Wow!!! We speak of Africa bring robbed of its resources, but the greatest resource that was taken were the people, fathers, mothers, children, doctors, inventors, innovators, workers, laborers all taken. Not only taken from the land of there origin, but also enriching the land they were taken to.
The slave trade can only be argued as an economic issue not as a moral issue. My family owned slaves on our plantation and I have no problem with it. They were fed and sheltered and lived a better life in Tennessee than they would have in Africa. In addition to this, when we talk about Slavery today, the negros in this country US should be thankful that slavery existed, otherwise they would still be stuck in Africa. Instead they get to enjoy all the US offers them.
Ishmael Judah Congo Africa was slave masters hands not America or anywhere else but Africa Babylon Egypt ....laws of Moses banned since ancient times. ISHMAEL IS NOT WORTHY OF GODS LAWS.
Slavery has existed for as long as humans have existed. The African slave trade isn’t even the largest, or the longest form of slavery. Why is this 300 year window of time so much worse than any other slavery throughout history?
There was nothing very unusual about what the Africans were doing. Slavery was a traditional fate for the conquered in Rome, Greece, India, Egypt, China, Persia, Scandinavia, and among the Native Americans. What was unusual was the practice of the Christians and Muslims, who often made war on people of their own faith, but usually honored the religious prohibition on taking them as slaves. Greed motivates wars everywhere, among sub-Saharan Africans as much as anywhere else. But the Europeans were not just passive beneficiaries of the African internal slave trade. The European slave ships massively increased the demand for slaves, and thus their price. Warfare and enslavement in West Africa boomed to many times their previous levels once the English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French started paying top dollar to buy millions of people to ship across the Atlantic. Furthermore, by selling guns and powder to the local African rulers in return for slaves, the Europeans made the slavers more powerful. Many African kings felt they had little choice but to trade slaves for guns, because if they didn't, they would inevitably be conquered and enslaved by neighbors who did trade slaves for guns. There was at least one Congolese ruler who refused to trade slaves with Portugal, only to be overthrown by his own vassals whom the Portuguese paid off; the vassals then resumed the slave trade. (It wasn't the Europeans alone who fueled this increase in the slave trade; Arabs and Berbers from North Africa were also buying lots of slaves. Although my earlier reading said that the Arabs' role was much smaller than the Europeans', some of the newer figures I've seen suggest it may have been larger, so I'm not sure what to say about it at the moment). Before the Europeans, West African slavery existed but was a fairly small-scale problem; after the arrival of the Europeans, and at least partly because of them, the Atlantic slave trade exploded into a catastrophe unequaled in history.
Notice the Caribbean it needed tremendous amounts of slave labor because of the brutal working conditions. The percentage going there in relationship to its size is stunning.
It’s not that, the islands in the Caribbean were used as a receiving center, where the Africans were sorted between healthy and unhealthy from the trip. Also that’s where most of the buying/selling/trading occurred before they were brought to the US.
@Nogent Thinking that time is a relevant topic for kidnapping, killing, and catastrophe doesnt make a difference. It's trying to cover up history. People talk about G. Washington, Greek & Romans, Egyptian, Christ, all kinds of history that happened more than 200-500 years so why is talking about the slave trade any different or problem?
