Demonetizing is demonizing. Same thing, and you are, sadly, correct. I'm fed up with the mental midgets in the world who point to the US as the source of all the worlds evil. Slavery goes further back than recorded history does. And every culture is an experiment in flux. All the best to you.
A professor at Penn state questioned his kids every year on their Knowledge of slavery for an american history course. He found that SEVENTY SIX percent of incoming 2018 students believed ONLY white people and america had slaves. Its done by design. You cant genocide a people without demonizing them first.
It’s very rare to see someone talk about slavery like this. A totally unbiased perspective with facts rather than opinions makes this so enjoyable to watch. I just learned 10 times more about the horror of slave trade than I did throughout the entirety of the education system.
There is no such thing as an unbiased perspective. The information included and/or left out undoubtedly affects the conclusions someone would walk away from this video with. Even if when you are talking about facts, those facts are rarely completely subjective in history and thus you cannot be entirely objective. Apart from that, the video also makes historical claims of its own. Not making any judgements on the video, but just because it gives a narrative of Atlantic slavery different from the brief overview presented in schools doesn’t make it unbiased! Be a good consumer of historical knowledge!
@@latenightcake1147 if you watched this whole video you probably care about history. Everything I said will make you a better consumer of history. Chill out dude!
Just to provide some examples of what @DegustableGerbil is getting at: Including 1:15 seemed pretty aggro against Abrahamic Religions there. Trying to disprove the book of Exodus is probably not something you leave as, effectively, a footnote on the end of a section. EDIT: I keep receiving replies about only this example I would like to attempt to settle some themes I'm seeing in them. Feel free to skip this edit if you don't have any problems with what I said. a. First off, I'm not in any way actually upset that they included this information. I was simply saying that potentially some Islamic, Christian, or Jewish viewers (of which I am none of the above) might find its inclusion unsavory. b. I was also not, at all, talking about the trueness of the section. I was only talking about the benefits and drawbacks of its inclusion. c. The point of this statement was to demonstrate bias. I think we can all agree that it would be understandable to infer that people with the power of deciding what does and doesn't go into this video likely doesn't belong to any of the religious mentioned in my earlier point. This example was to show bias in that the inclusion of this information is variable on their background. His numbers for modern slavery (20:15) seemed a *little* bloated (I mean, arranged marriages do suck --> a lot
Thank you for covering modern slavery. It’s an absolute tragedy people will deny it and demonize slavery as something just one country did, and refuse to acknowledge that it continues to this day.
the difference is the atlantic slave trade was heavily commercialized, more brutal and that form of chattel slavery's brutality and dehumanization wasn't seen in anywhere else prior
@@vetabeta9890 That's because there are almost no records of prior times of slavery because the enlightnment era did not come to that time, nor paper or printing machines, so you can't really be totally confident on that statement, unless you only trust the bible and see how slaves were as badly treated in egypt in BC times
As a black American, this video helped me escape the matrix and stop being so touchy about this topic. Popular culture makes it seem like our people are the ones ones that had to go through it, when that's not true at all. I am now much less vulnerable to the antics of the left when it comes to things like this, thank you.
In fact english word "slave" actually comes from Slav - eastern european pagan people who were often enslaved by both christians from Europe and Muslims from Asia 1000+ years ago
You’re right we don’t have to remain victims. The key point I will make is there is that the color of your skin makes you identifiable. Whereas other ppl can easily assimilate and don’t have a stigma. Look up black ppl in India Iraq, and other Arab countries. They are still very much treated like slaves. Can you go to Norway and pick out a former Irish slave? How would Jim Crow be enforced without easy identification. Even Jewish ppl had to carry passes to be identified and many escaped the holocaust by just changing their names. If the holocaust was again black ppl, how many of your family members would escape? I agree we should be victims but there are some differences I could elaborate on that weren’t in this video. In other worlds the Irish, Italians, Jewish and Germans can somewhat assimilate literally unrecognizable in a general once their accents changed.
I'm glad someone is pointing out modern slavery during one of these videos. The cold fact of there being more slaves than ever before is lost as we "abolished" slavery across the world. Even though something is illegal and frowned upon, doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Thank you for being brave enough to point this fact out, as we believe we are more civilized than we actually are as a species. Slavery will never end, we can only hope to limit it as much as possible.
While there are more slaves now as an absolute number (which is still terrible), it is also important to note that the global population is dramatically higher. The percentage of people in forced labor/bondage is still low relative to most of human history.
There are more slaves because there are FAR more people in the world. As a percentage of the world's population, the number of slaves is much lower than in past centuries.
Not to downplay American slavery at all, or slavery in general, but this just goes to show that slavery occurred almost everywhere in the world, and is still going on today. Yet I see so many people acting as if the American slave trade was some type of uniquely vile thing. Just opens up your perspective a little, which is always a good thing.
This is so weird. Nobody is downplaying anyone’s slavery.Just because a group is outspoken that doesn’t mean they disregard others.What is with this weird obsession of getting Black Americans to ignore slavery. If others don’t feel the need that’s ok but why should another group be silent. If the Irish wanted to talk about what Britain did them everyday I wouldn’t mind.Same for Haiti,Yemen, and anyone else. Imagine being upset because people stand for something. I love my country but I won’t ignore it’s history.
As a haitian american.. i wont forget what my ancestors went through.. and what my people still fo through… and how dare you gaslight both current slaves and descendants of slaves with this comment.. as if current slavery or black slaves are in compétition with each other. No, we just wont forget when ppl (very unique and vile) plotted to make blacks slaves because they saw we had abundant healthy population that didnt die off when coming into contact with white devils, and were strong and could endure hard labor .. then after abolition of this slavery from various places, confusing ppl of where they come from , enslaving natives and indegenous too and killing them off, classifying the rest as negro… then have the nerve to segregate these disenfranchised ppl from equality and legally being able to kidnap rape murder and jail these ppl well into the 21st century… but we trippin when we call it out… just hold the L.. cause you brought this up.. trying to continue this « just forget it happen « rhetoric and agenda… you need to watch this video again and take note what he says toward the end of his lecture on the end of slavery in haiti and the u.s. And the lasting effects of it on generations afterwards
@@JakeFromKushFarmbet you believe all white people are to blame as well when many white people moved here long afterwards it was ended. Like my ancestors are polish and were slaves in Russia till they finally fled to the US
@@Deano-Dron81 There are two ways to define the "size" of slavery. That would be "amount of people enslaved" and "institutional incentive and acceptance of slavery worldwide". The video uses the first definition, whilst @curtisthomas2670 uses the second definition.
@@Yanxvein other words, literal truth versus figurative interpretation. Nobody cares about fruitless navel-gazing. By the numbers, slavery is more widespread.
@@KToll5784 I'm factually explaining the interpretations given by other people here, not taking sides. Also, the measurement of the size of slavery can be done in different methodologies, and thus, there is no "literal truth versus figurative interpretation."
Then again: this is only an account of a small portion of slavery. Humans could have had slaves hundreds of thousands of years ago. We don't know that. The video also leaves out many parts of the world, like slavery in ancient China.
@milo8425 credit deserved though. Just the slavery covered in this video is a huge subject and would have required a huge amount of historical research
Thank you so much for this. I teach Middle School American History and this video is an absolute blessing for covering the background of slavery outside of our borders.
(Not accurate) It is well documented in the Quran 1400 years ago that Muslims are FORBIDDEN to buy ANY slave regardless of religion or ethnic background.
If you teach, teach that it happened all over the globe and throughout history. In other words, point out what this video left out. Let’s clear up some things about słavery, yes the post is long but for this subject it’s short. Słavery across the globe and throughout time wasn’t because someone had a certain skín color and if those people weren’t there słavery wouldn’t exist. Many people seemingly only want to díscuss North America or put more an emphasis on it saying it was far worse than anywhere else. So let’s clear up some things. we often hear people say 400 years but actually Błack people didn’t become the majority of słaves in Notth America till the mid 1700s. Which lasted until 1865, just over 100 years. Still horrific, still clearly an injustice and críme against humanity but certainly not an isolated event. Before that the majority of słaves in Ameríca were the índigenous tríbes/First Nations people. In fact 400 years really doesn’t even scratch the surface, słavery existed for tens of thousands of years, if not hundreds of thousands. Słaves and índentured servànts were used for labor and/or s3x. Here is the thing about mísconceptions regarding índentured servantš, índentured servànts weren’t always treated better, nor did they always agree to be índentured servànts (that’s right there were iídentured servànts that were forced into servítude, just like słaves). Sometimes they would sell the contract of the índentured servànt to someone else without their consent, thereby extending the contract (so 20 years could become 40). Another thing they would do is førce the wømen to get pregnant, which would also extend their contracts and keep them pregnant till old age (by then owing more years, than they had years of life left and I’ll let you figure out how they førced them to get pregnant). Also, not only were their wíves rap3d but at times their chíldren taken and sold. How about słavery, so many people make arguments it was only horrifíc in Ameríca and that it wasn’t that bad here or there but is that true? Słavery as already mentioned existed for thousands and thousands of years, all across the globe. Chattel słavery did in fact also exist in Afríca and it wasn’t a kinder gentler form of słavery; unless you consider mass human sacrifíce and canníbalísm kinder and gentler. Słavery existed in Afríca well before Eurøpeans showed up and Afrícan rulers fought the Eurøpeans in order to keep it going. In the Middle East the słave market was huge, the słaves brought in were often castràted (so no, that wasn’t a kinder gentler form either). Słavery existed in Asia and Asía is still infamous for having sweatshops. The Vikíngs often raided Eurøpe and took słaves back with them. The wømen they took served the Viking men, both work and s3x. When the słave øwner díed, the wøman he had as a słave would often be gàng ràpéd by the men in the village and kīlled to serve the owner in the afterlife. Ancient Romans brutałły ensłaved other Europeans and people around the Mediterranean. In the Amerícas the Natíves enslaved others Natíves and also had human sacrifíce. The point is słavery was and is horrifíc, all over the world it’s horrifíc and has been for a very very long time (that’s not minimizing it for one group to say that, in fact it’s minimizing everywhere else to not recognize it was horrific all over). How about chattel slavery? Here is the thing, you can’t ensłave descendànts if there aren’t any. The Barbary słaves often had a much shorter lífe span and had no hope of procreatíon. Many díed chaíned in the ínterior of the ship sitting in their own excrèment covered in open wøunds or díed chaíned to a sínking ship that lost a battle. There was no fèmale companíonship, no livíng to an old age, no sunshíne, no høpe … Just the incredibly harsh realitíes of the shíp for the rest of their short míserable líves. In the Middle East the vast majoríty of słaves were castratèd and agian never had the opportuníty to reprøduce. Many of which didn’t even survíve being castrated. Does anyone really think that’s any “better”? Also, this idea many people have that chíldren of słaves were born free across the globe or słaves weren’t sold as property (except in Ameríca) is absurd. When people say that in North Ameríca it was wørse or Eurøpeans have the most to be błamed for (which is said a lot lately), that isn’t intellectually honest and is blatantly ígnoring the atrocitíes commítted around the globe. When people blame only group over everyone else, it is in fact minimizing the atrocitíes everywhere else, and those people are doing precisely what they blame others for doing (i.e., “minimizíng” the atrocitíes of słavery around the world).
It would have been helpful if pre-Columbian slavery in the Americas was addressed, as well as sub-Saharan African slavery, which existed before the Arab slave traders arrived in that region of the world. Also, a look into slavery in East and Southeast Asia from the last few thousands years would also help to show the ubiquitous nature of slavery.
That doesn’t matter at all. America and Europe still did it and American slavery was very recent as well as being very brutal. That is why it is studied more often in America. Also from an American perspective it is more important for your modern day understanding of America to understand American history. Likewise with a European perspective.
no one knows where it started because it started in prehistoric times. One issue i have with this video is that it did not point out that Slavery has been identified as taking place primitive societies without "elites" It also does not mention that slavery was common in the Far East. One aspect of "primitive" warfare is the concept of captive taking. In many cases these were women and children since they were easier to control.
what it tells me is that people in the US are trying to make themself look less guilty for their crimes by pointing at others. regarding slavery their past happens to be way worse then of all other modern nations combined, but that video just ignores that
@@donalain69 thats nonsense. If anything the video downplays the severity of the arab/north african trade, as well as the scale. They also leave out that it was mostly jewish traders organizing the atlantic trade, and africans doing the capturing of their own.
@@faysalals1 then india, china and russia are missing as well as most of the european slave trade. also, the slavery in (native) america is missing. they attempt to be quite neutral, i give them that. but the strong focus on europa, be it in the antike or in more modern times, does create the illusion that slavery mainly happened in european controlled areas when in reality, it was everywhere.
@@ShubhamMishrabro I agree that it should have been briefly mentioned, but remember that most of the trade stopped before the US intervened, so the impact is shared really. And even if after that the slave trade will be ridiculously small, it's only after France invaded Algeria that it was entirely stopped.
Man... I was feeling so confident for humanity as major countries started to outlaw slavery one-by-one, only to have the video end with by mentioning that there are now more slaves on earth than at any previous moment. Really puts things in perspective. Humanity can be so incredibly cruel.
By absolute numbers, yes. Percentage-wise, it's less than 1% of the global population. Either way, it remains an abomination and a stain on the human spirit that needs to be wiped as soon as possible.
At the same time, do realise that without all these actions the number of slaves in the world would easily surpass 1 billion, possibly going so high as 3 billion. For example in Imperial rome, 30-50% of the inhabitants of italy were slaves.
The absolute number is at a peak, because the world population increased 8 times. But the proportion of slaves in the world population as dived, even if we still have progress to do.
The western major nations you mentioned have been responsible for like 90% of all slavery in the past 500 years. Humanity is mostly fine, it's your ability to do something bad and blame the humans you do it to that's the problem.
There is a dangerously fine line between imagined history and actual history. Unfortunately, the former is becoming so entrenched in the UK these days that it’s creating a highly politicised narrative of self hate - and slavery is at its core. Thank you for addressing the issue in an open, neutral and big picture context. Highly valuable.
"Hey you commoner a part of the middle or lower class.. Slavery! Yea.. Feel bad even though "your" empire was dominated by a clique of rich and powerful people who did all of that with or without your consent or that of your ancestors. Give me money!"
@@maxtest they abolished it due to it competing with the proletariat that worked factories/artisans that provided goods/services that slaves undermined.
I argue that slavery used for profit or nefarious means is inhumane. While slavery can be a charitable. While slavery has it's ugly side. You cannot just give handouts to people in need. Or everyone in need. Owning a slave is not exactly cheap either. But humans are not the only ones that practice slavery. But we can have a more refined version of it.@@maxtest
Seriously, I appreciate the accuracy of the video. The attention to detail is very good. For instance, the map is updated to reflect Louis XIV's expansion into the Low Countries; Avignon is shown as a papal enclave in pre-Revolutionary France; the British Union of 1707 is shown; the Mosquito Coast settlements are represented, etc.
It should be mentioned that the Mamluks did also secure a lot of their mamluks from Central Asia. The ruling classes were either Turkic (Bahri) or Circassian (Burji) depending on the era
in gulf state .. there's a disguised law for slavery called the sponsorship (Kafala) laws ... they offer several legalized slaves to every rich man (Kafeel=sponsor) .. he could do whatever he want to them even making them work again for others & get what they gain ... with the least & worst living & working conditions (they literally buying glucose powder to survive rather than eating food)
in gulf state .. there's a disguised law for slavery called the sponsorship (Kafala) laws ... they offer several legalized slaves to every rich man (Kafeel=sponsor) .. he could do whatever he want to them even making them work again for others & get what they gain ... with the least & worst living & working conditions (they literally buying glucose powder to survive rather than eating food)
When ''Suriname,, is done,..with the Netherlands,..with complaining,..about slavery and waiting for an apology,..speech ect ect,.. and BEGGING money.,..costs NL billions and,...150 years ago they ALSO GO ALONG..???????????????????? AT,.........these countries ????? or will they be kicked out England,..France,..Portugal,..and Spain and USA ???? lazy people that Aruba Bonaire .Curasou ISLANDS PROFITERS thieves mess there.........@@seang3019
I’m guessing because it was what drove the profit for many Western nations which in turn spurned national and economic growth at unprecedented rates, resulting in the wealth/power hierarchy in modern times.
@@michaelrainey9668 Slavery brought in less to the British economy than wool, domestic production of goods (thanks to the industrial revolution) was what created unprecedented growth. If slavery were the primary factor we would have seen the economic and population explosions occur centuries earlier.
@@DraftingandCrafting So then I guess they were just stupid? Bad at business, then? You’re making it sound like they could have done a hundred other things to make more money instead of enslaving people. Then why did they do it for over 200 years? There isn’t a corporation on this planet that would not accept free labor. That’s a bad faith argument, man.
The slavs suffered worse slavery historic events then what was depicted in this break down but still A+. I learned more in 10 mins then I did in my entire life in school about this topic.
Let’s clear up some things about słavery, yes the post is long but for this subject it’s short. Słavery across the globe and throughout time wasn’t because someone had a certain skín color and if those people weren’t there słavery wouldn’t exist. Many people seemingly only want to díscuss North America or put more an emphasis on it saying it was far worse than anywhere else. So let’s clear up some things. we often hear people say 400 years but actually Błack people didn’t become the majority of słaves in Notth America till the mid 1700s. Which lasted until 1865, just over 100 years. Still horrific, still clearly an injustice and críme against humanity but certainly not an isolated event. Before that the majority of słaves in Ameríca were the índigenous tríbes/First Nations people. In fact 400 years really doesn’t even scratch the surface, słavery existed for tens of thousands of years, if not hundreds of thousands. Słaves and índentured servànts were used for labor and/or s3x. Here is the thing about mísconceptions regarding índentured servantš, índentured servànts weren’t always treated better, nor did they always agree to be índentured servànts (that’s right there were iídentured servànts that were forced into servítude, just like słaves). Sometimes they would sell the contract of the índentured servànt to someone else without their consent, thereby extending the contract (so 20 years could become 40). Another thing they would do is førce the wømen to get pregnant, which would also extend their contracts and keep them pregnant till old age (by then owing more years, than they had years of life left and I’ll let you figure out how they førced them to get pregnant). Also, not only were their wíves rap3d but at times their chíldren taken and sold. How about słavery, so many people make arguments it was only horrifíc in Ameríca and that it wasn’t that bad here or there but is that true? Słavery as already mentioned existed for thousands and thousands of years, all across the globe. Chattel słavery did in fact also exist in Afríca and it wasn’t a kinder gentler form of słavery; unless you consider mass human sacrifíce and canníbalísm kinder and gentler. Słavery existed in Afríca well before Eurøpeans showed up and Afrícan rulers fought the Eurøpeans in order to keep it going. In the Middle East the słave market was huge, the słaves brought in were often castràted (so no, that wasn’t a kinder gentler form either). Słavery existed in Asia and Asía is still infamous for having sweatshops. The Vikíngs often raided Eurøpe and took słaves back with them. The wømen they took served the Viking men, both work and s3x. When the słave øwner díed, the wøman he had as a słave would often be gàng ràpéd by the men in the village and kīlled to serve the owner in the afterlife. Ancient Romans brutałły ensłaved other Europeans and people around the Mediterranean. In the Amerícas the Natíves enslaved others Natíves and also had human sacrifíce. The point is słavery was and is horrifíc, all over the world it’s horrifíc and has been for a very very long time (that’s not minimizing it for one group to say that, in fact it’s minimizing everywhere else to not recognize it was horrific all over). How about chattel slavery? Here is the thing, you can’t ensłave descendànts if there aren’t any. The Barbary słaves often had a much shorter lífe span and had no hope of procreatíon. Many díed chaíned in the ínterior of the ship sitting in their own excrèment covered in open wøunds or díed chaíned to a sínking ship that lost a battle. There was no fèmale companíonship, no livíng to an old age, no sunshíne, no høpe … Just the incredibly harsh realitíes of the shíp for the rest of their short míserable líves. In the Middle East the vast majoríty of słaves were castratèd and agian never had the opportuníty to reprøduce. Many of which didn’t even survíve being castrated. Does anyone really think that’s any “better”? Also, this idea many people have that chíldren of słaves were born free across the globe or słaves weren’t sold as property (except in Ameríca) is absurd. When people say that in North Ameríca it was wørse or Eurøpeans have the most to be błamed for (which is said a lot lately), that isn’t intellectually honest and is blatantly ígnoring the atrocitíes commítted around the globe. When people blame only group over everyone else, it is in fact minimizing the atrocitíes everywhere else, and those people are doing precisely what they blame others for doing (i.e., “minimizíng” the atrocitíes of słavery around the world).
Specifically, early on Christians didn't enslave other Christians so pagan Slavs and Balts were fair game.... Until they baptized. Later, kripatstvo was effectively a chattel slavery. You literally couldn't change the master and your kids would be enslaved for generations. They traded "souls" in russian empire. Hence Gogol's "Dead Souls" about money laundering on slaves existing only on paper. Most famous Ukrainian poet, Tara's Shevchenko, was born a slave and later became a freeman because he was literally bought by patrons who liked his paintings. Cossack meant a free person, a lot of them were runaway slaves. Soviet collectivisation and persecution effectively re-enslaved people into kolkhozes, even before Gulag system. You had no passport or rights, my grandma was property of the state... in 50s. She just died this year in Ukraine.
By the late 19th century, when much of Islamic Central Asia was conquered by the Russian Empire, the region was home to tens of thousands of slaves. Most of these slaves were Shiʿa Muslims from northern Iran, though the slave trade also ensnared many Russians, Armenians, Kalmyks, and others. Slave labor was especially commonplace in the Sunni Muslim domains of Khwarazm and Bukhara, where enslaved people constituted a substantial proportion of all agricultural workers, domestic servants, and soldiers. Slaves also labored in many other roles, and an individual slave could be tasked with a variety of jobs. Slaves served, for example, as concubines, craftsmen, miners, herdsmen, entertainers, blacksmiths, calligraphers, and even, in rare instances, as government officials. Before the 16th century, the majority of the slaves in Central Asia-defined here as the region extending from the eastern shores of the Caspian Sea through Xinjiang, China, and from southern Siberia to northern Iran-seem to have been trafficked to the region from India. This changed in the 16th and 17th centuries, as a significant number of Iranian war-captives were brought north and enslaved during the course of numerous armed conflicts between the Central Asian Uzbeks and Iranian Safavids. Many of these slaves evidently labored on the region’s rapidly expanding agricultural estates. In the 18th and 19th centuries, frequent Turkmen raids into northern Iran resulted in tens of thousands of Iranian Shiʿas being captured and funneled into a booming slave trade in Khwarazm and Bukhara. Further north, a much smaller number of Russians were seized and sold into slavery by Kazakh nomads along the steppe frontier. Eden, J. Slavery in Islamic Central Asia. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History.
@@pressftopayrespects6325 are you sure you read the same passage? Husnu Coban is talking about the great steppe raiders and their slaving expeditions, which didn't have anything to do with European settler-colonialism. The Russians are guilty of many things but being raided is hardly one of them; they had lived under the Tartar yoke since the Mongols struck west and formed just one source of slaves for the steppe nomads. Kalmyks, Armenians, Iranians, Indians and Chinese slaves were not even European ._.
I mean the sex slave trade exists in America... But since you can't talk about the southern border without being labeled racist... We don't bring any attention to it
@@Horizon3165 LEGAL slavery does solely exist in history books. Black market human trafficking isn't the same thing as people being sold on a public auction block in a country that claims to represent "freedom."
As a Nubian from Northern Sudan, thanks for pointing out the baqt conditions, failure to meet the required number of slaves is what brought down Makuria.
