They Were Her Property

In They Were Her Property, Jones-Roger writes that women typically inherited more slaves than land, and that enslaved people were often their primary source of wealth. Not only did white women often refuse to cede ownership of their slaves to their husbands, they employed management techniques that were as effective and brutal as those used by slave-owning men. White women actively participated in the slave market, profited from it, and used it for economic and social empowerment. By examining the economically entangled lives of enslaved people and slave-owning women, Jones-Rogers presents a narrative that forces us to rethink the economics and social conventions of slaveholding America.
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[@r.d.kapproved1829]

Yvette Carnell and the #ADOS family brought me here

[@TheBlkac1]

Me as well!! The intro made me think of Hillary Clinton in her statement "We must bring them too heel" Does anyone remember her saying that?

[@cheriajohnson]

#LineageMatters

[@JP-wn4jn]

@@cheriajohnson 🤜🏽🤛🏽it sure does

[@JP-wn4jn]

I am ready for the book club too

[@BDC2962]

Family!!! I watching this as well. Let's get ready to use this information for our family.

[@malbcrazy3697]

This a very insightful book. The cruelty of slavery should never be forgotten, along with those who perpetuate it.

[@cliffdariff74]

And neither should the 500k dead Americans that fought the Civil War.

[@okeydokey9693]

@@cliffdariff74 And what were they fighting for?

[@CTH72]

I only love KZbin for the purposes watching video such as this.

[@fishnet-lv4tz]

This book was a emotionally difficult one to get through. Thanks to Yvette Carnell and ADOS for directing me too this book as well and thank you to the author Stephanie Jones-Rodger.

[@cynthiaadeyemi1746]

The mother daughter tag team who disfigured the 8 yr old Enslaved girl is vicariously traumatizing.

[@cgcade1]

Thank you Dr. Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers for bringing us this incredible research and exposure of history of our nation. The nuances are extremely important as are the factual accounts, the dynamics of the many layers of complicity in the entire institution of chattel slavery in the United States of America.

[@TheBlkac1]

And they say black people ADOS should care about the people who are stranded at the border. This country has been breaking up our families for decades.

[@wellingtonsutcliffe5154]

Terry Fisher no we should not they have to hold their own. Blacks can no longer allow people of other races wear their shirt.... If blacks are to be successful they need to be selfish as much as they can. People that are not black will never ever care about being nothing but what they or we are NOT BEING BLACK

[@nativesunnation8323]

@@wellingtonsutcliffe5154 True but it's not "Black" it's lineage - our lineage people will be selfish looking out for our own interests. They've left us no choice.

[@deannewilliams6897]

Terry Fisher It’s not the country doing it, but the government of the Democratic Party. They started taking black fathers out of the family equation in the 60’s.

[@EQPaunders]

Correction.... breaking up African families for centuries!!

[@charlesirby1643]

@@EQPaunders we aren't Africans we are intrinsically American. Africans don't see u as Africans either.

[@waitrightnow7374]

This book is part of my journey with Breaking Brown and re educating myself of my political ignorance. I am grateful to witness this courageous conversation. Thank you Stephanie Jones-Rogers for being obedient to your spirit. POWERFUL!!!

[@tomrobbins5242]

Own a copy. Reading it .... sparingly. Heart wrenching document.

[@DiamondInTheRoughA1]

Ty WGBH and Dr. Jones for this lecture. I most certainly will use this in my lectures on slavery. I'm not surprised...I am CERTAIN that young white children of slaveowners were involved In the punishment of slaves. They were well aware of the potential financial "come up" of taking slave property with them and inheriting said property upon the death of the father.

[@russellwashington6588]

I wish the author would’ve included more of the real consequences the children of enslaved African women suffered. The history says most were left to starve or were used for sport. The phrase alligator bait wasn’t a joke.

[@Historian212]

Nonsense. Black children were seen as valuable commodities to be sold or worked. Enslaved people cost a lot of money. Allowing enslaved babies to starve or just die would have been incredibly stupid, not to mention financially ridiculous.

[@russellwashington6588]

@@Historian212 What you wrote seems to adhere to logic but it is merely a supposition based on what makes sense to you. I did however make an error using the word "most" in the second sentence of my response. So, it is true black livestock was valuable but there's no reason to assume they were treated like Faberge eggs. If that were the case there would've been no reason to enact various "Casual Killing Acts" into law across the Southern US between 1669 and 1710. The letter of those laws gives the impression they were written to absolve overseers from guilt after having "accidentally" killed a slave during a punishment. However, it doesn't take much research to realize those laws were meant to protect white women who were doing more than their share of "accidental" kid killing. The institution of slavery brought out the worst perversion in its operators even when it didn't make logical sense. Those are the facts.

