Apologies for late correction. Ahmed Baba was a Berber within the Songhai Empire. To the point he did not mention his own ethnic group as being qualified for enslavement.
OH MY!! So glade you re-uploaded this video as more people will be searching for this topic/content. Particularly, after the death of Elizabeth and the question of reparations. Their FIRST rebuttal is ALWAYS “Well Africans sold slaves too.” Thank you!
Great video HTH, however, it was and still remains our ability to disassociate and have contrary interests amongst ourselves as black people that lead to our undoing from attacks from outside forces and groups!
Africans were still selling other Africans regardless of the tribal differences... it's just pure evilness to do that to another human being. I know Europeans did the same to each other but their countries are nowhere near as screwed up as the continent of Africa. Someone will pay for these evil deeds to humanity.
@@amehka5416 It seems you may be completely missing the *Thesis* here. Tribal warfare - be it on any Continent and amongst any ethnic groups - historically has resulted in taking captives (or prisoners of war). It's these captive/conquered peoples who often became the subservient Caste (or class) within the conquers society.
So what difference does it make if they lie about your history or if you lie about your history? Historical research is mostly guestimation anyway, the further back you go, the more you realize it is simply conjecture and fables and hearsay
I agree! All black people should live by this.My awesome father would always say those exact words to me since I was 5 years old.I'm 52 now and I still live by those very words today!
This video attempts to educate those who make the “disingenuous” statement that Blacks sold other Blacks, but the statement isn’t wrong, despite the lack of knowledge one may have around slavery pre-imperialism/colonialism. The fact remains: African leaders sold African slaves to Europeans who then brought those slaves to the Americas. This statement is not wrong. This is precisely what occurred. Mentioning that Romans enslaved other Europeans does not negate the fact that Africans sold other Africans, irrespective of which tribes or empires did the selling. The consequences of the latter was much more insidious than the former.
Stop the bullcrap because you're trying to paint the "Black on Black" narrative. He had already pointed out that certain African tribes were selling their enemies from other tribes. He also pointed out how some Europeans were kidnapping citizens and making them slaves but you're being as disingenuous as the people he referred to at the beginning of the video because you've conveniently skipped that part.
Are you for real? There were no Africans in the past as there no Europeans. Stop looking at history from an African Union or European Union perspective. What you call "tribes" or "ethnic groups" were much more than that. They were independent kingdoms. Kingdoms who defer in religion, culture, laws and language and leadership. In Nigeria alone, there are about 400 ethnic nationalities -- not "groups" please. Nationalities with different languages, customs, cultures, religions. It's the same with all other countries in Africa. We were kingdoms before Britain and their neighbors came to the continent do their "thing".
I paid $25,000 per year to attend a PWI and it took a $100 history class at a community college for me to learn the truth. That professor said your words verbatim 10 years ago.
I will not say it was a waste of your time and money what I will say research to find out who was the first upright intelligent civilized human on the planet Earth
Yeah, but my professor said the opposite? So who is right? There is a also a documentary that I can link here and you can check it out that says they were.czcams.com/video/ajI8lkYdmAk/video.html
You're really opening the eyes of many people. I feel like scales fall off everytime I learn from these videoes. Thank you for educating those who want this.
When you’ve caught on quickly to how Harriet Tubman could’ve been bait and switch propaganda due to people being academically repressed. Such, as when there’s a trend in revolutionary rhetoric stating “we” should be like Malcolm X or Nat Turner all while such individuals aren’t aware there’s an organization keeping track of and monitoring such trending ideologies🤦🏽♂️
Africa is never my home. WHY DID THEY SELL US TO WHITES IF WE ARE THEIR BROTHERS AND SISTERS ????? Nigerians never sold Nigerians. Ghanaians never sold Ghanaians. They sold Black Hebrews who came from Israel to Africa to get free from their enemies. Thanks for selling us Africa, Deuteronomy 28.
Thank you brother. I am from Ghana and i keep explaining to people here in the states . I even get frustrated. I even tell folks the whole of Europe is like West Africa and we a very much diverse. I will keep doing my part to educate. I really love what you do and would love to meet you some day.
Yep, as a black person in the states, it's unfortunately a product of black American isolationism and the projection of black hope in a pure image of African set up by Europeans just to get tore down with the truth, yet instead of actually listening to the full history, people leave once another preconception is set keeping us trapped in the foreigner mindset.
@@philabustahblue5532 The main reason that many of dont know or appreciate Hannibal of Carthage is due to the fact that the community he was said to represent got purged out of existence similar to the people of KM.T., and the current stock of Tunisians have no connections to the then Carthagian civilization from which he was brought up and therefore cant be bothered or probably doesnt intetest them to promote his accomplishments. Although more recently authentic historians from all across the world have made geniune attempts to appreciate Hannibal, they even made a film about him. Yes, that makes a world of a difference. Eventhough much of the facts may have got lost in translation, The Western media and many an authentic author ought to be given their due respect when in comes to citing the story of Hannibal of Carthage. Hannibal was a North African Roman citizen and something to behold when let loose onto the field of battle. Hannibal was an ancient Tunisian citizen of Rome; one that put the fear of his nation into all his warmongering foes, which understandably would inlude Rome. i.e Sagutum, Cannae e.t.c Its important to note that the demographics of the North of Africa has change drastically, so much so, that the Nubian communities that Hannibal is said to represent were eventually dispossessed of the country after failing to ward off multiple attack from both West Asian and Eurocentric warmongers. These thousands upon thousands of years in the past sporadic attacks on the Northern parts of Africa i.e Egypt, Morrocco, Tunisia e.t.c eventually wore down the resolve of the inhabittants of that region and after countless battles and thousands upon thousands of years past, the community that raised Hannibal is probably no more. The change in demographic along the thousands upon thousands of years whereby the control of these areas passed hands from West Asian fundamentalist to Eurocentrics, back and forth and back again; eventually leadingto the current stock of North Africans that we have on the continent today.
The Romans attacked everyone because they were professional warmongers. The Romans probably owned the first ever known professional soldiers to be let into a conflict situation. According to most historians, the average Roman soldier was always smug, a snob, and wholly impossible. Yet, you seem to be conflating the exploits of Rome with Colonisation and the Transatlantic slave trade, there's no direct connection.
@@adeamujale That's an impressive story. The versions are varied and many. What I do is put the versions together and take out the unlikely parts. The story I read of Hannibal was he was he was smart but also vicious and cruel. He totally disowns these scenarios of the African/Arab bunch being fair and nice and all. I've even read stories of the conquerors letting the Spanish continue on as usual and did not try to change them. Logic: You don't attack people to be nice to them. That would be one in a million. Next!
I FINALLY understood what you meant at the very end. You should’ve had an analogy: it’s like Texans wouldn’t sell other Texans. They’d capture Oklahomans and sell them. Even though they “look similar” (skin tone, etc), they’re culturally different so they’re “legally” allowed to sell them.
@@Anton680xThe author of the video said it over and over again. You're thinking of it from a 21st century perspective rather than in the context of the 15th century. This requires an understanding of what chattel slavery on the Americas/Caribbean was.
Great video discussion. Thank you for covering this topic, I was born in Sierra Leone. I now live in London, UK, and this part of my African history has truly trouble me deeply. Your video has allowed me to look at this issue from a different angle, my mother's family are fulani and my father's family are Limba.
Nell Noogle most of the fighting was done either in Europe (whites killing whites) or in Asia (Asians killing Asians), the only time where two nations of different races fought each other in a large scale was between Japan and America, and it’s death toll didn’t even near the one between european nations and the ones between Japan and the other Asian countries
Not only that time. Even today. I have lived in South Africa for 3 years. It's a very tribalistic society with more than ten major black tribal groups plus the whites. Do you know which group is the most hated that no tribe associates with, marries into etc? It's not the whites, it's the Zulus. That should tell you all you need to know.
@@shadearca he doesn’t know any better, clearly. Probably never been outta his own element long enough to know that humans have been doing stuff way long than Americans. He’s probably one of those who argue the we were in America first bs, yet has zero to show for it.
No the Japanese were elitist who thought they were superior TOO EVERYONE. Europeans suffer from the tropical diseases in Africa to this day. So you expect me to believe they were skipping around Africa in the 16th century?
Janine Landham I’m talking about a medieval European who didn’t know about the America’s, could not possibly navigate the continent that they knew nothing about with diseases they weren’t immune to (even today) Without the assistance of the native population. Even right now Group’s in Africa are involved in aiding the Arabs in their slave trade (that predated and outlasted the transatlantic and continues as we speak). The problem is ppl on all sides want to focus on narrative instead of the fact that the Human race and is tree of “ethnicities” are fucked up and no one has moral high ground. Trying to justify slavery at all in any capacity is dumb. Doesn’t matter if it’s race based or not. No man is to rule any other man.
@@randosmallfoot2132 ancient civilization has known about the Americas... Tupac amaru shakur was a asian descendant an Inca king, also the Japanese became imperialist because they saw what the British, german, spanish, Dutch were doing, they said to themselves we either invade and conquer or we wait for them to invade and conquer us...
I grew up in the French education system and I never could have a voice because I felt lost... from coming to the US and learning so much from my black brothers and sisters... I gain more pride in myself and more curiosity about my ancestors... thanks for this amazing and educational channel I am learning so much... Love.
Great video. I went to an HBCU and had to do a thesis paper on the Brazilian slave trade, and had to do background research on the Atlantic Slave Trade. Very shocked by what I learned and was even more shocked by the lack of awareness by my classmates and some professors on the actual history of the African Slave trade.
@@carloscarloss6667 You and @dr_1758 are asking for links when this person hasn't provided 'dates of attendance'. Which means this RESEARCH could have been PHYSICAL: books, documentaries, libraries and all those types of mediums. Why are you A-SSUM-ING this person even had ACCESS to the Internet? The oldest HBCU was founded in 1837. When you talk about College attendance in the somewhat *_VAGUE or NEUTRAL way_* this person did, you have to remember that you can't SEE them... could easily be a MUCH OLDER graduate or FULL OF IT! lol
Brilliant argument and a very valid point. I've always hated the term black on black violence and crime. Violence and crime are just that. Doesn't matter what color the perpetrators are.
New Life Ministries Church Roby, Missouri or Canadians selling U.S. Americans. It’d be like saying North Americans selling North Americans. It sounds ridiculous.
Not for people who didn’t identify themselves as Africans. He literally described why it was different, while acknowledging tribes had and sold slaves. Doesn't make what Europeans did their chattel better. Slavery was not the same in treatment and mindset. Fake science and miseducation of the countries citizens wasn't implemented in order to make people ignorant and believe skin color is what decides mortality or if a person was a human being. Slavery has sadly been here millenniums and has existed within all "races". We don't hear the world teaching about Europeans that enslaved Europeans because for some reason that's when it's okay to identify them as different peoples🙄
Jay Cee haha I always thought that blacks did sell blacks but then I started to think like Africa was capitalized and I seen files of Arabic’s selling Africans I
I believe, He is commenting about the fact that the East African slave trade was for larger and existed for far longer than the West African slave trade but for some reason it is Europeans that receive the blame for Black Slavery.
“Those guilty of slavery” That vast majority of people are not responsible for slavery. The slave trade was abolished over 200 years ago. Just because you have white skin does not make you responsible for slavery.
@Brad Beauchamp And what your saying isn't propanganda? Please! Consider listening again, especially where he says,(paraphising here) to put in context eg. 17th Century ideas about who is, the "other", religion, culture etc. with 20st Century thinking. Although this conversation that you here... I beg to differ, seems like there has been miniscule movement at best, if any at all. A mind IS a terrible thing to waste! Tsktsktsk
@Brad Beauchamp All this deflecting is unnessary. Since you suggested, "I go read a book". What book or books do you suggest I read that will back up your premise?
@Brad Beauchamp I'll read it but why all this anger. Is it not possible for you to have a simple debate without all this unessary, bating? Are you capable of that?
@Brad Beauchamp oh, here we go with the communism thing. I'm waiting on the socialist, fascist, or Marxist words to follow. Get a new vocabulary bro. The one your using now played out after the cold war!
redliquorice - Just to tag on to your point: "Race" is a "reified" White societal construct. "Reification" is when you take an abstract concept and behave (by pretending) as if the abstract concept is true. Concepts are tools and tools serve a purpose. Here are some questions as food for thought:- 1) Why did Whites reify the abstract concept of "race"? 2) Are you familiar with Dr Frances Cress Welsing's "The Cress Theory of Color Confrontion and Racism (White Supremacy) that was inspired by the thoughts of Mr Neely Fuller Jr? 3) Are you familiar with "The Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium" and the assumptions necessary to maintain it? 4) How do so called White people STAY "white"? 5) What do so called White people have to do to people they classify as non-White (Black etc) for White people to STAY "white" on a planet where most or 90% of the people are NOT "white", and which group of non-white people would be the the greatest threat to White people STAYING "White"?
Bravo 👏 👏 👏 to you Sir and this channel, you should be pleased. The production quality and educational history content are top-notch! Definitely plan to share your videos with my people, you are providing a great service.
however, it was and still remains our ability to disassociate and have contrary interests amongst ourselves as black people that lead to our undoing from attacks from outside forces and groups!
Furthermore you had black ppl in southern Europe living well off. And im not saying living well off versus the africans but living well off compared to white europeans. Also living culturally different from those who were on both continents.
Slavery in many African countries was a way of paying off a debt and serving time as a PoW. It was a different model to the Atlantic slave trade. But that was covered in the video.
