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Why Did The British Permit Slave Trade In Ibos Long After The End Of Slavery? by AuschwitzPrefec: 10:32pm On Jul 15, 2023 |
Nwaubani Ogogo Oriaku. Nwaubani Ogogo was a slave trader who gained power and wealth by selling other Africans across the Atlantic. Long before Europeans arrived, Igbos enslaved other Igbos as punishment for crimes, for the payment of debts, and as prisoners of war. The practice differed from slavery in the Americas: slaves were permitted to move freely in their communities and to own property, but they were also sometimes sacrificed in religious ceremonies or buried alive with their masters to serve them in the next life. When the transatlantic trade began, in the fifteenth century, the demand for slaves spiked. Igbo traders began kidnapping people from distant villages. Sometimes a family would sell off a disgraced relative, a practice that Ijoma Okoro, a professor of Igbo history at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, likens to the shipping of British convicts to the penal colonies in Australia: “People would say, ‘Let them go. I don’t want to see them again.’ ” Between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries, nearly one and a half million Igbo slaves were sent across the Middle Passage. My great-grandfather was given the nickname Nwaubani, which means “from the Bonny port region,” because he had the bright skin and healthy appearance associated at the time with people who lived near the coast and had access to rich foreign foods. (This became our family name.) In the late nineteenth century, he carried a slave-trading license from the Royal Niger Company, an English corporation that ruled southern Nigeria. His agents captured slaves across the region and passed them to middlemen, who brought them to the ports of Bonny and Calabar and sold them to white merchants. Slavery had already been abolished in the United States and the United Kingdom, but his slaves were legally shipped to Cuba and Brazil. To win his favor, local leaders gave him their daughters in marriage. (By his death, he had dozens of wives.) His influence drew the attention of colonial officials, who appointed him chief of Umujieze and several other towns. He presided over court cases and set up churches and schools. He built a guesthouse on the land where my parents’ home now stands, and hosted British dignitaries. To inform him of their impending arrival and verify their identities, guests sent him envelopes containing locks of their Caucasian hair. 1 Like |
Re: Why Did The British Permit Slave Trade In Ibos Long After The End Of Slavery? by Wahabfuture: 10:52pm On Jul 15, 2023 |
AuschwitzPrefec: Did you watch the Yoruba culture in North America, someone posted it here few days ago, your people are the most stupid people on this earth. Ajayi Crowther was a slave captured by your master Fulanis the bush dwellers, those in Brazil, Cuba, and other Northern and South Americans and those who still practice Ifa culture are Yoruba slaves who they sold few decades ago, I don't know why you people always bring up issues that make you people look stupid and useless? 2 Likes |
Re: Why Did The British Permit Slave Trade In Ibos Long After The End Of Slavery? by Wahabfuture: 10:54pm On Jul 15, 2023 |
The slave trade violently took the Yoruba to several places in the Americas: Brazil, Cuba, Uruguay, Argentina, Haiti, Venezuela, Trinidad and let me stop here. 1 Like |
Re: Why Did The British Permit Slave Trade In Ibos Long After The End Of Slavery? by 001Lagos: 10:56pm On Jul 15, 2023 |
What's more worse than marauders from Sahel desert stealing your lands and chase you all away and took over your lands in Ilorin kwara state ? The slavery against the Yoruba people on Yoruba soil by the Fulani people till date is shameful 2 Likes
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Re: Why Did The British Permit Slave Trade In Ibos Long After The End Of Slavery? by Wahabfuture: 11:23pm On Jul 15, 2023 |
AuschwitzPrefec: Here is your people in South and North America sold as slaves practicing Yoruba culture, https://www.nairaland.com/7764565/check-out-these-beautiful-yoruba Igbos was never into slave trade compare to Yorubas, spit 1 Like |
Re: Why Did The British Permit Slave Trade In Ibos Long After The End Of Slavery? by ResidentSnitch(f): 11:26pm On Jul 15, 2023 |
OP, your topic is counterproductive. You and the other being, Sukkot spend your short time on earth researching and writing about the Igbos. You're rather promoting the great tribe. You'd cause people to study them more. This is good. Keep it up. 2 Likes 1 Share |
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