@@mugikuyu9403 (Are you a Muslim? And how do you feel about the arabisation/Islamisation of your country?) Northern Sudan is a natural mix between Arab immigrants and the natives, for centuries, besides, with the "Arabisation", they learned the Lingua Franca of the old world, and with "Islamisation", they saved themselves from moral degradation, human sacrifices, tribal class categorizaton, and even from slavery by their own people, not to mention that they (unlike other Africans) always get easy profitable jobs in other Arab countries, because they know the language, the culture, and because Arabs see each one of them and treats them like one of their own. Look how NON Arabised, NON Islamised Southern Sudan are living now, despite their huge natural resources.. oh, by the way, how do you feel about the ENGLIZINATION and Christianization of Southern Sudan? Why English is THE Official country language there?, are there large English immigrants-settlements there?, and what happened to the original authentic African tribal religious believes there? And, how you feel about the Black slaves being enslaved by BLACK EMPERORS, KINGS, PRINCES, and then sold to Arabs, Berber, Europeans, and even the other Black empires for centuries?. Also, how you feel about the imperialistic Ethiopian invasion and colonization of the South Western Arabia, murdering countless number of people, and stealing recourse, for centuries?.
in gulf state .. there's a disguised law for slavery called the sponsorship (Kafala) laws ... they offer several legalized slaves to every rich man (Kafeel=sponsor) .. he could do whatever he want to them even making them work again for others & get what they gain ... with the least & worst living & working conditions (they literally buying glucose powder to survive rather than eating food)
There isn't a lot to mention. The only slavery east of poland was in central Asia and Japan. Iran, Russia and China didn't have any and didn't allow their vassals any either.
@@kastraskammer5710 Really? Google? You think this guy spends months to prepare the script, narrate and animate it just to sweep it off the first page of the good ol reliable mighty corporation of Google? What do they teach you in school? Ever heard about professionals and experts spending their life to write and publish research papers on various topics? Ever heard about getting your info approved from multiple reliable sources? From reputable colleges and their expert teachers? This Google generation is going to get us all killed one day.
@@mr.takethingstooseriously"if you're right about history, your just being racist" We do not regard politics and feelings when talking about facts. Facts are facts, and they don't care about politics.
@@panzerofthelake506 Mankind is still in the slavery: you are a salve too, to this very day, why do you sound of not know? in childhood you attend to school, where you shall spend up to 8h of your life. Soon you`re adult, serving BAAL from 9 - 5. And you`re home in your tiny box, consuming all these items the prison for your mind produce. Now tell me dear soul, ain`t that also being a slave? cause to my eyes, still unnoticed, where`s the life worthy to be living? The signs and symbols rule the world, yet we complain about the laws. We reject all the opportunity to seek out the truth, to break free from being in the hated slavery. We cry about the past, not getting it that its the present in which we live in. Now, can`t you still not agree, we to be a perfectly obeying BAAL in our daily slavery. Mankind`s destiny is lake of fire if we don´t come to repentance and born again. Mankind wants freedom, then step out from BABYLON, repent form your sins and born again.
Very informative. It's rare to see a historical account of slavery that isn't pushing a political agenda. Very well put together and presented. Everyone should watch this.
sadly i think he is, at the beginning he says theres no evidence for the hebrew slaves or the exodus, however we found the chariots and horses right there at the bottom of the sea, where we expected them to be. Christian or not, you cant just ignore 1000's of pieces of evidence all in one place.
This was well done. We don't need to be talked down to like little children the bare facts say so much more. Horrific that this not only still happens but is getting worse.
This UA-camr not only biased by downplaying the bloody slavery in US, but also mixed up different concepts of slavery, like forced slavery and debt or contracted bases "slavery". China ended its slavery around 220 BC, the periods of slavery after that were periods ruled by normades from the North, like Mongles in Yuan and Manchu in Qing dynesty, and Chinese, mostly Han were the slaves. The history should be based on facts not lies! So called Xinjiang forced labour, is not only the mass projection of US on to China, a shameless lie, basically a WMD and Nayirah incubator story 2.0, also a mentally retarded one that can be debunked by common logical sense. Western people are taught critical thinking in school, but sad is that they through these skills down the drain and become a reciting machine of the US/Western propapanda rethoric.
@@datofficial6062 American education on the subject of słavery is abysmal and leaves out way too much. Słavery throughout the globe wasn’t because someone has a certain skín color and if those people weren’t there słavery wouldn’t exist. Some people say North America was the worst and we always hear 400 years, so let’s talk about that. Błack people didn’t become the majority of słaves in Notth America till the mid 1700s. Which lasted until 1865, just over 100 years. That’s stíll horrifíc, still a críme against humaníty but słavery has been going on for a very very long time. Before that the majority of słaves were the índigenous tríbes/First Nations people. Let’s clear some things up about słavery, słavery existed for tens of thousands of years, if not hundreds of thousands. Słaves and índentured servànts were used for labor and/or s3x. Here is the thing, índentured servànts weren’t always treated better, nor did they always agree to be índentured servànts (that’s right there were iídentured servànts that were forced into servítude, just like słaves). Sometimes they would sell the contract of the índentured servànt to someone else without their consent, thereby extending the contract (so 20 years could become 40). Another thing they would do is førce the wømen to get pregnant, which would also extend their contracts and keep them pregnant till old age (by then owing more years, than they had years of life left and I’ll let you figure out how they førced them to get pregnant). How about słavery? Słavery as already mentioned existed for thousands and thousands of years, all across the globe. Chattel słavery did in fact also exist in Afríca and it wasn’t a kinder gentler form of słavery; unless you consider mass human sacrifíce and canníbalísm kinder and gentler. Słavery existed in Afríca well before Eurøpeans showed up and Afrícan rulers fought the Eurøpeans in order to keep it going. In the Middle East the słave market was huge, the słaves brought in were often castràted (so no, that wasn’t a kinder gentler form either). Słavery existed in Asia and is still infamous for having sweatshops. The Vikíngs often raided Eurøpe and took słaves back with them. The wømen they took served the Viking men, both work and s3x. When the słave øwner díed, the wøman he had as a słave would often be gàng ràpéd by the men in the village and kīlled to serve the owner in the afterlife. Ancient Romans ensłaved other Europeans and people around the Mediterranean. In the Amerícas the Natíves enslaved others Natíves. Słavery was and is horrifíc, all over the world it’s horrifíc. How about chattel slavery? Here is the thing, you can’t ensłave descendànts if there aren’t any. The Barbary słaves often had a much shorter lífe span and had no hope of procreatíon. They díed chaíned in the ínterior of the ship sitting in their own excrèment covered in open wøunds or díed chaíned to a sínking ship that lost a battle. There was no fèmale companíonship, no livíng to an old age, no sunshíne, no høpe … Just the incredibly harsh realitíes of the shíp for the rest of their short míserable líves. In the Middle East the vast majoríty of słaves were castratèd and agian never had the opportuníty to reprøduce. Many of which didn’t even survíve being castrated. Does anyone really think that’s any “better”? Also, this idea that chíldren of słaves were born free across the globe or słaves weren’t sold as property (except in Ameríca) is absurd. When people say that in North Ameríca it was wørse or Eurøpeans have the most to be błamed for (which is said a lot lately), that isn’t intellectually honest and is blatantly ígnoring the atrocitíes commítted around the globe. When people blame only group over everyone else, it is in fact minimizing the atrocitíes everywhere else, and they are doing precisely what they blame others for (i.e., minimizíng the atrocitíes of słavery).
@@wyz9815 is a bot. China enslaves/reeducates/eliminates entire populations that don't agree with the CCP agenda. The Mongols last decade. Now the Uighur. CCP Let it rot.
@@daviroza4700he didn't started it. His code is the first preserved to our knowledge and that's the reason it is the first to have laws on slavery, because we don't have previous written laws. But archeology shows that most probably there were slaves before, as soon as there was the possibility of using slaves to create "surplus". For the hunter gatherers it doesn't make sense to have another mouth to feed
Great video, I do think there was a missed opportunity to discuss how the slave trade actually shaped African kingdoms though. Kongo for example became incredibly rich off of the trade and their entire society warped to support it. When the abolitions happened they basically collapsed as a result. There are really interesting youtube videos on it! A recent one by Kraut: "Why Saudi Arabia is doomed" (ignore the name) was really good.
When ''Suriname,, is done,..with the Netherlands,..with complaining,..about slavery and waiting for an apology,..speech ect ect,.. and BEGGING money.,..costs NL billions and,...150 years ago they ALSO GO ALONG..???????????????????? AT,.........these countries ????? or will they be kicked out England,..France,..Portugal,..and Spain and USA ???? lazy people that Aruba Bonaire .Curasou ISLANDS PROFITERS thieves mess there.........
Caucasians trying to change the course of their animalistic and psychopatic behaviour.. too late.. the world just waitng for u to collapse, and u dont wanna to see outcome.. forget about Africa, u know what you did to Indians in America, Indians of India, Jews, Japanese, Chinese, Aboriginals in Australia, Palestinians? it will come out soon. U destroy anything u see on your way to hell. Trust me Jewish did not forget!
The focus on the trans Atlantic slavery is strange knowing that slavery is much bigger story in human history , for example the cast system and the Paria etc etc etc
Amazed to see someone explain about slavery beyond the 1800s The term slave and slavery is now gone, but the practice still exists, just with different names
in gulf state .. there's a disguised law for slavery called the sponsorship (Kafala) laws ... they offer several legalized slaves to every rich man (Kafeel=sponsor) .. he could do whatever he want to them even making them work again for others & get what they gain ... with the least & worst living & working conditions (they literally buying glucose powder to survive rather than eating food)
Very important for people to see these days. I’m shocked and appalled at the amount of people brainwashed into thinking slavery only happened in America
@@vadersnipes378 sadly true. I once spoke a person who believed that people could be still press ganged into the British armed navy. I told her the practice had been discontinued for, er, 160 years or so.
Fails to mention that the islamic world has been not only the biggest user of slavery, its most brutal enforcer (castration, massacres) and is still using it today, both sexual and for work. That's the most important information about slavery.
I wonder why the fuck they can't teach stuff like this at school. Only took 10 minutes, objective and relevant information, very easy to follow and remember. Teachers should seriously take an example from these kind of videos. Thanks for this quality material!
It's because there's a certain orthodox political narrative to maintain in schools (which is not necessarily the teachers' fault). It's not due to lack of time.
@@HiThereFaceHere Schools don't have a worldwide agenda. They teach kids useless things, Because it's easier and looks better statistically. That's it. More kids graduate, Better scores, Better funding and more prestige to attract more funding and students.
@@sceerane8662 I would agree except way less kids are graduating in this country and in places like the state I live in only 26% of kids are reading at the level they should be and only 21% are are at the math level they should be. That is beyond awful. Our children are being dumbed down to a ridiculous level. A lot of kids in high school don't even know how many moons the earth has. I didn't just make that up either. That is dead serious. And yes there is a socialist agenda being pushed I literally have proof of it and pulled my son from school because of it and so did a bunch of other parents in the same district
Wish you would’ve talked about slavery in the new world before the arrival of Europeans, the Aztecs were particularly brutal, and when the Spanish came these slaves changed hands from the Aztecs to Spain, forming the basis of the caste system in new spain
Calling it "brutal" is misleading Slavery in the aztec empire was more of a punishment or penalty because they did not have a prison system Only violent criminals were enslaved for life and could be sold in markets Once a slave payed off their debts they were usually freed especially if were hard workers and were on their best behavior
Good to finally have a video on the slavery done by nations throughout the ENTIRE history, not just the Atlantic one. However, you did forget the large amounts of Europeans being enslaved by Arabs
Arab slave traders had much to do with cutting off western Europe from the east and producing the Dark Ages. The loss of cheap writing materials from Egypt had much to do with the limitation of literacy in Gaul. Thousands and thousands of old books literally crumbled to dust because they could not be reproduced.
I knew from the title of this video that some whites would jump on this with the narrative " you see, slavery happened before our ancestors bla bla" to try to justify the evilness of their ancestors. Nobody believe that slavery didn't exist before America. The thing that wasn't before the transatlantic slave trade of Europeans/white Americans was slavery based on race. Slavery was all over the world, people in debt would be slaves to pay what they owe, war prisoners would be slaves, enemies would made each others slaves etc.... This slavery concept of an entire group of people generation after generation just because of their skin colour was an European/American thing that went on from the 15th to the 19th century (officially), even tho it was still happening at smaller margine after. So all you morons who thought this video was your "gotcha" moment are embarrassing. Also, Slavery that happened 1000, 2000, 5000 wears ago all around the world doesn't matter because it did not have an impact to our recent generation, this recent European/American slavery did. American slavery is very recent, it didn't happen 2000 years ago. You literally have people alive today in our timeline that knew and live with people that were slaves and slave owners so you can try to spin this thing as much as you can, facts will not change. My own father who was born in 1965 lived with his great grandmother that was a slave. My great great grandmother was a slave in her earlier life. She was born in 1883 and died in 1985. And yes, slavery was abolished officially in 1965 but doesn't mean that all slave owners just let their slaves go free at that time. Many didn't. My father lived 20 years with her. 1985 is basically like yesterday. I'm still horrified at the stories he told me about her, all the stories about her life as a slave that she shared with him. White Americans were so evil, I don't even know how to qualify what they used to do to her. So please do not dare to try to downplay American slavery and all the impact it has on millions of American today, do not dare.
So rare to find a video that actually portraits reality without a political agenda, thank you Geo History. We still have letters conserved to this between the King of Kongo and Portugal, stating a good relationship between them and his son went to study in Portugal and became a Bishop. Yet some people, mostly Americans, say that the white European started slavery in Africa. We did not start it, we started business with African slavers.
A few small but noteworthy things this video doesn't mention: 1. In the 13th century or so, people of Slavic origin enslaved in Eastern Europe were common enough in the Mediterranean world that the words for "Slave" in a number of languages, including both Spanish and English, are likely derived from the word Slav (both via medieval Latin, a common Lingua Franca across Europe at the time). 2. Prior to the Portuguese sailing down the coast of Africa and establishing trade relationships, it was fairly common for Portuguese merchants to turn pirate and engage in slave raiding on the North African coast when they deemed ports ill-defended. Slave raiding was also one of the first things they attempted when they reached the area of the Senegal River and further south, but they were largely unsuccessful due to underestimating local warriors. Ultimately they switched to engaging with local kings as politely as possible, which enabled them to establish peaceful trading relationships, including those which would develop into the slave trade. 3. The trade of slaves to the Gold Coast by the Portuguese actually predates the development of plantation slavery in their own colonies; their main goals in Africa were obtaining gold and spices, so despite their initial attempts at slave raiding (and their limited transport of African slaves to Portugal early on), it was only later that they began to view African slaves as a primary commodity to get from Africa. 4. In the Spanish and Portuguese American colonies, Native American slaves were for a brief window more common than African ones, though due to a mix of factors African slaves became much more common through the 16th century. It's sometimes assumed that this was simply because Native American slaves were more likely to die of Old World Diseases, but that's not the whole picture; it also related to ideological factors (there was a belief that Christians should not be enslaved, and some people believed that since Native Americans had never had the chance to convert before, they should be allowed to learn about Christianity before enslavement, while pagan and Muslim Africans were believed to have had their chance already, due to the presence of Christians in some parts of Africa). African slaves also didn't totally replace Native ones; in some circumstances (like in the silver mines of South America), African slaves actually died at faster rates than native ones, so Natives remained the majority. In others, Africans became the majority of slaves, but Natives remained a minority. Through the 17th century, Native Americans were often enslaved in British North America, and shipped to the Caribbean to be sold far from their homelands (as keeping them as slaves locally was believed to risk escape or rebellion). As late as the 18th century, native Americans still made up a large share of slaves in some parts of South America, and a small minority in many more. 5. African slaves made up the majority of people who crossed the Atlantic for much of the early colonial period, often serving as de-facto settlers in the European colonies, as European owners converted them to their own brand of Christianity, taught them European languages, and employed them in tasks such as converting other slaves, growing food, and building settlements, rather than just cash crop production. 6. The Triangle Trade heavily impacted African value systems between the 16th and 19th centuries. The concept of slavery was common throughout Africa, but it didn't work quite like the system of chattel slavery employed in the America. In Africa, land was plenty due to relatively low population density (except in some regions like the Gold Coast), so land itself had no value. Instead, value was held in having people to work the land. As such, owning lots of slaves was like owning lots of land in Europe (as such, slaves were a bit like European serfs; unfree, but not property on the same level as cattle - they had some rights). The triangular trade changed this in many places (though not all); European goods carried a level of prestige, and so shows of wealth stopped being in owning a lot of slaves, instead shifting to having many European goods, while humans were devalued. In the long run, this gave rise to larger changes, like some societies becoming much more warlike, as warfare was the best way to obtain slaves to sell for European goods. The ramifications were dire, but the shift would have been too gradual for most people to notice how unstable it was making their territories (the Kingdom of Benin (which I have a video about on my channel, if anyone is interested) is one exception; they banned the export of male slaves in the 1520s, likely to avoid depleting their own enslaved population). 7. The UK did not abolish slavery completely in 1833; they made an exception for domestic slavery in the British East India Company's holdings That form of slavery would only be abolished in 1843. The abolition of slavery in the UK would also go into effect gradually, with the final slaves being freed by 1865.
They also left out - what makes the Atlantic Slave trade different: 1. The Catholic Church support (Dum Diversas), 2. the creation & rise of Anthropology AKA White Supremacy - aligned with the false science behind skin color based Racial classifications, 3. the "eternal servitude" code from Dum Diversas, 4. English Chattel slavery, and -5. the trans-oceanic & multi- continental size & scope. I'm sure I'm missing something. I wonder if these omissions are why so many comments seem to reflect relief or happiness?
I was very surprised that no mention at all was made of Russian serfdom, which only ended in 1861. However, despite that omission, a fascinating video and very informative.
Well, they were different type, not real slaves taken by force from other contries in majority, "Крепостные" were peasants, but I do agree still like slaves even were sold to other rich bastards in the country. One african slave were taken in war from Turkish who left the town, by Peter I and this slave Hannibal become a general and famous novelty man in Russia, he was grandfather of Pushkin, the Russian famous writer and called some times the first rapper for a joke ) So technically, even black man was able to be freed and become a part of elite in Russia. I could miss some bits, Historians knew better about other nations in Russia who were enslaved due to wars and invasions, never heard about it.
There also needs to be a Part 2 where slavery, serfdom, and caste systems in Asia are examined. Part 3 should focus on captivity and slavery in the Americas by cultures prior to contact with non-Americas cultures. That would be quite enlightening to educate people about the real nature of forced, captive labor the world over, and the fact that it has existed for at least 7K years, sadly.
This video is entirely Eurocentric and ignores slavery that existed in subsaharan Africa, the Indian subcontinent, and East Asia for over a thousand years
Why did you only mention those others? There are more regions than that. Maybe you have an emotional preference…or a chip on your shoulder. Get over it. Blacks were not the only slaves, just the only culture to have a chip on their shoulder about it giving them an excise to be evil thieving lazy thugs.
One of the most interesting slavery documentaries I have seen. Totally unbiased and sticking to facts rather than the most recent history on slaves which tends to be the more generic focus on the subject. Super interesting as well with linking the year counter at the top.
Unbiased how? the byzantine slave trade was extensive and is entirely omitted, not to mention the difference in legal rights and treatments slaves had between the west and the east. Only someone unfamiliar with nuances would think this is a fair unbiased representation. The Mamluks for example were literally slaves and they had the biggest dynasty, similarly the so called slave bodyguards were basically the praetorian guard and they had a similar role in the downfall, meanwhile this doofus makes it all about spreading religion.
@@rhetoric5173 this is a 20 minute overview on the subject on youtube not a phd. I am sure there are many other omitted slave eras and cultures, but I enjoyed it and thought it was well put together and useful. My biased comment relates to the transatlantic slave trade which is where most slavery discussions get stuck.
@@basilmagnanimous7011 actually selling its own humans is unprofitable for an economy, only works of those people are sold at a high markup, which due to unequal treaties the europeans used, it wasn't. That's why this countries ravaged its neighbours for prisoners to sell, which in turn diminished the economic potential of all the region and only increasing a bunch of pockets.
The video falls apart at the end. "Forced marriage" is a rebrand of "arranged marriage" which is not the same as slavery and affects both sexes. In its earnestness to meet feminist victim quotas, it also ignores the millions of people (men and boys) kidnapped into serving as soldiers. It ingnores millions of men kept in Arab countries as construction workers. Pandering to female victim feelings and creating yet another fake stat for feminists to hang female victim culture upon.
@@rehawi2001 The castration of African slaves by the Arabs The Castration was performed without anesthesia, more than 60% do not survive the procedure and were left for dead, bleeding to death.
The gulags were simply the prison system of the USSR that were inherited from the Russian Empire. Conditions within the Gulags of the USSR have been compared to modern US prisons. Within them, the prisoners were given an 8 hour workday and a 5 day workweek, free healthcare, were paid for the labor, had a 5-10 year max on their sentencing that was shortened by a day every time you went over your quota, given an education, and since the gulags weren’t camps (more of a town with the main prison in the center), the average prisoner could leave whenever they wanted as long as they remained within the town’s boundary. The gulags, of course, were shut down in the 50s as reformative measures were more effective than the punitive ones used in the gulags. Deaths within the gulags were also very limited (with the vast majority taking place during WW2 due to shortages of supplies). Also the prison population was also smaller per capita and less numerous than the modern American one. In case you want to know more, here are my sources: On US Prison statistics & Deaths: www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2020/02/13/prisondeaths/ Archive Materials on the Number of Prisoners at the End of the 1930s: www.visions.az/en/news/308/05a9e687/ Prisoner Mortality Rate Within Gulags: i.redd.it/84avfq2911w21.jpg Further Reading on the Prisoner Mortality Rate Within Gulags: www.jstor.org/stable/2166597?read-now=1&refreqid=excelsior%3Ac7df89fb86f7cdb22472254937584567&seq=33#page_scan_tab_contents Mortality in State and Federal Prisons, 2001-2016 - Statistical Tables: bjs.ojp.gov/library/publications/mortality-state-and-federal-prisons-2001-2016-statistical-tables I. Deutscher, The Prophet Outcast, pg. 418: books.google.com/books?id=6JfWUSEacRgC&pg=PA4&source=kp_read_button&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&gboemv=1&ovdme=1 Compensation Versus Coercion in the Soviet GULAG: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/mharrison/archive/noticeboard/bergson/borodkin-ertz.pdf Medicine in Soviet Gulags: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11769741/#:~:text=Gulag%20hospitals%20included%20camp%2C%20regional,among%20former%20and%20current%20prisoners.
@@sebastianjoseph9628 18 million people went through the gulags and 1.6 million people died in them. That's 9% of all the people that went through them died. That my friend is not a prison but a slave camp. US prisons on the other hand have a mortality rate around 2-3%. So stop talking out of your ass and linking to reddit posts, the gulags were concentration camps and to compare them to US prisons is laughable and delusional.
@@sebastianjoseph9628 Oh, finally someone who knows actual history. Only one mark. People were not send to gulag, couse GULAG means General Camp Administration, which was part of justice ministry of USSR, which was administrating prison system.
@@Imaxxd22 yeah, I’m still learning about a lot of this stuff. I really like learning about history and the USSR is so full of complexities and I love it
Slavery will never completely be eradicated same as many crimes against humanity But what scares me is that it’s thriving and the conditions that people in China live in are also terrifying
@@honey3762 3:59 Constantinople, from the time it was created, was informed by true Christianity, and rejected slavery, more and more , even though their economy they inherited from the Pagan Roman Empire, relied on it.. Eventually, they tried to ban it, but slave traders from outside the Roman Empire, led by Constantinople, would try to bring it back. By around 900 to 1000, AD slavery was ended, throughout the empire, purely by Greek Orthodox Christian morality. By design, there as NO laws put in place to ban it. People used their free will to reject slavery. Constantinople, also created an agreement between the slave capital of the world, Venice,…to stop the Oligarchy ruling Venice, from engaging in the slave trade in anyway, when it came to the Roman Empire led by Constantinople. Because there was a ban put in place, between Venice, and Constantinople,…today Venice is credited, for being the first to “ban slavery”, where this is FAR from the truth. Constantinople was able to end slavery , throughout the Greek Orthodox Christian Roman Empire, via freewill, something that hasn’t been achieved anywhere else.
