Benin women explain their kingdoms role in the slave trade

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[@nmagain24]

The book Barracoon, by Zora Neal Hurston is by an autobiography about Cudjo Lewis. He was on the last known slave ship to come into america and talks VERY EXPLICITLY how the Dahomey kingdom raided his village, kill the elders and enslaved him and marched them to the coast. And he talks about the Dahomey king. His story is wayyyyy more detailed than what they are talking about. They are leaving A LOT of stuff out

[@inaisese6725]

Dahomey is not Benin

[@inaisese6725]

@Perney thePoet Dahomey is of the Fon people, Benin is Edo people.

[@inaisese6725]

@Perney thePoet They're still in the same place as they were before. Just research Edo and Fon people. Most of the groups didn't really migrate, only the ones captured are in the americas.

[@thatbusdriverguy4182]

@@inaisese6725 These woman talking about City state which us part of Nigeria.. People from Dahomey which is now Benin nation

[@limonesycafe8898]

​@Perney thePoet The Kingdom of Dahomey was located in the modern nation of Benin. Prior to 1975, Benin was previously called The Republic of Dahomey.

[@haatpraat4019]

They are talking garbage. The 'resistance' in the first instance was not against Europeans, it was against black people in and around Dahomey / Benin who used European weapons to go inland to capture Africans who were not so well armed. These people from Benin / Dahomey were selling people into slavery into the 1880s. Their role was so deep that a President of Benin, Kerekou apologized to black Americans for their ghastly role in helping out the Europeans in the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade.

[@omolechonath4059]

U talking foolish u need to look at the video again

[@richlisola1]

Apologies? Hardly enough, Benin should pay reparations.

[@perfectpeanut9321]

I think you're confusing Benin Kingdom in Nigeria with present Benin of Dahomey. They are not the same. Mr Praat go and do your research very well

[@obiezedaniels5907]

Benin kingdom in Nigeria is not the same as the republic of Benin (Dahomey),same name , different places ,but both were slavers though,just one was more benign than the other ...the Benin kingdom would not enslaved thier own people but saw no qualms in enslaving others also.peace.

[@gregoryhouse9075]

You're confused. The Kingdom of Benin is located in present day Nigeria. The Kingdom of Dahomey is located in present day Benin. The two are not the same.

[@therealgodessisis]

You reap what you sow. Now you suffer for your past wickedness.

[@skywatchers9675]

Ancient egypt had slaves too.. Auset

[@rochelbey2025]

stop lying sister Benin is my ancestry Benon was a supplier and traders with European stop playing Victim, SHE says the criminals and the bad people were given to the slave master LOL

[@adedamolamartins3810]

The modern country of Benin is different from the ancient nigerian kingdom of Benin you idiot.

[@adedamolamartins3810]

The modern country of Benin 🇧🇯 is different from the ancient Nigerian kingdom of Benin.

[@016329]

You often hear the “but Africans sold each other” argument as if that somehow makes what the Europeans did better. I never understood that. Also, it’s not something unique to Africans. I am certain that if history had turned out differently and Africans had arrived in Europe looking to buy slaves, then warring European countries would have sold out their enemies - English selling French, Spanish selling Portuguese, etc, etc. It’s sadly just human nature.

[@The123somerandomguy]

I'd say that the African slaving argument is about proving that slavery wasn't a uniquely European sin.

[@MrJm323]

No one has EVER presented the "but Africans sold each other argument" as a way of excusing European slavery. Rather, the point is made whenever the Left tries to claim that what Europeans (or Western civilization) did is somehow UNIQUELY evil or "what the Europeans did" was WORSE than anybody else. ...You failed to understand THAT? (Also, we can have no doubt that Europeans would have sold other Europeans into slavery. All we have to do is look at what the Greeks and Romans did, and also remember that the very word [in English] "slave" came from "Slav", because in the late Middle Ages, the hill people of present-day Yugoslavia were often captured and sold to Venetians and Genoese as well as Muslim traders as slaves.)

[@benice7514]

@@The123somerandomguy yeh ur right am from Benin the history of slave is not taught there , because we were legit the once making deal with the white people and selling out people like criminals and stuff , until we had war with the white people the leader and the white people were cool

[@secureinformation4098]

please.....Europe raided, supplied guns, funded wars, kidnapped kings to force policy like in South America, destroyed Africa by installing banks and schools and paid these ladies, nice gloves.

[@limonesycafe8898]

@@MrJm323 I have seen the Africans sold other Africans argument presented in that manner. Multiple times. As if somehow African tribes had some influence over the legislation governing enslaved people in Western civilizations. This has nothing to do with Left or Right. There was something UNIQUE about what occurred with enslaving practices during Western European expansion, and that was the church prohibited the enslavement of Christians. The church literally sanctioned the targeting of non-Christians. During colonial expansion, this would later shift from non-Christian to non-European through theological and philosophical justification, and as Europeans began emphasizing differences (religious, skin tone, ethnic, place of origin) it shifted further from non-European, to non-"White." "Black" Africans became primarily associated with the institution of Colonial Western European slavery through theological, philosophical, and legislative measures. Measures that enabled the enslavement of "black" Africans and their American descendants, who also happen to be descendants of "White" colonial Europeans..

[@matthewmann8969]

Arabs had a huge part too

[@tahliah6691]

Arabs were the first slavers into Africa.....

