Women for Spoons, Men for Gunpowder, Children for Sardines: Here’s how much slaves were sold for

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  • Asante 1 year ago

    Were there cameras at time?. Where did you find these pictures and how authentic are they?.

  • Tutugyagu 1 year ago

    They exchanged them with whom? Of course the greedy Ghanaians and their chiefs. It is still happening. The Ghanaian will sell his or her birthright to foreigners by taking money from them!

  • Susan Djan 1 year ago

    Was the caretaker born at that time to answer questions. Hmmmmm

  • Pee@atl 1 year ago

    You are an idiot.

  • Joe 1 year ago

    Why is there so little info about which Africans actually participated in the slave trade? Which local chiefs, elders, tribes actually sold the slaves to the Europeans?

  • N. Mensah 1 year ago

    LIES! THIS WOMAN IS MISINFORMING THE JOURNALISTS, BUT INSTEAD OF CROSS CHECKING, THEY'VE PUBLISHED THIS RUBBISH. Canned Sardines in the 1800s? Or fresh sardines from the sea, which the local fishermen were already catching lo ...
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  • Ebony 1 year ago

    You are the only one being discerning here

  • sammy amedeka 1 year ago

    fOOL! Wise up, the chiefs and middle men used the guns and gunpowder to create interethnic wars, after the taken the prisoners or refugees, the then sell them to the whites for profits, Samori and Babatu also got some to raid ...
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  • Wasteman 1 year ago

    WHEN KASONGO OFORI ATTA COMES BACK FROM EXILE, WE HAVE TO CATCH HIM AND LOCK HIM UP THERE AND THROW THE KEYS AWAYYYY

  • Bastie the emperor of Kumasi 1 year ago

    Asante claim they’re the descendants of the enslaved African people in the diaspora.

    At home , they claim they subdued every tribe.

    You do the maths

  • OB 1 year ago

    They were even against the abolition of the slave trade. Toilet eating devils

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  • Slim 1 year ago

    Simple Google Assistant search will tell you that canned sardines were not available during the slave trade.

  • sammy amedeka 1 year ago

    It could have been biscuits or Sweets at the time. try to emancipate yourselves from mental Slavery, I like what the Journalist have to say! They the whites were killing and raping at the same time going to church and worship ...
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