Why didn't you bring up the fact that the curse of Ham is a myth made up by those looking for a divine excuse to subjugate Black people? The Bible doesn't even suggest Ham was cursed. Canaan was the one Noah cursed; not Ham.
Africans were not the only people enslaved this is ridiculous the Ottoman empire from the 1300's to the 1800s enslaved white Christian men castrated them and they were the first standing army in Europe for 500 f****** years.... Before that during the Viking age they would rape pillage kill and enslave other white people from England Ireland in Europe and sell them to the Arabs enslave white people by the way.. I can go on and on Africans were not the only slaves they weren't the first slaves the fact is they were the last ... One more facts for you white people did not go into Africa and round up anybody their own people f****** had them on the chopping block when tribes were fighting tribes... Man y'all just think only use went through it huh it's kind of selfish
Please Google, "history of serfdom in Europe" before you post your ignorance. white on white slavery was the norm in Europe for thousands of years. The white man has been a slave for most of his known existence while the black man has been a free man for most of is known existence.
Once again, hometown FAKEHistory, you bring NO FACTS or TRUTH. We are NOT african. We are TRUE Israel. Your host image is disgusting and a LIE! Want you try reading Deuteronomy 28:15-68! We are the House of Jacob or Israel, name given to Jacob by The Most High Elohim of Israel "15 But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee: 16 Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field. 17 Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store. 18 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. 19 Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out. 20 The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me. 21 The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it. 22 The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.... 32 Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long; and there shall be no might in thine hand.... 37 And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee. 38 Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it. 39 Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them. 40 Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his fruit.... 67 In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. 68 And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you." This DOES NOT fit Ham, the so called africans! Let’s get the definition of Ham out of the so-called Jewish generated Zondervan’s Pictorial Bible Dictionary: “Ham - The youngest son of Noah, born probably about 96 years before the Flood; and one of the eight persons to live through the Flood. He became the progenitor of the dark races; NOT THE NEGROS, but the Egyptians, Ethiopians, Libyans and Canaanites.” Why Were Africans Chosen For Enslavement Over Others? Really????? GET REAL!!!
I think the diversity of the African continent worked against us in some ways. There are many places where you travel 20 km from one village to another and people are speaking a whole different language and cannot understand each other. If you look at a huge chunk of Europe from France to the Iberian Peninsula, you have, French, Portuguese, Basque, maybe a couple different dialects if Spanish. No more than a handful of languages. Compare that to Nigeria with more than 200 different languages Also I feel like Europeans really mastered the art of war from killing themselves throughout history. Consider the extreme militaristic and expansionist nature of the Roman Empire, then the various Germanic tribes being able to organize and unite enough to bring Rome down, then the waves of Invasions from even further North from the Vikings... then they also had the unifying force of the religion spread across most of the continent by the Roman Empire and they were able to get more widespread warfare practice through the crusades.... all this continuous warfare and conflict kind of forced them to unite from smaller tribes into bigger and bigger kingdoms and nation states. When they finally got tired of killing eachother they were eventually able to all come together in Berlin and diplomatically carve up a whole other continent among themselves. Until they started their world wars in the next century... Then we know the Europeans tried to enslave the indigenous people of the so called "new world" but they couldn't withstand the old world diseases brought by the Europeans Edit: yes, (as a million people have pointed out) there was more linguistic diversity in Europe in the past, but it's still a matter of degree. You still can't really compare the number of dialects in France 500 years ago to the linguistic diversity in the motherland
In the case of Spain and the indigenous people there was another factor apart. And it is that the Spanish Crown decided to give the indigenous the status of subject (equivalent to citizen at that time) and therefore they agreed to certain rights such as being free people. Something that was not done with the Africans.
Not just European military might, but also their conniving mercantilism. The Transatlantic Slave Trade severely drained Africa's manpower as well as her trade power. The entire continent was weakened and behind by the time the "Scramble" happened.
That's because there wasn't a centralizing african superpower like Rome in the West, until very recently, the last few decades, there were no centralizing powers in africa at all, native african powers i mean, not european ones. In the times of Napoleon there were like 15 - 30 types of "french" spoken on the country, some very different than the others, but the centralizing power of the state, through mass education forced everyone to speak Paris french. So a hypothethical Nigerian empire for example, would have to erase the 200+ languages and cultures to mimic what happened in Europe, America and Asia with their own centralizing powers. Something that would be considered a genocide today.
The constant competition and state of warfare between Christendom and Islam also played a factor in why Europeans - precisely the Spanish and Portuguese - decided to expand beyond the seas.
Skillsets for tropical climates, closer proximity on the Atlantic Ocean, immunological resistance to old world diseases, lack of social networks in the Americas, and tribal conflicts within Africa
@@Kennedy111__do you believe in black separatism. Cause I do like black people having their own and only for them. And black people gatekeeping their culture
The Egyptians are not black. And they will slap your face for saying so. Ponder that. You can't steal other people's ancestors. That is evil. Cultural appropriation cuts both ways.
1) The “Curse of Ham” argument was not widely used by pro-slavery apologists until the early 1700’s. By then, hereditary slavery had been formally legalized in the colonies. 2) The shift from enslaving natives was, as you pointed out, due to them dying from Old World diseases. However, it was also due to their ability to run away and live off the land, when the colonists were fewer in number and not willing to organize hunting parties to go deep into hostile native territory to recapture a few slaves. 3) After the natives, they tried European indentured servants; however, the indentured servants had high death tolls in the South, where big farmers wanted to them to work. In some years, more than half of indentured servants would die. 4) The West African kingdoms had well-established slave trade networks that supplied slaves to the Mali Empire, and after the decline of that empire, its remnant kingdoms. Those West African kingdoms were glad to sell slaves to new customers - the Europeans. 5) Rice became a popular new cash crop in the southern colonies, and only African slaves understood how to cultivate it.
The white man chose the Black African because no one in Europe would care, because they lied and said Africans were the lowest humans on the racial hierarchy because God is white like the Western European. Their justification was based on a lie about God . The US Western European paid for that lie with the Civil War from 1861 to 1865 and they will continue to pay for it because in their hearts the lie isn’t dead. God doesn’t like ugly or evil.
Let's not forget how easy it was to identify an African, especially those from tribes that practiced scarification, and those with dark skins before more women were enslaved and brought over to feed the slave breeding farms.
Wait what kind of shyt is this. Are you saying “African people just let these other people come and snatch them up? This is why we so messed up. Our own essence has been taken. They want you to believe that your ancestors were weak and a broken people when in actuality the indigenous people of the Americas are YOUR people. Religion and various other tactics were used to slowly infiltrate, manipulate, and change this land. The indigenous “Nijji” didn’t die out from European disease, that was a lie to cover up the real truth..we were reclassified, renamed and so was the land. WE ARE NOT FROM AFRICA!!!
@tyronegladden1027 Their is still a strong national identity amongst those people. If there were more national identities instead of the tribal identities then Europeans and Arabs would have a much harder time of enslaving Africans back the ...you wouldn't beat Africans in warfare on their own soil without internal help. That's why Native American slavery didn't last long on American soil during colonial times...the Natives knew the land better than any white man.
I think it’s good that you chose to tackle this topic. It’s very important for us to self reflect and be self critical in order to guard against this ever happening again.
@@davemarx7856 Well... once a group has ventured so far down into the dungeon, it takes awhile for them to get turned around and head back up the stairs.
@endigosun as long as whites and Asians are around, that turn around won't happen. You all had over 300 years to retake the world, and didn't move one step forward in doing so... in fact, yall have done nothing but regress, culturally and intellectually...
@@endigosun not to mention the only fluent language most of you speak, is a butchered form of a white mans language. Also known as "ebonic english" ... and when people speak in Ebonic English, they literally sound like they are mentally ret*rded and had never attended school in their life.
Home team, I absolutely love your work, been watching your videos for a while. And I believe this is my first time commenting on one of your videos. I would have to say for the video being so short. I believe you really have summed it up and if you can, I would love to see you make a longer video going into more detail because I can definitely say from the research Ive done. I've found a lot of the same things that you have. Especially when it comes down to African people being More durable. Less susceptible to disease, more resilient and having the knowledge of Horticulture and agriculture, If we think about it, they did not know our Languages, but Needed people that they knew had those skills to get the work done so they could make money. Love your Contact, keep doing what you do.
Africa has a lot of potential. The first order of business is to push the colonizers out, and enforce the requirements to be treated as equals or no trade. Plenty of trading partners out there who are willing to pay and trade. Like the Chinese, Russians, etc.
Yeah anyone who actually pays attention to modern Africa knows that it's their leadership that is their biggest problem, by far. And how do you blame Europeans for the modern African belief that having sex with a virgin cures you of HIV? Literally millions of prepubescent girls have been raped and given HIV by African men over the last handful of decades because of that belief. That's all their culture. By blaming Europeans for everything and never holding them accountable for the situation they are in, you are condemning millions more young girls to the same treatment and beliefs. Good for you bro. Well done. And in fact, you should look up black life expectancy since the end of apartied. The loss of a decade of life expectancy in the five years since they gained power was due to approaching HIV in an African way. They recovery of that decade of life expectancy since the turn of the millennium was due to western culture both producing and supplying anti HIV meds. Without that western intervention there would be millions less Africans living in Southern Africa today just since the turn of the millennium. The world's more complicated than you think.
Good point. But the answer is simple: most black Americans are embarrassed by Africa and regard it as a humiliation. So they steal other people's ancestors - the Moors, and the Egyptians, namely. It's cultural theft, in the end.
I think another possibly over looked reason related to specifically African slavery is during 15th & 16th century it was seen as fashionable for wealthy families in Europe to have an African child as a servant as they was considered exotic as many people wouldn’t have seen one before, you can see this in art etc. this was before the industrial chattel slavery that followed. It makes me think of how in the mid two thousands when celebrities was adopting African & Asian children, it was kind of a statement piece, like being a collector of rare and exotic things. It’s absolutely sick but I think this could of been a factor in the earlier years
I researched this years ago. I will just touch on some of the major reasons I found. African Warriors captured African Farmers while taking their land. They were some of the best farmers in the world, and already captured. They were sold to Whites for guns, liquor, etc. Native Americans were hard to keep Captive in their native land, and were known to commit mass suicide if they couldn’t escape. Slaves were very expensive, Native Americans were risky investments. Obviously taking people to a foreign land was a relatively safe investment.
Yes its sad we've been treated this way historically and now in some instances but it shouldn't stop us for attempting to achieve our true potential. I feel that the only way this can happen is if Africans learn how to defend themselves and their existence. My country, South Sudan fought 2 civil wars for half a century to liberate ourselves from racist arab opression and violent islamic extremism. Now my country is free but we still have a long away to go. As long as you learn how to pick up a weapon and learn how to stand up for yourself, there shouldn't be afraid any fear towards your enemies.
@@KennethHall-tp4hwyes it is they won you can’t win a war without fighting why do you think they was able to enslave people because they had weapons of it wasn’t for that slavery wouldn’t have happened under European rule. It s a fact that different nations and tribes in Africas continent were skilled fighters so without weapons Europeans wouldn’t have been successful.
sub Sahara Africans never valued their own ppl and even sold their ppl to slavery. We can’t blame that on Arabs & Europeans. Stop listening to these victim hood stories told by these non Africans. If u value urself no one will give you a reason to be a victim. Change starts at home. African leaders and African ppl need to start valuing themselves & each other
It’s because we REFUSED a to work together. Egyptians and Nubians were a conglomerate of the same Africans in different locations. “When two Brothers fight, a stranger claims their inheritance”. Egypt and Nubia were those two brothers that kept fighting and the Europeans, Arabs and other peoples have claimed our inheritance. This problem even plagues us today. We REFUSE ago work together and that’s why we were targeted as Slaves.
