Full Video: The Transatlantic Slave Trade (Story of Ghana's Slave Castles) | Jamii Yangu

This episode of Jamii Yangu highlights the story of Ghana's Slave castles.
The transatlantic slave trade began during the 15th century when Portugal, and subsequently other European kingdoms, were finally able to expand overseas and reach Africa. But, what is being done to ensure that this heritage is never lost? Benneth Joseph, News Central TV has more.
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[@tribemusic983]

I'm an English teacher in France. For my lessons on Black History, I needed a short documentary on the Transatlantic Slave Trade for my students and I find this video very useful. Thanks for this.

[@Anarfi-Discoveries]

I have one too

[@simeonpires410]

Your an English teacher in France

[@simeonpires410]

Tell me how does there school sessions work by procedure.

[@simeonpires410]

And if you really were they don't find this chorichulum useful

[@sosabreadtv5247]

Stop teach our kids this

[@nmgOblast]

Thank you for this waited episode. May the heroes of our past rest in their graves.

[@leopatrick1776]

They were brutalized, subject them to hard labours that led to their death. it's so painful

[@billybugh4774]

Never again for nobody. Humankind won't allow it again. I believe that. I'm white but we're all brothers in my eyes.

[@thatbusdriverguy4182]

The video leaves out vital information about how the captive were sold to Europeans by people along the West African coast and the coastal people bought the captives from interior Africans who acquired them my many means. Warfare being the most popular then slave raiding . Please let us remember that

[@Bud_Lightyear]

I’m sure your white

[@historyonthego]

@@Bud_Lightyear No

[@ngoziokafor5682]

@@Bud_Lightyear He is correct.. Africans solely sold fellow Africans to Europeans…still doing that today but now it’s to Middle-East they are trafficked to.. I have done extensive research on that..Africans have never had love for one another and I know this cos I am African/Nigerian

[@MissionPossible85]

@@Bud_Lightyear lol, everybody knows this…that “it be your own people” saying is true 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@avicarnonbagel279]

Africans didn't (and generally still don't) feel like other groups of Africans are their people. To a Ghanaian, a Congolese would be almost as foreign as the European colonists (at the time. The experience of colonialism has united the African identity somewhat). This is true of every inhabited continent on Earth and doesn't excuse the horrors of chattel slavery.

[@GodShallExpose]

my history exam is gon be lit this is very helpful!!

[@elaineajones8499]

Very sad. Most African Americans we don't even know what country or tribe we come from, that's profound. It's saying like you come from "Europe", but not knowing which country.

[@quandovoceestiverlendoeuvo8269]

In Rio de Janeiro there is a place called Cais do Valongo and this place was the largest slave port in the Americas, the estimate is that 4 million enslaved Africans arrived

[@geraldojesusoliveira1659]

Mas de cinco milhões.

Yes, and a significant number of slaves arrived dead so their bodies were taken to the "new blacks cemiteries", the first slave market was at the 1 de Março street before it was moved to Valongo.

[@fortchely]

Excuse for m'y english, it's good work. Valongo in the kikongo language could be translated : place of tabou. Forbidden place. Va =wheee or place. Longo means tabou and sometimes sacred. When the portuguese arrived in the heart of Africa nothing where called Angola, Cameroun or Gabon. Thèse names Came 4 centuries after their penetration when Europe divided african kingdoms and empires into colonial entities in 1884 to 1885 at Berlin during the kongo conférence, which was changed for the Berlin conférence. Ngola was one of our King (Ntinu). A king is the sovereign of his Land and People. In kikongo language we say: The Land of the King, Land of Ngola means in kikongo:Nsi ya ngola and portuguese wrote yangola, y'angola and finaly Angola. The first slave ship left loango to cabo verde and Saoō tome islands inside Africa to be the lab of expérimental Atlantic slave trade and we know the narrative after Christopher Columbus in 1492 arrived in the native-americans continent. There were the Kongos first. Matondo!

