I'm on kind of a personal quest right now to find as many videos as I can so I can get the "African" perspective about slavery. I watched a VERY informative video about the slave trade in Nigeria featuring a Nigerian tour guide and I recognize this lady (Dr. Akosua Perbi) as well from another video I watched recently: "A Frank Look At Britain's Role In The Slave Trade | Britain's Slave Trade". Thanks to uploader for posting this video🙂
I agree she tell it all in her book Indigenous slavery in Ghana. Can you please share the video you watched. I also have some other videos she and other Ghanaians being interviewed
My Fellow Jamaican is completely correct in his opinion regarding slavery in Africa and the complicity of our own brothers and sisters. Very sad. All the Heads of state of every country in Africa should attend the United Nation and apologize to us the diaspora. Allows us to return home without requiring a visa, and gives us free land so, we can relive our lives as free men and women.I am 70yrs and tears are flowing from my eyes.
Agreed 💯 brother 🇯🇲👏. It's a hypocritical crime for the African countries to require the Diaspora to get visa s when they sent us away to slavery without visa s. Absolutely shameless....
Most descendants of the Atlantic Slave trade seem to forget/don't want to recognise that their own ancestors could have easily been a participant in the slave trade. Just to be a victim of it later on! Slave traders/raiders turned slaves.
descendant of da maafa (slave trade) via da caribbean & da U.S. & facts. all of our ancestas wasn't innocent, our ancestas coulda been complicit or active in da trade only to become captured & sold theirselves. what's important is dat we learn from our mistakes, take accountability and heal our relationships w/ each otha
Thank you for telling us the truth Dr. Perbi. I am glad I found this video. As a descendant of slaves whose ancestors were taken to Jamaica, I am finding it very difficult to consider ever visiting Ghana considering what they did to my ancestors. It was a cruel act because we are feeling the effects of slavery to this day. They caused every race on planet earth to despise us, and for this they will answer to God. Jesus please help us. For so many years we were blaming only the white people, but the major offender IMO are the people of Ghana who sold our ancestors. They were practicing the buying and selling other human beings. I wonder why this was hidden from us especially those of us from the Caribbean. Mostly the Akan/Ashanti tribe came to Jamaica and the people who sold us are very wicked. Look at how many slave markets were in Ghana. She said that regular people would go to the market to buy a slave or two as if our ancestors weren't human beings. It is sickening. In their betrayal of their own people they sold their best people.
As a Jamaican who is a decendant of slaves held under the British penal system of slavery I have mixed emotions. While I now somewhat understand the African slave system I still do not find comfort there. And as the good professor pointed out, Africa was also negatively affected even to this day, for at that time Africa traded its youngest and finest for guns and powder thereby sacrificing its future and development. So as much as we here speak of reparations from our European enslavers we have mixed feelings knowing that our own were complicit in our suffering. There needs to be a truth and reconciliation done by the motherland to these her children in the diaspora who now are the masters of the statigic territories that once enslaved them. Then maybe Africa as a whole will prosper as it should, and take her place at the table of the world. The dispiesed Atlantic route can become the route of friendship and trade.🇯🇲
Most of that work has to be done by the Africans. They have the youngest population out of any other continent in the world, loads of resources, and strategic advantages... yet it's plagued by tribalism, inferiority complexes, in-fighting, and a lack of military might that can rival anything the super-powers can muster... nearly the same things that plagued them 100s of years ago when the greatest failure in African history had millions of it's children stole away to lands across the sea for goodies from Eruos. Africa has to hold that L, but it's not the diaspora's problem to fix their failures. We have to focus on ourselves, and perhaps some time in the future we can come together and build something.
Mixed feeling say it all brother because even now u realise that African has not repented by the way the politicians and connected classes treats the poor. In one instance I find myself defending them in another I am against them seeing that this callouse treatment continues still. Not a lot has changed, slavery was a blip on the average conscience of those that remained while for us it is everything. That would probably explained why it is the diaspora that pushes the discussions, slavery, religion, reparations that are out there.
@@brianmcmurray4023 Good focus on yourselves (Black americans), the people on the continent are busy focusing on their own problems e.g, military dictatorships, genocide, military coups, western multinationals exploiting natural resources, corrupt governments, etc
@@obeahman6286 : The African never stop sell, social changes forced upon western buyers created a slump in demand. The man with a coal mine always willing to sell so environmental issues are not his forethought…hence social and market changes limited him to parochial usages. Whenever the old buyers are willing to buy again…Africa is willing to sell again. Thinking this way is dreadful, yet, critical if one is actually seeing the reality.
