Former Slave Owner Interview in 1929 [Colorized]

Former Slave Owner Interview in 1929 [Colorized]. She grew up during the civil war and was interviewed in this rare footage.
Timestamps
00:00 Meet Rebecca Felton Former Slave Onwer
00:24 Background of Former Slave Owner
01:35 Full Interview Start with Former Slave Owner
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[@lovelymocha4917]

My great grandpa was born in 1895 and died in 2003. He lived in 3 different centuries. That is one of the most amazing things to me.

[@kenkenichi7461]

Did he eat olive oil to live so long?

[@renatovonschumacher3511]

I went to school and still knew my great-grandmother. When she was my age, she knew veterans of the Napoleonic wars. So between me and Napoleon there is only her.

[@SStupendous]

@@kenkenichi7461 🤣

[@frederickcampana5717]

Just curious was he cognitive during your life time? Not poking any fun or trying to offend just curious as to what he told you and if he seemed all there.

[@easternyellowjacket276]

@@adog3336 How what turned out?

[@CometdownCat]

Can we all take the time to appreciate that they colorized a former slave owner….

[@verenamaharajah6082]

Hahahaha! You have a quick wit!

[@daisydukes8252]

Glad to recognize the lady. Wonderful woman!

[@violinistoftaupo]

Thank you for pointing out her mixed legacy.

[@EchoRhythmMusic]

Lol

[@marcmo7138]

@@edwinamendelssohn5129 She was 30 years old in 1865. The interview was 94 years ago and she 94 years old, putting her born in 1835

[@MichaelSmith-mh2km]

What amazes me about hearing people of the south speak from the 1800's is you can distinctly hear that the southern accent evolved from the English Irish accent. They sound more English but with a slight twang that is prevalent today in the south. What's even more interesting is she says her R's like a Bostonian, yet she is from the South.

[@user-yg4xf4rs3e]

No way I'm english nothing comes close she doesn't sound English

[@Emily-xl2cr]

Absolutely I am English and they sound like they’re from the south of England - quite posh actually - I don’t hear Irish at all

[@moonshiner3400]

@@Emily-xl2crBecause they were rich, so ofc they would sound more posh. Just listen to the Appalachian accent and you can see the Irish and Scottish roots.

[@xsamrx4718]

I'm English and I thought the lady was English also by her accent at first. Crazy how much the American accents have evolved!

[@austinmyers456]

My great grandmother (born in 1906 in Monroeville, Alabama had the best accent. I miss her voice so very much.

[@igorest2619]

There was almost nothing I enjoyed more as a child, back in the 1960's and 1970's, than to sit on the front porches of the elderly neighbors (they were in their 60's, 70's, and 80's) and talk to them about what it was like when they were growing up. I can still remember those conversations 50+ years later, I wish I could have recorded them!!

[@justhere3794]

Elderly at 60?!! That’s considered young now

[@igorest2619]

@@justhere3794 when I was in my early teens, people in their "30's" were elderly to me! 😂

[@justhere3794]

@@igorest2619 I remember being 19 and thinking that a 25-year-old was old.

[@denises3779]

Elders are the best friends to have. As a teen I always hung around 60s, 70s, and 80s neighbors. Great wealth in their stories and knowledge they gave

[@SpringNotes]

Can you share some of their stories? Thank you in advance !

[@danielrousseau4842]

I'm 86, and I remember talking with my great-grandmother (1858-1950) who was a little girl during the Civil War. She remembered being afraid of all the fighting and how scarce everything was. She remembered the survivors coming home after Lee's surrender, and the hardships that followed for many years. When she came of marrying age at 15, there were far more girls than available husbands. So many men had died or were too crippled to be able to support a family. So, she married an older man. I was 13 when she died, and I remember much of what she told me. I also remember the marvelous molasses cookies she baked.

[@faulltw]

Thanks for sharing. I didnt think about how few men would be around for girls to marry.

[@picardy7488]

just amazing

[@treasuresbyivyjade]

I understand, I remember my grandma telling me stories from her parents. My great grandfathers on both sides, had no idea about slavery or truly anything other then being drafted into the confederacy to fight for states rights. They never owned slaves or even knew about them. They were poor uneducated Farmers, one side in Virginia and the other in Kentucky with a lot of children 14 to 23 actually. They had so many children to work the farms. The Civil War left this country with an overwhelming loss of young men. The one good thing that came from it was people were freed

[@J.o.s.h.qwertyuiop]

It’s a pleasure to read your comment, @danielrousseau4842. It is also inspiring that you are here navigating the world of KZbin and the internet, at the age of 86; it means that you never gave up learning new things or seeking new information. That gives me hope and drive to always continue bettering myself, learning new things, and questioning my beliefs as I advance in age (I’m only 28 now). If I can bother you for a question or two, I would really appreciate your time in responding. Firstly, what do you consider to be the biggest change in your lifetime, and how or were you prepared for it? And secondly, if you have any regrets, what is one thing you would change in your life if you could go back in time? Thank you so much for your time, consideration, and wisdom. Have a lovely day!

[@breezystl777]

You're the same age as my Grandpa. Hearing more of your life stories and experiences would be amazing! Blessings 💜

[@grandregentthragg7896]

My great grandfather was a slave his name was Peter Clifton he spoke with library of congress about his life and was apart of the federal writers project “slave narratives and ended up in the book “up from slavery”. I never met him but I’m not even 40 years old yet and to think slavery was only a grandparent or 2 away from me is wild.

[@ahmorgan]

Exactly, the audacity to think things have "changed" when we are so close to people being in chains. We have a long way to go.

[@AlienAbles420]

​@@ahmorganwe have a long way to go, but we have come a long way.

[@ericbailey6779]

@@ahmorgan If you don't think that things have changed, it is possible that you have had a lobotomy in your lifetime.

[@ahmorgan]

@@ericbailey6779 or you could use the principle of charity and try to understand my argument isn't literal. Have things changed to a degree, yes. Is the country heavily biased towards the rich and white citizens regardless of merit, ability, work ethic, innocence, or guilt?? Yes.

[@jsj31313jj]

​@ericbailey6779 "A man convinced against his will, is of the same opinion still." You learned nothing from his argument 🤦‍♂️ How is the reception under your tin foil hat these days?

[@jimwerther]

Geez, the video title is misleading. I kept waiting for her to discuss slavery.

[@KhalidMahmood-wm1qz]

Same here.i think she was probably ashamed.

[@jimwerther]

@@KhalidMahmood-wm1qz We don't know that, do we? Was she asked? Did she talk more, but it wasn't on camera?

[@HawkeyeAssassins-zh4nz]

​​@@jimwerther WHO CARES WHAT YOU THINK! GO BUY SOME SOME TISSUE AND CRY ME A RIVER YOU RACIST 🐷 SHE'S ASHAMED ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS PAY ATTENTION TO HER WORDS!.

[@kevinmonmulk3906]

She was 9 years old at the time of the emancipation proclamation, I doubt she “owned” anything

[@shekinahglory604]

@@kevinmonmulk3906She was born in 1835.

[@RADIUMGLASS]

Some years back I found an obituary for a Civil War vet and posted it on a grave memorial site. The great-great-grandson contacted me and said he showed it to his 93+ year old grandfather. His grandfather was surprised and never knew about the obituary with the photo and said "Yep that's grandpa, that's exactly how he looked". And he went on the say his great great grandfather didn't like the sound of popcorn popping as it reminded him of the sound of gun fire when he was out in the fields. Both of my grandfather's were born in the 1890s and I was able to know one. My paternal, out of 10 children the eldest sibling was born in 1883 and the youngest in 1904.

[@elfuego-vj2ji]

great anecdote !

[@notsans9995]

What side was he on?

[@kevinharrington2078]

I had the privilege of interviewing a good friend of mines grandmother whom had passed away in the late '70's @104 yrs. old, she was from the Midwest and the question I posed to her was. "Mama, you've lived through 2 World Wars, seen the invention of the Automobile, Aviation, telephones, the Atom Bomb and man walking on the moon. What was the greatest thing you've seen in your lifetime? Her answer was, the lightbulb, she continued," you've got to understand young man, before lights came to our town most days ended round 6pm. When lights came to our small town, we would get dressed in our finest clothes just to walk down main street to see it lit up". very humbling for me

[@jmpl_aaren]

Very humbling indeed. Imagine today, if we had to go without cell phones and TV for a single day I bet there would be riots in the streets because people wouldn’t know what to do with themselves. Back then, they were amazed & entertained by lightbulbs!