Arabs ? That would have been where half of Egypt was at the time which was migrated from an earlier culture called Sumer modern day southern Iraq and you where “targeted” as slaves because you are the inventor of slavery it finally just came back around to what you did to yourselves and the rest of the world 🤷♂️ but you can get over it I’m Irish and I don’t hate Muslims or blacks people for what they did to my ancestors
It is important to point out how BIG Africa is. Everything is very much spread out and easily support so many diffrent tribes and clans. In the beginning, avillage could be captured and the other village wouldnt know at all. Africa is really large.
To this day here in America AA are not very united. We unite to complain against the white mam but on every other issue there is much infighting. Not hard to see why we could not withstand capture.
@@mynameispeaches Black unity is a modern western concept anyway. It wasn't needed in pre-colonial Africa because all the tribes/ nations were self-contained and didn't know about the Europeans views of and plans for all black people. The idea of black unity is a product of a shared historical trauma, which is probably why unity only really comes when it's against the white man.
@@Reversisms Africa just didn't know the European and Arab slave trade was for all Africans, not just certain tribes (as it probably seemed to them at the time). That's all.
Because of the Great things we have achieved and our Beauty which comes in so many shades of colors. We attract the Good, Bad and the Ugly on sooo many levels.
Bruh what? "Why should we choose them to be slaves" "BECAUSE OF THE BEAUTY AND ACHIEVEMENTS AND BLAH BLAH FUCKING BLAH" always some racist dude trying to spin shit to make his people sound superior. These days it's black people.
@@user-jv8kr4im1t The bullion famine and the spice trade blockade by the Ottomans is what really brought Europeans to West Africa. Mansa musa was more propaganda to get Europeans to stop quarreling with one another and focus their attention on other things. It's was a similar tactic used by the church to bring about the crusades. Calling the middle east " the Land of Milk and Honey" when in reality it was more of a desolate land full of heathens that needed killing.
Its because, there's a lot of slaves captured by other African tribes that time, a lot means the supply is high and when supply is high product is cheap
I know one of the main reasons is because the first areas to be colonized were in the carribean and central to sourh america. Africa and South America used to be connected and are on the same southern cline meaning the fauna and materials in Africa were similar to the Americas. Things such as gold sifting, farming in warmer climates, resistance to tropical diseases etc were familiar to Africans that wasn’t to Europeans. Africans were the best suited for building the foundation for colonial conies and harvesting resources. This is why slavery is so messed up. They needed the skills of Africans to learn how to survive and lay the foundations of their colonies but the Africans never even saw the fruit of their labors
@@fetusbuddha3908 that’s why I hate the term “slave”. People think they were just unskilled people forced to work. These were artisans, herders, miners, blacksmiths, traders, farmers, fisherman etc who were critical and skilled people in their societies. They were not rewarded for their skills that were needed that the Europeans themselves could not do
When I first came to Africa, the cultural difference that stood out the most for me, was how sparse and far apart the population spread in rural areas. The villages were almost always from colonial origin. Years later I read the post-colonial government plan to restructure the country, and one of the main points was to create villages and discourage the creation of isolated dwellings. In the restructuring plan they mention this practice as one of the main reasons that enabled colonization. And I find this is more engrained in the culture, even in urban areas, where I find a lot of people still prefer to socialize and live with extended family, rather that create communities within society.
Arguably, if you change the way you live in order to defend against colonization, you are still being colonized. At least with some cultural colonization.
The short answer to that question is because Africans were more exposed to certain diseases than the tribes in North and South America, and the fact that the natives were dying from diseases that the Europeans brought over and were never exposed.
Then tell me why, African didn't die of any diseases, so it doesn't mean that it's African faults. Don't twist that story. It was European death themselves and brought to America Native Ingenious
European reasons and American reasons were different. The simpler and likely more plausible reasons for Europeans and early Americans were that Africans were easily differentiated from Caucasians. Europeans that were at the center of the AST had other reasons. Africans/Moors had conquered the Iberian peninsula more than once…Europeans didn’t want that to happen again. Aside from that Europeans coveted Africa’s natural resources (Gold, Diamonds, plentiful land for crop raising etc.). Many African countries would not give European countries the favorable trade terms they wanted so stealing the land and exporting the defenders of the land became critically important.
History teaches that europeans became rich from gold, spices and all the other minerals available from Africa and India. The unverified Atlantic slave trade narrative came later 🇯🇲
Europeans refused to give up slavery it was a easy way to maintain wealth even though they knew how horrible and wrong the institution was many European scholars wrote about the wrongs of slavery and were morally against it but still chose to uphold it and the policies of slavery policies that in later generations grew into racial discrimination and Hate witch still stands to this day.
True but if their lives were at constant threat they would have given up slavery. The fact that Africans didn't care about other Africans being enslaved and tribes participated in it to some degree to win favor with Europeans ruling class kept slavery going .
@@jaypaladin-havesmartswilll5508 Generally, the enslavers have controlling the narrative. Their favorite part is always it's other Africans that didn't care and sold the others (blame shifting and inflicting self hate in the enslaved) They deliberately leave out those Africans, Kings who where slained or exiled because they were against slave trade and fought it.
Please Google, "history of serfdom in Europe" before you post your ignorance. white on white slavery was the norm in Europe for thousands of years. The white man has been a slave for most of his known existence while the black man has been a free man for most of is known existence.
The way you share multiple facts and HOW they actually come together continues to amaze me. This video is powerful and truly holds truth that holds a foundation behind why we need to ask the question differently.
There are better videos out there on slavery , ones that out objective and tell the full history of slavery ! Did you know millions of Europeans were taken by Barbary slaves over decades from Europe ?
I have so much respect for you for acknowledging the truth about the islamic slave! Good on you for actually going the research about one of the darkest history of humanity.
We can only overcome the effects of slavery as a community and a strong family structure. Unfortunately we're so divided and even hating on our own people, hence why we're where we are. Other community's have come together which is why they're doing well.
Of course there's division, there's nothing to bind black people together except, "black" (which is nebulous, depending on who u ask, "poor/ghetto/struggle" (which is how a lot of people define true blackness, whatever that is and "slavery" (which is no longer physical in this day and age) A structured and verifiable culture needs to be built first, and that's not gonna happen overnight. It's gonna take more than a generation and more than one dude to accomplish. And without being a cultural building expert myself, possibly even more elements that even that to consider, too.
They weren’t….. African slavery is the only one taught and or talked about…. Every tribe/race/color had slavery…. Western civilization for the most part put a stop to it…. but in Africa and Middle East it’s still going on with more enslaved Today…. than in the 1800’s…. Yes right this every second, but you only hear about back then…
i come from north africa (algeria & tunisia) and sadly, the topic of slavery is very tabou. we all know it happened but no one really talks about it bc people don’t want to admit that their ancestors enslaved black africans (north africans enslaved europeans as well). there’s almost no written record of slaves being bought or sold so most north africans don’t know if their ancestors owned slaves. my mom’s nanny as a kid was a black woman and she once told my mom that her great-grandma was a slave that was brought to tunisia during the trans-saharan slave trade. sadly, racism towards black people is still very much prevalent in north africa…
This is sad af because everyone wanted African minerals and rich resources. Thank God I came from a country that did not enslave others in our history. ROMANIA 🇷🇴. We were too busy fighting wars to stay independent and not colonized ourselves. I can relate to a lot of nations those who have been colonized. Anyway, it's sad to see the hardship and it did happen and it's important to understand this history as it's being repeated in modern day.
@@s1nd3rr0z3 They did, & it was horrible. ALL countries have done bad things though; no-one can claim their country is perfect- I'm a white Aussie, & I certainly can't say we have a good track record. But all countries have done good stuff too- like, respect to the Romanians for fighting off the Turks.
The question should more specifically be why Africans were chosen to be enslaved in America, given that people of every race have also been enslavement on other continents.
he does. apparently the atlantic slave trade was predominantly asian slaves for the first third of the slave trade. mainly thanks to the spanish and ports. they preferred the Asian slaves as they thought they were easier to control. But as we all know, the british preferred the African slaves :/ lots of prgoress made. lots more to come
Im no scholar in African History but l feel there was many factors to why African was chosen into slavery. It was based mostly on expansionist, colonizers imperialist, greed and capitalism. Furthermore, geographic political religion & race had a significant impact. Yes some form of slavery has existed since mankind, but no other institution of chattel slavery ever existed before except in the Americas for almost 400 years. This event along was a human atrocity of 20 million, which lead to the destruction of African nations and the wealth creations of Europeans nations. Reparations are long overdue for this crime against humanity. In closing, from a Afrocentric perspective the question should be...how & why was this institution able to function so long in a land founded on life, liberty & pursuit of happiness?
It's not really complex, there's a lot of slaves captured by other African tribes that time a lot means the supply is high and when supply is high product is cheap, that attracted other countries to buy slaves from africa
Exactly “how” 1) were we tricked 2) the longevity without proper resistance to eliminate any threat wasn’t pursued? Or were we outnumbered or out-maneuvered in our own land 3) were we tricked then forcefully brought into submission? Thanks (ankhs) ❤ & respect ✊🏾
@@lifesunmediafilmsfashionma1485 African Kings made their wealth by selling people they captured to the highest bidder. This is how tens of millions of Africans were nonetheless captured despite the fact that Europeans could not even explore the interior as they would be killed of by disease.
@@Vahjina-ihtirthe Arabs too black African slaves for 1200 years , more African slaves crossed the Sahara than atalantic, they also castrated the men .. why blacks choose Islam is beyond me
I think it's easier to answer that one might think: 1. They were seen as lesser beings. 2. Other Africans served them up on a silver platter, without hesitation.
Fun fact:Europeans in North/South America enslaved Native Americans but since Native Americans were ineffective slave for many different reasons that they switched over to Sub-Saharan Africans. One of the many reasons being that once Native slaves would escape they would be so hard to get them back because they knew the land better so they could escape and stay hidden much more easily.
Native Americas were are the original Americans and they knew the land of America too well and would escape enslavement unlike us who were enslaved in a foreign land.
@@thevisitor1012 as I stated in some places we were used as slaves. But one of the reasons the US (except California) didn’t was because the plantation system used massive numbers of people, and due to genocide in the Americas there was a numbers issue. That said the canadian slave trade of Indigenous folks was largely stolen from the so called US. Plus contact lead to disease so we tended to die in large enclosed settings. The Catholic Church however was fine with the die off rate and they were the one’s primarily enslaving folks in California so that’s why California Indigenous folks were enslaved there.
Its very important to mention, mass african slavery would not have been possible without the collaboration of African Kingdoms in the trade, Europeans waited in their ships or tradepost and slaves were brought to them. What happened in Europe with Christianity is that slavery was made illegal, an equivalent ideology did not exist in Africa until the XXth century. If African kingdoms had abolished slavery in the continent, due to whatever reason, ideological, cultural, religious, etc, there would've been almost no african slaves pretty much, since no one outside of africa could penetrate in the interior.
