Wow. A beautiful painting. But he went back to the slave trade after suffering from it. He decided that benefiting from it was more important than being a human fighting against it. The portrait becomes a personification of the inhumanity of the times in which he lived.

@selinaali9367

4 жыл бұрын

We can draw parallel to the present times where slave labour is still being exploited for the constructions of buildings in Dubai and slave labour in garments factory. We are all complicit as we continue to buy £3 beef tops from Primark and the likes

@DheerajKattula

4 жыл бұрын

Slavery was very postively seen in Islam. It wasn't that the slaves were given into Christianity. Muslims weren't enslaved by Muslim slave traders like his father. He being a practicing Muslim didn't have the cognitive dissonance with slave trade the way Christians like William Wilberforce had for slavery.

@saphirstone17

4 жыл бұрын

@@selinaali9367 I agree, that's true!😢

This picture is more powerful than monalisa

@finitewonder4978

4 жыл бұрын

Epic✨

@lotfibouhedjeur9897

4 жыл бұрын

I couldn't agree more.

@debbiethompson14

4 жыл бұрын

ABSOLUTELY

@Kevin.Anthony3

4 жыл бұрын

Trust.

@shimronnetia

4 жыл бұрын

wow... that is so true

Sorry but as an African, I am stunned. You can't be a slave trader, then be traded and live the life of a slave yourself then return to be a trader, knowing the suffering you will inflict. He manipulated himself out of slavery to coldbloodedly return to his "business". Let's not sugarcoat his behaviour! We can't bring down Colston statue in Bristol UK then say that we will judge Diallo differently because "he is black" and the portrait is "beautiful"! Black people must stay rational. I think he is worse than the likes of Colston. Because he traded his own brothers and sisters!

@zinab2blessa

3 жыл бұрын

Interesting. He never learned which is sad.

@snowmoon7385

3 жыл бұрын

Its happening today even with african human traffickers. But govts are fighting against them.

Him going back to practicing slavery after experiencing it first hand says less about the time and more about the man. If you can have your freedom taken away from you, then be so lucky as to get it back, that should have been a moment of enlightening. You're then supposed to fight against those injustices with a renewed mindset.There were many people who were never enslaved, yet fought against slavery because they had empathy for their fellow human beings. How could he not feel compassion?

@SadiaM1960

4 жыл бұрын

I agreed with you

@msKita43

4 жыл бұрын

Money honey. Pathetic.

@Bliss-kt1hg

4 жыл бұрын

You dont know nothing about what was going on, or what was going on through his mind.

@BKL63PRODUCTIONS

4 жыл бұрын

He was a Prince, he didn’t see the white man was above him.. he didn’t see slaves equal to him..

@Badrhari52

4 жыл бұрын

Dont believe that which man would do that after suffering slavery himself

This deserves more views thank you ❤️

@HENITalks

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching, Jamilaa!

5:50 and suddenly you see something else in this face: the cold, the unconcerned.

@andredoracle6326

4 жыл бұрын

So true...

I see the ending of Mr. Diallo's story as less a reflection on the times and more of a reflection on him as a person. Anyone from any race can do despicable things to their fellow man. I don't know what prompted him to go back so maybe there was more to the story. Either way, his tale is one I don't think I'll soon forget.

I really hate this whole idea of Africans "proving" their humanity. I don't have to look into the eyes of his portrait to know he's human. 250,000 years of human history told me that. To be human is to be AFRICAN. Africans are the origin of humanity. This narrator is really insecure. It's sad.

@georgebarrett9687

4 жыл бұрын

Nothing human about the heart of a beast

@lf1496

4 жыл бұрын

💯

@donnygout4558

4 жыл бұрын

i totally agree with you, although its technicly 200.000 years of ''human'' history the modern human that is.. but i would say its easy for us to condemn this man, for his actions but he did what he had to do to survive probbably and thats all humans instinctively care about.. survival ... but trying to sugarcoat the story somehow and make us feel bad for him is a wierd way of getting attention for this story.

I remember learning about this guy; I could not believe that he went back to enslaving his fellow brothers and sisters after being enslaved himself.

@wandamaximoff7495

4 жыл бұрын

he didn’t see them as brothers and sisters back in the day. They were of different kingdoms and ethnicities, therefore, they were different people, a different race, a different culture. The African Identity is a relatively new idea.

@mwanikimwaniki6801

4 жыл бұрын

@@wandamaximoff7495 People really don't understand this.