[@artgamechanger3841]

Thank you for sharing this with us!

[@RebelSonBand]

We take so much for granted today :) amazing you got to talk to that woman

[@copperpenny0209]

@@MissX33 My grandmother shared the same with me. I'm pretty sure she was born around the same time.

[@mortonbeard2240]

My mother was born in 1921. She said when it got dark they sat and watched the fire. Fire was their television.

[@Rifles65]

My grandmother was born in 1917 and is is 106 years old...as an african-american she has seen and lived through a lot in the U.S. We have tried to interview her but she hasn't accepted yet...she is 100% mobile and lives on her own. Incredible woman!!

[@yamomma6479]

God bless your grandmother ❤

[@RolloTomasi49]

Please, if possible you need to get her in front of a camera. For your family and all future generations. I would love to speak to her myself and ask hundreds of questions about all she experienced and saw. God Bless your family.

[@tomf5823]

wow that's amazing. i wish she would do an interview. hopefully she's at least told you lots of stories.

[@israelitehistorychannel9833]

don't get caught up in the lies, this lady never own slaves, her story is all fake just like history, so called white people were slave also to the black european that own everything, just check out the truth on my page

[@greeneggsandham91]

Close to the same age my Grandfather would be if still alive. He died in 2012 at the age of 97. I can only imagine the stories he had but so many people in that generation prefer to keep to themselves it seems. Oh well, it's a blessing enough to have some of them among us still.

[@carlosacta8726]

It's crazy to think that this woman was born in 1835, 26 years before the start of the Civil War! She lived through that and witnessed the dawn of the automotive and aerospace age!!

[@sgtpepper3161]

To put that is perspective. She was born 14 years after Napoleon Bonaparte died. Almost 200 years ago.. I love history. Hope you are well, my fellow human :).

[@carlosacta8726]

@@sgtpepper3161 Thank you for your kind and thoughtful comment!!! I am also addicted to history! Best wishes to you as well fellow human!

[@AngelicTroubleMaker-LaVooDoo]

My 4th great grandfather was a slaveowner in NOLA. Yes, he was a black man (creole). Over 5k slaves in America were owned by black slave owners. 💯

[@can_you_guess_my_new_username]

I did not know that fact... thanks 4 sharing

[@TheresaHunter-zi3ic]

RIGHT, WE WERE DOING WHAT WE WERE TAUGHT BY THE DEVIL. JUST LIKE WE ARE TODAY! THATS WHY GOD TELLS US NOT TO BE LIKE THEM AND THEY ARE OUR ENEMIES. THE DIFFERENCE IS IM SIRE THEY WERE BEATING, KILLING AND RAPING THEM. TODAY THAT WOULD BE CALLED AN EMPLOYEE.

[@maguffintop2596]

Holy smoke. I’m 58 and never knew that!

[@MissSweeTSmarT1983]

Im half indian half scotish. And both my Indian ancestors and scotish owned slaves.

[@belgrademum]

I am from Serbia, we never had slaves in our history.

[@LaLagunz187]

My grandfather was just a month old when this was made. He’s still here today in his right mind, in his own home, driving and all. To think, this lady was 94 when he was just born in March of 1929 and now he’s 94 🙏🏽

[@TheYoli182]

Godspeed to him.😊

[@LaLagunz187]

@@TheYoli182 He’s a walking piece of history. The things he’s seen are wild.

[@annalafayette838]

​@LaLagunz187 make sure it's all in a book.

[@9517]

May God bless him

[@LaLagunz187]

@@pinkhairedpatriot they should meet 🤭

[@happycleanhouse]

My grandfather was born in 1914. When I was a child he would sit and tell me many stories about his past. He was born in North Carolina and picked cotton. He was responsible for his siblings as his parents died early. Although he only had a third grade education, he managed to move to Maryland where he taught himself to read and became an entrepreneur. Before he passed he had a successful business in making false teeth and owned multiple houses ( My family owns those houses now and plan to keep them in the family to further pass down) I cry as I type this but they are happy tears. Thank you granddaddy for all that you have done for your family despite all you had to endure. I am honored to be your granddaughter ❤

[@stephaniehowell1109]

I'm quite sure he is proud of you, too.

[@tula1433]

Yes sadly he’d probably cry if he saw the modern day victimhood mentality people have!

[@threeheavenshealing]

Love this❤

[@suzysmith2105]

🥰🥰🥰

[@dbig48d]

I'm so inspired and hopeful for our people with people as yourselves around. I'm in the DMV area and has seen many of our people sell out to these realtors and developers just for the money. It's refreshing to know that there's some of us where our history and family inheritance matter and not just out for self God bless you guys. I truly admire your family

[@ralphcantrell3214]

My grandmother had s first cousin that was born in 1888 and lived until 1986. She had taken several of my grandmother's younger siblings in and helped raise them after both of their parents died of "consuption" when my grandmother, the oldest of the 5 children, was only 15 years old and the youngest was only 3 years old. I knew her well. She witnessed lots of things, including several notorious lynchings. She was a treasure trove of historical knowlege. I wish I had recorded her like this. God bless her soul.

[@inthelight565]

She witnessed lynchings huh.

[@ralphcantrell3214]

@@inthelight565 Yep, some pretty famous ones too, at least in our neck of the woods, and she told us all about them. One of them happened just a block or two from the home in which she grew up, and later, in which she died. Her youngest son was several years younger than my own mom.

[@Bluewolfdude]

My grandfather was born in 1894. I truly wish I could have talked to him. These folks are amazing.Thankyou for this video.

[@rogerherrera2835]

😂😂😂😂

[@dennissvitak148]

My grandfather was born in 1879, and when he was about ten, he met a man who had just turned 100...born in 1789. I was a small child before he passed..but to hear him talking about knowing someone born in the 18th century was remarkable.

[@bgknowable]

What an intriguing thing to share; You should really go to your local historical community. Sorry to be bossy, but you never know what your words, just as you say them can impact history. Sorry to be so bossy, but if you have an extension to add to this, why not try?

[@bgknowable]

Jsyk, I am a researcher, and that snippet you just shared could help our American history, not to guilt you into talking to archivists/local universities but I am trying.

[@Davidrcobb]

It is amazing to think about just how young America actually is. Many our our grandparents knew people who fought in the civil war and they knew people who fought in the revolutionary war. The battle of Kings Mountain was fought on my great great grandfathers land (in part) The stories passed down to us need to be preserved and recorded for the next generations. We can all loose sight that responsibility falls onto all of us at some point and not assume that someone else will.

[@renatovonschumacher3511]

Yes time shrinks when we measure them in generations rather than in years. I knew my great-grandmother well when I already went to school. When she was the same age like me, she knew veterans of the Napoleonic wars. So between Napoleon and me there is only my great-grandmother.

[@joejones9520]

That is utterly amazing, I just was thinking about that type thing lately and my mom figured out that she knew people whod known people born in the 1700s..there is something freakily ancient to me about "the 1700s", like it's from a different planet almost. BTW, a wild fact I just found out: Former US president John Tyler, born in 1790, has a living grandson...

[@Thelastminstrel]

"When an old person dies it's as though a library has burned down." My mother was born in 1927 and died last year. I had barely begun to hear the stories she had to tell of growing up the oldest of ten born to a share cropper father in E. Texas, the Depression, Dustbowl, working in an ammunition plant when she was 16 making hand grenades. She was 9 when they bought their first automobile, a Model T truck. Before that they rode everywhere in a farm wagon pulled by their mule. A few years ago my brother took her to eat at a new restaurant, a farm theme place, bales of hay, milk cans in the foyer and wagon wheels hung on the walls. He noticed she frowned when she looked at the old wagon wheel hanging over their booth and asked what was wrong. "Why have they got that nasty wheel hanging on the wall?" Well Mama, it an old time, down on the farm place. You had wagons back in your day didn't you? "Yes, we had wagons, but we didn't bring 'em in the house!" A Library gone!

[@tribequest9]

Omg that reminds of my grandmother telling me the story of when her and my grandfather bought their first house and her brother brought their mother to come visit and her mother had a fit over the outhouse being in the house, said she refused to stay and couldn’t believe they paid good money to bring something so nasty in their home. She had always had an outhouse out in the country. This was the late 30’s. I always think about this, especially when I’m cleaning my bathroom lol.

[@soulie2001]

I dont know if I made that quote or if it has been, but this is why I appreciate others. Its all a Verbal Library.

