Impact of the Slave Trade: Through a Ghanaian Lens | World History Project
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- The Atlantic slave trade removed 12.5 million people from Africa and probably resulted in the death of millions more. This violence and forced migration caused long-term suffering at the individual and societal levels. Three Ghanaian scholars give us a sense of its impact on the coast, the interior, and the far north of this region.
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This video should have millions of views!!
Sure but we now live in the modern era as we know it,.
This lady "Akosua Perbi" is a wealth of information. This is the 3rd video I've come across on youtube where she is featured! I could listen to her talk all day. Such a lovely accent☺
This event is part of human history; not just race, class, politics, or connection of world history. An event that will never be forgotten, how human beings were so cruel to each other...turn them into property, packed them into pits/dungeons and then into bottom of ships like sardines for months to do hard labour: slavery.
Uh, American History.
This was more than the Hollocust.....400yrs of suffering
4000 yrs of suffering
60-100 million Africans died during the slave trauma.
@@sexyrose93 Slavery has always existed. It has always been color blind. It was the fate of war. The best weapons one people had, the less probability the tribe was to be enslaved by the rival neighboring tribe and sold to the White (vikings, venitians etc) or to the Arabs or to the Mayas or kept or sacrificed to the gods.
Stop that comparison. They had theirs. We have our slavery. Stop act as if one is worse than the other. They both were fuuug up.
You know even those who went to University dont like to talk about that dark period in African history,
I actually went to the University of Cape Coast from year 2004 to year 2005 and I majored in History Political Science and Sociology.
The holocaust and the African Slave Trade have similar situations and outcomes.
Oh God save the African People and situation.
I believe this how the descendants of Bissa, Mossi, Samo, Pana, Lyela, Nana and others ethnicities in Northern Ghana and Southern Burkina Faso made it to the Americas. They were kidnapped transported through the Middle Ghana and then sold on the coast.
The blacks that were brought over here on cargo slave ships and scattered around the world are the real biblical Israelites or Jews according to the bible and historical documents and archeology
Thank you. I haven’t heard of these tribes before
Interesting, but it would be more than helpful if we can know what our original tribes were, the thing is we have no clue. Hence the disconnect!
There were never any evidence of the Ghanaians selling other Ghanaians. In fact, the people during that time different sell or enslave their people. If they did it was to pay off debt owed. They sold us, the “Negroes” because we weren’t indigenous to their land. We put a dent in their trade with Portuguese, weren’t paying taxing, and they wanted us out. Therefore, they sold us off to be enslaved. Then they got mad when their people got caught up and wanted them to stop…….Now here we are.
In precolonial Ghana, slaves were a commodity and inheritable; their progeny maintained slave status. Slaves, since they became part of their masters' kinship groups through adoption or marriage, were not permanent outsiders and socially dead persons. Ghana Empire, the Mali Empire, the Bono State and Songhai Empire sold them to Arabs and to Europeans so they went to both west and east.
That's no Castle but a prison camp
Sincerely you are right, and I don't know why they can't change the name
This is very educational because I feel so many in the African diaspora might not be aware that we would enslave and trade ourselves unfortunately. It was still white influenced but we didn't help our cause either.
For the ones in the African diaspora that do know about our ancestors trading one another they normally know about Nigeria doing this. They just said in this video that Ghanaians we're also trading one another!
This just shows that slavery unfortunately being a business which was influenced by whites, made us trade ourselves all over West Africa. That's very sad.
The drugs trade today is similar. Smh
What the Whites did IS that theY brought evil call "RUM" to toxicate the leaders. The Africans were not the one that unleash their assassins on America and killed and misused the Indians. That was the reason they went to Africa. Columbus started kidnapping African long before any trading with prisoners started. They have no feelings. Void of compassion, just like the one that snuff the life out of George Floyd.
Yep … put the blame for slavery on the non Black Africans …well done 👏
Ghanaians wasn’t an identity, it was the various ethnic groups along the coast and in the interior this is why I will try to use to more of each other and captives. But they will also sell people within their own kingdom is for criminal activities. Also there was state raiding and slave kidnapping which was done outside of the West African laws.
The story is not true British were in Ghana with buffalo soldiers with weapons just to invade on the people and select the strongest once for merchant ship.
Very touching and revolting reminiscences on inhumanity of humankind!
I recently took a DNA test and I found out I'm Akan from my Paternal side of my family I'm sure it impact them greatly 🤔
Out of 72 Europeans slave castles built in Africa Ghana alone has 42,Ghanaians are very tight lipped about the slavery issues,thus why you can pay a huge fine in court if you call someone a slave in Ghana,the people of Ghana saw a lot of holocaust from this barbaric slave trade.
