Cape Coast Slave Castle | Door Of No Return | African Slave Trade History, Ghana | Authentic African

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  • This very a disturbing tour of the most famous Slave castle in Africa as part of the West African Transatlantic slave trade.
    This was the second fort/castle we visited in Ghana in one day. It was heavy but really insightful.
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    00:00 - Trigger warning
    00:24 - Door Of No Return
    00:37 - Intro
    00:59 - What are we doing today?
    01:58 - We are about to go in...
    02:47 - Meet our tour guide Kofi Iso
    03:52 - Male Captives Dungeon
    06:07 - Shrine and Religious Ceremony
    07:42 - Source of water for the captives
    08:04 - The cannons
    08:18 - Female Captives Assaulted and Starved for Refusing Assault!
    09:13 - Door of No Return
    11:06 - Condemned Captive’s Cell (for those who tried to escape)
    11:35 - Palava Hall - Where Captives were traded and sold
    12:49 - Governor’s Bedroom
    13:27 - Anglican Church/Children’s Library
    14:57 - My closing thoughts
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  • @AREMBOELGORDO
    @AREMBOELGORDO Рік тому +42

    I AM Puertorican and I Am a mix of African and Spaniard...I Am so proud of my black part...I need to go at least 1 time in my life to see this in person. I Am here afte watchin a movie calles SANKOFA

    • @AuthenticAfrican
      @AuthenticAfrican  Рік тому +6

      Yes you need to visit. It is a life changing event!

    • @IslenoGutierrez
      @IslenoGutierrez Рік тому +3

      I’m Canarian (Canary Islands in North Africa near the coast of Western Sahara and Morocco) and I’ve been to Puerto Rico before and they feel so close to us almost like family! They speak in a similar accent as we do and similar food, looks and way of life. Canarians have a long history in Puerto Rico too and Canary Islands has a beach called Puerto Rico. We are known as “isleños” and also by this name in Puerto Rico and Cuba. Puerto Ricans have our blood too like family. Maybe when you visit Ghana you can stop in Canary Islands 🇮🇨

    • @kentteshaharris5124
      @kentteshaharris5124 7 місяців тому +1

      Me too ☺️

  • @bezii558
    @bezii558 Рік тому +13

    This is NOT A castle. This is a dungeon 🅿️💯💯😞

    • @bezii558
      @bezii558 Рік тому +1

      Other than that RESPECT 🇱🇾 🇺🇸

    • @AuthenticAfrican
      @AuthenticAfrican  Рік тому +1

      You are right, but that is the name that Ghanaians call it.

    • @AuthenticAfrican
      @AuthenticAfrican  Рік тому

      Thanks for stopping by.

    • @bezii558
      @bezii558 Рік тому

      @@AuthenticAfrican In that case y’all are also responsible for the enslavement of American and Caribbean peoples…. Since it’s a castle…. But ig y’all apologized so everything good now huh 👀. Not tryna argue

    • @AuthenticAfrican
      @AuthenticAfrican  Рік тому

      Well as long as you qualify your statement with "Not tryna argue", then I guess it has to be true.

  • @francessmalls4075
    @francessmalls4075 11 місяців тому +8

    My husband took me there to Cape Coast in 2021. I got so sick, and couldn't finished the tour. So we had to leave, because I was struggling with all that I saw and heard. I don't ever want to revisit that place again. I just couldn't handle it.

  • @motorbikeTim1
    @motorbikeTim1 10 місяців тому +8

    Greta video, about a horrific subject. Seeing the "door of no return" now opening up to a beautiful scene of bright colors and boats is a great juxtiposition.

    • @AuthenticAfrican
      @AuthenticAfrican  10 місяців тому

      Thank you and yes, its even more horrifying being there in person. I encourage you to visit if you can. The full tour is one hour but I tried to distill it down to 20 minutes.

  • @alcd6333
    @alcd6333 2 роки тому +18

    Thanks for sharing. It is a vivid account of just how inhumane and selfish we can become toward others. And from recent news events, we're collectively still filled with hate and rage toward our brothers and sisters.

    • @AuthenticAfrican
      @AuthenticAfrican  2 роки тому +2

      thanks for watching. It was really tough to hear but important for the world to know.

  • @BW_GYEDU
    @BW_GYEDU 3 роки тому +22

    I ALWAYS ask what in my opinion is an EXTREMELY POIGNANT question; that is "Who did our ancestors call on or turn to in times of adversity and who did they pay reverence to BEFORE the colonizers came with their forced upon dogma and religion"? The guide's account answers this question.
    The world's major religious organizations were pioneered in direct conjunction with the slave trade. It pains me to see just how much "Christianity" is embraced by Black people in spite of its barbaric origin.😔
    I choose the way of the ancestors. Respect for nature, respect for others and cooperative economics.
    Thanks for sharing.

    • @AuthenticAfrican
      @AuthenticAfrican  3 роки тому +5

      Well said BW. ✊🏿

    • @abiolafernandez8974
      @abiolafernandez8974 3 роки тому +3

      All of this!!! Well said.

    • @realvessel5656
      @realvessel5656 2 роки тому +1

      Truest.