[@tricitymorte1]

​@@tribequest9my mom grew up in very rural northern Minnesota. Their home didn't have indoor plumbing until the 1970's. It wasn't until about 2008 or 2009 when one of my aunt's took possession of the property that the outhouse, the smokehouse, and the old chicken coop were dragged over to the collapsing barn and everything was set on fire.

[@shesaknitter]

Very interesting memories about your mother. Thank you for sharing them. My mother was born in 1927, too. She died about a decade ago. I do agree that every time an old person dies it is like a library burning down. I'm so happy that I have so many memories of her, and of so many other people in my family. My dad died a couple of years ago at 99 years old. Lots of memories from him, and from my mother's mom, too. But I need to get more written down.....

[@tribequest9]

Isn’t it crazy how we are just a couple generations from a different time? I loved my grandmothers stories. She talked about how she had 13 brothers and sister and they would only bathe once a week and her parents would bathe first then the oldest kids on down the line with the same bath water! So gross but she said it was because it took so long to pump the water from the well and then heat it up. She also got mad at my cousin for not wearing panty hose aka stockings. My cousin said she shaved her legs and my grandmother said you wouldn’t have to if you wore stockings…..lol. She always made me laugh.@@tricitymorte1

[@jorgebarriosmur]

My grandfather was born in 1905 in Spain. He used to tell me how he had to fight of most of the young men of his rural place, because my grandmother was one of the most desired women of all the zone. The young men of her village, in particular, couldn`t stand that a dude from another village tried to steal "their" woman, and tried to ambush him several times to beat the living hell out of him..... He also told me about our civil war, and how one of his brothers, turned against the entire family, had three of his brother executed, 2 exiled (to France, where their descendants still live) and himself thrown 3 years in jail, because he didn´t want to fight on any side (having brothers in both sides). Of course, all the wealth, land, and properties of the family ended in the hands of the brother who fought for the victorious side. I have gotten to visit the house, where my grandfather and his brothers were risen as young boys. My grandfather then proceeded to begin from the bottom, working in construction, and climbed slowly the corporate ladder, over several decades, while taking care of my grandma and their EIGHT children. Their house was a home for three generations of our family....... That generation was really tough......

[@pedrorequio5515]

My Grandfather was born in 1910 while Portugal was still a Monarchy, having a Grandfather from 1910 isnt very extraordinary until you realise that I am 26 years old. My father was born when he was 60. I was born when my father was 38, so aprouching 40.

[@brianw.6718]

I loved the part where she went into intricate detail about her experiences as a slave owner. That was my favorite part.

[@msshelfbooty9742]

You would love that part huh😒

[@Maria-qh5hr]

People just lie so much!

[@gurzair998]

My mom just turned 92 this month. My dad turns 96 this September. Mom is getting frail, but dad. I went last week to eat lunch at my parents house. When I got there my dad was on the roof with a big can off Bull tarring a spot around the fire place! To my amazement when I walked up, he peered over the eave of the house and said "is it lunchtime already!?". 95 years old and on the roof with a bucket of Bull in the heat of the day! I said "dad couldn't you wait and do this when it's a little cooler?" He said "when it cools off I'm gonna change the oil in your mother's car. Old folks are incredible! Before anyone pounces on me not offering to do it, I'll tell you this, he would have still been on the roof and he would be telling me how he would be doing it. I love my dad.

[@TrudyPatootie]

*Such a sweet story gurzair. What a wonderful* *relationship you have with your parents. It is* *funny I can see your dad on top of the roof with* *you as he supervises your work. Thank you for* *sharing. How long have they been married?* 💖

[@AILIT1]

Beautiful story. He sounds like a hell of a man and it sounds like they did quite well with you.

[@2244ntho66]

Sounds just like my Mom, will be 94 on July 1st. Lives alone, and rarely asks for help. It is all my sister and I can do to keep her from doing the same stuff she did when she was 40.

[@nancyholcombe8030]

Mine is gone now but I had pretty much the same Dad, so I get you!I'm glad you cherish yours, mine died too early. I miss him.

[@mikerawls9619]

Good genes dude.

[@mindymiller4521]

When I was a bank teller in the 90s it wasn’t uncommon to have a person born in the 1800s come through. With all of the trivial information that we are told everyday, it surprises me that nothing was said about the last person to die who was born in the 1800s.

[@rondobson1828]

Funny you should say that, because about 7 or 8 years ago, when a story came up on the news about the oldest person dying---and the current oldest person being a couple years younger than that, I said to my wife that they just reported the last person of the 19th century dying---but nobody made note of that! I was surprised. I think people just aren't very numerically or time-aware and it just never clicked in anyone's head. But in an age where they do stories on the dumbest, most trivial things, THAT would've been noteworthy!

[@BionAvastar3000]

Recently had a distant relative pass away who was born in the 1800's.

[@donaldpiper9763]

I was fortunate enough to have been able too enjoy visiting with 2 of my great grandmothers and one of my great grandfathers,they all lived into their late 90’s and died in their homes taking care of their selves. They were all born in the 1870-75 range ,the stories and wisdom they gave me as a young man in the 60’s was priceless , they never had air conditioning or central heating,wood stoves they did have indoor plumbing but still used well water for it and kept their well pumps also .

[@cosmic-creepers9207]

@@BionAvastar3000that can’t be true. If this person died recently (2023) and they were born in 1899 that would have made them 124! The oldest person ever was recorded to have lived to 122. Why lie?

[@BionAvastar3000]

@@cosmic-creepers9207 Why can't it be true?

[@QIKWIA]

My great great grandfather was born (1850) a slave but died a free man 101 years after...(1951) 🙏🏿continue to RIP Paa🥀 I love you.

[@ChrisCanary]

I would love to see this in its entirety. Her accent is so different from todays speech patterns. Almost a Mid-Atlantic dialect. In the early 1960s, I had neighbors who were in their 90s. They spoke like her, but with an even more Boston Brahmin inflection. It's practically a lost accent today.

[@j.j.9123]

This pretty much the entire extant clip. There’s just cut off a sentence or two when they are setting up at the start of the interview with the camera. Then this starts.

[@MaryLou913]

She sounds like a Southern Mid Atlantic speaker to me.

[@ericad8616]

She sounded so nice at first. She was well spoken, friendly, articulate, very sharp for someone in their 90s and she achieved so much back at a time when women didn't have a lot of rights or opportunities, so I almost wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt that perhaps it was her her father or her husband's family that owned slaves, not her personally, and that maybe she was against it, but was powerless to stop it But then I read about her and not only was she not against slavery, but she was a white supremist who argued in favor of lynching black men many of whom had been falsely accused of the rape of white women. So she was responsible for aiding in or even facilitating the murder of innocent black men. So yeah, she might have been "interesting" to listen to because of her place in history, but she was far from someone to be admired

[@4n4l4n4]

Very well said!

[@de9541]

ridiculous! you're trying to retroactively apply today's morals to the time of slavery when the practice was globally acceptable.

[@letsgetdoing]

And THAT'S the real power of white people, speech. You can NEVER trust them and it's as simple as that. The definition of smile in your face stab you in the back. They only seemingly have one mission and at all cost, utter destruction. Of physical, mental, families (including other whites that don't agree), earth (cutting down every tree they can find, industrial revolution AKA global warming), and now seemingly space. I honestly don't know why history exists because it's as if NO ONE reads any of it. Must be that neanderthal gene in them. It's wild too because white people ALWAYS say that what I'm saying is racist but it's literally fact! The DENIAL though...... WOW!!! Denial is actually equal to their destruction. They didn't do..... ANYTHING according to them. 😂

[@skuttsupreme8351]

The problem is, you can only judge others by the environment they were created in. Many simply did not understand how wrong it was. And even if they knew it in ways, when it’s what you’re taught and it’s what you’ve lived, it’s impossible to stop. We have real issues today that are not being addressed. Like the ways the democrat party still today is in support of lynching black men, but it’s more covert. There are more abortion clinics in black neighborhoods than anywhere, and they were created by someone the left in this country loves who admiringly wanted to destroy the black race. Many Blacks never left the plantation, it’s called the Democratic Party. And I fully believe it’s because many are afraid to diversify their vote out of fear of what that party will do to them. I’ll Leave you with the words of a white democrat voting liberal woman to black peoples in America last election cycle “Don’t forget you’re black”. Said to 50 cent when it appeared he might vote for trump. The left is the party of slavery and Black Americans are still ensnared in their trap.

[@chickensrdinos138]

@@skuttsupreme8351NO. There have been so many white people who knew slavery was an abomination from day one. Did you forget about all those people raised in the same environment as her who knew and did better? What a failure and waste of a person this old lady was.

