In this clip Dr. Gina Paige talks about her first visit to Africa, returning with a group, and the African perspective on the trans Atlantic slave trade.
Big shout all the way from Kenya 🇰🇪. I wish to add to my sister’s explanation there that rival tribes did capture people in war, and at times exchanged people for goods. My great grandmother came from a neighboring tribe as a little girl. And was exchanged for food during a vicious famine that was killing people. Her new family did not enslave mistreat her, but adopted and naturalized her into the family. She was nurtured and upon attaining maturity got married normally, inherited land and property, and had a normal life. My grandfather had a servant boy from a neighboring tribe who was treated so graciously, he was an adopted son to my grandpa. He was helped to get a wife, raise a family, and eventually inherited land and property. Just like my uncles The reason for this, is that we had taboos that strictly forbade mistreatment of strangers, and they were followed quite religiously until the colonial disruption. What they say in the history books and media is not true, and perhaps if our ancestors knew the fate that awaited the people they were selling off to the white people, it would have been a different story Having said that, I applaud all the great work being done to reconnect Africans in diaspora to the motherland, and I welcome you all back home!
I wish that people would share stories like yours to the world. I'm Canadian but I have a lot of African American friends on social media and one of the most common attacks they get from white supremacists is yeah well Africans sold people into slavery as well. The world needs to know what was the truth about slavery in Africa and how it differed from slavery in the West. We only know of the horrific things that Europeans did to slaves in North America, well what little truth gets exposed. God bless you and your beautiful people.
very true, I'm ghanaian and I know that the kind of slavery the ashantis practiced in those times where just exchanges, which mostly ended in inter-marriages. And we know for a fact, that when the fantes finally spread word of what was going on at the coasts it lead to the liberation of all slaves which were about to be sold and incited brutal wars which drove the british out of the hinterlands back down to the coasts until reinforcements arrived. which then led to consistent wars for over a period of 70 years till all the local tribes were finally defeated. In short, no one had a clue of what the europeans had in store.
@Isaac Darko-Wow..that info should be shared widely coz all we know is that nasty Afrikans sold Afrikans to the Europeans.Afrika has suffered in the hands of the ARABS longer than European.EAST AFRIKAN SLAVE TRADE from the 7 & 8th centuries-czcams.com/video/K8a04-CH77o/video.html
I'm African from sudan homeland of kush kingdom i welcome u all to africa we will be happy to see my brothers &sisters from diaspora to come home. put negative away those are white proganda
Am an African from Kenya live in Canada . when they took our people they told them they were going to work in USA then come back no body knew they were gonna be slave
@@kathambikinoti4217 There were East Africans slave trade too, stop being closed minded, some East Africans came to Brazil after going to Portugal by the Portuguese.
@@gsheverything_2716 -That"s right.Afro Brazillians are more Afrikan than the Afrikans .In Mexico too,you'll find people who trce their roots to countries like Kenya etc-czcams.com/video/eOU4HPO47t4/video.html
@@kathambikinoti4217 where did you get that? The demon speak in opposite. That why if it say slaves were from west Africa it talking east Africa. It never speak the truth. Meanwhile tell us where slaves from east Africa by the Portuguese, British and Americans were taken?
African never sold other africans. Because of the conception of private property. Africans have so much respect for God that they can’t understand how you can own what belong to him
Correct, Initially the tribal leaders did not know the type of slavery (chattel) they were selling other blacks into. But when the true atrocities in America came to light, some tribes stopped the exchange. And I vaguely remember reading that some tribes actually fought against other tribes (and the white men) to stop the slave trade. I'm glad Dr. Paige pointed out that tribal slaves where slaves only for a defined period of time. So, by definition, they were indentured servants - like the Irish who claim they were slaves. After serving their time, many became part of the family. This is similar to what happened here in the Americas. Since Native Americans (Indians) were great trackers, they were often hired by white men to capture and return, runaway slaves to their owners. Slaves who resisted were often killed and scalped (I guess their scalp was proof for payment). A large number of Indians themselves owned Africa slaves, but later - after being betrayed by the "white man" - ended slavery in all the nation tribes. To this day, many of the tribal chiefs do not like talking about this dark part of their history. (There's a YT video where one chief admits this.) Some of the newly freed slaves became part of the Native American tribes - some by marriage. But the odd twist to this story is when the USA started handing out reparations to native American tribes, the Indian tribal leaders (Cherokee, etc.) voted "against" sharing these reparations with their ancestral black brethren. Dr. Claud Anderson's research on Native Americans' role in slavery sheds more light on this. Thanks for the video!
@Children of Israel First, use your correct name, don't claim a name that doesn't suit you. What do you expect to make them pay? You are so holy, and just, so do what you aim to do quickly, like judas iscariot, but don't hide behind you fingers. Your hate will swallow you like AMALEC the spiteful. You'd better not touch a grain of sand of Africa, or You will know that God still loves Africa and its children. Mean man.
When I studied Caribbean History at secondary (high) school, my teacher, Mrs. East taught us that that the slavery that existed in some of the African tribes were not like the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade as the Doctor in the video has said. I am from Trinidad and Tobago & the Caribbean was part of this particular enslavement. Some of the textbooks we used were Caribbean History (Mahase & Baldeosingh), A Caribbean Story (Claypole & Robottom), The People Who Came Series of texts (Alma Norman, Carnigie & Patterson), Emancipation to Emigration & Amerindians to Africans (both by Greenwood & Hamber). Also see author Lennox Honychurch books. For University and A levels we used work by Dr. Brinsley Samaroo and Dr. Bridget Brereton of The University of the West Indies, St, Augustine Campus. We learnt that the slavery was more like servitude in some cases, in these cases the women could marry their master/owner & if they bore children the children were free and could inherit property, even if the enslaved mother was not married or freed. Another example was where the enslaved person could work for wages and buy themselves out of slavery, this was especially true if the enslavement was due to debt or if the enslaved person's family paid the debt. Any more Caribbean History students out there in CZcams Land??
I’m telling you. She is one very smart lady and I think she should be a teacher just for this kind of subjects to educate those AA who hates us by blaming our ancestors for selling their ancestors into slavery. She should have a seminar to train other teacher to speed the message.
