Exactly that's why I cant stand owing money to someone. Like he said "he never bought nothing on time. He would buy it later when he had the full cash.
I transcribed that interview for the Library of Congress. If u think he’s equating the brutalities of slavery with spending beyond your means your not listening, but that wouldn’t surprise anyone who has actually been listening!
Fergus Coullenn please name the members of your family who lived under Slavery? Since Slavery was ubiquitous that should be an easy assignment for you. I’m waiting.
We’re listening to 71 year old audio about a man who was born 172 years ago and whose grandfather was enslaved to a man nearly 250 years ago. Just the thought of it gives me goosebumps
The word is 'intelligent'. That is what you are hearing. That's an intelligent man speaking, who would have had the potential to study a profession had he had the means and access to do so.
To my ancestors. I’m sorry that I have not been living up to the standards you bled for me to live up to. I’m going back to college & I’m going to be the best human I can for you all. These voice recordings are so chilling and life changing to make you humble.
Brie Lax 44 this man sounds like a great example of a man. He did say there was people sold that where nasty or bad people. That is not excusing any bastard slave owners. People should not be slaves but not all people are nice and in good sense as this man seems.
Philoshopos I was extremely impress when I Heard the same line. Impossible of imaging those horribles days. He sound wisdom and very intelligent. God bless him 🙏🏻💕
People think im crazy for living out of my truck driving 70 hours a week just to pay cash to build the house I want on the 18 acres i bought for cash. I think this is one of the few men that get what im trying to do. Wish i could sit down and talk to him for more advice.
We are not living out of my a vehicle but we travel to make a living and We are actually building our house ourselves and paying cash as we can afford it.... It’s actually pretty rewarding and freeing
I noticed when the interviewer asked who he worked for, Mr. Hughes said "worked for? You mean when I was a slave?..." There was a difference between working and being a slave
That caught my attention too. It’s subtle but he makes a very real distinction there. It’s interesting to me that it seemed rather innocent. He wasn’t trying to drive home the point. It sounded like he was actually a bit disoriented by the question.
You do know that as a kid he was a slave as well as his parents so what he said is real about being a slave and proved to be more educated than you are. The free born were existent in the slave days but people were held as slaves still in his youth. This is from the recordings of the WPA Slave Narratives that were recorded between 1936-1938 and he was 100 years old at that time so do the math.
You do realize when he said, "You mean when I was a slave?" He was asking to clarify which time period in his life was he being asked who he worked for.
@@jasonlawrence6548 I'm not certain he was just clarifying which period of time the interviewer meant. I immediately thought he might be making a distinction between work and slavery.
@@charlottebruce979 unfortunately, that's not necessarily true. There are a lot of educated white people that I wouldn't consider to be very intelligent or enlightened.
To hear a human being say that my grandfather belonged to, and I belonged to, was so jarring to hear. Intellectually I of course know it happed but to actually listen to someone who lived it is incredible to hear. The experiences that this man lived should be mandatory learning in schools. This man's words are so powerful
@@dougmiles4396 1) She meant vids like this, of the real life experiences. We spent a few weeks in my school talking about cotton and tobacco trading as well as Martin Luther King day to review the "I Had A Dream Speech". Yet they spent an entire semester talking about our state's Mountains and Volcanoes. A little interesting. 2) It's not surprising that hate is talked about more than love in this country, when their is more hate currently than love. It would be worse if we were ignoring the hate completely and blocking it out as if it doesn't exist. I think the solution is to address the hate with love.
What's the big deal? Slavery has been going on for 10000 years and in fact still currently exists in some African countries. Whites enslaved whites, whites enslaved blacks, blacks have enslaved blacks blacks have enslaved whites, Chinese have enslaved virtually everybody. What's the issue here? Just that whites have enslaved blacks in a more recent timeframe? That's stuff is over just like the other stuff is over. For God's sake get over it and quit making it a issue.
@@dougmiles4396 no ones mad at slavery. They're mad at the effects of slavery....and segregation, and the right to vote in recent history. And wage differences, land ownership differences, etc cetera. Slavery is gone and over, systemic disenfranchising isnt....
Listening to this in June 2020, from Sydney Australia. No words. Its supposed to be a whole world away, somehow some of his stories feel relevant again
An ex-slave talking about the importance of NOT owing anyone anything and the bad side of credit or as he put it "buying on time"...what a marvelous man...ex-slaves were ALOT smarter than given credit for...I LOVE LISTENING TO THIS.
leondarnell1 it shouldn’t come as a surprise. We are speaking of people stolen from skilled and wealthy civilizations. Who do you think engineered, pioneered, performed surgery, taught, built, designed prior to enslavement? Let’s not fall into what many would have you believe. Try to watch “Something the Lord Made” to see just how HIDDEN our legacy is...on purpose...
@@analyticalbeing6445 I appreciate your response but i believe you miss my point. I accept everything you say about our history. My point is that we hardly ever hear directly from an ex-slave...hearing this is what's great...
It’s surreal to earnestly hear someone say “My grandfather belonged to Thomas Jefferson.” It really shows how recent institutionalized slavery existed in America.
But if you also think, this is a 70+ year old recording, from a 101 year old man, it also makes you think of the wealth of information of our relatively short US history, still waiting to be discovered in archives/collections somewhere.
kalonji Lol not even the North? Are you sure you didn’t misread “civil war vet” for “Confederate soldier”? Even in that case I think the value of preserving such interviews is obvious, but it’s weird to think slaves and civil war vets can’t be mentioned together considering the entire war was about slavery.
He's 101 in the picture?? Wow, I would've thought 80. I noticed that the slaves lived a mighty long time.. 115.. 109.. 101.. this is a well spoken gentleman. This needs to be played in history classes. Our ancestors are/were powerful!
Yes even the great grans who were born in the late 80's to early 90's lived long lives. I got the chance to spend time with both my great grandmother's both died in their 90's but they were not the needy type of elders. Both walked up right and went up stairs. Thanks for your input please share.
Fountain Hughes sounds so bright and lucid here, though a hundred years old. I love hearing this man speak and tell his story, very grateful this was posted. Amazingly, Mr. Hughes didn't pass away until 1957 at age 109, on the fourth of July.
HIHILOVELOVEYOUALLIS SOHURTFULLYSWEET. THANK GOD ITCAMEOUTTHISBABYSMOUTH.YOCANT MAKETHISUPAND GOD IS WITH HIM HE LOVES HIM SOME GOD. PRAISE THE LORD.loveubrother
what so ironic is that his grandfather was a slave to thomas jefferson. i bet thomas jefferson is rolling in grave to know that his for slaves ancestors became free and live to tell about it. what a remarkable kick in the face to the for fathers of america and slavery as an institution. I LOVE IT...
Barry Boo besides that it was being owned bought and sold, as if the people were property, the slaves had no choice of their own, no Human rights or Civil rights. Slavery is Evil.
FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT DIDN'T KNOW, FOUNTAIN HUGHES'S 2ND GREAT GRANDMOTHER WAS BETTY HEMINGS. BETTY'S DAUGHTER, FOUNTAIN HUGHES'S 2ND GREAT AUNT AND ONE OF HIS GREAT GRANDPARENT'S SISTERS, WAS SALLY HEMINGS. SALLY HEMINGS BORE SIX CHILDREN WITH PRESIDENT THOMAS JEFFERSON. REST IN PEACE TO FOUNTAIN HUGHES(1848-1957).
Are you a part of this family tree? I've been working on my Family Tree for over 2 years and I haven't been able to go past Thomas Jefferson. If you are, message me. I do have Aunts that are white and other family members that are mixed and praise GOD we love each other but I've always been interested in learning about my history.
@ndncountrygrits1120 Elizabeth I didn't expel the Moors. The order was never issued. The negotiation in draft letters of the Privy Council was about compensating a trader from Lubeck for English slaves he had retrieved from Iberia and returned to England. Caspar Van Senden petitioned for compensation, asking to effectively kidnap Moors from England in exchange, so he could sell them in Iberia. There were 89 English enslaved people returned to England. Neither the trade or expulsion ever happened. www.mirandakaufmann.com/blog/elizabeth-i-and-the-blackamoors-the-deportation-that-never-was
I can't believe so many people are calling former black slaves ignorant if they speak broken English. Just because someone has a thick accent or speaks broken English that does not define or indicate a lack of their intelligence. That tells you a lot about the region or area they are from.
I'm going to stop living in vanity. I'm going to get rid of a lot of my clothes and things and live more humbly and modestly. I think I'll be happier that way because of this man advice. Thank you sir may God bless you!
You can read thousands of slave interviews, or read books written by former slaves. But to actually *hear* the voices of human beings who were once owned by other human beings? That really hits hard.
Am I the only one when I hear such precious humbling timeless works of treasure like this..Instantly I begin to cry. God Rest his soul. Never forget........
"Never spend your money before you get it..I don't owe nobody 5 cents" This man has wisdom that only a life of hardships can provide. Being in debt is another (yet lesser) way of being enslaved. God, what I would give for an afternoon with him, just listening to his life stories.
This wonderful gentleman was as sharp as a tack, intelligent, strong, humble and gracious. This is an excellent piece of recorded history and should be made much widely available to educate and inform.
