The Atlantic slave trade: What too few textbooks told you - Anthony Hazard

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  • @derrellsam9668
    @derrellsam9668 8 років тому +7905

    To all of you people who is calling Ted Ed biased because the Arab slave trade wasn't mentioned : THE VIDEO IS ABOUT THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE , THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE , THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE With that being said , this video is on the Atlantic slave trade , mentioning anything about the arab slave trade would be pointless because that's NOT the topic of the video. STOP trying to belittle one situation in favor of another , YES slavery in general was/is bad. The video is just highlighting thr Atlantic Slave trade.

    • @derrellsam9668
      @derrellsam9668 8 років тому +53

      are*

    • @JohnZ117
      @JohnZ117 8 років тому +299

      Did they do a video about the Arab slave trade?

    • @innertubez
      @innertubez 8 років тому +243

      Wait, this video titled "The Atlantic slave trade: What too few textbooks told you - Anthony Hazard" is about the Atlantic Slave Trade? Go figure!
      lol just kidding. Thanks for your comment. False claims of bias on UA-cam come fast and furious, so my hat is off to you for stepping into the breach.

    • @grefsteel3989
      @grefsteel3989 8 років тому +175

      doesn't matter. the Arab slave trade didn't leave lasting hate between races, they castrated their slaves.
      if the atlantic slave trade was the arab slave trade, there'd be more peace between races today.

    • @donaldbadowski6048
      @donaldbadowski6048 8 років тому +190

      Arabs did have a part in the Atlantic slave trade. Typically, east coast prisoners of war (or simply the victims of raids to get slaves) where marched to the barracoons of Mozambique, on the Indian Ocean, where they were sold to Portuguese slave traders. Then they were loaded on ships bound for the Americas, usually Brazil.
      Of course Arabs also bought slaves for their own use in the Arabian peninsula, and for much longer. The last big batch of African slaves landed in Saudi Arabia in 1948. The Saudis didn't outlaw slavery till 1962. Consider that the next time a Muslim tells you that only through Islam will the black man find salvation.

  • @msfred3209
    @msfred3209 3 роки тому +6056

    “Believing that in death, their souls will return home” had me tear up :(

    • @yvieoluoch66
      @yvieoluoch66 3 роки тому +190

      It actually hurts to know think of how terrified they were to make this a last resort.

    • @msfred3209
      @msfred3209 3 роки тому +57

      @@yvieoluoch66 I just imagined their feeling of losing all hope 💔

    • @andrereyner7257
      @andrereyner7257 3 роки тому +11

      Yep

    • @msfred3209
      @msfred3209 3 роки тому +6

      @V Stormfeltwitch Sounds like the isekai anime i've been watching recently. It is good to imagine something like that happening

    • @eternalobi
      @eternalobi 3 роки тому +10

      well Native Americans was almost extinct. so African slaves had it better in a sense. not that its good or anything.

  • @jlastre
    @jlastre 4 роки тому +4564

    I'm Mexican American on my mother's side. She told me that my grandfather when he came to the US in 1908 saw African American ex-slaves with parts of their ears cut off. This is the first time I have ever heard those experiences confirmed.

    • @hannahrae927
      @hannahrae927 4 роки тому +172

      I'm Mexican American on my dad's side and British German on my mom's side. Very complicated feelings in my body and heart. Crazy stuff. Sad world. Hope it changes already.

    • @hyljix
      @hyljix 4 роки тому +253

      @@immortal5271 you had no control over it, it's not your fault

    • @andykane439
      @andykane439 4 роки тому +72

      @@immortal5271 you do know Europe is made up of different country's?

    • @georgeorwell3532
      @georgeorwell3532 4 роки тому +6

      Do you know who Vincent Guerrero was?

    • @ndiogouniang83
      @ndiogouniang83 4 роки тому +32

      @Oplitis Λ so we should just look at that and act as if they did not start it right ?

  • @kingdavid8657
    @kingdavid8657 3 роки тому +3001

    This was actually a really good breakdown. As a person of color we often forget the involvement of Africa and also the long-lasting impact it still has today.

    • @cornellblevins1778
      @cornellblevins1778 3 роки тому +18

      America was already populated with people of color, this is miseducation at it finest. They invaded and conquered a populated land in America

    • @maxpowers4436
      @maxpowers4436 3 роки тому +217

      @@cornellblevins1778 Not even close to a misdirection. It takes two to tango. Overhwhelming majority of the salves were sold by people of their own race. Thats just a fact. The Europeans bought them off other Africans as this video told you because they got a profit and cared about their own kingdoms. To deny this is denying reality.
      As the person above you mentioned this is often forgotten. It dsnt mean its the focal point its exactly what the person said forgotten.

    • @serl3zykn1ght71
      @serl3zykn1ght71 3 роки тому +23

      @@maxpowers4436 Exactly. Slavery was motivated by desires of capitalism-like desires, and the desire for profit, power, and land. Really, slavery is an abhorent mark on human history and what we are as humans. Enslaving each other to be made to do work for another. And it's sad to think that to this day, there are still so many regions that engage in neo-slavery, by getting people to come over to areas only for them to have their passports stripped, identities removed, and humanities torn. And slavery deprives the essence of what humanity and compassion are and what they can be.

    • @bbp2930
      @bbp2930 3 роки тому +59

      @@maxpowers4436 yes they were sold by their race but they were sold by enemy ethnic groups Remember Africa is the most diverse continent on the planet so different tribes in Africa sold the enemy tribe for guns and other things. Just like the Europeans sold enemy European tribes example the Romans and the Germanic peoples

    • @mak28busted
      @mak28busted 3 роки тому +23

      @@bbp2930 it was a very complex situation indeed.

  • @gracew1034
    @gracew1034 5 років тому +3160

    “Believing that in death, their souls will return home” that sentence is really upsetting

    • @Opyuuu
      @Opyuuu 5 років тому +8

      2019!!!

    • @zestyz69
      @zestyz69 5 років тому +68

      Yeah that made me sad

    • @davidfuller4297
      @davidfuller4297 5 років тому +47

      duh..sounds similar to christianity

    • @CarlosHernandez-yt5so
      @CarlosHernandez-yt5so 5 років тому +8

      squishy paws yes people are not entitled to their lives only God is. So suicide is a big sin

    • @janique3194
      @janique3194 5 років тому +43

      @Bullets in Bacon Grease America was definately Not the least ! America is a supercontinent genius!

  • @bones1026
    @bones1026 4 роки тому +3676

    this is sickening. the fact that people actually could do this to another person kills me.

    • @Athalwolf13
      @Athalwolf13 4 роки тому +254

      Dehumanization is a powerful tool.

    • @spellbound111
      @spellbound111 4 роки тому +73

      I doesn't kill you, you're still alive aren't you?

    • @The_Caledonian
      @The_Caledonian 4 роки тому +212

      Of course it's sickening. Unfortunately, slavery still exists today, largely in parts of Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

    • @tubester4567
      @tubester4567 4 роки тому +96

      The whole world had slavery, including the white countries.

    • @jessehackman3888
      @jessehackman3888 4 роки тому +149

      @.yva
      Yes , It Is sad. I am Ghanaian Born in Southern Europe and i studied the Mediterranean History ,and i have Learnt that Barbary Pirates(North African) and Ottman Pirates Captured 2.5million White European Christians between the 16th and 17th Century.
      History Is important because can teach all of us that everybody could be or could Become a Victim or a Bad Person .
      Crimes Don't have a specific color or a specific race
      Anyone could be a culprit.

  • @jamesstockton7986
    @jamesstockton7986 5 років тому +2647

    You neglected the 50% that went East, and were gelded, no offspring. Slavery was never just a western thing it was a world thing, and is still very active today in many cultures. The world as a whole has yet to learn the value of life.

    • @belladonnanightshade2332
      @belladonnanightshade2332 5 років тому +60

      you couldn't have said it better , maybe state time of hundreds of years before with the arabs , gelded was what some said was the reason there were nearly 4 million slaves in usa as it was not a practice that was used in usa hence the high number freed

    • @kf8575
      @kf8575 5 років тому +119

      Also there is a huge amount of ignorance towards how what is now the UK, financially ended a HUGE percentage of slavery around the world FINANCIALLY by buying the slaves freedom from their "owners". A debt which was still being paid off by the current working generations until 2014. Therefore those that may have been born into slavery, or who's ancestors were freed from slavery, can thank the British taxpayer.

    • @kf8575
      @kf8575 5 років тому +36

      @James whatever way you look at it, the FACT is, that British taxpayers were paying the debt off until it was finally settled in 2014.

    • @mlagv4045
      @mlagv4045 5 років тому +42

      ...they literally talked about African tribes having slaves and then later selling them to Americans. But I do agree with you that there is a ton of slavery still happening today that is swept under the rug.

    • @dreaddybear8366
      @dreaddybear8366 5 років тому +43

      @@joneubanks9686 Yes, they surely did. Most did not make it, though, as the Muslims were so diabolical towards their slaves.

  • @pidgenix7154
    @pidgenix7154 2 роки тому +646

    the guy that wrote this, Anthony Hazard, is no joke my social studies teacher…i’m not even kidding

    • @amos9001
      @amos9001 2 роки тому +44

      You are lucky

    • @nopenah3891
      @nopenah3891 2 роки тому

      @Tinkerbell Fairy You cant kidnap people and force your morals and values on them. They stripped them of their humanity which no one has the right to do.

    • @djgroopz4952
      @djgroopz4952 2 роки тому +17

      It's very evident he's a social studies teacher...

    • @Brothisisprivate
      @Brothisisprivate 2 роки тому +11

      Bro youre so lucky

    • @s0m3on3e
      @s0m3on3e 2 роки тому +6

      Lucky you

  • @mpenduloemmanuelcibi2602
    @mpenduloemmanuelcibi2602 4 роки тому +3272

    Mention slavery, some people automatically jump to defensive mode.

    • @tortugaleon
      @tortugaleon 4 роки тому +177

      fr this comment section is wack

    • @stardolphin2
      @stardolphin2 4 роки тому +186

      @Kirsty Birsty There is truth to that.
      But...
      They weren't carried over to the Americas in African-built ships and dumped here.
      The ships from the Americas, designed to carry as many people in its hold as possible, didn't show up with money (or whatever the medium of trade was) by accident.
      Those operating the ships didn't whisper: "Don't worry, it's a ruse. We'll let you all off down the cost."
      Nor did they say; "Or, if you wish, you can come to the Americas with us, where we offer you freedom and citizenship.
      Nope, nothing like that. They cannot say, 'We did not want this, we did not enable this, we had nothing to do with this.'
      They were property, bought to be auctioned, sold, used.
      "Y’all sold of your own people." And how well would that have worked, had there been no market? No whites ready to buy them?

    • @debo4487
      @debo4487 4 роки тому +198

      White people love to say don't put something there ancestors did on us but at the same time benefit from money that is past down from what there ancestors did and think somehow they have nothing to do there just innocent. Blood money

    • @lovehopefaith7
      @lovehopefaith7 4 роки тому +115

      @@debo4487 Not every white person ancestors own slaves or was a part of that . There is white people that is struggling just like everybody else .

    • @LEO-xo9cz
      @LEO-xo9cz 4 роки тому +82

      True when whites are the only ones being blamed it's probably a natural reaction. No mention is ever made of the Jewish, African or Arab role in slavery.

  • @morriswilburn9858
    @morriswilburn9858 9 років тому +3188

    There is an aspect of the trans-Atlantic slave trade that is seldom mentioned: the US was a relatively small player in it. More slaves to taken to central America and south America than to the US. The biggest player was Brazil, importing literally 10 times more slaves than the US.

    • @benscott326
      @benscott326 9 років тому +143

      +charlie wired This libel could not be more inaccurate. I don't know where you conjured these so called "facts" or why you are spreading them, but think next time before you try and shame or scapegoat a whole religious group.

