I’ve noticed these new channels always make the same MISTAKE either willingly or unwillingly. For example, the Slave Trade associated with European colonials, they call it “Atlantic Slave Trade” which whitewashes any ethnicity or religion. However, when it comes to the Indian Slave Trade, they call either the Arab Slave Trade or the “Islamic Slave Trade” which emphasizes an ethnic or religion. This type of hypocrisy is why western historian and TH-camrs who don’t see it or refuse to it become a JOKE!
Africas history knowlige is criminaly underrated to the point that people think that african colonisation happend the same way as the colonisation of the americas.
Yeah it’s far more complicated as the continental powers were stronger than Native American ones also no desiease from Europeans. Not only that but the harshness of the biome and climate caused euros issues to colonise
Ikr lol the same people that think they know everything about african history (the dudes that make ridiculous baseless Psuedo claims about Africa) are the same people who don’t know shit about Africa not even anything about Africa from the 20th century
@@menamilad3199 and call it truth as if we're too dumb to see through their bs. People would take them a bit more seriously if they at least back up their claims with sources.
@@cavaugnsharkey2699 exactly bro fr. They are acting like people are as equally ignorant as they are. And when they get debunked they keep on making up baseless claims that are backed up by 0 sources. You’ll find these type of people in almost every african history video
Decades ago, I specialised in 19c South African history, particularly the Xhosa wars. That was a pretty impressive summary and this is an especially good TH-cam series. Here's wishing it gets many more views.
I’ve noticed these new channels always make the same MISTAKE either willingly or unwillingly. For example, the Slave Trade associated with European colonials, they call it “Atlantic Slave Trade” which whitewashes any ethnicity or religion. However, when it comes to the Indian Slave Trade, they call either the Arab Slave Trade or the “Islamic Slave Trade” which emphasizes an ethnic or religion. This type of hypocrisy is why western historian and TH-camrs who don’t see it or refuse to it become a JOKE!
Thank you for this great series. It makes me empathize more with the africans without romantization or ideologies to taint the interpretation of its fascinating history, since history itself is never a black-and-white story of good guys vs bad guys, but various shades of grey with various motives and unclassifiable personalities behind what's happening. Greed from both locals and foreigners made a lot of people suffer there and its quite sad, hope Africa will recover its greatness someday in a humanist manner.
Yeah Africa is proof of diversity NOT being a strength, imagine if the place was more homogenous, then politics would be far simpler meaning they wouldn’t have been so easy to divide and conquer as well as exploit as they. Whenever I hear sombody say diversity is a strength as a blk man I laugh if that were true africa would have never been exploited by themsleves and foreigners. Same applies to India subcontinent which spent close to all its history being conquered by outsiders be it turks, Iranians Europeans and mongols.
Whoever makes it seem like the story of colonisation of the african continent was a matter of white colonial powers vs black freedom fighters doesn’t know anything about african history and are basically just some people that are trying to shove there “the oppressors vs the oppressed” ideology down people’s throats.
@@makeytgreatagain6256 Europe also was a very diverse place according to your critters, it was thanks to romantism and nationalism that these disparate peoples united around larger nations based on similarities. Traces of it can still be seen in regional identities in these countries.
@@Game_Hero no but Europe is far LESS diverse. For example no European nation has over 10 ethnic groups living in it does it. Well in africa that’s the norm All Europeans speak an Indian European language, all Europeans can trace their ancestry back to the same cause and your lanaguges are far less diverse as there’s less languages and europe being a peninsula means it was easy for each European group to intermingle and thus procreate which is why every European group is related. Europe is diverse sure but not very diverse far less ethnicities packed into a small place the only place in Europe that’s diverse is the Balkans and as we know they are struggling right now as we speak due to this proving my point.
Interesting enough, despite the British making slavery illegal and banning it, the government and various companies would find loopholes around it to exploit cheap labor. Namely using a lot of indentured servants who were basically temporary slaves in all but in name, with most coming from India. It's why some places in Africa, South America, and the Caribbean of former British colonies have random large Indian communities as most are descendants of these former “indentured servants”.
yeah they basically just skirted the legal devices by changing the languages and definitions its slavery in all but name but the same tactics and results... Btw Haiti 1804 revolution against the napoleonic empires colonial holdings in Hispaniola id say is the direct precursor to the ending of slavery... it was no imperialist British savior mission or heroic effort..
@@itsolivier I have tremendous respect for the rebels in the haitian revolution and no great care for the biritish empire but this is a pretty absurd claim. If Britain had not taken such an extemely proactive antislavery stance then slavery would still be common in our world today. British culture was where anti-slavery ideas turned into a popular opinion first and it was through their influence that those anti-slavery ideas spread.
Good video! You prob have the best and informative video on the “colonisation of africa” then anyone else does. I can’t wait for your next episode and see what you have in store.
Being Xhosa myself, I really appreciate this video. Hearing the history of South Africa from an objective point of view really does put a lot of things into perspective.
Fantastic video! Keep it up on this series, it does a great job with mentioning a whole lot of well known and not so well known history, while also keeping all of the information very clear as to what is going on, while being quite accurate.
Seconded. Having previously never heard of it when i found it on wikipedia i was very suprised by the huge scale of such a genocide i'd nevet even heard before.
@@QWE2623 yeah russia in the early 20th century and late 19th genocided ALOT I mean on many scales bigger than the holocaust its insane how many they killed and it barely gets any attention
What a promising series. You should make an extra episode covering the ancient and medieval history of Africa (from the ancient Egyptians to where the first episode in this series starts off).
I’ve noticed these new channels always make the same MISTAKE either willingly or unwillingly. For example, the Slave Trade associated with European colonials, they call it “Atlantic Slave Trade” which whitewashes any ethnicity or religion. However, when it comes to the Indian Slave Trade, they call either the Arab Slave Trade or the “Islamic Slave Trade” which emphasizes an ethnic or religion. This type of hypocrisy is why western historian and TH-camrs who don’t see it or refuse to it become a JOKE!
@rimacutem of Alsvartrsmiðr he does make a good point though. As Arabs aren’t the only ones involved in said trade it was an huge Asia, Europe and African trade where euros from Iceland Africans from Tanzania non Islamic Arabs from Iraq and people from China Central Asia and Indonesia were shipped transported and traded in the Islamic slave trade. I do thing it would make more sense to name it such as “Arab” slave trade sounds stupid as they are only one ethnicity involved in said trade that spanned places where they didn’t even live. Like are indians arab? Ofc not yet they engaged in said slave trade selling off low caste Indians to Muslim Arabs and Turks that’s the point he’s trying to make
@@LuKing2 well it was mainly taking place via land routes though not really sea routes. The only time slaves during the Islamic slave trade were passing over seas was when the trade was to India and Indonesia. Generally it was a land trade through the Sahara red Sea, Eastern Europe the Mediterranean Spain and Central Asia all into the Islamic kingdoms none of which involved the Indian Ocean. The only sensible word for it would be the “Islamic slave trade” yes it’s controversial due to the religious naming of it but it was so wide no other name fits it I mean it stretched from Iceland to Malaysia that’s a huge distance
There's so much to say about the history of Africa, but all we hear about in the mainstream is "imperialism bad." Thanks for giving this the attention it deserves with this series, it;s great.
Well imperialism us bad and the after affects were terrible for those who has been imperialised. But there is also more to the story, which us more bad but good to understand what happened
@@lusciouslucius I'm a by product of it. I'm in favor of personal freedoms and would rather not be pigeon holed into some zeitgeist imagined by foreigners
Great content! The “first colonisation of Africa” though could have looked further into the past… Carthage was a Phoenician colony in Africa. Greeks formed a colony in Kyrenaika. The Romans had Colonia all along the North African coast etc. “Colonisation” was not just an early modern phenomenon
Also Yemen was used to be a Ethiopian colony since 525 AD when Aksum (Ethiopia) conquered the himyarite Yemeni kingdom. The Ethiopian colonisation of Yemen in 525 AD is probably the first ever time a african power colonised land outside of the african continent. Also the city of Sofala in Mozambique was used to be a Somali colony before it was seized by the Swahili’s.
