Who Was Really Responsible for the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade?
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The blame game is a toxic one that seems to have made it so that the discussion basically stagnant.
Great video that goes over the facts and avoids playing the game.
You have to elaborate on what you mean by the 'blame game'. All people have done horrible things in the past, the difference is that Western Governments are still doing horrible things to black people all over the world. Therefore, Africans should not be held responsible for what happened in the past, but Western institutions and Governments should. Simple.
The blame game would cease once restitution and reparation have been made.
@@realaccountable2148 That's just playing the blame game but with the descendants, ones that now have complicated ancestry.
@@ananon5771 who's playing games? I am the descendents of a victimized group of people whose villages got attacked at night time, their men killed, their children taken into slavery to experience horrors that people in hell can't describe, their women violated and mutilated; now you're telling me I am not supposed to ask for restitution, reparations and righteousness; you're calling it a victim mentality; a blame game! When I see their descendants play CLASSISM to maintain power and bow to their colonial masters or co-conspirators, always respond to their beck and call, and tell my people that they are the princes of Africa and their will cannot be challenged (vile creatures). They hide the name of ETI, so we cannot call and ask for retributions based on ETIKS (Ethics)(Isaac); I know His name! and I know how to call Him. Not by might, not by power, but by ETHICS Empires and princes shall fall. NO GAMES HERE! These descendants shall not give up their luxury and the West neither; at this point, it's about retribution.
Hear my plea, ETI, I BEG; let your ethics give me restitution, restoration and give my enemies their due retribution. AEti, Aetiology (you are causation).
Rich and powerful people who profited off slavery
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which consisted of Arabs which were another branch of Europeans if we look in history its extensive Africans were held by Arabs and the continuation extends to the rest of the European community and contrary to what some White people like to believe of the Barbary slave trade they love to rub in people's face especially Black folks of Africa they forget White rich people held them as captives these people were not Black White people sold themselves sold often their poor to other European nations that were rich.
but it was not for 400 years often times Europeans were sold to pay off debt or something theres much detail behind it...
safe to say they had their own classism.
@KateeAngel Your comment sounds like one of those moments where someone reads the title of the video and responds to it without actually watching the video. However, yours is actually correct. Usually it's an ignorant comment that and sometimes accusing me of something that very clearly contradicts the viewpoints that I shared in the video.
I think it’s important to keep in mind that the British ended the slave trade not just because of the Jamaican slave revolts and the Haitian revolution, but because with the rise of industrialization, which was largely funded with the profits from slavery, it became cheaper and more profitable to “rent” people for a wage than outright own their laborers.
The British West Africa Squadron was founded in 1808--the year after Britain abolished the slave trade. It was not a response to the rebellions on Jamaica in the 1830s.
@@Ramiiamironic they still traded slaves
Just because they outlawed slavery does not necessary mean they believed in the equality of other races, as they still colonized and treated the inhabits as second class citizen or worse.
Why is that important to note here?
@@EyeOfTheWatcherOh yeah, Abe Lincoln himself was a staunch racist who actively opposed racial equality.
One thing you forgot to mention is the various African leaders who resisted the slave trade, either in part or in whole.
yes...! like um Badu Bonsu and more these were brave men and women who stood up against cruelty this is why as a Hebrew Israelite I'm studying Africa its much to our history in Africa.
and other areas.
Black Hebrew Israelite? knock that sht off bro.
I would say that the European demand for Black slaves did escalated and expanded the transatlantic, so I'll give the European slave demand the most blame. Although like every continent, some African Nations had existing slave servitude and used criminals and prisoners as slaves. Parts of Africa, Middle East, India, Mesosamerica and Asia did experiment with chattel slavery, but nothing like what the Europeans created.
My Choctaw Tribe had existing servitude and prisoners of war before the mid 1800's, and adopted a small chattel slave market during the 1800's from ideals pushed by Euro slave traders. Some of the African Kingdoms and larger Tribes partook in the transatlantic slave trade, so we all have at least some ancestor's who were guilty. However, I do believe the U.S. Feds, States and Corporations owe Black Americans reparations for slavery, The Five Tribes made reparations, so why not the Americans?
well spoken
Let's not conflate generational slavery or chattel slavery with other forms of slavery. In the Americas chattel slavery was practiced.
@@cinattra The Europeans brought chattel slavery to the Americas, the only pre Columbian slavery that resembled chattel was what the Aztecs used, they used slave labor to help build their capital city, and these slaves were usually prisoners' of war or criminals. They were sometimes auctioned off, but laws made them citizens after serving the empire for a period of time.
Europe owes African Americans for slavery. America owes Africans for slavery after 1776, Jim Crow, and Redlining. Just using America limits the scale of what actually happened.
Excellent breakdown of a complex and Very sensitive issue
Everybody was responsible for slavery. It’s one thing with a nation sells the criminals into slavery instead of executing them compared to the people, buying them being greedy and wanting more than what was available to abduct just to make a certain profit or meet the quota of supplies in demand. It also becomes a problem when the system is slavery went from enslaved criminals, and people who lost wars to go out of your way to targeting one group of people due to their features.
Whites sold Whites as much as though like overly focus on Africans selling Africans that was a thing.
Whites sold Whites as much as they like to overly focus on Africans selling Africans that was a thing.