    • @brindlebriar
      @brindlebriar 9 років тому +152

      +Ben Lechter (Flexter) I don't know either where he get the information/misinformation, whichever it may be, but if you don't know where he got it, how can you say that "it could not be more inaccurate," but then decline to provide any explanation of how you know that to be the case?
      It sounds like that's just how you feel. Are you intuiting reality? Remote viewing? Psychic connections? Asking Charlie Charlie on a Weegie board? Or...
      Or based on what evidence do you stake your claim and your certainty?
      I must say, charlie wired at least sounds like he got the info SOMEWHERE, whereas it SOUNDS like you just made stuff up. But please correct me.
      By the way, I also, have come across the statistic that at the peak of American slavery only 1.4%* of Americans owned slaves. If we isolate only the Southern states, that number still rises only to about 4%, if I remember correctly. As for the rest of it, I have no idea.
      * I would like to mention though that the 1.4%(and the 4% statistic) while they may be true, are necessarily very misleading. Imagine a plantation with a father, mother, 6 kids, maybe 2 grandparents living there as well. All of them effectively own slaves in that they order them about, live off their labor, and are directly served by them. However, technically they don't "own" them. Of those 10 people, most likely only the Father owns all the slaves. He is part of that 1.4%, but the rest of them are not. If we multiply that 1.4% by 10 for all the white family members living on the plantation, just as a very approximate guess, we get 14% of Americans effectively living as slave-owners.
      Also, one should bear in mind that one slave owner does not necessarily own only one slave. So a 1.4% slave owner rate does not mean that there were only as many salves in America as would equal 1.4% of white people. One owner could own upwards of 100 slaves if he were wealthy enough with a large enough plantation.
      However the 1.4% statistic, if true does tell us one important thing. The great majority of white people were poor themselves, did not own slaves, and were most likely not far removed from effectively being slaves themselves to the rich elite.

    • @benscott326
      @benscott326 9 років тому +49

      +brindlebriar I'm not going to waste my time with an ignorant POS debating a rumor that has been so widely disproven by historians far more intelligent on the subject than us. If the guy wants the truth, he can find it anywhere that's not some fringe Anti-semitic group propagating lies. If he doesn't, he wouldn't listen to anyone else. People believe what they want to believe.

    • @MoldeProductions
      @MoldeProductions 9 років тому +44

      +charlie wired Even though this is clearly not true (not only because it has been disproven many times by historians, but also because no one has ever kept record of statistics like these, do you really think someone went and asked all jews what their opinion was on the civil war, as you said "nearly all of them supported the south", say that it were true, how is it relevant for anything? What do you propose with these so-called "facts"? That it was planned by some sort of secret, jewish council? That people that descent from Northern Europe are in some way better than jews, and therefore we should... what? Like, is it really relevant for anything?

    • @benscott326
      @benscott326 9 років тому +34

      +Simen Tomren Grip the guy's just a good ol' fashioned jew hater, thats all

  • @domzbu
    @domzbu 6 років тому +1702

    There are 46,000,000 slaves alive in the world today according the GSI global slavery index. Mostly across Africa, Mid East and India. Also, Arabs took 17,000,000 African as slaves through the centuries. Little known and little mentioned.

    • @ms.sonshine8878
      @ms.sonshine8878 6 років тому +108

      HAL Today, Sudanese blacks enslaving their own people.

    • @jessicalt4121
      @jessicalt4121 6 років тому +75

      HAL I guess all major civilizations can be disgusted and ashamed by parts of their history.

    • @ubivermiscerritulus195
      @ubivermiscerritulus195 6 років тому +105

      I hate when people act like there is your people or my people, we are all family (22nd cousins at most) and we all should start acting like it. The only ones separating us are the greedy and fearful cowards running the world!

    • @siegfriedia9986
      @siegfriedia9986 6 років тому +40

      lol, no. arabs did not "take 17 million slaves". can you show any serous source for that claim (apart from some anti-islam right wing propaganda websites)?

    • @spattermann5809
      @spattermann5809 6 років тому +51

      Sudanese muslims enslaving sudanese non-muslims for fun, gain, and profit. Just like always.

  • @sagittariusbeauty
    @sagittariusbeauty 3 роки тому +207

    Proud of my ancestors for being very patient and enduring harshness of the unthinkable

    • @Mark-sf1xl
      @Mark-sf1xl 3 роки тому +18

      huh?

    • @vuyophama8668
      @vuyophama8668 3 роки тому +8

      The meek shall inherit the earth, stay strong sis, God has a plan for us, we will understand why we have to endure so much when he reveals his final plan. The more they oppress us the stronger we get, they've been at us for a coupla hundred years but were still here smarter, craftier, stronger. That's why we scare them so much our will for survival comes from a divine source. uThixo anikusele nonke.

    • @xxxxxxxxxxx-ps8pn
      @xxxxxxxxxxx-ps8pn 2 роки тому +8

      You shouldn't separate yourselves from us. See, I don't know who my great great great grandfather was, and you probably don't know yours either. So why bother about it? Let's hang out some time.

    • @tris2141
      @tris2141 2 роки тому +2

      Meanwhile 600 years ago: your ancestors killing, capturing, enslaving, and selling eachother to foreigners.

    • @truthinchrist3001
      @truthinchrist3001 2 роки тому +3

      @@vuyophama8668 What god?

  • @grcarie
    @grcarie 3 роки тому +2119

    I like how the narrator explains that slavery is at odds with Christian ideals, and how proponents and practitioners of slavery had to go through some logical calisthenics to justify their crimes.

    • @danherrick5785
      @danherrick5785 3 роки тому +57

      As the days went on from when tRump was elected in 2016, I have questioned more and more each day about my own Christianity.

    • @tedc4982
      @tedc4982 3 роки тому +32

      @@danherrick5785 That's bull shi'ite....
      You're not a Christian. You're trying to BLAME Christians for what some PEOPLE did...
      CHRISTIANS my delusional friend FOUGHT & DIED AND FREED THE SLAVES...

    • @HarshDude126
      @HarshDude126 3 роки тому +149

      The problem is, slavery is not at odds with Christian ideals. In fact, the Bible supports slavery. No logical calisthenics needed. In Paul's letters to the Ephesians, Paul motivates early Christian slaves to remain loyal and obedient to their masters like they are to Christ. Ephesians 6:5-8 Paul states, “Slaves, be obedient to your human masters with fear and trembling, in sincerity of heart, as to Christ” which is Paul instructing slaves to obey their master. Similar statements regarding obedient slaves can be found in Colossians 3:22-24, 1 Timothy 6:1-2, and Titus 2:9-10. Why don't you try actually reading your holy book?

    • @tedc4982
      @tedc4982 3 роки тому +7

      @@HarshDude126 Satan - for what ever reason, has lawful authority on the earth - for a limited time, about 6000 years until his contract runs out - and Christ returns.
      Until that time is up, slavery will be a Satan instituted fact of life.
      Paul instructs Christians on how they should react & behave in light of the New Covenant... He likely didn't want people/slaves rising up in revolt.
      There's a war going on - perpetually, Christians have to take it on the chin a lot.
      God doesn't endorse slavery, he condones it - with tremendous anger stored up for the day of reckoning.
      You know nothing about our God. You have no UNDERSTANDING of the Bible.
      It may well be you are not meant to and therefore will never...
      If I were you I would make the attempt.

    • @markr1550
      @markr1550 3 роки тому +7

      @@danherrick5785 Is Christianity certain people who may not live up to the standard, or is it the teachings in the Bible and the goal of working to achieve an extremely high standard.

  • @whitekiltwhitekilt1611
    @whitekiltwhitekilt1611 5 років тому +1254

    Man’s inhumanity to Man. Continues even today.

    • @sonmoniterangpi1662
      @sonmoniterangpi1662 4 роки тому +6

      You are right bro

    • @pst702
      @pst702 4 роки тому +50

      Yes, and unfortunately it will be this way until man lives no more on this planet....we are our own worse enemy...we label people animals (which btw is an insult to the Animal Kingdom) when we're really savages

    • @signblue7329
      @signblue7329 4 роки тому +1

      NOW

    • @Profile.4
      @Profile.4 4 роки тому +3

      Make sure you find out who really did it!
      ua-cam.com/video/PdRY7VBRrcg/v-deo.html

    • @geekgo4
      @geekgo4 4 роки тому +4

      @@MosaIinda You think.
      When the first caveman discovered/ invented the wheel and is the only one to make wheels, others worshipped him for that reason.
      Some are just better, smarter, &/or just plain lucky than others.

  • @KylePiira
    @KylePiira 8 років тому +4223

    Not sure what textbooks you guys were reading, but this is exactly what was in mine.

    • @The-Tech-Man
      @The-Tech-Man 8 років тому +703

      Many text books in the USA never mention the fact that other tribes would enslave each other.

    • @deebunny178
      @deebunny178 8 років тому +174

      Mine didn't. Luckily my mom taught me everything I needed to know.

    • @deebunny178
      @deebunny178 8 років тому +128

      Exactly what he spoke about in the video. Not what they teach you in Georgia. That slavery was short term and that slaves were treated well.

    • @022-e5f
      @022-e5f 8 років тому +142

      Remember that this is the USA we're talking about.
      Their education isn't on par with European.

    • @sharonalexander1625
      @sharonalexander1625 8 років тому +1

      afafafafafaf

  • @GumdroptheFurryYT
    @GumdroptheFurryYT 2 роки тому +132

    The fact they committed suicide in hopes their souls would return home is actually heartbreaking

  • @eeshantripathi1620
    @eeshantripathi1620 4 роки тому +2116

    the story telling animation of this video is one of the best i've ever seen......great job animation team

    • @eastonmcdonald7211
      @eastonmcdonald7211 4 роки тому +4

      pog

    • @garyheadiii4397
      @garyheadiii4397 3 роки тому +1

      ok

    • @infinitydreamzz
      @infinitydreamzz 3 роки тому +7

      The content though is the same incomplete distorted narrative that blames whites for everything, but to their credit, they almost.. say that without the co-operation of the local leaders there would be hardly any trade at all. It is very rare to come across such information, even partially given

    • @Apelles42069
      @Apelles42069 3 роки тому +18

      @@infinitydreamzz No it is not.

    • @infinitydreamzz
      @infinitydreamzz 3 роки тому +2

      @@Apelles42069 yes it is...

  • @timp918
    @timp918 4 роки тому +624

    The ideology that slaves were destined to be slaves was not created by the Christians. That ideology had been around since before Plato and had never really been question until sometime in/near the modern eras. If you read ancient texts on the subject, such as the Roman philosopher Seneca, it was never a question of "is slavery moral," but rather, "what is the moral way to treat slaves." Most cultures throughout the world have used slavery at one point or another. Thus it is important to reemphasize to those of you who are students, that Africa is not the only country to have had its people enslaved. Remember the story of Sparticus of Rome? Sparticus was a Greek who was captured during a battle with Rome. In the ancient days, war captives became slaves. In fact, for Rome, Greek slaves were the prized slaves for their intelligence. Just something to keep in mind. Too many western kids today believe that only Africans were used as slaves, and that is simply not true.

    • @branlex1315
      @branlex1315 4 роки тому +42

      Yeah, thars sad because slaves always existed in europe, but then white peopoe could not be enslaved anymore so instead of ending slavery they started enslaving peopoe form other races because that was acepted :(

    • @Lucky_9705
      @Lucky_9705 3 роки тому +62

      @Dylan Mosley Because Europe popularized it, people have a natural tendency to blame Christianity as the focal cause. But that isn’t true. Slavery and racism has been prevalent in just about every culture. Religion doesn’t solely define racism, our prejudice does.

