African History
Exposing Africa's Part In The Slave Trade
Slavery has existed in Africa for as long as recorded history. Ancient Egypt had slaves toiling away in its fields and on its monuments, ancient Carthage trafficked in slaves across the Mediterranean, and the Ethiopian kings of Aksum wrote proudly of the slaves they took in war. Slaves were also exported from Africa for centuries before Europeans arrived. The Trans-Saharan slave trade lasted for over a thousand years and dragged about 10 million people across the desert to be slaves in the Islamic world. The Indian Ocean also had a similarly long-lasting ocean-going slave trade with about 5 million ending up in slave ships, bound and branded for use in foreign lands. These slaves ended up as labourers, domestic servants, soldiers, or more. Male slaves in the Islamic world were typically castrated which meant that new slaves had to be regularly imported to maintain the population.
For this video, we’ll focus on Western Africa where the Atlantic slave trade was centred. West Africa was removed from the Indian Ocean trade and mostly secure from Islamic slave raids, but slavery was still a feature of life there long before the Atlantic slave trade began. A succession of powerful empires occupied the region which all rested on complex slave systems. The Ghanaian Empire from the 3rd to the 13th century began a tradition of powerful West African imperial states and built much of its wealth through trans-Saharan trading of slaves or goods acquired through slave labour.
The Salt, copper, and gold that made the Mali Empire and Mansa Musa fabulously wealthy were all extracted with slave labour. Domestic slavery was also common and Mali was known to import female slaves from the Mediterranean to act as domestic servants in the households of the elites. Most of the slaves were acquired through conquest of neighbouring kingdoms or tribal groups who were too weak to defend themselves from the organised imperial militaries. Successor empires like the Songhai, Jolof, and Kaabu inherited the social and economic structures of slavery and continued to acquire slaves as they scrambled to establish their own territories. Elites in these empires used slaves as a status symbol and ownership of slaves came to represent someone’s wealth and power.
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@ADayInHistoryOfficial
September 23, 2023 at 5:23 pm
It's vital that we strive to know the complete history surrounding this deeply painful period in human history. Understanding the roles played by different regions and parties, including Africa, helps us paint a more accurate picture of the past. Thank you for tuning in.
@explorer909
May 16, 2024 at 11:01 am
ROTFL! Making excuses for the scramble of Africa.
@macabremofo945
May 16, 2024 at 3:08 pm
In the USA none of this is taught in schools. We were led to believe white men jumped out of the bushes with nets and kidnapped black people. We were also led to believe that all the slaves were constantly tortured when in reality they were treated phenomenaly better here than Africa receiving food, clothes, medicine, shelter, etc. In Africa half of them died from yellow fever and horrendous treatment.
@wiseguy240Winston
May 16, 2024 at 6:23 pm
Africa lost because they were too divided and had too many tribes running around. There weren't too many cases of wars in Africa that forcibly absorbed other tribes into themselves. Yt ppl couldn't even take over or wipe out all or most of Africa like they did the meso Americans. So imagine if Africa had been mostly or completely unified especially. They were sellouts to their own race and didn't foresee the long-term consequences. I do believe God punished Africa for taking slavery too far but they did it to themselves so u can't blame God
@bassman_tommy
May 16, 2024 at 8:04 pm
More modern need to watch this. ❤
@RexJacobus-bb1vw
May 16, 2024 at 8:45 pm
Doesnt mean it wasnt bad. You wicked hearted demons put this put there like it absolves you of anything. And you ignore the 400 years of YOUR PART.
@YeahCain2
May 16, 2024 at 10:45 pm
Smells like cope and seethe in here
Your smiley emojis mean nothing
@YeahCain2
May 16, 2024 at 10:48 pm
The Europeans didn't just arrive lmao they were an intricate party and struck and a deal with Islam in Jerusalem after the first crusades
The Europeans done to Africa what Europeans are doing to america and europe and it's own people
You will all the feel the wraith of your end hand turned against you
Fact
@billwinnie1965
May 17, 2024 at 10:28 pm
Did you know this 🤔
Men, women, and children were captured to such a devastating extent that vast numbers of sea coast towns were abandoned. According to Robert Davis, between 1 million and 1.25 million Europeans were captured by Barbary pirates and sold as slaves in North Africa and Ottoman Empire between the 15th and 19th centuries.