This woman confirms all I have learnt over 40 plus years of study.. I will say trust her words. We don’t need to blame what she speaks about happened all over the globe, we just have to eliminate slavery now. Peace
It's essential for everyone to remember that people in Africa (noticed I didn't say *Africans*) trading other people in Africa did not see themselves as Black or Africans. They were members of unique ethnic tribes raising other tribes. Blacks selling Blacks is a 21 Century concept. Asked to identify themselves people living in Africa during the slave trade would had not answered Black nor African. Those terms were imposed from the outside by Europeans who say an obvious marker (skin color) that differentiated them as white buyers from the black humans they were buying.
@@brianmcmurray4023 how? OP literally only just said the groups who allied with whites did not see the people (and vice versa) they were kidnapping for the whites as "other Africans" how is that "excuses?"
Excuses, yes race essentialism didn’t exist in ancient africa… duh. Slavery in africa predates colonialism… slavery in Ghana was first practiced during the 1st century AD and many African kingdoms gained nobility via slave trading/ slave owning they even created their own economies off of slavery pre colonialism/ pre 21st century. It’s a hard pill to swallow but Africans did infact sell Africans and I’m saying this as an African who descends from a slave owning/ slave trading ethnic group.
Africans even aligned with Europeans and Arabs to sell other Africans😂. Ask yourself, why were there so many mixed marriages w the Dutch/ Portuguese between Angolan and Congolese women? Why are there more historical records of alliance between European nations and African kingdoms? African kingdoms even hired Europeans to transport slaves to other African kingdoms… African kingdoms even hired Europeans to fight enemy tribes.
We as African simply have to hold this L, our continent is underdeveloped and tbh the future of Africa is not looking too bright. The same issues which made ancient African kingdoms great are the same issues that are crumbling the continent and ruining its people. Our leaders are corrupt, we openly practice slavery, tribalism is still a huge belief/ practice but we have the nerve to blame colonialism.
I think there is actually more of a bright future for African Nations than the West it we are talking long term. The West is on the verge of collapse. People aren't having children anymore, we've already industrialized, and so many Western countries have to rely on immigrants to maintain their populations which is a slippery slope. The African continent has one of the youngest populations on Earth right now, and if African countries can put some of their tribalism aside and militarize under one African Union, it could be the most powerful empire the world has ever seen. We see hints of that possible future with the actual African Union, but it still lacks power. The way I see it Africa needs to destroy tribalism, create a standard African language, monetary system, and education system to properly indoctrinate the youth for a new era of African global dominance. That's a lot easier said than done though. Africa is the second largest continent with very diverse ethnic groups spread out in a density comparable to the United States despite the United States being much smaller. On top of the lack of development would make this a monumental task, but it should be one worth attempting if African peoples, including the ones in the diaspora want to be the dominate power on the Earth. This is why I've said that Pan-Africanism is only as powerful as the African continent is. If the Continent is not unified and plagued with tribalism then pan Africanism among the diaspora will never work... unless the diaspora unifies with the intention of going back to Africa and conquering all of it which is way more unlikely than Africans incrementally moving their way into dominance or parity over the next few centuries.
Looking at the eyes of this lady, whenever she talks about the buying process during the slavery period in Ghana her right eye would register a change. If you look carefully, you might notice this subtle changes. If you accept the eyes are the windows to the soul, then she is communicating with her eyes some very interesting information. One might even say she feels a deep pain.
That is how most Ghanaians talk. They use signs like what you see. They sometimes use their body parts,eyes, sounds,etc. Especially when angry or sad. It's all normal.
Little wonder African “unity” and development has been so difficult to achieve. But that is the human condition. Warfare, murder and enslavement. Over the last 400 years look not just at Africa but at the wars and genocide in Europe (white European vs white European), Asia (Japan, Korea and China constantly at war) and the Middle East (Semite vs. Semite - to this day).
She left off the part about the " Tree of Forgetfulness'"-so the Africa knew what they were doing. Please read "Barracoon". Its about the last slave brought to Alabama. Cudjo goes into detail about the culture in Africa. The Dahomey's started a war just to capture/sell slaves. I am fine here in America-not moving to no Africa and possibly end up with bad treatment as an outsider.