As the old African proverb says, “Until the lion tells his side of the story, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. “, they say we didn’t resist, it’s not true, In 1446, a Portuguese caravel carrying the Portuguese slave trader - Nuno Tristão and his party attempted to enter Serer territory in Senegal in order to carry out slave raiding. None of the adult passengers of that caravel survived. They all succumbed to Serer poisoned arrows except five young Portuguese. One of them was left with the task to charter the caravel back to Portugal. Nuno was amongst those killed. king Nzinga Mbemba of the Kongo kingdom resisted and fought against slavery ,Queen Nzingha of Angola fought a successful 30-year war against the slave traders of Portugal until the Portuguese negotiated a treaty with her in 1656. Their treaty remained in effect until she died in 1663. Her successor was weak so the Portuguese resumed slavery after her death. Other countries that were resisting the slave trade throughout the continent of Africa were Senegal, Ghana, Benin, Nigeria, Angola etc. In 1777, King Agadja, a Dahomean monarch, captured an Englishman and his slave raiding party who had entered his kingdom looking for more Africans. The Englishman and his crew were released after they promised to return all the Africans they had captured. King Agadja gave the Englishmen a warning to take to the rulers of England, that if any other slave traders were sent to his Kingdom, or other kingdoms, they would be killed. In 1787, the Senegal King of Almammy, passed a law that made it illegal to take enslaved Africans through his kingdom. To let Europeans know how serious the law was, the king returned the presents French slave traders sent as bribes. African leaders who opposed the European slave trade, organized and assigned large groups to keep watch for slave ships traveling to the East and whose crews were well-known for kidnapping Africans on the coast. For example, King Ansah of Ghana (1470-1486) had the Fante people watch for European ships, and prevented them from coming ashore. Many other African leaders did not permit Europeans in their kingdoms. In Benin, the people had heard of the intentions of the Europeans, so they killed them as soon as they came ashore. There were some kings who agreed to trade with the Europeans, but attempted to stop it once they saw the problems that were created in their lands. Through the tactics of several African leaders and kings, they were able to minimize the European slave trade but they could not stop it completely. The treachery , greed and violence of the Europeans knew no limits, they had better weapons, Some were sold as enemies of war , but most were hunted , the Portuguese used to hunt Africans on horse back, villages were raided and kidnappings of Africans were routine, that explains how the Prince of Fouta Djalon Ibrahim Sory was kidnapped by the Portuguese and sold to Americans as a slave, they kidnapped a mathematician from Senegal 🇸🇳 named Omar Ibn Said and sold him as a slave in Charleston. The women of Nder in Senegal 🇸🇳 committed collective suicide by burning themselves in their homes rather than be taken as slaves. Out of every 100 Africans captured, 70 died on the way to Europe or the Americas, either by disease or by suicides, the Atlantic Ocean is the graveyard of millions of our African ancestors, they took our people from Africa and today their police still kill our people in the streets of America. On the day of judgment, I will ask God, why? Why did he place this burden of suffering on us black People.
This is a beautiful storytelling experience, thanks for sharing! I have tried to share similar messages through my first documentary and it seems we really must continue sharing them for a true reconnection
This is MY PERSONAL UNDERSTANDING In my African community slavery was like indentured servitude, it never lasted forever the children of slaves were free people the slave could decide to pause/suspend service and resume someother time in future as long as it won't be towards old age that will make it practically impossible for the person to do anywork, slaves could become chiefs in their masters community even king Google "KING JAJA OF OPOBO" he was an Igbo slave in Bonny who became king, I want to make a video about slaves from the African perspective (my own part of Africa, my people were involved and affected so if you have questions you'd like to ask please do before I make the video so I can address them in the video)
❣from Southern Cameroons. We had an elderly person in the family who was married. As children we were told he was a slave brought from another village. However he was accorded all respect and love as any other, was treated well but he never returned to his original home. Very interesting.
Many African American love to make the distinction between chattel slavery and slavery when discussing American slavery. I for one don’t agree with the notion/excuse that African kings “did not know” when they were selling their neighbors to the European it was for chattel slavery, as if knowing would have stoped them from dealing in slavery ... What we can say for sure is, African kings sold their neighbors for trade of manufacture goods brought in from Europe, and did not care about their neighbors plight once the sale was done... The irony in all of this, is what has changed today , “nothing” African elite take care of their tribe/family while they are in power by selling all the country resources, while other tribes get little to nothing from these sales and we in Black America blame the European for the plight of Africans and not those who are in control of the governments, in That land...SMH
@Malachi Israel y'all ain't never said nothing about none of those other groups all you talk about is Africa but here's where you talk about Africa cuz you are afraid of the connection that black people in America are starting to have with Africans on the continent
In many African countries they still have "help" that comes to assist in family homes. A lot of the times they end up getting an education or some form of assistance in return. You will never hear a story of an African complaining about "slavery" in Africa, that says a lot. Just one side of the story is being told to make themselves look good but it's ok. My uncle told me that there were wars were Africans lost. Only Ethiopia could somehow win with spears against guns.
Slavery in Africa dominated in the West part of Africa and a small part also in East Africa. Slavery among African people never existed as a culture in Southern Africa and to this day this is still a shock to me as I continue to explore this subject. It is important to make this distinction as Africa is one big continent with very different cultures values and norms. This gives us a new perspective going forward who we are dealing with? why? How? where? When?
For context African slavery was what we call indentured servitude not slavery also African "slaves" were captives of war who would be integrated into society.
As far as all black outside of Africa embrasse the version of the colonialist as 100% true, they will never be settle free, only the truth can set them free. And for sure, people are getting tired.
PLEASE view this video [ czcams.com/video/LkL1NCMXYEQ/video.html ] containing information from the 1400s-1700s? These books contain journals written by the slave traders, and colonizers. Now I understand the reason we have never seen them in schools, or public libraries because what’s written in them is the TRUTH so they had to hide these journals in GOVERNMENT FACILITIES.
Licla Sister please view this video [ czcams.com/video/LkL1NCMXYEQ/video.html ] containing information from the 1400s-1700s? These books contain journals written by the slave traders, and colonizers. Now I understand the reason we have never seen them in schools, or public libraries because what’s written in them is the TRUTH so they had to hide these journals in GOVERNMENT FACILITIES.
There are many nations living in Africa, like Assyrian, Egyptians, the Israelites, Judahites, many nation that was displaced from the land of Shem. And you will be gathered in your nation again.
@Mama Africa What makes you think jesus has bearing on jews being in their homeland ? What you are doing is a load false statement with biased religious confirmation delusion. Your statement religious in ways and doesnt explain anything shows a more wanting mind belief. So no your beliefs are False and racist.
There was servanthood in Afrika, not slavery. Servanthood meant that if you found yourself impoverished for some reason, you would work for another fellow Afrikan for an agreed period of time with an agreed compensation and agreed skills transfer in order for you to build your own wealth for yourself after selling your services and doing your time as a servant. Servanthood is in line with our Afrikan spiritual principles, Slavery is a European evil concept. Sipho Maduna from the part of our land they call South Afrika, which I call KwaZulu (the land of people of Heaven) or Lesotho (the land of dark brown skinned people). KwaZulu and Lesotho actually mean Afrika but they have reduced KwaZulu to a province in South Afrika and they have reduced LeSotho to a small country within South Afrika. One Afrika, One People, One Love ❤️
Dr. Akosua Perbi is an authority on indigenous African Slavery. She has a book on it. Dr. Paige was accurate though. Slaves were mostly prisoners of war. There were also abductions. The enslavement of Africans exploded because of the sugar trade and the plantations in the Americas. The inhumanity however was rooted in racism and ethnocentrism. Society needs to resist all forms of hatred and prejudice.
People are still being sold today even over the internet internationally. And just like some people know of these things today there are certain people in society profiting from these practices, fighting against it or doing nothing and feel bad or don’t care. Just like back in the days.
She is telling the truth they feed African American negative Images of the African and they feed Africans negative stereotype about African American to keep us divided and it's working very well
As a white person from SA, I totally agree woth this lady! It mist have been very painfull to see those slave dungeons🥲 Love the work this lady is doing👌🏼
People buck home thought when they get to USA life was so good and don't wanna come buck . family were mad at them thinking they find good life and abandoned us . no body knew they were in chains coz they were all free people
Abbas mohamed Seif 24 hour work day, raped , starved, beaten is no vacation. My ancestors were terrorized and brutalized. Not a pic nic. 😨 now we are searching four people in Africa and it is very difficult.
