Listening to him makes me remember how strong his and my parents generation was as Black Americans to be able to survive during dangerous and very hard times, sir I commend you
mycolortv1 my people were sold in the market places of europe and the middle east continuously for well over 1000yrs, and guess what?.........im white, a traditional owner of a land that later became known as England, the slaughter of my people started over 2000yrs ago and continued through 5 invasions by the romans, saxons, danes, vikings and the french normans, still to this day the ruling class of England are the french norman invaders and have been for 1000yrs
Yes those were the days and being born in the year of 1966 I barely missed those stressful long and hot days working for .10 cents a hour. Black folks really was United during those times and days because they had no choice. Now it seems like today's time people is taking a step backwards instead of forward when it comes to race relations. People must learn to let go of the past pain and hurt and allow the healing to take place. Black folks can not go back and fix the past. You can only work on the present and the future. Hate Evil and jealousy will only end when people decide to end racism !
I can listen to as well. That is the Art we lost. LISTENING. Take life a little easier. Take life a little easier. He have such a soothing Family oriented voice.
I had no idea that sharecropping continued that far into the 20th century. I'm glad this video is still up. Just happened to need to research Sharecropping in Louisiana.
I was born in 68 and its hard to believe people lived like this in the 60s. Now I see why my parents (God rest their souls) moved north. I took so much for granted.
Thank you for sharing this. That is very very interesting information. My grandfather was a sharecropper in the 1930s during the Depression. All of my aunts and uncles told stories about picking cotton. They also told me the difference between picking and pulling cotton. One time when I was around 12 years old my mother tookus kids to see some of the houses that she lived in and the cotton gin where they took the cotton that they had picked. That was a very hard time on the Family. I keep trying to envision my grandmother living like that and raising 9 children. Thank you again for sharing this, it has given me some insight how they lived. They also did not have electricity or running water. They had coal oil lamps and a well where they had to pump the water to bring into the house. All of the children had their own special chores. when they were out in the cotton fields my grandmother would place the babies on the end of the tow sack and hold them along well she was picking cotton. all of the older children from the age of five on up would pick cotton. When their tow sack was full they would empty it into the back have a truck. When the truck was full someone would take it to the cotton gin.
Thank you for your thoughtful reply. This is a time in history we tend to forget, and we are aware that there were sharecroppers of all races. This video has sparked a lot of interest and comments, some comments that I had to remove, but most were informative. This is a huge subject and this video only covers a small part of the subject. However, a lot of Americans really are not aware of sharecropping and how it worked. Big Blend Magazines.
My grand parents were share croppers and may they both rest in peace. I remember my whole family lived on one street. They were in Union Springs Alabama. I'm 41 years old and I loved visiting them. They both passed away in the early to mid 90's.
I found the contract that my 3x great grandfather signed to be a sharecropper in South Carolina in 1868. Slavery had just recently been abolished and he was still toiling away in the fields. The land owner was a Confederate soldier. Imagine how wonderful he must have treated them. I hate my family had to endure this but I am proud of them for surviving for themselves and for me.
My grandmother used to tell me about this way of living. I always loved for her to talk about her past life. Sometimes it would make me sad and as I got older it would upset me because of the injustice she and her family endured.
@Adonis Johnson I am not sure if your comment was directed to me or not because you did not put a handle on it but if it was, you are entitled to freedom of speech and to your own opinion. I expressed my self without using any derogatory comments and there was no need for you to make such a comment. However, you are entitled to speak your mind, but please remember when it is your turn to endure take it with a grain of salt.
One day these kids now a days WILL look back, see, & hopefully understand what WE delt with in our days! i.e., same situations on a diff. level, just another time!
Bravo, Mr. Sheilds !!! I just wish that it was longer; perhaps with some of your family history, how many siblings are in your family & how long your family has lived in the Cane River area. Even so, I so enjoyed your narration. Thank you so much !
You're an inspiration! Thanks for educating us on sharecroppers life. I also gladly appreciate you, for your services to our country. You're awesome, and you never forgot where you came from. 💪👊👍👍
I grew up in the countryside. We did not have running water inside. We used water from the river, No electricity. We used oil lantern and we grew that plant making oil. Nothing wrong with that.
Nothing wrong with it but it's a hard life regardless of who you are. White people had it hard in the same way that this man is describing. If you work hard enough you can keep body and soul together but that's about all you can accomplish. Your kids start so far behind the children of the privileged that it's a heartache for their parents.