[@billdavis1053]

My mother will be 98 in two weeks. She lived through the depression, WWII, was sent to an internment camp in ID (minidoka) and was sponsored by a college in KS which allowed her to leave the camp and attend college. She and my father lived through miscegenation laws, worked for civil rights. She is still living on her own and reads many books every week.

[@graylyns]

Blessings to your Mama!

[@whitneykawahara]

My grandparents met at that same camp!!! They met during one of the social dances.

[@hermessantos1601]

What an interesting life she is having!

[@kccain4011]

What a blessing to still have her. 😔Sending much love you and she.❤️🙏🏾

[@GeekGirl-ub7ki]

That’s amazing. I first learned about internment camps from my Dad who was born 1926 (died at 91). He was best friends with a Japanese American boy in his neighborhood. Their family owned a store he remembered going to. He explained one day he went out to play with him and the whole family was just gone. Only being a child and being sat down by his parents and told they were taken away and put in an interment camp was confusing to him. He often said he wondered what happened to his friend. He himself became an aviation metal smith on an aircraft carrier in WW2.

[@nicolewhitley3640]

my mom just past 3 16 2024 she was 90. Hurting so bad. Reason why im here after looking at her pictures for funeral

[@stevendenton4965]

My dad was born in 1909. I was born in 1961. He had 8 children with his first wife and also 8 with my mother. I was the youngest so didnt get to talk to him alot about him growing up during those years. He died when i was twelve. Mostly i remember him taking good care of us. We were not well off but not in poverty either. I had three sisters and four brothers. It was a great time to be a kid.

[@diannshoemaker6419]

The really unfortunate thing is, when these people are still alive, we are simply too young to know the right questions to ask them. So much is lost when they occur to us, TOO LATE..

[@tomlxyz]

I think people with the right question to ask where already alive

[@nancycurtis488]

I think you are 100% correct. All 4 of my grandparents died within 12 calendar months in 1960 and ‘61. I was 12 and did not realize how remarkable it was to have grandparents who had all been born and grew up in the 1800’s. They were just my grandparents and I thought they would simply be there forever. My maternal grandparents were 72 and 70 when they died…had married in 1907 in Irving, Texas. My grandmother gave birth to all 6 of her children at home. She was fluent in French, as was my grandfather, because all of their parents had been born and reared in France coming to America as young adults. My paternal grandparents lived in southern Illinois and married in 1897. I figured it out once…my Grandma Davis was 3 months old when the Battle of the Little Big Horn took place…amazing. She also gave birth to all 6 of her children at home as most women in this country did at that time. My grandmothers were 39 and 40 when they gave birth to their last baby and all of those babies were strong, healthy, normal babies. I can think of SO many questions that I wish I had known to ask, but I was just a child. None of my children nor any of my 21 grandchildren care anything at all about my life or my parent’s lives. Someday it will be too late for the questions they will think of too late as well. The cycle continues, doesn’t it.

[@atlanteum]

Ditto... sadly.

[@diannshoemaker6419]

When we're young, we take for granted that we KNOW our relatives. But these people are just parents to us, or Uncle whoever...we are later surprised they have, or had, ENTIRE other outside lives, and identities, that AREN'T centered on us...or long before we existed. Or frankly even after... My parents both lived through WW2, dad in the Navy, the Asian conflict. I've seen countless movies and documentaries since...yet here were 2 people who lived it 24/7 for years. I heard the same few stories...things they thought might be amusing to a child...that's where it dead ended. But little about the War was amusing.. When we were all older, and busier... the subject seem closed, and done. But, frankly we never even BEGAN to discuss this, from a first hand source. And not really YET as adults.. It isn't entirely our faults. We lacked the depth to understand things, which would have made them interesting. And the image of PARENT, is rarely assumed to be improved by tales of wild USO parties, drunken brawls, home sickness... grosser war deprivations (Kotex? NO. The time you ruined a dress with a pencil line to simulate stockings. What you did to pinch pennies, that you cringe at..etc) Or a sailor wetting his pants, first time they are shelled... These are ADULT PROBLEMS. Mostly we don't understand these, UNTIL WE ARE. My parents are both dead now. And while i KNOW i said i love you often enough, i never really knew them. Parent was the role they played..it wasn't all they were. Especially my dad. He never had much of a speaking part..THAT role was Mom's. THAT was THEIR deal, long before i got there...he seemed okay with that....SADLY, I AM NOT...HEY DAD...so much we might have said..i barely knew you..

[@fwdcnorac8574]

What the fuck did you need to learn from a slave owner?

[@jessemanriquez3624]

My Great Grandmother was born in 1885 & passed away in 1999.. at 114.. it's crazy that, when this recording was made, she was in her 40s already 😵‍💫

[@derek-64]

If she had made it another year she could've made it to 2000 and she would've been alive in 3 different centuries.

[@facundosilva2449]

​@@derek-6421st century starts in 2001

[@Jilldo]

Interesting since there's only 3 other verified people who lived 114+

[@firemonkey1015]

@@JilldoI doubt many people at that age care about “verifying” their age with some record company. Probably the least of their concerns.

[@MJW238]

@@JilldoThat’s not true - there are over 100. But when I read 114 I did certainly think unlikely. People make up stuff online. But if true they have quite a story.

[@selectiveoutrage6617]

There are several YT channels with old black and white news footage that has been colorized. Fascinating stuff.

[@infantinofan]

Amazing that they didn't ask her on her opinions about slavery since she lived before the Civil War. That she remembered the "Trail of Tears" as a 3 year old is also amazing.

[@naithngr81-jh2bb]

While there are interviews of former slaves who talked about their experiences, I honestly don't think there were ever any interviews of plantation owners, family members of plantation owners, overseers, patrolmen (white men hired to watch roads and question blacks seen walking off plantations), slave auctioneers, or white folks who worked in businesses that dealt in plantation products, about their experiences.

[@kevinstidham7321]

We know what her views mostly were. I think she was pretty awful. Like supported lynchings awful

[@capoislamort100]

@@kevinstidham7321that nasty wench witnessed and encouraged the lynchings and killings of black Americans, and people are acting like she’s is some innocent grandmother!!

[@hrearden6993]

It is ironic that she was 94 because the interview itself is now 94 years old.

[@dannyh8288]

Well, she looks old but not 188 years old!

[@celloguy]

what's the irony?

[@crunkin1t590]

​@@celloguyright lmao 😂😂

[@robertsettle2590]

​@@celloguyyour 🧠BRAIN!!!!

[@travismiller5548]

So that's coincidence, not irony

[@haraldisdead]

Damn, she said she remembers eastern Indians being removed. That's wild. My grandfather was born a year before this

[@destotrill2247]

Best comment right here

[@SStupendous]

A year before this in 1928?

[@miller566]

​@carlosc3777 yea especially the Indians that killed off other races of other Indians for thousands of years the Spanish making the incas go extinct and the Africans capturing other Africans killing them off and selling them into the slave trade. What a brutal planet we live on

[@rsmith02]

Oh she is... love the camp story with her.

[@Bobbyxhuggy]

Those Indians where here slaves

[@robbuxton8438]

I’m from the UK, and I found it interesting that her accent sounded to my ears closer to a upper class English accent, than to any American accent that I have heard.

[@TheAsharedhett]

My great grandmother is still alive at the age of 102. The way that this woman speaks kind of reminds me of her own speech.

[@REDSOX-1]

That's awesome....bet she has a couple stories....😮

[@rogue0921]

Very interesting footage but she didn't once speak of slavery or of owning slaves.

[@limitess9539]

Clickbait garbage

[@topo6790]

No but she did call herself a cracker

[@bernadinemadison6382]

Because the old whore knew it was wrong.

[@Gl6619]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Latimer_Felton

[@Gl6619]

She has some very interesting view on slavery and black peoples in general

[@melody3795]

My grandfather was born in 1896 and he used to tell stories of his grandfather who left to fight in the Civil War never to return and assumed died in battle. His brother fought in World War I and died in battle. He saved many letters from him that he wrote from France. Fascinating to read how the locals were so kind to the American service men and would invite them into their homes for meals.

[@katiejon17]

Thank you for sharing. Our good men have always given so much for what they believed was right.

[@AldousHuxley7]

My great grandpa was in WW1 too. Only reason I exist is an act of God as he was shot in the heart by a machine gun bullet charging the trenches in France. It was a ricochet and lodged in next to his heart. They couldnt operate on it and assumed hed die of infection but he lived and at the hospital in france the dinner bell rang and he was far off so he hurried back and this dislodged the bullet so they were able to cut it out from just under his skin and he lived.