[@ReneFrazi]

4 million is such a ridiculous number!! I hope this is false- but if it is true-maybe they/us were cursed in some way! 4 million and yet afterwards no one was punished for this atrocity

[@DzossouRichard-u9s]

Wow this is a sad history 😮😮😮😢😢

[@DavidOfosuAppiah]

GREAT PRESENTATION VIDEO ON #GOLDCOASTGHANA .. THE #TRANSATLANTICSLAVETRADE BEGAN IN #GOLDCOASTGHANA .....

[@Unknown-te8fv]

That was really sad the story

[@BISMARKNyamah]

Thank you sir

[@peggynivens7912]

I’m surprised that the building is still standing, hopefully it’s not sold this just upsets me I just can’t understand how a group of people could let this happen. For the love of money is the root of all evil

[@dannyknightblade4592]

Not true. Evil existed long before money did.

[@unapologeticmystic1703]

Ignorance is the root of all evil.

[@Thomas-gu7fr]

People have been selfish since the beginning of humanity. It’s on the current generation of humans to do better

[@Kooolram]

I have gone to this castle. What happened to those people was horrible. They missed to show the room where they stored their food provisions. It had more ventilation than those poor people were held captive. They had to relieve themselves in the same room and then sleep in the same place. The white people were really cruel to the indigenous Africans.

[@libadviser8793]

The white man personifies the devil himself

[@UCMICU]

White people aren’t solely to blame. Benin was the largest supplier of black African slaves to the Portuguese. They aren’t proud but do not deny it.

[@spdomingoo]

It’s a great video, but what were the specifics of how people were taken across the TA? how was this trade being conducted? Under what circumstances

[@ShoMan91]

00.57 the look on the man's face on the right is heartbreaking. Defeated. How can those monsters have been so cruel.

[@CharityBish-yf9yj]

Slave castles sites should be serious pilgrimage destinations for Africans!!! Such are great locations to pass on our history to our children!! Why can't the AU invest in this for learning and business?????

[@dadoboye1536]

Great video but I’m really surprised that you titled it about present day Ghana slave castle but yet did not include Ghana is your list of countries. Are you suggesting enslaved Africans were not taken from present day Ghana?

[@sfsiprogs]

Yes

[@vervetech9395]

@@sfsiprogs They were. Ghana used to be called Gold-coast. Many African Americans that returned to Ghana had DNA tests showing their ancestors were taken as slaves from Ghana

[@joyuyoke4999]

@@vervetech9395 few African Americans have Ghanaian ancestry DNA

[@PicaboloTvGh]

​@@joyuyoke4999he said those who returned

[@donmariano9490]

Steve Harvey led me here

[@esmeraldagonzales2490]

How a shame desecrating the name of God for benefit themselves. I am terrified for all that African women and babies endured. They must be compensated. Was a paradise for paedophilia.

[@akashbehera2618]

Life is precious, but life without freedom is truly a life in hell. This place reminds me of how fortunate I am….

[@EditorHeart]

Welldone😢❤😊

[@luisalexandre4003]

I'm Portuguese, we're not cruel.. In the time of the kings it was difficult even for us, we all know how difficult it was in the time of the kings. Portuguese just memories. Lengths for Nana Addo

[@Boris-m5x]

???????????

[@armanyperez9184]

They also leave out the torture and the rape of child etcetera.

[@yusefshakur669]

Next year I'm going to Ghana and I know I'm going have to be strong the door of no return smh

[@jamaal01]

Which country are you from

[@Set_apart_Paris]

I would like to visit ghana soon

[@ghsense2626]

They were not slave castles but were castles to acquire valuable goods which Slaves were apart. To call it slave castle is false

[@Humblebee718]

All we can do is learn from history we can’t change it or try to benefit from it unfortunately. The world is mixed now. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@TriggeringtruthsTv]

They can show me a castle but can't show me a slave ship. They have an upkeep on a castle to trophy their "accomplishments" but have no ships or documents . It's weird

[@treasure2behold282]

It seems the Portuguese lead the charge everywhere followed by the Dutch and later the French. The British reaped the rewards after they paved the way. History has conveniently forgotten the viciousness of these colonial conquerors. Humans need to know their treacherous history. We have become too comfortable in our own skin.

