Strange experience: history tour of slave quarters in Savannah, Georgia

[@AffirmationQueen]

Thanks for doing this video, I thank God for my ancestors and the DNA That lives inside of me from them. My great- aunt is 94 years old and she talks about her grandma who was a slave. That would make her my great great grandmother! I have a blanket that she made that was given to me by my grandmother!

[@hearingeyes9129]

Aww, I'm sure that blanket and you are inseparable!💕

[@judithyatesbesttruecrime2635]

"And we are more alike, my friend, then we are unalike." - Maya Angelou.

[@blueneptune825]

What a priceless treasure it must be. 💜

[@charleswilliams5860]

Why did the evil white people let her make a blanket? Where did she get the material?

[@MariaZackery-ln4ck]

Iam from Beaufort south Carolina my great-grandfather was a slave from Barbados the place they sold him is still in Beaufort a book writer name mr.blackman wrote about my grandfather shadrick manigo yes you feeling those slaves spirit are still there and they happy you there.😅😊😂😂

[@4evermistyblu]

You did a very respectful video and I thank you. My heart hurts for my ancestors because what they endured was pure EVIL and HELL.

[@judithyatesbesttruecrime2635]

thank you. The best gift we can give all of our ancestors is- keep history alive!

[@charleswilliams5860]

My white ancestors were enslaved as well. Cry me a fucking river...

[@lemfarba4827]

You mean what they endured in africa, where slaves were castrated, buried alive and sometimes cannibalized? Yes, that was pure evil. These slaves with white masters were the lucky ones.

[@eugeniakeys6567]

Yassss!!! It hurts

[@savinghistory642]

are you not satisfied with all your welfare benefits> need more for hair and nails.

[@csmtcqueen]

The enslaved were "housed" next to the animals. Representing they were property, chattel. The pain in that room, it breaks my heart. Don't let the history of African Americans be erased (in education, books, libraries, historical sites). There is no "both sides" to slavery. It was evil, it needs to be learned, studied and understood.

[@billganas467]

your a 'dingdong', even slavery is better than starving to death, and Africa has never been able to feed itself. They have always needed a Peach Card to buy groceries, even the obese ones..... lol

[@beneiseoleinmheart5614]

Amen

[@makared636]

They don’t teach it at all in Reno, Nevada and when you ask the school about it everybody’s on hush

[@GiosueMannino]

yawn, get over it

[@savinghistory642]

@@makared636 because it is dark fantasy designed to make white people look bad and black people look godly

[@IrishAuntie]

I don't believe that any of those slaves had beds to sleep on. They slept on the floor. May they rest in peace.

[@JustShawnie]

Thank you for your honesty. Slaves didn’t have beds to sleep on at all. That is his way of attempting to white wash history and the reality of what was done to slaves in America.

[@lakishafreeman2783]

You are exactly right.

[@bevreid8630]

Pallets stuffed with straw and flour sacks, or similar fabric.

[@danitayounger1130Godisalive]

Thanks for sharing so much ❤ to you

[@judithyatesbesttruecrime2635]

I wondered, myself... Thank you for your comment and please consider subscribing for more!

[@nikiwilson9674]

I visited the Magnolia Plantation and was not interested in the house but went directly to the slave cabins. I was so overcome that I was crying for some time. When I went inside one I saw how it crudely it was made. It must have been very drafty and cold in the winter. On the tour the docent talked of how lucky the slaves were because they got to live in these horrible quarters. Apparently the docent thought they we're better off in these then on other plantations. I was totally appaled that she thought this was a good thing. She, also, glossed over the whole horror of slavery. It is so shameful that we still have so much bigotry left in this country. Thank you for your video.

[@tonimonteith8125]

I went there also. Not much in the cabins. Now the home was beautiful. Sherman actually burned it down during the Civil War. The slaves loved their master. He had 500 at one time. Most stayed on with him after they got freed because he was pretty good to them. You really need to the history about the place. Very interesting. I love history. My people came here in 1910 before WW l in Europe. Italian, German, Polish and Hungarian.

[@anthonymaxwellNY]

So many people come to Savannah and see all the beautiful decorative things, but few see the other side of Savannah's dark history of Slavery. These Amazing people HAD NAMES. They had Epic lives that few know about. Many of them where members of First Bryan & First African Baptist Church. First Bryan sits on the oldest continuous parcel of real estate owned by African Americans in the US. Many of the members worked in these homes, but purchased their freedom. Many of the African American churches in Savannah house these important records of their members. They have records of their names, their lives, hopes, wishes and dreams. Savannah needs to take the time to really look into the lives of these Amazing Individuals. THEY WERE MORE THAN JUST SLAVES. We just have to take the time to really SEE them. Thank you for shinning a light few in Savannah want to acknowledge.

[@judithyatesbesttruecrime2635]

This IS a fascinating town. I will return this year as I will be at the same event. Thank you for your comment and please consider subscribing to my vlog.

[@anthonymaxwellNY]

@@judithyatesbesttruecrime2635 Savannah's African American History is very rich, but largely not represented in Savannah. The nations 2 oldest Black Churches are in Savannah. First Bryan and First African. Many of the servants that work in these homes were members. Many purchased their freedom and brought land. First Bryan Baptist Church sits on oldest parcel of real estate owned by African Americans in the United States! The coined phase "40 acres and a mule" was developed by African Americans from the Savannah Yamacraw community and given to Sherman as a nationwide theme for America. The history goes on about these Amazing Americans. We just need people to tell their story. Slavery was just one part of their lives. Andrew Bryan, George Liele, Andrew Marshall to name a few.

[@beneiseoleinmheart5614]

​@@anthonymaxwellNYthank you very much for your comment references. I would like to explore more able these brilliant ppl. God bless you and your Familia.