    • @iokei7926
      @iokei7926 3 роки тому +86

      ​@@Lucky_9705 But as stated in this video, the degree of that racism and slavery was very different. In Ancient Rome and Greece, as well as Africa, slavery was based on winning wars or birthright. Here, you had a cultural and religious power justify an entire race of people (regardless of where they are from exactly or how they got there) be regarded as slaves by default. And almost more importantly, as Tim states, the question in Rome was indeed what is the moral way to treat slaves - a question that was rarely asked during the Atlantic trade. The question then was what's the best way to maximize profits - leading to the accepted and sanctioned inhumane treatment of slaves, particularly in the Americas. Though, you are right that Christianity isn't to blame as it was only a vessel for capitalism and imperialism to flourish.

    • @Lucky_9705
      @Lucky_9705 3 роки тому +12

      @@iokei7926 Thank you for the information! I’m glad that I now know that the degree of slavery and racism differed by culture. In any case, it must be stopped.

    • @inigobantok1579
      @inigobantok1579 3 роки тому +35

      @Dylan Mosley they didn't popularized it they were the first civilization to question the morality of the practice itself not the Arabs the Turks and especially not the africans

  • @ver9060
    @ver9060 3 роки тому +1405

    Hey even if you are watching this for an assignment, do think about the deeper meaning of it all and don’t pass it off as annoying homework. You’ll be surprised of how much you’ll actually learn

    • @syk0w0
      @syk0w0 3 роки тому +6

      @Razol fr

    • @NinoNak
      @NinoNak 3 роки тому +8

      @Razol imagine even having homework

    • @driedcarbide3408
      @driedcarbide3408 3 роки тому +169

      @Razol imagine calling one of the most horrific things to ever happen..”annoying homework”

    • @driedcarbide3408
      @driedcarbide3408 3 роки тому +41

      @Razol privileged people should be glad u even get to do homework

    • @public_toeSniffr
      @public_toeSniffr 3 роки тому +11

      @@driedcarbide3408 I’ve been looking for a few days, but I still can’t find who asked

  • @Rory20uk
    @Rory20uk 2 роки тому +20

    Good video - the word "Trade" is so often ignored.
    Money has always been more important than anything else.

    • @spaceballs44
      @spaceballs44 2 роки тому

      Will always be. Look at American Heath care.

  • @theydontknow806
    @theydontknow806 5 років тому +1051

    Shame on Both participants. The Buyers & Sellers- Smdh

    • @yard2x637
      @yard2x637 5 років тому +93

      The sellers had no idea how the slaves would be treated. They didn't treat their slaves that way.

    • @Marko-nh3dn
      @Marko-nh3dn 4 роки тому +250

      @@yard2x637 no excuse, a person for an object? Df bro

    • @truenorthfreerunning6178
      @truenorthfreerunning6178 4 роки тому +23

      theydontknow806 🤦🏾‍♂️ the “sellers” sold war captives and criminals

    • @cathy1394
      @cathy1394 4 роки тому +18

      And the kidnappers too

    • @beowulf4100
      @beowulf4100 4 роки тому +10

      But if you base it on statistics..with a true moral output....base the punishment on...number 1.what total population percent sold..
      Number 2.what total population percent bought and used slaves
      The numbers are in a complete pole position
      And also he failed to mention the extreme low percentage of owners in the u.s
      And that
      Less than a quarter of the slaves imported to the u.s
      Due to trade and port laws
      Acctualy stayed in the u.s....
      The ideology that the u.s
      Specifically the south are the worst is insane
      And the people who hold it...are legitimately crazy....they will do everything in thier power to insult .. riticle and belittle anyone who disagrees with them...and simply say it is written
      instead of giving a
      reference to any fact...when there is none..not only that but all historical documentation seams to closeline
      Everything and anything they have to say.....like the illegal trade cut to the south that started in 1858
      Before slavery was the issue
      And it had to do with paper and hemp...
      When the .c.s was a legitimate country with its own laws, money military and tenets.....
      The illegal confiscation of land in the south
      The c.s boycott on Europe that caused famines. And food shortages around the world.......
      Its ridiculous how controled information is
      Instead of anyone contesting this information everyone just dosnt care
      This subject is and accseptance speech to groups based on collective narsassisim and constituency segregation for political funding

  • @Neovelipureunity
    @Neovelipureunity 5 років тому +677

    R.I.P To all of my ancestors and those who had to go thru this for me to be here today...

    • @jesseleep8921
      @jesseleep8921 5 років тому +13

      My family thanks you

    • @rodjames8983
      @rodjames8983 5 років тому +16

      But we are all slaves now and our masters wear little hats. research is the key

    • @charlesmichaels6648
      @charlesmichaels6648 5 років тому +2

      @@rodjames8983
      As in the time of Noah..........

    • @charlesmichaels6648
      @charlesmichaels6648 5 років тому +2

      @Bullets in Bacon Grease
      Matthew 24: 37-39.

    • @sayingthethingstheywont2619
      @sayingthethingstheywont2619 5 років тому +28

      R.I.P to my ancestors who bled and died by the million to free yours.

  • @Hiddengems-q9k
    @Hiddengems-q9k 4 роки тому +700

    Not only did African kings sell prisoners of war, but Europeans also captured and stole people. Let's talk about all of the facts if we want to talk about slavery.
    Lice wasnt the only reason they shaved them. Every African tribe has a hairstyle that shows where they come from. They were shaved so that they wouldnt know their tribesmen when they saw them. And no, not all tribesmen live in the same surroundings

    • @hardcoreplayafromthehimala4888
      @hardcoreplayafromthehimala4888 4 роки тому +39

      "Europeans also captured and stole people" hmm i don't think so...and ony who trade and own slaves were from some parts of Europe, Eastern, North, South Europe never owned slaves.

    • @stardolphin2
      @stardolphin2 4 роки тому +20

      You're quite welcome to produce a video on other forms of slavery, there's far too many to choose from. We accept that 'All Slaves Matter.'
      But as Derrell Sam has noted, *this* video, is addressing *one* of them.

    • @BankoleTomiVisuals
      @BankoleTomiVisuals 4 роки тому +96

      No you're wrong. The Europeans could never have been able to navigate through the African villages and towns without the help of the Africans. The Europeans did not know the topography, they allied themselves with our fore-fathers who sold our people. By 1851, King Kosoko of Lagos still sold slaves. Did you know who put him down and installed a new King that supported legitimate trade? The British government.

    • @joshflores6605
      @joshflores6605 4 роки тому +59

      Let me just ask you something, if the Europeans capture some Africans and sold them, who do you think captured more and sold more. You’re own people sold you to the America’s and ruined the future of your country, that’s what this just showed you, stop trying to put all this on the white man.

    • @hardcoreplayafromthehimala4888
      @hardcoreplayafromthehimala4888 4 роки тому +32

      @@joshflores6605 they project hate towards white people, even if 98,9% of them, at that time never had anything with slavery..

  • @superdave443
    @superdave443 2 роки тому +49

    I've NEVER thought that Europeans could go to Africa and simply take people into slavery. I've always believed there was an arrangement between the parties involved. Many thanks for corroborating my theory.

    • @naitthegr8131
      @naitthegr8131 2 роки тому +13

      Where have you been for the past 40 years? The miniseries "Roots" was one of the most watched miniseries on television. It clearly showed the main character being abducted by people from an enemy tribe hired by white people, rather than the white people themselves. Where have you been?

    • @sakhu8945
      @sakhu8945 2 роки тому +15

      Europeans came with guns.....

    • @maxwellmaxwell3042
      @maxwellmaxwell3042 2 роки тому +12

      The “arrangement” you’re referencing = people still getting kidnapped, just by nations in closer proximity to them

    • @SuperAnimecity
      @SuperAnimecity 2 роки тому

      @@sakhu8945 And they gave those guns away to the africans. Besides, guns shouldn't of been enough to hold you all back

    • @cockoffgewgle4993
      @cockoffgewgle4993 Рік тому

      The vast majority of slaves were bought, not taken. Bought from Africans.

  • @imjesus7979
    @imjesus7979 4 роки тому +5128

    POV: your here for virtual learning

  • @thejudge7737
    @thejudge7737 6 років тому +563

    Breaks my heart...can't even imagine everything they went thru in those boats alone...makes you appreciate the era your in..

    • @heyyy9441
      @heyyy9441 5 років тому +10

      Pete Ruiz Exactly😖😭😩

    • @blacksky492
      @blacksky492 5 років тому +3

      thru lmao

    • @HotRossBuns
      @HotRossBuns 5 років тому +8

      Its better to die of disease and famine quickly, then die of old age at 100, working youre whole life for nothing.

    • @GabrielLopez-pi4xs
      @GabrielLopez-pi4xs 5 років тому +7

      @@HotRossBuns
      That's how life worked and still does

    • @Srtjeep_2020
      @Srtjeep_2020 5 років тому +10

      We’re still slaves 🤣🤣

  • @farajaraf
    @farajaraf 6 років тому +507

    No mention of Arabs?

    • @thomasschoemehl7403
      @thomasschoemehl7403 6 років тому +47

      shhh!

    • @EpicGamer-dj7dm
      @EpicGamer-dj7dm 6 років тому +33

      Twomonthago no but not as brutal as the Europeans, you can buy yourself out of slavery from the Arabs but you can't from the eruopeans

    • @blyatman635
      @blyatman635 6 років тому +40

      Brown Brown not to put a grade on brutality, but you are greatly miss informed, you could literally look around today for confirmation.

    • @st0n3p0ny
      @st0n3p0ny 6 років тому +18

      Defending slavery, you must be a compassionate liberal.

    • @NoOne-yh4cl
      @NoOne-yh4cl 6 років тому +5

      Farajaraf Don't you mean Muslims?

  • @julesoxana3630
    @julesoxana3630 Рік тому +29

    "Believing in death their souls will return home" 💔so heartbreaking

  • @monkymonk6
    @monkymonk6 6 років тому +403

    As harsh as reality can be, it is good to learn the truth, because the truth is refreshing. Yes, the past is the past, that cannot be changed. However, the past can be used to learn from.

    • @yunmahdibaby2291
      @yunmahdibaby2291 5 років тому +10

      It can't be changed is a lie.. u can grant us that wealth back .. those family's who owned slaves are still millionaires today.. take it back from them it's simple

    • @BlueApeCinema
      @BlueApeCinema 5 років тому +3

      Therefore history shouldn't be forgotten

    • @bnkdsociety4382
      @bnkdsociety4382 5 років тому +2

      Deep

    • @Aikunle78
      @Aikunle78 5 років тому

      You are absolutely right ,my friend

    • @victoriarobinson146
      @victoriarobinson146 5 років тому +1

      Edom will have to pay for there sin's you will see...

  • @charnaeyoung9815
    @charnaeyoung9815 8 років тому +1438

    Instead of soaking in the "facts," and learning from them. I see a lot of people trying to transfer guilt to other races. Why would you do that if you have nothing to be offended of. If I see a video about the holocaust, my first response isn't "other countries commit genocide!" So childish. You reek of unnecessary defensiveness and guilt. Instead of trying to convince everyone else that it "wasn't the worst" or that "everyone else did it," try convincing yourselves that you don't have anything to be defensive about. This is the only part of history where I see crapstorms like this. People act like they've had their hands in a cookie jar or something. l0l

    • @TheTokkie
      @TheTokkie 8 років тому +46

      I am white and I don't feel guilt, why would I? You're American? Do you feel guilt why America ha nuked Japan twice? No well you shouldn't you weren't even born during that time but offcourse people want to say that this wa not the only slave trade and certainly not the biggest..

    • @charnaeyoung9815
      @charnaeyoung9815 8 років тому +130

      *****​ tim van der velde​​ Then find those people who are blaming you. This video is blaming you. But you are acting like it is. Which is what I was talking about. "If it don't apply, let it slide." It's freaking ridiculous how you're trying to sit here and explain to me that you aren't to blame when that's literally what my post said. I'm referring to people reacting to an educational video. If you pulled guilt from it, that's not my problem. Grow up!