[@stanjones9643]

Just say Europe...its been the cause of every world problem

[@betzaidamartinez4793]

​@@stanjones9643 well what about Africa continuing with their mindsets to sell their own people in Libya to Arabs. They try to escape Africa to places that have abolished slavery cuz Africa hasn't stopped enslaving their own people. Playing by old Egyptian ways of life.

[@MrAnadad]

Europe Europe Western Europe

[@Aggieappa]

Actually European slave traders came to the coast only and bought slaves. The African kingdoms along this coast fought and took slaves as captives. They had a culture of slavery and it had been going on for hundreds of years before Europeans showed up. As did the rest of the world. The Africans sold their domestic slaves to European traders for weapons and other goods. After the British abolished slavery in the 1830s they sent ambassadors to the African kingdoms trying to persuade them to stop trading slaves but the African kingdoms refused. It was an important source of wealth for them. In the 1850s the British sent warships to African ports to try to blockade the ports to prevent the slave trade. But nowadays this history has been twisted and so European people are made to apologize to Africans even though it was the African kingdoms who sold them to us. The narrators ancestors may have become wealthy from selling African slaves to Europeans.

[@beowolf19751]

Christ Jesus came to set us free!! Thanks to the ALMIGHTY GOD ! I'm free from all these generational curses!

[@xlxe3536]

Who are indigenous Africans? Indigenous Africans are multicultural/Lingual with diverse skin colour tone and stature from North to South, East to West and Central Africa. We are uniquely O-/O+ blood group and A,B,C,D or E haplogroup kzbin.info/www/bejne/e56UeHmrish5orssi=b-xCGWEVJZxqYxP2 that make us the cradle of humankind. Indigeneity makes us Kind, Open-minded, Brave, Honest, Patient, Brilliant... indisputable manners, gift of nature.

[@MsWittyReadz]

Wow.

[@1ifbyland2ifbysea]

Its crazy black people did this to other blacks and sold them to Europeans. They need to make a movie about them capturing other tribes and selling them.

[@youngbossmusic7182]

Wrong 😅 they are trying to alter history and cover their bad deeds with this narrative

[@viviennek4962]

Woman King (2022) touched on this a little

[@israel-knight]

....This is how I and my People arrived here in America the Not so Beautiful. We did Not come here by way of IMMIGRATION and We have been here for 400 years....Until the PROPHECY is fulfilled. Never the Less... We will be FREE!....My G-d We will be FREE!

[@CrociatoAzzurro]

You are free to go back. White people even got Lberia for you to go to.

[@davontawilliams3958]

But why would the Ghanaians sell their own people to the Europeans ???

[@MsSuperbass1234]

resources that would supposedly benefit them. but also they didn't know the brutal extent of european slavery as it was seen as servitude and partnership.

[@MsSuperbass1234]

it's also important to note that whilst there were some selling of ppl in ghana, there were also raids and kidnappings by europeans. and ashanti tribe were in conflict w them too for almost 100 years, first conflict was for keeping slavery going in Ghana whilst they abolished it in their own

[@youngbossmusic7182]

All we know is that the white man committed atrocities on our soil and on our our ancestors

[@orilumbrosa]

Yes, sold by thier own.

[@travelingjohn69]

it was not Ghana back then. countries did not exist in West Africa back then it was regions of warring tribes who sold their captives to the White race for trinkets.

[@brixcosmo]

Sold by their "own brothers". Tell it like it is!

[@raymondcortes9723]

Sure but who came to deceive, mislead and pollute their own brothers to sell them?

[@paulbanda6298]

I'm looking for a full movie about slavery .Any suggestions

[@philipcoriolis6614]

Barracoons included ?

[@Humanity0101]

Roots

[@philipcoriolis6614]

@@Humanity0101 Roots is a bit too fictional.