[@robingriffith7188]

@@anthonymaxwellNYDowntown is where the slave trading was ‘I was there in 98 This really bothered me I still think about it today passing Savannah Ga on my way to Fla Also I have visited Charleston SC Been thru all those homes and slave cabins there too !Also visited a plantation in New Orleans I am proud to say my great great grandfather was a farmer from North Carolina who fought for the north or Union ,Grandpa Moore survived the war

[@valentinaquarterman3383]

​@@anthonymaxwellNYhi there...Second African Baptist on Houston Street too where William Tecumseh Sherman's Special Field Order #15 was read promosong newly freed African slaves 40 acres and a mule...

[@BWSO]

WOW before I even got to 15:22 I was sitting here saying to myself that those are the spirits of those that lived there. The shortness of breath, still feeling warm and you know that the AC was on. Yes, those were the spirits that you encountered. Thank you so much for sharing this and allowing yourself to actually experience it, which is why you had those feelings. I'm from VA but now I live in GA and I will be visiting this location.

[@Creole_Lady]

Hot flashes

[@judithyatesbesttruecrime2635]

I did NOT expect it, I can tell you. I went in just thinking it would be interesting, and I was tired of the tours where they gloss over the slave's lives. Thank you for your comment and please consider subscribing for more!

[@judithyatesbesttruecrime2635]

@Brett Phillips I have been called worse, my friend, in many languages.

[@judithyatesbesttruecrime2635]

@creole lady LOL no, I have gotten over those.

[@sexyLindaJ]

​@@Creole_Ladyim late yet was thinking the same thing. Every symptom is menopausal. No disrespect because I am pretty sure those poor souls were mad as hell, and not at peace.

[@SisterSherryDoingStuff]

Thank you for this. Had a similar experiences outside of New Orleans, at the Oak Alley Plantation. We got out of the car behind the house...something in the air and on the breeze felt heavy and sad. The enslaved people had a plaque. That's it. I found myself dizzy. And I found myself becoming angry. We did the stupid tour...as I had no idea what to expect. It was all about the owners and their grand home and wealth. I wanted out of there. The owners were of NO interest to me. And I was horrified how they glossed over the enslave people. I think the spirits were as well...they made their presences known.

[@judithyatesbesttruecrime2635]

All you have to do it listen... Thank you for your comment and please consider subscribing for more.

[@jj-eo7bj]

Blacks owned slaves ,native Americans owned slaves was not for slavery most American blacks still be in Africa where would they rather be now

[@killakam9006]

I apologize for that I’m truly sorry

[@Avocadoaficionados]

​@@jj-eo7bj I can tell you're a white person making excuses for the white slave owners.

[@DuttyGyal718]

If you ever decide to visit New Orleans again, look for a tour of the Whitney Plantation. Some tour operators do double plantation tours with a combo of the Laura, Whitney and Oak Alley Plantations. The Whitney Plantation is the only one dedicated to+focused on the lives of the enslaved.

[@giannaperani3450]

I’m from Savannah. Everyone here knows that the slave graves have been moved around so many times (recklessly) so it’s always been known that whenever you go to historic downtown - youre undoubtedly walking on unknown slave bones beneath the ground of the squares, roads & other areas. Another fun fact & common Savannah legend: “the moss doesn’t grow where innocent blood was shed” - there is a single square in Savannah that grows no Spanish moss at all even though it’s ALL over the city.

[@judithyatesbesttruecrime2635]

I have another video where I took a tour. Some more strange things happened. Thank you for your comment and please consider subscribing for more...

[@anthonymaxwellNY]

Many of the slaves, free people of color from Savannah are buried at Laurel Grove Cemetery. Does the city care for the Cemetery...NO! See the huge difference in care vs Colonial Cemetery and Bonaventure Cemetery. The real "Midnight in a Garden of Good and Evil" is a sad story for African Americans in Savannah. We can change this by pressing City officials to care ALL of Savannahians and their rich history.

[@criticfortheuploader2035]

*This is why Savannah is so haunted, desecration of the slaves graves...*

[@davidrobertson1507]

I'm also from Savannah born n raised n I agree .

[@Moore4Georgia]

Which square?

[@gingercake0907]

That was luxury because my great grandfather, who was a child during slavery, had to sleep in the barn with the cows and he slept next to the cow to keep warm. The enslaver bought none of his slaves shoes, no shoes. My great grandfather told how he was whipped because he stood in the straw where the cow had laid to warm his feet and was beaten by his enslaver.

[@lyndioli]

Sad just sad. No person should have been enslaved

[@5744m]

The music is absolutely AWFUL!

[@shadrach6299]

When I toured antebellum homes in the South, I was so saddened by the slave cabins. Someone said the plantations should be destroyed. I think they should be preserved as a historical reminder of the past. Preserve them for the same reason the prisons of the Holocaust were preserved. Seeing is believing and not forgetting.

[@slimshady2341]

They are also monuments to their actual builders - the slaves.

