Slaver Kings, Amazon Queens and the Brazilian Spartacus: The African Kingdom of Kongo

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When many people think of Africa, they visualise wide open spaces, incredible wildlife and colourful friendly people with vibrant cultures, costumes and music. We might also contemplate the tragedy of the African slave trade and the consequences of colonialism. But what if I told you there was one powerful African kingdom in particular, that, when they first came into contact with Europeans, voluntarily and enthusiastically transformed their entire civilisation almost overnight- adopting the language, religion, fashion and even feudal aristocratic customs of the Portuguese, establishing diplomatic embassies in Lisbon, Madrid and even the Vatican, training their own clergy and corresponding regularly with popes and monarchs across Europe as well as participating in the political machinations of a post-renaissance Europe at war with itself. Though their story ultimately was to come to a tragic end, it was full of political intrigue, amazon warrior queens, and a quest for power that was integral to the History of the West, particularly in the Americas, which was inexorably linked to the kingdom’s rise and fall. If you’re just a little bit curious about this powerful, deeply catholic kingdom in the darkest heart of Africa, then join us as we dive into the history of the Kingdom of Kongo; its troubled relationship with Portugal and its tragic role in the Transatlantic Slave Trade; whose incredible heroes would go on to inspire generations of their descendants, with stories of mighty Amazon warrior queens; and tales of the Brazilian Black Spartacus and his renegade kingdom of Palmares.
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@anthonymichaelwilson8401 11 месяцев назад

Social media is becoming the global University of humanity

@LuisAldamiz 10 месяцев назад

Excellent docu, going deep in the details of Kongo's history and its relation with the wider world.

@heroesandlegends 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching!

@mr.meticulouslohese7584 10 месяцев назад

Being a 🇨🇩 native, I'd like to thank you for the extensive data you accumulated to explain the history of the Bantu people I originate from. I am well aware of the majority of this timeline. I can say some things in the timeline were added to me as I grew my understanding of my history. Although certain specifics you brought up, I was not as aware the course of action and implementation, etc I'll be sharing your work with family and get some input on your evidence. Much appreciated. Also, one question: Who from your knowledge settled first in the specific region of Katakokombe, DRC in Kasai-Oriental/Kasai-Occidental? Which direction were they coming from prior to setting in the modern-day area with the same name? Thanks again mate!(got a good buddy of mine who is from Australia)

@heroesandlegends 10 месяцев назад

Thanks very much for watching, I'm glad you found some items of interest. I'm afraid I don’t have any information on African population migrations- i generally focus my attention on individuals. Best of luck though!

@pizzacrusher4632 11 месяцев назад

hooray, another full-length! thanks you for making them!

@heroesandlegends 11 месяцев назад

Thanks so much for being an enthusiastic supporter!

@mmaphilosophy 11 месяцев назад

Gonna watch this on me tv when i get home from work, i loved your last one on Voltaire ❤

@geraldcapon392 11 месяцев назад

Well done. Very balanced and very watchable. Thank You.

@heroesandlegends 11 месяцев назад

Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching

@magodooeste9833 2 месяца назад

thanks to this video i watched O caçador de esmeraldas, one of many forgotten midias of my country, plus learned some details about the darkest history of Palmares, thank you very much for this video

@heroesandlegends 2 месяца назад

Glad you enjoyed it! I enjoyed researching and watching the films too!

@boisesoccer 11 месяцев назад

Great work and as always full of golden nuggets of history!

@heroesandlegends 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching!

@skiboltskieskye1238 11 месяцев назад

The amount of research you did is phenomenal. Very well put together. Nobody talks about Africans having slaves nor about their involvement in the slave trade. And yes, I live in Africa.

@heroesandlegends 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching!

@josephmasten7588 9 месяцев назад

Nobody asked

@fukpoeslaw3613 5 месяцев назад

I know a black Dutch Surinam-heritage girl who did talk about it.

@tirandaz7612 4 месяца назад

Of course, they do not bring these things to light. They might have to take some measure of responsibility. And pay a price.