[@tahliah6691]

@Charayaahla Israel you are African tooo deal with it....your dna doesn't lie

[@dididelgado3742]

I plead the 5th Robert E leakey discovered the first human bones in Ethiopia! There is no more full blooded Jews bc they intermarried

[@x-tremeios8380]

I plead the 5th Explain why they were singing kumbayah 🎤in Africa ?

[@MythDetect]

Wasn’t no arabs In Benin man stfu

[@toddmaek5436]

Everybody been lyin to us.

[@ctbt1832]

The lady talking is with red hat is wrong. How come no one is talking about how it was tribes going against other tribes and trading with the Europeans for their product for slaves. If people were handing people over as if they were bad people the amount of slaves would’ve never grew to what it was.

[@JesusProtects]

Propaganda. World leaders WANT a violent revolution, and they will use any weapon to achieve their goal. They will turn everyone against their own loved ones and family if necessary, telling as many lies as is needed. Young vs old, white vs black vs every other skin color, women vs men, low class vs high class, etc. The goal? A demonic new world order, the end of days. In this case, the people you see on the screen are useful idiots, used to brainwash the public and promote a racist agenda to demonize white people. But with the son of God at my side I can't fall for their lies, and my spirit will not fall into death in judgement day.

[@rightofcl]

My grandpa is from Haiti and 34% of his dna is from Benin

[@Rs9z.]

That’s probably Benin Republic🇧🇯 and not the Benin kingdom in Nigeria🇳🇬 that this video is about

[@hermesmcclintok]

Cool, get ready to pay 34% reparations as the blacks are slowly losing their minds around the world and blaming everybody but you.

[@nenecookz927]

@@Rs9z. ohhhhh! Thank you for the clarification!!

[@Rs9z.]

@@nenecookz927 No problem 🤝🏾

[@TheZenGarden_]

The history of the slave trade started with the Arabs 1400 years before Europeans, several Arab countries still practice it today!

[@Islamisthecultofsin]

@Maya Skars Mohammed didn't free slaves. He made them.

[@Meatwad787]

@@Islamisthecultofsin Freed them. Then encouraged every arab to free slaves.

[@Islamisthecultofsin]

@@Meatwad787 Nope. There is even a hadith that has Mohammed criticizing a female family member for freeing her slave girl. He said that she should have given the girl to one of her uncles.

[@rochelbey2025]

I am confused Arab is a culture , Islam is a religion , So doe that mean That west African Vodun wodun religion also practiced slavery, ????,, West African people arab or not practiced slavery correct?.. Could you also show me Arabs who were involved in the Transatlantic Slave trade?

[@JesusProtects]

@@rochelbey2025 west, east, north, south, every culture of every color has practiced slavery. There is no good guys here, we are all slaves to sin, and the only way to get rid of it is by faith in the one who died for us, the Son of God.

[@SeanCuttaBabineaux]

A whole lot of slave came from Togo, Nigeria, and Benin (Dahomey Empire). The nerve Hollywood glorifying the Dahomey Amazons. 🤦🏾‍♂️

[@nativequeen6089]

I couldn't bring myself to watch it even when it was put on Netflix...now I know why...they are still mocking us.

[@awakenisrael]

True we were sold but not by are own people African Americans are from a different seed please read ur Bible it tells u that we were to be sold it is in the book Deuteronomy. We would be sold and cast away into ship a land that we never knew. It's okay that they sold us because prophecy had to be fulfilled. Now as u see Africa is suffering for the great crime against Yah's people but the end is near there is no time for hate. SHALOM and all PRAISEs TO FATHER OF CREATION.

[@rickystansbury9134]

TIM ALI You are totally lost, you need to read and educate yourself! Explain these two scriptures; Revelation 2:9, Revelation 3:9 Please give me biblical facts and not doctrines of men!

[@jermainewoods7397]

Ricky Stansbury i can garuntee you and these" hamites"share thesame genetics.. also west africans arent hamatic.semetic ,or japethic

[@ceemurda2038]

Jermaine Woods well what are they please educate

[@julesmoro7166]

Is not true, the bible never said that all the Hebrews will be sold.

[@yahusefbenyisrael8705]

Ham decendants gave away Shem Decendants it's just that simple

[@becomingultimate6119]

Joseph Murdock BRO PLEASE DONT BE IGNORANT. KINGDOMS SOLD POW EVERYWHERE ON THE CONTINENT

[@yahusefbenyisrael8705]

@@becomingultimate6119 What's your point that still don't change the fact that Hamites gave away Shemites in the Slave trade Genetics prove that we are different

[@nunyabiznus37]

drunk on Biblical nonsense - it makes you feel superior to think you are part of a "chosen" race. Goodness, religion makes people ridiculous.

[@sydneyhoward3754]

@Yahudah Mourneth: Black Americans snitching on other black Americans? Were the hamites too? You are part of these brainwashes blacks we don't need in Africa. For the rest black Americans, please come home and build your origin.

[@Meatwad787]

@@yahusefbenyisrael8705 Detroit born and raised here. Great great granny was a slave in Cataula, Georgia. Pops, pops, was from Alabama. My maternal/ mitochondrial DNA is 98% Yoruba. Paternal/ chromosomal 99% Edo, just like the people in this video.