[@blackpinups]

Can you make copies of your letters? It's history!

[@Lolife86]

@@katiejon17 YEah right....During the 2nd world war, they stayed 1 year or a little less, but Americans raped french women by the thousands, but I guess they believed that was right...

[@mstwelvedeadlycyns]

To all your grandparents and parents and love ones of that time, thank you for the stories!😊❤🎉

[@jeffschrade4779]

She was a U.S. Senator for one day -- the oldest freshman senator ever at the age of 87. She was sworn in on November 21, 1922, and served just 24 hours.

[@billybilly3777]

As a child my great grandmother was one of those Indians walking west through the woods. She was really old but I remember her long gray braids and glasses. The oldest memory in my head is of being in her house at Christmas fascinated with a wind up police cruiser with a flashing red light on top. I think I was 3 at the time.

[@ayo30s]

Wow!!! Hmm… 😞😔🇳🇬🇺🇸

[@difencrosby]

My great grandfather did not walk west for some unknown reason he stayed put in Mississippi. According to the bureau of Indian affairs he did not speak English. I guess he didn’t understand he was supposed to leave 😂😂😂😂

[@ezioassassain]

why do you guys call yourself indians still? you guys got that name because columbus thought he was in india, indians are from india. it makes more sense to call you natives like how we do in canada because you are native to this land, not us

[@jamescerone]

@@ezioassassain A lot of older indigenous people use the term simply out of habit. It’s as good as any other term to them. They just think it doesn’t really matter too much. None of the terms we use today are in their native language anyway.

[@abelincoln3287]

​@ezioassassain I am also native to my country. I was born here, so were my parents and their parents. I am native American and I am white.

[@pchan0368]

My dad recently passed away. He was born in 1945. He never believed he would live long enough to see so much technology, like having a phone/computer in your pocket.

[@smpeace2683]

@@notfiveo same

[@SeeSomething_SaySomething]

Just curious why he didn’t think he’d live long enough to see so much technology changes. My dad was born in 1948, and it doesn’t seem that long ago compared to say my late-grandpa who who was born in the mid 1920s, and who lived till his 90s (about 10 years ago). Sorry for your loss by the way! I was just curious truly, because many from our fathers generation are still around….you made it sound like he was in his 90s or something.

[@renzopeterson153]

​@@SeeSomething_SaySomethingbecause he was a black man born into Jim Crow, it's really not a mystery.

[@SeeSomething_SaySomething]

@@renzopeterson153 Actually it is, because he never mentioned race, where his dad lived, nor was I over here investigating, analyzing and making assumptions based on race of his photo, which I didn’t even notice, but I see you did. Good for you!

[@e33d90]

@@notfiveowhy are you replying this here

[@bodye6]

Idk about yall. But im ok with the B&W images and truly recorded history. Imagination allows us to see in color in our mind. History will be ruined forever. But a reminder would be nice.

[@chetisanhart3457]

I've lived in the south and also in England. When she says "there" you can hear the last traces of the now extinct British American accent. Fascinating.

[@marymcsherry1965]

She also sounds similar to recordings of Edwardians

[@trailblazer8711]

My grandaddy was 7 years old and is Still living Today. Turned 100 years old this Year ❤

[@marianmoses9604]

In 1978 my mother and I visited her 83 year old aunt in DeRidder, La. Her husband was 96 years old and the old man regaled my 16-year old self with a story of getting into a fistfight in the 1890’s and getting knocked down underneath a horse drawn wagon! It was wild to listen to this man tell me of life in the late 19th Century.

[@pumpkinspice5848]

did you ever ask them how cars impacted their lifes? what did they think about them,about airplanes! first man on the moon! those were such important moments in history! i always try to ask my parents about the internet and how they reacted as they were born in the 70's comunist romania im sorry if im asking too many questions,im always curious how humans thought about new inventions, nowdays its happening too with A.I and space technologies and i wonder how humanity will change

[@marianmoses9604]

@@pumpkinspice5848 I was 16 then and too dumb to think to ask such questions. I mostly listened to them conversing with my mother.

[@GDuncan8002]

Bonus points for "regaled".

[@miss.pinkpanther]

Really, my dad was from DeRidder, we now reside in Georgia. Visiting there is on my bucket list, to go through his history that's recorded there one day soon.

[@user-jd2vz4my1w]

In 1971, I was at my first job after high school working as a hospital orderly. I encountered a patient - an old lady lying in bed. She was cheerful and alert and showed no signs of senility. I chatted with her for a minute and then - almost instinctively I asked her of her age. She smiled and told me that she was....111. Impulsively , I asked her what was her earliest memory was. She smiled again and said "When I was 4 year old, I was waiting for my papa to come home from the war." Uncomprehending, I said "Oh! Do you mean World War One?"" She looked at me, puzzled, squinted her eyes and said "No, honey! The Civil War!" I was so shocked that I just stood there staring at her for what must have been a whole minute. I grabbed her hand, kissed it and then walked slowly away.

[@vmtz2001]

We can do without the music. It’s too loud

[@phildevitt877]

Stuff like this reminds us that some history really wasn’t that long ago in the scheme of things. I remember watching a video a couple of years ago about John Tyler, 10th president of the United States, born in 1790, who still has two living grandchildren. I believe at least one of them has since passed away but imagine that - a grandparent link to someone born in the 1700s still walking the earth. The story went that Tyler fathered some children in old age and one of those children went on to do the same in his later years. Amazing.

[@phildevitt877]

I give tours at the Lizzie Borden House in Massachusetts (look her up if you’re not familiar). I frequently tell the story about how until two years ago, a woman who had a friendship with Lizzie was still living. Lizzie was born in 1860 and died in 1927. The daughter of her chauffeur remembered going for car rides with her to get ice cream cones and calling her Auntie Borden. :)

[@devontolly1596]

This reminds me that slavery was abolished over 150 years ago, that's about it.

[@alexisjones3550]

I had an uncle Jimmy Tyler from Charles City Va where president Tyler was also born. We jokingly called him our “white” uncle as he was very fair skinned. I believe he was actually related to the former president. He didn’t admit it, but when I asked him about the two grandsons, he just smiled and said “yeah I know them.”

[@napoleonsreign]

​@@devontolly1596and segregation was ended less than 60.

[@shakirahill885]

@@devontolly1596exactly . not much to see here but a person that would have had me hanged or worse if I even spoke out of line

[@JomerTB]

She remembers the Trail of Tears. That's incredible. Almost 200 years ago now.

[@fidelcatsro6948]

Viva revolution!

[@JEdwarrd]

Code word for genocide. She saw the genocide but called it progress....and she was a slave owner-go figure.

[@erikm8372]

Did the Trail of Tears set off from Georgia, where she’s from? Or did it have multiple paths…Or was she just remembering seeing “people leaving in the woods”?

[@bruteboy123]

​@@erikm8372Trail of tears was the midwest to Oklahoma.

[@JEdwarrd]

@@erikm8372 It was ethnic "cleansing", u can stop attempting to sugar coat history.

[@jakobhopfer1997]

Adding the music was really unnecessary.

[@charcat2023]

lol

[@bonniemitchell5841]

And she never did tell about being a slave owner…sounds like clickbait.

[@poland_stronk3044]

Adding ukraine to world map was unnecessary

[@MStafford-lr9le]

My great-great-great-great grandpa was already 57 when this was made and he’s still going strong. Sorry couldn’t resist

[@bethbartlett5692]

1929, she's 94, so she was born in about 1835 +/-. She was a child when Jackson was President, and lived 65 through Queen Victoria entire Rulership as Queen of England and the British Empire. This woman was 25/26 when the Civil War began and 29/30 when it ended. Mercy, the *industrial Revolution, Chicago Expo, the amazing "Chapters of Discoveries" she witnessed. It is nearly 200 years since her birth. Amazing share.

[@JediWebSurf]

Thanks for that perspective.

[@edwardkamau773]

I cannot imagine this woman was born in 1835 just 9 yrs after Thomas Jefferson and John Adams passed away in 1826 4th of july when the US was just 50 yrs old and to make it more interesting she was probably one year old when james Madison the 4th president and also a founding father passed away

[@sussex33]

There hasn’t been a Queen of England since the 1600s. I think you mean Queen of the United Kingdom

[@johnjay9404]

I can imagine that, in her 20's, being from Georgia during the Civil War, she witnessed a portion of Gen. Sherman's northern army rip and tear through that state.

