Ha! So the Thumbs Downs are adding up...no worries...it seems as if a lot of people from the continent of Africa are upset at 'fake Black-Americans' visiting countries on the continent. These rude comments are being removed and some are being blocked. Sigh. Sigh. and Sigh.
Thumbs up from me. If you know your history you will know where you are coming from. Buffalo Soldier And he was taken from Africa, brought to America Fighting on arrival, fighting for survival BTW still fighting today.
Dearie, do not mind the trolls. For a fact, they are not Ghanaians. We are warm people and very accepting. Let nothing discourage you from feeling African. You are black for a reason, and Ghana loves you. I very much enjoy your blogs too. Stay blessed.
I'm a Ghanaian, and I really love you taking the bold step to visit the land of your forefathers , I wish you'll return with your family and have a permanent stay. You're welcome to wakanda , I love you.
Crying real tears. I have no choice but to be great, to live in purpose, to live in gratitude, to continue the legacy. No more surviving, start living.
A few weeks ago I visited the Whitney Plantation located in Wallace, LA - this plantation has been turned into a museum where the focus is on the slaves and slave children of the Whitney. It's the first museum of its kind in America. To your point about people saying "if it were them...they would do this or wouldn't allow this to happen...or refuse to be a slave, etc...". We have to keep in mind, once the slaves reached these shores in America, they were in a foreign land....even when many tried to runaway - they had no idea where they were going. Because all they knew was the plantation. It's easy to say what one wouldn't do in the comforts of this day however back then - slavery was NORMAL. Slaves on the Whitney Plantation worked 16-18 hours a day - 6 sometimes 7 days a week! Their life spans were on average 10 years! No one in this day can ever say what they would or wouldn't do back then...that was an entirely different era...
I think you forget many Africans escaped slavery and reached North America and Canada, Don't forget Harriet the greatest Heroin in history and Nat Turner who started one of biggest slave revolt in America. In the Caribbean the African gave the slave masters hell, many revolts has been recorded the Maroons in Jamaica fought 3 wars with the British, the black Caribs of St Vincent fought the British also and thr Africans of Haiti drove the French out and formed the first independant nation in the Western Hemisphere. Slavery was the worst thing to happen some black people, but we all of us didn't take it lying down.
Personally, I don't think West Africans are blessed but feel they've been punished for kidnapping and selling everyone they could get their hands on. Look at the turmoil, poverty, illiteracy, corruption and thousands of wars they've been through over the last 400 years. The number of people West Africans kidnapped and sold filled up the Caribbean, Belize, Brazil, Cuba, USA, Mexico, Columbia, Venezuela and all countries in the Americas. They have been punished by God and the awful condition they live in today are the result of them selling their people. And they still buy and sell slaves today. It's hard for me to understand how Black Americans put Africans on high pedestals when their ancestors are the ones who did the kidnapping and selling of people but despise the white people who bought our ancestors. They were all in on it together. We're here and we're from the Americas a land our ancestor helped to built and we should honor their legacy. Not with anger but with pride. Know history but don't make up fantasies about it.
Yes, a MILLION thanks!!! If it weren't for them, there would be no me. I'm their legacy and I'm proud of where I come from. I will ALWAYS represent and honor them through my life. ❤️ Knowledge is power for us all, throughout the diaspora. Peace and love.
I am from Ghana and I loved your comments and videos. One thing you said that i shed tears. You spoke about the fact they would have a church on top of the dungeons. And the irony is that over 70% of Ghanaians identify with the Christian region. This is sad.
@Romain Ftz. Who the hell speaks that stupid, useless French language? The one that sounds like confused babies blowing spit bubbles? Speak English. France is not a world power and will never be a world power ever again. They depend on “les noirs” to even be able to eat in the morning. More than 3 former French fried presidents (Mitterrand, Jacques) and others have acknowledged this reality. Not at all impressed with the [St]ench language at all dude.
Everyone our Ancestors gave us life now it's time that we all take a trip to their Homeland and walk through the door of Return so we can take them Back Home Where They Belong. Thank To My Ancestors For My Existence I Love You And I Honor You.
I'm Ghanaian and I'm crying with all of you. This was really emotional to watch. At other clips I've seen on youtube I was mainly angry, especially with white people, but your clip made sad to the core. Your ancestors are my ancestors. My family established the town near the last bath. There will come a day that those who wronged our ancestors and us, will have their payment in full. Don't mind the trolls. There are a lot of white people with fake black accounts roaming black youtubers vlogs, posting comments to divide.
Thanks so much for sharing. No matter how many times I have seen footage like this, it just shakes me up in a way I can't fully articulate. It's a feeling of disbelief and overwhelming sorrow. This really happened! But you reminded me with this video to also feel GRATITUDE!!! Yes! To my ancestors that chose to live. Thank you.
