The Plantation System in Southern Life (1950)

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  • @anewthing720
    @anewthing720 Год назад +83

    "Until the lion learns to write, every story will glorify the hunter". ~African Proverb

    • @ericscaillet2232
      @ericscaillet2232 Год назад +4

      Lion still cannot write,and here you have it.

    • @mufasa1794
      @mufasa1794 Год назад

      @@ericscaillet2232 lmao u think u sound smart huh? Lmao ur pathetic

    • @viceaves6574
      @viceaves6574 Год назад +2

      Amen

    • @cragjones1799
      @cragjones1799 10 месяцев назад +3

      Great quote.

    • @fussypeg8561
      @fussypeg8561 8 месяцев назад

      Or the chicken puts a word in about meat eating.

  • @clytchan
    @clytchan 5 лет назад +343

    The narrator said, “The slaves had little wealth.” The slaves didn’t have ANY wealth back then.

    • @amycollado864
      @amycollado864 5 лет назад +9

      Rheal Nyce right!!

    • @angelbennett3891
      @angelbennett3891 5 лет назад +12

      Rheal Nyce ReWHITING history at RVERY turn...

    • @paulawhatleymatabane6452
      @paulawhatleymatabane6452 5 лет назад +38

      Not true. I am black, having traced enslaved ancestors on both sides of my family. Little wealth is accurate. some enslaved persons had little gardens and precious few possessions, hence "little wealth" is accurate. @@angelbennett3891

    • @sondrajean955
      @sondrajean955 5 лет назад +13

      " back then", or EVER! Isolation was important. "Cheap" slave labor? Slaves had NO wealth & NO freedom.

    • @dn30001
      @dn30001 4 года назад +16

      @@paulawhatleymatabane6452 did some retracing on my ancestry to. Its hard to convince others of this when they only think wealth is paper money

  • @DJXS5813
    @DJXS5813 3 года назад +124

    You can still see these plantation homes all across the South. The conditions that existed then still exist all across the Southern states. Tobaccos, Cotton, Sugar cane, Corn and Soybeans are all still grown in these areas. The only thing that has visibly changed is the fact that all the labor that was once performed by the now reluctant slaves, has been replaced as the narrator says by heavy machinery. The blacks that formerly were the slaves or the descendants of those slaves now still live on small tracts of land with poor or substandard housing while the white land owners and their descendants still live sometimes in the same grand plantation style mansions. As someone who grew up in the shadows of this time in history, I watched my mother and other elders of the community picking cotton in the fields for just pennies a day. While the white landlords enjoyed huge profits affording them all the privileges that we today are still fighting for.

    • @merriferrell2818
      @merriferrell2818 2 года назад +5

      Sharecropping, then migrant labors, now immigrants..esp food production

    • @merriferrell2818
      @merriferrell2818 2 года назад +3

      I think of Fannie Lou Hamer

    • @squarebidnezz4524
      @squarebidnezz4524 2 года назад

      @@merriferrell2818 They're good at tarnishing a legacy. She's identified with feminism as much as civil rights for blacks.

    • @bjschaus3513
      @bjschaus3513 Год назад

      My family were poor whites who worked in the fields. None of my family ever owned large tracts of land. Ive inherited nothing. Those whites that owned plantations and benefited greatly are a very small percentage of whites.

    • @genxnomad1978
      @genxnomad1978 Год назад +1

      Just as slave catchers were replaced by police, slaves in the fields have been replaced by the incarcerated prisoners....

  • @edwinrobertson4279
    @edwinrobertson4279 Год назад +64

    Gotta love the very clean version of this story. The slaves had little wealth, the slaves lived in smaller houses on the plantation, the slaves did almost all the work. No mention of the fact that slaves did all of back breaking work, they weren't paid, they were beaten and murdered, forced to live in shanty huts not houses, were raped by slave owners, were forced to work in very bad conditions, were turned against each on purpose by the slave owners. This was done by the owners giving some slaves special treatment over others, were separated from their families, But anyway......the narrator gives a very clean low key version of what was truly a cruel devastating situation for the slaves. This is why we must tell our own story.

    • @theCosmicQueen
      @theCosmicQueen Год назад +1

      why would they want kids to feel all that devastating worst part of it? that is adult subject matter . kids can't take it. theyneed to feel good, be happy and play at school not hate each other or start feeling mentally ill.

    • @tyreswallace9759
      @tyreswallace9759 Год назад +8

      ...Well.They don't want to tell the Whole truth,but if your not telling the whole truth.You might as well be telling a lie.

    • @ericlightfoot-uh9sq
      @ericlightfoot-uh9sq Год назад +8

      What do you mean,"don't want kids to feel the devastation part of it".. All generations need to know about their past. What there elders went through in order for them to do certain things that they want to do today... Not text book history and or opinions of others but what people really went through.. And I'm not only talking about Black kids I'm talking about all kids. Everyone needs to know TRUE FACTS about the past of every races journey. It's good to know about the people you interact with on a daily basis..
      IN MY OPINION OF COURSE

    • @citizenkang2524
      @citizenkang2524 Год назад

      @@theCosmicQueen The hate is there regardless of critical race neo-feudal U.S. HISTORY portrayed

    • @Paladin1873
      @Paladin1873 Год назад +1

      Much of what you say is accurate, but murder and rape by slave owners was the exception, not the rule. Slaves were an investment, so brutalizing and killing them served no economic purpose. Many slaves were paid, particularly those with valuable skills. Some slaves bought their freedom with their earnings. A seeming paradox existed when former slaves bought other slaves to work for them. I have read this was often done to protect and preserve family members, but I don't know the full details.

  • @teetataylor
    @teetataylor 6 лет назад +189

    Why did they called it "cheap slave labor" when my ppl didn't get paid for that labor

    • @sandracheeks1811
      @sandracheeks1811 5 лет назад +13

      Although the slaves didn't get paid, they still cost the owner: purchasing them, feeding them, housing them... so although it was very cheap when contrasted with paid laborers, it was not free labor. Not saying this was right... TOTALLY NOT.

