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Episode 1:Before The TransAtlantic Slave Trade-Before the Cotton Fields There Was The Trans-Sahara S Kwabena Ofori Osei 3 Views • 2 days ago

The history of slavery did not begin in the cotton fields. Long before the transatlantic slave trade, Africa stood at the center of vast networks of human trafficking that connected the Sahara, the Middle East, the Mediterranean, and beyond.

Episode 1: Beyond the Desert explores the origins and expansion of the trans-Saharan slave trade, from the fall of Rome in 476 AD to the rise of powerful African and Islamic empires. As Arab rule expanded from the banks of the Indus to the southern edge of the Sahara, new routes of conquest, commerce, and enslavement reshaped entire societies.

At the heart of this world stood two major trading centers: Cairo, the great commercial hub between Africa and the Middle East, and Timbuktu, a strategic gateway for the trans-Saharan caravans and the empires of West Africa.

Through archives, historical analysis, and powerful storytelling, this first episode of Slavery Routes reveals how millions of sub-Saharan Africans were captured, sold, displaced, and turned into the “human raw material” of one of the longest systems of enslavement in history.
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Chapters
▷ 00:00 - Introduction: Africa and the Origins of a Global Slave Trade
▷ 01:50 - Slavery in Antiquity and the Fall of the Roman Empire
▷ 03:35 - Why Africa Became a Center of the Slave Trade
▷ 05:30 - The Arab Empire, Nubia, and the Politics of Enslavement
▷ 08:17 - African Slaves in Islamic Dynasties: War, Labor, and Power
▷ 11:00 - Slave Routes Across the Mediterranean, Caucasus, Balkans, and Russia
▷ 12:40 - The Zanj Rebellion: One of History’s Largest Slave Uprisings
▷ 16:00 - Cairo: Capital of the Arab Empire and Hub of the Slave Trade
▷ 19:49 - The Expansion of Slavery in North Africa and the Middle East
▷ 23:40 - Conversion, Islam, and the Religious Paradox of Enslavement
▷ 25:45 - Camels and the Expansion of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes
▷ 28:10 - Timbuktu: A Strategic Trading Center in West Africa
▷ 31:53 - Gold, Slaves, and the Prosperity of the Mali Empire
▷ 33:05 - Islam and the Commercial Power of the Mali Empire
▷ 34:00 - Race, Otherness, and the Justification of Slavery
▷ 36:55 - Social Hierarchy and Class Systems in Medieval Mali
▷ 39:00 - Hereditary Slavery and the Racialization of the Trans-Saharan Trade
▷ 41:07 - The Memory of Slavery in Africa and Contemporary Racism
▷ 43:00 - Mansa Musa’s Pilgrimage and the Power of the Mali Empire
▷ 46:30 - North Africa and the Global Trade Routes of the Middle Ages
▷ 50:00 - Epilogue: The Lasting Impact of the Trans-Saharan Slave Trade
▷ 51:20 - Credits

#slaveryroutes #historydocumentary #africanhistory #slaveryhistory #transsaharanslavetrade #maliempire #timbuktu #mansamusa #worldhistory #fulldocumentary #historydocumentary #WocomoHISTORY
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Original title: Slavery Routes: 476–1375 — Beyond the Desert
Directed by: Daniel Cattier, Juan Gélas, Fanny Glissant
Produced by: Compagnie des Phares et Balises, ARTE France
In co-production with: Kwassa Films, RTBF Télévision Belge, Lx Filmes, RTP, INRAP

© 2018, licensed by Incognita Distribution

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Episode 2: Gold, Sugar and Slavery | How the TransAtlantic Slave Trade Began | Slavery Routes Kwabena Ofori Osei 1 Views • 2 days ago

The history of slavery did not begin in the cotton fields. Long before the transatlantic slave trade reached its full scale, Africa was already at the center of expanding networks of conquest, commerce, and slavery.

Episode 2: For All the Gold in the World begins at the end of the Middle Ages, when Europe started looking beyond its borders and realized that one of the world’s greatest sources of wealth lay in Africa.

Driven by the search for gold, the Portuguese were the first Europeans to sail along the African coast. Under the impulse of Henry the Navigator, they opened new maritime routes, established trading posts, and soon transformed their quest for African gold into a vast traffic in human beings.

From Lisbon to the Kingdom of Kongo, from Elmina to São Tomé, and eventually to Brazil, the Portuguese created the foundations of a new Atlantic system. Off the coast of Gabon, the island of São Tomé became a brutal laboratory for one of the most profitable exploitation models in history: the sugar plantation.

Through archives, historical analysis, and powerful storytelling, this second episode of Slavery Routes reveals how the pursuit of gold gave birth to a new slave economy — one that would reshape Africa, Europe, and the Americas for centuries.