[@stevemccarty6384]

I lived in Mississippi in the 60s. I was stationed there. I drove all over the Old South and I too stepped inside some of the old slave quarters and the opulent plantation mansions too. I've visited Tomas Jefferson's plantation near Charlot. I've visited the Anti-bellum plantations along the Mississippi. I've been to many museums in the Old South. I've known and been friends with many African Americans who live in the South. I do not think Slavery was always cruel, but I do think that it was wrong. Being a white farmer/settler and being a slave in the Old South was a hard scrabble existence. Slaves were very expensive, sometimes costing over $1,000 that when a new house cost that much. R.E. Lee's family insured Arlington House for $7,000. Moreover many slave owners were kind and loving individuals. All plantation owners in the South employed slaves on their farms. Think Washington and Jefferson. Two great, educated, thinking men. Slaves to their credit did the best with what they had and many if not most thrived. They developed their own culture and eventually took over the South. They invented their own music, dances and sense of humor that became so popular with the citizens that they were eagerly mimicked by Whites in the minstrell shows. Al Jolsen made a killing in black face, many others too. Abe Lincoln's family cabin was no better than slave quarters. In the diggings at Monticello they found pieces of violins and stemmed glassware. Slaves were allowed to sell their services on the open market and some, if not many, were allowed to keep at least some of their earnings. Some slaves, like Frederic Douglas were eventually able to purchase themselves and therefore their freedom. So many slaves were freed upon the death of their owners that eventually the Southern government made the practice illegal. Slaves perservered in what was by far an imperfect system and we should honor their memory because of their bravery and tenacity. While they did not like being enslaved they dealt with the system which, while not the right thing to do, on some level, worked.

[@bre9328]

And just like those who survived the Holocaust received reparations, guess what the descendants of the enslaved should receive? My great grandmother's grandmother was the last of the slaves, and her granddaughter, my great grandmother, sat in my house, living through Jim crow, learning about black massacres, etc. Yall feel for the enslaved, but as soon as reparations are bought up, all that alleged empathy goes out the window

[@CJ-io6bh]

I think they should be reclaimed by black ppl so they can set those that are trapped there free.

[@fannygarvey6941]

Thank you for this video -- you have presented this history to us in a way that honours the people who were, as you so perfectly say, "kept here." I respect and appreciate you!

[@valeriepayne7254]

I appreciate you explaining this dwelling. Many people attend southern tours because of the beauty of these homes, but never allow themselves to feel empathy for people who lost everything, and I mean everything. They were not treated as people and they were stripped of dignity. No one can imagine the intense sadness these beautiful people endured. God Bless their souls. Thank you so much for sharing your experience.

[@marycatherinehenderson1293]

Jesus said” The first will be last, an the last will be first” . Eye hasn’t seen , ear hasn’t heard, what God has ready for those who love him.

[@deellaboe437]

The fact that you knew the most important house was the quarters means so much to me. Ty for providing history, and tour, I could feel the energy of our ancestors as you were filming.

[@82566]

I really appreciate ur attention to the little details ( such as the nails in the floor ) ect. and the energy you gave just a real compassionate human experience w your video . thank u very much .

[@judithyatesbesttruecrime2635]

thank you. I will be making more videos soon. This one was not easy!

[@jamesgibbs7933]

Alot of energy from pain, sorrow, and suffering is imprinted on the building, especially the slave quarters. Thanks for sharing.

[@lionofjudah6763]

This is part of our history as Black people and many school districts want to get rid of it...not!! This is very important to see and feel for yourself. I visited an planation back in 2015 in Charleston, South Carolina my very first time. It was an eye opening experience for me. I was the only Black person in the group. Many Blacks need to see these places and bring their kids to show them our history. It was a horrible experience and God will judge America one day soon for this. Consider it a huge crime scene against humanity of our people.

[@areguapiri]

Forcing the slaves to believe in a magical god was an evil act also.

[@lionofjudah6763]

@@areguapiri I believe there is a God and Christ his son who also Bronze Skin or Black with Wooly Hair. Its just we been taught that he is a White Man wit Blue Eyes which is a lie. The Bible is really our book which talks about our true History before going through Africa into Slavery. Read Deu 28 Chapter.

[@judithyatesbesttruecrime2635]

@@lionofjudah6763 have you read Nettie's musings in "The Color Purple" (Alice Walker)?

[@lionofjudah6763]

@@judithyatesbesttruecrime2635 never read the book but enjoy the movie. I guess I need to check out the book myself.

[@dawnlovely1594]

Look around and think deeply about it and see that He’s judging it now and check out Dante Fortson page if you haven’t already, peace and blessings to you

[@lyndioli]

I believe you about hearing the cries. Going on vacation to Florida, we traveled a road that led beside a plantation, a huge place. Towards the back my eyes fixated on what appeared to be where slaves would have been kept. As we drove by slowly , everyone in the car taking in the scenery, I became very saddened emotionally and I swear that I heard the cries of people, many people. I told my husband and by the look on his face, he believed me, he saw how upset that I was. Ill never forget those cries and that was around 30 years ago.

[@renapoole7742]

I just wanna say how much I appreciate you. You did a great job with your footage and the narration. I appreciate your sensitivity and care for the enslaved. We did a fantastic job with this video and I thank you again. I wish I could give you a hug for your authenticity, and as a friend. You are a beautiful person that has a beautiful soul. Thank you for this video.❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@BlessedToBeABlessing6]

Wow! Thanks for sharing this video. I felt that same feeling you felt when I visited Charleston SC. There's a street there called Market St. Slaves used to be auctioned there. It is now a street full of vendors. Sort of like a flea market. I couldn't stand to be in that place. I could feel the presence of my ancestors' souls. This is great Black History information.

[@judithyatesbesttruecrime2635]

Check out my video where I toured Sav by night. Very strange. Lots of terrible history here, but I do love the town. Thank you for writing here and please consider subscribing for more!

[@Facts-Over-Feelings]

WHAT A WATERED DOW BUNCH OF BS.. MAKES SLAVERY SOUND NOT SO BAD.. TYPICAL.. NEVER HAVE THE OPPRESSOR RACE OR THERE MINIONS TELL THE HISTORY..

[@vickieburnett-williams173]

You actually felt what our ancestors went through you felt there spirits. Wow ive never heard anyone actually felt what our ancestors was feeling and the Agana they went through..... Wow this was very informative.