    • @sandracheeks1811
      @sandracheeks1811 5 лет назад +1

      Tyrhol Biosphere I understand that they were not paid anything, my point was that they were still not “free” labor to the owner as he had to pay a purchase price to buy the slave as well as food, lodging (such that it was) to “maintain” the slave. So it was far cheaper than having to pay waged workers, but having slaves doing labor was not “free”. Again I am not justifying this in any way, I’m simply pointing out that fact.

    • @Msboochie2
      @Msboochie2 5 лет назад +24

      They’re liars.... were you expecting those people to be honest about their evil barbaric system? It will never happen. While their were costs associated with their business, the laborers were not paid, so it was free labor. No money was paid to the people who did all the work. They are always trying to downplay their evil deeds, that is why they are using terms that are clearly disingenuous, never expect to hear truth from demons who would heap such suffering on a whole race of people simply for monetary gain.

    • @bigvalley4987
      @bigvalley4987 5 лет назад +2

      teeta6794 taylor
      👁👁That Is What I Am Talking About... They are illegal and crying about Low wages, and my Folks build this Country without No Wages. Life fortunately did not wait for you and the peeps that want to pretend. Read up on all the various types of America History. My People build streets , brick by brick. Read up on American History as a oh picket on the USA and not Your Native Country. I am proud of my People for being a hard working. And less appreciated. But highly duplicated. I will hold this truth until the Day I Die...🎬

    • @sanchez73day36
      @sanchez73day36 5 лет назад +15

      The slaves got paid with abuse and rape and scraps of food.

  • @scrapbookboxing1094
    @scrapbookboxing1094 4 года назад +63

    It amazing how the narrator glorified the lifestyle of black life in the south. Great information. Thanks very much.

    • @davidruffin9828
      @davidruffin9828 4 года назад +17

      Remember now, this is 1950, only thing that changed is the age of our opressors

    • @the2ndcoming135
      @the2ndcoming135 3 года назад +4

      Oh, so we wasn’t winning then?🤔

    • @the2ndcoming135
      @the2ndcoming135 2 года назад

      @Benjamin Morris Hi, my name is Alpha. I’m also independent, family owned and operated. Who is y’all?😁

    • @kelcey7579
      @kelcey7579 8 месяцев назад

      ​​@@davidruffin9828god dam bars, we get rocked to sleep to easy forget everthing, like things changed

  • @davielove11
    @davielove11 6 лет назад +128

    Definitely a Eurocentric view of plantation life.

    • @Gurci28
      @Gurci28 3 года назад

      3:45

    • @Gurci28
      @Gurci28 3 года назад

      10:01

    • @the2ndcoming135
      @the2ndcoming135 3 года назад

      Well, this reminded me of the most peculiar circumstance involving a Nigerian school girl that was just released from captivity after 17 years. Forced into marriage, I’m assuming raped, and also forced into motherhood and conversion to Islam. And, with all that she remained committed to her God. Committed to her sexuality. Committed to her country. And, she even maintained her modest Muslim attire. I almost feel slight disgust proclaiming that that is amazing of her. Her captors were Black too, btw.

    • @higher_pwr8178
      @higher_pwr8178 2 года назад

      US slave labor plantation system from a purely American perspective.

    • @johnnyporter3713
      @johnnyporter3713 2 года назад +2

      Definitely some bullshit

  • @stilllearning2855
    @stilllearning2855 6 лет назад +93

    I see what they did there- slaves had ZERO wealth and ZERO privileges.

    • @darnellplayer743
      @darnellplayer743 6 лет назад +3

      Old Lady Justice. Yep, just like now. State-of-mind-slavery is in full effect.

    • @thetooginator153
      @thetooginator153 3 года назад

      Still Learning - Exactly what I was thinking.
      I grew up in the sixties in Marin County, and I NEVER saw a Coronet Film. Our teachers would have quit if they were asked to show films like this. We generally watched science films.

    • @Virus-xm7qc
      @Virus-xm7qc 3 года назад

      @@thetooginator153 yeah like like watch FOX NEWS, WHILE we keep our heads in the sand.

  • @Dina_Darling
    @Dina_Darling 5 лет назад +71

    This film tries to sanitize the wicked facts of a very dark and ruthless time in America. There are no whips or chains. Slaves wearing clean clothing; button down shirts with all the buttons and leather belts too. A male slave was actually wearing a wedding band! Overseers are seen talking civilly to the blacks. They even put a little money in the their pockets by referencing slave labor as cheap. No. Slave labor was free. The narrator says the slaves did “almost all of the work”. You have got to be kidding!!

    • @toddmiller5656
      @toddmiller5656 5 лет назад +8

      That was the way cinema was concerning slavery until 1977 when David Wolper produced the miniseries 'Roots'. Films like 'Gone With The Wind ' and 'General Spanky' presented a sanitized view of slavery. It was 'Roots' that brought out the horror of the practice.
      The narrator also fails to mention that the Southern Class System not only included planters and slaves but also lower class whites who were told that blacks were inferior to them. Hence the roots for segregation.

    • @shagar5448
      @shagar5448 5 лет назад

      I suspect that at the end of slavery it was more like the military although not as civil as they present it in the film.

    • @sekhmetnubian1020
      @sekhmetnubian1020 5 лет назад +2

      Their attempts to sanitize it is just another testament against them. Wicked evil detestable beings.

    • @frag9575
      @frag9575 4 года назад +3

      @CaliforniaCheez your delusional to look at it so black and white. It was people involved who were treated like animals. You cant treat human like animals. Especially a highly intelligent and spiritual people who had their society and civilizations dating way back than any other. You need to find yourself

    • @pinklady6224
      @pinklady6224 4 года назад +3

      @CaliforniaCheez Go read Uncle Tom's Cabin and you will get a good glimpse into what slavery was really like. The lady that wrote that book lived a very long time ago and she did not sugar coat anything about the harshness of slavery.

  • @edoedo8686
    @edoedo8686 5 лет назад +31

    I remember these Coronet films in my 70s high school...I always felt uncomfortable, and left me confused in class. What the teachers said about this left me with many answered questions...

    • @amarbyrd2520
      @amarbyrd2520 Год назад +3

      They call them "documentaries" when they contain propaganda

    • @edoedo8686
      @edoedo8686 Год назад +1

      @@amarbyrd2520 yea...I so agree.

