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As Late As 1904, Rothschild Was Still Exporting Slaves From Ibo Land To Brazil by OhuDealer: 10:09pm On Sep 01, 2023 |
In 1904, one Nwabani character, who was a British appointed Warranted chief and a notorious slave holder and dealer from Anambra , was intercepted on his way to Calabar with several dozen slaves. The Colonial officer had stopped Nwabani and freed him of his slaves . Nwabani will petition a higher colonial authority for his goods to be released to him after providing proof from the Rothschild owned Royal Niger Company for a charter to supply slaves to Calabar for onward transfer to Brazil. This is 1904 and not 1804. Slavery was still permitted in Ibo land up till 1951. Ibo slaves were still being sold through Bonny and Calabar directly by Ibo slavers through the Royal Niger Company liscence agreement for onward transfer to Rothschild owned plantations in South America . In comparison, slavery was officially abolished in the fundamentalist Islamist northern Nigeria in 1938 compared to iboland were an official pronouncement was made on abolishing slavery in 1951, 9yrs before independence. There are people in iboland who are alive today who were once slaves . Google, Nwabani Ogogo And see this Jew Yorker article for reference https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/my-great-grandfather-the-nigerian-slave-trader 3 Likes
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Re: As Late As 1904, Rothschild Was Still Exporting Slaves From Ibo Land To Brazil by Alchemy528: 10:10pm On Sep 01, 2023 |
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Re: As Late As 1904, Rothschild Was Still Exporting Slaves From Ibo Land To Brazil by OhuDealer: 10:15pm On Sep 01, 2023 |
In the late 19th to early 20th century, he carried a slave-trading license from the Royal Niger Company, an English corporation that ruled southern Nigeria. His agents captured slaves across the region and passed them to middlemen, who brought them to the ports of Bonny and Calabar and sold them to white merchants. [b]Slavery had already been abolished in the United States and the United Kingdom, but his slaves were legally shipped to Cuba and Brazil. [/b]To win his favor, local leaders gave him their daughters in marriage. (By his death, he had dozens of wives.) His influence drew the attention of colonial officials, who appointed him chief of Umujieze and several other towns. He presided over court cases and set up churches and schools. He built a guesthouse on the land where my parents’ home now stands, and hosted British dignitaries. To inform him of their impending arrival and verify their identities, guests sent him envelopes containing locks of their Caucasian hair. 3 Likes |
Re: As Late As 1904, Rothschild Was Still Exporting Slaves From Ibo Land To Brazil by Krugisback(m): 10:19pm On Sep 01, 2023 |
I don't blame you i blame your parents for buying you a smartphone 3 Likes |
Re: As Late As 1904, Rothschild Was Still Exporting Slaves From Ibo Land To Brazil by OhuDealer: 10:25pm On Sep 01, 2023 |
[b]The British tried to end slavery among the Igbo in the early nineteen-hundreds, though the practice persisted into the nineteen-forties. In the early years of abolition, by British recommendation, masters adopted their freed slaves into their extended families. One of the slaves who joined my family was Nwaokonkwo, a convicted murderer from another village who chose slavery as an alternative to capital punishment and eventually became Nwaubani Ogogo’s most trusted manservant. In the nineteen-forties, after my great-grandfather was long dead, Nwaokonkwo was accused of attempting to poison his heir, Igbokwe, in order to steal a plot of land. My family sentenced him to banishment from the village. When he heard the verdict, he ran down the hill, flung himself on Nwaubani Ogogo’s grave, and wept, saying that my family had once given him refuge and was now casting him out. Eventually, my ancestors allowed him to remain, but instructed all their freed slaves to drop our surname and choose new names. “If they had been behaving better, they would have been accepted,” my father said.[/b] 1 Like |
Re: As Late As 1904, Rothschild Was Still Exporting Slaves From Ibo Land To Brazil by OhuDealer: 10:27pm On Sep 01, 2023 |