It's tough to watch videos on the Middle Passage. Hard to say would I rather had died than go through slavery and have my ancestors deal with Jim Crow and all the other stuff still happening. But let's not forget that back in high school they taught us that a white man named Patrick Henry said "Give me liberty or give me death." He preferred death than living under King George III which pales in comparison to slavery. Also slavery is really a curse on the continent of Africa. Most scholars on the subject agree that without the help of Africans there is no way that slavery would have been successful rounding up people from the interior to be sold off. You would think the Europeans would have been happy to stop there after getting slaves to toil their new found colonies. Then they came up with this idea of "the white man's burden" where they are the saviors of "people of backward civilization." This led to the colonization of just about the entire continent except arguable with the exception of Ethiopia ( I still remember Emperor Haile Selasseie when I was a boy). I read of "Mansa Musa (about 1280 - about 1337) was an emperor (mansa) of the Mali Empire during the 14th century. He became emperor in 1307. He was the first African ruler to be widely known throughout Europe and the Middle East." He is said to have been the richest man in the world in today's dollars. www.businessinsider.com/mansa-musa-the-richest-person-in-history-2016-2/ Timbuktu, the well-known learning center outside of Egypt in west Africa was around long before slavery. So all this talk about bringing civilization to backward people was propaganda to justify slavery. The Europeans used to trade with Africans long before slavery. The problem is when the Europeans discovered the New World their own people --indentured servants- were dropping dead like flies due to the intense labor. The British first tried having the Irish work the sugarcane fields in the West Indies but the Irish were dropping dead from the heat and labor. So who best to work and toil on soil similar to the West Indies and the Carolinas but African slaves. Got nothing to do with backward uncivilized people but with demonizing a race of people to justify forced labor. Unfortunately this negativity has continued through centuries the demonization of Africans and blacks as uncivilized and savages. When I visited the ancient Egyptian artworks at the Brooklyn Museum it's mentioned that the people who were responsible for the civilization of Africa came from the southern part of Egypt and not the northern part. And that they were black people not what was told over centuries. Just that the white anthropologists refused to admit that blacks were responsible for such a great civilization that was at the frontier of all civilizations where even the so-called father of medicine, Hipppocrates from Greece, actually studied medicine in Africa in Egypt.
Augustus here! I landed here from the other channel. I almost cried when I visited Elmina Castle in Ghana, which I believe is the same place in this video. I can't wait to take Alexis to visit some of these places.
As an African, i just wanna tell you that, we Love you, and Africa as a mother, never loose the Hope to see all the Black people Together. We loves you Dear brothers and sisters from the bottom of our heart. HOME IS HOME, WELCOME BACK HOME
I don't know you my sister but I love you too because when we preach love to one another white people hated baseline somewhere to symbolically show that we should be separated and taught to hate each other that's that's what they did during the old times and they are still doing it in the form of music art food and everything else they are determined to seek out the division to divide us so that they can conquer because they know that if we stay together and build our own amount of wealth they would have no power in this world
My Fiance is Ghanaian and from Cape Coast and volunteers at the Castle at times. I sent him this video. This was TOO deep and touching. THANK YOU, for honoring our ancestors 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
💙17:30 VERY POWERFUL EXPRESSION OF GRATITUDE & ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF OUR ANCESTORS STRENGTH FROM *TMH GOD OF ISRAEL-ITES FOREVERMORE❣️* 😭I Cried Out Too Sis🕊️
WOW! I just watched this and I cannot stop crying. My heart hurts so bad for all of our ancestors and what they went through. My heart breaks for those who were murdered, tortured, thrown off the ships or those who jumped. But everyone I watch our people go back thru the Door of Return I thank almighty God for righting the wrongs and allowing our ancestors to come back home through us. Yes we are alive because they survived! We are Survivors. And for the first time I said "THANK YOU" to our ancestors. Thank you so much for sharing this video with the world. God Bless You!!
Thank you for posting your visit to Ghana. This is an international trip I will take in 2020. Watching this I cried and will again when I visit. Your words: Thank you Nana's for enduring so that we can live today. Very nicely done!
That door of No return got me and that sea. My ancestors and myself never got to return back to their homeland. It was great y'all got to return back, it is very sad.
Your words at the end completely broke me😢 Yes! Thank you so much to your ancestors who had the strength to survive those times so that you may live today❤️
Your video is the most powerful slave castle video I've seen. Kudos on a job well done in capturing the emotional side of all that. Indeed you are alive because they chose to survive. That's a very powerful way of looking at it.
This Video is so Awesome and Meaningful to our people. I am planning to visit this place, just to Feel what Our Ancestors went through. Thanks again for Sharing this Video
I'm really glad you posted this vlog... ignore the ignorant trolls and continue to help educate the world. Some people love ignorance and others dont. We choose the "light".... God bless you my sister!
Crying. I have always thanked my ancestors for surviving. I am here we all are because of survivors. We must live lives to honor our ancestors and what they endured. The negative comments are probably from trolls. Who cares. My focus is my Yah my people my history. Thank you for the video. Very very very appreciated. Bless you sister!!
Girl thanks for doing this! I am Ghanaian and I appreciate you so much for doing this- for sharing our story as it is to the entire world. We are 1 people whether African, African- American... we are all 1. No need for hating and differences. Going through those dungeons I felt the same way you felt! I'm thankful someone came ahead of me to make my today possible. I couldn't be here in the US if an ancestor hadn't fought for our freedom. Its been over 400 years and we still dealing with slavery in a different way and form. Thanks again! Much love and respect!!
I'm going to Ghana some day to visit this,, the issue is the Ghanian government should come up with a program to widely open this information to the world by using their tv stations etc.. every month.
I'll definitely remember my two Great Great Grand fathers Kwayie obour and Ote Buabeng &the others who were captured during the Sagrenti war between the Ashantis and the British war & sent to Tarkwa without returning
WOW! I am an American born in NYC, however I grew up in Ghana. watching this made me very emotional especially those "$10 and $50" rewards, and the pictures of the slaves. SMH.