@ten4k964

4 жыл бұрын

@@wandamaximoff7495 Thank you

@marzadky4934

4 жыл бұрын

There is this concept that people use, "I can continue this but in a better way....." This is especially true for money, you take want was atrocious, and justify that you are making it better because it was profitable for you. He did exactly what humanitarian aid is doing, modern confinement of human being for profit with no means to deal with the bilateral consequences

His face stares stating you don't really know who I am

Art is very telling. This story sounds like a 'drug dealer' who knows the drug is bad for ALL PEOPLE , yet he is 'captured by the game'. So he goes back to selling drugs because everyone is still buying. Aloha from Hawaii. Leah Tunkara

@SadiaM1960

4 жыл бұрын

You’re so right

Going back the slavery business it’s tells me he wasn’t compassionate and he didn’t regret what he’s family did to so many families. I hope he and all those who practice made business got from Almighty what they deserve.

Thank you. A complex, uncomfortable story behind this beautiful portrait.

Thank you so much for encapsulating this part of rich and complex history. God bless

@HENITalks

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching and your kind words!

Wonderful documentary, the portrait is very powerful and moving. Never knew anything about him untill now. Art is such an expressive tool to learn so much about history

Unfortunately when Diallo went back and sold slaves after once being a slave he lost credibility and his stories means nothing to me. I am also a Muslim 😢😢

@hayaglamazonluxe

4 жыл бұрын

Same. Just saps all the energy out of even respecting him. How could he do exactly this. Just horrible.

@seffnichols3790

4 жыл бұрын

I know slavery is not part of Islam. Islam is about freedom and dignity for all mankind.

@debbiethompson14

4 жыл бұрын

Funny how his name is similar to Diablo. Devil in Spanish

@snowmoon7385

3 жыл бұрын

True....he betrayed innocents.

@historyonthego

3 жыл бұрын

Yes just another slave trader who sold was treated better because was scene as noble.

To everyone saying his return to slave trading says more about the man than his time: it can say something about both, or can say very little about either. Is it a failure of his character that he didn’t quit owning slaves? Maybe. But, to him, slavery was part of the natural order which divided people. Throughout his ordeal, he could have still held that, as an aristocrat, he was above the slaves, and this would have given him solace and hope for escape. As well as psychologically holding himself apart from his conditions, this belief would have also held him apart from his fellow slaves and prevented him from humanising them. Many cultures are replete with stories of the noble-born hero who falls into a situation which is beneath him and which he must overcome to restore his birthright. For Diallo, this episode was likely a romantic story to tell the grandkids about that time he heroically escaped a terrible injustice only to restore himself to his rightful place. It is fascinating that, to contemporary eyes, his portrait serves to humanise not only him, but also those he enslaved.

@jabiraidan

3 жыл бұрын

By that reasoning the British are the true paragons of virtue, since in a world where slavery was normal, who ended the cycle? Ergo, immune to any form of criticism. Thanks. Fact is, this man proves his inhumanity, because most people will ignore the truth until it hits them in the face, at which time they are forced to recognise their own demons. If someone comes out of it with a smile on their face and ready to continue? there you have found a monster.

I would like to know more about how did Diallo befriend his slave master and then they travel to Great Britain together?

@HENITalks

4 жыл бұрын

You might also like the National Portrait Gallery's film on the painting: kzread.info/dash/bejne/fYai0MGNaK3KmJc.html

We almost condemn the slavery as a Senegalese but we mustn’t forget our history . Ayuba Souleiman Diallo did not himself write the story of his life, which is known thanks in particular to the book by Thomas Bluett published in 1734 .Born in 1701 in Boundou, in the northeast of present-day Senegal, Ayuba comes from a family of Muslim scholars. During his childhood, he studied the Arabic language and the Koran in the company of the future king of Fouta-Toro and legendary Samba Gueladio Diegui. At 29, he was captured by Mandingos on the banks of the Gambia (river) when he himself had sold two captives against cattle. It is sold to Captain Pike, working for the account of English slave traders. The latter, authorizes him to send a message to his father to redeem him against two slaves, but when the messengers return from Bondou, it is too late, the ship had already left for the New World. Ayuba is therefore brought to Annapolis in the state of Maryland and put to work in a tobacco plantation. After only a few weeks of work, he escapes. Picked up and held in an inn in Kent County (Maryland), he met an Anglican lawyer and pastor, Thomas Bluett, then on a business trip, who became his first biographer. After many adventures, the Royal African Company sent him back free to his country in July 1734. The director of the company hoped that Ayuba would help him establish a trade in gum arabic. Indeed, the country of Ayuba is close to a forest of gum trees, and this product is prized by Europeans, especially for the textile industry. Meanwhile, Ayuba passed through England where he met eminent personalities such as the doctor, naturalist and collector Hans Sloane, the Duke of Montaigu and even King George II. A year later, after engaging in translation activities, he returned home to Boundou in Senegal. His father is dead and one of his wives, who thought he was dead, remarried. But judging that he “returns from the land of the dead” ,he does not criticize him for it, any more than he does for her husband.