    • @multyz1
      @multyz1 Рік тому +1

      Africans were spiritual before the Europeans came there. We knew God but there wasn't any proof that he/she existed. So there was already a God concept in Africa before Europeans came. Our traditional religion calls on God and no other. We had the belief that, when there is a creation there must be a creator. The European brought the Jesus concept to change our beliefs. In Ghana, there are some powerful rivers you don't mess with. Criminals would prefer to go on trial than be cursed using the names of some of the rivers. If politicians were sworn in by using the names of these rivers rather than the bible they'll all do good. Learn about River gods in Ghana, eg. Antia Nyamaa.

    • @kayoconey7198
      @kayoconey7198 Рік тому +1

      YES

  • @catherinechimilio1935
    @catherinechimilio1935 Рік тому +8

    I am a descendent
    I am a product of the trans Atlantic slave trade
    My ancestors
    I am Garifuna
    Viva Africa

  • @TocTocTrax
    @TocTocTrax 3 роки тому +8

    Love your content, keep up the amazing work! New sub here! 💙🌟

  • @yashicawarner9828
    @yashicawarner9828 Рік тому +5

    Thank you for sharing. The tour guide was amazing.

    • @AuthenticAfrican
      @AuthenticAfrican  Рік тому

      He is great. I learned so much. It was sad but very informative.

  • @indiglojypsy3351
    @indiglojypsy3351 2 роки тому +22

    Absolutely incredible!! Thank you so much!! I am astounded!! American here visiting Ghana very soon. I will definitely check out this incredible ( and very disturbing) piece of history.

    • @AuthenticAfrican
      @AuthenticAfrican  2 роки тому +3

      It's for sure a must visit. Very hard to hear and see but so important for my personal journey. I've been twice and the second time I learned so much more.

    • @barakmoham6555
      @barakmoham6555 10 місяців тому +2

      Yeah you really have to welcome home

    • @jamesmcjamesington631
      @jamesmcjamesington631 9 місяців тому

      I'd want to see the sources. Unfortunately everyone has an agenda.
      This doesn't minimize the torture that people endured... But we also don't need to embeilish to the point of lying.
      The idea that millions0 of anything went through there....

  • @john-sebastianbarrera1884
    @john-sebastianbarrera1884 Рік тому +2

    I am here because of Yaa Gyasi`s "Homegoing". Highly recommended book.
    This video was extremely useful as supplemental material. Thank!

  • @shawneedog1
    @shawneedog1 Рік тому +2

    Amazing. Thank you for sharing.

  • @IvyProsper
    @IvyProsper 3 роки тому +19

    Good video.
    I've been to Cape Coast Castle (dungeons) so many times, and have never taken the time to post a full long video of it on my personal page.
    I posted a short video of Fort Prinzestein in Keta, Volta Region, but there was no tour guide available the day I was there.
    It's very hard processing it all. The first time I went to Cape Coast Castle they still had the old shackles in there. It was hard to take in. Quite emotional.

    • @AuthenticAfrican
      @AuthenticAfrican  3 роки тому +4

      Thanks!🙏🏿 yeah very tough to process. That day I had to decompress afterwards. Very heavy stuff,

    • @abbassaquee286
      @abbassaquee286 2 роки тому

      Please stop calling it castle the castle was meant for the enslavers our people were kept in horrendous conditions and stripped of all their dignity that they had left of which today still affects our people who are scattered throughout the 🌎, we remember the Jewish holocaust rightful so , but the killing of millions of Africans is not even considered a holocaust in some quarters.

  • @madstarr2
    @madstarr2 3 роки тому +2

    I have yet to visit, but I appreciate the captioning in your video and I would love to get the same tour guide when I do visit.

    • @AuthenticAfrican
      @AuthenticAfrican  3 роки тому

      Please do! It is worth the trip and he is a great tour guide for sure. It is a 45 min tour but I only captured 15 minutes of it,

  • @shanegingras9903
    @shanegingras9903 2 роки тому +2

    ... that was enlightening. Thank you.

    • @AuthenticAfrican
      @AuthenticAfrican  2 роки тому

      Your welcome. My goal is to share as much insight as I can into our history and the current implications.

  • @TrueVonne
    @TrueVonne 3 роки тому +1

    Great video 👌🏽

  • @landshark616
    @landshark616 11 місяців тому +6

    I am just curious how can a bunch of people come to another land build something to enslave the locals with no resistance ??? Where was the whole dam nation of Africa when this was happening ???

    • @AuthenticAfrican
      @AuthenticAfrican  11 місяців тому +1

      You can't fight guns with spears and knives.

    • @Lonesome__Dove
      @Lonesome__Dove 10 місяців тому +2

      ​@@AuthenticAfricanindeed. And it seems guns and ammo were commonly traded. I imagine many tribes traded other humans they conquered for guns and ammo to protect their people of their own tribes and land...self preservation if you will. Basically forced out of necessity of survival. Makes one wonder what the world would look like if Europeans and Spanish never brought guns to Afrika. Would western world even look the same? Would we be as advanced as we are or as free? Nothing would look the same. I can try to understand but never will. I can imagine a deep sadness an suffering in ones soul because we are all connected to our ancestors.