@@BlueRidgeMtns100 you're joking right? You can not compare the few white ppl who struggled to the majority of blacks who struggled. Y'all always looking for a pity party
@@FaithandNova You have a very narrow outlook. You are of the opinion it was "the few" white people who struggled when it was actually the majority. As for a "pity party" take a look at your comment and the attitude it expresses.
Great video. My grandfather was a sharecropper. It was a way to farm if you couldn't afford land. My brother, now, has also lived on farms while he worked for the farm (but got paid wage, not profit). This is how it usually works today.
My Great Grandparents were share croppers too. We have a really old photo of them sitting on the front porch of their home. They were so poor the doctor wouldn't teat one of their children and he died. RIP Glen. It made my Grandma cry to tell the story when she was in her last decade of life.
I need to put my kids in this environment because they think money grow on trees. They don't see the reason they eat out a lot and get mostly what they want is because I'm getting only 5 hours a sleep after working and time with them.
I give respect to you, you sound like my father. Works himself downto the bone cuz he never wants us to go without money again. My sister disrespects him and I hope she learns how much is sacrificed, I hope your children do too.
This is what I want for my family our own land to raise our own healthy food and live together hopefully I will find land after I finish my degree in agriculture
This account of America's past for African American's eerily resembles the poor areas of my home country Zimbabwe. Oddly enough I have also seen some children with what you call "plantation art" where they make cars or other vehicles with long handles which allow them to steer the toy as they walk. Although these toys are not linked with plantations or slavery. When I was younger even though I had the luxuries of modern toys, I used to be fascinated with those wire toys and wanted to use one myself and now that I'm older I finally bought one to put on display a few years ago. We also have a lot of subsistence farmers. The system isn't far different from sharecroppers except for most people have to buy seed each year from the big seed companies. Of course, most of these seeds are hybrids which of course are not open pollinated so you can't just replant the seed from last years crop and get a genetically identical crop. You have to keep going back to the same seed company, keeping people in a cycle of poverty. Alas, there is great hope. If America has progressed to where it is now from just the 1950s, even my country which only became liberated in 1980 could also prosper one day.
Your country will most assuredly progress as a lot of the former British colonies have and are still doing. Although we are American, my daughter and I used to live in Kenya and then South Africa, where we saw a lot of the old colonial ways of doing things changing day by day. With those changes, you know the attitudes of the people are also changing.
My ancestors came from England and gave up their Royalty to come to AMERICA because of religious persecution. The became white sharecroppers in Pennsylvania and established the first Amish settlement there.
@@marvange2498- Wow, you really don't get it. Everything you stated is too sugar coated and simplistic to even be close to truth. What Linda stated is actually truth and you should listen.
A fascinating & enlightening video!! Thx so very much for sharing! It sounds as though - even being an extremely oppressed society at the time - that folks “made do with what they had.” This particular gentleman is absolutely phenomenal, & such an inspiration!!🙏💪👏
Let me educate everyone that this plight did not discriminate based on color..Yes the opportunities to advance were far less for blacks than whites but there were German Irish and Spanish sharecroppers all thru the centuries.
So what's your point? how would you like to work sun up to sun down and are in the negative at the end of the year and not get paid? that's modern day slavery
Yes, my Great Grandparents were share croppers. My Grandma used to get tears in her eyes when she told me they were so poor that they didn't have enough money for the doctor to come visit their house too see about her sick younger brother and he died as a result.
You're right white people from indentured servants worked as sharecroppers. My grandmother was one her shack looked worse than this one. They had no shoes, no plumbing , her children only got an Apple for Christmas. Her shack had holes in the floors and you could see chickens between the boards. Their heat was a fire place that she put heated irons on your feet on top of many quilts to keep you warm. Reparations. Yeah for all sharecroppers .
Thank you. I wish they taught this real black history to our children or I had t-e insight to teach my son when he was a kid. Well it never to late to learn. Sir ,praise God ur an engineer.Thank you so must
I agree, the hx they are teaching in these schools is very inaccurate..I've taught my children real hx, if I didn't they would believe sharecropping was a step up for black people.