Reminiscing; “MY SANKOFA” (A born again experience.) FLASHBACKS of an EARLY African-American PIONEER who relocated to Ghana, (to join the ranks of Freedom-Fighters) after participating in a vicious war to liberate the South Korean, from the communist north; during the cold-war. On my seventeenth birthday I asked for and received my (single mother’s of 7) consent, to drop out of Buchanan Michigan High School, to join the U.S. Army after promising her I'd take advantage of their education programs and complete my education. I would also be able to help out financially by remitting a portion of my military salary to her, she being a single mother of six. One week after my 17th birthday I was assigned to Fort Riley Kansas for 16 weeks of basic infantry training. On completion I was sent to Fort Belvoir Virginia, for a course in combat engineering. It was there I learned of the escalating conflict in Korea and along with the entire class, volunteered for combat service there. At the time it was said to be a “Police-Action.” Our main concern was it would be over before we got there. December 4, 1950, I arrived in Inchon, South Korea and assigned to the U.S. Army’s last all-Black unit, the 24th Infantry Regiment Combat Team, aka Deuce4, the last unit of the original Buffalo Soldiers. During the 9 months I served as a Rifleman I was wounded twice, received the Purple Heart, the Bronze Star, the Combat Infantry Badge and four Battle Stars. After Korea, I served two years as a paratrooper in Japan, before being honorably discharged in 1954. I later attended the American Academy of Art, in Chicago from 1957 to 1959, where I met and was mentored by Mr. Gus Nalls, (veteran of WW-2) in the art of oil painting. After four years I relocated to New York City in the early 1960s, where I joined a group of Black Artists, The 20th Century Art Creators. It was during that time (the civil-rights struggle) I became disillusioned with the social and political situation in America and decided to relocate to Africa, and in 1965 I left for Ghana with less than $300 in my pocket. On arrival in Ghana I was welcomed by a fellow artist Tom Feelings, one of President Kwame Nkrumah's advisors, and introduced to other expatriates living in Ghana at the time. During the 1960s and 1970s, the African American expatriates living there included artists, Tom Feelings, Ted Pontifeif, Julian Mayfield, Herman Bailey, Alton Carlo, Earl Smith, Frank Robinson, Judson Hudson, Max Bond, Jim Lacy, John W. Ray, Charles Danial, Jerry Harper, Lesley Lacy, Leroy Mitchell, Edith Major & Charles Simpson, Maya Angelou, Nell I. Painter, Alice Windom, Dr. Shirley Graham DuBois, Maya Angelous and a few others. Our selected spokesman was Dr. Robert Lee, a medical dentist & wife, Shirley Lee; also a Dentist. (with the excepting of 4) MAY THEY RIP. Most African-American male there, like myself were “Disillusioned-Veterans; who had fought for the RIGHT’S of other’s, that were denied us in our own country. So rather than suffer such dehumanizing on return to America, we to a man, had decide to return our ancestral land and take part in its liberation… Each in our own way. After being adopted by an Ashanti-Paramount Chief, Nana kwaku Duah (1966) and given the name “Kojo Acheampong.” I spent the next eleven (11) years living in Ghana, often traveling to Togo and the Ivory Coast to market my jewelry. I earned a living by learning and making jewelry of traditional designs which I carved from cow-horns and ivory after fully immersing myself in the culture. On my return to the United States in 1976, I was able to contribute to the growing interest in African art and culture. IT WAS A BORNAGAIN EXPERIENCE. In addition to my art and jewelry, I've published “The Return of the African-American,” detailing my journey of self-discovery in Africa which I later revised as “MY SANKOFA.” My second book is, “What’s a Commie Ever Done to Black People?” details my experiences in the Korean War WHICH exposed what it is like to fight as a United States-African American Soldier for the human-rights and freedom for other people’s, while being denied such RIGHT’S, in our own country… MY SANKOFA aka; “Return to the PAST, for knowledge that’ll help understand PRESENT; and prepare for the FUTURE.” should be A MUST READ for all African-American, and well meaning people worldwide. ******************* In 2015 I had my DNA done and discover 87% of my-family’s ancestors are from the Ashanti-Akim area. The same area of Ghana I had lived for 11 years... 1965 to 1976. DETAILS BELOW: www.amazon.com/Curtis-James-Mo…/…/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0 ENJOY & SHARE.
As I lay here e watching this video with my seven-year-old granddaughter I am speechless, this was a very powerful and meaningful video! I give thanks to my ancestors who survived, for this I am thankful and grateful! So thank you very much for sharing! Love peace and joy Ms. Inya ❤️❤️❤️💓💓💓🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Thank You For This Video It Really Opened And Shed Light 💡 This Is What we Should of learned in school and went too for trips so we can stand an experience the place where our people we’re tortured
I am Spanish and I have no idea if my direct ancestors were involved in this sort of thing, but I wish slavery didn’t happen and my heart is broken to hear this story. Money and power can make men greedy and turn against his Human brother. Best wishes to all of you that descend from those enslaved people and may God bless you and your ancestors in Heaven. I would like to visit this site one day to pay respects. ¡Saludos!
Your ancestors could have been on either side my friend your ancestors could have been enslaved or they could have been slave-drivers depending on where you're from what part of the country you're from and if you are afro Spaniard or not
Dear am also from Ghana but don't get the white wrong cuz it's quoted in De Bible that the nation DAT do not worship in my name another nation wil come n rule you n treat you whatever they want until u know I am the severely lord iv forgotten De vers but Dis words Neva got off my thought.. N DAT s wen our ppl our nation got to know der s something up der called church n DAT tym too our ancestors Neva known anything o a name called Jesus so pls don't blame De White God words Neva fade away
I just wanted to say your statement made me think. Am I placing my mark on this earth with the opportunity I have been given, the opportunity to live. Some don't even get the opportunity of life. Also, no matter what you post some one will have something negative to say. But there are people that are grateful for your video(s).