African Americans gain a whole lot more learning about their original tribe than West Africans learning about African Americans. Put your prejudices aside, take the African Ancestry DNA test and engulf yourself, re invent yourself into a true African with real African tribal traditions, culture and heritage you can pass down to your family. You will feel a lot better about yourself.
It was also African Merchants who were in positions of power who did the selling not everybody. And even before that the Portuguese just straight up abducted people from their homes Europeans had to convince some African royals co operate cause they kept getting killed. Quite a few of those Kings and Queens were who merchants ended up being captured and sold and or murdered later either way.
In America we have been so lied to about Africa. The slavery mentality worked on us and to this this day the history of Africa They taught us is still what many except. While we stayed in America with the lies the other races were in Africa, looting and stealing... And we still stayed in America with the mindset we were in heaven, even though we were truly in hell. I did my " DNA" I'm 58% Nigerian, 95 % West African... Born in America. I have touches of European blood 1% Spanish, 3% Irish, 1% English( but I consider myself African American)... Which I have shared with my children and my other family members...
I wonder tooo... Im well educated Beautiful Kenyan lady... When I visit my family in the village especially market days, it's so natural to carry your bundle of stuff on your head and it's so hilarious trying to balance it, walk and chat along at the same time and I looove it🤸♂️🤸♂️🤸♂️🤸♂️🤸♂️😍
To piggyback off of what she said about Africans selling other Africans into slavery was not meant to be forever.(If I understood her correctly) I have a very good friend who holds a Masters degree and is a teacher in Ogun state Nigeria. We talk alot about the Transatlantic slave trade, he said that during that time obviously Africans had never seen things such a mirrors and matches, etc and when the Whites came they traded those items for us...He also said that he knows that slavery was horrific and had it not been for the Whites they wouldn't have known about books, the English language, etc...Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
Ok, most of what African Americans know about the slave trade is revisionist history and many Africans read European writers and got confused. Let me give some perspective as someone who read deeper and who was taught history by a Pan Africanist who studied African history by cultural writings from many Kingdoms. Sultan Njoya of Cameroon had history well documented by previous "Sultans" of the Bamum Kingdom in Cameroon who had their on established writings. Bigger Kingdoms had their writings. There was never a Nigeria or Cameroon. These were all formed my the Europeans for their design. What you call tribes today were actually smaller nations of kingdoms that lived mostly independently. Some were quite large, e.g Benin area, part of today's Nigeria and Douala in Cameroon. Africans were trading with the middle Easterners across the Sahara Desert and Africans had stamina through the perilous stretch of the desert. The Middle Easterners had been fighting to push back on European incursion as the European sought a sea route to India for trade. It was usually a bloody mess as many Europeans were killed. The Cherokees' Land (Americas??? a scam!!!!) was accidentally visited (NOT FOUNDED or DISCOVERED, STOP SAYING THAT !!!!) by Columbus and later on Amerigo, all Italian sailors commissioned by the Spanish kingdom. This was after some West African peoples had been to Cherokee Land and back. The Europeans were looking for a sea route to India (remember?), they were seeking gold and diamond. When Europeans came to today's America, some Middle Easterners who had forged some relationships with the Portuguese started the idea of slavery. The Europeans came peacefully with gifts and RELIGION and asked for trade relationships. They usually formed a "blood pact" with the kings. Then they ambushed the people when they got comfortable with deadly weapons. The African small nations were coerced to enter an agreement to go to nearby or even distant weaker kingdoms to catch people in exchange for their captive people. Soon this bad behavior became rewarded as the Europeans settled in weaker kingdoms, seized men at gun point and only exchanged when the kingdom brought back captives. The Europeans would then bring gifts for local kings who now saw an easier way of gaining wealth. The greed of some kings encouraged slave trade but most of the trade as a rescue mission for captives. Most of these nations were not interacting with others far away in the wild. I can't just write a lot here but you guys get the point. Africans were not looking for Europeans to trade in people. It started from European greed and then with the coercion of Africans. Bear in mind that this land was never called Africa. The Europeans named it. Nigeria and Niger had their names derived same way. Many kingdoms fought back. Those that succeeded were more distant from the coast and had more people. Some kingdoms only had as little as forty people. How vulnerable were they?
I strongly don't think There gonna be some Africans that have negative perspective on African Americans'. If you know Africa you will say it is the opposite that will happen, African Americans will be very welcomed. You have a lot of assets. Observe carefully and go beyond the mere tourist connection and think about the role you can play in Africa. I have the opportunity to live for years in countries such as France and the UK and for months in Belgium, Luxembourg, Ireland and New York, for weeks in Italy and Netherlands You the African Americans are the most well organised, the most well equipped among Blacks everywhere else. You should be aware of that.
she need to specify.. just like not all european country were involved in slavery, not every african nation today had slavery going on..most AA are west africans and csentral and southwest africa...
@@oluolatunde342 Try and speak proper English plus learn how to understand English context. A helper, a slave, or what ever you call it is going on among your group. Look around you.
Why the people of America so called ados and indigenous is difficult to believe that thy are from Afrika. Why our ancestors was used the same structure of pyramids but was no connections between Africa and America?
What if you have Native American blood as well? All of my great grand parents have it. Yes I have African ancestry as well. But I’ve always felt American not African.
to say that Africans who sold their " rivals " to Europeans had no idea that these people would be dehumanized is nonsense. the conditions the captives were kept in while they awaited sale and shipment to the Americas was appalling even for those times. Also Muslim Arabs and Moors were purchasing slaves from central and West Africa at least 1000 years before the Europeans. The casualty rate for young men and boys was ridiculously high due to the muslim practice of double castration outside Muslim territory !. So certain African tribes/clans and kingdoms must've been aware of a rise in demand and asked why . Those African Kingdoms, clans/tribes are just as guilty as the purchasers of these poor people my ancestors . you can give the benefit of doubt for the first 100 years for the Arab slave trade so to continue that trade and then sell to Europeans is unforgivable in my opinion. those African nations that benefited from the slave trade should have to pay reparations . We always look to the Europeans but forget Africans and Arabs were at it a very long before the them . peace.
@@amenetwork961 OK I dont know what part of world you come from but from the way you've responded to my text I'm guessing that you have gone through the US school system & have not bothered to continue your education , either by night school or home study . You know reading & research in your own time not for a qualification but just a desire for knowledge & facts . 1) slavery has been part of every nation or tribe as long as history has been recorded. 2) Africans have always and still practice slavery within Africa Now for a brief history of Africans enslaving other Africans go and read about the Akan tribes who waged war against their neighbours to capture slaves to sell to the Portuguese who in turn would sell on these African slaves to mine gold . The Akan even purchased africans from the Portugese to clear forests . All this for western products. That's just one tribe 👍🏾 3) if you're of Jamaican heritage like me the house (nation)of H.I.M. Selassie practiced slavery until the 1930s. Clue they werent buying Europeans . one of the main reason why Europeans got into the lucrative African slave trade was because Byzantine had fallen to the muslims & South eastern Europe became part of the various caliphates . That part of the world is where the majority of white slaves were taken from . Hence the names Yugoslavia, Slav , Slovenia & Slovakia etc that's where word slave originates. The Xtians went south west following the African coast & west across Atlantic. I'll stop there . Just remember you must learn 💪🏾 peace.