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Chapters
▷ 00:00 - Introduction: How Slavery Helped Build Powerful Empires
▷ 01:50 - Portugal, Henry the Navigator, and the Search for African Gold
▷ 05:35 - One Million Africans Deported by European Slave Traders
▷ 09:00 - Africans in Lisbon: Segregation, Forced Labor, and “Impure” Professions
▷ 11:52 - 1453: The Fall of Eastern Trade Routes and Europe’s Atlantic Ambition
▷ 15:10 - European Kingdoms Invest in the Atlantic Expansion
▷ 17:15 - The Portuguese in the Kingdom of Kongo: Trade, Diplomacy, and Slavery
▷ 21:40 - The First Triangular Trade: São Tomé, Kongo, and Elmina
▷ 23:40 - São Tomé: Mass Deportation and the Birth of the Sugar Plantation
▷ 27:35 - The Gold Rush and Portuguese Expansion Toward Brazil
▷ 28:10 - 1516: The First African Slaves Arrive on the Brazilian Coast
▷ 31:44 - The Forgotten Memory of Black Slaves and Black Citizens in Lisbon
▷ 35:54 - Luanda and the Kingdom of Kongo: Epicenter of the Slave Trade to the Americas
▷ 38:00 - Angola and the Descendants of Survivors of the Slave Trade
▷ 40:00 - São Tomé: Fugitive Slaves, Mocambos, and Resistance
▷ 42:34 - Mixed-Race Elites and the Hierarchical Society of São Tomé
▷ 44:30 - Greed, Power, and the Decline of the Kingdom of Kongo
▷ 48:10 - Epilogue: Slave Revolts and the Fall of the São Tomé Experiment
▷ 51:20 - Credits

#slaveryroutes #historydocumentary #africanhistory #slaveryhistory #atlanticslavetrade #portugueseempire #kingdomofkongo #saotome #brazilhistory #fulldocumentary #historydocumentary #WocomoHISTORY
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Original title: Slavery Routes: 1375-1620: For All the Gold of the World
Directed by: Daniel Cattier, Juan Gélas, Fanny Glissant
Produced by: Compagnie des Phares et Balises, ARTE France
In co-production with: Kwassa Films, RTBF Télévision Belge, Lx Filmes, RTP, INRAP

© 2018, licensed by Incognita Distribution

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Documentaries about politics, society and science produced by leading studios around the world. Our goal is to be a reliable source of high-quality information and investigative journalism for a better understanding of relationships, backgrounds and future developments.

Check out our other channels to watch high quality documentaries:
▷ wocomoHUMANITY: https://www.youtube.com/wocomoHUMANITY
▷ wocomoWILDLIFE: https://www.youtube.com/wocomoWILDLIFE
▷ wocomoHISTORY: https://www.youtube.com/wocomoHISTORY
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Wocomo DOCS is part of the Wocomo channel network by NIKITA VENTURES. Wocomo - wonderful content in motion.

Episode 3:The TransAtlantic Slave Trade | Sugar, Violence, Resistance and Rebellion |Slavery Routes Kwabena Ofori Osei 4 Views • 2 days ago

The history of slavery did not begin in the cotton fields. By the 17th century, the Atlantic had become the center of a brutal new economy - one built on sugar, conquest, finance, and the mass deportation of millions of Africans.

Episode 3: From Sugar to Rebellion explores how European powers turned the Caribbean into a battlefield for sugar. France, England, Spain and the Netherlands fought for control of the islands, where sugar plantations became one of the most profitable - and violent - systems of exploitation in history.

To feed this economy, new slave routes were opened between Africa and the Americas. Banks, insurers, merchants and royal powers helped industrialize the trade, pushing deportations to unprecedented levels. Nearly 7 million Africans were caught in a vast Atlantic system of forced labor, racial violence, and colonial profit.

From the ports of Nantes, Liverpool and Amsterdam to the forts of the Gold Coast, from Caribbean plantations to the rise of slave rebellions and abolitionist voices, this third episode of Slavery Routes reveals how sugar transformed the Atlantic world - and how enslaved people resisted the system built to destroy them.
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Chapters
▷ 00:00 - Introduction: Sugar, Slavery, and the Rise of an Atlantic Empire
▷ 01:44 - The Caribbean at the Center of the Slave Routes
▷ 03:35 - The Sugar War: Europe’s Race for Colonial Profit
▷ 05:49 - Caribbean Plantations and the Conquest of Fertile Land
▷ 08:15 - Life and Death on the Sugar Plantations
▷ 10:08 - Banks, Insurance, and the Industrialization of the Slave Trade
▷ 14:20 - Europe’s Slave Ports: Nantes, Liverpool, Amsterdam and Beyond
▷ 16:00 - Louis XIV, Royal Power, and the Expansion of the Slave Trade
▷ 21:25 - The Gold Coast: A Major Source of Captives
▷ 23:40 - Antera Duke and the African Brokers of the Slave Trade
▷ 27:15 - The Middle Passage: Terror, Violence, and Survival at Sea
▷ 29:50 - Race, Dehumanization, and the Atlantic Slave System
▷ 33:05 - Plantation Violence and the Machinery of Exploitation
▷ 35:29 - The Black Codes: Slavery Written Into Law
▷ 37:29 - Slave Resistance, Maroons, and Caribbean Rebellions
▷ 41:44 - Olaudah Equiano and the Rise of Abolitionism in Europe
▷ 50:00 - Epilogue: Slavery, Wealth, and the Atlantic World
▷ 52:03 - Credits