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The sharecropper lifestyle was not only in the black community but it was also in the white community my family grew up in Arkansas and both sides my mama and my daddy families were both sharecroppers and he explained it to a T exactly how the life style of the sharecroppers were but there were also a lot of white families who were that poor and like him all of my uncles on both sides of the family went into the service and made a better life for themselves so you can come from nothing and make it a life for yourself here in America we are so blessed live in this country.
Yep, I was born & raised on a small sugar cane plantation where my dad, his dad, & his grandfather worked the field & lived. I have work the sugar cane also, kingknife in hand, sun up to sun down, rain, cold, or sunny weather. I'm 65, and a woman. My mom & her family picked cotton. Not as sharecropper but as tenant workers. We only spoke Cajun French & learned English in school. Don't dare speak cajun French while in school either, punishment for that. Usually whipping or hand slapped with ruler. Times back then was simple. Cistern for water, outhouses, fireplaces for cooking & heating (if you had a wood burning stove, you were well off, lol), & Coal oil lamps for lights. We walked to where we wanted to go unless you could afford a car. We had pirogues as we traveled the bayous.
My Great Grandparents were sharecroppers too, Deborah. My family is white and from Arkansas on my Dad's side. I'm not sure if the Arkansas side of the family was sharecroppers but I do know that the Kansas side of our family, Grandparents were sharecroppers with a large family. Very poor. Both sides of my family moved up through military too. My Dad's a professional photographer and so am I. My immediate family are the only ones that aren't military. It's military on both sides.
I am from a small poor town also, but I went in the military and did not look back. God forgive me for not looking back, I am grown now I will never forget and I will come back. Please forgive me.
Lord I'm glad I didn't live in the south but I got family from mississippi I don't think I could live on a plantation in these modern days......I'd loose my mind......
He explained free days as Saturday and Sunday and That's when sharecroppers taken care of their own house chores. We are so used of taking care ourselves last. Til this very day we put ourselves last. Black self care is a must, take care of yourself and your people first. This country always had us as their backbone.
Great story and great guy not full of hate and divide sir you are a American hero just like HK Edgerton and the 4 Js and many others that i look up to from a white guy that grew up in the poorest county in America even still to this day hats off brother to you .
It was a hard life and many whites live it too. These people were not slaves, they were free to try to improve their lives if they could. I realize it's hard to move if you have no money
@@ednakelley814 ,what does Trump have to do with this particular story which is about sharecropping? It's about what this individual "made" and how hard he has worked throughout his life.
When we lived in Kenya we saw the African children making the same wire toys. Coming back to the States it was so interesting to find Elvin and watch him make the same kind of toys. What a great tradition... the toys are beautiful.
Big Blend Magazines I grew up in Kenya so I understand what you’re talking about😊 BTW sharecropping is still practiced all over the world. That’s how people make ends meet.
My Family settled this lil town..Cane River,La...surname Metoyers,La Cour (LeCourt)..... My 7th great grand ma was freed an ran/own the plantations there..her parents were kidnapped from Africa..her name was Marie Thereze CoinCoin..she bought a lot of family members under her an worked to free them
Born in 1957, but had our own land & hugh fields in Mississippi. Lots of home grown vegetables was grown, we had our own cows....wasn't a sharecropper.......I remember ...wood stove. Family picking cotton, lamps, making our own toys....But my child hood was very poor, but we still managed to have fun.....TODay kids has much more & they're much depressed & runaways e.t.c......We was poor but life was simple..🖐🏽🖐🏽🖐🏽🖐🏽🖐🏽🖐🏽☕☕☕🖐🏽🖐🏽🖐🏽🖐🏽
That was some bullshit back then my family Lowe's was share crop holders.. Thanks for the true history sir... my folks is from Yazu Ms.... awesome toy making skills
Living in the country is good living. Sharecroppers, black or white, lived hard, hard, down to the bone hard lives. Read about pellagra, it was all over the middle and deep South and it hit white sharecroppers hard. Southern doctors diagnosed it as the "lazy disease." It took a Northern doctor to find it's cause and what was required to correct the problem. (It's essentially a disease of malnutrition.) It's just my opinion but I think it's a bunch more of how much money you have or don't have than the color of your skin. If there is anyone who is of less value than a black person, it's a poor white person. I know this is true in the South and always has been.
In this original program in 2015 I watched on channel 11 a white man visit a plantation still being occupied by slave descendants. Ot was a lady frying the chicken in a old slave shack that she said her family lived in. I can not find thus video anymore. They were so called share cropperes but they were living on a plantation their ancestors lived on with slave master descendants stillbliving in big house. Where is that video.