Are you ignorant for just widely misinformed, Europeans had come in killed raped and pillaged African tribes for years before those Africans were “traded” please stop bulshitting yourselves and realize that your ancestors were savages. Europeans weren’t the first ones to make slavery illegal they were far from it and even IF the continent of Africa had come together and outlawed slavery and its trades Europeans wouldn’t have given a damn. Your people are used to taking lives through out its entire existence, you’ve always been monsters. Look at the Native Americans, Nazi’s, The West, Slave Trade, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there are tons of evidence showing that caucasians and your ancestors are way more likely to be sociopathic. But yes let’s talk about how Africans were the ones selling their brothers and sisters to monsters. And since I already know that you are about to bring up the crime rates in America concerning African Americans. Those statistics are products of their environment it’s odd that eurocentrist love to believe that they are the good guys when they have been the ones instigating wars when they had no reasoning to even do so besides greed and envy. No wonder the new generation of white kids hate being in their own skin, I also find it a bit odd how none of you Eurocentrist can take accountability you guys love to try and erase history. I also find it odd why your people went into Africa and stole our art and relics (Which are still in your museums to this day) and tried your hardest to destroy our culture. It seems like you are afraid of our potential. Lastly, I’m glad we won’t have to have these conversations in hundreds of years, people of color have steadily been taking over more and more of the sciences, arts, and pop culture. People like you will just be a relic of the past. P.S. I find it odd how insecure you are in that you look up videos about African culture to try and lie to yourself and the other scared white guys, you seem jealous of us. Just remember Africans AND African Americans get stronger, taller, happier, and even more and more intelligent every day. Have a good life 👋🏾.
Which is why the diversity point is relevant here. Africa was/is simply too big and diverse to unify. A single country could have hundreds of different tribes with different customs, religions and languages
@@weastekadmin5760 The same as all over the world, but in the other continents, centralizing powers homogenized cultures. Africa would've needed several such empires of course, just like Asia.
Your presentation is very well balanced and starts off with many ideas of how the ideas behind the analysis was developed and not complete. That is an excellent approach. I believe that further learning is necessary and new ideas are critical. Two reasons I had entertained recently was superior weaponry that the Portuguese developed and the tactics of dividing and conquering. They had to weaponized the diversity of Africans against each other to leverage that might, and use 'better' weapons. They needed these tactics because their first venture was a disaster. The Portuguese invaded Senegal with intent to enslave in 1440. The Senegalese handed the Portuguese their a--ses back to them. They then got the 1452 "papal bull" from the pope 'allowing slavery', but color was not chosen. What happened next in the 1450s was they developed new tactics mentioned above and sailed past Senegal and went around to the west African ivory coast. The Portuguese then became successful in pitting one African nation-state ('tribe' is not accurate) against each other, having one enslave their neighbors that were 'natural' enemies, or at least neighbors they fought with. The Portuguese paid the conquering nation-state of Africans for the captured 'soldiers' of the other nation-state, effectively buying prisoners of war. Some of the African-nation states already had wealth, towns, gold, etc., so the sale of captured POWs meant establishing new lines of wealth building with the Portuguese. The British later joined in, and these two groups accounted for eighty percent or more of all Africans captured. The Spanish and French did enslave, but to a far lesser degree of "success". Other Europeans had enslaved Africans in the New World, like the Danish for 200 years and the Dutch, but were far less organized and systemized. In large part we find the highest concentration in ex-British colonies and Brazil, the Portuguese colony than other Spanish nations--although they do exist in most places of course that are Spanish. That's just my recent reflections and looking forward to more input as from the ideas of the Moors and soldiers introduced here.
Great vid, but you missed one of the biggest factors: disease resistance. Initially, Europeans tried to enslave the indigenous populations of the Americas, but since, unlike Africans, they hadnt built up resistances to diseases like smallpox that only develop after centuries of contact and exchange, they died on masse in the cramped plantations. I dont think most people realize the scale of how diseases from Eurasia and Africa completely devastated the indgenous populations, in some cases over 90% of them would succumb and die from illness. The Europeans realized they needed a disease resistant workforce that could survive brutal working conditions in tropical heat and that could be sourced without too much of a detour. I think its important to acknowledge that the two greatest crimes of European colonialism are linked. There is no massive scale African slavery in the Americas without the large scale genocide of the indigenous peoples caused by the exchange of diseases. The Europeans would never have bothered shipping thousands of slaves over if there had been a suitable population of people to exploit right there
Something doesn't add up. You had the strongest military armies in the medieval world in west africa. You had Ghana, Mali, Songhai. Songhai was as large as all the countries in western europe. There were the hausa kingdoms in Chad and niger. There were the medieval kingdoms of the Sudan. Please explain how a group of people from arabia could just come in and either bypass or militarily overcome all these nations and capture " slaves" not once, not twice, but for over one thousand years? I think some content needs to be re-examined and fleshed out.
Because the Arabs were very strong too. Not for nothing at their best moment were they able to create a caliphate that went from Portugal to Pakistan and were able to defeat powers like the Byzantine Empire or Sassanid Persia.
@@elo6550 but they never fully took control of the sudan and never dominated west african empires. Ghana, Mali, Songhai were at their most powerful during the arabs trek across north africa. Show me how im wrong. Just like the europeans love to see themselves as the toughest group around, the same for white arabs. Atleast be honest. Tell the whole story. The religion spread into west africa through trade not by conquest.
@@omayemigatling4112 Yes, they conquered only northern Sudan, but that didn't stop them from kidnapping slaves from the other half, did it? Apart from that, on what basis do you say that the empires of West Africa were the strongest of the Middle Ages if they never faced other great powers?
"Black"=is HAMETIC INDIA & INDO-ASIATIC(JAPHETH) blacks "African"=is SEMITIC blacks Afro-America&its diaspora=are BANTU+NOAHIDES(Japheth-oriental; Hametic-Indo-Europeans; Shem-Halfcaste of CAIN(Japheth-Grecian-TUBAL)+SETH(Ham))=PAN(god)-"Afrcican" So "Africa" refers only to the MINGLED peoples of North and Horn "Africa" and now most countries and its diaspora MINGLED BANTU+NOAHIDES..."Africa" starting in Horn Africa, Ghana, &Kenya especially has been turned into the EASTERN GATE(bab) of the MIGHTY men(El) OF OLD(Gen 6; Gen 36) -to PENETRATE(sic!) GENETICALLY and REPRODUCE(sic)-BABEL-ON the GREAT all over again!=hence "we're MARCHING to BABEL" "beautiful" "beautiful" BABEL we're MARCHING back to BABEL the "beautiful" CITY OF SIN=Exod 34:12-17=Genesis 18; Isa 1:10-!
not at, you have it wrong! There aren't many languages in Africa, trust me. I was in Kongo Central, a province in the Western part of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Surprisingly, when you ask people how many languages Kongo Central has, they will tell you at least 20 languages, but the funny thing is, they all understand each other. So by 20 languages, they mean 20 dialects and that is one of the biggest misunderstandings and poor work by the first European explorers and Catholic priests. And, don't be foolish, nobody worked against you. There was no tribe that was targeted. The same family was split because the mother was taken into slavery, and you are trying to tell me the children sold their mother?. Anybody who could be captured became a slave, and members of royal families were captured and sold as slaves as well. The tactics the West used 500 years ago are still being used today. They start wars between people(trust me it is the easiest thing to do), and then they start stealing diamonds and gold. Minerals resources from Africa land in the West, and how do they land here? through wars, and conflicts. (European descent are trying to push homosexuality into Africa to depopulate the continent, who do they use as tools? Obama, Kama Harris, etc..) The real question is why Europeans have targeted Africans? It is simple, but they won't tell you the truth: To understand why, look at the origin of sugar cane peanuts, and other products. Peanut came from the Kongo Kingdom. The reason they wanted Africans is because they knew how to cultivate those plants(the original name for Peanut is goober: a Kongo word. Guba). There was nothing special about Africans, they were just experts in the agriculture of cotton, sugar cane, banana, and goober. Those products came from Africa Europeans also tried Native Indians, but they were not experts in those plants. Last but not least, the discovery of America was a curse for us. Europeans had no plan to enslave Africa. The Portuguese were in Kongo for decades. They landed there in 1483. They had business there; they had schools. Both kingdoms had ambassadors. Things went south when Europeans discovered America, that is when the idea of enslaving Kongo began. By, the way, do you know that 40% of the total enslaved population came from Kongo Kindom? As a matter of fact first slaves that arrived in Virginia came from the Kongo Kingdom; a group of Kongo stolen from a Spanish ship. Look for the battle of Ambwila. In 1483, the Portuguese explorer Diogo Cão reached the coast of the Kongo Kingdom. Cão left some of his men in Kongo and took Kongo nobles to Portugal. To avoid confusion. Angola and Kongo Kingdom are the same thing. Tip: Be careful. Everything you know about Africa is from people who enslaved you. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Kongo
Did I miss the part about Yellow Fever? If not, that is something you should investigate. The economics of the African Slave trade to the Americas is very much tied to natural resistant to that one problem.
Because they were considered uncivilized by the rest of the world, at war with eachother and the europeans took advantage of that and took them to sell in the rest of the world
The Europeans fixated on improving and creating superior weaponary. This was a result of Europe's conflicts. The Africans developed nothing but new dances. Europe was had more unity under 1 religion even though there was some conflict about this. The Africans had too many beliefs and languages to match those beliefs. While Europe when into a scientific age the Africans were still carry on the same old traditions. The stagnation in Africa made them easy targets for conquest
The word of God from a religious perspective is what enslaved us and continues to enslave our minds and abilities to deal with people who have no love for us.
Another layer is the well documented wealth of Africa and the relative difficulty in them accessing it not only due to environment but having to fight the same soldiers that they were extracting thus weakening their defence of the said wealth.
I appreciate the acknowledgment that pretty much every culture is guilty of slavery, in America it’s easy to get tunnel vision when it’s not just an American issue. Human slavery has been an issue that’s more widespread and complicated. Unfortunately, there is a long history that spans all of humanity, all of us alive now are experiencing the accumulation of years of systematic and strategic evil.
Totally inaccurate assessment. All slavery is not the same, don't cherry pick one fact as a means to marginalize the singular impact of the transatlantic slave trade. That shows peak naivete at its saddest.
@@loveroffilms6436So it’s not slavery if they’re not black? Slavery is slavery regardless of race. All the human races are guilty of it. That doesn’t take away from how bad the trans Atlantic slave trade was. But I think your the only naive one here.
@@loveroffilms6436 I never said any kind of slavery was better or worse…. That definitely wasn’t what I meant. I meant that a broader understanding of slavery from a historical cultural aspect is interesting and world wide. I think you should look at your own comment and look inward at the assumptions you make about people’s intentions rather than assume the worst….
@@loveroffilms6436 the “all slavery is the same” part really is wild. I never implied that. I stated that it’s a widespread multicultural issue spanning zeitgeists and generations. That’s simply a factual evaluation.
@@loveroffilms6436 and I FOR SURE wasn’t marginalizing by acknowledging slavery beyond the US. Re read the part where I called it the accumulation of systematic and strategic and evil. Directly alluding to the worlds current state in regards to racism and oppression. I’m not even the enemy, as flawed as I may be. I am NOT the enemy.
Enslavement was about belief system clashing. Alkebulan is blessed, so it's people see the good of things. As we looked externally for influence we began to view our own ways as backwards rather than internally improving. Even "Arab" is a misnomer because the Erithean Sea birthed the Semetic language, as the people spoke Summerian previously. This is why Herodutus says there are east and west Aithiopians. Also, Ham was not cursed. Caanan was cursed to have Shem (Sekhem) and Japeth (there was no J in the past, that is, an 😢 invention) dwell in Caanan's house. Ham comes to the Septuigent by way of the Caninite of Kemet's Yam.
