@@JasonWilliams-um2ntyes it is, because people always love to act like we don't have a culture and that we just pulled things out of the air. All that American culture that this country loves to take credit for comes from us, it's an acknowledgement that our culture and Americans culture isn't just European. And that we didn't just get stripped of what makes us African when our ancestors were brought here, we recreated Africa here in the states, and it was so good that it even changed they way white folks live their lives.
As a white American I can say, it would have been nice to learn about these thing in school growing up. Some white people say they have no shame or guilt because they didn’t do it, then why don’t we teach kids our true history if ur not ashamed!
I am also white, and I have been fascinated for years! One or the first book that I bought through a book club was Roots. I've been fascinated since. Did research on sally hemmings.
There is a lot of stuff they don't teach you about in history class, they pick and choose what you learn... Do your own research I guess and read different sides of things and thoroughly. When learning history though you should not let it hinder your NOW or future, reflect, learn and so on but don't let it deter you today from moving forward and living a fulfilling life.
@@HunterBidenscrackyour name being the blackest man alive just proves to me how low your self esteem is 🤦♂️🤣 but I feel you I wouldn’t want to admit that I was white either 🤷♂️
@@Jakil557he things you people say to justify the sick things your ancestors did are genuinely amazing Also bringing African born slaves was banned in the early 1800s , there were breeding farms and other in inhuman ways of fattening their pockets. I know this is just RUclips and you can say whatever you want but atleast try not to be so ignorant it genuinely proves our point.
@@AboutMyIssue01 Its a historical FACT that African slaves were willingly sold sold to the white salve traders by other Africans. They were enslaved by other Africans usually as a result of plunder after raids on rival tribes. It all comes down to human greed whether on the part of the Africans who raided and captured them or the Europeans who bought and then sold them. It was wrong for all parties responsible. Just don't try to frame this as a racial issue because Humans have been enslaving each other for millennia regardless of skin color. Its wrong no matter what but virtually all cultures and colors of the world were guilty of it at some point in history.
Quite despicable how the Meaher family refuse to acknowledge their direct descendants to slavery and how their intergenerational wealth was built upon slavery.
Humans have forced people to be slaves since the beginnings of man’s existence in the earth Usually their own people All great civilizations of the past eg Roman, Egyptian, Persian etc were built on the sweat & tears of slaves Bringing Africans to America ie the first time slaves were sent far distances from their homes This became possible as the 19th. century was the century of transportation… Sad reflection on man’s inhumanity to man “Be the change you want to see “ Mahatma Ghandi
I bet you'd be shocked if someone told you half of Africa was still enslaved to this day. Dumbazz. "i had no idea!?!?!" The arrogance in you is mind blowing.
I mean, I would much rather have a SAFE AMERICA , than an entire people stuck with what happened 200 years ago! And then to NOT want to do anything to better as a people!? ....smh
Only 160 years had passed. People think of slavery in America as such ancient history that we should just get over... We're talking about great grandparents and grandparents who lived with those stories and through Jim Crow and later practices
Only 160 years? That’s a long time!!!! Way longer than any lifetime! That’s like 10 generations!!!! But cool story bro! Blacks loves Jim Crow because they hate White people and wanted segregation hence why they still segregate themselves! Even DECADES after Jim Crow ended! Plus Jim Crow was only in the south.
How hard can it be to also trace those west Africans , who started the misery . It seems they have escaped proper scrutiny for too long . They also got an extended reprieve from the "ROOTS" novel , what a demonic inspired lie that was .
Yes! 🙌🏾👏🏾 My MOM got spit at going to school, cursed out - Jim Crowe didn’t end till 1965 -1968 (the south?) and it definitely wasn’t a smooth transition.. but yeah, we should just get over it. 🙃🖤
@@donniedonnie639this is a brain-dead take and you’re spamming it everywhere. It’s obvious you’re just desperately trying to justify horrific aspects of American history just because you don’t like to learn and accept those difficult truths. It happened, and now we exist, so DEAL WITH IT 😂
Just imagining what those poor people were put through gives me chills. I would have lost my mind on that ship. And then to be enslaved afterwards, my God!