    • @TheTokkie
      @TheTokkie 8 років тому +9

      charnae young There are people that say "white people" are evil, here in this comment section :) Offcourse I let it slide history is to learn from it not deny it :)

    • @charnaeyoung9815
      @charnaeyoung9815 8 років тому +77

      tim van der velde​​ The people I'm talking about are commenting on the video. Not in response to an "all white people." And those are the people I was obviously talking to. I don't need to be explained to that people blame white people. I'm talking to people trying to discredit and downplay this video or history in general. And those trying to downplay my comment and taking up for those people when it doesn't apply to them!l0l 

    • @TheTokkie
      @TheTokkie 8 років тому +4

      charnae young agreed

  • @fierylightning3422
    @fierylightning3422 4 роки тому +501

    Gonna tell y’all a fact that no one else in the comment section is saying.
    Slavery has existed in every civilisation in human history. Only recently in the last 200-100 years did people realise that owning another person is a bad idea
    Edit: damn there is quite a conversation going on in the replies, it’s getting a bit crazy.

    • @jackwebb3757
      @jackwebb3757 4 роки тому +2

      Thank you

    • @rorgorr2339
      @rorgorr2339 4 роки тому +13

      Oh but slavery is still legal and widely accepted, thanks to capitalism!

    • @lotrtim
      @lotrtim 4 роки тому +38

      @@rorgorr2339 lol slavery is definitely not legal or widely accepted thanks to capitalism

    • @deblobvis264
      @deblobvis264 4 роки тому

      The west started with ut

    • @dansmith1661
      @dansmith1661 4 роки тому +2

      @@rorgorr2339 Thanks to small hats.

  • @chanel310the7
    @chanel310the7 3 роки тому +25

    There's a lot of Whataboutism in this comment section...

    • @ScyllasSimp
      @ScyllasSimp 3 роки тому +5

      Oh my god. Honestly. Imagine the vitriol I got if I mentioned Americans bombing West Asian buildings under a video of 9/11

  • @OkkoDiPatio
    @OkkoDiPatio 5 років тому +803

    What about the Ottoman muslims? They traded milions of slaves. I miss the info in this interesting video. Do you have info about that too?

    • @stanpski5442
      @stanpski5442 5 років тому +88

      And with Ottomans there were Arabs and Africans raiding most European countries for slaves. For 600 years. Not to mention fearless, fanatical Turkish soldiers called Janissaries who were kidnapped as little kids in Europe from slaughtered parents.

    • @gungun5059
      @gungun5059 5 років тому +7

      Stop lie there is no evidence

    • @stanpski5442
      @stanpski5442 5 років тому +43

      @@gungun5059 If so far the only evidence to you is what CNN says right now you can just Google "Barbary Slavery". Wikipedia was put together by much smarter individuals than leftist TV anchors.

    • @larrylacause5181
      @larrylacause5181 5 років тому +9

      Okko , , U are Correct , , islam Started Slavery , , the video is half none sense 2 , , islam is full involved in slavery , , , islam = submit

    • @dunniedine5121
      @dunniedine5121 5 років тому +30

      @@larrylacause5181 How can what you say be true when Islam did not exist before 600 AD, and the Greeks, Romans held slaves long before Christ? The ancient Egyptians held slaves and the Old Testament Bible written about 1500 BC references slavery.

  • @MinnieMousey06
    @MinnieMousey06 6 років тому +293

    so greed caused slavery

    • @jsamc8420
      @jsamc8420 6 років тому +10

      YES !!

    • @lonniedobbins1195
      @lonniedobbins1195 6 років тому +6

      Arya M
      Also the cause of most wars.
      *Greed, selfishness, PROVIDENCE, Deviant, immorality, INHUEMANE!* (HUEMAN=HUMAN)

    • @passedhighschoolphysics6010
      @passedhighschoolphysics6010 6 років тому +9

      Not so much greed, but capitalism. And to me more accurate Christian based capitalism.

    • @anarchoaristocracy8368
      @anarchoaristocracy8368 6 років тому +6

      The one people that were never slaves, are the ones responsible for the global phenomenon, Jews.

    • @anarchoaristocracy8368
      @anarchoaristocracy8368 6 років тому +13

      Slavery exists because blacks sell each other.

  • @norgan5064
    @norgan5064 7 років тому +659

    The history of Africa is extremely sad, it's crazy how it can go from rich educated powerful kingdoms such as Mali, Songhai, Morocco, Egypt and Ghana, to being to being a jumbled mess of nationalism, violence, crime, civil wars, poverty and lack of resources. I pray that someday Africa can bounce back, but it's not looking like it.

    • @zwareshag7757
      @zwareshag7757 7 років тому +5

      norgan true

    • @orppranator5230
      @orppranator5230 7 років тому +50

      norgan yes, we need to colonize them more

    • @norgan5064
      @norgan5064 6 років тому +35

      winning &making peace-I there were many problems long before them, but they were definitely a driving force in the creation of ethnic and nationalistic struggles

    • @rodneyjenkins3908
      @rodneyjenkins3908 6 років тому +29

      norgan Africa has they youngest POPULATION on earth.Which means in the future it will have the biggest growth of any continent.Thats WHY China is putting so MUCH money in infrustuctual to sell to Africans and trade.They have the biggest growth of any continent.4 percent is huge.

    • @YB--iy8nh
      @YB--iy8nh 6 років тому +17

      Actually the past empires (now nations) your
      spoke of are doing quite ok today just look at Accra ,Ghana our perception of Africa is kinda warped Because west and north Africans are becoming semi prosperous alike to what Korea and China used to be like. I would also like to say that all countries have their rural areas and that allot of the farmers who are too poor to emigrate are happy with what they have is just that they look poorer than American farmers. Though it should be noted that the more corrupt nations in the East and centre: raveged by Islamic fundamentalism and simply put bad cultural outlooks on progress. What I mean is that some nations prioritize tribes over allot of important things and culturally disagree with things that make nations develop like equality, children's rights, and secularism

  • @Yahvesh
    @Yahvesh Рік тому +17

    Thank you, it really helps us all when you provide all of these videos and putting all the hard work in it.

  • @NoWay1969
    @NoWay1969 10 років тому +432

    TY for pointing out the religious aspect. Often christians will deny that religion was used to justify this.

    • @jsmyth024
      @jsmyth024 10 років тому +45

      Religion is one of the easiest things to exploit.

    • @DeoMachina
      @DeoMachina 10 років тому +13

      What's interesting (and kinda sad) is that the Catholic church were against the slavery of Native Americans, but had no problem with African slavery.

    • @Tamizushi
      @Tamizushi 10 років тому +13

      Religion will by used to justify pretty much anything.

    • @lysergiinhape
      @lysergiinhape 10 років тому +52

      Did you even watch the video, moron? They didn't use religion to justify slavery. On the contrary they needed to justify their actions because christian beliefs where against slaving another human being. Therefor they came to the idea that black people where sub-human and destined to be slaves. I'm amazed how many stupid people think like you(the thumb up-s).

    • @jsmyth024
      @jsmyth024 10 років тому +16

      Tyr Caelestis Consus "Did you even watch the video, moron? They didn't use religion to justify slavery. On the contrary they needed to justify there actions because christian beliefs where against slaving another human being. Therefor they came to the idea that black people where sub-human and destined to be slaves. I'm amazed how many stupid people think like you(the thumb up-s)."
      Calls someone a moron
      Proceeds to use the word "there" in place of "their"
      Your argument is invalid.

  • @or529
    @or529 4 роки тому +395

    It's just like the United States doesn't teach in all of the schools what really happened in history with the treatment of Native Americans.

    • @m.h.w.2081
      @m.h.w.2081 4 роки тому +72

      the u.s fails to teach that slavery started in africa.

    • @Koyasi78
      @Koyasi78 4 роки тому +19

      McGraw-Hill, the largest publisher of school books, is headquartered in texas.

    • @James-st9uu
      @James-st9uu 4 роки тому +34

      And also the tragic fact that due to americas isolation from africa and Eurasia, native people no immunity to the diseases that killed many people in the old world. These diseases killed up to 90% of native americans when the new world was discovered as diseases were transmitted.

    • @Panda-zo2hj
      @Panda-zo2hj 4 роки тому +34

      Yo we learn more American history in England than you guys do in America

    • @James-st9uu
      @James-st9uu 4 роки тому +22

      @Horner 37 The diseases that killed 30million + native americans were: smallpox, plague, tuberculosis and salmonella. These diseases had killed hundreds of millions in europe, asia and africa for a thousand years before native americans were exposed.

  • @RondelayAOK
    @RondelayAOK 5 років тому +221

    Slavery was finally outlawed in Yemen in 1962.

  • @QueeneAllie
    @QueeneAllie Рік тому +29

    Really great video. I was never taught - and never thought about - the effect on the African civilizations. Thank you for this video.

  • @patrickkyle4601
    @patrickkyle4601 5 років тому +434

    no mention of the Muslim Empires long history of slavery.

    • @LHKKKing
      @LHKKKing 5 років тому +5

      Why, they are what they are. they never trying to bring "Freedom" or "Democracy" upon their victim

    • @ARTHNYC
      @ARTHNYC 5 років тому +4

      Needs another video.

    • @broccolininja8950
      @broccolininja8950 5 років тому

      *arab

    • @shaunclark425
      @shaunclark425 5 років тому +3

      Kender. .THATS BECAUSE THE WEST CARES ENOUGH ABOUT DECENCY AND JUSTICE.. UNLIKE ISLAMIC FILTH

    • @wattlebough
      @wattlebough 5 років тому +11

      BLUE DOG The Qur’an was written by Zayd Ibn Thabit, who was one of Muhammed’s personal scribes. Yes Ibn Thabit was fully literate. The Qur’an is hateful towards Jews, and Muhammed was merciless to the Jews of the Banu Qurayzah, Banu Qaynuqa, Banu Nadir and the Jews of the Khaybar Oasis. Look it up.

  • @jasongende2739
    @jasongende2739 8 років тому +689

    this is exactly what the textbooks taught me

    • @Sforschondetta
      @Sforschondetta 8 років тому +1

      i know right lol

    • @Scopps94
      @Scopps94 8 років тому +15

      Too few text books today describe's this context in detail than ever before

    • @TheBc99
      @TheBc99 8 років тому +8

      Then you had a better education than I did... although to be fair I live in Australia which was far away from the AST.

    • @nunya7055
      @nunya7055 8 років тому +3

      What country did you get educated in?

    • @nunya7055
      @nunya7055 8 років тому +49

      In American education, the slave trade is all about feeling sorry for blacks - nothing about African monarchies or African warfare or arms racing or how Africa collapsed as a result of slavery being banned.

  • @nyny74d
    @nyny74d 7 років тому +403

    I find it interesting whenever there's an educational video on slavery in the Americas, people begin to downplay the atrocities of it by giving modern statistics on violence in impoverished neighborhoods or worse, comment on how long ago it was so it should be discounted. Discounted as if these slave traders did not have predecessors who continued their legacy through laws.
    Nevertheless. I believe this is the reason why real relations between other cultures can be hard. A real and honest dialogue is needed between cultures to start healing and uniting us. Division is the real enemy, it keeps us distracted from what's really going on. each culture and its communities have issues that need to be resolved. I don't think its up to the government to bring change to these communities. I believe that has to be the responsibility of the people within these communities to help themselves. The issues we all face as a nation, we should unite for. Not a liberal nor a dreamer; just someone who has real dialogue with people of opposing viewpoints. We may not agree on anything, but we are having an honest dialogue.

    • @krystanramcharan3883
      @krystanramcharan3883 7 років тому +58

      Because they are cowards who cant accept their history unless it glorifies them.