Your work is brilliant! i was born in Africa, but some of the stuff you talk about i did not know. Old Africa wasn't perfect, and you can find examples of Africans selling other Africans, but on the whole, Africans did not hate people from other tribes. War captives were taken in Africa, but European history is far more violent than African history. How many French and Italian women were raped and sold during the hundred years war ? you will be shocked. look up an English man named John Hawkwood and his activities in Italy. It will give you sleepless nights. The history books talk about the African kings who handed over war captives from other tribes. An unforgivable crime, but how come they never talk about the African kings who totally refused to sell their war captives to the slave traders? and there were many. The ancient Africans did not view themselves as BLACK, black did not exist in Africa, but they understood the evils of slavery. Many of the African kings and queens agreed to hand over their war prisoners because they knew if they didn't their own people would be taken. They had guns to their heads. My own tribe, made a deal with the British in the Nineteenth century. We didn't hand over any people, thank God! the slave trade was over by then, but the deal was made because we knew we couldn't win a military battle against them. Do you know what Shaka Zulu did when they told him they wanted to take captives to work as forced farm laborers? he banned all Europeans from Zulu land. They never talk about these defenses of the African African people. The kingdoms of Africa largely protected the African people. The slave trade happened because the African kingdoms were destroyed and defeated. it was after that that slave caravans roamed freely all over Africa. The kingdoms of Angola, Queen Nzinga's people, fought the Portuguese for centuries. Slave trading was punishable by DEATH. It was after military defeat that gangs with gangs went around freely kidnapping people. How is that collaboration?. Many of the people of Angola fled after their defeat into inner Africa. Many of them asked to join our Tribe. We accepted them as brothers and sisters. That was centuries ago, but we never forgot. My mother has pointed out to me which members of the tribe came from Angola. The crazy African mentality was created during three periods. The destruction of the kingdoms, slavery, and colonialism. Thank God it is passing. Africa is getting better, mentally and economically. Much of it has to do with people relearning their history. You are doing vital work. The African Union tried for many years to stop the war in Sudan and failed. The mental damage was to deep. Do you know what caused a change? African-Americans. The success of African- Americans, especially the rappers, made the Sudanese proud to be of African origin again. For the first time in CENTURIES. Now many Africans, not just Sudanese, are re discovering the richness of African culture. MOST AFRICANS DO NOT KNOW THEIR TRUE HISTORY. They believe civilization came with the Europeans and Arabs. Keep up the good work brother. You are a true griot. Africans are not guilty of selling their own people, but they are guilty of not protecting them. DEFEAT of our ancient kingdoms is what caused the horrors of the slave trade, not collaboration. But Africa is getting stronger. We have a united army now, countries like Egypt have many modern jets in their airforce, South Africa has a home grown anti missile defense system that is sold all over the world, even in Europe. The African middle class is three hundred million strong. I have rambled on to long. Peace brother.
Joseph Kongwa eeuuhh... «inner Africa» plz explain? «Angola» wasn’t even a kingdom -.- Angola is the result of the mispronunciation from Portuguese settlers of the title of the king -> Ngola in Kimbundu No stop using Nzinga’s name to push your narrative she didn’t fight for "Black" folks nor every Africains she fought only to defend the Ambundu people HER PEOPLE! If you aren’t Mbundu your ma probably lied to you too or just didn’t know any better, are you Congolese? Angola is a COUNTRY composed of a widespread of different ethnic groups from DIFFERENT KINGDOMS who all fought for their OWN! Nothing wrong with that... And yes there WAS hate between different groups already such as Ambundu people(Nzinga’s) despised the Kongo kingdom and it’s people because they were UNDER the domination of Kongo and wanted separation! No slavery was not something punishable by death because if that was the case the Imbagala(Jaga) people wouldn’t of THRIVED OFF SELLING AND DESTROYING THEIR ENNEMIS! They had no loyalty to no one but themselves. Does that mean that they were evil? No unless you decide to interpret it in a 21century way. Even Nzinga herself sold prisoners to the Portuguese AND the Dutch(who she had alliances with) she even WROTE IT on her letters! It was only when she overthrew Queen Mwongo of Matamba and annexed it to Ngondo, that she started recruiting runaway slaves and Portuguese trained soldiers ONLY because she wanted to STRENGTHEN HER KINGDOM not out of benevolence! Even the king of Loango had slaves, in fact he had one he was sooo fond of that he decided to have his painting done. Don’t whitewash Angola’s deep and complex history none of our rulers (from different kingdoms because ANGOLA DIDN’T exist at the time) are celebrated for being saints but for standing up to their beliefs and for THEIR OWN PEOPLE!
Antonia Capella Borges in america in south carolina where my family is from bavili,umbundu,bakongo, bateke,baluba,were all lumped together as "angolas" and the same groups in florida were called "congos"
John Dough yeah I know that South Carolina received a lot of people from the Congo-Angola region and that they were the most hotheaded 😂 But it’s less than likely that there were Balubas (my dad’s ethnic group) probably less than 1% because our empire only fell during the 19th century due to Swahili invasions. They were more likely to be Balundas or Chokwes because they also consider themselves Lubas
Thank you for this video and your scholarly work on this and other topics on African history. I agree that it is an oversimplification to say our own people sold us into slavery if we base it on tribe but that would be like saying white people's own people didn't buy slaves, it was Engljsh, Scottish, Irish, Portuguese etc. Even if it was someone from another tribe who sold my ancestors it was still one black person selling another black person to those of European descent. So the black African sellers from opposing tribes and the white buyers are equally wicked in my eyes.
I’ve always felt this. The white man could have never conquered and made slaves out of the African blacks by themselves being a handful of whites in two or three ships at a time. We as Africans are so tribal that we would do anything to eliminate another tribe from war with them to capturing and selling them into slavery. African slavery is a sad history that I wish we could have broken the chain of the disassociation we seem to have with our own race from Africa and even to this day we as American blacks still hate on each other to a certain degree from complexion differences and religion , to status quo and financial level. We need to learn to love one another enough to not want harm to come to them regardless of differences at some point in our society.
Good of you to include the info about “pink” slaves. Lots of people are ignorant of that fact. I would also describe (as a white person) this European slavery, as whites selling whites. You’re differentiating the Africa tribes, so yes, the tribes weren’t selling themselves, but they were selling “othered” Africans. The Arabs were some of the biggest sellers of slaves of many races. Thomas Sowell has some great reading on the subject.
Everybody has been enslaved on a small scale or large scale at some point in history. To think that it wouldn’t happen amongst Africans would be foolish
ZeroTurn but if the most recent and therefor memorable period of slavery wasn’t taught and brought to light, then the wouldnt whites be demonised for hiding history? And they were not taught perpetuity by school, state or law? So did that mentality come from home or?
@@zeroturn7091 Yes entire generations and entire regions of whites, asians, africans, middle eastern, pacific islanders have been enslaved. The human history has been around for tens of thousands of years. Africans themselves had slaves from other African tribes during war and conflict within their disputed territories. Same with Native indians, Aztec Indians, Mayan and Incan indians. It was common to have slaves from whatever dispute to the victor. It is part of human history. Africans sold out other africans for power, europeans bought and kidnapped slaves, it is a terrible story of the human nature. Blaming people today for mistakes done generations ago is the same for any african tribal dispute considering another tribe as slaves for the foreseeable future. Today people enslave others mentality.
Chris V the problem with your theory is the black tax dollars help pay reparations to Italians, Jews, and Japanese under the Reagan administration. On top of the fact that an order was written during the emancipation proclamation for the freed slaves to receive 40 acres. But Andrew Johnson ripped that order up and gave that land back to the people that fought against America. The holocaust didn’t happen in America and only lasted for 12 years but the tax dollars of blacks help fund reparations for them
The more I hear about anti-black racism, the more I realize I never could have learned about racism in school and there is so much revisionism. It is essential to learn from ancestors and black writers and speakers from the time. I'm glad to be subscribed to learn more about very real civilizations. I'm not a historian, but I love to learn and I'm convinced your videos are well researched. I'm not a scholar to say for sure, but it's refreshing to hear history without the ever present revisionism which tempts people to mold polish historical records to fit wild ideas meant to make black genocide more palatable to any and all citizens who happen to come to western schools.
I could hear it in your voice lol I feel inspired listening to your emotions and control and while breaking down the facts. I learned more crucial details in this 1 vid about myself than I’ve ever learned in highschool or from my elders. Thank you (:
When someone brings up that "black people were selling black people" in the trans-atlantic slave trade, it begs the question of who exactly was buying and creating such great market demand for the product.
Thats like blaming inner city crackheads for illegal drugs being brought in from South America and Mexico...Dont blame the drug cartels for all of the deaths and headless bodies in Suarez roadside ditches
You look like a nice kid. I am west African and I am from the part of West Africa where slaves were sold from. People got rich selling slaves to the Europeans. Places like Bonny, and Opobo are littered with alcohol carafes, european period furniture, cannons and so on. I understand your world view but you are regurgitating what your university professor taught you. Just for your information, there are about 100,000 slaves in Africa today - don't worry, it may be, as you say, the right kind of slavery.
For instance.....South Sudanese were slaves in North Sudan for years and years. They would raid South Sudan as recently as a few years ago to get their slaves. North Sudan is black and Muslim. South Sudan is pagan and had some Christians.
Lance Payne 😂 you the one acting like a bitch, cuz you not trynna hear the truth. This also inspired me to do research and black people didn’t even abolish slavery all the way until the 2000’s in some countries.
Thank you my man I have had this debate with people before and I never felt like I explained it well enough to make them understand. Now I have examples to give them next time
now I understand what my Nigerian friend meant. my American eyes lied to me, Africa is more diverse throughout the country, Different tribes/ people. true blessing brother ✊ thank you.
Robert Ross people don’t realise it ... take my country for instance ... the DRC ... ex Zaïre... we have nearly 200 languages and thousands of dialects ... and the different tribes ... but in Berlin, at the conference, they didn’t think about that... they just decided who will control the “land” regardless of the people living there and their history ... they used to fight against each other and somehow, they have to live together not because they decided it, but because some white folks decided it ... but we are doing good ...
@@marysophy3665 True,even in some African countries during partition of Africa a tribe,a clan,a family would be torn between two countries creating a future and constant problem.The partition on paper looked like a line drawn in the middle of a homestead.
Nigeria alone have people who speak about 513 different languages with diverse culture and traditions. Everyone I km you travel in Nigeria means another language.
Hi Home Team, I'm from Cameroon, and our ancestors through verbal tradition passed down to us that the Northern Africans led the Europeans in the inner villages to capture people for slavery. This is not taught nor spoken about. Since they did not read or write, they passed on the verbal tradition aka the Truth!
Facts! It all began as the Northerners aka Arabs, Turks aka Ottoman and Persians moved in to spread Islam by the sword all over Africa while furthering their empires. The Romans and Greeks saw that and bought in.
Those's Northern Africans were Moors , the Arabianize Moors allowed Europeans to enslave their own Moroccan Nationals. But they wasn't Black, Moors are Asiatics with an Olive complexion. There's no such people or person as Black. Black is a status, a slave label to identify the people they enslaved.
@@jeffbillings-el6110 Muslims were enslaving Africans since they invaded Africa in 8th century upto 20th century. Europeans learned African slave trade from Muslim invaders. The African slaves were called "kafirs" by the Muslim slavers since they traded pagan and christian africans.
@@jeffbillings-el6110 nonsense....moors are black. They north African who are really all Europeans from the Russian and Russian fringe states that now call themselves Arabs all over north Africa and the so called middle east are the ones who showed the way and brought their fellow Europeans into mainland to capture and buy slave. They are not true or genuine Africans, they are all indigenous Europeans, they are the Africans the west is using to try and shift blame and say it was Africans selling other Africans to them.....give yourself some brain and independent reasoning ability....the question you should be asking is....why did the European accept to buy other people. If I offered to sell you a corpse, do you have to accept to buy it? If there is no buyer, there is no market, furthermore, get out your map book and look at the distance these European sailed from their homeland the long way round by the seas just to buy and enslave other human beings....that is desperate, sociopathic and psychotic. Whether by Arabs or by black people, the Europeans should not have come there to ship people away against their will with violence. Black is used to describe all with brown and black skin whilst white is used to describe people with yellow or pinkish-yellow skin colour with hair that don't clump together like the hairs on the tail of a horse and with same colours as the different color of horses we have. No one is white....that is being delusional but there so many Africans with black skin that are really black. The fact that they term is used to describe enslaved people does not prevent it from being an accurate description of people
This video is the perfect example of "spin". Sir, when we quit playing semantics, the historical fact is that Africans ardently participated in the TAST.
The devil speak through you. However, now that you've made your comments here and other places where the trailer review of The Woman King is shown, what now? What's next for your seeming empty life? I hope you live forever, unchanged.
@@The10thManRules WE NEVER HEAR ABOUT THE WHITE SLAVERY ERA ! BECAUSE THEY MOVED ON ! THEY MOVED FORWARD. THEY SAID IT WAS WRONG FOR THOSE LONG-DEAD WHITE PEOPLE TO DO WHAT THEY DID TO THOSE OTHER LONG-DEAD WHITE PEOPLE AND MOVED ON ! WE DIDN'T.. WE STILL CRY ABOUT WHAT A BUNCH OF DEAD PEOPLE DID TO A BUNCH OF OTHER DEAD PEOPLE 250 YEARS AGO.. WE ARE NOT THOSE PEOPLE! LETS MOVE ON !! AND THEY ARE CRYING ABOUT REPARATIONS TOO.. WHO THE HELL WANTS A F****IN MULE ANYWAY? WE SHOULD BE GRATEFUL WE WERE NOT BORN IN SOME DIRTY HOT-ASS VILLAGE IN AFRICA SOMEWHERE.
