Exposing Africa's Part In The Slave Trade

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@ADayInHistoryOfficial Жыл бұрын

It's vital that we strive to know the complete history surrounding this deeply painful period in human history. Understanding the roles played by different regions and parties, including Africa, helps us paint a more accurate picture of the past. Thank you for tuning in.

@luyandzabavukiledlamini4693 Жыл бұрын

I appreciate your work thank you I learnt more about history here than I ever did in school

@lIlIlIlIlIIIlIllIIllIII Жыл бұрын

Important to bring light to this reality of "African complicity and origination" in slavery. Though, it should be noted that white racists will use this as an excuse to (1) justify slavery and (2) racism. I doubt that even the kings and rulers who procured slaves in Africa would ever agree to the kind of denigration and oppression that whites inflicted on blacks in the colonies. Also, I doubt these African sovereigns who developed the slave trade ever drafted, wrote, or created documents waxing on about the "liberties and freedoms" of man. They did not hide who they were - just powerful warlords and dynastic authorities who had the ability to enslave people. Show us constitutions and edicts written by these very same black enslavers if you are ever going to play the whole "Africa bad like Europe" card. Hypocrisy and deep-rooted contradictions in civilizational values play fundamental roles in the particular crimes that euros have committed against humanity.

@MR-backup Жыл бұрын

Real Students of History & Historians have been saying this story for decades, yet every modern day college & university campus across the USA will say your video is a lie.

@rafaelvilas4230 Жыл бұрын

what a channel

@synaestesia-bg3ew Жыл бұрын

Finally,OMG. Finally someone put Africa's responsibility. As someone who is biracial and have seen African's evil up close,i totally agree with you . Enough hypocrisy and white men's burthen, black people are just as evil,racist and psychopaths.

@dekev7503 Жыл бұрын

One thing that many non-Africans (especially blacks in the Americas) don’t realise is that, there was never an “African” identity. There were countless individual city states, kingdoms and empires that did not see themselves as one, most of them were bitter adversaries for centuries. Europeans were very successful in colonialism because they were able to conquer each city state one by one, at times with the help of the vanquished’s local enemies. They then amalgamated the conquered tribes into colonies and these colonies went on to become sovereign countries after independence. The problem now is that, as a result of these countries being formed by multiple ethnic empires that were bitter rivals for centuries, they still harbour resentment towards each other and a house with opposing foundations cannot stand. This has lead to countless civil wars and skirmishes in almost all the modern countries on the continent.

@luyandzabavukiledlamini4693 Жыл бұрын

A truly accurate comment

@RedRiverMan Жыл бұрын

thanks for that and many of us Africans in America do knoe this. I am questioning though the phrase "non Africans especially Blacks..." Are we no longer African because some greedy bastards of many tribes decided to make money by selling our ancestors to Europeans? This is why the African peoples of the world continue to be divided in ways no other major group is. Please don't separate us further from where we came by excepting us from "Africa". If a Nigerians chikdren and grandchildren are born in the US are they not still Nigerian if also American by birth on that soil?

@elqord.1118 Жыл бұрын

So the same thing that happened in the Middle East in terms of nations built for very different cultures/tribes explaining all the wars we see to this day

@siddeeq3712 Жыл бұрын

I agree with most of you're comment. I disagree with the first part of you're comment. I'm a so called black American and most of us are aware there was no such thing as Afrocentrism or Pan-Africanism in Africa prior to Transatlantic slave trade. We have a long tradition of black studies and African studies in our Colleges and universities. In fact, everything in this video, I learned 20 years ago in College So please don't assume we don't know our history.

@ahmadtrip4623 Жыл бұрын

If your from this country you would know Many blacks in America don’t know this because of the education system put in place they never taught that part of history in a lot of schools.

@waywarddrifter677 Жыл бұрын

Historians don't get enough credit for how vital their roles really are in society.

@flyingtoaster1427 Жыл бұрын

what roles are that?

@Korksbebig Жыл бұрын

@@flyingtoaster1427Education.

@edwinamendelssohn5129 Жыл бұрын

People prefer propagandists over historians. Truth is called, "whitewashing."

@EattheApple666 Жыл бұрын

@@Korksbebig Big part of America thinks Knowledge is bad. example- "I love stupid people" - Donald J. Trump , "I love Donald Trump" - Stupid People.

@dextercochran4916 Жыл бұрын

@@EattheApple666lol DAT SALT

@Cleanslit 7 ай бұрын

As an African, this story is often overlooked! Our so-called kings were involved in the slave trade

@Mesiguir 6 ай бұрын

Yeah you're not an African

@mattsouthon2489 6 ай бұрын

Yeah because they were getting rich af 🤑

@NontokozoZulu-q8w 5 ай бұрын

Not in zimbabwe its not, the role of Africans in the slave trade is taught in schools. Stop generalisation

@maskedpoetcommentator345 5 ай бұрын

@@NontokozoZulu-q8w they're probably talking about America

@markosanto 5 ай бұрын

African sold into slavery the Israelites who fled there to escape persecution, captivities of Assyrian and Babylonian. Furthermore, Spain Inquisition (Nebuchadnezzar put Israelites in Spain), French UK had expelled all black Jews to Portugal and Africa. The Pope gave permission to King of Portugal to send them into slavery.

@talyadalaha 2 ай бұрын

Big shoutout to the school system for never even mentioning these things

@EbubeEzenwa-w1r Ай бұрын

Brother u have a big point

@GIOVANI-PERRY Ай бұрын

I learnt this in school.

@EbubeEzenwa-w1r Ай бұрын

@@GIOVANI-PERRY 🙄🙄🙄

@xoxothx Ай бұрын

@@GIOVANI-PERRYme too in my african america studies class

@legitspartan9102 Ай бұрын

@@GIOVANI-PERRYI learned a surface level version of this in Highschool AP US history

@jculver1674 Жыл бұрын

Hilariously, when Hollywood made a big-budget film about the Dahomey a few years ago (The Woman King), it portrayed them as anti-slavery crusaders and fighters. This was the historical equivalent of a WWII movie where the Nazis fought against antisemitism. It just illustrates how the movies are a terrible place for people to get their history.

@flyingtoaster1427 Жыл бұрын

you brought up stupidity to support your argument (and hollywood a glom of something we know nothing about)

@ring-tone278 Жыл бұрын

Slave trade was carried out by evil Caucasian Europeans in complicity with Arab Slave Traders. Do not blame the victims for being the victims. The British empire and America is built on slavery. Evil empires. It is a racially inspired vlog with nothing to contribute but miss-information.

@ring-tone278 Жыл бұрын

Bound and shackled in chains and whipped like a beast, for 400 years the gory trade of slave trade carried on while the world watched. Uprooted from their families and transported to strange lands and cultures to adapt; We mustn’t forget that it is for slavery that black folks are in the Caribbean, United States and other parts of the world. No other continent in world history has been treated the way Africa has. All Black people wherever they be in the world are one. You do not need any other identity. You are an African.

@odenoki9571 Жыл бұрын

@@ring-tone278are you talking about the way africa tribes treated each other? Im not good with history

@sanjushah3061 Жыл бұрын

So true. Africa still has the largest amount of slaves in the world today. ' The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty but to have a slave of his own.' -Richard Francis Burton.

@MarcusC21 6 ай бұрын

I bet this won’t ever be played in any classroom

@33thousand55 6 ай бұрын

They already do I believe it’s white Americans that’s trying to take slavery out of the school books altogether so that they can sleep better at night or whatever

@tallmidget1395 5 ай бұрын

So is knowing supposed to make what happened to black people more acceptable or something? I understand Knowing the full story but people use this like it's supposed to change something?

@ntl219 5 ай бұрын

@@tallmidget1395similar to why Japanese need to know what they did in the past. Not like can they change it or smt

@buddyfaya8631 5 ай бұрын

The biggest reason why is it enables whites to TRY TO excuse their role..

@kimt1776 5 ай бұрын

@@tallmidget1395 it's supposed to enlighten those who choose ignorance over facts because they love being short sighted and self centered. Some people just want someone to blame for their woes and the idea of sharing blame with your own ancestors for any of it is just beyond comprehension for them. Slavery has always spanned countries and creeds, still does. But some are just too selfish to even acknowledge those still suffering today. Sad.

@Althedemonking1076 2 ай бұрын

As a Nigerian these are things we're taught as children in Primary School, we even had excursions to the routes that the slaves passed through, it's our history so everyone knows here, no matter how bad it's taught

@brandonmedeiros1 4 ай бұрын

Funny thing is you have people here saying Africa had slavery! Bruh there is still countries in Africa that have slavery

@Nobodydefinitelynotsomebody 4 ай бұрын

7 million What is the extent and nature of modern slavery in the region? On any given day in 2021, an estimated 7 million men, women, and children were living in modern slavery in Africa, a prevalence of 5.2 people in modern slavery for every thousand people.