This comment is years later...but that statement about saying thank you is important - I was born in the U.K. (now 59 years old) but my parents come from St Lucia in the Caribbean. We were all raised in a very Afrocentric family - both of my parents where activists for the betterment of African people (my parents never referred to themselves as black - they were African) - my sister taught African history, and we all grew up with a pride of who we were. I’m posting this because it reminded me that each night as kids we always prayed as a family before bedtime - and we would always finish our prayers thanking the ancestors. It was a key part of my upbringing - to thank those who endured and survived slavery and other things so that I could live and prosper. It drummed into me that not living my best life was not an option, I owed it to the people who went before me and gave so much. Both of my parents have now passed, but I have to say I had the best parents anyone could wish for - they gave me teachings that I have carried with me through life, and have in turn passed onto my kids.
Thumbs down? Really? WHAT THE F***!?!? I admire ur page sister. Thx for capturing this on video. I've been aware of the tours in Ghana since '92 but never set a goal to go. I'm decently read on our history from Africa and I feel ur energy and the energy that ur conveying from this whole experience. One of the key reasons why I don't condone using the word nigga in everyday talk. Will correct a brother if I hear him address me as nigga; or calling a black woman "bitch". Thx for sharing this.
Good work but my only question is is the Christian God real or fiction coz the same people who brought Christianity to us maltreated us even up till now and in their Bible since colonial year it was stated that do good and move to heaven and do bad and u go to hell so my question is where they not aware of their DOINGS?
I would like all afrikans in the diaspora in general afrikans in america specifically to read about the nri kingdom of southern nigeria a powerful state of the igbo people that refused to get envolved in the slave trade and gave sanctuary to afrikans who escaped capture by slave hunters
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Ha! So the Thumbs Downs are adding up...no worries...it seems as if a lot of people from the continent of Africa are upset at 'fake Black-Americans' visiting countries on the continent. These rude comments are being removed and some are being blocked. Sigh. Sigh. and Sigh.
Thanks for lending an example to what I stated above. :-)
Thumbs up from me. If you know your history you will know where you are coming from. Buffalo Soldier And he was taken from Africa, brought to America Fighting on arrival, fighting for survival BTW still fighting today.
Dearie, do not mind the trolls. For a fact, they are not Ghanaians. We are warm people and very accepting. Let nothing discourage you from feeling African. You are black for a reason, and Ghana loves you. I very much enjoy your blogs too. Stay blessed.
Thank you so much!
I'm a Ghanaian, and I really love you taking the bold step to visit the land of your forefathers , I wish you'll return with your family and have a permanent stay. You're welcome to wakanda , I love you.
Crying real tears. I have no choice but to be great, to live in purpose, to live in gratitude, to continue the legacy. No more surviving, start living.
Yes Lord Amen Hallelujah!!!🙏🙏🙏🙏
Great inspiration
Yes the door of return.Ghana has opened it door for you to come back home to your motherland .i wish those who want to come back home all the best .
Thanks
Thank you....I'm coming to see this..
Thank you Ghana, I'm ready...
This video gave me chills. I had to leave my desk at work from crying because like you, I never said thank you. So I finally did...#powerful
kalidreaming ❤
Sorry "hy3dzin" local lingua meaning take heart!
A few weeks ago I visited the Whitney Plantation located in Wallace, LA - this plantation has been turned into a museum where the focus is on the slaves and slave children of the Whitney. It's the first museum of its kind in America. To your point about people saying "if it were them...they would do this or wouldn't allow this to happen...or refuse to be a slave, etc...". We have to keep in mind, once the slaves reached these shores in America, they were in a foreign land....even when many tried to runaway - they had no idea where they were going. Because all they knew was the plantation. It's easy to say what one wouldn't do in the comforts of this day however back then - slavery was NORMAL.
Slaves on the Whitney Plantation worked 16-18 hours a day - 6 sometimes 7 days a week! Their life spans were on average 10 years! No one in this day can ever say what they would or wouldn't do back then...that was an entirely different era...
There is a community name Whitney in Clarendon Jamaica!
I am making plans to visit. Any suggestions?
Amen!!
I think you forget many Africans escaped slavery and reached North America and Canada, Don't forget Harriet the greatest Heroin in history and Nat Turner who started one of biggest slave revolt in America. In the Caribbean the African gave the slave masters hell, many revolts has been recorded the Maroons in Jamaica fought 3 wars with the British, the black Caribs of St Vincent fought the British also and thr Africans of Haiti drove the French out and formed the first independant nation in the Western Hemisphere. Slavery was the worst thing to happen some black people, but we all of us didn't take it lying down.
Ghanaians are too intelligent.The narrator is very good!Inspirational history!..Ghana is a blessed land for the black!
Amen!
