Benin women explain their kingdoms role in the slave trade

Some articles on the subject:

"Ambassadors, Explorers, and Allies: A Study of African-European Diplomatic Relationships, 1400-1600"

http://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1066&context=curej

"Early Kongo-Portuguese relations, a new interpretation"

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


Video from here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbFRmk3Hrfc

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• slave
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• transatlantic
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[myd1986]

This is a crazy world. Holocausts: 6 million Jews, 8 million Gypsies, 5 million Jehovah Witnesses. African Slave Trade: 100 million Africans killed.

[markellion]

It turns out Benin was never a great player in the African slave trade.

[proteanview]

Very interesting video.

I don't hear much about Benin.

[auspol04]

@CW043 the idiots are people like u who think that somehow your some kind of angels that got taken advantage of when the reality of it was that your own people took you forcefully out of your villages and sold them at the slave markets to whoever, its was in fact african kings and warlords that even objected to banning slavery cause they were getting rich of it, the slave trade has been going on for thousands of years before the white man and the white man was a slave at some point aswell

[CW043]

@auspol04 Your ignorance of history and lack of research is obvious in your post.

Hahahahaha! What an idiot!

[auspol04]

@CW043 not a concept africans can relate to? funny since african slavery was around for thousands of years before caucasians came, stop talking shit face the truth that u got rounded up by your people and sold by them like cattle, no on eput pressure on u stop talking shit, its so funny how u guys try and downplay your own part of it LOL

[BedStuyBro]

Where are these people getting their information from?

How reliable is this info?

[MarioBro7100]

Fuckin paper Hats.

[CW043]

@CW043 Also the Slaves that were exchanged into slavery with the Caucasian were often prisoners of trible wars ect... And in Africa even if you were a slave of tribal war.. YOU WERE NOT A SLAVE FOR LIFE!

[CW043]

Caucasians always want to speak on the fact that some African Nations sold other Africans into the slave trade... this was often done under the pressure of either you get me slaves or I make you a slave, while the Caucasian holds a gun on the African.

INADDITION to the FACT THAT!

The African could not even imagine CHATTLE SLAVERY... one human being making another human being a SLAVE FOR LIFE... this was not a concept AFricans could relate to... Making a person a Chair..table or horse? NO!

[msalah2341]

the slaves was hebrews not africans

[arab3515]

@myd1986 LOLZ NOW THAT YOU MENTION IT, THIS IS JUST ANOTHER THING THAT NEGROS AND LATINOS HAVE IN COMMON, IN BOTH COMMUNITIES HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS WERE KILLED.....AND NOW WE ARE BOTH OPPRESSED AND LIED TO ABOUT OUR IDENTITY....

[hansonjay67]

this video do not content or to show any benin king that he sold his people , infacts the explainations of these womens says their were resistance it was hard for uropeans to enter because the benin king has very powerful army. so white man always lies . people here need to listen the video properly..