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Here is more about the people of Benin and their role in the Transatlantic Slave Trade
The Story of Africa| BBC World Service
GROWING RICH WITH SLAVERY
ROYALTY
In the early 18th century, Kings of Dahomey (known today as Benin) became big players in the slave trade, waging a bitter war on their neighbours, resulting in the capture of 10,000, including another important slave trader, the King of Whydah. King Tegbesu made £250,000 a year selling people into slavery in 1750. King Gezo said in the 1840's he would do anything the British wanted him to do apart from giving up slave trade:
"The slave trade is the ruling principle of my people. It is the source and the glory of their wealth…the mother lulls the child to sleep with notes of triumph over an enemy reduced to slavery…"
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Here is some info about King Gezo...a slave trader and let's not get into the fact that the people of Benin conducted human sacrifices...so they doing all types of fukked up shyt....
So they would capture other tribes and sell them or kill them in a human sacrifice...
This is how fukked up it was and the British tried to stop it...and all these kings of Benin and tribes lived next to each other and this is what they were doing to each other...killing each other or just selling each other to White people...
This is the lifestyle that these kings created for their people...this how we got sold into the Americas...this is why for New World Blacks (those of us who origins start in the Americas) saying we were kings and queens in Africa is fukking stupid. This is in the 1800s and the people of Benin were still doing backwards shyt like enslavement and human sacrifices. British people already passed that and trying to stop it out of a sense of "civilization" and human decency...you know the White Man's Burden.
Don't let White people and their fetishization of royalty and glorification of their historical triumphs which is nothing but tales of conquest and enslavement (85 percent give or take) make you blind to the historical reality of African royalty and Africa during the period of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. It wasn't pretty.
Ghezo - Wikipedia
Ghezo or Gezo was King of the Dahomey, in present-day Benin, from 1818 until 1858. Ghezo replaced his brother Adandozan (who ruled from 1797 to 1818) as king through a coup with the assistance of the Brazilian slave trader Francisco Félix de Sousa. He ruled over the kingdom during a tumultuous period, punctuated by the British blockade of the ports of Dahomey in order to stop the Atlantic slave trade. Ghezo finally ended Dahomey's tributary status to the Oyo empire but also dealt with significant domestic dissent and pressure from the British to end the slave trade. He promised to end the slave trade in 1852, but resumed slave efforts in 1857 and 1858. Ghezo died in 1858, possibly assassinated, and his son Glele became the new king.
By January 1852, Ghezo signed an agreement (along with both the Migan and the Mehu) with the British. The agreement specified that Ghezo was to end the slave trade from Dahomey.[6] The British believed that Ghezo never implemented the provisions of this treaty, although he believed he did comply by stopping slave trade through Dahomey's ports even though he allowed slaves to be traded from Dahomey to other ports and then sold into the slave trade.[6]
The decrease in the slave trade resulted in additional reforms during the last years of Ghezo's rule. He significantly reduced the wars and slave raids by the kingdom and in 1853 told the British that he reduced the practice of human sacrifice at the Annual Customs (possibly ending sacrifice of war captives completely and only sacrificing convicted criminals).[6] However, these positions were reversed dramatically in 1857 and 1858 as Ghezo became hostile to the British; he revived slave trade through the port of Whydah, and in 1858 attacked Abeokuta. The attack on Abeokuta was apparently resisted by Ghezo, but there was such significant domestic pressure for the attack that he allowed it to happen.[6]
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The Story of Africa| BBC World Service
GROWING RICH WITH SLAVERY
ROYALTY
In the early 18th century, Kings of Dahomey (known today as Benin) became big players in the slave trade, waging a bitter war on their neighbours, resulting in the capture of 10,000, including another important slave trader, the King of Whydah. King Tegbesu made £250,000 a year selling people into slavery in 1750. King Gezo said in the 1840's he would do anything the British wanted him to do apart from giving up slave trade:
"The slave trade is the ruling principle of my people. It is the source and the glory of their wealth…the mother lulls the child to sleep with notes of triumph over an enemy reduced to slavery…"
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Here is some info about King Gezo...a slave trader and let's not get into the fact that the people of Benin conducted human sacrifices...so they doing all types of fukked up shyt....
So they would capture other tribes and sell them or kill them in a human sacrifice...
This is how fukked up it was and the British tried to stop it...and all these kings of Benin and tribes lived next to each other and this is what they were doing to each other...killing each other or just selling each other to White people...
This is the lifestyle that these kings created for their people...this how we got sold into the Americas...this is why for New World Blacks (those of us who origins start in the Americas) saying we were kings and queens in Africa is fukking stupid. This is in the 1800s and the people of Benin were still doing backwards shyt like enslavement and human sacrifices. British people already passed that and trying to stop it out of a sense of "civilization" and human decency...you know the White Man's Burden.
Don't let White people and their fetishization of royalty and glorification of their historical triumphs which is nothing but tales of conquest and enslavement (85 percent give or take) make you blind to the historical reality of African royalty and Africa during the period of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. It wasn't pretty.
Ghezo - Wikipedia
Ghezo or Gezo was King of the Dahomey, in present-day Benin, from 1818 until 1858. Ghezo replaced his brother Adandozan (who ruled from 1797 to 1818) as king through a coup with the assistance of the Brazilian slave trader Francisco Félix de Sousa. He ruled over the kingdom during a tumultuous period, punctuated by the British blockade of the ports of Dahomey in order to stop the Atlantic slave trade. Ghezo finally ended Dahomey's tributary status to the Oyo empire but also dealt with significant domestic dissent and pressure from the British to end the slave trade. He promised to end the slave trade in 1852, but resumed slave efforts in 1857 and 1858. Ghezo died in 1858, possibly assassinated, and his son Glele became the new king.
By January 1852, Ghezo signed an agreement (along with both the Migan and the Mehu) with the British. The agreement specified that Ghezo was to end the slave trade from Dahomey.[6] The British believed that Ghezo never implemented the provisions of this treaty, although he believed he did comply by stopping slave trade through Dahomey's ports even though he allowed slaves to be traded from Dahomey to other ports and then sold into the slave trade.[6]
The decrease in the slave trade resulted in additional reforms during the last years of Ghezo's rule. He significantly reduced the wars and slave raids by the kingdom and in 1853 told the British that he reduced the practice of human sacrifice at the Annual Customs (possibly ending sacrifice of war captives completely and only sacrificing convicted criminals).[6] However, these positions were reversed dramatically in 1857 and 1858 as Ghezo became hostile to the British; he revived slave trade through the port of Whydah, and in 1858 attacked Abeokuta. The attack on Abeokuta was apparently resisted by Ghezo, but there was such significant domestic pressure for the attack that he allowed it to happen.[6]
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fukk em and the all the Afric00ns who had a part in the Slave Trade
