This is What Daily Life for an Enslaved Person in Virginia was Like

Between 1808, when the United States abolished the transatlantic slave trade and 1865, when it abolished slavery, enslaved peoples toiled on the plantations of Virginia, Those were not their only sites of labor, however. Enslaved people worked in factories in fisheries, in tobacco processing facilities and as transporters of produce. The image of slaves working in the tobacco or cotton fields of Virginia is somewhat misleading.

[@fromouttaleftfield6932]

Correction: they weren't "taught" to do anything, but instead were FORCED to do EVERYTHING.

[@RobRoyR8R]

Now we can choose. With all of these skills given. Why can't blacks find work today? I'm with Kanye West on this. If we still had traditional slavery today, we would have eight jobs today. Oh, they pay for services now? YOU DONT QUALIFY!!! SORRY!!!

[@fromouttaleftfield6932]

@@RobRoyR8R they certainly are having trouble getting hired for the line of work they studied for in institutions of higher learning. But some things are changing and are goin to get much better .

[@RobRoyR8R]

@@fromouttaleftfield6932 I HOPE so too. Not my call.

[@aarondigby5054]

@@RobRoyR8R if anybody listens to that bs rhetoric Ye be spewing needs to check their medications and layoff the 'shrooms.

[@bobbob-ym8qs]

In an Agrarian society, no one is forced. Its a way of life for both slave and free men to continue to work in the life in order to exist. Slaves were expensive and treated well by their owners, they were an investment and needed to be healthy. Hollywood only focuses on the horrors of slavery, the ones who were abused, refused to work, and were punished. Much like today, if you don't work, you don't reap anything in life. Look at the Welfare State of Black folks in Detroit... The Youth are Free but live in Gangs, killing each other every day, more than the KKK ever did. Slavery is a State of Mind today in the USA.

[@hugowindsor-carnegie8111]

They manipulated the very word of God himself to commit these vile crimes on humanity.

[@trevorrichard4710]

That’s not the word of a god of the universe. How simple minded a God that wrote that would be. “They wrote it to further their causes”. Why would the same entity that created black holes and magnetars write a book for men?

[@sallymay3643]

Sadly many people still do its sickening.🕊🌈✝️✌❤

[@UrbanDanceAcademyLA]

@@krisly76 what are you talking about..Christians overwhelmingly vote republicans...your jesus has no power over his racist religion! Keep racist segregated heaven im good!!! Bet you don’t go to a black congregation 👹🤣

[@UrbanDanceAcademyLA]

@@trevorrichard4710 he wrote a book for HIS CHILDREN...you haven’t read so don’t comment! You can’t prove a black hole ..gravity..round earth Rotation at the least ..go get your mind right!

[@krisly76]

@@trevorrichard4710 If you look into it literally, just in a mathematical way, Discounting all of the 65,000 significant correlations- It is so hyperlinked, Elon Musk could not have written that with 1000 just as smart as him! Many things from the Old Testament were prophecies that came true in the New Testament. These prophecies we are aware of even if you don't believe in God. They are part of history whether you believe in God or not. Okay, for 8 of them to be true the odds are if somebody covered the entire State of Texas with Half dollar coins and somebody blindly happened to pick up the 1st one that was put down. At 18, it's as if the whole Earth is covered in half dollars including including the ocean's 2' high of half dollars and someone blindly picks the 1st one that was placed. There are 18 pages of this on the top of page one you hit 30 prophecies and just 30 of them coming true : the odds are so small, it would be as if someone took electrons and compounded them so densely, they are as hard as a baseball and Filled the Galaxy 6 billion light years in every direction with those electrons and had somebody blindly pick the 1st one. Mathematicians actually have proved The Bible to be impossible to have been written by a human or humans. Also, that's ONLY THE 3rd EXAMPLE! there are 17 pages- each with 10 more examples so could you imagine?!? I didn't even bother going to the rest of the pages. My father had passed away and he was an electrical engineer. SO, he ended up just one class shy of having a doctorate in Math. His mother Became a Christian and my father did not want his mother believing "in such foolish things". So, he went to go disprove her and accidentally proved it to himself with math. I didn't realize it was such basic math otherwise, I would have led with mathematics my whole life when trying to share what is the truth with people. Maybe just look into the mathematics of it or the people that translated and put it together properly. The majority of those people weren't even people of faith. They were up to the challenge & just wanted it to be done as perfectly as possible. Many of them were mathematicians and basically all of the mathematicians ended up Christians afterwards or during the process of translating the Bible to the King James version. You can Google the information & all of the links are provided for you.

[@LiquidSpirits]

You left out the part about slave masters forcing rape amongst there slaves so that can continue to have babies and maintain the proper number of slaves. When the slave master wasn’t raping them himself.

[@tamararutland-mills9530]

The narrator left out a lot, didn’t he?

[@ceegabe1555]

Don't forget lynching, severely brutal beatings and slave babies used as alligator bait.

[@tamaramcrae4037]

@@ceegabe1555 that was more in the Deep South right? I don’t think they have alligators etc in VA?

[@SandfordSmythe]

There are stories of young men respecting the women they were being forced to sleep with in cabins. The men faced whippings for this, and the women did not want to see them suffer for this. The moral choices these folks faced.

[@MrCJ-qz9dl]

@@tamararutland-mills9530 l knew this wasn't the opinion of Black narrators, or the testimony of former slaves.

[@frazenats64]

I’m from VA and know there was slavery in my history. The more modern the teachings, the less focus there is on the true issue. Slaves were trained / broken like animals. They were great craftsman, family caregivers, etc bc if they weren’t, they were sold or worse. They were close to the family bc of the need, not affection. They had no choice in the family they were with. They had no choice to follow career, artistic or personal ambitions. I hate any story that tries to make the slavery situation look anything but horrific from day one to the very end. Even freed slaves were left with no means to survive, find family or gain opportunities to improve their lives. It’s ugly. Just ugly.

[@candytoo3729]

Thank you. It means so much that you feel this way. Empathy and truth gives strength.

[@thomassenbart]

You assume what you do not know nor studied but merely react based upon your own intuition.

[@shob9617]

This documentary obviously attempts to sugar coat the vile institution of slavery. Perhaps it's the reference that DeSantis used to claim that slaves benefitted from slavery 😢

[@bwenluck9812]

​@@thomassenbartYou have *no way* of knowing that!

[@GingerPorter-u3d]

Some seem to be maybe unable to understand. 😮

[@ursulabryant9778]

This is making slavery look like voluntary employment, she wasn't a nanny she was a wet nurse and had no choice. This is garbage.

[@micky5552]

This must never repeat again, NEVER!!

[@pamglynn3419]

on. The sex slaves!

[@edwinamendelssohn5129]

It's still in the world

[@mariamart_0]

No. Slavery is alive and well across the globe. Most of them are being human trafficked. It happens in India and some African countries. Mauritania and Libya still legalize slavery..which goes under another name such as “human trafficking”.

[@patriciawilson118]

INDEED, NEVER EVER AGAIN!!

[@TheBridget27]

It's alive and thriving, America is the #1 consumer of "Human Trafficking"

[@gloriaf6971]

It doesn't matter one bit what kind of work enslaved people were trained to do. Their lives belonged to someone else. They had no power. They lived miserable, uncertain lives. They never knew what their owner might do to them.

[@RobRoyR8R]

With all of these skills given. Why can't blacks find work today? I'm with Kanye West on this. If we still had traditional slavery today, we would have eight jobs today. Oh, they pay for services now? YOU DONT QUALIFY!!! SORRY!!!

[@RobRoyR8R]

One more thing. He who so-called gives you power has the same right to take it back at any time. Look at Roe V Wade as an example. Don't think, KNOW!!! Thanks for listening.

[@gloriaf6971]

@@RobRoyR8R Kanye West is a stupid person who says stupid things!

[@jeffsnider7842]

@@RobRoyR8R The babies save gained tons of rights.

[@RobRoyR8R]

@@jeffsnider7842 I am sure that that means something. I don't understand it. Thanks for sharing.