Great video! Some details: 8:40 You understate the significance of the Barbary Corsairs. They enslaved millions of Europeans up until the early 19th century, when it took a unified effort of some European powers and an intervention of the USA to stop them 13:33 The Haitian revolution wasn't some peaceful uprising either, it was a genocide against all White citizens, including the ones that had aided the slaves during their revolution (except Poles). Forced labour continued even in this "free" Haiti 15:34 The newly freed American Blacks who came to govern Liberia, enslaved many native Blacks living there. You hinted at that, but didn't say it outright 18:05 The Gulag system prevailed longer than ten years, ending only in the early 50s. "Rich peasants" is a good description of so called Kulaks, because even the Bolshevists could barely define it. A Kulak could be a millionaire, or it could simply be a farmer who owned the land he worked on, instead of leasing it 20:15 It would have been great to see a map of where modern slavery takes place. A small mention of the for-profit American prison system and its >1,000,000 current prisoners would have been nice, but i guess it is larger than the scope of the video. And maybe it would be a bit cynical to call those prisoners slaves You didn't much explain the extend of far-Eastern slavery like in India or China either, but it is very difficult to put all that information in just one video. Nice visuals as always
Yeah why wouldn't the Haitians kill the people who have murdered them for profit for centuries? Also the scale of the Babary slave trade was no way as industrial as the Trans Atlantic. Equally the racism spawned by this trade of Africans was far more profound. I doubt Europeans got colonized for their skin color . The industrial scale and the social repercussions of the Trans Atlantic trade is unparalleled in human history.
I find it weird that lots of Europeans are defensive about slavery. Yeah it wasn't the only one but European slavery is arguably one of the largest in scale, and the most recent with the most apparent impact of the modern world. I actually think its nice that some of your ancestors are the first to give birth to anti-slavery narratives. It's a sign of humility and self-consciousness. You should take pride on it.
@@firmanimad fair. Muslim slave traders to this day castrate the African slaves to ensure they don't reproduce in Arabia, the Europeans didn't do this hence why there is a population of freed Africans there and not in Asia. the impact was massive on both sides, one set of slaves just have decedent's.
As a woman I'm reminded about how happy I am to live a free life, so sad for the countless others who couldn't and can't. Seriously, this video put things into perspective for me. Thank you!
What are you going to do with all those captured combatants then? Back then they didn't have the means for POW camps so it's either execution or let the civilian population keep them in line.
Well its our human nature. Even though many people call the white men as the enslavers, many facts show us that slavery was part from the very beginning of organized civilization.
It also ignore the transpacific trade of asians to the america which happen before the trans atlantic slave trade and how they reclassified many of those people as native. Indian was used to describe many groups.
@@blackloki9 Indian wasn't used to describe everyone. It was used to describe Native Americans. Now the term Indian in the US could mean Native American or those with family from India. Chinese people don't look like Native Americans. The world doesn't evolve around China...
This is the healthiest comment section on a video of this topic. There is one thing I’d like to address though, not all slavery was the same. The reason why American slavery is often cited it’s because it was the worst form of slavery which is called chattel slavery. The other horrible one that is rarely spoken of which was either equal or worse than American slave trade was the Belgian and Dutch slave trade as well. It was so harsh that they made medieval slave trade look benevolent. For reference, medieval period was year 500 to 1500. The American, Belgian and Dutch slave trade was during the 1600’s to late 1800’s
The video left out a lot. Also, the American education on the subject leaves out way too much. Słavery wasn’t because someone has a certain skín color and if those people weren’t there słavery wouldn’t exist. Błack people didn’t become the majority of słaves in Notth America till the mid 1700s. Which lasted until 1865, just over 100 years. Before that the majority of słaves were the índigenous tríbes/First Nations people. Let’s clear some things up about słavery, słavery existed for tens of thousands of years, if not hundreds of thousands. Słaves and índentured servànts were used for labor and/or s3x. Here is the thing, índentured servànts weren’t always treated better, nor did they always agree to be índentured servànts (that’s right there were iídentured servànts that were forced into servítude, just like słaves). Sometimes they would sell the contract of the índentured servànt to someone else without their consent, thereby extending the contract (so 20 years could become 40). Another thing they would do is førce the wømen to get pregnant, which would also extend their contracts and keep them pregnant till old age (by then owing more years, than they had years of life left and I’ll let you figure out how they førced them to get pregnant). How about słavery? Słavery as already mentioned existed for thousands and thousands of years, all across the globe. Chattel słavery did in fact also exist in Afríca and it wasn’t a kinder gentler form of słavery; unless you consider mass human sacrifíce and canníbalísm kinder and gentler. It existed in Afríca well before Eurøpeans showed up and Afrícan rulers fought the Eurøpeans in order to keep it going. In the Middle East the słave market was huge, the słaves brought in were often castràted (so no, that wasn’t a kinder gentler form either). The Vikíngs often raided Eurøpe and took słaves back with them. The wømen they took served the Viking men, both work and s3x. When the słave øwner díed, the wøman he had as a słave would often be gàng ràpéd by the men in the village and kīlled to serve the owner in the afterlife. Słavery was and is horrifíc, all over the world it’s horrifíc. How about chattel slavery? Here is the thing, you can’t ensłave descendànts if there aren’t any. The Barbary słaves often had a much shorter lífe span and had no hope of procreatíon. They díed chaíned in the ínterior of the ship sitting in their own excrèment covered in open wøunds or díed chaíned to a sínking ship that lost a battle. There was no fèmale companíonship, no livíng to an old age, no sunshíne, no høpe … Just the incredibly harsh realitíes of the shíp for the rest of their short míserable líves. In the Middle East the vast majoríty of słaves were castratèd and agian never had the opportuníty to reprøduce. Many of which didn’t even survíve being castrated. Do you really think that’s any “better”? Also, this idea that chíldren of słaves were born free across the globe or słaves weren’t sold as property (except in Ameríca) is absurd. To say in North Ameríca it was wørse or Eurøpeans have the most to be błamed for, isn’t intellectually honest and is blatantly ígnoring the atrocitíes commítted around the globe.
What a political BS really; 1- Completely ignores early Christian era enslavement of ENTIRE EUROPE 2- Calls Janissaries slaves while their salaries were highest in Ottoman, they could buy properties, marry, retire. So nope, they weren't slaves...
Very informative. Only minus is the Far East (China, Japan, etc) being left out until the end of the video. Would have liked to know about the origin and development there as well.
In Medieval Japan, Korea, China, slavery was practiced where dominant members enslaved the less dominant. In Korea slavery was officially abolished in 1895, but persisted even up to 1930. Slavery was so beneficial financially and socially to the enslaver that it was hard to sever one's self from its personal benefits.
A small left out detail. Russian forces took civilians as prisoners of war from Sweden's eastern territory (now known as Finland) during the Great Northern War, and these became slaves, some sold as far away as in the area around the Black Sea and ended up in the Ottoman Empire. Some estimates mention up to 30,000 people (including children) who were forced away to become slaves of different sorts. A few managed to flee and come back. Didn't help that there would be a severe plague outbreak that would hit Finland too (as it did with other nations by the Baltic Sea). This part of Finnish history became known as the Great Wrath. That being said, this is certainly an admirable attempt at summarizing the entire history of such a wide, complex, and difficult topic.
I want to make clear the only reason this video emphasizes Western Europe so much towards the end is because that’s who kept the historical documents. The Islamic world truly takes the gold medal when it comes to the brutality and barbarism of slavery
I feel like you've majorly underplayed all slavery before the Atlantic slave trade. I'm personally from Romania and i know from my own country's history how brutal the Ottoman slave trade was.
We didn´t even enslave you, Romania wasn´t even a thing that´s one, secondly we didn´t make you a part of our territory, you were an independent vassal, your own people or slavs like Serbs sold your people to us, we didn´t actively go for slave raids
@@adidoki We "Sold" our people to you?! You forced us to pay you crippling fees and send you children and people just for a minimal amount of sovereignty. Vlad Tepes did right by you. Even if Romania wasn't united back then, all 3 of the 3 Romanian coutries had to deal with Turkey. Besides what they took from us, the Ottoman Empire did raid and enslave many other peoples.
The Roman slave trade is the real crime that was glossed over. In the dacian campaigns, Trajan killed or sold into slavery the entire population of Romania.
The video left out a lot, a real lot. Basically the whole world had słavery for tens of thousands of years, if not hundreds of thousands. Let’s clear up some misconceptions too many people believe: Słavery wasn’t because someone has a certain skín color and if those people weren’t there słavery wouldn’t exist. Błack people didn’t become the majority of słaves in Notth America till the mid 1700s. Which lasted until 1865, just over 100 years. Before that the majority of słaves were the índigenous tríbes/First Nations people. Let’s clear some things up about słavery, słavery existed for tens of thousands of years, if not hundreds of thousands. Słaves and índentured servànts were used for labor and/or s3x. Here is the thing, índentured servànts weren’t always treated better, nor did they always agree to be índentured servànts (that’s right there were iídentured servànts that were forced into servítude, just like słaves). Sometimes they would sell the contract of the índentured servànt to someone else without their consent, thereby extending the contract (so 20 years could become 40). Another thing they would do is førce the wømen to get pregnant, which would also extend their contracts and keep them pregnant till old age (by then owing more years, than they had years of life left and I’ll let you figure out how they førced them to get pregnant). How about słavery? Słavery as already mentioned existed for thousands and thousands of years, all across the globe. Chattel słavery did in fact also exist in Afríca and it wasn’t a kinder gentler form of słavery; unless you consider mass human sacrifíce and canníbalísm kinder and gentler. It existed in Afríca well before Eurøpeans showed up and Afrícan rulers fought the Eurøpeans in order to keep it going. In the Middle East the słave market was huge, the słaves brought in were often castràted (so no, that wasn’t a kinder gentler form either). It existed in Asia as well, where even today sweatshops still exist. The Vikíngs often raided Eurøpe and took słaves back with them. The wømen they took served the Viking men, both work and s3x. When the słave øwner díed, the wøman he had as a słave would often be gàng ràpéd by the men in the village and kīlled to serve the owner in the afterlife. Słavery was and is horrifíc, all over the world it’s horrifíc. How about chattel slavery? Here is the thing, you can’t ensłave descendànts if there aren’t any. The Barbary słaves often had a much shorter lífe span and had no hope of procreatíon. They díed chaíned in the ínterior of the ship sitting in their own excrèment covered in open wøunds or díed chaíned to a sínking ship that lost a battle. There was no fèmale companíonship, no livíng to an old age, no sunshíne, no høpe … Just the incredibly harsh realitíes of the shíp for the rest of their short míserable líves. In the Middle East the vast majoríty of słaves were castratèd and agian never had the opportuníty to reprøduce. Many of which didn’t even survíve being castrated. Does anyone really think that’s any “better”? Also, this idea that chíldren of słaves were born free across the globe or słaves weren’t sold as property (except in Ameríca) is absurd. To say in North Ameríca it was wørse or Eurøpeans have the most to be błamed for, isn’t intellectually honest and is blatantly ígnoring the atrocitíes commítted around the globe.
@@Tokiohotel192 That is true, the video would have needed to be much longer. However, touching on some basic facts that were better rounded would have been better.
The trial over the Zong's lost "cargo" and pursuit of the insurance claim against Lloyd's of London is dramatized in the movie "Belle" :) It's a fantastic movie imo :)
Slavery is something much like war and rape We will never get rid of. But we have immensely decreased it. Its as old as humanity. People have been enslaving defeated opponents or innocent people for thousands and thousands of years. In my country in congo we have many work slaves sadly
in gulf state .. there's a disguised law for slavery called the sponsorship (Kafala) laws ... they offer several legalized slaves to every rich man (Kafeel=sponsor) .. he could do whatever he want to them even making them work again for others & get what they gain ... with the least & worst living & working conditions (they literally buying glucose powder to survive rather than eating food)
10/10 is too high, it left out too much. Słavery across the globe wasn’t because someone has a certain skín color and if those people weren’t there słavery wouldn’t exist. Błack people didn’t become the majority of słaves in Notth America till the mid 1700s. Which lasted until 1865, just over 100 years. Yes, still horrifíc and a críme against humanity. Before that the majority of słaves were the índigenous tríbes/First Nations people. Also, horrifíc and a críme against humaníty. Let’s clear some things up about słavery, słavery existed for tens of thousands of years, if not hundreds of thousands. Słaves and índentured servànts were used for labor and/or s3x. Here is the thing, índentured servànts weren’t always treated better, nor did they always agree to be índentured servànts (that’s right there were iídentured servànts that were forced into servítude, just like słaves). Sometimes they would sell the contract of the índentured servànt to someone else without their consent, thereby extending the contract (so 20 years could become 40). Another thing they would do is førce the wømen to get pregnant, which would also extend their contracts and keep them pregnant till old age (by then owing more years, than they had years of life left and I’ll let you figure out how they førced them to get pregnant). How about słavery? Słavery as already mentioned existed for thousands and thousands of years, all across the globe. Chattel słavery did in fact also exist in Afríca and it wasn’t a kinder gentler form of słavery; unless you consider mass human sacrifíce and canníbalísm kinder and gentler. It existed in Afríca well before Eurøpeans showed up and Afrícan rulers fought the Eurøpeans in order to keep it going. In the Middle East the słave market was huge, the słaves brought in were often castràted (so no, that wasn’t a kinder gentler form either). Słavery existed in Asia and is still infamous for having sweatshops. The Vikíngs often raided Eurøpe and took słaves back with them. The wømen they took served the Viking men, both work and s3x. When the słave øwner díed, the wøman he had as a słave would often be gàng ràpéd by the men in the village and kīlled to serve the owner in the afterlife. Słavery was and is horrifíc, all over the world it’s horrifíc. How about chattel slavery? Here is the thing, you can’t ensłave descendànts if there aren’t any. The Barbary słaves often had a much shorter lífe span and had no hope of procreatíon. They díed chaíned in the ínterior of the ship sitting in their own excrèment covered in open wøunds or díed chaíned to a sínking ship that lost a battle. There was no fèmale companíonship, no livíng to an old age, no sunshíne, no høpe … Just the incredibly harsh realitíes of the shíp for the rest of their short míserable líves. In the Middle East the vast majoríty of słaves were castratèd and agian never had the opportuníty to reprøduce. Many of which didn’t even survíve being castrated. Do you really think that’s any “better”? Also, this idea that chíldren of słaves were born free across the globe or słaves weren’t sold as property (except in Ameríca) is absurd. When people say that in North Ameríca it was wørse or Eurøpeans have the most to be błamed for (which is said a lot lately), that isn’t intellectually honest and is blatantly ígnoring the atrocitíes commítted around the globe. When people blame only group over everyone else, it is in fact minimizing the atrocitíes everywhere else, and they are doing precisely what they blame others for (i.e., minimizíng the atrocitíes of słavery).
Slavery is/was a global problem. As someone who loves history I always associated slavery when it first comes to mind to the Ottoman Empire. Probably because of the Jannisery(sp), them and the Egyptian Mamluk Dynasty.
@@enaz3gezegen49 Supposing you are talking about India, why do you consider the caste system a form of slavery? Caste system was a discriminatory practice where the higher castes discriminates against the lower castes. It's a hierarchy based on the profession the particular caste is involved in. Even lower castes discriminate against those further lower in the hierarchy. The upper castes didn't "own" the people in the lower castes. They can't "sell" them. Nor can they force them to work for the upper castes. At most, they can restrict their religious freedom (not entering temples) and ostracize them (not drinking water from them, not taking any gifts from them, not entering their household, etc). The caste system works on the concept of purity. The more "pure" your profession is, the more influence you have in society. Bad but not slavery.
When it comes to slavery the first one´s to come in mind are always the western europeans usually, as the janissary slaves after their training weren´t really slaves anymore, they usually had more freedom than the average citizen and could even become Vezirs, just like how the turkic slaves in egypt usurped power and became the leaders
Slavery is part of Islamic law and always will be. No Islamic nation abolished slavery without Western influence and there was no Islamic abolition movement. As long as there's Islam there will be slavery.
The world wide abolition movement was started by a white male Christian in England. His name was William Wilberforce. He was mentored by a slaver trader, who became a Christian and changed his behavior and became a pastor. That man wrote the song Amazing Grace which lyrics are about his conversion from being a slaver trader to a Christian with morals that valued all people on the basis they are created in the image of God.
Wilberforce was a shill, a lobbyist paid by capitalists and industrialists to eliminate the competition. There was no moral high road, just economics . Revisionist history paints a different picture but those who know laugh at the bs
Great video, but I wish that some of the famous slave uprisings had more time given to them. Some of them weren't even mentioned, like the Spartacus uprising. I especially love this one because of the TV show and it's astonishing how many of its crazy parts that seem like fiction are said to be true.
Best synopsis of slavery and its prohibition that I have ever seen ! In such a short piece there were omissions and mistakes but it was still the best and should be made obligatory viewing for all. Thanks.
A good introduction, well done, I kept thinking you should have added this or that important element. It is such a complicated history and not at all as portrayed by many.
Interesting how slavery was almost normal until Europeans abolished it. Seeing how Europeans are now villified for slavery, it's weird that they were the only ones actually stopping it.
It's people trying to get money out of "wealthy" countries even though it happened over 150 years ago. No Baltic country is going after Turkey for 500 years of slavery as they know Turkey don't care about it and see that it's in the rear view mirror.
Thank you for this summary breakdown. Such a big topic to tackle in 20 mins and you caught most of the salient points. So heartbreaking that slavery is still so prevalent, would be great to see a video dedicated to modern slavery and how it's being tackled.
Didn't touch on S. Africa or the Blood Diamonds or modern Sugar Cane workers, where families live and work so remotely, and paid so poorly, that they never leave the farm. Coal and copper miners were paid with "company coins" that could only be spent in the Company Store.
@@peterdarr383 The video left out a lot, a real lot. Basically the whole world had słavery for tens of thousands of years, if not hundreds of thousands. Let’s clear up some misconceptions too many people believe: Słavery across the globe and throughout time wasn’t because someone had a certain skín color and if those people weren’t there słavery wouldn’t exist. Many people seemingly only want to díscuss North America or put more an emphasis on it saying it was far worse than anywhere else. So let’s clear up some things. we often hear people say 400 years but actually Błack people didn’t become the majority of słaves in Notth America till the mid 1700s. Which lasted until 1865, just over 100 years. Still horrific, still clearly an injustice and críme against humanity but certainly not an isolated event. Before that the majority of słaves in Ameríca were the índigenous tríbes/First Nations people. In fact 400 years really doesn’t even scratch the surface, słavery existed for tens of thousands of years, if not hundreds of thousands. Słaves and índentured servànts were used for labor and/or s3x. There are a lot of mísconceptions regarding índentured servantš, índentured servànts weren’t always treated better, nor did they always agree to be índentured servànts (that’s right there were iídentured servànts that were forced into servítude, just like słaves). Sometimes the contract holder would sell the contract of the índentured servànt to someone else without their consent, thereby extending the contract (so 20 years could become 40). Another thing they would do is førce the wømen to get pregnant, which would also extend their contracts and keep them pregnant till old age (by then owing more years, than they had years of life left and I’ll let you figure out how they førced them to get pregnant). How about słavery, so many people make arguments it was only horrifíc in Ameríca and that it wasn’t that bad here or there but is that true? Słavery as already mentioned existed for thousands and thousands of years, all across the globe. Chattel słavery did in fact also exist in Afríca and it wasn’t a kinder gentler form of słavery; unless you consider mass human sacrifíce and canníbalísm kinder and gentler. Słavery existed in Afríca well before Eurøpeans showed up and Afrícan rulers fought the Eurøpeans in order to keep it going. In the Middle East the słave market was huge, the słaves brought in were often castràted (so no, that wasn’t a kinder gentler form either). Słavery existed in Asia and Asía is still infamous for having sweatshops. The Vikíngs often raided Eurøpe and took słaves back with them. The wømen they took served the Viking men, both work and s3x. When the słave øwner díed, the wøman he had as a słave would often be gàng ràpéd by the men in the village and kīlled to serve the owner in the afterlife. Ancient Romans brutałły ensłaved other Europeans and people around the Mediterranean. In the Amerícas the Natíves enslaved others Natíves and also had human sacrifíce. The point is słavery was and is horrifíc, all over the world it’s horrifíc and has been for a very very long time (that’s not minimizing it for one group to say that, in fact it’s minimizing everywhere else to not recognize it was horrific all over). How about chattel slavery? Here is the thing, you can’t ensłave descendànts if there aren’t any. The Barbary słaves often had a much shorter lífe span and had no hope of procreatíon. Many díed chaíned in the ínterior of the ship sitting in their own excrèment covered in open wøunds or díed chaíned to a sínking ship that lost a battle. There was no fèmale companíonship, no livíng to an old age, no sunshíne, no høpe … Just the incredibly harsh realitíes of the shíp for the rest of their short míserable líves. In the Middle East the vast majoríty of słaves were castratèd and agian never had the opportuníty to reprøduce. Many of which didn’t even survíve being castrated. Does anyone really think that’s any “better”? Also, this idea many people have that chíldren of słaves were born free across the globe or słaves weren’t sold as property (except in Ameríca) is absurd. When people say that in North Ameríca it was wørse or Eurøpeans have the most to be błamed for (which is said a lot lately), that isn’t intellectually honest and is blatantly ígnoring the atrocitíes commítted around the globe. When people blame only group over everyone else, it is in fact minimizing the atrocitíes everywhere else, and those people are doing precisely what they blame others for doing (i.e., “minimizíng” the atrocitíes of słavery around the world).
@@GhostSal I think our problem is that we think this isn't normal, even though our computers, coffee etc. still comes from neo-colonialism and even the earth and all its animals are our slaves and are being brutally annihilated. To get rich, you need slaves, whether you use the word "slaves" or not doesn't matter. Literally tons of products in the West come from slave labor in all "authoritarian" regimes and we constantly accept money and resources from these places nevertheless. And given that p*rn exists, there are easily millions of women getting r*ped online for audiences that might be none the wiser. Even we are kind of enslaved by debt. Of course tv-shows, p*rn, entertainment in general makes us tolerate it, but we are forced into working most of our lives anyway, many doing underpaid labor. My prediction is that as the Western population gets too old to maintain themselves, they'll either rely on AI or on the labor of young immigrants (Probably what they're trying now). With global warming also misplacing millions, it is set to increase s3x slavery and work slavery equally since it's really difficult to remain sane when the world is dying, so in the end, whatever we thought was progress will just whiplash or become dystopian either way. And given the power companies hold, the average person will be easily disposable if AI becomes the default work-force and if that is the case, I can easily imagine that young beautiful women and boys will be the only ones kept alive for the elite to f*ck, just like they did on that island with the guy that didn't k*ll himself. Just wait till you realize everything on your table and in your kitchen comes from debt-slavery and extremely impoverished individuals while most money you spent on any given thing went into the pockets of the elite. The world didn't change, we just chose to exploit each other differently, but this time we exploited the natural world as well. Edit: We enslaved the natural world and are now looking for machines to enslave. The only reason we got this far is because we exploited people, resources and other creatures. Now with computers and machinery doing most of the dirty work, we have the opportunity to be moral for the first time in human history. Atrocities would be senseless, whereas slavery made absolute sense and will make sense again if anything happens to technology or civilization decay occurs.