    • @user-xz8cr3sy5v
      @user-xz8cr3sy5v 10 місяців тому

      Africa is not one nation, like europe its made up of groups of ethnicities; aka countries with diff languages, cultures, etc. remember in every society worldwide there are the greedy sick wicked ones. they snitch and betray others. reasons vary- could be for your more fertile land, water resources, gold, etc. wars, battles do happen-captives taken e.g. Captives may be kept for work, or on 'encouragement' 'scheming' 'incentives' from outsiders e.g. promise and delivery of superior weapons, tools, etc against the 'enemy', one can be turned. thus humans can become 'goods' for trade. the tables turn the other way 'next time' as the puppet master gives the former victim's surviving relatives and kin who often are seething with rage and retribution, superior weapons for revenge. so the victim group now becomes the villain group. alliances are formed and encouraged....the cycle continues unfortunately. just one reason, tip of the 'iceberg' that led and encourage the evil trade. there were hundred of resistance wars between African states and the colonizers.....the Ashanti beheaded an English general call Sir Garnet Worsely and kept his skull as a drinking cup. the Dutch beheaded an Akan King called Badu and kept his skull (returned for burial in 2019). there were many wars and battles....obviously those with superior weapons won most of the conflicts.

    • @James-ys6wm
      @James-ys6wm 8 місяців тому

      Guns guns and more guns. Africans didn't have guns at the time. If the Europeans didn't have guns they would've got their butts whopped

    • @calit5861
      @calit5861 10 днів тому

      Right straight fooliness... no other countries but Africa, the biggest country of them all allowed this... This atrocity also falls on Africa too..

  • @lifewithalistair.
    @lifewithalistair. Рік тому +16

    I've done this same tour.
    I went back to Accra at lunch time, as the truth of my colonizing culture was to much to bare.
    I'm able to face the truth now, and would love to do this tour again, and also go to Elmina castle.
    It is imperative that every person who looks like me needs to see the evidence for themselves.

    • @AuthenticAfrican
      @AuthenticAfrican  Рік тому +2

      I agree 100%.

    • @KylianTeam
      @KylianTeam Рік тому +2

      Sometimes ask my self africa is rich blessed continent and why all this suffering sad stories

    • @brixcosmo6849
      @brixcosmo6849 Рік тому

      And did you understand the Participation of Africans in that History or are you still blinded by ignorant, biased, racist views that USA taught you!? You know that Castle was built in 1482 by Portuguese with the Autorization of the African Tribe Leaders of that region!? In an ERA when only Gold was traded in that Trading Post and that Slave Trade came after with both "Europeans" and "Africans" participating in that business. Slavery was common in all Medieval World and African Tribe Leaders already did it to all weeker tribes all over Africa. In fact there were much more African Slaves sold to the Ummayad Caliphate (Muslim Moors) and Turquish-Ottoman in North Africa than all Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. The Elmina Castle or Castelo de São Jorge da Mina History should be taught to everyone in USA. Mina in Portuguese means Mine... of Gold. There's no escuse for what happened but we all have to look at it with context.

    • @anuragpatil4073
      @anuragpatil4073 9 місяців тому +2

      @stopthewave3907 He is an Australian of a European descent

    • @lifewithalistair.
      @lifewithalistair. 9 місяців тому +1

      @@anuragpatil4073 to be precise, of English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh descent.
      When I go back far enough in my family tree, I also have a lot of French ancestry as well.
      Truth be known, that most people of European descent have ancestors from all the countries in Europe.
      Don't be surprised if more than half the people in Europe are descended from the ottomans either.
      Now what is your point?

  • @jeffo7138
    @jeffo7138 Рік тому +6

    Portuguese brought the first church to Ghana i been saying this…smh sad sad

  • @taylortaylor4375
    @taylortaylor4375 8 місяців тому +3

    😮 this is too emotional why why thank God I was ñot born by then

  • @barakmoham6555
    @barakmoham6555 10 місяців тому +4

    Am a Ghanaian but anytime I visit these places it feels like my first time.
    There is a slave plantation farm closer to where I live. I use to see that place as any other place I ve been. But after watching some of these documentaries I have developed more respect for such places.

    • @AuthenticAfrican
      @AuthenticAfrican  10 місяців тому

      Truly a sad history for sure.

    • @tx88scorpio10
      @tx88scorpio10 10 місяців тому

      @@AuthenticAfrican I have a question are the slave dungeons considered sacred by history? Because I was talking to a friend of mine and that word came up when we were talking about those slave dungeons.

  • @AREMBOELGORDO
    @AREMBOELGORDO Рік тому +1

    Great video...

  • @sourcestvghuk9897
    @sourcestvghuk9897 Рік тому +3

    Very interesting video ❤❤❤

  • @Lonesome__Dove
    @Lonesome__Dove 10 місяців тому +1

    Eye opening.

  • @dglorious1269
    @dglorious1269 8 місяців тому +1

    I just saw Joy Reid talking about this. She and her husband just recently visited there. Videos like this are always so hard to watch, but you must in order to learn. Something that the bigots in America don't want you to do (learn).. My father took us to the Afro American museum when we were kids. That's where I first learned of how the poor slaves were packed onto the ships like sardines too. There was a reenactment ship model there. They were top of each other, and many died in there the same way. Many died. OMG I can't even imagine their suffering but I know it had to be horrible for them! It breaks my heart.😞 Thanks for the informative video.

    • @AuthenticAfrican
      @AuthenticAfrican  8 місяців тому +1

      I agree very difficult, especially in person. However, very important we lear this history. It is good to see you found it informative.

    • @dglorious1269
      @dglorious1269 8 місяців тому

      @@AuthenticAfrican 😉👍🏽

  • @trilloclock3449
    @trilloclock3449 Рік тому +4

    Y'all welcome to Ghana. 🇬🇭

  • @RachaelSales
    @RachaelSales 2 роки тому +1

    Well done sir.

