이스라엘, 팔레스타인, 이란, 터키, 인도, 월남, 쿠바, 아프리카: Slavery and Salvation - History Of Africa with Zeinab Badawi [Episode 17]

Slavery and Salvation - History Of Africa with Zeinab Badawi [Episode 17] - YouTube

Slavery and Salvation - History Of Africa with Zeinab Badawi [Episode 17]

BBC News Africa

915,794 views Oct 18, 2020

In this episode, Zeinab Badawi visits Ghana and sees how momentum in the trans Atlantic slave trade led to competition for enslaved Africans between European nations who built numerous slave forts along West Africa’s Atlantic coast. She hears about the inhumane conditions in which slaves awaiting shipment were kept and how women were selected and subjected to rape by their captors. Also what do African academics believe were the main reasons behind abolition and why did many Africans return to the continent such as to Liberia? And how were they received by local communities?

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@sallieooko9055

5 years ago

When he said they would come and sing praises, "i dont know to which God". That hit me hard

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@mamatoto3

5 years ago (edited)

I was born a slave but nature gave me the soul of a free man... Toussaint Louveture

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@KJ-ed4gc

4 years ago

I’m proud to be Haitian 🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹. Thank God and Thank Toussaint Louverture 🙏🏻

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@anguillauk

5 years ago

We have our own stories to tell here in the Caribbean Islands. Don't forget us.

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@Dr.Momodu

5 years ago

This a very important documentary to educate people about African History.

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@ashsboredomkingdom7867

5 years ago

Very educational, a lot of people don't think of how slavery affected Africa. Thank you

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@MutungaKasamu

1 year ago

This is what should be taught in schools. Real history.

@sonofra889

5 years ago

8:45 "I don't know which god."

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@TamarahBellegarde

4 years ago

I love being Haitian, and I love having my Africa roots❤

@davidzulu8730

3 years ago

I have tried, but failed to hold tears running down my cheeks, every time I watch this.

@shuaibmahdi167

5 years ago

Richs acquired by the few from the suffering of the many. well-said Zeinab badawi

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@GEORGEANDCO98

5 years ago

I read about Olaudah Equiano. I loved his autobiography so much. I interestingly he also met his sister who was also captured. Eventually he met his sister who was also captured by a different master. He met his sister when his master happen to meet up with his sister's master. He said in his words "we were even denied the privilege of crying together". I read that book back in Pope John senior high

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@as-newsnow

5 years ago

In Ghana the the youth have a saying.....If there's a place in the sky made of gold and the white man has the manuals ,no blackman will have access to the place

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@tonymorgan2813

5 years ago

One of the best documentary to educate not only Black's but Whites also on the African history!

@elmascavidal1797

5 years ago

From Western Africa to the shores of the Caribbean.... With a twist of European blood 🩸... ✊🏽💪🏻 🇩🇴🇨🇺🇵🇷🇵🇦🇻🇪🇨🇴🇳🇮

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@bellepierre24

5 years ago

Obviously lots of people are making comments without seeing the other episodes. This is episode 17 and everything is not covered in one episode. 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

@queensandyakukwe1234

3 years ago

The first time I went there I cried from the start to end. I felt so much pain .

@inocencianieves9909

5 years ago

10:25 😭😭😭😭😭 if the governor was having his pick, how about the merchants, the officers, all the other men would be doing the same😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 Lord of mercy🙏🏼

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@amormusik

5 years ago

Interesting that Mr Olaudah Equiano could read and write. And to have written a book!

@melissamurray1328

4 years ago

" Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, ..." - Sir Marcus Mosiah Garvey

Bob just put music to his words

@cedricmitengo8956

5 years ago

Zeinab God bless you, we are gaining the knowledge of who we are

@suzanneowusu7147

5 years ago

Please , please watch all the 20 episodes before you comment on the only ones that you have watched and have issues with. I do not think that the producers have ever said anywhere that this documentary series represents the total and complete history of Africa. Learn what you can from this and get more knowledge from the many other resources available. We live to learn.There is an Akan proverb “knowledge does not reside in one head”

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@podaly

5 years ago

So glad that guy brought up epigenetics and the impact of massive PTSD on the health and welfare of generations of African decendants

@Rizga1001

5 years ago

Many thanks Zeinab & your team for delivering that significant African history.