@@GhostSal Overall, this world is delusional if it thinks we abolished slavery. We simply put a pretty bow on it and called it "outsourcing labor", "trade deals" etc. The Romans used to have bread and games to distract the population and boy oh boy are our bread and games the best in the West.
@@yahiiia9269 I agree with a lot of what you said, maybe everything, I’ll have to reread to verify. I wouldn’t say it’s normal, as in somehow acceptable but rather it happens far more than people want to think. The sad thing is the situation is getting worse and worse, even in “the greatest country”. Two íncomes isn’t enough anymore and now one partner/spouse has to also get a second job just to be able to afford a family. Unless you want to líve in an incredibly dangerøus area or live with your parents. This never had to happen, it’s the greed at the top that made this happen. It used to be the owner and top people in the company made somewhat more than their employees… But now at the top they live like Royalty, while everyone else struggle. As far as AI, I don’t see that as necessaríly being a bàd thing, it will all depend on how it’s used. Also, any country that bans the technology will be at a huge dísadvantage to those that don’t. The líe is that our job gives us meaníng in lífe and somehow is needed for us to feel fulfilled. The truth is most of us work jobs we would rather not, are overwork, underpaíd and severeły under-apprecíated. Słave labor across the world and sweatshops are disgusting. As well as pollution that is literally affecting all of us and the planet. Put on top of all that, the líe of freedom and democracy. Nothing we do is private anymore, the medía doesn’t report unbiased facts anymore, and paíd gøvernment trołłs aren’t just a Russïa/Chína thing.
Great video. Could have used more on the North American and South American native slave systems. They weren’t mentioned at all yet, specifically the Haida and Aztecs
As a Portuguese citizen I'am very proud of my country and my ancestors who almost 600 years ago did start and make the world as we know today. But from this Glorious History ,i can not forget and feel very ashamed for the role of Portugal in one of the most Dark and Evil events in the History of Mankind.
Left out of this narrative: Vermont, as an independent nation, abolished slavery in 1777 under a constitution which Thomas Paine helped write. The Vermont Republic came to an end in 1791, when Vermont joined the United States. Anti-slavery sentiments were extremely strong in Canada. Upper Canada abolished slavery in 1793. with Lower Canada quickly following suit. This was four decades before this was done in the United Kingdom. Runaway American slaves made every attempt to reach Canada and freedom, a movement which evolved into the "Underground Railroad". When Americans attempted to retrieve slaves from Canada or demanded compensation, Canadian courts proclaimed that "The state of slavery is not recognized by the Law of Canada. ...Every Slave therefore who comes into the Province is immediately free whether he has been brought in by violence or has entered it of his own accord." The pioneer roles of Vermont and Canada in opposing slavery are sadly omitted from this video.
Correction, slavery was abolished in the UK in the 11th century and never returned. Slavery was a colonial institution, as demonstrated by the numerous cases of colonials bringing their slaves to the UK and losing them in court. Somerset v Stewart being the last and most famous case in 1776. Canada only abolished slavery in 1834.
The last section of this video just breaks my heart. There’s so many people that are still in dire conditions of forced labor, and especially the sexual slavery just makes me sick. What kind of person could do that to someone else? Thank you for bringing attention to this issue if anyone has any good charities fighting back against this injustice lmk. I can’t donate much but I’d like to help at least a little bit 😞💔
There are people who have kind of brain defects in the prefrontal cortex of their brain that makes them biologically unable to feel sympathy, guilt, empathy, etc. E.g. Psycopaths. 1 in 100 people are psycopaths. Psycopaths are born that way. In other words, there are almost 80 million psycopaths on earth. And that's just psycopaths. Then there's sociopaths, narcissists (real narcissists...not the label everyone is throwing around lately) So about 5 in 100 people are biologically incapable of feeling sympathy or guilt. 400 million of such people walk the earth. Psycopaths and sociopaths have an additional brain defect, that also makes them experience reduced fear and anxiety. So guilt or fear won't deter them...they don't care, at all, never have and never will...and couldn't care , even if they wanted to. They're not biologically capable of it. Prisons are filled with these people. And all the evil things will persist as long as these personalities are part of our species. Empathy doesn't prevent someone from doing bad things. Empathy is simply the ability to understand another person's feelings cognatively and emotionally. (which can be used as an extremely effective tool for evil things). In fact, there is one personality type that has increadibly well developed empathy and they are worse than psycopaths, sociopaths and narcissists.
Mathew there are many evil people in this world... committing horrors that I dare not even describe and I hope you never have to see or experience. Do not turn a blind eye toward bad things. Speak up and stand up for what is right. If you know someone is in trouble, intervene even at your own detriment. If good people do not stick together and do nothing, then we are all screwed. There are still people in the world kidnapping, enslaving, and forcing others to do as they wish or using them for some benefit. When I was in Asia or in Eastern Europe, the threat of women being kidnapped for wives, consorts, cleaners, hookers, or other slaves was very real... and young men too in some ways. We must all work hard to make this go away and to pray that these people are found and punished. Like Jeffrey Epstein. He was a modern day example of this BS. The movie taken is a very real scenario.
Charities won't help fixing the problem, the charities keep the status quo in order to get more donations... Unfortunately you can't help.neither can I, and those who could ...why should they? When they get a slice of the pie?
The first place to permanently abolish slavery was the Holy Roman Empire; the Sachsenspiegel (the main law code, codified in the 1220s) condemned slavery "as a violation of man's likeness to God". As far as I can find, it seems this abolition outlived the Empire; as the successor states don't seem to have had their own abolitions separate from the Empire, yet slavery is still illegal in all of the modern successors. (The one exception being that Nazi Germany (descended from Prussia) legalised slavery in 1936, but this was reversed at the end of WW2.)
The Catholic Church also sort of made slavery Illegal within Europe during the early middle ages. It got replaced by serfdom which was a small step up, the channel "Kings and Generals" has a good video on it.
Thank you for an informative video on such a topic! Looked at a new angle at labor relations. Astonishing that slavery is thousands of years old, and is still present in modern world.
This video frequently refers to ships as British, Portuguese or Dutch. But who were the owners of them? Were they owned by the crown, or by individuals, or families? Or shareholders ? These were companies, comprising small numbers of massively wealthy individuals. They were able to create their own governments that served their needs. Yet somehow it all gets spread over the entire nation and the people who had no choice. Let’s learn the names of the families that owned ships, such as the Zong.
Especially when you realize that theirs more slaves alive now than ever in history and that's not even including most of the prison labor systems in the western nations because they don't fit certain criteria.
in gulf state .. there's a disguised law for slavery called the sponsorship (Kafala) laws ... they offer several legalized slaves to every rich man (Kafeel=sponsor) .. he could do whatever he want to them even making them work again for others & get what they gain ... with the least & worst living & working conditions (they literally buying glucose powder to survive rather than eating food)
Thank you for producing and sharing this information. People do not understand basic historical facts. This should be mandatory viewing across all levels of western society especially the high schools and universities.
But the conditions to enslave an individual, to reduce one to a form of coercition and to be exploited are still widely accepted in our capitalistic societies. It's not a thing of the past and certainly not just a Western thing, but a human factor based on power balance : Goulags, UIghurs, Mongols, the Indian caste system, Austronesians exploited in Australia and elsewhere, Indigenous people from all continents... I'll just stop there, list is too long. Exploiting another individual is a human widespread hobby! It should be mandatory, as you write, to review the principles of our / your economical model which, without a trace of guilt, offers you football stadiums for a world cup, cheap metals for your mobile and dead cheap coffee for our comfort. And it should be mandatory to review how they were morally justified by religious authorities (Don't pretend you don't know!!!) and how they enabled those principles to be enacted through laws, codes ...
Let’s clear some things up, some was already covered but a lot was missed. Słavery wasn’t because someone has a certain skín color and if those people weren’t there słavery wouldn’t exist. Błack people didn’t become the majority of słaves in Notth America till the mid 1700s. Which lasted until 1865, just over 100 years. Before that the majority of słaves were the índigenous tríbes/First Nations people. Let’s clear some things up about słavery, słavery existed for tens of thousands of years, if not hundreds of thousands. Słaves and índentured servànts were used for labor and/or s3x. Here is the thing, índentured servànts weren’t always treated better, nor did they always agree to be índentured servànts (that’s right there were iídentured servànts that were forced into servítude, just like słaves). Sometimes they would sell the contract of the índentured servànt to someone else without their consent, thereby extending the contract (so 20 years could become 40). Another thing they would do is førce the wømen to get pregnant, which would also extend their contracts and keep them pregnant till old age (by then owing more years, than they had years of life left and I’ll let you figure out how they førced them to get pregnant). How about słavery? Słavery as already mentioned existed for thousands and thousands of years, all across the globe. Chattel słavery did in fact also exist in Afríca and it wasn’t a kinder gentler form of słavery; unless you consider mass human sacrifíce and canníbalísm kinder and gentler. It existed in Afríca well before Eurøpeans showed up and Afrícan rulers fought the Eurøpeans in order to keep it going. In the Middle East the słave market was huge, the słaves brought in were often castràted (so no, that wasn’t a kinder gentler form either). The Vikíngs often raided Eurøpe and took słaves back with them. The wømen they took served the Viking men, both work and s3x. When the słave øwner díed, the wøman he had as a słave would often be gàng ràpéd by the men in the village and kīlled to serve the owner in the afterlife. Słavery was and is horrifíc, all over the world it’s horrifíc. How about chattel slavery? Here is the thing, you can’t ensłave descendànts if there aren’t any. The Barbary słaves often had a much shorter lífe span and had no hope of procreatíon. They díed chaíned in the ínterior of the ship sitting in their own excrèment covered in open wøunds or díed chaíned to a sínking ship that lost a battle. There was no fèmale companíonship, no livíng to an old age, no sunshíne, no høpe … Just the incredibly harsh realitíes of the shíp for the rest of their short míserable líves. In the Middle East the vast majoríty of słaves were castratèd and agian never had the opportuníty to reprøduce. Many of which didn’t even survíve being castrated. Do you really think that’s any “better”? Also, this idea that chíldren of słaves were born free across the globe or słaves weren’t sold as property (except in Ameríca) is absurd. When people say in North Ameríca it was wørse or Eurøpeans have the most to be błamed for, that isn’t intellectually honest and is blatantly ígnoring that atrocitíes were also commítted around the globe
Also Líberia - The research left a lot out. Let’s go over some important historical events. After discussions within the US government proposed the idea. In 1816, a group of Amerícans founded the American Colonization Society (ACS) to send free Błacks to Africa. The US Congress also appropriated $100,000 for the establishment of Liberia. $100,000 in 1819 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $2,337,070.87 today. The US Government fully supported Liberia and worked hand in hand with the ACS but Washington expected the new nation to move toward self-sufficiency eventually. In 1821, US Navy Captain Richard Field Stockton of The Alligator sailed the coastline of West Africa, looking for land to start a new colony for the freed słaves. Captain Stockton's orders came directly from the US Government to find a new homeland. At first the US had little success in procuring land and convincing local tribes to sell land for the new colony. As a result, the first free Błack settlers from America were left on Scherbo Island (where many died from malaria). The US Navy eventually did secure land, a 36 mile long strip of coastline, in exchange for $300 worth of goods: goods such as rum, weapøns and miscellaneous other items. $300 in 1821 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $7,879.86 today. Some reports say the US Navy acquired the land through intimidation… This was in fact the beginning of Libería. Since its inception, the United States had a long history of sending military and financial support to Liberia. Such as, sending US naval ships to help the ruling Americo-Liberian mínoríty suppress ínsurrections by índigenous Afrícan tribes (in 1821, 1843, 1876, 1910 and 1915). A major US role was also training the Liberian armed forces, known as the Liberian Frontier Force, using elite experienced officers from the United States Army. Also, the US secured loans as needed for the new nation, on top of the initial money Congress gave to get things started and other financial support. As particularly noted with President William H Taft, American support for Liberian independence and prosperity had long been US priorities. The American presence was important to the new nation, as it warned away European colonial powers, defeated a series of local Afrícan índigenous rebellions, and helped bring in US technology; technology integral in helping to develop the resource-rich new nation. Over time the US let Libería become self sufficient. Which unfortunately eventually ended in a civil wàr and what has today essentially become a failed country.
@@jphalsberghe1 You’re welcome, I’ve researched different sources and tried to put more of an objective wholistic view to what happened. Largely because too many sources leave out very important parts. Thank you for your comment and feedback.
If it makes you feel any better there were kings that were slaves. Sometimes the term is used on everyone but some slaves were less slave than others. While some free people were more like slaves than some actual slaves.
amazing to see that 300,000 Africans were brought to Brazil before one slave landed in what was to become the continental US. Of the 10,000,000 plus that made it to the Americas less than 400,000 were enslaved in the colonies or the states. Doing the 5th grade arithmetic that is less than 4%.
From how it was taught to me, yes there was slavery in the old days, maybe even since the beginning of mankind. Although there have been examples of tribes found with no weapons like the Indus Valley civilization, which indicate a peaceful community. The concept of linking slavery to a skin colour is a modern European concept. Backed by the Catholic church. Before that slavery was a form of punishment given to all that broke the law of that time.
The video left out a lot, a real lot. Basically the whole world had słavery for tens of thousands of years, if not hundreds of thousands. Let’s clear up some misconceptions too many people believe: Słavery wasn’t because someone has a certain skín color and if those people weren’t there słavery wouldn’t exist. Błack people didn’t become the majority of słaves in Notth America till the mid 1700s. Which lasted until 1865, just over 100 years. Before that the majority of słaves were the índigenous tríbes/First Nations people. Let’s clear some things up about słavery, słavery existed for tens of thousands of years, if not hundreds of thousands. Słaves and índentured servànts were used for labor and/or s3x. Here is the thing, índentured servànts weren’t always treated better, nor did they always agree to be índentured servànts (that’s right there were iídentured servànts that were forced into servítude, just like słaves). Sometimes they would sell the contract of the índentured servànt to someone else without their consent, thereby extending the contract (so 20 years could become 40). Another thing they would do is førce the wømen to get pregnant, which would also extend their contracts and keep them pregnant till old age (by then owing more years, than they had years of life left and I’ll let you figure out how they førced them to get pregnant). How about słavery? Słavery as already mentioned existed for thousands and thousands of years, all across the globe. Chattel słavery did in fact also exist in Afríca and it wasn’t a kinder gentler form of słavery; unless you consider mass human sacrifíce and canníbalísm kinder and gentler. It existed in Afríca well before Eurøpeans showed up and Afrícan rulers fought the Eurøpeans in order to keep it going. In the Middle East the słave market was huge, the słaves brought in were often castràted (so no, that wasn’t a kinder gentler form either). It existed in Asia as well, where even today sweatshops still exist. The Vikíngs often raided Eurøpe and took słaves back with them. The wømen they took served the Viking men, both work and s3x. When the słave øwner díed, the wøman he had as a słave would often be gàng ràpéd by the men in the village and kīlled to serve the owner in the afterlife. Słavery was and is horrifíc, all over the world it’s horrifíc. How about chattel slavery? Here is the thing, you can’t ensłave descendànts if there aren’t any. The Barbary słaves often had a much shorter lífe span and had no hope of procreatíon. They díed chaíned in the ínterior of the ship sitting in their own excrèment covered in open wøunds or díed chaíned to a sínking ship that lost a battle. There was no fèmale companíonship, no livíng to an old age, no sunshíne, no høpe … Just the incredibly harsh realitíes of the shíp for the rest of their short míserable líves. In the Middle East the vast majoríty of słaves were castratèd and agian never had the opportuníty to reprøduce. Many of which didn’t even survíve being castrated. Does anyone really think that’s any “better”? Also, this idea that chíldren of słaves were born free across the globe or słaves weren’t sold as property (except in Ameríca) is absurd. To say in North Ameríca it was wørse or Eurøpeans have the most to be błamed for, isn’t intellectually honest and is blatantly ígnoring the atrocitíes commítted around the globe.
@@uptheblues1875 British colonialism was the most profound good in history of mankind. We got rid of slavery, ignorants, superstition, poverty, hard labour, disease, child mortality, early death, suffering, tyranny and Subjectivity to the vicissitudes of nature. Rule Britannia 🇬🇧
@Chiheb yes. Everything you take for granted comes from the British. Over 40% of the world's inventions and discoveries were made in the UK. We have done more for human happiness and prosperity than any other people in history. Industry/machinery, medicine/Vaccination, Telecommunication/Internet, Agricultural advancement, Knowledge distribution and so on. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_inventions_and_discoveries
Should do one on the Asian slave fishing fleets . You wake up on a fishing boat you can never get off because it rarely makes landfall because of big freezer boats that take their catch out at sea for years
I’ll use this in my coming exam about the Neolithic era and the classical era. Super nice video, good presentation and topics being on points. Love to see it 💪
Except that aside about the Israelites in Egypt. That really is just the opinion of Egyptologists and secular Jews who have stopped “digging” for an answer to the question.
you'd be surprised at how many people believe that slavery didn't exist before america
Demonetizing is demonizing. Same thing, and you are, sadly, correct. I'm fed up with the mental midgets in the world who point to the US as the source of all the worlds evil. Slavery goes further back than recorded history does. And every culture is an experiment in flux.
All the best to you.
You’d be surprised to know how many muslims deny the Arab slave trade Africans, Europeans and Asians and to the extent they did.
It's convenient to them to believe that.
Just saw some muppet the other day "teaching" how USA invented it
A professor at Penn state questioned his kids every year on their Knowledge of slavery for an american history course. He found that SEVENTY SIX percent of incoming 2018 students believed ONLY white people and america had slaves. Its done by design. You cant genocide a people without demonizing them first.
It’s very rare to see someone talk about slavery like this. A totally unbiased perspective with facts rather than opinions makes this so enjoyable to watch. I just learned 10 times more about the horror of slave trade than I did throughout the entirety of the education system.
Agreed this video was so in depth I’m fascinated. I learn more here than a year in history class
There is no such thing as an unbiased perspective. The information included and/or left out undoubtedly affects the conclusions someone would walk away from this video with. Even if when you are talking about facts, those facts are rarely completely subjective in history and thus you cannot be entirely objective. Apart from that, the video also makes historical claims of its own. Not making any judgements on the video, but just because it gives a narrative of Atlantic slavery different from the brief overview presented in schools doesn’t make it unbiased! Be a good consumer of historical knowledge!
@@latenightcake1147 if you watched this whole video you probably care about history. Everything I said will make you a better consumer of history. Chill out dude!
@@degustablegerbil XD
Just to provide some examples of what @DegustableGerbil is getting at:
Including 1:15 seemed pretty aggro against Abrahamic Religions there. Trying to disprove the book of Exodus is probably not something you leave as, effectively, a footnote on the end of a section.
EDIT: I keep receiving replies about only this example I would like to attempt to settle some themes I'm seeing in them. Feel free to skip this edit if you don't have any problems with what I said.
a. First off, I'm not in any way actually upset that they included this information. I was simply saying that potentially some Islamic, Christian, or Jewish viewers (of which I am none of the above) might find its inclusion unsavory.
b. I was also not, at all, talking about the trueness of the section. I was only talking about the benefits and drawbacks of its inclusion.
c. The point of this statement was to demonstrate bias. I think we can all agree that it would be understandable to infer that people with the power of deciding what does and doesn't go into this video likely doesn't belong to any of the religious mentioned in my earlier point. This example was to show bias in that the inclusion of this information is variable on their background.
His numbers for modern slavery (20:15) seemed a *little* bloated (I mean, arranged marriages do suck --> a lot
Thank you for covering modern slavery. It’s an absolute tragedy people will deny it and demonize slavery as something just one country did, and refuse to acknowledge that it continues to this day.
No one does this.
@@GabagoolEnjoyer863 some people do although rarely
the difference is the atlantic slave trade was heavily commercialized, more brutal and that form of chattel slavery's brutality and dehumanization wasn't seen in anywhere else prior
@@GabagoolEnjoyer863 iv seen many do this, and when you mention africas slavery today they go silent
@@vetabeta9890 That's because there are almost no records of prior times of slavery because the enlightnment era did not come to that time, nor paper or printing machines, so you can't really be totally confident on that statement, unless you only trust the bible and see how slaves were as badly treated in egypt in BC times
As a black American, this video helped me escape the matrix and stop being so touchy about this topic. Popular culture makes it seem like our people are the ones ones that had to go through it, when that's not true at all. I am now much less vulnerable to the antics of the left when it comes to things like this, thank you.
Good man, yourself.
Props!
Much respect
In fact english word "slave" actually comes from Slav - eastern european pagan people who were often enslaved by both christians from Europe and Muslims from Asia 1000+ years ago
You’re right we don’t have to remain victims. The key point I will make is there is that the color of your skin makes you identifiable. Whereas other ppl can easily assimilate and don’t have a stigma. Look up black ppl in India Iraq, and other Arab countries. They are still very much treated like slaves. Can you go to Norway and pick out a former Irish slave? How would Jim Crow be enforced without easy identification. Even Jewish ppl had to carry passes to be identified and many escaped the holocaust by just changing their names. If the holocaust was again black ppl, how many of your family members would escape?
I agree we should be victims but there are some differences I could elaborate on that weren’t in this video. In other worlds the Irish, Italians, Jewish and Germans can somewhat assimilate literally unrecognizable in a general once their accents changed.
I'm glad someone is pointing out modern slavery during one of these videos. The cold fact of there being more slaves than ever before is lost as we "abolished" slavery across the world. Even though something is illegal and frowned upon, doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Thank you for being brave enough to point this fact out, as we believe we are more civilized than we actually are as a species. Slavery will never end, we can only hope to limit it as much as possible.
Only white people abolished slavery. And see how the puplic opinion thanks us for that
Thank you! Some people think that because this is the modern world we are a bunch of saints...
@@sandeegrey5977 or that we aren't violent animals simply because we can buy food at the grocery store
While there are more slaves now as an absolute number (which is still terrible), it is also important to note that the global population is dramatically higher. The percentage of people in forced labor/bondage is still low relative to most of human history.
There are more slaves because there are FAR more people in the world. As a percentage of the world's population, the number of slaves is much lower than in past centuries.
This should be taught in grade school, too many people are not aware of the real history of slavery. Brief but accurate and to the point.
also, should be taught that Juws were involved every step of the way
@@wadannni juws?
Search Definition For These Words Pledge, Chattel, Allegiance, Flag, It Means Bond Servant, As A Slave, Under A Monarchy, With A Mark.
So you think in elementary school it should be taught?
@@jasoncarper4531 Webster's Dictionary Pledge, Chattel... Look Allegiance, Flag
Not to downplay American slavery at all, or slavery in general, but this just goes to show that slavery occurred almost everywhere in the world, and is still going on today. Yet I see so many people acting as if the American slave trade was some type of uniquely vile thing. Just opens up your perspective a little, which is always a good thing.
Because idiots want an excuse
A certain group of people like to think they were the only slaves and the world owes them an apology
This is so weird. Nobody is downplaying anyone’s slavery.Just because a group is outspoken that doesn’t mean they disregard others.What is with this weird obsession of getting Black Americans to ignore slavery. If others don’t feel the need that’s ok but why should another group be silent. If the Irish wanted to talk about what Britain did them everyday I wouldn’t mind.Same for Haiti,Yemen, and anyone else. Imagine being upset because people stand for something. I love my country but I won’t ignore it’s history.