[@tamaramcrae4037]

Ok I am glad I am not the only one that notices this video made slavery like it’s a bloody job/employment. 🤦🏾‍♀️

[@willowbrooke1215]

This is a shameful sugar-coated version. Don't watch it all

[@aarondigby5054]

@@willowbrooke1215 it's the silliest most white washed snow job ever.

[@JaimeMesChiens]

I agree. I watched about three minutes, then had to stop. Shaking my head here.

[@michellehigginbottom8857]

Oh their not gonna be big on the rapes ,sodomy, killing, feeding black infants to alligators to catch them or forced family breeding they were on back then

[@daryleaitch5383]

This is BS!

[@starzdaze1445]

This narrator act as if slavery was some sort of multi-skilled trade school!

[@jeannerogers7085]

This is actually a good summary of the actual labor done by slaves, and shows how dependent the economy was on their labor.

[@MaureenDeVries-wd9mh]

Anything but...

[@marig6184]

THIS IS AI NARRATED, BUT YOU ARE RIGHT.

[@sharonhodnett5959]

It doesn’t matter how well someone is treated, They are own, Life without freedom is not worth living.

[@valeriemacphail9180]

Well that seems pretty obvious! Women were not very much better off either, subject to being owned by their husbands.

[@gojobuddy]

I understand that they couldn’t just change type of jobs, get married take a day off etc…Some of those plantations though we’re actually nice though even for the slaves. Life was so hard back then even for poor whites. I know they themselves were poor farmers. They lived in a small shack and ate lots of beans, white gravy over bread and chicken and dumpling.

[@teaberry73]

@@gojobuddy but they had their freedom and weren’t subject to beatings, tireless working, and forced splitting up of families. New moms forced to breastfeed the master’s infants while theirs go without. Being poor and being a slave are completely different.

[@teaberry73]

@@glengillham4629 “gain comfort”.. are you saying slavery sounds as if it were comfortable? Do you really think it’s God’s favor?

[@kkoreatheempressayhung6764]

Then you dead if you think dieing is the answer. What don't kill you will make you stronger. (I a person does not conquer, learn, my and understand certain lessons on in life they are meant to repeat it) "You will never drive the get-a-way car" meaning yeah slavery was tough but many survived and descendants are still here plus I wouldn't trust you to all you can do to survive in so since you prefer death and your owner would think nothing of it and just buy another to replace you without a blink. Yea it hurts to have been an American slave but it hurts more letting them those think they won. They ain't win. What you don't know this war is still going on, right in front of you mostly at your finger tips. Yashuwah. Nastradomus. Da Vinci. "His-story" is a word for a reason.

[@deeone5326]

Psychology has taught us that slavery, oppression and such destroy the minds, hearts and souls of their victims. It is haunting…

[@ellebelle8515]

Slavery was and still is a crime against humanity. I believe that it is the perpetrators/the enslavers/the ones committing these crimes who have so debased their hearts and minds that they are the ones that have darkened what is left of their souls. The ones enslaved are the victims who have committed no crime. As much as they have suffered, their souls/hearts/minds are still pure. I believe in ultimate eternal justice.

[@sandrapicton6349]

@@ellebelle8515 Me too.

[@deborahpollitt7533]

⁠@@ellebelle8515 the current culture in America and our long history is evidence of the damage and corruption sown by our, still generally unexamined, history of enslavement. Both enslaved and enslaver suffered soul wounds. And there are many us today carrying intergenerational scars from unhealed wounds. The cognitive dissonance of “land of the free, home of justice and equality” is being disrupted by people who no longer willing adhere to the lies. If we are ever to live in a just, inclusive, and peaceful society our festering wounds must be cleaned and allowed to heal. I’m don’t want American exceptionalism or any form of perfectionism, those concepts are lies. I want to live closer to the country promised to us in the one proposed in our Constitution.

[@mariamart_0]

It still sickening and it still can turn into inter generational trauma that trauma has affected a family has been passed on from generation to another generation. It has been called to affect a generation which the average is 20-25 years.

[@OmmerSyssel]

​@@mariamart_0all you care about is money, from people who never took part in past injustice! Get a grip and move on with something positive. Contribute to modern society instead of living in past misery..! Good luck

[@karene.7014]

You seem to want to make slavery "not so bad". Nothing about slavery was decent. You can't make it look good AT ALL!

[@bethnicholas1524]

MY BLACK PEOPLE YOU ARE THE PEOPLE OF BIBLE. I AM A HEBREW ISRAELITE. HOW WE GOT INTO THIS MESS IS THE DISOBEDIENCE TO GOD ON THE FIRST PLACE AND WE SEVERED OTHER gods. OUT OF ISSAC MY SEED WILL BE CALLED!!!!!!! NOT EVERY other NATIONS. WE ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE PROMISE, US AND ONLY US. MY BEAUTIFUL BLACK PEOPLE READ THIS BOOK/ BIBLE THROW OFF ALL YOU EVER LEARNED, READ IT AGAIN WITH NEW LIFE AND TRUTH. 1 .THE TITHES MONEY WAS NEVER MONEY IT WAS AND ALLWAYS HAVE BEEN FOOD. TELL THE PEOPLE THE TRUTH. 2. THIS BOOK/ BIBLE WAS WRITTEN BY HEBREW ISRAELITES, FOR HEBREW ISRAELITES. 3 .THE PROMISES ARE TO THE ISRAELITES ONLY. 4 .BOTH OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS ARE FOR THE HEBREW ISRAELITES, PROMISES ARE FOR ONE PEOPLE. THERE IS A PROVISION FOR THE GENTILES, READ OLD TESTAMENT...IE STRANGER BUT YOU WILL BE OUR SLAVES. WE SERVE A JUST GOD. READ JOEL CHAPTER 3, REVELATION. CHAPTER 13:ALL OF IT ESPECIALLY VERSE 10. AND ISAIAH CHAPTER 14 ALL OF IT ESPECIALLY VERSE 2. 5. THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION IS A LIE, STRAIGHT FROM THE PITS OF HELL. 6. THE BIBLE READS THERE IS A 42 MONTHS, 1260 DAYS, A TIME, TIMES, AND HALF A TIME: ALL WHICH = 3 .5 OR 3& 1/2 YEARS FOUND THROUGHOUT THIS BIBLE IF YOU BOTHER TO READ IT. INSTEAD OF REGURGITATION THE SAME OLD LIE. 7. BLACK PEOPLE, YOU ARE THE PEOPLE OF THIS BOOK. I KNOW IT IS HARD TO BELIEVE. DON'T TRUST ME TRUST GOD. ASK GOD FOR WISDOM AND DISCERNMENT, FOLLOW THE 10 COMMANDMENTS, REPENT AND HE WILL SHOW YOU THE SCRIPTURES. HE IS ASKING YOU TO TRUST HIM. SHALOM

[@boogeyman1lee967]

It is interesting how the narrative keeps drilling on the mid to late 1800s but there is rarely ever any mention about the Free People of Color from the 1600s and 1700s that came to Virginia and Maryland so all Blacks were not slaves as this story suggests, there were white slaves as well as the Natives (Negros) were enslaved and passed off as the Africans. We need to start telling the truth in order to move forward.

[@tamararutland-mills9530]

Amen

[@sharonhodnett5959]

People with complete control will abuse

[@benyaminbenisrael327]

Exactly!!!!💯

[@nancycrowe9063]

I have 19 mixed grandchildren and 8 great grandchildren I treat them all the same and I couldn’t ask for better son in laws it’s a shame how their family’s were treated

[@JMane3000]

Gotttdam

[@tamaramorton8812]

@@JMane3000 rude and incomprehensible comment.

[@shawnkincheloesr5192]

Every time I watch one of these videos, I get disheartened, but I do love to read and hear about history, no matter how sad it becomes at times 🙏🏾😞

[@deborahpollitt7533]

Shawn Kincheloe it’s important information about the variety of ways enslaved people created value in this country. It’s important to separate myths from reality.

