Thirty Years a Slave - FULL Audio Book - by Louis Hughes - African-American History

[@bkynrose]

after long thought im quite proud to be a descendants of a slave than the descendants of slave masters. It would break my heart knowing my ancestors carried on in such a monstrous manner. It would actually bring me great shame. But knowing my ancestors survived and made it possible to be free today gives me joy

[@uneased08]

Shameka Green

[@nathankox190]

Shameka Green You do your ancestors

[@nathankox190]

You make your ancestors proud.

[@sshannon1948]

Shame or pride regarding something that one had nothing to do with is, in either case, undeserved. I certainly don't feel a sense of shame about being a descendent of possible slave owners because I had nothing to do with that. I hope that you are not implying that a white person who is a descendent of a slave owner should feel shame about that. You are certainly free to take any view you wish.

[@Mrs.TJTaylor]

Agreed. I’m white, but I’d rather be the one sinned against than be the sinner.

[@amandatobias5349]

Im 10 years old and im black and proud

[@emnahmandi3116]

amanda Tobias i'm white but i admit that black people are naturally fighters!

[@peachy-tk3qr]

I'm 13, half black and still proud.

[@ThePritt12]

what about noone being proud about it? what about just being proud of stuff you achieve? best regards

[@andrewe6839]

Who paid big bucks to see the movie?

[@travelgaming5422]

nathankox190 no, that was the Jewish folks that came with Christopher Columbus. The blacks in Africa sold it to the Jews and they brought them

[@sassymess7111]

I listened to this about 10 years ago. I'm listening now as a "sleep book" while I try to calm my mind to fall asleep.

[@Furrsdgyu743]

I'm proud my ancestors who endured I salute them 🫡

[@noneyabuiznezz]

i notice how detailed and prevalent the meals are described. to be so hungry constantly was one of the worst tortures.

[@leonardjackson842]

Virgina breeds the best slaves. Wow. My family is from Virginia and although I am mixed a good bit of my ancestors were probably bought and sold there. Slavery was such a sad institution!

[@Duffsmom68]

It actually is occurring more these days..how can human beings be so cruel

[@gemsstoned6662]

and it still goes on today in africa and arab countries while idiots kneel for the flag that gave them freedom here, forgetting that many white's ancestors fought on the Northern side to free slaves

[@juliafarrand]

Very well read and beautifully written. An amazing memoir.

[@sulandelemere]

Despite such suffering such bravery.

[@tams.114]

My people are strong, brave, intelligent and resilient. Those who are prejudice towards us hate what they themselves will never posses (strength and fearless). I love my decedents.

[@jadedoe9966]

Why would a white person not posses strength and fearlessness? A bit racist.

[@Siriuan]

@@jadedoe9966 why the need to be always right. A bit insecure?

[@lemongrab771]

@@jadedoe9966they just said ancestors… and from this story it’s clear the ones mentioned are inhumane cowards.

[@jennpeterson8669]

thank you for sharing this powerful yet sad story.

[@jmwSeattle]

Thx for your excellent recital.

[@scott88keys]

Well read. An amazing story of a terrible time in America. Very sad and powerful

[@chloelauren7552]

I cant even imagine living in such a time! Ugh how disgusting! I never really realized just how awful that time was.

[@lookafterlove]

Matt P is a fool, let people feel the way they want to, just because u feel no human emption does not mean the rest of the world does not suffer the pain of eachother. Man youtube is full of racist, I thought that generation all died out. I guess not.

[@liamfun1000]

democrats

[@axman3128]

Just think about how much more bad it was back then. Even more cruel than this Owner,fuck em all

[@sarahscott6565]

This was very well read. Thank you for producing this audiobook so that everyone can hear this and understand the true nature of abominable slavery.

[@liamfun1000]

democrats ,don't forget they were slap owners .

[@joannagleeson]

I am sorrowful onto death...man's inhumanity to his fellow Man!!

[@lemongrab771]

@@liamfun1000it’s was literally diverse among parties although favoring democrats at the time, it favors the right now. despite both parties upholding yt supremacy and them just playing offense and defense for the same team.

[@eleshuanyahlahn3270]

All I have too say is The book of Deuteronomy 28:16-68

[@Nowandbeyondpod]

God bless you and your legacy.

[@HistoryPerson2414]

thank you for uploading this

[@Marialla.]

I'm white, and I know I had an ancestor who owned 50 slaves. What breaks my heart today is knowing I most likely have black relatives sired through that slave owner, and we will never know our kinship because it was never recorded. Black people in America are all orphaned away from their own history, families, and even their genetic home countries in Africa. White people have hardly any way to relate to that kind of isolation.

