not forget that the meaning of slavery in African context and European contexts are different. In many West African societies, rulers and ruling kingdoms/empires had slaves yes. But slaves within African societies had better living conditions than slaves in the Americas. Not only that but European countries like Portugal, France and England were very active in African politics during the slave trade. They would actively work for the removing of African leaders that were against the slave trade and support both financially and militarily leaders who would be ready to export slaves. This historical fact is major to show that no matter how you want to look at it, African were more victims than authors of this tragedy. The ones in favor of the slave trade were just a minority of elites motivated by their own self-interest.
@Kasson2 the history lesson literally puts that to lie, by demonstrating that the lot of skave entirely depended on which African kingdom enslaved him, and to whom these kingdoms sold their slaves too.
Why are you lying?
Europeans were deeply involved in African politics. Europeans would die from disease within month of being in sub-saharan Africa and you didn't see heavy meddling in African politics till after the development of Quinine in 1820, by which point both Britain and England had outlawed the slave trade. And as Napoleon was still running wild, the Europeans wouldn't be making any major advances into Africa for a whole, and when they did, it was mostly to stop the international slave trade.
So you're lying here too.
Does that gives Europeans the right to do what they did ?
There were few cannibalistic subsaharan tribes that literally fed on other minority tribes to project horror, fear and superiority over their neighboring rivals. Previously the Arabs and later Europeans just had better defenses and equipment to deal with the savagery. Now, Africans accuse Europeans only to get leverage in illegal migration and to ensure that first of the month money transfer.
dah fuck? slavery is slavery regardless who does it. Go to the mines nowdays and see if its any different than the europeans@@Kasson2
Humans are terrible to each other and we need to learn! I grew up in a household where we talked about these things. I was very young when I was informed that slavery was also very prominent on the continent of Africa and as an adult, I'm grateful for the knowledge. It's very easy to skew a narrative to "Them versus Us" when knowledge is missing or ignored. In truth it is "Us versus Us" and we're too stupid to realize and accept we're just destroying ourselves!
Best comment so far
@@hsmd4533 Thank you!
Pls don’t let this fool you. I’m African and if we were engaged heavily in slavery like this video is portrayed why then did we kick European slavers out of Africa for emancipation? That’s because they wanted to enslave all black people. They introduced commercial slavery of the black people.
Yes the more I learn about history, the more I realize humans are capable of great evil, on every corner of the globe.
They lied to you. Read my long comment.
Much respect for you putting this video out there, even though we all know what some will say! Facts don’t care about your feelings or personal beliefs! Already knew about this history, but I think it’s important work you’re doing. Keep it up.
This video earned you my sub! Mainstream will try to block this information or reject it. Ignorance is their bliss.
6:59 The Akan tribe is modern day Asante Kingdom in Ghana. I’m Ghanaian and we know our history well and how our royals were an integral part of the slave trade. This is quite accurate and very informative. Great video
No wonder Africa's children in the US don't like to work they've ancestors beancestors been slaved working everyday 10 hours a day plus
I did a DNA test, and found out I'm 2% African of Senegal and Nigeria origin. I feel horrible my African ancestors were slaves 500 years ago, and taken from their motherland. I am so grateful the same ancestors were strong enough to survive, and marry my Indigenous and European ancestors.i would not want to live in Africa.
@@TrueMcSunshine your ancestors sold you to the whites for slavery. Never forget
@@TrueMcSunshine My 2 percentage 🤦
i came from the moon and i saw allens allens told me dont belive anything and ask for prove
The editing skills is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💯
Very accurate and well researched. Thank you for this.
This is not accurate. the europeans colonized Africa not to stop slavery but to continue exploiting Africa after slavery. even today, europeans continue to exploit Africa. Like France, which has killed more than 22 African presidents since 1963.
One mistake this video made was to say that the Alans come from Nigeria, which is not true.
All history MUST be told in its entirety, the good and the bad, if we don't record our actions accurately we cannot learn from them.
Have you actually tried telling people truth, especially in matters that they had been lied by media? People really don;t like when yo show them they were cheated.typically don;t care about truth.
People will not learn from them anyway.
@@Uttam_Kumar_Jana a small group didn’t matter, the masses have and will continue to embody the definition of insanity.
@@IAteTheAntiChrist A small group is aften all that's needed. As most progress was originally caused by th few, not the majority
Something not done here
It's so strange. We learnt about this in school here in Norway, but by reading the comments, it seems like schools in many countries only teaches about slavery from one pov. Aka the "EvIl WiThE mAn" bringing Africans to the new World. Or in other words, they teach that the massive and world wide slavery is only done by the very same people who abolishes it just a short time after the Atlantic slave trade
As a so called black person from America, I posted a comment correcting that perception. This news is nothing new and is taught in many African studies programs in both Historically Black Colleges and major Universities.
That's because US culture is so hegemonic. They often simplify everything to their own "pumpkin" vision, both blacks and whites alike.
Said that, the Atlantic slave trade was outrageous, particularly because of the horrible conditions in the plantations and the cramped and deadly ones in profit-maximizing slaver ships. Other comparable slavery realities should not be overlooked much less hidden or whitewashed however.
It's true. You summarized it well.
@@LuisAldamizits no more outrageous than slave trade ever was. The atlantic gets all the focus for one reason only and that reason should be obvious by now.
There is misunderstanding here.. the people who benefited from the slave trade are: the MINORITY LOCAL ELITES IN AFRICAN STATES; THE ELITE EUROPEANS AND AMERICANS; and THE LOCAL EUROPEAN / AMERICANS. The local Africans in the states of Africa DO NOT. The slave trade is part of capitalism. The non Elite Americans / Europeans benefited from the long chain of exploitation of the slaves
Just a few corrections,
1. The European crusades into Africa were not to end slavery. They were to expand land and trade claims to the existing empires. Abolishing slavery on the continent was marketed to the public, so that African colonization would have a moral face.