I'm a 79 year old white man. When I was born, my Daddy was a sharecropper in Central Arkansas on a cotton farm. We knew some black families but they ALL owned small family farms. On my fifth Birthday, my Daddy spanked me with a broken off cotton stalk for not picking cotton fast enough .It wasn't uncommon because as Daddy figured it, if the crop wasn't gotten in before winter set in, there would be no money and therefore no food, no stove wood for keeping warm or cooking food, etc. My Daddy figured I would wind up there and I'd best learn how to do it right. Nope, we had no running water and no electricity. Much of what we ate, we shot it in the fields. No, sharecropping wasn't a racial thing. It was what poor people did for food and shelter.
I enjoyed the video but I've heard so many say only n america was that possible. How do u know that? Many colores went 2 london england 2 do their craft without prejudice, some went 2 canada? Where is it shown that only n america people of color could prosper?
Listening to him makes me remember how strong his and my parents generation was as Black Americans to be able to survive during dangerous and very hard times, sir I commend you
Well said. This is truly a man's man.
@Melanin Doll. May I ask why? I feel the same but if it's not a problem I would like to hear your reasons.
So intelligent. I love My peoples.🥰☑️
mycolortv1 my people were sold in the market places of europe and the middle east continuously for well over 1000yrs, and guess what?.........im white, a traditional owner of a land that later became known as England, the slaughter of my people started over 2000yrs ago and continued through 5 invasions by the romans, saxons, danes, vikings and the french normans, still to this day the ruling class of England are the french norman invaders and have been for 1000yrs
Yes those were the days and being born in the year of 1966 I barely missed those stressful long and hot days working for .10 cents a hour. Black folks really was United during those times and days because they had no choice. Now it seems like today's time people is taking a step backwards instead of forward when it comes to race relations. People must learn to let go of the past pain and hurt and allow the healing to take place. Black folks can not go back and fix the past. You can only work on the present and the future. Hate Evil and jealousy will only end when people decide to end racism !
God bless you sir, I could listen to you all day.
yes i agree
I can listen to as well. That is the Art we lost. LISTENING. Take life a little easier. Take life a little easier. He have such a soothing Family oriented voice.
Wow i love a real historical lesson without any crap on the edges, he gives it how it is, how it was.
I had no idea that sharecropping continued that far into the 20th century. I'm glad this video is still up. Just happened to need to research Sharecropping in Louisiana.
If you ever get the chance to visit, it will be something that stays with you forever... Well worth seeing. Nancy - BigBlendMagazines.com
I was born in 68 and its hard to believe people lived like this in the 60s. Now I see why my parents (God rest their souls) moved north. I took so much for granted.
Thank you for sharing this. That is very very interesting information. My grandfather was a sharecropper in the 1930s during the Depression. All of my aunts and uncles told stories about picking cotton. They also told me the difference between picking and pulling cotton. One time when I was around 12 years old my mother tookus kids to see some of the houses that she lived in and the cotton gin where they took the cotton that they had picked. That was a very hard time on the Family. I keep trying to envision my grandmother living like that and raising 9 children. Thank you again for sharing this, it has given me some insight how they lived. They also did not have electricity or running water. They had coal oil lamps and a well where they had to pump the water to bring into the house. All of the children had their own special chores. when they were out in the cotton fields my grandmother would place the babies on the end of the tow sack and hold them along well she was picking cotton. all of the older children from the age of five on up would pick cotton. When their tow sack was full they would empty it into the back have a truck. When the truck was full someone would take it to the cotton gin.
Thank you for your thoughtful reply. This is a time in history we tend to forget, and we are aware that there were sharecroppers of all races. This video has sparked a lot of interest and comments, some comments that I had to remove, but most were informative. This is a huge subject and this video only covers a small part of the subject. However, a lot of Americans really are not aware of sharecropping and how it worked. Big Blend Magazines.
My grand parents were share croppers and may they both rest in peace. I remember my whole family lived on one street. They were in Union Springs Alabama. I'm 41 years old and I loved visiting them. They both passed away in the early to mid 90's.
I found the contract that my 3x great grandfather signed to be a sharecropper in South Carolina in 1868. Slavery had just recently been abolished and he was still toiling away in the fields. The land owner was a Confederate soldier. Imagine how wonderful he must have treated them. I hate my family had to endure this but I am proud of them for surviving for themselves and for me.