[@biftif563]

Revelation 13:10 - He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

[@shawnkincheloesr5192]

@@biftif563 Amen unto the very word of The Living God. As ( His ) word means everything unto me, but my family was broken & my Mother nor my Father got married, and I have been doing a little history search of my own concerning my Father’s side of my family & what I found out thus far was pretty shocking 😳 but in any case, I truly thank God for saving my soul, because ( He ) didn’t have to do it, but ( He ) did. In Jesus Name Amen 🙏🏾

[@glendapalms1686]

Sorry , but white people, keep trying to act as its was their ancestors, as if " who care " as if Yah don't care ? 400/ yrs. is over > every knee will bow > is we had ti for our forefathers iniquity ( sobeit) with all others nations ( The scipture tell this truth ) ...people just thought they don't need to learn it ...sobeit

[@johnreidy2804]

Slaves were not mistreated because they wanted them healthy to work. Slavery began in Africa where tribes would enslave other tribes and then sell them to various country's.

[@UrbanDanceAcademyLA]

It is not a myth that slaves had no money! IF YOU ARE OWNED by DEFAULT your “MASTER” owns YOU AND THAT MONEY!! You people will always look for loopholes but the loopholes are IN YOUR HEAD👹

[@thedarkgoddesses4037]

Chill out we are NOT taking that tone of voice no more.. remember that you are on our PLANET

[@timeforchange3786]

How did they purchase their freedom if they didn't have money. There are records and testimonials that they earned money. Believe your lies if you want

[@UrbanDanceAcademyLA]

@@thedarkgoddesses4037 you make no sense! This is OUR PLANET! This is a SOLAR SYSTEM! That’s why the sun tries to burn you off the planet! You don’t fit! Your DNA is recessive and contains Neanderthal DNA you just got here! Where you come from?👹

[@UrbanDanceAcademyLA]

@@timeforchange3786 do you have any common sense or critical thinking skills! Again if you are a prisoner of war you own NOTHING! You are owned! If you are OWNED how do you own? Believe your whitewashed lies of AMERIKKKAS ORIGINAL SIN!! You are stained forever!

[@gloriaf6971]

Some slaves worked, earned money and bought their freedom. Once free they worked to buy their family members.

[@jjoyce46]

Just imagine if the slaves were actually paid for all of that FORCED work how much better off monetarily black people would be today! FIGHT FOR REPARATIONS!! ✊🏾

[@frootlooper]

Trillions have been given to black people in the last 60 years. Don’t make me laugh.

[@TheLadyDiazepam]

I was born up North, but I am the descendant of Virginia slave-owners (I struggle with calling them "enslavers" even though I know that's the modern term) who took their slaves west to Kentucky after wearing out their land. When I was a teenager, I found an old family will in my grandparents' documents in which the slaves were left to the eldest son, along with a grandfather clock and feather bed. Within the past year, my brother found an old clipping of an estate auction in Somerset at which one of my ancestors bought a female slave, Nancy, and her two children, Derek and Hannah. What I found strange was that my ancestors and the descendants of their slaves stayed in contact for generations. My late mother was taken to meet a member of the Black side of the family when she was a small child. (I am told there is some mixed blood but I don't know the details.) My mother's cousins would ask permission from the descendants of the slaves to go hunting on their land. So many mysteries...and the people who could answer my questions have passed away. Thank you for reading my comment.

[@genmanion2389]

that's a cool story but deep down you know the biracial children was rape, some owners though wanted to keep their children close to them.

[@craftycriminalistwithms.z3053]

Thank you for sharing your family’s story. It isn’t often one gets to read about this, in todays times. Peace

[@deborahshallin5843]

I strongly suggest that you do dna such as AncestryDNA as your concerns will be proven as fact. I am happy that I did, as I am a product of mixed ancestry.

[@allicmw557]

I'm sure you can eventually uncover some of those mysteries! I have evidence of what you speak of from both ends. I've read about a couple ancestors buying slaves and leaving slaves in wills to children along with pots and pans and livestock, and about ancestors buying their own children back as free blacks and of slaves being left inheritances from their slave master-fathers. I can't imagine what those times were like. What's interesting is that your families kept in touch. I agree with the above poster. Do some Ancestry testing and digging. There is a ton of information to find. I'm going from one line to the next, and there are so many stories. I found that I am 54% African and 42% European. The rest other things. Anyway, I've also discovered other distant relatives hunting for clues even have photographs from the late 1800s and such. Interesting to see.

[@TheresaofTheWorld]

Well, like it or not; enslavers they were! And the humans they raped and pillaged shouldn’t be called slaves but enslaved Africans or humans because words have power! Thx for sharing!

[@aai3661]

If you are using slave labour is your farm really "self" sufficient?

[@mariekatherine5238]

No, but your slaves are! Let’s see who survives when the shtf!

[@Bluemann023]

slaves is a necessary evil. every country has slave and the average american is a slave. our economic system is literally based on debt. we may not be physically abused but mentally and financially we are raped

[@timeforchange3786]

@@mariekatherine5238 who survives without handouts? How many have skills from back then?

[@mariekatherine5238]

@@timeforchange3786 The more conservative of the Old Order Amish!

[@timeforchange3786]

@@mariekatherine5238 true!

[@_John_Tyree_]

To think: "owning" so many slaves that it was considered "cost efficient" to set-up and operate a whole damn garment shop...soley to make clothing for them.

[@Wordwide23]

Thank God For The Civil War!! RIP to anyone/everyone that suffered during this horrific time!!!

[@Incogn3gr0e]

Wtf is this BS?? The narrator spoke as if slavery wasn’t traumatic & was voluntary work! Gtfoh

[@jeffjay2323]

in the late 1980's i worked in mortgage servicing. At that time was the S&L banking crises and we took over a small bank in very southern Indiana, near the Ohio river. In that area, real estate transactions were recorded in a book called an abstract of title. Every transaction relating to that piece of property was recorded with an entry page. The first page at the bottom was almost always an act of congress giving a settler 40 acres of land. then each sale/split or inheritance of land and other property was recorded in the book with a page. Most chilling were the inheritance pages that listed the Human Property being distributed amongst the heirs. You could read how families were split up and forced apart.

[@marig6184]

BUT NOT TO PEOPLE OF COLOR

[@Soul-gk3iu]

@jffjay2323 I think the descendants of those human property should get their Reparations as act of Congress also!!

[@jacobjudah7362]

BS they did'nt teach slaves to read , slaves that could read , could escape to freedom by reading maps .

[@timeforchange3786]

There were black slave holders in Virginia in the 1600s. Read some unbiased history

[@jerrysmall802]

Agreed

[@SydneyChandler]

Trying to sanitize slavery is sickening. These people were treated like property, they were still slaves and forced labor.

[@rebelrobjackson2253]

Irish were slaves. Arabs and chinese still have slaves. There were mpre whites enslaved by muslims than africans by whites.

[@onepeace7952]

Yet, still no Reparations???? :/

[@SmokeyTreats]

Liberia. Buh bye!

[@timeforchange3786]

You realize there were many freed slaves that were given money and land from the slave masters, right?

[@edwinamendelssohn5129]

Name one country that has paid reparations for slavery

[@stevemccarty6384]

White people today do not owe black people today anything! If we had just ended slavery, former slaves might have a genuine beef with their former owners, but that is not the case today.

[@jamespalmer4945]

Being allowed to live in the most powerful country in the world is reparation those enslaved earned their passage in the right to be here .illegals today willnever understand.

[@JustMe-ob3nw]

9:58 - it hurts to see those men stripped of their dignity - no matter if they were remunerated or not…incredibly sad…

[@ba1765]

Selling goods is not remuneration for work

[@JustMe-ob3nw]

@@ba1765 you’re right

[@flyingrover9022]

Oh…so just a walk in the park then. Absolute propaganda. Making it look like the enslaved were in a co-op when they were forced to endure the hardest of circumstances…

[@markdavids2511]

“Being sold down the river” is I believe a slave term, meaning to be betrayed in one form or another, as slaves who caused trouble would often be sold to harder plantations down the Mississippi River.

[@carolynbarnes-ir4bj]

So sad

[@tinyspaceroadie]

Reading through some of these comments is baffling. It's amazing what people will tell themselves to make themselves feel better about the evil doings of their ancestors. There is no such thing as a "good" slave owner. Any human being who can buy and own another human being is EVIL, at the core. Their is no such thing as "people thought differently back then, and that's why they owned slaves." There were literally hundreds and thousands of people that didn't own slaves, were against the whole institution, and wanted nothing to do with that business. The people who chose to own slaves simply CHOSE to. Why? because they were evil at the core and greedy for wealth.