Great video! All and all, at the end of the day, both sides are to blame. It's always easy to blame only one side without looking at the other. I would also like to add, that not all kingdoms in west africa took heavy part of the trans atlantic slave trade. For example, the Benin kingdom was one of the few african kingdoms that banned the sale of slaves. First Oba Esigie banned the sale of male slaves. Then, Oba Orhogbua banned the sale of all slaves to Europeans around 1550 and kept them only as domestic use. There is an ancient edo saying: “vbo ghi da Oba no na mu ovionren khien?" (What need does the Oba want to satisfy by putting out his slave for sale?) It lasted for almost 200 years. Unfortunately, in the mid 18th century as benin kingdom's power declined and the Europeans power grew, they started selling slaves again. Just a little fun tidbit of history. Keep up the good work!
That's awesome. I haven't heard about the Benin Empire banning slavery and as always, Thanks!
Well usually the african Powers WHO we're against Slavery or at least the Mass Sale of slaves were the ones enslaved. Basically was win win for the enemy He can RAID pillage and enslave the Rest of you for huge Profits.
Yes... I've heard that too...not this specific kingdom... But to my understanding, they were all participating at one time or another because if you didn't participate then you could possibly be enslaved. I've heard that many Africans participated till they saw or learned how cruel the Europeans were...and then some didn't even care. There's even the story of Ayuba Suleiman Diallo (1701-1773) a well-known Fulani Muslim ruler from West Africa. He had previously owned and sold slaves until he was abducted and transported to the Americas during the Atlantic slave trade. Ayuba was born in Bundu, Senegal, West Africa. His memoirs were included in Thomas Bluett's Some Memories of the Life of Job, the Son of the Solomon High Priest of Boonda in Africa, as one of the first accounts of a slave. Ayuba was enslaved in Maryland for about two years before being brought to England, where he was freed and sent back to his home country in 1734. This version, though, is not a first-person narrative. Francis Moore's Travels into the Inland Parts of Africa contains a first-hand description of Ayuba's capture and subsequent return home. In 1730, Diallo set out for the shore to buy supplies, such as paper, and sell two of his father's slaves to a factor employed by the Royal African Company. Diallo and the interpreter Loumein Ndiaye were kidnapped and sold into slavery while traveling.
But the most chilling part is that until he was found in the system, he was willing to participate in it and didn't see a problem with it.
As I've heard and learned from this channel...this was the dark ages for Africa and everyone was subject to being mistreated or enslaved...just like the Europeans were enslaving each other in the 1000's
What currency was used in this so-called trade?
@@Komfo_Adu Trade does not require currency. That's why it's called "trade." You provide one item or service in exchange for a different item or service.
I still get a kick out of the Bigot and Kang, that's how some actually sound, lol. But I do see some Kangs here and there among Native Americans, Asians, Indians and Middle Easterners too.
As a black people I condemed that the ashanti empire made us dig gold without getting paid why aren't they fed well so thats very terrible
We made u dig what???
have you looked at the whole Ashanti history before....?
its more deeper.
@@justamanwithathought.8415 tell me about it?
@julianaansah6367 gold and collect shells that's there currency look it up.
The responsibility is that of the Europeans. The Africans had a system of enslavement but not like what the Europeans eventually created and combined with capitalism. I think part of the issue is that we keep using the word slavery and it's a nebulous term when you think of what happened with chattel slavery and how it started and evolved.
Today we would call this human trafficking. People were beaten, raped, and murdered in addition to being dehumanized. In many of the other systems you were still a person and there was no pseudo-science or religion created to justify your enslavement.
When they started making astronomical loads of money/profit from slavery it entrenched itself into their entire economic system. Europe grew off slavery and slavery even jumpstarted the industrial revolution. All the products that were cash crops were slaver produced and the industrial revolution was a result of looking for ways to refine and process those products quicker so they could get to market. The American colonies may have failed or taken even longer to be sustainable without the introduction of forced African labor. The Indians were dying from diseases and the Europeans couldn't do the work and the majority didn't want to do the work. We forget that coming to the Americas in many cases was either a punishment or a last resort for people who were not able to find a place in European society. People who have good lives don't usually move to the other side of the planet to recreate, "civilization."
After they saw how much money they could make off slavery they started to codify it and refine it by making laws to make it perpetual. All the laws were designed to support and perpetuate slavery. For instance, English law went by paternity. If your father was rich and free then so were you.. So then they made laws that said the state of the mother follows the to the child...that was not original English law. In some cases like Jamaica, you only needed one slave parent. Then in most of Europe, it was illegal to enslave a fellow Christian...so originally they would not Baptize slaves...then they changed that law so that even if you converted...you would still be a slave.
This is the most sensible take I’ve read in the comments. You have a great way of explaining things 🙂
Facts...Excellent comment... bravo you actually read the slave laws and codes and did your research... You are correct... Well stated.. Peace
Please read the slave narratives
The Story of Nicholas Said and others mention the marauding rival tribes raiding peaceful villages and a lot more. They raided for the money but one or two Chiefs resisted the slavers
FACTS...and that's where many who use the argument; "everybody had slaves...Africans enslaved themselves". As if chattel slavery was no different. Chattel slavery was the most egregious form of slavery. The cruelty and living conditions were just two aspects of Europe's role in perpetuating this form of slavery. The economics and greed involved in this system of slavery was astounding when you do the research and learn how the foundations of this country's wealth were established.
@@kylebourne6839 and they mention Barbary slave trade to make it seem we enslaved them when that was their Arab fam that done that.
I love this content. I’ve always wanted to learn more about Africa but never knew where to go. Great video!