That's why I don't understand why black Americans go to Ghana or West Africa in general. You want to enrich the same people who sold your ancestors. I'll never step afoot in West Africa. I have spent time in Morocco, Egypt and Tanzania. Next trips to South Africa or Botswana. There is too much evil history with West and Central Africa.
@@charlesirby9571 is never true that the local people sold their people under inhumane treatment,the local were lied to by the Europeans.In Ghana slavery was there before the Europeans came,but at that time slaves were allowed to marry and have children and even slaves become queens and kings when the original royal lines ended.The local people thought their people are going to be treated the same way and have a better future..That:s why the Europeans haunt and chased a run sway slaves so that he will not go and reveal their evil treatment to the local people, that's why they never give access to the local people to enter their castles.....But before the local realized and saw how horrible the Europeans are and how they treat the slaves they begun to rebel against the Europeans and it brought a war between the Europeans the local people ,for example the Ashantis fought 130 years war with the British,but finally the Europeans colonized the local people .If you go to Ghana you will hear the original history..
@@morrisonjonathan4313 bro have you read the book the daughters of the trade? African ethnic groups intermarried with European slave traders to solidify their partnership. Also provided a kinship network to facilitate the slave trade in West Africa. These children from the Europeans became a buffer group to serve the interest of the European slave traders. African elites were educated in London, Amsterdam, Paris, and Lisbon in the 18th and 19th century. They saw the abolition movements in Europe. They heard about the atrocities committed in North and South America. They knew about the barbaric treatment of these slaves they sold. They didn't care because the slaves didn't belong to their ethnic group. The British forced their anglophone colonies to stop selling slaves. Ibrahima Dhioub a Senegalese scholar has written extensively on the slave trade in the Senegambian region. He said the French forced them to stop selling slaves. The British set up a blockade along the coast of West Africa to stop the slave trade.
@@charlesirby9571 They never intermarry with the women,go to Ghana and you will see where they paraded our women nakedly,you will see where the Europeans made a routine check to pick women of whom they are going to rape,you will see a punishment cells,chains and canyon balls they tie to those women who refused to be raped by the European.They have written false and lying books to corrupt peoples mind,I don’t have to read that book,something which is right in front of me I don’t need any book,that is why I am throwing a challenge for you to visit Ghana someday and you will get the clear understanding.I have a friend from North Carolina he was having the same mentality as you are having I invited him to come to Ghana and reluctantly he came,when he visited Ghana and saw everything with his own naked eyes not some biographies written by someone he saw that our black diasporas has lied to us,as I am talking now he and his family lives in Ghana....there is no explanation I can give that will persuade you until you go to Ghana and tap the real source.Thank you.
@@morrisonjonathan4313 the Ashanti had partnerships with the Portuguese while other rival akan groups such as the fanti had partnerships with the British. Denkyira who preceded the Ashanti as the regional power. The Ashanti were servants of the Denkyira before they rose up to defeat them. Denkyira, the Ga and Fanti people sided with the British against the Ashanti in the Anglo-Ashanti wars. The fanti and Ga people also intermarried with Portuguese and British slave traders since they lived along the coast. They were the facilitators of the slave trade. The Ashanti fought the British because they wanted to expand their influence to the coast. They wanted regional hegemony extending to the coast. There are many complexities to the slave trade in West and Central Africa. There is no doubt Africans were complicit. They were partners with the Europeans. Even today 2 years ago the Netherlands on national news commemorated their partnership with contemporary Ghana going back to the 1600's. Ghanaians are given preference over other Africans to immigrate to the Netherlands. If you go to Ghana the Ga people will tell you Ga women intermarried with dutch and Portuguese slave traders. The Fanti did similar. I don't blame them it was to solidify a longstanding partnership. These marriages worked out great. Similar happened in contemporary Benin the Francisco De Souza a Portuguese nobleman married many women from the Fon people in the Dahomey kingdom. He had a harem of African wives. Even today in contemporary Benin the De Souza descendants are the elites of Benin. They inherited the wealth of Francisco De Souza.
a forgotten tradition in Ghana today is story telling times. In the evening, our grand parents would gather us around a burning fire and tell us stories. some folk lore like Ananse stories and sometimes our history such as how we ended up where we are today and warriors who led great battles. on slavery, it was always one of raids by people from other lands.
My Pappa would also do same.
We still have "Anansi Tori" meaning Anansi stories, here in Suriname South America. Anansi means Spider in our creole. His wife is Mama Akuba and they have 12 children. He is always smart, crafty, cunning. we grew with it.