2. The Portuguese didn't expand into Angola until far after Brazil broke away from the empire by declaring independence, and Portugal regained control from Napoleon. The slaves sold to Portugal were provided through a complex network of wealthy merchants from local empires, one of which at a certain point overthrew their queen to further the slave trade that ahe attempted to arrest.
3. Britain didn't repopulate the slaver kingdoms. Instead they created new freeman territory (Sierra Leone) where they landed formerly enslaved people caught on ships off the coast of west and northwest Africa headed to North America.
4. The Brazilians still imported mass quantities of slaves after the British abolished slavery, and when they were effectively blocked under the British navy, carried out domestic slave trade until they were forced to shut down the practice decades later.
5. Britain's Caribbean slave basket Jamaica, refused to end slavery so the British spent over a decade negotiating a deal to compensate the slave owners for their loss of "property."
They never talk about all the cannibalism that went on in the African tribes in that day.
Google "Cannibalism in Europe" and "Europeans ate their own children." Especially the part about eating children- that's a doozy and was pretty common. Then get back to me. I'll wait.
@@DaMann-zm6kt they eat even mummies, feeding children to alligators, flooding towns sunken beneath lakes, and there are numerous.
They still eating their own
@@DaMann-zm6kt so you turn it into a cannibal contest??
@@combos7 Just setting the facts. Europeans like to say Africans were cannibals when the overwhelming evidence proves human flesh was a European delicacy.
I learned about Africa's role in slavery in college. Man that was a tough pill. A year ago I read Zora Neal Hurston's book Barracoon. Heartbreaking.
Africa had no role in slavery.
The West Africans kidnapped, raped and sold. We're not wilful, cheering participants.
Everything the occurred during those 400 years, both to those taken and left behind, was a devastating, disastrous, life and death situation, they never should have been subjected to to begin with
Surprising they actually told you about it. Most Colleges just say white man bad and did all bad things that ever happened.
Sister, it was not "Africa!" There were many states that were not victims or participants in the transatlantic slavery. To blanketly says "Africans" is to accuse the Zimbabweans and Zambians and and other many nations of something they had no part in!
It is well documented. Let us not jump to emotional generalizations.
No one denied africas part. We live in America so we only learn the American part if we lived in Africa we would learn this part
@@obiyanko2019 Well we know it's blanketed, not to imply everyone had a role in it, but to acknowledge that Africans did participate in the enslavement within the continent and the export of their own. Yes this only applies to specific countries.
While people venerate Mansa Musa as the richest man in history that he gained his riches off gold and salt it is a fact he was a devout Muslim that exported millions of Congolese Africans to India and other caliphates around the world more than the entirety of the later 200 year long Atlantic Slave trade his predecessors are almost exclusively the single greatest exporter in the entirity of the African Slave trade from the 14th-17th century.
We captured excellent women for ransom. We decided to have sex with them but by observing 'azl (Withdrawing the male sexual organ before emission of semen to avoid-conception). We asked Allah's Messenger (ﷺ), and he said: It does not matter if you do not do it, for every soul that is to be born up to the Day of Resurrection will be born.
Sahih Muslim 1438a
AND ALL THE EUROPEAN ROYAL FAMILIES DID TOO SO STFU
AND THE ROMANS SOLD AND HELD THEIR ONE PEOPLE INTO SLAVERY TOO
Send citation we just can't assume you are saying the truth
@xahani1287 i was taught that in school.. i was taught africa was rich off its gold and salt alone and not slavery.
The Akan are Ghanaian, not Nigerian. Also, the Gold Coast is current day Cape Coast, Elmina, Takoradi etc, in the central and western regions of Ghana. Not Nigeria. Plz make these corrections. Otherwise, thanks for the info and history.
Yeah as a Ghanaian this physically pained me
History channels which portray the truth are honestly the best. Mainstream media is very adamant on portraying a very woke yet untrue portrayal of history. Keep it up and thanks for being a truth teller !!
I’m a German living in Benin and I experience anti-white and anti-europeans resentments on a daily basis. In discussions I would often been told I have to bear this anti-white racism because of slavery in the past. I have tried to argue to many that slavery was not introduced to Westafrica by the Europeans but they found a flourishing slavetrade and participated. This changing of the narrative is really unfortunate because it holds back many African nations to move forward. However, thanks for this great video. I wished this was available in French, but will definitely share it.
No you white oeople LLOOOOVEEEEE this narrative cause it helps ya sweep American slavery under the rug but slavery in Africa was indentured servitude. American slaves were slaves for life as well as their children. 2 different systems. Transatlantic slave trade was the most brutal and had the longest lasting effects you cannot compare the 2. Ya love the fact the Africans sold the slaves but y’all negate the fact that the Europeans had a DEMAND for AFRICAN BODIES after MURDERING ALL THE NATIVE AMERICANS!!
U live in Nigeria?
弱肉强食
丛林法则
中国人本来比欧洲人更强
欧洲人吸收了中国儒家的人本主义
放弃了以宗教为主的中世纪
发生了文艺复兴
欧洲从此开始蓬勃发展
在现代欧洲才超过中国
Why live in Africa?
lol please, how does it hold Africa back? Most Africans don’t talk about slavery. They talk about colonialism.
Why is this not taught in American schools. This is significant, and I personally learned a lot, which says a lot about how the public school systems are here.
Exactly! I questioned who sold the slaves because, obviously, the Europeand didn't just invade and kidnap the locals, but wasn't given any answer because it wasn't part of the lesson plan, until I read about them as an adult when reading a book about pirates, which is a lot more exciting than any of the legends, and how Africans profited from slavery as much as the slave traders did. If schools taught REAL history, kids would actually want to go to school (and our society would be more stable), instead of feeding them fictional (and hateful) nonsense like "critical race theory," among whatever kool-aid they "teach" in school these days.
This was taught in my school, and was literally part of the AP world history exam back then, so I doubt it was unique to my school either
I didn’t learn it into I was a adult! Seems like they won’t to keep was separate and fight! I am a black woman and this makes you rethink things a little!