*It was a span of 400 years of this.* Different Trade Operations took place between 1400 -1900, with several illegal trades decades after the Slave Trade was abolished. An estimated *over 20 million individuals captured from Africa during four sizable & simultaneous operations* orchestrated to trade enslaved people: *Trans-Saharan, Red Sea* _(Arab),_ *Indian Ocean,* and *Trans-Atlantic* trade of enslaved people. The remains of *Millions more who died and were killed Or tossed overboard* during the journey to scare others into submission, *are at the bottom of the Atlantic & Indian Ocean.* *The Video forgot* the *Route to Europe* and *Indian Ocean Route* to the Middle East _(Arabia, Yemen),_ *Mascarene Islands* and the *Indian Coast.*
@Nogent *It was a span of 400 years of this.* Different Trade Operations took place between 1400 -1900, with several illegal trades decades after the Slave Trade was abolished. An estimated *over 20 million individuals captured from Africa during four sizable & simultaneous operations* orchestrated to trade enslaved people: *Trans-Saharan, Red Sea* _(Arab),_ *Indian Ocean,* and *Trans-Atlantic* trade of enslaved people. The remains of *Millions more who died and were killed Or tossed overboard* during the journey to scare others into submission, *are at the bottom of the Atlantic & Indian Ocean.* *The Video forgot* the *Route to Europe* and *Indian Ocean Route* to the Middle East _(Arabia, Yemen),_ *Mascarene Islands* and the *Indian Coast.*
@Nogent The Hate, Bigotry, Racism & Views _(supremacy)_ that started it all still Exists...passed down Generations. *The Effects of the Slave Trade is Not Ancient History.* What followed was still Brutal: The Jim Crow Era, Slave-era Lynchings continued, KKK Terrorism, Brutality, Segregation, Civil Rights Era ...etc. The Act of Slavery might've been over but the Racism, Superiority, Bigotry in people's hearts is still there. This is why it's important to NOT hide History so people can see what hatred can bring. We must continue to do good and treat others with kindness.
@Nogent I wrote a long response to your comment and decided to delete it. I thought to myself that it would be a waste of time explaining. And by the way, US citizens don't think slavery was invented in the US. Not sure where you got that one from. We only talk about it a lot because as Black Americans were still dealing with the after effect of it and the segregation era. More so the segregation era.
OMG. Seeing the scale of the slave trade presented like this, knowing that each dot represents hundreds of lives brutally stolen, is overwhelming! And then you notice that the cumulative count scale represents only the slaves who "disembarked", and does not include those who died in the slave-capture or slave-transport process!
Wish I and Abe Lincoln, General Grant, could have found the ships,and sit them all free,just because thier humans,heck yes, from American citizen John Robert Bruffett Junior USA flags!!!!!!!
@kimi its kinda hard to disagree Afro-Americans (only) builded billion dollar "culture" by taking many things that white people created for example dreads were first recorded in Greece
Brazil was the country that received the most slaves in the world I know this because there is a place in Rio de Janeiro called ''Cais do Valongo'' the estimate is that 4 million Africans disembarked
The Caribbean was used as a receiving area for assessing the ‘quality’ of the Africans for buying/selling/trading them, many of which ended up in the US. What a terrible life for all those souls for centuries. 😕
10.7 million african slaves were shipped to North America, the caribbean and South America between the 16th and 19th century. Majority of the africans were shipped to the caribbean.
And the Moors who had conquered and controlled Europe for 700 years had already deemed Amaraca (America) AMEXEM northwest africa. So America was considered north west africa by moors. When they say we were taken from the coast of west Africa its truly the west atlantic coast. Basically indigenous ppl were shuffled between north central and south America. Also this is the reason Morocco recognized the Americas independence before any other country and has always been in alliance.
@@raymonmusse2632 do your research of where Ephrica started and research King James the royal african company. Then check out "Precious White Cargo" or John Curl "For all the People" or "Colonist in Bondage" understand how Thomas Jeff and Ben Frank were both runaways and Benjamin Banneker used moorish science for all his inventions and almanac then we will discuss.
@verludgecun ulnj do your research of where Ephrica started and research King James the royal african company. Then check out "Precious White Cargo" or John Curl "For all the People" or "Colonist in Bondage" understand how Thomas Jeff and Ben Frank were both runaways and Benjamin Banneker used moorish science for all his inventions and almanac then we will discuss.
Slavery has never stopped in north america. Chattel slavery just got readjusted into penal system slavery is still constitutional as per the 13th amendment.
@@TMB-cv2bg No it started way before it started in Africa, pretty much every single empire in history, had slavery. Mesopotamia beck in the 3500 B.C had references to slavery.
