@PuntiteQueen the white men wanted us both Absame and harti to lose their slaves and wanted to secretly free the slaves due to their high moral but to be fair they kept quite to avoid piss off Absame or harti and wanted their cooperation and kept a quite eye and also in some cases they did offer compensation to the Ogaden sultan magan Yusuf, father of sultan ahmed magan and harti too but it was limited
this is how we managed to keep our slaves,
The Somali had been p articularly sensitive to any hint that slavery might be disallowed, and the Herti believed that the abolition of slavery was the 'raison d'etre' of the Company's presence at Kismayu. Simons had therefore agreed that the Company would pay compensation for any slaves that were freed. But an indication of how the Company's agents acted on the spot can be seen from Lemmi1 s behaviour when returning from Zanzibar with the Somali delegation. They had encountered by chance several escaped Call a slaves at that time ii the care of Bishop Tucker. The Somali had demanded their slaves back and Lemmi had supported them vigorously being particularly anxious to maintain their A good-will. However, it was Berkeley's visit in 1892 that showed the lengths to which the Company was prepared to go in order to satisfy the local Somali. Both the Herti and the Ogaden claimed to be dissatisfied with the way in which their slaves escaped to the Wagosha
so as you can see, our ancestors were not innocent, specially mine since the majority of my 11 generations of awows in Jubaland practised slavery till 1965
we were in fact kind to our slaves, we did not kill them them, we gave them islam, taught them to be civilised when we captured them, we gave them food, created a system, we could have wiped them but slavery is actually better than being killed,
we gave them jobs as farmers, leather markers, treated them kind, gave them a day job and organised a way they can make food,
imagine if we just killed all these men, children and women? that would be bloody, and they were gallo madow
after the somali government forced us to free them, they went back to the dhasheeg waamo wild and got rid of their religion we gave them, learned sixiir and black magic stuff, and today are shishkabab terrorist murders,
they should be deported back to central kenya and tanzania,
slavery is the natural state for certain groups as they will abuse it, they will chimp out and do evil deeds to the land, either ship them out or put them back to their natural place,
a free bantu roaming around somalia is a very dangerous thing indeed, our forefathers will be rolling in their graves if they knew what happened to them,
may Allah have mercy on my forefathers and fore mothers AUN from Jubaland and NFD who had the wisdom of rescuing these people after conquest through healthy farm labour work and human rights and a system to keep them well feed and clothes rather than killing them or allowing them to remain idle
what people saw as abuse was a real heartfelt kindness to save these people, give them work and make them busy and create a system to feed them and we gave them rights and protected them from other bantus or borans raiding them,
we brought peace and stability, and prosperity for they were too backward and xasiid to give each rights or protect themselves, we were sent by providence to rescue them and bring civilisation and slam,
i am surprised by forefathers never got to win any noble prizes for their human rights activism, for our hard work and avoiding mass killings and creating jobs,