As a haitian american.. i wont forget what my ancestors went through.. and what my people still fo through… and how dare you gaslight both current slaves and descendants of slaves with this comment.. as if current slavery or black slaves are in compétition with each other. No, we just wont forget when ppl (very unique and vile) plotted to make blacks slaves because they saw we had abundant healthy population that didnt die off when coming into contact with white devils, and were strong and could endure hard labor .. then after abolition of this slavery from various places, confusing ppl of where they come from , enslaving natives and indegenous too and killing them off, classifying the rest as negro… then have the nerve to segregate these disenfranchised ppl from equality and legally being able to kidnap rape murder and jail these ppl well into the 21st century… but we trippin when we call it out… just hold the L.. cause you brought this up.. trying to continue this « just forget it happen « rhetoric and agenda… you need to watch this video again and take note what he says toward the end of his lecture on the end of slavery in haiti and the u.s. And the lasting effects of it on generations afterwards
@@JakeFromKushFarmbet you believe all white people are to blame as well when many white people moved here long afterwards it was ended. Like my ancestors are polish and were slaves in Russia till they finally fled to the US
Imagine watching this for 20+ minutes only to find that slavery is bigger than ever before.
It's false though
@@curtisthomas2670Explain? 🙄 it’s so easy to just say it’s false…..
@@Deano-Dron81 There are two ways to define the "size" of slavery. That would be "amount of people enslaved" and "institutional incentive and acceptance of slavery worldwide". The video uses the first definition, whilst @curtisthomas2670 uses the second definition.
@@Yanxvein other words, literal truth versus figurative interpretation.
Nobody cares about fruitless navel-gazing. By the numbers, slavery is more widespread.
@@KToll5784 I'm factually explaining the interpretations given by other people here, not taking sides. Also, the measurement of the size of slavery can be done in different methodologies, and thus, there is no "literal truth versus figurative interpretation."
This is probably the best informed summary of slavery I have ever read or listened to. A properly global perspective, and very succinctly done.
I agree .
Then again: this is only an account of a small portion of slavery. Humans could have had slaves hundreds of thousands of years ago. We don't know that. The video also leaves out many parts of the world, like slavery in ancient China.
It misses a LOT and is still absurdly focused on Europe.
@milo8425 credit deserved though. Just the slavery covered in this video is a huge subject and would have required a huge amount of historical research
@@milo8425wish we could turn back time … to the good old days
Thank you so much for this. I teach Middle School American History and this video is an absolute blessing for covering the background of slavery outside of our borders.
Hope you teach real history and not the revisionist history of the radical left.
Something You don't teach I'm sure
(Not accurate) It is well documented in the Quran 1400 years ago that Muslims are FORBIDDEN to buy ANY slave regardless of religion or ethnic background.
If you teach, teach that it happened all over the globe and throughout history. In other words, point out what this video left out.
Let’s clear up some things about słavery, yes the post is long but for this subject it’s short. Słavery across the globe and throughout time wasn’t because someone had a certain skín color and if those people weren’t there słavery wouldn’t exist.
Many people seemingly only want to díscuss North America or put more an emphasis on it saying it was far worse than anywhere else. So let’s clear up some things. we often hear people say 400 years but actually Błack people didn’t become the majority of słaves in Notth America till the mid 1700s. Which lasted until 1865, just over 100 years. Still horrific, still clearly an injustice and críme against humanity but certainly not an isolated event. Before that the majority of słaves in Ameríca were the índigenous tríbes/First Nations people. In fact 400 years really doesn’t even scratch the surface, słavery existed for tens of thousands of years, if not hundreds of thousands. Słaves and índentured servànts were used for labor and/or s3x.
Here is the thing about mísconceptions regarding índentured servantš, índentured servànts weren’t always treated better, nor did they always agree to be índentured servànts (that’s right there were iídentured servànts that were forced into servítude, just like słaves). Sometimes they would sell the contract of the índentured servànt to someone else without their consent, thereby extending the contract (so 20 years could become 40). Another thing they would do is førce the wømen to get pregnant, which would also extend their contracts and keep them pregnant till old age (by then owing more years, than they had years of life left and I’ll let you figure out how they førced them to get pregnant). Also, not only were their wíves rap3d but at times their chíldren taken and sold.
How about słavery, so many people make arguments it was only horrifíc in Ameríca and that it wasn’t that bad here or there but is that true? Słavery as already mentioned existed for thousands and thousands of years, all across the globe. Chattel słavery did in fact also exist in Afríca and it wasn’t a kinder gentler form of słavery; unless you consider mass human sacrifíce and canníbalísm kinder and gentler. Słavery existed in Afríca well before Eurøpeans showed up and Afrícan rulers fought the Eurøpeans in order to keep it going. In the Middle East the słave market was huge, the słaves brought in were often castràted (so no, that wasn’t a kinder gentler form either). Słavery existed in Asia and Asía is still infamous for having sweatshops. The Vikíngs often raided Eurøpe and took słaves back with them. The wømen they took served the Viking men, both work and s3x. When the słave øwner díed, the wøman he had as a słave would often be gàng ràpéd by the men in the village and kīlled to serve the owner in the afterlife. Ancient Romans brutałły ensłaved other Europeans and people around the Mediterranean. In the Amerícas the Natíves enslaved others Natíves and also had human sacrifíce. The point is słavery was and is horrifíc, all over the world it’s horrifíc and has been for a very very long time (that’s not minimizing it for one group to say that, in fact it’s minimizing everywhere else to not recognize it was horrific all over).
How about chattel slavery? Here is the thing, you can’t ensłave descendànts if there aren’t any. The Barbary słaves often had a much shorter lífe span and had no hope of procreatíon. Many díed chaíned in the ínterior of the ship sitting in their own excrèment covered in open wøunds or díed chaíned to a sínking ship that lost a battle. There was no fèmale companíonship, no livíng to an old age, no sunshíne, no høpe … Just the incredibly harsh realitíes of the shíp for the rest of their short míserable líves. In the Middle East the vast majoríty of słaves were castratèd and agian never had the opportuníty to reprøduce. Many of which didn’t even survíve being castrated. Does anyone really think that’s any “better”? Also, this idea many people have that chíldren of słaves were born free across the globe or słaves weren’t sold as property (except in Ameríca) is absurd.
When people say that in North Ameríca it was wørse or Eurøpeans have the most to be błamed for (which is said a lot lately), that isn’t intellectually honest and is blatantly ígnoring the atrocitíes commítted around the globe. When people blame only group over everyone else, it is in fact minimizing the atrocitíes everywhere else, and those people are doing precisely what they blame others for doing (i.e., “minimizíng” the atrocitíes of słavery around the world).
If you`re a History teacher I would have thought you would know all this already?...Shows how useless schools are nowadays.
It would have been helpful if pre-Columbian slavery in the Americas was addressed, as well as sub-Saharan African slavery, which existed before the Arab slave traders arrived in that region of the world. Also, a look into slavery in East and Southeast Asia from the last few thousands years would also help to show the ubiquitous nature of slavery.
sub-Alp Europeans created 2 world wars causing the world destruction
That would mean implying that blacks and natives had slaves which is NOT allowed. They are two of the most protected classes of people in the world.
The video did mention that the trade routes already existed before the Arabs arrived.
It's not about slavery but the global trade of it. Took me a second to adjust my expectations too.
For some reason, they only include slaves that were used for work and not the ones used for ritualistic sacrifice.
Notice how it didn’t start in America or Europe
That doesn’t matter at all. America and Europe still did it and American slavery was very recent as well as being very brutal. That is why it is studied more often in America. Also from an American perspective it is more important for your modern day understanding of America to understand American history. Likewise with a European perspective.
no one knows where it started because it started in prehistoric times. One issue i have with this video is that it did not point out that Slavery has been identified as taking place primitive societies without "elites" It also does not mention that slavery was common in the Far East.
One aspect of "primitive" warfare is the concept of captive taking. In many cases these were women and children since they were easier to control.
Civilization is a prerequisite to slavery. There's no point enslaving anyone if you live a simple hunter-gatherer society.
Of course it didn’t, slavery was essential to drive Agriculture and subsequent civilization, your Europe and America were nomadic/barbaric tribes
What this tells me is that almost every major civilization practiced slavery
what it tells me is that people in the US are trying to make themself look less guilty for their crimes by pointing at others. regarding slavery their past happens to be way worse then of all other modern nations combined, but that video just ignores that
@@donalain69 after everyone made themselves look less guilty by pointing at the US. hypocrites
@@donalain69 i think you would have a hard time proving the usa was that much worse then what then was the "status quo"
@@TobiasRieperGood that was the price of abolishing conventional slavery, cant have a society when the basic jobs arent fulfilled
@@donalain69 thats nonsense. If anything the video downplays the severity of the arab/north african trade, as well as the scale. They also leave out that it was mostly jewish traders organizing the atlantic trade, and africans doing the capturing of their own.
You briefly mentioned berber slave trade but a description of barbary wars would have been great too.
this is not about barbar slavery, its about history of slavery as a whole
Yeah, they even raided Iceland once
@@faysalals1 then india, china and russia are missing as well as most of the european slave trade. also, the slavery in (native) america is missing. they attempt to be quite neutral, i give them that. but the strong focus on europa, be it in the antike or in more modern times, does create the illusion that slavery mainly happened in european controlled areas when in reality, it was everywhere.
@@ShubhamMishrabro I agree that it should have been briefly mentioned, but remember that most of the trade stopped before the US intervened, so the impact is shared really. And even if after that the slave trade will be ridiculously small, it's only after France invaded Algeria that it was entirely stopped.
@@TheLoki7281 Not true, they did mention it in detail, watch the video again
Man... I was feeling so confident for humanity as major countries started to outlaw slavery one-by-one, only to have the video end with by mentioning that there are now more slaves on earth than at any previous moment. Really puts things in perspective. Humanity can be so incredibly cruel.
By absolute numbers, yes. Percentage-wise, it's less than 1% of the global population. Either way, it remains an abomination and a stain on the human spirit that needs to be wiped as soon as possible.
At the same time, do realise that without all these actions the number of slaves in the world would easily surpass 1 billion, possibly going so high as 3 billion.
For example in Imperial rome, 30-50% of the inhabitants of italy were slaves.
The absolute number is at a peak, because the world population increased 8 times. But the proportion of slaves in the world population as dived, even if we still have progress to do.
You don't understand how empty the Earth used to be. Only reached 1 billion in 1804, 2 billion in 1927, and 3 billion in the 60's.
The western major nations you mentioned have been responsible for like 90% of all slavery in the past 500 years. Humanity is mostly fine, it's your ability to do something bad and blame the humans you do it to that's the problem.
There is a dangerously fine line between imagined history and actual history. Unfortunately, the former is becoming so entrenched in the UK these days that it’s creating a highly politicised narrative of self hate - and slavery is at its core. Thank you for addressing the issue in an open, neutral and big picture context. Highly valuable.
If anything people should be proud of their ancestors that decided to end it. Unfortunately slavery was always the norm
"Hey you commoner a part of the middle or lower class.. Slavery! Yea.. Feel bad even though "your" empire was dominated by a clique of rich and powerful people who did all of that with or without your consent or that of your ancestors. Give me money!"
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@@maxtest they abolished it due to it competing with the proletariat that worked factories/artisans that provided goods/services that slaves undermined.
I argue that slavery used for profit or nefarious means is inhumane. While slavery can be a charitable. While slavery has it's ugly side. You cannot just give handouts to people in need. Or everyone in need. Owning a slave is not exactly cheap either. But humans are not the only ones that practice slavery. But we can have a more refined version of it.@@maxtest
Seriously, I appreciate the accuracy of the video. The attention to detail is very good. For instance, the map is updated to reflect Louis XIV's expansion into the Low Countries; Avignon is shown as a papal enclave in pre-Revolutionary France; the British Union of 1707 is shown; the Mosquito Coast settlements are represented, etc.
That impressed me very much, too.
It made way to many mistakes and falsehoods. Louisiana was bought by USA 15 million.
I noticed that too. Rarely does one see that degree of accuracy in a youtube video.
Excellent.
It totally misses the Asian and South American and African internal slavery.
It should be mentioned that the Mamluks did also secure a lot of their mamluks from Central Asia. The ruling classes were either Turkic (Bahri) or Circassian (Burji) depending on the era
in gulf state .. there's a disguised law for slavery called the sponsorship (Kafala) laws ... they offer several legalized slaves to every rich man (Kafeel=sponsor) .. he could do whatever he want to them even making them work again for others & get what they gain ... with the least & worst living & working conditions (they literally buying glucose powder to survive rather than eating food)
I love how you made the frontiers change while the years pass. Those frontier changes were so pleasant to see!
As an unapologetic map nerd, I concur.
I was paying attention to the ships making their ( feeding ) patterns, like Carnivorous Bugs devouring lives.
in gulf state .. there's a disguised law for slavery called the sponsorship (Kafala) laws ... they offer several legalized slaves to every rich man (Kafeel=sponsor) .. he could do whatever he want to them even making them work again for others & get what they gain ... with the least & worst living & working conditions (they literally buying glucose powder to survive rather than eating food)
When ''Suriname,, is done,..with the Netherlands,..with complaining,..about slavery and waiting for an apology,..speech ect ect,..
and BEGGING money.,..costs NL billions and,...150 years ago they ALSO GO ALONG..???????????????????? AT,.........these countries ?????
or will they be kicked out
England,..France,..Portugal,..and Spain and USA ????
lazy people that Aruba Bonaire .Curasou ISLANDS
PROFITERS thieves mess there.........@@seang3019
I noticed that the Louisiana Purchase was omitted - this video says it was Spanish territory in the early 1800's.
Focused way too much on the european slave trade neglecting other slave trades, though still a gem of a video
true feels like it was all eu for all those years an other places nothing happend which clearly didnt
I’m guessing because it was what drove the profit for many Western nations which in turn spurned national and economic growth at unprecedented rates, resulting in the wealth/power hierarchy in modern times.
@@michaelrainey9668 Slavery brought in less to the British economy than wool, domestic production of goods (thanks to the industrial revolution) was what created unprecedented growth. If slavery were the primary factor we would have seen the economic and population explosions occur centuries earlier.
@@DraftingandCrafting So then I guess they were just stupid? Bad at business, then? You’re making it sound like they could have done a hundred other things to make more money instead of enslaving people. Then why did they do it for over 200 years? There isn’t a corporation on this planet that would not accept free labor. That’s a bad faith argument, man.
Europeans so smart they did something better than what many civilizations before couldn't.
The slavs suffered worse slavery historic events then what was depicted in this break down but still A+. I learned more in 10 mins then I did in my entire life in school about this topic.
They were so often enslaved that the word Slav came to be synonymous with the practice. That's the origin of the modern word slave.
The term slave is derived from the Slavic people
Let’s clear up some things about słavery, yes the post is long but for this subject it’s short. Słavery across the globe and throughout time wasn’t because someone had a certain skín color and if those people weren’t there słavery wouldn’t exist.
Many people seemingly only want to díscuss North America or put more an emphasis on it saying it was far worse than anywhere else. So let’s clear up some things. we often hear people say 400 years but actually Błack people didn’t become the majority of słaves in Notth America till the mid 1700s. Which lasted until 1865, just over 100 years. Still horrific, still clearly an injustice and críme against humanity but certainly not an isolated event. Before that the majority of słaves in Ameríca were the índigenous tríbes/First Nations people. In fact 400 years really doesn’t even scratch the surface, słavery existed for tens of thousands of years, if not hundreds of thousands. Słaves and índentured servànts were used for labor and/or s3x.
Here is the thing about mísconceptions regarding índentured servantš, índentured servànts weren’t always treated better, nor did they always agree to be índentured servànts (that’s right there were iídentured servànts that were forced into servítude, just like słaves). Sometimes they would sell the contract of the índentured servànt to someone else without their consent, thereby extending the contract (so 20 years could become 40). Another thing they would do is førce the wømen to get pregnant, which would also extend their contracts and keep them pregnant till old age (by then owing more years, than they had years of life left and I’ll let you figure out how they førced them to get pregnant). Also, not only were their wíves rap3d but at times their chíldren taken and sold.
How about słavery, so many people make arguments it was only horrifíc in Ameríca and that it wasn’t that bad here or there but is that true? Słavery as already mentioned existed for thousands and thousands of years, all across the globe. Chattel słavery did in fact also exist in Afríca and it wasn’t a kinder gentler form of słavery; unless you consider mass human sacrifíce and canníbalísm kinder and gentler. Słavery existed in Afríca well before Eurøpeans showed up and Afrícan rulers fought the Eurøpeans in order to keep it going. In the Middle East the słave market was huge, the słaves brought in were often castràted (so no, that wasn’t a kinder gentler form either). Słavery existed in Asia and Asía is still infamous for having sweatshops. The Vikíngs often raided Eurøpe and took słaves back with them. The wømen they took served the Viking men, both work and s3x. When the słave øwner díed, the wøman he had as a słave would often be gàng ràpéd by the men in the village and kīlled to serve the owner in the afterlife. Ancient Romans brutałły ensłaved other Europeans and people around the Mediterranean. In the Amerícas the Natíves enslaved others Natíves and also had human sacrifíce. The point is słavery was and is horrifíc, all over the world it’s horrifíc and has been for a very very long time (that’s not minimizing it for one group to say that, in fact it’s minimizing everywhere else to not recognize it was horrific all over).
How about chattel slavery? Here is the thing, you can’t ensłave descendànts if there aren’t any. The Barbary słaves often had a much shorter lífe span and had no hope of procreatíon. Many díed chaíned in the ínterior of the ship sitting in their own excrèment covered in open wøunds or díed chaíned to a sínking ship that lost a battle. There was no fèmale companíonship, no livíng to an old age, no sunshíne, no høpe … Just the incredibly harsh realitíes of the shíp for the rest of their short míserable líves. In the Middle East the vast majoríty of słaves were castratèd and agian never had the opportuníty to reprøduce. Many of which didn’t even survíve being castrated. Does anyone really think that’s any “better”? Also, this idea many people have that chíldren of słaves were born free across the globe or słaves weren’t sold as property (except in Ameríca) is absurd.
When people say that in North Ameríca it was wørse or Eurøpeans have the most to be błamed for (which is said a lot lately), that isn’t intellectually honest and is blatantly ígnoring the atrocitíes commítted around the globe. When people blame only group over everyone else, it is in fact minimizing the atrocitíes everywhere else, and those people are doing precisely what they blame others for doing (i.e., “minimizíng” the atrocitíes of słavery around the world).
Specifically, early on Christians didn't enslave other Christians so pagan Slavs and Balts were fair game.... Until they baptized. Later, kripatstvo was effectively a chattel slavery. You literally couldn't change the master and your kids would be enslaved for generations.
They traded "souls" in russian empire. Hence Gogol's "Dead Souls" about money laundering on slaves existing only on paper.
Most famous Ukrainian poet, Tara's Shevchenko, was born a slave and later became a freeman because he was literally bought by patrons who liked his paintings.
Cossack meant a free person, a lot of them were runaway slaves. Soviet collectivisation and persecution
effectively re-enslaved people into kolkhozes, even before Gulag system. You had no passport or rights, my grandma was property of the state... in 50s. She just died this year in Ukraine.
Read some books.
By the late 19th century, when much of Islamic Central Asia was conquered by the Russian Empire, the region was home to tens of thousands of slaves. Most of these slaves were Shiʿa Muslims from northern Iran, though the slave trade also ensnared many Russians, Armenians, Kalmyks, and others. Slave labor was especially commonplace in the Sunni Muslim domains of Khwarazm and Bukhara, where enslaved people constituted a substantial proportion of all agricultural workers, domestic servants, and soldiers. Slaves also labored in many other roles, and an individual slave could be tasked with a variety of jobs. Slaves served, for example, as concubines, craftsmen, miners, herdsmen, entertainers, blacksmiths, calligraphers, and even, in rare instances, as government officials.
Before the 16th century, the majority of the slaves in Central Asia-defined here as the region extending from the eastern shores of the Caspian Sea through Xinjiang, China, and from southern Siberia to northern Iran-seem to have been trafficked to the region from India. This changed in the 16th and 17th centuries, as a significant number of Iranian war-captives were brought north and enslaved during the course of numerous armed conflicts between the Central Asian Uzbeks and Iranian Safavids. Many of these slaves evidently labored on the region’s rapidly expanding agricultural estates.
In the 18th and 19th centuries, frequent Turkmen raids into northern Iran resulted in tens of thousands of Iranian Shiʿas being captured and funneled into a booming slave trade in Khwarazm and Bukhara. Further north, a much smaller number of Russians were seized and sold into slavery by Kazakh nomads along the steppe frontier.
Eden, J. Slavery in Islamic Central Asia. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History.
Islam is evil
Sovietization of Central Asia was a great thing
@@ezrathegreatconqueror millions died because of that
Many Europeans who settled slave owner lands got enslaved? Who could’ve seen this coming?
@@pressftopayrespects6325 are you sure you read the same passage? Husnu Coban is talking about the great steppe raiders and their slaving expeditions, which didn't have anything to do with European settler-colonialism. The Russians are guilty of many things but being raided is hardly one of them; they had lived under the Tartar yoke since the Mongols struck west and formed just one source of slaves for the steppe nomads. Kalmyks, Armenians, Iranians, Indians and Chinese slaves were not even European ._.
And you would think “slavery” only ends in the history books!!!!!
Thank you for such an informative documentary.
Mauritania made slavery a criminal offense as late as 2007.
Before that it was just prohibited by law without any consequence.
Horn of Africa as well they used to trade slaves from south east Africa
Doesnt end even today between arabs and china, they still keep slavery o going
I mean the sex slave trade exists in America... But since you can't talk about the southern border without being labeled racist... We don't bring any attention to it
@@Horizon3165 LEGAL slavery does solely exist in history books. Black market human trafficking isn't the same thing as people being sold on a public auction block in a country that claims to represent "freedom."
incredible accuracy, details and visuals. thank you!
As a Nubian from Northern Sudan, thanks for pointing out the baqt conditions, failure to meet the required number of slaves is what brought down Makuria.
Are you a Muslim? And how do you feel about the arabisation/Islamisation of your country?
I was curious about how the people who would be sent as slaves were obtained/selected?
@@mugikuyu9403
(Are you a Muslim? And how do you feel about the arabisation/Islamisation of your country?)
Northern Sudan is a natural mix between Arab immigrants and the natives, for centuries, besides, with the "Arabisation", they learned the Lingua Franca of the old world, and with "Islamisation", they saved themselves from moral degradation, human sacrifices, tribal class categorizaton, and even from slavery by their own people, not to mention that they (unlike other Africans) always get easy profitable jobs in other Arab countries, because they know the language, the culture, and because Arabs see each one of them and treats them like one of their own.
Look how NON Arabised, NON Islamised Southern Sudan are living now, despite their huge natural resources.. oh, by the way, how do you feel about the ENGLIZINATION and Christianization of Southern Sudan?
Why English is THE Official country language there?, are there large English immigrants-settlements there?, and what happened to the original authentic African tribal religious believes there?
And, how you feel about the Black slaves being enslaved by BLACK EMPERORS, KINGS, PRINCES, and then sold to Arabs, Berber, Europeans, and even the other Black empires for centuries?.
Also, how you feel about the imperialistic Ethiopian invasion and colonization of the South Western Arabia, murdering countless number of people, and stealing recourse, for centuries?.
@@donnie27brasco
Couldn't say it better
in gulf state .. there's a disguised law for slavery called the sponsorship (Kafala) laws ... they offer several legalized slaves to every rich man (Kafeel=sponsor) .. he could do whatever he want to them even making them work again for others & get what they gain ... with the least & worst living & working conditions (they literally buying glucose powder to survive rather than eating food)
Would have been nice to learn about the slave trade of the far east as well. Interesting and informative video!
If he had info on it I'm sure he would have added it
Second this
There isn't a lot to mention. The only slavery east of poland was in central Asia and Japan.
Iran, Russia and China didn't have any and didn't allow their vassals any either.
@@amitmeena2961 I mean just spend 20 seconds to google and you can find a lot of info on it. It would have just doubled or tripled the videos length
@@kastraskammer5710 Really? Google? You think this guy spends months to prepare the script, narrate and animate it just to sweep it off the first page of the good ol reliable mighty corporation of Google? What do they teach you in school? Ever heard about professionals and experts spending their life to write and publish research papers on various topics? Ever heard about getting your info approved from multiple reliable sources? From reputable colleges and their expert teachers? This Google generation is going to get us all killed one day.