    • @AuthenticAfrican
      @AuthenticAfrican  2 роки тому

      Thank you🙏🏿...I have 3 more videos on this topic on my channel. Let me know what you think of those as well.

  • @yehudah818
    @yehudah818 Рік тому +4

    Question: are there tour guides at the place or you need to book a tour guide in advance ? Thank you for the video 🙏

    • @AuthenticAfrican
      @AuthenticAfrican  Рік тому +3

      They have tour guides on site. They are very good. . Thanks for watching.

    • @yehudah818
      @yehudah818 Рік тому +2

      @@AuthenticAfrican thank you! 🙏

    • @thellc8595
      @thellc8595 3 місяці тому

      I can host you if you don't mind.

  • @chickentwisties2298
    @chickentwisties2298 2 роки тому +3

    Wow this is some serious stuff...
    I've decided to subscribe.

    • @AuthenticAfrican
      @AuthenticAfrican  2 роки тому

      yes it is. Very heartbreaking. Thank you for subscribing.

  • @donslim7586
    @donslim7586 3 роки тому +12

    Ever black American must visit here and know history of where u come from and where you are going 🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭✊✊✊✊✊

    • @IvyProsper
      @IvyProsper 3 роки тому +9

      Every Ghanaian and other Africans should also go there and understand what happened. Until we all understand what happened there is division between us. One thing some Africans don't understand is that our own relatives could have been taken as well.
      During the Year of Return, I met someone from the U.S. who did DNA testing and learned he was from Ghana. Through further investigation, his DNA matched a family in Ghana. So he was making plans to meet that family and was very emotional and excited.
      So you see, we all must understand the past because we are all one people.

    • @AuthenticAfrican
      @AuthenticAfrican  3 роки тому +5

      💯so true. as the saying goes; "you cant know where you are going, unless you know where you came from"

    • @AuthenticAfrican
      @AuthenticAfrican  3 роки тому +2

      I could not have said it better myself, 🙌🏿✊🏿

    • @lilprrr2448
      @lilprrr2448 2 роки тому +1

      Bro i see your comments in many videos

  • @_mnl_
    @_mnl_ Рік тому +1

    Thanks for this video. I think I'll visit Cape Coast.

  • @loganbrown3565
    @loganbrown3565 10 місяців тому +3

    This kind of shit is still being done and if we worked together, it would be stopped.

    • @AuthenticAfrican
      @AuthenticAfrican  10 місяців тому +2

      Agreed. I don't think this will happen again. However there are new forms of trafficking that need to be stopped.

  • @latoyag1465
    @latoyag1465 Рік тому +3

    I’m sorry I’m a year late. The tour guide said they would generate electricity from their feces. Do you have more info on that???? Great video btw. That just really stood out to me

    • @AuthenticAfrican
      @AuthenticAfrican  Рік тому +1

      Thanks for watching. I do not have more info on that topic but I would like to look into this more.

    • @Lonesome__Dove
      @Lonesome__Dove 10 місяців тому

      Similar to like a brewery. Held in tanks, using a digester the feces permeates methane, a gas.

    • @Lonesome__Dove
      @Lonesome__Dove 10 місяців тому

      Flint Michigan uses this method to fuel their city busses....atleast they used to.

  • @jldub23
    @jldub23 2 роки тому +1

    I will be there this year!!!!

  • @dcprudence144
    @dcprudence144 2 роки тому +1

    🙏🏽

    • @AuthenticAfrican
      @AuthenticAfrican  2 роки тому +1

      sad truth but it is our history. I feel it is important to share it with everyone.

  • @x3n-0h
    @x3n-0h 9 місяців тому +1

    I'm South African and proud of it 💪🏾 the Europeans caused irreversible damage to our continent but now its our turn to shine 💯 Africa is on the rise 💪🏾

    • @AuthenticAfrican
      @AuthenticAfrican  9 місяців тому

      Well said. ✊🏿🇿🇦

    • @calit5861
      @calit5861 10 днів тому

      From what I heard, China is taking over Africa

  • @azeez8842
    @azeez8842 2 роки тому +3

    I really wish they could do a better job at preserving this historic building. Good job though! Very informative

    • @AuthenticAfrican
      @AuthenticAfrican  2 роки тому

      Thanks for watching! Glad you found it informative.

    • @multyz1
      @multyz1 Рік тому +2

      The building is actually well preserved but there are some who want the Castle to be left as it is and not do anything to it. I went to high school just 4 miles away from there.

  • @winecellar1012
    @winecellar1012 10 місяців тому +1

    Totally discussing!!!

  • @tevinlewis2260
    @tevinlewis2260 Рік тому +2

    wow I didnt know anything about this

  • @akuaadu-gyamfi5829
    @akuaadu-gyamfi5829 3 роки тому +1

    I am here 🏇

  • @stephenreggio42
    @stephenreggio42 3 роки тому +3

    i grew up in cape coast so for me thats where my pan africanisim grew on me

    • @AuthenticAfrican
      @AuthenticAfrican  3 роки тому +1

      Nice! I have a friend from Cape Coast who feels basically the same way.