They didn’t know. 😂 lol. That was a crazy answer. they seen the dungeons the chain’s the Horsecollar, women being raped. What else do they need to see to know. She is saying they didn’t know because there are slavery all over Africa but when ask what kind of slavery was in Africa at the time, she don’t know. If she doesn’t know then how can she give a answer to it. WOW
I have a question 😊🤔 if black Peoples story begins with slavery? Who built the pyramids in South America which are exactly like the ones in Egypt ? 2 where was the boats going when the king musa sent men to look for distant lands with turns of gold 🤔 3 name 3 busness built on slave trade in Africa I will wait.?
Something I don’t understand about African Americans, so since you were sold do you feel like we owe you an apology, why do you put blame on us, most of us we’re living in Africa we were not there by that time your parents and my parents were selling you.
@@KillahBartt yeah but the little still says africa but Nevermind. I reliase people outside always never really mention an african country they travel to or live in.
@@samwarmate9291 how did u come up with this conclusion. She would not have kindagarten education if she stayed where she came from. Do not miss up American slavery to African 'slavery'. Families in Africa today still send their children to other homes. Not all homes treat them well, that I know. Some homes treat them as family. My home send her to university and she has completed successfully. Read my previous text again.
Nii Zuzi Montezuma there is a difference between parents willingly sending their child to live with a family member versus illegally snatching,kidnapping or buying another human being for endless servitude.why are you promoting slavery.from your name u must be South African.the last racist regime treated your people as slaves and you fought back didn't you?why enslave anybody in the first instance that is my question.
Nii Zuzi Montezuma ,I read and understood your text extremely well.you said a slave can become a family member,and I simply asked why enslave anyone in the first place and u didn't respond with an answer but more justifications and questions.
That last part about African slavery being a summer camp for the enslaved is complete and total bullshit. She should've stopped herself after she said "i'm not an expert on African slavery". There's no shame in admitting ignorance, but there's a great deal of shame in presenting your own assumptions and what you wish to be true about the past as historical fact.
At 8:30 Don't all slaves,even in African cultures,live in bondage? I mean,what's to keep a slave from freely walking off? Don't you have to force slavery on people because everybody wants to be free?
This dont count sista . . . You are a red bone . . . You are beautiful and you will be received well anywhere you go. Many Africans worship lighter skinned blacks . . . You still are beautiful . . . Just saying.
@@chinwenduchinwe586 not true, the word originally meant whatever, however in modern times it has come to mean anything American, am African living in America AND THE WORD APPLIES TO ME AS WELL. Saying akata now means American or black American disregarding which black you are and it has no negative connotation
@@amadanquah3098 I have never to this day heard a k a t a used to mean whatever??? Maybe a similar word in Yoruba with different intonations...??? Don't neglect the fact that there are vast number of different factors and mentalities involved. Again the meaning and how it's used is two different junctions. The way I and many said it, is what I've witnessed in Africa and abroad. There is nothing false about it.
@@chinwenduchinwe586LOL, SAYING WHATEVER MEANS WHATEVER THE ACTUAL MEANING IS, that does not mean akata means whatever, lol. Remember words overtime get twisted in context. Yes the word akata had a meaning or has an actual meaning, however, the meaning in the context of the subject at hand is not the same, THE MEANING HAS CHANGE OVERTIME TO MEAN AMERICAN, SO A FRIEND OF MINE WIL SAY MY SISTER IS AKATA (MEANING MY SISTER IS AMERICAN).
@@amadanquah3098 Please go back and read your comment...??? Most definitely the meaning of some word's meanings do change for any number of reasons. You saying what you said does not change the real of how many others negatively use the word in Africa and abroad.
So if we know people are trying to divide us why we stay divide it's on us to love each other we owe that to our ancestors
Big shout all the way from Kenya 🇰🇪. I wish to add to my sister’s explanation there that rival tribes did capture people in war, and at times exchanged people for goods. My great grandmother came from a neighboring tribe as a little girl. And was exchanged for food during a vicious famine that was killing people. Her new family did not enslave mistreat her, but adopted and naturalized her into the family. She was nurtured and upon attaining maturity got married normally, inherited land and property, and had a normal life. My grandfather had a servant boy from a neighboring tribe who was treated so graciously, he was an adopted son to my grandpa. He was helped to get a wife, raise a family, and eventually inherited land and property. Just like my uncles
The reason for this, is that we had taboos that strictly forbade mistreatment of strangers, and they were followed quite religiously until the colonial disruption. What they say in the history books and media is not true, and perhaps if our ancestors knew the fate that awaited the people they were selling off to the white people, it would have been a different story
Having said that, I applaud all the great work being done to reconnect Africans in diaspora to the motherland, and I welcome you all back home!
I'm loving Kenya! Kenya is calling me!
@@joyfulsoul1702 You're welcome to visit and stay if you like it! Welcome home!
I wish that people would share stories like yours to the world. I'm Canadian but I have a lot of African American friends on social media and one of the most common attacks they get from white supremacists is yeah well Africans sold people into slavery as well. The world needs to know what was the truth about slavery in Africa and how it differed from slavery in the West. We only know of the horrific things that Europeans did to slaves in North America, well what little truth gets exposed. God bless you and your beautiful people.
@@mariag5306 Thanks and God bless you too
@@araps4w354 thank you ❤🙏
very true, I'm ghanaian and I know that the kind of slavery the ashantis practiced in those times where just exchanges, which mostly ended in inter-marriages. And we know for a fact, that when the fantes finally spread word of what was going on at the coasts it lead to the liberation of all slaves which were about to be sold and incited brutal wars which drove the british out of the hinterlands back down to the coasts until reinforcements arrived. which then led to consistent wars for over a period of 70 years till all the local tribes were finally defeated. In short, no one had a clue of what the europeans had in store.
Isaac Darko thanks for sharing this information. Needed for healing in people in the diaspora.😢😨😳
@I.N. Turrner basically, yes
@@jewel3567 no thanks needed, you are welcome.😊
@Isaac Darko-Wow..that info should be shared widely coz all we know is that nasty Afrikans sold Afrikans to the Europeans.Afrika has suffered in the hands of the ARABS longer than European.EAST AFRIKAN SLAVE TRADE from the 7 & 8th centuries-czcams.com/video/K8a04-CH77o/video.html
Issac, I never knew any of this...Where did u find this info? I sincerely appreciate u enlightening so many of us African Americans with this...
I'm African from sudan homeland of kush kingdom i welcome u all to africa we will be happy to see my brothers &sisters from diaspora to come home. put negative away those are white proganda
Am an African from Kenya live in Canada . when they took our people they told them they were going to work in USA then come back no body knew they were gonna be slave
@@kathambikinoti4217 There were East Africans slave trade too, stop being closed minded, some East Africans came to Brazil after going to Portugal by the Portuguese.
