Part 1 Hear Former Slaves Speak
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Hear Former Slaves Express Their Feelings About Slavery. Turn on Closed Caption If you have trouble understanding what the former slave is saying.
The almost seven hours of recorded interviews took place between 1932 and 1975 in nine Southern states. Twenty-three interviewees, born between 1823 and the early 1860s, discuss how they felt about slavery, slaveholders, coercion of slaves, their families, and freedom. Several individuals sing songs, many of which were learned during the time of their enslavement. It is important to note that all of the interviewees spoke sixty or more years after the end of their enslavement, and it is their full lives that are reflected in these recordings. The individuals documented in this presentation have much to say about living as African Americans from the 1870s to the 1930s, and beyond.
All known recordings of former slaves in the American Folklife Center are included in this presentation. Some are being made publicly available for the first time and several others already available now include complete transcriptions. Unfortunately, not all the recordings are clearly audible. Although the original tapes and discs are generally in good physical condition, background noise and poorly positioned microphones make it extremely difficult to follow many of the interviews.
Link to site with names and ages of slaves who were still living at 100 and up years of age.
freepages.genea...
Bless his heart and may he be at peace now.
I hope he is at peace also...
Nicholas Sotiropoulos Watch yourself.
lol u must think you going? lol naw hell for ppl like u, that say things like dat
your a piece of shit
Nicholas Sotiropoulos , what a sad human being you are. You must be terribly unhappy, same as anyone who likes your comment.
I AM AWED AND HUMBLED BY THE LACK OF BITTERNESS OR ANGER IN THIS FINE GENTLE MAN.
Because he knows he will get Justice one day in the afterlife.
Some of the most humble good people!!
And he's saying, Yes sir. Isn't that something. He's old enough to be probably the interviewer great grandfather.
Oh my god, it hurts my heart. He seems so matter of fact, about it. But HE lived it! OMG.
I wish there was subtitles. Between the background noise and his strong southern accent, I could barely understand what he was saying, bless his heart
My Grandfather and Mother had Older Sisters and brothers who were slaves. My Grandfather died in 1965. He was 90 years old. My Grandmother died in 1962 she was 88 years old. Both of them had older brothers and sisters who were born as Slaves but were freed after The Civil War. You're right. It wasn't that long ago. No matter what people want to say. I'm 51 years old...
This is amazing! Thanks for posting!
This man was cheated and he didnt know, he didnt know that he was getting 1/3 of a fourth and the white man was getting 3/4 but he feels like the white man was good to him.Thats because he couldnt relize that it should have been the other way around now we should know now or do we.
When you are shackled, one is thankful to not be murdered.
I never would of P-VALLEY would bring me to this but, im glad it did🤷🏽♀️🤷🏽♀️🤷🏽♀️
I love that dialect...
Extremely Interesting
God Bless him RIP
My ancestors were very kind to their slaves. Many slaves had many advantages. It wasn't so bad for everyone. I am glad slavery is over , though.
How do you know that ?
CharlieBo313 written accounts
"you crazy to believe what you just said very racist comment".....
Meade Musi
Lol they still had no rights.
Sweet heart so sorry what the south did to you. It really hasn't changed there are still hate down there. RIP
It amazes me how people are questioning this. My great grandmother passed away a few years ago. Her grand parents were slaves and she was a sharecropper. She lead a long life. We have picture and stories. THIS was NOT THAT LONG AGO. She was very spiritual and you could see what her early life did to her. It was like being in the presence of the slave past. It was heartbreaking and unbelievable. It makes me sick thinking about slave castles and that Atlantic Ocean. Yet,whites want to judge us.
As a Jew I see we learned to look forward but not forgetting the past. This kept us from dwelling on the injustices put on us for centuries. Solomon says in the Bible that there is nothing new under the sun. If you look around you can see the wisdom in this.
Beautiful
what year was this recorded in?
While working on my family tree, I found out that many of my ancestors were slave owners.... I had nothing to do with that, but I was sorry to learn of it.....
The story in my family from the old timers, was that after the civil war, my ancestor's slaves refused to leave their so called masters... That they loved them and preferred to stay loyal to them.....