How were you able to find the contract? I’m from S.C
See if you can put the contract in a museum!
Your story is full of hope and promise . A positive message that you can better your lot no matter what . Thanks for sharing .
What you have done here is so important and wonderful.
The human strength of African Americans is like non I have ever witnessed before. Bless you and your family
Kristin Whitaker African Americans ( not all black’s ancestors came from Africa)...were not the only sharecroppers...
And where else did Blacks come from apart from Africa?@chewie2055
What a beautiful story God bless you and thank you for preserving our culture
My grandmother used to tell me about this way of living. I always loved for her to talk about her past life. Sometimes it would make me sad and as I got older it would upset me because of the injustice she and her family endured.
Sounds like you're over reacting; sounds like a good life.
@Adonis Johnson I am not sure if your comment was directed to me or not because you did not put a handle on it but if it was, you are entitled to freedom of speech and to your own opinion. I expressed my self without using any derogatory comments and there was no need for you to make such a comment. However, you are entitled to speak your mind, but please remember when it is your turn to endure take it with a grain of salt.
I wish I had grandparents 🥺 I know our family is from Clarksdale Mississippi so I’m sure my family live like this.
I was so overwhelmed with emotions from your stories...I am glad to have met you sir...may you be blessed in all your life
Marvin Hesler 🙏🏿💛😇
What a blessing you are Mr. Sheilds for helping to carry on part of our American history. I hope you have a very blessed day!
My grandmother is 80 and has surpressd most of her memories from that time she picked cotton so sad
Maybe you should let her see the video, then she might want to talk and give her side of the story
One day these kids now a days WILL look back, see, & hopefully understand what WE delt with in our days! i.e., same situations on a diff. level, just another time!
Bravo, Mr. Sheilds !!! I just wish that it was longer; perhaps with some of your family history, how many siblings are in your family & how long your family has lived in the Cane River area. Even so, I so enjoyed your narration. Thank you so much !
My mother who was born in 1922 in Texas often talked of corn silk dolls when she was little.
LaNeita Jones my mother taught me how to make those dolls
redforlife head
Then do a RUclips video of how to make it please
@@redforlifehead1324 ME TOO WERE TAUGHT MY GRANDMA AND SISTER
Thank you for sharing your story and how children would make toys wow.
Absolutely love his home made plantation toys!!! 👍 💝
You're an inspiration! Thanks for educating us on sharecroppers life. I also gladly appreciate you, for your services to our country. You're awesome, and you never forgot where you came from. 💪👊👍👍
Remarkable. Thank you for sharing
I grew up in the countryside. We did not have running water inside. We used water from the river, No electricity. We used oil lantern and we grew that plant making oil. Nothing wrong with that.
Nothing wrong with it but it's a hard life regardless of who you are. White people had it hard in the same way that this man is describing. If you work hard enough you can keep body and soul together but that's about all you can accomplish. Your kids start so far behind the children of the privileged that it's a heartache for their parents.
@@BlueRidgeMtns100 you're joking right? You can not compare the few white ppl who struggled to the majority of blacks who struggled. Y'all always looking for a pity party
@@FaithandNova You have a very narrow outlook. You are of the opinion it was "the few" white people who struggled when it was actually the majority. As for a "pity party" take a look at your comment and the attitude it expresses.
I think those plantation toys are fantastic! They tie us to history. Thank you for sharing this with us.
My great uncle Clement was a share cropper in the state of Virginia may he rest in peace
i love that old house.would love to have one of those handmade toys!!!!
Thanks for sharing this history lesson.
Goes to show as long as you have family that stick together you can make it through much love
Great video. My grandfather was a sharecropper. It was a way to farm if you couldn't afford land. My brother, now, has also lived on farms while he worked for the farm (but got paid wage, not profit). This is how it usually works today.
My Great Grandparents were share croppers too. We have a really old photo of them sitting on the front porch of their home. They were so poor the doctor wouldn't teat one of their children and he died. RIP Glen. It made my Grandma cry to tell the story when she was in her last decade of life.
This is awesome! Thank you, Sir, for sharing all of this information.
This blessed my soul. May God richly bless him and all those involved in making this video
great vid from Mr. Elvin Shields for telling his story on what's it like growing up in the plantation
Quality video. I love the knowledge and history you share sir. Thankyou.
