Iran & Africa Just DROPPED a LEGO Video Exposing the History America Buried About Slavery

Added: 2026-05-19

[00:00:01][music] >> This is not fiction.

[00:00:04]This is documented history.

[00:00:08]African villages were raided at night by armed gangs funded by European [music] merchants.

[00:00:16]>> [singing] >> Entire families were taken and never returned.

[00:00:25]>> [music] [singing] >> Under the cover of dark European back kingdoms.

[00:00:33]No soldiers at the border.

[00:00:39]>> [music] >> Just fire and iron chains.

[00:00:44]>> [music] >> Armed men marched them [music] away in chains.

[00:01:01]They burned their homes. [music] And seized every man, >> [singing] >> the night raiders >> [music] >> in history.

[00:01:14]>> [music and singing] >> Between the 15th and 19th centuries, the transatlantic slave trade was organized and funded by European powers, Portugal, Britain, France, [music] Spain, and Netherlands. These governments entered formal trade agreements with African coastal kingdoms, specifically [music] the Dahomey kingdom and the Ashanti empire. European merchants paid these [music] kingdoms in firearms, gunpowder, alcohol, and manufactured goods. In return, [music] the coastal kingdoms assembled professional raiding armies and sent them [singing] hundreds of miles into the African interior to capture people from inland villages that [music] had no political relationship with these coastal powers and no knowledge of what was being planned against them. The raids were deliberately [music] conducted at night.

[00:01:58]Raiding parties moved under darkness to prevent the targeted villages from organizing any defense. When they arrived, they immediately set [music] homes on fire. The fire served two purposes. It destroyed [music] shelter so survivors could not return and it forced sleeping families to run [music] outside into the open where they could be seized. Men who grabbed weapons and resisted were cut down with swords and firearms on the spot. [music] Elders who were too old or too weak to survive the forced march were executed immediately because they held [music] no commercial value. Children, women, and men of working age were bound at the wrist and neck with iron shackles and heavy [music] wooden yokes, assembled into long columns and marched on foot sometimes more than 400 miles to fortify trading [music] ports on the West African coast.

[00:02:56]Harnessed >> [music] [music] [music] [screaming] [music] >> Armed men marched them [singing] away in chains. [music] They burned the homes. [music] And seized every man, >> [singing] >> and history >> [music] >> and history >> [singing] >> The march to the coast [music] was itself a killing event.

[00:03:48]Captives who collapsed from exhaustion, starvation, [music] dehydration, or physical injury were killed on the road >> [music] >> rather than left behind because abandoning them no financial [music] return.

[00:04:04]Those who survived the march reached fortified >> [music] >> coastal dungeons.

[00:04:10]Elmina Castle in present-day Ghana and [music] Cape Coast Castle were among the most documented holding facilities.

[00:04:18]Captives were imprisoned underground in stone cells with no [music] light, no sanitation, no adequate food, and no communication with the outside.

[00:04:28]>> Oh, well. Many died [music] there before ever boarding a ship.

[00:04:33]European slave traders entered [music] the dungeons to inspect captives the way buyers inspect livestock at auction. Note, selected were branded [music] on the chest or back with hot iron marks indicating which European trading company had purchased them.

[00:04:49]They were then loaded on the slave ships [music] in cargo holds with no room to stand upright. Chained side by side in rows lying their own [music and singing] waste for the entire ocean crossing.

[00:05:01]Historians estimate that between 10 and 20% of captives died [music] during the middle passage the ocean voyage from West Africa to the Americas, >> [music] >> which lasted between 60 and 90 days.

[00:05:16]Those who survived [music] arrived as the forced labor that built the agriculture and economic foundation [music] of the United States, Brazil, and the Caribbean. This was not random. This was not random. This was a coordinated system.

[00:05:33]>> European governments [music and singing] European governments supplied the financing and the ships. [music] African coastal kingdoms supplied supplied the raiding parties to millions. of black people lost their names, [music and singing] >> their languages, their children, and their freedom, >> [music] >> and >> single night of fire. I am in silence.

[00:05:55]What began in [music] those burning villages [singing] became the foundation of centuries of oppression. The ancestors of millions of black Americans were taken in that darkness. [music] Their names were erased. Their histories were buried.

[00:06:12]But their descendants [music] are still here. Mhm.

[00:06:15]And the record still stands.

[00:06:21]In the 1600s and 1700s armed raiding parties funded by European slave merchants >> [music] >> African villages before sunrise.

[00:06:35]>> [music] >> They took entire families.

[00:06:40]>> [music] >> They destroyed every home.

[00:06:43]>> [singing] >> They left behind nothing but ash.

[00:06:49]This is the documented record.

[00:06:51]>> [music] >> Yeah.

[00:06:58]Uh.

[00:07:01]Portugal signed formal trade [music] agreements with the Dahomey kingdom in the 17th century. The Dahomey received European firearms, gunpowder, and rum in exchange.

[00:07:11]They supplied captured Africans [music] from neighboring inland territories that had no knowledge of these agreements and no military [singing] capacity to resist them.

[00:07:21]The raids [music] were carefully planned and coordinated weeks in advance. Armed raiding parties traveled on foot into the interior and surrounded [music] villages in the hours before sunrise when residents were deepest in sleep.

[00:07:33]Homes were set on fire to force [music] families into the open. Every person caught was evaluated immediately on the spot. Those too old to survive the march were killed [music] on the road.

[00:07:45]Those too sick to generate labor value were left dead in the dirt. Every able-bodied man, woman, [music] and child was shackled and assembled in the columns.

[00:07:57]>> [music and singing] [singing and music] [music] >> The captives who survived the ill and march [music] arrived at fortified coastal slave dungeons. Cape Coast Castle and Elmina Castle in present-day Ghana held thousands of people underground at one time. [music] No windows, no adequate water, no medical attention. Families captured together [music] were separated permanently at these dungeons and never reunited.

[00:08:36]European traders representing British, French, Dutch, and [music] Portuguese companies arrived by ship to select and purchase captives. Payment was made [music] in currency and trade goods.

[00:08:46]Selected captives were branded on the skin with hot iron marks identifying [music] the purchasing company. They were then loaded below the deck of slave ships [music] in rows chained side by side unable to stand or change position for a crossing that lasted [music] between 60 and 90 days.

[00:09:04]Many did not survive the voyage.

[00:09:06]>> [music] [singing] >> The Ashanti Empire raided [music] the interior of West Africa.

[00:09:15]But the Dahomey kingdom managed the supply chain [music] to the coast.

[00:09:20]The British Parliament financed >> [music] >> and legally protected the trade Spanish and Portuguese plantations consumed the labor French colonies >> [music] >> built entire economies on it.

[00:09:39]Every [music] institution in the Western world had a structured role.

[00:09:46]And what happened >> [music] >> the night the raiders came?

[00:09:52]>> [music] >> They stole languages.

[00:09:56]They stole bloodlines.

[00:09:58]>> [music] >> Centuries of lineage across an entire continent.

[00:10:04]>> [music] >> What they could not erase that it happened.

[00:10:10]The historical record is permanent.

[00:10:15]>> [singing]