That was BS.... where could they go?.... How could they go, and what money did they have to go with?....
They had been promised 40 acres and a mule by the federal government and that was a lie.... They were abandoned by the government to fend for themselves, so they had no choice but to stay when they could and work for what ever their former so called masters would dole out to them....
The institution of slavery as practiced in America was satanic to say the least.... How anyone dares to think they have the right to own another human beings is beyond my mind to even consider....
Yeah my brothers wife family has a similar story their slaves were freed but they stayed to help their family until they died and are all buried in the family cemetery. Personally I believe a lot of what we are taught about slavery and those times are a big fucking lie and they duped us all
Reading your comments has touched me as a Black Goddess to see that you have empathy for us is overwhelming...may God bless you always
Thank you for seeing this for what it was. It's easy and convenient for people to believe the myth that slaves were happy in their servitude. It justifies the atrocity. I'm grateful to people like you who are willing to educate themselves and learn the history with empathy.
I appreciate you living in your truth and not feeling like it’s the worst thing in the world to own it…yes it’s shameful but it’s actually more shameful to not admit the horror of slavery
I commend you got being able to stand up care with a beautiful heart for all people you my friend are truly blessed with goodness in your heart may God bless you always
sad he thought the govt treated him good at this point in his life because he never knew what a decent life was.
Life for everyone back than was hard. Each generation has it better than the last In most cases. Slavery is still alive and well today around the world.
@Dee Cee Please explain how you would be grateful after anyone brandmarked, shackled, whooped, treated you as sub human and owned you as cattle?
They were so desperate for hope they'd take anything.
@@scottchadwick6921 are you comparing low paid employees of this time to recently freed slaves under Jim Crow laws... by standards of today, yes, everyone’s life was hard. In this context however, the two don’t come close to comparing.
@@scottchadwick6921 Not everyone
Letters such as this need to be in our children's school curriculum. To teach about a rightful man's journey from slavery.
I agree! This story and many more.
This is what the Republicants call Critical Race Theory 🧐
This is such a great piece of history for me and my siblings to hear!!, my family we where slaves for at least 2 generations and fortunately my great great grandmother Signora Alexander and her husband William Alexander, got away and started a new life for what is now the Whiteheads... #knowyourhistory, We own our slave home in Louisiana and a church and two stores, My blood has come from the Alexander plantation, Yet we prevail!!
Damn Whiteheads that's definitely a slave owners name
That’s amazing your great great grandparents were so brave.
Wow! That’s amazing. I’d like to trace my history.
Wow, your family really owns there slave home? That's really interesting (historically) imo. Not to say it makes the whole situation any less worse.
Thank god your village chief sold you to your benevolent master, who bankrolled your immigration to our glorious land of opportunity!
my heart goes out to my beautiful ancestors..it's sad they had to endure this atrocious way of life
it's crazy to think that baby crying in the background is old enough to be my grandmother
Yea
the man discusses his life with no animosity or regret, just matter of factly. how could something so horrific be around for thousands of years?
Probably because what you imagine as horrific was actually a very nice life, and your life would be considered horrific to them. You barely keep any more of your income than they did. =D But you also eat trash, and watch trash, and listen to trash. Basically, they'd think of you as a human trash can.
I think what these people would say about their modern ancestors is, "You were born free and this is what you've done with that blessing?" Freedom doesn't have the same value for every individual.
@@alphadriver3020 good analysis.
Wow! I never knew that there were former slaves who got interviewed on tape like this. This is remarkable...
There's a lot more if you look up slave narratives.
Extraordinary! RUclips really is a time capsule. Where could I find more like this interview? This is fascinating
There are probably numerous others. Audio recording technology was fairly common at the beginning of the 20th century, close to 40 years after the civil war and emancipation. Many early recordings didn’t survive, but I’ve heard of quite a few others that did. My grandfather probably knew some former slaves, after he was born in 1917...they all would have been elderly by the time he was a lil older.
Amen
Former slaves were alive well into the early and possibly mid 1900's.
