Watching 12 Years a Slave

[LobsterUnit]

The slaves taken to the America were some of the most of the steadfast and courageous people in history. There were plenty of famous slave rebellions.resistance was also carried out using varying means. Shitty films like twelve years as a slave do injustice to the struggle.madows should make films about the Haitian revolution,Nat turner,the Brazilian muslim uprising, the maroons. Somalis should also do the same for their resistance to colonialism,a topic largely reduced to poetry by and about sayid muhammad.i am baasto ibnu jareer.

[Adali]

It was a nice movie.

[FAH1223]

Movie had me feeling some type of way.

[Basra-]

Movie had me feeling some type of way.

Yes, Fah aka PO aka Jasmine

You already told us that.

[FarhanYare]

kuwaan wadoonkood ayaa xoog loga waday bal kawaran kuwa wadankood intii lagu yimid and been in slavery for many decades (iam talking about south africans).

[Cherine]

I remember watching a documentary and in it this Jewish lady was saying how difficult it was for her to accept that her people all 6 million of them just walked to their deaths with no resistance or revolt. Before she actually said that i never thought about it...really are there no incidents of rebellion against their oppressors ?

[Khalid Ali]

Niggers sold their own kind to Europeans its their own fault , reaally they sold their own people. though the niggers in America try to fight they outnummbered and the white man owned them for centuries. negroes have no brain instead of selling their own when the Portuguese came to cape castle in Ghana they niggers could have confiscate the guns of the Europeans and keep the Europeans as their slaves. But instead they sold their own negroes have no brains at all

[Marques]

^People lived differently. The African man largely felt stable and content with the simple farmers life in Africa, he didn't need to feign for European blood or enslave them. They had everything they wanted. Crops, hunting wild animals for meat and good weather etc. There was no need for an economy, trade, currency, politics etc like the West. The West lacked resources and were forced to fight the scarcity by all means i.e. venturing out to the rest of the World.

Jas, i once discussed slavery to hydrogen, i remember him noting that one technique many white folks did was whenever the female black slave bore children, they would separate them at young and then raise that child in complete servitude, to the extent the child would grow up to fully believe its destiny is being under the yolk of a white person. Powerful psychology at play.

Slavery was part and parcel of the global economy before the modern era and still takes place today albeit not legalised. Jews were enslaved and seperated and persecuted for thousands of years. 6 MILLION (per holocaust mantra) were wiped off the earth. Shit happens and humans have done cruel things. Just hurts when it hits a little too close to home (Africa).

With that said, aspects of the Black man must be admired. The civil rights era ushered a wave of resilience and demand for freedom. Not many oppressed nations in the past few hundred years nor today have produced a Malcolm X or even MLK.

Though i find the transatlantic slave trade interesting, the one inLatin America in particular is untold in media.

[Based]

^People lived differently. The African man largely felt stable and content with the simple farmers life in Africa, he didn't need to feign for European blood or enslave them. They had everything they wanted. Crops, hunting wild animals for meat and good weather etc. There was no need for an economy, trade, currency, politics etc like the West. The West lacked resources and were forced to fight the scarcity by all means i.e. venturing out to the rest of the World.

[Octavius]

^People lived differently. The African man largely felt stable and content with the simple farmers life in Africa, he didn't need to feign for European blood or enslave them. They had everything they wanted. Crops, hunting wild animals for meat and good weather etc. There was no need for an economy, trade, currency, politics etc like the West. The West lacked resources and were forced to fight the scarcity by all means i.e. venturing out to the rest of the World.

Not all Africans were "content with the simple farmers life" and they most certainly did 'venture out into the rest of the world'. Think of the great Somali kingdoms of the past; they established a complex trading network of coastal port-towns, market towns in the hinterland and agricultural villages & settlements in the interior; they traded extensively with ancient China, Greece, Arabia, India and Africa; they fought the Portuguese and the Abyssinians and maintained their political and economic independence for centuries. Somalis also were the only hydraulic empire in Africa and built extensive house, forts and palaces across the Somali peninsula. Also don't forget the great West African kingdoms & empires such as the Ashanti empire, the Ghana empire, the Mali Empire, the Songhai empire etc. Think of the central and southern African kingdoms such as the Buganda Kingdom, Great Zimbabwe.

But you're right in saying that the African man had land greater than that of any European country (except Russia), abundant with resources and as such did not need to invade or occupy other lands and peoples. Europe is and was infinitely smaller than Africa, which meant that the inhabitants eventually faced a need to find additional land and resources (and later people) and they happened to find both in the great continent of Africa. At the time the Europeans had the military and technological advantage which allowed them to gain the upper hand over various African peoples.