History of the Quadroon Ball

[@deborahmurphy6941]

"... one goal in life, and that is to be the mistress of a Creole." Yeah, right. The goal was survival in the least painful way possible. It's not like they had options.

[@beverlybalius9303]

Hey, it was better than the alternative

[@adrinneladrinnel0403]

EXACTLY!!!!!!!!

[@LoneWulf278]

For real.

[@karenpennington5073]

As with every woman in this world.

[@francescapowell1538]

💯

[@marielaveau6362]

I'm a native of Louisiana, and creole on my mother's side. My mother had cousins that married cousins so that their children would have light skin and wavy hair. Colorism is a big problem all over the world. There are people in Africa, China, and India who are bleaching their skin because they've been told that whiter is prettier. Yet there are European women who lay out in the sun to get beautiful brown skin. Just goes to show that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

[@karenpennington5073]

Absolutely,in Hawaii the women who are mixed are some of the most beautiful women I have ever seen. They are Hawaiian,black,white,Asian.Gorgeous. God doesn’t make mistakes. Every race has beautiful and frankly plain people,however all should be loved an honored.

[@mkb5984]

I think Gabrielle Union is absolutely breathtaking... and that's just to start of my list....

[@icecreamcake1457]

Were these cousins blood related? Also, aside from the cousin thing. Is it considered self hate to want to maintain YOUR own image?

[@cherylthommo1]

Yes MarieLaVeau you are so correct. I am a white Australian and my skin was permanently damaged by the time I reached 18 lying out in the sun trying to get brown. I have had to deal with skin cancer due to my stupidity. I have worked with black men and women with very dark skin and envied the flawless beautiful colour. Easy for me to say but what a crazy world we live in.

[@nunyabidness3363]

How profound and original.

[@taidog88]

I am so grateful for the internet creators that are teaching us all of the horrible history our schools glossed over

[@douglasjones2570]

Or deliberately ignored. Yes!

[@FilmSureelist97]

As I get older, I’m starting to realize how much the public school system Disneyfied and sugar coated history…

[@ask4theupgrade359]

This is not appropriate for learning in school. However, this subculture is something that black Americans are quite familiar with. This is where, the brown paper bag test comes from. This is colorism.

[@anthonypuccetti8779]

This isn't horrible history.

[@mamamoonie]

​@@douglasjones2570This the one!

[@AuthorLHollingsworth]

Every time I hear that America has a lovely history, I think of all of these historical facts that have wounded our African-American communities. The way that many of our people think is due to the past. Our ancestors were treated like trash, and were so brain washed that even some people still think that cleansing the race is cool. We are the most duplicated race on the planet. It does hurt to know that Black women have been treated so unfairly for ages. Many of our descendants were used only to birth children, and watch their kids be sold off like cows. I hope that one day we as a Black race will treat each other better, and become more unified. A large number of my Louisiana family looked like some of those women in that film, and that included my grandmother. They never wanted for any of us to play in the sun; beacuse, they didn't want us to get darker. Slavery messed them up so much that they think so negatively about their own people. Thanks, for the video.

[@thedarkwarriorperspective7475]

I agree totally. That's been my mission to show otherwise. You're very welcome. Appreciate the support and comment.

[@MJ-hg1mk]

We ain't never "coming together"... Unfortunately. So ain't no sense continuing that dreamy narrative... Other than that, 💯 agree.

[@barbram8001]

BUTLERU I agree with you, I can't understand for the life of me, why are Black people, so proud of adulterate blood by the white man. I think about that poor woman being raped, maybe her husband was lying beside her, while being abuse. Helpless, humiliating, what a devastating travesty!

[@oneprettycookie7446]

Sad

[@carolynsteele9226]

America has a lot of beautiful history, and all Americans should be proud of it. BUT, it also has shameful history.

[@TimoteoDeBaum]

My heart cries for the millions of black generations lost in America's history 😩❤️

[@aldofhister6859]

They're not lost we just keep them in the backyard

[@robbey10]

As a result of said system all I can say is that "it is what it is." and it got me here and I am damn glad to be here and who I am.

[@amyfvwilliams8947]

Thanks for at least caring about us learning our history when BLACK PEOPLE dont even really look into it themselves

[@NycBeauty]

Me too❗️

[@paccawacca4069]

Cringe

[@alicerose8057]

My wealthy aristocratic French Huguenot ancestor decided to marry a slave that was procured for him. Her name was Seelia. He paid for her freedom in Ohio, married her, and moved first to Concordia Parish Louisiana, and then to Texas. They had 5 children together. According to some articles I’ve read, the family was known throughout the South as being extremely wealthy and may have been one of the wealthiest families in Texas at one point. Just prior to the civil war two of their daughters were married to white men. Those men were run out of town when it became known their wives were quadroon. They lived on the border in Mexico, and were finally able to return to Texas after the civil war. All of the children were nearly kept from being able to inherit the estate after the father passed. However, one of the sons was finally able to keep everything. Some of the descendants of the son who got everything have become ridiculously wealthy today, owning casinos etc...It is one example of how generations of wealth affects your situation today. A lot of rich white people in this country want to believe they are “self made,” without acknowledging past generations and what they were able to inherit. I wish I could see the family cemetery of this family, but it was destroyed. Not only was it destroyed, but town/school/everything named after this family was changed. There’s gravel where their graveyard was...their cotton gun was burned down. It’s obvious they were treated badly for having even one drop of black blood.

[@beckygoldblack2049]

My dad is from Louisiana, New Iberia to be exact. Sadly, the light skinned, mixed, fair skin verses darker complexions is still very much so, alive and wreaking havoc in Louisiana to this day. Complexion still matters down there. Oh and let’s not forget hair texture.

[@ejs2undertaker]

I live in New Iberia, and I have never seen this before.

[@beckygoldblack2049]

@@ejs2undertaker.......Wow! That’s good, what a blessing. I have family in New Orleans and Shreveport too, complexion matters to quite a few folks sadly, it’s obviously not just Louisiana of course, but we were talking about the ball and how complexion dictated whether you were desirable or not, and I equated it to not being very far off from that nowadays.

[@Khangel]

It’s the same in the Caribbean. In Dominica and other French islands the word Milatresse (or Milat) came to mean an exclusive group of upper middle, land owning classes and they ruled commerce, society, and every other aspect of local life. Black men did not dare look at one of the milatresse women. As a light skinned woman from a later generation, my family had neither the power nor the money of those people I physically resembled so I was targeted by dark men as representing the forbidden class and it was a dangerous time of life for me.

[@beckygoldblack2049]

@@Khangel....Sad, but true. I vacayed in Belize and it was the same darn way, Trinidad too.