THE NEGLECTED TRUE CAUSE OF AFRICA SLAVE TRADE: What’s been deliberately overlooked was the true behind Africa slave trade. Africa was one of the hottest spots for international arm race, whereas leaderships were desperate to arm their citizens. Desperate for weapons to protect against enemies from within and those at the gate. That panic was generalized across the continent. Africa was inadvertently caught in an arm race that unconsciously fuelled slave trade. Many regions tried agriculture to generate enough money to buy weapons. Some quickly realized that agriculture was no reliable asset to generate stable funding for weapon acquisition. The price of crops was fluctuating, if lucky enough to have a good harvest out of many failures. Agriculture was vulnerable, good harvest was never certain and enemies could burn plantations down to weaken a country and its citizens. Trading slave inadvertently become an easier and reliable source of funding in such state of despair and ruthless competition to control and self-protect. Those selling more slaves had access to more weapon than their opponent busy ploughing the land to sell uncertain crops yields for weapon. Westerners tend to downplay the fact that this was about acquisition of weaponries, not trinkets, tobacco, or liquor etc. Rich individuals could have bought such pointless products like those signares in Goree island on the coast of Senegal. They didn’t need to be armed; they were under French protection. The industrialization of slavery in Africa was triggered by ruthless arm race in the region. The agodji amazons were the product of their time. We, modern man hasn’t got what it takes to judge them. We have not lived in their shoes to understand their primeval instinct of survival and self-preservation in a very turbulent era of Africa and the world history. It was the era of chaos where men and women were made to Kill to survive or be killed or even enslaved. Telling history doesn’t make history taller a criminal because the inaccuracy can be corrected sooner or later. However, concealing history as it never happened, is the real crime.
@trzagor2769 I'm 10 months late to seeing your comment. But thank you for that context that hardly anyone ever talks about. It puts the African participation into context and it also shows just how much more conniving the white slavers were that they used weaponry to take advantage of enemy tribes to get them to compete for trade. Also, extremely few people realize or acknowledge that white slave traders even did this with other races too, like Native Americans in the colonies that became the US. " *The increased rise of the gun-slave trade forced the other tribes to participate or their refusal to engage in enslaving meant they would become targets of slavers* " en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_among_Native_Americans_in_the_United_States I've mentioned that for over seven years online and noone ever has any response for it.
There is no doubt that slavery was terrible. No doubt whatsoever, the painful understanding that people who looked like you engaged in that business is so hard to come to terms with. If you say Europe is to blame, but look where it started from!
Yeah, I totally understand I’ve always asked myself why African Americans can’t accept that Africans sold Africans and benefited from slavery? But I guess it is because the truth hurts and it seems unbelievable… in ancient africa there was no black unity and people didn’t view themselves as the same as one’s ethnicity separates them from other ethnicities/ tribes.
@@sport504She being light on that part. It was their ultimate decision and you see their mentality today you can still see how they treat each now in 2024.
Slavery in Africa and anywhere else in the world is wrong and must be condemned. I condemn the africans involved in slavery. Will black americans condemn the black american slave owners? I have the names, dates of these black american slave owners and the region they operated. If slavery is to be condemned then all slave owning history must be discussed don't cherry pick the history that suits a political agenda
How many black Americans slave owners were there compared to African enslaves that let millions of other African peoples be stole away across the Atlantic? If there is anyone who is cherry picking... it's you sir.
@@brianmcmurray4023 I am consistent I critique all slave owners (european\African\Asian\ mayans\aztecs\etc). But you, will deliberately make excuses for the black american slave owners; there is no sense of accountability in your brand of politics. You only care about using history as a weapon to further your political agenda based on prejudice, you don't care about all historical truths.
@@brianmcmurray4023 I condemn all slave owners (black\white) It's very simple respond to my comment CONDEMNING the black american slave owners if you are sincere
The video features an African scholar speaking about Africa's involvement in the slave trade. I don't see the cherry picking here. Should be (edit: he) have included an African slavery denier? Jews don't idly allow such behavior, nor should we.
What happened to the Jews during this time, that were living in west Africa after migrating there in 70 AD after the Romans sacked Jerusalem? We know they were living there for over 1000 years before the 1500s.