Right from history, Ghanaians have been the biggest Africa sell out up to date. .
ororoboy yoyo ganja all people in all
Races are sell outs
Personally, I don't think West Africans are blessed but feel they've been punished for kidnapping and selling everyone they could get their hands on. Look at the turmoil, poverty, illiteracy, corruption and thousands of wars they've been through over the last 400 years. The number of people West Africans kidnapped and sold filled up the Caribbean, Belize, Brazil, Cuba, USA, Mexico, Columbia, Venezuela and all countries in the Americas. They have been punished by God and the awful condition they live in today are the result of them selling their people. And they still buy and sell slaves today. It's hard for me to understand how Black Americans put Africans on high pedestals when their ancestors are the ones who did the kidnapping and selling of people but despise the white people who bought our ancestors. They were all in on it together. We're here and we're from the Americas a land our ancestor helped to built and we should honor their legacy. Not with anger but with pride. Know history but don't make up fantasies about it.
@Wonder Boy you just want negative attention.
Yes, a MILLION thanks!!! If it weren't for them, there would be no me. I'm their legacy and I'm proud of where I come from. I will ALWAYS represent and honor them through my life. ❤️ Knowledge is power for us all, throughout the diaspora. Peace and love.
It will forever remain in our minde
YES! YES AND YES💪💪💪
I am from Ghana and I loved your comments and videos. One thing you said that i shed tears. You spoke about the fact they would have a church on top of the dungeons. And the irony is that over 70% of Ghanaians identify with the Christian region. This is sad.
We need to go back to our way of worship and shut the adversary down he is masquerading in the religion called CHRISTIANITY.
Les noirs continuent d'aller encore à l'église du diable. Mais quand comprendront ils ?
@Romain Ftz. Who the hell speaks that stupid, useless French language? The one that sounds like confused babies blowing spit bubbles? Speak English. France is not a world power and will never be a world power ever again. They depend on “les noirs” to even be able to eat in the morning. More than 3 former French fried presidents (Mitterrand, Jacques) and others have acknowledged this reality. Not at all impressed with the [St]ench language at all dude.
Everyone our Ancestors gave us life now it's time that we all take a trip to their Homeland and walk through the door of Return so we can take them Back Home Where They Belong. Thank To My Ancestors For My Existence I Love You And I Honor You.
I'm Ghanaian and I'm crying with all of you. This was really emotional to watch. At other clips I've seen on youtube I was mainly angry, especially with white people, but your clip made sad to the core. Your ancestors are my ancestors. My family established the town near the last bath. There will come a day that those who wronged our ancestors and us, will have their payment in full. Don't mind the trolls. There are a lot of white people with fake black accounts roaming black youtubers vlogs, posting comments to divide.
White people alive today are not responsible for what happened several hundred years ago.
@@AmandaFromWisconsin White people and whatever consequences are meted out to them, is completely out of our control, so talk to God about it.
Akoben Renaissance Yes I'm a white person sorry for doing that :(
@@AmandaFromWisconsin How very true but slavery didn't start with white people and I am white and find history very interesting
@@AmandaFromWisconsin But they benefited from it a lot of modern white wealth comes from slaves.
I had the same Elmina tour guide back in December 2017. He was really good in elaborating on the historical events that happened back then.
I will be showing this video to my students.
This was so moving and powerful, I really appreciate you sharing this with us.
We Are Alive Y'all Because They Chose To Survive. Thank You Ancestors.
Thanks so much for sharing. No matter how many times I have seen footage like this, it just shakes me up in a way I can't fully articulate. It's a feeling of disbelief and overwhelming sorrow. This really happened! But you reminded me with this video to also feel GRATITUDE!!! Yes! To my ancestors that chose to live. Thank you.
You have no profile so you are completely undeserving of a dialog. You do not exist.
He does not exist...banning him from the page right now ...smh
It's tough to watch videos on the Middle Passage. Hard to say would I rather had died than go through slavery and have my ancestors deal with Jim Crow and all the other stuff still happening. But let's not forget that back in high school they taught us that a white man named Patrick Henry said "Give me liberty or give me death." He preferred death than living under King George III which pales in comparison to slavery. Also slavery is really a curse on the continent of Africa. Most scholars on the subject agree that without the help of Africans there is no way that slavery would have been successful rounding up people from the interior to be sold off.
You would think the Europeans would have been happy to stop there after getting slaves to toil their new found colonies. Then they came up with this idea of "the white man's burden" where they are the saviors of "people of backward civilization." This led to the colonization of just about the entire continent except arguable with the exception of Ethiopia ( I still remember Emperor Haile Selasseie when I was a boy).
I read of "Mansa Musa (about 1280 - about 1337) was an emperor (mansa) of the Mali Empire during the 14th century. He became emperor in 1307. He was the first African ruler to be widely known throughout Europe and the Middle East." He is said to have been the richest man in the world in today's dollars.
www.businessinsider.com/mansa-musa-the-richest-person-in-history-2016-2/
Timbuktu, the well-known learning center outside of Egypt in west Africa was around long before slavery. So all this talk about bringing civilization to backward people was propaganda to justify slavery. The Europeans used to trade with Africans long before slavery. The problem is when the Europeans discovered the New World their own people --indentured servants- were dropping dead like flies due to the intense labor. The British first tried having the Irish work the sugarcane fields in the West Indies but the Irish were dropping dead from the heat and labor. So who best to work and toil on soil similar to the West Indies and the Carolinas but African slaves. Got nothing to do with backward uncivilized people but with demonizing a race of people to justify forced labor. Unfortunately this negativity has continued through centuries the demonization of Africans and blacks as uncivilized and savages.