@@jlow3777 most kids are not in AP classes. Clown shoes 🤡 if you don’t know most of this is ignored throughout public schools in America..
It’s not taught in American schools because it will be damn near impossible to make kids think that white people are to blame for slavery if it was taught.
I’ve been waiting for someone to talk about this. When you do a decent dive into history you can see that “Africa” is not innocent in slavery not to mention its history of slavery prior to American colonialism. Subscribed.
Africa is certainly 1000 times more innocent of slavery than Europe.
the blacks for the most part didn't have slaves. they were prisoners unlike the europeans who had slaves who were NOT considered human because they were black. these servants were well dressed, some even went so far as to wear gold which a black slave in america would never have had.
African leaders aren't. Not Africa in general lol. It's always the rich that are benefiting from it that sell the rest out
Finally the AFRICAN ROLE IN THE ANCIENT SLAVE TRADE ROLE IN SLAVERY COMES OUT ON YOU TUBE!
There are almost 5 times as many people enslaved today as were traded during the hundreds of years of the Atlantic slave trade. Most of the people still enslaved today are in Africa, the middle East and Asia and are enslaved by their own countrymen.
You're right, white evil back then simply wasn't a big deal compared to ...now....? Kool
Strange that those places have a lot less crime.
Yeah it's bigger, because the global population is way bigger then it was during the Atlantic slave trade
@@hardlines2635 which places?
@FFFFFFlivesdontmatterThey never said it did excuse anything fool. They were just stating a fact. Take your gaslighting and shove it.
This is one of the most sensible documentary on slavery I have ever seen! Not just a bunch of white bashing and black victimization and self righteousness! Yes we were treated HORRIBLY by Europeans but Africans also are to blame as well and in many cases Africans were WORSE!
Yes indeed including how black people are behind all civilizations in the world. We can’t be hypocrites and just want history to be told when it benefits us but not when it shows black people are the father and mother of all civilizations and humanity ❤😘
We? You weren't there mate.
@@WhoDaresWinso7 we as a people solidarity with my ancestors!
@@arananation my ancestors were SS nazi soldiers in ww2 should i have solidarity for them too? why not just be part of the country you live in? instead of pretending some ancient ancestor of yours somehow determines how you should live or think.
@@knabdank i would hope you don't have solidarity with them but if you do that is your own issue. My ancestors were not murderous, nazi, subhuman cunts like yours so i show solidarity with them with ease while ALSO being a patriot of my country with ease! I won't be told by someone who's ancestors were nazi subhuman killers to forget about my history and not show solidarity. YES some "ancient ancestor" is going to determine how i think because his or hers struggle is my struggle! My ancestors kicked your ancestors asses to the grave and the pits of hell!
This is a fantastic documentary. Most people in the so called "west" have NO idea especially about the islamic tradition of slavery in northern and western Africa. Also many other points mentioned in this video are not known among most Europeans.
It's a shame real history gets edited and buried
Thats because the people in power want us at each others throats, if we're focused on each other then were not focused on them, and in that way they maintain their control over us and the world.
Who's editing what? I understand it happens frequently, but not regarding this topic whatsoever.
Always has been.
@@jdb9129It's pretty obvious who is doing the editing -- those that stand to gain from racial hatred
@@lucid227 The Republican party? Lol, seriously though, I feel like I'm missing something crucial in this discussion. The original comment is acting like "real history" (I'm assuming they mean that Africans owned slaves) is a part of history that is being "edited and buried". Which is simply not true as I've seen this information for years and we're literally in a comment thread about this exact topic being shown to the public.
This is actually very true. Our ancient African kingdoms like Aksum were heavily involved in slave trade
It’s all agree that slavery is a disgrace on our species history, and that together we must fight modern slavery(human trafficking) today❤
the only problem is that the only modern slavery is through non white countries and 2nd and 3rd world countries where it would be insensitive for us to interfere, we need to colonise the world and whipe out non whites because its obvious now we are the only ones willing to create an equal society and keep it running, everyone else just wants to tear it down and live in mud huts again.
Exactly, but that is being funded for money… a new economic crisis for new govt funds and money. Order out of chaos
But still remember not to permit public viewing of "Sound of Freedom", that would be "Trumpy".
No
The EU, UK and USA are all still very nicely exploiting the demise of african and middle eastern people who suffer as a result of their foreign policies.Those people drowning in the mediterranean and English channel are being trafficked and exploited by liberal politics, a convenient disguise for hedge fund managers and bankers.
What a sad and true history!! Thanks for video
I appreciate your broad , objective & deep coverage of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. You showed a knowledge of specific African tribes & their relationships with each other & with specific European nations
Did not talk about the hundreds of years of brutalization from Americans after the last slavery was brought.
Dont lose next time? If blacks are so strong why did they lose?@@Rainkavick
@@Rainkavick you gonna answer or continue folding like you’ve been? Ngl I’d be pissed if someone had me dead silent +10 comments 😭
Thank you for exposing this important part of the truth about slavery
White people imported the slaves but most of the time they didn't go around with nets or guns capturing but that work was fellow Africans more than willing to make business with the slave dealers
Too bad that a certain segment of the population that needs to be made aware of this information will either ignore it, dismiss it, or never come across it. They'll continue to embrace the popular notion that they were brazenly kidnapped from their supposedly free and happy continent and enslaved by evil Europeans and Americans.
Bruh that almost too much stupid cause this is just “reliving” the guilt of slavery, is like saying it’s not your fault to buy something if there was someone selling and there’s only people selling it cause there is people buying
Nothing was "exposed" this history has been known for a very long time. Its just that Americans are stupid and America's blacks are willfully ignorant of these facts.
@@danilopolar6476 buyers and sellers have equal blame. and black people had slaves also. they have them to this day. you should check out child slave labour in the congo today. black congolese forcing children to work on mines.