Yeah, but that only concerned the Mediterranean coast. I think it's obvious that when we talk about Africa here, we mean more than just the Southern Mediterranean.
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I'll have to check but just citing "500 people of the British army" vs 10,000 Ashanti is misleading. I believe they had well over a thousand Fante on the right flank and a 1000 Denkyira troops on the left, and the Denkyria were by far the best soldiers on the British and Fante side, conducting an impressive fighting retreat. In fact, I believe General McCarthy (a very likable and significant historical figure because of his time in Freetown) was killed while trying to get to the Denkyria, whose leader predicted a day before (?) how the battle would play out if they didn't fall back and join with another of the 4 British/Fante columns. General McCarthy didn't take his advice largely because he didn't believe a large army could move so fast, yet they did and it's logical to assume that the type of talking drums they invented that sent detailed messages over miles, telling people what to do, played a role in coordinating the army to strike at the best point so decisively , which was hard for the British to imagine because the Asante drum system sent messages over 100+ miles faster than any other communication system on earth, even surpassing the telegraph, which wasn't invented yet and didn't have the significant Ashanti advantage a being a mobile system unlike other fixed systems like the Great Wall of China or the line of stations of visual signals used in the Napoleonic Wars. This is a lot of speculation and I haven't read any of the primary and secondary sources for some years , but is in line with what was later learned about the Ashanti army. The Ashanti also had an elite reconnaissance and scouting unit that was likely providing valuable info and would be pretty cool if they played a hand in stopping the 40 or so carriers on the supply line, leaving the British with only macaroni (that's probably getting way too imaginative but if I was making a movie I'd throw that in there). The two English officers that survived didn't hide the fact that they were outclassed and outsmarted by the Ashanti. Moreover, the British had been planning for and trying to provoke a war for years, especially when McCarthy arrived. The Ashanti were desperately trying to have a diplomatic solution to their problems, yet the British stopped listening. Everyone knew a war was coming long before the murder of the officer, which was just used as pretext. All that being said, appreciate your work!
@@rediettadesse2828 It's intention wasn't to shrink Africa in particular, it also shrinks northern South America and Southeast Asia, but it was for navigation not 100% accuracy.
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Great video but there's one mistake I noticed. Yohannes isn't the emperor that would expand ethiopia upto the borders of Kenya, that's menelik II his successor. Yohannes 's greatest achievement was defending ethiopia against Egypt and the mahdists
There is a Christian apologetic pattern / pro-Christian bias in this series. Whenever something bad happened to them (e.g. a massacre or enslavement by Barbary pirates e.g. 25:25), they are labelled 'Christians', whenever they did something bad, they are labelled 'Europeans' or, say, 'Portuguese'. You'll never see Jabzy use the words 'Christian slave trade' or 'Christian colonialism'. On the other hand, extensive use of 'Islamic slave trade' is made throughout his narrative, usually as a defence right after he has talked about 'European slave trade'. These semantics are misleading. Several quotes are given from native African rulers arguing to continue the slave trade, but never from European ones, giving the impression that it was Europeans who only want to abolish it and Africans only wanted to keep it. This selective presentation of facts is misleading. This video in particular also really pushes the narrative of the British colonisers as do-gooders (despite the occasional - commendable - criticism) in abolishing the slave trade over against the Boers in South Africa and Oba Akitoya's brother in Lagos, of course all for purely ethical reasons and with no motives of power and greed. At 2:48 it commits the No True Scotsman fallacy by arguing the Muhammad Ali dynasty of Egypt 'were the first TRUE colonisers of Africa', ignoring how, say, the Dutch and later British Cape Colony had already existed for centuries (1652) before Muhammad Ali Pasha came along and conquered Sudan in the 1820s. Apparently the Cape Colonists were Not True Colonists according to the Encyclopaedia Jabzyca? This way of framing matters is misleading.
@@historyonthegoyes bro this was pure hypocrite video .He states that Egyptians and ethopians colonize Africa which was bullshit they themselves were Africans.Infact Egypt and ethopia was greatest African empires in 1800 to 1885 AD . Ethopia even survive colonization . African history is great Europeans are trying to avoid their own sin and blaming others just like they today blaming china as colonizer of Africa.Great empires like Carthage, Almoravids,Almohads, Fatmids, ayyubis,mamluks,Malian empire,Songhai, ethopian empire and many other all are great African empires.Continent of Africa has great history
@@manofnocolor2205 I'm not biting you. You're the one attacking us. The caucasians came and took a lot of resources out. That's why they brought that infrastructure to get Africas natural resources and take slaves out. The slaves that worked in America I think is fair to say were the ones getting bitten by caucasians. The racist mind is very prone to selective perception, selective amnesia and confirmation bias. It's one of the common mental flaws you find in all racists. The decimal system came from Arabs does that mean all calculations done in decimal belong to Arabs? No. Similarly a lot of infrastructure has been built in Africa since the colonials left. If you were here to 'feed' Africans then why was apartheid done? Doesn't exactly seem like the action of someone with good intentions. You've got lots to think about.
Tough pill to swallow for some but many societies in Africa weren't pure the horror of slavery also existed amongst many, and to make matters even worse those from the diazpora who were once enslaved did the same thing like wow. Stuff like this just makes me lose hope in humanity, it just shows none of us are truly good or truly evil, humanity no matter the skin is complicated and grey nothing is black and white. 8f only more people could see this fact about our world and its races.
All societies in Africa weren’t Pure. Diaspora Africans are primarily descended from war captives sold as slaves to Europeans. And back then if you tell anyone from 200 years ago that is from Africa, europe or Asia and tell them that slavery was bad they will look at you like you are insane. 100% of societies in the pre modern era had slavery and majority of societies back then had a slavery based economy. It was something “normal” back then. Even in the modern era in the 18-20th centuries slavery was still being practised. What we do is learn from history and our ancestors.
@@menamilad3199 ye I understand and I agree that's what needs to be done learning form these horrors and moving forward to ensure history isn't repeated.
Yeah but it was the europeans that introduced the idea that black people in general are inferior and should be seen as animals or objects rather than people, africans that enslaved other africans at least still saw them as another human like them, europeans saw africans as objects and nothing more
Slavery has been practiced pretty much everywhere by practically every culture. Abolishing a practice that's been a norm for centuries will always find its opponents
Slavery has been around forever, however Europeans practiced the most brutal and barbaric form of slavery -> Cattle/Chattel slavery. This was unique to the White race.
It's crazy how, despite how much you mention in this video you mention the British taking serious action to stamp out the slave trade, lots of people in the modern day STILL don't give them credit for it and will chastise them for "not doing enough".
Colonisers need credit for the mind blowing industrilzation.. modernising..technologies and educations.. scientific studies But for the slave , racism and genocides they need to take accountability
The British attempting to stamp out slavery was a safety pre-cautional measure for themselves. They've noticed that slaves were outnumbering them gradually and were revolting against the inhuman conditions meted on them daily. They(the British) quickly understood that with the continuous trend of influx of slaves for another more century will result to the slaves overpowering and conquering them in their own land. Moving the slaves out from their territories was one of the reasons why so many countries in the Carribbean were created and some were moved to Africa in cities like Freetown of Sierra Leone, Monrovia of Liberia and Libreville of gabon. So in short, the British do not deserve any credit from us for attempting to abolish the slave trade. It was a self defense strategy to avoid a backlash in the future. I hope you understand.
@@rediettadesse2828 You act like these countries don't take their part of accountability, problem is you are asking full responsibility for something that. involved many Africans themselves.
What do you mean with the end of slavery? Slavery never ended in Africa. Apparently there are more slaves in Africa today, than there were during the time of thee New World Slave Trade.
Henry Morton Stanley seemed more annoyed to learn the scope of what he was meant to be doing after he’d already started than horrified. I assume states like the Rozwi Empire or the states in the Great Lakes will be mentioned as Europeans interact with and occupy them?
On the map you showed a part of modern day somalia conquerered by the Egyptian Mohammad ali yet you didn't mention any somali city in his conquests or is the map incorrect?
Help me understand why Africa after slavery? 90% of the slave population came from Europe and many were shipped into Africa as der Coloni (Sklaven). Therefore why are so many people focused on Africa during this timeline?