Thank for sharing your story!
🙌Magnificent documentation!! Thank You for bringing your History to Life!!🙌
Thank you Mr. Shields!
I need to put my kids in this environment because they think money grow on trees. They don't see the reason they eat out a lot and get mostly what they want is because I'm getting only 5 hours a sleep after working and time with them.
Show them let them see with their own eyes
I give respect to you, you sound like my father. Works himself downto the bone cuz he never wants us to go without money again. My sister disrespects him and I hope she learns how much is sacrificed, I hope your children do too.
I never grew up spoiled. My sister did. Lol
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Not to be rude but you as a parent helped create the problem.
God bless you and our ancestors 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Thank you for sharing real history
You are welcome, we feel it is very important to share true history. Hopefully it will help us learn from our mistakes.
This is what I want for my family our own land to raise our own healthy food and live together hopefully I will find land after I finish my degree in agriculture
Thanks for sharing those painful stories.
This account of America's past for African American's eerily resembles the poor areas of my home country Zimbabwe. Oddly enough I have also seen some children with what you call "plantation art" where they make cars or other vehicles with long handles which allow them to steer the toy as they walk. Although these toys are not linked with plantations or slavery. When I was younger even though I had the luxuries of modern toys, I used to be fascinated with those wire toys and wanted to use one myself and now that I'm older I finally bought one to put on display a few years ago.
We also have a lot of subsistence farmers. The system isn't far different from sharecroppers except for most people have to buy seed each year from the big seed companies. Of course, most of these seeds are hybrids which of course are not open pollinated so you can't just replant the seed from last years crop and get a genetically identical crop. You have to keep going back to the same seed company, keeping people in a cycle of poverty.
Alas, there is great hope. If America has progressed to where it is now from just the 1950s, even my country which only became liberated in 1980 could also prosper one day.
Your country will most assuredly progress as a lot of the former British colonies have and are still doing. Although we are American, my daughter and I used to live in Kenya and then South Africa, where we saw a lot of the old colonial ways of doing things changing day by day. With those changes, you know the attitudes of the people are also changing.
Love these toys and models!
I really enjoy the informations about the families who work on the plantation.
In those days people spoke English very well, so much better than today
My ancestors came from England and gave up their Royalty to come to AMERICA because of religious persecution. The became white sharecroppers in Pennsylvania and established the first Amish settlement there.
i was raised exactly like this in Canada not so long ago with one exception. we paid rent on a shack with no utilities, there were no crops to share.
And much colder in the winter!
We were close to each other back then like we should be now I was born in 1960 i still can remember things that went on 🙃🤗😇🤔
I'm a white man and I also grew up on a share croppers farm we raised tobbaco and bell peppers plus green squash
And you're point is ...?
His point is that share croppers came in all shapes and colors.
@@Gee90210 And I bet they didn't cheat you and your children had better schools in September!
See. See. We're always at each other's throats. The only color that matter's is apparently green..
God bless you, Sir.
It was America who put you your family and generations of black ppl in those deplorable situations...proud of you for over coming.
@@marvange2498- Wow, you really don't get it. Everything you stated is too sugar coated and simplistic to even be close to truth. What Linda stated is actually truth and you should listen.
Only reason they let him restore his childhood home is to sell this sanitizer version of sharecropper. He also getting paid.
A fascinating & enlightening video!! Thx so very much for sharing! It sounds as though - even being an extremely oppressed society at the time - that folks “made do with what they had.” This particular gentleman is absolutely phenomenal, & such an inspiration!!🙏💪👏
black ppl have been thru so much, more than anyone
David Jones it true
Nice place to raise even keel children that elevated many generations. I love my cultures. We had a a Great a Time
Let me educate everyone that this plight did not discriminate based on color..Yes the opportunities to advance were far less for blacks than whites but there were German Irish and Spanish sharecroppers all thru the centuries.
So what's your point? how would you like to work sun up to sun down and are in the negative at the end of the year and not get paid? that's modern day slavery
@@darioussmith3450 It's certainly not slavery. It's sharecropping is what it is and it was a no win bitch for the sharecropper whether black or white.
Yes, my Great Grandparents were share croppers. My Grandma used to get tears in her eyes when she told me they were so poor that they didn't have enough money for the doctor to come visit their house too see about her sick younger brother and he died as a result.
