Rare Vintage Photos of Slavery in Antebellum South Carolina From the 1850s/1860s

[@lauracesar4443]

The sad thing about slavery was that the slave had no hope for a better future. The slave was the “property” of the white man who could do what he wanted with him/her. Slavery was an evil institution that was quickly spreading toward the west. Lincoln had the foresight to see this. Sadly, it took the death of thousands of soldiers to stop it.

[@JanaeGable]

Many Different Things so crazy how other white men needed the help. So devilish and lazy... sell crops is bullshit. Morally fucked up, I don’t care about how technology was created by us black folks under the white mans name. The whole United States is a forgery institutionalized area in the world that will forever be.

[@ilae.williams7675]

💣💣💣💣💣💥💥💥💣💣💯💯💯🖤💝

[@Irishtradchannel]

Slavery wasn't spreading, even then it was declining, it is always the mark of an economically stagnant society. The North won because it relied on technology, not slavery. Today, West Africa remains the centre of slavery in the world, as it has since the 9th century, it remains backward and poor.

[@pearldiver1006]

Slaves sometimes bought their way out of slavery by deeds or cash or barter. Not every slave stayed a slave. Some even owned slaves after obtaining freedom

[@ednakelley814]

Actually Lincoln was not for stopping slavery. He was for stopping the spread of slavery to the west. The North did not fight to free slaves. In President Lincoln's 1st Inaugural address he said "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." The North fought only to preserve the Union not to free slaves. Slavery did not end until the passage of the 13th amendment. Hope this helps.

[@marybarco5548]

I wouldn't say any of those people were posing

[@ShyIsSelene]

Agreed, I was gonna comment the exact same thing, SmH. Just horrible

[@thesoutherngossip4548]

I was saying the exact same thing

[@venomouslizardlover8459]

They were gay hahahahahahahaha

[@michaeljoseph741]

Exactly, it would be more accurate to say: they were posed.

[@venomouslizardlover8459]

@Icewallowcome nigga you're kind invented Slavery

[@Fari-100]

One of my great, great grandfathers was in bondage somewhere in that area. So far, nobody has a photo of him. Makes my mind wonder if he could be in some old photos like this unnamed 😖 But I still honor you, Papa Ellick 🙏🏾

[@lobonegro1567]

This is how we learn the history of this country.. because schools don't teach it.

[@venomouslizardlover8459]

Schools teach it too much. Slavery was in every single country. Schools only teach about American slavery. Even though slavery was invented by Africans.

[@monicahaymes4361]

@@venomouslizardlover8459 you are insane.

[@sandranorman5469]

My daughter is an AP US history teacher in the public schools down here. I can’t tell y’all how little there is taught about slavery. Remember watching “Roots” and trying to tell my daughter about when Brown v Board was being read, Thurgood Marshall couldn’t get a cab. AND HE WAS THE ONE WHO HAD ARGUED THE CASE IN FRONT OF THE SCOTUS. I don’t think that I made a dent until one of my daughters took a graduate course in Civil Rights. She came home breathing fire and brimstone.

[@jeffreydelacruz2154]

US is modern Egypt and Sodom

[@DoubleDogDare54]

Why should they? It's over in this country, has been since 1865 and isn't part of the family history of most Americans. Mention it? Okay. But spend huge amounts of time dwelling on it? That's ridiculous.

[@shalontehernandez6752]

I wouldn't consider or use the word “posing” when it comes to slaves

[@JohnnyReb]

Photography in those days used long exposure times. Movement wasn't captured very well. The results would've been ghost like people or blury blobs. In order for any of these people to have shown up on camera at all is they had to sit perfectly still. Sometimes for minutes at a time. Therefore they are in fact posing for the camera. You should be grateful that they did pose otherwise we wouldn't know what these people looked like.

[@g.andrewsmalls9852]

Old Bacchus was a family member on my dad side of the family! So was Robert Smalls( Politician, publisher, business man, and naval pilot) and Samuel Smalls aka “Porgy!”