After all the horrible things he’s been through he remains a true gentleman. Rest in peace sir
This is beautiful, absolutely beautiful. Just listen to the nuances + the rythm of speaking. And the little children in the background; sò normal, just like today! A honour to listen to this man. Rest in GOD'S peace, sir! From a white South African woman
No matter how I tried to not let my emotions come to the surface I couldn't hold my tears I read a number of the Texas Slave Narratives and two of my ancestors were interviewed so I have a great deal of skin in this historical era. All this is personal to me.
I had no idea such a thing existed! I’m looking now! Thank you!
@@Jenny010132Mississippi too
Isom Moseley a former slave was 88 years old at the time of this recording. Sorry it took so long to reply, I had problems accessing my channel. Now I can start work on part 2. Stay tuned
Reading some of the comments here show how little progress has been made in this society. There is nothing to say except RESPECT to this old timer. No need to show disrespect by starting stupid arguments. Just listen and learn from this strong old man.
You are 100% right. Listen to the stories and lessons that the people in our past try to teach to us so that we may not make the same mistakes that they did. This old fella was one of the final pages in the long, sometimes amazing, sometimes inspiring, and often times soul crushingly depressing book titled "The Story of America: Volume #1". We now have Volume #2 open before us, the pages are blank, pure, and waiting for us to begin writing out the story that will describe our time here and what mark we will leave on this wonderful 250 year long experiment known as The United States of America. A Republic that stands tall and loudly proclaims to the entire world THAT ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL.
You are 100% right. Listen to the stories and lessons that the people in our past try to teach to us so that we may not make the same mistakes that they did. This old fella was one of the final pages in the long, sometimes amazing, sometimes inspiring, and often times soul crushingly depressing book titled "The Story of America: Volume #1". We now have Volume #2 open before us, the pages are blank, pure, and waiting for us to begin writing out the story that will describe our time here and what mark we will leave on this wonderful 250 year long experiment known as The United States of America. A Republic that stands tall and loudly proclaims to the entire world THAT ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL.
A little over the top, but thanks for taking the time.
the problem is that people often have no respect for history until they get old themselves, then it is too late.
You are right about that.
For those who don't know. when this man began to speak about the Pettus family, that name should ring a bell. A bridge that stands today is name after one of there members. {Edmund Pettus}. For this man not to have much education, he speaks well. May God rest his soul. Amen Amen and Amen.
and AMEN again 😔
+Roger Cook - Great observation. Thank you for pulling that out and highlighting it. The captions only listed the first and last name initials. I was ignorant of the Pettus family, or even Edmund Pettus. The gentleman speaking, Mr. Moseley, referenced the Pettus name in such a tone that I couldn't make it out. After listening to again, it was interesting to hear him recall his perspective on John Pettus. (It sounded like he said "John.") I am curious when this interview was conducted. I suspect perhaps 1940s-1950s. Tremendous historical recording. The other recorded interviews described in the narrative are probably a delightful treasure to hear. After first hand experience through such a significant transformational period in the U.S., these old-timers can provide quite a rich perspective.
Lexngton Green I couldn't have said it better.
Your cool
Roger Cook. Very nice comment. Everyone should know Edmund Pettus and the bridge you speak of. He is a good speaker also strikes me as so kind. How anyone could mistreat him is beyond me. I'm glad that there are recordings like this.
This is why I love history...It's fascinating to hear this from someone who experienced it...No movie bulls*****t.
Direct narratives from ordinary people who experienced and witnessed history are some of the most powerful and important primary sources you can give to a student. This is why I will make sure to show these narratives to my students as a social studies teacher.
This video should be taken as a learning tool, an understanding of history from the perspective of man who's lived through some of the darkest days of African American history, but yet again some people uses this type of platform for there own ignorance, maybe because they lack relevance in the real world and negative attention is better then no attention. very sad and almost comical.
We must all learn from the mistakes of the past so that we may never repeat them.
tracy caroline well put
Great comment.
tracy caroline How true.
I think the present is the darkest days because they have freedom and still choose to be slaves.
hope to meet you in the afterlife old-timer , hope you're doing better now
+sutter75 go to hell
+sutter75 , what did Holter do that impressed you so?