@@Left4Red Yes it is true. 90% of the slave population came out of Europe. The largest slave population were the British. 2nd Were the Scots. 3rd was the Irish. 4th was the Italians... German were 6th largest. Afrikaanse (N word) was 8% and 2% other Asians. And don't forget Mother Russia (Russland) shipped 20 million slaves to California-Mexico and another 20 Million to Kazakhstan. All Serfs (Witte) were exiled from every corner of Europe and exported. Hence the word Settlers, Coloni, and slaves are the same words.
@@lordvonmanor6915 You don't know what slavery is those are colonialist aka settlers that moved to the new world to displace the indigenous people. Slaves are bought and sold those people weren't and came on their own What ur saying is demographic stats that show no resemblance on the real world.
@@lordvonmanor6915 You're talking only the transatlantic slave trade. 54% of all slaves were slaves coming out if the Balkans and Crimea and going mainly to the Ottomans and African slave markets.
40% into the Scramble for Africa series and the scramble hasn't even technically begun yet, heh. This is a good amount of prelude though! I was a bit disappointed when this option won the poll because I thought the topic has been well covered already, but this extra prelude stuff is seldom covered so I'm happy.
Your channel infuriates me! almost NONE of this in American history books. Suprised no, but still shameful. Thank you for your content. I hope it helps the people in my life wake up.
Most of this is unrelated to american history in any meaningfull way. The british blocked export of slaves to america way before this, and america didnt have any holdings. This era of african history is interesting, but not really that relevant for the americans. There is plenty of underaprechiated history, and only so much time to teach it. Chinese history is colorful, south american too, european history even has underaprechiated aspects, the 1500-1600s for example are a bit forgotten in the common mind, with the exit of the medieval era and the entry of the pike and shotte
I'm curious about how Leopold tamed the Congo. I know his diplomatic justifications, but as for the on the ground stuff I know less about. Likewise, I wonder if there were wars with tribes/revolts and so on in the Congo free state. I hope that when you get to that point, you go into great detail. Because it's pretty obscure history.
It's complicated but most if not all of the atrocities were perpetrated by native Congolese in Belgian service. Everyone knows the hand chopping stuff. What the Congolese servicemen did was chop off the hands of their fellow countrymen just to present them to the Belgian authorities and get bounties and promotions. Until the Belgian administration figured out something was wrong and put an end to the abominable practice.
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Technically, I think the Assyrians might have been the first non-African empire to conquer African land when they conquered Egypt. Followed closely by the Persian Empire.
@@abdullahidharar49 Every source I've ever come across, from peer reviewed history books to Wikipedia and random websites all agree the Hyksos entered Egypt from Canaan, with unclear origin and militarily occupied lower Egypt until they were eventually expelled.
Too much emphasis on how African rulers used slaves, when the british took out millions to America centuries before... Hypocrisy is a funny thing is not it = ?
Centuries before? West Africa had an ongoing slave trade with Arabs for 1400 years before the Europeans arrived. It's that established slave route that the Europeans found .King tegbesu made a fortune from the trans Atlantic slave trade. Queen Nzinga fought the Portuguese not to stop slavery but to control it. Mansa Musa had 12 thousand slaves when he went to Egypt. All before Europe arrived. Get an education.
Most emphasis of the trans Atlantic slave trade is still on the European. aspect, that's why people like you seem to be surprised about the slavery in Africa lol
Slavery was always practiced in Africa, way before the Arab slave traders came the Romans, the Greeks and way later and the Americans and still is widely practiced in Africa currently in many African countries.
I'm not here to deny you but what documented or archaeological evidence proves slavery was practiced in Africa before the coming of the Greeks? I thought you scholars claimed ancient Egypt wasn't part of Africa but the Near East? Also, list all the many African countries still practicing slavery today like you claim. I don't see slave markets in my country nor in neighboring countries.
@@Niani23455 Libya. Child soldiers. Egypt is in the continent of Africa and are Africans but not sub saharan Africa and do not look like sub sahara africans. Dont cherry pick and dont be willfully ignorant.
@@cjyoung4080 "Egypt is in the continent of Africa and are Africans but not Sub-Saharan Africa and do not look like sub Sahara Africans" Unfortunately for you there isn't any Sub-Saharan African race unless you can back it up with any reliable sources. I like how you distinguish between the ancient Egyptians and the other African cultures you consider Sub-Saharan. By your logic and with your own words, I'd say we have evidence that slavery was earliest practiced among North Africans specifically the ancient Egyptians and not among West, Central, East, Southern African cultures.
Sumerians literally created slavery, we live by documents and proof so what proof would we have for Africans creating slavery? What African civilization was made before Samaria? the Sumerians did utilize slave labor to build their civilization, considered one of the first in the world; evidence from ancient texts and law codes shows that captured prisoners of war were often forced into slavery, performing tasks like construction work on buildings and temples within Sumerian society This is proof The majority of Sumerian slaves were likely captured during military campaigns against neighboring societies. Labor tasks: Slaves were often used for physically demanding work such as building structures, working in fields, and hauling goods.
@@dittmannrudolfrohr2149 of course it doesn't sound European cause its not. Muhammed Ali is an Islamic name so it only makes sense that an Ottoman ruler in Muslim Egypt would have such a name. He was born in Present day Greece BTW. Think of Muhammed Ali (the boxer) was he Arabian? Or did he take up the name after he became a Muslim?
I need some explanation of the Barbary wars, the coalition is just so odd, also why did France, UK and Ottomans let them around for so long, where they really that strong?
You should probably just watch Drachinifel's video on the Barbary States (The Final Yarrs), but in short, the states were independent of each other, making subduing or making deals with all of them difficult, and depending on the time period they would avoid ships owned by the great powers because they were just too risky to attack. Too often they were just seen as someone else's problem
According to the second edition (1989) of the OED, the earliest known usage of the word “racism” in English occurred in a 1936 book by the American “fascist,” Lawrence Dennis, The Coming American Fascism. The second usage of the term in English that the OED records is in the title of a book originally written in German in 1933 and 1934 but translated into English and first published in 1938 - Racism by Magnus Hirschfeld, translated by Eden and Cedar Paul. Since Hirschfeld died in 1935, before the publication of Dennis’ book the following year, and had already used the word extensively in the text and title of his own book, it seems only fair to recognize him rather than Dennis as the originator of the word “racism.” In the case of the word “racist” as an adjective, the OED ascribes the first known usage to Hirschfeld himself. Who was Magnus Hirschfeld and what did he have to tell us about “racism”? Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935) was a German-Jewish medical scientist whose major work was in the field of what came to be known as “sexology” ...
How these ignorant people continue to blame Britain solely for slavery is beyond me. Britain gave the natives citizenship for crying out loud and liberated thousands of slaves.
If you ask most Arabs they will say that Egyptians are Arab and so will many Egyptians, but all Arabic countries have some cultural differences and Egypt having major ones like a heavy peculiar accent and a very specific history and they might often point out their Egyptianness being more important than their Arabness. Genetically all peoples are diverse internally, but I don't think that genetic component even matters for whether you consider your own identity as such. So it depends on what you mean by ethnicity because it can both mean genetics, identity or culture. But what I can certainly say is that Arabs are not distinct from Egyptians as a whole, they are a part of this very diverse cultural and ethnic body that is the Arab cultural region and they are about as distinct from all other Arabs as Moroccans, Palestinians, Iraqis or Tunisians are.
The real ancient egyptians were pushed to Ethiopia, Eritrea and Sudan due to slavery by arabs, thats how arabs grabbed egypt Nowadays they say africa is diverse they claim to be africans but racism is still alive in egypt because the previous african cup of nations they couldn't hide their hearts towards africans.
@@Andarist042 Sort of, in America and Europe it's at least illegal and the law is enforced when people are caught. Mauritania doesn't enforce their anti slavery laws, and there are open air slave markets all over the continent in more rural areas. So while yes, human trafficking does exist in the west, it's not condoned or sanctioned.
@@annoneemoose yes, tell that to a person who doesn't live in an African rural area . Ok, just for the record , do you have a first hand experience ( of this open air slave market )or are you just regurgitating a baseless narrative ?