[@repentorperish133]

Can we be related? I've often wondered if Robert Smalls was in my family tree! I'm originally from Brooklyn, NYC.

[@michellebernard2249]

The people in these pictures and the environments look very modern and fancy.

[@alysmari3956]

My people were from SC. I wonder if any of the people in the pictures were one of my ancestors.

[@debralady9934]

I have family lots of them new berry south Carolina i never been there was going to go before this virus started my father family there an i wanted to go see my grandmother grave an grandpa

[@debralady9934]

@Francisco Duran she not dum you are

[@p.e.p2368]

Dum????? LOL!!! You Are!!😂

[@juventus1056]

Aren’t there any oral stories about slavery in u family, just asking

[@x2malandy]

This comment may go nowhere but my "people" were from SC also. I have tons of info from my older family people that show people giving slaves as gifts when someone gets married. Given by a first name only. 1 book I have was made from people going to libraries, congress buildings, family history before ancestory.com/internet was ever thought of. I am old. When I was young, I had a uncle drop me off at a black family's house, tenants? (in a row of a dozen little white houses) while he went to make a deal on a catfish farm. The black people offered me water, snacks and talked 100% about local and state government issues. West Columbia and a 50 mile radius.

[@aundreahenson97]

Amazing trip to the past ..Thank you from a Black Woman from SC

[@notenoughofus3460]

What was so amazing about it??? Did it make you wish you were back on the plantation?

[@aundreahenson97]

@@notenoughofus3460 🌽

[@andyfeimsternfei8408]

Apologies from a white man in NC.

[@badlaamaurukehu]

Gays

[@D-unfadeable]

Y’all should check out Dane Calloway’s videos about the Atlantic slave trade (Middle Passage) then come back to these pictures.

[@iamshebeeloloindigenous]

Thank u..the indoctrination runs very deep

[@Raystonebooks]

Most of those people didn’t look like “slaves.”

[@aprilh8022]

What do slaves look like 🤔

[@janejones8672]

How was a slave supposed to look like?

[@karolrhodes7057]

Why is "slaves" in quotation marks? Was slavery not a real thing?

[@robinwitting2023]

This is like peeping through a keyhole into the past. I am English and even this comment feels like an intrusion. These images put me in mind of Bob Dylan's song Blind Willie McTell : "ghosts of slavery ships etc." Trite as it sounds, I wish you well. Robin Witting

[@jadedjene8786]

That last photo. Quite eerie. Bishopville’s not too far away frm me.

[@jshicke]

@0:50 I believe the preacher is a black man. Typically, it was illegal for a black man to preach. There were some rare exceptions. Reverend John Jasper being one. He began his career in the early 1840s, preaching at funerals of slave and free black parishioners and giving occasional sermons at the First African Baptist Church, in richmond, VA. His popularity grew quickly and not only among Richmonders; after giving a guest sermon to the Third African Baptist Church in the nearby city of Petersburg, Jasper was invited by that congregation to preach every Sunday. Jasper’s accomplishments are even more remarkable given the fact that he was a slave in the tobacco factories and iron mills of Richmond during the first 25 years of his ministry work, and during a time when Virginia law expressly prohibited blacks from preaching. Following the Civil War, Jasper became a full-time pastor and in 1867 organized the Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church in Richmond, ministering to hundreds of local black Baptists, but many whites as well. I suspect this image may be from the period at or around 1867 as it mentioned Mount Zion Church on Rockville Plantation.

[@oldblackstock2499]

You mentioned something rarely brought up. Free blacks. I don't know how many but I've read there were many free blacks. And General Stone wall Jackson taught Sunday school classes to black children.

[@dougdouglas3696]

Yep, dats rite

[@elijahreilly9247]

Nate turner was a preacher to

[@janejones8672]

In my family from Georgia, they literally took the Slaves to Church with them. I saw their names on the Church Membership Rolls. The Churches were not segregated in the Antebellum period

[@craiganderson3952]

No words will sum up the emotions I feel about these pictures.

[@cgpcgp3239]

These or photos taken well after civil war. You can tell by clothes.

