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  • Опубликовано: 4 авг 2015
  • We travel to Charles City and tour the oldest family-owned business in the nation, Shirley Plantation. They are still producing agricultural commodities-- since the 1600's!
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Комментарии • 174

  • @nickvidz3887
    @nickvidz3887 4 года назад +20

    “Us Greys don’t like them Braithwaites!”

  • @kerplunk8011
    @kerplunk8011 5 лет назад +20

    it is nice to see the homes and properties own by the same family for hundreds of year.

  • @ladytitanium1449
    @ladytitanium1449 3 года назад +19

    Speaks of what the people of the house did but what about what the slaves did?! They deserve alot of credit as well.

    • @ednakelley814
      @ednakelley814 5 месяцев назад +2

      As a historian who has worked at several historical homes, the majority of the time the stories of the slaves were not recorded and thus not preserved for later generations. Often times you only have a name or two recorded if you just have that. Remember slaves could not read or write therefore personal diaries or letters for the most part, would not exist. How do you present to guests what you do not know? I would welcome YOU do as much research on the slaves at the Shirley plantation and when you find anything, IF you even find anything, share it with them so they can present it. As a historian, I am sick and tired of being accused of "white washing" when the fact is you simply can not present what you don't have and can not document. And then if you do find some interesting documented slave information and present it they will accuse you of "gloryifying slavery". In this PC world historians and historic sites are constantly under attack. We are not guilty of the sin of slavery. We are only story tellers of what we can verify and document historically. Now put that virtue signaling into action. Go research and find all the slave information and share it with the historic site. They would appreciate it. But if you can't find any slave infomation to share then we can accuse you of white washing.

    • @paulascott5701
      @paulascott5701 4 месяца назад +2

      Why are you knocking these people? What do you think slaves did? They worked fields and some kept house. If you listened to the video, you would have heard that the family BOUGHT many vegetables and things from the slaves who had their own gardening areas. You are not better than the historians who do tour guides or the Hill/Carter family members who owned and ran the plantation. Virtue signaling is cheap and easy, establishing a successful plantation in the sixteen hundreds in a hostile wilderness and keeping it going for generations is not cheap, easy or done by bad, villainous people. Get off your high horse.

  • @LacheyPineGrl7380
    @LacheyPineGrl7380 5 лет назад +15

    Very cool place. Visited with my father and brothers in the early 2000's, our last name is Shirley, so we were pretty excited seeing our name on something this major. Our dad was a history buff and loved explaining everything to us. And when he passed away in 2017, we found a lot of photographs, this trip being one of them. Very special time.

  • @MeadeSkeltonMusic
    @MeadeSkeltonMusic 5 лет назад +14

    It's a beautiful place.. I'm a descendant of Captain Thomas Carter.

    • @Akil-
      @Akil- 4 года назад +7

      To hell with ALL slave "masters"

    • @MeadeSkeltonMusic
      @MeadeSkeltonMusic 4 года назад +6

      @@Akil- bless your heart

    • @betsyross1621
      @betsyross1621 2 года назад

      And now we are all slaves of the Fed and the Rothchilds

  • @terrynicoll5443
    @terrynicoll5443 Месяц назад

    Excellent video.

  • @sandydraves1619
    @sandydraves1619 3 года назад +3

    Beautiful home..!!

  • @buckslayer4343
    @buckslayer4343 3 года назад +6

    I helped plant those trees lol we just did 600 more, to the front left of the "main house." I've also helped pick grapes at the vineyard. Wonderful family :)

  • @lexismom9341
    @lexismom9341 5 лет назад +6

    Such interesting history. I love it!

  • @Angie-GoneSoon
    @Angie-GoneSoon 2 года назад +3

    They were people.. so please, please use the term enslaved people, not slaves.. They worked so hard.. and we don't even know their names..(some names, not all.. mostly first names.. and many times, the names we know, weren't their real names.) but at least we can recognize the fact that they were people.. even though slavery did it's best to dehumanize them.. They were human.. they felt, bled, cried, and occasionally laughed.. We owe them credit for the blood, sweat, and tears they poured into these plantations that we are talking about now as being so spectacular.

    • @ednakelley814
      @ednakelley814 6 месяцев назад

      No political correctness. People were slaves and you're trying to change history. History is NOT politcially correct. Fredrick Douglass talked about the "Slave narratives" not "enslaved narratives". Laws like the "Fugitive Slave Act are history, they were not called the "Fugitive Enslaved Act". I refuse to change history for the sake of PC.