@@ameetachi9510 Considering Mauritania is in Africa, yes. It's also prevalent in Libya, Kenya, Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and elsewhere on the continent.
This is about Africa in the 19th century. Mali, Songhai, Aksum and Kush already fell by then. Kush fell in 350 AD. Songhai fell in the 16th century. Mali fell in the 15th century. And ok. The Bornu empire did last until the 19th century but it became extremely insignificant and weak by that time after Muhammad Al-kanemi’s reign . . .
@@ibrahimsuleiman8473 well I guess you can say romans “colonised” the Northern african coast. But Greeks didn’t really colonise anything in Africa. They did rule Egypt for a while but Ptolemaic Egypt didn’t last for long at all. Greeks and romans obviously never ‘colonised’ any parts of sub Saharan Africa.
Correction, the Asantes were pygmies and did not fight alone. They were helped by the northern tribes and some Ewe groups. Asantes could NOT do it by themselves as they were fucking pygmies.
Odd? Iirc. they had rather impressive empire and were also one of the more successful African slave owning/trading peoples too, not least wrt their pretty lucrative trade alsosupplying slves to others, including the various European participants in the West African trade. I've no idea if they are pygmies or not, however, being under the impression that they share more bog-standard dimensions like most subsets within our species
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just because Sunnis don't have the exact concept of sects doesn't mean that they don't have very strong ideological and theological differences. Just look at Barelvi, Deobandi groups or the different madhabs or the rival sufi orders or the theological groupings around local ulama with widely divergent ideologies. And in that sense the Wahhabis are incredibly deviant from mainstream Sunni Islam
Wahhabism started in the 18th century, more than a thousand years after the start of Islam, so it absolutely exists as a sect, a VERY recent one at that. Y'all wahhabis can cry about it but that's the truth
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Uhhh one correction you said the Egyptians are Arabs but Arabs themselves are a different ethnicities from most Egyptians.
take a close look at who is always behind armies and states.
only then will such stories make sense
You could do something on the Russo-Circassian war and the Circassian genocide that follosed. Its a part of history that's really not known.
I’ve noticed these new channels always make the same MISTAKE either willingly or unwillingly. For example, the Slave Trade associated with European colonials, they call it “Atlantic Slave Trade” which whitewashes any ethnicity or religion. However, when it comes to the Indian Slave Trade, they call either the Arab Slave Trade or the “Islamic Slave Trade” which emphasizes an ethnic or religion. This type of hypocrisy is why western historian and TH-camrs who don’t see it or refuse to it become a JOKE!
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if only james bisonette was there to stop colonisation, wait wrong channel
No, the power of The Great Bisonette extends across all animated history channels.
Context?
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Africas history knowlige is criminaly underrated to the point that people think that african colonisation happend the same way as the colonisation of the americas.
Yeah it’s far more complicated as the continental powers were stronger than Native American ones also no desiease from Europeans. Not only that but the harshness of the biome and climate caused euros issues to colonise
Sometimes intentionally to downplay the unique and terrible effects that happened on both continents.
Ikr lol the same people that think they know everything about african history (the dudes that make ridiculous baseless Psuedo claims about Africa) are the same people who don’t know shit about Africa not even anything about Africa from the 20th century
@@menamilad3199 and call it truth as if we're too dumb to see through their bs. People would take them a bit more seriously if they at least back up their claims with sources.
@@cavaugnsharkey2699 exactly bro fr. They are acting like people are as equally ignorant as they are. And when they get debunked they keep on making up baseless claims that are backed up by 0 sources. You’ll find these type of people in almost every african history video
Decades ago, I specialised in 19c South African history, particularly the Xhosa wars. That was a pretty impressive summary and this is an especially good TH-cam series. Here's wishing it gets many more views.
I’ve noticed these new channels always make the same MISTAKE either willingly or unwillingly. For example, the Slave Trade associated with European colonials, they call it “Atlantic Slave Trade” which whitewashes any ethnicity or religion. However, when it comes to the Indian Slave Trade, they call either the Arab Slave Trade or the “Islamic Slave Trade” which emphasizes an ethnic or religion. This type of hypocrisy is why western historian and TH-camrs who don’t see it or refuse to it become a JOKE!
Thank you for this great series. It makes me empathize more with the africans without romantization or ideologies to taint the interpretation of its fascinating history, since history itself is never a black-and-white story of good guys vs bad guys, but various shades of grey with various motives and unclassifiable personalities behind what's happening. Greed from both locals and foreigners made a lot of people suffer there and its quite sad, hope Africa will recover its greatness someday in a humanist manner.
Yeah Africa is proof of diversity NOT being a strength, imagine if the place was more homogenous, then politics would be far simpler meaning they wouldn’t have been so easy to divide and conquer as well as exploit as they. Whenever I hear sombody say diversity is a strength as a blk man I laugh if that were true africa would have never been exploited by themsleves and foreigners.
Same applies to India subcontinent which spent close to all its history being conquered by outsiders be it turks, Iranians Europeans and mongols.
Whoever makes it seem like the story of colonisation of the african continent was a matter of white colonial powers vs black freedom fighters doesn’t know anything about african history and are basically just some people that are trying to shove there “the oppressors vs the oppressed” ideology down people’s throats.
@@makeytgreatagain6256 exactly
@@makeytgreatagain6256 Europe also was a very diverse place according to your critters, it was thanks to romantism and nationalism that these disparate peoples united around larger nations based on similarities. Traces of it can still be seen in regional identities in these countries.
@@Game_Hero no but Europe is far LESS diverse. For example no European nation has over 10 ethnic groups living in it does it. Well in africa that’s the norm
All Europeans speak an Indian European language, all Europeans can trace their ancestry back to the same cause and your lanaguges are far less diverse as there’s less languages and europe being a peninsula means it was easy for each European group to intermingle and thus procreate which is why every European group is related.
Europe is diverse sure but not very diverse far less ethnicities packed into a small place the only place in Europe that’s diverse is the Balkans and as we know they are struggling right now as we speak due to this proving my point.
Interesting enough, despite the British making slavery illegal and banning it, the government and various companies would find loopholes around it to exploit cheap labor. Namely using a lot of indentured servants who were basically temporary slaves in all but in name, with most coming from India. It's why some places in Africa, South America, and the Caribbean of former British colonies have random large Indian communities as most are descendants of these former “indentured servants”.
"most are descendants of these former “indentured servants”. " Just like the Germans.
yeah they basically just skirted the legal devices by changing the languages and definitions its slavery in all but name but the same tactics and results... Btw Haiti 1804 revolution against the napoleonic empires colonial holdings in Hispaniola id say is the direct precursor to the ending of slavery... it was no imperialist British savior mission or heroic effort..
@@itsolivier How is Haiti today?
Why ?
@@itsolivier I have tremendous respect for the rebels in the haitian revolution and no great care for the biritish empire but this is a pretty absurd claim. If Britain had not taken such an extemely proactive antislavery stance then slavery would still be common in our world today. British culture was where anti-slavery ideas turned into a popular opinion first and it was through their influence that those anti-slavery ideas spread.
I’ll say it again this is the best, most complete, and most objective series I’ve seen on foreign conquests in Africa and surrounds, well done!
Good video! You prob have the best and informative video on the “colonisation of africa” then anyone else does. I can’t wait for your next episode and see what you have in store.
Being Xhosa myself, I really appreciate this video. Hearing the history of South Africa from an objective point of view really does put a lot of things into perspective.
It is weird to think that the American civil war is one of the major factors that lead to the scramble for Africa.
I like the fact that you've been using the same ambient music in every video you've made for the last 6 years. Good thing I like it lol.
Whats the name of the music ?
Fantastic video! Keep it up on this series, it does a great job with mentioning a whole lot of well known and not so well known history, while also keeping all of the information very clear as to what is going on, while being quite accurate.
You could do something on the Russo-Circassian war and the Circassian genocide that followed. Its a part of history that's really not known.
Seconded. Having previously never heard of it when i found it on wikipedia i was very suprised by the huge scale of such a genocide i'd nevet even heard before.