[@jasonali4938]

One need look no further than for example horse breeding. Slaves would have been treated probably worse and said mirrors what you see today. In race horse breeding for example - look up nurse mare foal. This is the same concept where the viable foal is raised and or adopted out for work. If not they are left to die of starvation or disease. The mother then becomes the wet nurse for the more valuable thoroughbred so breeding can continue. The wet nurse was the more valuable part of this equation matched up to the children of the slave owner.

[@kgee8814]

ADOS awakenings! Thanks to Carnell, Moore and Darity. 🙏

[@miasykes7420]

Yvette Carnell OG brought me here. #ADOS PAy up!

[@deneengrant2086]

Yvette Carnell brought me here.

[@welliminitnowso]

The lady at the beginning, I could listen to her talk forever.

[@cgcade1]

#ADOS San Jose, CA Christopher Cade is asking, so why then did white women benefit the most from Affirmative Action and still do? #REPARATIONS

[@pwhales264]

*American descendants of Slaves (**#ADOS**)- Foundational Black Americans (**#FBA**)* have suffered incalculable generational damage from governmental and institutionalized racist policies and practices. From Slavery, Jim Crow Laws, Mass Lynchings of Black People, the destruction of Black Towns like Black Wall St, the denial of voting rights, Segregation, Redlining of Black Communities and Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans. *The **#ADOS**-**#FBA** community has a Duty and the Right to Fight for Reparations for **#ADOS**-**#FBA* The History of Reparations Payments. >>>> 1- 1990 U.S.A $1.2 Billion or $20.000 Each JAPANESE AMERICAN. 2- 1990 AUSTRIA $25 Million to Holocaust Survivors JEWISH CLAIMS ON AUSTRIA. 3- 1988 CANADA 250,000 Sq. Miles of Land INDIANS & ESKIMOS. 4- 1988 CANADA $230 Million JAPANESE CANADIANS. 5- 1986 U.S.A. $32 Million 1836 Treaty OTTAWAS OF MICHIGAN. 6- 1985 U.S.A. $31 Million CHIPPEWAS OF WISCONSIN. 7-1985 U.S.A. $12.3 Million SEMINOLES OF FLORIDA. 8- 1985 U.S.A. $105 Million SIOUX OF SOUTH DAKOTA. 9- 1980 U.S.A. $81 Million KLAMATHS OF OREGON. 10- 1971 U.S.A. $1 Billion + 44 Million Acres of Land ALASKA NATIVES LAND SETTLEMENT. 11- 1952 GERMANY $822 Million to Holocaust Survivors GERMAN JEWISH SETTLEMENT. 12- 2015-2016 President Obama gave $12 million dollars to Jewish Holocaust Survivors and $492 million dollars to Native American Tribes as reparations. There are other historical examples of reparations, such as reparations were paid to the enemies and traitors of the United States such as the Civil War Confederates enslavers and Japan and Germany from WW2 and the US Government Paid Reparations For 11 Italian Americans Who Were Lynched , yet Thousands of African-American-were lynched between the years 1882 and 1970 and have not received any Justice. Black Americans have fought and died in every major war and conflict involving the U.S and have never become traitors to the United States government like the Confederacy. The CIA sponsored and orchestrated Crack Cocaine epidemic in the Black Communities all over the USA, which lead to the Mass Incarceration Federal Crime Bill of the '90s. *The **#ADOS**-**#FBA** community has a Duty and the Right to fight for **#REPARATIONS** for **#ADOS**-**#FBA* >>>>>> kzbin.info/www/bejne/b5zbfIF8jrp3a8U

[@sondrajean955]

🤔🤔

[@varrieann7951]

I listened to the critic on Yvette Carnell's program. From what the readers had to say about the book, I knew I had to read it. (I accidentally came across this site. Thank you for doing the work.) #ADOS/FBA

[@caraxkins]

this is such incredible work. i wish that history class was more detail oriented like this sometimes because the primary source material is absolutely fascinating.

[@please.665]

Girl, talk to more black folks. You don't have to have a book from a scholar to here the stories. Here's one: I am 34. My grandfather was a sharecropper. He was also put on a chain gang. Mixed race, he slept with a white woman. Black Panthers got my grandfather out the south and whisked him to the north. None of my ancestors who fled north prospered. They all have been met with poverty.

[@healthlyght3051]

Appreciate the facts, documented research valued information. True Knowledge helps to put pieces of history in a realistic fashion. The book is a must get.

[@herbsaint636]

Reparations NOW!!

[@churchtalkunlimited]

Thank you Dr Jones-Roger. This is extremely informative! Blessings!

[@lanegra8890]

I've got this book next in my queue after The Delectable Negro. So much to learn and grow from. I'm grateful for whoever posted this video! Thank you.