@@cutime6712i believe in you. Most ship was made by wood Back 1800 and they will ruin when they wrench by the water. Most migrants came here with ship no by plane. It can be those ship too.
OMG. As a Mexican having our land taken away and treated like you don't belong alone is an uncomfortable feeling passed from generation to generation. This is another level of true evil.
This is very powerful and it was very emotional to watch. May those who were enslaved and forced to endure such horrific conditions rest in eternal peace 🙏🏻
I think it’s a blessing to have grown up with this much detail and knowledge about an enslaved ancestor, who was literally first. Many of us don’t even know where to start. ❤
If you are seeking a Deeper Sense of Afro American History- Our Local Prison Systems Will Provide an Abundance of Fact/Knowldege/Proof/Detail/Current Status Of the AfroAmerican Individual (including) the Crimes Commited By That Particular Individidual.
Get professional help (Henry Louis Gates) to research your ancestry. However, Black Americans' pasts are really fragmented (broken up) to do the research alone, and it would probably take a lot of money to do a thorough research (it has been over 400 years since the first slaves were brought to this country).
My 4th great grandfather came to America on one of these ships. It’s crazy to know that one of my ancestors survived this. We don’t talk about the middle passage a lot but it was the most brutal part of the whole thing.
Are stories of how your ancestors were sold to people in the americas? Did whites just go to africa and steal these people or were they stolen in africa by other blacks, and then sold to white folk? Genuine question, sadly our public education system does not educate on this matter very well.
@idontcareanymore2473 Back then, ppl didn’t consider themselves “the same” just because they shared the same skin color. Just how the British & Irish didn’t consider themselves the same though they are the same genetically. So technically the British Caused a Famine against their own ppl by todays standards.
@idontcareanymore2473your white friends convinced them to go into that trade, we know what happened to the people that refused to be involved with the British in Nigeria
@idontcareanymore2473 I learned this in my african american history class, but they described 'slavery' to be much different in african culture. Usually it was after another tribe lost a war and they would have to serve for some years only until they worked themselves up through the winning society and then they could be free. It was white people that would take them away to work indefinitely for generations so they could make huge profits and they treated their slaves much much worse.
@SL Nobody forgot a thing. It's just people like you try to use that as some sort of crutch, making it seem like what happened after they got here okay, since the heniousness started in Africa first.
I never knew this piece of History this is the first time I've ever hearing anything about this. I'm overwhelmed.. this should never be forgotten. God bless those descendants. I'm over 60 years old. I'm white and I was raised in the northern part of Michigan. I want to know why I don't know or have ever heard of this. Now I've got to know more I will be researching this and sharing. I just want to know why people like me have never heard of this.
Put very simply (and no disrespect intended) you weren't the right color to know. I would be willing to bet that probably a smattering of people that were of the Black and / or mixed race ethnic group probably new tangentially or had heard bits and pieces of similar stories. However, people that look similar to yourself probably knew, next to NOTHING about this subject.
Mr foster turning up and saying he is sorry makes me cry...He wasn't there but he understood that story was part of his history n and I just to say God bless his heart. Thank you ao much for your kind words. Much love and greetings from Papua new guinea to you...
MAGA goons regard this kind of thing as " woke" and part of CRT which they would rather erase from everyone's mind. Everyone is waiting for criticism and erasure of landings from Europe as dangerous/ unnecessary memories.
They should focus on the entirety not just African transatlantic trade! It's a grift, because men like Tippu Tip put his own in this situation! Not to mention? zero mention of any slavic people or Irish when every group was, they push it as a wht n blk issue when reality it was a rich vs poor? How so? Wealthy men like Anthony Johnson is another to learn about, though media grifters won't tell any
True like how the bantu tribes enslaved raped murdered the pygmies tribes to extinction And how the Muslims treated the Christian slaves its very naughty
It is talked about a lot and taught in schools. There is a point when it just gets annoying. Every cultures experienced slavery in their past, and every culture had slaves, including Africans. It's just history.
There names an society from which they came from was stripped away from them..their “information” was stolen an I don’t see how’s it’s possible to retrieve it
@@BigA-trucking With archeology, you never know what tiny fragments of history you might end up finding. Some small glimpses into peoples lives or some hints at their story. Things that help bring them further along the way from cold, empty statistic towards actual human being.
