David Olusoga is fake historian . The book black and British is filled with lies and misinformation. Black people were never any big community in British isles NEVER. In roman times the term “ African” is used for North Africans who were NOT black . Never trust a historian who does not debate those who oppose him . Is just and attempt to justify the “ diversity “agenda and has nothing to do with historical facts . Just bc a few black people were living here and there doesn’t make them a community.
Fun fact the Vatican holds most of the letters written in the Kongo kingdom going back to this period. For all we know there could be a Kongo Chronicle in those archives. But, for whatever reason those leaders of the Vaticans don't like sharing what's in their archives.
The painting you reference I actually saw at an exhibition in Baltimore at the Walters Art Museum. The exhibition was called "Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe." They have a PDF version of the accompanying book from the event.
My great x5 was born in Portugal, His mother from Lisbon and his dad from Warri Nigeria, his dad being my great x 6 grand dad was a student from the royal court of the king of the Warri kingdom.
I've seen that painting many times and I was shocked when I saw it for the first time. As a nerd of world history I've been curios if there were any blacks in Medieval and Renaissance Europe and my answer from this is yes they were. Our people were all over, we need to teach our people we were kings, knights, priests, etc before slavery. Peace and black power brother.
Fun fact, the Warri and Benin Kingdoms in the South south of Nigeria had similar interactions with Portugal around the same time. Their royal houses also intermarried, I think.
Yeah a lot of people focus on the British, Spanish and the French empires not realizing that the Portuguese were in the game also. They have much blood on their hands too.Can we all say Henry the Navigator.
@@sakhu8945 Yes they were the first of that age. They practically kicked started the Atlantic slave trade. African-Brazilians were enslaved longer than anyone else in the Americas. They also had the longest global empire in history. Only given up their African colonies in the 70's.
Tbh the Portuguese started after seen all the wealth the arabes amassed by enslaving Africans that’s why europeens saw in Africa the only way to get riche that’s why the arabes Jews and europeens collaborated during the whole slave trade and till this day they still continue to collaborate to keep black people down
My thoughts on this is that I read somewhere when it comes to Nigeria, the first person to go to university in the 16th century in Portugal was the son of the Oba from the Benin empire of what is now modern day Nigeria. It’s somewhat vague but the claim is that the Oba’s son married a Portuguese princess and had a son with her, but returned to the Benin kingdom to assume his role as the heir and become the next Oba. When the time came, emissaries were sent to fetch his son to be the next Oba who were referred to as the “fair” Oba on account if his light skin tone. The Edos referred to the Portuguese as “Potoki” because they couldn’t pronounce the name properly. I’m from the Edo tribe of the Benin empire and I live in NYC. Could you research and find out the veracity of this claim? I’m really interested in Edo history.
Interesting. Very interesting. It might explain why in the vernacular of Guyana which we call "creolese" the Portuguese are referred to a Potogi (emphasis on the last syllable) or sometimes spelt Puttagee. I am discovering now that not only Barbadians and Jamaicans have Igbo language retentions but also Guyana. We do not use unu for plural you as in Jamaica and Barbados but anyone who grew up in the countryside knows what is potopoto, meaning mud just as in Igbo. So the word Potoki might have undergone a retention or undergone a similar transformation because of the similar background in language.
Unlikely. Maybe a Portuguese commoner but I don’t think a Nigerian even if he was a leader would be given the opportunity to marry into Portuguese royalty.
While I can't confirm it did indeed happen, there were several Euro-African marriages recorded in the early colonial era. Racism hadn't developed yet, on account of trans-atlantic slavery being in its infance @@vitus6302
@@mrdean171 this is something Afrocencentrics say to make themselves feel better. Same as the cave thing, ignorant to fact many cultures all over the world used caves, even Africans up until the 19 century..
Portuguese, Greeks, Italians, And Spanish were some of the earliest Europeans to be in The African Continent and made great documents, recordings, charts, chartings, listings, and documentations of there encounters with various peoples yeah
Eventually, the Kongo were disillusioned with the Portoguese, and petitioned the Vatican to be their own diocese and not an extension of Portoguese archbishops… this is when racism kicked in, and the church and Portugal orchestrated civil war in the kingdom of Kongo… which the destroyed the Central African civilization and separated West Africa from East African tribes- Things Fall Apart and the center cannot hold…
Portugal reached Kongo as early as 1470s, that is 20 years before columbus reached the americas. The first Church in Kongo was bulit in 1491. The Kongo Kingdom even had a Coat of Arms and even sent emissaries and University students to the Pope in the 1500s.
This is true. And why I’ve maintained there is no Western Civilization without African civilization. The period when a quarter of Lisbon Portugal was black, was also the period of Portugal’s greatest strength in Europe. Think about the impact of that on what we call Portoguese culture today.
What Civlilisation Racist liar? Do you mean Female Genital Mutilation? Olisoga in also an Racist liar who claimed that England was always full of Blacks. And if that was true that so many blacks lived there, it would mean that they would also complicit in the Slave Trade in wich the Portugese got the most slaves. You Racist should rather call them Uncle Tom.
Well the Portuguese were the ones that initiated the transatlantic slave trade, decades before Columbus made it to the Americas! The very first slave raids took place in the 1440's in modern day Mauritania...Then Portuguese were actually trying to expand the so called reconquista to north west africa! When they captured Adahu ( possibly a touareg) , Adahu promised the Portuguese gold and slaves if they brought him to cape blanco ( modern day Mauritania )... The very first sub saharan africans that arrived in Portugal were actually sold by moorish africans... So it can be said that transatlantic slave trade was a direct consequence of the reconquista... The painting showed in this video is called : Chafariz d'el rey and wasn't painted by a Dutch man, but it was painted by a flemish guy ( modern day Belgium)... The place where this painting was made still exists in Lisbon
@@user-vl2mr8mr5u some of them were! Initially, the Portuguese called every african moor, don't argue with me, argue with the portuguese sources... till this day we still use the word moreno in both Portuguese and Spanish which means a dark skin person... Do your homework before saying there weren't black moors... I believe Shakespeare would disagree with you as well...
@ara phat nope, the Portuguese conquered Ceuta ( modern day morroco) in 1415 ! After 1415 they started expanding along the west african coast... In the 1440's they arrived in the senegambia region ( modern day senegal, gambia, guine, guine bissau). In the 1450's they settled in the cape verdean Islands creating the first creole Atlantic society that would be the model of exploitation in the America's ( sugar and slave based economy)...By the late 1498 they circumnavigated africa and arrived in Mozambique ( south east africa)... Thanks to the help of the mozambican sultan of the island of Mozambique they were able find the maritime way to India in the 1498 ! By 1500 they arrived in Brasil but according to some Portuguese sources it is speculated that the Portuguese already knew of Brasil before of 1500, which is why they asked the pope to modify the treaty of tordesillas ( treaty between the Portuguese and the Spanish)... The Portuguese had a first mover advantage over the spanish because the reconquista on the western side of the iberian side was complete in 1300's, when the kingdom of Portugal conquered al gharb ( modern day algarve in the south of Portugal)... The reconquista on the eastern side of the iberia peninsula ( castille , modern day Spain) was only completed when the moorish kingdom of granada in southern spain fell to Isabella and Fernando in 1492, the same year Columbus went on his first trip to the Americas...