[@arethamorgan6613]

@Becky GoldBlack. Especially with the hair textures. Natural hair versus the synthetic. This war continues, even after all this time.

[@TRUTHTEACHER2007]

Actually, this tradition is just a reflection of a much older custom of concubinage back in France itself, in particular Paris. Just watch the film Gigi and you'll get a glimpse of that world. Men were expected to get married and have legitimate heirs, yet and still it was a status symbol to have a beautiful mistress. It was a declaration that he had the wealth to afford such a luxury as a fashionable and sophisticated courtesan. Same held true in the aristocratic world of Versailles. All they did was transplant the same mentality to America.

[@patandersen4271]

TRUTHTEACHER2007 glad you mentioned that true and very relevant to this videos point.

[@TRUTHTEACHER2007]

@@patandersen4271 Thank you. I think to understand a lot of what happened during slavery we have to take a step back and look at the class systems of Europe.

[@amasion2882]

It’s important to keep the era in mind, though. Most marriages, particularly among royalty, nobility, and the very wealthy, were arranged by families seeking strong socioeconomic ties with each other. Husbands and wives didn’t have deep romantic love ties to justify monogamy. It was basically expected that men able to afford a mistress would do so and these were normally love affairs. Wives were frequently guilty as well but practiced more discretion. A common expectation was that the wife should practice monogamy until she bore two sons (“an heir and a spare”) to inherit family assets. After she’d “done her duty,” she was free to entertain lovers of her choice.

[@TRUTHTEACHER2007]

@@amasion2882 Noooot really. Women pretty much had the shitty end of the stick from start to finish. The rule when it came to women was "don't get caught". The ramifications for being found out were very serious socially. Her reputation would be ruined. Only a few women who held considerable power were able to get away with that sort of thing. It really sucked to be a woman back then no matter what the class... and not in a fun way either!

[@amasion2882]

TRUTHTEACHER2007 : What part of “practiced more discretion” is unclear to you? Most higher class women had lovers if they wanted them and it was expected and accepted. I agree socioeconomics played a role, though. In general men had more wealth and status than women so they got away with more indiscretion. I don’t claim the wife’s position was equal with the husband’s. I’m just saying they all cheated if their emotional, romantic, and sexual needs weren’t met at home. The aristocracy frequently set the tone for how society functioned. Catherine the Great paraded her lovers without a qualm. Even Queen Victoria had favorites she attached to emotionally if not sexually.

[@emilyzavala3841]

Interesting and disturbing. You mentioned the white men were looking for the dark skin, but with EU features. I think there was a different reason as you can find plenty of EU women i.e. Greek, Spaniard, Turk etc. and middle Easterners with dark skin and EU features. I think they did it to satisfy their appetite for something that would be considered taboo, and have complete power seeing that they ran the show and were in charge of the outcome. They still looked at them as property as Rosalie Jonas said in her poem "Light "les belles milatraises" to the portal, that they may pass; but is doubly barred, black slave!" and "Women are fair for an hour a night". Those wealthy white men were playing head games and power tripping. They were going to have their cake and eat it too and discard those women as trash once they were through with them. Despicable and typical.

[@thedarkwarriorperspective7475]

I agree with you.

[@sowhat8119]

Yas!

[@taryn.b]

To be fair, there weren't hardly any Greeks, Turks and middle easterners in antebellum South. So very fair skined Creole women were the "exotic" types of the day.

[@Virus-xm7qc]

You're SPOT ON!!!!... SO SICKENING and DISGUSTING!!!!

[@wendelljeffries8737]

💯

[@Jjengering]

Being 1/4 mixed myself. This really hits home. Sometimes I have felt like an outsider in both groups, as I'm not white... But not black enough either. Sometimes people think I'm Latin and think they can drop racist slurs here and there and get away with it. We really do have a hard time til this day, judged on varying levels of skin colour... Even the lightest of us may be more "acceptable" but there is still subtle racism and judgement going on around constantly.

[@sparkman1314able]

Yall had a home in blackness but yall messed that up. Or rather nowadays that white parent sticks around.. Wasn't so true back then

[@angelkingsley5299]

???? Why are you blaming them for white supremacy and the systemic problems that come from centuries of sexual assault. Stop please

[@Jjengering]

@@angelkingsley5299 not blaming anybody for anything... The history is what it is... I'm just making an observation.

[@wendigo1919]

The American mentality on race is so messed up. I'm 1/4 mixed as well. I'm a Jamaican living in Canada. I've never had an identity issue. I don't get it. I've always considered myself just that.. mixed. I don't understand why you would say that you're not white and not black enough either. Why can't you be just who you are just what you are? BOTH. We are both. We are both white AND black - we don't have to choose, we shouldn't have to choose. I don't feel the need to negate either side of my family. I'm so proud of both sides of me. I guess I feel fortunate to have never understood this confusion at any time in my life and I'm now almost 50. I think the internal havoc of the very racist one drop rule continues on sadly....Those who make you feel like an outsider on either side are assholes. That's so weird. I don't feel like an outsider in either group. And I can't even imagine the racial slur thing you experienced. I guess I've always been in a very multicultural situation from the time i was young till now. I guess it's all a matter of where you live and who you are surrounded by.

[@febe11111]

Can you tell me what is 1/4 mixed please.

[@getreal4real169]

My great grandmother use to tell us about the gens de couleur libres in Louisiana and how there was even a divide within the Creoles in Louisiana based on your complexion and social status. Some of it was so sad.

[@beverlybalius9303]

Anne Rice wrote a great book on this Culture,,, called Feast of All Saints,,,I was raised up 30 minutes from New Orleans,,,

[@dontdomeboo81]

Watch The Feast Of All Saints talks about this very tradition

[@thedarkwarriorperspective7475]

I have that one too. Appreciate the comment and recommendation.

[@bubblybubbles4023]

I love that movie

[@auntiehelenrizpah]

Whooo! That movie is deep!

[@orleanslouisian3886]

@@thedarkwarriorperspective7475 also The courage to love 2001 Vanessa Williams

[@caracasboogie]

Listen to the Feast of the Mau Mau.

[@katieevans4858]

Still to this day. The light skinned blacks are treated different than the darker ones.

[@enilehcodramramlised8716]

Ain’t nothing new there🤦🏾‍♀️😒

[@lorriemelerine28]

We're consider white now lol if you're referring to Quadroon and so forth .....

[@specom]

Bullshit.

[@VitaAnnette]

Roxanne Marilyn I don’t consider myself white... NEVER!

[@janetcousins4645]

Kate Evans: Different does not necessarily mean better.