[@Chubachus]

Sorry, but the photos are solidly dated to right before the Civil War. The clothing is a perfect match for the period.

[@johan5504]

Colored Girl Perfection damn you must be full of embarrassment I feel your pain

[@cgpcgp3239]

Johan Hahaha! Nope. I know what I’m talking about. Photos of slave are rare. Stock photo sites are full of photos of black people living in extreme poverty in the south after civil war claiming they’re photos of slaves. Some in photos had been slaves. And some in photos were stilling living and being exploited on same plantations were they had been slavesI have copy on my phone from authenticated museum photo. If you want to see photos of slaves go to African American history museum in Washington.

[@johan5504]

Colored Girl Perfection oh sorry about that so what are you? A historian?

[@johan5504]

Colored Girl Perfection did my inquiry upset you 🙁?

[@NotYoung3592]

Seeing a whole lot of relaxin', and no slavin' in these photos.....

[@blkhistorydecoded]

As usual slaves don't look like they r in dire straits. Look at all the photos on the internet. Most r working or standing around. U would think the abolitionists would have soooo many photos of beaten slaves but they don't.

[@ahhh9k]

BlkHistoryDecoded whites didn’t want to show the reality of slavery dumbass

[@user-bp2eg3tb9n]

@Petro Oleg Liminov Exactly. Why would they try to hide such things if it was legal? 🤔 They don’t bother to hide gruesome images of what was said to be beaten slaves nor do they hide the alleged portrayal of such in movies.

[@ednakelley814]

@@ahhh9k Well what good is a slave if he/she is beat so bad they can't work? Plus remember slaves were very expensive. I wouldn't buy a very expensive brand new John Deere tracker and then push it off a cliff, would you?

[@JohnnyReb]

There's literally only one photo too. "Whipped Peter" But what they don't mention is the reason his back looked like that is because he beat a woman to death. And the overseer who whipped him was fired.

[@stephensweeney608]

Why are you call them "planters?" They are human traffickers.

[@Chubachus]

It is a paraphrase of the original captions. I think presenting photos with captions as close to their original context is important. That is fine by me to call them that though.

[@stephensweeney608]

@@Chubachus I'm sure it's fine by you because you don't know better.

[@dougdouglas3696]

No! The "human traffickers" were the OTHER African tribes who attacked, captured, transported to market, held captive and then SOLD their African brothers and sisters to the White, primarily Portuguese, slave traders who took them to Europe and North and South America and sold them to ANYONE AND EVERYONE, NOT JUST SOUTHERN PLANTATION OWNERS! The bottom line is that the PC left conveniently forgets that it was black Africans SELLING black Africans into slavery in the first place! The weaker Africans were captured and sold by the stronger Africans. And they did it for centuries! And for money! Lots and lots of money! If you wanna educate people about slavery in America at least have the guts to tell the whole story!

[@JohnnyReb]

​@@stephensweeney608The man knows what he's talking about.

[@janejones8672]

Must have been a pretty big Plantation, look at all the Cabins 😮

[@ballbearing5459]

Like MUHAMMAD ALI said thank GOD my ancestor got on that boat. After going to AFRICA.

[@Justque_88]

????? What got on what boat? Black people were already here! Slavery was told to you in reverse! They took indigenous people of the America's and shipped them out! Slavery didn't happen the way it's told to you in school(or learned/ trained information). That's why they gave you religion and took your name?

[@Anecdotal1]

Well SURE put your ANCESTORS through hell and back and then make a million dollars and say 'whew'. Lame!

[@bigbloc8272]

@@Justque_88 Thank you, I thought I was the only here who knew this. The only issue is, people are so comfortable with the lie that it’s hard for them to believe the truth. The majority of us are not African. Even Africans know this. We are not the same people, some of us just look similar.

[@bootnazz1786]

Ali never said that ..and the didn't get on the boat,they were kidnapped.and America got rich because of it.

[@tofan2622]

@@Justque_88 "Black people" were not here before, Indians certainly were, and some of them did get shipped out. The only religion that got spread was Christianity, that was not known by the "slaves" who were not white.