@ara phat I didn't say moors brought slaves to Portugal ! What I said was that the first sub saharan africans arriving in Portugal were kidnapped in cape blanco ( modern day Mauritania) and some of them were sold by a moorish tribe called the azanegui... This is detailed in the ancient source: chronicles of the conquest of guine by Gomes eanes de zurara, a Portuguese chronicler... The Portuguese have some of the best sources on african history which is why the Legendary Walter Rodney did extensive research relying on the Portuguese sources...
might have been of Moorish descent, might have been a slave from a West African civilization, because when Portugal came to Africa, they mainly traded slaves and natural resources from Africans for horses and guns from the Portuguese, but most trade disputes ended in the Portuguese trying to conquer that area in African like the Ajuran Sultanate, the Kingdom of Congo, Mwene Mutapa (Great Zimbabwe), Rozvi empire, but anyway when the thumbnail said that 1 out of 10 people in Portugal were African they were probably of Moorish descent because some of the inhabitants of the Almohad Dynasty in North African were west Africans from Northern Niger and Mali which helped invade both Spain going into Portugal and western France
These people that did the video are historians. Not you. Like he said Moors were there, like they were west africans and Kongo sent a lot of its people there
@@africaine4889 first of all i did not claim to have done this video, i just spoke my thoughts on it, and second the moors were not from central africa
The Portoguese attacked West Africa but could only draw minimal slaves before the West Africans began defense… so they sailed further on to the Kongo, one of the most powerful kingdoms, and a strange thing happened…
In the XVI there was a Noble African woman called Dona Simoa Godinho. She and her husband (D. Godinho, a white Portuguese Noble) were Merchants and build many places of worship in Lisbon. When she died she had memorial service like any other noble.
The moorish invasion was not a black african conquest. The peninsula was conquered by the berbers and the arabs. The only black africans present in al andalus were slaves.
Lol its funny how Arabic is from the "afro" asiatic language family as well as Hebrew. Now why would Arabs who are not black as you say be speaking a language from a black/afro language tree?🤔
Africa doesn't mean black. North and northeast Africa were never black. Blacks were confined to the western and south territories of the continent, and they never developed because of the giant physical barriers that separated them from the rest of the world. But you can keep "lolling" at your own ignorance.
I am Portuguese, you know, the actually first ones who dared to cross the Saharan desert and finally make first contact with all those neolithic tribes. I can literally speak Cape Green creole, as I grow up around real Africans from 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th generation immigrants. As far as I am concerned, you are just as clueless as any other regular american. Don't come at me with that "my family lives there" bs. I know damm well you couldn't identify a single african country in the map if I asked you.
@@PrinceBenJudah I am Portuguese, you know, the actually first ones who dared to cross the Saharan desert and finally make first contact with all those neolithic tribes. I can literally speak Cape Green creole, as I grow up around real Africans from 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th generation immigrants. As far as I am concerned, you are just as clueless as any other regular american. Don't come at me with that "my family lives there" bs. I know well you couldn't identify a single african country in the map if I asked you.
The Portuguese Empire has so much blood on its hands. We had a revolution here in Portugal which, among other things, was anti-colonialist in nature (the revolutionaries stood with the independence movements of Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde and São Tomé and Príncipe in their fight for freedom), and yet our media and even our education system, to this day, extol the Empire as an adventure of exploration instead of what it really was: an enterprise of enslavement.
I don't know when you were in school, but I learned about Portugal's colonization period in school, mainly through the study of books like "Carta do achamento do Brasil", which talks about the first encounter between Portuguese and Amerindians, and "Sermao de Santo Antonio aos peixes", a critic, in part, towards Portuguese colonists for their mistreatment of native americans. We used those books to talk about the objectives and the consequences of Portuguese control of Brasil, particularly the mistreatment of native americans and the enslavement of Africans.
@@leonhenry4861 yes Sir, The Gambia was part of the KAABU Empire and therefore much connected to the people of Guinea Bissau as well as Casamance and Ziguinchor also traded to France.
@@Kemetyu-Centered36 lol was I excusing or just pointing out the fact that there are no innocents? I'm not really into tribalism and don't live my life inprisoned to the ideology that I'm better then others because of the place I was born! in human history there are bad events and good events...all of them contribute to the growth of our civilization - instead of moaning and regretting I simply acknowledge what is the truth - HUman nature is good and bad simultaniasly no matter where you are from
African royals and European royals traded and sold to each other so its not uncommon for African royal or nobles to be in Europe, I love your channel and honesty great content
Excellent video, I am glad that you covered this topic, I am of Portuguese ancestry from the Azores Islands and I have been digging into this topic for a long time, It deserves more attention among the Portuguese history books and in general, the population of Alcacer do Sal in the south of Portugal carry the highest sub-Saharan MTDNA lineages found in Europe due to this influx of Africans between the 1400-1800s, Africans in Portugal are also even older then the Moors with the remains of Africans recently discovered in Portugal and Spain from 4,000 years ago, contact and gene flow between the people of Portugal, Spain and Africa is thousands of years old and due to this geographic proximity the world has seen some of its greatest achievements and its most evil at the same time, none the less its almost impossible to talk about the world today without the connection between the Iberian peninsula and the African continent.
I’m white Portuguese but my great grandfather is black and from Alcácer do Sal. I was just wondering which part of Africa did his ancestors came from if you’d know?
Do you mean he is Portuguese local to Alcacer do Sal or of recent African immigration to Portugal? The African slaves brought to Alcacer do Sal happened over 400 years in the beginning they mostly came from Senegal and West Africa but also from many other places like the Kongo, Angola for examples.
@@johnp760 he was born and raised there. After some digging I learnt I had African relatives living in the area since the 1600s but I don’t know which African ethnic group or Kingdom they came from
interesting, have been researching portuguese african relations,im around 55% sub saharan percent with the rest containing majority portuguese, my grandmother and her family are from azores (graciosa and santa maria), with my grandfathers side being black americans of nigerian decent
Alcácer do Sal had a problem with malaria... that's that influx, because they were resistent to it. The slave treade was forbbiten around 1761(?), but I think there were still workers coming after that especially from São Tomé e Príncipe
@HomeTeam History It looks like the medieval movies and series where there are some African characters are based in reality given the unknown history of African presence in Europe. Interesting how history is revealing more truths each year. Runoko Rashidi Black Star: Early African Presence in Early Europe The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume I: From the Pharaohs to the Fall of the Roman Empire: New Edition this is a five volume book series Black Tudors: The Untold Story England’s Other Countrymen: Black Tudor Society Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
I love this one! I will take time later to comment on this video. The Kingdom of Kongo and Ngola deserve all of our love and attention. The kingdom of Kongo was the heart of the African Continent when it comes to diversity of systems of governance, trade routes, gendered and ungendered leaders, plus the system of beliefs was wild and so diverse. They have a beautiful history, worth revisiting. I just wanted to add one thing that when we hear the word civilisation we often think that the “Europeans” were some how more advanced( I’m still trying to understand what this statement really means today). Yet the kingdom of Kongo and Ngola when it comes to systems of governance and commerce plus infrastructure, some historians can evidence that the Kongo and Ngola were far more equiped than Portugal in the 16th century. (I will attempt to comeback to this comment section to share some evidence). “Christianity”was all that Portugal had to offer, and mind you, since the lie of race was yet to be told, Christianity was taken not naively but like any other belief in the kingdom. It was spread by today so called black and so called white = European (15th and 16th century). This videos are amazing! And David Olusoga is a dream. 🖤
Please come back with more details. The Kingdom of Kongo & Ngola always fascinated me. that was the real life Wakanda of Africa. When Kongo fell África was doomed
I tell you what does it mean . Europeans miss were able gradually to establish much more effective institutions compare with subsaharan africans and other groups. Evidence? I’m not going for much in details but I’m just simply gonna say this . Nobody can colonize you so easily if they are not more advanced than you . Also having a sophisticated culture doesn’t mean it’s civilization “. In Europe there was culture centuries before Mycenaeans Minoans Etruscans and later Greeks and Romans. It was Villanova culture, Halstatd culture, the monuments of Stonehenge in Britain but they were Not civilizations.Firstly you have to clarify was the Kingdom of Kongo a sophisticated culture or a civilization? That’s what I would love to know
@@st3019 your comment reflects very poorly of you. Easily colonised? Europeans had civilisations and Africans only had “culture” ?! You’re ignorant. ( I am sorry not sorry) The kongolese were probably eating bananas for milenia waiting to be colonised by Europeans, like you learn in your schools. 🤣
Overal, portuguese were always small in numbers and waging wars was more expensive than negotiating treatises with black kings. This was a frequent source of contention with other world powers, who only recognized military occupation as effectively owning a piece of land. They refused to accept that an african king was a legal representative of the portuguese crown. This model of cooperation makes direct comparisons with english and french colonialism hard to stick. The tradition of educating the black elite continues. The first presidents of post-colonial angola and mozambique were both medical doctor, who got their decrees in portugal. Also, cabo verde is the first stepping stone outside of portugal; there was a number of non-white royalty who resided there, several who owned property in portugal, and were frequently deployed as technocrats. You'll notice that, out of all the former colonies, cabo verde is the most stable and democratic.