    • @fiyahriddims
      @fiyahriddims Год назад

      Ain't no way I would have sit in a class and watched this bull💩. And that's the problem right there. You are cowards to allow this to even be made, the word slave should NEVER be spoken out of a white mouth. They all should be "put in their place" for even doing the evil 💩....... Black people will fus and fight each other but let the white race disrespect us in ever way. We are the weakest!!!!!

    • @kelcey7579
      @kelcey7579 8 месяцев назад

      ​@@amarbyrd2520I learned something

  • @Kalyopa
    @Kalyopa Год назад +6

    The narrator is giving an impression of a romantic coexistence between slave masters and slaves, excluding the cruelty that was a daily dose at these plantations against the slaves to achieve maximum yield

  • @Mark-yb1sp
    @Mark-yb1sp 2 года назад +10

    If the South had such fine manners, politeness, poise , and dignity…… how the Hell could they justify owning another human being? Oh wait,…..We have a word for that….. 🤨

    • @daniellebarrett7887
      @daniellebarrett7887 Год назад +1

      A Disgraceful piece of crap & IN your time YOUR truth is a BIG FAT LIE, YOU WHITE FOLKS WILL GET YOUR JUST REWARDS ON JUDGEMENT DAY OR BY A FATE DUE TO THE DECENDANTS LIVING NOW!!!

  • @junioraustin394
    @junioraustin394 3 года назад +58

    This narrator speaks of the white southerners "hospitality, gentle manners and courtesy". He forgot to mention that it was all a facade-----for none of these graces were extended to blacks. They just nonchalantly enslaved, whipped, murdered, raped, denied them their humanity, and abused them in every way humanly possible.

    • @thealphaandomega9348
      @thealphaandomega9348 3 года назад +8

      All facts, this is why history books need to be re-written in the U.S. cause the true history has been omitted and diluted so much. They write things they way they want others to see it instead of telling the whole unfiltered truth.

    • @thealphaandomega9348
      @thealphaandomega9348 2 года назад +1

      @Benjamin Morris Good. It still wouldn't justify how white ⚪ creatures, treated the enslaved on U.S. soil. Nothing will ever excuse it, no matter how many excuses you try to come up with. You owe a debt that will be paid in full. This is the final solution 😊

    • @theCosmicQueen
      @theCosmicQueen Год назад

      excuse me, but no, that di d not happen as a matter of course. it was only the more sadistic people who could stand doing such things. others did not.

    • @junioraustin394
      @junioraustin394 Год назад +1

      @@theCosmicQueen To enslave another human being, alone, is sadistic.

    • @larrylanberg3552
      @larrylanberg3552 4 месяца назад

      "None of these graces were extended to blacks. They just nonchalantly enslaved, whipped, murdered, raped, denied them their humanity, and abused them in every way humanly possible."
      THAT is total bullcrap, what you're saying.

  • @ianlondon2888
    @ianlondon2888 3 года назад +13

    LOL... Privileges is not a word to describe slavery. And, slaves weren't a labor system; it was a chattel system, like using donkeys to pull a cart.
    Labor systems require some exchange of consideration (even if it's insufficient).

    • @theCosmicQueen
      @theCosmicQueen Год назад

      some people even today work for housing, clothes or food. you are saying,they di d not receive money wages. And, they were not free. neither is a woman in her marriage , if she feels bound by her religion; nor does she get paid if she is a stay at home wife or mom. she may get beaten as well.

    • @ianlondon2888
      @ianlondon2888 Год назад +1

      @theCosmicQueen I agree with most of your statements, independently of what I said or the topic of slavery.

    • @Universal_Rose
      @Universal_Rose Год назад

      @@theCosmicQueenWhite women always trying to talk about their “oppression”. How do you think it was for those slave women who were ACTUALLY enslaved and weren’t seen as ppl. You wanna play the struggle Olympics? Everything white women went through had NOTHING on what black women went through and that’s throughout American history. Don’t get married if you have such a problem with it. Nobody is forcing you. I love white tears, they’re so delicious.

  • @pablotolson7728
    @pablotolson7728 6 лет назад +130

    Never forget what we produced for this ungrateful country.

    • @bigvalley4987
      @bigvalley4987 5 лет назад +6

      Pablo Tolson
      I Hear You Loud And Clearly.🥰 Ungrateful and forgetful😔😔😔😔

    • @bigvalley4987
      @bigvalley4987 5 лет назад +10

      Now the illegal immigrants are claiming that the Country will not survive without them. Please get serious!

    • @Angel-tw3ko
      @Angel-tw3ko 5 лет назад +9

      @@bigvalley4987 don't get caught up in that racist lie.. they want us to be pitied against one another! We are all God's children regardless of legal status

    • @nexaudio3748
      @nexaudio3748 5 лет назад +8

      Angel 1973 that’s what white people want you to keep telling yourself.

    • @juancamilosotopayares2811
      @juancamilosotopayares2811 3 года назад +4

      Wasn't u but ur grandparents u ain't done anything fam

  • @dondelrio1869
    @dondelrio1869 6 лет назад +36

    Why does he keep saying cheap labor. It was not cheap, it was fucking FREE for over 400 years!!!

    • @robertcuminale1212
      @robertcuminale1212 2 года назад +5

      It was cheap because the workers were unpaid but not without costs. They were purchased. The price increased after1808 when federal law promoted and signed by President Thomas Jefferson prevented the importation of slaves. There was also the cost of feeding, clothing, and housing . The author is right in saying "cheap labor" because it was not free.

    • @tabaismack2980
      @tabaismack2980 2 года назад

      Sooo truer

    • @everettwilson1416
      @everettwilson1416 2 года назад

      It was pretty close to it
      Based on the profit it produced

    • @stefangeorge2844
      @stefangeorge2844 2 года назад +2

      Interestingly enough, most current economic research has shown slavery to be more expensive overall than wage labor in the antebellum South. See the work of Gavin Wright. Plantation slavery was very inefficient and backwards at the time, which is one factor of what made it an impediment to the growth of industrialization and the commodification of labor.

    • @dondelrio1869
      @dondelrio1869 2 года назад

      @@stefangeorge2844 You a fool. How can anything be better than free 🤔

  • @mareerogers364
    @mareerogers364 Год назад +3

    This is pure lunacy.
    DeSantis would LOVE this video.