@peacheskong2245

4 жыл бұрын

Wow tthanks for your message. Never heard of him. So I appreciate your addition. I'm going to look up more on him. This video does seem to show several things, at first the Africans who ended up participating in the selling of captured/indentured slaves to whites were not aware of the atrocities committed so to them it was normal. But after Aboubakar lived through it and was able to free himself, he also didn't mind it as much. Like, he just went back to business. I think this depicts the a bit of the attitude or way of thinking elites within the society thought of. Him being from a well-off family it was a disgrace for him to be treated as a slave not for the indentured ones, they would have been indentured slaves back home anyhow. He did not identify as a 'black enslaved man' but as a man of his tribe, the son of his father, a wealthy kid not part of the sorrows of the poor class. I think this is why some say Africans sold slaves too...it still doesn't justify nor excuse the racial aspect of slavery.

@dessygal776

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you. When I saw him. I knew he was from my ends senegambia. ❤✊🏾

@ms.fabolusmorgan4279

4 жыл бұрын

So 😕But Honest and True we As African Americans as well as Africans we need to learn and teach our History and tell our Stories. And we need to Heal.

An amazing story, thanks for telling it to us Heni. Diallo’s tale is a side to the slave trade that I could have never had imagined. Its wild that he returned to that tragic business in the end. He sure would have been an interesting guy to have had a chat with to understand his logic. He’d be part of the 6 famous people dead or alive that I’d invite to my dinner party. I felt his face exuded kindness. Im was sure wrong there, the slaves he sold would have certainly said different.

Thank you so much I throughly enjoyed this piece of history and the irony of this story wow it deep that he went back. Yes it should remain on permanent display

was a slave, got his freedom back then desides to subject more people to it... perfect logic. 😠 (sarcastic tone in voice)

💛💛 At the beginning of this video I though "What a simple but dignified portrait !!!!!" And the end of this video said it. I was like "OMG I'm right 😮!!" 💛💛

Great description of this incredible painting. Thank you

Sooooo he was selling people and I'm supposed to feel sorry he ended up a slave. Sounds to me like karma.

@mwanikimwaniki6801

4 жыл бұрын

Me too... I feel the same

@dannygeorge1928

4 жыл бұрын

Too true

I am a portrait artist And this is possibly the best I have ever seen! Quiet, intense, dignified, storied. I have been to the Louvre , the Met and many others but this is really special, it deserves its own space in the gallery not under some rich patron’s portrait!

@hasinashraf4423

4 жыл бұрын

True indeed .

Ayuba Suleiman Diallo (1701-1773), also known as Job Ben Solomon , was a prominent Muslim and slave who was a victim of the Atlantic slave trade . Born in Bundu , Senegal ( West Africa ), Ayuba's memoirs were published as one of the earliest slave narratives , that is, a first-person account of the slave trade, in Thomas Bluett 's Some Memories of the Life of Job, the Son of the Solomon High Priest of Boonda in Africa; Who was enslaved about two Years in Maryland; and afterwards being brought to England, was set free, and sent to his native Land in the Year 1734 . However, this version is not a first-person account. A first hand account of Ayuba's capture by Mandinkas and eventual return home can be found in Francis Moore's Travels into the Interior Parts of Africa .

@mamadousy5

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the insight I am from Senegal but never heard of him

@bonez_206

4 жыл бұрын

Did he really go back to the slave trade?

This explains a lot. Thank you. 🙏🏿

Great he help fight for the abolition of slavery. Disappointing he went back to sell his fellow man his human brothers. He could have helped fight slavery in his home, imagine the lives he could have saved the wonderful hero he could have been for his countrymen. Brave moral men that stay true to their values, they are out there, unfortunately he did not live this belief, a dignity he did afford his countrymen.