    • @ednakelley814
      @ednakelley814 5 месяцев назад

      Do you think people are too stupid to not know that slaves were people? People are sick of the Politcial correctness BS. They were slaves and changing that history does them a disjustice. History is NOT politcally correct. It is what it is. Read the historic documents. Was the law called the "Fugitive Enslaved Act" or the "Fugitive Slave Act"? Was Frederick Douglass's work called "The Enslaved Narritives" or " The Slave Narritives"? But we ahve all seen your virtue singnaling.

  • @804titan
    @804titan Год назад +2

    family business, really ??.. 'had to be a tough go".."what do you attribute to being able to keep the plantation in one family for that entire time"?..appreciate acknowledging the enslavement component. nice video, informative, thank you

  • @cleitacarter2333
    @cleitacarter2333 3 месяца назад

    I am descended from the origina.
    Hill family! My husband is a Carter, I tried to find if he was related to these Carters, but to no avail. I found myself being the one related to the Carters through the Hills. The Hills migratedj to southwestern Virginia and my gg grandfather Archealus Archibald Thomas married Eliza Jane Hill from Grayson County, Virginia. They had migrated there from King and Queen County, Virginia.

  • @richsamuel6722
    @richsamuel6722 6 лет назад +4

    I wanna see the ice house! How could we not see that lost technology? 😢

  • @calebbourassa652
    @calebbourassa652 2 года назад +3

    ''Us Gray don't like them Braithwaite.''

  • @apriledmonds4775
    @apriledmonds4775 2 года назад +16

    So lovely so nice this is a plantation where people were tortured and children taken from their parents let's be real what really happened at this beautiful place..

    • @businessbuilder92
      @businessbuilder92 2 года назад +5

      In Virginia an hour away from sundown town too 😳 I know there are descendants who deserve a piece of this "beautiful place"

    • @HHWC100
      @HHWC100 2 года назад

      @@businessbuilder92 Which town was sundown town? Still learning about history.

    • @businessbuilder92
      @businessbuilder92 2 года назад +1

      @@HHWC100 a little place called "fieldale Virginia Henry County" I used to live not far from it the kkk used to have marches over there and as a black person myself I was never welcome even in the gas station over there

    • @ednakelley814
      @ednakelley814 6 месяцев назад

      So let's attack a history museum. Your virtue signaling is well seen.

  • @tyriqsmith5211
    @tyriqsmith5211 Год назад

    I remember going years ago on a school trip. They told us a story about the upstairs being haunted. They said a late relative can still be seen sitting in her rocking chair upstairs.

  • @user-hb2iw8yn2g
    @user-hb2iw8yn2g 4 года назад +6

    Caliga haul

  • @daddyadolf3191
    @daddyadolf3191 2 года назад +4

    the tour was about the house not slavery stop making everything about slavery it has no effect on you wether slavery is mentioned or not

  • @lindacox3062
    @lindacox3062 10 месяцев назад

    Only the hall and one room shown in the home. I would have loved see more!!

  • @alicepennamon5764
    @alicepennamon5764 2 года назад +5

    It is really sad to see that there is no mention of slavery.

    • @ednakelley814
      @ednakelley814 5 месяцев назад +3

      As a historian who has worked at several historical homes, the majority of the time the stories of the slaves were not recorded and thus not preserved for later generations. Often times you only have a name or two recorded if you just have that. Remember slaves could not read or write therefore personal diaries or letters for the most part, would not exist. How do you present to guests what you do not know? I would welcome YOU do as much reserach on the slaves at the Shirley plantation and when you find anything, IF you even find anything, share it with them so they can present it. As a historian, I am sick and tired of being accused of "white washing" when the fact is you simply can not present what you don't have and can not document. And then if you do find some interesting documented slave information and present it they will accuse you of "gloryifying slavery". In this PC world historians and historic sites are constantly under attack. We are not guilty of the sin of slavery. We are only story tellers of what we can verify and document historically. Now put that virtue signaling into action. Go research and find all the slave information and share it with the historic site. They would appreciate it.

  • @viviantaylor-md6hi
    @viviantaylor-md6hi 3 месяца назад

    Wish we all could track our families back to the origin..

  • @bryansiphomartin7462
    @bryansiphomartin7462 5 лет назад +45

    While this tour is enlightening, I'm wondering why there was so little talk of slaves.

    • @VPM
      @VPM  5 лет назад +3

      I don't have a great answer for that. Our organization is still working to overcome biased omissions like this. We are a very small organization who are very eager to hear from our viewers. Especially when we haven't done our best work as storytellers. You can find our contact information here vpm.org/contact .