[@christinerieux5767]

I don't know of a movie but check out the book Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi.

[@philipcoriolis6614]

@@christinerieux5767 Check out the book "Barracoon" !

[@uemackay1592]

Some things you might not know, the trans Atlantic slave trade accounted for 10% of traded slaves in the last 1000 years. Africans were already selling slaves for decades before the "English" showed up to buy slaves. 10 times more African slaves were sold east to Arabs where they were castrated. There are more slaves in the world now than were sold in the transatlantic slave trade. The largest slave owner in history was an African king. The "English" fought and died to end slavery worldwide, a part of human history for hundreds of thousands of years by all peoples and it was the English that stop it and drove it underground making it illegal worldwide. The word slave comes from slav which means white people. We have all been slaves. White people ended slavery.

[@youngbossmusic7182]

Keep explaining the truth we Africans know is that Europeans committed Atrocities on our motherland and we will never forget it’s a trade mark on human history as the worst ever to happen

[@GhanianNana]

You ended something you began ? You want a prize ???? Slavs where owned by their own

[@uemackay1592]

@@GhanianNana We ended something others began. The fact you think British people or white people started slavery is mental, you have been lied to, and i dont know why. The Portuguese were the first Europeans to buy slaves from Africa they took them to Brazil in the 16th century, none of the people involved were white or British. Long long long before that, Arabs inslaved white people and Africans inslaved Africans and Arabs inslaved Africans and long long before that Egyptians inslaved the Jewish people and so it goes back and back and back happening long before Britian was a nation or England was a country or Caucasian people had even establish. Slavery is consistent for 150,000 years minimum, we even inslaved other hominids (different types of humans) as they enslaved us (homo sapiens).

[@uemackay1592]

@@GhanianNana Also your comment is factually incorrect. Slavs were owned by Africans and Europeans, not to mention the barbary slave trade where whites where owned by Arabs. Also "There were more Europeans enslaved by North Africans than there were Sub-Saharan Africans enslaved and sent to the Western hemisphere" reference - google Slavs slavery - isi article.

[@PsyCaro-gh]

Lies​@@uemackay1592

[@PicaboloTvGh]

Cape coast castle is not the biggest. It is Elmina castle that is the biggest

[@johnwinkler4471]

why is the fact that slaves were captured and sold by blacks to the europeans. at that time not illegal. morally not right. but nobody has a bad word to say about the black slave traders. why?

[@AlxndrHQ]

Inconvenient truths

[@johnwinkler4471]

@@AlxndrHQ you make no sense, what Inconvenient truths ?

[@dannyknightblade4592]

@@johnwinkler4471 The truth that Africans are not blamed for selling their African slaves but Europeans are blamed for buying those African slaves from the African leaders.

[@Humanity0101]

Accept deal and put right the root cause of slavery. ONLY then people will take you seriously.

[@rufdymond]

@@AlxndrHQ - You wouldn’t know the truth if it bitch slapped you in the face……

[@vasudevramkissoon5291]

How does the Architecture look so modern??

[@Al3XB85]

What do you mean?? It's European architecture..it is modern, it was built around 500 years ago

[@PicaboloTvGh]

They painted the outside...

[@TristianTaylor-94]

This shit got me tight

[@Ja-ug5gu]

Wow

[@gangwitbang]

I know better than to question god.. but our ancestors would've appreciated it if he reminded them that he loves them.. cause the whites was really going Thanos on us😢

[@charlesdaniels4082]

Does this Ring a Bell

[@dfacedagame]

They are using the word “captives” like the Portuguese and others captured these Africans and made them slaves. It was a TRADE. That’s why it was called The Trans-Atlantic Slave TRADE ! They were captives , but captured by their fellow African Tribes and then TRADED to the Portuguese and other European countries. Also, everyone teaches slavery as it started at this point. It has been going on forever and wasn’t about race , it was about TRADE and POWER. The word Slave comes from the word Slav, meaning a Slavic person. It was coined this word because of the Slavic people being enslaved by the Moors and other African and Muslim peoples. History hurts and I’m not discounting any pains by pointing out the truths of the the Slave TRADE and that slavery existed well before that point and that Africans were doing most of the slave trading then and now. As there are more slaves on earth today , then there was back in that time. Where is the fight for all of their freedom ?? Where is the fight for reparations for all the enslaved peoples in Africa and Asia ??? We need to recognize truth in everything and realize this was never about race but about the vulnerable being turned into resources. God bless you all. And I welcome you to fact check anything I wrote and ask any questions.