+sutter75 Amen
+sutter75 why wait? Do the world a favour.
+sutter75 🖕🏼
This is a time machine. A human voice, a man, speaking of his world and times. It's real. The human spirit. The voice is true.
My great grandmother lived to be 106. She was so old that she had started growing a third set of teeth. She would drink some kind of alchoholic drink & the dr would say to let her keep drinking it because it was what was keeping her alive. Don't remember what kind of alchohol it was my uncle told me she would drink, I'll have to ask him again. Oh by the way, my uncle is 95 years old
I do find it interesting how former slaves were able to live well into their 100's. Even my great grandmother lived to be 102. While we today can barely make it to our 80's. This attest to the lifestyle and nutrition of thar time. What ever they did it was much better than modern times.
More over I believe it has to do with the purity of the food. If the phrase you are what you eat is to be believed, then eating the most unprocessed, unrefined foods could only be the healthiest food possible.
Not to mention that the environment they lived in has much cleaner air with less carcinogens and chemicals
@@jannyjt2034 I mean they were doing hard labor their entire lives so…
I had to stop watching. He mentions that his master and mistresses name was "Moseley". Of course his name is Moseley also. How I wish that "they" would have at least let us keep our names.
J. Korbyn plenty changed to Freeman, plenty since changed to African last names
@@DRBloomber most descendants of people that were enslaved carry the enslavers' names. Such callous act to deny heritage...
Google User they just don’t understand how that has traumatized us
@@melicah2479 who is "they" and "us?"
@@mmbtraveler if you have to ask, you have the answers. YOU.... US.... WE
Breaks my heart that slavery ever happened. Even through the Bible.I think this world would be a much better place if it had never happened.💔
I know and is hard to fathom at times that every single race upon this earth for thousands of years has endured slavery at one time or another. Still goes on today... :-(
Amazing to hear these voices from so long ago. History from their own lips. I remember in the 80s, and I was 14, the TV had a program with some similar recordings, and I felt like I was time traveling, it was so special.
My goodness! I'm from the UK and can understand everything the gentleman said without the captions.
Wow yall heard what my great grandfather said when asked about the government, " they treat me alright, they give me clothes and five domkara a month " . That had me breaking down. He appreciates the little bit that he gets without even speaking ill of the government. Rest in peace big pop
Not sure why close caption is needed, he speaks like a regular elderly southern gentlemen around here.
Elderly southern gentlemen need translation too.
Captions certainly are needed. I can't understand half of what he's saying. My grandfather was interviewed on videotape (now DVD) years ago, and his accent from the Old Country is so thick most people (inc. my wife) can't understand a lot of what he's saying, so I'm going through the videos and making subtitles for them. Subtitles for this video would be a helpful too.
It must be the low quality audio
Celestine IsSharkeishaNO I don't live in the south and I don't know what he's saying
Celestine IsSharkeishaNO I can't understand him because the kid in the background is screaming
It's so awesome hearing their voices. I can actually feel the rich history in Isom's tone.
“One of em hit me I’d get a brick” lol sounds like my pop rest his soul 3/8/1926........3/13/2016 🙏🏾
Very interesting to hear this piece of history. Sadly, many of today's rappers and black youth sound just like this in 2016.
What do you mean
alex briant I mean it's sad that some of our folks have the dialect of and sound like former slaves.
DJ, I would say the Black people you refer to speak worse than the person in the video.
tru
+Tedbert
This guy was a former slave... he had an excuse. 150 years later with folks still talking like this is the sad part.
Puts into perspective how recent slavery actually was, to the point that we actually have audio recordings of people who had memories of being owned as property.
God bless youtube...this is AMAZING!
His accent and pronunciation takes me back to the good ole' days listening to my grandmother and the southern Blacks; especially the ones who used to pick 'backa (tobacco).
Love love love. May Jesus bring peace. The darkest days lay ahead. This is amazing. Everyone has passed away. Even the child's voices. God is the only way.