Thank you brother, I've been saying this in some of the debates I've gotten into. It's good to have more facts on the subjects. This is the sort of information that should be taught in schools. But that won't happen until we build our own schools to properly educate our children.
the book Destruction of Black Civilization explains it well. Tribes treated the people they caught in war totally different than what people think. People who were caught in war where still able to live a dignified life.
@@solinvictus7115 he can't !! ppl don't get the fact that selling them and indentured servants are totally different... They didn't get sold to the Portuguese , they were TRICKED , they thought they were leasing them to be indentured servants , and when they realized how bad they were being treated they tried to save them but it was too late... I hate when other races try telling us about OUR history .
@@someguy4405 I'll bring it all up, whether it comes from the Ottomans, the Egyptians, the Romans, the British or the Moors, the Mongols etc. Slavery is slavery and there should be no favouritism to which one is talked about.
Thank you I've been saying that all along you can't take stuff that happened in the seventeenth Century compared to the twenty-first century you can't do that people's mindset was completely different.
This was very insightful, and I learned to view the history of the slave trade with the appropriate context. Africans did not view themselves as one back then, so they did what the Romans did. It actually makes sense when you put it like that. As an African, I attest that we can’t expect the rest of the world to treat us with equality until we can treat each other that way. History is a great educator, as it were.
Dude, forget the "we". YOU can always expect to be treated as equal and it has nothing to do with what may happen in some place on the globe. Treating others with respect is a question of honor.
Slavery in the Sahel states of Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad and Sudan in particular, continues a centuries-old pattern of hereditary servitude. Other forms of traditional slavery exist in parts of Ghana, Benin, Togo and Nigeria.
Seriously? You might have to get your mind un-enslaved. Every African is a bonafide human who deserves to be respected and treated as equal to other humans - regardless of how he/she treats other Africans. Same applies to other people. Please do yourself a favor and value yourself as human.
@@awesomeamaka IF YOU THINK EVERY AFRICAN MUST BE TREATED AS A HUMAN THEN GO TO AFRICA AND TRY AND FREE THEM !! THEY DID IT IN THE USA !! THATS MY POINT !! EVERYONE SHOULD BE HAPPY THAT SLAVERY WAS ABOLISHED HERE !! GO GO NOW ! SAVE THEM !! WE DID IT HERE !!
I am an Ewe from Ghana, and my oral tradition says whites rated the villages, and there was no mutual ground for negotiation on prices. Some villages were burnt down because the chiefs did not provide people (slaves). Many slaves were collateral damages for the survival of the greater whole. They had gun powder when the Africans had spears/bowl and arrows. There was servitude, not slavery before the colonizers. African serves had land, wives, and workers themselves.
Kwaku Appiyah Surely it’s better to improve the lives of the slaves today rather than to keep banging on about something that happened hundreds of years ago.
Well, I kind of thought everyone understood that it was Africans selling Africans from opposing tribes. Why would you sell your own people when you can profit from selling the guy in the next tribe over? Makes total sense back then but sounds insane today.
@Pomfromoz Probably right, such punishments for criminals have been recorded in many civilizations. After all prisons to punish persons did not really exist.
@@Tareltonlives Watch the movie "Cool Hand Luke" if you want to see the old chain gang AKA prison labor system. Today prison is mostly just a world apart, a place of isolation from society.
The simplification of “Blacks selling Blacks” is not based on denial. It’s a sound bite to refute the popular opinion that America alone invented slavery. Your point is clear: People have been people regardless of skin pigment. War slavery vs selling slavery seems more like a distinction without a difference to the enslaved. Thank you for your careful review of history.
chattel slavery is a different category from the war captive slavery i Africa. Chattel slavery meant your children were born enslaved generation to generation even when their fathers were also their owners. They were transported in a way that guaranteed a high mortality rate even before arriving in the Americas. The mortality rate of slaves who worked sliver mines in South America or sugar in Haiti or Cuba was ridiculously high. This was the constant consumption of humans like firewood and in terms of numbers, dehumanization and long term effects it was unprecedented.
Chattel slavery and white supremacy were the defining characteristics of the Atlantic Slave Trade that set it apart from everything else before and after it.
John Perkins These crimes took place AFTER slavery by the psychopathic racist COLLECTIVE communities in white America. czcams.com/video/eCfGlS8el-o/video.html
It Isa misdirection from the truth. Just like how Kap took a knee in protest of police misconduct, brutality, murder &c and the lack of true accountability, punishment, reform, change &c was hijacked to try and make it about disrespectful of the banner (flag), anthem &c!!! Or when one says BLM ( Black Lives Matter ) another says Blue Lives Matter &c!!
I am beginning to think that the very word slave is problematic. The word is so broad in its scope that it creates the false equivalency between old world and new world forms of involuntary servitude. This confusion then creates the basis of the black on black slavery narrative.
I thoroughly agree with your comment. A single word can mask and incorrectly encompass so many diverse realities. The word "slavery" is one of those words. There are maids in Africa right now, who are voluntary in-home servants who many Europeans would happily call slaves simply to tarnish Africa to non-Africa with the idea of "modern day slavery".
“You can’t take a 20th century mindset and apply it to 16th and 17th century people. It doesn’t work like that.” Hmm interesting point. I wonder about 18th and 19th as well. Wait, are we saying that people are people of their times?
@@Just.a.person59 ...there was another guy on another page said something deep... "When you allow another man to feed you, you're also giving him the power to starve you"
You're missing his point. Black people, as we're understood in America and through a Pan-African lens didn't exist in those times. Nationalism and Tribalism were the dominant definitions of people.
Ahhh...I got it! It was okay for Africans to enslave and sell other Africans because they were from different nations and tribes. Like it's okay for Nigerians to enslave and sell Liberians. It's even okay for Nigerians to sell Liberians to another nation or tribe of white people from Europe. That's okay. But if that nation-tribe of white people enslave or sell those Liberians to another nation-tribe of white people, THAT is a disgusting human tragedy, even though slavery was legal in almost every nation back then and as you said we cannot judge the cultures of the past by the standards of today.
@@ezekielcaselton5842 the issue is this, he is blaming the wrong people. He and others like him are the ones who glabalise everything so as to make whites feel guilty. The argument of blacks selling blacks is always advanced to remind others that whites alone are not to blame. Humanity is to blame for slavery and we must together fight the ills of slavery. So this story that whites enslaved blacks is wrong. Humanity enslaved humanity. Now let people stop this stupid attempt to vilify whites and take their wealth in the name of reparations.
BUT STILL BLACKS ARE SAYING "US BLACKS" INSTEAD OF SAYING WHAT TRIBE THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT ! AS IF ALL BLACK PEOPLE ARE THE SAME !! I HOPE MANY BLACK PEOPLE WHO THINK THEY ARE ALL ONE LEARNED SOMETHING FROM THIS VIDEO !!!
Chinese still just call themselves chinese? Although there are many different ethnic groups such as the Han and Zhuang. Why are you worried about what blacks call themselves ?
At 2:50 when you start talking about how “you’ll never hear white people looking at the selling of other white people and say, what a crime,” you OBVIOUSLY don’t know any Irish people
The hit everything perfectly! Many things I didn't even think or consider to put in my video. I wouldn't even feel right making a video about this anymore after seeing yours. Awesome job man!
It should probably also be pointed out that war slavery is DIFFERENT. When you go to all out war with another group and kill most of their men, there are few options left. You can go ahead and finish the job by killing the women and children too. Or you can leave them unprotected to human predators or to starve due to lack of labor. Actually, the most humane thing that you can do, in many cases, is to bring them into your society as your servants/slaves. This is far different than just enslaving people because you can't be bothered to do your own work. And most war slaves are simply absorbed into their new culture. They are not perpetual outsiders and subordinates.
well, the most humane thing to do would to not go to war in the first place and resort to slaughtering all the men in the enemy nation BUT i do get what you mean. it is probably better than starvation or raids from bandits or other criminals and broken men
I think one reason this argument is so popular is that it makes the 18 century europeans seem a bit less evil and a bit less to blame. I remember learning about the Atlantic slave trade in school and the teachers really emphasised the greed of the europeans and made it seem like they just walked into Africa and enslaved everyone they saw
I literally just watched a documentary filmed in Africa in think on the Ivory coast.. wherever that huge slave post on the coast was.. talking to the natives about how Thier families sold other blacks that they had bought after whatever tribe lost to another, inwhich they would then sell them to Berbers English or Dutch. Many of the guys talking about the land they still own was bought off of selling other black ppl into slavery. Why would they lie? Some of them seemed ashamed
HomeTeam, your work is brilliantly put together. You are providing so many answers to questions no one previously seemed to be able to answer for me.Please know that your work is phenomenal and nourishing all members of the African Diaspora, who want understand their ancestors to a greater extent than mudhuts and Konga drums. I will be taking your courses, soon. You connect me physically, mentally and even spiritually to Africa. Your work is not in vain. I love history and now I see my ancestors and feel as though I know them and I can relate to them and embrace them; they are no longer disconnected strangers to me. This particular video was the missing link to my misconceptions of the Slave Trade. I thank God for your work.
Hi I am Cyprian. I just watched your podcast and I HAD to respond with my thoughts. I am a 57 year old black West Indian man from and currently living on the island of Barbados. I will not portend to be any great scholar on history or even an enthusiast(?) and well informed as yourself on the particulars of African history, BUT..... I think I am old enough and intelligent enough to challenge your assertion that the idea of "blacks" selling "blacks" was and is a fallacy. First. You readily accept and assert the diversity of African peoples and thus justify the reasons for their practice of slavery and then REFUSE to do so for European slavery. YOU say that "nobody" speaks of "whites" enslaving "whites" but I do and thus would make NO distinction between the two. Indeed slAver is slavery is slavery ANYWHERE and all across the world and REGARDLESS of time. The RULES may be different and change and evolve from place to place. The conditions may be more barbaric and restrictive on one place or another and the possibility of "release" or mobility and rise in social status will also vary from place to place and over time, but it is ALL the same in the end. Like you I have heard YOUR arguments before that somehow American chattle slavery was so very different and unique from any other type of oppression practiced any where else so as to make it the only "real" slavery worth talking about. You are making the exact and same mistake you are accusing those others of doing when choosing not to speak of white slavery of the ancient world's. Indeed, it was because of the very scale and scope of the trans Atlantic slave trade and the clash with the European ideas of "equality" and humanity as ordered by God that they then had to create new ideas of superiority based solely on skin color to justify to themselves what they were doing. So everything was alright in the eyes of their God. Indeed it is a part of our sad history that the very rules of controlling slaves under chattel slavery in N. America originated right here in Barbados. For the ENTIRE world and (most) of time slavery was an accepted and practiced way of life. Under whatever justification and whatever reasoning and whatever guise and disguise it comes in. In India the caste system enforced the separation by class on religious principles so someone born as an untouchable was as locked into their life opportunity even more than a born slave in Roman Europe or any Africa kingdom. A whote sex slave today is better off than a Chinese sex slave or Japenese Gesha of yesterday? When we learn to accept that HUMANS did and do this to other HUMANS for whatever reasons they can cook up only then can we look in the mirror and FIX this world and our selves. Regards Cyprian La Toiche When we learn to accept that there is the evil
Cyprian La Touche very well said sir... your use of common knowledge and history has sadly been ignored by the ignorant masses. I hope more people see your message but sadly the majority of people are thick and even if they do will choose to ignore or simply fail to comprehend.
Didn’t read your comment just the first bit but I’m pretty sure he wasn’t justifying slavery just debunking the idea that “blacks enslaved blacks so y’all did it to your self” because there weren’t no “y’all” just as whites from different regions are viewed differently blacks somehow aren’t heck some think Africa is a country.
Could we go further and postulate that Europeans were forced to buy African slaves at gun point by Africans? And were threatened with punishment if they did not mistreat the slaves they bought.
Idk how it's a fallacy. The Dahomey tribe participated in the slave trade. Some people don't want to believe Africans could be just as cruel and violent as their "white" counterparts. If Africans are the original slaves then it obviously means that we were probably the first to own slaves. I think the their is a clear distinction between the kinds of slaves that Africans may have owned and the racialized slavery birthed from the Atlantic slave trade.
@@Desacrates369 He's playing with words and people are deceived into believing they have learned something new. "We" (blacks) have been taught(indoctrinated) into believing that the European went to Africa and "stole black people". Roots -which is proven hoax- confirmed this half truth to millions of people. In it, (the 1970's) Europeans entered Africa and chased down Africans with nets. In reality it was a supply chain. Africa rulers rounded up slaves usually after warfare. The sold the captives to middlemen who in turn delivered them to the Coast where Europeans were waiting. Africans sold Africans. Whether they saw them as "different or not. Fredrick Douglas sited this as a reason that he didn't believe blacks should be repatriated to Africa. His comparisons to white Europeans is completely erroneous. Slavery in America was the most unique institution in the world. It came with its own laws and social and economic constructs. Why he's talking about Rome I'll never understand.