[@ejwlover]

Baruch 4:6: - Ye were sold to the nations, not for your destruction: but because ye moved God to wrath, ye were delivered unto the enemies. Baruch 4:15: - For he hath brought a nation upon them from far, a shameless nation, and of a strange language, who neither reverenced old man, nor pitied child. Baruch 2:30-35: For I knew that they would not hear me, because it is a stiffnecked people: but in the land of their captivities they shall remember themselves. And shall know that I am the Lord their God: for I will give them an heart, and ears to hear: And they shall praise me in the land of their captivity, and think upon my name. And return from their stiff neck, and from their wicked deeds: for they shall remember the way of their fathers, which sinned before the Lord. And I will bring them again into the land which I promised with an oath unto their fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and they shall be lords of it: and I will increase them, and they shall not be diminished. And I will make an everlasting covenant with them to be their God, and they shall be my people: and I will no more drive my people of Israel out of the land that I have given them. Jubilees 1 :13-16- And I will hide My face from them, and I will deliver them into the hand of the Gentiles for captivity, and for a prey, and for devouring, and I will remove them from the midst of the land, and I will scatter them amongst the Gentiles. And they will forget all My Torah and all My commandments and all My judgments, and will go astray as to new months, and Shabbats, and festivals, and jubilees, and ordinances. And after this they will turn to Me from amongst the Gentiles with all their heart and with all their soul and with all their strength, and I will gather them from amongst all the Gentiles, and they will seek me, so that I shall be found of them, when they seek me with all their heart and with all their soul. And I will disclose to them abounding shalom with righteousness, and I will remove them the plant of uprightness, with all My heart and with all My soul, and they shall be for a blessing and not for a curse, and they shall be the head and not the tail. 2 Maccabees 1:24- 29: And the prayer was after this manner; O Lord, Lord God, Creator of all things, who art fearful and strong, and righteous, and merciful, and the only and gracious King, The only giver of all things, the only just, almighty, and everlasting, thou that deliverest Israel from all trouble, and didst choose the fathers, and sanctify them. Receive the sacrifice for thy whole people Israel, and preserve thine own portion, and sanctify it. Gather those together that are scattered from us, deliver them that serve among the heathen, look upon them that are despised and abhorred, and let the heathen know that thou art our God. Punish them that oppress us, and with pride do us wrong. Plant thy people again in thy holy place, as Moses hath spoken.

[@hebrewessbryce9026]

Halleluyah×7

[@Zeebo216]

What Spiritual reading is this...why is the names of the books changed...like I know Baruch is I think either Deuteronomy or Exodus but I recognize the passage...I am studying the Old Testament...

[@nmagain24]

Who is baruch?

[@gabriela.ubebee.958]

This books of the Bible are not in all Bibles they're secretly found in some few Bibles be wise and stay blessed

[@Ntchrmusic]

😂 lol vintage lies

[@UniqueNei]

Omg I bought my mother an ancestry kit. Her dna is mostly benin. When I look at these women I can see the features. I want to visit.

[@jenniferfiler945]

Lov3lyme i see me to BENIN is my ancestral home as well

[@uose8627]

Folks need to be clear when discussing this that the women representatives here are from what was the Kingdom of Benin(aka Benin), part of modern day Nigeria, modern day descendants being the Bini, Esan and certain other peoples of Edo. Dressed here in traditional wear, note especially the coral beads which have royal, religious and customary significance. Benin Kingdom is not to be confused with modern day Benin Republic, also in West Africa (aka Benin). During slavery part of the Republic was known as the Kingdom of Dahomey; a major slave trading Kingdom. Typical of my people these honoraries are talking humbly though they are proud. The essence of what they are saying is that the Benin Kingdom had no strategic hand in the Atlantic slave trade, due to being inland, away from the coast and due to the strength and power of the Kingdom, via the rule of the Oba of Benin at that time. They fortified their Kingdom against attack; hear her references to the trenches surrounding their territory, aimed at disabling and trapping invading tribes/nations. (The most extensive found in Africa to date.) They treated Europeans as equals and did not fear them. As the lady explains only citizens who were an abomination to society; by way of their deeds, were handed over to slave traders as punishment. Folks, make sure you do your research and investigate; as to where slave trading was really taking place, how, who was involved and why.The Oba's Kingdom fought off and killed British subjugators successfully ,many times, until their kingdom's natural decline in the late 19th century. Hence the British could then send a reinforced expedition to sack and loot them succesfully in 1897. (See the Benin bronzes in the Britush museum for examples of what they took). Only from 1897 were they made subject to the British crown. Please be aware, there is no uniformity in Africa. Descendants who are serious about knowing their ancestry must stop tripping on the one storyline (kunta kinte is misinformative; relating to its African parts & relies on pulling heart strings). You say "they sold us, their own people for trinkets" (who are they? Were you their people?) Move away from what you've been sold and get into the complexity of Africa, that means learning about its complexity and sophistication. You've been sold a broad brush picture by those Europeans who have an agenda to apportion widespread blame, so as not to feel so guilty and responsible. Also Europeans have been mostly too lazy to care about accurately documenting on peoples whom they consider to be inferior by nature (reflected in their media and sciences). Further, they generally couldn't give much of a hoot about peoples they consider to be savages by default, peoples whom they consider to have no history; because of the absence of written records! Only valid data worth recording for them re: Africans, is for the purposes of helping them to exploit, manage, placate, manipulate, govern or confirm what they already believe about Africans better. Read! Read! Your books are your friends.

[@msvida121]

u ose e shalom family, can you direct me to quality references where I may gain accurate knowledge of ancient Dahomey kingdom as well as modern people of dahomey? Any help will be appreciated. Many blessings

[@jl2284123]

You must never visit the slave port in benin im also benin decent and cameroon/congo there was slave trade in benin call the point of no return

[@ayokz8344]

They are not talking about republic of Benin but Benin kingdom

[@boldbeautifullguardianange4658]

oh dear pure lies damage control they hated the Hebrews and still do

[@owusu369]

what do you know ?