No don’t be stupid, Ghana was not a nation. Different tribes in the region played a part and some were a victim of it. You cant blame a nation that was formed in 1957… Slavery happened from Senegal to Congo a distance of over 3000 miles.. Blame is not a good word for this complex issue. Even those who ended up in America have ancestors were slave traders
@@thatbusdriverguy4182 1st, watch who you are calling stupid. You don't know me, and if you disagree... just state your disagreement. If you want to resort to name calling we can do that... and you won't like it. 2nd. Ghana's modernity is irrelevant. Nazi Germany no longer exist, but the Federal Republic of Germany (its successor) still has to pay reparations to Jews because the peoples of those lands committed the offenses regardless if they now go by another name or political structure. 3rd. I don't need a history lesson from you. I know slavery was far more expansive and involved more than just the area we today call Ghana... which is why I said "some". 4th. Blame is a good word as far as I'm fucking concerned. Everyone else uses it to their advantage, but ADOS/FBA ppl are the only ones who are shamed about it or talked down to about how a situation is just too complex for our understanding. GTFOH. It's real simple... slavery was business, and my ancestors were the commodities. Euros and Africans partook in this business and caused unimaginable harms to my people. Whether or not some African slave traders eventually became enslaved because they were too dumb or too enamored with their Euro business partners to see the writing on the wall is irrelevant. The vast majority of enslaved black Americans do not descend from African enslavers. What you're espousing is damn near tantamount to saying... hey because some Jews aided the Nazis in Holocausting other Jews and ended up being Holocausted themselves, means what was going on in Nazi Germany is too complex and we shouldn't cast "BLAME", on the Federal Republic of Germany who's people were the same damn people that committed the goddamn Holocaust.
yes, because they didnt tell the white people to fuck off because the whites had guns. they dared to do the same thing that Native Americans and other races did when approached by white people who wanted kidnap victims: " *The increased rise of the gun-slave trade forced the other tribes to participate or their refusal to engage in enslaving meant they would become targets of slavers* " en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_among_Native_Americans_in_the_United_States
They were. It continues to this day. Today African leaders under the guise of lawful governance procure weapons from the West to quash protest against bad governance and squander mania
@@historyonthego Just an observation, in the book of Genesis, Prophet Moses tells the story of Esau and Jacob, after Esau sold his birthright he then became obstinate and later when Jacob inherited the blessings he wanted him dead. In other words he wanted to deny what he did. This professor amongst many others has given evidence on the prolific system of slavery in Ghana. To this day there are people who can trace their own lineage back to when their ancestor joined this or that family within Ghana. How is it that some people are refusing to accept that that miserable system was prolific up and down that miserable place. There should be a law in place to punish those who seek to deny the existence of this system and the pain and suffering it has caused. Similar to the " penalty which can be dished out to holocaust deniers " enough is enough.
Okay... perhaps you should get a better command of the English language if you're going to start calling people liars without any evidence. The Ashanti empire ruled almost all of present day Ghana in the 19th century, including the slave markets on the coast. Even if there were no markets in what we today call the Ashanti region... it wouldn't matter because the Ashanti ruled almost all of Ghana during the height of the Atlantic Slave trade. Do more research sir.
@@brianmcmurray4023 you are making your augment on a white man ideology and that's wrong,we have our research on oral history from our ancestors, you know that Christopher Columbus discovered America right, but now it's said is not true, but it's in America history books, please
@@georgeasiedu4192 Bringing up Christopher Columbus is a red herring. Look, either the Ashanti had an empire or they did not? Either the Ashanti traded slaves or they did not. The truth can exist outside whether or not white people can lie about history. Dr. Perbi, An African black female scholar, not a white man, is saying Africans enslaved other Africans for goods, so your point about white people sometimes lying about history is totally irrelevant considering the source in the video. Not to mention a number of records from that time show that Africans traded slaves for guns and gun powder.
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I'm on kind of a personal quest right now to find as many videos as I can so I can get the "African" perspective about slavery. I watched a VERY informative video about the slave trade in Nigeria featuring a Nigerian tour guide and I recognize this lady (Dr. Akosua Perbi) as well from another video I watched recently: "A Frank Look At Britain's Role In The Slave Trade | Britain's Slave Trade". Thanks to uploader for posting this video🙂
I agree she tell it all in her book Indigenous slavery in Ghana. Can you please share the video you watched. I also have some other videos she and other Ghanaians being interviewed
@@thehouseofstrength I DID write the title of the other video where I saw her in the comment I posted.
My Fellow Jamaican is completely correct in his opinion regarding slavery in Africa and the complicity of our own brothers and sisters. Very sad. All the Heads of state of every country in Africa should attend the United Nation and apologize to us the diaspora. Allows us to return home without requiring a visa, and gives us free land so, we can relive our lives as free men and women.I am 70yrs and tears are flowing from my eyes.
Agreed 💯 brother 🇯🇲👏. It's a hypocritical crime for the African countries to require the Diaspora to get visa s when they sent us away to slavery without visa s. Absolutely shameless....
Most descendants of the Atlantic Slave trade seem to forget/don't want to recognise that their own ancestors could have easily been a participant in the slave trade. Just to be a victim of it later on! Slave traders/raiders turned slaves.
