African slavery Fall of the Kongo

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Early Kongo-Portuguese relations - A new interpretation

"It must be noted that once Kongo had developed fully toward the end of the sixteenth century, it was no longer a center of the slave trade, and seventeenth-century sources stress that slaves were rarely obtained in Kongo. In this respect Kongo resembled Benin, which had also acquired slaves and sold them to the Portuguese in exchange for military assistance during their wars of expansion, but had also dropped out of the slave trade by the early seventeenth century. Like Benin, too, Kongo made most of her exchange with the Portuguese in cloth, which the Portuguese re-exported to other parts of Africa in order to acquire slaves. Kongo thus had complete political control over its own development, and trade considerations were always secondary to the main logic of this development, which was dictated by internal needs and not by external pressures from trading partners."

http://www.fiu.edu/~ogundira/Thornton_Early_Kongo_Portuguese_Relations.pdf

"The destruction of the Kingdom of Kongo"

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0HSP/is_1_6/ai_106647781/pg_1?tag=artB...

Picture is of Portuguese ambassadors to the Kongo, the king is on his throne. The chandelier is a gift from Portugal.

Audio from BBC the story of Africa:

11. Central Africa & the Coming of the Portuguese

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/index_section...

Also:

Just south of this empire queen Nzinga wages war against the Portugese

http://edofolks.com/html/pub154.htm

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[0xNEVVG3N]

Africa, the Americas, Asia, and the Pacific was raped by the European imperialists. Before colonization there was none of this famine, religious wars, conflicts over artificially drawn borders. Apartheid's concept came from the British. The British raped and murdered Africans, Native Americans, Pacific Natives, Irish, Arabs, Asians; they were intollerant and arrogant (more than the others) who saw their oppression of milions as carrying out God's purpose in the world.

[Luso515PorTuoGraal]

Sometimes North Africans Berbers stc. Dinasties (Ibero-African Dinasties from North Africa) like Almoravids or Almohads had black africans in its ranks (above all in armies) as europeans & iberians also.

Portugal had given equal dignity to the Kings and Embassadors of Kongo since John II times(1485-1490s).

Later a Ethiopian-Portuguese Army saved Ethiopia from Adal-Arab and Otoman invasion(1545s), Ethiopia wich is one another diferent nation, in geography, culture and peoples.

[Luso515PorTuoGraal]

Muslims make some times horrible murders and progrons against Chistians and Jews also.

Beyond this crimes, the Muslim iberian sistem was less feudal for its Christian and Jews etc. than in many European states at the time in north, wich had more servitude and feudalism.

The Christian Kingdoms like Portugal, Castile or Aragon would be the less feudalistic states at the time also, and with more social ascensions and social mobility than its north european contraparts.

[Luso515PorTuoGraal]

Enslaved Subsaharians centuries later.

[Luso515PorTuoGraal]

Moors were not "blacks". They were Berbers in Mediterranean North Africa and Near Easterns & Arabics(minority rulers these ones) And they didn´t enslave the Iberians properly, in fact Iberians had a razonable "freedom" under taxes.

Portugal enslaved Subsaharians later yes, but many black African kingdoms were allies, and many black Africans became free and served portuguese army in Asia, Africa and Brazil - already in the 16 and 17th centuries.

[BABARRYeuropeanslave]

white portugiese where enslaved by the black moors and arab in spain

for 800 years obviously there was real anger by portugla and spain because crimes commiited by tiraq against the portuguese/spanish the portuguse were expelled by european emperor

[coltsowl]

I am of Portugese / African blood. This info is greatly appreciated.

Please continue to inform the world of our history.

[lutaninh]

good vid..

[uplift20]

markellion you really make good vids. I like the way you look at history as a whole and not just what makes people feel good or bad.