    • @tomflower6960
      @tomflower6960 7 років тому +9

      nyny74d This might even work if one side of the" dialogue" wasn't relentlessly shouted down.

    • @nyny74d
      @nyny74d 7 років тому +4

      So true unfortunately.

    • @gilbertogonzalez8459
      @gilbertogonzalez8459 7 років тому +2

      If neither side listens to the other but shouts at the other, it's not a dialogue but an argument, which is usually how these dialogues of this matter end up, one side trying to dominate the other with its views and beliefs in a condescending way. Only when all sides are truly willing to listen to one another respectfully, then true dialogue can take place. True dialogue will lead to true healing and restoration, which can only happen when there's a true desire to mend what is broken and better the status quo. True repentance produces forgiveness which in turn creates the path for a real reconciliation.

    • @erikmurray9033
      @erikmurray9033 7 років тому +3

      nyny74d even worse is the fact that we lied to " African " slaves descendants and tell them they are African when in truth tbey are actually proven to be Hebrews who migrated to Africa in 70 a.d. Fleeing from Roman Rule. This IS A FACT. They are israelites not African at least in our view. Eventhough Israel is actually north east africa on the same tectonic plate as the mainland.

  • @codyweaver7546
    @codyweaver7546 3 роки тому +4

    Christianity is not opposed to slavery. It is explicitly supportive of it.

  • @markhughes7927
    @markhughes7927 5 років тому +242

    Please do a similar analysis of slavery in Islam - historical and contemporary.

    • @Borrowed_Rowboat
      @Borrowed_Rowboat 5 років тому +1

      @Mister Kiip Huh?

    • @TheRealSyrett
      @TheRealSyrett 5 років тому +16

      They'll never do that analysis and you know it

    • @miramoses8340
      @miramoses8340 5 років тому +19

      @Mister Kiip Ypu are talking as if Islam never gets criticised. Islam is the most hated group of people in the modern world. Just read the comments, everyone is mentioning how muslims forced people into Islam, took millions of whites as slaves, took many millions of Africans as slaves, raided Africa and Europe etc. Nobody gets criticised as much as we so yes, we are thabkful that media dpes not always have to throw us under the bus. Nothing but war and economic collapses would come out of it. It is well known that muslims are very loyal to Islam and their homeland. If you start picking on us and get backed up by the media, trust me, nothing good will come out of it. Do not poke the sleeping bear.

    • @Ar021
      @Ar021 5 років тому +2

      You people know very little history.

    • @RobertPau
      @RobertPau 5 років тому +1

      @Mister Kiip The Lutheran Protestants under Martin Luther learned their tricks and mastered them to oppress even worse. That is what the Lutheran Reformation is all about. Not all whites are bad, but the Lutherans are terrible against humanity to this day.

  • @nanaesio.nyarkoh2858
    @nanaesio.nyarkoh2858 8 років тому +394

    Being African and learning the history from our perspective, I thought there would be so many faults with this video I would have to point out, but I'm actually quite surprised at how accurate this video was! Well done, and this side of the history needs to be told more often 👏🏿

    • @trevzns
      @trevzns 8 років тому +6

      Please explain the what is correct about this whitewash and propaganda?

    • @dudeistpriest787
      @dudeistpriest787 8 років тому +26

      Propaganda? Which part?

    • @nanaesio.nyarkoh2858
      @nanaesio.nyarkoh2858 8 років тому +40

      trevzns white wash? I'm Ghanaian, and my school makes it a point for us to go to different parts of the country to do research, hear legends from the oldest citizens, and visit the significant places where this history took place. I've been doing so for four to five years. I can surely tell you that this isn't the whitewashed version.

    • @dudeistpriest787
      @dudeistpriest787 8 років тому +30

      Nana Esi Okyere-N. Don't mind him, you'd be surprised how many people in Europe and America refuse to believe that there were Africans that profited from, and took part in, the Atlantic slave trade.

    • @nanaesio.nyarkoh2858
      @nanaesio.nyarkoh2858 8 років тому +24

      DudeistPriest Well the truth will remain the truth, whether it's believed or not

  • @jewdd1989
    @jewdd1989 3 роки тому +422

    This was well written and explained. I especially appreciate the graphics and visual aspect of it. Kids need visual pics to get a sense of the scale, the atrocities and the full pic of what slavery looked like. We never hear about the effects slavery had on Africa and worldwide which is disappointing and it needs to be talked about. I especially wasn’t aware of WHY Tribes and African Kings cooperated with Europeans in enslaving Africans, makes sense the “reasoning” yet still and will always be appalling!

    • @MrBoazhorribilis
      @MrBoazhorribilis 3 роки тому +4

      It is appalling. Slavery existed in Africa for ever. They sold slaves to Arabs, other Africans and eventually to Europeans. The Africans took the slaves to other parts of Africa, the Arabs took them to the Middle East and N. Africa, the Europeans took them to the New World for they thought that the Africans were more resilient to work in the tropical conditions in the Caribbean and surrounding areas. Mauritania, African country, has a population of four million people of which 600.000 are slaves. Today.

    • @RebeccaSwaceMauro
      @RebeccaSwaceMauro 2 роки тому

      Slavery still persists and our African leaders continue to give us up to be swallowed by the dictates of the West. Need evidence? How is Africa doing economically, "spiritually", intellectually? What major contributions have we (Africa as a continent) made in the area of medicine, technology etc. Even if we have tried, has it or have our contribution(s) transcended the African borders? We know what our ancestors went through,but how are we changing the narrative starting from our leaders?

    • @thehermitman822
      @thehermitman822 2 роки тому +2

      I've heard about the conquering of other tribes bur never heard about criminals also receiving the punishment of enslavement. I'm curious of the ratio.

    • @coleslaw9181
      @coleslaw9181 2 роки тому

      Blacks who are living in AMERICA TODAY, and who use colonial era slavery as a licence to hate and badmouth whites, should actually be THANKFUL that their ancestors were plucked out of west Africa and brought over to THIS continent four centuries ago, cause OTHERWISE they might still be living something like THIS instead ua-cam.com/video/YQjec7Pohgo/v-deo.html .

    • @coleslaw1196
      @coleslaw1196 2 роки тому

      Blacks who are living in AMERICA TODAY, and who use colonial era slavery as a licence to hate and badmouth whites, should actually be THANKFUL that their ancestors were plucked out of west Africa and brought over to THIS continent four centuries ago, cause OTHERWISE they might still be living something like THIS instead ua-cam.com/video/YQjec7Pohgo/v-deo.html

  • @manuelvillacana9284
    @manuelvillacana9284 2 роки тому +7

    I always thought it was the Portuguese who started slavery but as it turns out it was the African selling Africans just instead of getting a jail sentence you were sold and shipped away

  • @Dragonblaster1
    @Dragonblaster1 4 роки тому +270

    The slavers didn't have to hunt down their slaves. The slaves were waiting there ready to ship when the slavers got there. The local rulers got extremely rich from selling their own people.

    • @1Infeqaul1
      @1Infeqaul1 3 роки тому +12

      Yes, any slaver who walked into the jungle, never returned. even small armies never returned.

    • @george4281
      @george4281 3 роки тому +11

      He clearly said this isn't true if you watched the video

    • @1Infeqaul1
      @1Infeqaul1 3 роки тому +12

      @@george4281 Perhaps, but what i said is true.

    • @youtibe2320
      @youtibe2320 3 роки тому +8

      Guys, you should look at "lançados" on google or wikipedia or whatever you want. Indeed, at 1st some African kings sold prisonners (criminal, ennemies from other tribes, major political opponent who ploted) but when western kingdoms become too greedy for slaves, they stopped, so African flee to forest and jungle and in reaction, Portugal took mercenaries and dangerous prisonners to enter the jungle at 1st, then they make mixed baby to later be used as intermediate.

    • @joepilkey3082
      @joepilkey3082 3 роки тому +26

      It was a failing empire in western Africa. They sold allot of people for modern weapons thinking they could turn things around. Unfortunately to many others did the same thing. This guy is slanted narrative with to much of his personal views. Unfortunately sold as historical facts.

  • @Lorena-mb7ym
    @Lorena-mb7ym 7 років тому +639

    They actually teach us all this here in Brazil....

    • @TommyTomTompkins
      @TommyTomTompkins 7 років тому +3

      Lorena Fernandez I'm subna pull up on Brazil

    • @domdrty
      @domdrty 7 років тому +21

      Twistr what does that even mean? Try using English this time.

    • @TommyTomTompkins
      @TommyTomTompkins 7 років тому +22

      domdrty I am subject to take a vacation to Brazil really soon... i am actually planning a south American vacation for Nov...and I would like to see Brazil while I'm a there.

    • @lolnao9937
      @lolnao9937 7 років тому +2

      Invictus maneo PaxAmericana uh no. We don't have that at all

    • @Tissi_Abella
      @Tissi_Abella 7 років тому +63

      Here in Africa too. We know our story and we have never forgotten about you, african american brothers. and You should know that our people fought a lot.. please read about King Behanzin, the king of Abomey Kingdom who was killed because he fought against slavery. and there were so many other battles . i wish you knew all those stories.

  • @AJ12Gamer
    @AJ12Gamer 6 років тому +256

    3:40 To perform dances to keep them excercised and to curb rebellion.
    I feel like the media are still doing this?!

    • @spencerdavis3794
      @spencerdavis3794 5 років тому +17

      Very true..this is why i don't watch sports.give them drink and wine and entertainment and they shall never revolt..true to this day..

    • @kostajovanovic3711
      @kostajovanovic3711 5 років тому

      @@spencerdavis3794 well yeah, that is how it goes

    • @wolvesprowl1
      @wolvesprowl1 5 років тому

      celebrating touchdowns

    • @Explosivo55
      @Explosivo55 5 років тому

      @@spencerdavis3794 i missed the memo...
      ====================
      for those of you that are the Lord gods flock (lions on the land).. i'll exodus us from their corrupt nations and bring us back under his rule over us (separated) facebook.com/groups/564121650373359/ (virtual meeting place)
      the best way to describe the UK/US/EU/ISRAHELL (iniquity nations). is that it is a ship (corporation) the establishment are the crew officials (iniquity spirits) and the voters (human employees/slaves) are its rowers.. the rowers that play up end up getting put in the holding cell (jail time) and the non-voters (rebels) are the rats scurrying around on their ship getting exterminated where they can get them
      I'm the man going around this corporate ship looking to take those worthy enough (equitable spirits) off of that ship and sail our own righteous ship instead
      this righteous ship (to which the lord will give us) will sail with our Lord god watching over us and policing ourselves as we should in his eyes (todays writings are not originals but they do still contain some top notch commandments that i hands down before the Lord agree with)
      not only from within the ship.. but from outside vessels looking to sink our ship or even capture it (all within a motionless enclosed pressured level plane world)
      however instead of it being called a ship... it'll be a kingdom on the land surrounded by nations (other vessels) ua-cam.com/video/AzbcEus1Mbs/v-deo.html
      proverbs 14
      2Whoever walks in uprightness fears the LORD,
      but he who is devious in his ways despises him.
      11The house of the wicked will be destroyed,
      but the tent of the upright will flourish.
      28In a multitude of people is the glory of a king,
      but without people a prince is ruined.
      May the Lord god bless those of us (house of israel) and not all

    • @whothatniggaonthatnag3510
      @whothatniggaonthatnag3510 5 років тому

      So many untruths in this video. White people telling history is a joke.

  • @anthonymanderson7671
    @anthonymanderson7671 2 роки тому +9

    African Here
    This makes me heartbreaking 💔 so much and i wish africa could fully become prosperous and developed!!

    • @hevnervals
      @hevnervals 2 роки тому

      It is prosperous if you compare Africa with its past, instead of other continents.

    • @Batega_toh_Katega_Hindu_108
      @Batega_toh_Katega_Hindu_108 9 місяців тому

      Afria was more prosperous then today before slavery and invasion began.