[@zman9315]

@@reg83ny and ashanti akan are hebrews too

[@reg83ny]

@@zman9315 I know. But they stabbed some of their people in the back during slavery and they know it too.

[@holywater8897]

@@reg83ny Some of those people doing the stabbing ended up on the other side of the atlantic.

[@Child_of_Amun]

Some people really need to take history seriously and not just affirm their biases. We are not Hebrew, and the Ife people are free from this ignorance

[@levernedails8423]

Deuteronomy 28

[@thenigerianjew1698]

You are an Israelite

[@BedStuyBro]

Where are these people getting their information from? How reliable is this info?

[@aishabenyahmin2777]

I hear you. 👍💯

[@yorutorut1922]

Me also really want to know

[@lif3andthings763]

This is there oral history.

[@UNCLEREGGIE253]

It’s their history a lot of information isn’t found in a book. Can an outsider come into your neighborhood and tell you about the history of we’re you grew up.

[@darrenquiah9813]

@@UNCLEREGGIE253oral tradition is unreliable it’s like Chinese whispers the message can be corrupted from different peoples bias only within a small matter of time now just imagine a century😬

[@ihaveGoodintention]

Joel 3:6 The children also of Judah(negros) and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians,(greek) that ye might remove them far from their border.

[@Wood111112]

No Greeks in America then. Lol.

[@Atlas24gh]

Stop spreading this foolishness bible has nothing to do with black people . Stop claiming other people history and embrace your own. You are not no damn Hebrew

[@1deepIsraelite]

Everybody of importance in the bible was black, you've been decived

[@Atlas24gh]

1 deep and it makes you feel very good about yourself? what a bunch of delusional fools. i'm sorry that years after slavery was abolished a good amount of black americans are still impacted by inferiority complex. so they cme up with all baseless theories that cannot be proven. some even claim to be native americans or indigenous americans as they like to say. it is a very sad case.identity crisis is real afterall

[@jenohavin]

Jeshurun The jews of Bilad Al Sudan aren’t Black. They migrated from Morroco/ Maghreb, into Mali/ Songhai empire to set up trades, but were discriminated against. If Arabs/Berbers were caught trading with them the ruler of Songhai would take all their goods.

[@MI-vn4tp]

It would have been good to drop the music at the beginning of this video and narrate it.

[@MrShycity55]

Woman king lol

[@CW043]

@CW043 Also the Slaves that were exchanged into slavery with the Caucasian were often prisoners of trible wars ect... And in Africa even if you were a slave of tribal war.. YOU WERE NOT A SLAVE FOR LIFE!

[@CW043]

WRONG... Jah Jah of Oropabo (sp) a slave and a King twice in his life time.

[@ebisliva7700]

@@CW043 Not exactly... It was the same in the West. Many slaves were freed based on the benevolence of their masters. You don't use exceptions to explain the rule. Slaves in Benin Kingdom and some parts of Igbo were given marks on their faces and bodies. This served as a reminder that they were slaves and that's all that they would be. In fact, some scholars belief this is what ultimately lead to the "OSU" caste system that's prominent in IGBO society. Jaja was an IGBO slave that was Freed by a Bonny Trading House Chief. He was acculturated into the Ijaw tribe and given all full rights to live as a free citizen. Later due to disputes with other Trading Houses he had to leave and found his own town. To claim he naturally got free is absurd. And that wasn't much different from stories of slaves that later became free in the US, although they still faced discrimination in the South due to the color of their skin.

[@Originalking]

And! Y’all sold blacks

[@stefke5862]

Polygamy in Africa was the drive, most men were killed for you do not want revencious rival men in your midst. Europeans were mostly interested in men for labour so the men that were traditionally murded in the past were sold to the Europeans later on

[@gthunda1274]

this did not give me what I need

[@africanusworld9302]

Its the colonial narrative through 'African' mouths. Study Africa through the traditional Dogon griot, Irirah Naba etc. They will offer a history over the last 3000 years that is more pertinent to the indegenous accounts.

[@levernedails8423]

No you got what you deserved 💪

[@levernedails8423]

Deuteronomy 28

[@tbobbin6996]

Reparations?

[@boeingbwoy]

Who taught them this version of events?

[@swain4971]

It is their history not the propaganda the white man fill y'all with to keep you divided and not that foolish hamite and sham nonsense

[@tiantweems4754]

So before European interaction who were Africans selling other enslaved Africans to?

[@williamblackwell9558]

Arabs and when the British would not let them sell any more slaves they just put the slaves to work on their own plantations.

[@htntd2418]

Arabs

[@tiantweems4754]

@Nothings here please teach us how did this happen? In Pre colonial/pre Arabization Africa explain the enslaving/ bondage culture.Before Afrikans began taking on Arab/ Europeans values and thinking and selling themselves into European and Arab enslavement?? Are you saying Afrikans had their own slavery going on and the Europeans came in and extorted them out of their own enslavement?

[@tiantweems4754]

@Nothings here great build fam, not challenging nor debating you im asking questions for my own constructive knowledge In order to build and learn. I appreciate you responding. ? the Bantu migrations I’ve learned about were not about the spread of Afrikan culture through enslaving other groups but through sharing innovations technology, spreading civilization( iron smelting for tools, weapons, agriculture, language, science)Yes they warred, yes it was blood shed and this is where you’re saying the enslavement of African on African as result of the Bantu migrations?