[@jeffreypowell4896]

Best comment imo. Thanks!

[@bootnazz1786]

It's like a serial killer calling himself a good person

[@OmmerSyssel]

​@@bootnazz1786😂 No wonder your sort of obsessed people have huge issues, no matter what you are involved with! Slavery hasn't existed some 200 years! No one in our time has any responsibility for long past injustice! Good luck with your life ✌🏻

[@stevemccarty6384]

No. We know for instance that some very good, honest and brilliant people such as Thomas Jefferson owned slaves. He BTW inherited his from his father in law. Many, if not all Southern Plantation owners used slaves as field hands and servants. It was the system and had been for a very long time. Certainly some slaves were treated worse than others. It just might be that Thomas Jefferson in order to make the best of a bad deal treated his field hands and servants well. After all, a happy slave must have been a better worker than a sad and abused one. Moreover slaves were extremely expensive, some costing $1,000 or more. It was therefore, money in the bank to treat one's slaves as good as possible. Were there some evil slave owners? There must have been, but there must have been some good ones too. Put yourself in the place of a slave owner. Now tell me how you are going to treat your slaves (called field hands and servants, never "slaves").

[@ba1765]

He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity :he that killed with the sword must be killed with the sword.Here is the patience and the faith of the saints. Rev.13:10 .He also exalted the horn of his people the praise of all his saints; (even) of the children of Isreal,a people near unto him.Psalms 148:14

[@bethnicholas1524]

YES!!! BROTHER OR SISTER, YAH'S GOT THIS.

[@mfalme4837]

Sad that you use "so-called holy scriptures" to try and say: because they were put in captivity they belong there. The reason Christianity was forced down the throats of so many people around the world was to make people that were non-white see white people as Superior. The many cultures the Europeans destroyed in the name of a God that doesn't see other people as equal. SAD.

[@mizztanya2763]

@@mfalme4837 Christians built every first world country. there is no first world country developed by whatever it is you believe in. you're welcome for a 21st century life and other modern things built by Christians and not by your people, whatever they are.

[@josephwilliams376]

@@mizztanya2763 Suggest that you read Matthew 4:1-11

[@mizztanya2763]

@@josephwilliams376that doesn't address or dispute my comment. so what's your point?

[@Melons-vg8dq]

They were NOT going to end it without a war. In fact, it was growing in the new territories.

[@jeannerogers7085]

Too true, sadly.

[@MaureenDeVries-wd9mh]

New Mexico was an expansion of slavery in west.

[@ginahickerson8295]

Just remember all evil systems fall one day

[@Smoothoperator65]

That's why America is going away!

[@susanfrancis3761]

I'm from Virginia and I just visited Monticello for the probably the 6 time! It is so interesting! But thinking about what these poor people had to go through makes me sick!!

[@K.R-]

I'm from Virginia too, and believe me there is nothing "interesting" about knowing that my ancestors were stolen, killed, raped, and tortured by possibly your ancestors. You people have a weird way of looking at slavery.

[@russellgay5337]

Thomas Jefferson allowed two or three people to escape without pursuit, and recommended informal freedom for two others. In total, of the more than six hundred people Jefferson enslaved, he freed only ten people - all members of the same family. In 1779, as a practical solution, Jefferson supported gradual emancipation, training, and colonization of African-American slaves rather than immediate manumission, believing that releasing unprepared persons with no place to go and no means to support themselves would only bring them misfortune.

[@ronjohnson5248]

Do you need a safe space to recover from the trauma of hearing about 200 year old events?

[@diannecampbell18]

Ditto+++++

[@karenfitzpatrick6256]

It was the slaves who had the expertise and talent to create and maintain these estates. Shameful that the "owners" assumed credit when they put none of their own sweat and blood into the work. I can't understand the concept of one person thinking they can own another. It makes no sense on any human level...

[@tracieparker9169]

My slave ancestors lived in Caroline County, Henry and Patrick County, Va. My slave Great Great Grandmother died at the age of 55, with the saddest countenance I had ever seen. Who knows how many of her children were sold away from her? Married to a man that they made her “breed” with. I saw the big house that her mistress grew up in. Huge, beautiful mansion, even by today’s standards. God knows what my Great Great Grandmother had to endure.

[@susanbrown7898]

I totally agree with you. Myself, I couldn't stand it if my children were taken away from me. If you run away, you were hunted down and sometimes killed. What kind of life is that, for anyone?!

[@kerrysiah1180]

The truth will come out!!!

[@MsDannyWhoyou]

This documentary almost makes slavery tolerable just a little hard work 🥴🥴🥴 Wheww 🤦🏾‍♀️

[@stevemccarty6384]

Slavery was never the right thing to do, but it at least on some level worked and many slaves lived long and relatively prosperous lives. Would they have rather been free? Probably, but for a long time that option was not open to them, so they, I believe, made the best of a bad thing. Sometimes a slave would run away and it wasn't a rare event. Laws were passed to return slaves to their owners, even in the North, when they were caught. It was a stressful time and it led to our Civil War in which 600,000 men on both sides died, it can be argued, to free the slaves. My great great uncle died in Andersonville. I have seen his head stone in the huge cemetery there. Reparations from me and my family....nope.

[@genmanion2389]

they had many skills and were the first commuters? who wrote this crap?

[@michaelmoore252]

Y’all need to take this crap down and u know it

[@petermorton301]

Slaves were treated bad it is said that one couldn't fathom what slaves went though they were treated worse then dog's

[@paulad574]

Truth!

[@1Skorpia]

" they were taught-" AS IF THEY HAD A CHOICE.

[@deborahshallin5843]

This is a great documentary but the American Indian is still enslaved financially and otherwise more so even today in regards to their treatment. Still waiting for a federal holiday for American Indians such as what African Americans have such Martin Luther King or Juneteenth. I am a ancestor of black heritage and my daughter is of American Indian heritage. Very painful for me at this time. Thanks

[@r.w.183]

Very sad, indeed. General Custer's museum should be closed. Another psychopath portrayed as a national hero.

[@RobRoyR8R]

I see you. To wait for someone to do something for you could be a very long wait. DO IT FOR YOURSELF!!! If it means that much to you. Don't wait for ANYONES permission. If you need someone to validate your actions or beliefs, then you ARE still the slave. Your move. All the best.

[@cherylshaw8563]

Our people never asked for Juneteenth. Biden decided to hand us that symbolism because he has no interest in paying us reparations!!

[@BeautifulDove-i7u]

Absolutely disgusting lie !! American Indians recieve monthly reparations!! Black Americans do not

[@agneslong2323]

Native Americans owned slaves too.

[@emilystevens6335]

Physical labor was the nature of the day. Separating and selling their family members was extremely cruel.

[@matt3024]

'Physical labor' and slavery different things as any employer or employee will tell you!

[@cjhoward409]

But I read that most slave owners kept the slave families together. Mainly because they wouldn’t run away. Makes sense.

[@griarredondo3334]

@@cjhoward409 Forced breeding and selling enslaved children away from their family was actually quite common. It was seen as very profitable. It's really disgusting when you think about how callous some of these enslavers were.

[@Ralphie5023]

I would love to hear about a rebellion where the slaves took even temporary control and whipped the shit out of the slave owners , the overseers and anyone else who was on the plantation who had it coming !

[@jeannerogers7085]

There were many slave revolts, large and small - not common HS historical subjects, but the accounts can be found, and should be more widely known.

[@stevesosa599]

HELL YEAH, ME TOO !!!!!!!😂😂 THEY SHOULD MAKE A MOVIE LIKE THAT !!!!

[@lherrera2886]

The stole and sold very skilled people. Full human! Just wait until you get a taste for 1000 years.

[@benyaminbenisrael327]

Praise Yah...✊🏾✊🏾💯

[@jenniferhampton5171]

Are you suggesting the vicious cycle must continue?

[@K.R-]

@@jenniferhampton5171 For you

[@lc6636]

@@K.R- And your thoughts are why it is happening to you.