@armindogenero

5 years ago (edited)

I just watched this video, and I have noticed that my life is no longer the same. An unspeakable inner pain reigns in me that are only increasing within my soul. I understand now how my ancestors went through so much hardship and inhuman treatment that I lack words to describe the suffering and shame they had experienced. Between deceit, sabotage, rivalry and tribal wars, many fell into the traps of slavery. How many had not died and thrown into the sea? How many indeed were subjugated placed to mistreatment? The day of reckoning must come to help us clarify everything.

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@lesprilib1

5 years ago (edited)

What happened in (Saint-Domingue) Haiti at the end of the 18th century was not a rebellion or a revolt. It was a REVOLUTION. The most important revolution (philosophically) in modern History.

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@nolanconnelly6821

2 years ago

This frontline soldier never seizes to deliver; nuff respect Zeinab, live forever my beloved.....

@jenniferstrover1276

5 years ago

Given the current discussion about the legacy of enslavement in the US, I was really interested to see the African side of the story as well. On both sides of the Atlantic, the economic and social impacts are still devastating. Thanks so much for this perspective.

@margueritehebert5389

4 years ago

I still have so much to learn. Thank you for this .

@henaahmad8877

5 years ago

This is one of the exceptional documentry on Africa

@damariowilson2350

5 years ago (edited)

The broods of viper and sons of snakes disliking this video shame on you. Now we see why and how such wicked practice of slavery could exist and prolong as it did.

@harvestpastor

5 years ago

I enjoy this series immensely!!!!

@cocosafari6835

5 years ago

My great great great grandfather and his brothers were fleeing from being caught by slaves traders. They were 3 brothers . Their family name was Capo or Kakpo. They decided that they would go separate ways to have more chances to be alive and they also changed names. My great kept the name Capo and his brothers were Gnanwi and Quenum. We have been told that they haven’t been captured. Quenum, Kakpo and Gnanwi are names that are found in Benin, that’s how we know that they made it. I still don’t know how my grandpa speaks fluent Portuguese and he was mixed as well.

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@dendecrafts596

4 years ago (edited)

Great job! These episodes need to have translation/subtitles and be available to more people. Brazilians specially :)

@tarekeldomiaty1075

5 years ago

It is undoubtedly very shameful that humanity has evolved out of torture, colonization and wars over very long time and across the globe. When does that day come when humanity reaches at least a definition of mercy and understanding. It is again very shameful that we have reached many advances in science, still we didn't reach a simple definition of mercy!!!!

@keithsmith4110

3 years ago (edited)

Gotta love Africa❣️It’s my honor❣️ ❤️🌍❤️

@LivingSoftly

4 years ago

I've been feeling alone in my search for empirical evidence of the trauma that I believe plays a great part to the behaviour of my people, both here in Africa and outside.

I have cried, but I am grateful to learn.

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@MelissaBrownapt215

5 months ago

This is an updated version of the BBC Radio Broadcast The Story of Africa. I"m so glad to have discovered it - albeit late.

@IspywithmylittleI16

5 years ago

So many wise and beautiful people, Im from Sweden but I would love to go there one day.

@solidrock5920

5 years ago

So touching and sad story can't be forgotten

@hornofafrica6512

5 years ago

It’s so sad 😭

@sunshinejones8643

5 years ago

Subtitles for the historians were not needed!

@trodon9034

5 years ago

Slavery is not the history of Africa, Slavery distracted Africa history

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@prosantamukherjee2901

4 years ago

Extremely touching and shockingly BLUNT!!!

@felixhoma9370

5 years ago

I am african and my great grandfather was sent to America.

@dlao264

5 years ago

Powerful!!!!!

@adewaleshonekan1869

5 years ago

This is an interesting history of all times.

@charmawingingitlewis1259

4 years ago

I thank you or this bridge that helps to create room for understanding te trade from the other side and hence causing the narrative to evolve to a more structured story!

@dslapster64

4 years ago

I will echo the sentiments of so many. How anyone can treat other human beings with such utter distain and callousness is beyond comprehension. With no regard for feelings or even for living creatures is shockingly horrendous . I have no other words… just emotions. Literally centuries of pillage and slaughter, and why??? all for greed and power??? Europeans invaded Africa, Australia, the Americas, this is human history at its sickening worst.