@rosejames5172 3 ай бұрын

@@NobodydefinitelynotsomebodySlavery still exist in Europe , asia and america.

@Nobodydefinitelynotsomebody 3 ай бұрын

@@rosejames5172 it doesn't exist in Europe, America. It is illegal.

@Nobodydefinitelynotsomebody 3 ай бұрын

@@rosejames5172 in Asia there are places that have what I would call slaves.

@rosejames5172 3 ай бұрын

@@Nobodydefinitelynotsomebody Lol, so because drugs are illegal in america it doesn't exist? There are thousands of slaves in europe and america , Google is your friend.

@MrStephen9938 Жыл бұрын

The truth hurts. I've been telling folks this for years and have lost friends because they wanted to blame European folks for this evil deed. African Kings sold their enemies from different tribes to them for gold and modern weaponry the time.

@Kasson2 Жыл бұрын

Ok here cultural context is VERY important. Let's not forget that the meaning of slavery in African context and European contexts are different. In many West African societies, rulers and ruling kingdoms/empires had slaves yes. But slaves within African societies had better living conditions than slaves in the Americas. Not only that but European countries like Portugal, France and England were very active in African politics during the slave trade. They would actively work for the removing of African leaders that were against the slave trade and support both financially and militarily leaders who would be ready to export slaves. This historical fact is major to show that no matter how you want to look at it, African were more victims than authors of this tragedy. The ones in favor of the slave trade were just a minority of elites motivated by their own self-interest.

@Ace_boy318 Жыл бұрын

Does that gives Europeans the right to do what they did ?

@Mtl-zf9om Жыл бұрын

There were few cannibalistic subsaharan tribes that literally fed on other minority tribes to project horror, fear and superiority over their neighboring rivals. Previously the Arabs and later Europeans just had better defenses and equipment to deal with the savagery. Now, Africans accuse Europeans only to get leverage in illegal migration and to ensure that first of the month money transfer.

@TBButtSmoothy Жыл бұрын

dah fuck? slavery is slavery regardless who does it. Go to the mines nowdays and see if its any different than the europeans@@Kasson2

@whitewolf9547 Жыл бұрын

@@Kasson2they literally just said the African kings would behead up to 4,000 African slaves in a single day 😂. How is that better treatment than the Europeans? Yall will do anything to be the victim and have hate towards white people. You need to do some soul searching

@ruachspiritual9324 11 ай бұрын

6:59 The Akan tribe is modern day Asante Kingdom in Ghana. I’m Ghanaian and we know our history well and how our royals were an integral part of the slave trade. This is quite accurate and very informative. Great video

@cee5773 11 ай бұрын

No wonder Africa's children in the US don't like to work they've ancestors beancestors been slaved working everyday 10 hours a day plus

@TrueMcSunshine 11 ай бұрын

I did a DNA test, and found out I'm 2% African of Senegal and Nigeria origin. I feel horrible my African ancestors were slaves 500 years ago, and taken from their motherland. I am so grateful the same ancestors were strong enough to survive, and marry my Indigenous and European ancestors.i would not want to live in Africa.

@cee5773 11 ай бұрын

@@TrueMcSunshine your ancestors sold you to the whites for slavery. Never forget

@andriandrason1318 11 ай бұрын

@@TrueMcSunshine My 2 percentage 🤦

@slowyblood3803 11 ай бұрын

i came from the moon and i saw allens allens told me dont belive anything and ask for prove

@Aydin-Adam Жыл бұрын

This isn't talked about enough. The transatlantic slave trade was horrendous. But nowadays people act like Europeans invented slavery when the transatlantic slave trade began. Never any mention of the Indian Ocean slave trade, never any mention of how normal slavery had been for centuries. Context matters. The full story, which is to say, the full *truth* matters. It's possible to tell the full story without justifying the horrors of the only thing people want us to remember or care about.

@lao-ce8982 Жыл бұрын

Exactly. It was not only presence but really important part of every empire and nation before the Industrial Revolution. The transatlantic slave trade was a lucrative business for both Europeans and some African nations who sold their captives as slaves. What was going after in the US is a different and awful scenario, but in American is you say slavery that automatically means white on black slavery, and the educational system must be blamed. And the agenda that most of the teachers bring into the classrooms.

@D4rthsunny Жыл бұрын

and the biggest gripe i have with the awful shite was what happened after slavery in America... to ALL poc here. Residential schools, jim crow laws, redlining, sundown towns, the Chinese exclusion act... and they had the factor of race to rely upon during the 17th century. I like don't need to say more cause i'm guessing you know.

@donq2957 Жыл бұрын

Europeans invented racism not slavery.

@D4rthsunny Жыл бұрын

@@donq2957yep, it was their means to justify it when folks questioned chattel slavery, and the treatment of those people. I'm aware it's deffo not unique to America.

@Jay-jb2vr Жыл бұрын

*People just need to face facts. Slavery was a normal part in human history at one point - Europeans and their descendants benefitted the most from slavery. That's why they always get the so called "blame" and will continue to do so. Crying about it, isn't going to do anything. It's not going to fix the damage that was caused by European slavery either.*

@gensdupays 2 ай бұрын

Funny thing, I was taking with a Senegalese woman about slavery, and she told me that they took pride in that because that made them rich. She was proud of Muslim colonialism.

@mcmerry2846 Ай бұрын

Yeah, her nationality doesn't matter many people in Europe and America say the same... And just like that many people from Africa, Europa and America talk against that

@maureenjossick429 Ай бұрын

@@mcmerry2846I don’t normally hear of Americans bragging about their part in slave trading- we would be pitted so quick! But if you’re a certain color, or ethnicity,or religion- THEN you can say these things and no one bats an eye. And this lady ticked all the right boxes in our disgusting descent into experiments of Identity Politics..

@Residence0fUtopia Ай бұрын

"it's easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than a rich man to go to heaven" Jesus , so true

@myrtillesm3532 26 күн бұрын

For the extreme majority the sifferinf was atrocious and unbearable. May they be right in heaven beside God himself

@Balqis-ti1uf 21 күн бұрын

Slavery is part of war

@michaelmyers3508 Жыл бұрын

All history MUST be told in its entirety, the good and the bad, if we don't record our actions accurately we cannot learn from them.

@pod11th31 Жыл бұрын

Have you actually tried telling people truth, especially in matters that they had been lied by media? People really don;t like when yo show them they were cheated.typically don;t care about truth.

@IAteTheAntiChrist Жыл бұрын

People will not learn from them anyway.

@IAteTheAntiChrist Жыл бұрын

@Homosapien5 a small group didn’t matter, the masses have and will continue to embody the definition of insanity.

@supremecaffeine2633 Жыл бұрын

@@IAteTheAntiChrist A small group is aften all that's needed. As most progress was originally caused by th few, not the majority

@quantumperception Жыл бұрын

Something not done here

@johnnycasteel7 Ай бұрын

Fun fact: EVERY CULTURE THAT HAS EVER EXISTED has had slavery.

@silusmkhwananzi3121 Ай бұрын

The Zulus never had Slaves, nor did the Bemba.

@johnnycasteel7 Ай бұрын

@@silusmkhwananzi3121 that’s easily provably untrue

@MayankPrasad111 Ай бұрын

@@silusmkhwananzi3121 WE WUZ KANGZ N SHEET

@xaviert8664 Ай бұрын

Is that your way of saying slavory is ok? Cuz yall made laws to make life harder for blacks out of pure hatred

@paulkreider9441 Ай бұрын

@@silusmkhwananzi3121 John Wright pointed to trade in ivory and slaves as the impetus for social and political change within northern Nguni societies and argued that evidence exists for the Mthethwa, Ndwandwe, and Zulu trading slaves to the Portuguese.

@EricaHansberry 11 ай бұрын

I learned about Africa's role in slavery in college. Man that was a tough pill. A year ago I read Zora Neal Hurston's book Barracoon. Heartbreaking.

@MKRex 11 ай бұрын

Africa had no role in slavery. The West Africans kidnapped, raped and sold. We're not wilful, cheering participants. Everything the occurred during those 400 years, both to those taken and left behind, was a devastating, disastrous, life and death situation, they never should have been subjected to to begin with

@justinlast2lastharder749 11 ай бұрын

Surprising they actually told you about it. Most Colleges just say white man bad and did all bad things that ever happened.

@obiyanko2019 11 ай бұрын

Sister, it was not "Africa!" There were many states that were not victims or participants in the transatlantic slavery. To blanketly says "Africans" is to accuse the Zimbabweans and Zambians and and other many nations of something they had no part in! It is well documented. Let us not jump to emotional generalizations.

@tyrone1450 11 ай бұрын

No one denied africas part. We live in America so we only learn the American part if we lived in Africa we would learn this part

@EricaHansberry 11 ай бұрын

@@obiyanko2019 Well we know it's blanketed, not to imply everyone had a role in it, but to acknowledge that Africans did participate in the enslavement within the continent and the export of their own. Yes this only applies to specific countries.