  • @KylianTeam
    @KylianTeam Рік тому +1

    I like africa cameroon i wish maybe to permanent reside there to visit pray for africa i wish to help to my cameroon africa motherland

  • @par620
    @par620 10 місяців тому

    Cape Coast was built by the Swedish Africa Company and traded hands a few times before going to England.

  • @margittasaager7238
    @margittasaager7238 10 місяців тому +1

    Never heard of this until now. The atrocities that the human 'beast' is able to act out is stomach turning! Have we learned anything from the past? Repetition of horrors are being rolled out to this day. The Bibel will fulfill all of it's last prophecies that YHWH has promised. He will deal with ALL evils that have ever been unleashed upon mankind. I come to peace when the world comes to peace. This is a difficult world. God Bless us all.

    • @AuthenticAfrican
      @AuthenticAfrican  10 місяців тому +1

      Truly sad This is why I encourage people to visit.

  • @victoriaamankwaa586
    @victoriaamankwaa586 Рік тому +1

    🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

  • @musicden2361
    @musicden2361 Рік тому +2

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

    • @AuthenticAfrican
      @AuthenticAfrican  Рік тому +1

      Good point. We need to be teaching this more as well.

  • @akorfaaisha7562
    @akorfaaisha7562 2 роки тому

    😭😭😭

  • @catherinechimilio1935
    @catherinechimilio1935 Рік тому +1

    Mm he didn’t mentioned the one boat that crashed on the island of St Vincent

    • @AuthenticAfrican
      @AuthenticAfrican  Рік тому +1

      Do you have any details you can share? I would like to add it to the description.

  • @merriehaskins9733
    @merriehaskins9733 Рік тому +3

    I have several family members in Ghana for a wedding right now so my friend sent me this video. I was looking up Door of No Return on Wikipedia before this, nothing. Is Ghana uncomfortable with this because it is a less savory part of tourism? I don't know, only wondering the context of history and hundreds of years of colonialism and trauma.

    • @AuthenticAfrican
      @AuthenticAfrican  Рік тому

      Door of No Return is not there but Cape Coast Castle is on Wikipedia - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Coast_Castle

  • @Aubury
    @Aubury 7 місяців тому +1

    A holiday in Cape Verde, brought one face to face with the architecture of slavery. More over a Portuguese prison for political prisoners in the 1970s. The story of slavery via the maritime European powers, is
    a deep stain.

  • @mgeorge162
    @mgeorge162 3 роки тому +8

    I wanna know the african family that made money off the slave trade.

    • @AuthenticAfrican
      @AuthenticAfrican  3 роки тому +1

      This is one of those nuanced conversations but no matter what, it is a tough subject for sure.

    • @williamaidoo6996
      @williamaidoo6996 2 роки тому +1

      I don't think African kings or chiefs had power to fight the slave captors/ the Europeans that time, although some kings or chiefs from the Nzema area of the Westerrn region, where Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was born, reportedly fought against the whites/slave captors, but they didn't succeed in stopping them.We were thought some chiefs sold slaves, but we can't confirm that actually happened, although it maybe true.

    • @afroguard
      @afroguard 2 роки тому

      In what is referred to as South-West Nigeria today, names such as Madam Tinubu and King Kosoko spring to mind.

  • @fritzroysmith8526
    @fritzroysmith8526 11 місяців тому +1

    Hi AA, trust you are well. Just came across this video, I am doing a documentary on the Continued effect of slavery on the black man. Unfortunately, we can't get to GHANA Cape Coast Castle due to budget constraints. Is it possible to use some of your footage? We are doing an Educational feature.

    • @AuthenticAfrican
      @AuthenticAfrican  10 місяців тому

      Hey, Lets chat about it. Can you email me: AuthenticAfricanLife@gmail.com

  • @razaleesent.1579
    @razaleesent.1579 10 місяців тому

    Man its gotts be hot! My mans was dripping like Shaq in the 4th qtr😂

    • @AuthenticAfrican
      @AuthenticAfrican  10 місяців тому

      it was hot, but more importantly, image being on that ship or in the dungeons

    • @razaleesent.1579
      @razaleesent.1579 10 місяців тому

      @@AuthenticAfrican I don't even want to brother. If it's that bad where you were chilling it's gotta be hell down in the dungeons. Good video tho, you actually went there

  • @DuMySmokePlus
    @DuMySmokePlus 9 місяців тому +1

    Poor men and women 😢

    • @AuthenticAfrican
      @AuthenticAfrican  9 місяців тому

      The stories told here are so sad. It's really make some greatful that I was born when and where I was born. I could not imagine these being my circumstances!

  • @dglorious1269
    @dglorious1269 8 місяців тому

    The Africans are so forgiving (too forgiving if you ask me). I just don't know how they do it, I seriously don't. So many of their ancestors as well as ours, were slaughtered and sold like chickens! OMG!!!!

  • @aniquapennant6362
    @aniquapennant6362 9 місяців тому +1

    Before they came to the US or before they sold them all over the place like Haiti Barbados Jamaica Trinidad and Tobago Brazil and the list goes on

  • @kevinonly3812
    @kevinonly3812 9 місяців тому

    Trust they will reap what they sowed!!!

  • @sarahmuzaki4656
    @sarahmuzaki4656 Рік тому +3

    Some discussin questions:
    1. How did the slave traders manage to construct such magnificent structures called castles? Don't you think they were collaborating with local kings and chiefs?

    • @AuthenticAfrican
      @AuthenticAfrican  Рік тому

      they first started trading natural resources and goods to build. Later they added people as the goods to trade.