@luckydave328

4 жыл бұрын

There is no contradiction. He believed in slavery. He only ever wanted to free himself.

Beautiful painting. Very interesting story.

The picture say's a lot about the artist as well! Would have been great to have been present at the sitting for this portrait.

So brother was a hypocrite and part of the problem not solution

@blueivy2911

4 жыл бұрын

Yes thankyou..what a traitor..that's how he will be remembered for selling out his own people for financial gain.

@snowmoon7385

3 жыл бұрын

True.

@summanus4437

3 жыл бұрын

There's always that one scumbag in every group. Unfortunate fact of life.

He was a slave trader there is no glory or honour in selling out your own race🤔🤔

@o2xb

4 жыл бұрын

THE HUMAN RACE i hope

@ilovelife3328

3 жыл бұрын

Remember, race did NOT exist back then. He was a Fulani and a Muslim so he did not see non-Fulani and non-Muslims the same as himself. This Western idea of "race" does not apply anywhere else in the world.

Why does it feel like I've encountered those eyes, that nose. Regal, majestic. I feel mesmerized. And who is the painter?!

From Senegal ✋😍

@itoldsunsetaboutme8117

4 жыл бұрын

Me too

I share the same last name as this man. The name Diallo is very common in west Africa. This man and all men of his time that were engaged in this trade had really corrupted morales. In my book, he is un redeemable. Maybe Allah/God in his mercy will. But let’s not sugar coat it. This is the true evil and is shameful. Never that again. I agree that we should probably preserve these portraits, but certainly not in a context where we would be honoring this man. He had no honor.

It's kind of mesmerizing

Another African whose portrait flashes by in video is Equiano who fought against slavery in Europe, the Caribbean and returned to Africa to continue fighting against slavery. So no, the narrator is wrong, it says nothing about the times and everything about this individual. There have always been human beings in EVERY age who have opposed slavery and recognized it as inherently evil, and then there are those who go along to get along and don’t give a f>

I am unable to admire this man. He truly betrayed his people. I can’t see any dignity.

His life truly is so fascinating! Thank you for presenting his life! Made my day:)❤️❤️💜Beautiful Light of wisdom on his face. Sura Balad, 90:1-13, “I do call to witness this City;-and thou art a FREEMAN of this city…verily We have created man into toil and struggle…..Have We not made for him a pair of eyes-and a tongue and a pair of lips?--and shown man the two highways?//But man hath made no haste on the path that is steep,//And what will explain to thee the path that is steep?-It is FREEING the bondsman /slave; or the giving of food in a day of privation//to the orphan with claims of a relationship, or to the indigent down in the dust.//Then, will he be of those who believe and enjoin patience, constancy, and self-restraint, and enjoin deeds of kindness and compassion.//Such are the Companions of the Right Hand.” (Alhumdullilah-All praise to Allah who created us all as individuals, without original sin, that He already forgave).

Nice document for generations

This is amazing 😁 people should watch this and learn from this 🏆

@fightermma

4 жыл бұрын

How's lockdown going? I'm so bored.

The worst atrocities ever committed against humanity, worse than the atomic bombs in Japan and the Holocaust. Personal Opinion.

It, SO great

Much Gratitude

Beautiful art and story behind this artwork

A truly breathtaking portrait. I've seen it many times and heard a different history of the subject. Now I am older I can see myself why he went back into the slave trade after experiencing life as a slave. He was a Muslim, most slaves were not Muslims and that is why they were enslaved and why he could return to the trade of human misery and profit from their blood. This was a massive and complex crime against humanity with the criminals knowing fully what they were doing. I guess then, as now, money talks louder than decency.

@strongsecurity7747

5 жыл бұрын

What ?

5 жыл бұрын

You mentioned "Most Slaves were not Muslims". I have to stop you there. Have you done your research to gain an understanding of the percentage ? Omar Ibn Said - ca 1770 - 1863 was enslaved in the American South. He was also from Senegal. He wrote an Autobiography in Arabic, which was not interpreted by the perpetrators of this Evil. This is available for research to All Truth Seekers. Also, I would like to mention the "Slave Bible" with passages deliberately taken out to justify the European Enslavement of Africans. This is now on display in Washington Dc. I can understand the reasons as to why, more young Black Males are running to Islam. Malcolm X mentioned this in the sixties.