You're right white people from indentured servants worked as sharecroppers. My grandmother was one her shack looked worse than this one. They had no shoes, no plumbing , her children only got an Apple for Christmas. Her shack had holes in the floors and you could see chickens between the boards. Their heat was a fire place that she put heated irons on your feet on top of many quilts to keep you warm.
Reparations. Yeah for all sharecroppers .
I want to buy some land in Mississippi...I would love to live in the country sometimes...very comfortable healthy living...
Healthy living in Mississippi, lol
If you have people (relatives) who live in the area, you're much more likely to be accepted.
Thank you
God Bless You and family.
Thanks for sharing the information! Great video
This brings back much memories nice
Thank you. I wish they taught this real black history to our children or I had t-e insight to teach my son when he was a kid. Well it never to late to learn. Sir ,praise God ur an engineer.Thank you so must
I agree, the hx they are teaching in these schools is very inaccurate..I've taught my children real hx, if I didn't they would believe sharecropping was a step up for black people.
My parents and grand parents were share croppers in Drew MS and Glendora MS. My parents left Drew after WW 11. Never went back
Thank you and God Bless You!
Thanks for sharing.
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The sharecropper lifestyle was not only in the black community but it was also in the white community my family grew up in Arkansas and both sides my mama and my daddy families were both sharecroppers and he explained it to a T exactly how the life style of the sharecroppers were but there were also a lot of white families who were that poor and like him all of my uncles on both sides of the family went into the service and made a better life for themselves so you can come from nothing and make it a life for yourself here in America we are so blessed live in this country.
Yep, I was born & raised on a small sugar cane plantation where my dad, his dad, & his grandfather worked the field & lived. I have work the sugar cane also, kingknife in hand, sun up to sun down, rain, cold, or sunny weather. I'm 65, and a woman.
My mom & her family picked cotton.
Not as sharecropper but as tenant workers. We only spoke Cajun French & learned English in school. Don't dare speak cajun French while in school either, punishment for that.
Usually whipping or hand slapped with ruler.
Times back then was simple. Cistern for water, outhouses, fireplaces for cooking & heating (if you had a wood burning stove, you were well off, lol),
& Coal oil lamps for lights. We walked to where we wanted to go unless you could afford a car. We had pirogues as we traveled the bayous.
My Great Grandparents were sharecroppers too, Deborah. My family is white and from Arkansas on my Dad's side. I'm not sure if the Arkansas side of the family was sharecroppers but I do know that the Kansas side of our family, Grandparents were sharecroppers with a large family. Very poor. Both sides of my family moved up through military too. My Dad's a professional photographer and so am I. My immediate family are the only ones that aren't military. It's military on both sides.
I am from a small poor town also, but I went in the military and did not look back. God forgive me for not looking back, I am grown now I will never forget and I will come back. Please forgive me.
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Lord I'm glad I didn't live in the south but I got family from mississippi I don't think I could live on a plantation in these modern days......I'd loose my mind......
Gosh, he could be one of my uncles. I love this history.
no the truth we teach it
He explained free days as Saturday and Sunday and That's when sharecroppers taken care of their own house chores. We are so used of taking care ourselves last. Til this very day we put ourselves last. Black self care is a must, take care of yourself and your people first. This country always had us as their backbone.
Great story and great guy not full of hate and divide sir you are a American hero just like HK Edgerton and the 4 Js and many others that i look up to from a white guy that grew up in the poorest county in America even still to this day hats off brother to you .
Wow awesome history class about it
I remember those days
It was a hard life and many whites live it too. These people were not slaves, they were free to try to improve their lives if they could. I realize it's hard to move if you have no money
@ 6:50 he call the cabins "slave tenant shacks" that pretty much explains it all.
6:35
well sure. They were most likley former slaves cabins. My great great grand parents were sharecroppers and I'm white.
@@noneexistent2781 - Thanks but my computer time line still stated 6:50. Oh well.
@@nialcc Trump who made record low unemployment for people of color
@@ednakelley814 ,what does Trump have to do with this particular story which is about sharecropping? It's about what this individual "made" and how hard he has worked throughout his life.
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I also made my own toys. Taught me creativity. I think this was a stress freee life.
When we lived in Kenya we saw the African children making the same wire toys. Coming back to the States it was so interesting to find Elvin and watch him make the same kind of toys. What a great tradition... the toys are beautiful.