Jesus is all that matters. I hate slavery and don't agree with it. However, it's just that, history. I can honestly say I love all people. I disagree with alot of peoples behavior, but I love the person. Eternity is forever and hoarding any hate for any reason may get you a 1 way ticket to an eternal hell. Turn and follow the teachings of Jesus Christ and don't let Satan drag you down about history or race. Peace be upon you
I love how he talks :). I can hear my grandmother and grandfather in him :).
Thanks for this piece of history.
My heart weeps for their pain and suffering. I will never be able to understand how anyone can be so cruel as to buy another human and enslave them. I pray that all those souls have found peace in heaven because their life on earth was definitely hell.
It was viewed as the same as illegals working for low wages in todays times.
Much respect to this sweet soul
I love that we have this history to listen to so we never forget.
After listening to this man speak of his life and experiences I'm struck by the fact that he's not a bitter man. He didn't speak ill of his master or mistress or anyone. I find that remarkable.
I suppose it goes to show that we can choose to live or choose to live bitterly. He choose to live and share his story without bitterness.
I've learned a lesson about gratitude and and attitude today.
Thank you sir. I have no doubt you rest in God's arms today. For the least of us on earth will be the greatest in heaven.
I could listen to him talk all day in that lullaby Southern accent and have no trouble understanding him. Some of my earliest, sweetest memories are of relatives who spoke much as he did. I believe that our famous "Southern accent" got its soft lilting tones from Africa. The African slaves may have come over in chains, but they changed us. Their impact upon every aspect of who we are has never been measured but it is huge. I speak of "they" and "we" but I think that a large part of the racism issue in the US has to do with the fact that we are each other, we are cousins and share ancestors, and we have not yet come to terms with that.
Beautiful soul.
@MrNorthernSol and this fool of to day always saying we don't speak correct English,I tell them I'm Africans blood run deeply in my veins I'm not English or England 💪💥
I appreciate this recording. Thank you!
Wow!!! This man stated that he was given $5 monthly from the government. It's hard to believe that such a small amount provided for this man all he needed to survive. Yet, he seemed so grateful. This is an extremely moving interview. We are so materialistic today and take so many things for granted. This video makes me stop and appreciate all of my ancestors who endured so many hardships so that I can be free today.
#RestInPeaceToAllMyAncestors !!!! 💪🏾🙏🏾✌🏾💯
I would have liked to have had the honor of meeting him, sitting down for supper together and talking. I love to sit and listen to our elders. I am so glad that this recording was made 🙏🇮🇱😇❤️
My soul cry's for my people
My soul cries for them, too. The sad fact is that too many of our people just don't care.
My soul craves ham hocks and collard greens 😅
He sounds like a typical southern black man of this era, but with a crackly microphone. I just wish they could have interviewed him in some sort of sound booth or studio. It's still amazing to hear his story, though!
They lugged a 200 pound recording system to record this
@@kingsaintides7227, crazy to think about. Technology sure has come a long was, huh? If only we had progressed this much in humanitarian issues..
we have come a long way since 1864 but we must keep pushing forward. The first shall be last.
+Will Rich hooray for dixie. keep it waylon...
Agree. Some of us just becoming Concious.
I can't possibly understand, I didnt live through it. I see what is happening now, but I also cant fully understand that either... as I am a white woman. I know this. I also know that shit got better and now it's getting worse..... no doubt in my mind.....
He’s hard to understand. I hope somebody took a transcript of what he said to retain for the future.
This is unbelievably sad. To remember and realize that something like this really happened is what nightmares are made of. Only pure evil could do somethimg like this to other human beings. Hell is hot.
I would have loved to have coffee and talk with him for hours. A Angel from heaven.
I don't understand why some are even watching this video if you don't care.. I don't bother with things i have no interest in... smh.. just fishing for drama i guess.. On the first hand i appreciate being able to go back in time it is very encouraging. He is a very kind man.. peace be still...
Please add sub titles I love to hear 100% thank you make more plz
In tears 😭😭😭😭
What is sad is you can hear how bad things really were but how in his mind in order to survive they had to find a positive in the whole thing. Also how he gave credit to the slave owner for turning out good crop but then he explained how it was the slaves actually doing it. Just goes to show how slavery was not only physical but also mental.