Great representation, but it ignores the millions that were brought to Bolivia going around the southern tip of South America. Millions died just in the Potosí mines.
Montgomery Alabama has two excellent museums about slavery. The downtown Legacy Museum has an excellent video similar to this but in more detail, that shows the increase in population of slaves around southern cities across decades. (its sad that the museum will not allow that particular video graphic to be copied or shared in anyway. can't even purchase it)
Ofc you can't purchase it: as soon as someone is able to purchase it, sooner or later will be uploaded on the internet for free and the museum will make less money.
Deut. 28: 64 And Yah shall scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other mighty ones, which neither you nor your fathers have known, wood and stone. The graph above is nothing more than the Scattering of the Children of Israel. Yah bless Israel, wherever we may be in Yahusha's name.
That is because the life expectancy of a sugar cane worker was 3-5 years. Basically they had to keep resupplying the sugar cane plantations with enslaved workers because they continuously died. Let that sink in.
Where is the data and the explantion for this animation? I have questions about how many slaves were transported with each voyage. It seems to me that the ships got larger and were transporting more slaves per voyage toward the end.
@@jermainejefferson5338 Henry Louis Gates and host of prominent scholars and institutions support the site. In addition to the University of the West Indies.
@@JP-xh3gy and don't mention Henry Louis Gates. Here's him recounting a story about these DNA test and admitting they are just making it up. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dxnL2XEJDUM.html
@@JP-xh3gy your appeal to authority falls flat in absence of evidence. That slave voyages website admits it is making the data up. When you go to database on the website, they have several categories that are "imputed by algorithm" which means they're making it up.
Los descendientes de los esclavos se pueden encontrar en todos los piases caribeños, en las Antillas, en América del Norte y en América Central. También en Brasil. Los esclavos eran Nigerianos, Camerunés, Gabonés, Congoleños, Togolés, Beninés, Ghanés, Ivorianos, Senegalés, Gambianos, Liberianos, Angolanos. Las islas caribeñas fueron utilizadas para clasificar los esclavos y para enviarlos en los Estados Unidos y en otros países. Los barcos de los esclavos desembarcan también directamente en las costas estadounidenses (North Carolina, South Carolina,etc).
I can't find the original website that has this. On it, when you pause, you can click on each of the black dots (slave ships) and it will give you information about the ship's country, how many slaves were transported, how many died on route, and where they went. No idea where that website is now. The RU-vid video doesn't have this option.
Not Brazil, Portugal ... Everything used and made by slaves here is in Portugal's account. Brazil did not prosper at all with the use of slave labor, all countries colonized by Portugal suffered from it and still suffer from it even today.
@Carolina Dias Are you denying history or in Portugal is history told in another way? By education and respect for the creator of the topic that doesn't speak Portuguese, keep the conversation in English.
@Carolina Dias Didn't you watch the video above? It wasn’t made by Brazilians, as you don’t want to fight, I won’t fight, but you’re wrong. If you have the opportunity, visit the state of "Minas Gerais" and see the story in person as it happened. Greetings to you.
We broke covenant with YAH and he scattered us into all the gentile nations to be slaves and afflicted 400 years. They conspired to make our history, our hebrew heritage and traditions no more.
Each and every single ship is completely documented. This is 100% accurate. The problem is America has taken the large brunt of the blame for the slave trade yet we were actually one of the smallest recipients of the trades. The first slave trading was actually started by black people in Guyana with traders from Portugal as payment for goods. That’s where it all started just look up the “Guilt of Guyana”. American should pay its pennants for our role and I believe we have. Probably more than our share. The blame should be spread loaded more appropriately just like this demographic illustrates. The African slave trade lasted around 400 years. Slavery, almost exclusively non-black slavery, has been part of the worlds society for literally thousands and thousands of years! Yet we only talk about black slavery covering the last 400 years. If someone wants to talk about slavery, then have a REAL talk about ALL slavery. Not just the boiled down, tail end, smallest timeframe of the history.