@@ahmosethemelanite9325 exactly
@@gsheverything_2716 -That"s right.Afro Brazillians are more Afrikan than the Afrikans .In Mexico too,you'll find people who trce their roots to countries like Kenya etc-czcams.com/video/eOU4HPO47t4/video.html
@@kathambikinoti4217 where did you get that? The demon speak in opposite. That why if it say slaves were from west Africa it talking east Africa. It never speak the truth. Meanwhile tell us where slaves from east Africa by the Portuguese, British and Americans were taken?
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Proud Cameroonian here and you’re welcome.
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African never sold other africans. Because of the conception of private property. Africans have so much respect for God that they can’t understand how you can own what belong to him
Correct, Initially the tribal leaders did not know the type of slavery (chattel) they were selling other blacks into. But when the true atrocities in America came to light, some tribes stopped the exchange. And I vaguely remember reading that some tribes actually fought against other tribes (and the white men) to stop the slave trade.
I'm glad Dr. Paige pointed out that tribal slaves where slaves only for a defined period of time. So, by definition, they were indentured servants - like the Irish who claim they were slaves. After serving their time, many became part of the family. This is similar to what happened here in the Americas.
Since Native Americans (Indians) were great trackers, they were often hired by white men to capture and return, runaway slaves to their owners. Slaves who resisted were often killed and scalped (I guess their scalp was proof for payment). A large number of Indians themselves owned Africa slaves, but later - after being betrayed by the "white man" - ended slavery in all the nation tribes. To this day, many of the tribal chiefs do not like talking about this dark part of their history. (There's a YT video where one chief admits this.)
Some of the newly freed slaves became part of the Native American tribes - some by marriage. But the odd twist to this story is when the USA started handing out reparations to native American tribes, the Indian tribal leaders (Cherokee, etc.) voted "against" sharing these reparations with their ancestral black brethren. Dr. Claud Anderson's research on Native Americans' role in slavery sheds more light on this.
Thanks for the video!
EXACTLY!
@Children of Israel how??🤣😂🤣😂
@Children of Israel please keep dreaming.....
@Children of Israel get over yourself. Watch your yourself. Some things don't make sense and your utterance is just on the peak of absolute sh**....
@Children of Israel First, use your correct name, don't claim a name that doesn't suit you. What do you expect to make them pay? You are so holy, and just, so do what you aim to do quickly, like judas iscariot, but don't hide behind you fingers. Your hate will swallow you like AMALEC the spiteful. You'd better not touch a grain of sand of Africa, or You will know that God still loves Africa and its children. Mean man.
The good doctor has such a sweet spirit.
Proud Namibian 🇳🇦 here, we welcome you
When I studied Caribbean History at secondary (high) school, my teacher, Mrs. East taught us that that the slavery that existed in some of the African tribes were not like the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade as the Doctor in the video has said. I am from Trinidad and Tobago & the Caribbean was part of this particular enslavement.
Some of the textbooks we used were Caribbean History (Mahase & Baldeosingh), A Caribbean Story (Claypole & Robottom), The People Who Came Series of texts (Alma Norman, Carnigie & Patterson), Emancipation to Emigration & Amerindians to Africans (both by Greenwood & Hamber). Also see author Lennox Honychurch books. For University and A levels we used work by Dr. Brinsley Samaroo and Dr. Bridget Brereton of The University of the West Indies, St, Augustine Campus.
We learnt that the slavery was more like servitude in some cases, in these cases the women could marry their master/owner & if they bore children the children were free and could inherit property, even if the enslaved mother was not married or freed. Another example was where the enslaved person could work for wages and buy themselves out of slavery, this was especially true if the enslavement was due to debt or if the enslaved person's family paid the debt. Any more Caribbean History students out there in CZcams Land??
All this is explained in the Mosaic Laws of TORAH - *MANY* do not know that Slavery within the Natives was at one’s WILL not enforced!
My father and his family is from Trinidad and Tobago, and I'm interested in the history!
Beautiful, smart sister. Salute from Chad, Africa.
I’m telling you. She is one very smart lady and I think she should be a teacher just for this kind of subjects to educate those AA who hates us by blaming our ancestors for selling their ancestors into slavery. She should have a seminar to train other teacher to speed the message.
A very beautiful sister..She looks South African.
Did you get the bread
As the old African proverb says, “Until the lion tells his side of the story, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. “, they say we didn’t resist, it’s not true, In 1446, a Portuguese caravel carrying the Portuguese slave trader - Nuno Tristão and his party attempted to enter Serer territory in Senegal in order to carry out slave raiding. None of the adult passengers of that caravel survived. They all succumbed to Serer poisoned arrows except five young Portuguese. One of them was left with the task to charter the caravel back to Portugal. Nuno was amongst those killed. king Nzinga Mbemba of the Kongo kingdom resisted and fought against slavery ,Queen Nzingha of Angola fought a successful 30-year war against the slave traders of Portugal until the Portuguese negotiated a treaty with her in 1656. Their treaty remained in effect until she died in 1663. Her successor was weak so the Portuguese resumed slavery after her death. Other countries that were resisting the slave trade throughout the continent of Africa were Senegal, Ghana, Benin, Nigeria, Angola etc. In 1777, King Agadja, a Dahomean monarch, captured an Englishman and his slave raiding party who had entered his kingdom looking for more Africans. The Englishman and his crew were released after they promised to return all the Africans they had captured. King Agadja gave the Englishmen a warning to take to the rulers of England, that if any other slave traders were sent to his Kingdom, or other kingdoms, they would be killed. In 1787, the Senegal King of Almammy, passed a law that made it illegal to take enslaved Africans through his kingdom. To let Europeans know how serious the law was, the king returned the presents French slave traders sent as bribes.
African leaders who opposed the European slave trade, organized and assigned large groups to keep watch for slave ships traveling to the East and whose crews were well-known for kidnapping Africans on the coast. For example, King Ansah of Ghana (1470-1486) had the Fante people watch for European ships, and prevented them from coming ashore. Many other African leaders did not permit Europeans in their kingdoms. In Benin, the people had heard of the intentions of the Europeans, so they killed them as soon as they came ashore. There were some kings who agreed to trade with the Europeans, but attempted to stop it once they saw the problems that were created in their lands. Through the tactics of several African leaders and kings, they were able to minimize the European slave trade but they could not stop it completely. The treachery , greed and violence of the Europeans knew no limits, they had better weapons, Some were sold as enemies of war , but most were hunted , the Portuguese used to hunt Africans on horse back, villages were raided and kidnappings of Africans were routine, that explains how the Prince of Fouta Djalon Ibrahim Sory was kidnapped by the Portuguese and sold to Americans as a slave, they kidnapped a mathematician from Senegal 🇸🇳 named Omar Ibn Said and sold him as a slave in Charleston. The women of Nder in Senegal 🇸🇳 committed collective suicide by burning themselves in their homes rather than be taken as slaves. Out of every 100 Africans captured, 70 died on the way to Europe or the Americas, either by disease or by suicides, the Atlantic Ocean is the graveyard of millions of our African ancestors, they took our people from Africa and today their police still kill our people in the streets of America. On the day of judgment, I will ask God, why? Why did he place this burden of suffering on us black People.
Am so touched
Thank you for sharing such valuable information 💯💯
Thanks for this education!!!
I honestly don’t know what to type. You left me speechless. I always ask that same question too. God bless ❤️
I Love Gina Paige!