[@AlamoYTCGermany]

BTW Andrew Jackson. Yep, when the Alamo falls she was a Child ..

[@granteeeeast]

I’m 20 and my great grandmother is still alive and doing pretty well. She’s 91 and has some really cool stories about living in rural Virginia during the depression

[@hm5142]

My father grew up on a farm in southern Va during the depression. He told me that things on the farm were not a lot worse - he said they had always been depressed.

[@filthysidetv1693]

VIRGINIA 💚

[@susanferretti5781]

Be sure to ask her questions while you can. I've even seen KZbin videos done about interviewing elderly people about their life's experiences.

[@naitthegr8131]

That's awesome your great grandmother lived such a long life, but i see you and so many other people here talking about your grandparents, great grandparents, etc. What does that have to do with a monster like this evil woman, who was not only a plantation mistress, but after the civil war falsely accused a lot of black men of rape, publicly called for as many lynchings of black people as possible, and also even wanted a zoo exhibit of black people? What is it about this horrible woman that makes you and the other commenters see your grandparents and great grandparents in her?

[@Beginnerreadsthebible]

OMG what I wouldn't give to be able to ask my grandma questions! Record her talking about her childhood and life through the ages!!

[@ransom6892]

Her descriptor as a slave owner in context to this video is just as important as her being right or left handed

[@pbmartinfencing]

My great grandfather was a black man and he owned 13 slaves at the end of his life . They said he owned 62 throughout his lifetime .

[@Vivrant__Thang]

I don’t believe you..and if he did more than likely they were his family, freemen did that constantly. You come off as someone trying to make a false equivalency to say ‘look not only whites did it’😒

[@UnemployedStormtrooper]

Proof

[@CosmicGrind]

​@@UnemployedStormtrooperyou don't know that black people owned other black people? You really need to read a book

[@rogerherrera2835]

A Blak what 😂😂😂

[@tonyaosborne6881]

@@UnemployedStormtrooper Read Free Negro Owners of Slaves in the United States by Carter G. Woodson - a black Historian who wrote the book in 1924. This should not be news to anyone.

[@gfckid32]

For those who came here to actually learn her opinions regarding slaves/people of colour here's an excerpt from her Wikipedia page: Felton considered "young blacks" who sought equal treatment "half-civilized gorillas", and ascribed to them a "brutal lust" for white women.While seeking suffrage for women, she decried voting rights for black people, arguing that it led directly to the rape of white women. Felton also advocated more lynchings of black men, saying that such was "elysian" compared to the rape of white women. On August 11, 1898, Felton gave a speech in Tybee Island, Georgia, to several hundred members of the Georgia State Agricultural Society. She urged an increase in lynchings in order to protect rural white women from being raped by black men. When there is not enough religion in the pulpit to organize a crusade against sin; nor justice in the court house to promptly punish crime; nor manhood enough in the nation to put a sheltering arm about innocence and virtue - if it needs lynching to protect woman's dearest possession from the ravening human beasts - then I say lynch, a thousand times a week if necessary. - Mrs. W.H. Felton, August 11, 1898

[@karenearle5507]

Wow, thank you for research.

[@lowen4231]

@@karenearle5507 Yeah, WOW, is about all I can say as well.

[@candlelitpeppermintcarniva8509]

Needed this comment to be here!

[@johnathandaviddunster38]

Pity the ignorance of RACISM.....

[@crypticlady3923]

How about the black women being raped by white men ? I

[@NewlifeNewbeginnings2]

My Grandma was born in 1914 and lived to be 90; i remember her helping me learn to make her famous chocolate chip cookies in 2001 when she was 87. And that recipe was given by her Mother who was born in 1895. I thought that was so amazing; never felt as close to my ancestors as that special moment. What a great memory ❤❤

[@Beginnerreadsthebible]

Infamous chocolate chip cookies? Were they bad?

[@NewlifeNewbeginnings2]

@@Beginnerreadsthebible 🤣🤣🤣🤣that was a typo, I meant famous!! They were fabulous😊

[@FinancialFinesse00]

Thanks for this interesting and valuble video that we all can learn from just by the way they talk and communicate with their hands keep the gems coming

[@sonyvegas9838]

"I don't know where you came from" Her words gained another meaning when people all over the world became able to see her.

[@patluvsvettes]

Makes me think of my grandma. She was born in 1917 and died in 2005, just shy of her 88th birthday. She was born before the first commercial radio broadcast in 1920, but lived to see the world connected via the Internet. She was born when the automobile was still fairly new, but lived to see a time when humans were living and working in a space station orbiting the Earth. Amazing when you think about all the changes that happened to America and the world during the 20th century.

[@daveforeman6931]

Your grandma and mine in my mom's side share a similar timeline. Before she died in 2004, she was so savvy she was emailing her sister just about every day- granny was in CA, sis in MO. She too lived to see many things. Once she told me that many people thought WWII was going to be the end of the world.

[@booberries833]

Ha ha, the same year my dad was born. Dirt roads in DC. We were born in the same hospital on I St. Near the white house.

[@Grimeyhoob]

I am 108 years old bro. I am an aspiring rapper. I rap about the old way of life.

[@cylvaniaallen4498]

My grandmother was born in 1917 as well. Passed in 2010. She always told us she and 7 siblings road from Jones Louisiana to Houston TX on a donkey and wagon. I’m her youngest granddaughter age 37.

[@kaceyross8955]

​@@Grimeyhoob Get you some BEATS!!!

[@284Winchester]

According to find a grave her father was born in 1799. So this is a color video of a woman born in 1835 talking to us in 2023 via a recording made in 1929 who was raised by a person born 10 years after the constitution went into effect.

[@KAZVorpal]

Actual video starts at 1:33. She does not mention or imply in any way, anything about slavery in her monologue, which indeed is not an interview. The headline of this is pretty deceptive in that regard.

[@NnEnkaa_]

There's a link above that takes you to Wikipedia she had alot to say about blacks in the newspapers of the time. She was a nasty old thing.

[@MrVidification]

rebecca latimer (aka rebecca anne felton) was the first woman in the senate but last female senate owner, known to have played a notable part in the initial wave of US feminism, and had previously voted in favour of lynching. tbh the original quality is still better than many ytube 480p videos

[@DeliahAyala.2.14.91.]

I have a living grandfather born in 1929. He lives with us now, but is still surprisingly mobile. It's an absolute joy to be with people who lived through things that we have already forgotten. This old timey cadence they talk with is very distinctive to people born in the 30's and before.

[@mackgreen]

My grandmother will be 96 next month. Sounds very familiar to your grandfather.

[@g.k.1669]

My wife's grandmother is now approaching 101. She still lives on her own in a condo, drives and works part time at a local library. She is still totally cognizant and incredibly energetic. She is the first one to head to the kitchen to help cook during family gatherings and insists that she will be the one to clean up the kitchen. She likes to mention that she is older than sliced bread and the toothbrush. It is actually kind of creepy that a person that age that smoked for 40 years and still drinks a glass of wine every evening can still be so active.

[@hardeepsingh-sg2kz]

My late Father was born in Pakistan in 1929

[@jasmiandfamily8915]

It is fascinating how many of us are totally glossing over the fact that this monster owned people. I hope she is rotting in hell.

[@Arthurian.]

I'm not sure I buy this as i met my relatives born in the 1900's and they didn't have a specific cadence.

[@aliciamadden7589]

Given that this is a true story- this is such a once in a lifetime opportunity to witness how technology can grab the limits of time and space and smush us all closer together like the folds of an accordion. Here I am, reading of your memories in a youtube comment, which you provided from a first hand relationship with a woman who actually lived and recalled the civil war. Thank you for your comment, you just brought everyone who reads it 3 "degrees of separation" closer to the not-so-long-ago past!

[@exodus6996]

just imagine if video cameras were around in the 1850s or earlier, honestly it might’ve been too horrific to watch 😅

[@EireHammer]

This is a very interesting but more importantly a nice sentiment!

[@fitmesslife]

Sorta kinda

[@tHEdANKcRUSADER]

She was born in 1836 and was 29 years old when the war ended, she is being filmed and audio recorded in 1929 at the age of 93.

[@mayomonkey3810]

Just because she was there, doesn't mean she's telling the truth!

[@bobsaget9675]

Almost scary how this wasn't that long ago..

[@johnranallo424]

My father, born in 1932, knew an elderly Civil War Veteran as a kid in Western New York.

[@broluv124]

1929 is the year my grandmother was born, and she’s turning 94 this year. Crazy.