[@jadedoe9966]

Did you know Africans were sold into slavery by other Africans ? It started with prisoners but was so profitable they started kidnapping people? Did you also know a large majority of freed slaves also owned slaves ?

[@Marialla.]

@@jadedoe9966 Be ashamed of yourself for thinking that racist talking point matters in any way, you disgusting bigot.

[@gatormcklusky5850]

I'm sure you are right the isolation must have been horrible, Being torn from family.. In saying that you do understand this doesn't exist today right? This recall of event's is hundreds of years old, America is the greatest place to live in the world these days if it weren't please tell me why everybody in the world is trying to come here?

[@Marialla.]

@@gatormcklusky5850 The repercussions of this absolutely do still exist today. Before you change the subject about how all-fired great the USA is, how about instead you address the issue of the post? Families exist today that are genetically linked, but unknown or unacknowledged, and that is a tragedy. If you want to change the subject i could certainly go into issues of modern racism, but that wasn't what I was talking about in the first post, so how about we not go there right now, hmm?

[@gatormcklusky5850]

@@Marialla. what are you talking about changing subjects I don't need to change anything. In saying that I see you have your concerns but why don't i ever here from the people who you say are directly affected? I hate to say it but they seem to be moving on just fine but the Huwhitie liberal females seem to think they have a dog in this fight,,They don't... I bet you're among those who think having a id to vote is racist am i correct? I am.. no need to answer.

[@mariebibbs7777]

Listening to this work and i am the only black women that works here. I am very grateful to my people who slaved for my freedom.

[@joorcawhisperer9733]

This is just sickening how could anyone allow this to happen

[@havilahki4599]

+Jo Orca Whisperer Truth is, slavery, as cruel, thieving and heartless as it is, is almost as old as recorded history and continues to this day, most notably by Muslim Arabs. Slavery on a large scale, as in ancient Egypt and in Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, French and English colonies in the New World, was invariably due to a need for physical labor--on a large scale.

[@liamfun1000]

u vote democrat

[@lemongrab771]

@@liamfun1000dude what? republicans r trying to remove marriage equality in certain states…💀 like parties switch. either way both parties still uphold slavery

[@LisaRichards_123]

The two soldiers…incredible

[@heidicarter6465]

Hard to listen to how cruel people can be to other people. How can anyone force a mother to give up her child? Or not allow her to care for her babies? I think they had no souls. Terrible history. How can statues remain glorifying defenders of this horrible institution?

[@nusratkamal4551]

UNBELIEVABLE !!!

[@katkramer3310]

Listening to this audio book to educate myself and i feel sick hearing of all the horrors enslaved POC have endured. How can humans treat other humans this way 😢

[@TheBobbymcd]

poc marked/? say what you mean

[@ABLibraryLady]

I wish it showed the pictures of each page.

[@mrchubbyfella9421]

An amazing tell.

[@pipewelda]

Great book! Loved the movie.

[@thumbprint7150]

Thank you for this. Interetsing that Hughes was born near Charlottesville.

[@EnriCubi20]

This would be really fun to listen to in class :D

[@bloodofthefayth]

As long as we have to deal with the sins of our fathers, the hate will never die.

[@GreatestAudioBooks]

This is why Jesus Christ taught repentance and forgiveness.

[@rdhawk929]

Who hates whom and why?

[@holahula85]

its very interesting. especially the detailed historical information about the living conditions. Its very interesting how slavery and the relationsship between black and white developed in the US and in Brazil. Its so different

[@liamfun1000]

there is still slavery today

[@ClassiDahlCalhounstylez]

Thank You sir

[@MrsTee80]

This was very good.

[@84CORVETTEBILL]

Well done! 🤩

[@Nikki...]

wow! thank you!

[@DTWrites1books]

What a great story! His journal is powerful!

[@TylerThomas]

I would like to hear this read by a voice similar to what the author's own dialect was.

[@Msnhunguyen]

yeah, the same here. wondering if it's because of our computer or the video?

[@howwwwwyyyyy]

Seems like Exodus was missing from Southern bibles.

[@Gypseygirls]

Insistence in the life of a slave girl is interesting...

[@awillis244]

1:58 (end of chapter 2, part 1)

[@honeyebby]

It still infuriate me that a major group of people, would let so little amount of people enslave them😡...and my heart breaks for those who truly didnt know any better and died for lack of knowledge or understanding that they couldve over powered their slavers at any time. 😢

[@penguingal33]

45:07 bookmark

[@joegeorge3889]

It's amazing how people still believe in god both black and white humans have to believe in god they want to live forever

[@Violinist265]

💔💔💔💔💔💔💔heartbreaking

[@Mrs.TJTaylor]

Heba Madi It’s heartbreaking and inspiring all at once. It shows the power for the human spirit to be free and to survive.