Excuses.
descendant of da maafa (slave trade) via da caribbean & da U.S. & facts. all of our ancestas wasn't innocent, our ancestas coulda been complicit or active in da trade only to become captured & sold theirselves. what's important is dat we learn from our mistakes, take accountability and heal our relationships w/ each otha
Thank you for telling us the truth Dr. Perbi. I am glad I found this video. As a descendant of slaves whose ancestors were taken to Jamaica, I am finding it very difficult to consider ever visiting Ghana considering what they did to my ancestors. It was a cruel act because we are feeling the effects of slavery to this day. They caused every race on planet earth to despise us, and for this they will answer to God. Jesus please help us. For so many years we were blaming only the white people, but the major offender IMO are the people of Ghana who sold our ancestors. They were practicing the buying and selling other human beings. I wonder why this was hidden from us especially those of us from the Caribbean. Mostly the Akan/Ashanti tribe came to Jamaica and the people who sold us are very wicked. Look at how many slave markets were in Ghana. She said that regular people would go to the market to buy a slave or two as if our ancestors weren't human beings. It is sickening. In their betrayal of their own people they sold their best people.
As a fellow Jamaican I agree 💯🇯🇲
How do you know that your ancestors weren't also participants in slave trade and part of the "very wicked."
🔥🔥🔥Fire for the enslavers, sellers and the buyers…..🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
As a Jamaican maroon I agree 💯✊.
As a Jamaican who is a decendant of slaves held under the British penal system of slavery I have mixed emotions. While I now somewhat understand the African slave system I still do not find comfort there. And as the good professor pointed out, Africa was also negatively affected even to this day, for at that time Africa traded its youngest and finest for guns and powder thereby sacrificing its future and development. So as much as we here speak of reparations from our European enslavers we have mixed feelings knowing that our own were complicit in our suffering. There needs to be a truth and reconciliation done by the motherland to these her children in the diaspora who now are the masters of the statigic territories that once enslaved them. Then maybe Africa as a whole will prosper as it should, and take her place at the table of the world. The dispiesed Atlantic route can become the route of friendship and trade.🇯🇲
Most of that work has to be done by the Africans. They have the youngest population out of any other continent in the world, loads of resources, and strategic advantages... yet it's plagued by tribalism, inferiority complexes, in-fighting, and a lack of military might that can rival anything the super-powers can muster... nearly the same things that plagued them 100s of years ago when the greatest failure in African history had millions of it's children stole away to lands across the sea for goodies from Eruos. Africa has to hold that L, but it's not the diaspora's problem to fix their failures. We have to focus on ourselves, and perhaps some time in the future we can come together and build something.
Mixed feeling say it all brother because even now u realise that African has not repented by the way the politicians and connected classes treats the poor.
In one instance I find myself defending them in another I am against them seeing that this callouse treatment continues still. Not a lot has changed, slavery was a blip on the average conscience of those that remained while for us it is everything. That would probably explained why it is the diaspora that pushes the discussions, slavery, religion, reparations that are out there.
@@brianmcmurray4023 Good focus on yourselves (Black americans), the people on the continent are busy focusing on their own problems e.g, military dictatorships, genocide, military coups, western multinationals exploiting natural resources, corrupt governments, etc
@@obeahman6286 : The African never stop sell, social changes forced upon western buyers created a slump in demand. The man with a coal mine always willing to sell so environmental issues are not his forethought…hence social and market changes limited him to parochial usages. Whenever the old buyers are willing to buy again…Africa is willing to sell again. Thinking this way is dreadful, yet, critical if one is actually seeing the reality.
If one sows tares one can never reap wheat! Simple.
This woman confirms all I have learnt over 40 plus years of study.. I will say trust her words. We don’t need to blame what she speaks about happened all over the globe, we just have to eliminate slavery now. Peace
It's essential for everyone to remember that people in Africa (noticed I didn't say *Africans*) trading other people in Africa did not see themselves as Black or Africans.
They were members of unique ethnic tribes raising other tribes.
Blacks selling Blacks is a 21 Century concept. Asked to identify themselves people living in Africa during the slave trade would had not answered Black nor African. Those terms were imposed from the outside by Europeans who say an obvious marker (skin color) that differentiated them as white buyers from the black humans they were buying.
Excuses.
@@brianmcmurray4023 how? OP literally only just said the groups who allied with whites did not see the people (and vice versa) they were kidnapping for the whites as "other Africans" how is that "excuses?"
@@brianmcmurray4023 mad cause your ancestors ended up on the boat huh?