@@khalidnamar8723 Listen the problem is the 16-17th century mindset of people were just selling slaves yes it was wrong just as Romans did but romans when they bought the slaves didn't treat them differently because of color unlike white slave traders from America
This is absolutely clarifying! If only we were taught this in school. I’m in my late 20s and all my life I grew up thinking “we did it to ourselves” I’ve never looked at it this way. Thank you!
read old books, the ones before the 1900’s. 🤦🏾♂️ here’s a start for your research... Book: The jews and moors in spain, page 214 The kings creed awoke again simultaneously..... archive.org/details/jewsmoorsinspain00krauuoft/page/214/mode/2up Book: America: Being an accurate description of the NEVV VVORLD;.... by John Ogilby Page 574 ; that John the third, king of Portugal, sent... Black Spanish and Portuguese Jews archive.org/details/America00Ogil/page/574/mode/2up Search Results Featured snippet from the web Western Africa (part of which became known as "the Slave Coast"), Angola and nearby Kingdoms and later Central Africa, became the source for enslaved people to meet the demand for labour. Sources: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade#Labour_and_slavery
africans did it to themselves. they did it way before europe got involved. they were selling themselves to other tribes then to the arabs from the 7th century onward. that lasted over 1300 years. get some proper education.
How does this video explain that black slave brokers didn’t sell their own people into slavery. I watched twice and haven’t heard anything clarifying such. Help me understand. Thanks
Consider, in the beginning. people were identified through bloodlines not color or land masses. However. as civilizations grew and spread throughout the world people began to branch off into their tribal mentalities. Tower of Babel may have played a considerable part in this transition.
Exactly im Caribbean American my kindergarten teacher kept saying im African American just because of my skin my family comes from its own culture women!🇹🇹🇭🇹 get it right next time!
Slavery was already existing in Africa before the Europeans came. A lot of cultures have been guilty of slavery throughout history, to different scales of course. By the way, calling Europeans "cave dwellers" sounds a little bit ignorant, it's in the same category as saying "Africans created nothing".
I never said that Europe and Africa were the same, there were plenty of differences within these two continents to begin with. But this thing we called "slavery" existed in many sedentary societies, as soon as the cities became big enough and had multiple jobs and tasks available to make someone do the chores for you. However, I did not deny in my former statement that slavery happened on different scales (Christian Westerners and Muslim Arabs being the main slavers, as far as Black Africans are concerned)
I'm here trying to do real research on racism and in my internet travels ive come across you. Yet another racist. Is this channel part of the NBPP ideology? Because if it is, it's not productive.
PRECISELY....I've long said the exact same thing. The erasure of distinct ethnic and tribal differences among Africans was very deliberate and utilized as a tool to portray all Africans as an undifferentiated mass of people with no real history or culture of their own worth respecting or recognizing. In other words, it's the basis of the dehumanization of the slave which also extends to their descendants. And sooooo many people are dead set on perpetuating such an ideology --which really speaks to their own sense of self-worth which has been weighed and found wanting.
WRONG WE NON BLACKS DONT THINK BLACK PEOPLE ARE ALL THE SAME !! ITS ONLY WHEN BLACKS SAY "US BLACKS" IS WHEN WE THINK BLACKS ARE ALL THE SAME !! OR WHY WOULD THEY SAY "US BLACKS ' YOU NEVER HEAR PEOPLE SAY "US WHITES' UNLESS YOUR A KKK OR SKINHEAD !! !
@JACKSONVILLE RED How is that? By culture ? Or language ? Exactly how are they same ? Is an English person same with a Croatian or Arab. Are these all not similar Skin colour..... Think about it and don't Be emotional because of the narrative you are used to.
CHINA !!!!! Because that is what we were taught we can’t trace are ancestors to a certain part of Africa they striped heritage but if we were just african they would of called us that when we got off the boat but they never started calling us african until know the word african American was made in the 1980 so when u been lied to your whole life about your heritage you would feel the same way
Ok, so your basically saying that it’s wrong to say that black people sold black people into slavery, but it is ok to say Africans sold Africans into slavery. I thought he would have a good argument but this video was a waste of time.
...I appreciate your scholarship and ability to detail the African diversity. But at the end of the day, it is evident that slavery, in ANY FORM, is unacceptable. Even the gentler version that west African nations practiced. At this point in time on current history, European nations, England, and the United States are ALL looking for reasons to justify their unGodly acts upon all the different African cultures you named, as well as the invasion and colonization of African there on the continent. They would rather generalize Africans taking part in slavery than detail it to avoid paying reparations for the brutality and savagery inflicted upon the African Diaspora worldwide. Your scholarship and explanation is thorough, but will not stand alone as a strong defense for the enslavement of blacks worldwide without accepting the fact that blacks from diverse cultures took part in the Slave Trade as regardless of diversity. We must not entertain the thought that slavery is acceptable at any level , or any degree, no matter the culture or diversity, to ensure that it never happens again...
I think he's missing a huge part of the Transatlantic slave trade story. Europeans didn't just show up in West Africa one day and there was a Market for them to buy and sell slaves. Europeans first encounter with our ancestors had nothing to do with slavery and for centuries prior to the Transatlantic slave trade Europeans and West Africans negotiated trade of resources not humans
With all due respect Mr Sandman, the brother tactfully and deliberately addresses a specific denotation of the west African slave trade during the timeframe between the 13th to 16th centuries as it has been misconstrued. He detailed specific distinctions between slavery, and the subtext of how that lie has been purposely proclaimed in order to perpetuate the continued abuse of these descendants of wu tang...pun intended. If you’re not apart of the solution, you’re apart of the problem.
Great video! You're spot on brother! In Pre-Colonial Africa, there was no such thing as a collective "African" or "Black" identity. Only different ethnicities, kingdoms, and empires. And you're right. We can't view the events from a 20th and 21st Century perspective. The mindset and environment were completely different than today. Keep up the good work!
That's actually exactly what i want to say when i use that argument. It was People selling People all over the world. We can't just act like white people are to blame.
@@XEveryoneLovesEmilyX LOL that's fallacy. You are missing the whole point. THEY introduced race. Had they not done that, then you could make that argument. But they made it about race. They did. Nobody else. So yes, those who created the particular dynamic can very much so be blamed for it.
@@loualbino5536 Stop making excuses for your ancestors and separate from it, only then, it will sense to forgive. Yes... coming from a sincere objective view.
Great education. Thank you so much young Sir. In New York I saw a lady cry hysterically. when she learnt about black people selling black people. . However, this selling of human beings was and still is common. Whatever the colour of the skin. Peace and understanding. Be blessed readers. June 1, 2021.
@Dennis Moore I as an Italian deman reparations from north africans and arabs for enslaving my people, actually have them pay you my reparations directly.
Apologies for late correction. Ahmed Baba was a Berber within the Songhai Empire. To the point he did not mention his own ethnic group as being qualified for enslavement.
OH MY!! So glade you re-uploaded this video as more people will be searching for this topic/content. Particularly, after the death of Elizabeth and the question of reparations. Their FIRST rebuttal is ALWAYS “Well Africans sold slaves too.” Thank you!
Great video HTH, however, it was and still remains our ability to disassociate and have contrary interests amongst ourselves as black people that lead to our undoing from attacks from outside forces and groups!
Africans were still selling other Africans regardless of the tribal differences... it's just pure evilness to do that to another human being. I know Europeans did the same to each other but their countries are nowhere near as screwed up as the continent of Africa. Someone will pay for these evil deeds to humanity.
Can you tell me the song in the intro please?
@@amehka5416 It seems you may be completely missing the *Thesis* here. Tribal warfare - be it on any Continent and amongst any ethnic groups - historically has resulted in taking captives (or prisoners of war). It's these captive/conquered peoples who often became the subservient Caste (or class) within the conquers society.
When we allow others to write our history they will always create lies in order to justify their wickedness.
Facts!!!
And white people will get upset when blacks talk about something totally different than what was taught about black history!!!
So what difference does it make if they lie about your history or if you lie about your history? Historical research is mostly guestimation anyway, the further back you go, the more you realize it is simply conjecture and fables and hearsay
@@richlisola1 It does Make as Difference
The victor always writes history, as it should be. I love my history and so glad I don’t have a weak ancestory. My RH- blood says it all.
Every. Time.
"Know thyself and remember your ancestors, peace."
Always! 👍🏾💪🏾
Ashé
Thank u casue i don't like it when we as AFRICAN AMERICAN we are not fuckin black jus like white is a color too
Yeah, but check this: czcams.com/video/3o3LYtI3Qzg/video.html
@@kierramason1685 what are you trying to say
I agree! All black people should live by this.My awesome father would always say those exact words to me since I was 5 years old.I'm 52 now and I still live by those very words today!
this is what they need to be teaching in schools, this needs to be shared world wide. thank you for this!
Starting at home
um no. we need to stop teaching lies.
@@danjones6702 exactly like Jesus being white 🥴
This video attempts to educate those who make the “disingenuous” statement that Blacks sold other Blacks, but the statement isn’t wrong, despite the lack of knowledge one may have around slavery pre-imperialism/colonialism.
The fact remains: African leaders sold African slaves to Europeans who then brought those slaves to the Americas. This statement is not wrong. This is precisely what occurred.
Mentioning that Romans enslaved other Europeans does not negate the fact that Africans sold other Africans, irrespective of which tribes or empires did the selling. The consequences of the latter was much more insidious than the former.
Stop the bullcrap because you're trying to paint the "Black on Black" narrative. He had already pointed out that certain African tribes were selling their enemies from other tribes. He also pointed out how some Europeans were kidnapping citizens and making them slaves but you're being as disingenuous as the people he referred to at the beginning of the video because you've conveniently skipped that part.
@@apexone5502 you stated African tribes were selling their enemies. Who were their enemies?
@@chriszugu8422 you do know that you're on a video that covers your question, right?
Are you for real? There were no Africans in the past as there no Europeans. Stop looking at history from an African Union or European Union perspective. What you call "tribes" or "ethnic groups" were much more than that. They were independent kingdoms. Kingdoms who defer in religion, culture, laws and language and leadership.
In Nigeria alone, there are about 400 ethnic nationalities -- not "groups" please. Nationalities with different languages, customs, cultures, religions.
It's the same with all other countries in Africa. We were kingdoms before Britain and their neighbors came to the continent do their "thing".
@@ade-oluwaspov206 That’s all understood. These facts are not new. This has nothing to do with the conversation, though.
I paid $25,000 per year to attend a PWI and it took a $100 history class at a community college for me to learn the truth. That professor said your words verbatim 10 years ago.
All that money wasted just to find it on CZcams, can guarantee it was on somewhere on the internet 10 years ago too.
I will not say it was a waste of your time and money what I will say research to find out who was the first upright intelligent civilized human on the planet Earth
Yep
Yeah, but my professor said the opposite? So who is right? There is a also a documentary that I can link here and you can check it out that says they were.czcams.com/video/ajI8lkYdmAk/video.html
Juese Christ,.. 😲
History written by your enemy is always meant to hit the last nail on your coffin, it is meant to praise him, it is therefore not true.
unless it is historical, of course..
You're really opening the eyes of many people. I feel like scales fall off everytime I learn from these videoes. Thank you for educating those who want this.
When you’ve caught on quickly to how Harriet Tubman could’ve been bait and switch propaganda due to people being academically repressed. Such, as when there’s a trend in revolutionary rhetoric stating “we” should be like Malcolm X or Nat Turner all while such individuals aren’t aware there’s an organization keeping track of and monitoring such trending ideologies🤦🏽♂️
Africa is never my home. WHY DID THEY SELL US TO WHITES IF WE ARE THEIR BROTHERS AND SISTERS ????? Nigerians never sold Nigerians. Ghanaians never sold Ghanaians. They sold Black Hebrews who came from Israel to Africa to get free from their enemies. Thanks for selling us Africa, Deuteronomy 28.
Awesome...!!! This entire vid offers excellent insight into the topic...!!! 👍
I am curious what you think you learned here that you didn't know previously? Genuinely.
Thank you brother. I am from Ghana and i keep explaining to people here in the states . I even get frustrated. I even tell folks the whole of Europe is like West Africa and we a very much diverse. I will keep doing my part to educate. I really love what you do and would love to meet you some day.
ME? OK
Thanks for trying brother. I'm in the same boat
Yep, as a black person in the states, it's unfortunately a product of black American isolationism and the projection of black hope in a pure image of African set up by Europeans just to get tore down with the truth, yet instead of actually listening to the full history, people leave once another preconception is set keeping us trapped in the foreigner mindset.
In Europe we have diversity forced upon us whites. Don't worry it is changing
It was the Fulani… 🤷🏽
The Romans attacked everyone did not matter what color
Hannibal is a name which should make even Spaniard hate black people. They need to know more about it.
@@philabustahblue5532 The main reason that many of dont know or appreciate Hannibal of Carthage is due to the fact that the community he was said to represent got purged out of existence similar to the people of KM.T., and the current stock of Tunisians have no connections to the then Carthagian civilization from which he was brought up and therefore cant be bothered or probably doesnt intetest them to promote his accomplishments.
Although more recently authentic historians from all across the world have made geniune attempts to appreciate Hannibal, they even made a film about him. Yes, that makes a world of a difference.
Eventhough much of the facts may have got lost in translation, The Western media and many an authentic author ought to be given their due respect when in comes to citing the story of Hannibal of Carthage.
Hannibal was a North African Roman citizen and something to behold when let loose onto the field of battle. Hannibal was an ancient Tunisian citizen of Rome; one that put the fear of his nation into all his warmongering foes, which understandably would inlude Rome. i.e Sagutum, Cannae e.t.c
Its important to note that the demographics of the North of Africa has change drastically, so much so, that the Nubian communities that Hannibal is said to represent were eventually dispossessed of the country after failing to ward off multiple attack from both West Asian and Eurocentric warmongers.
These thousands upon thousands of years in the past sporadic attacks on the Northern parts of Africa i.e Egypt, Morrocco, Tunisia e.t.c eventually wore down the resolve of the inhabittants of that region and after countless battles and thousands upon thousands of years past, the community that raised Hannibal is probably no more.
