🇬🇭 THE IMPACT OF THE SLAVE TRADE THROUGH A GHANAIAN LENS | The Demouchets REACT Ghana
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- 🇬🇭 The Demouchets REACT "THE IMPACT OF THE SLAVE TRADE THROUGH A GHANAIAN LENS"
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My hometown is close to cape coast. My great grandmother told me when I was kid that one of her ancestors went to the farm one day n never came. So that ancestor’s brother named a son after him to keep his name alive in the family.
A slave in Africa was different from a slave in America. A slave in Africa was like a prisoner in America. You were allowed to work for a certain number of years and then walk away for free. You were allowed to marry in the family of your Master if you have a good Character and even in some cases, you were allowed to succeed your Master and take care of his wife and family. I am 💯 sure that our ancestors were fooled into thinking that our people would be treated the same way they were treated in Africa or even better when they become a slave in America. They never knew about the true behavior of the Europeans because they never lived together with them and no one was allowed to go out and report the atrocities going on in the dungeons. It was a very very sad experience.
Your ancestors were slave traders!
Our ancestors were not fooled. Our ancestors were involved in the slave trade. They were benefiting from it. It was not a fun game. They were doing business. Our Chiefs who were leading in the slave trade did not care.
Why did the chiefs allow the Europeans to build the slave castles? It’s because the Chiefs were benefiting from the slave trade. They knew what was going on. It was all about greed and power. The Asantes were hoping to take control of the whole of Ghana. They were not fooled.
@@simplynaa There was no Ghana at the time, there wasn't even a nation called Gold Coast. The nation called Gold Coast was formed in 1885 long after slavery has been completely abolished in 1825. There were only traditional kingdoms and infact the Ashantis had already taken over most of today's Ghana and beyond. Ashantis did not start the Slave Trade though they also participated in it, just like any other ethnic group. The Slave Trade started from the coast, not from the interior. The Slave Castles were not built because of Slavery, they were built as warehouses for goods like textiles, gun powder, mirrors and other things which were strange to Africans. They traded these items in return for gold, Ivory, salt, sugar and other things that were hard to find in Europe. This Trade was started by the Fante people long before the Ashantis ever set foot on the coast. The Portuguese came to Elmina in 1482 and started trading with the Fantes a few years later. The Slave Trade started in 1526. The Ashanti Kingdom was founded a century later in the interior in the year 1670 by King OseiTutu. There were no Slave markets in Ashanti, the only 2 Slave markets were at Salaga and Assin Manso so do not try to point fingers at the Ashantis alone.
@@oseitututawiah2109Well said, the Ashantis do not have sea, talkless of sea port. And for those who do not know, the Ashanti kingdom is landlocked
Please am from Ghana watching you from Saudi Arabia, the first day I visited the dungeon infact 😢I cried and cried for almost 8 hours bro
Ghana was a hub for slaves taken from Nigeria and other African countries, who later remained in Ghana after the trade. I have heard of the Ibibio ethnic group in Ghana who were taken from Nigeria, but I dunno if anyone from Ghana can confirm it. They have similar names like Akan in Ghana.
Never heard of the Ibibio people, but I know that there are some tribes in Ghana that came from Nigeria. I think the Ga people are one of them, but I don't know for sure.
The Ibibio people were one of the main peoples taken to Jamaica alonside Akan generally, Asante specifically, Igbo and Yoruba. These are the main groups from whom we descend.
Always good to hear the history from our side.
I wish Americans could know that before the slave trade we Africans traveled to "The America's", the slave trade was a forced 2nd wave.
What do you mean?
That there is recent historical evidence of African sailors in the Americas.
There are so many untold stories about slave trade in Africa. My grandparents told us in some cases parents used to kill their kids to avoid being captured in the bushes. During those days people used to hide in bushes to avoid being captured by slave raiders and an infant cries you kill it
Even the face modification you see a lot of Yorubas wearing is not for fashion it is due to slavery capturing Yorubas. They start drawing lines on their children so they won’t be taken it is sad especially now the Yorubas now call it cultural mark but they don’t know the true history of why there was modification done to their faces.
My grandfather use to tell us how his grandfather lost siblings to kidnappers during slavery. Slavery affected people negatively who were left back in Africa. People lost loved ones as victims of raid, prisoners of war, a criminal sentence or settlement of debt. Europeans demand for "human cargo" triggered bigger and powerful kingdoms to raid and enslave weaker kingdoms as prisoners of war which were sold as slaves.
how many sibilings did he loose
Very interesting. I believe the DNA of a thing being done can be useful to both the African Americans and the Africans at home because it will help to match them with their real families and homelands in Africa. It will be so good to reunite with lost family members. But who's coming to Africa to do that? Moreover the cost of doing it here in Africa will be expensive otherwise that would have been the best thing to do. Thank you 🎉🎉🎉
We the african people need first to acknowledge that our ancestors were the enables of slave trade, our people were the enables of colonisation and if we accept those mistakes and change our ways we are still bounced to making those horrible mistakes again. Our ancestors sold their brothers, sisters, neighbours, the weak communities for tokens. All this was due to greed, hate and lack of self esteem. Our forefathers repeated the same mistake during colonisation where some of our people gave important information to the colonisers as well as working for them and therefore enabling colonisation to succeed. I hope one day we will be able to come out, acknowledge and accept that for far too long we have been our own greatest enemy. Others just take advantage of our disunity and hatred towards each other. The moment will realise our unity is our strength then that will be the moment we will be able to occupy our place in the table just like other communities around the world. We do not want to be seen as victims nor do we want sympathy. We need to put our act together learn from our mistakes and move forward as one in good and bad.