[@K.R-]

@@lc6636 No. My thoughts are had my ancestors gotten reparations, we wouldn't quite be where we are today. Struggling to own land, homes, businesses, etc. Your race seems to be in a nice little cushy position in life though. You can be silly and ignorant if you choose, I have time for the ish today. If you wanted to know my thoughts you should have asked instead of assuming.

[@SOULRELIEF22]

THANK GOD for prayers answered. Harriet Tubman became our Moses! GLORY!.

[@BH-mc8zq]

You have no idea how bad slavery was! So stop trying to dress it up.

[@brightemerald3924]

Not a good representation of enslaved people. Research for yourself.

[@wordswithjhardy953]

You've mistaken slavery with indentured servitude. Slave's haven't been paid to this day. Payment was a whip on their backs.

[@frootlooper]

No, payment was not getting a whip.

[@cindywilliams3542]

Who are you? Question your facts, sounds like right wing revisionist history. Man you make slavery sound pretty good.

[@mfalme4837]

If you're going to tell a history of slavery in this country be true to it. This video is attempting to make slave owners thoughtful. It tries to make it appear that the enslaved were not treated that badly, that is a lie. If one was taught to read and write they would have resisted even more strongly to being a slave. This KZbin channel should be monitored for reporting "revisionist history".

[@mizztanya2763]

if one was taught to read and write they would have resisted even more strongly being a slave? what a bizarre statement. slavery exists today in places where the people can all read and write. native americans had slavery without ever creating a written language long before europeans came to north america. sounds like you are very familiar with revisionist history indeed.

[@mfalme4837]

Point taken, but I'm not referring to world slavery or modern day slavery or Natives keeping Black people as slaves. I'm speaking about the Black enslaved peoples experience. Maybe delve into some Black American history and you might better understand my statement. 🙂

[@Cat-ik1wo]

But of course!! These white American narcissist does not own up to their wrongs. Its always twisted. They even call their language English, thats not true. Its called American, step back and study it, see it for what it is!!! All of it. Wake up.

[@marywinslow5808]

@@mfalme4837 why must you believe that they weren't train and educated they didn't live in torment and hell constantly. They learned many different trades they went on to make a living

[@withowlseyewatch]

Those enslaved people sure were smart...and highly skilled and ready to do whatever they needed to do to make sure they had stylish work clothes to wear, food to eat, and a straw roof over their heads as good as any their cousin built in Africa.

[@chocolateice4u]

Wrong history taught in his video.

[@TboneWTF]

The State of Florida has passed a law allowing public schools to teach the concept that American slaves actually were better off being indentured. This has caused serious blow back. One of the most popular Black Fraternity's has promised NOT to hold their convention in Florida any longer.

[@chikaka2012]

Only one Black fraternity?

[@RobRoyR8R]

With all of these skills given. Why can't blacks find work today? I'm with Kanye West on this. If we still had traditional slavery today, we would have eight jobs today. Oh, they pay for services now? YOU DONT QUALIFY!!! SORRY!!!

[@treyali1244]

I’m not going to say anything crazy but to whomever made this please get in contact with me....the rabbit whole is far deeper than what’s being told. Hope to hear from you soon. Peace and blessings

[@jefferyjeter8237]

You said nothing but the truth ......... Amen

[@kimbotwice446]

They have to continue to mislead.. I listen to your music bro…. 1st Americans!!!!

[@treyali1244]

@@kimbotwice446 peace King! I appreciate you!

[@richsmith7309]

didn't say anything. why do you need the maker of this video to contact you. why not make a video and put the information out there that you believe should be out there. take the initiative if you're really about it.

[@lizzysbeautyshowetc.6895]

I agree with you but I doubt this content creator will get ahold of you there is a lot of whitewashing and I did not agree with this video that this person presented it was horrible what black people went through It's almost like he doesn't want to show that to be apparent

[@timothygibbs7351]

An enslaver would never be a slave. Being a slave is the worst thing than death. Without freedom is the worst thing that can happen to a human. There is nothing good about being a slave. Slavery was and is heinously. It’s a crime. Slavery still affects black peoples. Slavery of Africans was inhumane and sinful in the eyes of God. There’s nothing good from enslaving human beings. It was an huge adventure that made so many people and countries very rich, and made the slaves to suffer including many black peoples today with many disadvantages in the world today. That why Jesus would describe it very sinful in nature. There’s no good come from the institution of slavery. God’s blessings for all people. Amen.

[@robertrussell2690]

The only thing good about slavery was it's end.Attention:Anyone that think slavery was okay,please volunteer to be a slave for one year,performing the task of a black slave.

[@timeforchange3786]

You realize Africa still has slaves, right?

[@dragonchr15]

@@timeforchange3786 yes, and if you believe that it is a great thing, go volunteer to be one to show us all we are all being hysterical!

[@rabidbeagle]

You mean slaves were often treated well and respected for their skills as coopers, brewers, carpenters, etc, and not beaten 24 hours a day, 7 days a week like the media says? Huh.

[@dragonchr15]

Yea, gee golly, slavery sure was a great thing!!! I bet all the anti-CRT folk are looking forward to the new curriculum to preserve their white fragility.

[@bootnazz1786]

Why dont you come be my slave

[@riaa8689]

This "narration" of American slavery is as bad as putting sugar on shit.

[@julieblair168]

The poor, poor slaves were treated so horribly. Just like animals are treated now. We must realize no living creature must NOTbe treated like this.

[@IHaveASillyHaircut]

Except sʍεIIy lndiαиs

[@johnfryer6103]

Glad people were treated awfully and they’re treated awfully today it’s disgusting it seems like we’re going backwards wake up people everybody’s the same!

[@insideurbantrendz190]

Bish ....is that sarcasm???

[@RobRoyR8R]

With all of these skills given. Why can't blacks find work today? I'm with Kanye West on this. If we still had traditional slavery today, we would have eight jobs today. Oh, they pay for services now? YOU DONT QUALIFY!!! SORRY!!!

[@incorrba]

I think some people need to get a better command of the English language or proofread their comments before posting.

[@kaleahcollins4567]

When slaves couldn't be imported from Africa they was brought from other English colonies as well as the Spanish Caribbean even bringing slaves from Australia fun facts

[@brittanymoreno7841]

I love the city of Charleston South Carolina that city is nothing but history. Our tour guide was a good storyteller he told us the houses that we see the slaves built them. And he gave credit where it was due. He basically said us African Americans built the United States. So we built it but they own it.

[@biftif563]

13:10 - He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

[@biftif563]

THE BLACKS OF SOUTH CAROLINA ARE THE DIRECT DESCENDANTS OF KING DAVID THE NEGROS ARE THE REAL JEWS

[@matt3024]

Out of fear or condescension it sounds rather degrading to me. I would be thoughtful but I wouldn't be impressed by any City simply because their tour guide told the truth.

[@brittanymoreno7841]

I love the city before I even hear from the tour guide. So you assume that I only love the city cuz of that, that’s stupid. Anyway you didn’t have to say anything just move along.

[@OmmerSyssel]

Thanks for your information. How about going back to Africa, since the rest of your gorgeous people somehow can't create anything worth mentioning ... 🤔🤷🏼

[@markherron6374]

So we have to pat Stonewall Jackson on the head because he elegitly taught some of the slaves to read the Bible. Not Socatise or Aristotle...stop it.