[@wilfordfraser6347]

These people spent everyday of their lives doing so much work and didn't get paid for it. Ugh.

[@pipewelda]

Kind of like today.

[@lemongrab771]

@@pipeweldakind of but not at all at the same time.

[@Jsull1988]

That silly just try to help those who your fathers oppressed if you bless them and god if he willing will bless you

[@anthonypeters2353]

For all the people who keep saying racially motivated things about the narrator being white, maybe you should look the narrator up first instead of assuming because hes not white, i find it offensive all the white people remarks, my 5 times great grandfather died in the civil war and only volenteered because he wanted to abolish slavery as did many others. You cant just blame one group of people, the north didnt have slavery, and it wasent white men going into african jungles to capture slaves, also there were other places besides america and white people who had slaves, im not racist, im not defending anything about it, im saying maybe b4 some people say what sounds to me exactly like racist remarks the should be more informed about the subject in which they are talking, instead of listening to 1 book and making off remarks, the point that so many people made nasty remarks about the narrator and couldn't even take 2 seconds to look the gentleman up and just went by voice says it all.

[@Gypseygirls]

shocking...

[@1shootkill]

Anthony Peters Stop it most white People didn’t fight to abolish slavery....

[@Mrs.TJTaylor]

blkpower 7 So what? If you want to research something really interesting, look up what continent STILL TO THIS DAY profits and deals in slavery. What speaks to me most about this man’s story is that by his own will and character, he overcame the evil circumstances forced upon him.

[@janet.oboutte1349]

Lord help us Our own Blacks sold Blacks to the Whites What kind of people do that to each other

[@ignatziusturret5641]

Exactly, racism is in all people. Not only "whites".

[@drudown76]

It feels conflicting liking this

[@Foolsrule]

Incredible

[@TR-lz3kh]

3:55:22

[@dtarrbiz2]

Some of the black slave owners maybe owned their own family as it was very expensive to free them some did own for proft though

[@jasonemanuel9070]

Fact

[@askhatkenesbayev9697]

without subtitles)))

[@tiffanylewis7633]

I'm from demopolis Alabama 🙄😒😩😱

[@brendabenjamin155]

Everyone counts

[@bharathratanbr1574]

50:00

[@danielolley5949]

AMEN SHAMEKA!

[@holaforistas]

Me too so, I know what you mean.

[@erin19030]

Your people will inherit the earth and make it new.i applaud how you all have survived bravely under the black boot of the white lord fuller yes you shall over come and a handful of us will be with you..

[@YHWHs-Son]

Israelites

[@Jsull1988]

Native American Latinos and blacks

[@JWH66]

"I saw them whip the whites..." 15:21.

[@jadedoe9966]

Of eggs ..?

[@Katlovesyou21]

2:20

[@70SYB]

33:12

[@johnadams2063]

He keeps running away and crys about getting beat.. what the hell?? He new he was running and he ment to get away..

[@lemongrab771]

um no duh. He’s a human being.

[@lemongrab771]

like come on we all know you’d whimper like a lil b just being asked to do something let alone being in slavery💀 like not only have you proven to be lacking basic intelligence you also told on urself for being weak😭

[@LuciusLiu-ey6kr]

Ya was together

[@kamelalhassani4609]

to be proud of what..

[@jefflincoln700]

While one can empathize with the ones that were enslaved, one must not forget that this occurred over 150 years ago. It was fortunate that the West was the civilization that brought an end to it

[@lemongrab771]

um slavery on plantation’s continued until 1970 and is still legal in prison which is why false arrests among black and brown people is so high despite being the minority population. slavery still continues. Segregation also ended in 1964… and the symptoms of yt supremacy and slavery are still felt today. like so many time has the community built themselves up only for racist yt people to come and literally burn down entire towns so the community could never actually thrive and have to keep on surviving… you also have the fact that marijuana was illegalized because they couldn’t make it against the law to be black or against the war, according to nixons own administration. and then there’s the CIA flooding black communities with crack so they could declare a war on drugs or what it really is, a war on black lives. and you even have corporations like Johnson and Johnson and it’s other companies to test asbestos and they did it in black inmates and mixed it in with their products targeting their advertisements at the black communities to see the side effects of people as they grew older.

[@lemongrab771]

and it wasn’t the West that brought and end to slavery. the first was Haiti while the US was one of the last.