    • @brentboston35
      @brentboston35 Рік тому

      Of course they helped the slave traders , in exchange for goods.

  • @juliettebennette9840
    @juliettebennette9840 Рік тому +4

    Many of those slaves who came through the door of no return,came here to Jamaica and worked on the sugar plantations as slaves.They were treated badly and many of them died from the hands of their slave masters.Some of them feet were cut off,fingers were cut,get lashes with a thing they called catternine.When they hit you one time you got nine strokes.Those backs were left with soars and blòod.BLACK PEOPLE GO THROUGH A LOT.

  • @mikebrown9521
    @mikebrown9521 11 місяців тому +1

    Damn, 60,00000.00 Black people ins-laved. That’s crazy! We have no excuses for not making it.

    • @AuthenticAfrican
      @AuthenticAfrican  11 місяців тому

      We have lots of work to de-program. It's happening slowly and I have faith.

  • @criostoirashtin11
    @criostoirashtin11 10 місяців тому +1

    How did the slaves get to the castle?

  • @enigma70x
    @enigma70x 8 місяців тому +1

    No forgiveness! 😡

  • @canaanwilliams122
    @canaanwilliams122 5 місяців тому +1

    As an African American, this has to piss you off to the core. I wouldn’t want to visit this shit. For me I take it as they had a beef with my people and shipped us off to this hellscape called america. I’m all for us United globally don’t get me wrong, but the hood politics I grew up with won’t let me let this shit ride. I would be asking questions like what tribe helped with this shit and then side eye those folk for the remainder of my stay. Sorry not sorry.

    • @calit5861
      @calit5861 10 днів тому

      Exactly! Everyone is thinking it's neat to experience this smfh... what's so neat about the beginning of the downfall of all Africa ns and African decedents... The slave trade gave all Africans a bad look, and no one respects them.... not even themselves... Africans still worship and praise white people

  • @tearonworld455
    @tearonworld455 Рік тому +2

    So how much did this cost?

  • @kofiakanfantse8071
    @kofiakanfantse8071 2 роки тому

    We have never worship rocks ,trees,rivers etc,etc,those áreas was usted as temple,where to pray.

    • @AuthenticAfrican
      @AuthenticAfrican  2 роки тому +1

      Thanks for watching!

    • @kofiakanfantse8071
      @kofiakanfantse8071 2 роки тому

      @@AuthenticAfrican I am watching from Spain,i come from Cape Coast,Ntsin street,and my Mother from Dawson hill.

  • @pauc9596
    @pauc9596 10 місяців тому +1

    Where does the figure of 60 million come from? It must also be noted that slavery between the different African tribes, peoples and cultures existed for hundreds of years before the Europeans arrived and it is still going on. The ancestors of those currently living in Ghana and other coastal areas of Africa were the ones who sold their captives to the Europeans who then turned it into an unforgiving factory process to maximise their profits. But just look at the atrocities of slavery and worse occurring now in South Sudan or Mali as well as other countries and don’t forget the recent horrors enacted in Rwanda. It is time to concentrate on righting present day wrong doing and injustice by using the lessons from history to abolish these things. We cannot change history we can only learn from it and all continue to behave decently to one another.

    • @AuthenticAfrican
      @AuthenticAfrican  10 місяців тому

      Great question. It's the number that they say at the castle. Not sure how the figures were calculated.

  • @apemancommeth8087
    @apemancommeth8087 10 місяців тому +1

    So the people who were enslaved were orphans, criminals and random people who were caught during tribal warfare! Very similar to the Australians who were often times criminals who were sent to colonies to essentially live their lives out there! The one main difference is that the Africans were enslaved and I think the Australians had more freedoms to build and create a society!

    • @AuthenticAfrican
      @AuthenticAfrican  10 місяців тому

      Yes. That is true. The operative word is "SOME" of the people.

  • @apskalleapa
    @apskalleapa 2 роки тому

    How could they do such a thing? I don't understand. Can someone explain?

    • @AuthenticAfrican
      @AuthenticAfrican  2 роки тому +1

      Its so hard to understand. I can not imagine doing something like this to another human being.

    • @christianeamani4144
      @christianeamani4144 2 роки тому +2

      Greed! Money! Power! It is so sad that someone could do that to someone else.