Sultanofpiglets: The descendants of freed slaves in southern Nigeria, called ohu, still face significant stigma. Igbo culture forbids them from marrying freeborn people, and denies them traditional leadership titles such as Eze and Ozo. (The osu, an untouchable caste descended from slaves who served at shrines, face even more severe persecution.) My father considers the ohu in our family a thorn in our side, constantly in opposition to our decisions. In the nineteen-eighties, during a land dispute with another family, two ohu families testified against us in court. “They hate us,” my father said. “No matter how much money they have, they still have a slave mentality.” My friend Ugo, whose family had a similar disagreement with its ohu members, told me, “The dissension is coming from all these people with borrowed blood.” 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: As Late As 1904, Rothschild Was Still Exporting Slaves From Ibo Land To Brazil by OhuDealer: 10:29pm On Sep 01, 2023 |
Sultanofpiglets: I first became aware of the ohu when I attended boarding school in Owerri. I was interested to discover that another new student’s family came from Umujieze, though she told me that they hardly ever visited home. It seemed, from our conversations, that we might be related—not an unusual discovery in a large family, but exciting nonetheless. When my parents came to visit, I told them about the girl. My father quietly informed me that we were not blood relatives. She was ohu, the granddaughter of Nwaokonkwo. |
Re: As Late As 1904, Rothschild Was Still Exporting Slaves From Ibo Land To Brazil by OhuDealer: 10:32pm On Sep 01, 2023 |
More history for ya ohu ass Sultanofpiglets: I’m not sure if this revelation meant much to me at the time. The girl and I remained friendly, though we rarely spoke again about our family. But, in 2000, another friend, named Ugonna, was forbidden from marrying a man she had dated for years because her family found out that he was osu. Afterward, an osu friend named Nonye told me that growing up knowing that her ancestors were slaves was “sort of like having the bogeyman around.” Recently, I spoke to Nwannennaya, a thirty-nine-year-old ohu member of my family. “The way you people behave is as if we are inferior,” she said. Her parents kept their ohu ancestry secret from her until she was seventeen. Although our families were neighbors, she and I rarely interacted. “There was a day you saw me and asked me why I was bleaching my skin,” she said. “I was very happy because you spoke to me. I went to my mother and told her. You and I are sisters. That is how sisters are supposed to behave.” |
Re: As Late As 1904, Rothschild Was Still Exporting Slaves From Ibo Land To Brazil by banku: 10:32pm On Sep 01, 2023 |
Please talk or write logically. So if there were more Yoruba in Brazil, Igbo slaves could not have been smuggled in by Igbo and their collaborators. Sultanofpiglets: 3 Likes |
Re: As Late As 1904, Rothschild Was Still Exporting Slaves From Ibo Land To Brazil by OhuDealer: 10:34pm On Sep 01, 2023 |
Sultanofpiglets: Modernization is emboldening ohu and freeborn to intermarry, despite the threat of ostracization. “I know communities where people of slave descent have become affluent and have started demanding the right to hold positions,” Professor Okoro told me. “It is creating conflict in many communities.” Last year, in a town in Enugu State, an ohu man was appointed to a traditional leadership position, sparking mass protests. In a nearby village, an ohu man became the top police officer, giving the local ohu enough influence to push for reform. Eventually, they were apportioned a separate section of the community, where they can live according to whatever laws they please, away from the freeborn. “It will probably be a long time before all traces of slavery disappear from the minds of the people,” G. T. Basden, a British missionary, wrote of the Igbo in 1921. “Until the conscience of the people functions, the distinctions between slave and free-born will be maintained.” 1 Like |
Re: As Late As 1904, Rothschild Was Still Exporting Slaves From Ibo Land To Brazil by Sultanofpiglets: 10:38pm On Sep 01, 2023 |
Your bait NO GO WORK. You Pride yourselves with your culture being practiced extensively in those areas. Now you want to say it's IGBOs? You guys are truly dumb..forget banter matter. The known salve export of IGBOs is even documented as the 'eboe landing'. Where IGBO slaves drown themselves than submit to white dominance. Go and read books and stop showcasing Soyinka Foolishness here. Just imagine slaves that Lost common ILORIN, want to shift cowardice to the GREAT IGBOs... NEVER..spits banku: 2 Likes |