[@lemongrab771]

we also have the fact the west is literally enslaving people in multiple african countries the most prolific being congo with 6 million deaths since 97, and it’s Western powers doing this. Nike, shein, Nestle and so many other companies r participating largely in slavery. Starbucks literally runs their own slaver ring in brazil.

[@scottdellrobinson]

Please keep quiet. Thx

[@bruceramsey5489]

Slavery is completely accepted in Islam. As a matter of fact, Quran 4:24 allows it by letting the Muslim slave master have sex with someone's wife IF she's the slave master's slave "right hand possess". When you realize this ALONG with Sunan Abu Dawud 2:2150 and sahih Muslim 8:3433, you will find out that whatever complaint African Americans have for the time the US had slavery is made void.

[@Beaujetto]

and I am saying Americans do not live by the Muslim law..what are you talking about the slave masters claimed to be Christian ..stop trying to put the blame on something else..also slavery happened and its still going on today..but that is far from today's issues ..why would you quote what Muslims find accepting? because they don't like white people either...all the Muslim teachings I have ever heard calls for the white mans demise...so is okay now if we kill all of the whites? No its not okay..you selfish prick

[@Beaujetto]

What are you anyway? A white man or woman I can barely make out your face you look absolutely horrifying perhaps you should moisturize today..anyway I don't feel like arguing today about blacks and white since I have to go to dinner with my white side of the family today...salaam

[@bruceramsey5489]

Beaujetto Beu: and I am saying Americans do not live by the Muslim law.. Bruce: Not yet. but, they are getting there. Beau: what are you talking about the slave masters claimed to be Christian .. Bruce: Where did I say that? Beau: stop trying to put the blame on something else.. Bruce: I'm not blaming anyone here, as this thread reveals, I'm just letting people know that Quran 4:24 removes African American complaint for the time the US had slavery by allowing slave masters to have sex with someone's wife IF she;'s the slave master's slave "right hand possess". Beau: also slavery happened and its still going on today.. Bruce; Right. And, Quran 4:24 is probably in mind for allowing it. Beau: but that is far from today's issues .. Bruce: How so? Beau: why would you quote what Muslims find accepting? Bruce: To let African Americans know what they are getting into if they contemplate about becoming Muslim. Beau: because they don't like white people either... Bruce: True. Beau: all the Muslim teachings I have ever heard calls for the white mans demise... Bruce: If you study Islam it calls for ANYONE's demise who doesn't pay the jizyah tax when Sharia is imposed. Beau: so is okay now if we kill all of the whites? No its not okay..you selfish prick Bruce: You think I want you to kill all the whites now? What?

[@bruceramsey5489]

Beau: What are you anyway? A white man or woman I can barely make out your face you look absolutely horrifying Bruce: Ok. Beau: perhaps you should moisturize today.. Bruce: If I looked good you'd believe my words and agree with me on Quran 4:24 removing African American complaint for the time the US had slavery? :) Beau: anyway I don't feel like arguing today about blacks and white since I have to go to dinner with my white side of the family today...salaam Bruce: Good. But, Quran 4:24 is not a black or white issue, for it's a threat to all as it makes null and void the evil that was imposed on blacks in the US.

[@TheteachertalkwithMostaandFera]

Dear Bruce, From a Muslim to a fellow human being, just because you know some Hadith doesn't make a scolar. Islam is more than what you can read; However, i'll explain to you how things work my friend. Slavery and women opression exsisted for quite a few centuries before Islam or any religion of such but then when Islam settled in, it wasn't as powerful as you might imagine. Islam was the religion of a couple hundreds of people who were surrounded by hundreds of pagan tribes. Therefore, Islam thought: hmmm maybe i should take it easy here before i deprive these people of something so vital to their economy (ivory) Nevertheless, if you went and really did your homework, you'll find in that same holy book you're speaking of, verses that call for "perchasing" and liberating slaves if one have enough money....Anyway i really don't feel like explaining things any further to you sir, you might like to go get your sources straight and really look for the truth before you begin running your mouth. Because trust me, you only embarasse yourself by doing so.

[@sandraward116]

..only thirty yrs a slave..sounds like an 'indentured' slave..to pay off debts..😔

[@lemongrab771]

what? um no. not quite.

[@LuciusLiu-ey6kr]

Ya work to help old pappy

[@janet.oboutte1349]

Learn not to be a blamein and complaining and playing the victim some time's people are there own Worst Enemy and a slave in there own head They are to busy Judging

[@lemongrab771]

literally shut up Janet. Slave owners and supporters are vile savage people. Seems like the only one who’s judging is you instead of listening and soaking it up. like are you really that devilish and soulless that you have ni empathy for a human being? like something is DEEPLY wrong with you Janet.

