Africans in America. The terrible transformation. Part 1
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Akosua Perbi is interviewed about the impact of raids and kidnappings, warfare as a source of enslavement in Ghana, slave markets in Ghana, slaves given as tributes, minor offences leading to enslavement, external enslavement vs internal enslavement, fear, suspicion and insecurity during the time of slavery, the role of guns and gunpowder, kidnappings in Ghana, songs telling the history of slavery, in Ghana no slave owner had the power of life and death over the slave unlike Atlantic slavery, Ghanaians were unaware of the harsh treatment of slaves overseas.
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44 minutes
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Alexander Street
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