@@catdaddy2643 I hope you have the chance to observe what you yourself is doing to the lands you are a part of. One may say the future! If you were to live your life all over again after this leg, would you be content with your participation? Would you be an observer or the observed. The society or looking in as an outsider. I think this is a more fruitful enquiry.What do you think?
@@thebill8891why would the descendants of the slaves have to help. The slavers have to do it, which is why they’re doing it. You’re just mad at black people for no reason you racist
If you are seeking a Deeper Sense of Afro American History- Our Local Prison Systems Will Provide an Abundance of Fact/Knowldege/Proof/Detail/Current Status Of the AfroAmerican Individual (including) the Crimes Commited By That Particular Individidual.
The comments suck. Ya’ll want us to forget about slavery but constantly bring up the holocaust and give them reparations when it didn’t even happen in America.
The Holocaust was about genocide. Blacks were not trying to be eradicated. Besides, I rarely.hear about the Holocaust, but everyday there is something black and race related on the news including slavery.
"Making a way out of now way..." "...they didn't come here with empty heads, they came with empty hands, so they found a way to make a way and they relied on each other and were resilient." Black excellence. From the beginning.
WAIT TIL YOU FIND OUT THE REAL IMPORTANT PART THAT BLACK PPL WERE ALREADY HERE BESIDES THE MOORS WHO CAME FROM AFRICA AND THE WHITE LOW CLASS SLAVS WHO HAD TO BE INDENTURED SERVANTS IN THE NEW WORLD.
It is a painful, but beautiful story because it shows the strength of the survivors to build a life in spite of the cruelty imposed on them. All Africans brought to the Americas and the Antilles had skills, spoke several languages, practiced beautiful religions, understood the energies of nature in a way that modern science has never been able to explain. They brought their art, dance and music encrypted in their souls. I was glad to see you playing drums because it is a very soulful instrument. Drums emit penetrating sounds capable of travelling for miles. The rythm and sound of drums is capable of lifting the human spirit in a way no other instrument can. Thanks for telling your story and for educating all of us.
My entire paternal side are from Alabama and lived in Africa town. I am almost certain they were on Clotilda. And it actually didn't stop. When researching I've come across census when asked where they were birn it stated Africa- meaning they were still being brought here. My daddy born and raised in Mobile. Just like his father in 1920. I can get about 150 years of them being in this same area. They are well documented.
The Lord is coming to set everything right!! We got to hold on and keep the faith. Joel 3 In those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, 2 I will gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. *There I will put them on trial* *for what they did to my inheritance, my people Israel,* *because they scattered my people among the nations* *and divided up my land.* 3 They cast lots for my people *and traded boys for prostitutes;* *they sold girls for wine to drink.* 4 “Now what have you against me, Tyre and Sidon and all you regions of Philistia? Are you repaying me for something I have done? If you are paying me back, *I will swiftly and speedily return on your own heads what you have done. 5 For you took my silver and my gold and carried off my finest treasures to your temples. 6 You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, that you might send them far from their homeland.* 7 “See, I am going to rouse them out of the places to which you sold them, and I will return on your own heads what you have done. 8 *I will sell your sons and daughters to the people of Judah,*
The first enslaved African, mentioned by his African name, Olúwálé in this video is a Yorùbá man from present day South West Nigeria. His name means God brought me home.
These stories are so painful, makes me want to cry. I can't fathom how people could be so heartless as to enslaved another human being to gain wealth, and all of this sanction by the highest office of their Religion. I can never come to terms with that.
Slavery is very real in many countries still today, but mainstream news media won't tell you those stories. Check Africa for example where there's plenty of popular slavery still happening today, perhaps people should start asking why is "real" slavery ignored by mainstream news media when ancient slavery is shown on the news instead??
Trying to apply modern norms to the past is stupid . Back then slavery was legal . There was money to be made . May not have been right but was way it was
Whats also sad is this same type of events happened but the buyer was a child abuser. Imagine a ship like that with 110 children! So many evils were done no one wants to remember 😔
Powerful story. It is so disturbing that Africa Town was mostly destroyed in the attempt to wipe out people, businesses and their community. And yet, they continue on. I hope they get all that they are asking for and the Meaher family will step up to right some wrongs.