Even if later I'm glad you recovered the topic. It's getting tiresome to see people complain about media before said media comes out or just never bothering to watch it. Like come on it's the most easily provable or disprovable fact.
I’ve been looking forward to this one! My God you don’t know how many videos and comments I’ve seen attacking Woman King with BS arguments and claims.
These folks didn’t even watching the film or know the situation in 1823. Yes the Dahomey kingdom was a kingdom deeply involved in the trans-Atlantic slave trade, that fact is not ignored in the film, as you’ve clarified it’s mentioned. It’s funny with black and African historically inspired IPs in pop culture, they act like they care about historical accuracy but, with others historical accuracy doesn’t matter. It’s pathetic they’re hiding behind this to show their disdain.
One of the final comments on the video is just perfect. Reducing all african civilizations as the same people is just racism. When a war happens in Europe, people care to know if it is italians, germans, french, polish people, but if it happens anywhere else, well, people are just being savages right? Amazing video.
But you literally have people that put all europeans together as the same. Your point doesn't have a solid foundation
@@Smokey348 piss off
@@Smokey348Both are wrong
@Smokey348 i dont think he did, but both are wrong.
@@Smokey348examples please. Show which people lump Europeans together, I'll give you one.
White Americans
As always, a well researched and considered video. Thank you, Jabari!
Slavery is a complicated but mostly economic historical reality, and feels like an early sign of how much more the economy matters to the rich than the people who suffer for it.
i think the weirdest thing about the woman king, is that the film was set in 1820 instead of 1860 - why was Ghezo set the king so much earlier? it was odd. a lot of the conclusions that were drawn in the film made sense if they had been made during the actual reign of King Ghezo - but at that point, the Europeans hadn't really expanded much into Africa outside of trading posts and some holdings in South Africa Dahomey may not have even been aware of.
All around it was an alright movie but felt like it kinda mashed together a lot of different times into one spot - also it was really weird the Amazons didn't use anywhere near as much guns as we know they did IRL.
Damn, I was hoping for you to mention the arab slave trade but oh well.
AGREED!! But maybe he left it for another video.
I know right. But I guess that's not political enough to mention
Good video, nice to see a new one. One of the things that interested me the most was the discussion about the British role in both banning transatlantic trade and slave trading, and that quote from the English tradesman. Could you do videos on the role of other European countries? I have some knowledge of the Portuguese parts, and you even mentioned a bit of it, but it would be nice to to see the topic aborded by you.
Dude...I am impressed with your knowledge...damn you give me hope!
So glad my black history channels are back. Good video
I have several observations here. 1) Britain's significant naval power and capability to participate in the slave trade to South America and other areas where English landlords were not present show that this was not the reason they opposed slavery. The fact that they later, together with the US, dedicated resources to abolishing it, even in regions where it did not directly benefit British economic interests, does suggest there were humanitarian motivations.
2) I suspect that much of this palm oil production was driven by the labour of enslaved people within the Kingdom of Dahomey itself. If so, it does not negate the continuation of the immorality of slavery itself within Dahomey. 3) one of the prime imports of African states was guns, states that did not get guns would suffer in tribal warfare, so to these states slavery was required to get the money to buy these guns. The desire to acquire European guns to avoid being dominated by better-armed neighbouring states could have been a major motivating factor compelling their involvement in slavery to generate trade income. 4) About 10% of the slaves went to non-English-speaking Arab countries.
A silly attempt to vindicate the evil anglo saxons and their French co-criminals. There were zero humanitarian motive for the abolition. This is a European narrative. The reason is was ended was the same reason colonialism was ended. The white man knew that his beastial savagery was not sustainable, it was only a matter of time before the people caught up on terns of firepower. In the white man's hypocrisy and cowardice, there were superficial attempts to "ban" slavery and colonialism in a cheap attempt to retire history.
The US did not devote resources to abolishing chattel slavery until the US civil war which is decades later.
@@cinattra@cinattra mmmm, It was before the Civil War. America withdrew from the transatlantic slave trade in 1808. The U.S. Navy's role in the struggle against slavery began in 1820 when its warships were deployed off West Africa to catch slave ships. It was part of an international effort with the French, Portuguese, Dutch and, to some extent, Spanish all sending ships.
Good video, man. Can't wait to see what you talk about next.
The argument that all Europeans or all Africans were collectively responsible for the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade puts the responsibility of the actions of a few powerful, wealthy individuals upon an entire continent’s worth of people. That’s too simple for me and seeks to blame one side or the other without considering important details and nuances.
Many cultures (in Europe and Africa) had forms of slavery for thousands of years. The dramatic increase of scale and ideas from the enlightenment made people question the old ways of doing things, like slavery, and anti-slavery movements began to grow and put pressure on institutions to abolish slavery. Popular opinions didn’t change overnight. But now many countries around the world view slavery as a violation of human rights.
Thanks for this. It's important info.
Thank you for doing this. One of my maternal aunts and my father did DNA tests and both sides of my family are from Dahomey, the majority of our African roots. I found an article about Dahomey and how they became a slave trading nation and my heart sank. It was several kings participating in this trade with stronger nations like the Oyo Empire bullying them with threats of war to which Dahomey, even with their armies, wouldn’t have been able to sustain. Dahomey yielded to the Oyo’s demands. Learning about Dahomey and the Ewe and Fon peoples answered my main question, “how did my Black family, both sides, end up in America in slavery?”
thanks a lot, I too got swept on the "woman king" nonsense without even watching the movie, now I understand better.