[@qadan6000]

Dueteronomy 28:68

[@MrGeno-ud3dw]

A great many of those SC slaves were "black native americans". The reciepts are there to be found in the census records and writings of the time. Yes we were here first but nobody is going to admit it much.

[@drewhendley]

100% black employment

[@larssrensen4353]

lol

[@dougdouglas3696]

Lmfao

[@james3452]

They are clearly not getting any damn work done.

[@JohnnyReb]

Photography in those days used long exposure times. Movement wasn't captured very well. The results would've been ghost like people or blury blobs. In order for any of these people to have shown up on camera at all is they had to sit perfectly still. Sometimes for minutes at a time. Therefore they are in fact posing for the camera.

[@DonnaHall8117]

WOW. Thanks for sharing. #MrsDonna

[@oldblackstock2499]

At 2:43 you say they are supposed slaves. Well, they're very well dressed ! The FACT is that there were many more free blacks than has often been reported. Some if which owned slaves themselves. I sorry that I cannot provide a source presently.

[@dougdouglas3696]

Good points! The facts on this subject are sorted and selected for effect and many facts that may show the issue from a different viewpoint are often ignored or outright denied.

[@bootnazz1786]

Here we go.changing history.even few free blacks had no rights and no money to be owning slaves.give me a break

[@JohnnyReb]

In fact the wealthiest slave owner in South Carolina in 1860 just before secession was William Ellison Jr.(April 1790 - December 5, 1861). He was a breeder of slaves and A FORMER SLAVE HIMSELF. He had a notorious reputation for being... "Unkind".

[@fernandoblazin]

posing?

[@judyholiday1794]

I live in Charleston,SC and this part of my hometown is something that makes me ashamed even though I had nothing to do with slavery..

[@venomouslizardlover8459]

It's a myth that whites kept slaves

[@LOCKBlT]

Check their last names they owned the slaves but looked white as well

[@dhonda250r]

So you are ashamed a black king sold black people to the Portuguese that in turn sold them to a American 200 years before you were born,, dam

[@berzerker1100]

@Francisco Duran really ! 🤣

[@fredericchopin4821]

@@venomouslizardlover8459 Your anime pfp implies that your opinion doesn’t mean squat

[@rgrifferon]

Now, whom do suppose built those plantations and provided the income for the maintenance of this lifestyle?

[@coreybrown2366]

My people still live in Rockville mere walking distance from where those pictures were taken......

[@Carolina_Panthers145]

Great Videos 👍

[@olukayodeokunowo4631]

Thank you for this great photos. More grease to your elbow. These slaves really suffered.

[@mariacelina7299]

Me dói na alma 😢

[@isaacsimmons1301]

This was from the 1850/60s? I saw this yesterday.

[@kevinellsworth9318]

And trump was the planter!

[@Darkdemonoflite]

Posing?!?!?!?!?! Slaves? No enslaved pepple.

[@moneyinmypocketbookenterta3852]

Whoo chile i said the same thing smh

[@VictorMatthieu]

Enslaved people and slaves are synonyms. A slave is an enslaved person

[@TheZakanater]

I really don't understand why blacks are so upset about doing some manual labour in exchange for a better life than in africa, and to still be upset about it to this day.. really interesting race of "people"

[@KP-vg3zn]

@@thetrulytyson4935 Your freedom came from the decision of your ancestors to stay in the USA instead of returning to Africa. Countries in Western Africa didn't have freedom in the 1800s.

[@BlockBoiiJB]

Kristin P. Do you really not see the hypocrisy and ignorance in that statement?

[@LakeshiaMcGee]

I didn’t even know they had cameras back than . Where the pictures cam from ?

[@laserbeam002]

Cameras go back to the 1840's.

[@JohnnyReb]

The very first photograph was taken in 1836.

[@qamwaalah9541]

Revelation 13:9 If any man have an ear, let him hear. Revelation 13:10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

[@Yahpah]

All praises!! We got next!!