@xXxDisplayNamexXx 11 ай бұрын

Why is this not taught in American schools. This is significant, and I personally learned a lot, which says a lot about how the public school systems are here.

@phatcat3705 11 ай бұрын

Exactly! I questioned who sold the slaves because, obviously, the Europeand didn't just invade and kidnap the locals, but wasn't given any answer because it wasn't part of the lesson plan, until I read about them as an adult when reading a book about pirates, which is a lot more exciting than any of the legends, and how Africans profited from slavery as much as the slave traders did. If schools taught REAL history, kids would actually want to go to school (and our society would be more stable), instead of feeding them fictional (and hateful) nonsense like "critical race theory," among whatever kool-aid they "teach" in school these days.

@jlow3777 11 ай бұрын

This was taught in my school, and was literally part of the AP world history exam back then, so I doubt it was unique to my school either

@creativetalks5984 9 ай бұрын

I didn’t learn it into I was a adult! Seems like they won’t to keep was separate and fight! I am a black woman and this makes you rethink things a little!

@nelsonward5829 8 ай бұрын

@@jlow3777 most kids are not in AP classes. Clown shoes 🤡 if you don’t know most of this is ignored throughout public schools in America..

@nelsonward5829 8 ай бұрын

It’s not taught in American schools because it will be damn near impossible to make kids think that white people are to blame for slavery if it was taught.

@Life_in_Motion74 8 ай бұрын

Truth is all cultures, colours and creeds have been enslaved at some point in history. In all cases though, there is one common theme, the 'elite' or rich enslaving the poor and vulnerable. Thanks for a well put together account of history!

@SageZthoth 3 ай бұрын

You know European slavery was one of the worst forms though right? You seem prettymisinformed and I can tell.

@AllenAnderson-b6t 19 күн бұрын

@@SageZthothMuslim slavery was worse up to 3 million Africans died due to castration alone.

@somindlesssmedia 3 ай бұрын

As a black American I took a west African studies class in college so none of this is new to me lol it was a business. I will say I think the reason the trans Atlantic slave trade gets a lot of attention is because it ultimately reshaped the whole western world to what it is today. This whole side of the world between the indigenous population almost becoming extinct the black and mixed race ppl here etc. just my take. And great video.

@NegativeAccelerate 2 ай бұрын

I totally agree. And I can see how it can feel like you're somehow dismissing the entire suffering of black Americans by saying that their ancestors supported it.

@mathistruth9105 2 ай бұрын

Remember who is responsible for creating the great slave machine. This is all hand waving and a red herring. Makes people sleep better at night

2 ай бұрын

it is better to read a book made by an african itself called : THE SECRET RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN JEWS AND BLACK PEOPLE generally talking about how jews use blacks as weapons/guardian dogs against jewish competitors such as whites!!

@GolAcheron-fc4ug 2 ай бұрын

All education is extremely valuable. It’s good that you learned that stuff because not everyone is interested in these important periods of history.

@jc9923 2 ай бұрын

Well said. It’s a sign that life in general has gotten so easy for so many that it’s easier to blame other people for your position in life rather than to do the hard work that is needed to elevate that position.

@loisakitakaya4353 Жыл бұрын

As an African I can confirm that this is true. It's shameful that we treated our own people like this, but it's the truth nonetheless. The most important, and most painful part of healing is the acknowledgement and acceptance of the truth.

@JeepCherokeeful Жыл бұрын

And don’t forget all the African slaves that were sent to the Middle East. As we see in the video!

@zimriel Жыл бұрын

I think what is important for everyone to understand is that *Europe* was not united. Portugal and Spain and France were never friends to each other; they competed against each other. Africa is even larger than Europe. Why should anyone expect Africa to be more united than Europe?

@sidhantsharma9961 Жыл бұрын

@@zimrielSee, this video is not made to compare africa’s part in the slave trade with Europe. It just highlights that African ethnic groups did have a part. Most leftists in the states don't acknowledge this. It takes two to tango (enslave).

@Likexner Жыл бұрын

But they werent "your own people". Your pan-African mindset is a new age invention. You are projecting that mentality on them. The different African tribes / kingdoms / empires had about as much in common with each other as medieval England and France. They did not see all Africans as "their people". When the Vikings enslaved the Irish, were they enslaving "their own people" just because they were all white? Of course not.

@okgroomer1966 Жыл бұрын

You speak as if it's a past tense practice. It's still alive and well in central N Africa and sporadically done over most of the continent.

@Mclovintit 2 ай бұрын

Why isn’t this in our education system/curriculum?!? Why does our government and many others treat history with the upmost secrecy and choose deception rather than truth? Can someone please answer me, it’s truly baffling to my mind.

@bonkus4073 2 ай бұрын

because they simply want to point the blame on the white demographic as a distraction from the oligarchy old masters that rule the shadow government

@icyblue4541 2 ай бұрын

That Europeans perpetuate the suffering of mankind and created a new world and displaced Native Americans to supply their needs? Why would they. Look deeper

@craigmorgan7310 2 ай бұрын

Because it won’t make the government money to teach you this

@luv83 Ай бұрын

It's in higher forms of education. If you take African American studies in college. You will be taught this. It's the same reason why neo slavery isn't taught in schools. It's just not part of the curriculum.

@gankfrombush Ай бұрын

@@luv83 such bullshit

@jollygoodgordon5580 4 ай бұрын

*which slave trade tho? Cus Arabs were our first colonisers and in fact they’ve never stopped taking Africans as slaves even TILL THIS DAY!*

@ChristianMatos-hb5ik 3 ай бұрын

The transatlantic slave trade.

@jollygoodgordon5580 3 ай бұрын

@@ChristianMatos-hb5ik nah that’s the one done by Europeans

@Wadiyatalkinabeet_ 3 ай бұрын

Yup, the Middle East still conducts in highly illegal slave trades today among its people and Africans.

@chasedownblocks1736 3 ай бұрын

Stop playing victim

@jollygoodgordon5580 3 ай бұрын

@@chasedownblocks1736 No victim here, just stating historic facts. if we gonna recognize slavery done to africans, we should recognize all, which incudes the arab muslims, the first colonizers and slave traders of african people.

@purebloodstevetungate5418 Жыл бұрын

While people venerate Mansa Musa as the richest man in history that he gained his riches off gold and salt it is a fact he was a devout Muslim that exported millions of Congolese Africans to India and other caliphates around the world more than the entirety of the later 200 year long Atlantic Slave trade his predecessors are almost exclusively the single greatest exporter in the entirity of the African Slave trade from the 14th-17th century.

@takiyaazrin7562 Жыл бұрын

We captured excellent women for ransom. We decided to have sex with them but by observing 'azl (Withdrawing the male sexual organ before emission of semen to avoid-conception). We asked Allah's Messenger (ﷺ), and he said: It does not matter if you do not do it, for every soul that is to be born up to the Day of Resurrection will be born. Sahih Muslim 1438a

@kaleahcollins4567 Жыл бұрын

AND ALL THE EUROPEAN ROYAL FAMILIES DID TOO SO STFU

@kaleahcollins4567 Жыл бұрын

AND THE ROMANS SOLD AND HELD THEIR ONE PEOPLE INTO SLAVERY TOO

@tfkdandsvkc Жыл бұрын

Send citation we just can't assume you are saying the truth

@Owen-C1997 Жыл бұрын

@xahani1287 i was taught that in school.. i was taught africa was rich off its gold and salt alone and not slavery.

@apollosapothecary 11 ай бұрын

Being that my dad is from Senegal, I appreciate you talking about the intricacies of slavery as well as acknowledging established African empires, and focused on the actions of people as individuals rather than the actions of a collective race, which happens far too often on every side. There were brutal rulers out there as well as empires with forms of slavery that most wouldn’t associate with the word, if described, given the Western portrayal and connotations. Slavery ,like many things, is a spectrum, and race doesn’t exclude a humans capability for depravity. The further you look back in history, the more brutal the details get regardless of the ethnicity or the culture holding the sword. Huge props for acknowledging that the British and other nations were using abolition as a justification for colonization too. That’s literally how it played out. They traded straight up slavery with economic slavery to avoid looking like blatant hypocrites. Case in point; in Senegal, my fathers country, their currency is still French (but can’t be used outside of France’s territories), this is while having foreign contractors and their own government slithering around crippling a pre-crippled economy. It’s wild, but everyone plays a part. Proof yet again that nothing happens in a vacuum and a testament to ANY HUMANS capacity for depravity given the right set of circumstances. Conclusion… Treat people like people, because the universe is like a pendulum. It always swings back. Awesome video man!👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

@theharshtruthoutthere 9 ай бұрын

Mankind is still in the slavery: you are a salve too, to this very day, why do you sound of not know? in childhood you attend to school, where you shall spend up to 8h of your life. Soon you`re adult, serving BAAL from 9 - 5. And you`re home in your tiny box, consuming all these items the prison for your mind produce. Now tell me dear soul, ain`t that also being a slave? cause to my eyes, still unnoticed, where`s the life worthy to be living? The signs and symbols rule the world, yet we complain about the laws. We reject all the opportunity to seek out the truth, to break free from being in the hated slavery. We cry about the past, not getting it that its the present in which we live in. Now, can`t you still not agree, we to be a perfectly obeying BAAL in our daily slavery. Mankind`s destiny is lake of fire if we don´t come to repentance and born again. Mankind wants freedom, then step out from BABYLON, repent form your sins and born again.