So slaves were treated like felons but worse and not human shaped cattle like in the new world
Really interesting video, great work! 😊
If I had 2 pitbulls and they had 5 puppies and I sold 2 to Michael Vick, and 5 years later they find both beaten to death, do the police come to MY DOOR talking about my participation in their deaths ??
I think people need to realize that the slave trade is too complex. Both Africans and Europans played a part.
Most slaves in Africa were forgien captives. There was not any unity in Africa. Similar to the wars in Europe, there are war between african kingdoms and african tribes.
Also, NOT ALL african kingdoms weren't part of the slave trade. ex: Ibgo empire.
There wasn't a genocide in Haiti. They removed colonisers of course but polish people were allowed to stay. It was the French they were against. As it was the French had oppressed them.
This may be the best video ever
It don't matter who done it all who was involved just as guilty
Excellent video...
People forget that during the same time the British outlawed the slave trade, the British American colonies and many others had begun their slave breeding programs... It was far more profitable. Not sure why so many ignore this Fact.
Another point many miss when discussing African slaver nations like the Dahomey, is the European control, indirect and direct, or the raids Sanctioned by the Pope, or that the Dahomey were recorded working on slave plantations in Brazil in the early 1500s around 200yrs before the height of their Slaver involvement... Meaning they were fighting with the raiders and colonizers for years before becoming the Black slavers they are paraded around as during the 1800s and modern media... Even then as pointed out in the Video their is much nuance and info left out of the conversation.
Great work Peace!!!
King of nuance 👑
I really appreciate your videos
I love your stuff man.
Europeans are responsible because the origin of the term "slave" and "slave trade" lay in slavic populations which was a practice long before Europeans went into Africa. Greece was a slave society and so was Rome. The idea that somehow Europeans only adopted this culture after going into Africa and being forced to buy slaves is a lie. This culture was already well established and in place in Europe and they went into Africa with the intent on conquering and enslaving when they got there.
Thank you for this video,I always say words do not mean the same thing or what's done in the way one part of the world does it mean the other part does it the same way so using a blanket term for the world does not apply
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And it's welcomed.
Get lost commie.
Hello Jabar, I'd like to hear your opinion on the Rwandan Genocide, as well as the many interracial conflicts within Africa.
Especially Rwanda, one of the few African countries whose borders were not redrawn or gerrymandered by Europeans. I'd also like to learn why the Kingdom of Rwanda was fine before the Europeans, Exploited During European Colonisation, but then descended into chaos and Genocide after independence? And what do you think the solution to these problems are?
Interracial Genocide is going on in Europe right now, why don't you study that?
Rwanda is descended from the kitara empire which was a remnant descended from axum. So it was doing well before.but as usual when the powers that be(french) came to take over quick was to remind people where of different tribes.(Which they knew but wasn't important to them).one thing about french colonialism is that every one knew their place .when they left the greedy people wnting presidentship parroted the same rhetorics of the "enemy other" thus machettes were drawn
@wambokodavid7109 it's a matter of Democracy, when every person gets a say, and the ethnic groups are equal, they battle against eachother, but when one rules the other, things work out better. I'm not saying that specific ethnic groups should be the upper class and others the lower, it's just the way it is, dictatorships tend to have more stable nations, and in the case of Rwanda, instability came about from Democracy succeeding French oppression.
@@monkeypie8701 yeah...that's what am saying
@@wambokodavid7109 the Rwanda Kingdom had relationships with the Kitara empire to her north; but it was not descended from Kitara.
It was contemporary to the empire and managed to outlive Kitara and was influenced by it.
Great video !
I would say European for making profitable to resulting in a large slave trading market and colonial rule in Africa reestablishing slaves labor. Africans ruler are at fault too but they likely wouldn't have participated if not for Europeans
Actually slavery has always been there before any contact from any other party was established. It has nothing to do with the culture but if you look at North America for instance in Aztec society which itself had relied heavily on slavery history of the fact that no major domesticated animals like bulls or horses was not prevalent, the reason why despite being a part of the old world animals in Western Africa tend to die more often than not because they could catch malaria and various other diseases.
@@TylerYen-u2m Slavery existed everywhere in the world, but the sole reason why the Transatlantic Slave trade became so big is was the huge demand for slaves in the new world. Without European proto-capitalist companies and colonies, there would be way lower demand, never reaching the millions it did.
Wrong. If not for Europeans, there would come Arabs or someone else.
@@Vitalis94 but in Western Africa slavery had always been a stable for the powerful to use and there was no incentive to breed any domesticated animals because they would die, the ones that they did had belong to the wealthy and the warrior class, tonic water was not available at the time. Only the people an animal that born to the environment could survive that is why slavery what's popular in this part of the world. Any other part of the world that didn't have domesticated animals what happened in the same situation like the Aztecs.
@@Vitalis94major civilizations of meso america has always depicted themselves as being warlike in gathering slaves. This is because without horses to mitigate or shorten the time span to get from one area to another I made it that these places in the world remain in the same type of State how much longer period than those did had horses. If you could shorten the time span you could share ideas and beliefs that can help progress society.
Who was responsible for 500 plus years of oppression towards black in America way past them stop trading with Africans?
Quick summary: European slavery didn't consider slaves human beings. African slavery did not strip humanity from slaves, nevertheless as a slave you were at the most vulnerable position of society (and not even always).
