Meet Two Families Of Nigerian Transatlantic Slave Traders
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Not all Kingdoms were complicit. *Please read:*
Letters to the King of Portugal, from Emperor N Mbemba of Kongo *year 1526:*
“Sir, Your Highness should know how our Kingdom is being lost in so many ways that it is convenient to provide for the necessary remedy, since this is caused by the excessive freedom given by your agents and officials to the men and merchants who are allowed to come to this kingdom to set up shops with goods and many things which have been prohibited by us, and which they spread through our Kingdoms and Domains in such an abundance that many of our vassals, whom we had in obedience, do not comply because they have the things in greater abundance than we ourselves; and it was with these things that we had them content and subjected under our vassalage and jurisdiction, so it is doing a great harm not only to the service of God, but the security and peace of our Kingdoms and State as well.
And we cannot reckon how great the damage is, since the mentioned merchants are taking every day our natives, sons of the land and the sons of our noblemen and vassals and our relatives, because the thieves and men of bad conscience grab them wishing to have the things and wares of this Kingdom which they are ambitious of, they grab them and get them to be sold; and so great, Sir, is the corruption and licentiousness that our country is being completely depopulated, and Your Highness should not agree with this nor accept it as in your service. And to avoid it we need from those Kingdoms no more than some priests and a few people to reach in schools, and no other goods except wine and flour for the holy sacrament. That is why we beg of Your Highness to help and assist us in this matter, commanding your factors that they should nor send here either merchants or wares, because it is our will that in these Kingdoms there should not be any trade of slaves nor outlet for them. Concerning what is referred to above, again we beg of Your Highness to agree with it, since otherwise we cannot remedy such an obvious damage, Pray Our Lord in His mercy to have Your Highness under His guard and let you do forever the things of His service, I kiss your hands many times.
Many of our people, keenly desirous as they are of the wares and things of your Kingdoms, which are brought here by your people, and in order to satisfy their voracious appetite, seize many of our people, freed and exempt men, and very often it happens that they kidnap even noblemen and the sons of noblemen, and our relatives, and take them to be sold to the white men who are in our Kingdoms; and for this purpose they have concealed them; and others are brought during the night so that they might not be recognized.
And as soon as they are taken by the white men they are immediately ironed and branded with fire, and when they are carried to be embarked, if they are caught by our guards’ men the whites allege that they have bought them but they cannot say from whom, so that it is our duty to do justice and to restore to the freemen their freedmen, but it cannot be done if your subjects feel offended, as they claim to be.”
Unless reperation is paid in land repatriation, it makes no sense when currently children in these same countries will go hungry..
Thank you for your honesty. Too many Africans don't know our history or don't seem to care. But imagine how strong my ancestors must have been because here they are! In me! Peace Grace.
Absolutely! They were strong. To have made it through the horror and still live in you, is incredible
As time goes on we will force them to care the more our body of justice continues to resurrect itself to hold judgement against ignorance
@@africanstoryteller Thank you
You are the first person in Africa to say pay reparation
Not the first. This was also said in Benin.
@@cyelgreen4655Thank you, for the info, for me she was the first person.
Actually Akufo Addo argued for payment but I think he ment that he & continentals should be payed.
A White couple from Washington State move to West Virginia, adopted five black children and made them slaves.
@@obeahman6286 ,The President of Ghana should tell the UK to give all of the artifact or the spears,drums,the masks and the pottery that is still in the museums of the former Colonizers.
Arabs, Europeans and the Africans that were involved in these cruelty to others must pay up. Its now for peace, prosperity and an Africa where all Africans to live in unity....
It's a complex issue. I think Africa can afford to do land repatriation for now. But not every Kingdom was complicit. Read *the letters to the King of portugal, from the Emperor of Kongo in 1526* ..They did not want slave trade in any of the Kingdoms in that Empire, but the whye people brough guns and new things to entice the weaker vassals to rise up. They also armed the bandits pookies and ray rays of the day. They would kidnapp people at night, just to have riches and designer things Europeans had. (Sounds familiar?) even nobles themselves weren't safe. We still see these methods used in the hood, See Eye Ay started the crack epademic and armed gangs. In Africa, places like Libya and Congo are destabalised by Jihadists and thugs who cyphone off resources. However the scramble for Africa continues to split the diaspora and continental Africans apart..
absolutley
Africans? Repatriation Europe are looking at is for the offsprings of those that were sold and enslaved via the TA slave trade.
Some Christians, Muslims and Jews committed these Terrible Atrocities.
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Seriously, we need to identify all the families that were directly involved in the hunting, catching, and trading in slavery in Afrika. Who are they and their descendents? We need to know.
The families of those who participated should pay reparations. Stop saying 'Africans' it's very specific countries and tribes who participated, call them out by NAME!
Watch it again and listen closely
Does it look like they have money?
@@mgeorge162Not all of them, but plenty are millionairs if not billionaires living in palaces/mansions, driving luxury cars and sending their kids to international private schools and western universities.
I honestly don't care about reparations but if we gonna have these conversations leave 'Africa' out of it and go after those specific individuals.
@@user-vw6bk4pb4l not true. What money? A lot of those people who sold were also taken as slaves. Their descendants are poor
@@africaine4889Read my reply above
Africans aren’t done paying for what they did. The sins of our forefathers have to be paid. Ur welcome ❤️
How come Africa's sins carry more weight than other's sins? There are those who even wiped out other races but..? I think this narrative of "Africa paying for it's sins" which are not even clear, is propagated by those who are justifying all the injustices done towards Africa. Africans hardly commit crimes against other races. They don't push their culture on anyone, they don't impose themselves on others or dehumanize others. They are the most natural group of human species who conduct themselves according to the flow of mother nature and her rules. Their sins, if you ask me, carry the lowest weight than ever body else's.
Speak for your damn self. I did absolutely nothing to anybody living today for which I need to apologize. Just donate to this video.