@ax2643 Месяц назад

living in africa is a meaningless trope.

@no-one-knows321 10 месяцев назад

Very unique piece of work. Thanks.

@heroesandlegends 10 месяцев назад

Glad you like it!

@onuedy 10 месяцев назад

As always the best youre calm voice the way you whrite soooo nice keep up the good job! Thx for making this awesome videos❤❤❤

@heroesandlegends 10 месяцев назад

I really appreciate your generous comment! Thanks so much!

@puma1304 10 месяцев назад

good! with lots of information that as a specialist in african-latinamerican history I can only back, with some very minor observations, thanks, very informative!

@heroesandlegends 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for your generous comment!

@Caylynmillard 10 месяцев назад

Love these vids

@heroesandlegends 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for your support!

@physaks 4 месяца назад

You made an error in your Portuguese dates, Vasco da Gama made his first Indian voyage in 1497 and landed in India in 1498, so it's 10-11 years after Diaz's journey around the Cape of Good Hope (depending if you count from the beginning of Diaz journey in 1487 or from when he rounded the Cape in 1488), NOT "the very next year" like you state. Also, England did not break with Rome until 1534 (by Henry VIII), so the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494 had nothing to do with Protestantism (which itself of course didn't take off geopolitically at all until after Luther and his 95 Theses in 1517), and once England became solidly Protestant in the 1540's the Treaty was no longer directly relevant (though of course its original effects continued to be present in the political structure at the time). Relatively-minor errors though, great job overall, love your videos, they're a pleasure and provide great escapist fun for anybody who loves history.

@heroesandlegends 4 месяца назад

Dammit! Its hard being a one-man-show! Thanks for your picking up my mistakes!

@physaks 4 месяца назад

@@heroesandlegends Indeed there's only so much one can do without another qualified person looking over the details...It's also interesting to me that the Indian connection of the Portuguese was still solidly made only after the Spanish were already making moves in the New World -- but it still was much faster for Portugal to establish commercial links between the two global civilizations, while it took the Spanish some time to conquer/raid the American empires and then establish significant plantation production there. Seems like only after the post-Magellan Philippines establishment (great video BTW on him) and the discovery of gigantic silver deposits in Peru that the Spanish were really finally catching up to the Portuguese, with the Manila-Galleon trade blowing up their coffers, both with silver and with Asian spices. Still though, Columbus in Bahamas-to-coastal-mainland: ~1492-1500; Vasco da Gama in India: only in 1498, and really it's his second, more expansive voyage beginning in 1502 that really established any real trade with India. But then the different speed of development quickly favored the Portuguese thereafter...

@courtneylovell7637 11 месяцев назад

That was awesome!

@heroesandlegends 11 месяцев назад

Glad you liked it!

@marcpeycker 10 месяцев назад

Fantastic work!

@heroesandlegends 10 месяцев назад

Thank you! Cheers!

@franciscolima1762 7 месяцев назад

Interesting... great video

@kil-roy 9 месяцев назад

Nice to have a quality no-frills source of history content in today's MCN world

@heroesandlegends 9 месяцев назад

Of course, i also have my own bias, and i like to occasionally compare and contrast with our own time (fairly, i hope) just to gain some perspective. My goal is always to stimulate thought and conversation rather than regurgitate dry facts. I try to think of myself as a storyteller rather than historian. Thanks for taking the time to view my work!

@istvanszabo9743 10 месяцев назад

Love your videos! Keep doing it, yours is the best history channel on RU-vid! :)

@heroesandlegends 10 месяцев назад

Wow, thank you!

@xavierdraco33 11 месяцев назад

it'd be nice if Hollywood was interested in telling real stories from history.

@heroesandlegends 11 месяцев назад

Unfortunately its no longer just Hollywood that's the problem. The entire global film industry is just a propaganda machine - Bollywood, Asia, Africa, Middle East; all of them just churning out chest beaters.