Seems Like Cherry Picking i can Show you House slaves of europeans to Show how "Well" treated slaves we're and Show african plantation slaves to Show how cruel african Slave Masters are. Its nonsense to grandstand when the point of a Slave IS being property and that doesnt Change regardless of what area of the world . The Masters can still do whatever they want with their property
So, are you saying that slavery is done,finished, and ended? So what about the Arab slave trade? What about countries like Marracoo,who in the late 1590s who did deals with the British and who enslave people of darker complexion entirely,?what about those examples? What about the unseen humans that are being enslaved today,especially young women in places like again the "Arab"countries ?
Spectacular
All nations conspired to cant them off as a nation. ALL NATIONS.
Who began it? The Portugese was first.
In the West Africa Coast. It was Arabs that started the whole thing.
Yes from the European side.
Because they introduced the idea of enslaving Africans to European countries that were seeking a new source of slaves after the Native Americans made ineffective slaves.
@@sophiawilson8696 From the European side the Portuguese started it because they introduced the concept of enslaving Africana to other European Colonial countries.
You forgot to note the Gullah war that started in 1739 where black captives in USA forced abolition in the USA
I have a question about the quote from 16.22. Weren't articles and laws made as a result of something. If a law was made to protect the rights of the slaves doesn't that mean that slaves had been treated poorly, with the result that laws were made to protect them? Also, i want you to make a video about the Maroons In Suriname, the most successful Maroon society in the America's
Takeaways and Prior Knowledge: An local slave trade existed in Africa prior to colonisation. It was, however, different in both its scale, treatment and social role. It was greatly exacerbated and worsened by the european demand for the generation of profits and capital from new world resources, and that destablized and drove conflict within African countries today.
Aside, slavery does still exist in the United States, though it has more to do with human trafficking from the third and second world and less to do with historical chattle slavery in America.
Slavery does still exist in Africa, only this time instead of a focus on the slavery for the extraction and production of raw materials in the New World, it occurs for the purpose of resource extraction in Africa itself, most notably in the Congo, where the demand for material resources for high tech technologies in the first world, like computer chips, as well as traditional consumption based luxury products like coffee, sugar and chocolate, continue to drive the poverty of third world conditions, as western companies pay well below products actual value to increase profits and perpetuate conditions of slavery and poverty in the third world. The role western companies have in perpetuating the weakness and exploitation of third world nations is inexcusable and is the greatest human tragedy of our time.
Capitalism will not allow for Africa or any other third world nation to become a successful country. And the fact that there is no such thing as ethical consumption under capitalism means everyone here on a laptop, computer or celllular device, who drinks a cup of coffee or eats a bar of chocolate is complicit in perpetutuating conditions in third world. That isnt a moral condemnation of any of you, I am guility of this as much as you are, and we all are, whether you are a poor or rich person in the first world or a rich person in the third world. It is inescapable. The only thing we can do is to act contrary to our own interests as consumers upon ethical grounds.
The biggest obstacles to the third worlds success today is not historical wrongdoings, they are current and continuous wrongdoings that follow those that came before.
Oh wow... I didn't know that part about the start of the palm oil trade...I thought that was creative license... But why would Europeans need/want palm oil?
Yes this is a complex topic and there are a lot of small-minded people who aren't able or ready to discuss this.
At the time, palm oil was needed for the industrial revolution. It lubricated machinery and even to present day it's the most widely produced oil, mostly used for hygiene products, cooking, detergents, and bio fuel.
@@FromNothing i thought they were using whale oil. With that being the case. Why didn't it lift up the continent similar to how oil lifted up NE Africa(aka middle east)?
@@Keonny77both were used for a variety of tasks.
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Do you think you can link your sources in the description?
It on his website
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Oh, he has one?
Didn't know
@@bingbong8239 I mention it in the outro of every video and even show the link lol. Although this particular video I didn't cite the source yet as I have to do some major changes to my website before I get to it.
@@FromNothing
Ah, okay.
"The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews" by Louis Farrakahn spells it out well.
Anti Semitic really
@@tompossessed1729 Khazars and Ashkenazi are not semitic peoples. Nobody really has any issue with Sephardics.
African kingdoms, for the most part. But frequently independent private african enterprises.
Frequently by former slaves.
🤔...yeah i remember african ships dropping off slaves in the colonies.
If slaves in West Africa had basic rights, then wouldn't they have been indentured servants instead of slaves?
"Basic rights" as in they are considered humans, not property. Just like prisoners for example.
@@FromNothing so they were still someone’s property?
@@holdenennissurfs are property too yet that doesn't get called slavery
Slaves within West African societies were property, but they were still human. You weren't able to kill them or be cruel to them without breaking laws. The case was not the same in the New World.
They were the same as serfs or today’s prisoners.
The Arab slave trade predated the transatlantic by almost 900 years. The Europeans simply exploited preexisting slave trading “correction” I meant relations not routes. In short Africans knew exactly what they were doing and most did not care. Some resisted but in aggregate tribalism and loyalty to their respective cultures allowed them to other their neighbor. Of which still haunts them to this day. We need to start being honest about this fact.
Yes, but this video is discussing the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in particular. Europeans: Portugal in particular followed by Spain and England, would've came to the Kongo, Dahomey, Ashanti, etc. regardless despite a pre-existing slave trade.
They needed the human capital for their American Colonies /vice royalties (Native Americans kept dying of disease). It was also unique due to the reasoning being the color of skin (not culture, war prisoner, debt, religion, etc.) and permanent// generational.
Also, looking back it's easy to see in hindsight that tribalism was the downfall of the continent which is true, it's human nature, as people were not divided by race.
