SpatialKing:
Nothing to be proud of about slavery

Slytiger:

Ijaws enslaved ibos. History is not always pleasant but it is what it is. Asari made a similar statement and no one argued with him. There are documents and pictures too.

An example is a picture below from the 19th century showing an Ijaw man and his fully dressed children and naked slave girls. From the ichafu on the head, and bangles on calf of those slave girls, you can easily tell the tribe they are from. I have filtered out the original image to remove nudity.

Voyagerr:


Ijaw bought igbo as slaves from igbo

Now read carefully at what I wrote , igbo had a OSU caste system where they sell criminals/ people who disobeyed the law

And people that practiced this were Aro a subgroup of igbo.

One thing about igbo is you cannot generalize them because they were divided into different subgroup

Instead mention the subgroup that sold the people to ijaws. Aro subgroup were the ones involved in the slave trade, and they sold igbo considered criminals or neighboring communities to the white men

Ijaw acted as a middleman and bought some for themselves which they will later free after some years.

Saying ijaw enslaved igbo is stupid , Instead igbo sold igbo is better.

Nri a subgroup of igbo never practiced slavery and considered everyone equal

GeneralPulal:
He spoke well..

Igbo nah one small ethnic group right from back in the days. They had no king or whatsoever, just like Reno said..

But I don’t think binis, ijaws couldn’t enslave Igbos cuz they were not united. I believe it cuz they saw them as people with no or less resources. During slave trade, slaves with no resources, slaves from stagnant enclave don’t usually worth much!

So, to me, it’s more of even if we enslave them, what’s there to make off them?..

opamoses1:

With the amount of Igbos sold, it's hard to believe that all of them were criminals sold by the Aros. Raiding small villages was the most common with slavery.

Slytiger:

Ijaws enslaved ibos. History is not always pleasant but it is what it is. Asari made a similar statement and no one argued with him. There are documents and pictures too.

An example is a picture below from the 19th century showing an Ijaw man and his fully dressed children and naked slave girls. From the ichafu on the head, and bangles on calf of those slave girls, you can easily tell the tribe they are from. I have filtered out the original image to remove nudity.

Wickeddy:

Voyagerr:


No need to laugh, the report is false

The igbo subgroup of aro never engaged in any major war with Benin or ijaw

Instead igbo of aro sold slaves to ijaw , slaves captured during tribal wars or OSU caste system

Some of these slaves were not even igbo but because they were sold by aro igbo subgroup they were tagged as igbo

Ijaw and Benin are too small , they were defeated within 9 days by the British

Meanwhile it took 30 years for British to completely bring the igbo entirely down

Dalohad:
Enslave Ibo to do what exactly?

If they truly enslave Ibos to build their villages, why are they minorities to Ibos in all indices today?

Why is Onitsha and Aba bigger and more developed than Benin and Bayelsa?

Voyagerr:


I don't think I need to reply you again

I already told you the slaves were sold to ijaw people by igbo people

People igbo captured and sold as slaves too were called ibos or Igbos.

Ijaw and any igbo subgrouo never fought any major war .

The British itself would not even enslave igbo and were resisted for 30 good years!

It's ijaw that would now enslave igbo? Okay if you say ijaws enslaved a sub hub of igbo then which igbo did the British fought since you claimed igbo were already conquered?

Both ijaw and Benin didn't matter much but they are just too loud, people that British burned down their empire and captured everyone as slaves within 9 Days?

saddler:


Stop this trash you are dumping here.

Igbos resisted British for 30 years? This only exists in your empty brain.

Benin was the only tribe that resisted the British and fought head-on while your ancestors were easily colonized without any resistance.

Check history documented by the British, anioma and other igbo subgroup united and fought against the British

I'm speaking out of emotion but Facts

The British first defeated the Aro Chukwu sub group of igbos within 1 year

While Ekumeku movement which comprises of anioma people and either subgroup of igbo united together against the British

You can't say anything about Benin because it was destroyed in 9 days, the British didn't have much troubles destroying the whole empire

British fought years of war against igbo people before they got defeated


Now you are here spilling trash.

saddler:


Stop this trash you are dumping here.