Many people in the former Portuguese colonies still have close relations with Portugal, especially the elites. They are in many ways "creoles" like the Caribbeans, especially in urban areas.
Black people (Africans/Indigenous) were not only in Spain and Portugal, they were all throughout Europe. They were the original rulers of the royal houses of England, Scotland, Germany, etc. Over time and through various conquests, interracial marriages, genocides, and slavery Black Europe became over taken and replaced by the Caucasians. They took the lands, titles, and even the names of the orignal people. They destroyed or replaced original paintings depicting black royalty, nobleman, and citizenss with those of white faces. However, even today some of the coats of arms stilll have black faces on them. These were the coats of arms of black nobility. And there are still some books and writings that weren't destroyed that describe in detail, the black people that ruled and lived throughout Europe. Many things are coming to light that had been pursposely hidden and suppressed.
@Danny Torrance No Europe southern western and eastern majority was occupied by melanated peoples. It’s documented facts that show king Henry and all of them were originally dark. Like every other instance the culture and ways were stolen and adapted. Cultural appropriation, the real kind! Peace
@@Healthywealty you said "few more centuries" so i thought you were talking about the islamic conquest of Iberia, which didn't erased the "white" population. If you want a 100% African Portugal you should search at the time of the Out of Africa migrations 🤷♂️
I live in Lisbon. Three weeks before moving here, I learned that one of my great grandfathers was born and raised here, and so were his children. He was born in the 1600s. I do wonder what he looked like. I only have his name, birth and death dates. My partner's great grandfather was also Portuguese. We know what he looked like because he was born in the 1900s.
That is because Africans/Moorish were living in all continents before slave trade. Those histories we learnt in year 5 and 6 in the Portuguese history and geography of Portugal are not true.
@@yasnyne this is true my great x 5 dad was born in Lisbon. His father was from Warri Nigeria , He never saw his father after he left for Portugal but he returned with his Portuguese wife and son (My great x 4 dad) after the death of his father to become the “Olu of Warri kingdom”
The fact that the Africans held positions of power at this time is even more evidence supporting the fact of King João VI's/ King John VI's African heritage. Overall, very interesting vid!
D. João VI lived and ruled in the 19th century. Do you mean D. João III, bc he's the only Portuguese king that was named João that lived in the 16th century. Well, he isn't of any African heritage, his father was king D. Manuel I of Portugal and his mother was Aragonese. The Portuguese royal family of this period was of the "de Avis" dynasty, and this dynasty didn't have any African origins, it was related to the previous ruling dynasty (de Bourgogne), as the first king of "de Avis" was a bastard son of his antecessor, a member of the dynasty of "de Bourgogne". So they have French origins, but also English ones, as the English royal family of the time, the Lancasters, married into the Portuguese royal family. I don't know where you found the information on your comment, but it is completely wrong.
@@diogoe.s.t.2293 "Memoirs of Napoleon, His Court and Family, Volume 2 Chapter XI Paragraph 3" by Laure Junot, duchess d'Abrantès, wife of Jean-Andoche Junot, French Ambassador to Portugal at the time
@@generalsagmandia8239 Didn't find that book online, but even so D. João VI was son of D. Maria I and D. Pedro, who was the uncle of Maria and brother of D. José, father of Maria. So I don't see where African heritage can be traced, as European royal families tend to be very inbred, so it wasn't very common to a complete outsider to enter the family.
I am very surprised to hear that there was a sizeable Portuguese community in Kongo, as I had thought that the lifespan of Europeans was very short in that area due to lack of resistance to local diseases. Maybe this community was transient?
@@zalwai3559 He means that these were Portuguese of African ancestry. I think this is very unlikely, since I don't think a 17th-century European would have called an African in Europe a European no matter how long he had been there.
@@franciscoalves5575 They're called Portuguese. They're mutually exclusive. This idea of calling someone by the country of origin/citizenship, as opposed to ethnic background, is a new thing. A Jew or German living in Poland in the 1600s was a Jew or German living in Poland, not a Pole who was of Jewish or German origin. Admittedly, there MAY have been some peculiarity in Portuguese society at this time making it an exception.
that's why to say that the portuguese and spanish are "white caucasians" is entirely wrong, if people really understood our history most would really not assume stuff like that anymore, peep out "portuguese sailors get to Japan" painting, really see the complexion of the portuguese.
From Wikipedia: "From c. 1390 to 1862, it [the Kingdom of Congo] was an independent state. From 1862 to 1914, it functioned intermittently as a vassal state of the Kingdom of Portugal. In 1914, following the Portuguese suppression of a Kongo revolt, Portugal abolished the titular monarchy. The title of king of Kongo was restored from 1915 until 1975, as an honorific without real power." There are still several other "kings" and "queens" in Angola, which, like European aristocrats, don't have any real political power anymore.
Lisbon in the 16th Century was a diverse city due to the vast trade routes of the Portuguese Empire, there where many African nobles and people generally of other ethnicities with power.
The relationship between Spain, Portugal and West Africa. 1492 is a special year in history and it has nothing to do with Columbus sailing the ocean blue. More research and publishing is necessary.
They sent the original black Jews’ children into exile on São Tomé of the coast of Africa which was a prison colony. And sent the older people to the Americas. Judah came from Iberia. Eyes wide open now but a lot more to be learned
there were black knights although it was pretty rare to see. the black kniht in the painting suffered lots of racial abuse in portugal, so idk if the portuguese were that welcoming towards black africans back then.
The Portoguese didn’t convert the Kongo. The cross had always been a sacred symbol in Africa, and the Portoguese, Yoruba and other tribes already had a resurrection figure in their religions
@@yusufibrahim7916 he is right. We actually had 3 forms of crosses all over Africs. They had nothinf to do with Christianity tho. It has all to do with our own spirituality
Ethiopia was already Christian before the arrival of the Portuguese. More than that, the Portuguese knew there were Christian kingdoms in Africa, and one of the purposes of the expeditions was to find the Christian kingdoms and to ally with them to fight the Moors.
The reason for so many black people in Portugal is because of the huge number of Spanish and Portuguese Jews who lived there during that time and also before that. The books written during that same time period state the Spanish and Portuguese Jews WERE BLACK.
This is all true, as the Black/African peoples of 16th, 17th, 18th century Portugal are the creators of Fado... which is the "Blues music" ...of Portugal.
@@joaoribeiro5938 my understanding is according to Portuguese nationals, who told me Fado derived from the 16th/17th Century slaves brought to mainland Portugal from Angola, Ghana, Nigeria, (and later) Cape Verde. Considering how widespread the influence of Islam was (from India right across the Levant straight through to Senegal), right into pre-crusades Spain and Portugal... there is no question that Islamic cultural influence would be part of Fado's development ...and THIS... would be no less a possibility than the indigenous Iberian and post Roman Germanic influences. However... the point you're trying to insert in order to ...downplay, disregard, or deny Black/African slaves ability to take this influences, meld them with their own cultural influences... is heard. Your sneering "lmao" part is a clue to where you're at, and noted.