[@PoeCommunicateATL]

When I was young, I bought into the rhetoric that all light-skinned Blacks were "stuck up." As a 58-year-old adult with decades of experiences and observations behind me I now believe snobbery is case-by-case and seen in the darkest of us and the lightest as well. I also contend that, on the one hand: * We reject our purist (dark Africans) while whites do the reverse and idolize theirs (blond Europeans); * We cause great pain for many beautiful dark-skinned women. Indeed, much of Black America (not all) rejects dark-skinned womanhood in favor of mixed women and other races, especially those like with phenotypes like JLo and Kim Kardashian. Many (not all!) black men want them and many black women -- with the human-hair weaves from other races, the skin lightening and so on -- want to be them. * Many dark-skinned men struggle with their color, too, but as males are able to pursue other races in a way that black women are not. On the other hand: * We dehumanize light-skinned/mixed Blacks, though we are so focused on our pain we don't see this; * Lighter Blacks are sometimes disliked, even hated, by the same people who desire them as mates, spouses and parents of lighter-skinned children; * Black America secretly resents light/mixed blacks who marry each other, some openly say they are "maintaining" their color. It's true in some cases but in others the unions are created by two people who feel a common bond around being hated or used for their color. When a person has what you have, that thing becomes a non-issue and that is refreshing. Black America has some deep issues around color; it's not our fault but we definitely need to heal.

[@hananiyahdejudah5643]

Indeed Sis 💜💛

[@gratefuldead3750]

Its the same thing in the european Romani Community of asian indian descent, the gypsies, the whiter the kid the better. But their attitudes dont bother indian immigrants, as well as african immigrants are not bothererd by african american attitudes. Different context.

[@mrslatchie953]

Loved your video!! My family are mullatos. I live n Louisiana, Baton Rouge. I'm originally from Cane River. There is a form of that still going on today. They try to pursuade u to marry within d race or white. I married a beautiful black man.

[@thedarkwarriorperspective7475]

Well... welcome to the family. Not only do i appreciate the love and i also appreciate the confirmation. ✊🏾❤

[@mrslatchie953]

What movie insert did u use? I would love to c that movie.

[@mannacler]

Quadroon, (1971). A regional film that was on the drive-in theater circuit in the south during the early seventies.

[@lennisefuller3721]

mrs latchie..I have a Book Called Cane River...Story about a Slave Woman and her White Master who had Several Children together...Well if you're from Cane River then i kno u may have heard the story

[@SouthSideLadyWright]

Lennise Fuller I read that book too.

[@JustMe-dn9fh]

There is a movie called A feast of all saints “ that focused on women who were like this in Louisiana.

[@vcb1023]

That's a good movie! It's definitely part of my collection.

[@hupyt]

Great film

[@BiggBluu251]

Can anybody tell where to find the movie I’ve been looking high and lie for it lol

[@ayates6333]

It's base upon a book by Anne Rice.

[@thegoddessdiana9185]

Some of the scenes were from that movie, specifically the ballroom scene where couples are dancing Viennese Waltz following the Line of Dance (the V-Waltz is rotary, although turning to the left or "reverse turn"; in this video clip they were doing "natural turn" which turns to the right and is easier for most people as you don't cross feet as you do in reverse turn). There is another film on this subject entitled, "The Octoroon" and some scenes from that movie were included. Those were the scenes featuring the Frenchman explaining plaçage to his friend and the scenes featuring Kathy McKee (sister of Lonette McKee of , "Cotton Club", "jungle Fever", etc.).

[@hannakisses44]

Love my race all shades. We are all beautiful. I love learning and understanding.

[@thedarkwarriorperspective7475]

Outstanding!

[@lilmizzije]

Mixed race isn’t black

[@linzierogers6227]

Sickening what has been done to the black people in the US. Today it's done more quietly and many times within the confines of law. Sickening!!!

[@reginachenevey8766]

Black folks are treated worse in their home land. Here they have a chance to do anything or be anything they want. Native Americans were treated worse than black folks. Life is what it is and it never really changes. We still have slavery, sex trafficking, etc....been like this since time began.

[@myrtle1234]

My mom is quadroon and much lighter with blue eyes than anyone depicted here. Why are quadroons and octoroons always portrayed as looking African? I (octoroon) look like Natalie Imbrulia. We look all kinds of ways. My mom’s mixed race family has been mixed since before the Civil War through marriages. They were all just regular farmers and teachers. The modern crop of justice minded “historians” is just as exploitative as the old crop. Always pushing a narrative.

[@tanafort9741]

The whole slavery thing was a not only free labor but pimp rapping women and men. This whole arraignment was a "Gentlemans' Benefit". Privilege. It makes me sad. Not all but many.

[@neagropunis9180]

Smells like Infections and New STD'S.

[@supaflyeguy30]

Dope video bro . and it reminds me of how division amongst ourselves due to skin tone and of course taking on a new mindstate

[@thedarkwarriorperspective7475]

Thanks fam!!! Brown paper bag test. Yes indeed. #DARKWARRIOR

[@H.D.B.3]

Plaçage* was a recognized extralegal* system in French and Spanish slave colonies of North America (including the Caibbean) by which ethnic European men entered into civil* unions with non- Europeans of African, Native American and mixed-race descent. The term comes from the French placer meaning "to place with." Plaçage* is defined historically as where a white man would basically have a relationship with a free woman of color where she would be kept, so that he would provide her with a house and some form of income so that she could maintain a lifestyle. It was basically a common-law marriage. These interracial couples couldn't legally marry, but they lived under one roof. The young woman always thought that he would stay with her he would be true* but he didn't. He invariably left her to marry a white woman. Professor Charles Chamberlain (University of New Orleans); and Professor Emily Clark (Tulane University) Selah, Sister Hasiah Drorah BahtYah

[@thriftingfromscratch8542]

"Play on fiddler man" sounds a lot like "shut up and dribble."

[@denisemcdougal6445]

Absolutely true

[@leodion23]

Your vocal tone alone set the mood of the piece

[@thedarkwarriorperspective7475]

Appreciate that. ✊🏾🖤

[@silucibod1862]

Yea i noticed that too!😊

[@patandersen4271]

Subscribed, I appreciate the time and effort you put into putting this video together and the professional way it was presented. Keep up the great work, hope to see more educational videos such as this from you.

[@thedarkwarriorperspective7475]

Thank you very much for your kind words and support. Means a lot knowing someone such as yourself and others appreciate my work. Welcome aboard. 👍🏾

[@2025-e4n]

Octoroons: hybrids that are 7/8ths White. and Quadroons: Hybrids that are 3/4ths White....... but the World wants to call them "Black" ! Unbelievable!

[@thedarkwarriorperspective7475]

😂😂🤷🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️ interesting, isn't it?