  • @reecesamuel2023
    @reecesamuel2023 5 лет назад +46

    Almost all the work? ... hun... ok.. i guess

    • @awesome5506
      @awesome5506 5 лет назад +1

      I guess dictation and beatings count as work...smh

    • @reecesamuel2023
      @reecesamuel2023 3 года назад

      @Joy for Eternity ??? "Ignorant slaves"???
      Do you identify yourself as "white"...

    • @poetcomic1
      @poetcomic1 3 года назад

      Most slave owners had rough cabins, a bit of land and a slave or two who worked alongside the owner. The biggest single slave owners were... the Southern Railroads. Of white Southerners ONLY SIX PER CENT OWNED SLAVES at the beginning of the Civil War.

    • @the2ndcoming135
      @the2ndcoming135 3 года назад

      So, Faith without works does get you death, huh?🙆🏽‍♂️

  • @shogun8dchosen172
    @shogun8dchosen172 5 лет назад +23

    I didn’t realize that this type of film existed....nothing like a bleached version of history 😒

  • @baruchisrael8054
    @baruchisrael8054 4 года назад +17

    Now we needs to hear the slaves narrative of this same account.

    • @baruchisrael8054
      @baruchisrael8054 3 года назад +1

      😂🤣

    • @the2ndcoming135
      @the2ndcoming135 3 года назад +1

      Best comment. Good God Almighty the ignorance is on full display in the comment section😂

  • @bramlintrent1145
    @bramlintrent1145 Год назад +2

    5:56 Isn't that the Burrus house in Benoit? It wasn't "abandoned during the Civil War". The Burrus family lived there till about 1920, and then various sharecroppers occupied it. Nothing in this film is exactly accurate, lol.

  • @RovingRoy
    @RovingRoy 5 лет назад +47

    Everything was so perfect. Slaves were happy being unfree and poor. After all, the white massa was so benevolent, the slaves didn't have to do any thinking for themselves, except to learn by force how to do hard manual labour and be subservient under the whip....it was a utopian paradise for all. IF YOU BELIEVE THAT, you also believe Trump is skinny.

    • @bobbrawley2612
      @bobbrawley2612 5 лет назад +1

      He's very skinny

    • @paulawhatleymatabane6452
      @paulawhatleymatabane6452 5 лет назад +1

      that is not the perspective presented in this film. stop exaggerating

    • @Virus-xm7qc
      @Virus-xm7qc 3 года назад +1

      @@paulawhatleymatabane6452...and you SOUND like Paula White.

    • @paulawhatleymatabane155
      @paulawhatleymatabane155 3 года назад

      Is it necessary to resort to ugly name calling just to make a point? Could you not just ask what thoughts/facts I relied on in making my opinion?

    • @Virus-xm7qc
      @Virus-xm7qc 3 года назад +2

      @@paulawhatleymatabane155 SORRY. , I didn't know Paula WHITE was name calling, just thought it was a label

  • @slowboogie8118
    @slowboogie8118 3 года назад +23

    "Almost all the work" 😂 😂 😂 How about ALLLLLL THE WORK!!!

    • @theCosmicQueen
      @theCosmicQueen Год назад

      are you joking? they hired a few non slaves for things. and white women sewed and embroidered clothes, linens, crochet , knitted etc as idleness wasn't considered a virtue. Even noble european women always did. They worked people all day because that's what white people were used to doing themselves, before they got rich. And all other white people did if not rich. Dawn to dusk, and even after dark by candlelight.

    • @fernandocaceres609
      @fernandocaceres609 Год назад +1

      Facts

  • @davidruffin9828
    @davidruffin9828 4 года назад +27

    This film was made during the Jim Crow era, so we'll catch all the lies and non truth.

  • @ebonybruce6473
    @ebonybruce6473 5 лет назад +19

    This was made in1950 just like today America was still not trying to say they did anything wrong

  • @Virus-xm7qc
    @Virus-xm7qc 3 года назад +12

    UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!!!!

  • @Awakeningspirit20
    @Awakeningspirit20 Год назад +5

    It is not uncommon, actually quite common, in the South and not even the Deep South, post-2020, to see apartments or neighborhoods with "plantation" in the title as if to imply a luxurious atmosphere to the dwelling-space. You might as well call it "concentration camp".

  • @wes2262
    @wes2262 2 года назад +33

    Did people actually make this with a straight face? This is pure comedy.

    • @generevelsjr.4971
      @generevelsjr.4971 Год назад

      Not comedy nothing funny at all no shame for the owners or narrator

    • @ajl2232
      @ajl2232 Год назад

      Wite razist propoganda!

    • @NestaVision2007
      @NestaVision2007 Год назад

      Yes, they did and this is the world many of the state legislations are are sneakily reconstructing their state laws towards...

    • @johnathandaviddunster38
      @johnathandaviddunster38 Год назад

      @@ajl2232 pity the ignorance of RACISM....

  • @mrheimdall
    @mrheimdall 5 лет назад +5

    I watched a video yesterday on youtube about how people that visited a plantation were pissed off about how their guide was always talking about the slaves. They wanted to here about the lives of the slave owners. How the hell do you think you're going to tour a plantation and NOT hear about slaves? That's how reprobate these people are.

  • @williamschlenger1518
    @williamschlenger1518 Год назад +10

    I remember these films in highschool.You think it's educational when you're young.

    • @slim555555
      @slim555555 Год назад

      This is educational because it serves to show upcoming generations what the reality was for slaves, these things, forgive the pun, cannot and should not be whitewashed.

  • @sondrajean955
    @sondrajean955 3 года назад +9

    This is making my stomach 😩 turn. "Cheap" or free slave labor.

  • @pdg1021
    @pdg1021 6 лет назад +21

    The plantation system is still alive to this very day! It never died in the south.

    • @tankhead62
      @tankhead62 6 лет назад +1

      you are so right about the slave system still exist, Lisa

    • @darleneanderson137
      @darleneanderson137 5 лет назад +1

      FACTS

    • @matthewthomasjames
      @matthewthomasjames 5 лет назад +3

      It exists and it's called the welfare system.

    • @richk320
      @richk320 5 лет назад

      It's called the U.S.