Big Blend Magazines I grew up in Kenya so I understand what you’re talking about😊
BTW sharecropping is still practiced all over the world. That’s how people make ends meet.
What part of Kenya did you grow up in? It's a beautiful country, I loved it, still do.
Big Blend Magazines south western Kenya near sotik
How long ago did you leave?
Working that hard is not stress free.
I love this real history
Don’t become what you fight. One day it’ll all make sense.
My Family settled this lil town..Cane River,La...surname Metoyers,La Cour (LeCourt)..... My 7th great grand ma was freed an ran/own the plantations there..her parents were kidnapped from Africa..her name was Marie Thereze CoinCoin..she bought a lot of family members under her an worked to free them
Born in 1957, but had our own land & hugh fields in Mississippi. Lots of home grown vegetables was grown, we had our own cows....wasn't a sharecropper.......I remember ...wood stove. Family picking cotton, lamps, making our own toys....But my child hood was very poor, but we still managed to have fun.....TODay kids has much more & they're much depressed & runaways e.t.c......We was poor but life was simple..🖐🏽🖐🏽🖐🏽🖐🏽🖐🏽🖐🏽☕☕☕🖐🏽🖐🏽🖐🏽🖐🏽
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So sad for them hard times!!!!!! However a lot of special family time and that means more then all the money in the world
Where is part 2?
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That was some bullshit back then my family Lowe's was share crop holders.. Thanks for the true history sir... my folks is from Yazu Ms.... awesome toy making skills
Wow I come up in Fluker Louisiana the kents plantation
This is actually good living tho!!!! 💖💐
Living in the country is good living. Sharecroppers, black or white, lived hard, hard, down to the bone hard lives. Read about pellagra, it was all over the middle and deep South and it hit white sharecroppers hard. Southern doctors diagnosed it as the "lazy disease." It took a Northern doctor to find it's cause and what was required to correct the problem. (It's essentially a disease of malnutrition.) It's just my opinion but I think it's a bunch more of how much money you have or don't have than the color of your skin. If there is anyone who is of less value than a black person, it's a poor white person. I know this is true in the South and always has been.
In this original program in 2015 I watched on channel 11 a white man visit a plantation still being occupied by slave descendants. Ot was a lady frying the chicken in a old slave shack that she said her family lived in. I can not find thus video anymore. They were so called share cropperes but they were living on a plantation their ancestors lived on with slave master descendants stillbliving in big house. Where is that video.
what about those who didnt make it
I'm a 79 year old white man. When I was born, my Daddy was a sharecropper in Central Arkansas on a cotton farm. We knew some black families but they ALL owned small family farms. On my fifth Birthday, my Daddy spanked me with a broken off cotton stalk for not picking cotton fast enough .It wasn't uncommon because as Daddy figured it, if the crop wasn't gotten in before winter set in, there would be no money and therefore no food, no stove wood for keeping warm or cooking food, etc. My Daddy figured I would wind up there and I'd best learn how to do it right.
Nope, we had no running water and no electricity. Much of what we ate, we shot it in the fields. No, sharecropping wasn't a racial thing. It was what poor people did for food and shelter.
Thank you for such an honest and open comment.
@@bigblendmag Yes sir. I've Been there. I wouldn't trade it for a million dollars and wouldn't pay two million to go back. :)
@@buddyharris5515 Understand totally... by the way, I am a she, not a he... :) Big Blend Magazines is a mother/daughter team....
@@bigblendmag Yep, I've been there. I wouldn't trade it for a million dollars and I wouldn't pay ten million tto go back. 😀
Did sharecroppers get half the profit as he suggest
That would be negotiated between the farm owner and the tenants, but the tenants would never get more than 50%.
Well my grandparents were shares crops to and we work hard Sorry 🐊🐾
My dad was to as a chilld
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You do realize Nat Turner murdered other black people don't you?
@@ednakelley814 didn't he killed children?
@@TheMrPeteChannel I'm not sure about that.
@@ednakelley814 ok then.
@@TheMrPeteChannel I just looked back, yes Nat Turner murdered children too.
I enjoyed the video but I've heard so many say only n america was that possible. How do u know that? Many colores went 2 london england 2 do their craft without prejudice, some went 2 canada? Where is it shown that only n america people of color could prosper?
God Bless
anything is actually possible any where.