@tseringphurbu007

5 years ago

This is very good documentary it is easy to understand and very useful

@Skybar23

5 years ago

Epigenetics-same be applied to the older populations of China. They have a mindset of "I wana get there first and get it before anyone else'...related back to the starving populations of the Mao years. Thats many foreigners perceive Chinese tourist as rude

@TheEtbetween

4 years ago

I am learning a lot today

@jessiebethea4154

5 years ago

Thats a great shame against humanity all for money

@stevensonbowen3725

5 years ago

You need the do a documentary on the catholic church the behind the slave trade and all the tyranny which are taking place today

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@francesfrederick6897

5 years ago

DEAR LORD AND HEAVENLY FATHER!!!!!!! PLEASE HAVE MERCY ON US!!!!!!! THE PANE IS STILL HERE IN MY HEART!!!!!!!

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@RonnieBertin

6 months ago

Thanks double standard show this

@RobertaCute180

5 years ago

Oh Lord may this pain stop we have been punished enough my Lord have mercy 🙏👼

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@DassRose-x7o

7 months ago

A history

@brittenyevans1101

5 years ago

If someone can link the slave routes from Africa to the southern states and the Caribbean and back that would be really interesting. But what saddens me, is human trafficking of Africans along those same slave routes in the modern day of today.

@Mt554.

5 years ago

Now I finally understand

@HL_Haynes

5 years ago

Subtitles or a transcript would be super useful for school work, I have a hard time with some of the names...Engaging video though, sure wish I could just watch it without worrying about note taking.

@sussiq8812

5 years ago

Important documentary best I ever seen about the slave trade, I send thoughts and love from me in country far away from Africa, I would love to come and visit all the historic places. I would cry.

@BeautifulNaturalDramatic

5 years ago

Very informative documentary dealing with many facets of Slavery and its impact on African Nations. Great to Listen to Scholars/Historians/Researchers from different African Countries ie. Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria and Mali, to get their perspectives on present-day and future challenges alongside progress being made.

@lilianamimo188

1 year ago

thank u my sister

@thomashiasmoultrie72

5 years ago

I feel so much despair for my ancestors this is really HORRIBLE I know they did know what was going on.

@Andu_music

5 years ago

Best intro song

@musanjie7991

5 years ago

Thanks lovely for this painful history

@WhatAJhas2say

5 years ago (edited)

@38:48 😢

@matwerangulichedr3985

5 years ago

so painfully,we need a complete change now,

@faithfultoyeshua4576

3 years ago

I can't finish this.its painful

@claudiamaria5602

5 years ago (edited)

I'm Brazilian black, can you imagine the slavery here back in time and now? The violence on Favelas are a slavery too. Many bro and sis doesn't open their eyes to whats going on, who wants them the way they are. So sad about the nowadays slavery modus operandis.

@marlowharris-id3rg

1 year ago

I like your content, I'm looking forward to seeing your videos

@Weeny89

5 years ago (edited)

I didnt know about dungeons after I haven seen in South America I felt so devastated when I have seen the narrow dungeons that many africans were living including kids with no toilet no clothes This was a big crime. I feel so sorry for what happened thanks to conquerors. President Ramon Castilla in South America was the first who released slaves paying Master by Master. Still we have the Fortaleza of Real Felipe which was made for slaves.

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@LifestylewithMaryamSammar

5 years ago

V impressive ....

@victornwalo849

5 years ago

This is more spiritual than normal. Something most have happened that made it so easy and possible. Do you know that slavery started amongst Africans the Europeans only took advantage of it and made it a means of making money

@blessingsmwale7258

2 years ago

Great😊

@tyiingram9878

5 years ago

My hometown in NC has a link to Liberia. Many of the enslaved who returned had worked and bough the plantation of they former master known as Happy Hill. This was part of a Moravian community in which their ancestors had been a part of until outside influences from the surrounding area forced the enslaved and white Moravian community into segregation. The lead to the founding of Saint Phillips church. This is one of the oldest black Moravian Church is in America. The descendants of Saint Phillips turned happy hill into the cities first economic suburb, and it became part of a rich African-American community that during segregation had one of the most economically independent black communities in North Carolina that included the only bus line in the nation on by blacks. My mother and Minnie on both sides of my family lived in do you happy Hill community, and one of the names of the streets in the community is Monrovia. Another name, Free St. We are so connected to our ancestors as a global diaspora.

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@sophianewell1116

4 years ago

I like listening to you Zeinab you are so ferice and powerful when carrying out these documentry.

@mutaahikenedy

3 years ago

All along, I try to not cry , but I can not hold it anymore at 5:50 when Zainab shakes her head due to the odor from the “Dungeon of Male Slaves” that hits them at its entrance!!!

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@DreSpears00

5 years ago

APTTMH!!!!

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