@NeepNeepPohn 7 ай бұрын

@@theharshtruthoutthere Is this like a Warhammer quote or something?

@veronicajensen7690 6 ай бұрын

and that is in my opinion one of the reasons why there are so much push in "identity" policy where they focus on a certain version of history , they wan't to divide black and white so we don't focus on what is going on in the world today, I only learned about the french currency in some African countries because the Italian PM Georgia Meloni said it, this is extremely unfair and unethical, the good thing is a lot is changing in the world right now

@theyellowmeaning 6 ай бұрын

I would argue there's a unfairly implied equivalency in your statement here by likening the british and the french. the british significantly improved their colonies, while the french did much less. so, similar to your comment on intracacies on the levels of slavery, there are also intricacies to the oppression and uplift brought by european colonialism.

@apollosapothecary 6 ай бұрын

@@theyellowmeaning agreed. There’s so many layers to this stuff, yeah? I appreciate the constructive comment. For obvious reasons, I’m not as well informed with the differences between British and French colonialism in regard to their benefits to the areas they occupied. However, as with anything I’m sure there was some good done especially considering the British has always been a beast compared to most other empires. I’ll educate myself further on that blind spot🤙🏾 Happy learning✨

@johnnycasteel7 Ай бұрын

Moral of the story: life is VERY complicated.

@mhappy4520 Жыл бұрын

Sounds like West Africa needs to be paying reparations...

@john1425 Жыл бұрын

Because Africa is poor.

@DjTIMEJD Жыл бұрын

So after America pays reparations to Foundational Black Americans, you think West Africa should be next?

@godofthisshit Жыл бұрын

@@DjTIMEJD Yes. To the Caribbean, Black Latinos, and American Descendants of Slavery.

@paulsheppard1108 Жыл бұрын

They are they are given african americans citizenship.

@godofthisshit Жыл бұрын

@@paulsheppard1108 That’s not reparations but it’s good. They need to remove the business aspect from the process.

@Eboli-dx5mq Ай бұрын

This video was very informative and interesting. Thank you. As an African-American woman I knew that there were various African tribes that participated in slavery. I will admit that I was not aware that the level of cruelty for some of these tribes and or kingdoms were this severe. Again, I thank you for this information.

@Felipe_XIV-XVI Жыл бұрын

Some corrections: • The Akan & the Gold Coast are not from modern Nigeria. The are from modern Ghana.

@setsaimu Жыл бұрын

Blackness is still not really a thing in Africa today. Many Africans identify with their tribe rather than their skin. Blackness only becomes a thing outside of Africa or in South Africa

@bruhvibes5941 11 ай бұрын

Yes because of socialization with European descendents...which is the true culprit for woes of racism.

@tb1235 7 ай бұрын

@@bruhvibes5941Racism existed before Europeans and Africans came into contact with each other.

@liya5082 7 ай бұрын

@@tb1235 the concept of race was literally started by the Portuguese. Do you even know what racism is? lol

@serine6174 5 ай бұрын

@@liya5082 so you mean there was no racism before that ? 💀

@denacook7033 4 ай бұрын

There was Tribalism. There's no need for color discrimination if we are all the danger color.

@luyandzabavukiledlamini4693 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for exposing this important part of the truth about slavery White people imported the slaves but most of the time they didn't go around with nets or guns capturing but that work was fellow Africans more than willing to make business with the slave dealers

@CHARIOTangler Жыл бұрын

Too bad that a certain segment of the population that needs to be made aware of this information will either ignore it, dismiss it, or never come across it. They'll continue to embrace the popular notion that they were brazenly kidnapped from their supposedly free and happy continent and enslaved by evil Europeans and Americans.

@danilopolar6476 Жыл бұрын

Bruh that almost too much stupid cause this is just “reliving” the guilt of slavery, is like saying it’s not your fault to buy something if there was someone selling and there’s only people selling it cause there is people buying

@drtonyfoochie4895 Жыл бұрын

Nothing was "exposed" this history has been known for a very long time. Its just that Americans are stupid and America's blacks are willfully ignorant of these facts.

@MsDrusilla666 Жыл бұрын

@@danilopolar6476 buyers and sellers have equal blame. and black people had slaves also. they have them to this day. you should check out child slave labour in the congo today. black congolese forcing children to work on mines.

@weedmanbrandon Жыл бұрын

@@danilopolar6476 nah blacks been slavers for most of history. Ancient Africa was built by blacks enslaved by blacks

@danielalexander2824 2 ай бұрын

My Girlfriend is Dominican. In the mid-1800s, While North America was fighting for emancipation from slavery, the Africans in Hispanola enslaved the Dominicans for ten years, leading to a war in which the Dominicans won their independence. This contrast, alongside the one in this video, that of Africans not only being the victims but the perpetrators of Slavery, is an integral part of history. It goes to show that, unfortunately, every race and color has partaken in slavery. Focusing on the 100-year history of Slavery in North America vs the 4000 years of Slavery worldwide is extremely narrow-sighted

@carlitoclout65 2 ай бұрын

Is that why Haiti and DR kind of have a conflict today ?

@mimorisenpai8540 2 ай бұрын

African? You mean Haitian?

@skimgettinkindamoney 2 ай бұрын

Well the reason we look at the 100 years more in my opinion is because it continued based on the fact that our skin was darker than the other man. People calling out their right to own their slave. Being labeled as 3/5s of a human. Myself knows that the African tribes were involved but American slavery became a race thing after awhile.

@marvel1101 Ай бұрын

How are Dominican and dont know ur own history Haitians are the only type of blacks that defeated European colonization at its peak of the slave trade after haiti defeated France Santo Domingo at the time was fighting among each other for leadership and in 1821 they decided to overthrow the Spanish government and declared independence from Spain, Jean-Pierre Boyer of Haiti offered his support and allow him in the city of Santo Domingo with 10,000 soldiers which led to occupation . haiti ruled D.R for 22 yrs .. smh. You know nothing about nothing you must be young AF. 🤦🤦🤣

@marvel1101 Ай бұрын

@@carlitoclout65no D.R had a racist dictator named Rafael Trujillo that started that nonsense until he was assassinated in 1961

@avirei98 Жыл бұрын

This is why I tell people I'm not African American. I am American. I was born here. My ancestors have been here for hundreds of years. My ancestors were both the colonizers, the indigenous and the enslaved. Me and Africans are not the same. We just share a skin tone. I don't even like the term black because my skin is very much so not black but I still prefer it over African American. We will never know who's ancestors were ripped from Africa or who's ancestors were sold from Africa but considering there was only one area where they were being sold and most were ripped from Africa along the rest of the coast. I would love to get a DNA test done to figure out which part of Africa my ancestors could have come from. My pain for Africa is that they were taking advantage of by the Europeans resources and land stolen, but there is still slight disappointment knowing that some of their ancestors sold my ancestors for nothing. They gave up their land to the Europeans for nothing. What guns? It's just disappointing and the same issues that plagued Africa then that allowed them to get taken advantage of is plaguing Africa and it still keeps them from rising to the levels of the European or Western nations today. Granted now I am a part of the western nations because this is my home, but after learning about world affairs I couldn't imagine being born anywhere else. So I guess it's like a thank you old Africans that sold us. We may have it have endured enslavement and bigotry but overall it could be worse. I would be okay with being called African American if we called white people European Americans but I don't ever hear anybody say European american anywhere. So it just sounds like intentional language to "other" us as Americans. When I think of an African American, I think of an African who was born in africa who moved to the United States and got citizenship. Their children will be American first generation. Or they are heavily a part of African culture but are American. I am not trying to be disrespectful to my ancestors, but if they start designating us as different kinds of Americans, I feel like they could open up laws and rhetoric that will allow them to separate us legally as a different kind of American

@pbxn-3rdx-85percent Жыл бұрын

Much much worse. Africa in the late 20th century alone was the world's showroom of tribal genocides (example: Rwanda 1994), civil wars, coups, revolutions, more genocides, strange worm parasites (Onchocerciasis), cannibal dictators (Idi Amin), tribal wars, epidemics of killer diseases (Ebola), famines, anarchy (South Africa), etc.