[@vallieanderson321]

Rather disappointed, I'm not sure what the basis was for this narrative or for the commentary. Social strata did not develop among the slaves by itself. To the contrary, owners were trained by pamphlets and travelling conferences of the day to instill fear and strife among the slaves, with the sole purpose of decreasing the risk of actual and potential slave riots, starting as early as the late 1600's. With the slave population in some areas outnumbering white population by 3-10 times greater, you have to have dire constructs to keep so many people in check and retain power when you're the minority. Slaves were forced to do whatever job their owner wanted, including nursing the owners' babies, while their own babies starved. They got the garbage for food and what was considered inedible, like pig intestines, brains, pig feet, chicken feet, etc. Both male, female, and children sexual victimization was a constant, with the evidence of mixed children liberally seen around the plantations but ignored by those who fathered them, while their wives pretended they were blind. Girls were expected to start breeding as soon as their menses started, with plantation owners bringing in healthy "bucks" from nearby plantations for that purpose. From almost being able to walk, the children were put to work, with ever increasing duties, often separated from their Mother's. Even when marriage was allowed, Masters claimed first rights to "bed" brides, while grooms waited as a humiliating reminder as to who was in charge. This is why secretly "jumping the broom" was adopted, rather than request permission to marry. Failure to perform as demanded was met with savage beatings, torture, dismemberment, being sold, and/or family members being sold. Slaves were also expected to grow their own food, make their own clothes, and gather their own wood for fires, etc OUTSIDE of their sun up to sundown "work" schedule. Several slave families lived in those slave shacks, furnished with the broken remnants of furniture or make-shift products, like stumps as stools and hammocks or straw pallets as beds. These rough, unkept buildings were an embarrassment to the beautiful views the plantation owners wanted to portray and were often disguised with facades to hide their despicable state, which was far worse condition than the stables. The smaller the plantation, the more work, with house chores starting after field chores ended. Don't believe this glossed over dribble that would have you thinking that slaves were like any other impoverished workforce. When they were allowed to retain wages and eventually by their freedom, it was rare. Otherwise, the society then would have been overrun with "freed-men", potentially seeking equality and position, which would not have been tolerated. Look at what happened at the end of the Civil War: masses of newly freed people were roaming the streets, penniless and ignorant of how to function outside of the slave system. The Jim Crow era and the klu klux klan were established to keep these former slaves and their children in their "rightful place"; subjugated to the dominance of white society. Historically, Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU's) got their start as vocational training "schools" to help these people truly gain their freedom, while society didnt even count them as fully "human". Yet the biggest and highest number of race riots have occurred on this side of the Civil War AGAINST the descendants of these slaves, for envy over their pursuit of liberty and excellence in accomplishments. Read slave accounts and books written by former slaves held by the National Archives and Libraries, ie Up From Slavery by Booker T Washington; Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas, An American Slave; I was A Slave: True Life Stories Dictated by Former American Slaves in the 1930's- Compiled by Donna Wyant Howell; The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Written by Himself and edited by Robert Allison. These will give you some glimpse into the real-life accounts of what slave life was really like, but don't stop there. Find your own sources, as these are just a few books on my shelf. Visit plantations and ask about slave life, contributions, conditions, and treatments, but it's only been recently that these sites have even bothered to include any slave narratives in their tours, including Jamestown, Monticello, and Mount Vernon! Perhaps then, you will begin to get a glimpse of the horrors of slavery and your eyes will be opened to how history repeats itself with different policies and programs that basically still have the same endpoint, ie Slavery, Jim Crow Laws, chain gangs, tough on crime bills, and today's prison rates. Google Race Riots to read how entire prosperous black communities have been burned to the ground and totally eradicated in state after state and community after community. Will it ever stop?? Will America ever come to terms with their history (and I'm not even including the term reparations) and truly accept the God-given truth that we are all equal and entitled to the same rights and pursuit of happiness under the law??

[@celestinethompson9134]

😢

[@claydobbins9342]

Think and consider, many of the first presidents of this nation came from Virginia. It was a well thought understanding that slaves must be restricted from education because then they would have the necessary intellect to author and forge documents that could be used as instruments for their escape and freedom and able to understand warrants and other important documents.

[@moelillard7722]

Virginia slavery was so good it created Nat Turner! My mother was born in Norfolk, VA in 1924 and my grandfather in the the late 1800's. Virginia and Maryland were 2 of the largest breeding camps in slavery.

[@SandfordSmythe]

The lands were burnt out and they had a surplus of slaves and slave families. This was one of thereasons why importation of slaves was abolished in 1807. These states supported the ban in order to jack up prices.

[@r.w.183]

@@SandfordSmythe Thank you. It puts everything in different perspective. It makes sense.

[@dragonchr15]

@@SandfordSmythe Lol, did you read Trump's 1776 project?? They tried to frame the abolition of the Transatlantic slave trade as a noble gesture and completely ignored the fact that it was purely economics to keep the price of slaves high, which of course benefitted the wealthy Southerners who dominated the US government at the time....

[@williammatthews7252]

Kentucky is my Home but it wouldn't be no Kentucky without VIRGINIA

[@Selena-T629]

This was a bunch of BS. As a descendant of VA slaves, I'm offended. I guess I should be grateful my great, great grandmother and father were treated so well. They was happy to be somebody's property. 😡😡😡

[@prof3ssor178]

The same thing is happening today! Just in a different way... They hate us because our skin tone.. it's sad

[@richsmith7309]

just because of "our skin tone?" Do more research man and come. lot better than this. it's deeper than how much melanin is in our skin.

[@micky5552]

They can go to hell!

[@lc6636]

If you say it that way, black people didn't like black people because of their skin color.

[@daisyx1002]

We are Gods chosen people. We are his Hebrew Israelites that were scattered on all 4 corners of the earth as punishment for not obeying his laws. He is waking us up. APTTMH.

[@denisebyrd5379]

Few don't but still some do!!! Yah is the judge of men heart!!! Yah Elioem' has a way to revile men heart to see ALL!!

[@ginahickerson8295]

Pure evil!

[@susanmccormick6022]

When is Harriet Tubman going to feature on bills?She was an amazing woman & far stronger(mentally)than her brothers who gave up.Chump backtracked on getting her face on $.And did anyone see her Horrible Histories appearance,as 'lady with newspaper' & 'lady with chicken'?A guy says "I don't know if you're very clever or they're very stupid"& she says drily "A little bit of both"V funny,v smart.

[@jackiesisk1803]

Lol

[@MSGill645]

I decided to study my history for all races. All of them have endured slavery at different times, etc. Slavery has been an issue for thousands of years. Worry about current slavery...sex slaves and more.

[@ruckizucki3358]

European white people were abducted and sold by the Vikings, North African Arabs, Ottoman Turks. Even American ships were intercepted and slaves taken. America went to war! Yes, It's well known history and even on KZbin!

[@risehitsiblaze1]

Our people had families towns cities they lived amongst each other then the heathens came in with the guns raping robbing pillaging then they took prisoners prisoners of war. Then they were tortured and many of them died then they were tortured some more and taken capture and forced to work or be tortured and killed that's not a slave that's a prisoner of war.

[@JB-hl1qx]

By heathens do you mean the rival tribes that captured Africans and sold them to European and Dutch & Spanish slave traders ? You do know white people were not running around Africa kidnapping people with nets right 🙄?

[@mattsheezy5469]

The sexual abuse is what disgusts me most about Chattel Slavery.

[@glendapalms1686]

my great great grandmother was breed ...as a dog...15/ children she had / the census I found / only 2/children was with her / the man she marry , she had 4/ more , the last of that 4> was my great mother... you can believe "we all probably kine folks" ...by these folks greedy needs...

[@glendapalms1686]

They did so much evil wickedness > Abomination > that they burn the court house, churches on purpose...they hide these truth

[@lillianstr1752]

I am a PROUD VIRGINIAN...born in Richmond. My family was affected by slavery...to the MAX...WOMEN were raped by masters to the point that we looked mostly White. I have aunts and uncles who passed as White. So our family was destroyed on my fathers side. On my mothers side we were Native American slaves...which further mongrolized us. We were chickahominy on my moms side...Powhatan on my fathers. Coloreds when l grew up...cultureless....pretty sad huh...pretty sad. Yours is the "told" story. Mine is the real story. I lived most of my life looking brown and acting Caucasian...being lrish Catholic...in a Protestant Black Virginia. I was hated by Whites...ignored by Blacks... there were so many of us. I hope to finish my book about "the real untold shame of Slavery". My family never did housework...l wondered Why.

[@dragonchr15]

I bet you look like a model with that much of a diverse pedigree. "mongolized" is such an ugly word...

[@jazmynbrown6820]

This robotic voice is irritating.

[@karene.7014]

Just where would America be without all that free labor. ..

[@kaleahcollins4567]

Wrong it was from and I quote " can't see in the mornin to can't see at night" slave narratives fanny Miller virginia

[@derricklangford4725]

From what I remember it as being quoted was "from can't see, to can't see no moe" and I remember hearing this back in the 80's from people who's grandparents had been born into slavery.