@@danilopolar6476 nah blacks been slavers for most of history. Ancient Africa was built by blacks enslaved by blacks
Being that my dad is from Senegal, I appreciate you talking about the intricacies of slavery as well as acknowledging established African empires, and focused on the actions of people as individuals rather than the actions of a collective race, which happens far too often on every side.
There were brutal rulers out there as well as empires with forms of slavery that most wouldn’t associate with the word, if described, given the Western portrayal and connotations.
Slavery ,like many things, is a spectrum, and race doesn’t exclude a humans capability for depravity. The further you look back in history, the more brutal the details get regardless of the ethnicity or the culture holding the sword.
Huge props for acknowledging that the British and other nations were using abolition as a justification for colonization too. That’s literally how it played out. They traded straight up slavery with economic slavery to avoid looking like blatant hypocrites. Case in point; in Senegal, my fathers country, their currency is still French (but can’t be used outside of France’s territories), this is while having foreign contractors and their own government slithering around crippling a pre-crippled economy. It’s wild, but everyone plays a part.
Proof yet again that nothing happens in a vacuum and a testament to ANY HUMANS capacity for depravity given the right set of circumstances.
Conclusion… Treat people like people, because the universe is like a pendulum. It always swings back.
Awesome video man!👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Mankind is still in the slavery:
you are a salve too, to this very day, why do you sound of not know?
in childhood you attend to school, where you shall spend up to 8h of your life.
Soon you`re adult, serving BAAL from 9 - 5.
And you`re home in your tiny box,
consuming all these items the prison for your mind produce.
Now tell me dear soul, ain`t that also being a slave? cause to my eyes, still unnoticed, where`s the life worthy to be living?
The signs and symbols rule the world, yet we complain about the laws.
We reject all the opportunity to seek out the truth, to break free from being in the hated slavery.
We cry about the past, not getting it that its the present in which we live in.
Now, can`t you still not agree, we to be a perfectly obeying BAAL in our daily slavery.
Mankind`s destiny is lake of fire if we don´t come to repentance and born again.
Mankind wants freedom, then step out from BABYLON, repent form your sins and born again.
@@theharshtruthoutthere Is this like a Warhammer quote or something?
and that is in my opinion one of the reasons why there are so much push in "identity" policy where they focus on a certain version of history , they wan't to divide black and white so we don't focus on what is going on in the world today, I only learned about the french currency in some African countries because the Italian PM Georgia Meloni said it, this is extremely unfair and unethical, the good thing is a lot is changing in the world right now
I would argue there's a unfairly implied equivalency in your statement here by likening the british and the french. the british significantly improved their colonies, while the french did much less. so, similar to your comment on intracacies on the levels of slavery, there are also intricacies to the oppression and uplift brought by european colonialism.
@@theyellowmeaning7507 agreed. There’s so many layers to this stuff, yeah? I appreciate the constructive comment. For obvious reasons, I’m not as well informed with the differences between British and French colonialism in regard to their benefits to the areas they occupied. However, as with anything I’m sure there was some good done especially considering the British has always been a beast compared to most other empires.
I’ll educate myself further on that blind spot🤙🏾
Happy learning✨
The most Trans-Atlantic thing in this video is this narrators mystery accent!
(Very well researched, more hidden history like this please.)
Wow there really is always 2 sides to every story. Thanks for this informative video.
THANK YOU. FINALLY SOMEONE HAD THE STONES TO SAY IT.
Don't be so quick to get carried away this does not give anyone white and living the right to cast stones in their own favor because of this two wrongs does not make it right
When did they say or imply anything like that? Stop projecting.@@Loafin2010
@@Loafin2010
If you have two males, both are child molesters, do you really care if one has red hair and the other is blonde??
No, people with boulders have been saying it for decades.
Lol... This is common knowledge and he didn't 'expose' anything. also.. how a slave became enslaved and by who or how... is totally irrelevant.
Points of correction, if you don't mind, Akan is in Ghana. Dahomey is in Benin Republic. Not Nigeria.
Akan are also in Ivory Coast
@@Kasson2yes but nowhere in Nigeria.
Well said. That threw some shade on this "historically accurate" view of slavery. Yes, Africans were involved in slavery but it was totally different from what the Europeans were doing. For example, in Africa slavery wasn't inherited, people were born free. Also slaves were absorbed into society and they had rights in some cultures. But slaves were not generally seen as property. The main difference between Africa and European slavery is the chattle part of it and that's a major difference! Many comments here are white people trying to make themselves feel better about their ancestors actions. Own it! We have our skeletons too and we have to own it.
@bolajiakerele03 my ancestors never owned slaves. We were just as poor. Which means I don't owe anything to anyone. I'm just here for the comments like you
@@bolajiakerele03you don’t have to own anything and neither do the whites because none of are connected to the slave trade 😂just accept the people from back then all enslaved each other
We must take responsibility for our part in how we treat one another,as hard as it may be to accept,we are still a Great people!
you cannot be the victim and the person responsible for the Atlantic Salve Trade. Either you are the victim or you are the culprit. Most Europeans cannot take responsibility for everything they have done in the past to blacks, but also to natives, Asians so they blame the victims because they know that you do not want to be the victim and the culprit at the same time.
Thanks for sharing 🙏🏾
Some corrections:
• The Akan & the Gold Coast are not from modern Nigeria. The are from modern Ghana.
Thank you so much for exposing the truth about African slave trade. It's important for people to have facts instead of half truths. History shows that every great civilizations/countries had slaves...Roman's, Egyptians, Japan, China, Russia, Germany and the slaves come from many ethnicities. It's a shame our society chooses blissful ignorance over factual, historical events. Keep up the great work. The research you do is the missing link in American primary/secondary schools.
wait a minute. Only because you do not question, you call it truth. That's pretty good bar talk, but quite a cold mantel you have to wear...