[@judithyatesbesttruecrime2635]

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[@vickieburnett-williams173]

@@judithyatesbesttruecrime2635 a couple of months ago i actually walked barefooted on a cotten field and picked a few pieces...my youngest son and sister as well walked on this cotton field my grankids got to see one.. Remind u we just buried my oldest aunt on my mother side that there father came from smiths plantation in jackson ga. So i had a real connection to that field... which i never even tore my pantyhose.😂 Thank you i will look forward to more from you❤

[@D4L_457]

Don’t forget about the bugs, lice, flies, dragonflies, mosquitoes Florida, stink from the horses. Heat in the summer time heat. Think of a nightmare camp trip that never ended until you died.

[@CASASHALOM7]

You were feeling the heaviness of all that happened there

[@judithyatesbesttruecrime2635]

Yes. It was strange. Did not expect it.

[@paulinebryant6480]

Judith thank you for the tour and the sensitive manner in which you shared this crime. I am a 65 year old woman who lived in the Victorian district as a child until my early adulthood and marriage I truly seen the weight on you to experience the essence of the souls of the people's who lived in those quarters thank you for sharing this truth.

[@judithyatesbesttruecrime2635]

It was quite the tour. I also toured nighttime Sav. Thank you for contacting me and please consider subscribing for more!

[@johnpankowicz4823]

I visited the Owens-Thomas house a week ago. The two other mansions that I visited made no mention of the slaves. Some comments here try to say that poor people in Ireland and elsewhere lived in conditions just as bad. There's a HUGE difference. With other poor people: (1) Their families weren't torn apart against their will and sent to different slave owners. (2) They weren't completed prevented from owning and building things for themselves. (3) They weren't killed if they tried to escape to a better place. (4) Their bosses weren't allowed to whip or starve them whenever they felt like it. (5) Their women weren't allowed to be raped. (6) They weren't prevented by law from educating themselves. There are likely a million differences, that would take a hundred books to describe. There is a copy of a letter in the O-W house that was sent by the owner's wife to him, while he was visiting royalty in Europe. She describes how one of her female slaves skipped out for a few minutes to visit somebody at another house. The wife tells her husband how she had the slave thrown into jail and made to sleep with the vermin and bedbugs to teach her a lesson.

[@findingbeautyinthepain8965]

Wow, your ignorance is mind blowing! Let’s straighten this out. 1) The British manufactured a famine to make the Irish starve to death. 2) The British did things, like rape Irish men’s wives and sisters in order to make them fight back. 3) When the Irish fraught back, they were imprisoned and their land, money, and homes were confiscated by the British. 4) The British kept The Irish people’s homes, farms, and money for themselves. 5) The Irish were put in prison where they were worked to death or were shipped off to become indentured servants in America. 6) It is an outright lie that indentured servants only had to work x years and got land at the end. 7) Indentured servants were rapped. 8) Black slaves and Irish indentured servants were forced to “sleep together” to breed a superior slave. You aren’t helping black enslaved people by saying the Irish didn’t have it as bad. You aren’t helping anyone. Both the Irish and enslaved people had it horrible. It’s not a competition. The Irish and black enslaved people were allies, friends, and worked hard to protect one another. You are making a mockery of the relationship formed between the two groups by trying to pin them against each other.

[@Vicky-ed7wx]

😢

[@nancyayala2217]

Very well said

[@jessehowell-t2m]

People try to

[@slimshady2341]

You don't seem to know exactly what you are referring to about the early Irish Indentured. Nevertheless, there is PLENTY of pain and misery put upon several Peoples who were not considered "whyte" which always included the Irish at the time because the shizzy English that invented the whole concept decided it to be so. Frankly, I am glad to not be considered "whyte" by them even today, and will always stand up with and for my beloved community, which is the African American People. Even the 'big house' - be it the planter's home or these city mansions are actually monuments to the talent and innate strength of the slaves. The "whyte' people? They are dead AND forgotten.

[@barbarakelly1916]

You could not breathe properly because of the history baked into the slave quarters.....people kept like domestic animals , somewhat suffocated, could not BREATHE FREE. How human beings can treat other human beings so thoughtlessly and cruelly is heartbreaking!

[@maedoraable1]

People are still being treated this way. slavery never ended it just escalated to a new level (the hidden and forget about let me show fake empathy level). Horrible nothing never changed.

[@judithyatesbesttruecrime2635]

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[@stevemccarty6384]

Ah, nooo, slavery no longer exists, at least not here in the USA. However, the institution is alive and well in many regions of the World. It's still in Africa and there is a company in America that goes abroad and purchases slaves so that they can free them in this country. Some people complain because they are providing a profit to the slavers, but they do it anyway. I have seen slaves.

[@krimezofkolor4683]

It hurts so much what they did to my ancestors . It still hurts . May the rest peacefully . Thank you ancestors ❤

[@stevemccarty6384]

I do not believe that being a slave, usually, was hell on Earth. Most slaves probably accepted slavery as a reality of their lives and did their best to be happy and successful. Being a slave did not always keep them from doing that.

[@meredithlynn]

If you had toured the main house, you would have seen wall to wall carpet that was laid in strips. The slaves had to remove the long strips and take them outside to beat the dirt out of them then go back in and hand sew them back it. Very labor intensive. You were “fortunate” to be a town slave because they didn’t have to work in the fields. Can you even imagine the hardship and the determination these individual people had to survive such lives. God bless them and thankful we can celebrate their history by remembering and giving them the respect that they are due.