@@ekusondebango3568 we african americans will be geting 10 million acres of land from nigeria :-) for reparations
The part that gets me is they didn't get nothing from the slave trade you would think all the people they traded they would be living a lot better.
They accepted trinkets and alcohol for temporary pleasure which opened up a can of long-term pain and torture for the ancestors.
@@spiritualvibrations2825umbrella and mirrors
Why? Colonization wrecked the region shortly after. Any gains would have been burned to the ground
They got tobacco and rum, that's got to be worth something?
@@mgeorge162 I read how Africans received barely any value for giving up slaves… for example two barrels of gun powder was probably useful but from what I can remember the trade with Europeans was worthless.
My sister, as an American African I agree with you. It is far time that we (both continental and diasporic Africans) have an open and honest conversation about the Trans-Atlantic Slave trade and the role that Africans played in it. I know that for some delving into the past is a difficult and painful task, but it is a task that must be performed if we are ever to come to a full understanding of each other.
I agree with you. Kindly share the video
All of this information is part of the public domain. At this point in 2024, how do people not know?
@@StuartCallendar Good point. Unfortunately, people are flooded with all manner of foolishness to the point that they don't seek the kind of info they need to know.
@@kilabob1200 Yet, people who have never left the country, let alone been to Africa, will make ignorant blanket statements like "Those Africans don't loke us. They sold us!"
1 prominent slave trade family in Nigeria has a daughter that currently works for the BBC. That young black women didn't show much remorse. I heard of 2 families in Nigeria that still argue about one of the families selling the neighbors into the trade. I traced my mother's ancestry to the Central African Republic; I hear that that country has not been the same since black American slaves were taken from Bangui. It was said that RCA..Central African Republic..was never able to recover economically from our lost labor
The atrocities against their kinsmen were enough to cause doom on the land
Shouldn't that tell you something? - that some of these societies engaged in the trade under extremely difficult circumstances? - I mean, who sells their primary means of production and protection?
Everytime I watch these things I shed tears.
@@dgreenidge1076 it's the heart of inhumanity and totally heartbreaking
Why? This ain't about you in the first place.
Who is it about?@@ekusondebango3568
Thank you for sharing this. As a descendant of the slave trade , I always believe that Africans had to be involved in this trade. But many people on both sides do not want to admit that Africans were involved. I toured the Cape Coast Castle in Ghana and the tour guide tried to tell us that they were aware of what was happening in this trade. I believe greed and power drove this trade. Thankful that my ancestors survived the atrocities that were bestowed on Them.
Absolutely, Africans were involved and it’s time we spoke the truth. Your ancestors were resilient, glad to have you here. Please share the video
@@africanstoryteller Our ancestors are one. They are 'ours'. Time and distance does not change that.
@@kofoblue3172You are right. Distance does not change DNA
Not every African. The West African Empires
You guys be like, "Africans were involved, i saw the evidence in Ghana", do you know what Africa is? You bundle Africans just the way Europeans do, what's not to say you are using their logic against yourself and your kind?
Very informative and educative video. Good job Virtue Grace
Thank you! Kindly share the video
Thank you Grace... Yes I think the vast majority of us knows and understands who were involved in the slave trade... It's true that some Africans were involved ... I'm African American born and raised in😮 Chicago, I am a descendant through my mother and father of American slaves... Today I'm married to a Togolese woman, and have a home in Lome... I had arguments and fights with my siblings and cousins throughout my younger years, but when a stranger comes between us and attacks my family, we had to put our differences aside and deal with the threat... Now I said all of that to say, when it comes to my brothers and sisters on the continent as opposed to the Europeans, I will forgive and put our differences aside and deal with the Europeans... We as African Americans have looked the devil in the face, and he's not black... We also know how the Europeans manipulated the Africans, and instigated wars, taking full advantage of the tribalism that existed, and still exist today... If we are to be united as black people we do needs to put our differences aside, and focus on our common enemy...
Well said my brother, I concur. My love to your family. I want to visit Togo soon. I just need contact or accommodation there
@@africanstorytellerContact a travel agency and book a hotel in Togo.
European men had relationships with African women in order to get a foot in Africa and acquire slaves. Among them are Francisco Felix De Souza, Talon, etc. The Afro-European descendants of these relationships served as cultural intermediaries between Africa and Europe.
"...and still exist today..." Agreed.
I know this will be an unpopular opinion . There is an old African proverb if there is no enemy inside then the one enemy outside can do us no harm. The problem is we don't understand the enemy inside which the enemy outside exploits. Everything that he mentioned that they were sold into slavery for was something that was already being traded on the continent and could of been made easy. We love our oppresser more than we love ourselves that is the big problem. They don't have put physical shackles on our feet anymore it's on minds. These videos hurt my heart like seeing the recolonization of Africa by Asians and other groups. We misunderstand our value that's why everyone else can exploit it.
This is a very serious issue for West Africa from a spiritual perspective. Most of these countries won't even acknowledge participation in slave trade. Moreover, and will not entertain offering a pathway for the descendants to reconnect. To the contrary, these countries will see or treat us descendants as simply a cash machine. Its really sad. The spiritual perspective is that they sold their people and still have not repented nor sought to make it right.
Thank you for your courage to speak about it. Hopefully, more conversation will emerge, and action will be taken that results in genuine repentance.
I concur, it’s high time we acknowledged, apologized and made restitutions
Please read the Willie Lynch Letter.
Too bad physical slavery is gone but Spiritual slavery is current at 95 percent in Nigeria.
I hear some African youtubers saying Africa is the future! As a African/Haitian diaspora, I've always say, until Africa do right by us the descendants of the enslaved Africans in the diaspora! Africa will remain the same. When we left, most of us had land and other properties. Karma is what's happening with Africa. Africa! The ancestors are calling on you to do the right thing.