Bound and shackled in chains and whipped like a beast, for 400 years the gory trade of slave trade carried on while the world watched. Uprooted from their families and transported to strange lands and cultures to adapt; We mustn’t forget that it is for slavery that black folks are in the Caribbean, United States and other parts of the world. No other continent in world history has been treated the way Africa has. All Black people wherever they be in the world are one. You do not need any other identity. You are an African.
what do you know about the Etruscans over there where "civilization" was brewing ... you decide what history is. right? PS/ you think having a box you call your own is the epitome of any civilization?
@@flyingtoaster1427 cry
Lol you have no idea how education works in schools
Great presentation Thanks!!💯
The us only received about 400k slaves out of 20 million exported. Less than 2%. The us didn't castrate. Most of the trans Atlantic slaves ended up in Portugal and the Spanish colonies.
As an African I can confirm that this is true. It's shameful that we treated our own people like this, but it's the truth nonetheless.
The most important, and most painful part of healing is the acknowledgement and acceptance of the truth.
And don’t forget all the African slaves that were sent to the Middle East. As we see in the video!
I think what is important for everyone to understand is that *Europe* was not united. Portugal and Spain and France were never friends to each other; they competed against each other. Africa is even larger than Europe. Why should anyone expect Africa to be more united than Europe?
@@zimrielSee, this video is not made to compare africa’s part in the slave trade with Europe. It just highlights that African ethnic groups did have a part. Most leftists in the states don't acknowledge this. It takes two to tango (enslave).
But they werent "your own people". Your pan-African mindset is a new age invention. You are projecting that mentality on them. The different African tribes / kingdoms / empires had about as much in common with each other as medieval England and France. They did not see all Africans as "their people".
When the Vikings enslaved the Irish, were they enslaving "their own people" just because they were all white? Of course not.
You speak as if it's a past tense practice. It's still alive and well in central N Africa and sporadically done over most of the continent.
Africa still has the largest amount of slaves in the world today. ' The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty but to have a slave of his own.' -Richard Francis Burton.
and the source is...
Nobody wants to touch on that tho..bc people grow up with the poor me mentality. More people are enslaved today than all in history.
@@flyingtoaster1427 7 million Africans of the 50 million worldwide. Google is a useful source ✌🏻
@@CrystalHotSauce1 what do you know about that? we all know what America is.
@@flyingtoaster1427 America is what? Do elaborate. Sanju stated a fact. You asked for the source. I gave the source & added the numbers. I'm actually appalled people are more upset about historical slavery vs current slavery, and those that are upset about historical slavery WERE NEVER ENSLAVED THEMSELVES 🤪
I love this topic and I'm glad to see a video that discusses it. But would it have been possible for a European white slave to end up in any of these West African Empires? I've been told it was possible for a white European slave to end up in the Songhai Empire by being bough on the Barbary Coast's slave market but do you have any sources for it?
Puts it all in perspective
This is what you call an inconvenient truth.
Bound and shackled in chains and whipped like a beast, for 400 years the gory trade of slave trade carried on while the world watched. Uprooted from their families and transported to strange lands and cultures to adapt; We mustn’t forget that it is for slavery that black folks are in the Caribbean, United States and other parts of the world. No other continent in world history has been treated the way Africa has. All Black people wherever they be in the world are one. You do not need any other identity. You are an African.
@janrdoh For?
@@godofthisshit For those that push the message that Africa was a utopia where everyone sat around the campfire roasting smores until the white man showed up.
@@janrdohFriend as a White Man Did White People live in Africa Peacefully at some point prior?
@@janrdohthis a common truth and most of the time it’s white Europeans who push the idea that Africa was one unified state attempting to fight off Europe together under one banner still will never change the evil Europeans did before and after they brought the slaves over the Atlantic can’t be a market without the buyer
Can you do more on the Arabian (eastward) slave trade?
Yes, also the slave trade as it existed in India would be interesting as well.
Thank you very much for this.
Wow this video is EXTREMELY informative. I knew none of this and I feel like it will more than likely be suppressed because this hurts a lot of modern agendas.
My Nigerian boyfriends family has shown me documents passed down from the 1700s that show his family were slave traders. Some people will say “but they didn’t know how bad the treatment was” whilst forgetting that this went on for 400 years. Now, at his estate in Lagos, his family still has their “workers” bend down to wipe their shoes when they arrive… and I’m supposed to go there as a white woman, he said it’s life and if I have my shoes wiped don’t think too hard about it but I am totally not comfortable with that.
The igbo are well-known hypocrites. 🤣 🤣 🤣
Your bf and his family sound like scum. Maybe you should abstain from knight riding fetish and get a better human being for a partner. My family owned slaves as well but like the rest of civilized society, they gave it up. Nigeria is still primitive though.
Wow.
Europe has its own extensive history of slavery. See Rome and greece
@@northernking2604 yup, you are correct! Literally everywhere on the planet has a history of slavery in some way or another (except for the North and South poles because no humans have ever lived there). Even Ireland had slavery when the Vikings took over Dublin. There was also the Barbary slave trade which kidnapped the entire town of Baltimore, Ireland in the 1600s. What sets the transatlantic slave trade apart from other slave trades is that it is (relatively) recent, the size of the population of people effected is immense (due to the tech and building advancements that were made) and it involved chattel slavery. It’s good to keep in mind, for the whole picture, that chattel slavery was not invented during the transatlantic slave trade, the earliest evidence of chattel slavery dates back to 1800 BCE in Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq).
Unfortunately, it seems like slavery is an aspect of human nature when power hierarchies are introduced and people are fending for themselves. Thats why we need to learn about the past to ensure we don’t repeat it. Humans can be brutal, but we can also have open arms and learn about and sympathize with one another’s struggles.
Thank you for showing the actual history of slavery in Africa and not the typical blame the white people for all slavery that happened.
It's not about blame, it's just that white people were able to develop their nationstates to become global powerhouses thanks to slavery and colonisation.