Source on the Sumerian speakers of the red sea? And Herodotus calls India “East Ethiopia” because they looked like Ethiopians “burnt face” as in they looked like black people but were to the East of Ethiopia.
a well thought out description. you must go further out on ALL races. I commend you. Peace und Cheers. do not forget the Brits in 1833, the French in 1848, ... and the Americas in 1865.
Also, Africa has grown with the world. And fought off and fought with and fought against any and all at home and around the world. And they probably have done that from the beginning. But black people have this Ancient Hebrew habit of woe is me..
Any country or area that had developed to the level of writing was difficult to conquer. Those cultures with their own writen languages are still strong today. Most of Africa had not evolved to writing yet(Most)
Yes. But man is also spiritual. Black people as a whole don't push the limits in academics. Other groups of people are sending rockets into space with their minds while we're focusing on physical prowess still jumping from the free throw line. We think feeble minded as a whole. No technology industries in our people. No world class architecture in major black cities. It's a mental inferiority that we have as a people. They had guns while we had spears. Look at the architecture in cities in Europe and Asia. Now look at Nigeria. Look at crime rates in Black cities. We are the problem. If we were focused on science and math like we are sports, entertainment and fashion then there would have been no slavery. No one wants to say we were intellectually inferior. But that's what I see. If I'm wrong tell me how. Our physical prowess means nothing when a person is smarter. That's exactly what the score has said.
@@zatronbuck8633 Your observations are understandable. In addition, we internalized the hate and the degradation that was initially externally inflicted on us. Take a domestic pig out of care and feeding and watch him become feral. Social engineering is a real thing, today and going forward begins the reverse engineering.
I respect that you have limited amount of time to make this videos, but this one should've been longer. It missed important factors like the population of Black Africans being so large resulting in them being eaiser to obtain.
11:30 in short “because Africans work and fight really good so they’re good for armies and working land because they resilient to the environment and were really close to people who needed those things”
The main reason that i have found in older texts was climate. The main areas of slavery in the Western Hemisphere were tropical or semi-reopical. It was felt that they could endure and work in the hot, humid, climate.
We are the only one who adapted.. we allow our culture religion , language etc everything of our oppressor while countries like india didnt.. upto today we holding on to the ways of the oppressor for dear life.. today we still welcoming back on the continent and among us as if nothing .... how will we ever rise with those mindset
India as you said held on to their culture. Because India is an old civilization. Please teach history correctly and stop begging for a hand out. Be thankful you are in a country named America where we are free. Forget the past and move on. Stop telling the young generation the world dislike them. That is not true.
@@nishatagore first of all stop acting like you high and mighty you sound like a hater. Everybody has their own opinion about things. If you all were such bad asses then you wouldn't let the British do what they did to you all . And on top of that with your cast system and the way y'all treat the dark-skinned Indian and India is appalling.
Believe me I understand. The reason they were after Africa is because it is rich with rubber minerals etc.. The original Africans are very advanced. I know. My nanny was directly from Africa. I want you to see if you can find my book entitled 0ne Child Alone by Nisha T Tagor. You will read about the qualities of the African people. Her name was Jerusha. She was a blessed soul and far superior to those who branded her with the derogatory name of slave. Believe me, I am fighting for justice. My m personal belief n is talking about color of skin is n not the way to go. I am trying to give the African children hope not to tell them or n make them believe they are not equal. They are and in many cases superior I know. I speak from experience. I was n born and grew up in the Caribbean. I experienced prejudice. Read that book. I HAVE ALWAYS BELIEVED GOD MADE NO INFERIOR BEING. WE ARE ALL EQUAL. NO ONE IS CURSED. AFRICANS WERE NOT THE ONLY SLAVES. THEY WERE EASIER BECAUSE OF THEIR INNOCENCE. THEY WERE TRUSTWORTHY AND WERE TAKEN OF ADVANTAGE. YES A WRONG WAS DONE BUT WE NEED TO RISE ABOVE SLAVERY AND COLOR OF SKIN. IN MY OPINION RISE ABOVE WHAT WAS DONE. AND YOU WILL ACHIEVE MUCH MORE. GOD BLESS. GOD LOVES YOU AND SO DO I.
Afircans and Indians are hearty people. They have been found to survive in any environment beyond subpar conditions. Europeans go to Africa and India and the environment eventually kills them hence why you see very few European communites in Africa. In fact every European colony are found mostly on the coast of these areas.
Nice. I just have one issue or question. Back in those days it noted/recorded that individuals from the region known as the Middle East were dark skinned. They even depicted themselves as dark skinned. So I don’t think the prejudice of skin color would have been a motivation of enslaving Abyssinians. Especially since they use to be apart of the same kingdom (Ethiopian and Yemen).
Gomes De Zurara the chief chronicler of the kingdom of Portugal was essentially commissioned by the King to write propaganda about “black vs white” ppl. It was good for the King to have “lesser humans” to enslave and not risk his citizens displeasure at seeing ppl that looked like them increasingly used as a commodity. I had no clue about the Arab/Ethiopian history tho. Nice vid bro. 👏🏾💯
Didn't the Carthaginians bring North-african mercenaries to Iberia in their conquest as well? So the history of darker skinned men brought to fight on the peninsula goes back even further.
Good explanation by the middle of the video. as to African peoples not being under empires strong enough to protect their subjects from enslavement by foreign nations - but it's worth noting also that some African Kingdoms sold their prisioners of war of foe African nations to slave traders, many times in exchange for alcohol, guns, cigars etc. Slavery in human history began as a byproduct of wars, feuds between clans, tribes etc. As a side effect of the situation: "we defeated them, so what we do with these prisioners?". Then, in every historical context configuration this practice has proven lucrative (unpaid labor, free of any costs) it unfortunately prospered. Exploitation of workforce of a human being in its most extreme form. The association of racism to a given color of skin, or other physical or accent trait, is not intrinsic - is a mere byproduct of long established social processes in a given time era, involving dynamics of power, capital etc. People value what reminds of "powerful", "rich" etc and despise what is associated with the opposite qualities. I'm not an expert, far from that, but I personally think it was a combination of factors (the answer to the question posed in the title of the video), the main ones being some you mentioned: physical fitness to hard work in tropical regions, plantations etc, and the other being a lack of a strong empire protecting their subjects from that practice, of abuction of Africans with profits in mind, as the Ottoman or Russian empire had. During Roman times, slavs, scandinavians and some germanic peoples were seen as that source of labor force, to a considerable degree. Africans also. It's all on long term dynamics of history, dynamics between nations, civilizations. Edit: typos.
“In the momentous step which our State has taken of dissolving its connection with the government of which we so long formed a part, it is but just that we should declare the prominent reasons which have induced our course. Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, NONE BUT THE BLACK RACE can bear exposure to the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization. That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point of reaching its consummation. There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin. {End declaration excerpt}”
While Europe had many wars they developed superior weaponary and the means to travel such as larger ships. This meant they could transport weapons and soldiers to almost anywhere and engage anyone in warfare. Many of Europes wars were over resources which they had little of so this created a unity among many European nations to take from others and since Spain is very close to north Africa, Africa with all it resources made perfect sense. The only defense Africans had was the heat and malaria that kept Europeans from deep interior colonization but that didn't last because European advancement in medicine .
I am afraid enslavement was playing big role in African society before any one enslaved us, Arabs who used swords and arrows and camels would not defeat Bantus or West African over and over again, it's look like black people did not have any problems to sell his own brother to others, even in late centuries in Oman and Qatar they used to go to east Africa to buy slaves, but they didn't have strong arms instead they used to pay some Africans who used to kidnap his own race and sold him to Arabs, and sometimes they have deal agreement with some tribs if they win a battle against his own other African tribe to sell them to Arabs
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Why didn't you bring up the fact that the curse of Ham is a myth made up by those looking for a divine excuse to subjugate Black people? The Bible doesn't even suggest Ham was cursed. Canaan was the one Noah cursed; not Ham.
Africans were not the only people enslaved this is ridiculous the Ottoman empire from the 1300's to the 1800s enslaved white Christian men castrated them and they were the first standing army in Europe for 500 f****** years.... Before that during the Viking age they would rape pillage kill and enslave other white people from England Ireland in Europe and sell them to the Arabs enslave white people by the way.. I can go on and on Africans were not the only slaves they weren't the first slaves the fact is they were the last ... One more facts for you white people did not go into Africa and round up anybody their own people f****** had them on the chopping block when tribes were fighting tribes... Man y'all just think only use went through it huh it's kind of selfish
Do you no the history of the rest of the world are only what you pick and choose
Please Google, "history of serfdom in Europe" before you post your ignorance. white on white slavery was the norm in Europe for thousands of years. The white man has been a slave for most of his known existence while the black man has been a free man for most of is known existence.
Once again, hometown FAKEHistory, you bring NO FACTS or TRUTH. We are NOT african. We are TRUE Israel. Your host image is disgusting and a LIE! Want you try reading Deuteronomy 28:15-68! We are the House of Jacob or Israel, name given to Jacob by The Most High Elohim of Israel
"15 But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee: 16 Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field. 17 Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.
18 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. 19 Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out. 20 The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me. 21 The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it. 22 The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish....
32 Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long; and there shall be no might in thine hand....
37 And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee. 38 Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it. 39 Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them. 40 Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his fruit....
67 In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. 68 And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you."
This DOES NOT fit Ham, the so called africans!
Let’s get the definition of Ham out of the so-called Jewish generated Zondervan’s Pictorial Bible Dictionary:
“Ham - The youngest son of Noah, born probably about 96 years before the Flood; and one of the eight persons to live through the Flood. He became the progenitor of the dark races; NOT THE NEGROS, but the Egyptians, Ethiopians, Libyans and Canaanites.”
Why Were Africans Chosen For Enslavement Over Others? Really????? GET REAL!!!
I think the diversity of the African continent worked against us in some ways. There are many places where you travel 20 km from one village to another and people are speaking a whole different language and cannot understand each other.
If you look at a huge chunk of Europe from France to the Iberian Peninsula, you have, French, Portuguese, Basque, maybe a couple different dialects if Spanish. No more than a handful of languages.
Compare that to Nigeria with more than 200 different languages
Also I feel like Europeans really mastered the art of war from killing themselves throughout history. Consider the extreme militaristic and expansionist nature of the Roman Empire, then the various Germanic tribes being able to organize and unite enough to bring Rome down, then the waves of Invasions from even further North from the Vikings...
then they also had the unifying force of the religion spread across most of the continent by the Roman Empire and they were able to get more widespread warfare practice through the crusades....
all this continuous warfare and conflict kind of forced them to unite from smaller tribes into bigger and bigger kingdoms and nation states. When they finally got tired of killing eachother they were eventually able to all come together in Berlin and diplomatically carve up a whole other continent among themselves. Until they started their world wars in the next century...
Then we know the Europeans tried to enslave the indigenous people of the so called "new world" but they couldn't withstand the old world diseases brought by the Europeans
Edit: yes, (as a million people have pointed out) there was more linguistic diversity in Europe in the past, but it's still a matter of degree. You still can't really compare the number of dialects in France 500 years ago to the linguistic diversity in the motherland
In the case of Spain and the indigenous people there was another factor apart. And it is that the Spanish Crown decided to give the indigenous the status of subject (equivalent to citizen at that time) and therefore they agreed to certain rights such as being free people. Something that was not done with the Africans.