@@QWE2623 yeah russia in the early 20th century and late 19th genocided ALOT I mean on many scales bigger than the holocaust its insane how many they killed and it barely gets any attention
What a promising series. You should make an extra episode covering the ancient and medieval history of Africa (from the ancient Egyptians to where the first episode in this series starts off).
I’ve noticed these new channels always make the same MISTAKE either willingly or unwillingly. For example, the Slave Trade associated with European colonials, they call it “Atlantic Slave Trade” which whitewashes any ethnicity or religion. However, when it comes to the Indian Slave Trade, they call either the Arab Slave Trade or the “Islamic Slave Trade” which emphasizes an ethnic or religion. This type of hypocrisy is why western historian and TH-camrs who don’t see it or refuse to it become a JOKE!
@@thinkbeforeyoutype7106 you’re trying too hard
@rimacutem of Alsvartrsmiðr he does make a good point though. As Arabs aren’t the only ones involved in said trade it was an huge Asia, Europe and African trade where euros from Iceland Africans from Tanzania non Islamic Arabs from Iraq and people from China Central Asia and Indonesia were shipped transported and traded in the Islamic slave trade. I do thing it would make more sense to name it such as “Arab” slave trade sounds stupid as they are only one ethnicity involved in said trade that spanned places where they didn’t even live. Like are indians arab? Ofc not yet they engaged in said slave trade selling off low caste Indians to Muslim Arabs and Turks that’s the point he’s trying to make
@@makeytgreatagain6256 the "Indian Ocean" trade would be a better name for sure,
@@LuKing2 well it was mainly taking place via land routes though not really sea routes. The only time slaves during the Islamic slave trade were passing over seas was when the trade was to India and Indonesia. Generally it was a land trade through the Sahara red Sea, Eastern Europe the Mediterranean Spain and Central Asia all into the Islamic kingdoms none of which involved the Indian Ocean. The only sensible word for it would be the “Islamic slave trade” yes it’s controversial due to the religious naming of it but it was so wide no other name fits it I mean it stretched from Iceland to Malaysia that’s a huge distance
really great and multifaceted video! giving due information on major factions and conflicts.
There's so much to say about the history of Africa, but all we hear about in the mainstream is "imperialism bad." Thanks for giving this the attention it deserves with this series, it;s great.
I mean that's true, but agreed.
Imperialism is bad though. The only people who would think otherwise have never been imperialized.
Well imperialism us bad and the after affects were terrible for those who has been imperialised. But there is also more to the story, which us more bad but good to understand what happened
@@AtreVire have you been imperialized?
@@lusciouslucius I'm a by product of it. I'm in favor of personal freedoms and would rather not be pigeon holed into some zeitgeist imagined by foreigners
Great content! The “first colonisation of Africa” though could have looked further into the past…
Carthage was a Phoenician colony in Africa. Greeks formed a colony in Kyrenaika. The Romans had Colonia all along the North African coast etc.
“Colonisation” was not just an early modern phenomenon
Indeed
Also Yemen was used to be a Ethiopian colony since 525 AD when Aksum (Ethiopia) conquered the himyarite Yemeni kingdom. The Ethiopian colonisation of Yemen in 525 AD is probably the first ever time a african power colonised land outside of the african continent. Also the city of Sofala in Mozambique was used to be a Somali colony before it was seized by the Swahili’s.
Except it's much more global
Yeah, but that only concerned the Mediterranean coast. I think it's obvious that when we talk about Africa here, we mean more than just the Southern Mediterranean.
@@lupen_rein but the southern Mediterranean is still apart of Africa so it still counts.
I love the background music as much as the content ^^
Slavery still exists in Africa. Never ended.
All over the world
Qatar, china, North Korea. To name a few
@@kennymichaelalanya7134 West Africa too. Most of the world's chocolate is produced with slave labour.
People love iPhones, electric cars, gold, and chocolate among other things and don't seem to be willing to quit those or pay a fair market price so they cycle will continue
Slavery still exists in Europe. Never ended.
I'll have to check but just citing "500 people of the British army" vs 10,000 Ashanti is misleading. I believe they had well over a thousand Fante on the right flank and a 1000 Denkyira troops on the left, and the Denkyria were by far the best soldiers on the British and Fante side, conducting an impressive fighting retreat. In fact, I believe General McCarthy (a very likable and significant historical figure because of his time in Freetown) was killed while trying to get to the Denkyria, whose leader predicted a day before (?) how the battle would play out if they didn't fall back and join with another of the 4 British/Fante columns. General McCarthy didn't take his advice largely because he didn't believe a large army could move so fast, yet they did and it's logical to assume that the type of talking drums they invented that sent detailed messages over miles, telling people what to do, played a role in coordinating the army to strike at the best point so decisively , which was hard for the British to imagine because the Asante drum system sent messages over 100+ miles faster than any other communication system on earth, even surpassing the telegraph, which wasn't invented yet and didn't have the significant Ashanti advantage a being a mobile system unlike other fixed systems like the Great Wall of China or the line of stations of visual signals used in the Napoleonic Wars. This is a lot of speculation and I haven't read any of the primary and secondary sources for some years , but is in line with what was later learned about the Ashanti army. The Ashanti also had an elite reconnaissance and scouting unit that was likely providing valuable info and would be pretty cool if they played a hand in stopping the 40 or so carriers on the supply line, leaving the British with only macaroni (that's probably getting way too imaginative but if I was making a movie I'd throw that in there). The two English officers that survived didn't hide the fact that they were outclassed and outsmarted by the Ashanti. Moreover, the British had been planning for and trying to provoke a war for years, especially when McCarthy arrived. The Ashanti were desperately trying to have a diplomatic solution to their problems, yet the British stopped listening. Everyone knew a war was coming long before the murder of the officer, which was just used as pretext. All that being said, appreciate your work!
Damn bro, you know your stuff.
Fun Fact:
Ethiopia is about twice the size as France.
How much is that in football stadiums?
Really
@@aradat9671 Nigeria is like 2 times France as well. You can thank the Mercator map for that
@@makeytgreatagain6256 yes the current well known map shrinks africa and enlarges other continents
@@rediettadesse2828 It's intention wasn't to shrink Africa in particular, it also shrinks northern South America and Southeast Asia, but it was for navigation not 100% accuracy.
I hope that Vic 3 will have many small African kingdoms and interesting mechanics for trying to thrive and survive when the colonizers come. :)
Probably not but you can be sure that there is a DLC coming for that to dump money into
@@whitegold2960 As long as the mechanics work and ai does not cheat that much, have my money. Don't try to sell me spirit packs and osts like eu4 tho.
This guy the only good thing about this channel. Really enjoying these obscure histories.
New EU4 DLC announced heavily concentrating on Africa and you release this series? COINCIDENCE?? I THINK NOT!
Great video but there's one mistake I noticed. Yohannes isn't the emperor that would expand ethiopia upto the borders of Kenya, that's menelik II his successor. Yohannes 's greatest achievement was defending ethiopia against Egypt and the mahdists
Menelik II was a tyrant, I don't think he should be celebrated to be honest
Part 2? and there is 5 total? I should bring popcorn next time.
What a fantastic series. We don’t get taught this at school in the UK (or in other European counties I imagine). Such a rich history!
Wow never knew that Oba akintoye abolished slavery in Lagos. Interesting. This needs to be talk about more
Slavery wasn't completely abolished in Africa until 2007, and it illegally continues to this day.
Africa is not 1 country, therefore various parts abolished in at various times. Slavery still exists on every continent in the world.
@@matheuroux5134 without western Society stepping in slavery would be just as accepted now as 500 years ago. The west holds all the credit.
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I had no idea of the sociopolitical situation of Sierra Leone, that was very informative, thanks!
I really like your new timeline with the dates at the bottom. Very good advancement on your videos. Like teching up
you forgot the spanish colonization in the so-called "western" sahara and the canary islands and Sébta, mellila.
@Matteo Tironiweren't they?
@@plusxz821 The Canary Islands were invaded in multiple wars in the middle ages.
@Matteo Tironi by the same token he should talk about the greeks colonizing north Africa
amazing series really shines a light on a lot of unheard stories
Very informative and interesting! Thanks for the education.