  • @fubrikio
    @fubrikio 4 роки тому +299

    POV: you keep seeing comments saying they here for virtual learning but your not

    • @camilagonzalez6325
      @camilagonzalez6325 4 роки тому +8

      No i am here for a history lesson 😂

    • @tuyanabadmaeva7959
      @tuyanabadmaeva7959 4 роки тому +2

      i am here for school but its incredibly interesting

    • @danotae
      @danotae 3 роки тому

      Nope social studies teacher

    • @07Convertable
      @07Convertable 3 роки тому +1

      This is exactly why it is important to remember our history, good, bad, or indifferent, and not to destroy it simply because you feel that it is mean or demeaning of certain groups. We need it as a reminder of just how far we have evolved as a society.

    • @fubrikio
      @fubrikio 3 роки тому

      @Kamarah Riggins-Tigney (Student) ok

  • @leleeekondlo.9692
    @leleeekondlo.9692 4 роки тому +550

    "cutting them ears off to mark them off as being sold " there's a lot more idd like to mention , our ancestors were going through the most

    • @JerkandDork
      @JerkandDork 4 роки тому +18

      @@benhayter-dalgliesh5794 tell that to the Neanderthals

    • @JerkandDork
      @JerkandDork 4 роки тому +1

      @@benhayter-dalgliesh5794 natural selection is natural selection

    • @benhayter-dalgliesh5794
      @benhayter-dalgliesh5794 4 роки тому +2

      @@JerkandDork IK, that's my point, neanderthals died from natural selection, the jew's did not.

    • @benhayter-dalgliesh5794
      @benhayter-dalgliesh5794 4 роки тому +1

      @S H wdym

    • @JerkandDork
      @JerkandDork 4 роки тому +13

      @@benhayter-dalgliesh5794 no, natural selection is natural selection. Getting round up by Nazis is no different than getting eaten by wolves.

  • @bobgillis1137
    @bobgillis1137 4 роки тому +790

    Well done analysis. I find it both amazing and distressing how low and animalistic we can become just for the allure of wealth. I think it continues today, in different forms.

    • @fredgillespie5855
      @fredgillespie5855 4 роки тому +21

      Probably the most subtle form of slavery is capitalism (there is nothing subtle about communism)

    • @bobgillis1137
      @bobgillis1137 4 роки тому +40

      @@fredgillespie5855 Indeed. The cleverest form of slavery might include those who do not realize they are slaves.

    • @fredgillespie5855
      @fredgillespie5855 4 роки тому +27

      @@bobgillis1137 - 'None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free' (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)

    • @bobgillis1137
      @bobgillis1137 4 роки тому +3

      @@fredgillespie5855 Damn Wolfgang stole my quote !

    • @boizchannilzz
      @boizchannilzz 4 роки тому +2

      Lmao YOU worship the the rich I don’t

  • @Retro77691
    @Retro77691 Рік тому +12

    So many triggered racists in the comments

  • @christianjohnson3491
    @christianjohnson3491 10 років тому +80

    Very enlightening video as a young black man I want to understand more of the fact of slavery. Instead of the hearsay we get on a daily basis.

    • @ashleyashleym2969
      @ashleyashleym2969 10 років тому +6

      There is plenty of information on the internet you just need to know where to look. Start by doing a Google search on the Atlantic Slave Trade and go from there :)

    • @christianjohnson3491
      @christianjohnson3491 10 років тому

      Eleventy Won​ Thanks for the info definitely will check it out, and let you know how I like it.

    • @Fadezmal
      @Fadezmal 10 років тому

      Christian Johnson Check out a movie "Good Bye, Uncle Tom".

    • @DynamicallyDella
      @DynamicallyDella 10 років тому

      Read Slave narratives...
      Words from the mouths of those who lived it...

    • @augienelson993
      @augienelson993 10 років тому +2

      Oh and another thing,
      Even though 12 million slaves were shipped to America (the continent) only 300,000 went to the U.S. (America the country) most went to Spanish plantations in southern America

  • @m.winchester3215
    @m.winchester3215 8 років тому +398

    Can you please do one for the Saharan/Islamic slave trade

    • @farzaanayoub9525
      @farzaanayoub9525 8 років тому +96

      M. Winchester The "Islamic" Slave Trade is better referred to as the Arab slave trade as it started way before Islam had even began as a way to bring slaves in for work on plantations. Also by calling it the Islamic slave trade you are saying that Africa was not part of the Islamic world when there were hundreds of thousands of Muslims living in Africa many of which lived in the kingdoms involved in the slave trade.

    • @louisdavies8050
      @louisdavies8050 8 років тому +26

      Yeup and slavery in the US South was supported by the bible.

    • @louisdavies8050
      @louisdavies8050 8 років тому +33

      P Ciprian Wait your trying to guilt the arabs for something that every single group of people did. Heard of the Knights of malta who captured arab slaves. Or the atlantic trade or the irish who were sold as slaves by the english. Slavery is slavery period.

    • @patrickbriggs8409
      @patrickbriggs8409 8 років тому +3

      Louis,
      Slavery is not slavery, period. Please watch the video for the differences between historical slavery and the Atlantic Slave Trade.

    • @TitusKingdom
      @TitusKingdom 8 років тому +24

      that would make muslims look bad why on earth would western media do such a thing?

  • @samueloslorasmussen6239
    @samueloslorasmussen6239 4 роки тому +850

    Hey, I'm not that good at English but this video is SO well made, the onscreen animations and the readen text is so great. Big applause from here.
    Thx for making me smarter.

  • @davidmc13
    @davidmc13 Рік тому +17

    I watched this towards the end of 7th grade History and now I'm watching it 3 months into 9th grade lol

  • @1houroflove186
    @1houroflove186 6 років тому +82

    The misery that so many people had gone through...

  • @flabbybum9562
    @flabbybum9562 6 років тому +513

    Why no mention of the wide scale practice of slavery today?

    • @novueiro
      @novueiro 6 років тому +2

      Where are u referring to?

    • @flabbybum9562
      @flabbybum9562 6 років тому +43

      It's practiced in many African states:
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_contemporary_Africa

    • @novueiro
      @novueiro 6 років тому +9

      Yeah I know. I thought u were referencing children in the mid east and eastern europe

    • @flabbybum9562
      @flabbybum9562 6 років тому +72

      nthpark0 - I don't feel I am deflecting, but asking a valid question. If slavery is so bad - and we all agree it is - and so justifies historical references to it in the past, then why is so little being said about it in the present? It seems to me, that slaves whose persecution fits a certain political narrative get lots of attention, and those who do not, get ignored. People are slaves right now in Africa. We know where this is happening, we have a decent idea who is doing it, and who it's being done to. Yet, all we do is make videos about slavery in the past. I can only conclude some people aren't that upset by slavery at all, but are just using it to advance their own political narrative. Me? I'm fighting it tooth and nail, right now.

    • @KingSoap-fy1oq
      @KingSoap-fy1oq 6 років тому +31

      Flabby Bum because this guy is a liberal kook spreading anti white false info

  • @firenationfiles2063
    @firenationfiles2063 6 років тому +132

    If only humans could learn to simply live in peace with each other...

    • @mugdhachowdhury5984
      @mugdhachowdhury5984 5 років тому +1

      @@jaarodgravelle7810 stop stealing other people's punchline . Unoriginal pleb

    • @Navesblue
      @Navesblue 5 років тому

      The saddest truth in life is that there's less profit in times of peace for the few over the many. That's what makes it so seductive.

    • @johnwilliams1381
      @johnwilliams1381 5 років тому +3

      As long as the pale horse roams this earth there will never be peace

    • @jefpuckett5708
      @jefpuckett5708 5 років тому

      Not all creatures that look like humans are... humans so things are going through a lot of trouble to fake it.

    • @charlesmichaels6648
      @charlesmichaels6648 5 років тому

      Fire Nation Fil...
      God separated the races to prevent the conflict......

  • @pgg-y4n
    @pgg-y4n 3 роки тому +16

    “Believing that in death, their souls will return home” how painful is this? how heart wrenchingly painful is this? I am centuries late but I hope the souls are at peace now. I hope they have returned home.

    • @spamaccount8506
      @spamaccount8506 3 роки тому

      Shut it yt, this is your people’s fault.

    • @Silverado-pq6xe
      @Silverado-pq6xe 3 роки тому +3

      @@spamaccount8506 you’re making sensible people look bad, radlib.

  • @_gossipgirlxoxo
    @_gossipgirlxoxo 3 роки тому +215

    The worst part is the fact that today, this video has 11K dislikes.

    • @ayoungethan
      @ayoungethan 3 роки тому +35

      guess the predominant skin color of the dislikers...

    • @shawnv123
      @shawnv123 3 роки тому +1

      да

    • @commandergregor8976
      @commandergregor8976 3 роки тому +19

      @@ayoungethankids of all races who got this for online school

    • @danotae
      @danotae 3 роки тому +16

      Probably all children who were forced to watch this video.

    • @fnturtle8476
      @fnturtle8476 3 роки тому +12

      Yea it needs more dislikes

  • @jimmynyarlathotep6857
    @jimmynyarlathotep6857 5 років тому +103

    The Whataboutery is strong in this comment section

    • @kudjoeadkins-battle2502
      @kudjoeadkins-battle2502 5 років тому +11

      Wow. The people who commented on your comment don’t get it.

    • @Ashley-bm9gc
      @Ashley-bm9gc 5 років тому +7

      Right! I see some white folks take after ancestors. Bending over backwards to justify slavery since the 1400s.

    • @fredthegamerschrarder7716
      @fredthegamerschrarder7716 5 років тому

      Kudjoe Adkins-Battle so you don’t get it either 😂

    • @TarzHel
      @TarzHel 4 роки тому +1

      The toxicity is almost killing me.

    • @chesterdonnelly1212
      @chesterdonnelly1212 3 роки тому

      Other comments sections are no better

  • @brianawatton6574
    @brianawatton6574 8 років тому +456

    the guy who made this is my social studies teacher!!

    • @Jack_Kirrane
      @Jack_Kirrane 8 років тому +32

      enjoy your useless degree

    • @brianawatton6574
      @brianawatton6574 8 років тому +103

      totally will considering that
      was a year ago and he was my 7th grade teacher lmao

    • @lio123mombach
      @lio123mombach 8 років тому +68

      Jack Finn Kirrane useless? Social studies is one of the most important degrees my friend

    • @CosmicDorns
      @CosmicDorns 8 років тому +37

      Jack Finn Kirrane she's made you look like a right mug

    • @RH-vd3yu
      @RH-vd3yu 7 років тому +1

      Jack Finn Kirrane maybe for Americans

  • @Karthik-yy7gw
    @Karthik-yy7gw 2 роки тому +6

    This is very brilliantly shown in Steven Spielberg's movie "Amistad"

  • @trishspage
    @trishspage 6 років тому +56

    I was actually taught this in world history, surprisingly less in US history, however what we did not learn about is the slavery that continues today in certain countries.

    • @Fernball21
      @Fernball21 2 роки тому

      Yes, like the US (13th amendment loophole)

    • @supermananimationsstudios8519
      @supermananimationsstudios8519 2 роки тому +1

      Mauritania was the last country to ban slavery

    • @Dashtikipchak
      @Dashtikipchak 2 роки тому

      @@supermananimationsstudios8519 but it still defacto practices slavery up to this day. The official ban is just for international posturing.

    • @Fernball21
      @Fernball21 2 роки тому

      ​@@supermananimationsstudios8519 How is that relevant?

    • @supermananimationsstudios8519
      @supermananimationsstudios8519 2 роки тому

      @@Fernball21 it is

  • @Bildad1976
    @Bildad1976 5 років тому +190

    Christians (which were the majority of the people in the US at that time) were greatly divided about slavery.
    However, those christians who believed it was wrong (the abolitionists) eventually won.