Same thing with the Indian subcontinen, our diversity worked against us
Not just European military might, but also their conniving mercantilism. The Transatlantic Slave Trade severely drained Africa's manpower as well as her trade power. The entire continent was weakened and behind by the time the "Scramble" happened.
That's because there wasn't a centralizing african superpower like Rome in the West, until very recently, the last few decades, there were no centralizing powers in africa at all, native african powers i mean, not european ones.
In the times of Napoleon there were like 15 - 30 types of "french" spoken on the country, some very different than the others, but the centralizing power of the state, through mass education forced everyone to speak Paris french.
So a hypothethical Nigerian empire for example, would have to erase the 200+ languages and cultures to mimic what happened in Europe, America and Asia with their own centralizing powers. Something that would be considered a genocide today.
The constant competition and state of warfare between Christendom and Islam also played a factor in why Europeans - precisely the Spanish and Portuguese - decided to expand beyond the seas.
Skillsets for tropical climates, closer proximity on the Atlantic Ocean, immunological resistance to old world diseases, lack of social networks in the Americas, and tribal conflicts within Africa
Lack of technological advancement
@@PoldarkGodzilla Nah that would only apply to Europeans who had to steal their technological achievements nice try though
@@MVP_MAGAZINE hehehe
GET his ass.
@@MVP_MAGAZINECorrect.
Tribal is a term Europeans used to denigrate African society. There were no more disputes amongst cultures and kingdoms than there was in Europe.
Very well done. You’ve definitely made me think about this more. Thank you for your hard work on this
Thank you for this channel. Insightful and from such a refrshing perspective.
Regardless of the reason it's sad. And we still feel the effects of it today.
True
True
Well that’s our fault, if we come together, we can heal foreal.
@@Kennedy111__do you believe in black separatism. Cause I do like black people having their own and only for them. And black people gatekeeping their culture
We don't have to though today ,as a previous commenter mentioned above
Yep we know just how racist Arabs can be we see this every time the subject of Egypt is brought up.
You already know!
No lies detected there.
Tell them🤎🖤🤎🖤
Agreed
The Egyptians are not black. And they will slap your face for saying so. Ponder that. You can't steal other people's ancestors. That is evil. Cultural appropriation cuts both ways.
Appreciated your efforts. It is one of the BIG questions.
1) The “Curse of Ham” argument was not widely used by pro-slavery apologists until the early 1700’s. By then, hereditary slavery had been formally legalized in the colonies.
2) The shift from enslaving natives was, as you pointed out, due to them dying from Old World diseases. However, it was also due to their ability to run away and live off the land, when the colonists were fewer in number and not willing to organize hunting parties to go deep into hostile native territory to recapture a few slaves.
3) After the natives, they tried European indentured servants; however, the indentured servants had high death tolls in the South, where big farmers wanted to them to work. In some years, more than half of indentured servants would die.
4) The West African kingdoms had well-established slave trade networks that supplied slaves to the Mali Empire, and after the decline of that empire, its remnant kingdoms. Those West African kingdoms were glad to sell slaves to new customers - the Europeans.
5) Rice became a popular new cash crop in the southern colonies, and only African slaves understood how to cultivate it.
The white man chose the Black African because no one in Europe would care, because they lied and said Africans were the lowest humans on the racial hierarchy because God is white like the Western European. Their justification was based on a lie about God . The US Western European paid for that lie with the Civil War from 1861 to 1865 and they will continue to pay for it because in their hearts the lie isn’t dead. God doesn’t like ugly or evil.
Let's not forget how easy it was to identify an African, especially those from tribes that practiced scarification, and those with dark skins before more women were enslaved and brought over to feed the slave breeding farms.
Wait what kind of shyt is this. Are you saying “African people just let these other people come and snatch them up? This is why we so messed up. Our own essence has been taken. They want you to believe that your ancestors were weak and a broken people when in actuality the indigenous people of the Americas are YOUR people. Religion and various other tactics were used to slowly infiltrate, manipulate, and change this land. The indigenous “Nijji” didn’t die out from European disease, that was a lie to cover up the real truth..we were reclassified, renamed and so was the land. WE ARE NOT FROM AFRICA!!!
We are not hamites
Explain the Arabs.
I blame European and Arab racism and African tribalism to answer the question.
You do know tribalism was caused by Europeans
Europeans/ East Asians / East Indians/ are all tribal!!
I blame us more then them. Even to this day many are willing participants
@tyronegladden1027 Their is still a strong national identity amongst those people. If there were more national identities instead of the tribal identities then Europeans and Arabs would have a much harder time of enslaving Africans back the ...you wouldn't beat Africans in warfare on their own soil without internal help. That's why Native American slavery didn't last long on American soil during colonial times...the Natives knew the land better than any white man.
@panafrocanam2100 Yes we are to blame too...African enslavement concluded because of a combination of things.
I think it’s good that you chose to tackle this topic. It’s very important for us to self reflect and be self critical in order to guard against this ever happening again.
Lol well it's about to happen to you AND us soon. Asians are fixing to take over.
It's still happening though.
@@davemarx7856 Well... once a group has ventured so far down into the dungeon, it takes awhile for them to get turned around and head back up the stairs.
@endigosun as long as whites and Asians are around, that turn around won't happen. You all had over 300 years to retake the world, and didn't move one step forward in doing so... in fact, yall have done nothing but regress, culturally and intellectually...
@@endigosun not to mention the only fluent language most of you speak, is a butchered form of a white mans language. Also known as "ebonic english" ... and when people speak in Ebonic English, they literally sound like they are mentally ret*rded and had never attended school in their life.
Home team, I absolutely love your work, been watching your videos for a while. And I believe this is my first time commenting on one of your videos. I would have to say for the video being so short. I believe you really have summed it up and if you can, I would love to see you make a longer video going into more detail because I can definitely say from the research Ive done. I've found a lot of the same things that you have. Especially when it comes down to African people being More durable. Less susceptible to disease, more resilient and having the knowledge of Horticulture and agriculture, If we think about it, they did not know our Languages, but Needed people that they knew had those skills to get the work done so they could make money. Love your Contact, keep doing what you do.
Africa has a lot of potential. The first order of business is to push the colonizers out, and enforce the requirements to be treated as equals or no trade. Plenty of trading partners out there who are willing to pay and trade. Like the Chinese, Russians, etc.
Lots and Lots of black people in those countries
yes!! africa has been set back so many years!!
China and Russia will abuse tf out of the entire African continent 😂
Also need to get rid of the corrupt politicians.
Yeah anyone who actually pays attention to modern Africa knows that it's their leadership that is their biggest problem, by far. And how do you blame Europeans for the modern African belief that having sex with a virgin cures you of HIV? Literally millions of prepubescent girls have been raped and given HIV by African men over the last handful of decades because of that belief. That's all their culture. By blaming Europeans for everything and never holding them accountable for the situation they are in, you are condemning millions more young girls to the same treatment and beliefs. Good for you bro. Well done. And in fact, you should look up black life expectancy since the end of apartied. The loss of a decade of life expectancy in the five years since they gained power was due to approaching HIV in an African way. They recovery of that decade of life expectancy since the turn of the millennium was due to western culture both producing and supplying anti HIV meds. Without that western intervention there would be millions less Africans living in Southern Africa today just since the turn of the millennium. The world's more complicated than you think.
One reason I never understood why Louis Farrakhan follows that religion he turns a blind eye to the behavior of what the Arabs practiced enslavament.
Arab enslavement was not race based it was religion based. Any non-Arab was free to be a slave.
@@thevisitor1012 they still targeted black Africans the most though
Good point. But the answer is simple: most black Americans are embarrassed by Africa and regard it as a humiliation. So they steal other people's ancestors - the Moors, and the Egyptians, namely. It's cultural theft, in the end.
@@schemar17 That's because black Africans came in abundance (profit) and females specifically were often taken as sex slaves, unfortunately.
@@schemar17 that’s my point
I think another possibly over looked reason related to specifically African slavery is during 15th & 16th century it was seen as fashionable for wealthy families in Europe to have an African child as a servant as they was considered exotic as many people wouldn’t have seen one before, you can see this in art etc. this was before the industrial chattel slavery that followed.
It makes me think of how in the mid two thousands when celebrities was adopting African & Asian children, it was kind of a statement piece, like being a collector of rare and exotic things. It’s absolutely sick but I think this could of been a factor in the earlier years
Interesting 🤔
Very interesting, something to consider.
the actress Angelina Jolie did this.
Yes, it seems that Europeans have a tendency towards fetishizing other living beings. They seem to have a natural arrogance about themselves.
Interesting
I have a lot to say in regards to this, when I do, pay attention. Much love, and many blessings.
I researched this years ago. I will just touch on some of the major reasons I found. African Warriors captured African Farmers while taking their land. They were some of the best farmers in the world, and already captured. They were sold to Whites for guns, liquor, etc. Native Americans were hard to keep Captive in their native land, and were known to commit mass suicide if they couldn’t escape. Slaves were very expensive, Native Americans were risky investments. Obviously taking people to a foreign land was a relatively safe investment.
Yes its sad we've been treated this way historically and now in some instances but it shouldn't stop us for attempting to achieve our true potential. I feel that the only way this can happen is if Africans learn how to defend themselves and their existence. My country, South Sudan fought 2 civil wars for half a century to liberate ourselves from racist arab opression and violent islamic extremism. Now my country is free but we still have a long away to go. As long as you learn how to pick up a weapon and learn how to stand up for yourself, there shouldn't be afraid any fear towards your enemies.
" As long as you learn to pick up a weapon..." ; and then
the violence continues and there is never any progress...ever.
@@KennethHall-tp4hwyes it is they won you can’t win a war without fighting why do you think they was able to enslave people because they had weapons of it wasn’t for that slavery wouldn’t have happened under European rule. It s a fact that different nations and tribes in Africas continent were skilled fighters so without weapons Europeans wouldn’t have been successful.
sub Sahara Africans never valued their own ppl and even sold their ppl to slavery. We can’t blame that on Arabs & Europeans. Stop listening to these victim hood stories told by these non Africans. If u value urself no one will give you a reason to be a victim. Change starts at home. African leaders and African ppl need to start valuing themselves & each other
@@KennethHall-tp4hwWhite people knew if they didn't have weapons to intimidate black people they wouldn't have slaves or anything
More power brother. I couldn't agree more💪🏿
Great work on this one!!!👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
It’s because we REFUSED a to work together. Egyptians and Nubians were a conglomerate of the same Africans in different locations. “When two Brothers fight, a stranger claims their inheritance”. Egypt and Nubia were those two brothers that kept fighting and the Europeans, Arabs and other peoples have claimed our inheritance. This problem even plagues us today. We REFUSE ago work together and that’s why we were targeted as Slaves.
Arabs ? That would have been where half of Egypt was at the time which was migrated from an earlier culture called Sumer modern day southern Iraq and you where “targeted” as slaves because you are the inventor of slavery it finally just came back around to what you did to yourselves and the rest of the world 🤷♂️ but you can get over it I’m Irish and I don’t hate Muslims or blacks people for what they did to my ancestors
Great video. I learned a lot. Subscribed today
Great video! Thanks for getting real and simple
For a group to become the group
They had to erase a group
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It is important to point out how BIG Africa is. Everything is very much spread out and easily support so many diffrent tribes and clans. In the beginning, avillage could be captured and the other village wouldnt know at all. Africa is really large.