@user-en8hs6rn7o
May 18, 2024 at 2:32 am
Nothing but the truth! Ancient history……
@alexistaylor7483
May 18, 2024 at 3:03 am
Stayed overlooking this. Not to mention Africans who sold slaves. Also helped in the take over of America. By killing natives.
@adhdmuseum9631
May 18, 2024 at 3:45 am
Slavery enables a nation to advance at an incredible pace because labor is free and the workers have no rights. Europe did not want Africa to end slavery because, besides being the moral thing to do, it was also detrimental to their economy; they disguised their stance as a war against human rights abuses. Additionally, Africa's susceptibility to conquest is heightened due to the continent being divided into various countries, a factor that Europeans exploited by manipulating tribal differences among warring tribes to secure advantageous deals. Both Europe and America purportedly "abolished" slavery but masked the practice through the guise of "punishment for a crime" to obtain free labor.
@odetteowusu-afriyie5917
May 18, 2024 at 6:49 am
The akans are from modern day Ghana 🇬🇭 not Nigeria 🇳🇬. I’m an Akan
@user-gi4vy1eq1c
May 18, 2024 at 9:15 am
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@matthewpoore9815
May 18, 2024 at 10:14 am
Cool fact, europeans never started slavery, we just made it more advanced through transport and so on, though it was actually the black populations that did, pretty odd i gotta say but thats the truth.
@cn7492
May 18, 2024 at 6:36 pm
How dare you expose the history of slavering
@wargod439
May 18, 2024 at 10:56 pm
Such a ridiculous video. So racist wyt’s will say Africa started its so take the issue up with them. And when modern blacks (descendants of the slave trade say you owe), then it’s get over it, I wasn’t alive back then. Pick a struggle. You can’t have it both ways as much as you all want to. A bunch of whiny clowns.
@bastymanguy
May 19, 2024 at 10:28 am
Ya more young people have to understand that black African tribe leaders or authorities were responsible for most of the slave apprehension. The white man didn’t show up and travel inland on foot or by horse to apprehend blacks for slaves from villages. The slaves were already caught for the whites once they showed up on boats. Only some Portuguese were responsible for snatching up Africans back to their ships.
@Abs-tz8dl
May 19, 2024 at 1:19 pm
African countries are massively slave nation and dictatorship right now, with a few human right or any democracy
@hugobertrand7348
May 20, 2024 at 7:39 am
Justifying colonization by claiming it was for freeing the slaves seems at best really naive, and at worst clearly dishonest.
@kennethharrison9409
May 20, 2024 at 10:12 am
Dr Umar needs to do a reaction video to this.
@AntoineWilliams7118
May 20, 2024 at 3:43 pm
As a black man, this is what we call black privilege and excellent
@Ben-fd5kf
May 20, 2024 at 5:54 pm
Dude imagine if someone attempted to teach this on a college campus today? 😂 he or she would immediately be fired, and then the left would claim that they’re a racist white supremacist nazi and the right would try to act all indignant on their behalf for about 3 minutes just to illicit more anger from their base and then move on immediately to never speak of that person again and they will just be forgotten because that’s what the world is now. No one actually cares about anything or anyone they just want power over the other side. Meanwhile the professor would be sitting there like I wasn’t even making a political point for either side this is a history class, I thought I was supposed to teach history. Everything is so predictably stupid now.
@mishmohd
May 20, 2024 at 6:35 pm
Yes, okay, but REALLY, what was the motive of the brits for waging war against slavery and please don't tell me human rights, we're past that rosy eyed worldview.
@ruruog2085
May 21, 2024 at 3:58 am
CAP🧢🧢🧢🧢,HE MESSED UP HIS FACTS WHEN HE SAID THAT "AKAN" PEOPLE ARE FROM NIGERIA….EVERY WEST AFRICAN KNOWS THOSE PEOPLE ARE FROM GHANA AND IVORY COAST.
@ruruog2085
May 21, 2024 at 4:03 am
ITS SPELT OUIDAH, NOT WHYDAH .