@@MitchellCH Yes, because it's vitally important that we deflect from the moving testimony of an ex-slave born in America speaking of his experiences in America as a former slave, and that of his family's experiences in America as American slaves, by pointing fingers at "Arab and African countries". Yes, let's do that rather than acknowledge the wrongs the person in the video is testifying to that occurred to him and those around him IN AMERICA. America isn't the only country with blood on its hands - the UK, for example, also has to look at itself because the chattel slavery of Africans during the transatlantic slave trade is unlike ANY OTHER. Its horrific legacies, including racism, continues to this very day. Nothing else compares - not even the modern slavery of today that you're pitifully trying to deflect to. And how do I know you're trying to do this? Because modern slavery is not limited to (mainly non-white) "Arab and African countries"; there is also a terrible trade across (mainly white) Europe but - OOOooooops! - you conveniently left that out. No prizes for guessing why.
@@Gooneress you are despicable for being more upset about slavery that ended over 2 centuries ago than slavery that is happening this very second. Totally disgusting. 👎
@@MitchellCH As I pointed out above, the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade has not ended. It continues to this very day - 400 years on from its birth. And everyone with a brain cell knows this. Unlike you, with your fingers pointing elsewhere, I am not choosing the form of slavery to "care" about. I care about the consequences of all forms of slavery because it means the victims do not enjoy EQUALITY and as black people around the world are STILL fighting for equality - an undoubted legacy of the transatlantic slave trade - I am entitled to be "upset". And if you really cared about modern slavery (hint: you don't), you would've mentioned modern slavery in Europe - not just ""Arab and African countries". One of the biggest anti-slavery charities has called on the European Union to do more about modern slavery; it is not restricted to "Arab and African countries". But you ignored that because you have an agenda. However your motives and your agenda are as clear and apparent to me as your fragility. In short, I don't give a flying fukk what you think of me because I'm not on this planet to please you.
@@YourXellency makes sense for the times he lived in but you cant even rent nowdays without credit, or get a car (unless you go to a janky tote the note place) so dont see how thats possible nowdays
@@kristiskinner8542 I left America about 8 years ago. You're not entirely wrong either because I brought myself to Asia where I could live comfortably and have just a little of what other people in the US had. I was struggling to find a decent job for 2 years and ate only hotdogs and slept in closest and dining room floors in other people's apartments until 2013. I didn't have much credit, but I made investments with my combat pay in the mid-2000s.
@8:00 The interviewee corrected the interviewer, he said, “I was owned”. He didn’t work for no one he was owned as a slave. To imply that someone worked for an employer, is to assume that he is receiving a wage for his work.
@@stevedarnell8444 Yes you're right, except everyone is in debt not everyone is on welfare, but when you are on welfare you're pretty much doomed to remain there forever.
Just do you know, when he speaks about Garfield being killed he is talking about president Garfield who was assassinated. What a wonderful interview for people like me who enjoy learning about history. He has a great memory for his age and he is wise. Please take something from what he has told us with you because I sure will forever.
Brilliant for his time... Good luck trying to live like that now days... You try buying a house or a car or pay for school with just the money you earn. You'd be living with your mom until you were 70
A few folks are saying these recordings are fake. They are not. They were assembled during the Great Depression’s Work Progress Administration Federal Writers Project. A former NYT colleague, Karen Dewitt, who later was a Nightline executive producer, produced an ABC Nightline segment about these narratives that were forgotten in federal archives until she produced the show in 1999.
@@jassmybaby8400 it’s fake. You talking to someone who is well connected with their roots. This is not real. Slavery never existed in the way that we were taught. Trust me. This is NOT authentic at all
Mr. Hughes said, "If I thought. . .had ANY idea. . .that I'd even be a slave again, I'd take a gun, and just end it all, right away." And to LIVE FREE OR DIE, is still just as relevant today.
Makes me think of my grandpa. He bought a piece of land cash and he built his own house literally (brick by brick) and figuratively (as money came in). He lived in a caravan on the property until his house was done ❤️❤️ he even built a little quarter at the back for my aunt. This is wisdom 🙌🏽
He said... Loud and clearly.... My name is Fountain Hughs....from that point on ...that should tell you that he didn't need a doctorate or some type of degree to validate his intelligence....
@@chelsea358 It doesn't make any kind of grammatical sense fragmenting your sentences with ellipses. Nobody talks that way unless they're out of breath. It also makes the person typing seem either mad or condescending.
Its because thwy ate the scraps of the masters. Now they make fake food so instead of doing hard work to obtain more organics. Theyve been growing fruit in tents with ten daily sprays of whatever toxics to preserve them? They wont poison their own. So thats why they lived.
I could listen to this man for hours. You really feel like you could imagine him as a person. He comes across as a deeply thoughtful, kind and intelligent man that you’d love to have as a grandfather. It somehow makes it even more sad than it already is to think that these people were slaves. Here you can actually hear the voice of a real person and know that he was once treated as property. It’s just hard to get your head around the inhumanity of that.
@@lindokuhlezondi323 never stop complaining? What?! Why would anyone complain about their situation after listening to Fountain Hughes talk about being a Slave, sleeping on a dirt floor with no bed, eating out of a trough, being forced to work whenever he was told etc etc? Especially if you live in the United States and you now can sleep in a bed, have a TV, have a cell phone, a car, a roof over your head, have a job, have money-or trying to make yourself better than the previous generation instead of relying on the Government to pay for everything? If you rely on the government, you become enslaved again!
@@Cabledeluz1977 So, one should not complain because YEARS AGO someone was a slave? I'm talking about NOW. One shouldn't accept an indecent life just because you're better off than enslaved people. One should be grateful for police racism because one is not a slave? One should be grateful for employment racism because one is not a slave?
@@Cabledeluz1977 Everyone deserves, at least, a decent life. One should never settle for anything less. Yes, one must complain if the police are mistreating one! One must complain when they experience undue employment discrimination! Why should they pay, say, a white person more than a black person for the exact same work? One must complain because it is constitutionally protected! One must complain!
@@lindokuhlezondi323 Do you even hear what you’re saying? Your comments have an entitlement to them! Why? If you or anyone doesn’t like your current situation then you do something about it! You change it! You are responsible for you! “Mistreatment of the police” “unequal pay” or “employment discrimination”. Those are legal actions. You’re gonna waste your time “complaining” about those issues when you could be improving your quality of life here. Do you want Slavery reparations? Or are you even descendants from Slaves? Most are not descendants from slaves in the US! Barry Obama wasn’t and neither is Kamala Harris. Instead of “complaining”about your situation, use the resources the US has available to improve your life! What makes the US different than any other country in the world? The United States offers anyone the opportunity to improve their current situation. Why do you think so many immigrants are fighting to get into the US? Because it’s such a terrible place to live? Give me a break! You sound like a 12 year old!
Dear uploaded, I want to thank you so much for your uploads. It's priceless, it's important, it's history and it's unbelievable that we are able to listen to this recording this way.
Wow, what a beautiful humble soul. When he said he'd rather take a bullet to end it all than to be a slave, I lost it, crying. The horrors they had to endure is unimaginable. American history is so damn shameful.
That man saw a lot. A Civil War, horses becoming cars, church in log cabins, monthly slave auctions at the courthouse, barefoot boys in dresses, and no end of trouble - and pops out the other side with the attitude of a champ. He remembered Garfield being assassinated and it's table talk. These interviews are awesome.
He was born in 1848 and said in this interview he was 100 years old. He also saw 2 world wars and the Nuclear Bomb, he lived through a lot of our modern history....
So true! What a learning experience. I could sit for hours listening to the old and wise generations they been through almost everything imaginable! Have a blessed day
He's talking about colors being in debt saying he's proud he didn't owe anybody money... I wonder if he knew how much was owed to him?. How much wealth would he have had if he was compensated for his hard labor?
Her. Queendom I’m sure he is owed much more money than I’ll ever see or could ever count. Still he is jus richer than most just for the humbleness, honesty and pure pride in his voice.
"My Grandfather belonged to Thomas Jefferson." That broke my heart right out the gate. You know none of us knows the weight of a statement like that. How in the holy name of God have we gained so much knowledge and yet we still have such little love for one another? I really don't need you to answer that.
"They didn't allow you to open no book..." - controlling information and education is at the heart of slavery. A free and critically thinking mind cannot be enslaved - just as a controlled mind can never be free. Consider this in the light of today's controlled media and the stifling of multiple points of view by academia. This is a priceless recording - a window into a very low time for humanity, but one that has been repeated continuously through history, and unfortunately one that will be continuously repeated in the future.
Justin Opinion yes, but the books, education and information was of white folks, so it’s not like they came from Africa with books and education. So they never knew it to begin with
This is very true. And you know, the dems don’t want to give black people school choice. I find that disgusting. The list for black kids to get into charter schools is ridiculously long. And yet the dems are fooling black people into thinking that they shouldn’t have a school choice. It’s gross
Never will you hear me begging to be treated equally as any other nation. The root of the issue is these nations KNOW WE ARE ABOVE ALL NATIONS and it terrifies them (fear+jealousy) We didn't keep our end of the covenant and the people who hated us from the jump have been given the greenlight FROM THE MOST HIGH to overtake us. The creator pretty much said "FINE, YOU WANT TO WORSHIP THEIR GODS AND CELEBRATE THEIR HOLIDAYS ILL MAKE YOU SERVE THEM". With that being said, when are we going to protest and boycott easter? Christmas? 4th of July? Memorial day? Thanksgiving? Valentine's day? Halloween? New years? Every one of the holidays I named above (and others i didn't name) actually fuel the Babylonian beast system. Spending money to celebrate these days financially gives them the strength to conquer us! And on the spiritual side celebrating these pagan days strips us of our very defense from the heavens. When we come to AHBA humbly as a nation in repentance the tables will turn so beautifully that they'll have to watch us eat at that same table and they won't even have power to stop it. But it takes faith first to even believe that we have defence from on high. And to the brothers trying to provoke Israelites to go to war before the appointed time the blood will be on your hands. DARAK IBAR THE AUTHOR
This is honestly mind blowing, to hear the voice on an actual human being who not only was a slave, but lived through the american civil war and the industrial age, well into the modern age. This is mind blowing, not dramatized, not read by an actor with a script or reading from a journal, real human being!! That's insane, im so thankfull that this has survived, and thankful for you having uploaded it and for the chance to listen to it.