The change in demographic along the thousands upon thousands of years whereby the control of these areas passed hands from West Asian fundamentalist to Eurocentrics, back and forth and back again; eventually leadingto the current stock of North Africans that we have on the continent today.
The Romans attacked everyone because they were professional warmongers.
The Romans probably owned the first ever known professional soldiers to be let into a conflict situation.
According to most historians, the average Roman soldier was always smug, a snob, and wholly impossible.
Yet, you seem to be conflating the exploits of Rome with Colonisation and the Transatlantic slave trade, there's no direct connection.
@@adeamujale That's an impressive story. The versions are varied and many. What I do is put the versions together and take out the unlikely parts. The story I read of Hannibal was he was he was smart but also vicious and cruel. He totally disowns these scenarios of the African/Arab bunch being fair and nice and all. I've even read stories of the conquerors letting the Spanish continue on as usual and did not try to change them. Logic: You don't attack people to be nice to them. That would be one in a million. Next!
@@adeamujale Well, the problem with the Romans was that they were always Roamin'. Get it? Roamnin' :)
You will NEVER get to the truth unless your WILLING to release the embarrassing truth about your own people.
Exactly
Andre Boston and that goes for BLACKS AND WHITES
exactly what i said
When you point a finger 3 are pointing right back at. You.
Mani Nedoow it goes for literally any race in this world. Native Americans, Africans, whites, Arabs, Asians. EVERYOnE.
I FINALLY understood what you meant at the very end. You should’ve had an analogy: it’s like Texans wouldn’t sell other Texans. They’d capture Oklahomans and sell them. Even though they “look similar” (skin tone, etc), they’re culturally different so they’re “legally” allowed to sell them.
Semantics... violence and cruelty is just the same regardless of what you call yourself..
@@Anton680x 09:50 where is this ahmed baba book
@@Anton680xThe author of the video said it over and over again. You're thinking of it from a 21st century perspective rather than in the context of the 15th century. This requires an understanding of what chattel slavery on the Americas/Caribbean was.
Great video discussion. Thank you for covering this topic, I was born in Sierra Leone. I now live in London, UK, and this part of my African history has truly trouble me deeply. Your video has allowed me to look at this issue from a different angle, my mother's family are fulani and my father's family are Limba.
. 😂 Didn't you like Africa then?
I studied cultural diversity in college and YES there were tribes who fought each other. The losing tribes were sold to Europeans.
So, one source say something and voilà : here's the truth !
@@maiskk6326 shut up .. are you african ? ...
@@malikak2661 Tells you to shut up, then proceed to ask you a question, genius ...
@@maiskk6326 it's very important you shut up boy ... Ignoramus always trying to be clever.
are you painting all europeans with one brush. did every european country and every european person buy slaves?
WWII, white on white brutality.
Nell Noogle most of the fighting was done either in Europe (whites killing whites) or in Asia (Asians killing Asians), the only time where two nations of different races fought each other in a large scale was between Japan and America, and it’s death toll didn’t even near the one between european nations and the ones between Japan and the other Asian countries
Hiroshima Nagasaki
They was white Germanic who released the nuclear Bomb
Worst ever crime committed on humanity
They still live and rule
xyla aqsa ?? The Japanese did crimes too, doesn’t justify the bomb but don’t act like they were innocent
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Are you justifying the killings of thousands of innocent women kids
Luke Bowering When whites engage in tribal war it’s call world war but if happened else where the term tribal is used.
Finally, I found someone who had done his homework, and understand the dynamics of the region of that time.
Not only that time. Even today. I have lived in South Africa for 3 years. It's a very tribalistic society with more than ten major black tribal groups plus the whites. Do you know which group is the most hated that no tribe associates with, marries into etc? It's not the whites, it's the Zulus. That should tell you all you need to know.
That only little in the end the whole world were involed in slavery from all colours it was the norm for thousands of years.
@MSSUCCESSDRIVEN how do you measure what is the worst kind of slavery exactly. And what does the term white supremacy slavery even means?
@@shadearca he doesn’t know any better, clearly. Probably never been outta his own element long enough to know that humans have been doing stuff way long than Americans. He’s probably one of those who argue the we were in America first bs, yet has zero to show for it.
@@shadearca the same way you measured that Zulus were the “most hated” tribe in SA.
You provide such great material to your viewers. I appreciate all of your hard work. I truly appreciate it!
They never tell the Japanese who enslaved Chinese "Oh Chinese Sold Chinese".
Damn. 👍🏾💪🏾
Ashé
No the Japanese were elitist who thought they were superior TOO EVERYONE. Europeans suffer from the tropical diseases in Africa to this day. So you expect me to believe they were skipping around Africa in the 16th century?
Janine Landham I’m talking about a medieval European who didn’t know about the America’s, could not possibly navigate the continent that they knew nothing about with diseases they weren’t immune to (even today)
Without the assistance of the native population. Even right now Group’s in Africa are involved in aiding the Arabs in their slave trade (that predated and outlasted the transatlantic and continues as we speak). The problem is ppl on all sides want to focus on narrative instead of the fact that the Human race and is tree of “ethnicities” are fucked up and no one has moral high ground. Trying to justify slavery at all in any capacity is dumb. Doesn’t matter if it’s race based or not. No man is to rule any other man.
@@randosmallfoot2132 ancient civilization has known about the Americas... Tupac amaru shakur was a asian descendant an Inca king, also the Japanese became imperialist because they saw what the British, german, spanish, Dutch were doing, they said to themselves we either invade and conquer or we wait for them to invade and conquer us...
@Daniel Rascon thus they genocided millions, but it's ok cause white ppl did it too
I grew up in the French education system and I never could have a voice because I felt lost... from coming to the US and learning so much from my black brothers and sisters... I gain more pride in myself and more curiosity about my ancestors... thanks for this amazing and educational channel I am learning so much... Love.
Great video. I went to an HBCU and had to do a thesis paper on the Brazilian slave trade, and had to do background research on the Atlantic Slave Trade. Very shocked by what I learned and was even more shocked by the lack of awareness by my classmates and some professors on the actual history of the African Slave trade.
Put a link to your thesis if possible. I know some people would love to learn something.
Can you elaborate? Would love to learn your research
Can u share the link please
It's a very painful history. I imagine it takes some drive to get through it all...
@@carloscarloss6667 You and @dr_1758 are asking for links when this person hasn't provided 'dates of attendance'. Which means this RESEARCH could have been PHYSICAL: books, documentaries, libraries and all those types of mediums. Why are you A-SSUM-ING this person even had ACCESS to the Internet? The oldest HBCU was founded in 1837. When you talk about College attendance in the somewhat *_VAGUE or NEUTRAL way_* this person did, you have to remember that you can't SEE them... could easily be a MUCH OLDER graduate or FULL OF IT! lol
Brilliant argument and a very valid point. I've always hated the term black on black violence and crime. Violence and crime are just that. Doesn't matter what color the perpetrators are.
BUT WHITES BUYING SLAVES IS OK? INSTEAD OF SAYING "PEOPLE" BOUGHT SLAVES ?
An accurate statement would be African tribes selling African tribes.
New Life Ministries Church Roby, Missouri or Canadians selling U.S. Americans. It’d be like saying North Americans selling North Americans. It sounds ridiculous.
@Alessandropopopo popo Too complicated for Liberals is more accurate.
My History professor taught us that it was African Kings selling their people for weapons
Not for people who didn’t identify themselves as Africans. He literally described why it was different, while acknowledging tribes had and sold slaves. Doesn't make what Europeans did their chattel better. Slavery was not the same in treatment and mindset. Fake science and miseducation of the countries citizens wasn't implemented in order to make people ignorant and believe skin color is what decides mortality or if a person was a human being. Slavery has sadly been here millenniums and has existed within all "races". We don't hear the world teaching about Europeans that enslaved Europeans because for some reason that's when it's okay to identify them as different peoples🙄
@@eckhardt76 conservatives live with their heads shoved up their own asses.
those guilty of slavery, will always try to place the blame on someone else.
Jay Cee haha I always thought that blacks did sell blacks but then I started to think like Africa was capitalized and I seen files of Arabic’s selling Africans I
Mr.Flying DutchMan Cubic Castles what are you going on about
I believe, He is commenting about the fact that the East African slave trade was for larger and existed for far longer than the West African slave trade but for some reason it is Europeans that receive the blame for Black Slavery.
“Those guilty of slavery”
That vast majority of people are not responsible for slavery. The slave trade was abolished over 200 years ago.
Just because you have white skin does not make you responsible for slavery.
The ancient Arabs and Eurocentrics carry all the blame for Colonisation and the Transatlantic Slave trade.
A knight in SHINNING ARMOR for the people….Spreading truth and knowledge….Teach My Brother Teach💪🏾
We've always had bootlicks, sell-out, and traitors within our midst!
Reducing people to a color is the problem.
Well said. Reducing people to a color is the problem...
@Brad Beauchamp
And what your saying isn't propanganda?
Please! Consider listening again, especially where he says,(paraphising here) to put in context eg. 17th Century ideas about who is, the "other", religion, culture etc. with 20st Century thinking. Although this conversation that you here... I beg to differ, seems like there has been miniscule movement at best, if any at all. A mind IS a terrible thing to waste! Tsktsktsk
@Brad Beauchamp All this deflecting is unnessary. Since you suggested, "I go read a book". What book or books do you suggest I read that will back up your premise?
@Brad Beauchamp
I'll read it but why all this anger. Is it not possible for you to have a simple debate without all this unessary, bating?
Are you capable of that?
@Brad Beauchamp oh, here we go with the communism thing. I'm waiting on the socialist, fascist, or Marxist words to follow. Get a new vocabulary bro. The one your using now played out after the cold war!
Racially they may have been the same but religiously, spiritually, governmentally, politically, culturally, and linguistically they were different
@Jose Ureste No just saying that there are more then racial and ethnic differences
@Jose Ureste of course it's wrong but you kinda are missing the point of his argument.
I see what you are saying but race did not exist until the Europeans created it.. it's a social construct
redliquorice - Just to tag on to your point: "Race" is a "reified" White societal construct. "Reification" is when you take an abstract concept and behave (by pretending) as if the abstract concept is true.
Concepts are tools and tools serve a purpose. Here are some questions as food for thought:-
1) Why did Whites reify the abstract concept of "race"?
2) Are you familiar with Dr Frances Cress Welsing's "The Cress Theory of Color Confrontion and Racism (White Supremacy) that was inspired by the thoughts of Mr Neely Fuller Jr?
3) Are you familiar with "The Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium" and the assumptions necessary to maintain it?
4) How do so called White people STAY "white"?
5) What do so called White people have to do to people they classify as non-White (Black etc) for White people to STAY "white" on a planet where most or 90% of the people are NOT "white", and which group of non-white people would be the the greatest threat to White people STAYING "White"?
"Race" did not exist until white supremacists made it up. Before, no one thought in terms of skin color. Africans included.
Bravo 👏 👏 👏 to you Sir and this channel, you should be pleased. The production quality and educational history content are top-notch! Definitely plan to share your videos with my people, you are providing a great service.
however, it was and still remains our ability to disassociate and have contrary interests amongst ourselves as black people that lead to our undoing from attacks from outside forces and groups!
Love your content. You break things down so well
Actually slavery was there before. What Western Europe did was they used skin color as an issue and it was chain slavery.
Optimistic M&M actual slavery was also far more tame than what Western European’s did.
Furthermore you had black ppl in southern Europe living well off. And im not saying living well off versus the africans but living well off compared to white europeans. Also living culturally different from those who were on both continents.
Slavery in many African countries was a way of paying off a debt and serving time as a PoW. It was a different model to the Atlantic slave trade. But that was covered in the video.
It wasn't exactly slavery with this "Black people enslaved black people." It was prisoners of war
Optimistic M&M Africans didn’t force breed people to maintain slavery and many other atrocities
Your work is brilliant! i was born in Africa, but some of the stuff you talk about i did not know. Old Africa wasn't perfect, and you can find examples of Africans selling other Africans, but on the whole, Africans did not hate people from other tribes. War captives were taken in Africa, but European history is far more violent than African history. How many French and Italian women were raped and sold during the hundred years war ? you will be shocked. look up an English man named John Hawkwood and his activities in Italy. It will give you sleepless nights. The history books talk about the African kings who handed over war captives from other tribes. An unforgivable crime, but how come they never talk about the African kings who totally refused to sell their war captives to the slave traders? and there were many. The ancient Africans did not view themselves as BLACK, black did not exist in Africa, but they understood the evils of slavery. Many of the African kings and queens agreed to hand over their war prisoners because they knew if they didn't their own people would be taken. They had guns to their heads. My own tribe, made a deal with the British in the Nineteenth century. We didn't hand over any people, thank God! the slave trade was over by then, but the deal was made because we knew we couldn't win a military battle against them. Do you know what Shaka Zulu did when they told him they wanted to take captives to work as forced farm laborers? he banned all Europeans from Zulu land. They never talk about these defenses of the African African people. The kingdoms of Africa largely protected the African people. The slave trade happened because the African kingdoms were destroyed and defeated. it was after that that slave caravans roamed freely all over Africa. The kingdoms of Angola, Queen Nzinga's people, fought the Portuguese for centuries. Slave trading was punishable by DEATH. It was after military defeat that gangs with gangs went around freely kidnapping people. How is that collaboration?. Many of the people of Angola fled after their defeat into inner Africa. Many of them asked to join our Tribe. We accepted them as brothers and sisters. That was centuries ago, but we never forgot. My mother has pointed out to me which members of the tribe came from Angola. The crazy African mentality was created during three periods. The destruction of the kingdoms, slavery, and colonialism. Thank God it is passing. Africa is getting better, mentally and economically. Much of it has to do with people relearning their history. You are doing vital work. The African Union tried for many years to stop the war in Sudan and failed. The mental damage was to deep. Do you know what caused a change? African-Americans. The success of African- Americans, especially the rappers, made the Sudanese proud to be of African origin again. For the first time in CENTURIES. Now many Africans, not just Sudanese, are re discovering the richness of African culture. MOST AFRICANS DO NOT KNOW THEIR TRUE HISTORY. They believe civilization came with the Europeans and Arabs. Keep up the good work brother. You are a true griot. Africans are not guilty of selling their own people, but they are guilty of not protecting them. DEFEAT of our ancient kingdoms is what caused the horrors of the slave trade, not collaboration. But Africa is getting stronger. We have a united army now, countries like Egypt have many modern jets in their airforce, South Africa has a home grown anti missile defense system that is sold all over the world, even in Europe. The African middle class is three hundred million strong. I have rambled on to long. Peace brother.