Re: As Late As 1904, Rothschild Was Still Exporting Slaves From Ibo Land To Brazil by OhuDealer: 10:40pm On Sep 01, 2023 |
Okiete human sacrifices using ohus Sultanofpiglets: Nwabani was believed to have acquired spiritual powers from the shrine of a deity named Njoku, which allowed him to wield influence over white colonists. Among his possessions, which are passed down to the head of the family, was the symbol of his alliance with Njoku: a pot containing a human head. “You had to cut the head straight into the pot while the person was still alive, without it touching the floor,” my father said. “It couldn’t just be anybody’s head. It had to be someone you knew.” In Nwaubani Ogogo’s case, this someone was most likely a slave. When Gilbert, my great-uncle and a previous head of our family, died in 1989, his second wife, Nnenna, a devout Christian, destroyed the pot. Shortly afterward, her children began to die mysterious deaths, one after another. Nnenna contracted a strange ailment and died in 2009. Some relatives began to fear that dark forces had been unleashed. Last July, my father’s cousin Sunny, a professor of engineering, visited my parents to discuss another concern: a growing enmity in our family. Minor arguments had led relatives to stop speaking to one another. Several had become estranged from the family. “We always have one major disagreement or division or the other,” my father’s cousin Samuel told me. My cousin Ezeugo was not surprised by the worrying trend. “Across Igbo land, wherever there was slave trade with the white people, things never go well,” he said. “They always have problems there. Everybody has noticed it.” My relatives thought that our family’s history was coming back to haunt us. 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: As Late As 1904, Rothschild Was Still Exporting Slaves From Ibo Land To Brazil by Sultanofpiglets: 10:40pm On Sep 01, 2023 |
Busted..and Yoruba worthless historian resorts to story telling. That is how you claimed your ancestor 'fell from the sky' ..you wanted to portray 'Grace and Glamorous descent' , but everyone knows it's the worthless SATAN..LUCIFER..that is actually your ancestor...spits OhuDealer: 3 Likes |
Re: As Late As 1904, Rothschild Was Still Exporting Slaves From Ibo Land To Brazil by OhuDealer: 10:41pm On Sep 01, 2023 |
Sultanofpiglets: Ohu, the article I am quoting was written by your Freeborn Dialla master. Seethe more. 2 Likes |
Re: As Late As 1904, Rothschild Was Still Exporting Slaves From Ibo Land To Brazil by OhuDealer: 10:42pm On Sep 01, 2023 |
Sultanofpiglets: Stop foaming in the mouth ohu. Take your quarrel with those who enslaved your ancestors and condemned their generation to slavery. 2 Likes |
Re: As Late As 1904, Rothschild Was Still Exporting Slaves From Ibo Land To Brazil by Sultanofpiglets: 10:45pm On Sep 01, 2023 |
Human sacrifices..when it's a known fact that there is an EPIDEMIC concerning ritual killings in the SW? A region that has Names for Human parts? A region that has sacrifices at every Junction A region that uses 'juju' to contain Randy and dirty pigs they call wives? ..Magun A region whose political elite are certified drug Mike's and 419'ers? A region, where incest is like Good Morning tonic? You want more? ... You are such a laid back dunce. You are smart in the.midst of fools, but very shallow in the presence of the Great IGBOs. OhuDealer: 1 Like |
Re: As Late As 1904, Rothschild Was Still Exporting Slaves From Ibo Land To Brazil by Sultanofpiglets: 10:47pm On Sep 01, 2023 |
You can't even stand what you do constantly. Remember this fool... Respect comes from Admiration or Fear. On both counts IGBOs are your Nemesis.. OhuDealer: 2 Likes |
Re: As Late As 1904, Rothschild Was Still Exporting Slaves From Ibo Land To Brazil by OhuDealer: 10:49pm On Sep 01, 2023 |
Sultanofpiglets: You need deliverance from ancestral slavery and banishment . 1 Like |
Re: As Late As 1904, Rothschild Was Still Exporting Slaves From Ibo Land To Brazil by OhuDealer: 10:49pm On Sep 01, 2023 |