[@teddyjam8005]

Sell outs

[@awakenisrael]

I have done my research and the bible is the book for r people and what research r you speaking of Egyptology?

[@SlickzMadeThat]

I absolutely love your brain.

[@b.e.7642]

Their head dress, jewelry, and gloves remind me of my Mother & Grandmother’s generation.

[@macmempho1809]

Baptist Church Type Shit! Church of God In Christ... 👌🏾 #TypeShit 💯 #WakeUpBantu 💯

[@mixumup1]

Akan sold many slaves, but they say Akan people are Israelites, so Israelites sold Israelites?

[@aaroniquetaylor8778]

yeah bro.. they had to round up a few for the white boy dem or they would have been round up and go into slavery.. so the chiefs of the villages sold the jail birds and criminals.. I understand that to the fullest it makes sense

[@msreenie]

Yeah we did it. The bible even mentions it in Amos 2:6 and Nehemiah 5: 5-8. Hamites sold us and so did some Israelites. In some cases they were backed into a corner, but some were just wicked and/or greedy. Why are we surprised? We have scam artists, crooked politicians, etc. among us NOW who sell us out. We need to admit and repent from ALL our sins to be reunited with the Father and build our nation again.

[@hebrewessbryce9026]

Yosef brothers sold him , we know our brethren!

[@solomonthell7589]

Was Joseph sold into slavery by his brothers?

[@sarahhudnall1670]

@@solomonthell7589 their hate and jealousy made them want to kill Joseph. Reuben, suggested selling him to preserve his life. That's why Reuben was compared to water.

[@juwe9516]

What about local chief and Oba who craved and having slaves..unliked the consequential repercussion of brutal for labours on plantations et.

[@Shellydelite]

Check out the videos gateway of no return, and the Tree of forgetfulness in Benin

[@ayokz8344]

#Shelly Delite thats in benin republic not benin empire Nigeria

[@ayokz8344]

#Shelly Delite you mean benin republic not benin empire

[@Melanin_Move]

I do believe to an extent their own was (ratted out) and most was taken. It's like this, if you have people raiding towns and interrogating you for people, others might become scared and rat out others of where they are.

[@gmeshell7]

They were given alcohol, mirrors, guns and things they thought were better than what they had, as a result, the Europeans had an advantage because of their weapons. The same thing happened in the Americas.

[@moniquefoote7880]

We as people of the Diaspora need to stop arguing with one another but unite. We can change the future if we can come together.

[@peace_of_beninp_o_b8275]

Old Dahomey now Benin du republic is different from old benin empire now Edo state Nigeria dey are talking about

[@busabusa5407]

If that being the case that would seal the cap on a lot of controversy regarding that some Africans American are a Hamatic people. That is of course if she mentioned that as a fact I may not have heard her clearly because I am at work. Can anyone please clarify?

[@StandUpGill]

They didn’t sell their own tribes. They sold who lived among themselves. To my knowledge. She also never said that they sold their own tribe. She kept saying “these people”. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nWe5mXpojpqhldk (Dahomey was a neighbouring tribe)

[@Rs9z.]

Most west African tribes sold other rival tribes

[@fromabove422]

how comes? like the lemba jew video there is a pinkman always there with a camera. Regulating what is being said. Because all other texts say Benin had a minimal role in the slave trade?

[@matsuihenriques2013]

I had a Ghanaian apologize to me for the role Africans played in the slave trade, albeit a smaller role.

[@cynthiaclark8707]

My highest DNA is from Benin /Togo 23%

[@Xitohan]

Cynthia Clark - Benin is country in West African. This video is talking about the Benin tribe of Nigeria. They are both different.

[@anthonyruss4571]

mine is 33%

[@mbundudna617]

Yes

[@pccolts1]

@@Xitohan The Benin (Empire) the Tribe used to span from Ghana to Cameroon. The countries names were made by colonials not the people themselves.

[@benice7514]

@@pccolts1 no it didn’t Benin kingdom was never that big I don’t where u got that information from .

[@nosauwuimwonse8226]

Nice one to all my EDOS

[@HebrewHoney777]

let them know fam. Israel awake!

[@rickystansbury9134]

TIM ALI Who are the they, that you are referring to?

[@Onneukbaar]

Hebrew Honey youre not a Hebrew you’re one of ours

[@fizi247]

Shalom

[@equinox95]

Everyone's had their turn with us, black power🤔

[@Dushmann_]

it's been your turn for too long. stop pretending you're oppressed and pretending you don't have almost all the power. now bend over and bite the pillow, massa's back.

[@aigbekaenosaigbovo8607]

These three women sorry to say, don't know a single history of the benin empire. That stretches from onitsha to Lagos and up to benin republic.

[@chidigodshieldokeke9137]

Onitsha was not founded by any Bini Oba or whatever... centuries ago, a small group of Bini and Igala people came as war escapees and immigrants into Onitsha and other Igbo territories.. onitsha people speak Igbo and not Edo.. Onitsha is and has always been IGBO!! sometimes I regret why the IGBOS accepted these immigrants in the first place.. it has cost us a lot of Identity crisis..

[@Rs9z.]

So onitsha is originally an Edo city?