Excuses, yes race essentialism didn’t exist in ancient africa… duh. Slavery in africa predates colonialism… slavery in Ghana was first practiced during the 1st century AD and many African kingdoms gained nobility via slave trading/ slave owning they even created their own economies off of slavery pre colonialism/ pre 21st century. It’s a hard pill to swallow but Africans did infact sell Africans and I’m saying this as an African who descends from a slave owning/ slave trading ethnic group.
Africans even aligned with Europeans and Arabs to sell other Africans😂. Ask yourself, why were there so many mixed marriages w the Dutch/ Portuguese between Angolan and Congolese women? Why are there more historical records of alliance between European nations and African kingdoms? African kingdoms even hired Europeans to transport slaves to other African kingdoms… African kingdoms even hired Europeans to fight enemy tribes.
We as African simply have to hold this L, our continent is underdeveloped and tbh the future of Africa is not looking too bright. The same issues which made ancient African kingdoms great are the same issues that are crumbling the continent and ruining its people. Our leaders are corrupt, we openly practice slavery, tribalism is still a huge belief/ practice but we have the nerve to blame colonialism.
I think there is actually more of a bright future for African Nations than the West it we are talking long term. The West is on the verge of collapse. People aren't having children anymore, we've already industrialized, and so many Western countries have to rely on immigrants to maintain their populations which is a slippery slope. The African continent has one of the youngest populations on Earth right now, and if African countries can put some of their tribalism aside and militarize under one African Union, it could be the most powerful empire the world has ever seen. We see hints of that possible future with the actual African Union, but it still lacks power.
The way I see it Africa needs to destroy tribalism, create a standard African language, monetary system, and education system to properly indoctrinate the youth for a new era of African global dominance. That's a lot easier said than done though. Africa is the second largest continent with very diverse ethnic groups spread out in a density comparable to the United States despite the United States being much smaller. On top of the lack of development would make this a monumental task, but it should be one worth attempting if African peoples, including the ones in the diaspora want to be the dominate power on the Earth. This is why I've said that Pan-Africanism is only as powerful as the African continent is. If the Continent is not unified and plagued with tribalism then pan Africanism among the diaspora will never work... unless the diaspora unifies with the intention of going back to Africa and conquering all of it which is way more unlikely than Africans incrementally moving their way into dominance or parity over the next few centuries.
one of the most important videos of the 21st century
Madame Akosua Perbi was my lecturer way back in 2003 and 2004 at University of Ghana.
What was she lecturing on
Guesss she was Ghana history lecturer
Looking at the eyes of this lady, whenever she talks about the buying process during the slavery period in Ghana her right eye would register a change. If you look carefully, you might notice this subtle changes. If you accept the eyes are the windows to the soul, then she is communicating with her eyes some very interesting information. One might even say she feels a deep pain.
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That's deep.
It is a deep resonating pain… For all of us Africans those on the motherland and the kidnapped Africans.
That is how most Ghanaians talk. They use signs like what you see. They sometimes use their body parts,eyes, sounds,etc. Especially when angry or sad. It's all normal.
I also noticed the twitching in her left as opposed to the right.
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Little wonder African “unity” and development has been so difficult to achieve. But that is the human condition. Warfare, murder and enslavement.
Over the last 400 years look not just at Africa but at the wars and genocide in Europe (white European vs white European), Asia (Japan, Korea and China constantly at war) and the Middle East (Semite vs. Semite - to this day).
She left off the part about the " Tree of Forgetfulness'"-so the Africa knew what they were doing. Please read "Barracoon". Its about the last slave brought to Alabama. Cudjo goes into detail about the culture in Africa. The Dahomey's started a war just to capture/sell slaves. I am fine here in America-not moving to no Africa and possibly end up with bad treatment as an outsider.
Wow…l learned a lot from this smart lady! Interesting to hear how the Atlantic and internal slave trade operated from the African point of view.
This was very informative I appreciate her telling the truth.
Thanks you for telling the TRUTH!