Wow, I LOVE AND RESPECT THE/MY ELDERS SO MUCH, it hurts your soul to hear the trials and tribulations they went through. The strength 💪 they had, that we in this day WISH we had.
+Renee Lashae what sets us apart from them was their survival extinct...they had no choice but to be strong...they had to know how to hunt and farm to eat...and they had to build their own houses....today we have a false sense of privilege with no survival skills.
My grandfather lived to 104 and was a wise and lucid man to the last, I really admire that type of longevity. He died in 2019 and I wish he was here now and I'm so glad to have this voice of wisdom recorded for all time!!! Thank you Mr. Hughes for sharing your wisdom.
The first lines in this interview is today's lesson from an ex slave. Powerful words. Debt free. He truly is free. We are slaves to debt in today's society.
I could sit and listen to him talk all day that I probably would end up making him tired of talking to me. Sooooo enlightening and soooo Good, My People 🙌🏾!
Fountain Hughes’ nephew, who interviewed him, did a wonderful job. His voice is very clear, and he lets his uncle tell his stories without cutting him off.
Back in that era in the south if you were white you showed older black men and women respect by using term uncle or aunt as a term of endearment, to say sir or ma'am, mister or misses could have gotten them or you or your parents burn out or worse if someone from the klan heard you. White southerners were just as leery of the klan as black people were, white children followed their parents lead in showing respect to older blacks, hence uncle or aunt. And visa versa racist taught their their children to hate, and the thing about the klan whites and blacks never knew who were in the klan, caution was always the rule of thumb. I grew up in the south in the sixties and was taught to say uncle and aunt to older black people.
This man was very wise. I would be proud to have called him friend. He was an example of grace, wisdom and kindness. We can all learn so many lessons from him. Rest in Peace sir.
Theresa Cole Thank you, sister. Too often these days good-hearted, well-meaning people speak of people being “slaves” not realizing that they are perpetuating the dehumanizing language of the slave culture and Jim Crow era. These are NOT slaves. Slavery is but a condition...not an identity. Rather they are enslaved PEOPLE! The first step in mistreating a person is to think of them as less than...a concept deeply ingrained in the American state and ethos. Wake up, and reject the dehumanization of all people! Be anti-racist!
The shit this man had to endure for 100 years is heartbreaking These recordings are incredibly important thank you for uploading them everyone needs to hear them
I feel blessed just for take time and listen to this unique VOICE. There’s no need of face or body. He was there with us giving us the best lecture of dream and dignity. School of life. What color is GOD ??? Thank you for this valuable interview 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻💕🥺
This should be shown in history courses throughout the country. Not just mentioned maybe once in February. Black History Month is an insult. Black history is American history.
Hear here! The struggle of everyday life is a 365 day endeavor, every year. My family would have perished without the care and concern of local neighboring black people as would they without our loyalty to them. That bond, forged of less than optimal or even disgusting customs of those days is strong and holds firmly to this day. The neighbors with whom I affiliate look to my general well being as a priority and I consider their welfare my personal responsibility. (I got no time or patience for cow-field subdivision dwellers, destroyers of the American farmer's way of life, who cautioned me not to search for my lost dog in the more rural area where the black land holders reside... Those YT's didn't help me find my dog but my black neighbors did!)
@Max St Arlyn Slavery was incredibly normal 1000 years ago, they just called it indentured servitude. This debt bondage was definitely a form of slavery, especially considering the tactics used so the debt could last perpetually.
@Max St Arlyn indentured servitude was not always voluntary so I think a case could be made it is was something like slavery versus your statement of “nothing like that.” Enemies captured were often forced into indentured servitude. They were property, mistreated, beaten, returned when they ran away, and it was common to employ underhanded tactics such as not feeding someone when their contract was expiring so as not to waste food on someone leaving service. Many died before the contract ended from resulting sickness or starvation. The main difference was that indentured servitude was expected to end and if the individual actually lived, they’d be accepted into society whereas a slave could not expect such. There are far more similarities than difference, I can’t agree it’s a “night and day,” difference. I pose you these questions: If you were forced into indentured servitude or volunteered only to discover it was misrepresented and you could not back out before the contract’s ending, would you not feel much like a slave? Or, would you believe it to be a night and day difference?
My grandma just passed away last month 😔 and one of the last conversations we had was her telling me about her mother and father who were sharecroppers in Georgia and didn’t know how to read or write. But when my great grandmother was pregnant they moved to Florida to get away from that life. My grandma learned how to read and write at a early age and had to read to her parents and help them with paying their bills. She took a bus to school and yt kids would throw things at them. And they had to dodge them constantly. She dealt with racism heavily growing up. She was 67. God bless her soul. I wish I had more time to ask her more questions. She wanted to write a memoir.
I had an assistant teacher in FL who was a sharecropper growing up I wonder if it was her?! There was black and white kids in my class who threw spitballs at her and I told them off!!!
I swear I want to teach a African American studies in my children's school.... I want to get down to the nitty gritty because all they teaching is about MLK and that's it.🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️
In second or third grade. I remember us seeing videos of our people getting sprayed with hoses. My teacher at that was an older black woman. I looked at her and notice she was crying. The school system instilled pain in us. That system helped create a broken people
That's great!! But please rephrase your post because it come across as something or someone is stopping you. Which is not the case, as parents we are the first teachers and have the most influence over our children. The internet among other things are great resources. Good luck and happy learning.
WE ARE THE PEOPLE OF THE BIBLE. WE ARE THE DESCENDANTS OF JACOB. AND NOW YAH/GOD IS WAKING HIS PEOPLE UP. THE ANSWER IS IN THIS BIBLE KJV ASK YAH/GOD FOR WISDOM AND DISCERNMENT AND HE'LL HELP YOU READ THE SCRIPTURES. MY PEOPLE I PRAY YOU WAKE UP!!! YOUR TRUE KINGDOM IS AT HAND.
“ The women’s wearing the pants and the boys are wearing the dresses “ ..... He was a prophet ! if he could only see 2019 and how right he was all those years ago.
My grandfather was owned by Thomas Jefferson... heartbreaking to hear as a proud American. I'm white and my parents always taught me that all people want the same thing. Be acknowledged as a person. Regardless of color, religion etc. Thank you Mom and Dad
My soul BELONGS to Jesus Christ. I am so happy to belong to Him and not to my stupid self. Being a slave to Thomas Jefferson or George Washington is not the worst thing in the world! LOL
Say no to drugs, be a pro life you will make this man proud. Africans sold their own people, now politicians want to erase history, never receive anything free from gobernment nobody gives you anything for free there is always a catch and it could be fredom. look at Venezuela it has been happening 20 years and the TV talks day in and out about celebs, sports, sex, video games only to keep you busy and waste your time! TV is a piece of trash, they make money using us. Be a boss to the government they work for you, preserve history for the children of tomorrow so they can see if it happened before it could happen again, they want the future children not to know the truth. If we do not believe in God humans we do evil to each other.
@@marielamonaghan so just because people sell drugs do you buy them? They knew right from wrong, dont make excuses. God set the Hebrew slaves free, so that should've been an aha moment for the slave owners that it is immoral to possess another individual!
OMG my heart! Bless his heart! I just wanna hug him💔. What a life he had... And his demeanor is that of a man with not a care. You don't miss what you never had. A simple life. I have tears in my eyes listening to this amazing man.
As a brown Asian man, I want to say thank you for sharing this masterpiece documentary to the world. I can listen to this man and his knowledge all day. Respect and R.I.PARADISE SIR...
This is pure gold. God bless this man and his children. This is so essential to hear. Just smh there are so few views.... there is wisdom preached here that our children need to hear.
Never will you hear me begging to be treated equally as any other nation. The root of the issue is these nations KNOW WE ARE ABOVE ALL NATIONS and it terrifies them (fear+jealousy) We didn't keep our end of the covenant and the people who hated us from the jump have been given the greenlight FROM THE MOST HIGH to overtake us. The creator pretty much said "FINE, YOU WANT TO WORSHIP THEIR GODS AND CELEBRATE THEIR HOLIDAYS ILL MAKE YOU SERVE THEM". With that being said, when are we going to protest and boycott easter? Christmas? 4th of July? Memorial day? Thanksgiving? Valentine's day? Halloween? New years? Every one of the holidays I named above (and others i didn't name) actually fuel the Babylonian beast system. Spending money to celebrate these days financially gives them the strength to conquer us! And on the spiritual side celebrating these pagan days strips us of our very defense from the heavens. When we come to AHBA humbly as a nation in repentance the tables will turn so beautifully that they'll have to watch us eat at that same table and they won't even have power to stop it. But it takes faith first to even believe that we have defence from on high. And to the brothers trying to provoke Israelites to go to war before the appointed time the blood will be on your hands. DARAK IBAR THE AUTHOR
I'm listening to this beautiful soul speak with tears in my eyes,and I can't understand why. One thing I do know is,that Mr Hughes died a happy man. Free,and indebted to no one.