How did our ancestors became the enablers of the slave trade?
Well said ! Our people are doing the same thing in my country (modern day slavery) selling our own in the middle east as nannies, the sad part is the so called agents are earning handsomely. Many r suffering/dying and no one cares........ Repeating the same mistake and blaming others😢😡
My own ancestors were running away from and fighting slave traders. Please. Thank God for LISABI AND SODEKE,
Brethren, your comment is long but true.
Thank you the egba people fought to the end and will never sold themselves. Even the little town in my husband ijebu town. Nigerians are going through so much because of this evil that happened to us to the point that you can’t trust each other
My grandmother told us how her 2 brothers were taken into slavery.when they went into farming and they never come back home. The Europeans created divide and rule systems among the tribes.
i think u mean ur great great grandmother lost sibilings
There where many dynamics to getting the slaves, in Calabar, Southern Nigeria people were also given out as slaves as a form of punishment for even being a stubborn kid at home
There are 48 castles and forth in Africa and 40 of them are in Ghana
Not everyone who was held in Cape coat castle was from Ghana.
True
There was no Ghana nor Nigeria, they were captured all over west Africa and brought into the bigger castles at that particular place now Cape Coast.
This is dark history
As a kid, I learned about the trade from school and a visit to the Cape Coast castle. When I moved to Kumasi for tertiary education, I learned a whole lot more from the locals. For example, people from the North who became indentured servants were given certain surnames and their descendants bear these names today. Unfortunately, some people use information like this as "evidence" that they're superior to others.
Most slaves taken from Ghana were sent to Jamaica,Trinidad and Tobago,Guyana and Suriname,and these countries have strong Akan influence in their culture
There is this Historian and lawyer called Anokye Yaw Frimpong, you can link up with him for all the history of Ghana
This is a total lie from the old woman blaming it on the Asantes. The Asante union was established in more than a century later after the trans Atlantic trade. The slave trade preceded the creation of Asante confederation, how could they capture that many people.
When will The Demouchets finally be visiting the motherland ?
same of the victims can still be find out my grandmother was Triplets twin she was the only girl among the two. the other two males has been captured and taken away till date 😢😢😢😢
I’m from central region of Ghana almost 20 minutes by driving to cape coast and we do know that slavery happened in Ghana but trust me we don’t know much about the details.They don’t teach much about it at school and now am more upset anytime I watch the video like this.And my question is why our ancestors allowed it to happen at all So brothers and sisters in diaspora please forgive us.
I was told of the Indian ocean /Arab slave trade but not many stories from my grand parents
The only way Africa American is to do DNA test in Ghana for them their origin either northern Ghana or Southen Ghana
Visit the fantse tribe for the history..fantse is the first to see the white in ghana..
5:43 I thought sierra was about to go off.
Same! Lol and like she was trying hard to hold it back
This is just sad I wish this never 😢happened 😢. Hopeful this is a lesson never again pls 😭
Its hidden because of its painful impact on Ghana,
do learn about the ferderiksted plantation in ghana
This theory, does not mean they sold them selves. They were punishment to radical offense like trying to conquer another tribe. Win or loose, the looser is enslaved.
4:55 famine.hmm.running away from raiders.
The Arab Slave trading in Africa was more devasting than the Transatlantic slave trade. It lasted longer than the Atlantic slave trade.
Both were devastating.
I disagree because the evidence proves otherwise. The European slave trade was a whole different level funded by banks and the entire kingdom of England 🏴, Portugal 🇵🇹, Dutch, and others.
Which castles did the Arab build to use as base for the trade? None! So pls if you don’t know just learn
@@FND-GHgo to zanzibar
those slaves weren't in chattel slavery;they were just servants/maids, bodyguards some even held high positions in the countries they went to so it was NOTHING like the west African trade; the horrors they went through in America was a whole other level!
No, black people were not just existing. There were clans and elders making the (ebusua). There was oneness, everyone knew everyone, and communities parent children.
That's when Christian crusaders faught . Then the Portuguese learnt fro the East and the west took over.
The reason ghana is peacefull is because this slave trade and how we've been taught to suppress it effects which is also bad
Crio, kreole, kriol. We are the same. The real repatriated.
Secondly, slavery began with Arab easterners started it first. The eastern world had slaves from every part of the world.
not chattel slavery though
wtf he learning the history for wicked people
History is not ment for selected people remove the emotional thinking from your head
The Asantes resisted british colonialism and Nana Badu Bonsu II resisted slavery and colonisation fought and killed some of these colonial masters and also got killed with his head chopped off and sent to Holland only to be returned in 2009 so for you to say this its an insult to the ancestors who fought and died resisting .
All the ancestors who were taken to the Americas didn't fo willing , they themselves resisted!!!
So please spare us your skewed narratives!!
What is the population of Ghana 🇬🇭, how much percentage was the slave's taking from Ghana not up 5% too little to imagine but because of the sea passing around the place they behave like every slave taking are from Ghana very tangible of their population affected compared to other Africans they nag a lot about unnecessary issues
be wise please the slave trade affected ghana so much.
Remember most of the dungeons in the whole of Africa are located in what is now Ghana. Imagine someone captured in Congo and who had to travel on foot all the way to Ghana) like traveling across the whole US. How many would have survived such a journey? So, they must have lived in smaller groups.
@mrw1762 u are thinking like a learned person not the main commentator who is very centimental about just the population.
Who is this? Did u listen to this video or u just like to talk
@@mrw1762 Not all slaves had to walk to the dungeons. Only slaves from Ghana, Togo, Burkina and the Ivory Coast, Mali and Niger. The rest of the slaves who made their transit in Ghana came by boat.