[@YN-yy9xt]

@@Rs9z. didn't you read the comment Igbo

[@swain4971]

An empire consist of kingdoms and ontisha was part of the empire, it is safe to say the igbos migrated there for get greener pastures....... that's why the monarchy will still remain Benin, even though the rest citizen lose their beniness to the igbos the royal house still maintain it Benin heritage 😆.

[@swain4971]

​@@Rs9z.it is

[@MissFiyah1]

Blood on your hands; generational curse!

[@swain4971]

That's why the black Americans steady killing each other through gun violence and practice gayism and transgender activities. God help us to reduce the nonsense africa was suppose to be by using the Europeans to take you away I guess.......that the generational curse that's affecting y'all.. abomination

[@HebrewHoney777]

Ham and Shem...

[@Melanin_Move]

YESS. Glad to see that people got it. Shems always married Hams. All through the scriptures. However, the tribes of Israel always had rivals according to scriptures. Its why you see so many prophecies about jelousy, Efraims being rivaled against, Benjamites being attacked and slaughtered for taking the daughters from another tribe in Judges, etc. Ruth was a Moabitess or mozabite as that tribe is called today.

[@niyeenwilliams4909]

Hebrew Honey, Ham and Shem are brothers and sisters. Whatever happened we are all paying the price.

[@divalistical]

Exactly

[@ramonrayassen3245]

A tragedy but it's clear enough !!!

[@ktg8715]

He wasn’t supposed to be the king

[@IsraeliteApologetics3]

REVELATION 13:10kjv JOEL 2:27kjv

[@robinsonalex5051]

There's a difference between chattel slavery and indentured servitude . Proud Beninese 🌍🌍🌍🌍🌍🌍🌍🌍

[@ayokz8344]

#Angryafrican2477 hope your not referring to benin republic? They're talking of benin city in Nigeria

[@anthonyruss4571]

you still sold us out

[@ngang1957]

Angryafrican2477 that wasnt no indentured servitude in benin look at this kzbin.info/www/bejne/qZWqmKtsrbB0rKM

[@blueguise23]

They were slaves; not indentured servants.

[@isidoregbemetonou4707]

The King Adandozan is the only one against slavery He put the purchaser Francisco De souza chacha in gail But Ghézo make a " pact of blood" with De Souza and De souza help him in making à coup d’état for Adandozan. Guézo become King at his place and the selling and purchasing of slaves can continue. What l’m asking myself nowadays is what Black People is doing To get respect from others races. Continue complaining is not a solution

[@karenricks5630]

Ohhh its called a mote Greek Stole DAT 2 But anyway we had to have pain I saw the pictures no I didn't

[@mkaralis5766]

It was do not so... One the biggest reason, why was possible Benin's country was a disance... Africans participating in the slavs trade was due the horses question. Arabs everywhere do prohibited horses in Africa "for the do not Arabs"... Then such African, who was a view for Arabs, like a person - "fully against the Africans" (so - he do not will give them the best something) has a chance to have horses (or - cammels or so one...)... But I do believe - Benin in the slavs trade, probably, it is a question of separate "shows about" only...

[@jean-jacquesague362]

Please, please, do not lie; look at what happens till now, please, please, do not lie to the history!!!!!

[@Islamisthecultofsin]

+Jean-Jaques Ague They were telling the truth. An African king told the English that if they didn't buy the slaves that he would have them killed.

[@veilofpersephone1480]

Its no lie, slavery was widely spread among the african tribes and Kingdoms, not only in dahomey. Africans are to blame for slavery too, not only the europeans!

[@JesusProtects]

You really think you can point your finger to a single group of people and say "they are devils, because they are white, and they are saints because they are black"? Every culture of every color have practiced slavery, it was a common spoil of war. This world is fallen, everyone is trying to blame someone else, but this has been happening since the fall in the garden of Eden. We are slaves to sin, and Jesus, the Son of God is the only way out.

[@jean-jacquesague362]

You wrote that I am a liar, without knowing me, I thank you so much. God Bless You.

[@jean-jacquesague362]

@@Islamisthecultofsin You do not know me and you write in your comment that I am a Liar ; I thank you so much. Believe in what you think, it is not m'y business.

[@jaychristiano5628]

Have any of you white ppl heard of indentured Alavert

[@cynthiaclark8707]

Ok thanks for the info

[@karenricks5630]

Tell him.ask da King

[@karenricks5630]

Amino I just thought I was mehichano

[@yolandaliggins9000]

Will we continue to live in the " Past", or will we move forward.... In America we of African descent still are treated as second class citizens, yet many refuse to leave.. but on the other hand many refuse to forgive your African brothers for their mishaps. What is the worse of the " Two" evils? As far as I can see it Blacks in America would rather take mistreatment in America then seek out and know the truth. I myself have decided to let go of the past and embrace my 94% African culture.. 40% of it being Benin/Togo.. It's not as if America is doing any better by African Americans. We still live under the Constitution written during slavery, we still live under different laws, and many are aware and accept it. So get off your African brother and sisters back. If you can forgive your " Present" sin, you can surely forget your " Past" ones

[@drkchocolatguy]

Well said. I travel to Africa often, and I am always treated well. So well I certain would consider the treatment of my brother that looks like me over the treatment of the oppressor in the US.

[@emilysky4214]

Yolanda Liggins Well said: it’s done and hating won’t change the pain. My 93% African core (a dinosaur in these parts) is comprised of Igbo, Yoruba, lemba (Yah does live in his people) and surprise Ethiopian Jew, the Danites I assume. We know who we are if we didn’t then the truth is slowly emerging. For some people it’s hard to let go but as you implied it’s the only way to move forward.