    • @iloveyougumi
      @iloveyougumi Рік тому +2

      It was a punishment from The Most High, but he said they went too far with the punishment. They hate us, because of who we are to Him. Sadly, it’s their turn now, but it will be much worse than this
      Well based on the American Government’s HR 1242, the 400 years ended August 2020, as stated in Genesis 15:13-14. The curses of Deuteronomy 28 have also been fulfilled, with verse 46 stating that the curses in this chapter will be a sign as to who God’s children are FOREVER.
      Zechariah 1:15 and I am very angry with the nations that feel secure. I was only a little angry, but they went too far with the punishment.’
      Millions of his children are waking up currently in the lands of their captivity, so these are occurring now also:
      Baruch 2:30
      “For I knew that they would not hear me, because it is a stiffnecked people: but in the land of their captivities they shall remember themselves.”
      Roman 11:25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
      When God’s people wake up to who they are the number of Gentiles to be saved and the Gentile rule is coming to an end.
      Deuteronomy 30:1-7
      Joel 3
      Joel 2 and Zechariah 14:12 a people that do not die by the sword is coming
      Rev 2:9 and 3:9
      Just as in Ancient Egypt, TMH’s people are waiting for an Exodus not a rapture. Look at the Egyptian symbols on a dollar bill and the total solar eclipses of 2017 and 2024 that mark an X over America and cross in a town known as Lil Egypt.
      God says he will send the plagues of Egypt, as before, but this time over the whole world
      2 Esdras 15
      People will be afraid when they find out who God’s children are Wisdom of Solomon 5:1-7
      Jeremiah 30:11 I am with you and will save you,’ declares the LORD. ‘Though I completely destroy all the nations among which I scatter you, I will not completely destroy you. I will discipline you but only in due measure; I will not let you go entirely unpunished.’
      Isaiah 14:2 Nations will take them and bring them to their own place. And Israel will take possession of the nations and make them male and female servants in the LORD’s land. They will make captives of their captors and rule over their oppressors.
      Isaiah 60:12 For the nation or kingdom that will not serve you will perish; it will be utterly ruined.

    • @BonsuBigWhale
      @BonsuBigWhale Рік тому

      Deuteronomy does not apply to Afrikans any more than it applies to a Chinese Buddhist or Indian Hindu. There is no ethnic nation in West.Afrika that is rooted in Torah for laws or spiritual systems.
      The Vatican issues its own PapalBull fatwas to justify enslaving or vanishing any none Christian nations or peopes.
      Red Pontificus, Inter Catera Davina and Sum Diversas.
      No need to white wash the crimes of the Europeans with any suggestion that we earned it.

  • @Thomas-gu7fr
    @Thomas-gu7fr 8 місяців тому +1

    Truly awful. Let us learn history and work together to never repeat it

  • @eggieoffo2590
    @eggieoffo2590 Рік тому +1

    Kofi Iso knows nothing. Cape Coast Castle wasn't built by the British shame . A school kid knows that.Christainborg castle was not built by the Dutch. It was built by the Danes.These are the sort of people who rule Ghana, shame,shame,shame.
    Cape Coast Castle (Swedish: Carolusborg) is one of about forty "slave castles", or large commercial forts, built on the Gold Coast of West Africa (now Ghana) by European traders. It was originally a Portuguese "feitoria" or trading post, established in 1555, which they named Cabo Corso. However, in 1653 the Swedish Africa Company constructed a timber fort there. It originally was a centre for the trade in timber and gold. It was later used in the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

    • @AuthenticAfrican
      @AuthenticAfrican  Рік тому +1

      Thank you for sharing. However, Lets not insult Kofi. To say that the guy "knows nothing", is not constructive. What might be more constructive is just siting your sources for who built it and when when. Then, pointing out where his facts differ from what you know. Also, it would be more the fault of the folks on site, that actually give him this information, if it is incorrect.

    • @eggieoffo2590
      @eggieoffo2590 Рік тому +1

      @@AuthenticAfrican Sorry for the word "knows nothing" which must not be used. But the fact is every Ghanaian was taught from primary school education that Christianborg castle the sit of the Ghanaian president was built by the Danes which is in any history book, and even if a mistake was made he should have known it to make correction himself.

    • @AuthenticAfrican
      @AuthenticAfrican  Рік тому

      @@eggieoffo2590 i understand. What about the rest of the fact from the video. I know he only mentioned that castle one time and I was not aware that he misrepresented who built it. Were his facts right about Cape Coast Castle? That is the one we were actually touring that day.

  • @rickbass1783
    @rickbass1783 Рік тому +1

    We traced our ancestors back to Senegal.

    • @AuthenticAfrican
      @AuthenticAfrican  Рік тому +1

      Oh nice congrats on finding your lineage. I recommend that you visit and see where you come from.

  • @user-uk7ei9oz6m
    @user-uk7ei9oz6m 5 місяців тому

    They had no choice if you humans be evil to them they most not have been feeding them then feed them a snake then laugh about it

  • @TreeBug88
    @TreeBug88 Рік тому +3

    Many of the slaves were dumped overboard because they had too many in the ship . captains knew they would not make it through customs if they had too many slaves on the ship so they would dump them over board these were human beings!!!!!!!!

    • @AuthenticAfrican
      @AuthenticAfrican  Рік тому +2

      such a sad story.

    • @TreeBug88
      @TreeBug88 Рік тому +1

      @@AuthenticAfrican It’s beyond sad these people should pay for their crimes and continued crimes against us. personally, I have experienced horrible racism and many fights in my lifetime

  • @nautical1845
    @nautical1845 2 роки тому +1

    Africans sold Africans at these castle's

    • @AuthenticAfrican
      @AuthenticAfrican  2 роки тому +3

      Its unfortunate but true that some Africans did take part but the main perpetrators were the Europeans involved.

    • @nautical1845
      @nautical1845 2 роки тому +2

      @@AuthenticAfrican Yes but slaving was around all over Africa for 1000 years before the Europeans arrived and learned that the African would sell another African. The trade of slaves between the Arabs and Africans went on long before and long after the Europeans. As it still exists today.