To this day here in America AA are not very united. We unite to complain against the white mam but on every other issue there is much infighting. Not hard to see why we could not withstand capture.
@@mynameispeaches Africans greatest enemy has always been self sadly.
@@mynameispeaches
Black unity is a modern western concept anyway. It wasn't needed in pre-colonial Africa because all the tribes/ nations were self-contained and didn't know about the Europeans views of and plans for all black people.
The idea of black unity is a product of a shared historical trauma, which is probably why unity only really comes when it's against the white man.
@@Reversisms
Africa just didn't know the European and Arab slave trade was for all Africans, not just certain tribes (as it probably seemed to them at the time). That's all.
Because of the Great things we have achieved and our Beauty which comes in so many shades of colors. We attract the Good, Bad and the Ugly on sooo many levels.
Mansa musa might have drawn a lot of eyes to west Africa.
We just drip too hard 😂
Bruh what?
"Why should we choose them to be slaves"
"BECAUSE OF THE BEAUTY AND ACHIEVEMENTS AND BLAH BLAH FUCKING BLAH"
always some racist dude trying to spin shit to make his people sound superior. These days it's black people.
@@user-jv8kr4im1t The bullion famine and the spice trade blockade by the Ottomans is what really brought Europeans to West Africa. Mansa musa was more propaganda to get Europeans to stop quarreling with one another and focus their attention on other things. It's was a similar tactic used by the church to bring about the crusades. Calling the middle east " the Land of Milk and Honey" when in reality it was more of a desolate land full of heathens that needed killing.
Its because, there's a lot of slaves captured by other African tribes that time, a lot means the supply is high and when supply is high product is cheap
Well said.
Good thoughts, You are an excellent speaker!
Great points I've never though of. Thanks for the eye opener.
I know one of the main reasons is because the first areas to be colonized were in the carribean and central to sourh america. Africa and South America used to be connected and are on the same southern cline meaning the fauna and materials in Africa were similar to the Americas. Things such as gold sifting, farming in warmer climates, resistance to tropical diseases etc were familiar to Africans that wasn’t to Europeans. Africans were the best suited for building the foundation for colonial conies and harvesting resources. This is why slavery is so messed up. They needed the skills of Africans to learn how to survive and lay the foundations of their colonies but the Africans never even saw the fruit of their labors
True
It was the skills
Agriculture animal husbandry etc. Plus higher fertility. Black people don't know who they are..
Plus add to that, the very efficient trade routes that can get you any skilled worker from the various clans that were being enslaved.
@@fetusbuddha3908 that’s why I hate the term “slave”. People think they were just unskilled people forced to work. These were artisans, herders, miners, blacksmiths, traders, farmers, fisherman etc who were critical and skilled people in their societies. They were not rewarded for their skills that were needed that the Europeans themselves could not do
Excellent theory. Thank you for sharing your insight.😊
Unverified like the Atlantic slave trade narrative
When I first came to Africa, the cultural difference that stood out the most for me, was how sparse and far apart the population spread in rural areas. The villages were almost always from colonial origin. Years later I read the post-colonial government plan to restructure the country, and one of the main points was to create villages and discourage the creation of isolated dwellings. In the restructuring plan they mention this practice as one of the main reasons that enabled colonization. And I find this is more engrained in the culture, even in urban areas, where I find a lot of people still prefer to socialize and live with extended family, rather that create communities within society.
Arguably, if you change the way you live in order to defend against colonization, you are still being colonized. At least with some cultural colonization.
Great video 👍🏽
The short answer to that question is because Africans were more exposed to certain diseases than the tribes in North and South America, and the fact that the natives were dying from diseases that the Europeans brought over and were never exposed.
Then tell me why, African didn't die of any diseases, so it doesn't mean that it's African faults. Don't twist that story. It was European death themselves and brought to America Native Ingenious
Not entirely true, the natives in some parts would resist more cohesively as well.
European reasons and American reasons were different. The simpler and likely more plausible reasons for Europeans and early Americans were that Africans were easily differentiated from Caucasians.
Europeans that were at the center of the AST had other reasons. Africans/Moors had conquered the Iberian peninsula more than once…Europeans didn’t want that to happen again.
Aside from that Europeans coveted Africa’s natural resources (Gold, Diamonds, plentiful land for crop raising etc.). Many African countries would not give European countries the favorable trade terms they wanted so stealing the land and exporting the defenders of the land became critically important.
Moroccans arent black
History teaches that europeans became rich from gold, spices and all the other minerals available from Africa and India. The unverified Atlantic slave trade narrative came later 🇯🇲
The moors were Berber and had west African slaves themselves 😂
@@PoldarkGodzilla
That term was also generally used for anyone that was dark skinned.
Do not lump in the advanced Berbers and Arabs with the Bronze Age tribes of West Africa.
I actually learned all of these reasons in school. Great to hear they are still valid today
Because us black people love everything and everyone but our own
Europeans refused to give up slavery it was a easy way to maintain wealth even though they knew how horrible and wrong the institution was many European scholars wrote about the wrongs of slavery and were morally against it but still chose to uphold it and the policies of slavery policies that in later generations grew into racial discrimination and Hate witch still stands to this day.
True but if their lives were at constant threat they would have given up slavery. The fact that Africans didn't care about other Africans being enslaved and tribes participated in it to some degree to win favor with Europeans ruling class kept slavery going .
@@jaypaladin-havesmartswilll5508 Generally, the enslavers have controlling the narrative. Their favorite part is always it's other Africans that didn't care and sold the others (blame shifting and inflicting self hate in the enslaved) They deliberately leave out those Africans, Kings who where slained or exiled because they were against slave trade and fought it.
Please Google, "history of serfdom in Europe" before you post your ignorance. white on white slavery was the norm in Europe for thousands of years. The white man has been a slave for most of his known existence while the black man has been a free man for most of is known existence.
Everyone had slaves
@@BlaxkSun Not Africans as a social means of labor.
The way you share multiple facts and HOW they actually come together continues to amaze me. This video is powerful and truly holds truth that holds a foundation behind why we need to ask the question differently.
Agree!
Unverified slave narratives 🇯🇲🇺🇸
There are better videos out there on slavery , ones that out objective and tell the full history of slavery ! Did you know millions of Europeans were taken by Barbary slaves over decades from Europe ?
There is no truth here.
@@PoldarkGodzilla That's another history point. One at a time please.
I have so much respect for you for acknowledging the truth about the islamic slave! Good on you for actually going the research about one of the darkest history of humanity.
Excellent episode.
We can only overcome the effects of slavery as a community and a strong family structure. Unfortunately we're so divided and even hating on our own people, hence why we're where we are. Other community's have come together which is why they're doing well.
That's more to do with to do with colonialism rather than unverified slave narratives
Of course there's division, there's nothing to bind black people together except, "black" (which is nebulous, depending on who u ask, "poor/ghetto/struggle" (which is how a lot of people define true blackness, whatever that is and "slavery" (which is no longer physical in this day and age)
A structured and verifiable culture needs to be built first, and that's not gonna happen overnight. It's gonna take more than a generation and more than one dude to accomplish. And without being a cultural building expert myself, possibly even more elements that even that to consider, too.
They weren’t….. African slavery is the only one taught and or talked about….
Every tribe/race/color had slavery…. Western civilization for the most part put a stop to it…. but in Africa and Middle East it’s still going on with more enslaved Today…. than in the 1800’s…. Yes right this every second, but you only hear about back then…
Excellent Disclaimer, thank you!
i come from north africa (algeria & tunisia) and sadly, the topic of slavery is very tabou. we all know it happened but no one really talks about it bc people don’t want to admit that their ancestors enslaved black africans (north africans enslaved europeans as well). there’s almost no written record of slaves being bought or sold so most north africans don’t know if their ancestors owned slaves.
my mom’s nanny as a kid was a black woman and she once told my mom that her great-grandma was a slave that was brought to tunisia during the trans-saharan slave trade.
sadly, racism towards black people is still very much prevalent in north africa…
What I do not get is that Arabs are dark skinned people too and Arab is close to Africa. So why treat Africans this way.
PREACH! For real
This is sad af because everyone wanted African minerals and rich resources. Thank God I came from a country that did not enslave others in our history. ROMANIA 🇷🇴. We were too busy fighting wars to stay independent and not colonized ourselves. I can relate to a lot of nations those who have been colonized. Anyway, it's sad to see the hardship and it did happen and it's important to understand this history as it's being repeated in modern day.
Y'all had a massive slave trade in Romani people...
@@s1nd3rr0z3 They did, & it was horrible. ALL countries have done bad things though; no-one can claim their country is perfect- I'm a white Aussie, & I certainly can't say we have a good track record. But all countries have done good stuff too- like, respect to the Romanians for fighting off the Turks.
Lol understood humans can b ass holes
You guys literally rammed poles up the asses of thousands of your own people….
Didn't some of the people end up in America.
Great Program Brother
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I learned something new. Thank you 🙏🏻
The question should more specifically be why Africans were chosen to be enslaved in America, given that people of every race have also been enslavement on other continents.
He mentions that in the video
he does. apparently the atlantic slave trade was predominantly asian slaves for the first third of the slave trade. mainly thanks to the spanish and ports. they preferred the Asian slaves as they thought they were easier to control. But as we all know, the british preferred the African slaves :/ lots of prgoress made. lots more to come
@@iattacku2773 I shouldve watched the entire video before commenting😂
I've heard that because Africans had skills that helped birth America, and some of the other things he already mentioned.
@@thugitz1990 "asian slaves"? 🤔He never mentioned that in the video. If he did, can you provide the timestamp of where it was mentioned?
Im no scholar in African History but l feel there was many factors to why African was chosen into slavery. It was based mostly on expansionist, colonizers imperialist, greed and capitalism. Furthermore, geographic political religion & race had a significant impact. Yes some form of slavery has existed since mankind, but no other institution of chattel slavery ever existed before except in the Americas for almost 400 years. This event along was a human atrocity of 20 million, which lead to the destruction of African nations and the wealth creations of Europeans nations. Reparations are long overdue for this crime against humanity. In closing, from a Afrocentric perspective the question should be...how & why was this institution able to function so long in a land founded on life, liberty & pursuit of happiness?
It's not really complex, there's a lot of slaves captured by other African tribes that time a lot means the supply is high and when supply is high product is cheap, that attracted other countries to buy slaves from africa
Exactly “how” 1) were we tricked 2) the longevity without proper resistance to eliminate any threat wasn’t pursued? Or were we outnumbered or out-maneuvered in our own land 3) were we tricked then forcefully brought into submission? Thanks (ankhs) ❤ & respect ✊🏾
@@lifesunmediafilmsfashionma1485
African Kings made their wealth by selling people they captured to the highest bidder.
This is how tens of millions of Africans were nonetheless captured despite the fact that Europeans could not even explore the interior as they would be killed of by disease.
I'm no scholar but the whole slave narrative comes without any clear proof of ever happening🇯🇲
@@Vahjina-ihtirthe Arabs too black African slaves for 1200 years , more African slaves crossed the Sahara than atalantic, they also castrated the men .. why blacks choose Islam is beyond me
I think it's easier to answer that one might think:
1. They were seen as lesser beings.
2. Other Africans served them up on a silver platter, without hesitation.
Asking the real questions
Fun fact:Europeans in North/South America enslaved Native Americans but since Native Americans were ineffective slave for many different reasons that they switched over to Sub-Saharan Africans.