[@mixedqueen8859]

Right so dumb

[@thegigadykid1]

Right its stupid octoroons are white period

[@thegigadykid1]

@Flower8 no they cant

[@thegigadykid1]

@Kiki M. no they cant everyone is mixed by is that logic

[@stringofpearls4551]

The "arrangement" of the wealthy man and mistress reminds me of the Geisha-that is/was a sad life, as well. Very sad abuse in a "velvet glove" of sorts

[@LoneWulf278]

Yep!

[@maanestoev]

As a quadroon woman I'm shocked that I only learned about this part of our history today! It seems like we'll never run out of stories of atrocities that were comitted against us, black and mixed people are truly resilient

[@thedarkwarriorperspective7475]

It's ok sis. As long as you know now. Thanks for comment.

[@xiloa23]

A little weird to identify yourself as a quadroon woman in 2019 ? It's a pejorative

[@maanestoev]

In the us maybe, where I'm from we still refer to ourselves by those colonialist terms. In my day to day I'll just refer to myself as mixed but when I get specific that's the word I use. My mom calls herself a mulatto, that's just the terms we use here. It's one of those things right, other mixed/black people can call me a quadroon but I wouldn't be cool with a white person saying it.

[@xiloa23]

@@maanestoev ahh I see!

[@traviskastl6753]

@@maanestoev Why? It would be factually true quadroon means one quarter black. Just as biracial means half black or half anything really. Also us mixed race and black people aren't anymore or less resilient than other races. Humans in general are resilient. In order to not repeat history all races must abandon this whole defining ourselves by the color of our skin regardless of who started it because all it does is start to draw stupid race lines.

[@hopskotchsquirrel9504]

Ann Rice wrote Feast of All Saints (turned movie)..one of them most eloquently written research on the subject of Placage....a fascinating study. If anyone get's a chance, check it out.

[@happylove2257]

They made a miniseries too. It was really good

[@nurimajeed8595]

I read it years ago...right on point

[@teresahiggs4896]

Barbara Hamby has written a series about the gens de colour libre in New Orleans. It’s a historical novel. I’m not sure what time it’s set in. It’s an exellent series, a window into that world and time. It does mention the quadroon balls . The main character Ben January is very dark and his wife is a quadroon.

[@spiritandtruth194]

Didn't she write vampire books that were set in New Orleans?

[@hopskotchsquirrel9504]

@@spiritandtruth194 yes pretty...but shes a researcher first and foremost...author later.

[@chrisbullock6477]

My grandmother had two aunts who she said passed as white and married white men and before moving away forever to Delaware they had one last goodbye and then left and lived their lives as white women. So many of those stories in the south especially in pockets of areas where either children of raped slave women or Native Mixed with African American and white people weren't welcomed in any communities, so they had to form their own of basically other mixed people for their own protection.

[@geebee1173]

From:Gee🐝 1.Psalms 139 2.Beauty is skin deep 3.Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

[@ivyrainbitch]

she had white kids..... sad

[@jboss729]

Some people in my family from New Orleans did this too. They moved up North to pass. SMH.

[@TURBOBEATZZZ]

The slaves weren't always raped. Most dark BW desired WM and wanted mullato children just like they do today. BW almost never abort a potentially mullato child but murder black children at the highest percentage by race especially if she knows its a boy. They are definitely not innocent beings. Only fools think they are.

[@dguthrie1]

Good riddance

[@lisae9958]

I am currently reading Nine Notches: The Quadroon Ball of Lies by TJ Spencer Jacques. This story is fascinating!! Also, read or get the movie 'Feast of Saints' and 'Cane River'.

[@brownstonenycdreams9609]

A few years ago, I read Cane River & Red River both books are good reads... I watch Feats of all saints too... I'll have to read Nine Notches

[@martonyocaddiell710]

Some of those men did marry them. Thats how you got half black, quad, and octa being slave owners in Louisiana.

[@thedarkwarriorperspective7475]

That was mentioned in the video. Thanks for the comment.

[@niccolethomas4591]

My dad's father and mother passed for white, couldn't tell them apart. When ever my mom and I would go over to his house we would be greeted with him standing at the door with a paper bag. This part of history I did not know about, Thank you for the video

[@aplicqu8761]

Emily Clarke, historian, says the ACTUAL quadroon balls ocurred for only a short period of time: 1790s to 1810 with a particular group of black people. They occurred among women of color who had Cuban and Haitian heritage. Though our warrior shows "ads" for octoroon and quadroon balls as late as 1858, these were names for balls for light skinned black women who were prostitutes to meet white men who wanted their services. This was NOT placage. Records show that most women of color, no matter what their shades, inherited their property from their black/gens de coleur fathers, not from placage. In fact, there are no written documents showing "placage" arrangements to prove it was entered into in any "legal" fashion. White men could not legally marry black women, but in many cases these laws were ignored. The few who had black families and white families often acknowledged the legitimacy of their black children by baptising them in their surnames through the church. White men who did not marry white women kept common law black wives and had children with these women for life, and got around legitimacy laws by baptizing their children in institutions like the Catholic church. Mixed race children could inherit from their white fathers through legal wills. However as the years got closer to the Civil War, many black code (Code Noir) laws were enforced that limited movement of free black people, limited them having businesses, and working freely. The incidences of white European or Creole white males supporting their slave or mixed race mistresses and their children, however, was low. Most abandoned them and their offspring after legal marriages to white women and made no provision for them or their education and support.

[@thedarkwarriorperspective7475]

Plaçage was a recognized extralegal system in French and Spanish slave colonies of North America (including the Caribbean) by which ethnic European men entered into civil unions with non-Europeans of African, Native American and mixed-race descent. The term comes from the French placer meaning "to place with". The women were not legally recognized as wives but were known as placées; their relationships were recognized among the free people of color as mariages de la main gauche or left-handed marriages. They became institutionalized with contracts or negotiations that settled property on the woman and her children, and in some cases gave them freedom if they were enslaved. The system flourished throughout the French and Spanish colonial periods, reaching its zenith during the latter, between 1769 and 1803.

[@thedarkwarriorperspective7475]

She declares it as a myth, but my sources show otherwise. Thanks for the long comment and view. ✌🏾

[@aplicqu8761]

@@thedarkwarriorperspective7475 I know what the name means. It started in France with white women mistresses. There there were written documents formalizing the negociations, inheritance and support for offspring. There were not "placage" documents for black women, white men. No documents have ever been found. Clarke researched this. There might have been verbal agreements about what was going to occur and there were property bestowal documents, but often legal offspring of white men disinherited placage offspring. This system did not "flourish." It was of no ultimate benefit if the woman and her children were made destitute. It was rare. What was more common was for enslaved mixed women to be bought as prostitutes for white men. This was not a bonafide way out for women of color. These men just as rarely freed their placage women and children. And as the War approached, laws prevented manumission, no matter what your relationship was or wasn't.