[@capoislamort100]

@@derricklangford4725 where were your folks enslaved?

[@mahnazqaiser3371]

Hey America,you're still not treating them equally.And do talk about the Native Americans.

[@mariekatherine5238]

Looks like the slaves had the actual skills. All the owners did was count the money. Comes in handy when the shtf. Too bad it took so long to organize. A slave strike in say, the 1850s, could’ve brought the southern economy to a halt.

[@kaleahcollins4567]

Actually it was over 100 years of insurrection that did it the so called Seminole ( runaway) wars was actually the gullah wars. It lasted from1753 - 1858

[@cindychristian1700]

Yes! That's why after the Civil War the south lost most of there economy because they no longer had free help and they didn't learn many of the skills of the formerly enslaved people!! They just supervised, paid the overseer to watching brutalized the slaves and reaped all the $ benefits!!

[@SandfordSmythe]

There would have a blood bath as all the militia's moved in. The South would not tolerate it.

[@timeforchange3786]

It is sad you believe that. Yes, there are many buildings and homes in Africa from the 1700s

[@mariekatherine5238]

@@timeforchange3786 Huh? And who built them?

[@lescampbell2593]

Do one on the Egyptian slaves , the viking slaves the roman slaves the native American slaves the Chinese slaves there was more then one group of people

[@dagmarland]

That's just thinly veiled whataboutism. Knock it off.

[@TheLion7777]

@@dagmarland FU

[@lescampbell2593]

Ok so help me understand why it was so much worse for one race then another ... Please

[@doilyhead]

The people who built the pyramids weren't slaves.

[@doilyhead]

@@TheLion7777 And you wonder why people think you might be a Nazi.

[@lizzyacosta3848]

It’s givinnnnnng … trying to justify slavery. Wtf is thisssss

[@michaelharris4651]

How horribly sad 😞

[@Joseph-fw6xx]

I didn't know slaves were paid a decent wage this was not in school

[@jeannerogers7085]

That was the case only for a few skilled workers.

[@russellgay5337]

Slavery has existed in practically all civilizations. This was also the case in Africa before settlers came. Over several centuries countless East Africans were sold as slaves by Muslim Arabs to the Middle East and other places via the Sahara desert and Indian Ocean. The sale of African slaves can be traced back to antiquity. It became popular in the seventh century when Islam was gaining strength in North Africa. This was seven centuries before Europeans explored the continent and ten centuries before West Africans were sold across the Atlantic to America. Arab Muslims sold captured Africans to the Middle East. There, they worked as field workers, teachers or harem guards, which is why the castration of male slaves was common practice. Initially, the Arab Muslims in Eastern and Central Europe took white slaves to sell them to Arabia. White people were still being bought and sold as slaves in the Ottoman Empire, decades after American blacks were freed.

[@SandfordSmythe]

You have a point here?

[@mswinner2473]

Is this video about white slavery? I noticed that everytime there is a video about what happened to black slaves, someone always, (and I mean always,) comment about the slavery of others. This video is not about European slavery!

[@lc6636]

@@mswinner2473 People can comment on what they want. Are you trying to rule KZbin by excluding others' thoughts? There were white enslaved people along with other races. I was not a slave, and neither were you.

[@TheresaofTheWorld]

So are you somehow minimizing US enslavement by pointing out it happened elsewhere and at other times?

[@lc6636]

@@TheresaofTheWorld No one is minimizing anything. Slavery is over.

[@highestgood5169]

Listening to this now, we can see how the US still disregards the humanity of human life, whether black, disabled, or female. Looking at the homeless encampments and knowing the conditions that exist in public housing, not too much has changed. LIving in the hood in a small town means you are followed around and often "watched" by housing workers and so forth. If you stand up for your rights you get punished or abusive workers come in to do the bidding of housing authorities with little care for safe work conditions let alone clean air conditions. Mold not only grows inside courthouses and schools but inside the homes of where poor people live, majority of whom are black or immigrants. Deep history hopefully can stop the old ways of the system. Deep history will hopefully stop being current events that get hidden by lots of cities and towns. Is American more humane now? Are there still homeless people? People who are in poor health due to lack of medical care? Yes. And so. This country is good for slaves and only a few rich people who hoard money to the point that they allow their own government that supported their success/education to have to print more money. Then they make MORE money. Just a few. Clue: they aren't black, female, or disabled.

[@bobjacobson858]

I guess it has dawned on you that life isn't perfect, and the US isn't perfect and never will be even in spite of our best efforts. However, starting with immigrants--conditions in the US are probably better than in the countries from which they are coming, and many likely don't have skills marketable in the US or sufficient command of English, so they end up having to start on the bottom. In most other countries, an immigrant has to prove the ability to contribute to that society, a large part being the financial ability to support oneself, but in the US this isn't generally the case, at least not for the masses 'crashing' the southern border. The freedom to engage in the 'pursuit of happiness' is a traditional American value, but there is no guarantee one will find it or that the government is obligated to step in to provide it. (By the way, the slaves described in this video had little or no means to pursue happiness, and weren't in their current situation by choice, so a comparison of the modern US to that is, at best, insensitive.) In humid climates, mold can be a problem. In the house in which I'm living, mold developed on some of the furniture in the rec. room during the summer. A can of Lysol and a vacuum cleaner did a lot more to solve it than wringing my hands and complaining. (By the way, have YOU volunteered to help remediate this problem in any schools or government buildings?) To what in particular are you referring when you suggest that the US disregards the humanity of females? I'll assume you haven't spent much time in a divorce court. I'll agree that many areas have serious problems in terms of homelessness, and the solutions aren't easy. The cost of healthcare is, of course, also a serious problem in the US. There are many laws designed to aid and protect disabled people, but some fall [no pun intended] outside the system. Unless you listen solely to the propagandists, you will realize more in this country has been done to help black people than in probably any other country--but having said that, the fact that some 72% of black children are born to unwed mothers has serious consequences that can't be solved simply by "programs". I take it either you are unsuccessful in life and bitter, or trying to be a "social justice worker" because it happens to be fashionable these days. Are you personally doing anything to solve any of these problems, or simply complaining to salve your conscience?

[@speaktruth9313]

I maintain a simple solution to poverty..and that is to not birth any child till you can and have put a roof over their head. I had to make my own way, to earn my own keep. I soon learned that birthing a child early on impoverished us. Seeing others without a child , I could see them rise out of poverty. They walked to work, then got a bike, then lived with others in an apartment . You truly cannot get anywhere if you birth children too soon.

[@LittleKitty22]

@@speaktruth9313 They have babies on purpose, for the welfare.

[@LittleKitty22]

We have exactly the same conditions here in the UK. Literally word for word. Worse actually, because we don't just get followed around - here, the housing workers force their way into people's homes against their will. If one tries to speak up against this, the punishment is false accusations of the tenant allegedly having been "abusive and violent" and "attacked the housing workers" - and subsequent consequences. Obviously, nobody believes the tenant as the poor are always assumed to be lying troublemakers, stupid, violent and drug addicts, so making a formal complaint is pointless. The mold in homes is so terrible it's sickening. Low income housing landlords demand that tenants divulge everything about themselves, from income to s@xu@l preferences, who they sleep with and who they live with, religion to ethnicity, date of birth to employer etc. If one refuses, they use psychological tricks to get that information and force their way into people's homes, as mentioned above. They then take pictures against the tenant's will and report back during weekly meetings with police, social workers etc how tenants live, what they got, how much money they have, what their preferences in the bedroom are etc, and all gets put on file. Lack of medical care - officially we have a socialized medical system but reality is poor people get medical treatment denied. Doctors make assumptions about each patient and if they decide a patient is stupid and poor, then that's what they write in the medical records, and no amount of the patient producing evidence to the contrary can change that - and with this, the patient is condemned to not getting treatment but knocked out with either antidepressants or tranquilizers. That's all a poor person can get, no operations, no actual treatment. Only antidepressants, tranquilizers, painkillers and abortion pills. All of these get absolutely pushed on the poor, and those assumed to be poor. Most people cannot withstand the considerable pressure and take these tablets, terrified of the consequences if they refuse. Refusing to take psych meds results in false accusations being entered into the patient's medical records, "patient is abusive and aggressive" etc. People that get targeted in such ways are not so much black people here but mainly women, especially women that are not politically correct such as intelligent women, those who are outspoken, those who try to speak up against injustice, attractive and slim women (they get hated on like mad!), women who refuse to live promiscuous lives, women who believe in God, women who can see through all this. Also immigrants as long as they are not Muslims as Muslims have special rights here, women who work for a living instead of lying back and dropping kids, women who refuse to go through the casting couch for a job or an apartment, women who are educated but for some reason or another ended up poor - usually as a result of abuse and trafficking, which is rife here.