[@youngbossmusic7182]

You will keep explaining who in his right sense will buy a human being ofcourse your there was tribal wars and enemies were sold which you and I would have done same but you the 3rd party buying a human is the most insane of all

[@MoonBabyBlue44]

Do we know who of Alekubulon, the tribes who participated in the selling of our peoples?

[@IBCOY4LIFE]

Time to Build ! @TheOriginalManRising

[@thefamily9006]

It’s a fort but why the cannons are facing to the waters and not inland because if your kidnapping folks why not have the cannons inland to fight the family’s that’s tryin to get there folks out. 🤷🏾🤔

[@ghsense2626]

Because the Europeans themselves were fighting each other for these trade castles

[@matthewwilliams3643]

Dang can you imagine people that look like you are selling you off to people that are completely different

[@34mrt89]

😔

[@akorfaaisha7562]

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@orilumbrosa]

Also, before the European trade was the Arab trade, some Islamic texts talk about it. And the worst part is in North Africa still going on. Why does no one care about this horrible dehumanizing business?

[@cristobal.palmero4919]

Who run the slave castles? Private companies or government bodies? They soldiers guarding them

[@shn5700]

Never try to forget or forgive, just move on and ignore wisely. History has proved that human repeat their actions and justify them all the time. People mindset hardly changes. There is no word called as civilization most of it is just words and a show. Becareful. Usually the fire hids under ashes and suddenly emerges out of no where. Because of social media and changes in the international laws, it would not be easy to do such things openly but it is still possible for a period of time to do it with different excuses. I hope all people could learn a global torerance, respect, and peacefulness. But hey! Abnormal people are always part of the societies and usually charismatic with so much power. Learn how to protect and save yourselves.🌹🙏❤❤❤ stay together you will be strong enough

[@myownstationofficespa9736]

This is vision that Solomon saw that one mother was going to rule over his children

[@idrissbaikamara7446]

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@ezeigbogovernor2069]

After the transatlantic slave trade stopped, our African politicians continued from where they stopped, is a big shame.

[@yourstruly_777]

Not like the colonizers did

[@seanwadeyshinobi7651]

First of all, we shouldn’t forget the first ship that landed on the African land came with guns!, invented guns to scare black people , secondly they created confusion among us! By selling weapons for kingdoms to have access to blacks!. Last thing I want to say is, it was planned by a group of people with equal military mind!. Brought missionaries to preach about Jesus and now replacing the gospel with lies and other new world order!.. GOD made slave masters to have their way! To disgrace black people and used us an experiment!

[@DarvanLeeDurr]

Who did the European Slavers trade with??? Hmmm that part!!!

[@myownstationofficespa9736]

They took out mothers fathers grand parents away and kept the children breeded by them here in America

[@Jason861000]

Looks more like a prison to me then a castle.

[@truegrit7697]

The only evil, the only devil that exists is humans.

[@MrAnadad]

Western Europeans

[@keylifeproductions997]

Are u aware that there are people saying that the trans Atlantic slave trade never happened or happened in reverse

[@andrewpruett3719]

Why does this video not talk about who captured these Africans? It wasn’t the Europeans who went and captured them from inner Africa.

[@tiffanydennis4227]

Europeans still had a hand in slavery!

[@andrewpruett3719]

@@tiffanydennis4227 Where did I say they didnt?

[@tiffanydennis4227]

@@andrewpruett3719 you written your comment as if the Europeans hadn’t had a hand in my ancestors slavery. We have your names.