@@GordonBeckles fado is from the 19th century, Brazil was already independent when fado emerged. The instruments, the notes and the way the music is constructed is influenced by Levantine Arabic culture. Just compare West African, Levantine and maghrebian music to fado.
The best source about all of this history is Howard French's book "Born in Blackness Africa Africans and the history of Colonization from 1492-1945". It' begins with the reign of Abukari II of Mali detailing Mansa Musa's ascension to the Mali throne and how Europeans descended onto Africa because of Mali's legendary wealth. Portugal was a poor busted kingdom before it went to Ghana and traded in gold with them at Amina. This BBC documentary is not even a fraction of this story. Read French's book it's brilliant. czcams.com/video/JSCrqK5wFaM/video.html
Maybe these Blacks were not western Africans but were northeastern Africans who had mirgrated to Iberian Pennisula centruries before this painting was created. It is said that the Jews of portugal during this period were referred to as The Black Portuguese
Very CoolI have not yet seen the BBC production so Thank You. But there are many paintings and sculptures dipicting everyday life Europe showing people of African decent.
Well seeing that the Moors rules Spain for 800 years and that Spain is 8miles away from Northern Africa it will be rather simple to understand how Africans would be in Spain. How many Spanish words have thier origin from Arabic? Lastly, what does the word "Portugal " mean? Where does it originate from?
Portugal was very small and suddenly had a global... trade empire. So marriages with non Portugese /locals where really a must but sadly it laso brought major slavery transporting many from Africa to Brazil...
There were Africans and Jews who made up a nice portion of the population. Some where moors who converted and Jews who converted. The facts supports it.
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The African on horse was a new Christian. They were ordered marked with the white cross to distinguish them from the others. If we look closely you will notice that unlike the brother on the horse the others are literally being abused. Just wanted to throw that out there. It was a time of persecution and conversion. Appreciate the/your sharing and work.
There were schools and universities all over Africa before the 1400's and before 711 and Africans have already circumnavigated the earth. Europeans and Arabs introduced exporting and importing slaves and the torture and lewd pracrices on slaves like in colonial america it came from the west indies, Slaves in Africa were indistinguishable from thier holders because they were well dressed, well fed, sheltered, nourished, and educated. Slaves in africa were not allowed to be sold or mistreated, any tribe found guilty of selling one of thier own would be raided by all surrounding indigenous tribes, these are from the words of European slave traders themselves. but in my opinion any african selling another african is a direct rusult of infiltration, manipulation and exploration with a dash of extortion and a sprinkle of hypocrisy. I wonder how long it took to strike a deal considering culture, monetary, and language barriers didn't seem to take too long when There were multiple kingdoms all over africa that had gold and knowledge, they wanted what we had and they took it, and look at what they did with it all of it, everybody in this comment section is a wage slave,
The Africans held high positions because they lived there and there was not Europeans. Africans lived in every continent. The Moors/Mouros history I have learnt in the Portuguese history and geography of Portugal year 6.
The portuguese empire was the european empire that was most involved in the slave trade during the 14th to 18th century, especially in the economic sector in its american and african viceroyalties. In addition, every person who was born within this was portuguese regardless of their skin color, language, culture, etc.
@- SageAegis - nobody said we did eveybody knows moors were there too, just pointing out the israelites have been saying that we were in spain as well with us being push out into africa
Oyibo oyibo oyibo. Oyibo means white man in the Igbo language from 1500. Lagos found in Yoruba kingdom was named after the slave trade port in Portugal. Oye igbo means hello igbo man. Portuguese said this so much we called all white people oyibo. And we call London/America obodo oyibo…land of the white man…and we thirst to come to these two places. Now London is so much more populated with blacks that whites are the minority(check your stats). Likewise, ironically America the land of the whites by our understanding actually means land of the Igbo by the Portuguese own mouth. Which is historically factual as well since west Africans were in the americas before Christopher Columbus and during the Atlantic slave trade, more of us came. The Portuguese came before the english. During the time of mansa musa 1550 and Over a thousand years before, west Africa was in its own golden era. Igbos were in constant trade with the Portuguese by the 1500. The English did not do well till 400 years later and they only kept the area called nigeria colonized for 60 years. Unlike west Africa who kept many areas of Europe colonized going on 1000 years. Lastly, if you watch the video… many people associate igbo with south east nigeria but historically we stretch far to Ghana and the Kongo. After the Biafra civil war, our leader ojukwu fled to the Congo.
The narrator on the clip you showed is David Olusoga who is also an author of ... Black and British: A Forgotton History. Great book!
I've seen a few episodes on CZcams it's interesting
I got that book
That's an interesting name.
David Olusoga is fake historian . The book black and British is filled with lies and misinformation. Black people were never any big community in British isles NEVER. In roman times the term “ African” is used for North Africans who were NOT black . Never trust a historian who does not debate those who oppose him . Is just and attempt to justify the “ diversity “agenda and has nothing to do with historical facts . Just bc a few black people were living here and there doesn’t make them a community.
@@maragolihistory2118 yes but it’s based on A LIE.
Fun fact the Vatican holds most of the letters written in the Kongo kingdom going back to this period. For all we know there could be a Kongo Chronicle in those archives. But, for whatever reason those leaders of the Vaticans don't like sharing what's in their archives.
I got some literature around this period
True !
@@thebrokenrecordofhistory4665 really? Can you share some of it please. I'd love to read it.
One has to know the specific document they want to view then asking the Vatican for access. Suspicious.
@@thebrokenrecordofhistory4665 Can you share the name or any info? Maybe in a video?
The painting you reference I actually saw at an exhibition in Baltimore at the Walters Art Museum. The exhibition was called "Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe." They have a PDF version of the accompanying book from the event.
My great x5 was born in Portugal, His mother from Lisbon and his dad from Warri Nigeria, his dad being my great x 6 grand dad was a student from the royal court of the king of the Warri kingdom.
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Great show and great analysis. As always.
The early interactions between the Portoguese and the Kongo were as equals. The Vatican is filled with paintings of Kongolese diplomats…
Very interesting.....thanks for posting this.
Thank you brother. You truly are doing good work. 🙏🏿
Hey Bra, Great Work.
Thanks.
MUCH LOVE
Excellent channel.
I've seen that painting many times and I was shocked when I saw it for the first time. As a nerd of world history I've been curios if there were any blacks in Medieval and Renaissance Europe and my answer from this is yes they were. Our people were all over, we need to teach our people we were kings, knights, priests, etc before slavery. Peace and black power brother.
Fun fact, the Warri and Benin Kingdoms in the South south of Nigeria had similar interactions with Portugal around the same time. Their royal houses also intermarried, I think.
Yeah a lot of people focus on the British, Spanish and the French empires not realizing that the Portuguese were in the game also. They have much blood on their hands too.Can we all say Henry the Navigator.
I believe they were the ones who were some of the first slave traders.
@@sakhu8945 Yes they were the first of that age. They practically kicked started the Atlantic slave trade. African-Brazilians were enslaved longer than anyone else in the Americas. They also had the longest global empire in history. Only given up their African colonies in the 70's.
The Dutch an Portuguese are some of the worst by far.
@@sakhu8945 Yeah, they were the FIRST !
Tbh the Portuguese started after seen all the wealth the arabes amassed by enslaving Africans that’s why europeens saw in Africa the only way to get riche that’s why the arabes Jews and europeens collaborated during the whole slave trade and till this day they still continue to collaborate to keep black people down
Another fun fact is that the Jews of Portugal and Spain were in fact negroes and not the pale face Sephardic we see now.
Exactly 💯/💯
So you were there to witness and verify their skin colour?