Igbos resisted British for 30 years? This only exists in your empty brain.

Benin was the only tribe that resisted the British and fought head-on while your ancestors were easily colonized without any resistance.

Benin war lasted just 9 days ! And the oba fled to present day Calabar where he died . Very sad event

What the white men saw in the oba palace was terrific because they saw people killed and sacrificed in his room

I still wonder why Benin worship obas like they are God.

Unlike the Nri of igbo and ewa of Ghana that practiced a democracy system the rest were just blood thirsty empires Killing and raiding villages

Empire my ass!


Now you are here spilling trash.

saddler:


Stop spilling trash!


There was no resistance from anything called igbo when it comes to colonization. Your ancestors were simply bushmen or slaves at best.

Stop mentioning Anioma because that term is a recent word describing many ethnic groups who were under the Benin empire. They are not igbos and have always rejected being called igbos.


Next time you want to bring a proof on history, dont bring a Revisionist idea that was written just a year ago.

saddler:


Stop spilling trash!


There was no resistance from anything called igbo when it comes to colonization. Your ancestors were simply bushmen or slaves at best.

Stop mentioning Anioma because that term is a recent word describing many ethnic groups who were under the Benin empire. They are not igbos and have always rejected being called igbos.


Next time you want to bring a proof on history, dont bring a Revisionist idea that was written just a year ago.

Voyagerr:


Igbo people were divided into subgroup and each were powerful, although NRI didn't practice slavery and were peace loving people, they didn't invade anyone but instead people joined them out of free will

They freed slaves and practiced a Democratic system, while most empires were fighting each other like bunch of terrorists and bandits

Nri already had advancement and discovered the lost wax technique before even the British

They were civilized enough to know war is a waste of time and instead they built a civilization based on religious practices, peace and love.

All the rest of the empires were just fighting like idiots, where is the Benin empire now? Or the ijaw ?

When you spend all your time fighting and now you are living in old Glory

Falsifying documents to make yourself look great while worshipping a man like you as a God !

Slytiger:

It's the main reason. The ibos were a bigger tribe than those other minority tribes but the ibos were not united as one indivisible unit. This made it easy for even smaller tribes like the igala or ijaws to raid or poach small Ibo hamlets to catch slaves. It's difficult for smaller groups of people to defend themselves especially when there are children and women in those settlements as well.

saddler:


You may tag it old glory or whatever term but trying to distort or misrepresent history is a criminal offense.


When it comes to history, your tribe has almost nothing on the Benin Empire.

The facts are there even by your own igbo kinsmen for you to check e.g Nnamdi Azikwe, Olaudah Equiano, and now the Obi of Onitsha.



Let history be history, dont distort it.

Validated:

Truth ... however Igbos are no longer "slaves" now.
Unfortunately, same cannot be said of the Yorubas in Ilorin, who are still slaves to their Fulani masters even to these days.

Voyagerr:


The people aro igbo sub group sold were the ones that were slaves , the slaves were not fully taken by conquests

They were sold by Aro a subgroup of igbo , Unlike NRI that never practiced slavery and were peace loving people, they expanded not by war but by peace

Ijaws and Benin tried making petty attacks on NRI Kingdom, Nri didn't fight war , they believed in peace and controlled trade and commerce. They freed slaves and their land were called Holy land . Any slave who step is foot in Nri automatically becomes free

Benin and Ijaw were savages who saw Nri who were peace makers , Nri has already discovered the act of wax broozing, metal,and had advanced religious and agricultural system. They even had pyramids! No empire have it in Nigeria!

Igbo history is rich , don't let terrorists and savages fool you with Petty talks . People whose people are a minority today

saddler:


Stop this trash you are dumping here.

Igbos resisted British for 30 years? This only exists in your empty brain.

Benin was the only tribe that resisted the British and fought head-on while your ancestors were easily colonized without any resistance.


Now you are here spilling trash.

chopnaira:

My favourite book about Nigerian tribe.

chopnaira:

My favourite book about Nigerian tribe.