    • @rockywilliams8433
      @rockywilliams8433 4 года назад +5

      My grandfather is 78 yrs old and still very fit and healthy...and he still say "yessah and yessm" to white ppl..hes never left Savannah Georgia and that's all he know..but I have to remind him..grandad we not slaves no more. And u dont have to address those demons as such becuz were not less than them! I hate what they've done to my ancestors!!! I'm disturbed that they still get offended if u dont put money on the counter..I'm from NY first generation born here and when ever I'm in the south..especially the deep south..its 2nd nature to put my money on the counter..not becuz it's a unwritten law..but becuz I dont want the devils energy on me.

  • @09rja
    @09rja 2 года назад +7

    Certainly minimized the brutality of slavery.....but at least in this you actually learn something about how the plantation worked. Today, all you get out of a movie on slavery is a 2 hr @ss whoopin'. Don't learn anything.

  • @AC-kl8gi
    @AC-kl8gi 5 лет назад +16

    I can't watch this.

  • @Kalik8000
    @Kalik8000 5 лет назад +7

    6:54 😮 They say it plain. We just don't be wanting to hear it.
    10:11 The plantation system has contributed to... the separation of society into distinct groups...... (Hence segregation discrimination ghettos HBCUs PWUs BET Awards (vs Grammys) RedLining Gentrification ....)
    The Legacy of Slavery

    • @theCosmicQueen
      @theCosmicQueen Год назад

      Gentrification isn't about race it's about money.

    • @tyreswallace9759
      @tyreswallace9759 Год назад

      @@theCosmicQueen Yeah,It's about money,but not for black folks...and their always treading on established black neighborhoods to do gentrification.We can't even have our own neighborhoods any more.but every body else can.They breakup our homes as a people,and many can't see whats happening,Their giving away what was traditionally ours to immigrants and big business and we get dispersed.The love of money is the root of all evil.

  • @Bill-uo6cm
    @Bill-uo6cm 5 месяцев назад

    Very informative and unbiased documentary, devoid of all of the hysteria that typically accompanies the discussion of nearly every topic today

  • @tiffanyi5645
    @tiffanyi5645 5 лет назад +14

    This is hard to watch! I love how the narrator says "plantation social patterns have left a lasting influence on life in the south... the separation of society into distinct groups"...oh you mean SEGREGATION??!!! This was dangerous propaganda at it's worst smh

    • @paulawhatleymatabane6452
      @paulawhatleymatabane6452 5 лет назад +5

      I can imagine that you never knew Jim Crow firsthand. Well, I did and I'm glad you probably did not. It was not fun.. And this film is CORRECT and incisive about lasting impact of plantation i.e. slavery. It did lead to separation. Why is this propaganda? We always called segregation "racial separation", and understood the total lie of "separate but equal." The film is very clear and careful to never claim any equality of outcomes or life chances for blacks and whites. He makes it clear at the end that whites still own the land, live in the better house, have a high life style. Blacks were still low level labor, rented the houses, and did not own the land. Yes, it's subtle and muted that black farmers rarely got paid cash since they got "part of the crop." If the crop failed or brought a low price, black tenants were left in debt to land owner. The film was made in 1950, in midst of Cold War when any criticism of American society especially racial oppression/inequality was not tolerated. you need to grasp the WHEN of this film, look at how the filmmaker subtly uses images so you can see the continued oppression for yourself without him having to say it. In which case the film would have been censored. This was a time when just 4-5 five years later, all southern TV stations refused to carry the Nat King COLE Show because they didn't want a Negro to be in white living rooms even on TV as anything but a servant. Save Cole and other entertainers playing themselves, nearly ALL black characters in American TV and film were cast as servants. unskilled labor or prisoners. Check it out for yourself.Read J. Fred McDonald "Blacks and White TV." This instructional film was NOT another version of Gone With the Wind. It is actually amazing for its critical though muted insights of truth.

    • @marianotorrespico2975
      @marianotorrespico2975 2 года назад

      @@paulawhatleymatabane6452 --- Thank you, for the facts.

    • @rebeccaLV
      @rebeccaLV 10 месяцев назад

      Yes, SNL could have a field day with that script. They might win an Emmy for it!

  • @YellowFuzzzz
    @YellowFuzzzz Год назад +3

    Landlord often stole from the tenants

  • @naturl2012
    @naturl2012 2 года назад +11

    Our Ancestors! 🙏🏾

  • @lordluvsme9378
    @lordluvsme9378 5 лет назад +17

    DEEP! This should be talk in schools. Black people let's put our pride aside and learn. Once we get our land back let's build!!!

    • @thabomuso2575
      @thabomuso2575 2 года назад

      There are lots of good documentaries that describes the economic system of the South much better than this piece of propaganda.

    • @ericscaillet2232
      @ericscaillet2232 Год назад

      Africa's waiting...

    • @lordluvsme9378
      @lordluvsme9378 Год назад +1

      @@ericscaillet2232 so Is Europe Eric, why don't head BACK that way and pick out a nice cave for yourself.

  • @AngelicTroubleMaker-LaVooDoo24
    @AngelicTroubleMaker-LaVooDoo24 6 лет назад +27

    The crazy shit is in Kentwood, Louisiana this still occurs. FOR REAL FOR REAL smh

  • @Paladin1873
    @Paladin1873 Год назад +2

    I grew up in the Old South of the 1950s and 1960s. Everything portrayed in this film is technically accurate, but very incomplete. It was a great time to be white unless you were white trash. If you were black it was a bit better than slavery, but far from ideal. If you want to get an honest feel for this period, I recommend reading "To Kill a Mockingbird", which is set in the 1930s, but still valid. If you want to get some sense of what it was like as the Old South was vanishing in the 1960s, I recommend watching the movie "In the Heat of the Night".

  • @johnathandaviddunster38
    @johnathandaviddunster38 Год назад +3

    Grow more olive trees!!! They are BRILLIANT!! They can live and produce olives for 3000years !!! They don't need much water !!! They are a key in fighting desertification !!!

  • @feliciakershaw7765
    @feliciakershaw7765 6 лет назад +5

    I am fortunate enough to live in Cincinnati Ohio that boat is in Cincinnati ....the history I'll never forget

    • @bobbrawley2612
      @bobbrawley2612 5 лет назад +1

      Cincinnati is a southern town. What's it doing in Ohio?