A fascinating history. And well done on showing today's slave numbers which so many remain ignorant about.
Including a lot of conservatives. They want to justify their actions
@@mr.takethingstooseriously"if you're right about history, your just being racist"
We do not regard politics and feelings when talking about facts. Facts are facts, and they don't care about politics.
They totally miss slavery within arabs lands and china even today
@@panzerofthelake506 Mankind is still in the slavery:
you are a salve too, to this very day, why do you sound of not know?
in childhood you attend to school, where you shall spend up to 8h of your life.
Soon you`re adult, serving BAAL from 9 - 5.
And you`re home in your tiny box,
consuming all these items the prison for your mind produce.
Now tell me dear soul, ain`t that also being a slave? cause to my eyes, still unnoticed, where`s the life worthy to be living?
The signs and symbols rule the world, yet we complain about the laws.
We reject all the opportunity to seek out the truth, to break free from being in the hated slavery.
We cry about the past, not getting it that its the present in which we live in.
Now, can`t you still not agree, we to be a perfectly obeying BAAL in our daily slavery.
Mankind`s destiny is lake of fire if we don´t come to repentance and born again.
Mankind wants freedom, then step out from BABYLON, repent form your sins and born again.
@@mr.takethingstooseriouslyjustify what actions?
Great video. I usually check out on videos like this, but it held my attention for the entire time.
Europeans: Slaves are Black
Ottomans: Slaves are White
Romans: EVERYBODY
America: Roman's ima copy u but with corporations hehe
Ottoman: had black SLAVES
Romans weren't Europeans?
@@HellonearthlABB Bruh. im sorry i meant BRUH. aheam BruH.
@@HellonearthlABB dumb
Very informative. It's rare to see a historical account of slavery that isn't pushing a political agenda. Very well put together and presented. Everyone should watch this.
sadly i think he is, at the beginning he says theres no evidence for the hebrew slaves or the exodus, however we found the chariots and horses right there at the bottom of the sea, where we expected them to be. Christian or not, you cant just ignore 1000's of pieces of evidence all in one place.
but it is cause it doesnt talk about slavery in Africa before the arabs arrive, and doesnt mention slavery in Asia until the modern times
Durban pact 2001 UN , excuses and repair/payments demanded for trans-Atlantic slavery.
The political agenda of human rights? What's wrong with that political agenda?
@@Bonhh Yes, the bottom-of-the-sea horses. Staggeringly convincing. Your silly reference to non-archaelogy doesn't actually prove biblical fiction.
This was well done. We don't need to be talked down to like little children the bare facts say so much more. Horrific that this not only still happens but is getting worse.
This UA-camr not only biased by downplaying the bloody slavery in US, but also mixed up different concepts of slavery, like forced slavery and debt or contracted bases "slavery".
China ended its slavery around 220 BC, the periods of slavery after that were periods ruled by normades from the North, like Mongles in Yuan and Manchu in Qing dynesty, and Chinese, mostly Han were the slaves.
The history should be based on facts not lies! So called Xinjiang forced labour, is not only the mass projection of US on to China, a shameless lie, basically a WMD and Nayirah incubator story 2.0, also a mentally retarded one that can be debunked by common logical sense.
Western people are taught critical thinking in school, but sad is that they through these skills down the drain and become a reciting machine of the US/Western propapanda rethoric.
@@wyz9815 yeah this misses soooo much information that the video is almost a lie.... almost.
@@datofficial6062 American education on the subject of słavery is abysmal and leaves out way too much. Słavery throughout the globe wasn’t because someone has a certain skín color and if those people weren’t there słavery wouldn’t exist.
Some people say North America was the worst and we always hear 400 years, so let’s talk about that. Błack people didn’t become the majority of słaves in Notth America till the mid 1700s. Which lasted until 1865, just over 100 years. That’s stíll horrifíc, still a críme against humaníty but słavery has been going on for a very very long time. Before that the majority of słaves were the índigenous tríbes/First Nations people. Let’s clear some things up about słavery, słavery existed for tens of thousands of years, if not hundreds of thousands. Słaves and índentured servànts were used for labor and/or s3x.
Here is the thing, índentured servànts weren’t always treated better, nor did they always agree to be índentured servànts (that’s right there were iídentured servànts that were forced into servítude, just like słaves). Sometimes they would sell the contract of the índentured servànt to someone else without their consent, thereby extending the contract (so 20 years could become 40). Another thing they would do is førce the wømen to get pregnant, which would also extend their contracts and keep them pregnant till old age (by then owing more years, than they had years of life left and I’ll let you figure out how they førced them to get pregnant).
How about słavery? Słavery as already mentioned existed for thousands and thousands of years, all across the globe. Chattel słavery did in fact also exist in Afríca and it wasn’t a kinder gentler form of słavery; unless you consider mass human sacrifíce and canníbalísm kinder and gentler. Słavery existed in Afríca well before Eurøpeans showed up and Afrícan rulers fought the Eurøpeans in order to keep it going. In the Middle East the słave market was huge, the słaves brought in were often castràted (so no, that wasn’t a kinder gentler form either). Słavery existed in Asia and is still infamous for having sweatshops. The Vikíngs often raided Eurøpe and took słaves back with them. The wømen they took served the Viking men, both work and s3x. When the słave øwner díed, the wøman he had as a słave would often be gàng ràpéd by the men in the village and kīlled to serve the owner in the afterlife. Ancient Romans ensłaved other Europeans and people around the Mediterranean. In the Amerícas the Natíves enslaved others Natíves. Słavery was and is horrifíc, all over the world it’s horrifíc.
How about chattel slavery? Here is the thing, you can’t ensłave descendànts if there aren’t any. The Barbary słaves often had a much shorter lífe span and had no hope of procreatíon. They díed chaíned in the ínterior of the ship sitting in their own excrèment covered in open wøunds or díed chaíned to a sínking ship that lost a battle. There was no fèmale companíonship, no livíng to an old age, no sunshíne, no høpe … Just the incredibly harsh realitíes of the shíp for the rest of their short míserable líves. In the Middle East the vast majoríty of słaves were castratèd and agian never had the opportuníty to reprøduce. Many of which didn’t even survíve being castrated. Does anyone really think that’s any “better”? Also, this idea that chíldren of słaves were born free across the globe or słaves weren’t sold as property (except in Ameríca) is absurd.
When people say that in North Ameríca it was wørse or Eurøpeans have the most to be błamed for (which is said a lot lately), that isn’t intellectually honest and is blatantly ígnoring the atrocitíes commítted around the globe. When people blame only group over everyone else, it is in fact minimizing the atrocitíes everywhere else, and they are doing precisely what they blame others for (i.e., minimizíng the atrocitíes of słavery).
@@wyz9815 Read some history.
@@wyz9815 is a bot. China enslaves/reeducates/eliminates entire populations that don't agree with the CCP agenda. The Mongols last decade. Now the Uighur.
CCP
Let it rot.
This needs to be educated more in school. Such an important topic in human history.
Yes Hammurabi a Mesopotamian king started slavery
@@daviroza4700he didn't started it. His code is the first preserved to our knowledge and that's the reason it is the first to have laws on slavery, because we don't have previous written laws.
But archeology shows that most probably there were slaves before, as soon as there was the possibility of using slaves to create "surplus".
For the hunter gatherers it doesn't make sense to have another mouth to feed
Good luck getting liberal schools to teach historical facts.
White conservatives don’t like teaching slavery because it hurts their feelings.
Great video, I do think there was a missed opportunity to discuss how the slave trade actually shaped African kingdoms though. Kongo for example became incredibly rich off of the trade and their entire society warped to support it. When the abolitions happened they basically collapsed as a result. There are really interesting youtube videos on it! A recent one by Kraut: "Why Saudi Arabia is doomed" (ignore the name) was really good.
you mean africans love slaves? shocking.
When ''Suriname,, is done,..with the Netherlands,..with complaining,..about slavery and waiting for an apology,..speech ect ect,..
and BEGGING money.,..costs NL billions and,...150 years ago they ALSO GO ALONG..???????????????????? AT,.........these countries ?????
or will they be kicked out
England,..France,..Portugal,..and Spain and USA ????
lazy people that Aruba Bonaire .Curasou ISLANDS
PROFITERS thieves mess there.........
Caucasians trying to change the course of their animalistic and psychopatic behaviour.. too late.. the world just waitng for u to collapse, and u dont wanna to see outcome.. forget about Africa, u know what you did to Indians in America, Indians of India, Jews, Japanese, Chinese, Aboriginals in Australia, Palestinians? it will come out soon. U destroy anything u see on your way to hell. Trust me Jewish did not forget!
The focus on the trans Atlantic slavery is strange knowing that slavery is much bigger story in human history , for example the cast system and the Paria etc etc etc
kraut is such a chad
Amazed to see someone explain about slavery beyond the 1800s
The term slave and slavery is now gone, but the practice still exists, just with different names
Sorry But NO Slavery is Not Gone !
@@kellydardeen6308 exactly
in gulf state .. there's a disguised law for slavery called the sponsorship (Kafala) laws ... they offer several legalized slaves to every rich man (Kafeel=sponsor) .. he could do whatever he want to them even making them work again for others & get what they gain ... with the least & worst living & working conditions (they literally buying glucose powder to survive rather than eating food)
Very important for people to see these days. I’m shocked and appalled at the amount of people brainwashed into thinking slavery only happened in America
Bro so true, people have literally zero knowledge about history these days.
Maybe only americans because no one thinks like that
@@thekingmeruem yeah most likely 😂 most people from New Zealand where I’m from are pretty clueless to things as well
@@vadersnipes378 sadly true. I once spoke a person who believed that people could be still press ganged into the British armed navy. I told her the practice had been discontinued for, er, 160 years or so.
@@thekingmeruem We live inside an Orwell book over here
Fails to mention that the islamic world has been not only the biggest user of slavery, its most brutal enforcer (castration, massacres) and is still using it today, both sexual and for work.
That's the most important information about slavery.
@@OneAngrehCat At least today it's on a smaller scale and is ILLEGAL, not culturally acceptable like in the US.
I wonder why the fuck they can't teach stuff like this at school. Only took 10 minutes, objective and relevant information, very easy to follow and remember. Teachers should seriously take an example from these kind of videos. Thanks for this quality material!
Teachers don’t care about the kids education they are just looking for a paycheck
Because it doesn't go with their agenda. Which is dumbing down our kids to be able to have a world just like you are seeing in this video
It's because there's a certain orthodox political narrative to maintain in schools (which is not necessarily the teachers' fault). It's not due to lack of time.
@@HiThereFaceHere Schools don't have a worldwide agenda.
They teach kids useless things, Because it's easier and looks better statistically. That's it.
More kids graduate, Better scores, Better funding and more prestige to attract more funding and students.
@@sceerane8662 I would agree except way less kids are graduating in this country and in places like the state I live in only 26% of kids are reading at the level they should be and only 21% are are at the math level they should be. That is beyond awful. Our children are being dumbed down to a ridiculous level. A lot of kids in high school don't even know how many moons the earth has. I didn't just make that up either. That is dead serious. And yes there is a socialist agenda being pushed I literally have proof of it and pulled my son from school because of it and so did a bunch of other parents in the same district
Wish you would’ve talked about slavery in the new world before the arrival of Europeans, the Aztecs were particularly brutal, and when the Spanish came these slaves changed hands from the Aztecs to Spain, forming the basis of the caste system in new spain
interesting. i’ll have to read into this
Calling it "brutal" is misleading
Slavery in the aztec empire was more of a punishment or penalty because they did not have a prison system
Only violent criminals were enslaved for life and could be sold in markets
Once a slave payed off their debts they were usually freed especially if were hard workers and were on their best behavior
I think you're missing the part where they sacrificed people @@flashback4588
@@flashback4588I don't know... sacrificing millions of captured slaves by ripping out their heart while still alive seems brutal to me.
@@flashback4588Calling it brutal is exactly what it was. You know many Native tribes skinned the head of their victims. It wasn't all roses..
Good to finally have a video on the slavery done by nations throughout the ENTIRE history, not just the Atlantic one. However, you did forget the large amounts of Europeans being enslaved by Arabs
Arab slave traders had much to do with cutting off western Europe from the east and producing the Dark Ages. The loss of cheap writing materials from Egypt had much to do with the limitation of literacy in Gaul. Thousands and thousands of old books literally crumbled to dust because they could not be reproduced.
Not to mention 6000 years of cast system in Asia . Paria seen as non-humans . Abolished in 1950.
I knew from the title of this video that some whites would jump on this with the narrative " you see, slavery happened before our ancestors bla bla" to try to justify the evilness of their ancestors. Nobody believe that slavery didn't exist before America. The thing that wasn't before the transatlantic slave trade of Europeans/white Americans was slavery based on race. Slavery was all over the world, people in debt would be slaves to pay what they owe, war prisoners would be slaves, enemies would made each others slaves etc.... This slavery concept of an entire group of people generation after generation just because of their skin colour was an European/American thing that went on from the 15th to the 19th century (officially), even tho it was still happening at smaller margine after. So all you morons who thought this video was your "gotcha" moment are embarrassing. Also, Slavery that happened 1000, 2000, 5000 wears ago all around the world doesn't matter because it did not have an impact to our recent generation, this recent European/American slavery did. American slavery is very recent, it didn't happen 2000 years ago. You literally have people alive today in our timeline that knew and live with people that were slaves and slave owners so you can try to spin this thing as much as you can, facts will not change. My own father who was born in 1965 lived with his great grandmother that was a slave. My great great grandmother was a slave in her earlier life. She was born in 1883 and died in 1985. And yes, slavery was abolished officially in 1965 but doesn't mean that all slave owners just let their slaves go free at that time. Many didn't. My father lived 20 years with her. 1985 is basically like yesterday. I'm still horrified at the stories he told me about her, all the stories about her life as a slave that she shared with him. White Americans were so evil, I don't even know how to qualify what they used to do to her. So please do not dare to try to downplay American slavery and all the impact it has on millions of American today, do not dare.
Yeah, large amounts, hundreds per year rather than hundreds per ship he really dropped the ball there!
You obviously dont pay attention as they mentioned it in the Portugal section.
So rare to find a video that actually portraits reality without a political agenda, thank you Geo History. We still have letters conserved to this between the King of Kongo and Portugal, stating a good relationship between them and his son went to study in Portugal and became a Bishop. Yet some people, mostly Americans, say that the white European started slavery in Africa. We did not start it, we started business with African slavers.
Nothing but a whataboutism. Means nothing.
What “political agenda”?
Cant believe my eyes when this is a video not just shorts. Luv ur videos so much. Huge fan!
A few small but noteworthy things this video doesn't mention:
1. In the 13th century or so, people of Slavic origin enslaved in Eastern Europe were common enough in the Mediterranean world that the words for "Slave" in a number of languages, including both Spanish and English, are likely derived from the word Slav (both via medieval Latin, a common Lingua Franca across Europe at the time).
2. Prior to the Portuguese sailing down the coast of Africa and establishing trade relationships, it was fairly common for Portuguese merchants to turn pirate and engage in slave raiding on the North African coast when they deemed ports ill-defended. Slave raiding was also one of the first things they attempted when they reached the area of the Senegal River and further south, but they were largely unsuccessful due to underestimating local warriors. Ultimately they switched to engaging with local kings as politely as possible, which enabled them to establish peaceful trading relationships, including those which would develop into the slave trade.
3. The trade of slaves to the Gold Coast by the Portuguese actually predates the development of plantation slavery in their own colonies; their main goals in Africa were obtaining gold and spices, so despite their initial attempts at slave raiding (and their limited transport of African slaves to Portugal early on), it was only later that they began to view African slaves as a primary commodity to get from Africa.
4. In the Spanish and Portuguese American colonies, Native American slaves were for a brief window more common than African ones, though due to a mix of factors African slaves became much more common through the 16th century. It's sometimes assumed that this was simply because Native American slaves were more likely to die of Old World Diseases, but that's not the whole picture; it also related to ideological factors (there was a belief that Christians should not be enslaved, and some people believed that since Native Americans had never had the chance to convert before, they should be allowed to learn about Christianity before enslavement, while pagan and Muslim Africans were believed to have had their chance already, due to the presence of Christians in some parts of Africa). African slaves also didn't totally replace Native ones; in some circumstances (like in the silver mines of South America), African slaves actually died at faster rates than native ones, so Natives remained the majority. In others, Africans became the majority of slaves, but Natives remained a minority. Through the 17th century, Native Americans were often enslaved in British North America, and shipped to the Caribbean to be sold far from their homelands (as keeping them as slaves locally was believed to risk escape or rebellion). As late as the 18th century, native Americans still made up a large share of slaves in some parts of South America, and a small minority in many more.
5. African slaves made up the majority of people who crossed the Atlantic for much of the early colonial period, often serving as de-facto settlers in the European colonies, as European owners converted them to their own brand of Christianity, taught them European languages, and employed them in tasks such as converting other slaves, growing food, and building settlements, rather than just cash crop production.
6. The Triangle Trade heavily impacted African value systems between the 16th and 19th centuries. The concept of slavery was common throughout Africa, but it didn't work quite like the system of chattel slavery employed in the America. In Africa, land was plenty due to relatively low population density (except in some regions like the Gold Coast), so land itself had no value. Instead, value was held in having people to work the land. As such, owning lots of slaves was like owning lots of land in Europe (as such, slaves were a bit like European serfs; unfree, but not property on the same level as cattle - they had some rights). The triangular trade changed this in many places (though not all); European goods carried a level of prestige, and so shows of wealth stopped being in owning a lot of slaves, instead shifting to having many European goods, while humans were devalued. In the long run, this gave rise to larger changes, like some societies becoming much more warlike, as warfare was the best way to obtain slaves to sell for European goods. The ramifications were dire, but the shift would have been too gradual for most people to notice how unstable it was making their territories (the Kingdom of Benin (which I have a video about on my channel, if anyone is interested) is one exception; they banned the export of male slaves in the 1520s, likely to avoid depleting their own enslaved population).
7. The UK did not abolish slavery completely in 1833; they made an exception for domestic slavery in the British East India Company's holdings That form of slavery would only be abolished in 1843. The abolition of slavery in the UK would also go into effect gradually, with the final slaves being freed by 1865.
This a long boi
@@johnbarkl1700 just read it
They also left out - what makes the Atlantic Slave trade different: 1. The Catholic Church support (Dum Diversas), 2. the creation & rise of Anthropology AKA White Supremacy - aligned with the false science behind skin color based Racial classifications, 3. the "eternal servitude" code from Dum Diversas, 4. English Chattel slavery, and -5. the trans-oceanic & multi- continental size & scope.
I'm sure I'm missing something. I wonder if these omissions are why so many comments seem to reflect relief or happiness?
true the word slave comes from slav
@@SIMO-eb1hw It's just a coincidence for English speakers.
I was very surprised that no mention at all was made of Russian serfdom, which only ended in 1861. However, despite that omission, a fascinating video and very informative.
Well, they were different type, not real slaves taken by force from other contries in majority, "Крепостные" were peasants, but I do agree still like slaves even were sold to other rich bastards in the country.
One african slave were taken in war from Turkish who left the town, by Peter I and this slave Hannibal become a general and famous novelty man in Russia, he was grandfather of Pushkin, the Russian famous writer and called some times the first rapper for a joke ) So technically, even black man was able to be freed and become a part of elite in Russia.
I could miss some bits, Historians knew better about other nations in Russia who were enslaved due to wars and invasions, never heard about it.
@@discoboy8169 “not real slaves” them being taken from another country isn’t what makes them a slave. It’s being owned and not having autonomy.
@@bno6156 Precisely.
U can do a vid
There also needs to be a Part 2 where slavery, serfdom, and caste systems in Asia are examined.
Part 3 should focus on captivity and slavery in the Americas by cultures prior to contact with non-Americas cultures.
That would be quite enlightening to educate people about the real nature of forced, captive labor the world over, and the fact that it has existed for at least 7K years, sadly.
This video is entirely Eurocentric and ignores slavery that existed in subsaharan Africa, the Indian subcontinent, and East Asia for over a thousand years
Kinda hard considering there are not many records that survived, if they ever existed, about the topic
Valid point, much of human history is not documented, rest assured that slavery is as old as the "oldest profession"
Without written records, it’s hard to discuss extinct cultures
The Americas??
Why did you only mention those others? There are more regions than that. Maybe you have an emotional preference…or a chip on your shoulder. Get over it. Blacks were not the only slaves, just the only culture to have a chip on their shoulder about it giving them an excise to be evil thieving lazy thugs.
everybody just talks about the American slavery but nobody ever talks about this. I’m glad you made it like that
American slavery was the worst in history
@@chaosXP3RT have you heard about what happened in places like Haiti, the Dominican Republican, Cuba, Brazil?
@@chaosXP3RT are you sure about that? You don’t think Belgium controlled Congo was worse?
@@chaosXP3RT You are mistaken.
Because American slavery was 90% of the slave trade of its day. It also encouraged the other 10%.
a lot of history here
Better than a boring teacher to explain it for ya
Yeah
Yea
One of the most interesting slavery documentaries I have seen. Totally unbiased and sticking to facts rather than the most recent history on slaves which tends to be the more generic focus on the subject. Super interesting as well with linking the year counter at the top.
The sad thing is that i actually gets biased by the end, "forgot" to talk about the thousands of forced workers in the US jails :(
Unbiased how? the byzantine slave trade was extensive and is entirely omitted, not to mention the difference in legal rights and treatments slaves had between the west and the east. Only someone unfamiliar with nuances would think this is a fair unbiased representation. The Mamluks for example were literally slaves and they had the biggest dynasty, similarly the so called slave bodyguards were basically the praetorian guard and they had a similar role in the downfall, meanwhile this doofus makes it all about spreading religion.
@@rhetoric5173 this is a 20 minute overview on the subject on youtube not a phd. I am sure there are many other omitted slave eras and cultures, but I enjoyed it and thought it was well put together and useful. My biased comment relates to the transatlantic slave trade which is where most slavery discussions get stuck.
@@basilmagnanimous7011 actually selling its own humans is unprofitable for an economy, only works of those people are sold at a high markup, which due to unequal treaties the europeans used, it wasn't. That's why this countries ravaged its neighbours for prisoners to sell, which in turn diminished the economic potential of all the region and only increasing a bunch of pockets.
The video falls apart at the end. "Forced marriage" is a rebrand of "arranged marriage" which is not the same as slavery and affects both sexes. In its earnestness to meet feminist victim quotas, it also ignores the millions of people (men and boys) kidnapped into serving as soldiers. It ingnores millions of men kept in Arab countries as construction workers. Pandering to female victim feelings and creating yet another fake stat for feminists to hang female victim culture upon.
In America, we're only taught about the Atlantic-African Slave Trade as if it was the first and only time slavery existed.
No it was the worst in all history, in other nations slaves are considered as a family member
@@rehawi2001 The castration of African slaves by the Arabs The
Castration was performed without anesthesia, more than 60% do not survive the procedure and were left for dead, bleeding to death.
@@rehawi2001 They were not considered family. Not sure what you were smoking.
@@rehawi2001😂😂 delusional thinking
Yeah, that’s called American history.
I'm glad he mentioned WW2. A lot of people have never heard of the Gulags in the Soviet Union.
The gulag archipelago is a depressing read
The gulags were simply the prison system of the USSR that were inherited from the Russian Empire. Conditions within the Gulags of the USSR have been compared to modern US prisons. Within them, the prisoners were given an 8 hour workday and a 5 day workweek, free healthcare, were paid for the labor, had a 5-10 year max on their sentencing that was shortened by a day every time you went over your quota, given an education, and since the gulags weren’t camps (more of a town with the main prison in the center), the average prisoner could leave whenever they wanted as long as they remained within the town’s boundary. The gulags, of course, were shut down in the 50s as reformative measures were more effective than the punitive ones used in the gulags. Deaths within the gulags were also very limited (with the vast majority taking place during WW2 due to shortages of supplies). Also the prison population was also smaller per capita and less numerous than the modern American one.