Africa cannot stay the same cos not all Africans were involved. And Africa is moving forward at an amazing pace.
@@elvisejo5885 I understand not all was involved. But karma will surely be the judge of those that were involved. Some of their generations still exist just like we're still here.
@@elvisejo5885YOU ARE 100 PERCENT CORRECT. THE CONTINENTAL CURSE WILL BE BROKEN WHEN AFRICAN DIASPORANS ARE WELCOMED BACK TO AFRICA WITH FULL CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS.
@elvisejo5885 GOD doesn't pick and choose most times. Look throughout biblical history, he's known for punishing generations. And the way many of you treat the descendants is pure evil. No remorse!!!!!!!
@@thetruedoctrineofchristnet7473 Mistreating the descendants is like hurting God. They will be punished.
Very educative story
Thank you, please share the video
At last ! Truth! I have read some of the comments on your post and there are some nasty pants who are trying to say you should find something else to say! We know that there are some who will want to not be reminded of what the past crimes but the truth is the past has become the present and there can be no peace without justice. Just saying!
True! Please share the video
What past crimes
Great Video! SUBSCRIBED! Yes, Africans who participated in the Trans-Atlantic and Arab Slave Trade should pay reparations. One of those families is the Dangote family. Aliko Dangote is the founder of the Dangote Group, a Nigerian multinational industrial conglomerate. His great-grandfather, Alhassan Dantata was born in 1877 in Bebeji, Kano Emirate, Sokoto Caliphate (Kano State, Nigeria). His father, Abdullahi, was the son of Baba Talatin, a prosperous Slave Merchant who had moved the family from Katsina in the early nineteenth century.
I don’t think so
Interesting! I didn’t know this claim about them
Islamic raiders like the fulanis and touaregs. Only the Negroes were taken not all black were enslaved.
@@kaln6973 Think some more... I provided the genology which can be verified by anyone through a Google search.
@@africanstoryteller, Please do thoroughly research Alito Dangote's family history involvement in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. I believe it's correct that more Igbo slaves were captured and taken than almost any other tribe on the African continent. And, even today in 2024 Igbo Christian and Hebrew Nigerians are deliberately being persecuted and murdered to steal their valuable lands in Southern Nigeria by the likes of the murderous British UK installed Nigerian Government monopolized puppets the freaking evil Nigerian Immigrant Islamic Hausas and Fulani tribes.
❤🖤💚 These are the colors of Marcus Garvey our National hero one love Respect.
Kindly share the video
Thank you for shining the 🕯️ light, all praises to the most high🙏🏽
Thank you for telling our story. We the descendants of African salves just want to be accepted by African and be given the opportunity to return and invest in the continent.
Yea, but most of them don't like us. They will tell you you are black not African. When our DNA says we are African! It's sad
My absolute honor. Kindly share the video
Why don't you do so as an individual rather than including others? Not everyone shares your views, even among your peers.
@@mandandi Why not as a collective? Nothing wrong with that.@bk Chris is just talking about those who want to be represented. Nobody is implying that they are the voice for EVERYONE. Obviously you are not included
@@raisoion1313 Who says they all want to return to Africa? Speak for yourself. Some have come and gone back to the US because they didn't like it already.
Excellent video.👍🏾
This video came right on time! I am working on a video about the concept of Africa providing some sort of reparations to Black Americans, Caribbeans, etc. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and experiences here 🙏🏾
Why Africa in general and not West Africa specifically. People should take DNA tests and go where it points for reparations. Not all African was involved in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.
We don’t need it From any African country, because Black Americans weren’t apart of the slave trade . We were already in North America by the 100s of millions. Way before any other entity stepped foot on it .
Africa won't pay reparations to anyone. The areas in Africa involved in the slave trade might have to pay reparations.
The spirits of the ancestors moving. Kindly share the video
@@africanstoryteller I will share now!! Thank you 😊. I will also be sure to reference you in the making of my own video. I thank you for your work!
Deuteronomy 28:48 ,68 the blessings and the curses of deuteronomy 28th chapter
Thank you for your honesty
Pleasure, kindly share the video
@@africanstoryteller I already did
Thank you for this! We have to own up to our contribution to that 'business'. In GH, there's a story about a river that was used to bathe the people on their way to the ship with the sole aim for them (those leaving) to forget where they came from! Imagine!!! Is that something people who were "forced" into that business will do? I am even more ashamed it is used currently as a tourist attraction, and the subsequent re-telling of the story.
Similar to this place in Badagry. They were made to drink from a well
Hello African Storyteller, I am a Jamaican and my forefather was taken as slaves to Jamaica, so i would like to ask a question, why is most Africans loving their colonial slaves master Europeans and Arabs by forgetting your cultures and language ?Africans you needs to emancipate your mind from mental slavery.
Boy a lot of knowledge shared!!!! I 🙏🏾 pray that reconciliation and healing comes for *US* in the Americas 🌎 and others that are victims of inhumane atrocities!!!! Father Yahawah Bahasham Yahawahshi for give us of of sins,etc . Ahman ✌🏾
According to the bible..EVERYONE EVOLVED IN OUR CAPTIVITY WILL PAY WHEN CHRIST RETURNS!💯💯
Which verses?
They need to pay before, and after Yahawashai Hamachyach returns. They should start paying ASAP.
And when is your christ returning stop joking
@@mandandi
He that leads into captivity shall go into captivity: he that kills with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the qodeshiym. REVELATION 13:10
Returns in your imagination no where else
Im from the Caribbean and watching this is crazy knowing this is what my ancestors went tru
I’ve had many unfair treatments from my brothers and sisters from Africa. Like I asked to be in America even in spirit I feel sadness at times for our division.
It breaks my 💔
We have to establish which Africans, because we can't just lamp the whole of Africa in this thing. We can't just say continental Africa.