[@jeffreydelacruz2154]

Like saint cory and saint Paul 2 and saint damaso

[@johnleerochelle2159]

Emunah bat yisrael no God got next are you leading to slavery with your comment? Hear the parable of the unforgiving servant

[@chrischir2048]

They were wearing clothes and living in nice modern housings. In Africa, they were naked, living in mud holes.

[@sapphonymph8204]

IKR.

[@chefkynifrogers1437]

Don't understand how both Europeans and Africans both went to church, the Europeans must have justified their actions.If so that makes me wonder what else did they justify?

[@Irishtradchannel]

The African did as well, very large numbers of slaves sold into America were slavers caught by other tribes when they were raiding to catch others for slavery. West Africa was the biggest slave market in the world when Europeans first went there, it still is.

[@untetheredsoul4335]

@stk stk Thank you for sharing this information. Agree that so much truth has been hidden.

[@jeanfrancois8572]

I don't think they had a choice or hope. But, here we are

[@bigchairmanmeow]

Slavery existed even during Ancient Greece 8th century BC - 146 BC. However, during that era, slavery was not focused on ethnicity or skin colour, any man could be made a slave, if you didn't pay a loan back, they'd make you a slave, if you're a prisoner of war, they'd make you a slave, skin colour didn't matter. Slaves of that era had laws protecting them to some degree and there were clauses that could help a slave become free. But modern slavery was based around white coloured skin being superior. Due to this, black and brown-skinned people were enslaved, shipped to work in mines and fields. It's the most extreme we saw in the U.S. and it's well documented, that's why we hear so much about them. But, truth be told, all European countries dabbled in ethnicity-based slavery.

[@tofan2622]

You should go back and check out older history books, most of what you said is not historically correct. The most extreme form of slavery was nowhere near America man, you need to open your eyes and stop reading whats put in front of you and seek the truth. What was the forced labor inside the factories of the North by illegal immigrants called?

[@alvincolter9664]

They were not posting at all I salute these Kings an Queens my great great great great grandparents my strong soldiers 🖤💚❤️💯

[@timothystrachan4109]

Are these Negreanu posing or did someone just take a picture of them.

[@matthewdaniels7462]

Thank you .

[@ahlanderson8151]

All look so much more comfortable than a Scots crofter, an Irish bog hopper or a Russian serf of the same period. Yesterday’s gone.

[@crabbyoldman1022]

This video wouldn’t be complete without some idiot trying to minimize slavery or what the slaves went through. 🙄

[@timhazeltine3256]

Why do

[@Michael-qe1xo]

And much were comfortable. The slavery of the south was less cruel than that of the mills and railroads of the north

[@shirlainewilliams152]

wow great photos

[@TRUEkcctv1384]

This is bs first off pictures don't tell stories, and this is conceptual art , you gave a spon narrative then gave us picture to believe your lie , think about it . These people owned land had business were farmers , hell my grandfather 4grand ran and won congress during reconstruction prior to that my 5th great grandfather had much land a large home and had a servant , who was classified as Indian then change to black.

[@iamshebeeloloindigenous]

They are indoctrinated. Hard to break the spell. Wait till they realize that they've always been here..the originals

[@aboriginalstraightshooter7967]

​@@iamshebeeloloindigenousI'm 40 years old. My father told me when I was 14. I've been researching our ancestry on and off for the last 6 years. Still haven't found a slave! All I read about was hard-working people. Most of the knew how to read and write

[@ilae.williams7675]

Wonderful pictures, wonderful exchange in the comment section.. I truly believe in "Freedom of Speech" and I truly believe Americans should comment freely,of course, respectfully...

[@MasterQuan808]

Great pictures I’m not gonna say thank you. We were not slaves were prisoners😤😤😤

[@ellothere4895]

No that was slavery, worse than being a prisoner

[@alleynealisleem9777]

Amazing photos;😨😭

[@talenciabonner7655]

I think posing is the wrong word to use...