@j.lingle4713 11 месяцев назад

@@heroesandlegends- the problem with Hollywood is that they’d rather remake traditionally Western films with non-Western cast, as opposed to making traditional non-Western stories that are largely unknown in the West.

@MrSoulauctioneer 11 месяцев назад

@@j.lingle4713 I don't think many American blacks want this to become common knowledge. Portugal didn't go looking for slaves, I'm not sure western Europe had widespread slavery. Portugal found a market that was flourishing between the Africans and Muslims, but yet its the Europeans that get all the blame. Sidenote: Muslims neutered male slaves, new world Europeans bred them with other good stock. Had they done the same as the Muslims, a lot of the resentment for slavery would be non-existent.

@Hellbillyhok 11 месяцев назад

@@heroesandlegends your spot on there mate, i haven't watched a TV history programme or listened to radio in a lot of years now as it's utter pc tripe on those history channels it's turned into the who can make up the biggest exaggeration about the Germans and how devastating the imaginary ww2 "holocaust" was, its not worth watching as its all self pitying propaganda, i only listen to history channels such as yourself your epic basque fishery show was out of this world good, ive actually watched it thrice and gotten a few of my fishermen pals to watch it and they all loved it keep churning out your interesting talks mate their brilliant, cheers from Fife 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@heroesandlegends 10 месяцев назад

Thanks so much for your support, I'll do my best!

@Numba003 11 месяцев назад

Thank you for this very interesting documentary! I have very little knowledge of the premodern history of sub-Saharan Africa, so I appreciate this type of content. Can you recommend any other good documentaries on other African kingdoms? God be with you out there everybody. ✝️ :)

@thekrakeninggames 11 месяцев назад

See now this would be a cool movie.

@Artur_M. 11 месяцев назад

More like multiple movies. I doubt that anyone could cram all this history into one.

@thekrakeninggames 11 месяцев назад

@@Artur_M. Truth, I was just talking about the first one.

@aKalishnacough 29 дней назад

You got a great channel mate. Keep it up.

@heroesandlegends 29 дней назад

Thanks, will do! I appreciate your support!

11 месяцев назад

Thanks for you work!

@heroesandlegends 11 месяцев назад

Thank you for taking the time to watch and comment!

@Rabbelrauser 11 месяцев назад

Now do a video on who owned all the slave ships.

@mauriceschaeffer5070 11 месяцев назад

That makes no sense, that's inconsequential. It was those same ships that were used to ship spices and trade goods until the trans atlantic slave trade.

@fromabove422 10 месяцев назад

Antisemitic

@LuisAldamiz 10 месяцев назад

Portugal did... until the Dutch, the French, the English and the Omanis "jumped ship".

@LuisAldamiz 10 месяцев назад

@@fromabove422 - How? The ships were owned by Christians, LOL.

@kudjoeadkins-battle2502 4 месяца назад

There were thousands of slave ships over a 300 year period.

@Charlie-Em 11 месяцев назад

This is sick. Another great doc!

@heroesandlegends 11 месяцев назад

Thanks mate!

@denisetulloch727 10 месяцев назад

Very grateful for your work!

@heroesandlegends 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching!

@elski5067 11 месяцев назад

There was a part in the book THE RIVER KONGO written by Peter Forbath, there was a part that described the king of the Kongo. The king was wearing a white cloth around his head with a serpent attached to his forhead, gold bangles on his wrist and arms and he was also wearing a short white kilt. Does this description remind you of anybody?

@Yannik-k8x 9 месяцев назад

No it does not

@admirekashiri9879 5 месяцев назад

What exactly?

@elski5067 5 месяцев назад

@@admirekashiri9879 guess

@SOULAANI_ Месяц назад

@@elski5067instead of vaguely alluding to someone why not say who you mean

@Abon345 Месяц назад

@@elski5067just say it man Jesus

@Erikcs9 8 месяцев назад

You mention URSR and China interfering in Africa, but no mention of the main culprits which are the UK, France, and the US, and their unscrupulous oil, mining, cocoa, etc multinationals.