This is a beautiful storytelling experience, thanks for sharing! I have tried to share similar messages through my first documentary and it seems we really must continue sharing them for a true reconnection
This is MY PERSONAL UNDERSTANDING
In my African community slavery was like indentured servitude, it never lasted forever the children of slaves were free people the slave could decide to pause/suspend service and resume someother time in future as long as it won't be towards old age that will make it practically impossible for the person to do anywork, slaves could become chiefs in their masters community even king Google "KING JAJA OF OPOBO" he was an Igbo slave in Bonny who became king,
I want to make a video about slaves from the African perspective (my own part of Africa, my people were involved and affected so if you have questions you'd like to ask please do before I make the video so I can address them in the video)
❣from Southern Cameroons. We had an elderly person in the family who was married. As children we were told he was a slave brought from another village. However he was accorded all respect and love as any other, was treated well but he never returned to his original home. Very interesting.
It’s in the TORAH 👉🏽 Mosaic LAWS that entailed the Community Living Codes of Conduct.
I can confirm your story. Many Historians in Africa told similar instances in the continent.
Well said sis so now i'm begging Americans to stop thinking Africans hate them
Stop listening the media we all love our brothers and sisters around the globe
Very good ! One World Africa now and Forever ! 😎
Try to visit the gambia country of konta kinte
Many African American love to make the distinction between chattel slavery and slavery when discussing American slavery. I for one don’t agree with the notion/excuse that African kings “did not know” when they were selling their neighbors to the European it was for chattel slavery, as if knowing would have stoped them from dealing in slavery ... What we can say for sure is, African kings sold their neighbors for trade of manufacture goods brought in from Europe, and did not care about their neighbors plight once the sale was done... The irony in all of this, is what has changed today , “nothing” African elite take care of their tribe/family while they are in power by selling all the country resources, while other tribes get little to nothing from these sales and we in Black America blame the European for the plight of Africans and not those who are in control of the governments, in That land...SMH
Provide your evidence.
Why should Africans have to apologize and Europeans have never apologized for slavery
They both should apologize, shouldn't they?
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@Malachi Israel y'all ain't never said nothing about none of those other groups all you talk about is Africa but here's where you talk about Africa cuz you are afraid of the connection that black people in America are starting to have with Africans on the continent
@@dwaineleso5127 Africans shouldn't apologize coz most slaves were kidnapped by Europeans using guns.
@@pietrojenkins6901 No they weren't.
In many African countries they still have "help" that comes to assist in family homes. A lot of the times they end up getting an education or some form of assistance in return. You will never hear a story of an African complaining about "slavery" in Africa, that says a lot. Just one side of the story is being told to make themselves look good but it's ok. My uncle told me that there were wars were Africans lost. Only Ethiopia could somehow win with spears against guns.
She look more like Fulani people of west Africa or the Igbo's.
She could share dna we are more than one ethnicity lots of mixing in 500 years
She is actually, by DNA confirmation
Dera Kio Not All Africans Americans have a completely mixed DNA.
Yes. They're beautiful people.
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Awesome interview. Thanks for the insights, Dr Paige. You’re a pioneer leading the way for the rest of us.
Slavery in Africa dominated in the West part of Africa and a small part also in East Africa. Slavery among African people never existed as a culture in Southern Africa and to this day this is still a shock to me as I continue to explore this subject. It is important to make this distinction as Africa is one big continent with very different cultures values and norms. This gives us a new perspective going forward who we are dealing with? why? How? where? When?
For context African slavery was what we call indentured servitude not slavery also African "slaves" were captives of war who would be integrated into society.
Very positive video .
Love this queen
People from the Carribean been going to Africa for 100s of years now. Only now African Americans are catching up.
No we’ve been going to Africa just as long as y’all have since the revolutionary war, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and other back to Africa moments.
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My grandfather's were taken by force nobody sold them.
You're damn right ,same way vast areas of African land were taken by colonialist invaders thru force.
As far as all black outside of Africa embrasse the version of the colonialist as 100% true, they will never be settle free, only the truth can set them free. And for sure, people are getting tired.
PLEASE view this video [ czcams.com/video/LkL1NCMXYEQ/video.html ] containing information from the 1400s-1700s? These books contain journals written by the slave traders, and colonizers. Now I understand the reason we have never seen them in schools, or public libraries because what’s written in them is the TRUTH so they had to hide these journals in GOVERNMENT FACILITIES.
Licla Sister please view this video [ czcams.com/video/LkL1NCMXYEQ/video.html ] containing information from the 1400s-1700s? These books contain journals written by the slave traders, and colonizers. Now I understand the reason we have never seen them in schools, or public libraries because what’s written in them is the TRUTH so they had to hide these journals in GOVERNMENT FACILITIES.
Respect
There are many nations living in Africa, like Assyrian, Egyptians, the Israelites, Judahites, many nation that was displaced from the land of Shem. And you will be gathered in your nation again.
Israel/judah aka jews and assyrians are white and middle east. Wake up
Egypt is north African not black.
@Mama Africa What makes you think jesus has bearing on jews being in their homeland ?
What you are doing is a load false statement with biased religious confirmation delusion. Your statement religious in ways and doesnt explain anything shows a more wanting mind belief. So no your beliefs are False and racist.
@Mama Africa thats wishful thinking
@Mama Africa that passag is suprnatural not a rac passag
@Mama Africa no thy do watch kariate judaism
Watching from cape town township South its good if you fill at home in your motherland
It is important to have citizenship to reside permanently in an African state.Property can be bought from a real estate agent.
There was servanthood in Afrika, not slavery. Servanthood meant that if you found yourself impoverished for some reason, you would work for another fellow Afrikan for an agreed period of time with an agreed compensation and agreed skills transfer in order for you to build your own wealth for yourself after selling your services and doing your time as a servant. Servanthood is in line with our Afrikan spiritual principles, Slavery is a European evil concept. Sipho Maduna from the part of our land they call South Afrika, which I call KwaZulu (the land of people of Heaven) or Lesotho (the land of dark brown skinned people). KwaZulu and Lesotho actually mean Afrika but they have reduced KwaZulu to a province in South Afrika and they have reduced LeSotho to a small country within South Afrika. One Afrika, One People, One Love ❤️
Dr. Akosua Perbi is an authority on indigenous African Slavery. She has a book on it. Dr. Paige was accurate though. Slaves were mostly prisoners of war. There were also abductions. The enslavement of Africans exploded because of the sugar trade and the plantations in the Americas. The inhumanity however was rooted in racism and ethnocentrism.
Society needs to resist all forms of hatred and prejudice.
People are still being sold today even over the internet internationally. And just like some people know of these things today there are certain people in society profiting from these practices, fighting against it or doing nothing and feel bad or don’t care. Just like back in the days.
She is telling the truth they feed African American negative Images of the African and they feed Africans negative stereotype about African American to keep us divided and it's working very well
As a white person from SA, I totally agree woth this lady! It mist have been very painfull to see those slave dungeons🥲 Love the work this lady is doing👌🏼
Hi Mam. I was wondering if you can refer me to assistance with getting my Visa to Ghana. And i was wondering why didnt you stay in Africa? Thanks !