I am curious about the sources of your information, nothing you present here disagrees with what I have read but it is far more extensive.
There is a Christian apologetic pattern / pro-Christian bias in this series. Whenever something bad happened to them (e.g. a massacre or enslavement by Barbary pirates e.g. 25:25), they are labelled 'Christians', whenever they did something bad, they are labelled 'Europeans' or, say, 'Portuguese'. You'll never see Jabzy use the words 'Christian slave trade' or 'Christian colonialism'. On the other hand, extensive use of 'Islamic slave trade' is made throughout his narrative, usually as a defence right after he has talked about 'European slave trade'. These semantics are misleading.
Several quotes are given from native African rulers arguing to continue the slave trade, but never from European ones, giving the impression that it was Europeans who only want to abolish it and Africans only wanted to keep it. This selective presentation of facts is misleading.
This video in particular also really pushes the narrative of the British colonisers as do-gooders (despite the occasional - commendable - criticism) in abolishing the slave trade over against the Boers in South Africa and Oba Akitoya's brother in Lagos, of course all for purely ethical reasons and with no motives of power and greed. At 2:48 it commits the No True Scotsman fallacy by arguing the Muhammad Ali dynasty of Egypt 'were the first TRUE colonisers of Africa', ignoring how, say, the Dutch and later British Cape Colony had already existed for centuries (1652) before Muhammad Ali Pasha came along and conquered Sudan in the 1820s. Apparently the Cape Colonists were Not True Colonists according to the Encyclopaedia Jabzyca? This way of framing matters is misleading.
A lot of European wanted it to continue
@@historyonthegoyes bro this was pure hypocrite video .He states that Egyptians and ethopians colonize Africa which was bullshit they themselves were Africans.Infact Egypt and ethopia was greatest African empires in 1800 to 1885 AD . Ethopia even survive colonization . African history is great Europeans are trying to avoid their own sin and blaming others just like they today blaming china as colonizer of Africa.Great empires like Carthage, Almoravids,Almohads, Fatmids, ayyubis,mamluks,Malian empire,Songhai, ethopian empire and many other all are great African empires.Continent of Africa has great history
Africa has a much more sophisticated history than is appreciated in the popular imagination.
Living in stick and dung huts isnt sophisticated. I swear the nerve of you people.
@@manofnocolor2205 That's not all there's been to the history of Africa as this video clearly shows.😉😊
@@amorosogombe9650 All infastructure in Africa was the result of caucasians yet you blacks still bite the hand that feeds you. Tisk..tisk
@@manofnocolor2205 I'm not biting you. You're the one attacking us. The caucasians came and took a lot of resources out. That's why they brought that infrastructure to get Africas natural resources and take slaves out. The slaves that worked in America I think is fair to say were the ones getting bitten by caucasians. The racist mind is very prone to selective perception, selective amnesia and confirmation bias. It's one of the common mental flaws you find in all racists. The decimal system came from Arabs does that mean all calculations done in decimal belong to Arabs? No. Similarly a lot of infrastructure has been built in Africa since the colonials left. If you were here to 'feed' Africans then why was apartheid done? Doesn't exactly seem like the action of someone with good intentions. You've got lots to think about.
You were blessed by our presence in Africa. Thats all I'm saying. We took you out of the stone age.
Not a single reference to portuguese explorers that were there for 300 years and Silva Porto even saved Livingstone life?!
Man this was really good 👍🏿.
The Sierra Leone situation honestly would make great game of thrones style drama
Fantastic video full of details. You are an expert historian
Tough pill to swallow for some but many societies in Africa weren't pure the horror of slavery also existed amongst many, and to make matters even worse those from the diazpora who were once enslaved did the same thing like wow. Stuff like this just makes me lose hope in humanity, it just shows none of us are truly good or truly evil, humanity no matter the skin is complicated and grey nothing is black and white. 8f only more people could see this fact about our world and its races.
All societies in Africa weren’t Pure. Diaspora Africans are primarily descended from war captives sold as slaves to Europeans. And back then if you tell anyone from 200 years ago that is from Africa, europe or Asia and tell them that slavery was bad they will look at you like you are insane. 100% of societies in the pre modern era had slavery and majority of societies back then had a slavery based economy. It was something “normal” back then. Even in the modern era in the 18-20th centuries slavery was still being practised. What we do is learn from history and our ancestors.
@@menamilad3199 ye I understand and I agree that's what needs to be done learning form these horrors and moving forward to ensure history isn't repeated.
Yeah but it was the europeans that introduced the idea that black people in general are inferior and should be seen as animals or objects rather than people, africans that enslaved other africans at least still saw them as another human like them, europeans saw africans as objects and nothing more
No, the Europeans invented racialized hereditary chattel slavery. They refuse to swallow that pill to this day.
Some tribes built their whole economy off of slavery (see Dahomey)
one of the best history videos i've ever seen on youtube. love this series.
I find it heart breaking that many Africans were actually protesting for slavery and not against it.
When slavery is all you know it’s hard to imagine life any other way.
Slavery was an ancient practice every were you acting like white people invented it
Slavery has been practiced pretty much everywhere by practically every culture. Abolishing a practice that's been a norm for centuries will always find its opponents
It was also not chattel slavery.
Slavery has been around forever, however Europeans practiced the most brutal and barbaric form of slavery -> Cattle/Chattel slavery. This was unique to the White race.
I dont understand the thumbnail state who colonised africa first... the title refers to millenia after... what am I missing?
This Africa series is next level. Incredible work Jabzy!
Amazing content! Just the highest regards for your art!
It's crazy how, despite how much you mention in this video you mention the British taking serious action to stamp out the slave trade, lots of people in the modern day STILL don't give them credit for it and will chastise them for "not doing enough".
Colonisers need credit for the mind blowing industrilzation.. modernising..technologies and educations.. scientific studies
But for the slave , racism and genocides they need to take accountability
The British attempting to stamp out slavery was a safety pre-cautional measure for themselves. They've noticed that slaves were outnumbering them gradually and were revolting against the inhuman conditions meted on them daily. They(the British) quickly understood that with the continuous trend of influx of slaves for another more century will result to the slaves overpowering and conquering them in their own land. Moving the slaves out from their territories was one of the reasons why so many countries in the Carribbean were created and some were moved to Africa in cities like Freetown of Sierra Leone, Monrovia of Liberia and Libreville of gabon. So in short, the British do not deserve any credit from us for attempting to abolish the slave trade. It was a self defense strategy to avoid a backlash in the future. I hope you understand.
@@rediettadesse2828 You act like these countries don't take their part of accountability, problem is you are asking full responsibility for something that. involved many Africans themselves.
Brilliant work! Thank you!
What do you mean with the end of slavery? Slavery never ended in Africa. Apparently there are more slaves in Africa today, than there were during the time of thee New World Slave Trade.
You done a great job on this
Damn who’s going to tell Muhammad Ali (the Boxer) about Pasha Muhammad Ali?
Thanks for the content sir!
Henry Morton Stanley seemed more annoyed to learn the scope of what he was meant to be doing after he’d already started than horrified.
I assume states like the Rozwi Empire or the states in the Great Lakes will be mentioned as Europeans interact with and occupy them?
Wow, thank you for these videos
No mention to Portuguese empire in Africa? They were the very first!
But the never created no colonies when they first came the tried but was unsuccessful..
@@historyonthego What ? Check Angola, Mozambique, Cap Vert, Guinea, St Tome, Nigeria, Kenya. You know nothing
Very good discussion. Thanks!
Germans also had colonies in east Africa like Tanzania 🇹🇿
The book How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney.
On the map you showed a part of modern day somalia conquerered by the Egyptian Mohammad ali yet you didn't mention any somali city in his conquests or is the map incorrect?
Yh I think its incorrect because they couldn't even conquer ethiopia
it was incorrect and alot of the map drawings are incorrect in this video
@@hxyzazolchak because ethiopia defended themselves and won the war with egypt twice .. what that has to do with Somalia?
@@tewekdenahom485 For instance?