Voyagerr:


I don't think most Nigerian have a very high IQ

You think this is a street Battle? I'm stating facts and you're arguing with your emotions

Benin empire might be great but great to itself alone

Igbo never had an empire but your subgroups were powerful enough, NRI alone had so much achievement and were peace loving people

I did not say anything that didn't happen about the Benin neither did I falsify anything

Benin was defeated in 9 days! The empire fell off and the oba ran away.

Igbo as a whole weee not easily defeated because they were divided into subgroups

If the whole igbo has joined forces to form an empire it would have been brutal because they had the tech and the normal and achieved a lot even as subgroups.

But I am glad they didn't form any empire, I don't like the method used by empires , they just kill and keep killing amd keep expanding until they lose everything.

saddler:

These facts you are stating only exists in your head and over-bloated ego which has been shown to be in the average igbo man.

Just blabbing and blabbing on the internet vomiting falsehood. Even when your kings and elders tells you the truth, you abuse them because they aren't saying what you want to hear

The British punitive expedition in Benin lasted 3 weeks. This can be found almost everywhere accurately documented with the events that took place.

But here you are spilling falsehood and trying to talk down on Benin who created a civilization your ancestors could only envy from afar.

Keep on with your ego, its innate.

Voyagerr:


Which civilization did Benin create? Do you even know the meaning of civilization?

British invaded Benin 9–18 February 1897

The whole greatness was brought down in no less than 2 weeks! What exactly was the civilization?

Or the selling of slaves was the civilization? The oba that was killing his own people for sacrifices?

Tell me what significant their civilization or whatever was ? At least we see great civilization today , the han dynasty, the Iran , British, Spanish and so on still producing great things

Benin own is just mouth, apart from their art , what else did they make they will shock anyone?

Over hyped! Get out

Voyagerr:


Igbo are one of the largest ethnicity in Africa at large. Now like I said the Igbo operated in subgroup and were democratic in nature unlike empires that were all united terrorists.

By then no tribe was really recognized then , it was not until the British united all igbo speaking people that we had the numbers we had today

Even Benin and ijaws although both had an empire , not sure about ijaws but , today we have them in very little numbers.

saddler:


Your ancestors were not sensible enough to even be humanly organized.

As at the time of the Benin Empire, the reigning form of human organization were Kingdoms and Empires. And Benin built one that stood out in what will later be known as Nigeria. It was even recognized by the outside world.

This is also a fact you can check.

Let's ask...what did your ancestors achieve? What were they known for? Cannibalism and being raided and sold as slaves.


Even other Ethnic groups such as the Igala raided igbo villages and captured your ancestors. They took your lands and even installed their kings. Till today there are kings in igbo land( Enugu) who testify they are from Igala.

Do you know what is called ",The Bight of Benin"?


Benin Enpire was so great and recognized that the a bight along the West African coast was named after it.

Do you also know the Republic of Benin 🇧🇯?

That country derived it name from the Bight of Benin.


What do you call that? Greatness


At a time your ancestors were still in the bush, Benin was already being recognized by world powers as at that time.

No need schooling you on the obvious. Next time you want to discuss or argue history, be careful about what you write and leave Benin out of your falsehood. Benin history is too documented to be distorted by a low-life like you.

saddler:


Your ancestors were not sensible enough to even be humanly organized.

As at the time of the Benin Empire, the reigning form of human organization were Kingdoms and Empires. And Benin built one that stood out in what will later be known as Nigeria. It was even recognized by the outside world.

This is also a fact you can check.

Let's ask...what did your ancestors achieve? What were they known for? Cannibalism and being raided and sold as slaves.


Even other Ethnic groups such as the Igala raided igbo villages and captured your ancestors. They took your lands and even installed their kings. Till today there are kings in igbo land( Enugu) who testify they are from Igala.

Do you know what is called ",The Bight of Benin"?


Benin Enpire was so great and recognized that the a bight along the West African coast was named after it.

Do you also know the Republic of Benin 🇧🇯?

That country derived it name from the Bight of Benin.


What do you call that? Greatness


At a time your ancestors were still in the bush, Benin was already being recognized by world powers as at that time.

No need schooling you on the obvious. Next time you want to discuss or argue history, be careful about what you write and leave Benin out of your falsehood. Benin history is too documented to be distorted by a low-life like you.