Cape-castle held numerous of people this weekends from across the globe who’s descendants are from Africa to mark 400years Africans became slaves to the whites.
“The year of return” for many Africans as it was themed had it motive as to use that night to remember their ancestors.
Umar Rashidun was one of their guest who showed up at that night a nd Umar was one of the most powerful and influential Muslim caliphs in history. He was a senior companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. He succeeded Abu Bakr as the second caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate on 23 August 634.
Olives Ghana travel and tour Ghana took to their Facebook page as they posted: THE YEAR OF RETURN GHANA 🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭 2019 “. Massive crowd from across the globe of African descendants were at the Cape Coast castle to mark 400 years of Slavery
A moment of silence and candle light prayers were also held for our ancestors. A night to remember. Performances was beautiful.
Our team and our guests were also present. Great personalities like Umar was also there. We are glad of the success of this year Panafest.
Let’s get in touch for Next Year’s Panafest festival.
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Background
Slavery has historically been widespread in Africa, and still continues today in some countries.
Systems of servitude and slavery were common in parts of Africa, as they were in much of the ancient world. In many African societies where slavery was prevalent, the enslaved people were not treated as chattel slaves and were given certain rights in a system similar to indentured servitude elsewhere in the world. When the Arab slave trade and Atlantic slave trade began, many of the local slave systems began supplying captives for slave markets outside Africa.
Slavery in historical Africa was practiced in many different forms: Debt slavery, enslavement of war captives, military slavery, slavery for prostitution and criminal slavery were all practiced in various parts of Africa. Slavery for domestic and court purposes was widespread throughout Africa. Plantation slavery also occurred primarily on the eastern coast of Africa and in parts of West Africa. The importance of domestic plantation slavery increased during the 19th century due to the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade. Many African states dependent on the international slave trade reoriented their economies towards legitimate commerce worked by slave labor.