Its correct, Egypt even annexed the Emirate of Harar in modern Ethiopia in 1875
Please tell us more. If this your book recommend it for me
*whispers* they never got ethiopia
Laserlights italy
Whispers they never got Thailand.
@richard boswell Italy never colonised Ethiopia, it was annexed but not colonised.
@@byanymeansnecessary398same shit. They wouldn’t have had any better rights and would’ve been sucked dry from resources
Thanks. Got some idea of developments in Africa.🎉🎉🎉
14:58
The Ashanti-Fanti War
You are so spot on about the creoles of Sierra Leone which I identify. Thank you.
Help me understand why Africa after slavery?
90% of the slave population came from Europe and many were shipped into Africa as der Coloni (Sklaven).
Therefore why are so many people focused on Africa during this timeline?
Polotics nobody wants to say anything of most slaves being of European decent. I mean the very word slave is derived from Slav for a reason.
That's not true at all the hell you talking about
@@Left4Red Yes it is true. 90% of the slave population came out of Europe.
The largest slave population were the British. 2nd Were the Scots. 3rd was the Irish. 4th was the Italians... German were 6th largest.
Afrikaanse (N word) was 8% and 2% other Asians.
And don't forget Mother Russia (Russland) shipped 20 million slaves to California-Mexico and another 20 Million to Kazakhstan.
All Serfs (Witte) were exiled from every corner of Europe and exported.
Hence the word Settlers, Coloni, and slaves are the same words.
@@lordvonmanor6915 You don't know what slavery is those are colonialist aka settlers that moved to the new world to displace the indigenous people.
Slaves are bought and sold those people weren't and came on their own
What ur saying is demographic stats that show no resemblance on the real world.
@@lordvonmanor6915 You're talking only the transatlantic slave trade. 54% of all slaves were slaves coming out if the Balkans and Crimea and going mainly to the Ottomans and African slave markets.
seems like the whole history to me. so much trouble to go thru to get someone overseas. it was always like that
40% into the Scramble for Africa series and the scramble hasn't even technically begun yet, heh. This is a good amount of prelude though! I was a bit disappointed when this option won the poll because I thought the topic has been well covered already, but this extra prelude stuff is seldom covered so I'm happy.
Agree. Without this context, it’s easy to believe the narrative that Africans were disorganized savages waiting to be taught civilization.
what is the song youre using?
Your channel infuriates me! almost NONE of this in American history books. Suprised no, but still shameful. Thank you for your content. I hope it helps the people in my life wake up.
Most of this is unrelated to american history in any meaningfull way. The british blocked export of slaves to america way before this, and america didnt have any holdings. This era of african history is interesting, but not really that relevant for the americans. There is plenty of underaprechiated history, and only so much time to teach it. Chinese history is colorful, south american too, european history even has underaprechiated aspects, the 1500-1600s for example are a bit forgotten in the common mind, with the exit of the medieval era and the entry of the pike and shotte
great work!
I'm curious about how Leopold tamed the Congo. I know his diplomatic justifications, but as for the on the ground stuff I know less about. Likewise, I wonder if there were wars with tribes/revolts and so on in the Congo free state. I hope that when you get to that point, you go into great detail. Because it's pretty obscure history.
Leopold hired mercenaries to enslave the Africans by whatever brutal means.
Congo is saddest of all countries colonized. He was brutal and had many Africans hands killed and arms cut off. He ruled congo as his personal space.
What the Belgians did in the Congo was horrific and disgraceful, even when compared with other colonial powers.
It's complicated but most if not all of the atrocities were perpetrated by native Congolese in Belgian service. Everyone knows the hand chopping stuff. What the Congolese servicemen did was chop off the hands of their fellow countrymen just to present them to the Belgian authorities and get bounties and promotions. Until the Belgian administration figured out something was wrong and put an end to the abominable practice.
@@exterminans crikey, I didn’t know that. Thanks for the info.
People went there and told the people they were coming to help and just listen to them....now you can see you have to be careful who you follow.....We all do......And the only way back up to where we used to be is with the Ten Commandments....THANK YOUUUU ALL FOR YOUR IMMENSE COURAGE....TOGETHER IN OUR HEARTSSS AND PRAYERS FOREVER 🙏 💞 ♥️
Technically, I think the Assyrians might have been the first non-African empire to conquer African land when they conquered Egypt. Followed closely by the Persian Empire.
Would the earlier Hyksos conquest of northern Egypt also count?
@@Rynewulf hyksos/hega-qase they were same people as ancient egypt
@@abdullahidharar49 They were recorded as foreign invaders from Asia in the Egyptian sources, our only sources on them.
@@Rynewulf they were a qabadle/ancient egypt Clan who created New royal family
@@abdullahidharar49 Every source I've ever come across, from peer reviewed history books to Wikipedia and random websites all agree the Hyksos entered Egypt from Canaan, with unclear origin and militarily occupied lower Egypt until they were eventually expelled.
Can you drop some recommended books on these topics in some future videos if someone wants to learn more
Too much emphasis on how African rulers used slaves, when the british took out millions to America centuries before... Hypocrisy is a funny thing is not it = ?
Centuries before? West Africa had an ongoing slave trade with Arabs for 1400 years before the Europeans arrived. It's that established slave route that the Europeans found .King tegbesu made a fortune from the trans Atlantic slave trade. Queen Nzinga fought the Portuguese not to stop slavery but to control it. Mansa Musa had 12 thousand slaves when he went to Egypt. All before Europe arrived. Get an education.
Most emphasis of the trans Atlantic slave trade is still on the European. aspect, that's why people like you seem to be surprised about the slavery in Africa lol
@@IrishCinnsealach what is most recent and what has affected today's power dynamics ? according to you ?
Slavery was always practiced in Africa, way before the Arab slave traders came the Romans, the Greeks and way later and the Americans and still is widely practiced in Africa currently in many African countries.
I'm not here to deny you but what documented or archaeological evidence proves slavery was practiced in Africa before the coming of the Greeks? I thought you scholars claimed ancient Egypt wasn't part of Africa but the Near East? Also, list all the many African countries still practicing slavery today like you claim. I don't see slave markets in my country nor in neighboring countries.
@@Niani23455 Libya. Child soldiers. Egypt is in the continent of Africa and are Africans but not sub saharan Africa and do not look like sub sahara africans. Dont cherry pick and dont be willfully ignorant.
@@cjyoung4080 "Egypt is in the continent of Africa and are Africans but not Sub-Saharan Africa and do not look like sub Sahara Africans"
Unfortunately for you there isn't any Sub-Saharan African race unless you can back it up with any reliable sources. I like how you distinguish between the ancient Egyptians and the other African cultures you consider Sub-Saharan. By your logic and with your own words, I'd say we have evidence that slavery was earliest practiced among North Africans specifically the ancient Egyptians and not among West, Central, East, Southern African cultures.
Sumerians literally created slavery, we live by documents and proof so what proof would we have for Africans creating slavery? What African civilization was made before Samaria?
the Sumerians did utilize slave labor to build their civilization, considered one of the first in the world; evidence from ancient texts and law codes shows that captured prisoners of war were often forced into slavery, performing tasks like construction work on buildings and temples within Sumerian society
This is proof
The majority of Sumerian slaves were likely captured during military campaigns against neighboring societies.
Labor tasks:
Slaves were often used for physically demanding work such as building structures, working in fields, and hauling goods.
So basically the colonisation was started by Muhammad Ali leader of an Albanian regiment and still a European...🤷🤪
Soumagourou kante! Wasn't he the one killed by sundiata keita?
Muhammad Ali sounds not very European to me.
@@dittmannrudolfrohr2149 of course it doesn't sound European cause its not. Muhammed Ali is an Islamic name so it only makes sense that an Ottoman ruler in Muslim Egypt would have such a name. He was born in Present day Greece BTW. Think of Muhammed Ali (the boxer) was he Arabian? Or did he take up the name after he became a Muslim?
@@Stoic-Waziri Look at his depiction, he is an Asian or Afro-Asian, not White.
@@dittmannrudolfrohr2149 what about his Nationality? His depiction don't really matter. I can look Jamaican but I'm Nigerian...🤷
I need some explanation of the Barbary wars, the coalition is just so odd, also why did France, UK and Ottomans let them around for so long, where they really that strong?