@wajahatali2717 Жыл бұрын

If u r black nobody needs u to tell them in europe or america who you are .. they already know who u are and where u came from. The cops dont choke an innocent white man with knee on his neck to death or shoot white teenagers for smoking a joint on the corner of the street do they ? Whites dont have to take to the streets ib the thousands to let other know that their lives matter.

@cowel8734 Жыл бұрын

Amen, from a fellow American

@Krimo Жыл бұрын

your african american

@goldbluetears Жыл бұрын

its just the nature of power. As soon as one kingdom had access to european guns others needed to arm up or be conquered, so slavery became a necessity to maintain soverignity. There is no need for you to feel self pity and denounce your african ancestors. Europeans fought, massacres, enslaved other europeans since the beginning of history that doesnt mean white americans whine around and denounce their european roots. You seem to have a infantile view of history and life in general. In the US black gangs kill other black gangmembers with guns of the white man, sell drugs to other blacks made by white people to satisfy their lust for power and dominance. This is even worst since they are not even differen ethnic groups or empires with ancient rivalry. By that logic you should denounce being a black american too.

@sanjushah3061 Жыл бұрын

Africa still has the largest amount of slaves in the world today. ' The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty but to have a slave of his own.' -Richard Francis Burton.

@flyingtoaster1427 Жыл бұрын

and the source is...

@CrystalHotSauce1 Жыл бұрын

Nobody wants to touch on that tho..bc people grow up with the poor me mentality. More people are enslaved today than all in history.

@CrystalHotSauce1 Жыл бұрын

@@flyingtoaster1427 7 million Africans of the 50 million worldwide. Google is a useful source ✌🏻

@flyingtoaster1427 Жыл бұрын

@@CrystalHotSauce1 what do you know about that? we all know what America is.

@CrystalHotSauce1 Жыл бұрын

@@flyingtoaster1427 America is what? Do elaborate. Sanju stated a fact. You asked for the source. I gave the source & added the numbers. I'm actually appalled people are more upset about historical slavery vs current slavery, and those that are upset about historical slavery WERE NEVER ENSLAVED THEMSELVES 🤪

@QueenNYC113 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for exposing the truth about African slave trade. It's important for people to have facts instead of half truths. History shows that every great civilizations/countries had slaves...Roman's, Egyptians, Japan, China, Russia, Germany and the slaves come from many ethnicities. It's a shame our society chooses blissful ignorance over factual, historical events. Keep up the great work. The research you do is the missing link in American primary/secondary schools.

@flyingtoaster1427 Жыл бұрын

wait a minute. Only because you do not question, you call it truth. That's pretty good bar talk, but quite a cold mantel you have to wear...

@ring-tone278 Жыл бұрын

@flyingtoaster1427 Жыл бұрын

what do you know about the Etruscans over there where "civilization" was brewing ... you decide what history is. right? PS/ you think having a box you call your own is the epitome of any civilization?

@boosted__ Жыл бұрын

@@flyingtoaster1427 cry

@user-dz4eb5rb3g Жыл бұрын

Lol you have no idea how education works in schools

@climax050 Жыл бұрын

I've always found it amusing that lots of people (American's in particular) are so uninformed that they believe Europeans showed up, jumped off their ships, walked through half of Africa, found a village, grabbed some people, got back on their boats and left. The British abolishing what was a hugely profitable business simply on the basis of ethics and then enforcing that in every place they could is one of the most shocking moments in world history for me, they actually decided that it was so bad they had to go out of their way to stop it.

@johnrambo6314 Жыл бұрын

The British abolished it after they took a vantage of it. .

@MrTimothy87 Жыл бұрын

Here we go with the godly Europeans who abolished slavery cause it was so bad..I don't know why everyone has a fascination with slavery..slavery in Africa wasn't the same in America or other European countries..slavery was happening all over the place..everyone takes bits amd pieces to fit their narrative which is silly and laughable..

@climax050 Жыл бұрын

@@johnrambo6314 you don't think they could have kept taking advantage of it if they wanted to? Like you know, everyone else did? That line of thinking makes no logical sense.

@wilfredpeake9987 Жыл бұрын

It wasn't for moral reasons slavery just isn't that good for the state as it creates power structures that are not reliant on it. If some guy controls a large group of people and you need them for something, you basically have to deal with an evil middleman to get it. Think of it as a logistic system you start seeing how slavery just creates lazy idiots.

@benlewis5312 Жыл бұрын

@@johnrambo6314 Of course they took advantage of it, but the entire world was also taking advantage of it. The British deserve some credit for abolishing slavery decades before the vast majority of the world. Their abolitionist movement inspired abolitionist movements throughout the world. It is highly unlikely that abolition would have occurred as early as it did in the Americas without the British paving a path forwards

@gauisblach7757 Жыл бұрын

Wait, so why don't they seek reparations from Africa....

@carlinthomas9482 Жыл бұрын

They are not as gullible as Europeans, and they haven't been brow beaten like Euros have.

@godofthisshit Жыл бұрын

@@carlinthomas9482 Wait, you're on the side of the enslaves or the enslaved and their descendants?

@thesonofqueenidia3007 Жыл бұрын

Because Europeans decided to traffic them overseas (rather than release them), enslave them in a new land for centuries, relegate them to the bottom rung of society and still continue to oppress to this day

@floydfanboy2948 Жыл бұрын

The Africans would laugh them away and point with their index finger to their forehead.

@negbefla6956 Жыл бұрын

Technically, the African sellers made a one time profit from the sale. The white European and American buyers had a lifetime profit extending to generations from the initial purchase (in cases where the enslaved had children).

@anthonymartinez8488 2 ай бұрын

I seen a preview of the new Gladiator movie, and there’s a black Roman senator. 😂😂, Hollywood is out of touch.

@dabbingraccoons6416 2 ай бұрын

If this is true that is absolutely crazy. Representation shouldn’t be an issue in a historical movie.

@DoktorKleiner Ай бұрын

dont think he is a senator, but a wealthy noble from somewhere close to roman africa (axum, maybe?)

@Globalfaction 4 ай бұрын

It makes the issue of Reparations real complex. Might as well call it quits and move on in life...

@thermologo3451 2 ай бұрын

Not at all. Simply pay reparations to Foundational Black Americans.

@dakkossman2063 2 ай бұрын

Your head was heavily influenced by the concept of an oppressor and oppressed if you think about this in the first place

@EarthtoneEmar 2 ай бұрын

Nah buddy we want those checks.

@a.w.3772 Ай бұрын

@thermologo3451 Native Americans owned Black slaves and some Black families had their own Black slaves. Some AAs are only 10%;Black, 90% White. So who pays who? Reparations will NEVER happen. The whole world experienced slavery. Move on.

@JustinMartin-i4x Ай бұрын

Not complex at all. Africa should pay reparations.

@Alexander-Kurtz Жыл бұрын

Mauritania became the last country in the world to abolish slavery in 1981, but no criminal laws were passed to enforce the ban, until 2007, due to international pressure.... Despite that, the number of slaves in Mauritania was estimated at 2.1% of the population in 2018, by Global Slavery Index organization.

@cichlid9626 11 ай бұрын

this is true mauritania still had a few slaves

@Alexander-Kurtz 11 ай бұрын

@@cichlid9626 Please do not tell that to the Afrocentrists who believe that a Back man is incapable of predatory behavior upon another Black man...

@alFaCentauri16 7 ай бұрын

@@Alexander-Kurtz Mauritania's population isn't mailly Black though. And you will see that most slaves are people of Sub-Saharan descent, "owned" by people of North African descent...

@janrdoh Жыл бұрын

This is what you call an inconvenient truth.

@ring-tone278 Жыл бұрын

@godofthisshit Жыл бұрын

@janrdoh For?

@janrdoh Жыл бұрын

@@godofthisshit For those that push the message that Africa was a utopia where everyone sat around the campfire roasting smores until the white man showed up.

@D.W.C935 Жыл бұрын

@@janrdohFriend as a White Man Did White People live in Africa Peacefully at some point prior?

@dimieneyitemi1721 Жыл бұрын

@@janrdohthis a common truth and most of the time it’s white Europeans who push the idea that Africa was one unified state attempting to fight off Europe together under one banner still will never change the evil Europeans did before and after they brought the slaves over the Atlantic can’t be a market without the buyer

@Zombiecane Жыл бұрын

THANK YOU. FINALLY SOMEONE HAD THE STONES TO SAY IT.

@Loafin2010 Жыл бұрын

Don't be so quick to get carried away this does not give anyone white and living the right to cast stones in their own favor because of this two wrongs does not make it right

@dfsdfsdf34 Жыл бұрын

When did they say or imply anything like that? Stop projecting.@@Loafin2010

@cuchulain1647 Жыл бұрын

@@Loafin2010 If you have two males, both are child molesters, do you really care if one has red hair and the other is blonde??