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If I agree to purchase a human from a human trafficking organisation would I be able to dodge responsibility by respond with "I am just the purchaser, he's the one who shipped them" 😂😂😂
Lmao, you think that this just completely relieves all wrong doing of the Europeans part in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade? Because it doesn’t in any way, shape, or form. Two things can be evil,, one does not make the other any less terrible lmfao. That’s not how things work.
How was 12 million slaves put on a boat? That sounds a bit suspicious
Not once
It happened over a period of hundreds of years not at once
It was more like 9 million and it probably also include the internal slave trade by Europeans in Africa. Large ships were an invention in the 15th century which where capable of transporting large amount of people. At first Europeans transported slaves from tribe to tribe.
Since walking a 100 miles was more deathly than sailing a 100 miles and walking around with a 100 slaves is like walking around with a sack of gold (so quite dangerous). Europeans were able to get a large part of the market. Conclusion a large part of this number might also be internal trade.
@@jemoedermeteensnor88 by Europeans and africans *
Really? are you that dumb? have you ever seen a Slave trade ship?
it was not done all at once.
you should do how the Irish were enslaved in Jamaica That would be interesting to learn about
Yeah they literally roasted to death in the sun on sugarcane plantations. There were almost 1 million sent to the carribean over a span of a couple hundred years. So many died that blacks in that area still have Irish names but there are no Irish left.
And…don’t forget that slavery or a kind of it is still practiced in some African and Middle Eastern countries today. I’m not speaking of human trafficking that is in every country of the world but open slavery or even hereditary slavery. The best way for our children to understand this topic is to tell the truth. That slavery was in wide use throughout history. That most of us black or white could very well have slavery in our backgrounds.
there have been slave markets as recently as five years ago in libya. its legal in islamic law to this day.
@@harry.flashman Libya, Mauritania, and rich Gulf countries still practise it
Its literally in europe aswell a bbc news report states the percentage of slave crimes in the UK has increased, Dont try and make it just a global south issue.
In Europe and South America 2
@@KingNoTail so you don't question any comment above but questioned this guy ?
Mauritania became the last country in the world to abolish slavery in 1981, but no criminal laws were passed to enforce the ban, until 2007, due to international pressure.... Despite that, the number of slaves in Mauritania was estimated at 2.1% of the population in 2018, by Global Slavery Index organization.
this is true mauritania still had a few slaves
@@cichlid9626 Please do not tell that to the Afrocentrists who believe that a Back man is incapable of predatory behavior upon another Black man...
@@Alexander-Kurtz Mauritania's population isn't mailly Black though. And you will see that most slaves are people of Sub-Saharan descent, "owned" by people of North African descent...
I'm glad to see more documentaries detailing the truth about Africans role in enslaving its people. I like so many others had this romanticized idea about Africa and was not taught about how Africans sold their own to Europeans which is how i came to be a black American. Knowing the truth makes me proud to be an American and proud of how blacks sold out by Africans came together through their experience in America to forge a new identity and unique culture.
My Ancestors were sold for a cup of Sugar and fancy clothes...
Sounds like West Africa needs to be paying reparations...
Because Africa is poor.
So after America pays reparations to Foundational Black Americans, you think West Africa should be next?
@@DjTIMEJD Yes. To the Caribbean, Black Latinos, and American Descendants of Slavery.
They are they are given african americans citizenship.
@@paulsheppard1108 That’s not reparations but it’s good. They need to remove the business aspect from the process.
This is why I tell people I'm not African American. I am American. I was born here. My ancestors have been here for hundreds of years. My ancestors were both the colonizers, the indigenous and the enslaved. Me and Africans are not the same. We just share a skin tone.
I don't even like the term black because my skin is very much so not black but I still prefer it over African American. We will never know who's ancestors were ripped from Africa or who's ancestors were sold from Africa but considering there was only one area where they were being sold and most were ripped from Africa along the rest of the coast. I would love to get a DNA test done to figure out which part of Africa my ancestors could have come from.
My pain for Africa is that they were taking advantage of by the Europeans resources and land stolen, but there is still slight disappointment knowing that some of their ancestors sold my ancestors for nothing. They gave up their land to the Europeans for nothing. What guns? It's just disappointing and the same issues that plagued Africa then that allowed them to get taken advantage of is plaguing Africa and it still keeps them from rising to the levels of the European or Western nations today. Granted now I am a part of the western nations because this is my home, but after learning about world affairs I couldn't imagine being born anywhere else. So I guess it's like a thank you old Africans that sold us. We may have it have endured enslavement and bigotry but overall it could be worse.
I would be okay with being called African American if we called white people European Americans but I don't ever hear anybody say European american anywhere. So it just sounds like intentional language to "other" us as Americans. When I think of an African American, I think of an African who was born in africa who moved to the United States and got citizenship. Their children will be American first generation. Or they are heavily a part of African culture but are American.
I am not trying to be disrespectful to my ancestors, but if they start designating us as different kinds of Americans, I feel like they could open up laws and rhetoric that will allow them to separate us legally as a different kind of American
Much much worse. Africa in the late 20th century alone was the world's showroom of tribal genocides (example: Rwanda 1994), civil wars, coups, revolutions, more genocides, strange worm parasites (Onchocerciasis), cannibal dictators (Idi Amin), tribal wars, epidemics of killer diseases (Ebola), famines, anarchy (South Africa), etc.
If u r black nobody needs u to tell them in europe or america who you are .. they already know who u are and where u came from.
The cops dont choke an innocent white man with knee on his neck to death or shoot white teenagers for smoking a joint on the corner of the street do they ?
Whites dont have to take to the streets ib the thousands to let other know that their lives matter.