[@jaypoe5843]

Oh here come the outrage police. Serious question do you have to make a conscious effort to look for something to complain about in every aspect of life or does it just come naturally to you

[@talenciabonner7655]

@@jaypoe5843 outrage??? I guess lol I literally was just correcting the word but yeah y'all have to make us all angry black women and don't say you didn't know I was black my name says it all have a great day

[@JohnnyReb]

Photography in those days used long exposure times. Movement wasn't captured very well. The results would've been ghost like people or blury blobs. In order for any of these people to have shown up on camera at all is they had to sit perfectly still. Sometimes for minutes at a time. Therefore they are in fact posing for the camera. Just a fact.

[@Empt109]

Pirates of the Barbary coast. It’s another side of slavery that’s ignored .

[@ballbearing5459]

The first record it slave owner was a Black man.

[@tapovlac4417]

I would really like to slap the shit out of you.

[@unstableminded]

William Ellison from Sumter South Carolina was a slave at one time, became a business man and owned about 70 slaves himself. Had a reserved front pew in the local church. So don't hate the players, hate the game

[@unstableminded]

@@sherrimarenkovich3248 bad decisions? That was their way of life back then. Bet you're reading this from the comfort of your air conditioned townhouse near the beach so no possible way you could relate to what was a bad decision. People tend to make it a black and white issue so I was just pointing out hidden facts nobody talks about. I'm pretty sure we wouldn't have liked their way of life back in bible days either so you need to stop thinking you know what people went through and stop trying to airbrush history. 2 wrongs? I've seen plenty of ugly parents that had beautiful children so your statement has no factual basis.

[@Anecdotal1]

@@unstableminded I think the 'game' has been hated since Egyptian times. Care to join the 21st century.

[@FlashySolution]

But we can’t talk about that can we 🧐

[@zhurizhay3647]

For the record, the enslaved people in the portraits are also unidentified. JS

[@getreal4real169]

Posing? I’ve heard it all.

[@williamroberts1693]

GetReal 4Real: All fake for the masses for the division.

[@penelopelopez8296]

Wow! They lived better than most Americans are living today and although they were supposedly enslaved, look at the life they had on those plantations….much better lives than most Americans have today. They had access to horses they could ride and groom. They spent their days growing crops and tending to the fields……much better than working at Publix or McDonalds. They also had nice clothing and nice little houses they lived in. Try to buy one of those little houses today and it will cost you about $300,000. They had free food to eat. I wish someone would enslave under those same conditions plus give me a free place to live and teach me a trade. They also didn’t have to deal with disgusting customers or co workers. All they had to do was their job. I wish I could have a life like that.

[@sarahchambers867]

Would you want the sodomy too? Evil u are and I pray God make u eat them words.

[@greenyonline]

Of course that was then and this is now. Water over the dam long gone.

[@merlineedward6857]

One should never forget their history.Some time history has a tendency of repeating itself.This trauma done to our ancestors is handed down to us,their offsprings in the diagnosis of post traumatic stress syndrom.They weren't allowed to express their frustration and emotion of hurt and pain.These evil folks abused them all including the very young innocent boys and girls.That dark pit God throwed the fallen angels into,hopefully,he did the same to these evil folks.

[@jarvispalmore1046]

The crazy thing is black people were already here who you think brought Columbus here go look up mansa musa pretty sure he showed him the way

[@larssrensen4353]

I think Mansa Musa reached Brazil. But his sailors never came back.

[@bigbloc8272]

“Black” people were already here because we are indigenous to this land. We were lied to about US history. We were enslaved on our own land. The majority of us are not African, some of us just look similar. Even Africans know this. In fact, some of us were taken from here and brought to other foreign lands.

[@melanatedo.g6652]

When I zeroed in on my ppl in the pics,I felt the depression and misery of their horrors. I didn't see any posing! This is what "they" want AGAIN! We hv 2 make sure it never ever happens!

[@tofan2622]

Bro lets make sure you understand who "they" is. I felt depressed when I thought about how the North destroyed the infrastructure and only institutions slaves and the rest of the South had ever known. I felt depressed when the Union Army ransacked the entire South and took anything and everything, including shoes and clothing. How come all that slave labor made all that money in the South, yet the North was better developed, etc?