@MR-backup Жыл бұрын

No, people with boulders have been saying it for decades.

@lenudan Жыл бұрын

Lol... This is common knowledge and he didn't 'expose' anything. also.. how a slave became enslaved and by who or how... is totally irrelevant.

@Mr.Sinister84 Жыл бұрын

Great historical work. Without any bias or hate filled finger pointing, just facts from the pages of history. Really hits home thinking of all the lives ruined and or lost over over wealth and power.

@petermoller4447 Жыл бұрын

Now lets look at the j**ish role in slavery shall we.

@gzpo Жыл бұрын

Can you do more on the Arabian (eastward) slave trade?

@carlinthomas9482 Жыл бұрын

Yes, also the slave trade as it existed in India would be interesting as well.

@jameslewis1605 Жыл бұрын

Maybe Africa should chip in on reparations or accept repatriation

@DjTIMEJD Жыл бұрын

Not for American atrocities. Africans didn’t conduct or create any of this in America. 200 years of race based GENERATIONAL Chattel Slavery. 100 years of Jim Crow, Black Codes, Vagrancy Laws, Homestead Act for white Americans only, Racial Housing Covenants, Redlining, Blockbusting, 1955 Highway Commission Act, Urban Renewal, Eminent Domain, COINTELPRO, Assassinations of Black Leaders, Police Sanctioned Murder and Brutality, Convict Leasing, School to Prison Pipeline, Mass Incarceration, War on Drugs C!A flooding Black communities with drugs and military weapons, denying Foundational Black Americans Social Security the first 30 years of its existence, Debt Peonage, white Only FHA Loans and GI Bill, 1994 Crime Bill. among many other atrocities and racist policies against Foundational Black Americans. Let us not forget about the purging, destruction, and burning down of successful Black communities by white supremacist Americans like Tulsa, Rosewood, Wilmington (NC), Omaha (NE), Springfield (IL), Corbin (KY), Columbus (TN), Elaine (AR) and etc.

@soultraveller5027 Жыл бұрын

They can't do that it would admit they were right up to Thier neck in it before the white man no no no Black lives matter😊

@godofthisshit Жыл бұрын

@jameslewis1605 Of course. African nations, European nations, and American nations all owe a debt.

@idontwantahandle10 Жыл бұрын

Get a job @@godofthisshit

@Raccon_Detective. Жыл бұрын

Don't forget the Arabs especially.

@Arcticpig 8 ай бұрын

Much respect for you putting this video out there, even though we all know what some will say! Facts don’t care about your feelings or personal beliefs! Already knew about this history, but I think it’s important work you’re doing. Keep it up.

@Yezpahr Жыл бұрын

I first heard of this in elementary school, verbally, from a teacher that went on a full-hour tangent. That was 27 years ago. It was never mentioned by any teacher or in any books in any school or any tv show / youtube vid I saw since, until now. At one point I was even made unsure if I was remembering it right as I got called a racist just for recalling it, wrongly in their opinion.

@charlii7386 11 ай бұрын

Usa choose what to teach to their nation, I thought that was obvious

@derekw3069 11 ай бұрын

The teachers union would fire that teacher if they did it now... I had a teacher being warned never to mention his political views(15 yrs ago) Only because the teachers union doesn't agree. The teachers union has grown too powerful.

@Yezpahr 11 ай бұрын

@@charlii7386 I don't live in that nation, but USA's reach goes far beyond their borders, we have Americanized just like the Ottomans Westernized (or tried to).

@goofygoober7617 11 ай бұрын

@@derekw3069Teachers are not supposed to mention their views regardless of if they align with a union’s views. I also had my teacher openly teach about this despite the fact that he was in a union. Being educated, properly at least, can be removed from politics

@nitinh2499 2 ай бұрын

Great video… A real eye-opener! Thanks for all the detailed information. 👍🏼👍🏼

@feedyourmind1 7 ай бұрын

The editing skills is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💯

@robertsimpson8169 Жыл бұрын

Slaves still exist now.. mostly in Africa and Indian sub continent

@GhanianNana Жыл бұрын

Lies

@robertsimpson8169 Жыл бұрын

@@GhanianNana no it’s not lies. They even use children.

@GhanianNana Жыл бұрын

@@robertsimpson8169 India maybe , there’s no slavery going on in Africa

@lucid227 Жыл бұрын

@@GhanianNanaSo all different sources, a large number of them, that claim millions are enslaved in Africa are all lying, but we're to believe you're correct because?

@britannicgeneral7460 11 ай бұрын

@@GhanianNana😂 If you think that's true you are delusional. Look up Joseph Kony for example... he has an army of child slave soldiers.

@rodglen7071 Жыл бұрын

Well done and timely, while schools teach a decidedly one-sided view of this sad part of inhumanity. Didn't see this yet on Rumble - looking forward to it.

@ring-tone278 Жыл бұрын

@Wasteland88 Жыл бұрын

@FFFFFFlivesdontmatterThere's plenty of schools that don't teach the part African nations played in the slave trade or it's just skimmed over with a passing mention. They used to teach the whole story when i went to school, but somewhere along the way they stopped teaching it in a lot of schools. I can't tell you how many people I've come across that are dumbfounded whenever they find out how big of a role African tribes played in the slave trade. You can see alot of peoples reactions right here on KZbin learning about just how much the African tribes helped fuel the Atlantic slave trade, and every other one as well.

@dubjubs Жыл бұрын

@FFFFFFlivesdontmatter No we chose the side of history, something clearly that upsets you.

@dubjubs Жыл бұрын

@@vp2718So what? It's a good (still needs improvement) alternative to KZbin

@rodglen7071 Жыл бұрын

@@vp2718 I see YT eliminated my link to A Day in History's Rumble channel. All funny until the censors kick in.

@danhughesartist Ай бұрын

A very brave channel to take on unpopular this topic.

@MrSupernova111 Жыл бұрын

This was extremely well put together. Thanks!

@EmperorDionx Жыл бұрын

The fact alone that Africans fought harder to keep slavery than to end it is why I can't view them as brothers

@4Waridi Жыл бұрын

But those people are long dead.

@Von_99Slingshot 5 ай бұрын

And from which source did you get this information?

@beautiful8853 2 ай бұрын

Better fix the ghettos

@lao-ce8982 Жыл бұрын

First and foremost stop calling the trans-Atlantic slave trade as “the slavery” slavery existed throughout our past in every single empire. The ottoman, Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Roman Empire. They are in the Bible, the Quran and the Torah as well. Americans think life started in 1492 or 1776…

@worganfreeman2694 Жыл бұрын

If there's a buyer, there has to be a seller.

@zurren9340 2 ай бұрын

In Swedish schools we also learn a bit about the natives that made the slave trade possible. And i think many places does this. Don't know if exposing is the right word

@vasilisconstantinides4476 7 ай бұрын

History channels which portray the truth are honestly the best. Mainstream media is very adamant on portraying a very woke yet untrue portrayal of history. Keep it up and thanks for being a truth teller !!

@fb1256z Ай бұрын

And this is why reparations should never be given

@lindanorris2455 8 ай бұрын

Finally the AFRICAN ROLE IN THE ANCIENT SLAVE TRADE ROLE IN SLAVERY COMES OUT ON YOU TUBE!

@RaptorJesus. Жыл бұрын

9:14 there was a movie last year called "Woman King" it showed the story of the brave Dahomey tribe and their fight against the evil British slavers..."based on a true story"...when in reality the Dahomey tribe were brutal enslavers of their enemy tribes and their only conflict with Britain came when we told them to stop enslaving people. they initially refused but we finally got them to sign a treaty saying that they would end slavery, and then they broke the treaty when we left... noone wronged africans more during the slave trade than other africans. and noone did more to end slavery in the west than the ones who are portrayed as the villains, Britain.

@gfabrice971 11 ай бұрын

If slavery was widespread in Africa, what are the words used to describe this practice in African languages ? Let's not forget that during the Roman Empire and right up to the end of the Middle Ages, Slavonia was a reservoir of slaves. The medieval Latin term sclavus, meaning "Slav" in the 7th century, came to mean "slave" in the 10th century. Generally speaking, Slavs from the Balkans were intensively traded from the early Middle Ages onwards. By the way, Woman King is just a movie. Find out more about Yovodah.

@nelsonward5829 8 ай бұрын

@@gfabrice971 do you realize Africa is one of the few places were slavery still exists today?

@gfabrice971 8 ай бұрын

@@nelsonward5829 Take it all the way: WHO still does it ? Have you heard of the Modern Slavery Act passed in 2015 in Great Britain ? Have you heard of human trafficking in the West ? Have you heard about the immigrants who come from Romania, Bulgaria or Poland to work in the tomato fields of Italy, for example ? Have you heard of those Bulgarian mothers who go to Greece to give birth and have their babies adopted in exchange for money ? Let's go further: how many "Jeffrey Epsteins" are there in Africa ?