[@judithyatesbesttruecrime2635]

I did go into parts of the main house just out of curiosity to see the contrast and what tour guides had to say- in Nashville you tour the Andrew Jackson home and they will tell you, "Jackson was very good to his slaves." Next time I will ask, "So, he let them go??" Thank you for your comment and please consider subscribing.

[@meredithlynn]

@@judithyatesbesttruecrime2635 you had a choice to be a master, you had no choice in being a slave. That tells ya they ain’t so good!!!

[@venitabroussard6093]

Exactly.

[@judithholder2537]

They had to have resilience, grit, fortitude, and TALENT!

[@stevemccarty6384]

In the 60's I lived and worked on a farm in Kansas. The standard work day was "sun to sun" or 12 hours. Everyone who I knew worked a 12 hour day. It was considered a standard work day and nothing unusual.

[@angieburns6241]

I am glad you had interest and focus on the slaves and not their brutal owners who were made rich by them. It's too bad more people don't. So many focus on the owners, how much they owned and of course, the big mansion. The only reason they had that big house and money is because they forced human beings to work for them. A lot would not have had anything if it weren't for the slaves! Their struggles after the civil war and their new ways of enslaving people shows that. As for the heavy feeling you were having, I had it too and I'm watching this from Canada and never been to that house. There's a lot of anger, physical and emotional pain and sadness in that house. It's overwhelming. It doesn't seem like they are resting in peace. It feels like they are still trapped and still not free.

[@cacarter6145]

Yes! Finally, someone who gets it!

[@MissTippiLu]

I visited the antebellum house in Savannah across the street from the Pirate House restaurant. They said the building behind the gift shop used to be slave quarters. I was definitely tapped on my shoulder by something I felt but couldn’t see. I do believe energy never dies; it is transformed into something we can’t see.

[@elishebax]

I've walk past that house before. Thank you so much for providing this historical information. And being brutally honest about what you felt and saw And being brutally honest about what you felt and saw❤

[@morethanamazinglove8673]

Wow that just made me cry.. just imagine what my those that came before me went through

[@judithyatesbesttruecrime2635]

Yes, I know.... I think of my own family.

[@Mathilda5xp]

@@judithyatesbesttruecrime2635 It is unbelievable that humans could treat other humans so badly! Imagine capturing humans and tying them up, while transporting them to other countries! No baths for months on end. I always wonder what the women who menstruated did. What did they use for sanitary towels, where did they wash themselves? I always cry when I watch any videos, of slavery! It is inhuman! Thank you so much for sharing this video. Aroha from Aotearoa.

[@stevemccarty6384]

I don't think that the average slave's life was "that bad". While some were probably worked to death, but others were not. However, I agree that being enslaved was far from a perfect life and we are certainly better off now that the practice is no longer.

[@redboned2405]

You have the beautiful heart of an Empath…💛 Thank you for such a detailed tour…

[@judithyatesbesttruecrime2635]

Thank you. It takes about 3 solid days to put a video together, but I enjoy it because I love to share information. Thank you and please subscribe.

[@teescoffee5689]

The Slaves may be gone, but their energy is still there. EVERY American must learn this history.

[@purplehaze5977]

Glad I found your vlogs I just love history and I'm so sorry that slavery ever happened to anyone it's cruel who did these people with money think they were

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[@rosadean5240]

Just want to start off saying thanks for your informative video. You did a really good job I am African American and and the reason you felt the way you did is because our ancestors knew you could feel what they felt and you would help them be heard even after all these years.

[@judithyatesbesttruecrime2635]

Thank you for your comment and please consider subscribing as I toured more places. I agree - there are voices out there and everyone can hear- just open your ears.

[@slimshady2341]

It's true.

[@nollieheel214aim]

Wow, this is extremely powerful! It is extremely important to tell their stories and to show that there were humans who here in these places that lived, loved, laughed, and did what they had to do under extreme and unbearable conditions everyday of their lives. Today most AA don’t even have a place to go and visit our ancestors graves as there are rarely any markers, nor info so we have to make sure these slave cabins are documenting before they are gone. It is one of the only physical things linking us with our ancestors who were brought here.❤

[@cynthiagale5403]

Thank you for sharing this visit. Its likely that you experienced the residual energy of those who once inhabited that space--clearly you are a 'sensitive'. Most people just shrug these sensations off or try to explain them away. Thank you for sharing your experience of their presence.

[@judithyatesbesttruecrime2635]

I believe everyone is psychic. It is in our DNA and survival skills. Thank you for your comment and please consider subscribing?

[@82566]

I really appreciated her empathy and respect for those deceased and the grounds . Aknowleding the energy w reverance

[@SheervanityDDS]

I visited and did the tour in June. I was fine until I got to the basement of the main house. I felt claustrophobic, hot and nauseated. As soon as I stepped out the door and went up the steps I was fine. I did enjoy the tour and thanks for sharing!

[@traciwilliams5673]

Can’t watch this for long…mourning for my people 😢 🤦🏽‍♀️ smh! RIP ❤

[@johnharris8191]

Are you mourning for the ones who are killed daily in Chicago and other major cities? Slaves' quarters at plantations still standing after all these years are built better than Section Eight Housing.

[@YankeeinTexas812]

I remember when I was a child my mom took us to South Carolina and we toured the Gone With the Wind plantation and I remember just wanting to see the slave quarters I remember that the most more than the main House. It was so sad these cottages were very small and it brought me back in time and could just feel the sadness and pain. I remember I didn’t even want to go I thought it would be boring, I’d rather go to an amusement park but I was glad I got to see it for the experience and the history..

[@stacymoore9836]

This is so sad and criminal. Treated like they’re no one. Less human.