They need to point out and dig up the few tribes I heard about but colonizers buried the history of the rebellious tribes that did lash out at slave traders
That’s a good place to start from, like these families that participated in it, and then the countries where it happened
@@ronnieitaquab1008well the diaspora is part of the warrior tribes
@@WhatShouldMatter Oh yes that truth will come to light when DNA tests become more cheaper and accurate to narrow down who decend from which tribe.Whomever starts cracking that code will become rich
Joel 3:4
Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre,(African) and Zidon,(African) and all the coasts of Palestine (Arab)? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head;
[6]The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye SOLD unto the Grecians, (YT Man) that ye might remove them far from their border.
Thank you!! The Bible is absolutely amazing!!
How did you come to that conclusion of Tyre and Zidon being in Africa? Those places are in modern day "middle east" unless you're referring to that region as NE Africa. Doesn't the passage explain it as Palestine??
Great and sad true history lesson!!! 😢 ❤
Sad indeed. Please share the video
Will do! ❤
The slave trade and slavery filtered out the weaker and the strongest were left standing. Generations of people who were bred like dogs to be tough and strong left us to be the leaders, athletes, and diligent(survival was a strategic game of life and death) that African Americans are today. We are hybridized, but our resilience is very strong.
Weak had nothing to do with it you had to be strong to make that trip across the Atlantic
We have to dill with our enslaver first then we will dill with seller's
Not only AA. Brazil was worse, and don't forget about the Caribbean.
Wrong. Many of you are indigenous to the Americas. Only a small minority came directly from Africa.
@@larryhollins459 How do you deal with the enslaver when part of you comes from the enslaver? Which part of you are you blaming when you carry both. How does the enslaver part of you compensate the seller part of you? The only people who should get reparations were the Africans who left the continent unmixed. Once you were racially mixed, you ceased to be EXCLUSIVELY of African origin. You are not the people who left.
Justice requires that the truth be told. Reparations must be paid all the way around.
Absolutely! Kindly share the video
Thanks for sharing this interesting video ❤❤❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
When England was outlawing the slave trade, those same people that lives in the region known as Nigeria sent in a petition of protest to say that if the slave trade was abandoned it would destroy their economy.
I always remember a group of Nigerian women in England, saying that they did not like Jamaicans because Jamaicans are slaves. They said it loud enough for us to here, deliberately too.
To this day, I never forget the audacity. It is the worst case of discrimination I ever experienced because of all the implications. It was too much. I almost did the worst that night, especially knowing that we were only their TRYING TO HELP THEM FREE OF COST WITH REPAIRS THEY COULD NOT AFFORD.
Wow! That is so sad. That's how many of them are. Their way of thinking is pure ignorance and lacks empathy and remorse. It's some of them in these comments. I applaud this woman for her bravery.
@@thetruedoctrineofchristnet7473 She is upright. That's it.
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"A group of Nigerian women saying they don't like Jamaicans because they are slaves" that's that 25% Caucasian in you, making stuff up to make a point 😂
Stay in America land of the free, home of the brave. Leave us poor dosty dark skin Africans alone, maybe your caucus relatives will help you out.
Colonizers among us, until this day...
True
@@africanstoryteller they kidnap Africans ,all this story na white people write tan to make Africa look bad because no be our ancestors write this story,our ancestors fight them too, if not we for no de exist
This is very important. Thanks for the video.
Yes, you’re welcome. Kindly share the video
Please please show this to all the “black Americans are aboriginals” theorists !! Yes there is people online saying black Americans never came from Africa. The slave trade actually happened.
I see that as well, they are just deluded people. The relics are all over some of the Atlantic coastal regions of Southern Nigeria. From Lagos to Niger Delta to Calabar and other West African countries
Kindly share the video
The falsun people were here before the natives came to America. 2 things can be true at once obviously..
@@altheadawn2531 1.) no ancient black skeletal remains have ever been found in the Americas… 2.) black Americans have no unique DNA pointing to a “unique secluded race” for thousands of years. For example the Melanesians are “unique” by DNA and have been for thousands of years.
Not African Mf, nor was our ppl apart of any African slave trading . Black Americans are the aboriginal Anasazi ppl. Originally the oldest and largest population on this land .
Great video thank you
Thank you, please share it
Thank you for selling my ancestors. I’m being sincere. Thank you so much for delivering my ancestors from an underdeveloped, backward continent, specifically Nigeria where I share majority maternal ancestry.
You are lying, this kind of comments only comes from whites and, maybe from some of the brothers and sisters wanna be white. Who in their right mind would consider it an upgrade for his ancestors to have passed thru what our ancestors have passed thru, and what many of our people are still passing thru in the diaspora? You are one of the children of the colonizers, or you are on some kind of weed. The wrong kind to be exact.
I apologize on behalf of those who did
@@africanstoryteller I’m thankful
@@difencrosbyVery funny, but you're glad to be living with the real perpetrators, the masterminds of trans Atlantic slave trade😅 your real enemy are not your fellow Africans ok. They were also victims as well
Read the manden charter and the Songhai empire and the moors so it was not necessarily that it was betrayal and treachery
Great job Sister Grace! Your video really brought together commenters with more knowledge. Painful but necessary.
Thank you, I appreciate the conversation we’re having about it, it’s about time. Kindly share the video
My sister how people wey neva chop go dey pay reparations? Maybe the families or chiefs that were involved. Not everybody, because many still within our borders were victims as well.
We need to identify who the participants' families are make them pay for the debt of their ancestors.
The Most High Yah knows who they were and knows their descendants. Maybe that’s why they’re suffering because of the sins of their ancestors.
My sister....you are wonderful...
All those complicit in the slave trade should be made to pay reparations whether, white, coloured and black.
First, prove you are 100% genetically African. If you carry the enslaver's blood you are partly an enslaver yourself.
I agree
Deuteronomy 28 through and through. Our ancestors were so strong mentally, physically, and spiritually. We’re still here though. They keep trying to get rid of us but they can’t. All praise to The Most High. Thank you for the video.