@heroesandlegends 8 месяцев назад

I think we can agree they would fall under the colonial classification that preceded it

@cruisepaige 11 месяцев назад

Why do I giggle every time you say “anyway…” 😂😂😂

@heroesandlegends 11 месяцев назад

Its become a bit of a trademark, so expect it to continue! Thanks for watching!

@budwyzer77 11 месяцев назад

Superb work! I hope your channel takes off!

@heroesandlegends 11 месяцев назад

I hope so too! Thank you for viewing!

@carlosoliveiraoalfacinha 11 месяцев назад

Queen Jinga was a respected enemy of my Portuguese ancestrals that became our friend. She was the real Black Magic Queen.

@sagashistoriquesafricaines140 3 месяца назад

Merci pour les travaux

@heroesandlegends 3 месяца назад

Thanks for watching!

@mss1171 10 месяцев назад

Thank you fir this very good

@heroesandlegends 10 месяцев назад

Most welcome 😊

@braulioferreira2273 11 месяцев назад

More African content please

@nomeyodomar 7 месяцев назад

Duarte Pacheco Pereira had already sailed, with an expertise of maritime science, to Brazil in 1498 and he was also the cartographer and ambassador that signed the Treaty of Tordesilhas in that town in person. Even though, in 1503, he wrote a book on this travel "Esmeraldo de Situ Orbis", the manuscript only became of official knowledge 400 years after.

@Muntu-Miziki-Ya-Kongo 11 месяцев назад

All history can be viewed from secular and spiritual lenses. Both are required for full understanding.

@GloBoyLoLo 7 месяцев назад

My question is what made them want to be like the Portuguese so bad?

@heroesandlegends 7 месяцев назад

They probably wanted to get an advantage over their neighbours and saw Portuguese technology as a method to achieve it

@edvelez6341 10 месяцев назад

The guy on thumbnail kinda looks like Gary Coleman

@hulkkrogan420 3 месяца назад

A black African man by the name of Tippu Tip was the most successful slave owner and trader.

@arlen1630 10 месяцев назад

The thumbnail looks like the Different Strokes actor😊

@paulcastillo953 11 месяцев назад

No wander you see many close to wooly haired peoples . In Portugal.

@Hellbillyhok 11 месяцев назад

This made me chuckle mate

@MJ-hg1mk 10 месяцев назад

From 711 for 700 years, Moors & their culture dominated Iberia & influenced their continental neighbors. They introduced very many modern ways & means of living daily life. Animal husbandry prominently among them.

@LuisAldamiz 10 месяцев назад

You don't but anyhow the genetics say that the African element in West Iberia (c.10%) is North African (probably prehistoric). Only in the area of Murcia (ironically a very fascist xenophobic region) there is a small Black African legacy in all Iberia. This is because, even if African slaves were brought to Europe in large numbers, especially to South Iberia, the timing of slavery abolition was made to be much earlier in Europe than in the colonies and generally the slave owners had advance notice, so they exported their slaves to America. For example Cádiz may have got c. 20% Black African (slaves) population in the 18th century but then they were all deported to Cuba, where slavery was only abolished at the very end of the 19th century.

@lordvonmanor6915 10 месяцев назад

@@LuisAldamiz And who did those genetics? By any chance was it the same company that says Russians who practice Judaism are Jews instead of Russians? Japanese Jews are also Jews instead of Japanese? 😕

@franciscolima1762 7 месяцев назад

@lordvonmanor6915 you lost me here, care to elaborate?

@zambezi2440 10 месяцев назад

The imbangala warriors were hardcore

@snezhanasnezhana4757 6 месяцев назад

What is the 24th Meridian doing in Brazil?

@Grant918Tulsa 11 месяцев назад

What do you think would happen if Viking had guns?