@@chaljen Wow interesting
Same here in South Africa 🇿🇦. That's how we were raised, that culture of storytelling by the fire has now moved into the living room, courtesy of TV soapies
@chaljen sounds the same in Ghana,not even similar. 'Tori' is still used in Ghana. 'Tori' is more for jokes. It goes like 'w'ahye wo tori'
What is the means for measuring the number of people that were actually taken from Africa?
Insightful. Thanks
Very eduucational❤
I'm going to put the answers to the video in a comment below for people in the future.
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@@DragonGirl-hm5zd link not working :(
@@xuns5268 sadly for links to work on yt comments u have to type them into the search bar maually
@@xuns5268 or u can just type in the text in the link before it gets to the .pdf and thdn type pdf. Then search
@@DragonGirl-hm5zd or can u email me the pdf?
Now when the diasporas come to Ghana recount them the true history, tell them most of them are from the north and they should visit the north too. That’s how we boost tourism in the the country.
I'm getting some sound issues. Still watching, so don't know how long but at around 2 minutes in there's a song in the background that is very unclear and sounds like someone sitting next to you had music on their headphones really loud. And the main voice becomes unclear and a bit corrupted too.
Sorry, we are trying to correct TH-cam's incorrect impression that we don't have permission for that music (we do!)
i am jamaican and black and i can tell you this if black people did not want to sell each other they could have couse not to do so. we as a race love to blame each other. profitable for the african chiefs.
Am a frafra by tribe from Bongo Upper East Region of Ghana...my Father told my that some of our great grand fathers we involved in slave trade,So as a result of conflicts some de family were been taken away whiles de other remain...Yes true history...The slavery mostly were taken from Upper Regions of Ghana and Burkina Faso....This tribes took part in the slave trade example Frafras,,Kasenas,,, Mossi nn Dagombas ,,Dagaty ,,Nuna etc...Asantes want to claim everything
But this not something to proud of. It was conquer and rule then.
Asante's were not involved in slave trade. It was the coastal parts first and later northern parts became involved
Instead of interrupting and rephrasing, it would have been more respectful of the host to give the first speaker the chance to express himself in more detail. Great video, regardless.
I agree that some of the rephrasing seemed to go overboard.
Slave trade is still a practical reality. Just look at the country at East of Ghana, I mean, Togo. For almost six decades, millions must be born and evolve in a bloody and dynastic tyranny. A tyranny that kills at Togo and that has the means to persecute, to terrorise in some European countries via some Europeans.
Etesen I love my Ghana heritage they stole my ancestors to work sugar cane plantations in Jamaica 🇯🇲
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The EUROPEON didn't steal FROM West Africa our own West African tribesmen betrayed themselves and their Countrymen along with their futures and SOLD out they're people .. NO stealing just trafficked West Africa to Caribbean and Central and South Americas and America.
@@beberodriguez2358 stop ✋ you are too liar!
@@MenteLiberta1980 don't be MAD cause you got BETRAYED ... Take that up w West African Nations.
They turned sugar into rum and traded the rum for more slaves
Impact of Human Trafficking against Africans!
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Hmmmmmm 😢
Before y’all claim slavery existed before Europeans arrived, African ideology of slavery was different from that of the West. Ms that is how come the Ashanti kingdom expanded. They became part of the kingdom and gad their lands. Know the context
Slavery is slavery.
My family came about in Jamaica as a Liverpool slave trader married a Cape Coast woman. He then took his West African wife to Montego Bay Jamaica. They had three mulatto children both him and his wife owned slaves. In the records he is listed as white by law, she is listed as a free black or negro woman. A European man could not marry a African woman in the Americas so they got around it by marrying some in West Africa then taking then to the Caribbean.
No-one cares
@@macmcc4651 Talk for yourself as you can't never understand. We don't have time for those never made history.
@@macmcc4651 Negative Nelly. They come in all shapes and sizes.
Bros got a cannon
Please give me a break. They are trying to do a bate and switch in the US . Do not get caught up
if your in mr teauges class for geography then comment to this
Makes me wonder why the most happened in Ghana. Why aren't there many people with ancestry connected to Ghana? A lot of questions need to be answered.