[@speaktruth9313]

@@LittleKitty22 so sorry this is how things are in the UK…

[@1JamesMayToGoPlease]

The narration of this leaves much to be desired.

[@dephantomskull1]

Why have I never seen a picture of a European slave/ indentured servitude, no matter how hard I look?

[@timeforchange3786]

Then you aren't looking hard enough. From your comment I can tell the little history you know is biased

[@dragonchr15]

That's because by the time cameras were invented, "white slavery" had essentially been phased out. Prior to the USA being created, white British and Irish were enslaved right alongside Africans. They were all "indentured servants."

[@samiam7086]

Hey my grandfather came as white slave on eagle gallery from England to north Carolina to Virginia picking tobacco. Most people before in colonial times were slaves. Africa sent convicted tribe war members to USA as punishment. So we all in this together. We were dumping ground for convicted felons and governments still sending convicted felons over emptying prison's.

[@cherylshaw8563]

@@samiam7086 Don't try to tell that tale. Whites were never slaves in America. Indentured servitude meant working for an agreed upon time period to cover the cost of the free trip to America, then the former employee could go wherever he/she pleased. Slavery, as we all know, was a far different type of arrangement as no pay was involved, and the slave was never free to go.

[@samiam7086]

Bacons rebellion Thomas Wisdom was sent to Jamaica into slavery for his part in Bacons rebellion from Jamestown. another Grandfather sent into slavery from Jamestown. Rebecca Aldridge Dorchester Maryland in slavery had to leave her daughter behind when she left, because the baby was born into slavery and the little girl died in slavery. White people where slaves to .

[@aqhasassy]

Sadly, horrific, slavery continues in Africa & Mid East countries, China. Today.

[@MaureenDeVries-wd9mh]

Awful!

[@kaleahcollins4567]

My family was never slaves we had land and lots of it that we still have actually. Many Irish was enslaved as well as Romani gypsies not indentured servants but actually slaves even some natives as well

[@alphavegas1]

Whataboutism 101

[@kaleahcollins4567]

@@alphavegas1 it's facts and realism let's tell all truth not negate the facts . Yes many blacks unfortunately was enslaved no fault of their own but many wasn't as well and was wealthy some owned slaves themselves some gained wealth by other means. Let's tell the full truth that many others was also enslaved Whites And other non blacks even owned by some blacks . Yes some blacks did own white slaves . Just like some native Americans gained wealth from the slave trade as well as some being enslaved themselves. Let's tell the truth that in the very beginning there was no such law stating blacks couldn't learn to read and many blacks was actually more literate then whites of the time this is part of the reason why they changed the laws.

[@kaleahcollins4567]

@@alphavegas1 but I do like that statement whataboutism lol imma use that with your permission of course lol

[@alphavegas1]

@@kaleahcollins4567 Whataboutism is basically shifting the conversation. Example if Im on trial for murder and my lawyer says "maybe my client did murder the person but whatabout Ted Bundy, whatabout Charlie Mason" No matter what else I'll or evil happened in world's history to bring it up to lessen the impact of the main subject is whataboutism. So since the subject what black slavery. WHO GIVES A FUCKING FUCK ABOUT WHAT ELSE HAPPENED. Stick to the subject. Understand?

[@kaleahcollins4567]

@@alphavegas1 sweetheart it's not shifting anything it's telling the whole story not parts

[@biftif563]

Revelation 13:10 - He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

[@mamajenskitchen1880]

Karen lehn would you sat to a Jewish person who suffered in the holcoust to move on I bet you wouldn’t 😮😢

[@pamglynn3419]

This a cleaned up version of what went ob.

[@MrCJ-qz9dl]

@0:32...They learned "tanning of hides". Yes if a slave got out of hand, or just made a mistake, or wrongfully accused, he received a tanning of his hide.

[@timeforchange3786]

Do you honestly not know what tanning hides are or are you pushing victimhood?

[@MrCJ-qz9dl]

@@timeforchange3786 lt was simply a play on words...brother. Do you honestly not know what it means for a father to tan his son's hide? Or are you pushing reverse racial discriminating victimhood?

[@lc6636]

@@MrCJ-qz9dl You were not there and had no idea what happened daily. The interviews with the living enslaved people beg to differ. I wasn't a slave, and neither were you.

[@MrCJ-qz9dl]

@@lc6636 That's why they call it "his story". None of us were there.

[@stevemccarty6384]

I have visited many old plantations in the Old South. Many have museums. Come to find out many slave owners could not bring themselves to punish, often whip unruly field hands. There was too much affection between them. There were people who advertised themselves as professional slave whippers. They'd travel a circut and approach a plantation owner offering to whip one or more of his slaves who had misbehaved. I've seen the receipts in museums. "Twenty-five lashes well laid on".

[@tan9515]

The wording used in this “so called documentary” is insulting to what actually happened to our ancestors. We know it was way more sinister than this crap.

[@HennessayReviews]

I’ve only watched the first 5 minutes I refuse to watch the whole thing. It’s no disrespect. This is a nice fluffy version of things. If the story is going to be told tell the truth in it’s entirety and stop making it sound like it was just a pleasant life.

[@ericmcbroom7825]

Bottom line Black folks Belted the Southern US . Virginia to Florida to Texas. Doing all the Hard work in the cotton sugar cane peanuts pecan watermelon rice fields. All hog’s cattle Etc. They tended to everything. I got family from Virginia and I think my Grandmother s Great Grandmother was a slave in Russell Co Va. worked on the Litz plantation. In Sw part of Va. Hog farms, and working in the Big house. Did all the domestic work,

[@matta9316]

I always wonder were the people that did this opportunists or did they truly not care or have empathy at all. I suppose even now, there is no shortage of terrible people so there is the answer.

[@timeforchange3786]

Slavery was normal back then. They grew up hearing of Roman and Egyptian slaves. Africa had slaves as well as Native Americans. It was a business. The first slaves in Virginia (1619) were actually found on a Portuguese war ship headed to Mexico. Out of the over 300 slaves only around 20 were brought to Virginia

[@jonbaker3728]

@@timeforchange3786 True. It was much more normalized. I bet if you talked to some slave owners, they would just pass it off as the way things are done and not really get into it. There are plenty of slave owners that were cruel and evil people. Then there were others that "simply" overlooked the humanity in black people. Many of the slaves were actually captured and sold by Africans, to the ships. Doesn't make it any better, but sure shows that money drives everything. Then to add injury to insult, they had the Jim Crow laws, named all the military bases after confederate generals, forced segregation in school and public, just keeps going up to the red lining blacks out of purchasing houses. It's an ugly story and the southern tradition seems to think ignoring the ugly parts is fine and doesn't need to be taught.

[@aarondigby5054]

@@timeforchange3786 man over 20,000,000 Africans were brought over here during the Atlantic slave trade. Slaves were brought over here to the Americas 200 years before the USA even became a republic in 1776.

[@timeforchange3786]

@@aarondigby5054 slaves were in Florida in the 1500s by the Spanish long before Virginia. Why do black people want to unite with "brown" but hate "white"? Ignorance I guess.

[@aarondigby5054]

@@timeforchange3786 everybody who knows history knows there were slaves in the Caribbean and South America as early as 1545 if not earlie, I believe the English came along around 1650 maybe a little earlier. The French settled in New Orleans decades before the English in America.

[@MIKE-mn2mh]

This video is cherry picking and not telling the true story of slavery

[@MaLiArtworks186]

Romans 1:32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.

[@johnengland8619]

Slavery is immoral, Slavery in the bible is immoral