  • @thealphaandomega9348
    @thealphaandomega9348 3 года назад +18

    The "planters" were the Enslavers for those who didn't grasp this. The narrator was a bit modest in his reference to certain things to not upset the fragile egos of the "planters" descendants who viewed this clip back then. 🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾🤦🏾‍♂️

    • @theCosmicQueen
      @theCosmicQueen Год назад

      are you joking? nobody wants a race war and you are an idiot if you think that's a good thing to have. of course they had to modulate it. things were far different by then. so much so that they had to teach about it as a very strange and different history.

  • @Vincent50
    @Vincent50 4 года назад +6

    No wealth no privileges for the slaves tell the damn truth. Cheap labor and cruel BS.

    • @the2ndcoming135
      @the2ndcoming135 3 года назад

      That would require snitching tho🤔

    • @theCosmicQueen
      @theCosmicQueen Год назад

      it certainly wasn't cruel to everyone across the board. it's like saying bad things may be legal but a lot o f people refuse to do them anyway.

  • @amierichan1428
    @amierichan1428 2 года назад +3

    Wouldn't you just love to see this film made by Black people?
    Just astounding as to what this doesn't mention-- at the time it was made, Jim Crow was very much in effect.

  • @dwightcannon9884
    @dwightcannon9884 5 лет назад +6

    3:43 Did the narrator say, "Cheap slave labor"... How about "Free slave labor"...

    • @the2ndcoming135
      @the2ndcoming135 3 года назад +1

      Meaning, they got rewarded with something. Hence the point of cheap. I’m sure they didn’t work on empty stomachs, for instance.

  • @TheBigpoppa54
    @TheBigpoppa54 Год назад +1

    "The separation of societies into two DISTINCT groups"...................Nuff said.

  • @landeno
    @landeno 2 года назад +5

    Did he say “cheap slave labor?” Surely he meant free.

    • @theCosmicQueen
      @theCosmicQueen Год назад +1

      There is a cost to maintaining the lives of humans. So it wasn't free, as they provided everything that the slaves had or used like housing, food, clothes, footwear, furniture, medicine, etc.

    • @landeno
      @landeno Год назад +1

      @@theCosmicQueen I would hardly consider the upkeep of kidnapped humans a “cost” especially considering they had to make meals of “food” their captors considered waste, that there was no healthcare, no paid time off. “Provided”? The slaves built and produced everything they were so graciously provided….using the trees they had to chop down, mortar they had to create, and roof for their heads that had to physically build. And they built the homes their captors stayed in too. So just stop it.

  • @andieslive669
    @andieslive669 Год назад +2

    Love, Honor and Respect to the hardest workers on the planet. I just wish the Slave Plantation Workers got something out of all the wealth that was given to the south.

  • @wandafisher7661
    @wandafisher7661 Год назад +1

    The comment of "where the slaves did most of the work" baffled me???

  • @CapstoneTider
    @CapstoneTider 2 года назад +11

    Very informative on how the south and residents agriculturally transitioned from slavery. Doubt you could make a documentary like this today.

    • @realdeal5714
      @realdeal5714 2 года назад +2

      Nope it's not going to happen. This is why history is so important. Thanks Reelblack 💘

  • @joemaxfield6978
    @joemaxfield6978 Год назад +3

    Now we need to end our crime problem.

  • @mrgeno4682
    @mrgeno4682 2 года назад +3

    100 years after the end of this I was 11. Let that sink in because it wasn't long ago. We won't even be 200 yrs out of this bs until 2065.

  • @thisisgossip
    @thisisgossip 2 года назад +2

    Ok this is pissing me off in 2022

  • @1aikane
    @1aikane Год назад +1

    Interesting look at the 1950s interpretation of this history. A bit sanitized and incomplete. The audience seems to be school kids. Thus, it was made to give an introductory look at the topic. No film could capture the whole story. Would be a good exercise to make a similar film now and see the differences in the interpretation

  • @jefferyhorton7496
    @jefferyhorton7496 Год назад +1

    According to Frederick Douglas plantations in Delaware. Also had their own forests, sawmills, carriage makers, horse raisers, canneries and owned the ships, and ship making facilities. Douglas was a skilled laborer “chalker” whose job was to precut and prefit lumber for the shipmaker carpenters. He had to be good at math. And able to read instructions and blue prints. Douglasses first master was black. And he escaped by being able to forge seaman’s papers. Which allowed him to cross state lines. So the small plantation stereotypes and ignorant slave stereotypes were not always true. For references see The Life & Times Of William Douglas which combines his autobiography and other historical documents.

  • @Spillers72
    @Spillers72 Год назад +1

    They talk about plantation life creating southern society. Thing is, the vast majority of whites in the south were not wealthy slave owning planationers.

    • @rebeccaLV
      @rebeccaLV 10 месяцев назад +1

      They may not have been wealthy, but a regular white person of modest means in the South, might still own a slave/s. Slaves were purchased but slaves were also inherited, loaned-out, and rented-out and traded like horses. Sometimes a common family would have one slave or maybe two slaves who were related, like a mother and her child. It was all a totally sad, cruel, and disgusting crime.

  • @Bill-uo6cm
    @Bill-uo6cm Год назад

    Well made, unbiased documentary.

  • @Smartriide
    @Smartriide 2 года назад +4

    When you let white people tell a story boy oh boy,

  • @patandersen4271
    @patandersen4271 6 лет назад +21

    Thank you, you are appreciated for your wanting to educate people.

    • @Dina_Darling
      @Dina_Darling 5 лет назад +8

      Pat Andersen Educate???? Are you serious? Watch Roots and 12 Years a Slave to start!

    • @kmc123ist
      @kmc123ist 5 лет назад +4

      You are a clueless individual if you think this is education

    • @markbouldin7181
      @markbouldin7181 5 лет назад +1

      💩💩💩💩💩

    • @corenpowers419
      @corenpowers419 5 лет назад +4

      Pat,..I'm going to assume your white to believe this is educating blacks🤔

    • @slim555555
      @slim555555 Год назад

      @@corenpowers419 This IS educating as it hammers home the sad realities of the plantation systems.