[@nicolette0266]

Imagine the people who feel nothing visiting these areas.....those who have experiences are connected to one waybor another. Ancestors Know their people❤

[@iam2908]

That’s what I was thinking. Perhaps her family were slave owners and that may be the reason why she felt the way she did

[@gladysmorgan5653]

The female slave was also concubines, nursemaids and so many other things

[@stevemccarty6384]

To this day in the South many middle class children are raised by black nannies. Many families have African American employees who live in homes on their property. Some for generations. These servants become de facto members of the White families and are genuinely loved. I had a girlfriend who, when we'd visit her parents would run to and hug her nanny before she great her mother. There was a tremendous amount of affection between the White and Black families. I suspect a similar thing happened during slavery.

[@rodolfoayalajr.8589]

Emotional 😭. May they rip. Thank you friend for sharing this educational video. Blessings Amen 🙏.

[@carrettaroberts5972]

Things that are not taught in schools

[@JustShawnie]

So why are so many European Americans hiding this reality of American history? Why do they still continue to this day to white wash the history of my ancestors and teach this in school and tell the truth?

[@loriepostlewaite162]

It should be

[@lucypearlmorgan3115]

History is history and cannot be changed, only to learn from. As "they" can be heard saying, why should I be held responsible for the past. Know the history is also to understand it, it cannot be whitewashed away no matter how hard it is tried. History is good, bad and very ugly.

[@hollyprincipato3287]

@@JustShawnie We were supposed to learn from this time and the 60s that it didn't have to be like this anymore. Everybody needs to let it go! They will never tell the truth anyway...that is why we have the ability to do our own research into America's past.

[@pksavior]

Carretta it's hard to tell the real truth about Slavery because it reveals the Character of the Enslaver, That's what all this critical theory is about. If I tell you my story I have to tell yours. It don't matter The Truth Will Always Come Forth, It's design that way and not one of us can stop it.

[@TheoneJesusloves]

Thank you for your work. It's helping me to understand what my ancestors went through.

[@emmacrawford5525]

I was born and raised in Georgia and live in Georgia this is very heartbreaking and so sad 😭😭😭😭 know this happen to my ancestors

[@venitabroussard6093]

Yes, and the fact that they can not rest in peace.

[@theresaromeo5484]

It's so very important to tell these stories. Seeing this reminds us they were real people. They were the fabric that held the country together.

[@faithwalker2030]

Thank you for allowing yourself to feel it

[@judithyatesbesttruecrime2635]

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[@mikkibarker8671]

God bless you and the ancestors. I felt the same way on the Clay plantation in Ash l and, KY.

[@23dre8]

I’m from Savannah and this was very interesting the historical district have a lot of history

[@Jambuc829]

Me too

[@judithyatesbesttruecrime2635]

@23dre I do love the town, tho! I did more tours so please consider subscribing.

[@leighsaldivar4439]

I’ve seen them. We go to Savannah and Tybee every year. There are so many historical things to see.

[@joannmontoya9293]

How could any human being believe it was OK to Owen an other person the cruelty we can't even imagine the disappear they felt

[@MySingleLifeADollShow]

I visited one of the plantation there this past October. It was the Waddle and Daub house. I think natives Americans were enslaved there. They lived in a very small shack with a wooden ladder to get to the second floor. No wood just dirt on the first floor. Sad smh

[@Jambuc829]

It’s wattle

[@judithyatesbesttruecrime2635]

Thanks for sharing! I will have to add this to my list of to-do.

[@heatherphillips3349]

You are surrounded by spirits of the enslaved. That is why you feel the way you do.

[@judithyatesbesttruecrime2635]

Agreed.

[@micheleparker8553]

As a Christian woman, imho, I do not believe that the spirit filled room were the spirits of the enslaved people. Most of these people were also Christians who went on to heavenly paradise with the Lord. However, it is possible that their fingerprints have been left behind. Maybe the energy matter from those fingerprints can be felt, but not the spirit itself. I believe that the spirits in that room were demons of the enemy who seek to torture, torment, and kill people. Slavery is caused by Satan tempting mankind to do his evil work. His demons are always looking for people who are willing to turn over their lives to Satan’s desires.

[@ColetteElizabeth]

Thank you for this video and providing an honest and respectful narrative 💜

[@jeffreycoffey3761]

The commentator is very good and this is very easy to listen to and enjoy. Thank you

[@judithyatesbesttruecrime2635]

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[@BJo4230]

My daddy family is from Georgia and Alabama states, and i growed up listening to them talk and they sounded like old time accents. And it has pass down to me sound like old southern accents. I hate that humans treated other humans like that. Not a good thing at all. Thank you for teaching this old Floridian something i didnt know.

[@loriepostlewaite162]

Such a shame these poor people had to be treated and done this way

[@Jambuc829]

Christianity in a nut shell

[@loriepostlewaite162]

@@Jambuc829 maybe then not now

[@danholley4733]

They had a roof over their heads and food to eat. Better off than today's homeless ❗. Stop complaining about how bad they had it.

[@loriepostlewaite162]

@@danholley4733 screw you smartass these weren’t homeless these were abused slaves maybe you should be put through this to appreciate what they had to go through

[@danholley4733]

@@loriepostlewaite162 screw you was you there ? NO Grow up and go find something else to whine about instead of something that happened over 200 years ago. They didn't have it any harder than share cropper's.

[@deborahhunter4268]

The dizziness, being hot, and experiencing the shortness of breath was coming from slave spirits that didn't want her there.

[@tiffanysgottimetoday4589]

That happened to me when I looked in that house at Stone Mountain Ga , I was looking around the plantation owners daughter room just like you, and it was roped off, I felt something like a spirit hit me and I felt dizzy,

[@judithyatesbesttruecrime2635]

Really? Interesting. I have a friend who is VERY psychic. For that reason she can't have anything antique. Please consider subscribing for more!