@patrickhenry4397 11 месяцев назад

They would stay on Norwegian and chill. Kinda like there doing now lol

@LuisAldamiz 10 месяцев назад

Guns were not important. Cabeza de Vaca recalls that he used muskets for shock but actually killed with crossbows. Horses and dogs were probably more important and the Vikings did have them. The problem with the Vikings was Rollo and Olga and the like: they all converted to Christianity and became something else: French, Russians, etc. The Normans actually partook in the early exploration of Africa by Portugal (those Templars mentioned were largely that kind of people) or, more arguably, on their own... but France-England were too busy bouncing heads in the Hundred Years' War, so they could only continue under the Iberian patrons, the only ones interested in such ventures at the time.

@brealistic3542 11 месяцев назад

Africans weren't as helpless as the ridiculous movie made then to be. They were part and parcel of he slave trade. The tribes that lost ended up as slaves. It made so African kings very rich.

@cruisepaige 11 месяцев назад

Agree. The Europeans did not go into the hinterland catching people. They rolled up and bought them from other Africans. Not at all claiming that makes it less of a Holocaust, especially the part about making going home impossible, erasing history, the horrors of the middle passage, hundreds of years of not just involuntary servitude but post slavery oppression that is still a disaster today, BUT, they weren’t alone to blame.

@kevinwindley7872 11 месяцев назад

But ppl will rather be lied to, it's more convenient and comfortable.

@jaygrundy2781 11 месяцев назад

What movie? Does it even have anything to do with Kongo?

@kevinwindley7872 11 месяцев назад

@@jaygrundy2781 He saying that's the narrative of slavery, playing the weak victim role is false, the Kongo or the slave role period is way more then what's pumped up or told💯

@bp6475 10 месяцев назад

Which Kings were rich from slavery. Do you know, i am curious.

@muissefaycal7715 5 месяцев назад

Great work my scholars 😂 thanks you

@cedricliggins7528 11 месяцев назад

Thumbnail looks like the late Gary Coleman.

@ZecaPinto1 11 месяцев назад

Now you know how Mansa Musa got rich

@n0n4me77 10 месяцев назад

Through salt and gold mostly

@ZecaPinto1 10 месяцев назад

@@n0n4me77 yes. And how many workers did he have and how much did he pay them. And no, it wasnt just salt and gold because if it was only that, most countries in europe at that time would be equally rich as his kingdom

@n0n4me77 10 месяцев назад

@@ZecaPinto1 I don't think the increased presence of forced labour in medieval Europe would have increased the amount of gold or salt there.

@eljanrimsa5843 10 месяцев назад

@@ZecaPinto1 He had better trade relations than most countries in Europe at that time. And no, salt and gold was not found everywhere. Those who had salt and gold and good economic policy became rich

@poebidaugustang4331 10 месяцев назад

Your lack of knowledge is laughable gold and salt passed through his city and he taxed it thats how he got rich@@ZecaPinto1

@sau2949 11 месяцев назад

The image you have as the cover of your video is very misleading, why did you is he dressed as an European, couldn't you find an image of someone with traditional attire?

@heroesandlegends 11 месяцев назад

If you watch the video you will understand

@admirekashiri9879 5 месяцев назад

There were ambassadors from the Kongo kingdom who dressed in the European fashion.

@ZecaPinto1 11 месяцев назад

3:14 that's not the portrait of Henry the Navigator

@heroesandlegends 11 месяцев назад

There is a bit of debate, that's true.

@ZecaPinto1 11 месяцев назад

@@heroesandlegends his portrait can be found in the same painting

@ViJoker1 10 месяцев назад

@@ZecaPinto1 The man in the hat is now strongly believed to be Duarte I, not Henry the Navegator. But debates are still on going

@toomeyeh1 10 месяцев назад

@@ZecaPinto1it's not settled lol don't be so hasty

@ZecaPinto1 10 месяцев назад

@@toomeyeh1 not settled by whom? There's more depictions of his portrait dating from the same time as the painting

@alexabood2516 7 месяцев назад

Very informative European history video, but you clearly don’t know any Kongolese people.