  • @jimkon5767
    @jimkon5767 Год назад +3

    Today, it is illegal immigrants and our neighbor
    Mexico that do most of what machines haven't taken over.
    Nice post ...

  • @rgrif777
    @rgrif777 2 года назад +5

    The separation of society into distinct groups at the end of the video was most telling, as if today 1950, we are more civilized than the past and have obtained the perfect society. Even when they learn they don't learn, and today 2022, they don't even learn, step one.

  • @johnnywilliams7488
    @johnnywilliams7488 5 лет назад +11

    Glorifieing that shit

  • @coreymcgowen5202
    @coreymcgowen5202 Год назад +2

    U did almost all the work or who did all the work

  • @michellem6826
    @michellem6826 2 года назад +3

    Really watered down version that trips into lies.

  • @sookie4195
    @sookie4195 2 года назад +6

    I drove through the subsidized housing in Kansas City. Several young women with multiple babies. It made me think that they were still living like slaves.

    • @theCosmicQueen
      @theCosmicQueen Год назад

      idk, they were receiving multiple benefits for those babies and probably lived somewhat well for the basics. might even have multiple child support streams perhaps. Not only black women who do that.

    • @banditthesiberian8156
      @banditthesiberian8156 Год назад +1

      I live in Kansas City wtf the subsidized housing??? You mean the Hood it’s called the hood we got a white hood a black hood a Asian hood a Italian hood a Mexican hood a mixed hood we got hoods on hoods out here🎉

  • @Val-rv2xb
    @Val-rv2xb 5 лет назад +4

    First of all, as a black person, the intro music sounded too cheery to be talking about the plantation system.The video left out how terrible blacks were treated. That was apart of the plantation system too!!!! For example, being whipped.

  • @richk320
    @richk320 5 лет назад +4

    "The crops remain,great numbers of negroes remain "....sheeeeesh!!

  • @rocksofoffence.righteousam2422
    @rocksofoffence.righteousam2422 Год назад +1

    Great upload but there's a few lies thrown in there

  • @hebrewbrown1900
    @hebrewbrown1900 5 лет назад +6

    WHERES " NAT TURNER WHEN💥💥💥💥 YOU NEED HIM"!!***

    • @the2ndcoming135
      @the2ndcoming135 3 года назад

      Waiting for y’all to stop being lazy and put in some work too. He ain’t gonna get your freedom for you🤷🏽‍♂️

    • @theCosmicQueen
      @theCosmicQueen Год назад

      dead, and today would go to the gas chamber.

  • @davidruffin9828
    @davidruffin9828 4 года назад +2

    Only reason I gave it a thumbs up,
    Was just to see how many lies they'll tell.

  • @jonwrong1118
    @jonwrong1118 Год назад +2

    Plantation system

  • @bigvalley4987
    @bigvalley4987 5 лет назад +9

    I visit George Washington plantation in Western Virginia. They closed off the slave quarters, reason why is they stated that is was soooo horrendous. But I felt that the tour was not as effective if I/we could not see the whole story. Of days of old.🎬 Some Peeps went bankrupt after the free labor was pulled from the old rotten Farmers taken advantage. And now they have illegal Hispanics and anyone else Illegally over here🤮

    • @amycollado864
      @amycollado864 5 лет назад

      VALERIE BLOUNT first of all, it’s LATINO, not Hispanic because they don’t come from Spain. Secondly, what’s the hell was the reason for saying illegals in a way that’s takes away their humanity? History always repeats its self and how they are targeting undocumented people is a disgrace. Be mindful of the things you say because that ‘illegal’ title is straight up disrespectful.

    • @marianotorrespico2975
      @marianotorrespico2975 2 года назад

      @@amycollado864 --- YOU ARE HALF CORRECT. | The "illegality" of the Latin Ameican worker is not an insult, but the FACT that makes those women and men so valuable to the Confederacy. Valerie Blount stated facts.

  • @deew2033
    @deew2033 2 года назад +1

    The narrator said slaves almost did all of the work…wow.

  • @BufordTGleason
    @BufordTGleason 8 месяцев назад

    You see the beauty of this is that there is no opinion by the narrator, he is simply stating what each group has and what they do. That is how history should be taught, and then it is up to me to say hey why the slaves do all the work and live in the smallest houses?
    I don’t want to be told what to conclude. Just show me the facts and let me decide.

  • @kellyodowd3949
    @kellyodowd3949 Год назад +1

    Sounds like an old Disney cartoon

  • @terrigurganus3720
    @terrigurganus3720 5 лет назад +12

    The house necros
    Are the black celebrity LoL 😂🙌!

  • @Mia63
    @Mia63 Год назад +3

    😅 ain't nothing changed. This is still white man's world

  • @hellhigh1809
    @hellhigh1809 5 лет назад +8

    20th. Century Slave.

  • @larrylove6759
    @larrylove6759 6 лет назад +6

    Now after watching this go watch Goodbye Uncle Tom

    • @dwashington7567
      @dwashington7567 6 лет назад +3

      mike Johnson i watched it.... 😔

    • @thephoenix2176
      @thephoenix2176 5 лет назад +1

      I saw the previews. . .on the fence about this flick - my cup runneth over on our hurt/insightful past - on the flipside THE WORLD KNOWS Who we are majority of us have reached the zombie apocalypse

    • @the2ndcoming135
      @the2ndcoming135 3 года назад +1

      👍🏽

  • @beesbulletsandrecyclingcan7802
    @beesbulletsandrecyclingcan7802 2 года назад +3

    Eye dont want no damn landlord

    • @theCosmicQueen
      @theCosmicQueen Год назад

      well, neither do i, but i've always had one since adulthood, an d i am white. so are most renters.

  • @markbouldin7181
    @markbouldin7181 5 лет назад +6

    "Rip-off" system

  • @richflores1558
    @richflores1558 2 года назад +4

    Wish we could travel back in time and warn them to just pick their own cotton. We'd be so much better off as a country

    • @melanatedo.g6652
      @melanatedo.g6652 Год назад

      What?!
      "Pick their own cotton?"
      Where in the hell did you come from,what rock have you crawled from?
      My ppl(Blk)had no choice in the matter. They did what needed to be done to LIVE!
      Do yourself a favor and listen to:Dr. John Henrik Clarke
      Dr. Claude Anderson, Dr. Bobby Hemmitt,Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, Tariq Nasheed,Jason Black,Prof. Blk Truth, amongst a plethora of others. You can get a better understanding of our history.