[@QueenEsther731]

Woow

[@greece6000]

My grandmother died in 2004 at 107 years of age.Insane

[@yearginclarke]

My grandma turned 97 last August. Still remarkably healthy, can walk still and has no problem holding a conversation. Her short term memory can be spotty at times, but overall she is amazingly lucid and seems to be doing surprisingly well at that age.

[@masteryoda5705]

Tell her you love her mate Hope she makes it to 194 :)

[@honeyhernandez91]

My grandfather was born in the year 1919 he died in 2014

[@nunyabiznez6381]

In 1965 I was five years old. My family visited a museum that had been a house that was lived in and was part of the underground railroad. There was a woman there who was officially a docent but mostly just sat and talked and answered questions. She was 105 years old. She described her first five years as a slave. Obviously she could not remember the very first couple of years but she remembered enough to give an extremely graphic description of life as a slave child and the years that followed. The conditions where of course horrible as was the treatment. But she said that for her little changed between the before and the after. She lived as a sharecropper on the very same plantation that she was born on. Later she moved up north and was a maid for a wealthy northern family. She retired at the age of 80. She talked about not knowing about social security until she was almost 70 and it took years to find some way to document her birth because the records on the plantation were destroyed. I think I must have sat in rapt attention for an hour as she went on about every detail of her life. I forget about 90% of what she said but surprisingly a lot stayed with me.

[@katiejon17]

We have been indoctrinated to believe that the only form of “slavery” in those days were the black slaves. But it was norm, across the world. Their ancestors were rounded up and sold at slave ports by other black African tribes. Indians kept other tribes as slaves. White immigrants coming to the US often found themselves in a form of enslavement in the north - working for factories who kept them poor enough that they could never save up to leave, yet just barely surviving to give them hope. What a messed up world.

[@Mukyuify]

For five years old, you remember a lot. Thank you for sharing this story.

[@johndreker1613]

I deal a lot in baseball history and often see the question posed whether or not 19th century players could play today and I always rephrase the question as to which players from right now do you think could play under 1880s conditions? The answer is of course none of them could for more than a day or two BUT your post made me think about that for a second. Major League Baseball started in 1871 and the conditions for those players by today's standards are barbaric....and that's for common middle class northern men from that era. If we couldn't live a week in their shoes and they were the middle class northerners, imagine the conditions for the people treated the worst in this country from that era!

[@andreareid6901]

I don't believe at the age of five years old you would've understood and been able to process any of this. At the age of 5 you remember someone talking about social security and knew what a sharecropper was? Hard to believe.

[@yaboyastro69420]

HOLY MOLY!!!!! Got goose bumps!! Nearly everything was woods and look at us now!

[@MorgEllon-ye9pi]

Well, there's still A LOT of woods in the US. Unfortunately, vast expanses of woodlands are private property, going back only a handful of generations in some places. Who decided it was anyone's land in the first place?

[@KirkLee1983]

I met my Great Grandma in the early 90s she was born in 1898 she lived to 101

[@calvinpegus6563]

I grew up with my great aunt who was born in 1929 and lived on a few continents. Her conversations about her experience as a black woman who led an unconventional life going against the grain from what society expected from her was interesting and remarkable.

[@nicolem5626]

That’s wonderful

[@roderickgful]

Remember talking to my great grandmother. She was born in 1878. Told me about crossing the Dakotas in covered wagons, getting caught in a huge blizzard & almost dying. I must’ve been 8-9 & she was 97-98. Both my grand & great grandmothers lived to 99!

[@dbar85]

there was a terrible blizzard in the dakotas in 1888 known as the childrens blizzard or schoolhouse blizzard because it trapped so many school aged kids on there way home from school.. the temp dropped 60-70 degrees went from near freezing in the morning to some -40 and -50s crazy

[@naitthegr8131]

That's awesome your great grandmother lived such a long life, but i see you and so many other people here talking about your grandparents, great grandparents, etc. What does that have to do with a monster like this evil woman, who was not only a plantation mistress, but after the civil war falsely accused a lot of black men of rape, publicly called for as many lynchings of black people as possible, and also even wanted a zoo exhibit of black people? What is it about this horrible woman that makes you and the other commenters see your grandparents and great grandparents in her?

[@thejensetterkive]

I was expecting her to talk about slavery and stories of her being a slave owner, but there was no mention of that,despite the title of the video. Unless I missed something?

[@wyattwestwood7146]

Fantastic video. Now, please replay without the noisy music covering her voice. Something this rare and unique needs to be done without the noise. Thank you.

[@Gabrielle56743]

There was an 80 something year old woman living next to me and we would talk a little. She recently passed, and she was a kicker! Her husband told her during an argument that if she didn't like something she could leave. So she packed up her stuff and left! She was surrounded during her final days by her family. She's in a better place now and doesn't have to suffer any more. God bless her!

[@lachlanford1978]

Cool nobody cares about your neighbour

[@JesseStevenTrumm3992]

@@lachlanford1978I actually do douche quit trying to spread your misery

[@futurefind674]

WTF does that have anything to do with this cave animal on the screen?

[@azor9332]

Soo what.....who really care other than you.

[@Xezlec]

@@azor933261 people, apparently.

[@GodlordBazi]

I come from a very old Austrian family. We can trace back our roots to the year 986 A.D. and during all this time we've been living on this very patch of land we're still living on today. Our family members tend to get really old. My great-great-grandpa died at the age of 109 years back in 2007 when I myself was arround 16 years old. He had been the first family member to die since 1945 and the first one to die of natural causes since 1938. Since his death, a lot of old people in my family had died, all of them well over 90 years old and some of them even making it past the 100 years, with my grandfather being the most recent one, who sadly passed away at the age of 91 in July this year. All of us lived together in three different neighbouring houses all this time. Each day we had every single meal together and we even had our own crackerbarrel each Sunday. I still remember the day when I was allowed to join them for the first time at the age of 14, when it turned out they didn't want us kids anywhere near them on this day due to the huge amount of nasty jokes they told at their table. ;D It was also funny how the older family members occasionally scolded the younger ones as if they still were kids, though the younger ones had already been in their 70's. Once my great-great-grandfather called my grandpa a "stupid boy" when he had lost his glasses somewhere, and my great-great-grandfather then continued saying, "I've told you millions of times to look after your stuff properly, and yet you still won't listen to me!". My grandfather was 71 years old back then. :D I tell you, it was an incredible experience to hear about how life had been before WW1, during or post WW2 and how times had changed altogether from a 1st hand source. The fotos they'd shown me of how our "neighbourhood" (you could see only one other house from our's up until the 80's ;D) had looked like when they themselves were still kids were unbelievable, even now in my 30's I look at those pictures and can't tell the exact spot they were taken. The strange thing is: No matter how much time I've spent with each and everyone of them, it always felt like as if it hadn't even been close to enough to learn everything about their lives each time when one of them passed away. Now that my grandpa is gone as well, it feels like my past got cut off completely. But if there's one thing that I've learned from my ancestors, it's that no matter how dire the situation, you must never lose your optimism, so it's our turn now to keep things going like they did. (: I hope that one day my great-great-grandchildren will sit on my lap and listen to this old fart born in a long gone millenium, telling them stories about why the 1990's had been the decade of music and why the blue Pokemon edition is better than the red one. ;D

[@wrestlingscience]

why are you getting all touchy feely on a video about a slave owner?

[@ReidHenderson]

Love this ❤

[@lawrencebello8595]

@@wrestlingscienceThis was amazing comment. He thought ti share , simple as that

[@lawrencebello8595]

This made me laugh out loud, when I read “stupid boy”, I’m Nigerian , and in Nigerian culture. Parents scold their kids like that a lot. That’s amazing your grandparents lived so long

[@byngostar6895]

Your story was absolutely remarkable. 986!! No wonder your family home was it’s own blue zone, your family ate together and was very close to each other. Your comment was so enjoyable to read ❤❤ Have a great day, internet stranger!

[@rosanna1120]

Is there more to this somewhere? Where she discusses her slaves? It would be of some benefit to their descendants

[@CriticalLinker]

What a mindblowing experience. To watch and listen to a woman who was born nearly 200 years ago sharing her memories. It's giving me goosepimples.

[@michelebella677]

My great grandmother was born in 1895. She used to tell me stories about the time back then (in NYC). Her stories were so fascinating; just to learn about the times and how they’ve changed is so interesting.

[@heathersaid13]

History is so fascinating! These old clips brought to life with colorization truly are like traveling back in time.