When I visited the ancient Egyptian artworks at the Brooklyn Museum it's mentioned that the people who were responsible for the civilization of Africa came from the southern part of Egypt and not the northern part. And that they were black people not what was told over centuries. Just that the white anthropologists refused to admit that blacks were responsible for such a great civilization that was at the frontier of all civilizations where even the so-called father of medicine, Hipppocrates from Greece, actually studied medicine in Africa in Egypt.
Augustus here! I landed here from the other channel. I almost cried when I visited Elmina Castle in Ghana, which I believe is the same place in this video. I can't wait to take Alexis to visit some of these places.
Thanks for coming over :-) Visiting here has been one of the most impactful experiences of my life.
As an African, i just wanna tell you that, we Love you, and Africa as a mother, never loose the Hope to see all the Black people Together. We loves you Dear brothers and sisters from the bottom of our heart. HOME IS HOME, WELCOME BACK HOME
I don't know you my sister but I love you too because when we preach love to one another white people hated baseline somewhere to symbolically show that we should be separated and taught to hate each other that's that's what they did during the old times and they are still doing it in the form of music art food and everything else they are determined to seek out the division to divide us so that they can conquer because they know that if we stay together and build our own amount of wealth they would have no power in this world
My Fiance is Ghanaian and from Cape Coast and volunteers at the Castle at times. I sent him this video. This was TOO deep and touching. THANK YOU, for honoring our ancestors 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Thank you my ancestors for being strong so that I may live. I give it all to you.
💙17:30 VERY POWERFUL EXPRESSION OF GRATITUDE & ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF OUR ANCESTORS STRENGTH FROM *TMH GOD OF ISRAEL-ITES FOREVERMORE❣️*
😭I Cried Out Too Sis🕊️
This was so raw, emotional, reflective, poignant, and awesome! Great job Chica!
Thank you girllllll
This really hurts my heart I love my people ....
I wish we all could just live in peace and show love to each other....
WOW! I just watched this and I cannot stop crying. My heart hurts so bad for all of our ancestors and what they went through. My heart breaks for those who were murdered, tortured, thrown off the ships or those who jumped. But everyone I watch our people go back thru the Door of Return I thank almighty God for righting the wrongs and allowing our ancestors to come back home through us. Yes we are alive because they survived! We are Survivors. And for the first time I said "THANK YOU" to our ancestors. Thank you so much for sharing this video with the world. God Bless You!!
Thank you so much for watching and sharing your heartfelt comment!
JUST THANK YOUUUUUU FOR THIS RAW DEEP VIDEO. IT REACHES WHO OT NEEDS TO. TY TO MY ANCESTORS
Thank you for posting your visit to Ghana. This is an international trip I will take in 2020. Watching this I cried and will again when I visit. Your words: Thank you Nana's for enduring so that we can live today. Very nicely done!
Thank you so much!
@@FunandBudget I will message you here when I make my way back home next year. So to be continued!
This brought tears to my eyes. May their souls rest in peace.
That door of No return got me and that sea. My ancestors and myself never got to return back to their homeland. It was great y'all got to return back, it is very sad.
Your words at the end completely broke me😢 Yes! Thank you so much to your ancestors who had the strength to survive those times so that you may live today❤️
Your video is the most powerful slave castle video I've seen. Kudos on a job well done in capturing the emotional side of all that. Indeed you are alive because they chose to survive. That's a very powerful way of looking at it.
This Video is so Awesome and Meaningful to our people. I am planning to visit this place, just to Feel what Our Ancestors went through. Thanks again for Sharing this Video
U most welcome
I'm really glad you posted this vlog... ignore the ignorant trolls and continue to help educate the world. Some people love ignorance and others dont. We choose the "light".... God bless you my sister!
This tour guide guy is Good. Thank you guy.
We forgive but never forget.... Ancestors will avenge
Ghana love you.
dny sandy me daa se from the diaspora 🙏🏿 and we love Ghana 🇬🇭 the black star
Thank you for sharing! Extremely powerful and certainly moving experience.... Hard to find words to truly define these emotions.
The tour guide is very fluent and Brilliant. He knows his stuff in toto.
Sure bro
Crying. I have always thanked my ancestors for surviving. I am here we all are because of survivors. We must live lives to honor our ancestors and what they endured. The negative comments are probably from trolls. Who cares. My focus is my Yah my people my history. Thank you for the video. Very very very appreciated. Bless you sister!!
I would love to come to Ghana
You are always welcome
@@florabosomtwe3930 you are welcom
Girl thanks for doing this! I am Ghanaian and I appreciate you so much for doing this- for sharing our story as it is to the entire world. We are 1 people whether African, African- American... we are all 1. No need for hating and differences. Going through those dungeons I felt the same way you felt! I'm thankful someone came ahead of me to make my today possible. I couldn't be here in the US if an ancestor hadn't fought for our freedom. Its been over 400 years and we still dealing with slavery in a different way and form. Thanks again! Much love and respect!!
I subscribed before watching welcome home Akwaaba!
Thank you!
Beautiful video! Thank You!
I'm going to Ghana some day to visit this,, the issue is the Ghanian government should come up with a program to widely open this information to the world by using their tv stations etc.. every month.
If I ever overcome my fear of flying I'm coming to Ghana!!!
Dennis Woods you be ok, Am Ghanaian living America, scared of flying but been back to Ghana 🇬🇭 3 times. Just think positive
I felt this. Thank you 🙏🏾
Greetings from Ghana! I repat from the US/ I am home, I am home
Who was capturing them?🤔🤔🤔🤔
I am a Ghanaian living in Canada, anytime I watch a video like this I cry, not all Those who go to church are Christian.