[@melanatedo.g6652]

@@tofan2622 You make a strong factual point! It wasn't only the south;the north played a major part in slavery.

[@tofan2622]

@@melanatedo.g6652 Absolutely! The bad part is that for history, where slaves were bought, sold, etc, all that documentation was kept. Part of the problem is the same people who burned that stuff at the end of the war, still won't admit the dirty little secret about NYC, LA, and most other big cities. Ok last thing man, we have to ask ourselves, did the North really want to ban the atlantic slave trade??? Or did they just want to fill the country in with "their immigrant slaves". Be safe man, we have to make sure the truth in history stays, the good, the bad and the ugly!

[@sarahchambers867]

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[@melanatedo.g6652]

@@sarahchambers867 Peace sista Sarah, Yes,I wud love to get the information you are talking about. If it's FBA & informative,I'm all for it.

[@jeffreydelacruz2154]

Black is real Israelites

[@rcrinsea]

Lol.

[@mid-ohioguardian6927]

Every race has been enslaved, yet today’s discussions only ever focus on the black slaves.!!!

[@denisemichael7353]

Posing? I think not!

[@JohnnyReb]

Photography in those days used long exposure times. Movement wasn't captured very well. The results would've been ghost like people or blury blobs. In order for any of these people to have shown up on camera at all is they had to sit perfectly still. Sometimes for minutes at a time. Therefore they are in fact posing for the camera. You should try to educate yourself on wetplate photography. There's plenty of videos here on KZbin for you to watch.

[@TRUEkcctv1384]

Conceptual art who said they are slaves maybe they were forced out of they homes and that was a refugee camp ,

[@patrickgreen7308]

Notice how clean the areas are. Now look at Baltimore and other.big cities. Mmmmm

[@bon_savage_official]

This video would have been perfect with music that suits it

[@Virus-xm7qc]

Just as they ( the RACIST white south) is silent on the ISSUE, the of playing music remains silent here.

[@sapphonymph8204]

@@Virus-xm7qc Democrats you mean.

[@Virus-xm7qc]

@@sapphonymph8204 I choose no Party, ONLY made a clear Nonpartisan OBSERVATION, please keep me OUT of your PETTY POLITICS!

[@sapphonymph8204]

@@Virus-xm7qc no such thing as nonpartisan. You're either for the party of slavery (democrat) or the party of the emancipators (Republicans).

[@Virus-xm7qc]

@@sapphonymph8204 Im For NONE, NEVER voted, and NEVER will, and you can't make me!!!😁

[@Monica-ug7pw]

How is this possible. Camera's did not exist untill 1885. That would make them free people with no opportunity, not slaves.

[@pdxtran]

Cameras were invented in the 1830s. You can search on KZbin for "photos from the 1840s."

[@artisbeck9880]

Dam who made tis possible

[@rcrinsea]

Looks like a scene from today. They haven’t improved themselves at all.

[@tawanascott6118]

No one in these pictures are posing. They're just standing or sitting there thinking of a way to escape.

[@JohnnyReb]

Photography in those days used long exposure times. Movement wasn't captured very well. The results would've been ghost like people or blury blobs. In order for any of these people to have shown up on camera at all is they had to sit perfectly still. Sometimes for minutes at a time. Therefore they are in fact posing for the camera. So yes they are posing.

[@cocoriver5014]

Doubt they were "posing"...

[@dougdouglas3696]

Absolutely right my friend, they are not posing

[@JohnnyReb]

Educate yourselves on wetplate photography. Photography in those days used long exposure times. Movement wasn't captured very well. The results would've been ghost like people or blury blobs. In order for any of these people to have shown up on camera at all is they had to sit perfectly still. Sometimes for minutes at a time. Therefore they are in fact posing for the camera.

[@alexisdelgado8737]

Understand this was not long ago at all.