[@Michou_888]

Insightful video. Thank you.

[@christinebuckingham8369]

I'd been to this house many years ago - this part of the tour had been closed to the public back then. I thought I heard voices behind the music, but it was very faint. The heavy energy of this place must've made it very hard to concentrate. (almost thought I heard you say that slaves were housed here from 1819 to 1985? ) I apologize if I'm mistaken. Slavery was truly evil and it's hard to even imagine anyone ever thinking it was somehow acceptable. 😔

[@judithyatesbesttruecrime2635]

I am sure I got numbers mixed up- confusion was part of the whole experience...thank you for commenting

[@zztey513]

God Bless our Ancestor's souls. We love you 💛💫

[@joanhamilton2651]

The slave quarters was bigger and better insulated than the cabin my mother and 9 siblings were raised in. Only the very wealthy had feather ticking. The rest used straw to stuff the "mattress" and it had to be changed out a few times a year. No pillows then either. Beds were on the floor except the grandparents. Grandpa made a rope bed for them. Mattresses would be aired out, rolled up and stacked in the corner for family seating then used for sleeping. An old cook stove cooked the meals and heated the cabin. A table and chairs sat in the one room cabin and since space was an issue they had to rotate eating as the table only had 5 chairs. It was a rough life but they didn't know because in their community of poor farmers it was normal.

[@gnostic268]

Your family were settler-colonizers who got their land via Indigenous Native tribes being illegally dispossessed through broken treaties the government made with tribes for their ancestral homelands. Many tribes were either killed or removed by the military. Don't bother doing whataboutism.

[@cwilms27]

But far most important... They were NOT slaves

[@jessehowell-t2m]

So you really think Slave life was better then your life growing up? You know nothing about it my friend. No one Black or White knows what it was really like but we do know American Slavery was the worst especially since it happened twice here which is part of MAGA

[@shirleyiqbal3995]

But you were not beaten, raped nor sold away. You still had rights and were thought of as human beings, not chattel. You can’t compare your situation to theirs. Your family had a choice in where and how you lived. They did not. It is doubtful they had feather beds and pillows either. They slept on the floor. I’m sure a straw bed would have been very appreciated. These things you see in this video were not actually there when the slaves were.

[@joanhamilton2651]

@@shirleyiqbal3995 you're right I wasn't but you do not know my family history. You're assuming a lot with no information. Don't point your finger at someone over your very wrong assumption.

[@paulaartandmusic4412]

I had that “ strange “ feeling in the basement of the Big House, where slaves cooked and washed. It was a feeling of intense discomfort, sorrow, fear, exhaustion. I read there about the slaves’ daily lives and was horrified. I couldn’t wait to get out of there!

[@feliciamrobles8980]

Thank you for sharing ♥️ you where probably feeling there emotion’s

[@judithyatesbesttruecrime2635]

I really did not expect this. I thought it would be interesting, as it was the 2nd time I would see slave quarters.

[@cassandrahouser6560]

I can feel my ever bit of the past through you. Thank you so much for doing these tours .

[@judithyatesbesttruecrime2635]

Thank you and please consider subscribing for more. I like dark history because it teaches us mores than just reading about serial killers or about some terrible crime.

[@pksavior]

YOU ARE FEELING THE DEEP DEPRESSION OF MY PEOPLE AND WHAT THEY WENT THROUGH,, YES THE STRUGGLE WERE REAL.

[@penelopelopez8296]

Are you feeling the deep depression of what the poor of America are going through today. The slaves had it better than what us poor Americans have today….low paying, back breaking labor jobs with no health insurance or any mercy from our employers. Today, we are NOT allowed to sit down at our jobs here in south Florida. Try being a cashier at Publix….you can really feel the depression in that back breaking job of just how badly people are still treated. We bottom feeders are nothing more than modern day slaves…..paid very little and treated like crap.

[@pksavior]

@@penelopelopez8296 you have lost your mind how in the hell the slaves had it better being rape, hung, burned, pulled apart by horses no voice, sold away from their families, worked from Sun Up to Sun down with no pay! Which by the way our people have never been paid. Just Shut Up!

[@polly8844]

Had the same experience walking on land in Alabama not knowing it was once plantation land. Only difference was the misery felt dropped me to the ground sobbing. I felt a male and female spirit in shear agony. I felt as if I were being sucked into the ground and had to be helped back to my feet. A bystander said to me so you feel it too - then you know. I was so shocked, till this day whenever I think of this l burst into tears. This took place in 1977 in Anniston, Alabama.

[@polly8844]

@@NeetaFacinelli you are one sick individual!

[@polly8844]

@@pksavior P. Lopez is ignorant of Afro-American history like most foreigners.

[@katjones5187]

Thank you for sharing this! Excellent perspective on the subject matter.

[@veronicathode1466]

Why does anyone wants to stay in the place after they die? I believe when a slave dies, the spirit went immediately to the arms of the creator and felt finally free. I found it hard to believe that any spirits want to stay behind in the place where they suffer so much. If the lady felt something maybe was the spirit of the enemy who slaves people.

[@judithyatesbesttruecrime2635]

THAT is a thought! Thank you for voicing your opinion.

[@heatherfeather1293]

I think you were feeling the spirits of the place. That is why I would love to see this, but then again, I wouldn't want to enter a space where I am not wanted. It's absolutely horrifying and shameful what was done to the slaves.

[@shadonnabradshaw8139]

Been living in Savannah for a full year and I promise slavery is deep in Savannah still in 2022

[@bessymcclain2761]

Ohh but to stand before the Lord on "that" day.