[@thedarkwarriorperspective7475]

@@aplicqu8761 kb.osu.edu Black female agency and sexual exploitation: Quadroon Balls and plaçage relationships Noël M Voltz The Ohio State University, 2008 In 1805, a New Orleans newspaper advertisement formally defined a new social institution, the infamous Quadroon Ball, in which prostitution and plaçage-a system of concubinage-converged. These elegant balls, limited to upper-class white men and free “quadroon” women, became interracial rendezvous that provided evening entertainment and the possibility of forming sexual liaisons in exchange for financial “sponsorship.” It is the contention of this thesis such “sponsored” relationships between white men and free women of color in New Orleans enabled these women to use sex as a means of gaining social standing, protection, and money. In addition, although these arrangements reflected a form of sexual exploitation, quadroon women were able to become active agents in their quest for upward social mobility. Until recently, historians have overlooked the lives of Louisiana’s free women of color during the colonial and antebellum eras. My research, therefore, expands historical knowledge about the unique social institution of Quadroon Balls and plaçage relationships in order to give greater breadth to scholarly understandings of quadroon women’s sexual and economic choices.

[@aplicqu8761]

@@thedarkwarriorperspective7475 That 1805 date is precisely within the years I cited when Quadroon balls were set up to connect free women of color to wealthy Euro planters. After 1810 until the war, those balls were often a guise for slave women being used for prostitution. (note in the ad from the paper it says the balls occur every tues, wed and thurs. That's not a ball, it's pimping. A ball occurs once or twice a year.) Also similar to the article. What I am most interested in is what percentage of either set of women were engaged in placage, what percent earned homes, had their children educated, named as heirs to their father's estate. If the women were not free, what percentage of women and their children were freed. Only 8% of the black population were free people of color in New Orleans. There were not enough free women of color to go around and placage, as in Henriette DeLisle's case, often meant nothing for the women or their children. There are no written placage agreements to be found. Wills that gave property to people of color could be sourced if entered in civil courts. That's all I'm saying.

[@mamuwaldevoudoupractitione3518]

What is the name of the movie in this video essay? I'm very curious and would like to see it in its entirety. Thanks!

[@sonjajohnson7979]

Me too! What movie is that?

[@thegoddessdiana9185]

The movie is entitled, "Feast of All Saints".

[@phaatsogood6563]

The more I learn I become angry; I left my dad house in Louisiana when I saw I was being paired at 14yrs old. It’s been rough in this life but God.

[@thedarkwarriorperspective7475]

Stay strong. Thanks for the comment.

[@buttercup5920]

You said paired what that mean ?

[@ambo9569]

@@buttercup5920I believe they mean they were paired, or being set up with a white man or perhaps a close relative so they could maintain their color, as was the practice

[@buttercup5920]

@@ambo9569 ohhhhhh okay 👌🏼

[@luvburden5743]

Basically valuable structured system prostitutes? Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, I don't mind .

[@thedarkwarriorperspective7475]

Facts!

[@luvburden5743]

@@thedarkwarriorperspective7475 ok thanks, ! I was just making sure.

[@thedarkwarriorperspective7475]

@@luvburden5743 you're very welcome

[@cammiosis]

They always had access to more and that’s why black men love them so much. They could eat off her.

[@thedarkwarriorperspective7475]

@@cammiosis yep!

[@Daemon3rdBlackfyre]

I’m a “quadroon” and this video has just changed my entire perspective on race

[@marlene97280]

Carteron

[@lvqsu]

same im also a quadroon. ha

[@chewsyslee55]

I just marval at some of the coplex and strange constructs of different societies. Humans are such odd creatures.

[@cindylu607]

Thanks for the history lesson, I'm an Israeli Quadroon. I didn't even know the word "Quadroon"

[@thedarkwarriorperspective7475]

You're very welcome

[@shammaravirgem1917]

@The DarkWarrior Prospective, What’s the name of the movie you showed clips from??

[@thedarkwarriorperspective7475]

The Quadroon.

[@shammaravirgem1917]

The DarkWarrior Perspective, Thanks...

[@thedarkwarriorperspective7475]

@@shammaravirgem1917 you're very welcome

[@flowerygeshia9603]

The DarkWarrior Perspective thank you

[@tombimashri8149]

How sad so mixed race people also suffered i can imagine their emotions and rejection and name calling off everyone. Mental torture is the worst thing one should face on a daily basis.

[@pearlm2759]

@thedarkwarriorperspective What movie(s) are used in this video?

[@matthewmann8969]

Just similar, parallel, alike, and near identical like "The Tragic Mestizo Syndrome"

[@thedarkwarriorperspective7475]

Exactly!!

[@crystalevans2123]

I have read that some of these men never married and instead would have back door weddings with their mistress where the priests would marry them at the backdoor of the Catholic church so that they could be considered married in the church but not by the state.

[@Trutheseker]

This occurred in my family as well. When he decided to marry a white woman just to have an heir the other family was abandoned. He had 9 children with his “mistress” and had one child with the Governors daughter who inherited all of his wealth. His other children got nothing although they profited before the marriage which resulted in generations of poverty from a dead beat father. He was the most wealthiest man in the parish.

[@beverlybalius9303]

Sadly, lots of us are abandoned by wealthy sperm donors….….

[@TURBOBEATZZZ]

But somehow BM are deadbeat? BW still looking for that WM fix lol. They say it's better to be a WMs whore than a niggaz wife.

[@fynessmason]

Anne Rice wrote about this in her book the Feast of All Saints. It’s very detailed and there’s a movie too.

[@thedarkwarriorperspective7475]

Appreciate that.

[@mariowashington2910]

Anne Rice wrote a novel about it. "Feast of All Saints".

[@debrajenkins1655]

I learned a lot about this sysrem from that book. It ia also mentioned in the book Absalom, Absalom.

[@autobotdiva9268]

Yup

[@neagropunis9180]

I need 2 find that book after i drank this Dirty Sprite. Mood Killer😎

[@sandral.romero6125]

I watched your vid twice. I've always been fascinated by courtesan life.

[@thedarkwarriorperspective7475]

Sandy Cakes Hope you enjoyed it,

[@thesoftlife1033]

Great job! It was a bit uncomfortable to watch my maternal family history on full display 🤔😒😒😒😳. Placage, is why my mixed race great grandmother gave birth to my grandfather on her 14th birthday in 1911. His father was from France. Its also why I have a maiden name. Oddly, my grandfather carried his father's last name and had interaction with through adulthood. He did not and legally could not marry my great grandmother. He did however provide for her financially by purchasing real estate for her that is still family owned. Is it any different than being "1 of 3+ baby mamas" to some dude who may or may not provide for the women and kids?