My father told me stories about carrying water from the spring before they had electricity. It's difficult to even imagine how people use to live.
And use the bathroom in the out- house or anywhere outdoors..also in buckets.
I have carried water from a spring when the well ran dry in the summer, drank water scooped from a bucket on the kitchen floor and used an outhouse before a bathroom was put in the house. It wasn't bad, it was just what you did. Was running water better? Of course it was an improvement but the rest of it wasn't evil, its just what you had to work with. And we were happy.
Tough mofos for sure 💪🏻 we gotta get back to being like this such an inspiration
"We had mighty good white folks. They had to have been good 'cause after the country surrender, didn't none of them (slaves) move from there." Surely he said this because the fear of beatings still lingered in him after all those years, right? He could not have possibly meant that. So here we go. The opening words of this video make it sound like we are going to hear from a poor wretch who was severely abused. Yet, he seems to have fond memories of his white folks.
Yours is a very naive PoV
@@abelincoln5698 And you are full of it. You wish you could change his interview. You want him starved and beaten. You are pathetic.
I love his voice.
Click the link at the bottom of the description box to be taken to the site that documents over 1500 slaves living in1860 alone that were 100 and more years of age. RUclips doesn't allow links in the comments section so I had to put it there. Again, the link is located at the bottom in the description box.
Slavery is an institution over 5000 years old. Legal slavery was only made illegal in Saudi Arabia in the 1950s. Let us not demean people who were slaves by speaking of their lives so negatively. They lived worthy lives within the circumstances they were born. We are all born within circumstances beyond our control. Reading the Bhagavad Gita taught me this.
this is a good one
It's a shame what happened to our people. I cry and my heart bleeds when I step back in time to see and hear what went on then. Dam why people can mistreat another people I have no idea. All I can say is evil creatures are put on earth for a reason..
This is awesome...listening in 2021! Thank you! 🙏🏽
Listening in 2022
What a beautiful man , God Bless
some people are evil and i don't know who created them ...maybe the world is in two halves we don't believed...
May he be at peace with God ❤️❤️
NOT ALL SLAVES HATED THEIR MASTERS AND MANY MASTERS LEFT ALL THERE BELONGINGS AND PROPERTY TO THEIR SLAVES AFTER THEY DIED OR AS THEY WERE ABOUT TO DIE.Love is Love.
+clint johnson word
Just gonna scroll down and read a bunch of comments on racial harmony....
An invaluable account. We have a fair number of written narratives, but audio recordings such as this are a treasure indeed.
Does anyone know when this recording was made? Rest in peace, sir.
During the 1930's, the government hired historians to record the recollections of former slaves as many were getting over the hill. This is likely part of that project.
i wish i could have a conversation with them.. they must be filled with wisdom
+thesecretstorm -- My Great-great Grandmother would tell me about all the things that happened to her from the day she was abducted in Africa to when she escaped, to life with the Seminoles who adopted her into their tribe, to being put on the rez in Oklahoma, and then life after leaving there. We guesstimated she was 127-years-old when she died in 1960.
Rev. Robert 'Standing Eagle' Marshall
Wow, really? can you share some of that history? What happened when she was captured? How old was she? How long was she enslaved before she was able to escape?
How exciting to hear first hand about such an life. Not the usual life story. Love to hear the elders speak!
She was lying to yall or your lying to us the importation of slaves ended in 1808 that would mean that that she would have been 152 years old to have died in 1960 and being the last batch of slaves. That's being born in 1808 to have memories would mean she would have another 5-10 years so 160 years old and I very much doubt that your great great grandmother was any where close to 160 years old.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_Prohibiting_Importation_of_Slaves#Antebellum_proposals_by_Fire-Eaters_to_reopen
Slavery didn't actually end when it ended in law in 1808.
@@newvegasify1 my grandma is 87 and she shared how she picked cotton. She said they had to pick for a mean white man. Her father was killed on Christmas Eve by a white man because a white lady said he looked at her. It was mistaken identity, it waa not him who looked at her. My granny said her dad was in Goolsby drug store at the time and that lady lied. So no slavery was still alive and well.