You should probably just watch Drachinifel's video on the Barbary States (The Final Yarrs), but in short, the states were independent of each other, making subduing or making deals with all of them difficult, and depending on the time period they would avoid ships owned by the great powers because they were just too risky to attack. Too often they were just seen as someone else's problem
The Berber pirates weren't strong but they were supported by the Ottomans who were very strong
Europe was not powerful without advanced weaponry
Looking forward to hearing all about Eritrea 🇪🇷 next episode 😍
Ertrea was mentiomed in this video too .. Just not ertrea yet ! Italy come n create ertrea
@@rediettadesse2828 yes you Are right about the Name Eritrea. But there were other Names for that region before the Italians came.
Really great video! You didn't talk much about Somalia or Oman, but I guess that's for next time. I definitely learned a lot nonetheless.
I see that being anti-slavery back then was new racism.
According to the second edition (1989) of the OED, the earliest known usage of the word “racism” in English occurred in a 1936 book by the American “fascist,” Lawrence Dennis, The Coming American Fascism. The second usage of the term in English that the OED records is in the title of a book originally written in German in 1933 and 1934 but translated into English and first published in 1938 - Racism by Magnus Hirschfeld, translated by Eden and Cedar Paul. Since Hirschfeld died in 1935, before the publication of Dennis’ book the following year, and had already used the word extensively in the text and title of his own book, it seems only fair to recognize him rather than Dennis as the originator of the word “racism.” In the case of the word “racist” as an adjective, the OED ascribes the first known usage to Hirschfeld himself. Who was Magnus Hirschfeld and what did he have to tell us about “racism”?
Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935) was a German-Jewish medical scientist whose major work was in the field of what came to be known as “sexology” ...
@@dittmannrudolfrohr2149
😂😂😂
You had a recent uptick?
I've been here since the beginning!
Good luck! Great content.
How these ignorant people continue to blame Britain solely for slavery is beyond me. Britain gave the natives citizenship for crying out loud and liberated thousands of slaves.
The most evil empire
@@pinguinocomentador9743 that’d be Spain
@@MatthewOlney Or Belgium if they had more power. France doesn't get enough attention either
Mate it's not that simple it was black and white, neither side is purely innocent.
@@MatthewOlney No way, british was the biggest and most racist empire.
Finally someone mentions the Anglo Ashanti war an the Ashanti victory in the 1st 15:42
Uhhh one correction you said the Egyptians are Arabs but Arabs themselves are a different ethnicities from most Egyptians.
Egyptians are culturally arab but not genetically. Anyway, unlike the iranians, they gave up their language and traditions and became arabized.
If you ask most Arabs they will say that Egyptians are Arab and so will many Egyptians, but all Arabic countries have some cultural differences and Egypt having major ones like a heavy peculiar accent and a very specific history and they might often point out their Egyptianness being more important than their Arabness. Genetically all peoples are diverse internally, but I don't think that genetic component even matters for whether you consider your own identity as such. So it depends on what you mean by ethnicity because it can both mean genetics, identity or culture.
But what I can certainly say is that Arabs are not distinct from Egyptians as a whole, they are a part of this very diverse cultural and ethnic body that is the Arab cultural region and they are about as distinct from all other Arabs as Moroccans, Palestinians, Iraqis or Tunisians are.
The real ancient egyptians were pushed to Ethiopia, Eritrea and Sudan due to slavery by arabs, thats how arabs grabbed egypt
Nowadays they say africa is diverse they claim to be africans but racism is still alive in egypt because the previous african cup of nations they couldn't hide their hearts towards africans.
@@mocua2910 are you an idiot? Coptic Egyptians never intermarriaged with any Muslim and they are not black I am from Egypt stop talking lies
@@MohamedRamadan-qi4hl You can't stop love
Is this series gonna last till '22?
Almost definately i think...
So they were all slave owners
@Thermal man They we’re all slave owners to most countries and ethnic groups but not to the Yorubas and Ethiopians but they did have a lot of slaves
@@SegunLive1999 ?
We roma were also slaves in various countries but nobody says anything about that
Slavery in Africa hasn't ended..
Same can be said for Europe and Americans
@@Andarist042 Sort of, in America and Europe it's at least illegal and the law is enforced when people are caught. Mauritania doesn't enforce their anti slavery laws, and there are open air slave markets all over the continent in more rural areas. So while yes, human trafficking does exist in the west, it's not condoned or sanctioned.
@@annoneemoose yes, tell that to a person who doesn't live in an African rural area . Ok, just for the record , do you have a first hand experience ( of this open air slave market )or are you just regurgitating a baseless narrative ?
@@annoneemoose So because it still happens in Mauritania it hasn’t “ended in Africa”?
@@ameetachi9510 Considering Mauritania is in Africa, yes. It's also prevalent in Libya, Kenya, Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and elsewhere on the continent.
Brilliant 💓🙌🏽💓
Mauritania outlawed slavery in 2012.
They still have slaves in Mauritania.
@@ibrahimsuleiman8473 yeah nothing looks good for Mauritania at all lol
It was in 1981 but ok.
@@cavaugnsharkey2699 they actually still have it but ok.
Just like the rest of the world. The city I live in has the highest rate of human trafficking in my state. It's not just an African issue.
Tewodros II name before assending to the throne was kassa haile. Sahle Dengel was a puppet king installed by Ras Ali tewodros father in law
The video ignored Songhai,Mali,Borno,Askum,Kush.
Thousands years of history.
The Kingdom of Kush fell in 350 AD..... This video documents Africa in the 19th Century (1800-1870)
@@JabzyJoe
My bad,i thought it was about colonization of Africa, cause Rome,Greece e.t.c all colonize part of Africa long b4 1800s.
This is about Africa in the 19th century. Mali, Songhai, Aksum and Kush already fell by then. Kush fell in 350 AD. Songhai fell in the 16th century. Mali fell in the 15th century. And ok. The Bornu empire did last until the 19th century but it became extremely insignificant and weak by that time after Muhammad Al-kanemi’s reign . . .
@@ibrahimsuleiman8473 well I guess you can say romans “colonised” the Northern african coast. But Greeks didn’t really colonise anything in Africa. They did rule Egypt for a while but Ptolemaic Egypt didn’t last for long at all. Greeks and romans obviously never ‘colonised’ any parts of sub Saharan Africa.
@@menamilad3199
Borno didn't fall at that time.
Very Impressive
Correction, the Asantes were pygmies and did not fight alone. They were helped by the northern tribes and some Ewe groups. Asantes could NOT do it by themselves as they were fucking pygmies.
What are you talking about pygmies based on what?
Odd? Iirc. they had rather impressive empire and were also one of the more successful African slave owning/trading peoples too, not least wrt their pretty lucrative trade alsosupplying slves to others, including the various European participants in the West African trade.
I've no idea if they are pygmies or not, however, being under the impression that they share more bog-standard dimensions like most subsets within our species
Asante we’re not pygmies
Lmao… why so much hate? I’m an Asante both parents and I’m 6” tall. Jealousy will not help you. We are powerful and proud people and love who we are.
Lol no the Asante capital was said to have walls rivaling that of great china
This is not how it happened. I’m not going to say anything crazy but please get in touch with me when you can...Accuracy is important. Accuracy includes correct imagery and information. All love my brother hope to hear from you soon
Let's go Brandon!
Thank you for saying Xhosa without trying to snap your tongue. It's really cringy when non-native speakers do that.
"wahabis" dont exist as a sect, they are just normal sunni muslims, only shias and other devaints use this word to make sunni muslims look back
just because Sunnis don't have the exact concept of sects doesn't mean that they don't have very strong ideological and theological differences. Just look at Barelvi, Deobandi groups or the different madhabs or the rival sufi orders or the theological groupings around local ulama with widely divergent ideologies.
And in that sense the Wahhabis are incredibly deviant from mainstream Sunni Islam
Wahhabism started in the 18th century, more than a thousand years after the start of Islam, so it absolutely exists as a sect, a VERY recent one at that.
Y'all wahhabis can cry about it but that's the truth