[@abundance6484]

But at the very very least the man provided for his other family. I'm not saying it right but at least he held a sense of responsibility for his morally deficient self. Ijs.

[@catherinebrau3523]

money, money, bless you and make peace and pray for your ancestor

[@Ursin101]

I love my Louisiana Creole Heritage. There is nothing to be ashamed of from my heritage. Rather, I applaud these women who had to make a difficult choice of survival for their time.

[@thedarkwarriorperspective7475]

As you should. Appreciate the comment.

[@amasion2882]

@LaTasha Ursin : I’m a history buff with a deep fascination for the extensive multiculturalism of Louisiana. You have a heritage to be proud of.😀

[@starloszelson4541]

LaTasha Ursin why

[@misscecelips]

Why would you be proud of an ancestry of rape, oppression, repression, degregation, and isolation? Be proud of who you are but the history of Creole is not one to celebrate. No one celebrates slavery and rape. People are usually mad because of it.

[@caraqueno]

@@misscecelips There's no denying that sexual relations between whites and blacks were founded on rape, slavery, as well as class and racial oppression. Nonetheless, human behavior will confound even the most racially strict societies. Not only were there love matches between whites and blacks prior to the Loving vs. Loving decision in 1967, there was a loooooooooooooooooooooooooong history or racial mixing between Native Americans, blacks, and whites. Read about the Melungeons and the Redbones to know more about this mixture. Love between the races didn't just automatically with Richard and Mildred Loving. For that matter, the history of same-sex love between the races is the last taboo that heterosexual whites and blacks would rather deny existed than contemplate that it was occurring in the days before integration and was not a product of rape, slavery, nor racial oppression but of love. Love will win out and find a way. So does sexual attraction.

[@roseneal2392]

Even Queen Diana had to bear being a married side bar. I love her royal behavior.👑

[@Melodylynn69]

You mean Princess Diana?

[@roseneal2392]

@@Melodylynn69 she had two sons for prince charles. That made her the queen of two heirs to queen elizabeth's throne. Prince charles wanted a daughter to sit on his mother's throne. That would have made her queen diana the mother of a princess. But he was boning his secretary who waited until princess diana was eliminated🏏

[@young1belly]

The more I study the history of slavery the sicker it gets.

[@thedarkwarriorperspective7475]

It's a holocaust that's not declared as a holocaust.

[@freddiemiranda5366]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge of black history in america .

[@thedarkwarriorperspective7475]

You're very welcome. Thank you for the comment and support.

[@freddiemiranda5366]

The DarkWarrior Perspective No thank you we need more knowledgeable people like yourself so we can all know the struggles of our ancestors in america so we can deal with all the adversity that is still coming towards us we are still fighting for our god giving rights in the world Peace.

[@thedarkwarriorperspective7475]

@@freddiemiranda5366 appreciate the kind words that really means a lot. And please...subscribe to the channel, share and check out the rest of my videos. ✊🏾🖤

[@patricia912]

VERY WELL ARTICULATED HARSH HURTFUL TRUTH FROM THE PAST REGARDING MULATTOS AND MIXED BLACK WOMEN AND THOSE WHOM WILL CALL NOW BIRACIAL. The trickery of words also plays a key role in our demise psychologically.

[@thedarkwarriorperspective7475]

Yes indeed Sis. ✊🏾

[@rachellecoleman7596]

In reality, there is no true difference in color. The white man has made us to believe that, but truly, white men have always desired women of color, especially black women. Nothing that has been done to the African American (Black) Race has been for good. The schemes have been created to hide their true nature and desires to mistreat, cause division and more confusion. The more confused they can keep us all is a divide and conquer strategy. In the end, it remains a win, win for them. The situation doesn't repeat itself, it just doesn't change. They may give it a different name, but the strategy, it doesn't change.

[@SandraJSaLim]

Eye had never even heard this word before 😂 - you always bring out the hidden. Fabulous video⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@thedarkwarriorperspective7475]

Thanks sis!! I'm so happy to add to your knowledge. Appreciate you tuning in.

[@beautylove5940]

👑Sandra Jayne Saleem 👑 What's funny (😂) about it though?... 😒

[@valerienewsome3019]

I struggled to hear what was being said as the background music drowned the speaker out. What movie are the clips from? I want to watch it.

[@405boy4]

Two of my five kids are mixed (Black/White/Choctaw-Indian)..We teach them to look at themselves as mixed or biracial. I'm pretty sure my other kids probably wonder why their older sisters are lighter than them, but we teach them all to love each other..

[@honeybeeful1]

whats the name of the movie in your presentation?

[@maryannhoskins3943]

I enjoyed learning about this topic, but the music competed with your soft voice. Just a friendly observation. ⚜️

[@thedarkwarriorperspective7475]

Sorry about that. It was my early videos and I was learning from my mistakes.

[@loveroflife8852]

Hell, New Orleans is damn near the same way, in some circles.

[@jenniferjackson9642]

Very interesting video and also educational. My only complaint is that the sound needed to be checked before you posted this. Good video, bad sound.

[@thedarkwarriorperspective7475]

Completely understand. Appreciate the support though.

[@abzfln9156]

Love knowing this since I never heard of this occurring during those times! Btw..what's the name of the movie you use as short video clips?? I wanna see it!! 😍

[@thedarkwarriorperspective7475]

I'm glad to hear. The movie is "The Quadroon ".

[@creolegoddess1979]

Born and raised Louisiana native this is so true !!!! My Grandmother is Creole, DNA 75.6% French European and 24.4% African when doing my genetics I got so much different races of DNA in my gene pool was surprised at some but as Blacks (Indigenous) to this whole world we shouldn't be surprised this stuff went on for decades here

[@sfernando04]

What movie is playing in the clips of this video?

[@eliezer9878]

Name of the movie is quadroon, 1970.

[@lisarice9337]

This is a great film. Oh, and plaçage is pronounced The “c” is soft, not hard.

[@thedarkwarriorperspective7475]

Thanks Lisa. I really appreciate your comment and support.

[@trulyrich707]

@The DarkWarrior Perspective: Thank you for your historical research on this topic - well done.

[@thedarkwarriorperspective7475]

You're very welcome and thank you for watching and commenting. Appreciate the comment and support.

[@noracharles80]

Watch the old movie “Saratoga Trunk”, with Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, and Flora Robson. It’s currently playing this week on Turner Classic Movies. Besides being a great film, there’s much reference to this in the film, though it is subtle, it’s fascinating.

[@YouTuberOnlineNow]

can you make sure the volume is higher when recording. i have everything on max and its still less than a whisper. wasn't able to hear anything.