[@andrewpruett3719]

@@tiffanydennis4227 dumb dumb I mentioned Europeans in my original comment.

[@Choodcel]

@@tiffanydennis4227 europeans abolished slavery while africans fought to preserve it

[@Threelegs94]

wasn't those africans captured and sold by thier own people.

[@youngbossmusic7182]

How ? Only chiefs were able to do that and there are records of chiefs even being captured and killed my Europeans because they stood and fought ! Don’t try altering history and the atrocities committed by the Europeans on the motherland

[@tiffanydennis4227]

No! Africans sold Hebrew Israelites! Our captivity is in the Bible and we are the only people who fit the curse’s written in Deuteronomy 28 and Leviticus 26.

[@bandocamp2x585]

@@youngbossmusic7182 thank you they already believe that the Europeans abolish slavery for Africans, but in all reality they abolished it because they could not find work with all the free labor so they fought to abolish it for self preservation so that the common European man would be able to find work to feed their family

[@torgreactionvidz5609]

This is a video about slavery… the way you’re trying very hard to sound “proper” makes it more hard to watch

[@CIMAmotor]

It makes it a lot easier for most of us.

[@NkadinAngelaBitasan]

I think it was luck of knowledge

[@lebzadlamini2844]

Imagine christians doing this to humans. Portuguese are cruel

[@AK-lb8jq]

Please it's not European's discovered American point of correction. It's the senior brother of Mansa Musa who discovered South America and pat of North America thanks 😊 👍

[@Kya1942]

Mansa Abubakar remains is yet to be discovered.

[@bandocamp2x585]

How do you discover something where there was already humanity?

[@AK-lb8jq]

What about Christopher Columbus discovered African there was already humanity too

[@JacobRUTKOFSKE]

ha

[@jeffreydelacruz2154]

Kamataya. Sa buong European

[@danielsunday2932]

Na wa

[@ashoknayaki7776]

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[@goodysmarts]

Sorry to burst your bubble but there's no credible evidence to support a God or Satan, Angels or demons nor heaven or hell in existence anywhere in reality. So you need to wake up from your deep delusional state and come back to reality.

[@sleeexs]

​@@goodysmartsSo howd u get there

[@goodysmarts]

@@sleeexs I am here because my mother and father had engaged in the act of coitus some 53 years ago and I was born 9 months after.

[@sleeexs]

@@goodysmarts Yeah so howd the first man and woman get here

[@goodysmarts]

@@sleeexs Humans are part of the Evolutionary chain.

[@TheOGDewb]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@fckem1000]

Very interesting video and truly horrific to think what they went through. It does seem that you're not very concerned about todays slave trade that is rife in Africa. I guess that doesn't fit with the narrative.

[@tcaprecap1448]

Why would a video on the history of the Atlantic Slave Trade talk about modern slavery in other parts of Africa? They're totally unrelated. Besides, pointing out that slavery existed elsewhere in history doesn't absolve American slavers in the slightest. The US was built on slavery and that's okay to admit, as long as you condemn it.

[@anodeycare6748]

I didn’t know Angola was part of west Africa Loool Fake

[@simeonpires410]

Haha

[@vikkibiam6586]

Soo inhuman

[@natashasingha0078]

🤮

[@abdulhaq6643]

Pathetic story!

[@Kya1942]

Why is the tour guide claiming other west Africans were brought there and notvtalking about the people in present day Ghana and surroundings. The Fantes will take Asantes POW and sell them off or hand them over to the Europeans. And yes Asantes sold slaves.

[@Young1Fendy]

All the black people that are so shocked and want justice while commenting on their iphones is actually hilarious 😂

[@kingsleyoti7350]

Let be know see to the whole world how people of God's creation where sold by others who they think their are superior than others.God Almighty forgive them for they don't know what they were doing in the name of Christ Jesus Amen.

[@esmeraldagonzales2490]

Yes they did know what they were doing. They were not men of God but descendants of the serpent.

[@alezandradavila2581]

Wow