[@negbefla6956]

My friend so not get mistaken for a rival tribe in anyone do the many countries in Africa where tribal warfare is rampant. Go to Libera for starters.

[@magsbayou]

I agree. I love that people are trying to push back against current day oppression. I think some people are not living the past but exhausted with fighting for equality. We have to remember generationally, it wasn't that long ago.

[@KandorX]

All of you people are pussies and a big waste of time. After knowing the truth about Africa how they sold blacks. Then even sold their farmers, engineers 😂 them dumbasses deserve to live in hunger. I would choose America 10x over fuck Africa with its dusty ass people and corrupt ass government or lack there of. A big middle finger to all of you fucks.

[@godamongstm1653]

They were sold as slaves too

[@karenricks5630]

Yah Told Me Like wat I said ya

[@kevinrice1085]

so Hebrew were in west Africa where we come from.

[@Atlas24gh]

Bible has nothing to do with black people. Stop spreading this foolishness

[@1deepIsraelite]

Benin used to be named the kingdom of Judah. It was a main slaving area

[@1deepIsraelite]

every prophet in the bible was black, dummy

[@Cr1ngeK1ngs]

1 deepIsraelite actually Ghana was kingdom of Juda

[@mikesibiya6024]

@@Atlas24gh rubbish, go read the book if zephania, it will teach you clearly that the people of God still exists in Africa and are beyond the rivers of Ethiopia....the bible is our history book, got it?

[@tosha213]

I'm 9% Benin & Togo.

[@Unknown-dj6xc]

This video is not about Benin the country it’s about the ethnic group in Nigeria called Benin or Edo.

[@donbateman6230]

Read books by forbes and sir richard burton and many others. watering ancestors.great slave hunt.bring back a slave or head or its your head off and many other savage acts .

[@karenricks5630]

But beautiful I can talk forever and wiggling my Tongue

[@boldbeautifullguardianange4658]

so who use to eat us unu must of been huger

[@jaychristiano5628]

Slavery*

[@PFResearch]

Hello wakandans thanks for your services. Tell Auntie I'll be to get those Olmec treasures and the beautiful golden brown women you stole from the west indies. P.S kilmonger nem'.

[@bloggtalk5085]

West africa and south west africa..not every african was into slave trade..

[@fannagirl1]

Thanks for this post

[@niyeenwilliams4909]

You are beautiful people you remind me so much of the People here. We are the dark races dispersed all over the world. Africa be blessed be strong.

[@AncientAngelCosmic]

It was prophecy being fulfilled, people! Just as Joseph was sold into slavery by his brothers, so was Judah's descendants were to be sold into slavery by the descendants of his brothers children! The prophecy was of YHVH, AND JUST GIVES PROOF THAT YHVH IS STILL WITH US! Now we Hebrews need to recombine and becomenone nation again! Great video. Thanks for sharing! Peace✌👋

[@leewuo4443]

How ironic.

[@leewuo4443]

That would mean Haitians Jamaicans and African Americans are Judah. I'm glad I came to the final conclusion of this truth.

[@leewuo4443]

I also know that the 12 tribes chart is a lie.

[@terrihenderson6483]

@@leewuo4443 Yes it is DEAD WRONG... all 12 tribes are black people

[@davidhi4981]

Black people are aboriginal native and Hebrew to the America’s . I don’t think all came from Africa

[@karenricks5630]

I love u found u

[@sidneylewischrist]

Some of you people need to educate yourselves about the African slave trade or the Atlantic slave trade instead of just guessing yes Africans sold other Africans and yes they was forced March to the Atlantic coast as well as the Indian Coast but y'all wouldn't know that I bet some of y'all don't know the even in America especially places like South America that when the Africans came they created African Kingdom inside the Americas

[@tossoufolly4779]

most of the hebrews were not taken. Secondly when XWEDA OR JUDAH was defeated by dahomey(in the belly snake) many people were sold. This is for the BENIN COUNTRY ACTUAL Benin KINGDOM WAS IN NIGERIA. THE SCRIPTURES NEVER SAID THAT ALL THE HEBREWS WERE TAKEN

[@MrSicc274]

It’s always your own that are the worst. My tribe enslaved other Maori for years in New Zealand. I’m not proud of it.

[@TalentedTenth]

At the end of slavery in America ...what happened? Was it all puppies and rainbows?

[@sawirusj4230]

There is no factual history to support the claim that INDIGENOUS Africans sold each other into slavery. To the contrary, primary sources prove that all aspects of the slave trade in Africa was between peoples of the Abrahamic religions, namely, Christians, Muslims and, to a far lesser degree, Jews. The Kingdom of Dahomey was founded long after indigenous Africans had lost their autonomous power to trade or profit from the slave trade. The Kingdom of Dahomey was founded after Europeans went to Africa and it was destroyed after Europeans ended the slave trade. The globe was divided into Western and Eastern hemispheres. The Spanish were given the West and the Portuguese the East. This means is that all lands, minerals and peoples within these two regions belong to Portugal and Spain. Why did the French, Dutch, English and Portuguese fight each other for the land?All aspects of the slave trade between West Africa and Brazil were controlled by mixed-breed (creole) Portuguese-Africans whose loyalty was more to Portugal than Africa.