    • @2dasimmons
      @2dasimmons 5 лет назад +15

      Good question! So many folk want whitewash slave history/PLANTATIONS.

    • @Akil-
      @Akil- 4 года назад +6

      Its called whitewashing!!!

    • @Esotricwisdom
      @Esotricwisdom 4 года назад +12

      If you noticed they never mentioned slaves built that beautiful complex. And they used indentured servitude before using the word slavery nor did they mention any slave taverns or show them?. Hmm

    • @ednakelley814
      @ednakelley814 4 года назад +11

      @@Akil- If they don't talk about slavery then you say they are "white washing" history and then if they do talk about slavery you all say they are "glorying slavery and romanticizing slavery". SO racist if they do and racist if they don't.

  • @adriennewalker1930
    @adriennewalker1930 3 года назад

    Thank you I’m on my way I don’t want yaw to tire out loves thank you

  • @michellemhessman4364
    @michellemhessman4364 Год назад

    Great place

  • @julieloper291
    @julieloper291 Год назад

    ROBERT EDWARD LEE WAS BORN THERE.......he went to live at Stratford Hall when he was a little older.

  • @debbiehall7016
    @debbiehall7016 Год назад

    My emigrant, John Stancil/Stansall sailed from England to Virginia in 1683 on 4-year indenture. Did this tobacco plantation work indentured servants? I would love to know where he worked. FYI: STANCIL was listed in the 1704 Nansemond County Quitrent list as owning 500A. You are not too far from Nansemond County I don't think. Very interesting!

    • @americanlady738
      @americanlady738 Год назад +2

      No, the Shirley Plantation was built and maintained by slave labor. I know a woman who's a direct descendant of Shirley Planation Slaves.

    • @Gr13fKvlt
      @Gr13fKvlt 6 месяцев назад +2

      @@americanlady738
      Slaves did not design and build this property. Nor did they carve the furniture. You are absolutely mad.

    • @americanlady738
      @americanlady738 6 месяцев назад

      They absolutely did. Cope. @@Gr13fKvlt

  • @veeseee128
    @veeseee128 6 лет назад +18

    Hey! show them the slave cabins. Show them how nice they were. Yeah right. The cabins were filthy. They were shacks with dirt floors and the slaves used straw for beds. They were fed the guts or intestines of the pig. Hes not gonna show u the slave cabins because Im guessing they were all torn down years ago. Many caretakers of these plantation dont want people to know how horrible the conditions were for the slaves.

    • @MienemLeben
      @MienemLeben 6 лет назад +4

      WHAT UP? Their trying to hide what really happened there. Trying to sugarcoat it! Just like Holocaust Deniers!

    • @MeadeSkeltonMusic
      @MeadeSkeltonMusic 5 лет назад

      @@MienemLeben lol, it was nothing like that.

    • @nicolefisher4779
      @nicolefisher4779 3 года назад +2

      Meade Music your right. It was much worse

    • @douglasvilledarling2935
      @douglasvilledarling2935 3 года назад

      Do you realize how many white people lived the same way? People in the 1930s still had dirt floors. You can't compare hundreds of years to today. Brainwashed

    • @douglasvilledarling2935
      @douglasvilledarling2935 3 года назад +2

      And people today still eat pig intestines by choice. Slaves were also fed lobster. I don't hear you complaining about that

  • @coreysmithhayes
    @coreysmithhayes 11 месяцев назад +1

    We're did the slave's live on the land?

  • @TheGoldenbaboon
    @TheGoldenbaboon 7 лет назад +6

    I'm a direct descendant of Lady Sherley, thanks for sharing!

    • @vivians9392
      @vivians9392 2 года назад +1

      A different family perhaps, since yours is not the same spelling...

  • @cynthiachavis9678
    @cynthiachavis9678 3 года назад

    I miss working in the gift shop

  • @betsyross1621
    @betsyross1621 2 года назад

    General Lee lived there?

  • @americanlady738
    @americanlady738 Год назад

    That jail that he is talking about at the end was a slave jail. Virginia bred and sold slaves west. The slaves were put in jail after they were sold to the slave trader, who would wait until he/she had enough slaves to sell out west.