My thoughts on this is that I read somewhere when it comes to Nigeria, the first person to go to university in the 16th century in Portugal was the son of the Oba from the Benin empire of what is now modern day Nigeria. It’s somewhat vague but the claim is that the Oba’s son married a Portuguese princess and had a son with her, but returned to the Benin kingdom to assume his role as the heir and become the next Oba. When the time came, emissaries were sent to fetch his son to be the next Oba who were referred to as the “fair” Oba on account if his light skin tone. The Edos referred to the Portuguese as “Potoki” because they couldn’t pronounce the name properly. I’m from the Edo tribe of the Benin empire and I live in NYC. Could you research and find out the veracity of this claim? I’m really interested in Edo history.
Interesting. Very interesting. It might explain why in the vernacular of Guyana which we call "creolese" the Portuguese are referred to a Potogi (emphasis on the last syllable) or sometimes spelt Puttagee. I am discovering now that not only Barbadians and Jamaicans have Igbo language retentions but also Guyana. We do not use unu for plural you as in Jamaica and Barbados but anyone who grew up in the countryside knows what is potopoto, meaning mud just as in Igbo. So the word Potoki might have undergone a retention or undergone a similar transformation because of the similar background in language.
@@frederickcollins9228 yes “potopoto” is the word meaning mud in many Nigerian tribes including the Edo tribe as well as the Igbo tribe.
@@tonia16I Damm Igbo and Edo have actually quite many things in common
Unlikely. Maybe a Portuguese commoner but I don’t think a Nigerian even if he was a leader would be given the opportunity to marry into Portuguese royalty.
While I can't confirm it did indeed happen, there were several Euro-African marriages recorded in the early colonial era. Racism hadn't developed yet, on account of trans-atlantic slavery being in its infance @@vitus6302
How in the world did we become slaves to these Europeans that did not even believe in water to wash up in? This is amazing.
Preach
Cope
Yet Europeans today take baths but there are still Africa tribes who dont
That’s a myth lmao. Europeans obviously understood bathing.. even stone age tribes understand that.
@@mrdean171 this is something Afrocencentrics say to make themselves feel better. Same as the cave thing, ignorant to fact many cultures all over the world used caves, even Africans up until the 19 century..
Portuguese, Greeks, Italians, And Spanish were some of the earliest Europeans to be in The African Continent and made great documents, recordings, charts, chartings, listings, and documentations of there encounters with various peoples yeah
Eventually, the Kongo were disillusioned with the Portoguese, and petitioned the Vatican to be their own diocese and not an extension of Portoguese archbishops… this is when racism kicked in, and the church and Portugal orchestrated civil war in the kingdom of Kongo… which the destroyed the Central African civilization and separated West Africa from East African tribes- Things Fall Apart and the center cannot hold…
Hey can you send me some links or any sources to that info I'm really interested in what you posted.
Not sure where all that comes from if you could add some back up?!
Portugal reached Kongo as early as 1470s, that is 20 years before columbus reached the americas. The first Church in Kongo was bulit in 1491. The Kongo Kingdom even had a Coat of Arms and even sent emissaries and University students to the Pope in the 1500s.
The capital of Kongo Kingdom, M'Banza Kongo, still exists and it's the oldest city in Angola.
Portugal also started trading in West Africa in the 1490s. Thanks for so much information
This is true. And why I’ve maintained there is no Western Civilization without African civilization. The period when a quarter of Lisbon Portugal was black, was also the period of Portugal’s greatest strength in Europe. Think about the impact of that on what we call Portoguese culture today.
What Civlilisation Racist liar? Do you mean Female Genital Mutilation? Olisoga in also an Racist liar who claimed that England was always full of Blacks. And if that was true that so many blacks lived there, it would mean that they would also complicit in the Slave Trade in wich the Portugese got the most slaves. You Racist should rather call them Uncle Tom.
Well the Portuguese were the ones that initiated the transatlantic slave trade, decades before Columbus made it to the Americas! The very first slave raids took place in the 1440's in modern day Mauritania...Then Portuguese were actually trying to expand the so called reconquista to north west africa! When they captured Adahu ( possibly a touareg) , Adahu promised the Portuguese gold and slaves if they brought him to cape blanco ( modern day Mauritania )... The very first sub saharan africans that arrived in Portugal were actually sold by moorish africans... So it can be said that transatlantic slave trade was a direct consequence of the reconquista... The painting showed in this video is called : Chafariz d'el rey and wasn't painted by a Dutch man, but it was painted by a flemish guy ( modern day Belgium)... The place where this painting was made still exists in Lisbon
The moors we're not black
@@user-vl2mr8mr5u some of them were! Initially, the Portuguese called every african moor, don't argue with me, argue with the portuguese sources... till this day we still use the word moreno in both Portuguese and Spanish which means a dark skin person... Do your homework before saying there weren't black moors... I believe Shakespeare would disagree with you as well...
@ara phat nope, the Portuguese conquered Ceuta ( modern day morroco) in 1415 ! After 1415 they started expanding along the west african coast... In the 1440's they arrived in the senegambia region ( modern day senegal, gambia, guine, guine bissau). In the 1450's they settled in the cape verdean Islands creating the first creole Atlantic society that would be the model of exploitation in the America's ( sugar and slave based economy)...By the late 1498 they circumnavigated africa and arrived in Mozambique ( south east africa)... Thanks to the help of the mozambican sultan of the island of Mozambique they were able find the maritime way to India in the 1498 ! By 1500 they arrived in Brasil but according to some Portuguese sources it is speculated that the Portuguese already knew of Brasil before of 1500, which is why they asked the pope to modify the treaty of tordesillas ( treaty between the Portuguese and the Spanish)... The Portuguese had a first mover advantage over the spanish because the reconquista on the western side of the iberian side was complete in 1300's, when the kingdom of Portugal conquered al gharb ( modern day algarve in the south of Portugal)... The reconquista on the eastern side of the iberia peninsula ( castille , modern day Spain) was only completed when the moorish kingdom of granada in southern spain fell to Isabella and Fernando in 1492, the same year Columbus went on his first trip to the Americas...
@ara phat I didn't say moors brought slaves to Portugal ! What I said was that the first sub saharan africans arriving in Portugal were kidnapped in cape blanco ( modern day Mauritania) and some of them were sold by a moorish tribe called the azanegui... This is detailed in the ancient source: chronicles of the conquest of guine by Gomes eanes de zurara, a Portuguese chronicler... The Portuguese have some of the best sources on african history which is why the Legendary Walter Rodney did extensive research relying on the Portuguese sources...
@ara phat Yeah !
Moreno = Dark, black
might have been of Moorish descent, might have been a slave from a West African civilization, because when Portugal came to Africa, they mainly traded slaves and natural resources from Africans for horses and guns from the Portuguese, but most trade disputes ended in the Portuguese trying to conquer that area in African like the Ajuran Sultanate, the Kingdom of Congo, Mwene Mutapa (Great Zimbabwe), Rozvi empire, but anyway when the thumbnail said that 1 out of 10 people in Portugal were African they were probably of Moorish descent because some of the inhabitants of the Almohad Dynasty in North African were west Africans from Northern Niger and Mali which helped invade both Spain going into Portugal and western France
Africans are Moors.
These people that did the video are historians. Not you. Like he said Moors were there, like they were west africans and Kongo sent a lot of its people there
@@africaine4889 first of all i did not claim to have done this video, i just spoke my thoughts on it, and second the moors were not from central africa
@@ashtonfranklin4620 sonu know how tonread. Where did i say that Moors where from Kongo. I said the Kongo sent a lot of its people iin Portugal
@@africaine4889 why are you being negative for and yes you literally said "like they were from the congo and west africa
The Portoguese attacked West Africa but could only draw minimal slaves before the West Africans began defense… so they sailed further on to the Kongo, one of the most powerful kingdoms, and a strange thing happened…
Money.
In the XVI there was a Noble African woman called Dona Simoa Godinho. She and her husband (D. Godinho, a white Portuguese Noble) were Merchants and build many places of worship in Lisbon. When she died she had memorial service like any other noble.
The moorish invasion was not a black african conquest. The peninsula was conquered by the berbers and the arabs. The only black africans present in al andalus were slaves.