Interesting thinking this man most likely had no education in the sense we know yet a lot of people with access to education sound far less intelligent
This man is not educated... Being educated doesn't equal being smart, and being uneducated doesn't equal being dumb. It can sometimes but many times it does not. This man lived a hard life and is a smart person, his lessons came from life.
My mother had grade 8 my dad grade 6 but they had a wisdom and street sense you jus cannot teach.... it has got to be lived.... it has taken me a lifetime to realize that...too many people walking around today with too many letters behind their names and blowing alot of smoke...I not saying education isnt important cause it is but jesus when an 18 year old kid screams at a 75 year old theres something really really wrong going on nnowadays......jus sayin
"When you see something and you want it, wait until you get the money and pay for it in CASH" YESSIR💯 When he said the Yankees came and took the good horses and threw out all the meat, flour and sugar they had and let it go down the river then eat up the food they were cooking for themselves made my blood boil!
@@idrisbenhanzine6250 all races have enslaved other races since the beginning of time. Lest we forget the most oppressed group to this day is woman!! We can blame all day and night it won't change. All colors have been enslaved jews gentiles etc. So let's be honest.. as you said. Let's love each other we are all HUMAN kind. Forget the medixa lies and propaganda that is tearing us apart. Love thy neighbor. Sins of the past only resurface if we dont learn, from them, or dwell in hate revenge and anger.
@@idrisbenhanzine6250 that would be inaccurate and dishonest, psychos the world over even to this day are responsible for unbound cruelty, no man with an ounce of empathy would condone the acts of cruelty committed then or today and his skin colour is not responsible but there complete lack of humanity, often these people climb to the top
Thank goodness for the curious and inquisitive mind of a journalist for these recordings. It is truly a gift to the world. Evidence of history told first hand.
50 million views for some trash mumble rapper in a week. Not even 500k for this priceless history. So much is wrong with this world.
Sammie Baxter Thank You
Sammie Baxter FACTUAL!!!!!!! PREACH
Yes the shit is sad 😢
Truth
Your right about that
He already came out of slavery and wanted to stay out. He understood that debt was a form of slavery.
Amen Sister!!!
Exactly that's why I cant stand owing money to someone. Like he said "he never bought nothing on time. He would buy it later when he had the full cash.
@Fergus Coullenn Every one of us??? No, speak for your own lineage. What an ignorant comment!
I transcribed that interview for the Library of Congress. If u think he’s equating the brutalities of slavery with spending beyond your means your not listening, but that wouldn’t surprise anyone who has actually been listening!
Fergus Coullenn please name the members of your family who lived under Slavery? Since Slavery was ubiquitous that should be an easy assignment for you. I’m waiting.
"When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground".
Bubblegum 1 this ❤️❤️❤️
My Senegalese friends say this all the time. 💯 Truth!
Great quote so much of history is forgotten
Factz
Real talk
We’re listening to 71 year old audio about a man who was born 172 years ago and whose grandfather was enslaved to a man nearly 250 years ago. Just the thought of it gives me goosebumps
How's it feel that the electronic you type that message out was made by a slave.
It's amazing that we think of these things like they were ancient history. But 250 years is not so long ago.
You just blew my mind.
Poor o
@@joesmith7185 how so???? Lmao 🤣
This man had no education, yet he is wiser than so many...
True Grit because he was denied an education by white people because of the colour of his skin
His education was in mans inhumanity to man!
Education doesnt make you wise. Experience does.
Wisdom isn't measured in books
The word is 'intelligent'. That is what you are hearing. That's an intelligent man speaking, who would have had the potential to study a profession had he had the means and access to do so.
To my ancestors. I’m sorry that I have not been living up to the standards you bled for me to live up to.
I’m going back to college & I’m going to be the best human I can for you all.
These voice recordings are so chilling and life changing to make you humble.
Brie Lax 44 this man sounds like a great example of a man. He did say there was people sold that where nasty or bad people. That is not excusing any bastard slave owners. People should not be slaves but not all people are nice and in good sense as this man seems.
Brie...did you go to college?
Amen!
As I listened teary eyed I shared the same sentiment
this is how all history should be told. In a way that empowers black people
HE SAID "IM 100 YEARS OLD AND I DON'T OWE NOBODY 5 CENTS" 💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿
"MY HEAD AINT EVEN WHITE"
what a word!
Dana that's a blessing. We learn from our ancestors.
@@dixongrandkids That's right I pray to live a 100 years old and don't owe nobody 5 cents myself!
101 years old
Priceless
He said "I'm 100 years old and i don't owe nobody 5 cent, and I aint got no money either"
I start crying when he said he’d rather take a bullet and end it all if he’d ever had to go through slavery again.
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Me too😞😖😢😢
I was like “me too”.
I'm tearing up now
Philoshopos I was extremely impress when I Heard the same line. Impossible of imaging those horribles days. He sound wisdom and very intelligent. God bless him 🙏🏻💕
People think im crazy for living out of my truck driving 70 hours a week just to pay cash to build the house I want on the 18 acres i bought for cash. I think this is one of the few men that get what im trying to do. Wish i could sit down and talk to him for more advice.
You're 100 pc right in what you're doing. Don't get all tied in a financial mess like the majority of the world.
I think he said everything he needed to say about it. Keep it simple
Keep doing you...
You’re right, but you always owe the “state”.
We are not living out of my a vehicle but we travel to make a living and We are actually building our house ourselves and paying cash as we can afford it.... It’s actually pretty rewarding and freeing
I noticed when the interviewer asked who he worked for, Mr. Hughes said "worked for? You mean when I was a slave?..." There was a difference between working and being a slave
That caught my attention too. It’s subtle but he makes a very real distinction there. It’s interesting to me that it seemed rather innocent. He wasn’t trying to drive home the point. It sounded like he was actually a bit disoriented by the question.
You do know that as a kid he was a slave as well as his parents so what he said is real about being a slave and proved to be more educated than you are. The free born were existent in the slave days but people were held as slaves still in his youth. This is from the recordings of the WPA Slave Narratives that were recorded between 1936-1938 and he was 100 years old at that time so do the math.
@@desmondcantwell480 math's, do the englis
You do realize when he said, "You mean when I was a slave?" He was asking to clarify which time period in his life was he being asked who he worked for.
@@jasonlawrence6548 I'm not certain he was just clarifying which period of time the interviewer meant. I immediately thought he might be making a distinction between work and slavery.
Education and intelligence are not the same
Yup
No, not entirely, but it helps you to get more intelligent if you have an education. It's a start.
@@charlottebruce979 mr.fountain,the former slave would disagree.
@@charlottebruce979 unfortunately, that's not necessarily true. There are a lot of educated white people that I wouldn't consider to be very intelligent or enlightened.
SAY IT AGAIN
It's an honor to hear his voice.
Yes, I feel the same.
Exactly
Priceless!!
Absolutely
I wish we could have heard him sing.
To hear a human being say that my grandfather belonged to, and I belonged to, was so jarring to hear. Intellectually I of course know it happed but to actually listen to someone who lived it is incredible to hear. The experiences that this man lived should be mandatory learning in schools. This man's words are so powerful
It is mandatory in schools. Unfortunately, the love of this amazing America is not taught. Just the opposite.
@@dougmiles4396 1) She meant vids like this, of the real life experiences. We spent a few weeks in my school talking about cotton and tobacco trading as well as Martin Luther King day to review the "I Had A Dream Speech". Yet they spent an entire semester talking about our state's Mountains and Volcanoes. A little interesting. 2) It's not surprising that hate is talked about more than love in this country, when their is more hate currently than love. It would be worse if we were ignoring the hate completely and blocking it out as if it doesn't exist. I think the solution is to address the hate with love.
What's the big deal? Slavery has been going on for 10000 years and in fact still currently exists in some African countries. Whites enslaved whites, whites enslaved blacks, blacks have enslaved blacks blacks have enslaved whites, Chinese have enslaved virtually everybody. What's the issue here? Just that whites have enslaved blacks in a more recent timeframe? That's stuff is over just like the other stuff is over. For God's sake get over it and quit making it a issue.
@@dougmiles4396 no ones mad at slavery. They're mad at the effects of slavery....and segregation, and the right to vote in recent history. And wage differences, land ownership differences, etc cetera. Slavery is gone and over, systemic disenfranchising isnt....
@Skip ads and it still hasn't done anything to erase to effects......
Listening in 2020. Breathtaking.
Listening to this in June 2020, from Sydney Australia. No words. Its supposed to be a whole world away, somehow some of his stories feel relevant again
He has very good advice about debt. He’s rolling in his grave watching the world now.
My God!!!!!!
Facts literally makes me have to catch my breath.. deep
osu22221 sadly I don’t believe you.
This is the history that should be taught in school, we must never forget 💯
Primary sources!!! Yes! 😍😍😍
The leftist schools do not approve...Teaches blacks to take personal responsibility. They can't have their meal ticket leave their plantations...