@Globalfaction
May 21, 2024 at 5:06 pm
It makes the issue of Reparations real complex. Might as well call it quits and move on in life…
@petrabridgemohan7006
May 21, 2024 at 8:43 pm
Reveaking hjstroical perspectives.. we are fotrunate to have historical texts written by frcanthony de verteuil whose familiy as descebdants of french background arrivex in trinidad 1777 under british flag. And have remained in trinidad ever since.
.due to access from local lrivate collections including his own familiy as prptectors of slves drs and early leaders in much immigrant society of francoohiles fleeing revolutiin..catholics and under cedula grant from spanjah king. Got lands to develoo
Frpm chistopher columbus..arruvals in 1498 to killing of native amerjndian as they enskavex tbem…to introduction of dosmerics house slaves kf frenxh….later camw brotish taking over and eatablushjng trans atlantic skave trade.
Muxh kf what ia describex in vidwo indeed was wriiten anout econmic benefir kungdoms of. Tribal africa.
We are told rhe term slaves orginated from germans enslavibg slavs.. and that slavery of conquered peoole dates as far back as romans.
That slavery existed far linger in muslim countries.. in fact jn 950 there were over half a million skaves mainly africans in saudi arabia.
We are told the modern slave trade had almost innocent beginnings…in 1441 gonzalves a portuguese explorer r eturned to lisbon with a party of 10bafricans whom he oresented as gifts to prince henry of portugal.the iberian peninsula slave trade was modest but it is when spain and other europen discovering new world nweded labour that transatlantic slave trade flourised.
That i. France nantes was chuef slavw trading port. And i. England it was liverpool.
So every eu country was invocled
In his book publishex for trinidad history. Called
Sevens slaves &,slavery
Trinidad 1777_1838
He chrincles life story of 7 trinidad skaves..by name. Amd as taken from private collections.
Fr de vertuil ( roman cathlouc pries eduvator. Born in 1932 of old trinidad french rooted. Familiy…was a Gradute of history and english in dublin then after ordination as priest was posted to nigeria then returned hime to his native trinidad where he taught and many of trjnidad accurate records of life. After columbus arrived in 1498 .the french emigrant arruval. Onto spanish controlled iskand . Dessimination of indigenous carib & arawaks through firced labour and then wars between france and britain. Transatlantic skave trade to supply the plantations of sugar coffee cocoa. And. Evenfual. Post colonial indepedence..
A. Melting pot of d old world. Wirh rich and varied history. Pub 1992 in trinidad. Now out of orint text
Isbn -01-592-2-02-69281
@keitth58
May 22, 2024 at 1:37 am
Why are the slaves in Africa wearing jockey shorts?
@keitth58
May 22, 2024 at 1:39 am
What was done with all the castrated balls?
@user-zb3ij7qk7j
May 22, 2024 at 1:58 pm
It was Black tribes selling captured blacks from other tribes into slavery
@brandonmedeiros1
May 22, 2024 at 2:03 pm
Funny thing is you have people here saying Africa had slavery! Bruh there is still countries in Africa that have slavery
@boyd4024
May 22, 2024 at 5:36 pm
Europeans operated the boats and sailed the ships to the Americas.
@ildrippe
May 22, 2024 at 6:35 pm
Everyone was a slave it’s how it goes one way or another everyone was a slave
@ildrippe
May 22, 2024 at 6:35 pm
Barbary slave trade
@DarkfilledMARK2-dz7wj
May 22, 2024 at 8:59 pm
Already slaves. Then brought to America, then civil war happened, and now they're free. Damn! Can you say Thank you white republican man? 😜
I rest my case. I don't need to prove sh** when I know I'm right.
@heyjoe9228
May 23, 2024 at 5:32 am
Black people started slavery the airbics transported and sold them to other countries whitey stops slavery but gets blame for it
Fun fact the 1st slaves in America were white they was called the Irish and it's also said that Irish been in slavery for thousands of years in America then at the sametime the blacks was only slaves over here 400 years ago I believe thousands of years is a lot more than 400 years so whitey was slaves here before anyone else was get your facts right