Lol its funny how Arabic is from the "afro" asiatic language family as well as Hebrew. Now why would Arabs who are not black as you say be speaking a language from a black/afro language tree?🤔
Africa doesn't mean black. North and northeast Africa were never black. Blacks were confined to the western and south territories of the continent, and they never developed because of the giant physical barriers that separated them from the rest of the world. But you can keep "lolling" at your own ignorance.
@@Lilbrodathat’s not true but it’s funny u think that. My family lives there many dif groups of “blacks”.
I am Portuguese, you know, the actually first ones who dared to cross the Saharan desert and finally make first contact with all those neolithic tribes. I can literally speak Cape Green creole, as I grow up around real Africans from 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th generation immigrants. As far as I am concerned, you are just as clueless as any other regular american. Don't come at me with that "my family lives there" bs. I know damm well you couldn't identify a single african country in the map if I asked you.
@@PrinceBenJudah I am Portuguese, you know, the actually first ones who dared to cross the Saharan desert and finally make first contact with all those neolithic tribes. I can literally speak Cape Green creole, as I grow up around real Africans from 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th generation immigrants. As far as I am concerned, you are just as clueless as any other regular american. Don't come at me with that "my family lives there" bs. I know well you couldn't identify a single african country in the map if I asked you.
Dope.
I didn't know you found this painting
No black unity makes they job easier 💯 imagine 1 million strong black hetero men
Lol only heteros! No gays? Talk about no unity...
Im portuguese with african ancestry from Cabo Verde🇵🇹🇨🇻
The Portuguese Empire has so much blood on its hands. We had a revolution here in Portugal which, among other things, was anti-colonialist in nature (the revolutionaries stood with the independence movements of Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde and São Tomé and Príncipe in their fight for freedom), and yet our media and even our education system, to this day, extol the Empire as an adventure of exploration instead of what it really was: an enterprise of enslavement.
I don't know when you were in school, but I learned about Portugal's colonization period in school, mainly through the study of books like "Carta do achamento do Brasil", which talks about the first encounter between Portuguese and Amerindians, and "Sermao de Santo Antonio aos peixes", a critic, in part, towards Portuguese colonists for their mistreatment of native americans. We used those books to talk about the objectives and the consequences of Portuguese control of Brasil, particularly the mistreatment of native americans and the enslavement of Africans.
Don’t forget The Gambia before they sold it to Britain
@@leonhenry4861 yes Sir, The Gambia was part of the KAABU Empire and therefore much connected to the people of Guinea Bissau as well as Casamance and Ziguinchor also traded to France.
And which empire doesn’t have blood on its hands? Even today’s empires aren’t innocent and we are part of it
@@Kemetyu-Centered36 lol was I excusing or just pointing out the fact that there are no innocents? I'm not really into tribalism and don't live my life inprisoned to the ideology that I'm better then others because of the place I was born! in human history there are bad events and good events...all of them contribute to the growth of our civilization - instead of moaning and regretting I simply acknowledge what is the truth - HUman nature is good and bad simultaniasly no matter where you are from
Hey brother how can I message you because there are questions I would like you to answer
African royals and European royals traded and sold to each other so its not uncommon for African royal or nobles to be in Europe, I love your channel and honesty great content
May you PLEASE do Extensive RESEARCH on Any Subject you Show INTEREST.
Excellent video, I am glad that you covered this topic, I am of Portuguese ancestry from the Azores Islands and I have been digging into this topic for a long time, It deserves more attention among the Portuguese history books and in general, the population of Alcacer do Sal in the south of Portugal carry the highest sub-Saharan MTDNA lineages found in Europe due to this influx of Africans between the 1400-1800s, Africans in Portugal are also even older then the Moors with the remains of Africans recently discovered in Portugal and Spain from 4,000 years ago, contact and gene flow between the people of Portugal, Spain and Africa is thousands of years old and due to this geographic proximity the world has seen some of its greatest achievements and its most evil at the same time, none the less its almost impossible to talk about the world today without the connection between the Iberian peninsula and the African continent.
I’m white Portuguese but my great grandfather is black and from Alcácer do Sal. I was just wondering which part of Africa did his ancestors came from if you’d know?
Do you mean he is Portuguese local to Alcacer do Sal or of recent African immigration to Portugal? The African slaves brought to Alcacer do Sal happened over 400 years in the beginning they mostly came from Senegal and West Africa but also from many other places like the Kongo, Angola for examples.
@@johnp760 he was born and raised there. After some digging I learnt I had African relatives living in the area since the 1600s but I don’t know which African ethnic group or Kingdom they came from
interesting, have been researching portuguese african relations,im around 55% sub saharan percent with the rest containing majority portuguese, my grandmother and her family are from azores (graciosa and santa maria), with my grandfathers side being black americans of nigerian decent
Alcácer do Sal had a problem with malaria... that's that influx, because they were resistent to it.
The slave treade was forbbiten around 1761(?), but I think there were still workers coming after that especially from São Tomé e Príncipe
@HomeTeam History
It looks like the medieval movies and series where there are some African characters are based in reality given the unknown history of African presence in Europe. Interesting how history is revealing more truths each year.
Runoko Rashidi Black Star: Early African Presence in Early Europe
The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume I: From the Pharaohs to the Fall of the Roman Empire: New Edition this is a five volume book series
Black Tudors: The Untold Story
England’s Other Countrymen: Black Tudor Society
Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
I love this one! I will take time later to comment on this video.
The Kingdom of Kongo and Ngola deserve all of our love and attention.
The kingdom of Kongo was the heart of the African Continent when it comes to diversity of systems of governance, trade routes, gendered and ungendered leaders, plus the system of beliefs was wild and so diverse.
They have a beautiful history, worth revisiting.
I just wanted to add one thing that when we hear the word civilisation we often think that the “Europeans” were some how more advanced( I’m still trying to understand what this statement really means today).
Yet the kingdom of Kongo and Ngola when it comes to systems of governance and commerce plus infrastructure, some historians can evidence that the Kongo and Ngola were far more equiped than Portugal in the 16th century. (I will attempt to comeback to this comment section to share some evidence).
“Christianity”was all that Portugal had to offer, and mind you, since the lie of race was yet to be told, Christianity was taken not naively but like any other belief in the kingdom. It was spread by today so called black and so called white = European (15th and 16th century).
This videos are amazing! And David Olusoga is a dream.
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i would love to here more!
Please come back with more details. The Kingdom of Kongo & Ngola always fascinated me. that was the real life Wakanda of Africa. When Kongo fell África was doomed
I tell you what does it mean . Europeans miss were able gradually to establish much more effective institutions compare with subsaharan africans and other groups. Evidence? I’m not going for much in details but I’m just simply gonna say this . Nobody can colonize you so easily if they are not more advanced than you . Also having a sophisticated culture doesn’t mean it’s civilization “. In Europe there was culture centuries before Mycenaeans Minoans Etruscans and later Greeks and Romans. It was Villanova culture, Halstatd culture, the monuments of Stonehenge in Britain but they were Not civilizations.Firstly you have to clarify was the Kingdom of Kongo a sophisticated culture or a civilization? That’s what I would love to know
@@st3019 your comment reflects very poorly of you.
Easily colonised?
Europeans had civilisations and Africans only had “culture” ?!
You’re ignorant. ( I am sorry not sorry)
The kongolese were probably eating bananas for milenia waiting to be colonised by Europeans, like you learn in your schools.
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@@TheTruthVision I will ! Monday I will drop it! 😍
Overal, portuguese were always small in numbers and waging wars was more expensive than negotiating treatises with black kings. This was a frequent source of contention with other world powers, who only recognized military occupation as effectively owning a piece of land. They refused to accept that an african king was a legal representative of the portuguese crown. This model of cooperation makes direct comparisons with english and french colonialism hard to stick. The tradition of educating the black elite continues. The first presidents of post-colonial angola and mozambique were both medical doctor, who got their decrees in portugal.