If during the 1600s a foreign invader invaded various European nations, it's not likely that all of Europe would team up as "White" and kick them out. It's more likely the same would happen, other nations in Europe would screw each other over and try to work with the invader to bring an enemy nation down.
A real life example is found in the Americas, when Cortez landed many native nations hated the Aztec Empire and happily worked with Cortez to bring down Tenochitlan. Cortez's army was 90% native allies from Meso America who happily "othered" other Mesoamericans.
Very similar with Pizzaro conquering Peru, he used mostly native allies who decided to work with the invader to bring their nation up and bring the Inca Empire down.
I have a question though, I wasn't aware that the Arab Slave trade and Trans-Atlantic slave trade shared routes, this is interesting . Do you remember where you learned this? I'd like to read more. on it. I thought they were too far apart from each other being that Africa is so huge and diverse.
@@wepainc.811 no they didn’t share routes. They exploited business practices created by Arabs and Africans. Africans naively believed that trading their neighbors would have no effect on their/our own ethnic image. Unfortunately as they began to trade with the Arabic invaders they went from being humans to being associated with “slave” status. In response north and upper west Africans began to convert to Islam with the hopes that it would shield them. Of course it did not. Fast forward, they did not learn from their lessons and continued this practice. So much so that England literally had to threaten war to get a lot of the tribes to stop. Slavery was/is abhorrent. But there is no way that the Europeans could have captured Africans without a strong degree of complicity. Even in modernity, the descendants of the slave traders continue to perpetuate this silliness with distrust of each other and the looking down on the victims of their ancestors betrayal. Not all but enough. In general, we tend to place the blame on the Europeans while excusing or infantilizing the African chiefs. On one hand they complain about colonialism but talk down to the victims of their ancestors slave trading. Again not all but enough. In general we need to learn to work together to do that takes trust of which must be built on a foundation of honesty over what happened and what needs to happen to better all of our plights.
In regards to, Latinos it’s true. Europeans mastered the art exploiting divisions however fast forward they can/will set aside their differences for get on a unified code.
@@wepainc.811 Lastly, until Africa rises none of her children will get the respect or protection they deserve from this world. Everywhere you go her children are treated with disdain on most of the world stage. That is because of her inability to protect herself at home. And her unwillingness to use the her power to speak out on the evil that happens to her children abroad. Of all of her children in fact the ones that landed in America are her most successful, in spite of her actions. Rarely does she speak out on how we are sometimes treated. In the Middle East it’s worst, in South America it’s worse, again this not coming from a position of hate. But we have to be honest. Africa has not been a good mother to her children in over a 1000 years. Her children deserve better.
@@JK-jt8so I see your perspective, I agree with it.
No matter where we go, those who come from Africa are disrespected. And it happens because from their view, we don't respect ourselves.
Thank You, I'll ponder on this.
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The united states actually used their navy to end slavery in northafrica also many white people died in the most bloodiest war in usa history to end slavery. Not one african nation or arab nation used their resources to end any slavery at all. Polonia de Ribas was one of many "black women" who was a wealthy slave owner. Not much slave owning black women recorded in african or arab history. So in the americas there was more being done to end slavery which spread from the americas. Also in the americas black women had more rights as they could be slave ownders.
The slave trade started with the arabs they even used slave soldiers for their jihads across the globe. The whole world was about to be muslim, zhenge he of china was muslim proving how muslims were about to dominate the whole world. But portugal invaded the indian ocean destroying the muslim economy of the indian ocean. christian europe was competing with the muslims for trade routes.
Congratulations you missed the whole point by bringing up arabs since it has no bearing on American slavery and europeans arguably still participate in slavery for cheap goods .
I brought up the arab because christian europe was in competition with the arabs for world domination. Thats why portugal and spain expanded was to continue the crusades. portugals invasion of the indian ocean destroyed the muslim economy.
@@soulofham Many black people also died in the bloodiest war in American history to end slavery. Please acknowledge them as well.
@@NanakiRowan of course
The issue is as Jews...You are supposed to let a Hebrew free after 7 yrs....clearly that didnt happened and Africa has been paying consequences from that
I'd like to see a video on the Arabic African slave trade. Were they castrated the African male. how they didn't stop the slave trade until the late nineties. how it's still illegally goes on to this day.
Wow you oversate the castrared part when Saudi Arabia has a 10% black population
@@tompossessed1729 it's the historical fact
@@tompossessed1729 and they were breeding with the female slaves of course. That's why the light of your skin the better off you are in an Arabic country.
@@tompossessed1729 even as recently in Dubai they would take the workers passports that came from other countries. literally keep them and treat them as slaves to build their City.
@@rodneykeck4631 you only mentioned the Arab slave trade deflect criticism
Why don’t you do a video on the Africanity of Egypt???
Current day Egypt is filled with the descendants of the western Asians and Europeans who have controlled it over the past 3,000 years since the last self-rule of the 25th dynasty of the Nubians.
Since then, the Assyrians who defeated the 25th dynasty, the Babylonians, Persians, Ptolemaic Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Caucasian Mamluks, Ottomans and finally the British conquered and ruled over Egypt.
The Ptolemaic Greeks ruled for 275 years, the Roman-Byzantines ruled for 671 years, the Arabs defeated the Byzantines and have been the imminent cultural-religious group in Egypt for 1,400 years, the Mamluks for 200 years, the Ottomans for ~600 years and the British defeated them and ruled for a century or two.