We were sold into CHATTEL SLAVERY...it is different from the servitude type of slavery that was happening all over the world.
People buck home thought when they get to USA life was so good and don't wanna come buck . family were mad at them thinking they find good life and abandoned us . no body knew they were in chains coz they were all free people
Abbas mohamed Seif 24 hour work day, raped , starved, beaten is no vacation. My ancestors were terrorized and brutalized. Not a pic nic. 😨 now we are searching four people in Africa and it is very difficult.
@@jewel3567 You are already welcome home even before you begun your journey. Bless you!
African Americans gain a whole lot more learning about their original tribe than West Africans learning about African Americans. Put your prejudices aside, take the African Ancestry DNA test and engulf yourself, re invent yourself into a true African with real African tribal traditions, culture and heritage you can pass down to your family. You will feel a lot better about yourself.
It was also African Merchants who were in positions of power who did the selling not everybody. And even before that the Portuguese just straight up abducted people from their homes Europeans had to convince some African royals co operate cause they kept getting killed. Quite a few of those Kings and Queens were who merchants ended up being captured and sold and or murdered later either way.
In America we have been so lied to about Africa. The slavery mentality worked on us and to this this day the history of Africa They taught us is still what many except. While we stayed in America with the lies the other races were in Africa, looting and stealing... And we still stayed in America with the mindset we were in heaven, even though we were truly in hell. I did my " DNA" I'm 58% Nigerian, 95 % West African... Born in America. I have touches of European blood 1% Spanish, 3% Irish, 1% English( but I consider myself African American)... Which I have shared with my children and my other family members...
Why would it be negative to carry bundles on your head?
I wonder tooo... Im well educated Beautiful Kenyan lady... When I visit my family in the village especially market days, it's so natural to carry your bundle of stuff on your head and it's so hilarious trying to balance it, walk and chat along at the same time and I looove it🤸♂️🤸♂️🤸♂️🤸♂️🤸♂️😍
Women carry load on the heads while men on the shoulders
Interesting stories there
To piggyback off of what she said about Africans selling other Africans into slavery was not meant to be forever.(If I understood her correctly)
I have a very good friend who holds a Masters degree and is a teacher in Ogun state Nigeria. We talk alot about the Transatlantic slave trade, he said that during that time obviously Africans had never seen things such a mirrors and matches, etc and when the Whites came they traded those items for us...He also said that he knows that slavery was horrific and had it not been for the Whites they wouldn't have known about books, the English language, etc...Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
Légitime et obligatoire. Vivre en commute mais ouverte car l’Afrique est conservatrice traditionnelle mais hospitalière
Ok, most of what African Americans know about the slave trade is revisionist history and many Africans read European writers and got confused. Let me give some perspective as someone who read deeper and who was taught history by a Pan Africanist who studied African history by cultural writings from many Kingdoms. Sultan Njoya of Cameroon had history well documented by previous "Sultans" of the Bamum Kingdom in Cameroon who had their on established writings. Bigger Kingdoms had their writings.
There was never a Nigeria or Cameroon. These were all formed my the Europeans for their design. What you call tribes today were actually smaller nations of kingdoms that lived mostly independently. Some were quite large, e.g Benin area, part of today's Nigeria and Douala in Cameroon. Africans were trading with the middle Easterners across the Sahara Desert and Africans had stamina through the perilous stretch of the desert. The Middle Easterners had been fighting to push back on European incursion as the European sought a sea route to India for trade. It was usually a bloody mess as many Europeans were killed.
The Cherokees' Land (Americas??? a scam!!!!) was accidentally visited (NOT FOUNDED or DISCOVERED, STOP SAYING THAT !!!!) by Columbus and later on Amerigo, all Italian sailors commissioned by the Spanish kingdom. This was after some West African peoples had been to Cherokee Land and back. The Europeans were looking for a sea route to India (remember?), they were seeking gold and diamond.
When Europeans came to today's America, some Middle Easterners who had forged some relationships with the Portuguese started the idea of slavery. The Europeans came peacefully with gifts and RELIGION and asked for trade relationships. They usually formed a "blood pact" with the kings. Then they ambushed the people when they got comfortable with deadly weapons. The African small nations were coerced to enter an agreement to go to nearby or even distant weaker kingdoms to catch people in exchange for their captive people. Soon this bad behavior became rewarded as the Europeans settled in weaker kingdoms, seized men at gun point and only exchanged when the kingdom brought back captives. The Europeans would then bring gifts for local kings who now saw an easier way of gaining wealth. The greed of some kings encouraged slave trade but most of the trade as a rescue mission for captives. Most of these nations were not interacting with others far away in the wild. I can't just write a lot here but you guys get the point.
Africans were not looking for Europeans to trade in people. It started from European greed and then with the coercion of Africans. Bear in mind that this land was never called Africa. The Europeans named it. Nigeria and Niger had their names derived same way. Many kingdoms fought back. Those that succeeded were more distant from the coast and had more people. Some kingdoms only had as little as forty people. How vulnerable were they?
Y'all can have this! No place is perfect
I strongly don't think There gonna be some Africans that have negative perspective on African Americans'. If you know Africa you will say it is the opposite that will happen, African Americans will be very welcomed.
You have a lot of assets. Observe carefully and go beyond the mere tourist connection and think about the role you can play in Africa.
I have the opportunity to live for years in countries such as France and the UK and for months in Belgium, Luxembourg, Ireland and New York, for weeks in Italy and Netherlands You the African Americans are the most well organised, the most well equipped among Blacks everywhere else. You should be aware of that.
she need to specify.. just like not all european country were involved in slavery, not every african nation today had slavery going on..most AA are west africans and csentral and southwest africa...
romen home I'm glad Southern Africa did not engage in slavery,so that proves not all African countries sold their own people and betrayed them.
A "slave" in my home completed university and became part of the family.
Nii Zuzi Montezuma,why did u enslave a human being in the first place?
Must he say a "slave in my home"? Fool...
Oluyemi Olatunde I wonder! I have been arguing with this individual since
@@samwarmate9291 people like him shouldn't be in the midst of reasonable people! And he's boastful of that shameful statement.....idiot!
@@oluolatunde342 Try and speak proper English plus learn how to understand English context. A helper, a slave, or what ever you call it is going on among your group. Look around you.
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What about de blood dyamondz
Can you please talk about the Kissinger report
Ivan Van Sertima look at the video
Beautiful Queen xxxx
if u committed crime they will sell . to keep the land clean. so most slaves were banished or captured during tribal wars
Yes.
Why the people of America so called ados and indigenous is difficult to believe that thy are from Afrika. Why our ancestors was used the same structure of pyramids but was no connections between Africa and America?
Gcinikaya Telekiso what do you mean so called ADOS? Why the disrespect
Google Mark Blanton the real southafrica Mark is Black America owned travel businesses in southafrica
Do Cameroonians hate African Americans? I understand people can be people but just based under a generalization?