@motherhoodsbeauty9279 5 ай бұрын

This movie the reason why i found out slavey started in African. Such an eye opening.

@thesahel7218 4 ай бұрын

@@motherhoodsbeauty9279slavery started in Africa? What are you talking about

@golf869 Ай бұрын

Never forget real history! And pay attention they are changing what happened in the past to fit false narratives.

@feenarvaez65 Ай бұрын

Facts!

@magala9287 Жыл бұрын

I applaud you all for talking about something that is going to be touchy. Thank you for being factual.

@dougbutcher4452 Жыл бұрын

Great video. Hope you don't get cancelled for telling the uncomfortable truth.

@AntoineWilliams7118 4 ай бұрын

As a black man, this is what we call black privilege and excellent

@myrayglasgow6320 Ай бұрын

How was that black privilege not know your own history in the truth of it. Here is a conservational topic, let’s not justify slave.

@Thekoryosmenstribepodcast Ай бұрын

YES!!! Wake up white men and women. You are not evil, your not bad. Be proud of who you are!

@blissybae Ай бұрын

Yeah . Be proud of treating people of color like animals. Ofc

@nataliejanvrin1751 Ай бұрын

Absolutely proud of my white skin all of us should be I'm a white woman and our men have nothing to be ashamed of at all yes . United we stand

@Svensk7119 Жыл бұрын

According to one source that I have heard, there're more slaves today than at anytime before. Credit to one of Simon Whistler's many channels for saying that. If that is true, that is the most disturbing and disgusting fact of history of which I have ever heard. A Holocaust that continues to this day.

@AndrewGeerlings Жыл бұрын

Oooh my friend, you're discussing a whole lot of historic reality and truths a whole lot of people do not want to hear in 2023 ;)

@siddeeq3712 Жыл бұрын

False, only the new so-called Progressives don't want to hear it. As an educated person of color, this is old news. I learned this in my African studies class 20 years ago.

@egodeath_ Жыл бұрын

It’s literally public knowledge 😂 it has several public wikipedia page literally called “the african slave trade”😂 you acting like this is some new info lmao.

@ring-tone278 Жыл бұрын

@JacksonAfroman Жыл бұрын

This is common knowledge lmao

@harry.flashman Жыл бұрын

Reparations! lol

@petegarnett7731 Жыл бұрын

Not just a part. The centre of it. The transatlantic trade was a small fraction of the total. The world owes a debt to the British for their almost single-handed war to destroy it on both sides of Africa.

@thomasfriesejr.9198 Жыл бұрын

According to this video, they say "Up to 10 million over thousands of years" went East. Estimates of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade are around 12 million. In just over 300 years. Not at all a "small fraction".

@carlinthomas9482 Жыл бұрын

@@vp2718 The British are among the most demonized people today, they deserve some gratitude. Also, having some artifacts in the British museum hardly makes an economic impact.

@godofthisshit Жыл бұрын

@petegarnett7731 Shouldn't the abolitionist(Black created movements) be more celebrated?

@anthonyjames2021 Жыл бұрын

@@thomasfriesejr.9198 The video said 10 million went north over a thousand years and another 5 million went east over a shorter time both from the Islamic slave trade, 12 million went west with the trans Atlantic slave trade over 400 years and what was not mentioned as an estimate was internal African slave trade amounting to a very conservative (lets say 5%) 70+ million over a thousand years out of the 1.5 billion who lived during that time and that would just be the slaves captured through wars and raids not including debt slavery within tribes as that was treated totally differently as they were seen as the same people with religious, cultural, familial and language ties so 12 million out of 97+ million over a thousand years and that hasn't even factored in all the people killed in capturing those slaves which could have been as high as 40%. Maybe not a small fraction but a low one at least.

@ThermicLight 11 ай бұрын

The British didn't abolish slavery in those parts out of the goodness of their hearts. Rather they did it against their political threats. Namely when it came to slavery within their own colonies they happily facilitated it. With colonialism in and of itself being a euphemism of a type of slavery. Hardly the "selfless sacrifice" the British like to paint it as.

@JustinMartin-i4x Ай бұрын

American slavery was paradise compared to what went on in Africa. Those slaves were probably desperate to get on that ship.

@themistva 10 күн бұрын

Depends on where they got shipped. Southern USA? Probably better than in Africa. Anywhere in the Caribbean? Hell on earth.

@gkora8055 Жыл бұрын

As a Ghanian 🇬🇭 i can confirm that its true. The pepole from southern Ghana were short and not that strong so they made a deal with the brittish to help them capture us from the north becuase we were taller and stronger

@Jessie_wk3 Жыл бұрын

Bro he literally said the Akan and the Gold Coast were in present day Nigeria 😂. He probably doesn’t actually know what he’s talking about he just read a bunch of articles and pieced together a video to make the Europeans look less bad.

@Ed.-uc4yd Жыл бұрын

I want your source lol. Compare the amount of Akan influence in the Diaspora to contribution of 'Northeners'.

@OTB1395 Жыл бұрын

@@Jessie_wk3 the whole video is rife with innacuracy. Definitely feels like a "we were not that bad" type of video, judging from the comments on the video as well. If he cared about actual information, these things are not difficult to look up.

@deezstrategies6806 Жыл бұрын

Its more accurate then whats taught in schools

@pheleekseh1391 7 ай бұрын

It's not accurate at all, just an attempt to take the blame off the Europeans....😂😂😂😂 please tell me why did yaa asantwa go to war with the European??? And there were many wars against the Europeans all over Africa... 😅😅😅u are still reading those history books In African schools, from the old colonial curriculum....

@latenightcereal2390 Жыл бұрын

Ya'll tellin me, the woman king, being about black female power and strength was also defending slavery?!?!? geez louise hollywood wive it a rest!

@Vryheid Ай бұрын

When I was 8, I was spending my time on the Internet when I came across the picture of a Zanzibar child slave. I was surprised that Africa also had slavery, as I was only taught in school about the slavery that happened in America.

@wazzhell Жыл бұрын

Very informative and nice narration as always. This was a brave video to make.

@ring-tone278 Жыл бұрын

@olayin Жыл бұрын

I love how detailed this is and how sources are cited in the description. Awesome.

@DaniG._.German Ай бұрын

I sometimes appreciate my phone listening to my conversations. Amazing video.

@doctorskelestein6068 Жыл бұрын

Very well done. I wish this was a longer series.

@blacknapalm2131 Жыл бұрын

*Make them pay reparations to themselves*

@anthonymanderson7671 Жыл бұрын

This is something which was being told at my school on the part of the atlantic slave trade. Other black americans will never acknowledge this and instead pin a blame on europeans for this.

@pbxn-3rdx-85percent Жыл бұрын

Black Americans: "White man bad!, white man the only slavers in the history of the whole wide world!" Meanwhile in Rwanda... Rwandan genocide ; 7 April - 15 July 1994 · Tutsi population and moderate Hutus · Genocide, mass murder, Genocidal rape · Estimated: 491,000-800,000 (Tutsi only). Black Americans: "White man still bad!, black man still victims" 😅😂🤣😄🤣😁

@Phxboy602 Жыл бұрын

Who are we to blame?

@jdb9129 Жыл бұрын

I've yet to meet a single American that denies the existence of the African trade. The Europeans aren't any less to blame just because Africans owned African slaves. Two wrongs don't make a right.

@godofthisshit Жыл бұрын

@@Phxboy602 You don't know the deal by now? If it's good, only europeans did it, but if it's bad then everyone did it. It's a recent thing, before even if it was bad europeans did it because back in the day what was bad was viewed as good.

@lucid227 Жыл бұрын

@@Phxboy602Everyone that was involved. That is, every single race was enslaved and practiced slavery. Africa still practices it today

@davidaeldon1214 Жыл бұрын

Note.....re accuracy: Until 1910, Portugals flag was blue and white. In 1910, Portugal threw out their king and became a republic ( albeit a socialist type then) ....and changed the flag to the present green and red colors.

@afterhourscinema782 Жыл бұрын

*"bUt wE wUz KaNgZ!"* And how did those *KaNgZ* treat their people? Notice how they never mention that

@CheriseMonetFilmmaking Жыл бұрын

Dog whistle alert!

@cowel8734 Жыл бұрын

@@CheriseMonetFilmmakingthat's racist to call them dogs. Africans are people too

@jl-tart7064 Жыл бұрын

Actually people have and it was better than what occurred under European slavery. We were kings was relating to people who were great among what people see as black/ancestors; though of course it gets turned into a racial slur by people who have nothing better to do than troll.

@Von_99Slingshot 5 ай бұрын

@@jl-tart7064❤

@beautiful8853 2 ай бұрын

😂😂 BM are still kangs lol

@BucsFan1307 Ай бұрын

How come African countries are never asked to pay reparations?