#slaveryroutes #historydocumentary #atlanticslavetrade #caribbeanhistory #sugarplantations #slaveryhistory #africanhistory #blackhistory #worldhistory #WocomoHISTORY
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Original title: Slavery Routes: 1620-1789: From sugar to rebellion
Directed by: Daniel Cattier, Juan Gélas, Fanny Glissant
Produced by: Compagnie des Phares et Balises, ARTE France
In co-production with: Kwassa Films, RTBF Télévision Belge, Lx Filmes, RTP, INRAP

© 2018, licensed by Incognita Distribution

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Episode 4: How Slavery Survived After Abolition Of The TransAtlantic Slave Trade | Slavery Routes Kwabena Ofori Osei 3 Views • 2 days ago

The history of slavery did not end with abolition. By the late 18th century, revolts, abolitionist campaigns, and growing public outrage forced European powers to officially ban the transatlantic slave trade. But the demand for enslaved labor did not disappear.

Episode 4: The New Frontiers of Slavery explores how, between 1789 and 1888, slavery was pushed into new territories and transformed into new systems of exploitation. As London, Paris and Washington debated abolition, the Industrial Revolution increased Europe’s hunger for cotton, sugar, coffee, ivory, palm oil and other raw materials.

From the Haitian Revolution to the plantations of Brazil and the United States, from Rio de Janeiro to Zanzibar, from the American Civil War to the colonization of Africa, this final episode of Slavery Routes reveals how slavery survived abolition by changing form.

Even after the transatlantic trade was banned, illegal deportations exploded. In just 50 years, nearly 2.5 million Africans were forcibly transported across the Atlantic. Through archives, historical analysis, and powerful storytelling, this episode shows how the end of the slave trade opened a new chapter in the global history of exploitation, race, empire and resistance.

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Chapters
▷ 00:00 - Introduction: The New Frontiers of Slavery
▷ 01:37 - Rio de Janeiro: The World’s Largest Slave Port
▷ 03:35 - Fear of Slave Revolts Across the Colonial World
▷ 07:43 - Toussaint Louverture, the Haitian Revolution, and the Birth of Haiti
▷ 10:56 - Slavery Expands Across the Americas
▷ 14:31 - The Industrial Revolution and the Machinery of Slavery
▷ 18:10 - The United States: A New Center of Industrial Slavery
▷ 20:00 - Enslaved Families and the Economics of Human Bondage
▷ 22:00 - Zanzibar and the Expansion of New Slave Routes
▷ 24:50 - Swema: The Rare Testimony of an Enslaved Yao Girl
▷ 27:42 - Slavery, Morality, and the Hierarchy of Empires
▷ 29:00 - Slavery, Cotton, and the Road to the American Civil War
▷ 32:25 - After Emancipation: Freedom Without Equality
▷ 36:00 - Abolitionist Explorers and Europe’s Search for New Raw Materials
▷ 38:54 - Tippu Tip: Ivory, Slavery, and Power in East Africa
▷ 40:00 - Palm Oil, Colonial Expansion, and Forced Labor in Africa
▷ 42:34 - Military Violence and the Rise of European Imperial Domination
▷ 43:35 - Race Science and the Justification of Empire
▷ 46:00 - Brazil: One of the Last Countries to Abolish Slavery
▷ 50:16 - Epilogue: 20 Million Africans Deported Across Centuries
▷ 52:03 - Credits

#slaveryroutes #historydocumentary #abolition #slaveryhistory #atlanticslavetrade #africanhistory #blackhistory #haitianrevolution #brazilhistory #worldhistory #WocomoHISTORY
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Original title: Slavery Routes: 1789-1888: The New Frontiers of Slavery
Directed by: Daniel Cattier, Juan Gélas, Fanny Glissant
Produced by: Compagnie des Phares et Balises, ARTE France
In co-production with: Kwassa Films, RTBF Télévision Belge, Lx Filmes, RTP, INRAP

© 2018, licensed by Incognita Distribution

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Documentaries about politics, society and science produced by leading studios around the world. Our goal is to be a reliable source of high-quality information and investigative journalism for a better understanding of relationships, backgrounds and future developments.

Check out our other channels to watch high quality documentaries:
▷ wocomoHUMANITY: https://www.youtube.com/wocomoHUMANITY
▷ wocomoWILDLIFE: https://www.youtube.com/wocomoWILDLIFE
▷ wocomoHISTORY: https://www.youtube.com/wocomoHISTORY
▷ wocomoTRAVEL: https://www.youtube.com/wocomoTRAVEL
▷ wocomoCOOK: https://www.youtube.com/wocomoCOOK

Wocomo DOCS is part of the Wocomo channel network by NIKITA VENTURES. Wocomo - wonderful content in motion.

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