Here in 2022 because the creator of "p-valley" recommended it
Things like this are why history is important. It can be both heartbreaking and fascinating. The US has some really dark beginnings & history. Hell, my home state was part of the union, yet it was illegal for African Americans to move there well into the 20th century.. it wasn't even removed from the books until the 1920s. I'm not a religious man, but may God forgive us for our sins.. ✌️♥️
Side note, it's crazy how mentally sharp older folks were back then compared to people these days. In all the interviews I've seen (1800s-1900s) they seem to be able to tell stories kn great detail. They were definitely a heartier people back then.
This guy is less angry about slavery than the people in the comment section.
This guy is being interviewed by a white man; and he lived as a slave. Put it into context, and you'll realize he has been trained to behave around 'white folk'.
Genevieve Words
You’re not mad at your mother Land?
Click the link at the bottom of the description box to be taken to the site that documents over 1500 slaves living in1860 alone that were 100 and more years of age. RUclips doesn't allow links in the comments section so I had to put it there. Again, the link is located at the bottom in the description box.
gods people right here praise yah
+Jeff Hooker Expat in SE ASIA : God is real n powerful. Who created you n the world around you ? ALIENS? Who created aliens? The God Particle has been discovered! More will be discovered in the future when humans n Aliens finally meet in the future. Peace n Harmony
Marcus Starr..yes I know God is real to you. Just believe in an imaginary being. If you or a love one ever lose a limb (god forbid/no pun intended) pray to have that limb grow back. Wait and see if God answers your prayer. And if he doesn't? Just chalk it up to God works in mysterious ways. Good luck.
+Jeff Hooker as a black man in America I agree
Butch Wallace...thanks.
+Jeff Hooker Yah is freedom. The fact we turned our back on the God of the true Jews is the reason for our fall. Whites brought WHITE JESUS, not the true father, son or gospel.
Thank God For Our Roots Without Those who sacrificed their live for their freedom we wouldn’t have the rights we have today Even though we Still face Lots of hardships as African Americans it will never amount to the pain and suffering they went through they never had a chance for happiness so therefore we shall never forget what America did to them no matter how long ago it was forever grateful for theses brave Men and Women This gives me more inspiration To become Something great and receive my education because they never had the chance to experience life😭❤️
Thats an amazing recording but I wish he could say how he really felt about everything. He was careful and overly polite on purpose.
@Joe M He showed that he started out high-spirited--getting routinely beaten for hitting the white children, but he kept doing it anyway. He's still proud of holding his own during rough-and-tumble play instead of caving in to the unfair requirements of the slaveowners.
@DonkeyLips McGee They didn't think that way in those days. Statements that angered a white could result in someone else's beating, loss or punishment, or even several peoples.' Blacks never spoke out until the 1960s in fear of retribution. He would be concerned about his neighbors or even that some other old guy might not get an interview and the few dollars they would get for it.
@DonkeyLips McGee There's no way to really know, now is there? That's the insidious loss of silencing people on a wholesale basis like that, depriving them of the freedom of self-expression. We'll never have any idea what he might have said or what exactly did happen during slavery in his severely challenged life.
I really think that is his demeanor. I think he sounds polite because HE IS a polite, kind man. Doesn't sound like he has an angry bone in his body and I am glad of that, that he is at peace. Maybe it's as simple as that. It didn't appear that he felt threatened by this interview but what do I know anyway.
My Dad is deceased now but born and raised in Alabama. He was kind, polite and non racist. That's all he knew was to be that way. He despised people that were not that way and if they were from the south it embarrassed him. He grew up on a farm (30's and 40's) and he was not rich. He spoke like this man.
Thank you for posting. We must never forget what happened. Listening to this man talk about how good he had it and his last master was a good man. Makes all of us seem so spoiled and take things for granted. God Bless this man. I am so glad I watched this video. I feel humbled.
Thank you for watching.
"Working on share." Sounds familiar for today.
Deuteronomy 28 and 68 King James Version 16 eleven there's your history they've been lying the whole time
This is wonderful! Thank you so much for posting!