Very true
A place to take into account when going to Ghana
I'll definitely remember my two Great Great Grand fathers Kwayie obour and Ote Buabeng &the others who were captured during the Sagrenti war between the Ashantis and the British war & sent to Tarkwa without returning
Wow thanks for sharing this great story
Don’t matter where you go, Remember the Road that will Lead you Home 😭😭✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾
This narrator is so good. Very intelligent
WOW! I am an American born in NYC, however I grew up in Ghana. watching this made me very emotional especially those "$10 and $50" rewards, and the pictures of the slaves. SMH.
Hello! I’m heading to Ghana next week and wanting to know if it free to visit there or should I book with a travel company? Thanks
It's not free, but you can go there on your own and just pay to get in.
Wow this video is very moving very deep very insightful
Very beautiful video. Nice place. Great work friends.
Reminiscing; “MY SANKOFA” (A born again experience.)
FLASHBACKS of an EARLY African-American PIONEER who relocated to Ghana, (to join the ranks of Freedom-Fighters) after participating in a vicious war to liberate the South Korean, from the communist north; during the cold-war.
On my seventeenth birthday I asked for and received my (single mother’s of 7) consent, to drop out of Buchanan Michigan High School, to join the U.S. Army after promising her I'd take advantage of their education programs and complete my education. I would also be able to help out financially by remitting a portion of my military salary to her, she being a single mother of six.
One week after my 17th birthday I was assigned to Fort Riley Kansas for 16 weeks of basic infantry training. On completion I was sent to Fort Belvoir Virginia, for a course in combat engineering. It was there I learned of the escalating conflict in Korea and along with the entire class, volunteered for combat service there. At the time it was said to be a “Police-Action.” Our main concern was it would be over before we got there.
December 4, 1950, I arrived in Inchon, South Korea and assigned to the U.S. Army’s last all-Black unit, the 24th Infantry Regiment Combat Team, aka Deuce4, the last unit of the original Buffalo Soldiers. During the 9 months I served as a Rifleman I was wounded twice, received the Purple Heart, the Bronze Star, the Combat Infantry Badge and four Battle Stars. After Korea, I served two years as a paratrooper in Japan, before being honorably discharged in 1954.
I later attended the American Academy of Art, in Chicago from 1957 to 1959, where I met and was mentored by Mr. Gus Nalls, (veteran of WW-2) in the art of oil painting. After four years I relocated to New York City in the early 1960s, where I joined a group of Black Artists, The 20th Century Art Creators. It was during that time (the civil-rights struggle) I became disillusioned with the social and political situation in America and decided to relocate to Africa, and in 1965 I left for Ghana with less than $300 in my pocket.
On arrival in Ghana I was welcomed by a fellow artist Tom Feelings, one of President Kwame Nkrumah's advisors, and introduced to other expatriates living in Ghana at the time. During the 1960s and 1970s, the African American expatriates living there included artists, Tom Feelings, Ted Pontifeif, Julian Mayfield, Herman Bailey, Alton Carlo, Earl Smith, Frank Robinson, Judson Hudson, Max Bond, Jim Lacy, John W. Ray, Charles Danial, Jerry Harper, Lesley Lacy, Leroy Mitchell, Edith Major & Charles Simpson, Maya Angelou, Nell I. Painter, Alice Windom, Dr. Shirley Graham DuBois, Maya Angelous and a few others. Our selected spokesman was Dr. Robert Lee, a medical dentist & wife, Shirley Lee; also a Dentist. (with the excepting of 4) MAY THEY RIP.
Most African-American male there, like myself were “Disillusioned-Veterans; who had fought for the RIGHT’S of other’s, that were denied us in our own country. So rather than suffer such dehumanizing on return to America, we to a man, had decide to return our ancestral land and take part in its liberation… Each in our own way.
After being adopted by an Ashanti-Paramount Chief, Nana kwaku Duah (1966) and given the name “Kojo Acheampong.” I spent the next eleven (11) years living in Ghana, often traveling to Togo and the Ivory Coast to market my jewelry. I earned a living by learning and making jewelry of traditional designs which I carved from cow-horns and ivory after fully immersing myself in the culture. On my return to the United States in 1976, I was able to contribute to the growing interest in African art and culture.
IT WAS A BORNAGAIN EXPERIENCE.
In addition to my art and jewelry, I've published “The Return of the African-American,” detailing my journey of self-discovery in Africa which I later revised as “MY SANKOFA.” My second book is, “What’s a Commie Ever Done to Black People?” details my experiences in the Korean War WHICH exposed what it is like to fight as a United States-African American Soldier for the human-rights and freedom for other people’s, while being denied such RIGHT’S, in our own country…
MY SANKOFA aka; “Return to the PAST, for knowledge that’ll help understand PRESENT; and prepare for the FUTURE.”
should be A MUST READ for all African-American, and well meaning people worldwide.
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In 2015 I had my DNA done and discover 87% of my-family’s ancestors are from the Ashanti-Akim area.
The same area of Ghana I had lived for 11 years... 1965 to 1976.
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As I lay here e watching this video with my seven-year-old granddaughter I am speechless, this was a very powerful and meaningful video! I give thanks to my ancestors who survived, for this I am thankful and grateful! So thank you very much for sharing! Love peace and joy Ms. Inya ❤️❤️❤️💓💓💓🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Awww thank you so much Ms. Inya!
