Rapper Lupe Fiasco Breaks Down The History Behind The Authentic Slave Trade Currency He Purchased

[The D-List Vet]

@Everythingg

I had enough of your derailment and even after I removed your post you still continue. You're banned from thread. Just be glad I gave no warnings.

took 6 pages of his shyt until we got back on topic

 

[Guvnor]

One of my upcoming research objectives is to sit down and really research the political/economic dynamics of what was going on in West/Central Africa during the slave trade period. This shyt is deep. I never heard of manillas before this video to be honest. Still need to finish watching the entire thing, I'm about halfway through but Lupe's already dropped a ton of knowledge

Facts, Lupe dropped a lot of jewels and info in this one man.

 

[The D-List Vet]

Facts, Lupe dropped a lot of jewels and info in this one man.

i know Africans were some what involved in the slave trade, but i didn't know they were that deep in it.. and on top of that they saw African women wearing those Manillas and started making themselves and trading them for people... and he said he still doing research

@The Odum of Ala Igbo you know about this stuff?

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

i know Africans were some what involved in the slave trade, but i didn't know they were that deep in it.. and on top of that they saw African women wearing those Manillas and started making themselves and trading them for people... and he said he still doing research

@The Odum of Ala Igbo you know about this stuff?

Manillas were not just used for the slave trade. It was a currency. You bought various things with that currency. Horses, textiles...humans.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Manillas were not just used for the slave trade. It was a currency. You bought various things with that currency. Horses, textiles...humans.

this

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

The same could be said for cowrie shells, too.

 

[Bawon Samedi]

took 6 pages of his shyt until we got back on topic

Yall should have tagged me again or reported.

 

[The D-List Vet]

Manillas were not just used for the slave trade. It was a currency. You bought various things with that currency. Horses, textiles...humans.

i know that i should have listed more i guess.. that why i said(they the women wearing them and it was to show they had money..... he listed more forms of money that was used in African spear money etc etc) he also talked about cowrie shells

 

[IllmaticDelta]

 

[#1 pick]

This is pretty fukked up. So, the tribes took the bracelets (based on weight) for our Ancestors?

As a spiritual person - I don't think I would want the "money" in my home -- I can only imagine the pain and energy attached to them.

There are tribes still cursed in Igboland for selling us. Arochukwu people for example can't go back to their ancestral land

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

There are tribes still cursed in Igboland for selling us.

It's a bit more complicated than that. Criminals and those who desecrated the Gods were also sold into slavery

 

[#1 pick]

Brother I asked you a question, what is your nationality? Whats your ethnicity?

Also the original conversation was about Native American, Native American, Native Americans and not black people. Native American!

Black people, African American people, or negros as we were called owning slaves was something you brought into the equation because you are playing with words but when I speak on Native American I am going with the more common understanding. Native Americans such as the Cherokee, Iroquois and Arawaks owned slaves. With that being said show me these depictions and show me your proof for the Native Americans being black. What is your evidence?

He's full blood European. Ban his ass out of this thread

 

[#1 pick]

It's a bit more complicated than that. Criminals and those who desecrated the Gods were also sold into slavery

There was a large number of arochukwu people who were never sold into slavery.

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

There was a large number of arochukwu people who were never sold into slavery.

They did a lot of the raiding. Upper Cross River valley was depopulated due to them.

But Aros will say they pushed Igboland further East. But at what cost? The tradition of Nri was lost in favour of Arochukwu/Long Juju and Ohaffia war-like tendencies

 

[xoxodede]

It's a bit more complicated than that. Criminals and those who desecrated the Gods were also sold into slavery

Can you explain “desecrated the Gods?” And who were the Gods?