THE NEGLECTED TRUE CAUSE OF AFRICA SLAVE TRADE:
What’s been deliberately overlooked was the true behind Africa slave trade. Africa was one of the hottest spots for international arm race, whereas leaderships were desperate to arm their citizens. Desperate for weapons to protect against enemies from within and those at the gate. That panic was generalized across the continent. Africa was inadvertently caught in an arm race that unconsciously fuelled slave trade. Many regions tried agriculture to generate enough money to buy weapons. Some quickly realized that agriculture was no reliable asset to generate stable funding for weapon acquisition. The price of crops was fluctuating, if lucky enough to have a good harvest out of many failures. Agriculture was vulnerable, good harvest was never certain and enemies could burn plantations down to weaken a country and its citizens. Trading slave inadvertently become an easier and reliable source of funding in such state of despair and ruthless competition to control and self-protect. Those selling more slaves had access to more weapon than their opponent busy ploughing the land to sell uncertain crops yields for weapon. Westerners tend to downplay the fact that this was about acquisition of weaponries, not trinkets, tobacco, or liquor etc. Rich individuals could have bought such pointless products like those signares in Goree island on the coast of Senegal. They didn’t need to be armed; they were under French protection. The industrialization of slavery in Africa was triggered by ruthless arm race in the region. The agodji amazons were the product of their time. We, modern man hasn’t got what it takes to judge them. We have not lived in their shoes to understand their primeval instinct of survival and self-preservation in a very turbulent era of Africa and the world history. It was the era of chaos where men and women were made to Kill to survive or be killed or even enslaved. Telling history doesn’t make history taller a criminal because the inaccuracy can be corrected sooner or later. However, concealing history as it never happened, is the real crime.
@trzagor2769 I'm 10 months late to seeing your comment. But thank you for that context that hardly anyone ever talks about.
It puts the African participation into context and it also shows just how much more conniving the white slavers were that they used weaponry to take advantage of enemy tribes to get them to compete for trade.
Also, extremely few people realize or acknowledge that white slave traders even did this with other races too, like Native Americans in the colonies that became the US.
" *The increased rise of the gun-slave trade forced the other tribes to participate or their refusal to engage in enslaving meant they would become targets of slavers* " en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_among_Native_Americans_in_the_United_States
I've mentioned that for over seven years online and noone ever has any response for it.
Those rulers and kings during that time, their descendants and every country that benefited should stand trial for crimes against humanity
There is no doubt that slavery was terrible. No doubt whatsoever, the painful understanding that people who looked like you engaged in that business is so hard to come to terms with. If you say Europe is to blame, but look where it started from!
yShe is saying that Europe made them dependent of the slave trade to survive.
When found in possession, it doesn't matter who sold it to you. Europe is NOT to be acquitted.
Yeah, I totally understand I’ve always asked myself why African Americans can’t accept that Africans sold Africans and benefited from slavery? But I guess it is because the truth hurts and it seems unbelievable… in ancient africa there was no black unity and people didn’t view themselves as the same as one’s ethnicity separates them from other ethnicities/ tribes.
It didn't start in Africa. It had been going on around the world.
@@sport504She being light on that part. It was their ultimate decision and you see their mentality today you can still see how they treat each now in 2024.
Thank you for this video. Is there information on when, where and by whom this interview was conducted?
Very informative
Slavery in Africa and anywhere else in the world is wrong and must be condemned. I condemn the africans involved in slavery. Will black americans condemn the black american slave owners? I have the names, dates of these black american slave owners and the region they operated. If slavery is to be condemned then all slave owning history must be discussed don't cherry pick the history that suits a political agenda
How many black Americans slave owners were there compared to African enslaves that let millions of other African peoples be stole away across the Atlantic? If there is anyone who is cherry picking... it's you sir.
@@brianmcmurray4023 I am consistent I critique all slave owners (european\African\Asian\ mayans\aztecs\etc). But you, will deliberately make excuses for the black american slave owners; there is no sense of accountability in your brand of politics. You only care about using history as a weapon to further your political agenda based on prejudice, you don't care about all historical truths.
@@eleri7024 I haven't made any excuses... I asked a simple question that you seem to want to evade. Again... it's you who is doing the cherry picking.
@@brianmcmurray4023 I condemn all slave owners (black\white) It's very simple respond to my comment CONDEMNING the black american slave owners if you are sincere
The video features an African scholar speaking about Africa's involvement in the slave trade. I don't see the cherry picking here. Should be (edit: he) have included an African slavery denier? Jews don't idly allow such behavior, nor should we.
29:40 I wish she named da Ga song about all da people who'd been lost and all da families dat had been named
Same technics applying into the modern slavery 🧠 ✍️⁉️
The kings and chiefs were dirty about going to the grave with slaves to serve them per Dr Perdi sources.
Thank you Akosua Perbi for this confessionsm
What happened to the Jews during this time, that were living in west Africa after migrating there in 70 AD after the Romans sacked Jerusalem? We know they were living there for over 1000 years before the 1500s.
Well africa im good. I will stay in 🇺🇸
Still they ran away mainly because they were not treated well
So Ghana is to blame. Interesting.
Ghana certainly deserves some blame.