Amen, from a fellow American
your african american
its just the nature of power. As soon as one kingdom had access to european guns others needed to arm up or be conquered, so slavery became a necessity to maintain soverignity. There is no need for you to feel self pity and denounce your african ancestors. Europeans fought, massacres, enslaved other europeans since the beginning of history that doesnt mean white americans whine around and denounce their european roots. You seem to have a infantile view of history and life in general. In the US black gangs kill other black gangmembers with guns of the white man, sell drugs to other blacks made by white people to satisfy their lust for power and dominance. This is even worst since they are not even differen ethnic groups or empires with ancient rivalry. By that logic you should denounce being a black american too.
Can we also get a video on europe....about how they were waging wars against each other......why they even went out to other continents to trade too
I'm Akan from Ghana and Completely agree.
Great historical work. Without any bias or hate filled finger pointing, just facts from the pages of history. Really hits home thinking of all the lives ruined and or lost over over wealth and power.
Now lets look at the j**ish role in slavery shall we.
Thank you for a genuine and fact base informational video about the history of slavery throughout the world. This should be used for students in High School.
High schools do teach this stuff. I learned it in high school and so did my daughter.
@@popermen694im 25 and can tell you that in public school this isnt part of the curriculum. You can actually find the curriculum for any state you want and youll see this isnt part of any standard for teaching at all.
As a black male, when I was in High School, it was only taught that white people enslaved blacks. What we didn’t learn was that Africans captured and sold our ancestors into slavery for their own gain. It’s a dark side of history that seems to have been hidden.
But this would imply we where some of the most powerful people in the world with countless wealthy empires They can’t have that lol 😅
@@zauncesimmons7761 powerful? Maybe when terrorizing neighboring tribes but then again y’all got swept by people who couldn’t handle the sun and you never recovered from that 😂
I would love to know the sources to this❤
an absolute jewel of a video I'm a Haitian person both of my African tribal lineage from my father/mother side were slave traders/raiders being the Hausa/Tikar(Mundang), nearly 80% of Haitians today their ancestors were different ethnic group of slave traders who got caught by their rivals and sold to Europeans, also 1/3 of Haitians came from the Kingdom of Dahomey, from different ethnic groups such as Fon, Aja, Éwé, Mina, Mahi, Gébé, Ga-Adangbe, & Yoruba clans from Kétu , a Yoruba city from Benin Republic
Fix Haiti!
Really well made video. Most people still have very narrow minded understanding of slavery and it's history.
He is trying to spread the narrative that Africans sold Africans to hide the fact that the children of Israel that settled in west Africa after their escape from the destruction of Jerusalem in 70AD were the ones hunted by Africans for the Europeans to fill their slave ships. No cunning narrative by any son of a bed wench can stop that truth.
Wait, so why don't they seek reparations from Africa....
They are not as gullible as Europeans, and they haven't been brow beaten like Euros have.
@@carlinthomas9482 Wait, you're on the side of the enslaves or the enslaved and their descendants?
Because Europeans decided to traffic them overseas (rather than release them), enslave them in a new land for centuries, relegate them to the bottom rung of society and still continue to oppress to this day
The Africans would laugh them away and point with their index finger to their forehead.
Technically, the African sellers made a one time profit from the sale. The white European and American buyers had a lifetime profit extending to generations from the initial purchase (in cases where the enslaved had children).
A politically unbiased historical documentation of slavery. The facts are the facts trying to sugar coat and sweep the facts under the rug is detrimental to people understanding the issue and the chain of events that bring us to this point in our history and understanding the roots of the problem rather than playing the blame game in order to elevate ourselves on our self-righteous podiums. I viewed a documentary on PBS on the history of slavery in America narrated by Morgan Freeman. It stated that the first slaves brought into America were 11 male slaves in around 1630. This was the first chain of event that eventually led up to our Civil War, but the root cause was the actual slave trade itself that had existed for centuries. When we take in this history we can better understand how we got to where we were and move forward.
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Very informative video. I've known about this issue but it's not discussed enough. I didn't know Dahomey was this draconian in terms of slavery. People seem to romanticize them, especially as the "Dahomey Amazons" who resisted Europeans.
I first heard of this in elementary school, verbally, from a teacher that went on a full-hour tangent. That was 27 years ago.
It was never mentioned by any teacher or in any books in any school or any tv show / youtube vid I saw since, until now.
At one point I was even made unsure if I was remembering it right as I got called a racist just for recalling it, wrongly in their opinion.
Usa choose what to teach to their nation, I thought that was obvious
The teachers union would fire that teacher if they did it now... I had a teacher being warned never to mention his political views(15 yrs ago) Only because the teachers union doesn't agree. The teachers union has grown too powerful.
@@charlii7386 I don't live in that nation, but USA's reach goes far beyond their borders, we have Americanized just like the Ottomans Westernized (or tried to).
@@derekw3069Teachers are not supposed to mention their views regardless of if they align with a union’s views. I also had my teacher openly teach about this despite the fact that he was in a union. Being educated, properly at least, can be removed from politics
Blackness is still not really a thing in Africa today. Many Africans identify with their tribe rather than their skin. Blackness only becomes a thing outside of Africa or in South Africa
Yes because of socialization with European descendents...which is the true culprit for woes of racism.
@@bruhvibes5941Racism existed before Europeans and Africans came into contact with each other.
@@tb1235 the concept of race was literally started by the Portuguese. Do you even know what racism is? lol
@@liya5082 so you mean there was no racism before that ? 💀
There was Tribalism. There's no need for color discrimination if we are all the danger color.
Wow, every person alive today NEEDS to see this video. never knew any of this. thanks for educating me.
Wait till you find out what happened after the last slave was brought! Oh wait America continue the tradition for hundreds of years
What I’d like to know is how Britain was painted in this story as a glorious champion of abolition, standing against Lagos and Benin for example, but we have seen so many African goods/artefacts stolen from them winding up in British/Europeans’ coffers. Was this part of the deal? “Fight for them against slavery but steal all their stuff to build your own”? And, why wasn’t this mentioned in the report? Who made the British “Africa’s champions” anyway? What was the deal? Hypocrisy everywhere, it seems.