We are still over in America and the rest of the Americas. Please tell your people and governments that we need their support. We are in the belly of the beast trying desperately to forge a Unified front as Freedmen, Maroons and other indigenous groups throughout the Americas. We are seeking reparations in all of our respective historical communities to initiate a collective bargaining effort whose justified claims and repair includes land and resources owed by (at least) every Country in existence west of the Prime Meridian. We are here and despise being your Akata’s and Jareer. Stand up and cut out all of the tribalism and infighting so that the development of our heartland can continue and strengthen the Diaspora. Open your borders not only to the Chinese and European and Arab communities but reserve industrial, cultural, Mineral Extraction and agricultural resources, land and capital specifically for Diaspora communities within African borders and stop with the tribalism, stop with the tribalism! And finally stop with the tribalism!
With love,
An American/Creek Freedmen (African American-Akata)
Delightful Virtue Grace, it is great to see you again!
Thank you, and same here. How have you been?
Well done job may the Lord be with you IJN AMEN
Don't drag all of Africa into this. Those of us who are not from those regions will not be dragged into this collective guilt. Because 80% of Africa had nothing to do with any of that slave trading. The slave trade was done mostly along the West African coast and those from those regions must carry the guilt of their ancestors without smearing the reputation of innocent Africans.
Nah, Africa is not going to avoid the judgment of the Most High Yah. Most of Africa was involved. And if any Africans that participated migrated to other African countries, they brought the curses and judgments on them to those other countries, mingled and had families, spreading the judgment. But the Most High Yah knows and will handle them. But I understand how you’d want to disassociate your ancestry/country. The cruelty was beyond understanding. Only an evil people influenced by Satan would initiate and participate in the type of slavery my ancestors experienced.
The largest ethnic group in all of Africa are the Fulani, they are the slavers, and also you’re melanated Edomite’s.
The Nigerians
Thanks for your honest review and opinion.
Pleasure, kindly share the video
Thank you very much for this video.
You are very welcome. Kindly share the video
Where have you been? You started a new channel. You finally show up on line
I’ve been here dear. Yes, I have two other new channels, one for Shorts the other for lifestyle
African storyteller,ive been asked to ask what is your whole name and who are your people specifically because you are all spared from any type of retaliation or anger .
Thank you for being a very good sister and showing the warm heart you have .
You are the very type of african that our ancestors mentioned who would love us and accept us back and would trully feel some of the pain we felt .
Thank you again and you make it easier to argue against those who are anti African
Thank you 🙏🏽 . I’m Tiv from Benue State, Nigeria. 🇳🇬
@@africanstoryteller very good 👍
May you and the people of tiv be blessed indeed they have produced a good caring one .
@@mpoulawefang Amen, thank you 🙏🏽
You need to clarify the proportion of slaves that were "sold by Africans" versus those that were forcibly taken by Europeans without the Africans in so called "slave raids". Also, clarification is needed on the number/proportion of Africans involved or named groups, families, statuses, positions of Africans involved in the trade versus the overall populations at the time--certain people will want you to believe all Africans at the time were involved in selling all Africans at the time into slavery. Additionally, if Africans sold Africans into slavery we'd need to know the mechanisms, the details, the stories, the contexts, all the nuances involved. If the current Palestine-Gaza conflict is anything to go by it is so important to understand the information war that is taking place: the gaslighting, the plain lies, the hiding of information, misinformation, propaganda etc. Finally, it must always be reiterated that it is not Africans that keep Africans in slavery for over 400 years in north America, central America, south America, the Caribbean and elsewhere, through to colonialism and neocolonialism to this second. And it was not Africans who abused, mistreated, raped Africans in the slave ports in Africa...and it is not Africans/Black people who are somehow inflicting racism on themselves in the Americas and Africa in international economic, political and social affairs.
But they opened the door.
Yes before, Europeans came to Africa, west-African kingdoms like Benin & Dahomey were engaged heavily in the abuse, rape, and literal human sacrifice of women. They owned many slaves for generations which by then some would definitely have been in their tribe yet they sold them. Africa was too big and dense for Europeans to successfully gain lots of captives it wouldn't be practically possible for them to continue doing it over long periods of time. It would have been too expensive and come at a high mortality rate, not to mention the resistance. Therefore, they required the help of the indigenous population, it is time to come to terms with this. Chattel slavery is still occurring in West Africa as well as kidnapping and, human body part farming A.K.A ritual human sacrifices.
They were sold because they don’t know the territory to go to the bush and take afrcans like that, make no sense, Afrca is not a easy place to go today imagine that time, this don’t make any sense, they for sure had the native help if e they had their help is because they were sold it.
How long it took for them to colonized Afrca? Why do you think that they took so long even though they already know them centuries?
@@adaptivelearner6162Make no sense Europeans go to the bush of Afrca to take people there, they were already a kingdom, they even need like that, this was another different territory and place that they are not familiarized with, they were only familiarize with North Africa but also not the most of them either.
Excellent video!!!
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Tribal wars started this atrocities and the Europeans jumped on this opportunity
Absolutely
Thank you for exposing this side of the conversation. The families should apologise and make payment. Keep up the good work.
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That's great Grace ... Are you familiar with Christelle's African lifestyle? She is a youtuber located in Lome. I am subscribed to her channel, maybe you can get in touch with her... I'm down to 2 years left until I retire, then it's Lome Togo permanently, my wife is 4 years younger and she has 7 years left...But as for me, it will be Togo in 2 years, me and my wife will have to have a long distance relationship lol...
Yes, I’ve been writing to her but no response from her yet
My grand father told me he was a slave came to the Caribbean on boat from Africa he told me we were the cuffie race …. Love the video am looking for my family in Africa … my grandfather told me he was sold as a small boy
Thank you
APTTMH 🙏🏿You are a blessed spirit for speaking on this.!