[@maven6285]

This also took place in Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida as well.

[@heyokaempath5802]

Gorgeous women, though very sad situation. Does anyone know where the movie clips are from? I'd like to learn more. Great video, very informative.

[@makiba9461]

Because of these type of balls, the Tignon Laws were created.

[@thedarkwarriorperspective7475]

100% facts!! The demand of the colored woman to cover her hair, because of her beauty. Great comment.

[@Itsvanessadove]

Where did you find these historical paintings and advertisements?

[@thedarkwarriorperspective7475]

I just searched around in different archives. I live 20 minutes from the library of congress.

[@najwamagersbey6964]

Yes, my elders talked to us about thus when I was coming up. Sad, yet real.

[@Celestinewarbeck]

what movies are the clips you used from?

[@foxxyldyfrca]

Read the book Cane River. It goes in depth on bleaching of the race and the quadroon soiree's.

[@Celestinewarbeck]

foxxyldy fr ca girl I asked about FILMS

[@tweepixie]

The thought that my mom would have been part of these balls breaks my heart 😢

[@soyprospera1]

What movie is that clip from?

[@gratefuldead3750]

Quadroon 1971

[@ebbsislove93]

I appreciate this videos attempt at education but as a historian who studies this for my graduate research this worries me. this is historically inaccurate and a misunderstanding of ball culture in Louisiana and a bit of a simplification of an extremely complex social system. the video also misconstrues prostitution and concubinage as being the same as plaçage which they are not. (Side note plaçage is pronounced Plah-sah-juh). Kenneth Aslakson has an excellent article analyzing travel journals on quadroon balls (some of the only primary source evidence we have that these balls actually existed), it’s called “the quadroon-plaçage myth in antebellum New Orleans”. Really good surface level info in this video though. I am always glad to see ppl sharing knowledge and learning new things.

[@thedarkwarriorperspective7475]

Though, I don't completely agree with your statement, I truly appreciate your comment and support.

[@beckygoldblack2049]

This is not new information in any form. I personally enjoyed his mainly accurate, very timely overview.

[@naturallydope6971]

This is a very interesting Channel I've been watching different stories from our history all Sunday afternoon since I'm off from school this summer. I like to enlighten my knowledge more than ever learning my ancestors and were I come from not with a masses of social media. I feel it is very important that we continue to learn new things that is conducive for our growth this is something that I talk to my daughter often about getting her ready to go off to college in 2 years, it is very important I constantly remind her where she's from and to seek knowledge don't give in to what people are given to her at your school.

[@thedarkwarriorperspective7475]

Im glad i could aid in your growth. Please subscribe and share and i wish the best in school.

[@naturallydope6971]

@@thedarkwarriorperspective7475 Thank you, kindly.

[@thedarkwarriorperspective7475]

@@naturallydope6971 you're very welcome

[@george7019]

Excellent video and powerful information brother✊🏾✊🏾

[@intentionallyqueen.478]

What movie were the excerpts taken from?

[@imetaboyiusedtoknow8308]

Fascinating, thanks for bringing these facts to light. I recognize the clips from "Quadroon," a good movie that is dismissed as blaxploitation along with other good Black-oriented movies of the 1970s. Oh well, we don't need outside validation. B1

[@Melodylynn69]

I know enough about how badly my ancestors have been treated throughout history. It's everywhere if you want to find the info. Frankly, I don't need to remembrance. All it does is make me bitter, self- hating, and hopeless( Which is the point).

[@Soso-ou2mz]

What movie is that from?

[@clifst.laurent1068]

PLEASE READ! The myth of "plaçage" and "quadroon balls" are ones they hauntwe creoles of Louisiana today. We have endured them for far too long so allow me, a Louisiana Creole AND Creole cultural activist to set the record straight. This notion was merely that.. a notion from an outsider -in the sense that he was not a part of the creole community- named George Washington Cable. Cable was a native of New Orleans however he was the first generation born of White Anglo Saxon Protestants and was not a Creole. What he observed was whites openly associating people of color at community gatherings and if I'm not mistaken it is HE who coined the term plaçage and it persists until this day. Of course the only way a white man would dare associate with women of color is because she had something to offer but wanted something in exchange...right?! This further diminishes the integrity of our Creole women and perpetuates the stereotypes if sexuality imposed onto people of color. Feast of all saints? Loved it. Yes but not based in facts. Just another imaginative piece inspired by the writings of Cable. Louisiana Creoles were very proud people and our girls were just, not those kinda girls. What's more is that no evidence has ever been found to support such a theory. Louisiana, in this period, was arguably a 3-tiered caste society (some adding a fourth of lower class whites who were below the status of Free people of color). What Cable observed was nothing more than community events where all, who were free, were invited. This included free people of color. This was not a hookup site for jungle fever. They often met at these parties and did start life long relationships with women whom they fell in love with. During this time, arranged marriages for the sake of family wealth and security were very common. In many cases the men would not be happy and they met and courted these women at social gatherings and openly dated. There are tons of white men who never entered a "legitimate" marriage and spent their entire lives with creoles of color. This is the reason that many of us people of color living or with roots in Louisiana have French, Spanish, and or German surnames; they are OUR surnames.

[@cindychristian1700]

This is a late response but Vanessa Williams made a movie, it's on KZbin, called "The Courage to Love" about a real woman was the product of placage! She later became anyone helping her people and the poor! There's talk of was talk of making her a saint! I don't know how wide spread placage was but it did exist because I've heard real stories of people who lived that life in the past!

[@clifst.laurent1068]

@@cindychristian1700 We, in the Creole community, know all about Henriette Delille. At the moment, Henriette Delille is venerated but not canonized as a saint. Please understand that "The Courage to Live" is a movie. Hollywood oftentimes romanticize stories for dramatic effect. That's number one. Number 2.. the fact is that the concept of plaçage was created by George Washington Cable, a WASP who was born in New Orleans post Louisiana Purchase. He wrote about these events that he observed but never attended and conceptualized this idea. LGDCL (Les gens de couleur libre) or Free people of Color in Louisiana were free members of society and could come and go as they pleased with some exceptions but it makes for an entertaining story that non white women were going to married white men looking to be kept. There is no evidence to support that such contractual arrangements ever existed. There are no documented accounts of even the word plaçage ever appearing. What GW Cable witnessed were PARTIES. Soirées that all free people who were wealthy and had status, white or of color alike, could attend. At these parties, free women of color most certainly met white men and began courting and developed relationships that in some cases where a Common law marriage type situation developed. Is it likely that adultery occurred? Of course. That's been since the dawn of time. What I am saying here is that the purpose of these events was not to go a meet a creole gal who needed to be kept. Did some of them probably want to be? I'm sure but again.... the idea of a quadroon ball... where white men specifically come to meet and pick a black gal to keep is a lie. The more you know 🌈