  • @NeTxGrl
    @NeTxGrl 11 месяцев назад +1

    Slavery has existed since the beginning of mankind. It has been interwoven into the fabric of society. It has affected every race. There were prosperous black slave owners, in America, the first slave owner in North America 1600's was a BLACK MAN named Anthony Johnson. native Americans had slaves that included black and white slaves. These groups also supported the south in the civil war. If any of you were born back then and were a wealthy plantation owner you would have owned slaves and yes that included black people. Just a friendly reminder, ALL of YOU benefit from modern day slavery. Where do you think many of the products you buy regularly come from? I bet none of you have lost a night's sleep over it.

  • @cw8339
    @cw8339 Год назад +5

    A place of horror is what this. 😢

  • @2dasimmons
    @2dasimmons 5 лет назад +4

    I have never seen SO MANY Overweight people in USA ever as in 2019. WHAT is going on? Is it all the processed food/McDonald's?????

  • @veeseee128
    @veeseee128 3 года назад +6

    A lot of old money in Virginia, this is one example. You have families, wealthy white families living off inheritance from the blood sweat and tears of black slaves. Sad but true. Richmond Va is the Mecca or capital of old money.

  • @mauricediggs8040
    @mauricediggs8040 Год назад

    I think it will be so awesome. If white Americans learn how to tell the full truth not just a half true 1787 at family plantation had 67 slaves registered under the age of 16 and another 67 slaves register above the age 16 and that did not include all the other slaves that did not have paperwork

  • @mississippiindigenous3963
    @mississippiindigenous3963 3 года назад +1

    Wyt love plantations.

  • @thebennunefertariv4183
    @thebennunefertariv4183 5 лет назад +16

    They were “able to be so prosperous because they had free labor. The nerve of self delusion.

    • @MeadeSkeltonMusic
      @MeadeSkeltonMusic 5 лет назад

      No, they had land grants from the King.

    • @appleredwood488
      @appleredwood488 4 года назад +1

      Meade Music And free labor as well ... And a few indentured servant‘s ! So stop it !

    • @Akil-
      @Akil- 4 года назад +5

      STOLEN LAND!!!!

    • @ednakelley814
      @ednakelley814 4 года назад

      well yes of course. That was the point in buying a slave so you would not be out of money on labor thus making a bigger profit. It was smarter to have many slaves if one could afford it.

    • @nicolefisher4779
      @nicolefisher4779 3 года назад +2

      Meade Music are you serious? The King gave away land. You a really are delusional and believe because your White, you must be right.

  • @LongJohnTeabagger
    @LongJohnTeabagger 2 года назад +1

    I can’t believe they copied Caliga Hall (joke)

  • @americanlady738
    @americanlady738 Год назад

    The house servants and cooks, they were American chattel slaves.

    • @ednakelley814
      @ednakelley814 6 месяцев назад

      well they were African not American

  • @barbaragalasso9229
    @barbaragalasso9229 Год назад

    Did they have slaves? If so what we're their jobs? Are there any slave quarters?

  • @upser1977
    @upser1977 4 года назад

    Tiktok brought me here

  • @2dasimmons
    @2dasimmons 5 лет назад +3

    The woman conducting interview looks like the guy she's interviewing😞

  • @andrewjackson1840
    @andrewjackson1840 6 лет назад +7

    This is awesome admiration history. when reparations is enforced ..... This info will reassure a well paid generation receive there due . Then maybe generation of abused Africans can begin to heal

    • @MeadeSkeltonMusic
      @MeadeSkeltonMusic 5 лет назад +8

      No reparations. Ever.

    • @nicolefisher4779
      @nicolefisher4779 3 года назад

      Meade Music just in case you missed it. The North won the war. Dixie land is no more.

    • @williamshelton4150
      @williamshelton4150 3 года назад +2

      @@nicolefisher4779 Ha, ha. There are parts of the south that you can visit where you would never know it.

    • @nicolefisher4779
      @nicolefisher4779 3 года назад +1

      @@williamshelton4150 I believe that!

    • @douglasvilledarling2935
      @douglasvilledarling2935 3 года назад +1

      Isn't it interesting how the US government and slave holders tried to buy land in Africa so the freed slaves could go back home. Africa refused to sell land and didn't want them back. I guess that is why they sold them in the first place. They had to buy land where Liberia is today.

  • @javajive01
    @javajive01 5 лет назад +12

    White amnesia, "wonderful heritage," it wouldn't exist without the brutal institution of slavery. The descendants of slaves deserve reparations for everything that was taken from them. Out houses= slave quarters? How do you talk about a plantation and never mention the people that were enslaved there?

    • @ednakelley814
      @ednakelley814 4 года назад +3

      Slaves were mentioned in this video. Did you not watch it? And Indentured servants working off their debt were mentioned too.