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The techniques of Transatlantic Enslavement trade is very complicated. Some sold us knowingly some did by deception
Yes, also some were forced into it
Ultimate respect for this video! 💯 correct!
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The fang people of africa fought enslavers and would not sale slaves !!
I thought about this years ago but I quickly realized something. The problem with that argument is this.
During the slave trade there were no state governments countries like Spain, Portugal, England, France and the United States involved in the slave trade. Nigeria didn't exist until the 20th Century. There was no state leadership or corporations who benefited from slavery in Africa who today are still thriving because of their involvement from the slave trade. There is no African country that can be held accountable for slavery.
The countries you see today are the result of the 1884 Berlin Conference the Criminal Enterprise created that divivded Africa among Europeans draining resources through exploitation of the people forcing men to work on plantations by having them pay a tax that made them have to work to pay off the tax. It was similar to sharcroppers in America who found themselves being forced to work without pay. I can't see anyway possible for Africa to pay reparations when countries like Nigeria wouldn't even nationalize their own natural resources like Libya did for the greater benefit of their people. Look at Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and other countries who are in countrol of the oil wealth.
Look at the wars going on in the Congo based on the natural resoures instead of just nationalizing them all.
Look at South Africa with their gold and diamonds. The Black people were used but they were never compensated for what they went through.
With most or if not all of the industry in Africa being privatized where would they even get the capital to pay reparations the IMF.
When the United States wanted to find a place to manufacture goods they ignored Africa and instead went to Asia to build factories and do trade.
They only want to exploit Africa not build it up.
Now Asians are going to Africa and setting up shop bringing made in China goods selling them cheaper than locally made products. There are more and more horror stories about the behavior of these Chinese towards local Blacks. One video with Black Children unknowingly calling themselves monkeys and other negative words in Chinese sent to mainland Chinese to see these Black people making fools of themeselves for their entertainment. What the hell do they want them to learn Chinese for anyway. Many Africans know Arabic and English and that hasn't helped much.
It is like the way the open trade between Africa and Europe that devastated local businesses in Africa because Europeans had been subsudizing their exports to Africa where they are cheaper then the locals.
I saw this program with people growing tomatoes and canning in Ghana and how Italy exported tomatoes much cheaper then those grown locally. The locals started buying the cheaper tomates and canned tomatoes putting the local farmers out of business or having to take less profit for their goods.
The same thing happened in Haiti with rice growers. The United States started sending rice to Haiti giving it away. It started affecting the rice plantations causing people to lose their jobs. They will target what ever industry you have already and sabotage it by flooding the country with cheaper product.
These African governments offer no protection for local their local farmers against what is nothing but economic warfare.. This has lead to many people leaving Africa looking for work in European countries. Then you hear about the horror stories that they have experienced just looking for a better life.
If you can't even manufacture products locally to build your economy because it can be bought cheaper from some place in Asia what good is having that government for in the first place if they can't counter that.
All of that would need to be dealt with before reparations could even be talked about.
We can hold the tribes accountable, those chiefs, they have our land
@@AfrimericanSoulYoruba and Igbo were the most prominent and they are over 100 Millon and they make you most of the diaspora and slave descendants. Maybe go read something...
@@AfrimericanSoul Your land is in America my friend. What tribes and chiefs do you talk about here. Why waste time on people who know diddly-squat about your very existence, with your exotic, Non-African names, cultures, languages, religions and mannerism. Actually those of them who stole places like Liberia owe the Africans a heck of a lot. Why don't you look into what happened in Liberia before talking.
@@ekusondebango3568 i expected this sort of reply from the savages that sold our ancestors! Its ppl like you that destroyed Liberia because of your hatred towards us.
They were all kingdom and even in African had their kingdom too
Thank you beautiful for sharing this. I know my ancestors came from there for I am Fulani. I want to know more about these families
You are so welcome. Kindly share the video
The problem with doing business in West Africa is the undermining of labor rights up to this day, as well as local status games. This is very unfortunate.
True,sadly
300 of those slaves were sent from Calabar to Grenada 🇬🇩. Specifically to my parish St. Patrick’s. there is a documentary supporting that.
Really?! OMG!. Please share the video
@@africanstoryteller many of our masquerades are the same as that of Calabar festivals. The people from that Parish were different than the rest of the island in both customs and traditions.
It's ok my brother, great reply, it's almost like we could have just have put the chains on ourselves and steered the ships to America, and when we arrived we say, here we are master... But now, we have changed, we have learned how deceitful the Europeans are by nature... Now we know by God and our ancestors, we know the ways forward, and that is Pan-Africanism... One love...
Balanced take. Different perspective, beautiful Sister. If they can give me some land I'm good.
Thank you. Let’s push the conversation, kindly share the video
I love this.. You are so brave! I commend you for have courage to speak the truth. I want to know what happened to the African sellers? Why did they choose those particular people to sale? Were those Africans from Egypt or another state in Africa? Why did they sale their own people? Who are the decedents of the slave traders today? Please do a part 2. Thank you so much. I learned a lot.
The umbrella looks rather new and colourful like it was actually locally produced with local material. Africans like those bright colours after all and that makes it impossible to have come from Dwight man in exchange for 40 "woman' beings (human beings actually).
Thank you Sister…
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I’m African-American, and I discovered from DNA testing that my direct paternal lineage is Igbo. I greatly appreciate you, my sister.
I would happily accept citizenship.
That’s awesome! You’re Nigerian 🇳🇬😍. Kindly share the video let’s push the conversation
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@@africanstoryteller I shared this video in my Facebook group for DNA-tested descendants of Nigeria, Benin, and Togo, and I look forward to seeing responses.