[@gometricusa]

History is indeed fascinating. We should be fighting to preserve and teach it no matter how subjectively ugly it is and not wiping it off the planet because some people are offended by it.

[@bman6502]

I went to high school with her.. she was actually very good at math..

[@ezsmith3765]

1929 and clearer than 2024 Bigfoot footage

[@nonoasailo9690]

My grandmother was born around this this period, she's around 96 and her older sister is pushing 100 both still alive.

[@naaomi777]

What is their diet?

[@nonoasailo9690]

@@naaomi777 I have no idea,But maybe the generation gap plays an important role,say for one example no fastfood and mostly living like a normal person 😂😂😂

[@host_theghost507]

If all we knew about Rebecca Lattimer Felton was this clip, we'd think, what a sweet, feisty old lady. The full truth about her is much darker and more complicated. She was an advocate for the rights of women-white women, that is-but she was also an avowed white supremacist who was in favor of lynching black men: "If it needs lynching to protect woman's dearest possession from the ravening human beasts," she wrote, "then I say lynch, a thousand times a week if necessary." She also thought that educating Black people encouraged them to commit crimes. I'm glad this footage of her exists, but I honestly wish she hadn't.

[@ronniewatkins]

This is a wonderful video! This was filmed at her house, 'Rose Lawn' in Cartersville, Ga. about a mile from my house. There are a couple of major roads here named for her as well.

[@ronniewatkins]

The home and carriage house have been restored and are a museum and event space respectively

[@kellyroberts8098]

Thank you for posting

[@Angbwillinspireu]

My eldest freed ancestor died in 1948 at the age 104. He was born enslaved in Georgia, his 'owners' moved to the State of Texas just shortly after it was the Republic Country of Texas. After slavery he became a barber shop owner in El Paso from the late 1800s until 1936 when he retired back to our hometown of Marshall, Texas.

[@Whoiisteezybo1st]

You still got the barber shop ?? Ima have to pull up over there 💯💪🏾respect

[@OneTakeTuber]

Did she say 'Georgia cracker'?!

[@iRecordOS]

Yea they moved white settlers in to America and gave them vast amounts of land. Using US tax dollars to free them of African servitude and their local famines. Most brown folk were simply relocated and forced to inhabit lands owned by others. Some farm-land some townships.

[@Kittypaws90]

knowledge from our elders is so important. keep those memories he shared with you. my grandpa still alive was born 1935. hes a quiet guy. hes the only boy out of 11 kids. alll sisters. i think hes quiet cuz hes been bossed around by women his whole life. i wish he'd give me more stories.

[@427._]

The fact that we can now watch someone who has experience with a time so so long ago, is mind blowing. Tech is great when used correctly

[@miamitten1123]

I mean it was recored 100 years ago. You could have watched this in 1930 as well.

[@427._]

@@miamitten1123 wow it’s like I wasn’t born in the Victorian era. 🤣🤣🤣🤣. Dude the internet is full of people who either a straight up brainless…. Orrrrr, that are baiting reactions with some very moronic stuff said. I never can tell… 💀

[@427._]

@@miamitten1123 like are you that clueless? I’m not even trying to be rude like I just genuinely want to know.

[@joep3279]

@@427._ I think what they mean is that the way you phrased your comment sounds as if you are impressed by the fact that video exists, but video has existed for over 100 years now. The only revelation here is that they've managed to color the original black and white, but that ability has existed for half a century too.

[@427._]

@@joep3279 this still has no relation to my original point. I see now people don’t correctly understand my words. So here we go one more time… It is wild that the technology we have today allows for the “data transfer” of such old footage to a modern mode of storage for our viewing. Okay now hopefully people understand…

[@prezzlola]

94 in 1929 means she was born in 1835, when the US had been independent for only 59 years. This means that when she was a teenager around 1850, people who LIVED and witnessed the birth of the US as an independent nation were in their late 80's. This lady grew up around (and probably talked to) people who fought the American Revolution. Maybe her grandparents did. That's crazy.

[@curtis2299]

How is she a former slave owner? I watched it 3 times. Did I miss something?

[@loicrodriguez2532]

Rebecca Ann Felton (née Latimer; June 10, 1835 - January 24, 1930) was an American writer, politician, activist, & former slave owner who was the 1st woman to serve in the US Senate, serving for only 1 day. She was a prominent member of the Georgia upper class, who advocated for prison reform, women's suffrage & education reform. A major figure in American 1st-wave feminism, but also a white supremacist & the last slave owner to serve in the Senate. She spoke vigorously in favor of lynching, under the pretense of protecting the sexual purity of white women. Many (while not a majority) of the African Americans she admonished were falsely accused of rape. Born in Decatur (Georgia), daughter of Charles Latimer (prosperous planter, merchant & general store owner from Maryland who moved to DeKalb County in the 1820s), & Eleanor Swift Latimer, from Morgan (Georgia). Rebecca was the oldest of 4 children (her sister Mary Latimer also became prominent in women's reforms in the early 20th c). - 1853: she married Dr. William Harrell Felton at her home & moved to live with him on his plantation just north of Cartersville (Georgia). - In the aftermath of the Civil War, their plantation was destroyed. Now unable to rely on slaves for income, Dr. Felton returned to farming until there was enough money to open a school. Felton & her husband opened Felton Academy in Cartersville, where she & her husband both taught.

[@treyb2919]

I love the last line. Airplanes have become so common she doesn’t even go outside to look at them anymore

[@STEFFAN-ee3oh]

I still go outside to look at them

[@nancyholcombe8030]

😆😆😆😆

[@MrSexydivas]

I still do. That childlike wonder has not left me. Not yet anyway. I'll update in a few more years

[@pep590]

And there were no large planes then or airlines. She still had so much to see in aviation.

[@davidjoe3368]

What's crazy is, this lady could have easily met President Lincoln, being she was born in 1835! Incredible!

[@naitthegr8131]

she probably rejoiced at the news President Lincoln was murdered....

[@2lsjonesy]

My Granny was born around the same year as this lady, i just whats app'd her this video and she loved it, brought back memories. She's reposted it on her FB

[@felizcuervito]

Your granny was born in 1835?

[@Ericaaa13]

@@felizcuervito😂😂😂😂

[@charliecroker6445]

My Greatgrandfather was 1850 , I'm 61 , over 50 yrs before the first airborne.flightv of the Wright brothers . My son finds that mind boggling as do I.

[@georgeklimes7604]

One of my grandfathers was born in 1883. When I was high school and even college, there were still peopleliving who were born that far back. So I met people born in three different centuries. Wow.

[@david5544g]

That's very cool... I met a man who was born in 1896.... Take care man..

[@georgeklimes7604]

@@david5544g It's cool, but it also means I am getting OLD. LOL. I was born in the early 1960s. So, of course, many people were around who were born in the 1800s. They would have been in their 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s at that time. Even in the early 80s when I was in college, you'd still have folks around who were from the 1800s, but the numbers were much lower at that point obviously. What's stranger is speaking with my mother's mother (born in the early 1900s) and HER mother (born in the early 1890s) and hearing them discuss people they knew or met who were born before the Civil War. Totally wild! Take care of yourself as well.

[@david5544g]

@@georgeklimes7604 Awesome.... Remember 60 is the new 30...LOL.. I'm around there too... Thanks.

[@brianmorse769]

These are great thoughts. Thank you for taking me down that history lane.

[@brianmorse769]

Great thoughts!

[@someguy4911]

Love all the stories people are sharing here on the comment board. My story comes from my grandfather who was born in the early 1900s. He grew up in Omaha, NE. He talks about as a child, his parents (my great grandparents) would load everyone up in the Model T and drive to Sioux City, IA. At that time, the only "road" were tire ruts in the dirt that followed telephone lines from Omaha to Sioux City. There was no A/C, no heat, and no radio. He talked about how you always traveled with a bunch of spare inner tubes because every time you drove somewhere, a tire blowout was guaranteed.

[@naithngr81-jh2bb]

That's cool..... but what I'm trying to figure out is, why do so many people see this woman in their grandparents and great grandparents just because she was old???? Are you serious? That's not even taking into account that this woman was a plantation owner (or mistress), nor does it take into account that she was a white supremacist who publicly called for racial murders of as many blacks as possible and falsely accused MANY black men of rape. And you and so many other people seriously see this vile, disgusting evil woman in your grandparents? are you serious?

[@teedow01]

Wow

[@mongrel_97]

crazy that we have such a time portal here before our eyes. this footage is nearly 100 years old.

[@CarstenMoreno]

What's the name of the music recording during her interview? Did it come from a movie or something?