Nigeria Used To Be Known As “The Slave Coast” But Why? Badagery Tells An Interesting Story

[@abbassaquee286]

It is sad how we part took in the selling our own people as properties which blighted the African continent it really really saddened me after as an African from the continent I I understand why many of our iour brothers are and sisters in in the Americas are angry , imagine being stripped of your culture, language and customs which form the cores of of your humanity in this light will ask forgiveness from our brothers and sisters in the Americas for our ancestors did to you all hope the healing process starts with us in this generation and continue with the next generation.

[@8674k]

Most of the Africans that wad taken from present day Benin Republic, and Nigeria, and Togo were brought to Ghana and kept in the dungeons until the next ship arrived...

[@diggiddi]

That's simply not true

[@felityf1]

I'm afrobrazilian and the major fact that existed the slave trade here is that Africa is in every part of brazilian society, in everyday, every moment. We aren't able to separate African culture and Brazilian culture, It's maybe the same. Many words that we use in portuguese came from languages in Angola and Congo, as the kimbundu language. The yoruba culture is evident in all territory, and the Gods and Godness are adored in mass. It is sad that many people don't know the greatness of afrobrazilian culture and history.

[@NanaKNOwusu]

You are 100% correct.

[@sadiqraji5376]

There's an interesting book titled "The Story of Rufino" by Brazillian historians Reis, Gomes and Carvalho that explored the role of the transatlantic slave trade on the Brazilian economy through the life story of an African-born enslaved man who later purchased his freedom and became involved in the trade routes between west African coasts and Brazil.

[@felityf1]

Yeahh, I've started to read it a couple week ago. The most facineted that I borned and live in The same city where Rufino lived and died - in Recife city. And despite he involved at slave trade, He was jailed by being black/african and muslim. It's incredible to read this true history being a afrobrazilian.

[@Stratocaster01]

This is much needed education for all Africans wherever you may be. African Americans have a lot teach us on the continent.

[@kofisam4106]

The slave coast was Dahomey/present day Benin republic and present day Togo.

[@TRENDZONE00139]

Slave coast was present day Nigeria and Benin republic. Educate yourself

[@ibinabos.amachree8762]

Jay, When people talk about slavery they only talk about Ghana, Sierra Leone, Liberia. Please visit Calaber, Opobo, Bonny, Arochukwu etc all in southern Nigeria.

[@NanaKNOwusu]

The Bight of Biafra was a slave port (modern day Igbo land and Cameroon)

[@GeecheeWoman]

Well done , nephew , you should have s part 2 of this program ..

[@imdifferent7294]

This is nauseating to learn.

[@one-old4travel757]

🤑 african love 🤣🤣

[@parwerz2156]

the narrator described him in a way that made him heroic rather than a local enslaver..that right there explains how disassociated Africans are with the life changing experiences of slavery itself and this has left us traumatised and very submissive from then. thank God for that piece of note from his descendants.

[@abodunrinabayomi8808]

@jay A movie "Beyond Africa" on Netflix explains everything. People still speak Yoruba and practice it's culture in Brazil, Cuba, New Orleans etc.

[@TheRealAfricanist]

Jay, this is interesting info from an African perspective. However, I still have so many questions. Like the mirror and umbrella narrative which I've heard folks from accross the continent repeat over and over again. How is it that Africans who had organized and built the first functioning civiilizations and were the greatest traders on earth had never heard of umbrellas, mirrors and especially beads when there are archaeological artifacts and wall art that shows evidence of all these items in the ancient kingdoms of the world, particularly in Africa (Nubia/Egypt) and Asia.way before these things ever appeared in Europe? Also, the dates that he is giving are confusing....like the 1840 date on the Barracoon building and the servant document that was dated 1895? Now, we know there was illegal trading still going on, but the common/accepted narrative is that Britain and the US both outlawed trans Atlantic slavery in the early 1800s' while Brazil, Portugal and others did so in the mid 1800s'. So did Abass just get involved in the 1840s and is that 1895 enslavement or colonization? Also it's ironic that it always seems as if there is one African (usually a male child) that is taken to a European or Arab country ( which the latter is rarely ever talked about) where he is taught the captors language/religion and then is sent back to his homeland to assist in the enslavement of other Africans under the banner of what he has been taught. Like the guy Abass your guide is talking about, he had a Islamic last name before he was taken to Brazil and received an English name. And when you asked were there slaves in Africa, he said Abass was owned by international people...what does that mean? So who was this Islamic scholar who sold Abass to the European in Dahomey where he took the name William? Remember the story that we were told at Cape Coast about the son of the African chief who was taken to Portugal to be educated and trained up as a priest to convince other Africans in that region to covert to Catholicism and become apart of the trade, until he later realized with regret what he had done...it was almost identical to this one. He was the only African buried at Cape Coast.

[@yoobon5670]

@African Optimist, unfortunately people caught in the wars between Tribes were what could be called "Prisoners of Tribal Wars" before becoming "Slaves". So the Tribes who conquered their supposed "enemies" never knew/cared about how those "Prisoners" would later be treated. But there were also many cases where people conquered during those Tribal wars were brought to become members of families and even later married into the same families who captured them.

[@teddydavis2339]

We know about the Nigerians. You will learn about some of the things I said in my comments some time back. People were angry with me , but I stated the facts as I know them. Thank brother. You are really educated a lot of people.