@@tomassmith1519 It very much matters who has the fault. Especially when all the major focus about slavery is pointed at America. Our part is a drop in the bucket compared to many other places yet we take the vast majority of the blame. Slavery has been part of human existence forever, yet the majority focus is the last 400 years and how horrible American is for having it. Slavery has been gone in America for over 150 years yet it’s spoken about as if everyone alive today has some responsibility for it and others are victims of it. So yes it matters, especially when people still point fingers but are not truly educated about the real numbers and reality of ALL slavery. Not just this small convoluted, misrepresented, exaggerated window that everyone looks through most of the time!
The first trans Atlantic slave trading started in the 1400,s by the Portuguese who took slaves to the islands neighbouring the African continent and to Portugal itself !
What country made all those ships How do you know all the routes that are going are slave trade? Why isn't there a famous captain of the Atlantic slave trade Atlantic slave trade online database says there is 50,000 voyage and not all of them were slave trade?
@@kudjoeadkins-battle2502 John Newton got saved, turned from his sinful past, became a preacher and an abolitionist BEFORE he wrote Amazing Grace. Please tell the whole story.
It did. About 250 millions years ago, there was only a continent called "Pangea". With the movements of the tectonics plaques we have the actual configuration of the continents now.
In the United States it ended in 1861 at the start of the Civil War slavery ended in the U.S. We are the only country to fight a war, lose 600,000 lives to end slavery.
I don't know about the United States but in Brazil it continued until 1888(Slavery) ! I watched a short documentary on Utube about slaves being smuggled in 1965 I believe in the U.S. !! I bet smugglers managed to import more slaves into Brazil too !!!
Hebrew slave trade started way back since 40ad. It wasnt just the atlantic slave trade either. It was african slave trade, European slave trade, Indian Ocean slave trade, Sahara slave trade, Arabian slave trade. The hebrews got traded to the 4 corners of the world
Kindof sad, it seems like 3 centuries of cheap human labor has accomplished very little in comparison to what modern industrial machines and computers are capable of. Paying workers better and smarter/fairer management practices seems to accomplish much more in terms of progress efficiency than historic power structures ever could dream of.
let’s not forget that the kings of the african countries happily were selling their own citizens and helped set traps because they wanted firearms and trading goods in return.
One party being complicit with slavery doesn't absolve the other party of it's dehumanization of the enslaved. Call out the horrors on both ends instead of crying hypocrisy.
@Nogent you seem to take every oppurtunity to crticize American slavery. For the record the word "Slave" doesn't necessarily come from "Slav" there are debates that it actually came from the French "escalve"... Regardless we all are aware that American slavery is the only slavery.
@Nogent when did I say American slavery was the only slavery? I’m sure you’re taking that way out of context. This video is about slavery in the Americas.
Ur ancestors got sold as slaves by other Africans buddy. Slave trade was established and extremely savage before the Spanish and British came, to find a whole slave ecosystem set ip
I am not justifying the odious institution of slavery, but the life expectancy of those who survived the voyage doubled when they reached the New World, and their descendants had/have opportunities still unavailable in most of Africa.
My bad it's 10,000 voyages not 50,000 So you should make a video where 10,000 dots and not all of them are slave ships voyage so how can 12.5 million black people get here ?
A lot of slaves were sent to other places in the new world including the U.S, Central America, and the northern part of South America after they were shipped to the Carribean
...and that is y hurricanes tend to form right there in thee Atlantic. Hundred n hundreds of potential slaves were thrown over, jumped over, angry,scared,and wanting revenge. Alot of disturbed spirits rest over that ocean.. evey year they weak havoc taking that same excact path to florida n all the south. I have lived in fla for years. might I add that during a hurricane (and I seen many) listening to the winds, oh my. The sound of the hurricane winds, sound like sorrowful bawling, like voices collectively humming old slaves hyms. It's very scary sounding. Smdh listen to it for your self. Crazy.