[@bellamarie7254]

Why the readers so boring and bland ?

[@JWH66]

Would've been a whole lot cooler if Sam L Jackson had narrated it.

[@sweetpotatofries99]

​@@JWH66Maybe Lawrence Fishburne. Check out his reading of the Jordan Anderson letter

[@cal4207]

Wait a minute how do you steal time from something you own that makes absolutely no sense

[@crashdiet5180]

People are not things.,😒

[@lemongrab771]

um you can’t “own” people shitler… like i’d love a poll where people vote for slavery and anyone who votes for it becomes a slave for like 5-8 years💀

[@gwenniewennie8325]

35:09 bm

[@SueDNim]

I find it ironic that this is read by a white man ... named White.

[@argospilotsigyn]

The narrator is not white.

[@petal2009ify]

You find it ironic that someone is freely sharing knowledge? Come out of your hole in the ground more often then

[@mizundersood]

The narrator is black

[@bobsmith5109]

I find it ironic you are such a dumbass

[@JoyceElroy-z9w]

Wilson Michael Lee Carol Rodriguez Michael

[@brianweiford3895]

Yes,it was bad. Look what happened to the poor native Indians, the genocide of the Jews. But nobody talks about what the Indians and jews went through. I believe if this world last for another 900 years they will still b talking about slavery. Lincoln abolished slavery I think in 1862, that's 160 years ago.How long r we gonna have to hear about it? I know I didn't have anything to do about that. They comes a point when it's time to move on. Those poor souls r dead and gone. No one today has ever been a damn slave. Move on.

[@rdhawk929]

Then why are you here listening to this video? I'm glad you did but why didn't you just move on, as you suggest? .FIRST OF ALL Brian, it was your government that was responsible for slavery, allowed it, fully supported it for HUNDREDS of years. Your government was also responsible for Jim Crow, a nice term for LEGAL DISCRIMINATION against Black Americans for at least 100 years after 1862.Just as it was responsible for what was done to Native Americans and even Japanese Americans. The government, however, (and that means the elected politicians) of those times made good by forming committees to discuss and ENACT reparations for those two groups, something they have NEVER done for Black Americans for the entire time that Blks have been here. They just want us to forget everything! Ludicrous! This government has also (by way of it's politicians) paid Israel millions of dollars every year for over 60 years for something this government never even did to Jewish people, with very little if any objection from the American taxpayers. That in itself is mind boggling. And yet Black people are still discriminated against and largely continue in the same condition we were in when we arrived in this country. You didn't own a slave, but you're still privileged because of slavery and what politicians of today continue to allow to happen to the descendants. And remember, those slaves didn't want to be here and never asked to be here. THEY WERE FORCED/TRAFFICKED here with little chance to escape this continent for the rest of theirs and their childrens' lives and for, it turned out, generations of their descendants! NO, we can't move on, until we get what is owed us. Simple as that.

[@lemongrab771]

i mean we have whole subjects dedicated to the holocaust and most schools a 1-2 week learning period. and told decently vividly tho def needs improvement. the White washing of native and black history though is on extreme levels along w major hatred and misinformation of arab nations. Like there’s also the two time g3n0cide of congo which one is currently going on there, hawaii, sudan, palestine, yemen and major pushes for colonization in jamaica.

[@lemongrab771]

we have more history dedicated to that then black history which literally makes up most US history. AND what “it was 160 years ago” what do u think we talk about it history?🤦 not to mention we could really use better and more expansive education on it seeing ur racist bigoted comment.

[@lemongrab771]

also wtf? the US and western powers are literally enslaving congo rn. starbucks, nike like all ur products r products of slave labor🤦

[@chunkk5426]

BRING BACK SEGREGATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@fullmetal_neet2288]

YAWN

[@lemongrab771]

ok? like just say idiot we hear u loud and clear bigot😂

[@tutenvanman2715]

They were housed and fed talk about being ungrateful. Had they remained in Africa most would have died earlier.

[@alisonbarratt3772]

Wow u r an asshole

[@lemongrab771]

what racist bs are you on?😂Africa is the largest most resourceful continent on earth💀 due to western imperialism stealing resources and enslaving ppl have led them into poverty conditions.

[@lemongrab771]

they were also beaten and berated, malnourished, robbed of their culture, r*ped. you should be grateful the favor wasn’t returned bc not everyone are hateful savages like slave owners and yt supremacists.

[@3lue_Lynx]

4:08:28