In case you want to know more, here are my sources:
On US Prison statistics & Deaths:
www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2020/02/13/prisondeaths/
Archive Materials on the Number of Prisoners at the End of the 1930s:
www.visions.az/en/news/308/05a9e687/
Prisoner Mortality Rate Within Gulags:
i.redd.it/84avfq2911w21.jpg
Further Reading on the Prisoner Mortality Rate Within Gulags:
www.jstor.org/stable/2166597?read-now=1&refreqid=excelsior%3Ac7df89fb86f7cdb22472254937584567&seq=33#page_scan_tab_contents
Mortality in State and Federal Prisons, 2001-2016 - Statistical Tables:
bjs.ojp.gov/library/publications/mortality-state-and-federal-prisons-2001-2016-statistical-tables
I. Deutscher, The Prophet Outcast, pg. 418:
books.google.com/books?id=6JfWUSEacRgC&pg=PA4&source=kp_read_button&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&gboemv=1&ovdme=1
Compensation Versus Coercion in the Soviet GULAG:
warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/mharrison/archive/noticeboard/bergson/borodkin-ertz.pdf
Medicine in Soviet Gulags:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11769741/#:~:text=Gulag%20hospitals%20included%20camp%2C%20regional,among%20former%20and%20current%20prisoners.
@@sebastianjoseph9628 18 million people went through the gulags and 1.6 million people died in them. That's 9% of all the people that went through them died. That my friend is not a prison but a slave camp. US prisons on the other hand have a mortality rate around 2-3%. So stop talking out of your ass and linking to reddit posts, the gulags were concentration camps and to compare them to US prisons is laughable and delusional.
@@sebastianjoseph9628 Oh, finally someone who knows actual history. Only one mark. People were not send to gulag, couse GULAG means General Camp Administration, which was part of justice ministry of USSR, which was administrating prison system.
@@Imaxxd22 yeah, I’m still learning about a lot of this stuff. I really like learning about history and the USSR is so full of complexities and I love it
Sad how slavery still exists today
How else would Nestle get it's cocoa?
but man do i love my new shoes
Hi AGL
Slavery will never completely be eradicated same as many crimes against humanity
But what scares me is that it’s thriving and the conditions that people in China live in are also terrifying
@@honey3762 3:59 Constantinople, from the time it was created, was informed by true Christianity, and rejected slavery, more and more , even though their economy they inherited from the Pagan Roman Empire, relied on it.. Eventually, they tried to ban it, but slave traders from outside the Roman Empire, led by Constantinople, would try to bring it back. By around 900 to 1000, AD slavery was ended, throughout the empire, purely by Greek Orthodox Christian morality. By design, there as NO laws put in place to ban it. People used their free will to reject slavery. Constantinople, also created an agreement between the slave capital of the world, Venice,…to stop the Oligarchy ruling Venice, from engaging in the slave trade in anyway, when it came to the Roman Empire led by Constantinople. Because there was a ban put in place, between Venice, and Constantinople,…today Venice is credited, for being the first to “ban slavery”, where this is FAR from the truth. Constantinople was able to end slavery , throughout the Greek Orthodox Christian Roman Empire, via freewill, something that hasn’t been achieved anywhere else.
Great video! Some details:
8:40 You understate the significance of the Barbary Corsairs. They enslaved millions of Europeans up until the early 19th century, when it took a unified effort of some European powers and an intervention of the USA to stop them
13:33 The Haitian revolution wasn't some peaceful uprising either, it was a genocide against all White citizens, including the ones that had aided the slaves during their revolution (except Poles). Forced labour continued even in this "free" Haiti
15:34 The newly freed American Blacks who came to govern Liberia, enslaved many native Blacks living there. You hinted at that, but didn't say it outright
18:05 The Gulag system prevailed longer than ten years, ending only in the early 50s. "Rich peasants" is a good description of so called Kulaks, because even the Bolshevists could barely define it. A Kulak could be a millionaire, or it could simply be a farmer who owned the land he worked on, instead of leasing it
20:15 It would have been great to see a map of where modern slavery takes place. A small mention of the for-profit American prison system and its >1,000,000 current prisoners would have been nice, but i guess it is larger than the scope of the video. And maybe it would be a bit cynical to call those prisoners slaves
You didn't much explain the extend of far-Eastern slavery like in India or China either, but it is very difficult to put all that information in just one video.
Nice visuals as always
Agree with this, just one note, the Gulag system didn't end officially until 1960, some of the more extreme gulags continued into the 80's.
At least he talked about arab/muslim slave trade . Not just european slave trade
Yeah why wouldn't the Haitians kill the people who have murdered them for profit for centuries? Also the scale of the Babary slave trade was no way as industrial as the Trans Atlantic. Equally the racism spawned by this trade of Africans was far more profound. I doubt Europeans got colonized for their skin color . The industrial scale and the social repercussions of the Trans Atlantic trade is unparalleled in human history.
I find it weird that lots of Europeans are defensive about slavery. Yeah it wasn't the only one but European slavery is arguably one of the largest in scale, and the most recent with the most apparent impact of the modern world.
I actually think its nice that some of your ancestors are the first to give birth to anti-slavery narratives. It's a sign of humility and self-consciousness. You should take pride on it.
@@firmanimad fair. Muslim slave traders to this day castrate the African slaves to ensure they don't reproduce in Arabia, the Europeans didn't do this hence why there is a population of freed Africans there and not in Asia. the impact was massive on both sides, one set of slaves just have decedent's.
As a woman I'm reminded about how happy I am to live a free life, so sad for the countless others who couldn't and can't. Seriously, this video put things into perspective for me. Thank you!
Good video, so sad how something like this can happen
Humans have and will always be evil
Sad but not surprising at all. Farming hard as shit and no one wants to do it
Greed and selfishness
What are you going to do with all those captured combatants then?
Back then they didn't have the means for POW camps so it's either execution or let the civilian population keep them in line.
Well its our human nature. Even though many people call the white men as the enslavers, many facts show us that slavery was part from the very beginning of organized civilization.
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"Wtf I didn't say that lol"
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This is also missing the enslavement of native Americans by other native Americans, China having the largest slavery market in history, etc
It also ignore the transpacific trade of asians to the america which happen before the trans atlantic slave trade and how they reclassified many of those people as native. Indian was used to describe many groups.
@@blackloki9Lemme guess, you think all Native Americans are Asian and everyone else is African.
@@blackloki9 Indian wasn't used to describe everyone. It was used to describe Native Americans. Now the term Indian in the US could mean Native American or those with family from India. Chinese people don't look like Native Americans.
The world doesn't evolve around China...
@@blackloki9 Slaves were transported across the Atlantic to America before any human had even crossed the Pacific ocean (except possibly Polynesians).
Technically everyone is African, even the Asians. Unless you’re referring to Peking Man.
This is the healthiest comment section on a video of this topic. There is one thing I’d like to address though, not all slavery was the same. The reason why American slavery is often cited it’s because it was the worst form of slavery which is called chattel slavery.
The other horrible one that is rarely spoken of which was either equal or worse than American slave trade was the Belgian and Dutch slave trade as well. It was so harsh that they made medieval slave trade look benevolent. For reference, medieval period was year 500 to 1500. The American, Belgian and Dutch slave trade was during the 1600’s to late 1800’s
This video was amazing, it really highlights the brutality of it all in a digestible way
I had never heard that story about the ship that missed Jamaica. That was awful.
@@mambamentality5875 You see the scene in the movie Amistad. Extremely hard to watch.
The video left out a lot. Also, the American education on the subject leaves out way too much. Słavery wasn’t because someone has a certain skín color and if those people weren’t there słavery wouldn’t exist. Błack people didn’t become the majority of słaves in Notth America till the mid 1700s. Which lasted until 1865, just over 100 years. Before that the majority of słaves were the índigenous tríbes/First Nations people. Let’s clear some things up about słavery, słavery existed for tens of thousands of years, if not hundreds of thousands. Słaves and índentured servànts were used for labor and/or s3x.
Here is the thing, índentured servànts weren’t always treated better, nor did they always agree to be índentured servànts (that’s right there were iídentured servànts that were forced into servítude, just like słaves). Sometimes they would sell the contract of the índentured servànt to someone else without their consent, thereby extending the contract (so 20 years could become 40). Another thing they would do is førce the wømen to get pregnant, which would also extend their contracts and keep them pregnant till old age (by then owing more years, than they had years of life left and I’ll let you figure out how they førced them to get pregnant).
How about słavery? Słavery as already mentioned existed for thousands and thousands of years, all across the globe. Chattel słavery did in fact also exist in Afríca and it wasn’t a kinder gentler form of słavery; unless you consider mass human sacrifíce and canníbalísm kinder and gentler. It existed in Afríca well before Eurøpeans showed up and Afrícan rulers fought the Eurøpeans in order to keep it going. In the Middle East the słave market was huge, the słaves brought in were often castràted (so no, that wasn’t a kinder gentler form either). The Vikíngs often raided Eurøpe and took słaves back with them. The wømen they took served the Viking men, both work and s3x. When the słave øwner díed, the wøman he had as a słave would often be gàng ràpéd by the men in the village and kīlled to serve the owner in the afterlife. Słavery was and is horrifíc, all over the world it’s horrifíc.
How about chattel slavery? Here is the thing, you can’t ensłave descendànts if there aren’t any. The Barbary słaves often had a much shorter lífe span and had no hope of procreatíon. They díed chaíned in the ínterior of the ship sitting in their own excrèment covered in open wøunds or díed chaíned to a sínking ship that lost a battle. There was no fèmale companíonship, no livíng to an old age, no sunshíne, no høpe … Just the incredibly harsh realitíes of the shíp for the rest of their short míserable líves. In the Middle East the vast majoríty of słaves were castratèd and agian never had the opportuníty to reprøduce. Many of which didn’t even survíve being castrated. Do you really think that’s any “better”? Also, this idea that chíldren of słaves were born free across the globe or słaves weren’t sold as property (except in Ameríca) is absurd.
To say in North Ameríca it was wørse or Eurøpeans have the most to be błamed for, isn’t intellectually honest and is blatantly ígnoring the atrocitíes commítted around the globe.
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What a political BS really;
1- Completely ignores early Christian era enslavement of ENTIRE EUROPE
2- Calls Janissaries slaves while their salaries were highest in Ottoman, they could buy properties, marry, retire. So nope, they weren't slaves...
Very informative. Only minus is the Far East (China, Japan, etc) being left out until the end of the video. Would have liked to know about the origin and development there as well.
In Medieval Japan, Korea, China, slavery was practiced where dominant members enslaved the less dominant. In Korea slavery was officially abolished in 1895, but persisted even up to 1930. Slavery was so beneficial financially and socially to the enslaver that it was hard to sever one's self from its personal benefits.
A small left out detail. Russian forces took civilians as prisoners of war from Sweden's eastern territory (now known as Finland) during the Great Northern War, and these became slaves, some sold as far away as in the area around the Black Sea and ended up in the Ottoman Empire. Some estimates mention up to 30,000 people (including children) who were forced away to become slaves of different sorts. A few managed to flee and come back. Didn't help that there would be a severe plague outbreak that would hit Finland too (as it did with other nations by the Baltic Sea). This part of Finnish history became known as the Great Wrath.
That being said, this is certainly an admirable attempt at summarizing the entire history of such a wide, complex, and difficult topic.
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I want to make clear the only reason this video emphasizes Western Europe so much towards the end is because that’s who kept the historical documents. The Islamic world truly takes the gold medal when it comes to the brutality and barbarism of slavery
I feel like you've majorly underplayed all slavery before the Atlantic slave trade. I'm personally from Romania and i know from my own country's history how brutal the Ottoman slave trade was.
We didn´t even enslave you, Romania wasn´t even a thing that´s one, secondly we didn´t make you a part of our territory, you were an independent vassal, your own people or slavs like Serbs sold your people to us, we didn´t actively go for slave raids
@@adidoki We "Sold" our people to you?! You forced us to pay you crippling fees and send you children and people just for a minimal amount of sovereignty. Vlad Tepes did right by you. Even if Romania wasn't united back then, all 3 of the 3 Romanian coutries had to deal with Turkey. Besides what they took from us, the Ottoman Empire did raid and enslave many other peoples.
The Roman slave trade is the real crime that was glossed over. In the dacian campaigns, Trajan killed or sold into slavery the entire population of Romania.
@@adidoki that makes it better right?
To be fair, the documentation of slavery before that era wasn't the best
Thank you for the video, very informative as always
The video left out a lot, a real lot. Basically the whole world had słavery for tens of thousands of years, if not hundreds of thousands.
Let’s clear up some misconceptions too many people believe:
Słavery wasn’t because someone has a certain skín color and if those people weren’t there słavery wouldn’t exist. Błack people didn’t become the majority of słaves in Notth America till the mid 1700s. Which lasted until 1865, just over 100 years. Before that the majority of słaves were the índigenous tríbes/First Nations people. Let’s clear some things up about słavery, słavery existed for tens of thousands of years, if not hundreds of thousands. Słaves and índentured servànts were used for labor and/or s3x.
Here is the thing, índentured servànts weren’t always treated better, nor did they always agree to be índentured servànts (that’s right there were iídentured servànts that were forced into servítude, just like słaves). Sometimes they would sell the contract of the índentured servànt to someone else without their consent, thereby extending the contract (so 20 years could become 40). Another thing they would do is førce the wømen to get pregnant, which would also extend their contracts and keep them pregnant till old age (by then owing more years, than they had years of life left and I’ll let you figure out how they førced them to get pregnant).
How about słavery? Słavery as already mentioned existed for thousands and thousands of years, all across the globe. Chattel słavery did in fact also exist in Afríca and it wasn’t a kinder gentler form of słavery; unless you consider mass human sacrifíce and canníbalísm kinder and gentler. It existed in Afríca well before Eurøpeans showed up and Afrícan rulers fought the Eurøpeans in order to keep it going. In the Middle East the słave market was huge, the słaves brought in were often castràted (so no, that wasn’t a kinder gentler form either). It existed in Asia as well, where even today sweatshops still exist. The Vikíngs often raided Eurøpe and took słaves back with them. The wømen they took served the Viking men, both work and s3x. When the słave øwner díed, the wøman he had as a słave would often be gàng ràpéd by the men in the village and kīlled to serve the owner in the afterlife. Słavery was and is horrifíc, all over the world it’s horrifíc.
How about chattel slavery? Here is the thing, you can’t ensłave descendànts if there aren’t any. The Barbary słaves often had a much shorter lífe span and had no hope of procreatíon. They díed chaíned in the ínterior of the ship sitting in their own excrèment covered in open wøunds or díed chaíned to a sínking ship that lost a battle. There was no fèmale companíonship, no livíng to an old age, no sunshíne, no høpe … Just the incredibly harsh realitíes of the shíp for the rest of their short míserable líves. In the Middle East the vast majoríty of słaves were castratèd and agian never had the opportuníty to reprøduce. Many of which didn’t even survíve being castrated. Does anyone really think that’s any “better”? Also, this idea that chíldren of słaves were born free across the globe or słaves weren’t sold as property (except in Ameríca) is absurd.
To say in North Ameríca it was wørse or Eurøpeans have the most to be błamed for, isn’t intellectually honest and is blatantly ígnoring the atrocitíes commítted around the globe.
@@GhostSal this argument can be applied to everything that ever was. There could be a 5 hour video on this topic and it would never be enough
@@Tokiohotel192 That is true, the video would have needed to be much longer. However, touching on some basic facts that were better rounded would have been better.
The trial over the Zong's lost "cargo" and pursuit of the insurance claim against Lloyd's of London is dramatized in the movie "Belle" :) It's a fantastic movie imo :)
I saw it years ago, it was a good movie.
love belle
Slavery is something much like war and rape
We will never get rid of. But we have immensely decreased it. Its as old as humanity. People have been enslaving defeated opponents or innocent people for thousands and thousands of years. In my country in congo we have many work slaves sadly
seeing a video like these is pretty much impossible 10/10 for being unbiased as possible and speaking about slaves before the sixteen century
in gulf state .. there's a disguised law for slavery called the sponsorship (Kafala) laws ... they offer several legalized slaves to every rich man (Kafeel=sponsor) .. he could do whatever he want to them even making them work again for others & get what they gain ... with the least & worst living & working conditions (they literally buying glucose powder to survive rather than eating food)
10/10 is too high, it left out too much.
Słavery across the globe wasn’t because someone has a certain skín color and if those people weren’t there słavery wouldn’t exist.
Błack people didn’t become the majority of słaves in Notth America till the mid 1700s. Which lasted until 1865, just over 100 years. Yes, still horrifíc and a críme against humanity. Before that the majority of słaves were the índigenous tríbes/First Nations people. Also, horrifíc and a críme against humaníty. Let’s clear some things up about słavery, słavery existed for tens of thousands of years, if not hundreds of thousands. Słaves and índentured servànts were used for labor and/or s3x.
Here is the thing, índentured servànts weren’t always treated better, nor did they always agree to be índentured servànts (that’s right there were iídentured servànts that were forced into servítude, just like słaves). Sometimes they would sell the contract of the índentured servànt to someone else without their consent, thereby extending the contract (so 20 years could become 40). Another thing they would do is førce the wømen to get pregnant, which would also extend their contracts and keep them pregnant till old age (by then owing more years, than they had years of life left and I’ll let you figure out how they førced them to get pregnant).
How about słavery? Słavery as already mentioned existed for thousands and thousands of years, all across the globe. Chattel słavery did in fact also exist in Afríca and it wasn’t a kinder gentler form of słavery; unless you consider mass human sacrifíce and canníbalísm kinder and gentler. It existed in Afríca well before Eurøpeans showed up and Afrícan rulers fought the Eurøpeans in order to keep it going. In the Middle East the słave market was huge, the słaves brought in were often castràted (so no, that wasn’t a kinder gentler form either). Słavery existed in Asia and is still infamous for having sweatshops. The Vikíngs often raided Eurøpe and took słaves back with them. The wømen they took served the Viking men, both work and s3x. When the słave øwner díed, the wøman he had as a słave would often be gàng ràpéd by the men in the village and kīlled to serve the owner in the afterlife. Słavery was and is horrifíc, all over the world it’s horrifíc.
How about chattel slavery? Here is the thing, you can’t ensłave descendànts if there aren’t any. The Barbary słaves often had a much shorter lífe span and had no hope of procreatíon. They díed chaíned in the ínterior of the ship sitting in their own excrèment covered in open wøunds or díed chaíned to a sínking ship that lost a battle. There was no fèmale companíonship, no livíng to an old age, no sunshíne, no høpe … Just the incredibly harsh realitíes of the shíp for the rest of their short míserable líves. In the Middle East the vast majoríty of słaves were castratèd and agian never had the opportuníty to reprøduce. Many of which didn’t even survíve being castrated. Do you really think that’s any “better”? Also, this idea that chíldren of słaves were born free across the globe or słaves weren’t sold as property (except in Ameríca) is absurd.
When people say that in North Ameríca it was wørse or Eurøpeans have the most to be błamed for (which is said a lot lately), that isn’t intellectually honest and is blatantly ígnoring the atrocitíes commítted around the globe. When people blame only group over everyone else, it is in fact minimizing the atrocitíes everywhere else, and they are doing precisely what they blame others for (i.e., minimizíng the atrocitíes of słavery).
Slavery is/was a global problem. As someone who loves history I always associated slavery when it first comes to mind to the Ottoman Empire. Probably because of the Jannisery(sp), them and the Egyptian Mamluk Dynasty.
It was founded by slaves in the Mamluk. If not mentioned in the video, the caste system was one of the most severe forms of slavery.
But can make you become a sultan and get paid
@@enaz3gezegen49 Supposing you are talking about India, why do you consider the caste system a form of slavery? Caste system was a discriminatory practice where the higher castes discriminates against the lower castes. It's a hierarchy based on the profession the particular caste is involved in. Even lower castes discriminate against those further lower in the hierarchy.
The upper castes didn't "own" the people in the lower castes. They can't "sell" them. Nor can they force them to work for the upper castes. At most, they can restrict their religious freedom (not entering temples) and ostracize them (not drinking water from them, not taking any gifts from them, not entering their household, etc). The caste system works on the concept of purity. The more "pure" your profession is, the more influence you have in society. Bad but not slavery.
When it comes to slavery the first one´s to come in mind are always the western europeans usually, as the janissary slaves after their training weren´t really slaves anymore, they usually had more freedom than the average citizen and could even become Vezirs, just like how the turkic slaves in egypt usurped power and became the leaders
Slavery is part of Islamic law and always will be. No Islamic nation abolished slavery without Western influence and there was no Islamic abolition movement.
As long as there's Islam there will be slavery.
The world wide abolition movement was started by a white male Christian in England. His name was William Wilberforce. He was mentored by a slaver trader, who became a Christian and changed his behavior and became a pastor. That man wrote the song Amazing Grace which lyrics are about his conversion from being a slaver trader to a Christian with morals that valued all people on the basis they are created in the image of God.
Thomas Clarkson as well
Wilberforce was a shill, a lobbyist paid by capitalists and industrialists to eliminate the competition. There was no moral high road, just economics . Revisionist history paints a different picture but those who know laugh at the bs
Haiti wasn't declared a republic. It was an Empire and Jean-Jacques Dessalines I was its Emperor.
Great video, but I wish that some of the famous slave uprisings had more time given to them. Some of them weren't even mentioned, like the Spartacus uprising. I especially love this one because of the TV show and it's astonishing how many of its crazy parts that seem like fiction are said to be true.
most of them weren't mentioned, it's fair to say
Best synopsis of slavery and its prohibition that I have ever seen ! In such a short piece there were omissions and mistakes but it was still the best and should be made obligatory viewing for all. Thanks.
A good introduction, well done, I kept thinking you should have added this or that important element. It is such a complicated history and not at all as portrayed by many.
Interesting how slavery was almost normal until Europeans abolished it.
Seeing how Europeans are now villified for slavery, it's weird that they were the only ones actually stopping it.
It's people trying to get money out of "wealthy" countries even though it happened over 150 years ago. No Baltic country is going after Turkey for 500 years of slavery as they know Turkey don't care about it and see that it's in the rear view mirror.
I HAVE SOMETHING CONTROVERSIAL TO SAY:
slavery bad
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Thank you for this summary breakdown. Such a big topic to tackle in 20 mins and you caught most of the salient points. So heartbreaking that slavery is still so prevalent, would be great to see a video dedicated to modern slavery and how it's being tackled.
Didn't touch on S. Africa or the Blood Diamonds or modern Sugar Cane workers, where families live and work so remotely, and paid so poorly, that they never leave the farm.
Coal and copper miners were paid with "company coins" that could only be spent in the Company Store.
@@peterdarr383 The video left out a lot, a real lot. Basically the whole world had słavery for tens of thousands of years, if not hundreds of thousands.
Let’s clear up some misconceptions too many people believe:
Słavery across the globe and throughout time wasn’t because someone had a certain skín color and if those people weren’t there słavery wouldn’t exist.
Many people seemingly only want to díscuss North America or put more an emphasis on it saying it was far worse than anywhere else. So let’s clear up some things. we often hear people say 400 years but actually Błack people didn’t become the majority of słaves in Notth America till the mid 1700s. Which lasted until 1865, just over 100 years. Still horrific, still clearly an injustice and críme against humanity but certainly not an isolated event. Before that the majority of słaves in Ameríca were the índigenous tríbes/First Nations people. In fact 400 years really doesn’t even scratch the surface, słavery existed for tens of thousands of years, if not hundreds of thousands. Słaves and índentured servànts were used for labor and/or s3x.