Joseph Kongwa eeuuhh... «inner Africa» plz explain?
«Angola» wasn’t even a kingdom -.- Angola is the result of the mispronunciation from Portuguese settlers of the title of the king -> Ngola in Kimbundu
No stop using Nzinga’s name to push your narrative she didn’t fight for "Black" folks nor every Africains she fought only to defend the Ambundu people HER PEOPLE! If you aren’t Mbundu your ma probably lied to you too or just didn’t know any better, are you Congolese? Angola is a COUNTRY composed of a widespread of different ethnic groups from DIFFERENT KINGDOMS who all fought for their OWN! Nothing wrong with that... And yes there WAS hate between different groups already such as Ambundu people(Nzinga’s) despised the Kongo kingdom and it’s people because they were UNDER the domination of Kongo and wanted separation! No slavery was not something punishable by death because if that was the case the Imbagala(Jaga) people wouldn’t of THRIVED OFF SELLING AND DESTROYING THEIR ENNEMIS! They had no loyalty to no one but themselves. Does that mean that they were evil? No unless you decide to interpret it in a 21century way. Even Nzinga herself sold prisoners to the Portuguese AND the Dutch(who she had alliances with) she even WROTE IT on her letters! It was only when she overthrew Queen Mwongo of Matamba and annexed it to Ngondo, that she started recruiting runaway slaves and Portuguese trained soldiers ONLY because she wanted to STRENGTHEN HER KINGDOM not out of benevolence! Even the king of Loango had slaves, in fact he had one he was sooo fond of that he decided to have his painting done. Don’t whitewash Angola’s deep and complex history none of our rulers (from different kingdoms because ANGOLA DIDN’T exist at the time) are celebrated for being saints but for standing up to their beliefs and for THEIR OWN PEOPLE!
Antonia Capella Borges in america in south carolina where my family is from bavili,umbundu,bakongo, bateke,baluba,were all lumped together as "angolas"
and the same groups in florida were called "congos"
John Dough yeah I know that South Carolina received a lot of people from the Congo-Angola region and that they were the most hotheaded 😂
But it’s less than likely that there were Balubas (my dad’s ethnic group) probably less than 1% because our empire only fell during the 19th century due to Swahili invasions. They were more likely to be Balundas or Chokwes because they also consider themselves Lubas
Thanks for this great comment. I think it would get many more readers if you broke it up into paragraphs.
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Thank you for this video and your scholarly work on this and other topics on African history. I agree that it is an oversimplification to say our own people sold us into slavery if we base it on tribe but that would be like saying white people's own people didn't buy slaves, it was Engljsh, Scottish, Irish, Portuguese etc. Even if it was someone from another tribe who sold my ancestors it was still one black person selling another black person to those of European descent. So the black African sellers from opposing tribes and the white buyers are equally wicked in my eyes.
GREAT job young KING! I'm in my 12th year of studying P.O.C. history you sir did a excellent job. 👏
I’ve always felt this. The white man could have never conquered and made slaves out of the African blacks by themselves being a handful of whites in two or three ships at a time. We as Africans are so tribal that we would do anything to eliminate another tribe from war with them to capturing and selling them into slavery. African slavery is a sad history that I wish we could have broken the chain of the disassociation we seem to have with our own race from Africa and even to this day we as American blacks still hate on each other to a certain degree from complexion differences and religion , to status quo and financial level. We need to learn to love one another enough to not want harm to come to them regardless of differences at some point in our society.
Not true
Good of you to include the info about “pink” slaves. Lots of people are ignorant of that fact. I would also describe (as a white person) this European slavery, as whites selling whites. You’re differentiating the Africa tribes, so yes, the tribes weren’t selling themselves, but they were selling “othered” Africans. The Arabs were some of the biggest sellers of slaves of many races. Thomas Sowell has some great reading on the subject.
I dought this guy has read any of Thomas Sowell's work
@@terryharris1291
I like how you spell doubt…
Damn bro you’ve been doing this for a long time💪🏾💯💯
Thank you for sharing the video with us. Was very educational and clarifying for me. Greetings from Norway.
Everybody has been enslaved on a small scale or large scale at some point in history. To think that it wouldn’t happen amongst Africans would be foolish
Perpetuity is the word that comes to mind. Have the other groups automatically had their descendants designated as slaves?
ZeroTurn but if the most recent and therefor memorable period of slavery wasn’t taught and brought to light, then the wouldnt whites be demonised for hiding history? And they were not taught perpetuity by school, state or law? So did that mentality come from home or?
@@zeroturn7091 Yes entire generations and entire regions of whites, asians, africans, middle eastern, pacific islanders have been enslaved. The human history has been around for tens of thousands of years. Africans themselves had slaves from other African tribes during war and conflict within their disputed territories. Same with Native indians, Aztec Indians, Mayan and Incan indians. It was common to have slaves from whatever dispute to the victor. It is part of human history. Africans sold out other africans for power, europeans bought and kidnapped slaves, it is a terrible story of the human nature. Blaming people today for mistakes done generations ago is the same for any african tribal dispute considering another tribe as slaves for the foreseeable future. Today people enslave others mentality.
Chris V the problem with your theory is the black tax dollars help pay reparations to Italians, Jews, and Japanese under the Reagan administration. On top of the fact that an order was written during the emancipation proclamation for the freed slaves to receive 40 acres. But Andrew Johnson ripped that order up and gave that land back to the people that fought against America. The holocaust didn’t happen in America and only lasted for 12 years but the tax dollars of blacks help fund reparations for them
Sk Roochi I’m not fully understanding your last sentence. Which group are you referring to that was not taught this at the state, school, law level?
The more I hear about anti-black racism, the more I realize I never could have learned about racism in school and there is so much revisionism. It is essential to learn from ancestors and black writers and speakers from the time. I'm glad to be subscribed to learn more about very real civilizations. I'm not a historian, but I love to learn and I'm convinced your videos are well researched. I'm not a scholar to say for sure, but it's refreshing to hear history without the ever present revisionism which tempts people to mold polish historical records to fit wild ideas meant to make black genocide more palatable to any and all citizens who happen to come to western schools.
Racism does exist but "Anti black"
Just sounds stupid and it definitely comes from the failed education system.
Nah there's no historical revisionism to the Atlantic slave trade.
I could hear it in your voice lol I feel inspired listening to your emotions and control and while breaking down the facts. I learned more crucial details in this 1 vid about myself than I’ve ever learned in highschool or from my elders. Thank you (:
Anything to deny the truth.
When someone brings up that "black people were selling black people" in the trans-atlantic slave trade, it begs the question of who exactly was buying and creating such great market demand for the product.
MANY COUNTRIES WERE BUYING SLAVES ! FROM THE GREAT SLAVE SELLER OF AFRICA !!
Does it really matter who bought the slave. It matters that they were sold
@@kevinrice1085 Lmaoooo. ok buddy, keep telling yourself that before you go to sleep at night.
Thats like blaming inner city crackheads for illegal drugs being brought in from South America and Mexico...Dont blame the drug cartels for all of the deaths and headless bodies in Suarez roadside ditches
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You look like a nice kid. I am west African and I am from the part of West Africa where slaves were sold from. People got rich selling slaves to the Europeans. Places like Bonny, and Opobo are littered with alcohol carafes, european period furniture, cannons and so on.
I understand your world view but you are regurgitating what your university professor taught you.
Just for your information, there are about 100,000 slaves in Africa today - don't worry, it may be, as you say, the right kind of slavery.
Oh boy, they aren't going to want to hear that.
For instance.....South Sudanese were slaves in North Sudan for years and years. They would raid South Sudan as recently as a few years ago to get their slaves. North Sudan is black and Muslim. South Sudan is pagan and had some Christians.
@@dapabur1 There are reports of slave markets in Uganda, today.
Lance Payne 😂 you the one acting like a bitch, cuz you not trynna hear the truth. This also inspired me to do research and black people didn’t even abolish slavery all the way until the 2000’s in some countries.
Eleah Ake that’s horrible.
Thank you my man I have had this debate with people before and I never felt like I explained it well enough to make them understand. Now I have examples to give them next time
now I understand what my Nigerian friend meant. my American eyes lied to me, Africa is more diverse throughout the country, Different tribes/ people. true blessing brother ✊ thank you.
Robert Ross people don’t realise it ... take my country for instance ... the DRC ... ex Zaïre... we have nearly 200 languages and thousands of dialects ... and the different tribes ... but in Berlin, at the conference, they didn’t think about that... they just decided who will control the “land” regardless of the people living there and their history ... they used to fight against each other and somehow, they have to live together not because they decided it, but because some white folks decided it ... but we are doing good ...
@@marysophy3665 True,even in some African countries during partition of Africa a tribe,a clan,a family would be torn between two countries creating a future and constant problem.The partition on paper looked like a line drawn in the middle of a homestead.
Nigeria alone have people who speak about 513 different languages with diverse culture and traditions.
Everyone I km you travel in Nigeria means another language.
@ROBERT ROSS: YOU HAVE NO NIGERIAN FRIENDS.
Well said
Hi Home Team, I'm from Cameroon, and our ancestors through verbal tradition passed down to us that the Northern Africans led the Europeans in the inner villages to capture people for slavery. This is not taught nor spoken about. Since they did not read or write, they passed on the verbal tradition aka the Truth!
Facts! It all began as the Northerners aka Arabs, Turks aka Ottoman and Persians moved in to spread Islam by the sword all over Africa while furthering their empires. The Romans and Greeks saw that and bought in.
Those's Northern Africans were Moors , the Arabianize Moors allowed Europeans to enslave their own Moroccan Nationals.
But they wasn't Black, Moors are Asiatics with an Olive complexion. There's no such people or person as Black. Black is a status, a slave label to identify the people they enslaved.
Northern Africans were muslim slave traders snd slavers. Muslim slave trade in Africa had claimed approximately 11 million african slaves.
@@jeffbillings-el6110 Muslims were enslaving Africans since they invaded Africa in 8th century upto 20th century. Europeans learned African slave trade from Muslim invaders. The African slaves were called "kafirs" by the Muslim slavers since they traded pagan and christian africans.
@@jeffbillings-el6110 nonsense....moors are black. They north African who are really all Europeans from the Russian and Russian fringe states that now call themselves Arabs all over north Africa and the so called middle east are the ones who showed the way and brought their fellow Europeans into mainland to capture and buy slave. They are not true or genuine Africans, they are all indigenous Europeans, they are the Africans the west is using to try and shift blame and say it was Africans selling other Africans to them.....give yourself some brain and independent reasoning ability....the question you should be asking is....why did the European accept to buy other people. If I offered to sell you a corpse, do you have to accept to buy it? If there is no buyer, there is no market, furthermore, get out your map book and look at the distance these European sailed from their homeland the long way round by the seas just to buy and enslave other human beings....that is desperate, sociopathic and psychotic. Whether by Arabs or by black people, the Europeans should not have come there to ship people away against their will with violence. Black is used to describe all with brown and black skin whilst white is used to describe people with yellow or pinkish-yellow skin colour with hair that don't clump together like the hairs on the tail of a horse and with same colours as the different color of horses we have. No one is white....that is being delusional but there so many Africans with black skin that are really black. The fact that they term is used to describe enslaved people does not prevent it from being an accurate description of people
This video is the perfect example of "spin".
Sir, when we quit playing semantics, the historical fact is that Africans ardently participated in the TAST.
The devil speak through you. However, now that you've made your comments here and other places where the trailer review of The Woman King is shown, what now? What's next for your seeming empty life?
I hope you live forever, unchanged.
Thanks man, Home team history is an Olympic grade mental gymnast
@@The10thManRules Was it the devil or the Dahomey who kidnapped men/women/children and sold them into slavery?
What is he saying that's incorrect?
@@The10thManRules WE NEVER HEAR ABOUT THE WHITE SLAVERY ERA ! BECAUSE THEY MOVED ON ! THEY MOVED FORWARD. THEY SAID IT WAS WRONG FOR THOSE LONG-DEAD WHITE PEOPLE TO DO WHAT THEY DID TO THOSE OTHER LONG-DEAD WHITE PEOPLE AND MOVED ON ! WE DIDN'T.. WE STILL CRY ABOUT WHAT A BUNCH OF DEAD PEOPLE DID TO A BUNCH OF OTHER DEAD PEOPLE 250 YEARS AGO.. WE ARE NOT THOSE PEOPLE! LETS MOVE ON !! AND THEY ARE CRYING ABOUT REPARATIONS TOO.. WHO THE HELL WANTS A F****IN MULE ANYWAY? WE SHOULD BE GRATEFUL WE WERE NOT BORN IN SOME DIRTY HOT-ASS VILLAGE IN AFRICA SOMEWHERE.