Never forget, no matter how hard they try to white wash history
J Giza meal ticket and leftist schools? Get fucking real
Absolutely sir.
198 credit card companies disliked this video
Lest we forget they are also the 200 defenders of the Gates couple (Bill and Melinda).
lol VASTLY over-rated comment!!!
Then promised 1st and 2nd shift lunch if they signed in to dislike the video too!
dont get the joke
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An ex-slave talking about the importance of NOT owing anyone anything and the bad side of credit or as he put it "buying on time"...what a marvelous man...ex-slaves were ALOT smarter than given credit for...I LOVE LISTENING TO THIS.
leondarnell1 it shouldn’t come as a surprise. We are speaking of people stolen from skilled and wealthy civilizations. Who do you think engineered, pioneered, performed surgery, taught, built, designed prior to enslavement? Let’s not fall into what many would have you believe. Try to watch “Something the Lord Made” to see just how HIDDEN our legacy is...on purpose...
@@analyticalbeing6445 I appreciate your response but i believe you miss my point. I accept everything you say about our history. My point is that we hardly ever hear directly from an ex-slave...hearing this is what's great...
Old Black man sounds so humble and so much more intelligent than all BLM combined!
Exactly! For anyone to think anything less of their intelligence is pure ignorance
It's common sense jfc
I can't believe this doesn't have millions of views.
I can.
There several videos of this recording.
Daniel, Hello. This video should have million of views and should be required viewing in History classes.
I can...He's wonderful...He should be heard by millions on Primetime TV, school assembly, etc ...The time is now!!!
Because our history is whitewashed, and suppressed.
It’s surreal to earnestly hear someone say “My grandfather belonged to Thomas Jefferson.” It really shows how recent institutionalized slavery existed in America.
But if you also think, this is a 70+ year old recording, from a 101 year old man, it also makes you think of the wealth of information of our relatively short US history, still waiting to be discovered in archives/collections somewhere.
Jefferson Davis former slave George
you might find it interesting
That was the norms of that world. It happened to all group of humans in that world. The strong enslaved the weak
The recordings from Slaves and Civil War vets or any recordings from the past should be preserve. They are treasures.
I'm sorry sir civil war vets and slaves should never be in the same sentence
@@kolanjah I'm sorry but that's extremely retarded
@@kolanjah you dint take advantage of affirmative action did you?
kalonji Lol not even the North? Are you sure you didn’t misread “civil war vet” for “Confederate soldier”?
Even in that case I think the value of preserving such interviews is obvious, but it’s weird to think slaves and civil war vets can’t be mentioned together considering the entire war was about slavery.
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He's 101 in the picture?? Wow, I would've thought 80. I noticed that the slaves lived a mighty long time.. 115.. 109.. 101.. this is a well spoken gentleman. This needs to be played in history classes. Our ancestors are/were powerful!
Yes even the great grans who were born in the late 80's to early 90's lived long lives. I got the chance to spend time with both my great grandmother's both died in their 90's but they were not the needy type of elders. Both walked up right and went up stairs. Thanks for your input please share.
Yes indeed
I agree.
I agree. My great grandmother lived to be 104 and of a sound mind!
@POINTTWOFIVEMOA trust me, there are prolly slave roll with him and his birth on them
Fountain Hughes sounds so bright and lucid here, though a hundred years old. I love hearing this man speak and tell his story, very grateful this was posted. Amazingly, Mr. Hughes didn't pass away until 1957 at age 109, on the fourth of July.
A true independent passing on Independence day.
HIHILOVELOVEYOUALLIS SOHURTFULLYSWEET. THANK GOD ITCAMEOUTTHISBABYSMOUTH.YOCANT MAKETHISUPAND GOD IS WITH HIM HE LOVES HIM SOME GOD. PRAISE THE LORD.loveubrother
I’m grateful also. We need these verbal histories to be taught and listened to.
what so ironic is that his grandfather was a slave to thomas jefferson. i bet thomas jefferson is rolling in grave to know that his for slaves ancestors became free and live to tell about it. what a remarkable kick in the face to the for fathers of america and slavery as an institution. I LOVE IT...
Says his grandfather belonged to Thomas Jefferson. Crazy.
This is fascinating, thanks for posting it.
The first time he said " I belong to.." it sounded surreal..
Agree...thank you
Jefferson was known to have children with his slave women.
That is the way it was in slavery, humans beIng bought and sold, as property.
Barry Boo besides that it was being owned bought and sold, as if the people were property, the slaves had no choice of their own, no Human rights or Civil rights. Slavery is Evil.
FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT DIDN'T KNOW, FOUNTAIN HUGHES'S 2ND GREAT GRANDMOTHER WAS BETTY HEMINGS. BETTY'S DAUGHTER, FOUNTAIN HUGHES'S 2ND GREAT AUNT AND ONE OF HIS GREAT GRANDPARENT'S SISTERS, WAS SALLY HEMINGS. SALLY HEMINGS BORE SIX CHILDREN WITH PRESIDENT THOMAS JEFFERSON. REST IN PEACE TO FOUNTAIN HUGHES(1848-1957).
slowjamz4life WOW!!!! thanks for sharing.
Are you a part of this family tree? I've been working on my Family Tree for over 2 years and I haven't been able to go past Thomas Jefferson. If you are, message me. I do have Aunts that are white and other family members that are mixed and praise GOD we love each other but I've always been interested in learning about my history.
@ndncountrygrits1120 Elizabeth I didn't expel the Moors. The order was never issued. The negotiation in draft letters of the Privy Council was about compensating a trader from Lubeck for English slaves he had retrieved from Iberia and returned to England. Caspar Van Senden petitioned for compensation, asking to effectively kidnap Moors from England in exchange, so he could sell them in Iberia. There were 89 English enslaved people returned to England. Neither the trade or expulsion ever happened. www.mirandakaufmann.com/blog/elizabeth-i-and-the-blackamoors-the-deportation-that-never-was
Wow.. if this is verified history that's incredible. Why don't we learn actual History in school.
Randolph Jefferson.
The best part about for me is when the he says “makes people sad, I could say a lot of things I don’t want to say”. This is a true gentleman.
I can't believe so many people are calling former black slaves ignorant if they speak broken English. Just because someone has a thick accent or speaks broken English that does not define or indicate a lack of their intelligence. That tells you a lot about the region or area they are from.
Who is calling him ignorant?
My grandpa was white and sound ded just like him
He is old too. Nothing is the same way as it used to be, including the voice.
They make untrue statements to make themselves feel better or smart. Just ignore the lies.
@@jenniferj6580 right, like who would call a SLAVE ignorant? at that point they're just projecting their own insecurities
I'm going to stop living in vanity. I'm going to get rid of a lot of my clothes and things and live more humbly and modestly. I think I'll be happier that way because of this man advice. Thank you sir may God bless you!
Don't get rid of any thing just keep it like it's the last one and don't extend your wardrobe until more is Needed not wanted.
Find happiness
How about sell the clothes and invest the proceeds 😳🤷♂️
God bless you and your humble heart
So you just gonna live naked?
You can read thousands of slave interviews, or read books written by former slaves. But to actually *hear* the voices of human beings who were once owned by other human beings?
That really hits hard.
"I don't have 5 cents and I'm happy and just as happy for someone who has millions"
Am I the only one when I hear such precious humbling timeless works of treasure like this..Instantly I begin to cry. God Rest his soul.
Never forget........
I feel the same way...it pierces your soul
"Never spend your money before you get it..I don't owe nobody 5 cents" This man has wisdom that only a life of hardships can provide. Being in debt is another (yet lesser) way of being enslaved. God, what I would give for an afternoon with him, just listening to his life stories.
This wonderful gentleman was as sharp as a tack, intelligent, strong, humble and gracious. This is an excellent piece of recorded history and should be made much widely available to educate and inform.
"Don't spend your money until you get it". WISE YOUNG MAN HERE!!!
To hear a human referred to as a “free-born” is one of the most powerful and sad phrases you will ever hear.
Especially being in this country in the south. Alabama has similar stories too even Mississippi
@@blew6 dont forget Arab and African countries from this very day in the current year...
@@MitchellCH Yes, because it's vitally important that we deflect from the moving testimony of an ex-slave born in America speaking of his experiences in America as a former slave, and that of his family's experiences in America as American slaves, by pointing fingers at "Arab and African countries".
Yes, let's do that rather than acknowledge the wrongs the person in the video is testifying to that occurred to him and those around him IN AMERICA.
America isn't the only country with blood on its hands - the UK, for example, also has to look at itself because the chattel slavery of Africans during the transatlantic slave trade is unlike ANY OTHER. Its horrific legacies, including racism, continues to this very day. Nothing else compares - not even the modern slavery of today that you're pitifully trying to deflect to.
And how do I know you're trying to do this? Because modern slavery is not limited to (mainly non-white) "Arab and African countries"; there is also a terrible trade across (mainly white) Europe but - OOOooooops! - you conveniently left that out.
No prizes for guessing why.
@@Gooneress you are despicable for being more upset about slavery that ended over 2 centuries ago than slavery that is happening this very second. Totally disgusting. 👎
@@MitchellCH As I pointed out above, the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade has not ended. It continues to this very day - 400 years on from its birth. And everyone with a brain cell knows this. Unlike you, with your fingers pointing elsewhere, I am not choosing the form of slavery to "care" about.