[@cindychristian1700]

@@clifst.laurent1068 I'm in no way trying to say I or anyone else knows about placage as fact but what of the song about the Black fiddler playing at these balls to "Keep his eyes on his bow" because Black men were not allowed to attend and there's an actual poster advertising the Quadroon or Octaroon ball that I've seen on KZbin! I watched a special on A & E and they talked about how Miss Delille helped interracial couples, some who were in a placage arrangements, to marry in secret! I maintain that there's some evidence that it existed and that we should agree to disagree! 😄☮️

[@Melodylynn69]

Of course when Black people research history it isn't accurate. Why am I not surprised. We can't even get our own story straight. SMH

[@angelaeisenhardt41755]

Okay, just a question? My father is gone and so is my grandfather who is the first of my people that came from Sicily. I've been told I'm Italian, Sicilian and more recently possibly Turkish and Sephardic Jew from Spain from 500 years ago. Well when my great-grandfather came here from Italy, he didn't come through Ellis Island. He came through New Orleans and I said we still have relatives there that carry our last name Portera. My brother has been telling me lately that we're octaroon. I know growing up where we lived we weren't lily white enough for some people and teased and taunted quite a bit. Some people don't believe it, but I'm 66 years old and it's still brings tears to my eyes. My brother was taunted even more than I, because he's slightly darker. I do have a very wide nose and dark features. I don't know why I even care because I think Grace is something just made up in order for people to feel superior than others and and to treat people unfairly so they could raise him his slaves and not feel guilty about it. I know I'm going to get some slack from this so I might not even leave it up, but I'm debating about getting my DNA check just for the heck of it. I just wish I was told the truth from the get-go. I don't feel like I fit in anywhere. My brother would say my father would him to certain things, but not come right out and say it. Maybe you might not so distant ancestors were passing right along. Like someone else on here said, beauty is in the eyes of beholder.

[@georgeandy6923]

I think that you should by all means get your DNA checked, and whatever else you can do to help uncover your True Identity and History. You owe it to Yourself to Know the Truth!

[@booniec1078]

this affects black women today talking about a high value man.

[@ladydiaspora807]

A shame. To be treated as property. I thank God I wasn't born back then.

[@thedarkwarriorperspective7475]

Very disheartening.

[@Melodylynn69]

women have always been treated that way in many cultures. It isn't a white thing, but a man thing. Just look at the Muslims and the Eastern attitudes toward women. I know Black men who've said women are only good for two things. Most Abrahamic faiths believe women are property of the man. Just ask most of them.

[@mel...s]

As a black woman with obvious European ancestry I find myself hurting in silence. As the years pass i notice my community is distancing itself from me.

[@DJRenee]

As if light skinned Blacks have a choice in the matter.

[@mamamoonie]

You're not a black woman if you have obvious European ancestry.

[@ronniejohnson196]

@@mamamoonie IOW>Are you saying that the societal structures of white supremacy no longer exist or that they no longer apply?

[@maritzadillingham4008]

It’s really hard to hear the narrator with the music in the background .

[@gilbertwilson895]

As a former escort in a very long-ago Links Cotillion, I know my housing project raised @ss was selected solely because of my "high yella- almost white" appearance. And after experiencing this recounting of the origins of such fetes I checked to confirm that the Links continues its "service" based celebration of one of the flavors of black being beautiful (get the 'pun' ?). And the allure of those satin-skin honey brown straight-haired ingenue,s the green-eyed alabaster goddesses, the thin-lipped sharp-featured too pretty-to-pee dark brown beauties, the wavy-haired ever-tanned toned pixies, it is truly real indeed. I saw it work when I took a few suburban white male med-school classmates to a cafe in Chicago's Hyde Park that was frequented by Kenwood & Hyde Park ladies so endowed with such beauty & skills in feminine cosmetics. The guys' open mouth, jaw-dropping stares embarrassed me. They had never seen such formidable Hadassah/Esther-like loveliness, let alone in such numbers in a sophisticated setting. The evening was never brought up thereafter by them. I spared them the Ebony Fashion Fair fearing what I might have further done to their psyches.

[@sowhat8119]

Nice read!

[@tamarastone141]

Yasss! Some beautiful people in that Hyde park area! I love my city! #Chicity ❤

[@celesteadeanes4478]

sugaring is bringing this back with the quickness

[@quehansuela]

I’m Cape Verdean. It’s a similar thing. I actually learned more about my own history when we were in Ghana. We referred to ourselves as creole..

[@KaBaMimiKm]

Powerful!! Great video📌 Peace brother. Facts all around this one

[@thedarkwarriorperspective7475]

Peace Sis!! Thank you very much for the comment.

[@JJbullfrog99]

What’s the name of them movie that the clips are from

[@hackedstalked6371]

Our history's realities are terrifying. Now we find why so many ran and "passed", forever keeping silent until dna reveals the truth......

[@thedarkwarriorperspective7475]

I agree

[@hackedstalked6371]

@@thedarkwarriorperspective7475 Thank you dear ...

[@thedarkwarriorperspective7475]

@@hackedstalked6371 you're very welcome. Appreciate the comment. Please, enjoy the channel.

[@Melodylynn69]

A perfect example was the Broadway actress Carol Channing from "Hello Dolly".

[@skyevonn7085]

It was a way of life in the Caribbean as well on Islands like Haiti, St. Lucia, and others. In St. Lucia, the Joyeux and the Leonce families, still exist and have a fascinating story to tell.

[@LDuke-pc7kq]

They don't teach this in school, but They Should!

[@Melodylynn69]

Why would they? There is no reason for them to make themselves look even worse than they do. Nobody would do that. It is much better off being told unbiased by the ones that know all of the facts.

[@judithl.morton9178]

I glad I found this but the sound is so very low had my laptop sound up as high as it could go and still I could barely hear this. So sad!

[@thedarkwarriorperspective7475]

I truly apologize for that. I appreciate the comment and viewing. If you get a chance, please watch my other videos and subscribe to the channel.

[@lacole99]

As always, you brought the 🔥 🔥 🔥

[@thedarkwarriorperspective7475]

I really appreciate the support. Glad you enjoyed it.

[@Ramjit275]

Only complaint I had here is you shoulda made it longer. I want to see more.

[@thedarkwarriorperspective7475]

I completely understand, but I'm looking at one's attention span and hope that the video motivates you to further your own research.

[@SinShadyX]

In doing this it's how they were able to keep us separated and it worked for hundreds of years.

[@vwthga1]

I would like to know what is the name of movie in this video.