No don’t be stupid, Ghana was not a nation. Different tribes in the region played a part and some were a victim of it. You cant blame a nation that was formed in 1957… Slavery happened from Senegal to Congo a distance of over 3000 miles.. Blame is not a good word for this complex issue. Even those who ended up in America have ancestors were slave traders
@@brianmcmurray4023 You can’t blame a nation that was formed in 1957 think about it
@@thatbusdriverguy4182 Oh you're a pan africanist. Interesting
@@thatbusdriverguy4182 1st, watch who you are calling stupid. You don't know me, and if you disagree... just state your disagreement. If you want to resort to name calling we can do that... and you won't like it.
2nd. Ghana's modernity is irrelevant. Nazi Germany no longer exist, but the Federal Republic of Germany (its successor) still has to pay reparations to Jews because the peoples of those lands committed the offenses regardless if they now go by another name or political structure.
3rd. I don't need a history lesson from you. I know slavery was far more expansive and involved more than just the area we today call Ghana... which is why I said "some".
4th. Blame is a good word as far as I'm fucking concerned. Everyone else uses it to their advantage, but ADOS/FBA ppl are the only ones who are shamed about it or talked down to about how a situation is just too complex for our understanding. GTFOH. It's real simple... slavery was business, and my ancestors were the commodities. Euros and Africans partook in this business and caused unimaginable harms to my people. Whether or not some African slave traders eventually became enslaved because they were too dumb or too enamored with their Euro business partners to see the writing on the wall is irrelevant. The vast majority of enslaved black Americans do not descend from African enslavers. What you're espousing is damn near tantamount to saying... hey because some Jews aided the Nazis in Holocausting other Jews and ended up being Holocausted themselves, means what was going on in Nazi Germany is too complex and we shouldn't cast "BLAME", on the Federal Republic of Germany who's people were the same damn people that committed the goddamn Holocaust.
So the black raiders,kings were as rotten as the white buyers or worse
yes, because they didnt tell the white people to fuck off because the whites had guns. they dared to do the same thing that Native Americans and other races did when approached by white people who wanted kidnap victims:
" *The increased rise of the gun-slave trade forced the other tribes to participate or their refusal to engage in enslaving meant they would become targets of slavers* "
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_among_Native_Americans_in_the_United_States
They were. It continues to this day. Today African leaders under the guise of lawful governance procure weapons from the West to quash protest against bad governance and squander mania
I I have also made my research and I did not find no slave market in the Ashanti region
Which part of the video are you referring to exactly?
@@brianmcmurray4023 Grrrreat question !
So you saying she is lying, not sure what you mean. But this market is mentioned by others
@@historyonthego Just an observation, in the book of Genesis, Prophet Moses tells the story of Esau and Jacob, after Esau sold his birthright he then became obstinate and later when Jacob inherited the blessings he wanted him dead. In other words he wanted to deny what he did. This professor amongst many others has given evidence on the prolific system of slavery in Ghana. To this day there are people who can trace their own lineage back to when their ancestor joined this or that family within Ghana. How is it that some people are refusing to accept that that miserable system was prolific up and down that miserable place. There should be a law in place to punish those who seek to deny the existence of this system and the pain and suffering it has caused. Similar to the " penalty which can be dished out to holocaust deniers " enough is enough.
The trade was meant for export to the Portuguese at Elminna. Only the few meant for sacrifice would have been kept by the king
Stop your liars,you been biase
Okay... perhaps you should get a better command of the English language if you're going to start calling people liars without any evidence. The Ashanti empire ruled almost all of present day Ghana in the 19th century, including the slave markets on the coast. Even if there were no markets in what we today call the Ashanti region... it wouldn't matter because the Ashanti ruled almost all of Ghana during the height of the Atlantic Slave trade. Do more research sir.
@@brianmcmurray4023 you are making your augment on a white man ideology and that's wrong,we have our research on oral history from our ancestors, you know that Christopher Columbus discovered America right, but now it's said is not true, but it's in America history books, please
@@georgeasiedu4192 Bringing up Christopher Columbus is a red herring. Look, either the Ashanti had an empire or they did not? Either the Ashanti traded slaves or they did not. The truth can exist outside whether or not white people can lie about history. Dr. Perbi, An African black female scholar, not a white man, is saying Africans enslaved other Africans for goods, so your point about white people sometimes lying about history is totally irrelevant considering the source in the video. Not to mention a number of records from that time show that Africans traded slaves for guns and gun powder.
@@brianmcmurray4023 why are you wasting your time with someone who is obviously not only ignorant but willingly ignorant.