One of the many reasons being that once Native slaves would escape they would be so hard to get them back because they knew the land better so they could escape and stay hidden much more easily.
AND over half of all slaves in Canada in Indigenous. California almost all were Indigenous.
Native Americas were are the original Americans and they knew the land of America too well and would escape enslavement unlike us who were enslaved in a foreign land.
What were some of the reasons that made native American slaves ineffective?
@@thevisitor1012 as I stated in some places we were used as slaves. But one of the reasons the US (except California) didn’t was because the plantation system used massive numbers of people, and due to genocide in the Americas there was a numbers issue. That said the canadian slave trade of Indigenous folks was largely stolen from the so called US. Plus contact lead to disease so we tended to die in large enclosed settings. The Catholic Church however was fine with the die off rate and they were the one’s primarily enslaving folks in California so that’s why California Indigenous folks were enslaved there.
@@thevisitor1012They were vulnerable to European disease also, making them hard to keep at slaves.
Its very important to mention, mass african slavery would not have been possible without the collaboration of African Kingdoms in the trade, Europeans waited in their ships or tradepost and slaves were brought to them. What happened in Europe with Christianity is that slavery was made illegal, an equivalent ideology did not exist in Africa until the XXth century.
If African kingdoms had abolished slavery in the continent, due to whatever reason, ideological, cultural, religious, etc, there would've been almost no african slaves pretty much, since no one outside of africa could penetrate in the interior.
Only real comment on here.
Are you ignorant for just widely misinformed, Europeans had come in killed raped and pillaged African tribes for years before those Africans were “traded” please stop bulshitting yourselves and realize that your ancestors were savages. Europeans weren’t the first ones to make slavery illegal they were far from it and even IF the continent of Africa had come together and outlawed slavery and its trades Europeans wouldn’t have given a damn.
Your people are used to taking lives through out its entire existence, you’ve always been monsters. Look at the Native Americans, Nazi’s, The West, Slave Trade, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there are tons of evidence showing that caucasians and your ancestors are way more likely to be sociopathic. But yes let’s talk about how Africans were the ones selling their brothers and sisters to monsters.
And since I already know that you are about to bring up the crime rates in America concerning African Americans. Those statistics are products of their environment it’s odd that eurocentrist love to believe that they are the good guys when they have been the ones instigating wars when they had no reasoning to even do so besides greed and envy.
No wonder the new generation of white kids hate being in their own skin, I also find it a bit odd how none of you Eurocentrist can take accountability you guys love to try and erase history. I also find it odd why your people went into Africa and stole our art and relics (Which are still in your museums to this day) and tried your hardest to destroy our culture. It seems like you are afraid of our potential.
Lastly, I’m glad we won’t have to have these conversations in hundreds of years, people of color have steadily been taking over more and more of the sciences, arts, and pop culture. People like you will just be a relic of the past.
P.S. I find it odd how insecure you are in that you look up videos about African culture to try and lie to yourself and the other scared white guys, you seem jealous of us. Just remember Africans AND African Americans get stronger, taller, happier, and even more and more intelligent every day. Have a good life 👋🏾.
Which is why the diversity point is relevant here. Africa was/is simply too big and diverse to unify. A single country could have hundreds of different tribes with different customs, religions and languages
@@weastekadmin5760 The same as all over the world, but in the other continents, centralizing powers homogenized cultures.
Africa would've needed several such empires of course, just like Asia.
It was a collaborative effort.
Your presentation is very well balanced and starts off with many ideas of how the ideas behind the analysis was developed and not complete. That is an excellent approach. I believe that further learning is necessary and new ideas are critical. Two reasons I had entertained recently was superior weaponry that the Portuguese developed and the tactics of dividing and conquering.
They had to weaponized the diversity of Africans against each other to leverage that might, and use 'better' weapons. They needed these tactics because their first venture was a disaster. The Portuguese invaded Senegal with intent to enslave in 1440. The Senegalese handed the Portuguese their a--ses back to them. They then got the 1452 "papal bull" from the pope 'allowing slavery', but color was not chosen. What happened next in the 1450s was they developed new tactics mentioned above and sailed past Senegal and went around to the west African ivory coast. The Portuguese then became successful in pitting one African nation-state ('tribe' is not accurate) against each other, having one enslave their neighbors that were 'natural' enemies, or at least neighbors they fought with.
The Portuguese paid the conquering nation-state of Africans for the captured 'soldiers' of the other nation-state, effectively buying prisoners of war. Some of the African-nation states already had wealth, towns, gold, etc., so the sale of captured POWs meant establishing new lines of wealth building with the Portuguese. The British later joined in, and these two groups accounted for eighty percent or more of all Africans captured. The Spanish and French did enslave, but to a far lesser degree of "success". Other Europeans had enslaved Africans in the New World, like the Danish for 200 years and the Dutch, but were far less organized and systemized. In large part we find the highest concentration in ex-British colonies and Brazil, the Portuguese colony than other Spanish nations--although they do exist in most places of course that are Spanish.
That's just my recent reflections and looking forward to more input as from the ideas of the Moors and soldiers introduced here.
Thanks!
Great vid, but you missed one of the biggest factors: disease resistance. Initially, Europeans tried to enslave the indigenous populations of the Americas, but since, unlike Africans, they hadnt built up resistances to diseases like smallpox that only develop after centuries of contact and exchange, they died on masse in the cramped plantations. I dont think most people realize the scale of how diseases from Eurasia and Africa completely devastated the indgenous populations, in some cases over 90% of them would succumb and die from illness. The Europeans realized they needed a disease resistant workforce that could survive brutal working conditions in tropical heat and that could be sourced without too much of a detour.
I think its important to acknowledge that the two greatest crimes of European colonialism are linked. There is no massive scale African slavery in the Americas without the large scale genocide of the indigenous peoples caused by the exchange of diseases. The Europeans would never have bothered shipping thousands of slaves over if there had been a suitable population of people to exploit right there
Something doesn't add up. You had the strongest military armies in the medieval world in west africa. You had Ghana, Mali, Songhai. Songhai was as large as all the countries in western europe. There were the hausa kingdoms in Chad and niger. There were the medieval kingdoms of the Sudan. Please explain how a group of people from arabia could just come in and either bypass or militarily overcome all these nations and capture " slaves" not once, not twice, but for over one thousand years? I think some content needs to be re-examined and fleshed out.
They let them come in, you need to understand alot of these kingdoms let these people come in.
Because the Arabs were very strong too. Not for nothing at their best moment were they able to create a caliphate that went from Portugal to Pakistan and were able to defeat powers like the Byzantine Empire or Sassanid Persia.
@@elo6550 but they never fully took control of the sudan and never dominated west african empires. Ghana, Mali, Songhai were at their most powerful during the arabs trek across north africa. Show me how im wrong. Just like the europeans love to see themselves as the toughest group around, the same for white arabs. Atleast be honest. Tell the whole story. The religion spread into west africa through trade not by conquest.
@@omayemigatling4112 Yes, they conquered only northern Sudan, but that didn't stop them from kidnapping slaves from the other half, did it? Apart from that, on what basis do you say that the empires of West Africa were the strongest of the Middle Ages if they never faced other great powers?
Sell out and some are just easy to manipulate
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not at, you have it wrong! There aren't many languages in Africa, trust me. I was in Kongo Central, a province in the Western part of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Surprisingly, when you ask people how many languages Kongo Central has, they will tell you at least 20 languages, but the funny thing is, they all understand each other. So by 20 languages, they mean 20 dialects and that is one of the biggest misunderstandings and poor work by the first European explorers and Catholic priests.
And, don't be foolish, nobody worked against you. There was no tribe that was targeted. The same family was split because the mother was taken into slavery, and you are trying to tell me the children sold their mother?. Anybody who could be captured became a slave, and members of royal families were captured and sold as slaves as well.
The tactics the West used 500 years ago are still being used today. They start wars between people(trust me it is the easiest thing to do), and then they start stealing diamonds and gold. Minerals resources from Africa land in the West, and how do they land here? through wars, and conflicts. (European descent are trying to push homosexuality into Africa to depopulate the continent, who do they use as tools? Obama, Kama Harris, etc..)
The real question is why Europeans have targeted Africans? It is simple, but they won't tell you the truth: To understand why, look at the origin of sugar cane peanuts, and other products.
Peanut came from the Kongo Kingdom. The reason they wanted Africans is because they knew how to cultivate those plants(the original name for Peanut is goober: a Kongo word. Guba).
There was nothing special about Africans, they were just experts in the agriculture of cotton, sugar cane, banana, and goober. Those products came from Africa
Europeans also tried Native Indians, but they were not experts in those plants.
Last but not least, the discovery of America was a curse for us. Europeans had no plan to enslave Africa. The Portuguese were in Kongo for decades. They landed there in 1483. They had business there; they had schools. Both kingdoms had ambassadors. Things went south when Europeans discovered America, that is when the idea of enslaving Kongo began. By, the way, do you know that 40% of the total enslaved population came from Kongo Kindom? As a matter of fact first slaves that arrived in Virginia came from the Kongo Kingdom; a group of Kongo stolen from a Spanish ship. Look for the battle of Ambwila.
In 1483, the Portuguese explorer Diogo Cão reached the coast of the Kongo Kingdom. Cão left some of his men in Kongo and took Kongo nobles to Portugal. To avoid confusion. Angola and Kongo Kingdom are the same thing.
Tip: Be careful. Everything you know about Africa is from people who enslaved you.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Kongo
Brings a whole new meaning to "the chosen one"💀
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Did I miss the part about Yellow Fever? If not, that is something you should investigate. The economics of the African Slave trade to the Americas is very much tied to natural resistant to that one problem.
Because they were considered uncivilized by the rest of the world, at war with eachother and the europeans took advantage of that and took them to sell in the rest of the world
Very interesting theory. 👍
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The Europeans fixated on improving and creating superior weaponary. This was a result of Europe's conflicts. The Africans developed nothing but new dances. Europe was had more unity under 1 religion even though there was some conflict about this. The Africans had too many beliefs and languages to match those beliefs. While Europe when into a scientific age the Africans were still carry on the same old traditions. The stagnation in Africa made them easy targets for conquest
Thanks for sharing the Word of God
The word of God from a religious perspective is what enslaved us and continues to enslave our minds and abilities to deal with people who have no love for us.
How are unverified slave narratives the word of God
Another layer is the well documented wealth of Africa and the relative difficulty in them accessing it not only due to environment but having to fight the same soldiers that they were extracting thus weakening their defence of the said wealth.
I appreciate the acknowledgment that pretty much every culture is guilty of slavery, in America it’s easy to get tunnel vision when it’s not just an American issue. Human slavery has been an issue that’s more widespread and complicated. Unfortunately, there is a long history that spans all of humanity, all of us alive now are experiencing the accumulation of years of systematic and strategic evil.
Totally inaccurate assessment. All slavery is not the same, don't cherry pick one fact as a means to marginalize the singular impact of the transatlantic slave trade. That shows peak naivete at its saddest.
@@loveroffilms6436So it’s not slavery if they’re not black? Slavery is slavery regardless of race. All the human races are guilty of it.
That doesn’t take away from how bad the trans Atlantic slave trade was. But I think your the only naive one here.