That's because the DNA companies are not working well. Looks like they have much of Nigerian DNA and giving to every black person. I am fully from Ghana and none of my ancestors are from Nigeria. But when I did my DNA, I don't have even 1% of Ghana. I am 36% Nigerian, the rest is sierra Leone, western Asia and even Finland. So how do you explain that? I'm a full Ghanaian and I don't have Ghanaian DNA. And so many Ghanaians who did their DNA reported the same problem. So many of you were taken from Ghana because slave trade started in Ghana with the Portuguese several years before other countries. That's why when Nigerians are claiming that 80% of African Americans are from Nigeria, I just laugh. May be they should be claiming we the Ghanaians who are testing our DNA to be Nigerians too. So I think the diasporas should just go anywhere their instinct tells them they're from and where their spirit is connected to. As for DNA testing, they are false.
@@inno3912your tribe/family probably migrated from Nigeria. You nationality doesn't appear in your DNA it's your ethnicity that shows.
@inno3912 Ghanian jealousy against Nigeria is being played here again. All you need to do is to conduct your research in South America, the Caribbean, and the UK, and also visit museums in the UK, and you will learn a lot about where majority of the slaves originated from in West Africa. Ghana was only used as a transit camp for slave trade.
Why is everyone harping on history when we desperately need the time and effort of brilliant people to come up with solutions that we can use today. Yes, slavery was bad. Who doesn't know that? Compared to our current needs the subject is not a priority.
"Yes, slavery was bad"!
Resolving problems of today begins with acknowledging historical atrocities...I'm happy the American white professor sought African scholars expertise - that is rare. Slavery wasn't bad, it was devastating to hundreds of thousands of human beings for hundreds of years. Generations later African decendence are still suffering worldwide.
@@virgilettegaffin4732 Just acknowledging what happened in the past can't resolve problems as long as people use that as an excuse to be a victim. Blame is a lot easier than taking personal responsibility. Today's problems need attention by today's people, not whining about history by those who live in the past.
This is a side of the story that is not often considered. We mention it a bit in school in the US, but obviously we learn about the departure, the boat ride, the arrive and every bad thing that happened from that point on. I am surprised people in Ghana are not talking about this because it had a huge and devastating impact on Ghana, one that (in my opinion) should be coded into the culture so the people always remember to *not let foreigners take your resources*. Israel sees to it that every single person knows the entire story of jew struggle from the beginning until they stole Palestine. I don't see why African countries don't do that. It's not like they are accepting the blame; they are acknowledging and accepting the fact that it happened and they did it to themselves and now they have to deal with the consequences. It's literally the same argument as to why white people in the US don't want to talk about slavery.
Jews are tied by their religion which makes them one people although some are more religious than others. They all share one history that binds them together. In the Jewish religion ever Jew is responsible for each other. A Jew is not suppose to harm another . It's a religion that teaches cohesiveness among it's people and Israel is a Jewish state with a democracy that's biblical. All Jewish children born
in the diaspora age 18 to 21 are required to visit Israel. It's an all expense paid trip by other Jewish organizations. African continent doesn't share one religion that governs their customs. Each country have tribes who are in conflict with each other. That divisiveness works against Africans. It would be wonderful if all children born of African parents visit the motherland at least once and visit the Slave Dungeons.
No the Africans don't talk about it because they themselves know the truth
@@eileenwatt8283 Africans don't need a religion to bind them. They have the same negative interactions with wyte people to bond them. That's also known as a "trauma bond".
The way the history of slavery in Africa is shared rely on lies and partial truth.
Slavery in Africa started with the Arabs and it was not a trade, they were doing razzias and capturing Africans.
Europeans did the same and replaced the kings by people that were ready to be their accomplice.
When Africans protested or refused to participate, they were killed or enslaved.
It was never a real trade.
@@jasperwinehouse9456 Actually most of them don't know this sordid history in any meaningful way. Even those of us with formal education were taught very little about it. I studied only a few miles from both Cape Coast and Elmina castles and I did not know much of what took place there until later when I left Ghana for graduate school abroad.
8:16 - 9:27
This terrible human history not only was a west issue but also the Arab trade to the east. And before that, though, history is vulnerable, people have been taken advantage. Still today slavery istill active in north Africa and other countries and no one care about it.
Effects of slave trade to development of education in Africa
What inhuman people to do this to humans.
Saddest part is that still happening in some parts of north Africa and other places around the world.
Well,I may say I didn't enjoy the whole video because those people you interview were from the coastal areas and they mentioning the Ashantis as they from the coastal areas did not help the Europeans to capture the hinterland or Ghanaians which resulted in the Ashantis fighting the British and their coastal allies.
The Asante fought the Akamu and Ewe and a lot of others.
@@kofi7777 in which history book or you're creating hatred against Ashantis to make your case. Grow up....
@@johnnydarren8444 So the Akwamu and Akyem wars of the 18th Century and the Asante Wars of conquest and expansion from 1700 - 1896.