    • @LndnJazzHour
      @LndnJazzHour 5 років тому +11

      Yea, eventually. Just sad so many people had to live their entire lives without knowing freedom before it finally transpired.

    • @Borrowed_Rowboat
      @Borrowed_Rowboat 5 років тому +6

      That's misleading -- that makes it sound as if the abolitionist movement were Christian.

    • @Bildad1976
      @Bildad1976 5 років тому +21

      @@Borrowed_Rowboat It's been a few years since I studied the history of Africa and the era of African Slavery in the West, but I don't recall any NON-Christian abolitionist organization. If you know of any, please share it with us.

    • @Bildad1976
      @Bildad1976 5 років тому +14

      From Wikipedia "Throughout Europe and the United States, Christians, usually from 'un-institutional' Christian faith movements, not directly connected with traditional state churches, or "non-conformist" believers within established churches, were to be found at the forefront of the abolitionist movements.[1][2]"

    • @Bildad1976
      @Bildad1976 5 років тому +17

      nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/nineteen/nkeyinfo/amabrel.htm
      evangelical Christians were most especially influential when pressing their moral issues forward into the public arena. Growing out of the Great Awakening, these Protestants, largely in New England, were inspired less by earlier Calvinistic doom and gloom theology than by concepts of human betterment under God’s grace and His gift of free will. Out of this fresh religious doctrine, called Arminianism, grew a movement that included the plea for the freedom of all of God’s human creatures, especially the Southern slaves. Eventually the antislavery cause with its strong religious support helped to create the Republican party in the 1850s.
      ...

  • @Yinskiiii
    @Yinskiiii 8 років тому +86

    They didn't mention how the majority of the slaves were imported to Brazil and other latin american countries. Surprisingly not many people know that.

    • @Ciscogrande
      @Ciscogrande 8 років тому +10

      Portugal and England were by far the most brutal slavers, that is well known.

    • @rumpleforeskin7032
      @rumpleforeskin7032 8 років тому +8

      the dutch brought chattel slavery to the colonies

    • @willandrogrant
      @willandrogrant 8 років тому +3

      thank you! They showed it on the world map but didn't touch South America

    • @oblivionguard2286
      @oblivionguard2286 8 років тому +14

      I think only 5% of the Slaves got to the "Thirteen Colonies", most were brought to the Caribbean, and South America.

    • @Ciscogrande
      @Ciscogrande 8 років тому +9

      Preston Garvey Most ended up in Brazil and the English territories, see nowadays if you can find big % of black people in Spanish speaking countries, except indeed the Caribbean Dominican Republic and Cuba or PR.

  • @riteshranjan994
    @riteshranjan994 3 роки тому +16

    it's alarming how humans can get accustomed to such cruelty and let it go on for 600 - 700 years.

  • @normalhuman5603
    @normalhuman5603 6 років тому +33

    I’m Haitian. My mom taught a lot of this to me

    • @xVGA-COLOR
      @xVGA-COLOR 6 років тому

      She's been deceiving you then, unknowingly most likely

    • @ryanjapan3113
      @ryanjapan3113 6 років тому

      640x480 VGA 16-COLOR no

    • @ryanjapan3113
      @ryanjapan3113 6 років тому +1

      Normal Viewer good then she’s teaching you the truth

    • @michelleespino9814
      @michelleespino9814 6 років тому

      Slavery is the story of the Americas not just the United States

  • @allisonw439
    @allisonw439 5 років тому +153

    Slavery is not just a Western thing, and it's not over... sigh.

    • @reecezpuffs8978
      @reecezpuffs8978 5 років тому +47

      It still exists in africa today, africans enslaving other africans, but of course nobody learns about that

    • @noblechief4023
      @noblechief4023 4 роки тому +1

      @@reecezpuffs8978 Dude it's all over the news.

    • @reecezpuffs8978
      @reecezpuffs8978 4 роки тому +10

      Whiterun Guard no it’s not only thing on the news is how trump is a bad guy and the corona virus

    • @user-pd9ju5dk5s
      @user-pd9ju5dk5s 4 роки тому +4

      @@reecezpuffs8978 Doesn't take away from the fact that Europeans enslaved Africans.

    • @reecezpuffs8978
      @reecezpuffs8978 4 роки тому +13

      1 1 well duh of course they did, north africans also enslaved white christians and egyptians enslaved jews so nobody is innocent

  • @RoryLHall
    @RoryLHall 4 роки тому +119

    "The selling of slaves became an arms race."
    "Majority of the slaves sold were men."
    Reducing the male population of Africa made it easier for the Europeans to colonize.

  • @LeicaM11
    @LeicaM11 10 місяців тому +3

    Every British, Spanish and Netherlands pupil should learn this at school, if not already. So, many millions were killed on transportation and later abuse…😢

    • @TheNecessaryEvil
      @TheNecessaryEvil 9 місяців тому +5

      They should also learn blacks owned other blacks, sold them to whites, taught whites how to catch them, and when some blacks in the US were freed, they themselves acquired slaves. 🤷🏿

  • @1804Rashawn
    @1804Rashawn 4 роки тому +734

    POV: ur watching this for an assignment and hoping some answers are in the comments lol.

    • @jessieFSD
      @jessieFSD 4 роки тому +21

      nah its just a bunch of arguing trust me i was looking for the same thing lmao

    • @daedaluus
      @daedaluus 4 роки тому +3

      yup

    • @blobb23
      @blobb23 4 роки тому

      nope

    • @bruh-jj4xj
      @bruh-jj4xj 4 роки тому +3

      Im doing for test

    • @mohamadr._.h
      @mohamadr._.h 4 роки тому +1

      @@bruh-jj4xj what is the answer number 5

  • @mspressure1000
    @mspressure1000 8 років тому +62

    Slaves were chained down on the floor below deck, not sitting upright and able to move freely. They were packed together like sardines.

    • @justsomenerd8925
      @justsomenerd8925 6 років тому

      Sucked for them.

    • @brucetucker4847
      @brucetucker4847 6 років тому +5

      They usually let them come out on deck to exercise in smaller groups every once in a while. Not out of any sense of compassion but because not quite as many died that way.

    • @eliyahuskoczylas4973
      @eliyahuskoczylas4973 6 років тому +3

      MSPAINN! Only on some ships. Different captains had different policy, as they hinted in the video but didn't explain. Many captains were "tight packers" but SOME captains were "loose packers" who would give the slaves freedom to move around. The "loose packers" rarely had any slaves die, so they didn't have transit losses, and their slaves, being healthier when they hit the auction blocks, would get a higher price. But the "tight packers" could travel with a smaller crew, because they didn't need as many men to guard the slaves who were tightly chained, so their smaller profits (because of high losses on the way and lower sale prices at the end) were offset by not having to pay so much money for crew salaries.
      House slaves were more often purchased from "loose packers" because they were in better condition, while field hands needed to be as cheap as possible for the plantation owners, so they preferred to buy those from "tight packers."

    • @JRobbySh
      @JRobbySh 6 років тому +2

      Slavery were dragged across the Sahara to the ports of Libya and Tunisia, many dying along the way.Only the fittest made it to the trading block.

  • @Bokkie100k
    @Bokkie100k 5 років тому +76

    The saddest statistic: *There are more slaves in the world today than at any time in history.*
    Let that sink in for a moment.

    • @AI-tc8fv
      @AI-tc8fv 5 років тому +2

      Where did you read that?

    • @Bokkie100k
      @Bokkie100k 5 років тому +3

      @Peg Leg see www.freetheslaves.net/

    • @bas1sokkie604
      @bas1sokkie604 5 років тому +7

      @J Calhoun well, do your own research then. There are PLENTY of news stories on this.
      www.google.com/search?q=are+there+more+slaves+now+than+ever+before

    • @jimmynyarlathotep6857
      @jimmynyarlathotep6857 5 років тому +1

      Are we talking a stand-alone figure, or as a % of living humans?

    • @bas1sokkie604
      @bas1sokkie604 5 років тому +6

      @@jimmynyarlathotep6857 Just the number of people in slavery. Not as a percentage.
      I know that even if the percentage would historically remain constant the number would still go up due to population growth. But still, it is a sobering statistic for those who see slavery as a thing from the (distant) past.

  • @garycard1456
    @garycard1456 Рік тому +4

    Listen to Dr Tony Martin. He was a Trinidadian-Tobagan academic and historian who got 'cancelled' for publishing his research.

  • @kamalakhan3586
    @kamalakhan3586 7 років тому +150

    Comment section in a nutshell: WHAT ABOUT THE ARAB SLAVE TRADE?!

    • @bretert
      @bretert 7 років тому +4

      Pizza Delivery Where is the video??? I cant find any docs of it???

    • @stephainesmith9311
      @stephainesmith9311 5 років тому

      They have businesses they have property they can get loans they still have a leg up on African Americans there is no comparison

    • @spaceman6094
      @spaceman6094 5 років тому

      @Becky Johnson they aren't though

    • @maklangry5742
      @maklangry5742 5 років тому

      Were there slaves in China, India and Italy?

    • @cayetanosoler3432
      @cayetanosoler3432 5 років тому

      @@maklangry5742 Romans

  • @keggs73
    @keggs73 7 років тому +243

    What about the arab slave trade?

    • @grimaldus1967
      @grimaldus1967 7 років тому +63

      keggs73 don't count unless white people do it.

    • @rodneyb.hubbard5963
      @rodneyb.hubbard5963 6 років тому

      With a name like Sergio you would know wouldnt you.

    • @kingelliott13
      @kingelliott13 6 років тому +2

      They where apart of it as well!

    • @killingspeerx
      @killingspeerx 6 років тому +17

      So basically you don't want to accept your past crimes so you try to bring someone else to the table?
      "Ohh but officer, that guy also kills people"

    • @MrRobster1234
      @MrRobster1234 6 років тому +3

      Lots of Jews in it too.

  • @battlespace13
    @battlespace13 3 роки тому +220

    Thank you for putting out a more comprehensive view of it. It's also enlightening to know what the consequences were to the African nations who were left.

  • @EbuKerim
    @EbuKerim 3 роки тому +13

    Imagine having a family and someone comes and take you to the ship so you never see your children again....so sad :(

    • @naitthegr8131
      @naitthegr8131 3 роки тому +3

      it was a whole lot worse than that. imagine youre in your village minding your own business while a bunch of people from an enemy tribe near the coast (who had been dealing with ypipo) show up with weapons you've never seen before (guns, cannons,etc) and murder a bunch of people in your village to get you to surrender so they can capture you for the ypipo. imagine quite a few of your family members would have been murdered in the raid and then you and your children are marched to the coast where you folks are split up never to see one another again because one set of ypipo are taking you to this place while your kis are going to be taken to another place.

    • @spammergenerico5679
      @spammergenerico5679 3 роки тому

      @@naitthegr8131 and you will never see it each other again

  • @scottbrumley3694
    @scottbrumley3694 4 роки тому +126

    Despite the title, this is exactly what my textbooks taught me, and what I taught from later textbooks as a teacher.

    • @hobens1
      @hobens1 4 роки тому +8

      So you're a current day victimhood purveyor.

    • @HelloHamburger
      @HelloHamburger 4 роки тому +9

      Scott Brumley The title says “too few” it doesn’t mean it’s never mentioned, but too rarely mentioned.

    • @Durzo1259
      @Durzo1259 4 роки тому +30

      @@hobens1 Teaching history is not teaching victimhood. He said nothing of how it should be interpreted in relation to today.

    • @Durzo1259
      @Durzo1259 4 роки тому +9

      That's what I was thinking too. I actually learned almost nothing from this video; I thought this was all common knowledge.