Wow grace
Very substantial
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Greetings from a descendant of Jamaicans living in the so called UK. I was interested to watch this video after it was in my - recommended to watch list. I myself believe the time of historic ensalvement to be the most horrific times that was endured for hundreds of years. Slavery equals evil. History does repeat itself though as now thousands of people pay their way to European lands to do care work and factory work . The Middle Eastern countries for domestic and construction work . The Americas and Canada for more of the same often considered menial and manual jobs while believing it is a chance for an improved life. I say really? I consider it modern day slavery.
Nah, because slvery always existed and exited even before that because the arbs even slve the Europens and Afrcans much before too.
Very insightful and truly sad!
I am not a "continental" African. I AM A "SON OF THE SOIL AFRICAN"!!!!! and nothing else.
There's also a school name calabar here in Jamaica 🇯🇲 so there's a direct connection with Nigeria🇳🇬 and Jamaica
Oh what! that’s interesting. One day I’ll visit Jamaica
I was going to say I'll take reparations frm Africa or america
HUGE RESPECT QUEEN
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You are really pretty. Thanks for sharing.
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Wow Sista you are Beautiful and Juicy very intelligent to 💐💐
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My Queen your right the Africans chief and Kings who sold black people should pay reparations. And Nigerian government should give citizens ship to the formerly enslaved descendants.
They said no return but our bloodline didnt die🙏🏾
With Europeans being the one writing and presenting most of the historical narratives about slavery, it would be difficult to clearly pin down who did what. And we know how Europeans lie about history to suit their purpose. There was a kind of economic terrorism that happened when Europeans imported cowries in huge amount, which collapsed the monetary system. Sadly this promoted exchange of humans for goods. Europeans set it up. And some locals collaborated. Yes, there are obvious examples of local beneficiaries. Most would be kings and prominent families. I think its better for Africa to seek reparations from the West and then they use the fund to support African-Americans. But with the crop of politicians we have now, it doesn’t look promising.
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HAHAHAHAHA! Arabs even documented the slave trade and, all Europeans aren't liars, why would Christian missionaries lie about the slave trade in Africa?
What about the kidnappings, human trafficking, and ritual human sacrifices going on today in Nigeria?
Afrca reparations? Hahahaha😂😂🤭🤭🙄🙄
To my understanding. They did not kno the magnitude of the action selling the slave. Didn’t kno it will result into what we know as the terrible history of the trans Atlantic slave trade. Some tribes also were manipulated and/or forced thru threat… but still, especially if they are wealthy due to it. They should pay
Actually, I've been to Badagry and there are 3 former slave pens, that have been converted into museums, as the slave trade was prominent in Badagry. That body of water she pointed to is a lagoon, On the other side of the lagoon is Gberefu Island and I've walked to the point of no return.. I don't support the notion that West African nations should pay reparations because modern day West African governments didn't exist during the days of the Slave trade and they did not benefit from the slave trade, these governments didn't tax the exported people. The slave trade ended in 1808 these governments were not established until 1885. The governments that benefitted from the slave trade are Portugal, Spain, France, England, Brazil, & the United States of America. Yes, there were individual West African families that benifitted but not the governments.
Africans didn't participate in the slavery venture, at last not in the 1500s. If They did it would have began towards the ends of the 17th century and The Chiefs of the Coastal areas were pressured. It was either Their own people, or they must lead the Europeans and help them with directions inland. They fought and died before The Chiefs succumbs. I also heard that They gave signals to the inland Countries to take appropriate actions. Secondly, Any African Child or Adult who believes the lies that Our Ancestors sold Human Beings for colanuts, strong drinks, mirrors, and such things that were invaluable at the time is suffering from self hate. In Order to get the truth, You must visit Chief High Priests of a Tribe, Who may then direct You to A Griot of The Tribe. There alone can You get the truth.
Don't be ridiculous it has been well documented by Christian missionaries, Arabs visitors, and today in new articles that slavery was a part of the culture of major west-African kingdoms like Benin empire & Dahomey empire. It is what it is if they fought the Europeans to the death they would have stopped any attempt to invade. But, there was no unified front against Europeans.
@@adaptivelearner6162 also the arbs are the ones who usually cut the man…, this is not the Europens type of thing
@@adaptivelearner6162 As You can see, "It was well documented to us by those who originally instituted slavery on our land" as You have clearly written, Our Forefather sworn enemies. Yet should we think it fit to belief a word coming out from them? I think that would be a mistake, and stupidity on our side. There were rules set down by Our Old Ancestors of remote past before 7000 years ago when in those time They foresaw trouble and time of calamity on Their Descendants. One of such rules was "When a Kingdom or An Empire, or A Tribe invades another Kingdom and then lost, Their Kings and Chiefs must be killed, and Their People must pay reparations to the land or Kingdom which Their Kings, Chiefs, Warrior invaded". This reparation can last many years to a decade, until the invaded decide to shown an act of mercy, not to be confused with "forgiveness". The caucasians simply came in in our time of fall, by various calamities which had nothing to do with wars amongst The Tribes, but in fact was initially caused by these foreigner. Go get your story and history straight from Your Elders in Your "Agbo Ile".
@@jubernardi23 Both casterated. In fact until this day, They still love to kick Us on our private when Any of Us is helpless to defend self. This hatred has a lot to do with our strong genetic prowess.
If I may add to this, Both the arabs and europeans ought to pay reparations, however they can't, and they won't. It has everything to do with their innate greed. WE on the other hand, had began the process of repairing and elevating Our People all over The Americas since 1897, and went to full force in 1934 I think. It had nothing to do with Afro/Euro/Arab governance, they knew nothing of it. It were Our Elders from All The Tribes of Black People in on the planet. We had paid reparations which we did not owe. It is still continuing as I type now.