[@PomegranatesWeather]

Gurl, yes I have both

[@lanegra8890]

@Hang the Aristocrats Completely out of context from my original comment. KZbin comment sections are always filled with surprises. 🤣 Whatever you prescribe to I hope it fills your world with peace, success and joy.

[@kikio-rq9kx]

Read Marse: The psychology of white slaveholders in the 1830s. Extremely difficult read but also necessary.

[@Jamnonit]

Have you got around to Nancy Shepherd (Shepard) of Morgan County, GA. I descend from one of her enslaved people. If you’ve done the work, I’d like to have access to it.

[@tymanung6382]

The Euro American branch of 1800s women s movement, worked with the earlier founded Afro American branch, and often compared their low status as similar to African enslavement, as did trade union workers movement. These evidences are very numerous and are easily findable.

[@victoriasmith9123]

2024 Pan African Reading Book club 1st Book! Thanks Stephanie Jones-Rodgers

[@hadbetterdays8118]

Remember Delphine Lalaurie the slave owner that did horrible experiments on them

[@please.665]

She's only 1 mentioned. Imagine how many others there were

[@lolakepi]

Delphine Lalaurie, cf. Wikipédia

[@PomegranatesWeather]

I hate I have her same name lawd 😑 😩

[@richardsheffield2823]

We are still experiencing the Maafa. We must not allow ourselves to be Amputated from our organic BEING and identity by FBA and ADOS.

[@robertbailey2347]

They kept it hush-hush

[@MoroMoro1]

Very interesting and I'm glad I watched. I hav just ordered her book and intend to reach it.

[@confederatetearsaredelicious]

Tik Tok brought me here. This book just made me realize how much more insidious the udc was and is. Like I knew they were horrible people, but to sanitize their role and make it seem as though they were mere onlookers and beneficial it was. Just makes me hate them all the more

[@joshanderson7358]

Thanks for sharing.

[@theegirldrew]

This was so good

[@neverendingjourneystilllea5271]

Thanks

[@termaynemichael4202]

#ADOS For Life

[@pauljames7936]

Fascinating... 👍🏿

[@shawnterrance7204]

How ?

[@elohim660]

Interesting

[@robinsonrochelle7033]

ENSLAVED PERSON NOT SLAVE!!!!!!!!

[@kennard87]

This book could should be a nail in the coffin of feminist movement with the black woman

[@please.665]

The Ballot or The bullet. My mother didn't have a choice, we do.

[@tiredoftheworld4834]

Exactly.

[@okeydokey9693]

You would think.Unfortunately alot of upper crest black women seem to think its about them.

[@deedeehaileselassie6440]

Her full name is Stephanie Jones-Rogers

[@appolo08]

#BreakingBrown brought me here. #ADOSrising

[@vancozzin8998]

#ADOS ALWAYS!

[@maxjulien8394]

Here bcuz Vicki recommended this book

[@user-bs8hm6bq3e]

The horror of slavery is so scary it go pass just words it was a system a institution that had laws in place to force this madness to treat another human bean in this matter

[@user-bs8hm6bq3e]

This mind set is still alive today in 2024 with Trump and Biden there are some changes today but the mind set is there when rights to people who rights don't matter

[@JustMe-zk9dc]

Still intersectional ?

[@gambit1357]

Exactly...

[@please.665]

It's never been intersectional. It's always been lanes.

[@queenajustice542]

I'm gonna write one.." When Master was my slave, a few nights a week" or "Mistress of America"

[@carlacampbell2430]

I’m not sure what the big deal is. Wet nursing was a common practice throughout Europe the Middle East and Asia for centuries particularly among the upper classes. A woman’s fertility may be lowered while breast feeding meaning a woman might have a baby every 3-4 years. This was at a time when a third to half of babies died before the age of five. So it was important to reduce the time between pregnancies thus the wet nurse. Wet nurse was a privileged position as they got the best food and light duty so as to not taint the milk. Wet nurses might be slaves or family members or hired after the woman’s baby had died or been disposed of because it was a “worthless girl”.

[@Evebme4u]

These early Southerners’ were wealthy enough to own not only land property but other humans as property. Wealth makes humans evil! Period! America as a whole, has made great progress since these savage like times. We have to continue to be a melting pot if we want to be a great country. The faster we all integrate the better!

[@framework333]

Wealth makes white people ESPECIALLY evil.

[@kikio-rq9kx]

Wealth doesn’t make people evil. They were already evil.

[@please.665]

Oh my, I got brothers and sisters in the comments. Mobilize.

[@VisuARISE]

so this is how Feminism was Birthed with the Enslaved Woman given to yt children

[@harperharp6836]

This book was not easy to get threw/ at all omg/ our reparations should not be up for debate/ at all / not all...we have been harmed and plundered

[@judah2427]

Now we see where the oreo's syndrome came from slavery.