@@loveroffilms6436 I never said any kind of slavery was better or worse…. That definitely wasn’t what I meant. I meant that a broader understanding of slavery from a historical cultural aspect is interesting and world wide.
I think you should look at your own comment and look inward at the assumptions you make about people’s intentions rather than assume the worst….
@@loveroffilms6436 the “all slavery is the same” part really is wild. I never implied that. I stated that it’s a widespread multicultural issue spanning zeitgeists and generations. That’s simply a factual evaluation.
@@loveroffilms6436 and I FOR SURE wasn’t marginalizing by acknowledging slavery beyond the US. Re read the part where I called it the accumulation of systematic and strategic and evil. Directly alluding to the worlds current state in regards to racism and oppression.
I’m not even the enemy, as flawed as I may be. I am NOT the enemy.
Enslavement was about belief system clashing. Alkebulan is blessed, so it's people see the good of things. As we looked externally for influence we began to view our own ways as backwards rather than internally improving. Even "Arab" is a misnomer because the Erithean Sea birthed the Semetic language, as the people spoke Summerian previously. This is why Herodutus says there are east and west Aithiopians.
Also, Ham was not cursed. Caanan was cursed to have Shem (Sekhem) and Japeth (there was no J in the past, that is, an 😢 invention) dwell in Caanan's house. Ham comes to the Septuigent by way of the Caninite of Kemet's Yam.
If it happened at all🇯🇲
Source on the Sumerian speakers of the red sea? And Herodotus calls India “East Ethiopia” because they looked like Ethiopians “burnt face” as in they looked like black people but were to the East of Ethiopia.
a well thought out description. you must go further out on ALL races. I commend you. Peace und Cheers. do not forget the Brits in 1833, the French in 1848, ... and the Americas in 1865.
Ayooo I need that soundtrack tho
Zephaniah Ch3 verse 9 through at least 13 + Isaiah Ch18. (Both ESV or RSV for best descriptions)
That's why
Fear of what the African had built in the past...
Its 2023 and you can't build a helicopter
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@@TheTastefulThickness, Paul E Williams invented the helicopter.
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Paul Williams invented the elements of "the first helpful helicopter”, the Lockheed Mannequin 186 (XH-51) on the twenty sixth of November 1962.
4:44 - Not going to lie; those fingers running over that guy's face creeped me out. Brrrr!
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When other groups were defending their own Africa became a favorite and vulnerable target 🎯. Africa filled needs for the growing world 🌍
Also, Africa has grown with the world. And fought off and fought with and fought against any and all at home and around the world. And they probably have done that from the beginning. But black people have this Ancient Hebrew habit of woe is me..
That's unverified like the Atlantic slave trade narrative itself🇯🇲🇺🇸
Brother, I am so glad you and your team aren't under fire from Desantis and his followers. Keep on verifying the truth!!
Not really verified at all🇯🇲
@@Junior-yt6cx you're missing the point
Any country or area that had developed to the level of writing was difficult to conquer. Those cultures with their own writen languages are still strong today. Most of Africa had not evolved to writing yet(Most)
Stronger
Our physical prowess has always been apparent to others unfortunately to a point where it discounts our humanity.
Yes. But man is also spiritual. Black people as a whole don't push the limits in academics. Other groups of people are sending rockets into space with their minds while we're focusing on physical prowess still jumping from the free throw line. We think feeble minded as a whole. No technology industries in our people. No world class architecture in major black cities. It's a mental inferiority that we have as a people. They had guns while we had spears. Look at the architecture in cities in Europe and Asia. Now look at Nigeria. Look at crime rates in Black cities. We are the problem. If we were focused on science and math like we are sports, entertainment and fashion then there would have been no slavery. No one wants to say we were intellectually inferior. But that's what I see. If I'm wrong tell me how. Our physical prowess means nothing when a person is smarter. That's exactly what the score has said.
@@zatronbuck8633 Your observations are understandable. In addition, we internalized the hate and the degradation that was initially externally inflicted on us. Take a domestic pig out of care and feeding and watch him become feral. Social engineering is a real thing, today and going forward begins the reverse engineering.
We are limited due to colonialism. Most slave narratives are just old myths and fables that we have become attached to.
My brother I have the same belief. Literally nobody wants to say what is blatantly obvious
@@CaptainHindsight-xt9yd lol you wish. Black people are literally the best athletes in almost every sport
I respect that you have limited amount of time to make this videos, but this one should've been longer. It missed important factors like the population of Black Africans being so large resulting in them being eaiser to obtain.
Easier to obtain by other Black Africans who then sold them to White Europeans.
Unverified like the Atlantic slave trade narrative itself🇯🇲🇺🇸
11:30 in short “because Africans work and fight really good so they’re good for armies and working land because they resilient to the environment and were really close to people who needed those things”
The main reason that i have found in older texts was climate. The main areas of slavery in the Western Hemisphere were tropical or semi-reopical. It was felt that they could endure and work in the hot, humid, climate.
We are the only one who adapted.. we allow our culture religion , language etc everything of our oppressor while countries like india didnt.. upto today we holding on to the ways of the oppressor for dear life.. today we still welcoming back on the continent and among us as if nothing .... how will we ever rise with those mindset
India as you said held on to their culture. Because India is an old civilization. Please teach history correctly and stop begging for a hand out. Be thankful you are in a country named America where we are free. Forget the past and move on. Stop telling the young generation the world dislike them. That is not true.
@@nishatagore first of all stop acting like you high and mighty you sound like a hater. Everybody has their own opinion about things. If you all were such bad asses then you wouldn't let the British do what they did to you all . And on top of that with your cast system and the way y'all treat the dark-skinned Indian and India is appalling.
@@nishatagoreAfrica as a continent is a old civilization
Believe me I understand. The reason they were after Africa is because it is rich with rubber minerals etc..
The original Africans are very advanced. I know. My nanny was directly from Africa. I want you to see if you can find my book entitled 0ne Child Alone by Nisha T Tagor. You will read about the qualities of the African people. Her name was Jerusha. She was a blessed soul and far superior to those who branded her with the derogatory name of slave. Believe me, I am fighting for justice. My m personal belief n is talking about color of skin is n not the way to go. I am trying to give the African children hope not to tell them or n make them believe they are not equal. They are and in many cases superior
I know. I speak from experience. I was n born and grew up in the Caribbean. I experienced prejudice. Read that book.
I HAVE ALWAYS BELIEVED GOD MADE NO INFERIOR BEING. WE ARE ALL EQUAL. NO ONE IS CURSED.
AFRICANS WERE NOT THE ONLY SLAVES. THEY WERE EASIER BECAUSE OF THEIR INNOCENCE. THEY WERE TRUSTWORTHY AND WERE TAKEN OF ADVANTAGE. YES A WRONG WAS DONE BUT WE NEED TO RISE ABOVE SLAVERY AND COLOR OF SKIN. IN MY OPINION RISE ABOVE WHAT WAS DONE. AND YOU WILL ACHIEVE MUCH MORE. GOD BLESS. GOD LOVES YOU AND SO DO I.
Yes and it’s MIND BOGGLING!!! Like WTF!
Afircans and Indians are hearty people. They have been found to survive in any environment beyond subpar conditions. Europeans go to Africa and India and the environment eventually kills them hence why you see very few European communites in Africa. In fact every European colony are found mostly on the coast of these areas.
Nice. I just have one issue or question. Back in those days it noted/recorded that individuals from the region known as the Middle East were dark skinned. They even depicted themselves as dark skinned. So I don’t think the prejudice of skin color would have been a motivation of enslaving Abyssinians. Especially since they use to be apart of the same kingdom (Ethiopian and Yemen).
Gomes De Zurara the chief chronicler of the kingdom of Portugal was essentially commissioned by the King to write propaganda about “black vs white” ppl. It was good for the King to have “lesser humans” to enslave and not risk his citizens displeasure at seeing ppl that looked like them increasingly used as a commodity. I had no clue about the Arab/Ethiopian history tho. Nice vid bro. 👏🏾💯
Didn't the Carthaginians bring North-african mercenaries to Iberia in their conquest as well? So the history of darker skinned men brought to fight on the peninsula goes back even further.
North Africans aren’t really dark skinned though, you are thinking of South Saharan Africa
North Africa Spain Portugal Canary Islands and West Africa are an incredible world portal
PORTAL to WHAT?...the next millenium of SATYRE survival?
The Israelite biblical scholars have explained and covered this issue time and time again. #12losttribesfound #GOCC #IUIC #StraitwayUniversity. Shalom
And who is the true Israelites? Before u call them scholar
@@theetruth8626 You already know the answer to the question. Peace and blessings
Good explanation by the middle of the video. as to African peoples not being under empires strong enough to protect their subjects from enslavement by foreign nations - but it's worth noting also that some African Kingdoms sold their prisioners of war of foe African nations to slave traders, many times in exchange for alcohol, guns, cigars etc.
Slavery in human history began as a byproduct of wars, feuds between clans, tribes etc. As a side effect of the situation: "we defeated them, so what we do with these prisioners?". Then, in every historical context configuration this practice has proven lucrative (unpaid labor, free of any costs) it unfortunately prospered. Exploitation of workforce of a human being in its most extreme form.
The association of racism to a given color of skin, or other physical or accent trait, is not intrinsic - is a mere byproduct of long established social processes in a given time era, involving dynamics of power, capital etc. People value what reminds of "powerful", "rich" etc and despise what is associated with the opposite qualities.
I'm not an expert, far from that, but I personally think it was a combination of factors (the answer to the question posed in the title of the video), the main ones being some you mentioned: physical fitness to hard work in tropical regions, plantations etc, and the other being a lack of a strong empire protecting their subjects from that practice, of abuction of Africans with profits in mind, as the Ottoman or Russian empire had. During Roman times, slavs, scandinavians and some germanic peoples were seen as that source of labor force, to a considerable degree. Africans also.
It's all on long term dynamics of history, dynamics between nations, civilizations.
Edit: typos.
“In the momentous step which our State has taken of dissolving its connection with the government of which we so long formed a part,
it is but just that we should declare the prominent reasons which have induced our course.
Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product
which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate
verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, NONE BUT THE BLACK RACE can bear exposure to the tropical sun. These
products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization. That blow has been long
aimed at the institution, and was at the point of reaching its consummation. There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates
of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin. {End declaration excerpt}”
While Europe had many wars they developed superior weaponary and the means to travel such as larger ships. This meant they could transport weapons and soldiers to almost anywhere and engage anyone in warfare. Many of Europes wars were over resources which they had little of so this created a unity among many European nations to take from others and since Spain is very close to north Africa, Africa with all it resources made perfect sense. The only defense Africans had was the heat and malaria that kept Europeans from deep interior colonization but that didn't last because European advancement in medicine .
I am afraid enslavement was playing big role in African society before any one enslaved us, Arabs who used swords and arrows and camels would not defeat Bantus or West African over and over again, it's look like black people did not have any problems to sell his own brother to others, even in late centuries in Oman and Qatar they used to go to east Africa to buy slaves, but they didn't have strong arms instead they used to pay some Africans who used to kidnap his own race and sold him to Arabs, and sometimes they have deal agreement with some tribs if they win a battle against his own other African tribe to sell them to Arabs
True but the role of gunpowder (Chinese invention) played a huge role.
Can you give us your research resource because we have different narrative than yours.
Chosen?? targeted??? How bout, other Africans were selling them at a cheap price.
Man them folks seen the physical build of Africans and that equated to there riches…capitalism