    • @bingflosby
      @bingflosby 4 роки тому +4

      It's in literally every history text book

  • @antiawarenessawarenessclub
    @antiawarenessawarenessclub 7 років тому +424

    Africa at war over money and resources. It feels like nothing has changed

    • @xironbeastx8677
      @xironbeastx8677 6 років тому +17

      f Forecast Africa has been like that since the dawn of time.

    • @SocialistFinn1
      @SocialistFinn1 6 років тому +21

      And we keep giving them money so they can keep overpopulating the planet.

    • @zhengyangwang214
      @zhengyangwang214 6 років тому +30

      f Forecast Yes but that is because the fragile and unstable democratic government the colonial powers installed when they left in the 1960s are incapable of governing the country. Many Africans at the time of independence lacked education and oversight to keep the country stable. Just like Europe in the 1800s to 1900s, dictatorships and wars happen all the time and in Africa usually there's a cycle of brutal regimes overthrown by bloody revolutions and civil war sprouting across the country as they fight over for political and economic benefits. You usually see this pattern in fact in all civilizations of the world. Asia had them in the 1900s too and some still exist today, South America also had them, it's just a matter of which had a headstart first. Africa was rather late to have it as they were stable under the iron fist rule of the colonial powers.
      It will take time for them, but they will eventually develop into stable countries like the others today, unless the UN steps in and takes over and govern the countries correctly and teach and train the people to create a better democracy for decades until they are ready. Some countries like Kenya, Morocco, Egypt, Nigeria and South Africa are showing a promising future for their continent. They're not perfect but they are steadily growing as to become political and economically stable countries.

    • @zhengyangwang214
      @zhengyangwang214 6 років тому

      sonic hedgehog Uh, no they're stable and fastly growing countries but they aren't considered developed nations yet.

    • @brunsta234
      @brunsta234 6 років тому +1

      Romano Coombs how long ago ?

  • @thisguy4135
    @thisguy4135 6 років тому +62

    Some people instantly get defensive when the subject of slavery is discussed and I wonder why🤔

    • @jpb1231000
      @jpb1231000 6 років тому

      It's distorted! READ the comments, research and LEARN!

    • @guairefernandezamil4084
      @guairefernandezamil4084 6 років тому +2

      Jake Dean No it isnt

    • @guairefernandezamil4084
      @guairefernandezamil4084 6 років тому +12

      Brian Fike Slavery was practiced by all races, but Europeam slavery was by far the worse

    • @guairefernandezamil4084
      @guairefernandezamil4084 6 років тому +5

      @Prime Minister Ramses I had already research on Arab slavery, and it was much better than the Europeans.

    • @saharaleebolo2759
      @saharaleebolo2759 6 років тому

      @@guairefernandezamil4084 wtf lmao

  • @instruments_gold8412
    @instruments_gold8412 2 роки тому +31

    Well done. Precise. Very clear. I appreciated the lesson's ability to tie together motivations, actions, impact, and the events that followed. This film was viewed by my junior high school student and I approve.

  • @mcballsitr0n565
    @mcballsitr0n565 5 років тому +403

    who else has to write an essay on this

  • @1974muaddibable
    @1974muaddibable 5 років тому +155

    “Let my people go”. Said someone.

  • @Andrew-qd5fc
    @Andrew-qd5fc 5 років тому +199

    The comment section is full of whataboutism.

    • @myakun830
      @myakun830 5 років тому +35

      Hey hey...what about Muslim?
      Hey hey...what about African itself?
      Hey hey...what about Chinese Dynasty?
      Etc etc...
      Yeah, comment section full of those.

    • @AztecWarrior69_69
      @AztecWarrior69_69 5 років тому +6

      So you don't like hearing the truth.

    • @Andrew-qd5fc
      @Andrew-qd5fc 5 років тому +14

      @@AztecWarrior69_69 What you mean?

    • @AztecWarrior69_69
      @AztecWarrior69_69 5 років тому +6

      You're most likely complaining about others bringing up all the other races/peoples/nationalities/religions that participated and often still participate in slavery. You seem to be against others mentioning this.

    • @keandregreen5628
      @keandregreen5628 5 років тому +17

      Aztec Warrior you’re white arent you

  • @superlight7654
    @superlight7654 Рік тому +4

    Slavery has been around for thousands of years. Europeans have been slaves. Africa has had various forms of slavery for thousands of years. The notion of freedom is relatively new concept. Individuality and freedom of choice is a fairly modern concept. African tribes often traded people and this had nothing to do with Europeans. The Ottomans and Saudis traded people for over one thousand years. This is often overlooked.

    • @joehobo8868
      @joehobo8868 Рік тому +1

      People don't care about truth. People only care about one thing and that is, "I am right and everyone else should bow before me, because I am always right."

    • @amram1305
      @amram1305 Рік тому

      @Limone & Lime i take it then, you are one of the privileged whites...

    • @amram1305
      @amram1305 Рік тому

      @Superlight...i pray your not an Israelite, speaking like this.

    • @thinkbetter5286
      @thinkbetter5286 Рік тому

      ​@Limone & Lime Israelites are white, lol.

    • @SandfordSmythe
      @SandfordSmythe Рік тому

      Well known already

  • @YoungDen
    @YoungDen 7 років тому +436

    There should be a video on King Leopold II

    • @onee
      @onee 6 років тому +49

      Lord of the Jungle That guy is responsible for the genocide in Congo. Sad that it gets so little attention.

    • @brucetucker4847
      @brucetucker4847 6 років тому +6

      if it was realistic at all it would be rated NC-17. Have you read _King Leopold's Ghost_? It's a very good but horrifying history of the Belgian Congo.

    • @swerveon
      @swerveon 6 років тому +1

      Lord of the Jungle There are many including documentaries about it right here on youtube.

    • @DarkAngelEU
      @DarkAngelEU 6 років тому +12

      Believe it or not, people are trying to defend the fact that we still have statues of him in public for the sole reason that he was a king and these statues belong to history. If it were up to me, I'd take a giant hammer and blow em all to bits. This man is filth and doesn't deserve any kind of honor.

    • @mightywind5888
      @mightywind5888 6 років тому +5

      Hadn't you heard that the history force-fed to us by teachers and in modern history books is the only history to speak of?

  • @TheSaltyLibrarian
    @TheSaltyLibrarian 8 років тому +171

    Looking over everyone responding to the information about how the slave trade shaped the African continent and forced all the kingdoms to go to war with each other... what's going on?
    I was taught this in college as part of a course on how European exploitation caused Africa to become underdeveloped and vulnerable to imperialism. No one in class thought the takeaway was supposed to be "The Africans were just as bad as the European slavers!" The takeaway was that by exploiting already existing systems, Europe treated Africa like an endless source of revenue rather than as a continent where people and governments already existed, and that once they were underdeveloped by the slave trade, they moved into exploit them further.
    The video even points out that slavery in Africa was more comparable to serfdom as opposed to the dehumanized slavery in the Americas.
    If you're takeaway from this is "Africans deserve a fair share of the blame too" then you're probably looking for a way to take blame off yourself.

    • @kennethhawker7030
      @kennethhawker7030 8 років тому +2

      your missing the point my friend. look at the legacy of the operations and who instigated them and it becomes clear. peace

    • @M4ruta
      @M4ruta 8 років тому +38

      "If you're takeaway from this is "Africans deserve a fair share of the
      blame too" then you're probably looking for a way to take blame off
      yourself."
      There's no need for everyone to "look for a way to take blame off him/herself", because no one alive today is responsible for this.
      And yes, if African warlords cooperated with the Transatlantic slave trade by catching and selling Africans to the Europeans, then they'd deserve a fair share of the blame.
      But again, no African alive today can be held responsible for this.

    • @lloydgush
      @lloydgush 8 років тому +2

      Yeah, serfdom, I really must laugh at it.
      No, it was just as much dehumanizing slavery, for the most part.
      Of course, there's always the "good master" who treats his slaves well, but it was slavery none the less, comparable to roman slavery which was less humane than the atlantic slave trade. (mostly because the atlantic slave trade was about money not luxury, which means the worst you treated a slave the less money you got, not that it worked, trying to make slavery profitable for society as a whole in the long run is a fool's errand.)

    • @NebuerEntertainment
      @NebuerEntertainment 8 років тому +22

      @lloydgush I would implore you to read The Interesting Narative of Olaudah Equiano. He endured both forms of slavery and wound up a free man. He says that American slavery was far worse than African slavery. There has never been slavery like American slavery. No slavery has ever cut babies out of the stomachs of mothers to watch them die or had the logical tarring, feathering, and setting fire to the strongest men of the bunch, or had the systematic erasing of a whole group of people's history or the raping of the all of the women and children. No form of slavery has relied so strongly on dissension and brainwashing. No form of slavery has founded a brand new branch of science (phrenology) to justify what they were doing to other human beings. I would also implore you to read The Willie Lynch Letter to understand just how cruel the system worked. You may not understand the American horror story that was American slavery and that's okay. But please do some research, read some books by someone who went through slavery and see it through their eyes before you make these kinds of statements...

    • @lloydgush
      @lloydgush 8 років тому +5

      NebuerEntertainment Good thing to know his autobiography doesn't fit archaeological findings.
      The man was important, of course he would write shock literature to sway people to his cause. Specially because slavery is such a cruel practice, but one has to separate what had a use at the time from reality.
      Basically, all stories told that have historical accuracy can be and should be independently verified archaeologically, through bones, through the study of language and it's development, pottery, masonry and more.
      Of course, people say his memories were may distorted through life, since he left africa certainly younger than he claims (the fact that he had decedents show us that, he wouldn't be able to have any otherwise) from another part of africa and so on... But considering he was an enlightened man he would be aware of such things.
      He frequently paints himself as a scared savage, scared of clocks magical powers never once told to him by anyone, which is one of that hardest things to believe in his accounts.

  • @vanessaa9126
    @vanessaa9126 7 років тому +14

    Shut up people!!! Just forgive each other and hug each other, please . I'm African too... but the world needs to freaking heal!!!!!!

    • @BasementEngineer
      @BasementEngineer 2 роки тому

      You make a most valid point. Unfortunately we now live in a society that absolutely thrives on victim-hood. There is simply too much money to be had for this caterwauling to stop anytime soon.

  • @gl7244
    @gl7244 3 роки тому +3

    In history, when any person who looked down on another for whatever reason. Slavery would not be far behind

  • @azariahjackson5600
    @azariahjackson5600 7 років тому +280

    The animation was lit

    • @cassiecarmichael
      @cassiecarmichael 6 років тому

      Azariah Jackson For real, very nice illustration.

  • @thesoundsmith
    @thesoundsmith 4 роки тому +41

    Excellent video. The one good thing (meaning the one irony of it all) is the kings and nations that were overthrown once slavery was outlawed. Karma is a female dog.

  • @theoneilovemost
    @theoneilovemost 4 роки тому +61

    It still continues today, only instead of people being shipped around the world it's the goods they make instead.

    • @steven.events
      @steven.events 4 роки тому +6

      Human trafficking exists.

    • @davidmella1174
      @davidmella1174 4 роки тому +6

      how is shipping something bad? Do you live next to a farm or something?

    • @asteriamsp9260
      @asteriamsp9260 4 роки тому +4

      @@davidmella1174 the factories that are manufacturing the products being shipped around the world « overuse » adults as well as children, turning them into modern slaves. therefore, what she/he/they wanted to say through their comment wasn’t the fact that shipping is bad but that what happens before is pretty bad.

    • @eastonmcdonald7211
      @eastonmcdonald7211 4 роки тому

      pog

    • @Testimony_Of_JTF
      @Testimony_Of_JTF 3 роки тому

      @@asteriamsp9260 At least it's a better way of slavery, not saying that it us any good. But it is better.

  • @TheJosejustin
    @TheJosejustin Рік тому +3

    Here is one example where religion failed to uphold the moral ideals and conscience. Being religious doesn't always equate to being righteous.