@sd247 10 месяцев назад

Egyptians or leprechauns?

@torbenzenth9718 11 месяцев назад

‘International meddling by countries such as Russia and China’ 😂

@bawsack69 11 месяцев назад

Cool it with the antisemitism buddy

@torbenzenth9718 11 месяцев назад

@@bawsack69 ?

@franciscolima1762 7 месяцев назад

@davidspence8866 11 месяцев назад

How come you're not talking about the Muslim slave trade that went on well into the 1960s

@heroesandlegends 11 месяцев назад

Perhaps watch the entire video

@kudjoeadkins-battle2502 4 месяца назад

Why?

@abdullahkarim4678 6 месяцев назад

I will never respect what you Haved Done to Hebrew Ortegese Sanish Romans

@michaelzimmerman2634 9 месяцев назад

Promo-SM 😢

@abdullahkarim4678 6 месяцев назад

Mansa Mussa Fought Portegese

@admirekashiri9879 4 месяца назад

No he didn’t actually

@aquariuscheers9191 10 месяцев назад

Look at y'all trying to justify what you've done. Smh.

@heroesandlegends 10 месяцев назад

I'm an ethnic Australian of Balkan heritage, whose ancestors were enslaved by Ottoman Turks- so I've got no axe to grind. I'm not sure what point you're trying to make, but the history of this kingdom is not in dispute.

@pureone8350 8 месяцев назад

White people are not all the same buddy. And try to not victimise yourself!

@admirekashiri9879 5 месяцев назад

Where did he justify what was done?

@kudjoeadkins-battle2502 4 месяца назад

@@pureone8350I mean would he not descend from victims of the TAST? I agree that what he said is without merit however, but why do you and so many of you talk this victim nonsense.

@etemytradel4509 10 месяцев назад

We wuz kings!

@Abon345 Месяц назад

I mean this video proves we were 😊

@lordvonmanor6915 10 месяцев назад

Kongolisolo was inhabited by Malaysians and later became a Portuguese Koloni. Meaning it was a place Portugal-Spain shipped their undesirables into labour camps. One of those undesirables was a Spainish Negro named Don Juan de Valladolid of Valladolid Spain. You should learn this name because he became in control of the Slave Trade. Also keep in mind Spain, Iberia, Hispanic, and Hebrew are all the same words in different languages.👍

@heroesandlegends 10 месяцев назад

How did the Malays get all the way around to West Africa?

@lordvonmanor6915 10 месяцев назад

@@heroesandlegends By sea the same way they got to Madagascar and about 20,000 islands. How did Kanaka get all the way to Canada and Hawaii? By kayaks.

@heroesandlegends 10 месяцев назад

Interesting. Any DNA evidence to back that up that you're aware of?

@lordvonmanor6915 10 месяцев назад

@@heroesandlegends DNA evidence? Read a Indo-History book. Which part of my statement has you confused.

@lordvonmanor6915 10 месяцев назад

@@heroesandlegends I have DNA evidence and well as historical books. There is only one N-word and that's the European and they later changed Australnesians name to Austral Nwords which are the Habsji "Blacks". DNA evidence you seek is called a Russian DNA test seeing that they are #1

@robertcgage 11 месяцев назад

Don't forget slavery is all America's fault, Just ask any collage graduate.

@brealistic3542 11 месяцев назад

That's ridiculous.

@robertcgage 11 месяцев назад

@@brealistic3542 That was the point

@quetzalcoatlz 11 месяцев назад

I too can speak in absolutes! Yet I don't because it sounds ignorant

@akaneinvidia5874 11 месяцев назад

Lmao Africans enslaved fellow Africans way before “EvIL wHiTe MaN” came. Even sold them to Arabs and Europeans for the highest bidder. Stop tripping - everyone in history enslaved other peoples (Chinese, Mongols, Native Americans, Turks, Arabs and Indians) lmao

@Hellbillyhok 11 месяцев назад

@@brealistic3542 you obviously haven't heard of humerous sarcasm 😂