@blueridger28 Жыл бұрын

Human tafficking is one of the oldest businesses in the history of man.

@oldgordo61 Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately true and still being practiced to this day.

@blueridger28 Жыл бұрын

@@oldgordo61 without a doubt

@krisradjpaul278 Жыл бұрын

Yes and prostitution.

@Mercury-Sulphur-Salt Ай бұрын

Too many people have genuinely 0 clue of what actually went on. Great video

@larrywhite9626 Жыл бұрын

This was a great video and summarized a great portion of slavery historically speaking. I would love to see a series of some sort where you take a deeper dive into those different civilizations and periods mentioned. I think it was great that you didn’t try to make a comparison piece with the slavery that happened in America. I think history needs to be taught as just letting the cards fall where they may

@JohnSmith-bd7sg Жыл бұрын

The moral of the story is you should not accuse someone of something that you are guilty of.

@gfabrice971 11 ай бұрын

@jemoedermeteensnor88 7 ай бұрын

@@gfabrice971 This is not true, slavery had became rare in the Byzantine empire around the 8th century (due to Christianity). It wasn't until it was captured by the Ottoman empire slaves came from this places, which were "captured" and not traded. (dervisme)

@josh3221ify 7 ай бұрын

Did Africans keep black Americans enslaved for 400 years?

@CharlesJackson-bz5nn 2 ай бұрын

African slavery was much different from slavery by Europeans

@Saufs0ldat Ай бұрын

True, African slaves were often castrated and certainly not allowed to have families. Slaves in America have descendants that are better off now than anyone in Africa.

@beadoll8025 Ай бұрын

@@Saufs0ldat Death is better than bondage. Africa is the most resource rich continent on the planet and the west and Europe benefit from it greatly. If the evil seed would stop its harm to the continent, Africa would be just fine because the world is dependent on its natural resources. Your statement is steeped in racism.

@beadoll8025 Ай бұрын

@Saufs0ldat Death is better than bondage. Africa is the most resource rich continent on the planet and the west and Europe benefit from it greatly. If the evil seed would stop its harm to the continent, Africa would be just fine because the world is dependent on its natural resources. Your statement is steeped in racism.

@uteritter4293 Жыл бұрын

This footage is very true. Yet, it is hardly noticed. It seems that the age of enlighment is not needed anymore. If you think like me: yes, red wine ...

@urgadurga Жыл бұрын

Comments saying this is white supremacist because it accurately discusses history are an eye-opener to modern day politics, aren't they? Sad that a history channel doing what they do (discussing history) is such a brave thing to do nowadays.

@ericlingren4792 Жыл бұрын

Literally, no one is saying that. Every comment on this video is, "Finally the truth! So brave! We're not allowed to talk about this!" Etc, etc

@flyingtoaster1427 Жыл бұрын

do you have a clue?

@CheriseMonetFilmmaking Жыл бұрын

@@ericlingren4792lmao exactly. It’s hilarious the narrative in the comments

@urgadurga Жыл бұрын

@@vp2718 When I sorted by new there were absolutely those comments. Never said they were the majority, but you're lying if you insist there are none. Obviously I can't link them

@urgadurga Жыл бұрын

@@ericlingren4792 @iconoklastik @iconoklastik 1 hour ago white man's burden :) education how white ppl are not so bad :) sometime i do believe in critical race theory after watching such videos @4d4fastwitch44 2 hours ago Cant wait for the video replies to this unprovoked onslaught of slander against Africans, you even mentioned the inroads made by the trans sharan slave trade and still managed to make this video. Shame. @naithngr81-jh2bb @naithngr81-jh2bb 2 hours ago You're right about white colorblind and alt-right racists. @LordLaureate @LordLaureate 4 hours ago It's called Kemet, the origin of man kind, Blacks were the originals. We are gifted, we are higher than you. We were Pharaohs. @rudynathan8852 @rudynathan8852 5 hours ago History according to WHIITE people , the least trustable people in the world @rudynathan8852 @rudynathan8852 5 hours ago Stop rewriting history. Slavery in africa was like serfdom in Europe. Two different institutions. You people are just wicked neanderthale inbred I don't feel like scrolling any further as I like to pretend I have better things to do, but there's a few copy and pasted comments arguing against this video. I'd appreciate if you didn't lie. I never said it was the majority of comments, I said I just mentioned there were some, and it's crazy there'd even be one. The ones calling it white supremacist were made within hours of this video coming out, and were multiple paragraphs. These are more adjacent to that then calling it white supremacist specifically.

@ericsaroni9380 7 ай бұрын

Very accurate and well researched. Thank you for this.

@jacquelinewebster9171 6 ай бұрын

This is not accurate. the europeans colonized Africa not to stop slavery but to continue exploiting Africa after slavery. even today, europeans continue to exploit Africa. Like France, which has killed more than 22 African presidents since 1963. One mistake this video made was to say that the Alans come from Nigeria, which is not true.

@iamnormal8648 3 ай бұрын

There was no slavery intrinsic to Africans. There were foreigners in Africa who practiced slavery. The Romans about 1700 years ago. And the Arabs about 800 years ago. NOT EVERYONE WHO IS OR WAS IN AFRIKA WAS OR IS AN AFRICAN Get that in your head before you start spreading the nonsense of "Africans practiced slavery" Islam and Roman Empire are not intrinsically African entities, and their values are not African values. African values center around familyhood (Ubuntu/Ujamaa), values which are incompatible with slavery. Employment of Africans (real Africans) by fellow real Africans to produce crops and salt is not slavery.

@Guitar6ty Жыл бұрын

The Barbary Coast slaving ships were known as the scourge of Europe no coastal town or village was safe from their predations. The word slave comes from the root Slavic the Slavic people were white northern Europeans prized for their white skin blue eyes and blonde hair. These poor people were captured and sold in the Arab and African slave markets for a much higher price than an African slave would fetch. Eventually this despicable trade was put to an end by Admiral Lord Nelson and his expeditionary force in 1800s.

@godofthisshit Жыл бұрын

@Guitar6ty You have any records? Specially of the slavs being sold in Africa?

@joey-pn3xe Жыл бұрын

Most historians agree there were about 400 people captured in the Barbary slave trade. It’s a silly mention by people comparing it to the transatlantic slave trade

@godofthisshit Жыл бұрын

@@joey-pn3xe Come on man, don't mess up the narrative.

@porkyscratchins1303 Жыл бұрын

@@joey-pn3xe more like 1 to 1.2 million over a 300 year period

@melanimatejak6821 11 ай бұрын

@@joey-pn3xeWhat are you talking about, pirates from North Africa were raiding European shores for slaves for centuries. And they weren't the only one. Ottomans were known to relocate some of their slaves captured in Europe to their territories in Africa.

@emx3720 Жыл бұрын

Another thing I hated about learning about the slave trade was how people think (mainly Americans) slavery ended in 1864. That wasn’t the case, they went to China and India and brought them to America to replace the black slaves and they were treated just as bad

@averageperson8882 11 ай бұрын

Also, the United States were very much behind the times of abolishing slavery by the time it actually did. The British Empire had outlawed it by around 1807 and other European powers also followed suit. That’s not to undermine the significance of the abolishment of slavery within the USA, but a lot of other factors were at work for why it took so long before it eventually was abolished there.

@LaLuz01 2 ай бұрын

The idea of colonization was not an attempt to end slave trade but to legitimise slavery and take ownership of resources within those nations. More than Europeans seeming to be messiahs, they wanted establish whole countries of slaves or subject to them and all their wishes without them having to travel to Europe

@lllPlatinumlll Жыл бұрын

Exposing Africa's PRIMARY role in the slave trade.

@jdb9129 Жыл бұрын

Exposing? Do you think this is new information? Do you live under a rock? lol

@soultraveller5027 Жыл бұрын

And the Muslim Arab's up to there stinking necks for centuries

@reapthewhirlwind6915 Жыл бұрын

@jdb9129 many black people in fact are ignorant to this information as many blacks "live under a rock"

@welshy4638 Жыл бұрын

@@jdb9129 Must be a big rock as the majority of people believe the mainstream lie that it was only the white man who enslaved Africans.

@democra7797 Жыл бұрын

If we could, most of us would go back is time before slavery even started and stop it from taking place and Marcus Garvey wouldn't have to take the Blacks back to Africa, we'll already be there

@greggharris3284 9 ай бұрын

We must take responsibility for our part in how we treat one another,as hard as it may be to accept,we are still a Great people!

@jacquelinewebster9171 6 ай бұрын

you cannot be the victim and the person responsible for the Atlantic Salve Trade. Either you are the victim or you are the culprit. Most Europeans cannot take responsibility for everything they have done in the past to blacks, but also to natives, Asians so they blame the victims because they know that you do not want to be the victim and the culprit at the same time.