We’re talking 1,200 years of white rule and 1,400 years of Arab domination. The Egyptians always portrayed themselves as swarthy brown-black skinned people.
The oldest mummy’s black: the Tashwinat mummy from 7.5 kya
The donkey was domesticated on the Red Sea hills in the Horn of Africa.
Cattle were domesticated in the Sudan contemporary to the aurochs in the levant.
Nabta playa, a completely black Nilo-Saharan site is older than all of ancient prehistoric Egypt predated Egypt and used astronomical orientation to be built, the Egyptians borrowed from this tradition 9.5 kya.
The African humid period only ended in 3,500 BCE, 5,500 kya. It started 14.5 kya due to the Milankovich cycles. It caused a green Sahara filled with lakes and rivers, savanna and woodland with all the African megafauna like hippos and extinct long-horned buffalo, lions, giraffes. Blacks there had the aqualithic culture and the largest lake on the planet was found there, megalake Chad.
I’m rambling but watch Christopher Ehret’s lecture on the Africanity of ancient Egypt. Or Chiek Anta Diop. Plenty more I can give.
Cheers.
What does the "Afrinicity" of ancient Egypt mean?
Egypt is in Africa. But it's located in North Africa. So it's Afrinicity will be a North African Afrinicity.
@@CrowdPleeza
Read what I typed out and learn to spell “Africanity”.
@@CrowdPleezaThe typical ancient Egyptian had features similar to the sphinx. That is, indigenous African, not Asiatic, peoples. Simple.
@@kiritugeorge4684
That Sphinx face can be open to interpretations. Especially since it's not a full face.
Was the Arab slave trade commited by black people or Arabs?
Did the centuries of this permit the conditions seen in history?
Why is this period forgotten about when talking abut slavery?
You can make a video about the Arab slave trade since that is your concern.
These comments always pop up and it’s hilarious every time. Nobody denies that the Arabs traded slaves. The reason it’s not discussed is because it’s not relevant to western history. When people talk about the Trans Atlantic slave trade they’re talking about a specific event.
Okay. It doesn't erase the Europeans part.
Sounds kinda childlish to me when someone points finger on others and says "What about them?". Uhm no. We're talking about atlantic slave trade, there's no reason to mention other slave trades.
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Anyone with even a primary understanding of history will know the answer is African people were/are.
And anyone with common sense will know that you didn't even watch the video.
@@FromNothing You glossed over the fact that Britain suffered economic loss as well because, they had to pay a debt to slave owners and it also, became more expensive to produce sugar since it was no longer being farmed for by free labour by the British.
@@FromNothing Also, the scale of Slavery would never have been possible if there wasn't thriving slave markets in West Africa. As you acknowledged the British began to become skeptical about the viability of continuing to buy humans and send them to the Carribeans where they would be treated as slaves because, these people were beginning to plot extremely violent rebellions.
If there had been a clear ban on slavery all through out the Dahomey Kingdom and many other West African kingdoms then Europeans would have never bought slaves from them and regardless of their advanced transportation systems they would never have been able to trade enslaved Africans at the scale they did.
@@FromNothing Also, Slavery in West Africa was far worse particularly for female women who were wives of wealthy men and, kings in Kingdoms like Benine and Asante they would be killed in ceremonial sacrifices to accompany their dead husbands to the afterlife. Slaves were also, routinely sacrificed on a horrifying scale as well particularly in the 15th, 17th, and (pre-mid)18th centuries. With all the trbalism in Africa that doesn't even account for the barbarity of the raping and pillaging many Africans kingdoms did to enemy kingdoms they wanted to dominate or take as slaves. The british gave many of those slaves a better life and, that's the humiliating part that many West Africans and their descendants don't like. Stop pretending like it was 50/50 it wasn't West Africa had become a barbaric place devoid of God and, if it wasn't for the British Christians it still would be.
"The earliest European sources relating to West Africa likewise attest the
practice of human sacrifice in various societies in the coastal areas. One of
the earliest European accounts of West Africa, that by Valentim Fernandes
in the 1500s, refers to the burial of wives and attendants in the graves
of kings in two societies in the extreme west of West Africa, among
the Mandingo of the Gambia area and among the Beafada of modern
Guinea-Bissau.Slightly later, there is evidence of human sacrifice
further east along the coast, in the kingdom of Benin. Catholic mission-
aries endeavouring vainly to win over the king of Benin to Christianity in
1539 complained of his persistence in 'human sacrifices, idolatries and
diabolical incantations night and day', and feared that they themselves
might be sacrificed 'should his fetish tell him to do so'. (Pg 9)
"War captives formed an additional category of potential victims for
sacrifice, which was of especially great importance in Dahomey and Asante........Here again, human sacrifice was
not merely a by-product of increasing militarism, but served as part of its
ideological apparatus, since the public sacrifice of war captives advertised
military success and the obligation to provide victims for sacrifice supplied
a justification for the waging of war." (pg 21)
Human Sacrifice in Pre-Colonial West Africa
Robin Law
African Affairs, Vol. 84, No. 334 (Jan., 1985), pp. 53-87 (35 pages)
@@adaptivelearner6162 You are honestly disgustingly disingenuous pining this on Africans primarily when Europeans were the ones responsible for making profitable in the first place, while previously slave trading was barley substantial in economical. Britain only lost profit after industrializion and slavery was reinstated afther the scramble for Africa again European are at fault just as much
"Bend history" ?? These people aint told the truth about ONE THING yet
I bet you will still vote for the racist Conald Trump
Don't see hardly any thing on the Arabs coming into Africa and getting slaves. But they were doing it well before and well after the Europeans. Not to mention the cruelty that they did. Don't understand why this isn't ever talked about
Because this video is about the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and because the Arab slave trade had nothing to do with African-Americans.