[@jobowie5403]

Such an important lesson to view a property like this always from back to front. Then you can see the grandeur of the front in it's true context.

[@theresadunne3166]

It looks just how the majority of Dublin people lived 100 years ago. I mean Dublin, Ireland. Whole families lived in one room with no running water. The kids had it tough.

[@judithyatesbesttruecrime2635]

So many souls seeking the American dream- I would like to do something on that in the future.

[@blacckvoices]

But they weren't slaves!

[@TV-yu5ms]

It should be preserved eternally for everyone to remember these history of USA which is ashamed virtually.

[@kendal4452]

living next to horses! You got to know how it smelled every day. It still hurts to see and know how my people were treated. No way did they have beds to sleep on or chairs to sit on. I don't believe white people were that kind. You are feeling the residual effects of the pain, hopelessness, stress, and fear of those who lived there. It was so great, you will feel it in the walls and the floors.

[@judithyatesbesttruecrime2635]

I thought of the same. Grief sinks into the earth, the wood, the pourous material.

[@hpharridan]

thank you so very much for this video. i have promptly subscribed

[@judithyatesbesttruecrime2635]

Thanks for the sub!

[@geripotter8138]

All the suffering of human beings, who's souls cannot rest! I'm surprised there isn't more places on this earth that this happens! 😡

[@PrettyP766]

I definitely know the feeling you’re experiencing. I went to an exhibit here in Atlanta, and the energy from the items that was out was very overwhelming for me. I fainted.

[@danielmurphy4429]

To think the southern economy was created and ran on the energy of dehumanized people, for the sole purpose of creating wealth is mind numbing. Not only did they create human misery for the people sold into slavery, the landowners held all the political power and controlled the press. The slave owners also held down wages for white workers, as slave labor was much more cost efficient. Thus, education standards were very low in the south as most children had to find employment instead of learning to read. This ensured a high rate of illiteracy and poverty and subservience to the “plantation order” of southern society. In other words: no middle class in the Deep South.

[@moonchildgarcia8999]

I'm a decendant of the Carribean Slaves you mentioned. Daca Taina - means I Am Taina. Thank you for making this honest and real video, Bo'Matum

[@darlalove8863]

A lot of these comments are amazingly ignorant. In this day and age I find it sad that people are so uneducated.

[@deedeedixon712]

My daughter gets the same reactions had to go outside for air She felt sick, an empath.💐🌺🌺

[@brendasimon771]

Many quarters were worse than these..this was kinda high class,considering..

[@judithyatesbesttruecrime2635]

Yes, that is true.

[@PennyManning2]

Totally enjoyed and appreciated this video tour. Loved the photos. I thank everyone very much for the time and effort put into this video's creation. Sounds like you have empathic abilities. You were likely picking up on the emotional residue of the slaves' multiple sufferings, including the oppression and misery of their circumstance (enslavement and all that goes with it) and the horrible heatbox quarters. Btw, did those windows open or were they allowed to be open in slavery times?

[@PTSession]

According to Joel 3 in the Bible, the descendants of the slave owners got next, the whole nation of them. And for those who are curious about this scripture, yes, Black people ARE THE PEOPLE OF THE BIBLE!

[@TheSweet_CocoGal]

I lived in Savannah and worked at a restaurant Downtown. Serves are required to know and share the history of the home with patrons, but are not allowed to refer to the ghosts as slaves. Instead they are required to say that the hauntings are of “servant children.” 😒 I could never again in my life live down there.

[@TheKy47]

Honestly I'm not surprised

[@jamesbass9797]

@ 9:55 I seem to be having trouble understanding what your saying. Please if you don't mind could you clarify. You said from 1819 to 1985 there were slaves living in this house?

[@lacarahjaedemps6361]

That's what I wanted to know. I'm like what

[@judithyatesbesttruecrime2635]

see above

[@jamesbass9797]

@@judithyatesbesttruecrime2635 -- See above what?

[@carlamarlene2927]

We visited my husband's daughters down by New Orleans and as we were driving around, their cousins would always point out "that's where the slaves had to live." Or "that's what the slaves had to eat" she was such a tender soul, wanted to share the knowledge of the underdog

[@danaswitch5865]

I tried like hell not to get angry after I watched this. God knows I tried. But when I saw that sign that said "3 Bucks for sale" I thought about all the black men sitting in prison because the doors of prosperity were closed tight as were the avenues of higher learning . Forgive me oh Lord.

[@warringtonfaust1088]

I have toured slave quarters in much of the South. In many cases they were quite superior to the accommodations obtained by my mother's immigrant ancestors, they lived 9 to a room.

[@TTSPFAMILY]

Great information

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[@SekhemRa]

Great information, while be stopping by next time I am in Savannah

[@alldayeryday2257]

Thanks for sharing

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[@wnatalie368]

I couldn't imagine the impact of being there. Just watching makes me feel some type of way 💔

[@toriwilliams500]

I worked at the Owen's Thomas house from 2007 - 2010.. I seen alot wish I could have showed you the large holes underneath the house I had to cover

[@tanyadru1484]

Why were there holes under there?

[@toriwilliams500]

@@tanyadru1484 🤷🏿 I had the slightest clue. The floor had a cold draft and I went under there to put some insulation. I seen the giant hole under the second house, slave quarters I believe. The customer bathroom sit right in front of the building I'm talking about..

[@anngallegos5515]

Was it where the well was?

[@judithyatesbesttruecrime2635]

That's in Savannah, correct? I will be there this year. Doing another book signing. See my website www.truecrimebook.net

[@bwd527]

I live in guyton ga a town about 25 miles west from there. Savannah has alot of history and is definitely haunted In some areas.