Also, cabo verde is the first stepping stone outside of portugal; there was a number of non-white royalty who resided there, several who owned property in portugal, and were frequently deployed as technocrats. You'll notice that, out of all the former colonies, cabo verde is the most stable and democratic.
Many people in the former Portuguese colonies still have close relations with Portugal, especially the elites. They are in many ways "creoles" like the Caribbeans, especially in urban areas.
Black people (Africans/Indigenous) were not only in Spain and Portugal, they were all throughout Europe. They were the original rulers of the royal houses of England, Scotland, Germany, etc. Over time and through various conquests, interracial marriages, genocides, and slavery Black Europe became over taken and replaced by the Caucasians. They took the lands, titles, and even the names of the orignal people. They destroyed or replaced original paintings depicting black royalty, nobleman, and citizenss with those of white faces. However, even today some of the coats of arms stilll have black faces on them. These were the coats of arms of black nobility. And there are still some books and writings that weren't destroyed that describe in detail, the black people that ruled and lived throughout Europe. Many things are coming to light that had been pursposely hidden and suppressed.
Who was the black ruler of England
Stop with drugs girl
Africa has a wonderful history of its own. Appreciate it. Stop stealing from others.
Can you Change your Signature Introduction Tune, Of Hey HU with Drums, to African music Please.
No! We were Christian Portuguese Moors! And we still are! ❤🇵🇹
If you go back a few more centuries, you would see it was 10 out every 10 were African!
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That part. 💯🎯
That's not how conquest does work...
@Danny Torrance No Europe southern western and eastern majority was occupied by melanated peoples. It’s documented facts that show king Henry and all of them were originally dark. Like every other instance the culture and ways were stolen and adapted. Cultural appropriation, the real kind! Peace
@@ziopera9601 🤔 not sure if I understand. I know Europeans came in and took Europe from Africans not the other way around.
@@Healthywealty you said "few more centuries" so i thought you were talking about the islamic conquest of Iberia, which didn't erased the "white" population. If you want a 100% African Portugal you should search at the time of the Out of Africa migrations 🤷♂️
The Portoguese already held the Cross symbol sacred, so they saw common religious ground with the Portoguese
What happened to your merch
Can't one argue and say it's creative thought so the painting was what one was hoping for?
That statue at 2:00 looks kinda like Jimmy Butler to me.
What is the name of the documentary?
Nowadays, 3 in 10 are African brothers. The world should follow a policy of no intervention or minimum intervention in Africa. 🇵🇹🇪🇺
So much of our History not known!!!!
Whys that sherlock african were gods thats why
that picture in the thumbnail look like more than 1 in 10. Sounds like somebody lying to me.
I live in Lisbon. Three weeks before moving here, I learned that one of my great grandfathers was born and raised here, and so were his children. He was born in the 1600s. I do wonder what he looked like. I only have his name, birth and death dates.
My partner's great grandfather was also Portuguese. We know what he looked like because he was born in the 1900s.
That is because Africans/Moorish were living in all continents before slave trade. Those histories we learnt in year 5 and 6 in the Portuguese history and geography of Portugal are not true.
@ara phat Exploring Lisbon Portugal for six days first week in June. Link up.
@@yasnyne this is true my great x 5 dad was born in Lisbon. His father was from Warri Nigeria , He never saw his father after he left for Portugal but he returned with his Portuguese wife and son (My great x 4 dad) after the death of his father to become the “Olu of Warri kingdom”
@@yasnyne No it’s because spain and portugal were ruled by muslim north africans for centuries and weren’t kicked out until the 15th century.
How about before the 16th century?
The fact that the Africans held positions of power at this time is even more evidence supporting the fact of King João VI's/ King John VI's African heritage. Overall, very interesting vid!
D. João VI lived and ruled in the 19th century. Do you mean D. João III, bc he's the only Portuguese king that was named João that lived in the 16th century. Well, he isn't of any African heritage, his father was king D. Manuel I of Portugal and his mother was Aragonese. The Portuguese royal family of this period was of the "de Avis" dynasty, and this dynasty didn't have any African origins, it was related to the previous ruling dynasty (de Bourgogne), as the first king of "de Avis" was a bastard son of his antecessor, a member of the dynasty of "de Bourgogne". So they have French origins, but also English ones, as the English royal family of the time, the Lancasters, married into the Portuguese royal family. I don't know where you found the information on your comment, but it is completely wrong.
@@diogoe.s.t.2293 "Memoirs of Napoleon, His Court and Family, Volume 2 Chapter XI Paragraph 3" by Laure Junot, duchess d'Abrantès, wife of Jean-Andoche Junot, French Ambassador to Portugal at the time
@@generalsagmandia8239 Didn't find that book online, but even so D. João VI was son of D. Maria I and D. Pedro, who was the uncle of Maria and brother of D. José, father of Maria. So I don't see where African heritage can be traced, as European royal families tend to be very inbred, so it wasn't very common to a complete outsider to enter the family.
I am very surprised to hear that there was a sizeable Portuguese community in Kongo, as I had thought that the lifespan of Europeans was very short in that area due to lack of resistance to local diseases. Maybe this community was transient?
Why, if these Portuguese could have been Africans that simply had lived in Europe…
@@franciscoalves5575 what does that mean?
@@zalwai3559 He means that these were Portuguese of African ancestry. I think this is very unlikely, since I don't think a 17th-century European would have called an African in Europe a European no matter how long he had been there.
@@user-ub4ud9gy4d but who said they were called Europeans?
@@franciscoalves5575 They're called Portuguese. They're mutually exclusive. This idea of calling someone by the country of origin/citizenship, as opposed to ethnic background, is a new thing. A Jew or German living in Poland in the 1600s was a Jew or German living in Poland, not a Pole who was of Jewish or German origin.
Admittedly, there MAY have been some peculiarity in Portuguese society at this time making it an exception.
that's why to say that the portuguese and spanish are "white caucasians" is entirely wrong, if people really understood our history most would really not assume stuff like that anymore, peep out "portuguese sailors get to Japan" painting, really see the complexion of the portuguese.
They are southern Europeans, most have the typical Mediterranean look. Call it whatever you want.
That's wow
From Wikipedia:
"From c. 1390 to 1862, it [the Kingdom of Congo] was an independent state. From 1862 to 1914, it functioned intermittently as a vassal state of the Kingdom of Portugal. In 1914, following the Portuguese suppression of a Kongo revolt, Portugal abolished the titular monarchy. The title of king of Kongo was restored from 1915 until 1975, as an honorific without real power."
There are still several other "kings" and "queens" in Angola, which, like European aristocrats, don't have any real political power anymore.
Interesting
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THOSE ARE NOT "AFRICANS" IN THOSE PAINTINGS, BUT REMNANTS OF BLACK PEOPLE WHO LIVED FOR CENTURIES IN WHAT LATER WAS NAMED EUROPE.
That's what contemporary writers called them
Lisbon in the 16th Century was a diverse city due to the vast trade routes of the Portuguese Empire, there where many African nobles and people generally of other ethnicities with power.
The relationship between Spain, Portugal and West Africa. 1492 is a special year in history and it has nothing to do with Columbus sailing the ocean blue. More research and publishing is necessary.
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From my understanding, the Portuguese kicked off the transatlantic slave trade. I’m not surprised!
They sent the original black Jews’ children into exile on São Tomé of the coast of Africa which was a prison colony. And sent the older people to the Americas. Judah came from Iberia. Eyes wide open now but a lot more to be learned
I wonder what's the connection between Africans in Portugal and the Haitian revolution
I just found that. Thanks to Portugal trading with Africa.
A Dutch living in Lisbon in the 16th century would be living behind bars
there were black knights although it was pretty rare to see. the black kniht in the painting suffered lots of racial abuse in portugal, so idk if the portuguese were that welcoming towards black africans back then.