[@fistandpen2505]

Jay, to answer your question yes they were people who were "moved' in various capacities from their original communities. In some cases they were under full enslavement conditions en route to the Americas, but in other cases they ended up settling in various capacities depending on their fortune (servanthood, wives, warriors, heir to thrones etc.) within the communities that had taken them. In some cases, this happened in communities well beyond our current national borders. So for instance, it is rare but possible to find Igbos in Benin Republic (Dahomey) going back some hundred plus years. Look up Jaja of Opobo, who is a well known figure in Nigerian history from the era.

[@rakoon678]

A very profund observation. I remember as a kid, my grand aunt returned from Ilorin in Nigeria to look for my grand mother in the Akoko area of Ondo state also in Nigeria. Well, when the villagers sighted her and she said she was looking for her cousin there were no questions to be asked who that was. She was a carbon copy of my grandmother. The story goes like this - great aunties (2 of them) were captured and taken away as slaves from their village. They left behind a younger sister and they were marched on a long journey with destinations unknown. Their first stop was in Ado-Ekiti. The royalty found one of them beautifull and she was handed over to him and she parted ways with her sister and bade her farewell making a promise they would look for each other even if it was to be their offsprings. This sister was taken to Ilorin where she was married off there. Now she was the oldest and was much aware of everything. She had her children and told them the story of where they came from making them promise they will one day fullfil her promise to her sister. Her daughter told that story to her own daugther (grand aunt) and made her promise she would fullfill the promise her mother made to her sister. She was told where they came from and then one day in her old age, she set off to go look for her cousin. Unfotunately she neither met my grandmother nor the other sister's offsprings who had both made a covenant with each other. She would have to go to Ado Ekiti to meet them, but we had no traces of who they could be. She took the place of my grandmother in the family and my father adored her and took care of her. I am telling this story to buttress your facts @fistandpan. Slaves were taken in all families. The Dahomeyans or the amazons were taken slaves before they took back slaves - as servants, housemaids, wives, or even as part of families they were sold to as slaves. So when our african american brothers now ask us to apologise to them who are equally as bereaved, who would comfort us??

[@Stratocaster01]

There were a lot of internecine fightings between Africans who didn’t have a concept of race. They captured anyone seen to be different from a tribe. Jay, as much as you can get any materials you can on history in Nigeria, we’ve been flippant about our history for too long.

[@musicden2361]

The Arabs Muslims captured and also bought African slaves for hundreds of years from East and West Africa. It is estimated that over 15 million slaves were shiped out of Africa by Arabs Muslims, compared to the 19 million captured and bought by Europeans from African waring tribes and rulers. Africans must learn from this heart breaking history. African slaves trade must be taught in African school. Africans must come together with our North and South Americans brothers and sisters and our Caribbean cousins to heal, and stop selling out our people in the 21st century, by disliking or hating who we are as black people. AFRICANS are unique, no other group of people could go through what the African Americans went though as slaves and survive, despite 600 years of slavery. My people the time to heal is now and we must start by learning from the mistakes and evils of the past and say never again.

[@8674k]

And the gold was shipped from Kumasi and other areas straight to Cape coast port. The Elmina castle 🏰 was not built to keep hold there. That's misinformation.. Afro Brazilians trace their history to Yuroba po people in present day Nigeria

[@fitawrarifitness6842]

Afro-Brasileiros come from several regions in Africa, including Kongo-Angola and present day Nigeria/Benin.

[@NanaKNOwusu]

Majority of enslaved Africans in Brazil were from Congo, Gabon, Angola - South West Central Africa

[@diggiddi]

@@NanaKNOwusu Nigeria was one of the largest hubs

[@diggiddi]

@Meli sahel somewhere The Forts in Ghana were constructed to protect gold and other precious metals originally, not humans, that's why there are so many. The area was called Gold Coast for a reason, I read after heavy rainstorms you could find gold flakes on the beach. The Asante did not have direct access to the coast, so how were they shipping gold to Elmina ? Please get your facts straight

[@temilola9366]

Most of them are not yoruba but Congolese it is afro Cubans who have significant yoruba ancestry but a lot of them have Congolese as well.

[@earthsign6305]

Slave trade! Africans, weren't all one united family. It is easy for an outsider to get into your house or midst when you are not united among yourselves. When black, people start seeing skin color and race, instead of tribe and religion, it will help them unite more. Black people, come in all shades of skin types. But, are the same people. In Yoruba history, two brothers were having issues. Oyo and Afonja empire was having a dispute. And they couldn't, settle it within themselves. They allowed, an outsider who happens to be a Fulani leader to be a mediator between them. Instead, of ending the dispute between the Oyo and Afonja empire. The Fulani leader made their dispute worse and took advantage of the situation to conquer the Afonja empire that was more trusting to the Fulani leader who promised to help him fight his brother of Oyo empire. The point, am making is that Africans were not united among themselves. So, when the invaders decided to strike against Black's after learning from Black's and gaining their trust they used the dispute the black kingdom's had between themselves and exploited them by placing them against each other. Which made, conquering them easier. Before, they realized what was happening to them as a people it was too late to put a stop to it. We must learn from history. If we remain enemies to ourselves. We will remain a conquered race. The ANCESTORS, of the Sariki Abbas was probably Muslims. I think, religion also played a huge role on slave trade and betrayals. Christianity and Islam, helped in the slave trade era.

[@ibinabos.amachree8762]

We had tribal wars all over hence this sad history.

[@QueenObio]

Wrong spirit