[@bobjones7933]

There are a lot of black. People living to day.growup in these same conditions. I'm one them

[@tedcarter8074]

They are enslaved not slaves.

[@littleman7514]

Wow, real enlightened of you. It's almost as if the word "Slave" refers to an enslaved person.

[@JohnnyReb]

That's the same thing.

[@paullong6051]

In modern times the slaves are in the NFL

[@RB-gt8bf]

Highly doubt the Slaves were posing. One of the Greatest sins and stains on America the Sin of Chattel Slavery.

[@gregdenys7162]

You can see their masters were caring.

[@ellothere4895]

Ragged clothes, constantly depressed faces. Yep sounds good

[@phillybred8580]

Unbelievable Smh

[@Deez_Nutts974]

👍

[@yermiyahubenyahudahbenyisr4990]

I wonder if any of them are my relatives my grandfather was bought from west Africa to the West Indies and sold to the Johnson plantation in South Carolina my dad was 67 when I was born and that's how I has Grand parents who were slaves because of that I traced my lineage through African ancestry and my results came back Bissa tribe In Burkina faso one day I'll return and when I do my ancestors who dna within me we'll to.

[@chiefordnance]

Looks like FLATBUSH AVE NYC Brooklyn

[@irisruiz8495]

So sad how people be so evil 😢

[@Alliejen12345]

Who was the slave owner William Ellison Jr. ?

[@bosschedda_]

I just watched a video about him

[@Alliejen12345]

And what did you learn?

[@NuttyNorth1300]

Probably Col. Joshua John Ward

[@mariacelina7299]

Minha nossa isto não era para ter acontecido e por isto que a geração herdou a depressão.

[@urtrashgarbage2402]

back in the good ol days

[@alphonsocarioti512]

I don't think they were "posing".

[@JohnnyReb]

Photography in those days used long exposure times. Movement wasn't captured very well. The results would've been ghost like people or blury blobs. In order for any of these people to have shown up on camera at all is they had to sit perfectly still. Sometimes for minutes at a time. Therefore they are in fact posing for the camera.

[@kaka7279100]

I am a free thinker and some of these pics dnt portray slaves ijs.

[@JohnnyReb]

See the video's description for sources.

[@openheart1474]

Who told you these people are slaves.. insult...do some research instead of what you learned in school.

[@george7164]

Pretty clean photo's from 1860. Must have been on Kodak film.

[@samspade3227]

I have been to Africa. Not good.

[@Anecdotal1]

Hmmmm.... and how would it be if they're weren't forced into slavery.... Europe and US had humanitarian aid and education to the continent... Provided educational and technological insights... instead of just saying 'not human'? Where would we might be?

[@raych634]

Where did you go exactly, which country & what was not good?

[@rcrinsea]

@@Anecdotal1 - You always want something from others. Asians were enslaved, too, and now look at them. Europeans were also enslaved by the Romans.

[@666pazuzu]

They look really clean and polite. Lucky people.

[@10inches_deep]

Who dislikes a video like this??? Wtf 🤬

[@tofan2622]

People from the North that want to make it out like only the South supported slavery. I mean they could never talk about their dirty little secret that is NYC, that would be a travesty!

[@charlessedlacek5754]

Must be on lunch break.

[@GatCat]

Do you not know what Posing means?

[@dedmandedman1708]

I don't see no white people

[@Appleblade]

History Debunked just posted about black slave owners in the South at this very time. How many of us knew there were many free blacks in the South then, and that some of them owned their own plantations and bred and sold slaves? One of the wealthiest slave holders in South Carolina was a black man, one among 171 others in the state. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pGKXg3Vuj9udr9E

[@Hoodfella881]

And those people are laborers not slaves there’s a difference they were getting paid why not show the black planters with actual white slaves

[@dougdouglas3696]

No posing in those photos. All the "posers" are alive today!

[@dattexboy]

Posing? Gtfoh

[@adriamensah6312]

Don't like how the word "posing" is used, which is far from what any of people are actually doing..

[@Chubachus]

If they were not posing then the people in the photos would be blurry.