@williamcarter8918

4 жыл бұрын

Yes he was Muslim, but he was not perfect, Islam is perfect, it has been against slavery from day one, being a Muslim is what freed him, but being a human made him not perfect, my we as muslims learn from his mistakes, and we as humans learn how important freedom for all of humanity is the only reality!

@yokai4059

4 жыл бұрын

He became a slave trader?

@msb562

4 жыл бұрын

I've couldn't have said it any better.

His story say some about a class system and the mentality that goes with it. I wonder what happen if we tried a universal education system were rich and poor are educated together?

Truly amazing

Him being sold into slavery for two years and the released just to then again sell slaves, shows how much it was simply a normal part of the culture, different times….

What an unusual documentary to describe a hero Somalian whose family were slavers.

This is a beautiful piece of art. He looks like somebody's little cousin ✌🏾

One thing is true in this world you get what you put out.

Amazing.

He was an islamic scholar😢

@ayaats.2503

4 жыл бұрын

is that bad??????

@Mickey-os2my

4 жыл бұрын

@@ayaats.2503 No. However , It's ironic that as an Islamic scholar , he earned his livelihood as a slave trader , as did his father .

@agelosmekras619

4 жыл бұрын

He could not be an Islamic scholar. It's impossible being a math professor and denying that 1 + 1 = 2!

@diefaust4252

4 жыл бұрын

@@agelosmekras619 that analogy doesn't make any sense.

@diefaust4252

4 жыл бұрын

Amd no he was now a scholar. And if then not a prominent one.

Cowards do cowardly things! I rather live like a man then die like a coward. His own survival was more important than his own ppl.

Diallo needed to be emancipated from himself,to abolish slavery in himself but in a way he considered himself a slave owner,a person who can have conversations with westerners and sit at the same table in which they ate from and sat on.

Wow. Didn't sew that coming.

So he went back home and did the same thing even though he had such an experience??

no sound ?

@HENITalks

4 жыл бұрын

Please check your settings; this video does include sound.

We think that slavery is in the past but please research modern slavery. It is estimated 40 million people are in slavery right now. We are all complicit in it if we buy fast fashion, cheap plastic things, electronics, or even food. Not knowing where things come from and how they are made, we all support modern slavery in some way.

This is the most generous description of a f'ing rat of a slaver you'll ever hear

The man was admirable and yet the time was so different. Slavery had been established for 100's of years. Abolition was radical and an early step towards human rights. Diallo's World was different. We talk about a new normal today, what was normal then was very different and requires consideration when judging actions at that time.

Nice story

Mansha'Allah, he was my Brother in Islam and in Suilman. It's, clear he was a man with knowledge. Ayub ibnu Sulaiman.

@o2xb

4 жыл бұрын

There was nothing Islamic about capturing innocents and selling them on as slaves.May Allah have mercy on us all!

How different is economics based on slavery from economics based on population growth?

It's a little unfair to compare him with any other slaves. He was born being told he had dignity, value, rights.

@politereminder6284

4 жыл бұрын

As were many Africans born on the continent. Why would you think otherwise?

@StreetGeekz

4 жыл бұрын

So... privileged you mean?... 🤔

@cush5147

4 жыл бұрын

Jon ubick but yet he became a victim of the slave trade. in other words, the white world and Arab world never cared about black's tribalism or one tribe believing that they are better than the next tribe.

@dmilleniumdiva

4 жыл бұрын

@@politereminder6284 perhaps they meant as compared to people born into slavery in the States? (I'm guessing)

@sophiawharton2424

4 жыл бұрын

The people he enslaved were also born with the same dignity value and rights, but were not Muslim or of his tribe. The Arab Muslims were heavy into the slave trade.

I took notice of that portrait in the National Gallery as well. Of course many works were absolutely stunning with evident skill, but that one was unique. I agree it should stay.

A real BRUTE, I say.

Slavery & oppression are not the same. When slavery is instituted oppressively, it is the most dehumanizing enforcement of government.

Beautifulll men. Never ever you hear something like this at school. They should make a Hollywood about this instead to raise awaerenes.

Suprising ending He should be forgotten.

@opensprings

3 жыл бұрын

The man was admirable and yet the time was so different. Slavery had been established for 100's of years. Abolition was radical and an early step towards human rights. Diallo's World was different. We talk about a new normal today, what was normal then was very different and requires consideration when judging actions at that time.

Spare me this feel good chat please. Ayuba was either too simple or too smart to worry about things such as respect me These are 21st Centuries insecurities. You want to be respected, than conduct yourself in a manner that brings respect to you.