There are a lot of mísconceptions regarding índentured servantš, índentured servànts weren’t always treated better, nor did they always agree to be índentured servànts (that’s right there were iídentured servànts that were forced into servítude, just like słaves). Sometimes the contract holder would sell the contract of the índentured servànt to someone else without their consent, thereby extending the contract (so 20 years could become 40). Another thing they would do is førce the wømen to get pregnant, which would also extend their contracts and keep them pregnant till old age (by then owing more years, than they had years of life left and I’ll let you figure out how they førced them to get pregnant).
How about słavery, so many people make arguments it was only horrifíc in Ameríca and that it wasn’t that bad here or there but is that true? Słavery as already mentioned existed for thousands and thousands of years, all across the globe. Chattel słavery did in fact also exist in Afríca and it wasn’t a kinder gentler form of słavery; unless you consider mass human sacrifíce and canníbalísm kinder and gentler. Słavery existed in Afríca well before Eurøpeans showed up and Afrícan rulers fought the Eurøpeans in order to keep it going. In the Middle East the słave market was huge, the słaves brought in were often castràted (so no, that wasn’t a kinder gentler form either). Słavery existed in Asia and Asía is still infamous for having sweatshops. The Vikíngs often raided Eurøpe and took słaves back with them. The wømen they took served the Viking men, both work and s3x. When the słave øwner díed, the wøman he had as a słave would often be gàng ràpéd by the men in the village and kīlled to serve the owner in the afterlife. Ancient Romans brutałły ensłaved other Europeans and people around the Mediterranean. In the Amerícas the Natíves enslaved others Natíves and also had human sacrifíce. The point is słavery was and is horrifíc, all over the world it’s horrifíc and has been for a very very long time (that’s not minimizing it for one group to say that, in fact it’s minimizing everywhere else to not recognize it was horrific all over).
How about chattel slavery? Here is the thing, you can’t ensłave descendànts if there aren’t any. The Barbary słaves often had a much shorter lífe span and had no hope of procreatíon. Many díed chaíned in the ínterior of the ship sitting in their own excrèment covered in open wøunds or díed chaíned to a sínking ship that lost a battle. There was no fèmale companíonship, no livíng to an old age, no sunshíne, no høpe … Just the incredibly harsh realitíes of the shíp for the rest of their short míserable líves. In the Middle East the vast majoríty of słaves were castratèd and agian never had the opportuníty to reprøduce. Many of which didn’t even survíve being castrated. Does anyone really think that’s any “better”? Also, this idea many people have that chíldren of słaves were born free across the globe or słaves weren’t sold as property (except in Ameríca) is absurd.
When people say that in North Ameríca it was wørse or Eurøpeans have the most to be błamed for (which is said a lot lately), that isn’t intellectually honest and is blatantly ígnoring the atrocitíes commítted around the globe. When people blame only group over everyone else, it is in fact minimizing the atrocitíes everywhere else, and those people are doing precisely what they blame others for doing (i.e., “minimizíng” the atrocitíes of słavery around the world).
@@GhostSal I think our problem is that we think this isn't normal, even though our computers, coffee etc. still comes from neo-colonialism and even the earth and all its animals are our slaves and are being brutally annihilated. To get rich, you need slaves, whether you use the word "slaves" or not doesn't matter. Literally tons of products in the West come from slave labor in all "authoritarian" regimes and we constantly accept money and resources from these places nevertheless. And given that p*rn exists, there are easily millions of women getting r*ped online for audiences that might be none the wiser.
Even we are kind of enslaved by debt. Of course tv-shows, p*rn, entertainment in general makes us tolerate it, but we are forced into working most of our lives anyway, many doing underpaid labor. My prediction is that as the Western population gets too old to maintain themselves, they'll either rely on AI or on the labor of young immigrants (Probably what they're trying now). With global warming also misplacing millions, it is set to increase s3x slavery and work slavery equally since it's really difficult to remain sane when the world is dying, so in the end, whatever we thought was progress will just whiplash or become dystopian either way.
And given the power companies hold, the average person will be easily disposable if AI becomes the default work-force and if that is the case, I can easily imagine that young beautiful women and boys will be the only ones kept alive for the elite to f*ck, just like they did on that island with the guy that didn't k*ll himself. Just wait till you realize everything on your table and in your kitchen comes from debt-slavery and extremely impoverished individuals while most money you spent on any given thing went into the pockets of the elite.
The world didn't change, we just chose to exploit each other differently, but this time we exploited the natural world as well.
Edit: We enslaved the natural world and are now looking for machines to enslave. The only reason we got this far is because we exploited people, resources and other creatures. Now with computers and machinery doing most of the dirty work, we have the opportunity to be moral for the first time in human history. Atrocities would be senseless, whereas slavery made absolute sense and will make sense again if anything happens to technology or civilization decay occurs.
@@GhostSal Overall, this world is delusional if it thinks we abolished slavery. We simply put a pretty bow on it and called it "outsourcing labor", "trade deals" etc. The Romans used to have bread and games to distract the population and boy oh boy are our bread and games the best in the West.
@@yahiiia9269 I agree with a lot of what you said, maybe everything, I’ll have to reread to verify. I wouldn’t say it’s normal, as in somehow acceptable but rather it happens far more than people want to think.
The sad thing is the situation is getting worse and worse, even in “the greatest country”. Two íncomes isn’t enough anymore and now one partner/spouse has to also get a second job just to be able to afford a family. Unless you want to líve in an incredibly dangerøus area or live with your parents. This never had to happen, it’s the greed at the top that made this happen. It used to be the owner and top people in the company made somewhat more than their employees… But now at the top they live like Royalty, while everyone else struggle.
As far as AI, I don’t see that as necessaríly being a bàd thing, it will all depend on how it’s used. Also, any country that bans the technology will be at a huge dísadvantage to those that don’t. The líe is that our job gives us meaníng in lífe and somehow is needed for us to feel fulfilled. The truth is most of us work jobs we would rather not, are overwork, underpaíd and severeły under-apprecíated.
Słave labor across the world and sweatshops are disgusting. As well as pollution that is literally affecting all of us and the planet. Put on top of all that, the líe of freedom and democracy. Nothing we do is private anymore, the medía doesn’t report unbiased facts anymore, and paíd gøvernment trołłs aren’t just a Russïa/Chína thing.
Great video. Could have used more on the North American and South American native slave systems. They weren’t mentioned at all yet, specifically the Haida and Aztecs
As a Portuguese citizen I'am very proud of my country and my ancestors who almost 600 years ago did start and make the world as we know today.
But from this Glorious History ,i can not forget and feel very ashamed for the role of Portugal in one of the most Dark and Evil events in the History of Mankind.
Wake up guys, Geohistory uploaded.
Left out of this narrative:
Vermont, as an independent nation, abolished slavery in 1777 under a constitution which Thomas Paine helped write. The Vermont Republic came to an end in 1791, when Vermont joined the United States. Anti-slavery sentiments were extremely strong in Canada. Upper Canada abolished slavery in 1793. with Lower Canada quickly following suit. This was four decades before this was done in the United Kingdom.
Runaway American slaves made every attempt to reach Canada and freedom, a movement which evolved into the "Underground Railroad". When Americans attempted to retrieve slaves from Canada or demanded compensation, Canadian courts proclaimed that "The state of slavery is not recognized by the Law of Canada. ...Every Slave therefore who comes into the Province is immediately free whether he has been brought in by violence or has entered it of his own accord." The pioneer roles of Vermont and Canada in opposing slavery are sadly omitted from this video.
I'm surprised that the Underground Railroad wasn't mentioned in this video
Bruh slave trade not the American slave trade
Correction, slavery was abolished in the UK in the 11th century and never returned. Slavery was a colonial institution, as demonstrated by the numerous cases of colonials bringing their slaves to the UK and losing them in court. Somerset v Stewart being the last and most famous case in 1776.
Canada only abolished slavery in 1834.
I finally came to learn to get used to this guy's voice
Many comments trying to add their piece as know it alls, whilst still congratulating you for the video..👍 I call that a win in todays internet.
The last section of this video just breaks my heart. There’s so many people that are still in dire conditions of forced labor, and especially the sexual slavery just makes me sick. What kind of person could do that to someone else? Thank you for bringing attention to this issue if anyone has any good charities fighting back against this injustice lmk. I can’t donate much but I’d like to help at least a little bit 😞💔
Yes. It was so depressing, but ultimately I am glad that this channel educated their viewer with modern realities.
There are people who have kind of brain defects in the prefrontal cortex of their brain that makes them biologically unable to feel sympathy, guilt, empathy, etc.
E.g. Psycopaths. 1 in 100 people are psycopaths. Psycopaths are born that way.
In other words, there are almost 80 million psycopaths on earth. And that's just psycopaths.
Then there's sociopaths, narcissists (real narcissists...not the label everyone is throwing around lately)
So about 5 in 100 people are biologically incapable of feeling sympathy or guilt. 400 million of such people walk the earth.
Psycopaths and sociopaths have an additional brain defect, that also makes them experience reduced fear and anxiety. So guilt or fear won't deter them...they don't care, at all, never have and never will...and couldn't care , even if they wanted to. They're not biologically capable of it.
Prisons are filled with these people. And all the evil things will persist as long as these personalities are part of our species.
Empathy doesn't prevent someone from doing bad things. Empathy is simply the ability to understand another person's feelings cognatively and emotionally.
(which can be used as an extremely effective tool for evil things).
In fact, there is one personality type that has increadibly well developed empathy and they are worse than psycopaths, sociopaths and narcissists.
Mathew there are many evil people in this world... committing horrors that I dare not even describe and I hope you never have to see or experience. Do not turn a blind eye toward bad things. Speak up and stand up for what is right. If you know someone is in trouble, intervene even at your own detriment. If good people do not stick together and do nothing, then we are all screwed. There are still people in the world kidnapping, enslaving, and forcing others to do as they wish or using them for some benefit. When I was in Asia or in Eastern Europe, the threat of women being kidnapped for wives, consorts, cleaners, hookers, or other slaves was very real... and young men too in some ways. We must all work hard to make this go away and to pray that these people are found and punished. Like Jeffrey Epstein. He was a modern day example of this BS. The movie taken is a very real scenario.
Charities won't help fixing the problem, the charities keep the status quo in order to get more donations... Unfortunately you can't help.neither can I, and those who could ...why should they? When they get a slice of the pie?
@@sirc1446 Thank you for further explaining the operation of charities to me. I am very selective about which charities I donate to.
The first place to permanently abolish slavery was the Holy Roman Empire; the Sachsenspiegel (the main law code, codified in the 1220s) condemned slavery "as a violation of man's likeness to God". As far as I can find, it seems this abolition outlived the Empire; as the successor states don't seem to have had their own abolitions separate from the Empire, yet slavery is still illegal in all of the modern successors. (The one exception being that Nazi Germany (descended from Prussia) legalised slavery in 1936, but this was reversed at the end of WW2.)
The Catholic Church also sort of made slavery Illegal within Europe during the early middle ages.
It got replaced by serfdom which was a small step up, the channel "Kings and Generals" has a good video on it.
@@boomerix good catch!
Cool, as a descendant of Germans I am happy to hear that!
@@boomerix that guys woke I don’t suggest that guy. His whole thing is about how the west sucks but also should intervene against Russia in Ukraine.
@@PetroBeherha me too
Thank you for an informative video on such a topic! Looked at a new angle at labor relations. Astonishing that slavery is thousands of years old, and is still present in modern world.
This video frequently refers to ships as British, Portuguese or Dutch. But who were the owners of them? Were they owned by the crown, or by individuals, or families? Or shareholders ? These were companies, comprising small numbers of massively wealthy individuals. They were able to create their own governments that served their needs. Yet somehow it all gets spread over the entire nation and the people who had no choice.
Let’s learn the names of the families that owned ships, such as the Zong.
Extremely informative and very, very depressing. Thank you for making this.
Especially when you realize that theirs more slaves alive now than ever in history and that's not even including most of the prison labor systems in the western nations because they don't fit certain criteria.
in gulf state .. there's a disguised law for slavery called the sponsorship (Kafala) laws ... they offer several legalized slaves to every rich man (Kafeel=sponsor) .. he could do whatever he want to them even making them work again for others & get what they gain ... with the least & worst living & working conditions (they literally buying glucose powder to survive rather than eating food)
Thank you for producing and sharing this information. People do not understand basic historical facts.
This should be mandatory viewing across all levels of western society especially the high schools and universities.
But the conditions to enslave an individual, to reduce one to a form of coercition and to be exploited are still widely accepted in our capitalistic societies. It's not a thing of the past and certainly not just a Western thing, but a human factor based on power balance : Goulags, UIghurs, Mongols, the Indian caste system, Austronesians exploited in Australia and elsewhere, Indigenous people from all continents... I'll just stop there, list is too long. Exploiting another individual is a human widespread hobby! It should be mandatory, as you write, to review the principles of our / your economical model which, without a trace of guilt, offers you football stadiums for a world cup, cheap metals for your mobile and dead cheap coffee for our comfort. And it should be mandatory to review how they were morally justified by religious authorities (Don't pretend you don't know!!!) and how they enabled those principles to be enacted through laws, codes ...
Let’s clear some things up, some was already covered but a lot was missed.
Słavery wasn’t because someone has a certain skín color and if those people weren’t there słavery wouldn’t exist. Błack people didn’t become the majority of słaves in Notth America till the mid 1700s. Which lasted until 1865, just over 100 years. Before that the majority of słaves were the índigenous tríbes/First Nations people. Let’s clear some things up about słavery, słavery existed for tens of thousands of years, if not hundreds of thousands. Słaves and índentured servànts were used for labor and/or s3x.
Here is the thing, índentured servànts weren’t always treated better, nor did they always agree to be índentured servànts (that’s right there were iídentured servànts that were forced into servítude, just like słaves). Sometimes they would sell the contract of the índentured servànt to someone else without their consent, thereby extending the contract (so 20 years could become 40). Another thing they would do is førce the wømen to get pregnant, which would also extend their contracts and keep them pregnant till old age (by then owing more years, than they had years of life left and I’ll let you figure out how they førced them to get pregnant).
How about słavery? Słavery as already mentioned existed for thousands and thousands of years, all across the globe. Chattel słavery did in fact also exist in Afríca and it wasn’t a kinder gentler form of słavery; unless you consider mass human sacrifíce and canníbalísm kinder and gentler. It existed in Afríca well before Eurøpeans showed up and Afrícan rulers fought the Eurøpeans in order to keep it going. In the Middle East the słave market was huge, the słaves brought in were often castràted (so no, that wasn’t a kinder gentler form either). The Vikíngs often raided Eurøpe and took słaves back with them. The wømen they took served the Viking men, both work and s3x. When the słave øwner díed, the wøman he had as a słave would often be gàng ràpéd by the men in the village and kīlled to serve the owner in the afterlife. Słavery was and is horrifíc, all over the world it’s horrifíc.
How about chattel slavery? Here is the thing, you can’t ensłave descendànts if there aren’t any. The Barbary słaves often had a much shorter lífe span and had no hope of procreatíon. They díed chaíned in the ínterior of the ship sitting in their own excrèment covered in open wøunds or díed chaíned to a sínking ship that lost a battle. There was no fèmale companíonship, no livíng to an old age, no sunshíne, no høpe … Just the incredibly harsh realitíes of the shíp for the rest of their short míserable líves. In the Middle East the vast majoríty of słaves were castratèd and agian never had the opportuníty to reprøduce. Many of which didn’t even survíve being castrated. Do you really think that’s any “better”? Also, this idea that chíldren of słaves were born free across the globe or słaves weren’t sold as property (except in Ameríca) is absurd.
When people say in North Ameríca it was wørse or Eurøpeans have the most to be błamed for, that isn’t intellectually honest and is blatantly ígnoring that atrocitíes were also commítted around the globe
Also Líberia - The research left a lot out. Let’s go over some important historical events.
After discussions within the US government proposed the idea. In 1816, a group of Amerícans founded the American Colonization Society (ACS) to send free Błacks to Africa. The US Congress also appropriated $100,000 for the establishment of Liberia. $100,000 in 1819 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $2,337,070.87 today. The US Government fully supported Liberia and worked hand in hand with the ACS but Washington expected the new nation to move toward self-sufficiency eventually.
In 1821, US Navy Captain Richard Field Stockton of The Alligator sailed the coastline of West Africa, looking for land to start a new colony for the freed słaves. Captain Stockton's orders came directly from the US Government to find a new homeland. At first the US had little success in procuring land and convincing local tribes to sell land for the new colony. As a result, the first free Błack settlers from America were left on Scherbo Island (where many died from malaria). The US Navy eventually did secure land, a 36 mile long strip of coastline, in exchange for $300 worth of goods: goods such as rum, weapøns and miscellaneous other items. $300 in 1821 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $7,879.86 today. Some reports say the US Navy acquired the land through intimidation… This was in fact the beginning of Libería.
Since its inception, the United States had a long history of sending military and financial support to Liberia. Such as, sending US naval ships to help the ruling Americo-Liberian mínoríty suppress ínsurrections by índigenous Afrícan tribes (in 1821, 1843, 1876, 1910 and 1915). A major US role was also training the Liberian armed forces, known as the Liberian Frontier Force, using elite experienced officers from the United States Army. Also, the US secured loans as needed for the new nation, on top of the initial money Congress gave to get things started and other financial support.
As particularly noted with President William H Taft, American support for Liberian independence and prosperity had long been US priorities. The American presence was important to the new nation, as it warned away European colonial powers, defeated a series of local Afrícan índigenous rebellions, and helped bring in US technology; technology integral in helping to develop the resource-rich new nation.
Over time the US let Libería become self sufficient. Which unfortunately eventually ended in a civil wàr and what has today essentially become a failed country.
@@GhostSal very interesting, thanks
@@jphalsberghe1 You’re welcome, I’ve researched different sources and tried to put more of an objective wholistic view to what happened. Largely because too many sources leave out very important parts. Thank you for your comment and feedback.
Its surprising how many of these events seemed disconnected before this video. Thank you for the education 🙏 🙌
Slave sign 👆👉🙏
Humanity is not well
If it makes you feel any better there were kings that were slaves. Sometimes the term is used on everyone but some slaves were less slave than others. While some free people were more like slaves than some actual slaves.
Fascinating stuff. A lot of this I had no idea. Excellent work.
amazing to see that 300,000 Africans were brought to Brazil before one slave landed in what was to become the continental US. Of the 10,000,000 plus that made it to the Americas less than 400,000 were enslaved in the colonies or the states. Doing the 5th grade arithmetic that is less than 4%.
Excellent video, it puts a lot of history in a different light.
thanks for the video, it's sad that something like this still happens today
Of course it does, humanity repeats itself. In reality we aren't any better than they were.
From how it was taught to me, yes there was slavery in the old days, maybe even since the beginning of mankind. Although there have been examples of tribes found with no weapons like the Indus Valley civilization, which indicate a peaceful community. The concept of linking slavery to a skin colour is a modern European concept. Backed by the Catholic church. Before that slavery was a form of punishment given to all that broke the law of that time.
Great video, very informative, please continue making such content, youtubers like you should have millions of subs! Keep up and never stop king
The voice-over is ARTIFICIAL. It's NOT a real human being. Just saying.
The video left out a lot, a real lot. Basically the whole world had słavery for tens of thousands of years, if not hundreds of thousands.
Let’s clear up some misconceptions too many people believe:
Słavery wasn’t because someone has a certain skín color and if those people weren’t there słavery wouldn’t exist. Błack people didn’t become the majority of słaves in Notth America till the mid 1700s. Which lasted until 1865, just over 100 years. Before that the majority of słaves were the índigenous tríbes/First Nations people. Let’s clear some things up about słavery, słavery existed for tens of thousands of years, if not hundreds of thousands. Słaves and índentured servànts were used for labor and/or s3x.
Here is the thing, índentured servànts weren’t always treated better, nor did they always agree to be índentured servànts (that’s right there were iídentured servànts that were forced into servítude, just like słaves). Sometimes they would sell the contract of the índentured servànt to someone else without their consent, thereby extending the contract (so 20 years could become 40). Another thing they would do is førce the wømen to get pregnant, which would also extend their contracts and keep them pregnant till old age (by then owing more years, than they had years of life left and I’ll let you figure out how they førced them to get pregnant).
How about słavery? Słavery as already mentioned existed for thousands and thousands of years, all across the globe. Chattel słavery did in fact also exist in Afríca and it wasn’t a kinder gentler form of słavery; unless you consider mass human sacrifíce and canníbalísm kinder and gentler. It existed in Afríca well before Eurøpeans showed up and Afrícan rulers fought the Eurøpeans in order to keep it going. In the Middle East the słave market was huge, the słaves brought in were often castràted (so no, that wasn’t a kinder gentler form either). It existed in Asia as well, where even today sweatshops still exist. The Vikíngs often raided Eurøpe and took słaves back with them. The wømen they took served the Viking men, both work and s3x. When the słave øwner díed, the wøman he had as a słave would often be gàng ràpéd by the men in the village and kīlled to serve the owner in the afterlife. Słavery was and is horrifíc, all over the world it’s horrifíc.
How about chattel slavery? Here is the thing, you can’t ensłave descendànts if there aren’t any. The Barbary słaves often had a much shorter lífe span and had no hope of procreatíon. They díed chaíned in the ínterior of the ship sitting in their own excrèment covered in open wøunds or díed chaíned to a sínking ship that lost a battle. There was no fèmale companíonship, no livíng to an old age, no sunshíne, no høpe … Just the incredibly harsh realitíes of the shíp for the rest of their short míserable líves. In the Middle East the vast majoríty of słaves were castratèd and agian never had the opportuníty to reprøduce. Many of which didn’t even survíve being castrated. Does anyone really think that’s any “better”? Also, this idea that chíldren of słaves were born free across the globe or słaves weren’t sold as property (except in Ameríca) is absurd.
To say in North Ameríca it was wørse or Eurøpeans have the most to be błamed for, isn’t intellectually honest and is blatantly ígnoring the atrocitíes commítted around the globe.
@@cjay2 i’m pretty sure it is a real person. He just has a somewhat monotone voice
This video should be shown in every school not just in America but world wide!!!
Thank you for this vid. It's nice to see that someone has made an unbiased video that shows Slavery was a global thing that affected all peoples.
Nobody ever said slavery wasn’t global.
Alot of people think the British, Spanish and Portuguese started the slave trade. 😂
God bless the British Empire for ending the slave trade. 🇬🇧
You have to be joking right?
@@uptheblues1875 British colonialism was the most profound good in history of mankind. We got rid of slavery, ignorants, superstition, poverty, hard labour, disease, child mortality, early death, suffering, tyranny and Subjectivity to the vicissitudes of nature.
Rule Britannia 🇬🇧
That's like thanking a mugger for dropping you at the hospital after they stabbed you and took your money
❤ 🇬🇧
@Chiheb yes. Everything you take for granted comes from the British. Over 40% of the world's inventions and discoveries were made in the UK.
We have done more for human happiness and prosperity than any other people in history. Industry/machinery, medicine/Vaccination, Telecommunication/Internet, Agricultural advancement, Knowledge distribution and so on.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_inventions_and_discoveries
Should do one on the Asian slave fishing fleets . You wake up on a fishing boat you can never get off because it rarely makes landfall because of big freezer boats that take their catch out at sea for years
I’ll use this in my coming exam about the Neolithic era and the classical era. Super nice video, good presentation and topics being on points. Love to see it 💪
Except that aside about the Israelites in Egypt. That really is just the opinion of Egyptologists and secular Jews who have stopped “digging” for an answer to the question.
slavery wasn't built on racism, but free labor.
And it was propagated by??? Bingo, racism.
American slavery was 100% built on racism.