  • @fernandocaceres609
    @fernandocaceres609 Год назад +3

    Minimum wage is the new plantation system.

    • @rebeccaLV
      @rebeccaLV 10 месяцев назад

      Capitalism is The Mother of all Plantations

  • @mariecb1275
    @mariecb1275 Год назад +2

    Did he sayALMOSTall the work,,

  • @ycumbess
    @ycumbess 3 года назад +2

    Thank you for this! II learned a lot!

  • @jacobeksor6088
    @jacobeksor6088 5 лет назад +1

    I am Montagnard indigenous watching .

  • @taylorchristina5309
    @taylorchristina5309 6 лет назад +3

    This past "Juneteenth"
    www.juneteenth.com/history.htm
    I was looking at an article and a man had saw that it was JUNETEENTH and read what it was... and was dead azz.. and was like..
    "I don't get it, and I am white! this is crazy!!
    WHY ISN'T THIS A NATIONAL HOLIDAY, BUT JULY 4th IS??"
    in my mind I am, like, uhhh get with the program..
    like how this past Juneteenth in my area was in the small park location that was like 1-2 miles from the house I lived in when I was married.
    It was on previous slave plantation.
    In fact the whole area basically was on some racial 'ish which I didnt find out until later.
    inside the "small park" which is hidden way back off the street.. it shows this/that... and I AM SUPPOSED TO GO THERE TO CELEBRATE THE FREEDOM OF SLAVERY THERE??? they don't chg. there but other parts of GA, dont quote me..but I believe they have paid tours... so its like you STILL making money off the expense of those ancestors. money for them, dark memories for us.

  • @larrylanberg3552
    @larrylanberg3552 4 месяца назад

    That's Shirley Plantation in Virginia, is it not? Ten miles east of Richmond.

  • @DC_R
    @DC_R Год назад +2

    Imagine adopting a little white child.... And they ask you 🤯Why Was There Slavery❓️ And you pull them to the side and say.... Well Little "Billy". You See, 😌 It's Like This 🤦🏾‍♂️ Agggghhh Shhh 🤣 This Gone Hurt A Lil Bit.

    • @theCosmicQueen
      @theCosmicQueen Год назад

      what are you advocating? adopting innocent kids to abuse them? criminal. GO TO JAIL NOW.

  • @johnmitchell9698
    @johnmitchell9698 Год назад +1

    No wealth sir.UNpaid labor.

  • @thedon7845
    @thedon7845 2 года назад +1

    He said cheap labor...you mean FREE labor

    • @theCosmicQueen
      @theCosmicQueen Год назад

      it costs plenty to take care of people , duh. food clothes, housing, and everything else including doctors.

  • @anthonytaylor7928
    @anthonytaylor7928 3 года назад +2

    Wow he said little wealth and few privileges wow!!!

  • @jj7834
    @jj7834 2 года назад +3

    Watch Jane Pittman, free on RUclips

  • @aundreshabazz9624
    @aundreshabazz9624 3 года назад +2

    Let not forget the North had slaves too...👀😒

  • @pyreneesfarm7818
    @pyreneesfarm7818 6 месяцев назад

    This was made in 1950, it may or may not have been close to reality, but it as as close as most people who did not live it could stand to see. Slavery not only ground down the slaves, it ruined may of the people who were plantation or large farm owners. The psychology of slavery was pervasive and mentally grueling. You might be the owner of the farm, but you were as tied to the land as the slaves, straw bosses, and over seers. The merchant or his agent was the true king of the South, and even he was tied to the financier or bank that paid him as little as they could for his work. His word meant the difference between paying the bills or losing the land you financed to pay THAT bill. even being free, white and 21 did not free you from the chains of the land, The only way out was to go north and work in a factory. That was sometimes no more than trading one straw boss for another. If you, black or white, did not have an independent way to make income, you were a wage slave to a rich family that never even came to see what their factories did to the workers. Merchants and trades people were as close to fee as the people, North or South ever got. There is no true freedom working for someone else.

  • @dragonlaughing
    @dragonlaughing 5 лет назад +4

    Of the estimated 46,200 plantations known to exist in 1860, 20,700 had 20 to 30 slaves and only 2,300 had a workforce of a hundred or more, with the rest somewhere in between. Many plantations were operated by absentee-landowners and never had a main house on site.
    en.m.wikipedia.org › wiki
    Plantation complexes in the Southern United States - Wikipedia

    • @johnh.365
      @johnh.365 Год назад +1

      What's your point?

    • @genxnomad1978
      @genxnomad1978 Год назад +1

      Wikipedia can be alright at times. However, I would not call it a very credible source. The fact that ANYONE can go there and edit so-called 'facts' to fit their own narrative, makes it an untrustworthy site🤷🏿✊🏿

  • @higher_pwr8178
    @higher_pwr8178 2 года назад +6

    The US Constitution was written and ratified to ensure Enslaved people were chattel property.
    US Constitution deemed the enslaved as 3/4 human.
    Under the US Constitution, enslaved ppl had no rights, no privileges, and were never paid, but were the plantation owner's only source of free labor.

    • @robertcuminale1212
      @robertcuminale1212 2 года назад +2

      The "3/4" designation did not designate the slaves as lesser human beings. The designation applied to counting them as population for representation in the House of Representatives. Not that they were actually represented but the North feared that the South would import more slaves and increase its population and control the House.

    • @sookie4195
      @sookie4195 2 года назад

      Not free labor at all.

    • @theCosmicQueen
      @theCosmicQueen Год назад

      No, they were not deemed as 3/4 human. they were COUNTED for the House of Representatives at 3/4 the rate of free CITIZENS, so the slave states could not use thier slaves to outnumber the free states for Reps in congress. That is ALL that was about, READ IT. had nothing to do with slaves being regarded as only 3/4 of a person in a social humanity sense.

    • @tyreswallace9759
      @tyreswallace9759 Год назад +1

      @@robertcuminale1212 It was also about 3/4 of a human did not reserve the right to vote.