I learned more about history from this video than I did in school
One prominent slave from Africa, who was sold to Indian master was Malik Amber of Ahmednagar. That man became slave to knight of a prosperous kingdom in his lifetime in 1500.
African slaves were common practice in Islamic regimes in India, even way before European powers presence.
so does that minimize Americas slave trade
Bantu colonization is always called slavery. Iraq.syadi Arabia. India .. always we was slaves but they don't die. They kill and take over and suffer racism
@@user-my2yb3yj7wdoes it matter?
No but it takes off the blame partially
Plus it doesnt really matte. I bet some of your ancestors killed someone or enslaved etc.
But today is today and we grow and evolve constantly. You will never grow if you cant let go of baby crying.
Yeahhh everyone been stealing people from Africa
This video should be a requirement at every school
People seem to get mad whe reminding them of this fact, also stating that slavery is at an all time high compared to then gets them riled up
I tell my American friends all the time that, there is no way a shipful of Europeans came and took them against their own will and tribe.. we sold them, tribalism is a thing here
This was extremely well put together. Thanks!
As Thomas Sowell put best [paraphrased], The greatest lesson of history is no people can be trusted with absolute power over another.
European fought to abolish slavery while african fought to uphold it. A total bruh moment for humanity
Bruh they gave incentive for other slaves to fight for them so they could overpower and take over territory just like in the civil war they didn’t fight for us because they liked us. Lol
Maybe Africa should chip in on reparations or accept repatriation
Not for American atrocities. Africans didn’t conduct or create any of this in America.
200 years of race based GENERATIONAL Chattel Slavery. 100 years of Jim Crow, Black Codes, Vagrancy Laws, Homestead Act for white Americans only, Racial Housing Covenants, Redlining, Blockbusting, 1955 Highway Commission Act, Urban Renewal, Eminent Domain, COINTELPRO, Assassinations of Black Leaders, Police Sanctioned Murder and Brutality, Convict Leasing, School to Prison Pipeline, Mass Incarceration, War on Drugs C!A flooding Black communities with drugs and military weapons, denying Foundational Black Americans Social Security the first 30 years of its existence, Debt Peonage, white Only FHA Loans and GI Bill, 1994 Crime Bill. among many other atrocities and racist policies against Foundational Black Americans.
Let us not forget about the purging, destruction, and burning down of successful Black communities by white supremacist Americans like Tulsa, Rosewood, Wilmington (NC), Omaha (NE), Springfield (IL), Corbin (KY), Columbus (TN), Elaine (AR) and etc.
They can't do that it would admit they were right up to Thier neck in it before the white man no no no Black lives matter😊
@jameslewis1605 Of course. African nations, European nations, and American nations all owe a debt.
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Get a job @@godofthisshit
I've heard about the inconvenient facts about trans-Atlantic slavery already, but this is more detailed. I can hear the howls of derision and accusation already, particularly of racism (which is somewhat valid). Notably, why Europeans did not enslave themselves if they wanted forced indentured labour for their plantations in the New World? This did actually happen, among young poor women in particular as household slaves, but also poor white famlies that were sponsored to emmigate then forced to work for their new landholders in the Americas. However, in many places, such as the Caribbean, black slaves vastly outnumbered white slaves. Firstly, one thing springs to mind with regard to black slavery. That the interior of Africa had plenty of people to raid and become captives. Slavery in these interior kingdoms of Africa would only been possible if this waa the case, This means that populations within Africa were NOT decimated by the outbreaks of epidemics, that were happening periodically in Europe at that time. Bear in mind, that the trans-Atlantic slavery carried on for about 300 years. There was malaria, yes (still is), but outbreaks of cholera and typhoid were probably less decimating on African populations because the Africans simply had better hygene and water supplies in their towns and cities (Mali for example), than in European cities. Also large populations of people lived in extensive farming communities, which may had less drinking water pollution issues. Bubonic plague was also less common, which is very interesting and scientically unverified because this disease seems to do better in the tropics, but also might be related to where the black rat (Rattus rattus) could reach and be a vector for this devestating epidemic. Outside large African towns, were possibly extensive preyed upon by native rodent hunters (these are animals, not people employed to do so) or sucessfully outcompeted by native rodents. At any rate, slavery is morally wrong whomsoever are the captives or whatever historical time it was practised, although at the time and place it was not thought so. This moral rejection of slavery is called ethical advancement and Enlightenment values. Unfortunately, for most of human history, wherever there are cities, towns, trading and agriculture, across much of the so called civilised world, there was slavery also.
Where did you learn all of this from?
The Romans were pretty good at enslaving anybody black or white lol but they built everything themselves no slave's were used to build structures slave's were only used in carrying the raw materials under the lash of course 😊😂
You're forgetting the vector of human lice and fleas.
Hmmm. The vast majority of the transatlantic slave trade went to Caribbean and Brazilian sugar plantations. Plantation owners needed workers who were accustomed to the heat and could survive the many diseases. Africans fit the bill - there were sellers ready to fill the demand. The rest is history.
Ok here cultural context is VERY important. Let's not forget that the meaning of slavery in African context and European contexts are different. In many West African societies, rulers and ruling kingdoms/empires had slaves yes. But slaves within African societies had better living conditions than slaves in the Americas. Not only that but European countries like Portugal, France and England were very active in African politics during the slave trade. They would actively work for the removing of African leaders that were against the slave trade and support both financially and militarily leaders who would be ready to export slaves. This historical fact is major to show that no matter how you want to look at it, African were more victims than authors of this tragedy. The ones in favor of the slave trade were just a minority of elites motivated by their own self-interest.
Its always awkward when your own people sell you, until you realize Africa invented slavery and still practices it today....but, ya, we are all the same though, right?
Thank you no one ever speaks on this portion of slavery
Many people do… you just choose not to listen
Please tell me one person that has mentioned it besides this video it’s always the same story slavery was an injustice pushed by caucasians, no one mentions the fact that their own people conquered and sold them in to bondage