I care about the consequences of all forms of slavery because it means the victims do not enjoy EQUALITY and as black people around the world are STILL fighting for equality - an undoubted legacy of the transatlantic slave trade - I am entitled to be "upset".
And if you really cared about modern slavery (hint: you don't), you would've mentioned modern slavery in Europe - not just ""Arab and African countries".
One of the biggest anti-slavery charities has called on the European Union to do more about modern slavery; it is not restricted to "Arab and African countries". But you ignored that because you have an agenda. However your motives and your agenda are as clear and apparent to me as your fragility.
In short, I don't give a flying fukk what you think of me because I'm not on this planet to please you.
Best lesson ever.
Don't spend what you don't have.
Don't count your chickens before the hatch. Don't buy things on credit.
I never bought squat on credit. Fountain was a prophet :P
@@YourXellency makes sense for the times he lived in but you cant even rent nowdays without credit, or get a car (unless you go to a janky tote the note place) so dont see how thats possible nowdays
@@kristiskinner8542 I left America about 8 years ago. You're not entirely wrong either because I brought myself to Asia where I could live comfortably and have just a little of what other people in the US had. I was struggling to find a decent job for 2 years and ate only hotdogs and slept in closest and dining room floors in other people's apartments until 2013. I didn't have much credit, but I made investments with my combat pay in the mid-2000s.
Good advice 100 years ago. Today ehhh, not so much.
@8:00 The interviewee corrected the interviewer, he said, “I was owned”. He didn’t work for no one he was owned as a slave. To imply that someone worked for an employer, is to assume that he is receiving a wage for his work.
That caught my attention too. People can't understand, he didn't work for..his life was that man's.
Also that they can switch employers
I caught that too.
Listening to him is just amazing. His mind is so crisp for his age and he still has joy after all he lived through.
Listening to him explain time (credit) is simply amazing. The same way they got us back then is still going on NOW. Lots of ppl are drowning in debt
Amen
Debt is the current from of slavery.
Claudio Serafino dept and welfare both.
@@stevedarnell8444 Yes you're right, except everyone is in debt not everyone is on welfare, but when you are on welfare you're pretty much doomed to remain there forever.
they died but their souls and spirits are here watching you to do better
huns Ainus our ancestors are always with us in spirit and in our DNA. We need to get it together
huns Ainus false. But go awfff
Just do you know, when he speaks about Garfield being killed he is talking about president Garfield who was assassinated. What a wonderful interview for people like me who enjoy learning about history. He has a great memory for his age and he is wise. Please take something from what he has told us with you because I sure will forever.
I will.
After hearing him say the name I look him up. Grant had an amazing life himself. From rags to President. Only 4 months in office before he was killed.
This man was brilliant....if you don't have the money, don't buy it!
Brilliant for his time... Good luck trying to live like that now days... You try buying a house or a car or pay for school with just the money you earn. You'd be living with your mom until you were 70
@@claudioserafino9910 Those people who bought (cars, houses, school) into society are in "DEBT" they are slaves in every sense of the word.
@@TalkMyShiit Couldn't agree more
@@TalkMyShiit A person who has debt can never really be free.
EclecticHillbilly I just said that ... 😉
He speaks clear as a bell for a man of his age !!!
A few folks are saying these recordings are fake. They are not. They were assembled during the Great Depression’s Work Progress Administration Federal Writers Project. A former NYT colleague, Karen Dewitt, who later was a Nightline executive producer, produced an ABC Nightline segment about these narratives that were forgotten in federal archives until she produced the show in 1999.
Obviously the same type of people that deny racism is a problem in America.
This is fake
I remember that series really well for some reason.
Oh man, I'm old...
@@teyaneipierce8802 its not fake sis lol there’s multiple other interviews on the internet of other slaves this same person interviewed in the 20s-30s
@@jassmybaby8400 it’s fake. You talking to someone who is well connected with their roots. This is not real. Slavery never existed in the way that we were taught. Trust me. This is NOT authentic at all
Mr. Huges just changed the life of someone born 60 years after this recording. Ty
Mr. Hughes said, "If I thought. . .had ANY idea. . .that I'd even be a slave again, I'd take a gun, and just end it all, right away." And to LIVE FREE OR DIE, is still just as relevant today.
Makes me think of my grandpa. He bought a piece of land cash and he built his own house literally (brick by brick) and figuratively (as money came in). He lived in a caravan on the property until his house was done ❤️❤️ he even built a little quarter at the back for my aunt.
This is wisdom 🙌🏽
Wow
He said... Loud and clearly.... My name is Fountain Hughs....from that point on ...that should tell you that he didn't need a doctorate or some type of degree to validate his intelligence....
Facts
Why so many ellipses? Use a damn period.
I like to use them too... is it against RUclips comment standards? ...being rude seems pretty common place
@@chelsea358 It doesn't make any kind of grammatical sense fragmenting your sentences with ellipses. Nobody talks that way unless they're out of breath. It also makes the person typing seem either mad or condescending.
@@AugustTheStag Thank you for your comment.
No fast food sodas or energy drinks in his day. His grandad lived to be 115, he 100 + are diet is all wrong now a days...and they were slaves!! Wow!!
DMT Media yep. Modest hard work. Not eating to much. Exorcize. Not smoking.
No stress because you don’t owe nobody.
I wouldn't include diet. Slave food was scraps. I think it was growing up with endurance and black folk who genetically strong.
Its because thwy ate the scraps of the masters. Now they make fake food so instead of doing hard work to obtain more organics. Theyve been growing fruit in tents with ten daily sprays of whatever toxics to preserve them? They wont poison their own. So thats why they lived.
We can barely live to 50. Life expectancy these days is literally 57.
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I could listen to this man for hours. You really feel like you could imagine him as a person. He comes across as a deeply thoughtful, kind and intelligent man that you’d love to have as a grandfather. It somehow makes it even more sad than it already is to think that these people were slaves. Here you can actually hear the voice of a real person and know that he was once treated as property. It’s just hard to get your head around the inhumanity of that.
I have to stop complaining and be more grateful. They sacrificed a lot for me to be in my position, thank you 🙏🏾
Never stop complaining or wanting a better life or demanding respect! (It's what they would have wanted for you.)
@@lindokuhlezondi323 never stop complaining? What?! Why would anyone complain about their situation after listening to Fountain Hughes talk about being a Slave, sleeping on a dirt floor with no bed, eating out of a trough, being forced to work whenever he was told etc etc? Especially if you live in the United States and you now can sleep in a bed, have a TV, have a cell phone, a car, a roof over your head, have a job, have money-or trying to make yourself better than the previous generation instead of relying on the Government to pay for everything? If you rely on the government, you become enslaved again!
@@Cabledeluz1977 So, one should not complain because YEARS AGO someone was a slave? I'm talking about NOW. One shouldn't accept an indecent life just because you're better off than enslaved people. One should be grateful for police racism because one is not a slave? One should be grateful for employment racism because one is not a slave?
@@Cabledeluz1977 Everyone deserves, at least, a decent life. One should never settle for anything less. Yes, one must complain if the police are mistreating one! One must complain when they experience undue employment discrimination! Why should they pay, say, a white person more than a black person for the exact same work? One must complain because it is constitutionally protected! One must complain!
@@lindokuhlezondi323 Do you even hear what you’re saying? Your comments have an entitlement to them! Why? If you or anyone doesn’t like your current situation then you do something about it! You change it! You are responsible for you! “Mistreatment of the police” “unequal pay” or “employment discrimination”. Those are legal actions. You’re gonna waste your time “complaining” about those issues when you could be improving your quality of life here. Do you want Slavery reparations? Or are you even descendants from Slaves? Most are not descendants from slaves in the US! Barry Obama wasn’t and neither is Kamala Harris. Instead of “complaining”about your situation, use the resources the US has available to improve your life!
What makes the US different than any other country in the world? The United States offers anyone the opportunity to improve their current situation. Why do you think so many immigrants are fighting to get into the US? Because it’s such a terrible place to live? Give me a break! You sound like a 12 year old!
THIS is what we need to hear. Not sugar coated history text books. We need to hear the raw hard emotional truth.
Yes. This is real history.
Dear uploaded,
I want to thank you so much for your uploads. It's priceless, it's important, it's history and it's unbelievable that we are able to listen to this recording this way.
You're welcome
Wow, what a beautiful humble soul. When he said he'd rather take a bullet to end it all than to be a slave, I lost it, crying. The horrors they had to endure is unimaginable. American history is so damn shameful.
Reading your comment made me lose it and haven't even gotten to that part of the video.
Heartwrenching
American History is a lie
@@SuperNicole2611 you know it is, it's full of horror stories and murders, mass killings
Yes!!
I feel like im listening to my great great grandfather talk.....wow
tripp me tooooo truly a blessing...im encouraged to be a greater soul
Tripp uploads right
Sad thing about it, we don't know. He could very well be one of our great, great. great...
That man saw a lot. A Civil War, horses becoming cars, church in log cabins, monthly slave auctions at the courthouse, barefoot boys in dresses, and no end of trouble - and pops out the other side with the attitude of a champ.
He remembered Garfield being assassinated and it's table talk.
These interviews are awesome.
He was born in 1848 and said in this interview he was 100 years old. He also saw 2 world wars and the Nuclear Bomb, he lived through a lot of our modern history....
@@bryonmiller4326 3 wars
That man has lived a lot. Just cannot imagine the bearing of all of the atrocities that happened to him.