  • @TreeBug88
    @TreeBug88 Рік тому +1

    Update a rather critical update Spain the Spanish brought south Asian slaves to Mexico and other Spanish colonies including the southern states of the US those of us who have claimed all our lives that we are part native American need to do more research. now I am told the lighter skin of these Asians were deemed indigenous by the Catholic Church the darker skin Asians were kept in captivity and blended with the Native Americans who migrated to this land and have been here for 12,000 years they also blended with the slave African slave my DNA test results shows south Philippines much to my surprise and despair much research is needed my question is those of us who have Asian and Native American DNA are automatically indigenous to this land the Spaniard colonies were here in America before the Europeans made the purchase we are indigenous people I hope this made sense much love peace out

    • @AuthenticAfrican
      @AuthenticAfrican  Рік тому

      Wow. I was not aware of this. Can you share where you found this info?

    • @TreeBug88
      @TreeBug88 Рік тому

      @@AuthenticAfrican ua-cam.com/video/JZRDiRMndsA/v-deo.html

    • @TreeBug88
      @TreeBug88 Рік тому

      @@AuthenticAfrican ua-cam.com/video/JZRDiRMndsA/v-deo.html

    • @TreeBug88
      @TreeBug88 Рік тому

      @@AuthenticAfrican And my DNA results even those 2….3…and 1% are so so so important because that’s where we originated from those 1% or’s 2% or’s five%ers They are dating far back in history for in 500 years unfortunately my gene pool has been destroyed with 40% European ancestry that I cannot celebrate because to this day they still do not except us

    • @TreeBug88
      @TreeBug88 Рік тому

      @@AuthenticAfrican ua-cam.com/video/9Tb1Dwxt0lw/v-deo.html

  • @frankfestus114
    @frankfestus114 Рік тому +1

    Why Ghana making money from this shameful history useless Africa king's of the past

    • @AuthenticAfrican
      @AuthenticAfrican  Рік тому +4

      The history should be told so that we dont repeat it.

  • @specialcookday
    @specialcookday Рік тому

    People who do doordash It should say doorslave. Because amount of work dashers do and amount dashers earns are slave work.

    • @AuthenticAfrican
      @AuthenticAfrican  Рік тому +1

      I am sorry. I do not understand. However, I want to thank you for watching and commenting on the video.

  • @geronimoperryii5652
    @geronimoperryii5652 2 роки тому +3

    That's fucked up

  • @enitachipoyi1377
    @enitachipoyi1377 5 місяців тому

    religion

  • @sarahmuzaki4656
    @sarahmuzaki4656 Рік тому +2

    2. Why do we still think thank Christianity is for us all when those who brought it caused atrocities here in Africa, America England, etc?
    3. Did God only come with European slave traders?
    4. Why do we call ourselves after names of those who committed these atrocities on us? Why aren't we proud of our own meaningful names?

    • @AuthenticAfrican
      @AuthenticAfrican  Рік тому

      All good points:
      2. Why do we still think thank Christianity is for us all when those who brought it caused atrocities here in Africa, America England, etc? - Its more seen as witch craft or old traditions, but most people are following Christianity and Islam which both came through slave trade and changed the way people live and worship in the region.
      3. Did God only come with European slave traders? - Great question. The language spoken is their language and the system are European. Religion is one of the many things that Europeans changed here in West Africa.
      4. Why do we call ourselves after names of those who committed these atrocities on us? Why aren't we proud of our own meaningful names? - Well Kwame Nkrumah did help to change the name to Ghana instead of Gold Coast. However, so many things have been named based on Europeans instead of local names.

    • @paulchambers3279
      @paulchambers3279 Рік тому

      Many Christians did terrible things in the slave trade, tragically. Evangelical Christians were also the ones who brought the slave trade to an end. Look up William Wilberforce, Henry Ward Beecher, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. If if wasn't for Christianity, slave trading would still be happening.

    • @johnpalmer725
      @johnpalmer725 Рік тому

      Real talk

    • @zialone
      @zialone 11 місяців тому

      A church on top of a slave dungeon.

  • @baburo101
    @baburo101 11 місяців тому +1

    But Christianity is an entirely passive, nonviolent religion. 🙄

    • @AuthenticAfrican
      @AuthenticAfrican  11 місяців тому

      Well it's primarily meant to be but was perverted by the colonizers for their gain.

    • @baburo101
      @baburo101 11 місяців тому

      @@AuthenticAfrican Agree. Religions in their essence are meant to make their perspective followers better humans one way or another.

  • @natedogg7377
    @natedogg7377 2 роки тому +1

    That's because we were never Africans we were Hebrews who looked like them, The Hamites Sold Judah to the Arabians and the Portuguese and the caucasians
    Do your research. Duetoronony 28:68

  • @haml97
    @haml97 Рік тому +1

    Caribbean's if you tell them your African they get upset quick 😂 your not from the Caribbean you got driven there know your history

    • @AuthenticAfrican
      @AuthenticAfrican  Рік тому +1

      Wow. I was not aware that can happen to some. I have been a few times with my family and we did not experience that at all.

  • @Sn0wboarder2390
    @Sn0wboarder2390 9 місяців тому

    Seriously? A trigger warning? I get its sensitive subject matter but there isn't anybody alive who went through this, watching this. What's being "triggered" exactly? Yall need to toughen up a bit with the safe space bullcrap.

    • @AuthenticAfrican
      @AuthenticAfrican  9 місяців тому

      I think it should be in place just in case. You never know how hearing about these things may trigger other types of trauma a person has gone through. The subject matter that cover sexual assault is something that many go through and it is important that they are forewarned about that content so that they can be prepared for what they might hear.