These people are not from Africa these people were already in America. The blacks today are the original indigenous people of this land. But they gave their rights to the so-called Indians AKA native Americans. They were considered civilized and the indigenous people were considered uncivilized but they were already here before anybody got here.FACTS
Go and research the true depictions of the indigenous native Indian tribes that were here. They look just like the so-called African Americans today.and btw African-American is a misnomer these people boys misclassified been reclassified just sold their history would be lost and given to another group, which is the five civilized tribes. And those so-called five civilized tribes are really Mongolian. They are not native to the Americas 💯🌎
Wow! This is an amazing story. I was deeply touched by the words of that one descendant. He said that he felt no guilt because he didn’t do it but he would like to apologize because it was not right. I truly wish that all descendants from the profiting side of slavery could get to that place. America would be a better nation.
The Freedmen and their families just wanted peace and be left alone from the marauding whites who always 'say' that hate Blacks, but always found their bland white azzes wanting to be near Blacks...huh
@@fedfan3079 If slavery is truly important than instead of looking at ancient history which cannot be changed the focus should be on locations where real slavery still exists. Mainstream news media needs to provide actual details of real problems in the world allowing people of power to take action... not a review of old history.
It is a testament to the resiliency and decency of these modern descendants that they live honorable lives. One gets the sense that, despite the grave injustices inflicted on their ancestors (treated like animals), they live in a way that is exemplary, without bitterness, with no hostility to the system that still keeps them down. We should all be so morally refined.
We do have bitterness and hostility toward the system. And many of us do NOT live exemplary lives or anything near it. And many of us can see through what you just said. 🙄
@@BBFLY_RISEN If we do not live an exemplary life then perhaps it is time to begin living in a way that we would want. That is a worthy goal for every human being.
The highway definitely wasn't a coincidence it was definitely strategically placed there.. it really is fascinating. The Descendants are still there I pray that they never forget their history
I heard highways are deliberately built through black towns so that the next generation has no land to inherit and have to start from scratch with the burden of mortgages.
@spider46531 it's absolutely does. Just because the highway you live next to might not anything to do with color... some are. Especially the part of miami where I live.... you gotta at least know history before you try to deny it
@@genieess5403 absolutely interstate 10 in Los Angeles was placed in the black part of town on purpose. Like a slash of a blade through the black part of town, to demarcate the city.
Lady in the segment who was interviewed said there was a concerted effort to try to hide what was done. We're now in 2023 and there's no doubt evil is still trying to hide.
@@drucshlook the evil that makes a concerted effort to try to hide what took place in the history books that they call teaching CRT. The evil that in 1955 took a 14 year old boy from his relative's house. A white woman lied about what that young man did and they killed him, she was never held accountable for the lies that she told about that evil. Anything else you want to know about this filth you just let me know.
I wasn’t going to comment on this video, but seeing this video just makes me want to burst into tears!!! Like oh my lawd😢pleaseeeee we need to keep black history in these schools!!! These kids need to know this history ‼️
This is incredible and powerful and this is what true empathy and sincere apology and forgiveness looks like. This is how it should be. We should be able to acknowledge the horror of our past, denounce our ancestors actions and accept one another.🙏🏼
I grew up in that area dude...go to that town and when your pockets are emptied at gunpoint you will cry for joy for the simply fact that you made it out alive lol
@@sunrise7ranch85and surely there isn’t a connection between decades of disenfranchisement+poverty and crime… surely not right ? Try thinking a little.
I'm a 39yr old White Brit, watching this had me tearful 😢 all the way through, but was so educational and important to learn more on what happened. I'm heartbroken 💔 but also glad I watched and learned more. Thank you to the producers for this information piece. Let this never be buried in History, and never be repeated. Pray for on-going efforts today against human trafficking operations or any slavery ongoing anywhere in the world. Strong people, their decendents can be very proud of their resiliance. The Meaher's should give all land to the residents of AfricaTown and they need to remover their name from everywhere. That highway 🛣 was all deliberate and the industry etc all trying to erase the history and cover up. It's all sickening. I would love to see the Meaher family take action to make reparations by giving up land and wealth.