[@sawirusj4230]

​@kizzy1369, I am open-minded, so when you wrote that there are plenty of evidences, I thought for a second that I would have to change my views on the topic. But I was disappointed to see that you don’t seem to understand the difference between hearsay, myth, legend, folklore, and historical facts. Take for example, you are a citizen of a country, but that doesn’t mean you are an expert on the history of your country. You have heard a lot and probably even taken some basic history lessons, but that doesn’t mean that things went down the way you were taught. The Kingdom of Benin was created in the 17th century and destroyed at the start of the 20th century. This means there was nothing called the Kingdom of Benin prior to the 17th century and it also means that the Kingdom lasted for only 300 years; for the sole purpose of the slave trade. The Kingdom of Benin was created at the same time the Portuguese, Danes, British, French, and Dutch began building slave forts at Ouidah(Whydah) in the 17th century. In the late 15th century, the Portuguese visited that area and inquired about slaves and were told by the King at Abomey that they did not sell their people, so the Portuguese found the area useless, until France, England, Holland and a few other European moved into the area in the 17th century. Not one of the forts built at Ouidah was built by Africans and Africans did not own any ship. There is not a single record of African merchants selling slaves at Ouidah. When in the 16th century the Christian Kingdom of Congo resisted the slave trade, the Portuguese joined with their pagan neighbors and declared war on the Kingdom. When a King at Benin protested the French, he too was deported to Martinique in the 1800s. Europeans destroyed every kingdom in Africa and the Americans when indigenous peoples disagreed with them. The creation of the Benin’s Kingdom and the rise of the slave trade in that region coincided with Europeans acquiring lands in the Caribbean and soon realize that there were not enough labor to work the lands, so having tried to get ‘workers’ from Europe and that didn’t work out, they turned to Africa.

[@sawirusj4230]

@Lorie L Sorry, I don’t follow the comments, so I missed your comment for 2 years. I have done extensive research in the history of slavery from Roman Times all the way to modern slavery. Both Christians and Muslims have left us documents of their negative stereotypes of Africans and why their Abrahamic religions demanded of them to enslave Africans, so the idea that indigenous, pagan Africans were trading with the “People of the Book” is total nonsense. By the 15th century, most European countries who could afford it had a standing navy in the Mediterranean to emancipate their citizens from Muslim slavery in North Africa. Not a single European ship was stationed anywhere in pagan Africa. This means that prior to the 15th century, Europeans knew almost nothing about Sub-Saharan Africa and there is not a single record of black pagan Africans selling each other into slavery anywhere in Africa. This is all lies designed by Arab-muslims and European Christians to blame Africans for their crimes against humanity.

[@sawirusj4230]

@kizzy1369 , I agree with much of what you have to say in this post. I will write a response tomorrow.

[@Ajanibakari]

@shifragri If whites never created the slavetrade there would be no trade at all. there was no trade b4 whites came and created one. Africans never had a trade 4 ppl. Africa wasnt colonized cause the slavetrade, colonization was a new form of slavery

[@aspeltaofkush3540]

What about the Arabs and African Muslims that think that they are Arabs? The Trans-Saharan Slave Trade was older than the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. In fact the Arabized African tribes are still selling non-Muslim Africans as slaves to Arabs in the Middle East and North Africa.

[@owenss1234]

There was a trade before the arrival of the Europeans, and it was called trade by barter, an exchange of goods for goods, and they later traded with cowrie and gold before the Europeans came.

[@disposaldisposal8596]

That’s why they say some women should not speak in public. These women are saying absolute rubbish. The Empire of Benin wasn’t involved in anyway or form in giving their own people to slavers. In fact they fought and resisted the Europeans and their imperial flag at the time clearly depicts and Benin Empire swordsman decapitating a British fighter in battle. The Benin Kingdom was the only kingdom/tribe that resisted and fought against European slavers/thieves/marauders/soldiers. These woman are mostly wrong in their accounts of historical facts and need to go back to theirs chiefs and historical fact keepers to seek factual information.

[@Child_of_Amun]

I swear some people need to study more about the history of Ile-Ife. The amount of ignorant comments underneath this video is amazing. 🐑 🗡

[@allenmarcelin6323]

Our Hebrew brothers on the continent should welcome Yahudah in the Americas .open your hearts to us .We both went through a horror of great darkness together by the hands of mainly Ismail and Edom Rome .Offenses were to come but woo to them by whom they come . Cause a great gathering in your Lands ,spread the word The Almighty Lord God is visiting His people Israel and there is a great shaking going on around the world. Call us ,we will come.

[@amunprimotep5659]

Exodus 22:20 ► “Whoever sacrifices to any god other than the LORD must be destroyed. -- voodoo wizards are not jews

[@boydfloyd3955]

All hail the woman king!!!!

[@MarioBro7100]

Fuckin paper Hats.

[@brianjones3274]

We as Africans are not accountable for trading our brothers and sisters

[@blmtrejureydepourtment5899]

yes you are

[@TankDavisConquers]

Yes you are. You will pay

[@Universalbeing0]

Yes you are

[@UppityOne]

Slavery on the continent of Africa was very different than the chattel slavery of the Americas. The few Africans who willingly participated in the slave trade did NOT know exactly what the captured Africans would endure.

[@brianjones3274]

@@UppityOne Agreed, they thought it would have been the same as it was in some African countries but nope, it sure wasn't!

[@user-wr4yl7tx3w]

Rewriting history? Annual Customs of Dahomey en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annual_Customs_of_Dahomey?wprov=sfti1

[@youngblackandgifted]

Not Dahomey in modern day Bénin Republic, Benin Kingdom in modern day South Central Nigeria