[@drklyangelic]

What do you mean?

[@AmitSingh-xp4xm]

Just what it mean.Black outside white inside.

[@drklyangelic]

@@AmitSingh-xp4xm what I mean to ask is is there an excerpt from this video or in the book you got this from I’m newly listening to the book so I might not have gotten to the part you may be talking about.

[@AmitSingh-xp4xm]

This is widely known for many years even Oprah also mention Oreos on her show.

[@cliffdariff74]

Imagine that... women caring about their families.

[@angelakeith7650]

She is too pleasant

[@Historian212]

She’s an academic. That’s the style with which a prof delivers a lecture.

[@Takashii85]

It's a heavy topic, it's important to keep things somewhat light in the room while she discusses the atrocities

[@kennard87]

B1,#No anti-Black Racism, family listen the government paid Reparations to slave owners if they acknowledge it. 35:45-35:55

[@okeydokey9693]

Most of that got took back.Just like the Indians.

[@ambigawankpegh9966]

The whites should apologize or make sacrifices to the gods.

[@hubrisnaut]

"narrative" huh? Black Slaveowners: Free Black Slave Masters in South Carolina, 1790-1860: "Most Americans, both black and white, believe that slavery was a system maintained by whites to exploit blacks, but this authoritative study reveals the extent to which African Americans played a significant role as slave masters. Examining South Carolina's diverse population of African-American slaveowners, the book demonstrates that free African Americans widely embraced slavery as a viable economic system and that they--like their white counterparts--exploited the labor of slaves on their farms and in their businesses. Drawing on the federal census, wills, mortgage bills of sale, tax returns, and newspaper advertisements, the author reveals the nature of African-American slaveholding, its complexity, and its rationales."

[@lawannadean]

Was there any cruelty taking place? Were they compensated when the slaves were freed?

[@glendabarton45barton48]

Always some wiggle room for whites to justify slavery. Two wrongs don't make a right and what came first, the chicken or egg? Because some blacks exploited the system too, it's obvious in not big enough numbers to have the power to vote or become players in government. They exploited the underclass but they were the exploited too. They were still 3/5 of a human being, weren't they?

[@drklyangelic]

Is that in the book?

[@YeshuaKingMessiah]

Sssssshhhh facts are not welcome Africans sold their own ppl to the white men Africans went and kidnapped them inland and dragged them to the coast to sell

[@stevenpringle9492]

Not a very good story teller. Young when widowed but not how young was she.

[@elizabethwinsor5140]

I own about 60 million slaves and they seem happy enough to me...

[@erinhennessy1393]

Women had inherited the slaves, but their husband owned the wives inheritance( slaves) because women couldn't own property

[@PomegranatesWeather]

You gotta read the book 📖, they owned slaves and not via their husbands

[@AmitSingh-xp4xm]

From what I understand the female is upheld as the forebearer of the next generation and with that they were given slaves as gifts from little girls.They would tell the black child her future slave "When I grow big I would become a princess and you will be my servant."And she was as matter of fact bold about it.Can you imagine hearing that from a child?

[@sayeedharem4673]

The slaveowners were foreigners themselves escaping the strict church orthodox Catholic and pilgrim or the high taxes. the new territories were the lands of hope and glory . The most hardworking families took there investment a d through slavery were able to rest .Of course it wasn't always easy as bossing servants around .Apart from the cruelty ,weather and trauma of splitting family and forced breeding programs. There was the weather and pestilence .I can imagine that some slaves hexed their masters and put spells and curses on the crops . But it didn't work out for them because someone would report them and they'd get whipped or harmed like one slave had his foot chopped off so he couldn't run away

[@aaronanderson3076]

This is completely false. Women could own property.

[@kikio-rq9kx]

No white women were also at slave auctions and did not want slavery to end.

[@christinazaky9727]

Ummm ummm ummmm is that her favorite thing to say

[@msliberated3899]

Who cares🙄😏

[@Kindred04]

@@msliberated3899 - Ignore that creature. Sounds like the professor struck a white woman's nerve. You know the old saying - a hit dog will holler. There's an old white man making ignorant comments as well. I guess the good professor hit more than one dog!

[@please.665]

@@Kindred04 😂🤭

[@agenda224danger9]

Black surpremisy Nazi propaganda. Commy teachers

[@bellepierre24]

Obviously English is not your first language from the way you write. If you are going to spew such things, make sure to not write properly by using correct spelling, punctuation and sentence structure so as not to have the joke be on or about you. I am sure you meant to be insulting, but........

[@PomegranatesWeather]

@@bellepierre24 probably a bot

[@AmitSingh-xp4xm]

The truth is the truth no matter what.