I’m 100 yr old and don’t owe nobody 5 cents! What an amazing man what a inspiring story we shouldn’t censor history we should learn from it.
Powerful insight into the mind of a man who held on to his humanity in spite of the inhumane experiences he endured.
Indeed
So true! What a learning experience. I could sit for hours listening to the old and wise generations they been through almost everything imaginable! Have a blessed day
Yes
I hear his Strength, in his voice. He's so Blessed
And we are blessed to hear him across generations.
yes he was very strong at his age and i also beleive he was a good person
He's talking about colors being in debt saying he's proud he didn't owe anybody money... I wonder if he knew how much was owed to him?.
How much wealth would he have had if he was compensated for his hard labor?
There's not enough money in the world to pay him and his family for what he lost and what he suffered.
Alicia O. But his descendants still need the US Govt. to #CutTheCheck 🤞🏿✨💯💯
@@b1synrg190 lol at this point i want them to charter me a flight back to the motherland!
@Kelly Holloran he should've been paid in blood...bitch
Her. Queendom I’m sure he is owed much more money than I’ll ever see or could ever count. Still he is jus richer than most just for the humbleness, honesty and pure pride in his voice.
These recordings are absolutely priceless. So intelligent.
"My Grandfather belonged to Thomas Jefferson." That broke my heart right out the gate. You know none of us knows the weight of a statement like that. How in the holy name of God have we gained so much knowledge and yet we still have such little love for one another? I really don't need you to answer that.
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This is in the past but your assertion is as if it’s in the present. We are progressing.
This is what needs to be heard in middle school. “My head ain’t even white,nothing worries me in this world”
"They didn't allow you to open no book..." - controlling information and education is at the heart of slavery. A free and critically thinking mind cannot be enslaved - just as a controlled mind can never be free. Consider this in the light of today's controlled media and the stifling of multiple points of view by academia. This is a priceless recording - a window into a very low time for humanity, but one that has been repeated continuously through history, and unfortunately one that will be continuously repeated in the future.
Well said
Justin Opinion yes, but the books, education and information was of white folks, so it’s not like they came from Africa with books and education. So they never knew it to begin with
This is very true. And you know, the dems don’t want to give black people school choice. I find that disgusting. The list for black kids to get into charter schools is ridiculously long. And yet the dems are fooling black people into thinking that they shouldn’t have a school choice. It’s gross
Diana G. The Dems keeping black folks on the Democratic plantation.
Never will you hear me begging to be treated equally as any other nation. The root of the issue is these nations KNOW WE ARE ABOVE ALL NATIONS and it terrifies them (fear+jealousy) We didn't keep our end of the covenant and the people who hated us from the jump have been given the greenlight FROM THE MOST HIGH to overtake us. The creator pretty much said "FINE, YOU WANT TO WORSHIP THEIR GODS AND CELEBRATE THEIR HOLIDAYS ILL MAKE YOU SERVE THEM". With that being said, when are we going to protest and boycott easter? Christmas? 4th of July? Memorial day? Thanksgiving? Valentine's day? Halloween? New years? Every one of the holidays I named above (and others i didn't name) actually fuel the Babylonian beast system. Spending money to celebrate these days financially gives them the strength to conquer us! And on the spiritual side celebrating these pagan days strips us of our very defense from the heavens. When we come to AHBA humbly as a nation in repentance the tables will turn so beautifully that they'll have to watch us eat at that same table and they won't even have power to stop it. But it takes faith first to even believe that we have defence from on high. And to the brothers trying to provoke Israelites to go to war before the appointed time the blood will be on your hands.
DARAK IBAR THE AUTHOR
This is honestly mind blowing, to hear the voice on an actual human being who not only was a slave, but lived through the american civil war and the industrial age, well into the modern age. This is mind blowing, not dramatized, not read by an actor with a script or reading from a journal, real human being!! That's insane, im so thankfull that this has survived, and thankful for you having uploaded it and for the chance to listen to it.
This Brother gave the real testimony when he said he wanted to Thank God for bringing through the Devil's Hell . Amen Brother
Wow, I LOVE AND RESPECT THE/MY ELDERS SO MUCH, it hurts your soul to hear the trials and tribulations they went through. The strength 💪 they had, that we in this day WISH we had.
+Renee Lashae what sets us apart from them was their survival extinct...they had no choice but to be strong...they had to know how to hunt and farm to eat...and they had to build their own houses....today we have a false sense of privilege with no survival skills.
Black folks have the strength, but they're distracted by stupid shit. Hence THE REAL HOUSEWIVES franchise, etc.
You're probably way tougher than you think. Thank God we have electricity and water tho... Can't imagine.
My grandfather lived to 104 and was a wise and lucid man to the last, I really admire that type of longevity. He died in 2019 and I wish he was here now and I'm so glad to have this voice of wisdom recorded for all time!!! Thank you Mr. Hughes for sharing your wisdom.
This man is highly sophisticated
VAcreeper2000 just stfu
@@aukievahhall wtuwthwhhhbhhwhffgwghfrhrfhghwhgbhwfhwfgwwggghwgghhwhfhw
The first lines in this interview is today's lesson from an ex slave. Powerful words. Debt free. He truly is free. We are slaves to debt in today's society.
If there is anything worth being homebound during COVID-19 it's having available time for history. Thx for posting these. 💖
I could sit and listen to him talk all day that I probably would end up making him tired of talking to me. Sooooo enlightening and soooo Good, My People 🙌🏾!
The part where he said I'd take a gun and end it was incredibly powerful and heartbreaking how people can treat other people like that is beyond me
I never in my life thought the actual voice of a slave would cause my eyes to water up... This was simply amazing to listen to, thank you for sharing.
The master ran off because he didn't want to go to war...and died anyway. wow!
Wild he owns slaves but wont even fight in a war to keep em
@@alexanderwilliams4436 rich get the poor to do their work
That was universal karma.
droppin knowledge this interview put things in prospective for me i thought i was going through a hard time
Fountain Hughes’ nephew, who interviewed him, did a wonderful job. His voice is very clear, and he lets his uncle tell his stories without cutting him off.
It’s actually a white man interviewing him he just calls him uncle
He called him uncle just as an endearing term. The interviewer is clearly a white man.
Back in that era in the south if you were white you showed older black men and women respect by using term uncle or aunt as a term of endearment, to say sir or ma'am, mister or misses could have gotten them or you or your parents burn out or worse if someone from the klan heard you.
White southerners were just as leery of the klan as black people were, white children followed their parents lead in showing respect to older blacks, hence uncle or aunt.
And visa versa racist taught their their children to hate, and the thing about the klan whites and blacks never knew who were in the klan, caution was always the rule of thumb.
I grew up in the south in the sixties and was taught to say uncle and aunt to older black people.
@@omor33 That is an interesting insight. Having manners and respect for elders was a highmark of Southern culture, something dearly missed today.
This man was very wise. I would be proud to have called him friend. He was an example of grace, wisdom and kindness. We can all learn so many lessons from him. Rest in Peace sir.
What about what your people did to this man.. Address him talking about what your ancestors did to him?
What stories do you have for us ?
@@idrisbenhanzine6250 men like this is may be fake they appear to be friendly than here comes the knife
@@idrisbenhanzine6250 you do know that less than 1% of white people could afford slaves? So chances are Steve’s people did nothing.
Honestly, during his time you would have called him property.
This king was NEVER a slave. He was enslaved.
He was enslaved but his mind was not!
Theresa Cole Thank you, sister. Too often these days good-hearted, well-meaning people speak of people being “slaves” not realizing that they are perpetuating the dehumanizing language of the slave culture and Jim Crow era. These are NOT slaves. Slavery is but a condition...not an identity. Rather they are enslaved PEOPLE! The first step in mistreating a person is to think of them as less than...a concept deeply ingrained in the American state and ethos. Wake up, and reject the dehumanization of all people! Be anti-racist!
Theresa Cole he was a slave. Being enslaved makes one a slave. He even said he was a slave.
Jack Smith It would seem so
He wasn’t enslaved; He was a prisoner
I thought in 2020 I was gonna be angry when I was asked to listen to this I have been educated 🤞🏾✊🏾
Pretty inspirational! He was a wise man ... much wiser than a lot of us in 2020!!
The shit this man had to endure for 100 years is heartbreaking
These recordings are incredibly important thank you for uploading them everyone needs to hear them
I feel blessed just for take time and listen to this unique VOICE. There’s no need of face or body. He was there with us giving us the best lecture of dream and dignity. School of life. What color is GOD ??? Thank you for this valuable interview 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻💕🥺
A wise man. Lessons for us in 2020. He understood both physical and financial slavery.
This should be shown in history courses throughout the country. Not just mentioned maybe once in February. Black History Month is an insult. Black history is American history.
Hear here! The struggle of everyday life is a 365 day endeavor, every year. My family would have perished without the care and concern of local neighboring black people as would they without our loyalty to them. That bond, forged of less than optimal or even disgusting customs of those days is strong and holds firmly to this day. The neighbors with whom I affiliate look to my general well being as a priority and I consider their welfare my personal responsibility. (I got no time or patience for cow-field subdivision dwellers, destroyers of the American farmer's way of life, who cautioned me not to search for my lost dog in the more rural area where the black land holders reside... Those YT's didn't help me find my dog but my black neighbors did!)
He say s I will kill myself before I became a slave again that s*** hurts bro damn
Black history is what Ham did to Noah.