Another important aspect of the “native policy’ was the annual ‘hut-tax” starting from 1916. The ‘hit-tax” amounted to a yearly tax of $1 collected from each tenanted hut and only payable by adult, African men. Prior to 1916, a poll-tax was levied only on Africans living or visiting the Liberian coastal areas often inhabited by the settlers. Notice that the ‘hut-tax’ was levied only on Africans who received no services from the Government. In reality the stipulated $1 per year tax was actually collected twice or more times a year, with the excess fund going into the pocket of corrupt Liberian officials. Like the district commissioners and their unruly aides. Liberian soldiers were often used to coerce and intimidate the Africans who dared to hesitate to pay. Often poor African parents were forced to pawn their children into servitude to obtain funds for the tax. In 1922 for example, the Liberian Government collected a total of $151,213.70 from the “hut-tax’, representing 33% of total Government revenue , even as the Africans did not receive any benefits or services from the Liberian Government. The Africans had neither schools nor hospital and an attempt by missionaries to build schools for the Africans was rebuffed by the Government which feared that an educated Africa mass threatened their privileged hold on power. The Africans were forced to provide free services in the construction of rest houses, soldiers barracks, quarters for district commissioners, cultivation of rice farms for the district commissioners and other such intensive manual labour without pay. As from 1921 when the Liberian Government embarked on road construction into the hinterland for the purpose of forestalling European expansionist land grab and also to exploit resources, Africans were forced to ‘volunteer” their labour for as many as nine months at a time, furnishing their own tools and equipment in the process. Often the district commissioners who were invariably Americo-Liberian and who received insufficient and irregular pay from the penurious Liberian Government were forced to extort and exploit the Africans for funds. For example, between 1916 and 1918, James B. Howard who possessed little education or administrative experience was appointed district commissioner for the region between the Sierra Leone boundary the Cess River, an area almost two-third the Liberian hinterland. Assisted by sub-commissioner S.N. Smith, James B. Howard indulged in massive corruption and gross exploitation of the Africans such as levying excessive fines to adjudicated disputes between the Africans. He not only ran a private trading business, the “ H and Co”, at Kolahun and adjoining villages. He smuggled gin, guns, and gunpowder from Pendembu, Sierra Leone, which he then sold to the Africans at inflated prices. He exploited free African porterage to transport vast quantities of rice which he then sold at exorbitant prices. Eventually these excesses led to a major revolt among the Golahs I 1918 and a Government inquiry found James B. Howard guilty, resulting in the forfeiture of $500 which he had transmitted to the Bank of British West Africa at Monrovia. He was subsequently reappointed to his former position of lieutenant in the Frontier Force.
In January 1912, two Liberian commissioners Major T.C. Lomax and James W. Cooper, stationed in the northwest region of Liberia, deposed and hanged eight Gbande chiefs who refused to assist them in extorting the Africans in their district. Both men were tried and acquitted and then in 1914, the Liberian Government appointed Lomax as “Native Expert” to advise the Department of the Interior on matters requiring expert knowledge of African law and customs. Between 1910s and 1920s, numerous African tribes rebelled against the oppressive rule of the Americo-Liberian Government over them (the Africans). Such rebellions included: the Greboes in1910, the Krus in 1915, the Golahs in 1918 and the Joquelles Kpelles in 1920. These rebellions were crushed with much bloodshed by the Liberian Government employed military resources such as navy gunboats directly supplied by the American Government. Indeed subsequent rebellions and African dissatisfaction led to increased intervention by the American Government in Liberia’s internal affairs.
The conditions of the African masses became aggravated under the “native policy” of President C.D.B. King (January 1920 - December 1930). Under King, African peoples were subjected to the worst possible forms of exploitation. This included the use of forced and unpaid labour for private Americo-Liberian farms and plantations, including those owned by President King himself and some members of his cabinet. More sensational was the revelation of forced recruitment of Africans with the aid of the Liberian Frontier Force soldiers, district commissioners, county superintendents and customs officials, and the shipment of these Africans to the Island of Fernando Po (present day Equatorial Guinea) to work as slaves in Spanish plantations. President C.D.B . King and his accomplices were reportedly paid ten pounds sterling for each African shipped to the island n addition to other monies paid to the Liberian Government. The report of the League of Nations Inquiry into these allegations of slavery in Liberia and other forced labor forced President C.D.B. king to resign in December 1930. The harsh conditions imposed on the Africans within the borders of Liberia caused many to flee into neighboring Sierra Leone, Guinea and Ivory Coast, causing the European colonial powers in those territories to threaten Liberia’s sovereignty should the Liberian Government fail to put its house in order. Upon assuming office in January 1944, President V.S. Tubman finally introduced the “Unification Policy” which sought to remove the political, economic, and social barriers imposed on the African masses but this was not after the American Government and the League of Nations pressed for reforms. In 1945, the Liberian Constitution was amended to extend the franchise to all adult, African males who paid the “hut-tax”. Prior to this time, Africans were neither recognized as Liberian citizens nor allowed any political rights.In 1947, for the first time in Liberia’s history, three Africans were elected to the House of Representatives by direct voting (not as appointed “delegates”) by their own people. By 1956, Representatives from the provinces were seated in the House but none were in the Liberian Senate (the Upper Chamber).
This concludes my serialization or treatise on the history of Liberia. I am responsible for all misspellings, typos and grammatical errors, some of which I have noticed in previous posts. The main thrust of this effort is to educate readers about the true breadth of Black Imperialism, a topic which is all too often conveniently avoided while pointing the finger to White Imperialism. In a future article, I intend to totally dismantle and debunk the fallacy that Liberia is a Black American paradise in the midst of the African jungle. This is further from the truth and needs to be addressed objectively. There is a new Scramble for Africa and it beguiles me that most young Africans do not even know it.
There's a place in Jamaica called ABEOKUTA named after slaves that was brought to Jamaica🇯🇲 fr Nigeria 🇳🇬
This is really interesting! Please send me an email let’s connect virtuegraceblog@gmail.com I want to have your contact
Well done ! From the us (Babylon)!!!!
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I believe you shoukdcalso do a follow up through to calabar and ikot abasi and see the slave warehouse
I will