@@FromNothing well since you put it like that 😁 you right
@@anthonyhall4427duh.
@@itsbeyondme5560 blah blah
Everyone has 4 grandparents, 8 great grandparents, 16 great great grandparents, etc and you telling me that the majority of white people don't have a slave owning ancestor? I would say the majority of them did. Its like you only count the english having slaves. The French, Portuguese, Spanish, people who would be considered German today, Dutch, People who would be considered Estonians today, Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews, Welsh, Scottish, Irish (yes a lot of them worked on slave ships and owned plantations particular in the Americas (not all irish were poor potato farmers and catholics)), etc. GAURENTEE MOST White People anywhere has ONE ancestor involved in the Slave Trade and or European Colonization efforts throughout the world. Just like how every person of European Ancestry is descended of Charlemagne.
Most of the US population has historically lived in free states.
There was more people that benefited from the enslavement of blacks than actually own them. The products that those enslaved produce was not restricted in the use among those that did the enslaving. Georgetown University and other universities would not exists today in the USA along with many other business without slavery. The White House was built by enslaved labor.
I don't agree. Slave trade as a system started in XVI century (Charles V opened the trans-atlantic slave trade in august 1518) and involved relevant sailors and merchants. If your point is true, we have to assume that many europeans between the XVI and the XVII owned ships and had contacts with kings, noblemen, plantation owners and slave markets all around Europe and America. But I can guarantee you that most of Europeans were peasants at that time. Slave trade is stuff for rich people, not for farmers of Renaissance florentine and roman countryside (just like my ancestors)
Great video. Why is the slave trade always focused on Africa? The Barbary slave trade and the Galley slave and Indian Ocean slave trade. All predate the transatlantic slave trade.
You can make a video about the other slave trades since that is your concern.
@@cinattra Most people like knowing the whole story,
@@johndunning9 then purchase and encyclopedia.
It’s because of Eurocentrism and also criticism of the Islamic world and it’s practices have unfortunately been monopolized by bigots, so now it adds an extra layer of difficulty to not perpetuate ahistorical ideas based on modern biases. That being said I think it should be discussed way more than it is especially since Arabs colonialism in Africa is under discussed in western historical discourse around Africa and her troubles. The UA-camr Jabzy has a good video about it if you want to check it out
@@quadeevans6484 Thank You, I actually looked it up and watched a few of his videos... He seems to have good content.
there is no explanination , why they did it , human beings were created this way long ago
when the sumerians invaded planet earth and created human beings - our dna was created to serve those sumerian gods , but they have left this planet and we humans enslaved ourself
The point was slavery in Africa was something both parties are guilty of equally stop trying to spin it in a different angle of being ethier Africans or Europeans.
Africa is not poor because of colonisation. It is poor because of corruption and Western interference. The colonisation still has its effects, but in a country like Nigeria, where I'm from the British, used our resources and conscripted our men into their wars, and tried to tax women, but overall, the British modernised parts of Nigeria. Overall, colonisation destroyed the original systems that existed in Africa but made modernisation possible, and let's not forget, the only reason why I am not vary mad that my country got colonised is because the British and Europeans in general brought Christianity, the only true religion in the world. And for that, I am grateful, I do wish we had gotten Christianity under more peaceful circumstances, but it is what it is.
Nigeria would have Modernized by trade stop playing apologetics for colonialists
Good info but the narrator said Europeans are responsible for the mass scale this is false.. Arab Muslims accounted for a large portion of slaves being shipped worldwide
The Arab slave trade did indeed account for more, but that's only because it lasted so much longer. The TSA involved a larger concentration of slaves in a much shorter period of time and more worldwide.
I did a quick check. It was about 10% at the European high, but it should be mentioned that it continued before the Europeans about the 7th century and until about the 1900s. Some argue the Arab slave trade was responsible for a comparable number of enslaved Africans as the transatlantic trade over a more extended period.
@@WagesOfDestruction Legal slavery still existed in colonial Africa in the 20th century. It had a different name and different excuses and legal conditions but it was still forced labour. In Angola, for example, indigenous forced labour ended only in 1975 when the Portuguese left. That's the official and legal forced labour. Illegal slavery still exists in every continent.
@@FromNothing I do not know about more worldwide, Arab slave trading in blacks went from Zanzibar, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, into Arabia and on to India and Java. That is a lot of territory.
@@12318529 The line between legal forced labor and slavery is not always clear-cut. Were Stalin's prisoners forced to work in the gulag slaves?
Now explain who is responsible for the white slave trade
There is no such thing as "The white slave trade." There's no such thing as "The black slave trade" either. Whatever you may be referring to, you're welcome to research it for yourself if you're curious. No one is stopping you.
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So is water. Your point? Say it from your chest, and bring receipts.
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Arabs.
Arabs had little to no involvement in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.
Get over it
Same applies to you
Tell the juice to "get over it"
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Thoughts before watching the video: I feel like this video is going to be one debunking the idea that any one entity (nation, company or otherwise) could possibly be solely responsible for a trade like slavery, one of the largest trades humanity has practiced, and rather that it, being a *trade*, was the responsibility of many, many different parties. Let's see what the video says.
After watching - wow, what a balanced, rational and well sourced perspective. And a great sum up, too.