Thank You For This Video It Really Opened And Shed Light 💡 This Is What we Should of learned in school and went too for trips so we can stand an experience the place where our people we’re tortured
I am Spanish and I have no idea if my direct ancestors were involved in this sort of thing, but I wish slavery didn’t happen and my heart is broken to hear this story. Money and power can make men greedy and turn against his Human brother. Best wishes to all of you that descend from those enslaved people and may God bless you and your ancestors in Heaven. I would like to visit this site one day to pay respects. ¡Saludos!
You enslaved central and south america and we enslaved the africans. Iberian peninsula power 💪🇵🇹🇪🇦💪
Your ancestors could have been on either side my friend your ancestors could have been enslaved or they could have been slave-drivers depending on where you're from what part of the country you're from and if you are afro Spaniard or not
Thanks for sharing.
I feel the the connection right now , feeeel soo sad for what the may have gone through, so innocent they didnt even know where they were going
Amazing video. Eye opening. Which song is that playing at the very start of this video? The instrumental
Its one of the stock songs that comes with iMovie. I think it's only called piano ballad.
@@FunandBudget I just found it. "One and only" by Adele
Its definitely not that song...if it were I'd have a youtube copyright issue.
@@FunandBudget trust me it is. Go listen to it
Love this!!! Great editing!
They were thrown in a hole when they fought and left to die. I have no words.💔😪
Excellent! Powerful!
10:40 This Is Prophesied In Scripture & Our Restoration Is Also Prophesied❣️
Comment: Thanks Nigeria and Ghana for helping, "Us" get to slavery- Black Hebrews thank you- Never sold your own.....
I see myself in the pictures of my ancesters. hmmmmm church built right where they dehumanize people. Sheez
Dear am also from Ghana but don't get the white wrong cuz it's quoted in De Bible that the nation DAT do not worship in my name another nation wil come n rule you n treat you whatever they want until u know I am the severely lord iv forgotten De vers but Dis words Neva got off my thought.. N DAT s wen our ppl our nation got to know der s something up der called church n DAT tym too our ancestors Neva known anything o a name called Jesus so pls don't blame De White God words Neva fade away
Thank you
Nice architecture very beautiful castle. 💪🇵🇹
Stupid comment
Thanks for sharing....
Thank you for this!
very informative video, Thank you
we shall over come some day!
I'm going to Ghana in November for the 7th time and I want to start a youtube channel. What camera did you use for your vlogging?
I use a canon g7x mark II...but when I first started blogging, I used my cellphone.
I feel so sad 😢😥🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭still Ghana
OneMoney from Canada
Everyday is a black history month!!
White too
I just wanted to say your statement made me think. Am I placing my mark on this earth with the opportunity I have been given, the opportunity to live. Some don't even get the opportunity of life. Also, no matter what you post some one will have something negative to say. But there are people that are grateful for your video(s).
Thank you so much!
This comment is years later...but that statement about saying thank you is important - I was born in the U.K. (now 59 years old) but my parents come from St Lucia in the Caribbean. We were all raised in a very Afrocentric family - both of my parents where activists for the betterment of African people (my parents never referred to themselves as black - they were African) - my sister taught African history, and we all grew up with a pride of who we were. I’m posting this because it reminded me that each night as kids we always prayed as a family before bedtime - and we would always finish our prayers thanking the ancestors.
It was a key part of my upbringing - to thank those who endured and survived slavery and other things so that I could live and prosper. It drummed into me that not living my best life was not an option, I owed it to the people who went before me and gave so much. Both of my parents have now passed, but I have to say I had the best parents anyone could wish for - they gave me teachings that I have carried with me through life, and have in turn passed onto my kids.
#ADOS here and proud
This video so säd make me cry
Good quality what did you shoot it with?
Thanks...this is with a Canon G7 mark II
thanks for sharing
that was spiritual
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I wonder if Yaa Gyasi got the name fifi from the tour guard for “homegoing”🤔
😭Those pictures made me cry
Malcolm X " the beast is the worst that held people in captivity"
Thumbs down? Really? WHAT THE F***!?!? I admire ur page sister. Thx for capturing this on video. I've been aware of the tours in Ghana since '92 but never set a goal to go. I'm decently read on our history from Africa and I feel ur energy and the energy that ur conveying from this whole experience. One of the key reasons why I don't condone using the word nigga in everyday talk. Will correct a brother if I hear him address me as nigga; or calling a black woman "bitch". Thx for sharing this.
The will of the human spirit to live is chilling
I guess the music fills the gap where there is no talking. Even in the background it is a little distracting.
Soo sad I can't stop crying 😭😭😭
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I always cry when I get in the castle and I move in there for a purpose
Thank you for this😢
Great video, very emotionally and I felt like I was part of the visit.
Let’s Use the Door 🚪 of the Return 😭WAKANDA IS POSSIBLE ✊🏾✊🏾
Thank you to all our ancestors, who held on, stayed strong & bore the lashes & mistreatment & never stopped Living & thank you for sharing, blessings
damn...u went deep on this one, thnx
Good work but my only question is is the Christian God real or fiction coz the same people who brought Christianity to us maltreated us even up till now and in their Bible since colonial year it was stated that do good and move to heaven and do bad and u go to hell so my question is where they not aware of their DOINGS?
Very sad story slave dungeon in Ghana Africa 🌍🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭
I would like all afrikans in the diaspora in general afrikans in america specifically to read about the nri kingdom of southern nigeria a powerful state of the igbo people that refused to get envolved in the slave trade and gave sanctuary to afrikans who escaped capture by slave hunters