Thank you brother, I've been saying this in some of the debates I've gotten into. It's good to have more facts on the subjects. This is the sort of information that should be taught in schools. But that won't happen until we build our own schools to properly educate our children.
the book Destruction of Black Civilization explains it well. Tribes treated the people they caught in war totally different than what people think. People who were caught in war where still able to live a dignified life.
Yeah, that's the book! there are others but that's the one by Chancellor Williams.
@Gelmir Curufin prove it..
@@solinvictus7115 he can't !! ppl don't get the fact that selling them and indentured servants are totally different... They didn't get sold to the Portuguese , they were TRICKED , they thought they were leasing them to be indentured servants , and when they realized how bad they were being treated they tried to save them but it was too late... I hate when other races try telling us about OUR history .
@@diesel2464 exactly... Another tactic to keep us suspicious of each other.
@Gelmir Curufin You are missing the point.
This is far from a fallacy. This is proven. This was tribal and still goes on today.
Just like human trafficking still goes on today in the states...
Kwaku Appiyah
AND BOTH ARE BAD.
NEITHER COUNTERACT EACH OTHER.
Some Guy Exactly, if both are bad then stop only bringing up Slavery in Africa.
And stop saying America/ the west ended slavery if it still occurs
Kwaku Appiyah
Those are responses to people holding the white race collectively responsible for the trans-atlantic slave trade.
@@someguy4405 I'll bring it all up, whether it comes from the Ottomans, the Egyptians, the Romans, the British or the Moors, the Mongols etc. Slavery is slavery and there should be no favouritism to which one is talked about.
Thank you I've been saying that all along you can't take stuff that happened in the seventeenth Century compared to the twenty-first century you can't do that people's mindset was completely different.
What is a thing even professional historian have to realise is that you cannot judge a person 500 years ago with the view of today.
There is no statue of limitation on murder.
This was very insightful, and I learned to view the history of the slave trade with the appropriate context. Africans did not view themselves as one back then, so they did what the Romans did. It actually makes sense when you put it like that. As an African, I attest that we can’t expect the rest of the world to treat us with equality until we can treat each other that way. History is a great educator, as it were.
Dude, forget the "we". YOU can always expect to be treated as equal and it has nothing to do with what may happen in some place on the globe. Treating others with respect is a question of honor.
Slavery in the Sahel states of Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad and Sudan in particular, continues a centuries-old pattern of hereditary servitude. Other forms of traditional slavery exist in parts of Ghana, Benin, Togo and Nigeria.
Seriously? You might have to get your mind un-enslaved. Every African is a bonafide human who deserves to be respected and treated as equal to other humans - regardless of how he/she treats other Africans. Same applies to other people. Please do yourself a favor and value yourself as human.
@@awesomeamaka IF YOU THINK EVERY AFRICAN MUST BE TREATED AS A HUMAN THEN GO TO AFRICA AND TRY AND FREE THEM !! THEY DID IT IN THE USA !! THATS MY POINT !! EVERYONE SHOULD BE HAPPY THAT SLAVERY WAS ABOLISHED HERE !! GO GO NOW ! SAVE THEM !! WE DID IT HERE !!
@@glenncater1... usa is a country... Africa is a continent with over 1 billion people... try again.
"All crimes matter" THAT GOT MEEEEE😂😂😂
All violence matters
I meant that's what HE said
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Ikie SoIkie just stop. Why do white people feel the need to appropriate EVERYTHING?!
LOL YES !! NOT JUST BLACK LIVES BUT ALL LIVES !!
Well like the 5 percenters used to say, Beware of the tricknology.
I am an Ewe from Ghana, and my oral tradition says whites rated the villages, and there was no mutual ground for negotiation on prices. Some villages were burnt down because the chiefs did not provide people (slaves). Many slaves were collateral damages for the survival of the greater whole. They had gun powder when the Africans had spears/bowl and arrows. There was servitude, not slavery before the colonizers. African serves had land, wives, and workers themselves.
Mate you need to look into the slaves of today in some of the African countries mining metals for the tech we’re using now.
he is a historian, not a politician!
How does looking at that relate to his point ?
What you’re doing is simply diverting focus
Kwaku Appiyah Surely it’s better to improve the lives of the slaves today rather than to keep banging on about something that happened hundreds of years ago.
@@marcusnadon7061
he is teaching history debunking stupid 4chan arguments
He is not a politician who can change things
INDIA BALL My comment wasn’t aimed at Simon it was a comment by someone else. A misunderstanding, I’m a subscriber btw.
Well, I kind of thought everyone understood that it was Africans selling Africans from opposing tribes. Why would you sell your own people when you can profit from selling the guy in the next tribe over? Makes total sense back then but sounds insane today.
Yh, people can't seem to understand the context back then. Sure slavery is horrible but it was what it was back then.
@Pomfromoz Probably right, such punishments for criminals have been recorded in many civilizations. After all prisons to punish persons did not really exist.
Not to mention prison labor today is pretty much the same as slavery in the ancient world and Africa.
@@Tareltonlives Watch the movie "Cool Hand Luke" if you want to see the old chain gang AKA prison labor system. Today prison is mostly just a world apart, a place of isolation from society.
@@nicky3538 Depends on the prison
I learned sooo much! Thank you for this!!
Well done, Good Sir! Culture and enlightenment are not lost on young people,regardless of what the pop media says.
The simplification of “Blacks selling Blacks” is not based on denial. It’s a sound bite to refute the popular opinion that America alone invented slavery. Your point is clear: People have been people regardless of skin pigment. War slavery vs selling slavery seems more like a distinction without a difference to the enslaved. Thank you for your careful review of history.
chattel slavery is a different category from the war captive slavery i Africa. Chattel slavery meant your children were born enslaved generation to generation even when their fathers were also their owners. They were transported in a way that guaranteed a high mortality rate even before arriving in the Americas. The mortality rate of slaves who worked sliver mines in South America or sugar in Haiti or Cuba was ridiculously high. This was the constant consumption of humans like firewood and in terms of numbers, dehumanization and long term effects it was unprecedented.
Chattel slavery and white supremacy were the defining characteristics of the Atlantic Slave Trade that set it apart from everything else before and after it.
Who has the opinion that "America" invented slavery? Direct that person to a history book or two to cure their ignorance.
John Perkins
These crimes took place AFTER slavery by the psychopathic racist COLLECTIVE communities in white America.
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It Isa misdirection from the truth. Just like how Kap took a knee in protest of police misconduct, brutality, murder &c and the lack of true accountability, punishment, reform, change &c was hijacked to try and make it about disrespectful of the banner (flag), anthem &c!!! Or when one says BLM ( Black Lives Matter ) another says Blue Lives Matter &c!!
I am beginning to think that the very word slave is problematic. The word is so broad in its scope that it creates the false equivalency between old world and new world forms of involuntary servitude. This confusion then creates the basis of the black on black slavery narrative.
buu678 we should just say prisoners our ancestors were prisoners the plantation was a prison
I thoroughly agree with your comment. A single word can mask and incorrectly encompass so many diverse realities. The word "slavery" is one of those words.
There are maids in Africa right now, who are voluntary in-home servants who many Europeans would happily call slaves simply to tarnish Africa to non-Africa with the idea of "modern day slavery".
Prisoners of War #POWs
Very very underated comment
buu678 "kidnapped or in this case "hostagenapped" , ODE OURSTORY NIA NOW...
“You can’t take a 20th century mindset and apply it to 16th and 17th century people. It doesn’t work like that.”
Hmm interesting point. I wonder about 18th and 19th as well. Wait, are we saying that people are people of their times?
Yeah, most liberated minds have no concept of what being a POW is. They grew up being spoon fed by television when they should’ve been reading books😂
Well Said
Imagine if the joker told the story of the batman. he would make himself the good guy in that story. czcams.com/video/-91nSN76n6A/video.html
@Lala Ghana-Love lol, lmaoo. good one
@Yusuf Ibrahim dude, are you Nigerian?
Naw I think the joker would still play the villain
No he wouldnt. Him being the badguy MAKES him the "hero" in his eyes.
Exactly
When you sleep with the devil, you wake up in hell...
I'm putting that on a t-shirt. LoL
Maddcapper I’d buy one.
@@Just.a.person59 ...that's a deep statement... forreal.!
@@Just.a.person59 ...there was another guy on another page said something deep... "When you allow another man to feed you, you're also giving him the power to starve you"
What has this to do with the video ?
Captain, you wouldn't believe how often I've come to your channel to learn. When my income increases I'll become a patreon. Best wishes, -Cheerio!
This was excellent! Sharing now! Thank you 🙏🏾
Someone said the blacks selling blacks thing to me today and I'm so mad I didn't tell him this
Well you can now... just make sure you learn your lesson first.. you're going to get much argument..
...my mother just said this the other day and I’m having a hard time believing that.
technically blacks did sell other blacks, if you're going by skin color.
@@ADOS_DSGB black is not a skin color and the word black comes from Europe get off this post pale skin
@Adam Alperstein a black skinned black person is now Brown? Dude you sound stupid
Does it make a difference blacks selling blacks or Africans selling Africans it's basically the same thing either way it doesn't make it right
You're missing his point. Black people, as we're understood in America and through a Pan-African lens didn't exist in those times. Nationalism and Tribalism were the dominant definitions of people.
Mind your language; he is a 'historian'.
Ahhh...I got it! It was okay for Africans to enslave and sell other Africans because they were from different nations and tribes. Like it's okay for Nigerians to enslave and sell Liberians. It's even okay for Nigerians to sell Liberians to another nation or tribe of white people from Europe. That's okay. But if that nation-tribe of white people enslave or sell those Liberians to another nation-tribe of white people, THAT is a disgusting human tragedy, even though slavery was legal in almost every nation back then and as you said we cannot judge the cultures of the past by the standards of today.
@@johnsmith-lf2zj Universities are no longer building educated people; they are building empty-headed tin soldiers.
@@ezekielcaselton5842 the issue is this, he is blaming the wrong people. He and others like him are the ones who glabalise everything so as to make whites feel guilty. The argument of blacks selling blacks is always advanced to remind others that whites alone are not to blame. Humanity is to blame for slavery and we must together fight the ills of slavery. So this story that whites enslaved blacks is wrong. Humanity enslaved humanity. Now let people stop this stupid attempt to vilify whites and take their wealth in the name of reparations.
Much needed History Lesson!our story is always watered down and in thier favor💪🏾✊🏾
BUT STILL BLACKS ARE SAYING "US BLACKS" INSTEAD OF SAYING WHAT TRIBE THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT ! AS IF ALL BLACK PEOPLE ARE THE SAME !! I HOPE MANY BLACK PEOPLE WHO THINK THEY ARE ALL ONE LEARNED SOMETHING FROM THIS VIDEO !!!
Chinese still just call themselves chinese?
Although there are many different ethnic groups such as the Han and Zhuang.
Why are you worried about what blacks call themselves ?
Incredible history lesson that our brothers and sisters desperately need to hear and not continue being ignorant to what happened in the distant past.
At 2:50 when you start talking about how “you’ll never hear white people looking at the selling of other white people and say, what a crime,” you OBVIOUSLY don’t know any Irish people
Well I do. Married one. Know the history. Live in Ireland.
or how Rome enslaved all of Britain for hundreds of years. You think white British people dont visit Rome?
I guess Irish people don’t know the difference between indentured servitude and slavery...
the irish were never slaves
The hit everything perfectly! Many things I didn't even think or consider to put in my video. I wouldn't even feel right making a video about this anymore after seeing yours. Awesome job man!
From Nothing
What's up man.
From Nothing what's up, brother??? This is the favourite trump cards of the alt right community. They love to throw this out.
It should probably also be pointed out that war slavery is DIFFERENT. When you go to all out war with another group and kill most of their men, there are few options left. You can go ahead and finish the job by killing the women and children too. Or you can leave them unprotected to human predators or to starve due to lack of labor. Actually, the most humane thing that you can do, in many cases, is to bring them into your society as your servants/slaves. This is far different than just enslaving people because you can't be bothered to do your own work. And most war slaves are simply absorbed into their new culture. They are not perpetual outsiders and subordinates.
well, the most humane thing to do would to not go to war in the first place and resort to slaughtering all the men in the enemy nation BUT i do get what you mean. it is probably better than starvation or raids from bandits or other criminals and broken men
Hey it's From Nothing!
I think one reason this argument is so popular is that it makes the 18 century europeans seem a bit less evil and a bit less to blame. I remember learning about the Atlantic slave trade in school and the teachers really emphasised the greed of the europeans and made it seem like they just walked into Africa and enslaved everyone they saw
I literally just watched a documentary filmed in Africa in think on the Ivory coast.. wherever that huge slave post on the coast was.. talking to the natives about how Thier families sold other blacks that they had bought after whatever tribe lost to another, inwhich they would then sell them to Berbers English or Dutch. Many of the guys talking about the land they still own was bought off of selling other black ppl into slavery. Why would they lie? Some of them seemed ashamed
HomeTeam, your work is brilliantly put together. You are providing so many answers to questions no one previously seemed to be able to answer for me.Please know that your work is phenomenal and nourishing all members of the African Diaspora, who want understand their ancestors to a greater extent than mudhuts and Konga drums. I will be taking your courses, soon. You connect me physically, mentally and even spiritually to Africa. Your work is not in vain. I love history and now I see my ancestors and feel as though I know them and I can relate to them and embrace them; they are no longer disconnected strangers to me. This particular video was the missing link to my misconceptions of the Slave Trade. I thank God for your work.