Fiadelli daily global observation
What if you have Native American blood as well? All of my great grand parents have it. Yes I have African ancestry as well. But I’ve always felt American not African.
to say that Africans who sold their " rivals " to Europeans had no idea that these people would be dehumanized is nonsense. the conditions the captives were kept in while they awaited sale and shipment to the Americas was appalling even for those times. Also Muslim Arabs and Moors were purchasing slaves from central and West Africa at least 1000 years before the Europeans. The casualty rate for young men and boys was ridiculously high due to the muslim practice of double castration outside Muslim territory !. So certain African tribes/clans and kingdoms must've been aware of a rise in demand and asked why . Those African Kingdoms, clans/tribes are just as guilty as the purchasers of these poor people my ancestors . you can give the benefit of doubt for the first 100 years for the Arab slave trade so to continue that trade and then sell to Europeans is unforgivable in my opinion. those African nations that benefited from the slave trade should have to pay reparations . We always look to the Europeans but forget Africans and Arabs were at it a very long before the them . peace.
Very logical view point. Thank you.
Your not a African! Africans don't sell African's!
@@amenetwork961 OK I dont know what part of world you come from but from the way you've responded to my text I'm guessing that you have gone through the US school system & have not bothered to continue your education , either by night school or home study . You know reading & research in your own time not for a qualification but just a desire for knowledge & facts .
1) slavery has been part of every nation or tribe as long as history has been recorded.
2) Africans have always and still practice slavery within Africa
Now for a brief history of Africans enslaving other Africans go and read about the Akan tribes who waged war against their neighbours to capture slaves to sell to the Portuguese who in turn would sell on these African slaves to mine gold . The Akan even purchased africans from the Portugese to clear forests . All this for western products. That's just one tribe 👍🏾
3) if you're of Jamaican heritage like me the house (nation)of H.I.M. Selassie practiced slavery until the 1930s. Clue they werent buying Europeans .
one of the main reason why Europeans got into the lucrative African slave trade was because Byzantine had fallen to the muslims & South eastern Europe became part of the various caliphates . That part of the world is where the majority of white slaves were taken from . Hence the names Yugoslavia, Slav , Slovenia & Slovakia etc that's where word slave originates. The Xtians went south west following the African coast & west across Atlantic.
I'll stop there . Just remember you must learn 💪🏾 peace.
I went to the same school that you have Attended.
@@amenetwork961 Thought so , hence why I've spent decades re-educating myself.
...STOP stoking FLAMES of IGNORANCE!... Stop disconnecting my SONS and DAUGHTERS!...Stop DISCONNECTING my heritage, MY PEOPLE! ...Now.
They didn’t know. 😂 lol. That was a crazy answer. they seen the dungeons the chain’s the Horsecollar, women being raped. What else do they need to see to know. She is saying they didn’t know because there are slavery all over Africa but when ask what kind of slavery was in Africa at the time, she don’t know. If she doesn’t know then how can she give a answer to it. WOW
What did she need to teach people in Africa ? Anger, at what ? Fanning the flames of historical transgressions NOW THAT IS HELPFUL
I have a question 😊🤔 if black Peoples story begins with slavery? Who built the pyramids in South America which are exactly like the ones in Egypt ?
2 where was the boats going when the king musa sent men to look for distant lands with turns of gold 🤔
3 name 3 busness built on slave trade in Africa I will wait.?
Something I don’t understand about African Americans, so since you were sold do you feel like we owe you an apology, why do you put blame on us, most of us we’re living in Africa we were not there by that time your parents and my parents were selling you.
" african american in africa" just State the Country. Its Not that hard.ß
Ajoaa Yebo if you watched the video you’d know that she talks about being in multiple countries
@@KillahBartt yeah but the little still says africa but Nevermind. I reliase people outside always never really mention an african country they travel to or live in.
Ajoaa Yebo she mentioned them by name
@@anixdollface i dont need you to school me about what i already know. People tend to say africa in terms of anything even of its just a country.
@@anixdollface lmao okay
A Slave can became a member of a family
Nii Zuzi Montezuma why take a person away from their family and loved ones in the first place?
@@samwarmate9291 how did u come up with this conclusion. She would not have kindagarten education if she stayed where she came from. Do not miss up American slavery to African 'slavery'. Families in Africa today still send their children to other homes. Not all homes treat them well, that I know. Some homes treat them as family. My home send her to university and she has completed successfully. Read my previous text again.
Nii Zuzi Montezuma there is a difference between parents willingly sending their child to live with a family member versus illegally snatching,kidnapping or buying another human being for endless servitude.why are you promoting slavery.from your name u must be South African.the last racist regime treated your people as slaves and you fought back didn't you?why enslave anybody in the first instance that is my question.
@@samwarmate9291 it seems u don't even read my text and explanations. You need someone to translate what I wrote. You are not reading my text.
Nii Zuzi Montezuma ,I read and understood your text extremely well.you said a slave can become a family member,and I simply asked why enslave anyone in the first place and u didn't respond with an answer but more justifications and questions.
That word apologize... Africans have nothing to apologize for.
That last part about African slavery being a summer camp for the enslaved is complete and total bullshit. She should've stopped herself after she said "i'm not an expert on African slavery". There's no shame in admitting ignorance, but there's a great deal of shame in presenting your own assumptions and what you wish to be true about the past as historical fact.
Is there a type of slavery thats not horrible?🤔
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Don't all slaves,even in African cultures,live in bondage? I mean,what's to keep a slave from freely walking off? Don't you have to force slavery on people because everybody wants to be free?
I'm white !
Colonialists at fault? Totally crazy.
Israel is in Africa
Its middle east way out side black africa
@@yaruqadishi8326 lmao middle east is no where near the Africa continent & the real jews are swatzers
@@Davencie Swartz ?
Its another word for black, the land they have is not their land
@@Davencie jews are not black and they are Middle Eastern
This dont count sista . . . You are a red bone . . . You are beautiful and you will be received well anywhere you go. Many Africans worship lighter skinned blacks . . . You still are beautiful . . . Just saying.
Red bone...that's offensive.
Captain america in africa 😁
African don’t call yu AKATA, do your search before you claim something
Some try to in and out of Africa. She is correct in what she stated.
@@chinwenduchinwe586 not true, the word originally meant whatever, however in modern times it has come to mean anything American, am African living in America AND THE WORD APPLIES TO ME AS WELL. Saying akata now means American or black American disregarding which black you are and it has no negative connotation
@@amadanquah3098
I have never to this day heard
a k a t a used to mean whatever??? Maybe a similar word in Yoruba with different intonations...??? Don't neglect the fact that there are vast number of different factors and mentalities involved. Again the meaning and how it's used is two different junctions. The way I and many said it, is what I've witnessed in Africa and abroad. There is nothing false about it.
@@chinwenduchinwe586LOL, SAYING WHATEVER MEANS WHATEVER THE ACTUAL MEANING IS, that does not mean akata means whatever, lol. Remember words overtime get twisted in context. Yes the word akata had a meaning or has an actual meaning, however, the meaning in the context of the subject at hand is not the same, THE MEANING HAS CHANGE OVERTIME TO MEAN AMERICAN, SO A FRIEND OF MINE WIL SAY MY SISTER IS AKATA (MEANING MY SISTER IS AMERICAN).
@@amadanquah3098
Please go back and read your comment...??? Most definitely the meaning of some word's meanings do change for any number of reasons. You saying what you said does not change the real of how many others negatively use the word in Africa and abroad.
👎 no
Yes come to Africa and bring .money. If Yu want to survive then Yu want choices and they need surviv funds just as much as .moving to America.