@Max St Arlyn Slavery was incredibly normal 1000 years ago, they just called it indentured servitude. This debt bondage was definitely a form of slavery, especially considering the tactics used so the debt could last perpetually.
@Max St Arlyn indentured servitude was not always voluntary so I think a case could be made it is was something like slavery versus your statement of “nothing like that.” Enemies captured were often forced into indentured servitude. They were property, mistreated, beaten, returned when they ran away, and it was common to employ underhanded tactics such as not feeding someone when their contract was expiring so as not to waste food on someone leaving service. Many died before the contract ended from resulting sickness or starvation. The main difference was that indentured servitude was expected to end and if the individual actually lived, they’d be accepted into society whereas a slave could not expect such. There are far more similarities than difference, I can’t agree it’s a “night and day,” difference.
I pose you these questions: If you were forced into indentured servitude or volunteered only to discover it was misrepresented and you could not back out before the contract’s ending, would you not feel much like a slave? Or, would you believe it to be a night and day difference?
@2:16 Nothing worries me, my head ain't even white!
Adam Price Nothing but faith in God 🙏🏾
My grandma just passed away last month 😔 and one of the last conversations we had was her telling me about her mother and father who were sharecroppers in Georgia and didn’t know how to read or write. But when my great grandmother was pregnant they moved to Florida to get away from that life. My grandma learned how to read and write at a early age and had to read to her parents and help them with paying their bills. She took a bus to school and yt kids would throw things at them. And they had to dodge them constantly. She dealt with racism heavily growing up. She was 67. God bless her soul.
I wish I had more time to ask her more questions. She wanted to write a memoir.
Sorry for your loss and yes the elders are a blessing. The last of a dying breed. The next generation of elders will know nothing of that time.
@@SleepingGiantWakeUp as long as people like you and mrs gibby educate us with stories we'll have plenty to share
Thanks
I had an assistant teacher in FL who was a sharecropper growing up I wonder if it was her?! There was black and white kids in my class who threw spitballs at her and I told them off!!!
@@ragtimegalsmy family resided in south Florida. Homestead/Naranja Florida. I wonder. That would be incredible 🩷
I swear I want to teach a African American studies in my children's school.... I want to get down to the nitty gritty because all they teaching is about MLK and that's it.🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️
In second or third grade. I remember us seeing videos of our people getting sprayed with hoses. My teacher at that was an older black woman. I looked at her and notice she was crying. The school system instilled pain in us. That system helped create a broken people
That's great!! But please rephrase your post because it come across as something or someone is stopping you. Which is not the case, as parents we are the first teachers and have the most influence over our children. The internet among other things are great resources. Good luck and happy learning.
WE ARE THE PEOPLE OF THE BIBLE. WE ARE THE DESCENDANTS OF JACOB. AND NOW YAH/GOD IS WAKING HIS PEOPLE UP. THE ANSWER IS IN THIS BIBLE KJV ASK YAH/GOD FOR WISDOM AND DISCERNMENT AND HE'LL HELP YOU READ THE SCRIPTURES. MY PEOPLE I PRAY YOU WAKE UP!!!
YOUR TRUE KINGDOM IS AT HAND.
Didnt MLK have the biggest impact tho? He ended segregatipn
@Ebony Panther sounds like you're an atheist. Sad
“ The women’s wearing the pants and the boys are wearing the dresses “ ..... He was a prophet ! if he could only see 2019 and how right he was all those years ago.
He asked him who did he work for he responded “who did I belong too”? Work implies some choice in the matter.
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He is like an angel...after all he has been through. I feel blessed. xx much love ..may this never happen to other people.
Melania MoneyPenny - Sadly, the 3rd world still has slavery 😢 Will this evil never end?
. It's happening to the Mexicans in America right now and the blacks are still being killed in discriminately on tv RUclips social media
“My mother belonged to”
My soul weeps
My grandfather was owned by Thomas Jefferson... heartbreaking to hear as a proud American. I'm white and my parents always taught me that all people want the same thing. Be acknowledged as a person. Regardless of color, religion etc. Thank you Mom and Dad
My soul BELONGS to Jesus Christ. I am so happy to belong to Him and not to my stupid self. Being a slave to Thomas Jefferson or George Washington is not the worst thing in the world! LOL
Dont just weep, learn, share, discuss, grow.
Say no to drugs, be a pro life you will make this man proud. Africans sold their own people, now politicians want to erase history, never receive anything free from gobernment nobody gives you anything for free there is always a catch and it could be fredom. look at Venezuela it has been happening 20 years and the TV talks day in and out about celebs, sports, sex, video games only to keep you busy and waste your time! TV is a piece of trash, they make money using us. Be a boss to the government they work for you, preserve history for the children of tomorrow so they can see if it happened before it could happen again, they want the future children not to know the truth. If we do not believe in God humans we do evil to each other.
@@marielamonaghan so just because people sell drugs do you buy them? They knew right from wrong, dont make excuses. God set the Hebrew slaves free, so that should've been an aha moment for the slave owners that it is immoral to possess another individual!
OMG my heart! Bless his heart! I just wanna hug him💔. What a life he had... And his demeanor is that of a man with not a care. You don't miss what you never had. A simple life. I have tears in my eyes listening to this amazing man.
As a brown Asian man, I want to say thank you for sharing this masterpiece documentary to the world. I can listen to this man and his knowledge all day. Respect and R.I.PARADISE SIR...
This is pure gold. God bless this man and his children. This is so essential to hear. Just smh there are so few views.... there is wisdom preached here that our children need to hear.
Never will you hear me begging to be treated equally as any other nation. The root of the issue is these nations KNOW WE ARE ABOVE ALL NATIONS and it terrifies them (fear+jealousy) We didn't keep our end of the covenant and the people who hated us from the jump have been given the greenlight FROM THE MOST HIGH to overtake us. The creator pretty much said "FINE, YOU WANT TO WORSHIP THEIR GODS AND CELEBRATE THEIR HOLIDAYS ILL MAKE YOU SERVE THEM". With that being said, when are we going to protest and boycott easter? Christmas? 4th of July? Memorial day? Thanksgiving? Valentine's day? Halloween? New years? Every one of the holidays I named above (and others i didn't name) actually fuel the Babylonian beast system. Spending money to celebrate these days financially gives them the strength to conquer us! And on the spiritual side celebrating these pagan days strips us of our very defense from the heavens. When we come to AHBA humbly as a nation in repentance the tables will turn so beautifully that they'll have to watch us eat at that same table and they won't even have power to stop it. But it takes faith first to even believe that we have defence from on high. And to the brothers trying to provoke Israelites to go to war before the appointed time the blood will be on your hands.
DARAK IBAR THE AUTHOR
I'm listening to this beautiful soul speak with tears in my eyes,and I can't understand why. One thing I do know is,that Mr Hughes died a happy man. Free,and indebted to no one.
Interesting thinking this man most likely had no education in the sense we know yet a lot of people with access to education sound far less intelligent
This man is not educated... Being educated doesn't equal being smart, and being uneducated doesn't equal being dumb. It can sometimes but many times it does not. This man lived a hard life and is a smart person, his lessons came from life.
Say it, brother! Folks today are wanna be know-it-alls and don't know shit, lol.
Well stated.
My mother had grade 8 my dad grade 6 but they had a wisdom and street sense you jus cannot teach.... it has got to be lived.... it has taken me a lifetime to realize that...too many people walking around today with too many letters behind their names and blowing alot of smoke...I not saying education isnt important cause it is but jesus when an 18 year old kid screams at a 75 year old theres something really really wrong going on nnowadays......jus sayin
I'm black and African, and nobody can tell our story better than ourselves
@Rich GibsonHahaha 😂. Well said. I love you so much bro 👊
@Rich Gibson Hahaha 😆😆😆am rolling
@Rich Gibson what can I really do for u 😆😆😆😆. U have made my day 💪
@Rich Gibson u are 100% correct. I got your back bro💪 Bless you more sweetheart 😚
Did your ancestors immigrate back to Africa after being enslaved?
"When you see something and you want it, wait until you get the money and pay for it in CASH" YESSIR💯
When he said the Yankees came and took the good horses and threw out all the meat, flour and sugar they had and let it go down the river then eat up the food they were cooking for themselves made my blood boil!
This is profoundly sad. Man's monstrously cruelty to man. We must never forget.
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White man's!! Be accurate, and honest!!
@@idrisbenhanzine6250 all races have enslaved other races since the beginning of time. Lest we forget the most oppressed group to this day is woman!! We can blame all day and night it won't change. All colors have been enslaved jews gentiles etc. So let's be honest.. as you said. Let's love each other we are all HUMAN kind. Forget the medixa lies and propaganda that is tearing us apart. Love thy neighbor. Sins of the past only resurface if we dont learn, from them, or dwell in hate revenge and anger.
@@idrisbenhanzine6250 that would be inaccurate and dishonest, psychos the world over even to this day are responsible for unbound cruelty, no man with an ounce of empathy would condone the acts of cruelty committed then or today and his skin colour is not responsible but there complete lack of humanity, often these people climb to the top
Powerfully proclaimed.
Such a commanding presence even in an audio-only recording. He sounds like he was an absolute sweetheart of a man too.
Thank goodness for the curious and inquisitive mind of a journalist for these recordings. It is truly a gift to the world.
Evidence of history told first hand.