@@johnnydarren8444 The British tried to stop Indigenous Slavery in the Northern Protectorate from 1808 thru 1928.
@@kofi7777 I taught you were busy mentioning the Ashantis fought the Ewes, you couldn't bring any history on it. Plz grow up.
The African form of slavery was mild compared to the brutal savage of the European enslavers. In Africa a person could became a slave if they hard committed a crime or if they were a debtor then they worked to repay, slavery was for a short period and the slave often lived independently, could get married and have a family and could be adopted into the host family and sometimes depending on their abilities become chiefs. The Europeans however dehumanised the African slaves and they practiced chattel slavery with all their progeny being enslaved, the African had no idea of this form of slavery and could not know the brutality of the European slavery system. Also the slaves were transported from all over Africa especially West, southwest and central Africa to the coast of the area now known as Ghana, they didn't all come from this area which is a European invention.
Sure it was. Africans are brutal to each other. Even to this day
What about the hausa knowledge people so called mallans ,they wrote most of Ashanti and gold Coast history, the Ashantis called the hausa written format (hausa intwuroyei)the Ashantis has destroyed all the written forms, when British realised the hausa can write, the British put the hausas as indirect rules, please, I'm sorry for their lies.
In the history Asante never defeated the north she is lying, this kind of lies down graded the history of Africa, the history of Ashanti and the northern Ghana was completely different from what she said, adding lies syndicats our history, trying to make Ashanti so great before the then called Ghana
Industry. Key word. No, they did not take part in the industrial/steam revolution. Fatal error. When the Atlantic slave trade ended, so did their world economies. Industrial manufactured goods like cloth, and processed goods like sugar or oils were non-existent. Even with the wealth remaining, they had exported their sheer manpower. What doomed Africa to poverty was the industrial revolution.
The United States passed laws against slavery over 150 years ago. That means, in this country, any slavery still going on is illegal, same as robbery, murder, and various other crimes. As such, the idea that the U.S. would have a legal slavery problem seems slight if at all. So how can anyone be concerned about slavery history repeating itself? If you follow the money, it appears that those perpetuating interest in slavery the America are either using it as an excuse for their own failings or trying to cash in and not doing any work (like reparations). I think that when enough generations have passed there is no direct connection with present populations and today's peoples should only be responsible for their own actions, and not try to blame their ills on a disconnected past.
Technically all prisoners are slaves. Only time when slavery is allowed is if one becomes a felon.
@@Topg1 Technically you're correct. But the laws forbidding slavery are unlikely to be broken in the U.S., contrary to the theme of this video.
Because people do things that are illigal. Ever heard of Nestle?
@@Rockethead293 I assume you are including people who break the law then compound it by evading arrest. That is illegal on both counts and a certain ethnic group is constantly doing that.
Sad to say but this is nothing but Conception when is comes to The American slave trade. Not to say slavery didn't exist in a huge landmass however with out names captans dates ship names and numbers we as black Americans are being fooled out of our own lands. We are not Africans and #respect to those Africans who did resort to slavery for harsh conditions at home but they are not US. #Niiji #AmericanIndians #AmericanAboriginals #FoundationalBlackAmericans
Sorry. Ghana had a well-established slave trade before the Europeans arrived. A wealthy Ghanian family would own between 2 to 10 slaves. Tribe leaders had many more. It was a normal part of their lives. It is true that payment was in gold and ivory for goods but it was the natives who offered slaves to the European first. There are so many mistakes in this video.
here we go again
Why are you even here ?
Exactly, it was a system operational on the continent which was internationalised by foreigners, however one can say yes Africans taken to the plantations and elsewhere suffered, indeed there is no doubt about that but as natural justice can be identified the wicked enjoyed their percentages but the rampant poverty and backwardness and stagnation on the African continent is perhaps a testimonial for what goes around comes around. It is a small comfort for those who have suffered from this dreadful legacy but it is a justice nonetheless.
No, False
Yes, the Arab slave trade in there started before the Europeans arrived. Bouth cases is terrible non the less.
Blacks enslaving the blacks ah ah ah didnt know that 🤣
Whites enslaved more whites then they did to blacks 😂😂 u also have to talk about urselves
You dont think youre literally taking opportunity away from black people in a field about OUR history? The audacity. & the introduction is not from ghana??????
racist lol
Jaheim please do your research African was not enslaving themselves. It was Israelites that had ran out of Jerusalem into west Africa. Do more research! The slavery was not according to Europeans slavery!
kinda cool and boring
How about you shut the fuck up
No one asked Martha
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@@ibbioluklu Also you’re a hypocrite cause you have an anime scenery on your channel dumbass