Im portuguese and have african blood and history to back my claims..can i get a cosign to use the n word
The Portoguese didn’t convert the Kongo. The cross had always been a sacred symbol in Africa, and the Portoguese, Yoruba and other tribes already had a resurrection figure in their religions
Loool nope they got tricked man, u from congo?
@@yusufibrahim7916 he is right. We actually had 3 forms of crosses all over Africs. They had nothinf to do with Christianity tho. It has all to do with our own spirituality
Ethiopia was already Christian before the arrival of the Portuguese. More than that, the Portuguese knew there were Christian kingdoms in Africa, and one of the purposes of the expeditions was to find the Christian kingdoms and to ally with them to fight the Moors.
The reason for so many black people in Portugal is because of the huge number of Spanish and Portuguese Jews who lived there during that time and also before that. The books written during that same time period state the Spanish and Portuguese Jews WERE BLACK.
From the first century to late 17th century we were the ruling class. We started civilizing the woodwoses in the 16th century.
This is all true, as the Black/African peoples of 16th, 17th, 18th century Portugal are the creators of Fado... which is the "Blues music" ...of Portugal.
Fado is not black music lmao. Fado got they influence by the moors of north Africa, specially the Rif, and they are not black.
@@joaoribeiro5938 my understanding is according to Portuguese nationals, who told me Fado derived from the 16th/17th Century slaves brought to mainland Portugal from Angola, Ghana, Nigeria, (and later) Cape Verde.
Considering how widespread the influence of Islam was (from India right across the Levant straight through to Senegal), right into pre-crusades Spain and Portugal... there is no question that Islamic cultural influence would be part of Fado's development ...and THIS... would be no less a possibility than the indigenous Iberian and post Roman Germanic influences.
However... the point you're trying to insert in order to ...downplay, disregard, or deny Black/African slaves ability to take this influences, meld them with their own cultural influences... is heard.
Your sneering "lmao" part is a clue to where you're at, and noted.
@@GordonBeckles fado is from the 19th century, Brazil was already independent when fado emerged.
The instruments, the notes and the way the music is constructed is influenced by Levantine Arabic culture.
Just compare West African, Levantine and maghrebian music to fado.
@@GordonBeckles Portugal colonized Africa, not other way around, And the moors only conquered southern part. of portugal
Lisbon was 1600 New York
Becauuuuuse they are
Judah(&lost tribes of Israel) aka Africans ...
Read the Spanish Inquisition you’ll see why things are the way they are.
rEaD what exactly? Stop blackwashing history.. The Jews were NEVER Black.
Africans and Portoghese go way way back 🤝🏾
So Queen nzinga fought and died to prevent the Christian conversion and Alfonso willing gave in
.....this cant be real.....
The best source about all of this history is Howard French's book "Born in Blackness Africa Africans and the history of Colonization from 1492-1945". It' begins with the reign of Abukari II of Mali detailing Mansa Musa's ascension to the Mali throne and how Europeans descended onto Africa because of Mali's legendary wealth. Portugal was a poor busted kingdom before it went to Ghana and traded in gold with them at Amina. This BBC documentary is not even a fraction of this story. Read French's book it's brilliant.
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Portugal was always poor and busted. It was never a rich country, even today.
Maybe these Blacks were not western Africans but were northeastern Africans who had mirgrated to Iberian Pennisula centruries before this painting was created. It is said that the Jews of portugal during this period were referred to as The Black Portuguese
Very CoolI have not yet seen the BBC production so Thank You. But there are many paintings and sculptures dipicting everyday life Europe showing people of African decent.
Well seeing that the Moors rules Spain for 800 years and that Spain is 8miles away from Northern Africa it will be rather simple to understand how Africans would be in Spain. How many Spanish words have thier origin from Arabic? Lastly, what does the word "Portugal " mean? Where does it originate from?
The name portugal origins from the latin portus cale (portus=port, cale=name of an ancient city(??? Not sure if it was a city)
Moors didn't ruled Spain for 800 years. The ruled the *southest part* of Spain
captives AKA slaves? Love your channel fam.
Portugal was very small and suddenly had a global... trade empire. So marriages with non Portugese /locals where really a must but sadly it laso brought major slavery transporting many from Africa to Brazil...
Voila ! found it elsewhere on CZcams - the “knights of Santiago”. (Sephardic Jews ).
Knights of Santiago are crusaders, Jews can't be crusaders.
@@joaoribeiro5938 maybe they converted ?
@@guychase8611 nah dude. Knights are made by genealogy, the pope will never give a nobility title to a Jewish person.
Why at the beginning of the video you sound so apologetic for speaking truth?
There were Africans and Jews who made up a nice portion of the population. Some where moors who converted and Jews who converted. The facts supports it.
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The African on horse was a new Christian. They were ordered marked with the white cross to distinguish them from the others. If we look closely you will notice that unlike the brother on the horse the others are literally being abused. Just wanted to throw that out there. It was a time of persecution and conversion. Appreciate the/your sharing and work.
There were schools and universities all over Africa before the 1400's and before 711 and Africans have already circumnavigated the earth.
Europeans and Arabs introduced exporting and importing slaves and the torture and lewd pracrices on slaves like in colonial america it came from the west indies,
Slaves in Africa were indistinguishable from thier holders because they were well dressed, well fed, sheltered, nourished, and educated.
Slaves in africa were not allowed to be sold or mistreated, any tribe found guilty of selling one of thier own would be raided by all surrounding indigenous tribes, these are from the words of European slave traders themselves.
but in my opinion any african selling another african is a direct rusult of infiltration, manipulation and exploration with a dash of extortion and a sprinkle of hypocrisy.
I wonder how long it took to strike a deal considering culture, monetary, and language barriers didn't seem to take too long when
There were multiple kingdoms all over africa that had gold and knowledge, they wanted what we had and they took it, and look at what they did with it all of it, everybody in this comment section is a wage slave,
Don't forget the Indigenous Europeans (Blacks)
The Africans held high positions because they lived there and there was not Europeans. Africans lived in every continent. The Moors/Mouros history I have learnt in the Portuguese history and geography of Portugal year 6.
Africans didn't live in America pre Columbus..
Majority were Israel
The portuguese empire was the european empire that was most involved in the slave trade during the 14th to 18th century, especially in the economic sector in its american and african viceroyalties. In addition, every person who was born within this was portuguese regardless of their skin color, language, culture, etc.
Kongo 😥
WE OUT PORTUGUESE THE PORTUGUESE
yall late, israelites have been saying this for years, we are the jews threw out placed into africa
What ?
@- SageAegis - nobody said we did eveybody knows moors were there too, just pointing out the israelites have been saying that we were in spain as well with us being push out into africa
Oyibo oyibo oyibo. Oyibo means white man in the Igbo language from 1500. Lagos found in Yoruba kingdom was named after the slave trade port in Portugal. Oye igbo means hello igbo man.
Portuguese said this so much we called all white people oyibo. And we call London/America obodo oyibo…land of the white man…and we thirst to come to these two places. Now London is so much more populated with blacks that whites are the minority(check your stats). Likewise, ironically America the land of the whites by our understanding actually means land of the Igbo by the Portuguese own mouth. Which is historically factual as well since west Africans were in the americas before Christopher Columbus and during the Atlantic slave trade, more of us came. The Portuguese came before the english. During the time of mansa musa 1550 and Over a thousand years before, west Africa was in its own golden era. Igbos were in constant trade with the Portuguese by the 1500. The English did not do well till 400 years later and they only kept the area called nigeria colonized for 60 years. Unlike west Africa who kept many areas of Europe colonized going on 1000 years. Lastly, if you watch the video… many people associate igbo with south east nigeria but historically we stretch far to Ghana and the Kongo. After the Biafra civil war, our leader ojukwu fled to the Congo.
There were” black “ people all over Europe & the rest of the world because we are from all over the world 5:33