With tears in his eyes, my father explained that, in Nwaubani Ogogo’s day, selling and sacrificing human beings was common practice, but that now we know it to be deeply offensive to God. He thanked God for the honor and prestige bestowed on our family through my great-grandfather, and asked God’s forgiveness for the atrocities he committed. We prayed over a passage that my father texted us from the Book of Psalms: Who can understand his errors? Cleanse me from secret faults. Keep back Your servant also from presumptuous sins; Let them not have dominion over me. Then I shall be blameless, And I shall be innocent of great transgression. During the ceremony, I was overwhelmed with relief. My family was finally taking a step beyond whispering and worrying. Of course, nothing can undo the harm that Nwaubani Ogogo caused. And the ohu, who are not his direct descendants, were not invited to the ceremony; their mistreatment in the region continues. Still, it felt important for my family to publicly denounce its role in the slave trade. “Our family is taking responsibility,” my cousin Chidi, who joined from London, told me. Chioma, who took part in Atlanta, said, “We were trying to make peace and atone for what our ancestors did.” 1 Like |
Re: As Late As 1904, Rothschild Was Still Exporting Slaves From Ibo Land To Brazil by OhuDealer: 10:51pm On Sep 01, 2023 |
On the final day, my relatives strolled along a recently tarred stretch of road to our local Anglican church. The church was established in 1904, on land that Nwaubani Ogogo donated. Inside, a priest presided over a two-hour prayer session. At the end, he pronounced blessings on us, and proclaimed a new beginning for the Nwaubani family. After the ceremony, my family members discussed making it a yearly ritual. “This sort of thing opens up the mercy of God,” my mother, Patricia, said. “People did all these evil things but they don’t talk about it. The more people confess and renounce their evil past, the more cleansing will come to the land.” 1 Like |
Re: As Late As 1904, Rothschild Was Still Exporting Slaves From Ibo Land To Brazil by Sultanofpiglets: 10:51pm On Sep 01, 2023 |
Slave? I laugh... Who rules ILORIN in KWARA..an OBA right? You are a certified dunce. OhuDealer: 5 Likes 1 Share |
Re: As Late As 1904, Rothschild Was Still Exporting Slaves From Ibo Land To Brazil by Sultanofpiglets: 10:52pm On Sep 01, 2023 |
He is crying and trying desperately to make his statements bold, because he has been smashed on his own worthless thread.. IGBOs BOSS... FACTs OhuDealer: 3 Likes |
Re: As Late As 1904, Rothschild Was Still Exporting Slaves From Ibo Land To Brazil by OhuDealer: 10:54pm On Sep 01, 2023 |
Sultanofpiglets: Fresh Prince Rabbi Kanu having his shoes shined by ohu lips. 1 Like
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Re: As Late As 1904, Rothschild Was Still Exporting Slaves From Ibo Land To Brazil by OhuDealer: 11:02pm On Sep 01, 2023 |
Sultanofpiglets nah confirm ohu See as this thread pain am 2 Likes |
Re: As Late As 1904, Rothschild Was Still Exporting Slaves From Ibo Land To Brazil by Sultanofpiglets: 11:08pm On Sep 01, 2023 |
See why I say you are worthless as a Yoruba man. The picture shows an IGBO bowing to Another IGBO. Nnamdi Kanu is a prince and the man could be his subject. When the Ooni of ife comes out in the open subjects bow. Yoruba people When the OBA of BENIN comes out people bow. Edo people But when the FULANI EMIR comes out in Yoruba land of ILORIN, worthless Yoruba Bow, to their conqueror. That alone is foolish Generational slavery and servitude. You are pathetic and worthless..spits OhuDealer: 6 Likes 1 Share |
Re: As Late As 1904, Rothschild Was Still Exporting Slaves From Ibo Land To Brazil by Sultanofpiglets: 11:09pm On Sep 01, 2023 |
You dey write novel You dey show picture I dey break your worthless head.. You dey cry blood everywhere. IGBOs Gallant. OhuDealer: 3 Likes |
Re: As Late As 1904, Rothschild Was Still Exporting Slaves From Ibo Land To Brazil by OhuDealer: 11:09pm On Sep 01, 2023 |
Sultanofpiglets: Ohu defending his slave caste Slaves will be slaves. E dey your blood. |
Re: As Late As 1904, Rothschild Was Still Exporting Slaves From Ibo Land To Brazil by OhuDealer: 11:11pm On Sep 01, 2023 |
Sultanofpiglets: This thread sha dey pain you . You no fit hide your seafar pains. Pele |
Re: As Late As 1904, Rothschild Was Still Exporting Slaves From Ibo Land To Brazil by OhuDealer: 11:11pm On Sep 01, 2023 |
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Re: As Late As 1904, Rothschild Was Still Exporting Slaves From Ibo Land To Brazil by Sultanofpiglets: 11:12pm On Sep 01, 2023 |
Na you dey cry on top your worthless thread. IGBOs Gallant . OhuDealer: 3 Likes |
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