    • @nicolefisher4779
      @nicolefisher4779 3 года назад +3

      Edna Kelley indentured servitude was not real. White people love to make themselves feel better

    • @patriciaramirez3139
      @patriciaramirez3139 3 года назад +2

      Absolutely, I want to hear more about the contributions of the slaves. I am sure the owners of the plantations kept recordkeeping on the maintenance and daily business of these plantations.

    • @ednakelley814
      @ednakelley814 6 месяцев назад

      @@nicolefisher4779 You're ignorant. There was very much indentured servants. Starting at Jamestown, VA.

    • @nicolefisher4779
      @nicolefisher4779 5 месяцев назад

      @@ednakelley814 yes I know it was real however it is not the same thing at all. White people love bringing up that crap up. Stop your ignorance.

  • @veeseee128
    @veeseee128 6 лет назад +13

    YES this was a place where they sold and owned human beings. What is beautiful about that? Anything connected to slavery is EVIL . Creepy video.

    • @honeybubsakajenna
      @honeybubsakajenna 5 лет назад +5

      WHAT UP? You understand all areas in the world had slaves whites,blacks,Jews etc .. all of Europe, the United States,Caribbean islands etc all owned slaves, it’s a horrible sad fact. If you know your history.. it was Africans selling off other tribes humans etc. plus whites etc. Please don’t think it’s just the usa etc.

    • @rachelk5720
      @rachelk5720 5 лет назад +3

      @@honeybubsakajenna : yep and some Tribes in Africa, still happens.

    • @caseygordon2579
      @caseygordon2579 4 года назад +2

      That dont mean its ok yalll sick in the head devils

    • @Akil-
      @Akil- 4 года назад

      @@rachelk5720 No slavery compares to the system Europeans created. When Africans ruled in Europe they brought with them education, hygiene, etc.

    • @ednakelley814
      @ednakelley814 4 года назад

      Using your logic I guess we need to ban the Democrat party. It was connected to slavery in that it had the pro-slavery platform

  • @betsyross1621
    @betsyross1621 2 года назад +2

    It is beautiful but of course it was they had free labor. A sad part of history

  • @Akil-
    @Akil- 4 года назад +7

    Pure BS!!! Amazing how the very people who made that plantation are completely overlooked. What a shame!!!

    • @ednakelley814
      @ednakelley814 4 года назад +2

      What many people don't understand is often times historic places don't have much information on the slaves. Remember, slaves could not read or write so you don't have much in the way of primary source documents like diaries or letters, etc.. When I worked at a historic site, often we didn't even have any names to start research with and even if we had a a name we didn't have a last name. It's easy to set back and criticize historians so I encourage YOU to go research the slaves here and pass along any info you find. IT ISN'T EASY. And when you don't find anything, we can accuse YOU of white washing.

    • @chozenkween9419
      @chozenkween9419 Год назад

      It was AGAINST THE LAW FOR A SLAVE TO READ OR WRITE!!! The few who could read could only read the SLAVE BIBLE! Yes…. Those existed! But get caught reading a newspaper! YOU WOULD BE HANGED FROM ONE OF THOSE BIG BEAUTIFUL TREES and all the other slaves forced to single file walk by and OBSERVE WHAT COULD HAPPEN TO THRM! Tell it right if you’re going to speak omit!

  • @MeadeSkeltonMusic
    @MeadeSkeltonMusic 5 лет назад +5

    Most slaves were happy workers.

    • @MeadeSkeltonMusic
      @MeadeSkeltonMusic 5 лет назад +4

      @Rebecca Swanson were you there? I doubt it.

    • @tobeornottobe6797
      @tobeornottobe6797 5 лет назад +4

      Don't fall for this troll. It comments and bullies to get a response

    • @2dasimmons
      @2dasimmons 5 лет назад

      You look like a FAT one like sadly so many folk in 2019😔

    • @appleredwood488
      @appleredwood488 4 года назад

      Meade Music Denial !!!! Of the truth! How can you live with yourself. With such blinders on. You are just like the rest white privilege at its finest !!!

    • @terrytaylor5192
      @terrytaylor5192 4 года назад

      Conditioning

  • @princessviolet470
    @princessviolet470 4 года назад +3

    Until thee this place will have no peace. Haunted at night and until sunrise your may the houses of slavery be reminded of there free enterprise. Whippings, torture and so much grief I cast this until thee!
    DO NOT FORGET

    • @ednakelley814
      @ednakelley814 5 месяцев назад

      And just how is an inanimate brick and mortar structure guilty of anything?