Marie Severe thank you!
You are welcome. I could go on forever about your channel...
beautifully written
4 even more details about this check out "The Destruction of Black Civilization" it goes into great detail about this
Marie Severe Yes!! I feel the same way. 🙏
Hi I am Cyprian.
I just watched your podcast and I HAD to respond with my thoughts.
I am a 57 year old black West Indian man from and currently living on the island of Barbados.
I will not portend to be any great scholar on history or even an enthusiast(?) and well informed as yourself on the particulars of African history, BUT..... I think I am old enough and intelligent enough to challenge your assertion that the idea of "blacks" selling "blacks" was and is a fallacy.
First. You readily accept and assert the diversity of African peoples and thus justify the reasons for their practice of slavery and then REFUSE to do so for European slavery.
YOU say that "nobody" speaks of "whites" enslaving "whites" but I do and thus would make NO distinction between the two.
Indeed slAver is slavery is slavery ANYWHERE and all across the world and REGARDLESS of time.
The RULES may be different and change and evolve from place to place. The conditions may be more barbaric and restrictive on one place or another and the possibility of "release" or mobility and rise in social status will also vary from place to place and over time, but it is ALL the same in the end.
Like you I have heard YOUR arguments before that somehow American chattle slavery was so very different and unique from any other type of oppression practiced any where else so as to make it the only "real" slavery worth talking about. You are making the exact and same mistake you are accusing those others of doing when choosing not to speak of white slavery of the ancient world's.
Indeed, it was because of the very scale and scope of the trans Atlantic slave trade and the clash with the European ideas of "equality" and humanity as ordered by God that they then had to create new ideas of superiority based solely on skin color to justify to themselves what they were doing. So everything was alright in the eyes of their God.
Indeed it is a part of our sad history that the very rules of controlling slaves under chattel slavery in N. America originated right here in Barbados.
For the ENTIRE world and (most) of time slavery was an accepted and practiced way of life. Under whatever justification and whatever reasoning and whatever guise and disguise it comes in. In India the caste system enforced the separation by class on religious principles so someone born as an untouchable was as locked into their life opportunity even more than a born slave in Roman Europe or any Africa kingdom.
A whote sex slave today is better off than a Chinese sex slave or Japenese Gesha of yesterday?
When we learn to accept that HUMANS did and do this to other HUMANS for whatever reasons they can cook up only then can we look in the mirror and FIX this world and our selves.
Regards
Cyprian La Toiche
When we learn to accept that there is the evil
Bravo à vous Monsieur La Touche 👍
Cyprian La Touche very well said sir... your use of common knowledge and history has sadly been ignored by the ignorant masses. I hope more people see your message but sadly the majority of people are thick and even if they do will choose to ignore or simply fail to comprehend.
Preach🙏
Well said
Didn’t read your comment just the first bit but I’m pretty sure he wasn’t justifying slavery just debunking the idea that “blacks enslaved blacks so y’all did it to your self” because there weren’t no “y’all” just as whites from different regions are viewed differently blacks somehow aren’t heck some think Africa is a country.
Could we go further and postulate that Europeans were forced to buy African slaves at gun point by Africans? And were threatened with punishment if they did not mistreat the slaves they bought.
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Idk how it's a fallacy. The Dahomey tribe participated in the slave trade. Some people don't want to believe Africans could be just as cruel and violent as their "white" counterparts. If Africans are the original slaves then it obviously means that we were probably the first to own slaves. I think the their is a clear distinction between the kinds of slaves that Africans may have owned and the racialized slavery birthed from the Atlantic slave trade.
There’s no material difference between tribalism and racism.
A very brilliantly informative video, this young man has taught me more in this video than I learnt in school... Great video..👏🏾
Sad for you. Don't believe this bills(#*. He is completely lying and or misinformed.
@@khalidnamar8723 care to explain your views further? You and I and everyone may be misinformed as well but lets hear your take on it.
@@Desacrates369 He's playing with words and people are deceived into believing they have learned something new.
"We" (blacks) have been taught(indoctrinated) into believing that the European went to Africa and "stole black people". Roots -which is proven hoax- confirmed this half truth to millions of people.
In it, (the 1970's) Europeans entered Africa and chased down Africans with nets. In reality it was a supply chain. Africa rulers rounded up slaves usually after warfare. The sold the captives to middlemen who in turn delivered them to the Coast where Europeans were waiting.
Africans sold Africans. Whether they saw them as "different or not. Fredrick Douglas sited this as a reason that he didn't believe blacks should be repatriated to Africa.
His comparisons to white Europeans is completely erroneous. Slavery in America was the most unique institution in the world. It came with its own laws and social and economic constructs. Why he's talking about Rome I'll never understand.
@@khalidnamar8723 Listen the problem is the 16-17th century mindset of people were just selling slaves yes it was wrong just as Romans did but romans when they bought the slaves didn't treat them differently because of color unlike white slave traders from America
@@uknownlight How were they treated? And how do we know? And whether you're enslaved for this reason or some other reason you are still a slave.
As an African I am proud of this video even in some of our countries we are not the same we have different views and religions etc
Thanks for the update
You're putting in work, brother. Thank you for this one.
Educate yourself. Especially in these times.
This is absolutely clarifying! If only we were taught this in school. I’m in my late 20s and all my life I grew up thinking “we did it to ourselves” I’ve never looked at it this way. Thank you!
read old books, the ones before the 1900’s. 🤦🏾♂️ here’s a start for your research...
Book:
The jews and moors in spain, page 214
The kings creed awoke again simultaneously.....
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Book:
America: Being an accurate description of the NEVV VVORLD;....
by John Ogilby
Page 574
; that John the third, king of Portugal, sent...
Black Spanish and Portuguese Jews
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Western Africa (part of which became known as "the Slave Coast"), Angola and nearby Kingdoms and later Central Africa, became the source for enslaved people to meet the demand for labour.
Sources:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade#Labour_and_slavery
africans did it to themselves. they did it way before europe got involved. they were selling themselves to other tribes then to the arabs from the 7th century onward. that lasted over 1300 years. get some proper education.
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How does this video explain that black slave brokers didn’t sell their own people into slavery. I watched twice and haven’t heard anything clarifying such. Help me understand. Thanks
This is fascinating! Thank you for putting in the great work of educating us as a people.
Consider, in the beginning. people were identified through bloodlines not color or land masses. However. as civilizations grew and spread throughout the world people began to branch off into their tribal mentalities. Tower of Babel may have played a considerable part in this transition.
Exactly im Caribbean American my kindergarten teacher kept saying im African American just because of my skin my family comes from its own culture women!🇹🇹🇭🇹 get it right next time!
You're African Caribbean! Much love from a fellow African brother!✊🏾 your teacher was so damn ignorant💀😂
I am really tired of the cave dwellers saying this.
Slavery was already existing in Africa before the Europeans came. A lot of cultures have been guilty of slavery throughout history, to different scales of course. By the way, calling Europeans "cave dwellers" sounds a little bit ignorant, it's in the same category as saying "Africans created nothing".
Thomas Blondeau Africa and Europe was not the same
I never said that Europe and Africa were the same, there were plenty of differences within these two continents to begin with. But this thing we called "slavery" existed in many sedentary societies, as soon as the cities became big enough and had multiple jobs and tasks available to make someone do the chores for you. However, I did not deny in my former statement that slavery happened on different scales (Christian Westerners and Muslim Arabs being the main slavers, as far as Black Africans are concerned)
I'm here trying to do real research on racism and in my internet travels ive come across you. Yet another racist. Is this channel part of the NBPP ideology? Because if it is, it's not productive.
@@kr3642 The internet is full of racial comments made by individuals with different sentiments. Why are you surprised?
I saw a video where the Ashanti chief was apologising for selling his own people for guns and other stuffs.And YES, they DID sell other blacks!
What’s your point lol
PRECISELY....I've long said the exact same thing. The erasure of distinct ethnic and tribal differences among Africans was very deliberate and utilized as a tool to portray all Africans as an undifferentiated mass of people with no real history or culture of their own worth respecting or recognizing.
In other words, it's the basis of the dehumanization of the slave which also extends to their descendants. And sooooo many people are dead set on perpetuating such an ideology --which really speaks to their own sense of self-worth which has been weighed and found wanting.
MANY AFRICAN COUNTRIES DEHUMANIZED SLAVES BUT THAT'S HOW THEY DEALT WITH THE IDEA OF SELLING THEM THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.
I’m glad u said that because people think all black people are the same
ikr!....
WRONG WE NON BLACKS DONT THINK BLACK PEOPLE ARE ALL THE SAME !! ITS ONLY WHEN BLACKS SAY "US BLACKS" IS WHEN WE THINK BLACKS ARE ALL THE SAME !! OR WHY WOULD THEY SAY "US BLACKS ' YOU NEVER HEAR PEOPLE SAY "US WHITES' UNLESS YOUR A KKK OR SKINHEAD !! !
@JACKSONVILLE RED How is that? By culture ? Or language ? Exactly how are they same ? Is an English person same with a Croatian or Arab. Are these all not similar Skin colour..... Think about it and don't Be emotional because of the narrative you are used to.
CHINA !!!!! Because that is what we were taught we can’t trace are ancestors to a certain part of Africa they striped heritage but if we were just african they would of called us that when we got off the boat but they never started calling us african until know the word african American was made in the 1980 so when u been lied to your whole life about your heritage you would feel the same way
@@757bari6 YOU WERNT TAUGHT THAT !! WHY DO I KNOW WHERE AFRICAN AMERICANS ARE FROM BUT YOU DONT ?
Ok, so your basically saying that it’s wrong to say that black people sold black people into slavery, but it is ok to say Africans sold Africans into slavery. I thought he would have a good argument but this video was a waste of time.
that not what he said ar all. He said that it's a fallacy to say that Blacks sold each other into chattel slavery.
He's saying black is an inaccurate concept.
@@bubbag8895 Yes I'm repeating his words .That's the fallacy
Almost 20 min video and the entire thing went right over your head smh
Are you ok??? I don’t know how you missed it.
What we see on the map called Ifryqia at the beginning of the video is what we call Africa today. It is the name of a Berber tribe from North Africa.
...I appreciate your scholarship and ability to detail the African diversity. But at the end of the day, it is evident that slavery, in ANY FORM, is unacceptable. Even the gentler version that west African nations practiced.
At this point in time on current history, European nations, England, and the United States are ALL looking for reasons to justify their unGodly acts upon all the different African cultures you named, as well as the invasion and colonization of African there on the continent. They would rather generalize Africans taking part in slavery than detail it to avoid paying reparations for the brutality and savagery inflicted upon the African Diaspora worldwide. Your scholarship and explanation is thorough, but will not stand alone as a strong defense for the enslavement of blacks worldwide without accepting the fact that blacks from diverse cultures took part in the Slave Trade as regardless of diversity.
We must not entertain the thought that slavery is acceptable at any level , or any degree, no matter the culture or diversity, to ensure that it never happens again...
I think he's missing a huge part of the Transatlantic slave trade story. Europeans didn't just show up in West Africa one day and there was a Market for them to buy and sell slaves. Europeans first encounter with our ancestors had nothing to do with slavery and for centuries prior to the Transatlantic slave trade Europeans and West Africans negotiated trade of resources not humans
Thank you.
@GroB Hahn that can be said for literally ever culture back then
WRONG !!! COUNTRIES IN AFRICA STILL HAVE A SLAVE TRADE !!
@CJ Boyle did you watch the video or u just skimmed through it....? Asking for a friend.
With all due respect Mr Sandman, the brother tactfully and deliberately addresses a specific denotation of the west African slave trade
during the timeframe between the 13th to 16th centuries as it has been misconstrued. He detailed specific distinctions between slavery, and the subtext of how that lie has been purposely proclaimed in order to perpetuate the continued abuse of these descendants of wu tang...pun intended. If you’re not apart of the solution, you’re apart of the problem.
Great video! You're spot on brother! In Pre-Colonial Africa, there was no such thing as a collective "African" or "Black" identity. Only different ethnicities, kingdoms, and empires. And you're right. We can't view the events from a 20th and 21st Century perspective. The mindset and environment were completely different than today. Keep up the good work!
So by that logic you can forgive the white man for enslaving black people.
That's actually exactly what i want to say when i use that argument. It was People selling People all over the world. We can't just act like white people are to blame.
@@XEveryoneLovesEmilyX LOL that's fallacy. You are missing the whole point. THEY introduced race. Had they not done that, then you could make that argument. But they made it about race. They did. Nobody else. So yes, those who created the particular dynamic can very much so be blamed for it.
@@loualbino5536 Stop making excuses for your ancestors and separate from it, only then, it will sense to forgive. Yes... coming from a sincere objective view.
Emily Haslinger white people aare to blame
Great education. Thank you so much young Sir. In New York I saw a lady cry hysterically.
when she learnt about black people selling black people. .
However, this selling of human beings was and still is common.
Whatever the colour of the skin.
Peace and understanding.
Be blessed readers. June 1, 2021.
Thank you for this teaching; well done brother!
The irony of the word slave is that it from the Slavic people Czechoslavia ,Yugoslavia , Slovakia ,Slavenia ,
@Dennis Moore I as an Italian deman reparations from north africans and arabs for enslaving my people, actually have them pay you my reparations directly.
@nymom 750 well, as slovenian i cannot remember to having a slave as ancestor.
@Suzanne Slava is just short for Vyatcheslav. Like calling Robert Bob.
You are not correct
@@Motofanable The Ottomans did capture Serbian and Greek slaves. Maybe they didn't get that far north with the slaving.
Thats probably because of the Barbary slave trade