This man is the same as all the politicians u have in africa.

Humanity has such a long way to go .Today modern slavery comes down to minimum wage, that's besides people that abuse their domestic workers which is common practice. How do we solve this problem? We care on a global level but how many of us take advantage of others .

What’s so great about this slave trader? What did he accomplish? What did he do to create positive change for slaves. Did I miss something? I may need to do some research on this. After experiencing and witnessing the atrocity of slavery, when the opportunity presents itself he goes right back to doing it. Sounds like just another self serving individual who cares little next to nothing about his fellow man. What I see when I look into his eyes is an empty soul...

This is William Shakespeare btw

Beautiful man

Fabulous painting of a disgusting stain in our history that still will not wash off

he look like the the actor anthony mackie....

Diallo is a Fulani name and He really looks like a Fulani

Meanwhile, everyone here, esp the narrator, is missing the real point: we were largely educated Muslims before the Translatlantic trade, not wild creatures found in the bushes, like they teach in their HIStory books. We have been lied to so much in an effort to make us believe that we should appreciate our oppressors for “rescuing” and “civilizing” us when we taught them to be civilized and to bathe (something only the wealthiest Europeans did, and even then, it wasn’t a daily affair). We (“slave” descendants, mostly in the US and Western Europe-not the newer immigrants from the West Indies and Western Africa) are the same Tuareg Berbers (aka Moors) who built Southern Europe, as well as Northern Africa, and established a cultural empire in parts where none or the mere ruins of one existed during the “Dark Ages” (aka Europe under control of “dark” people). The flags of several European nations still bear the image of a Moor, a black man with curly hair, not to be confused with a modern Arab since they lie and tell us that the Moors were straight-haired Arabs, who are largely Caucasoid. Blackamoor art, depicted the regal stature of the black Moors who ruled. They were not slaves, as they lie and tell us; Blackamoors are almost always pictured as being adorned in gold because they were incredibly wealthy, which is how they were able to take over and build up Europe so easily. The “Enlightenment” (or the “Enwhitenment”) was the white European solution to driving out the Moors and most of the mulattoes (later repackaged and counted as Arabs) by rising up as a sovereign continent under the new banner of whiteness and white supremacy, which bonded previously warring factions and fortified them against further invasion from both Africans and Mongols, who had seized and controlled the majority of Europe, which lies in Russia.

@WHATSMYNAME88

4 жыл бұрын

Interesting! But why not the West Indies?

He looks extremely Senegalese. Beautiful portrait!

@chakibzinelegouina1272

4 жыл бұрын

Yes from the peul tripe

You do not have to say that because he is black.Countless blacks(and this is no disrespect),have proven who they are by being great rulers,great generals,great artists,musicians,etc.,and great human beings.I wrote this before watching the video,so I will watch it

When the tables turn

It Is The Freeing Of A Slave 90:13

It almost looks real.

why do we keep repeating this bd

In Islam a slave has rights and you cannot do particular things or you'll get punished by the ruling class . Dude acted like Islam and Christianity had the same basis of slave trading --they didn't. Islam doesn't allow racial slavery or racism. How is that the same?

I find some silly comments due to bad reading of history . People cant concieve that slavery was a fully normal way of live ..

The power of the black family

How can he do it after seeing what slaves go through of suffering. On the other hands slavery is forbidden in Islam..

This is sad for Africa to have a son like that

Ayoube Souleymane Diallo from Sénégal ville d'origine bondou

Don't feel one bit of empathy for this man. You reap what you sow.

He is handsome

He betrayed innocent folks.

The story Job Ben Solomon alias Suleiman Diallo is a perfect story of Karma and it's ways. Suleiman's family business is slave-raiding. Sulaiman was a Fulani and during the slavetrade, Fulainis were classified as whites. What a lot of blacks do not GET is that to the Europeans, there are those termed white Africans and black Africans. Till this day, they are used to cause great strife and chaos in Africa. The Natives of large parts of Africa knows that certain immigrants of unknown origin among them are not same as them, ignoring clear evidence in features and hair, yet are amazed when these strangers rise up and start killing them off. If in doubt, check out the activities of Fulanis in West, Central and Eastern African countries to this day. It is FAR from the story of love or genetic connection.

تعرض للظلم ولك نصر دينه ودافع عليه كبطل

What I see is the arrogance of somebody who is saying that he is superior to the other people he is trafficking. He thought it was wrong to enslave him, but fine to enslave others.