The English should be commended for ending slavery world wide. The Arab Muslims took more Africans as slaves than any other group did, they started the trade actually in 600AD and Europeans picked it up from them in the late 1400s. The English banned it in the early 1800s and enforced it world wide as a Empire. Some of the Arab states had to have their shores bombarded with cannon, like in Morocco, to scare their Sultan into freeing his black slaves.
@@Paulftate I got the feeling that its a money grab also. Curious to see what the top wealthy folks are sharing with their fellow boat ancestors.....i bet its ZERO!!! Welcome to America.
Not to mention even just from a Medical standpoint. People that lay in beds with no movement get bedsores. Imagine laying on wood for months on end ! You would die because the bedsores would be to the bone and heavily infected!
Thank you for mentioning Zora N. Hurston, I knew I read a book about this story but couldn’t remember the name. I’m surprised they didn’t mention Barracoon:The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”.
My grandmother, Jessie Eirby Gay told me stories that included the name Kujo!!! She lived in Mobile, Alabama and talked over and over about Africatown !!
The Dahomey is actually Benin . A country so full of history it’s incredible. So deeply endoctronated in voudoo and I studied there in hight school for 5 years . Now I work in New York in Wall Street . What a life
It is so hardbreaking as African American I feel that pain ... given that my great grandfather told me about the story and how he lost my great grandmother “wife” through torture when she got pregnant of her so called master. Bad indeed.
We’re not Africans !! Were the ISRAELITES! 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾 Deuteronomy 28:68 And the Lord shall bring thee into Egypt againe, with ships, by the way whereof I spake vnto thee, Thou shalt see it no more againe: and there ye shall bee sold vnto your enemies for bondmen, and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you. To you so called blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans, we are the children of ISRAEL! Read Det. 28:15-68! Time to wake up and return to our heritage of keeping the laws of God in the faith of Christ (Sirach 24:23, Rev14:12)! Shalom!
I'm here on Juneteenth to learn and acknowledge history. Thanks for this. Painful to hear that a place as historic and important to American history ended up with a highway running through it and industry gnawing at it's borders.
Building up Africatown will not happen if it only benefits the black residence or black people in general. If Africatown increases the wealth of whites it will happen and the bandwagon celebrating this town will overflow with them. Furthermore, all desendents of Africatown that moved away should to come together and work to protect Africatown and the legacy the was created there bc you are all you got no one is going to protect what is yours but you.
Amazing how a simple apology and a hug can wipe away generations of harbored remorse, hate, grief and injustice! That's all it takes to live in peace and harmony. Thank you 60 minutes for this piece of journalistic gem.
What an idiot. This is why black people have nothing. His sorry means nothing without financial restitution. Black people need what was stolen. We need money to build successful businesses and communities. We need medical treatment, etc. We need self-reliance, but we need REPARATIONS to make it work.
Hmmm. Let's see if you would still be willing to say that if it happened to your child. It's not a simple apology. No. People have lifetime emotional issues because of it. You never get over such atrocities.
@@ritad7927 so you missed when i said sorry is a start ? but that company thats worth $36 million today need to pay them for their ancestors free forced labor…..like my ancestors who was forced here unwillingly so yeah im cool with sorry but actions speak louder than words……
@@darrellpasion8925The people who did this have descendants too. Their descendants put factory's right by Africatown and caused cancer in the community. One Decedent of those Evil Enslavers is the Governor there. This story is ongoing.
I’m a Nigerian I was on clubhouse the other day trying to educate African Americans that they are Africans, I was insulted & cussed out, they all say they not Africans that they are Europeans and Asians😢
some believe they were never africans, some believe slavery never happened, they believe they are the actual native americans and their history was stolen from them @Trash-Beats
The inhumanity toward the people on the ships is staggering and sickening. And then a freeway was built through Africa Town. There needs to be a monument in Africa Town to those strong people, as one woman said -they came empty handed not empty headed. Money should be invested in this community. It’s horrific. God help us 🙏✝️❤️
What happened to Africa Town is heartbreaking. Such a special and unique place that Town is to the US history means that it should be made a UNESCO protected place BEFORE the 90`s.
@@naithngr81-jh2bb People of every race and color were enslaved - and enslaved others. "White people were still being bought and sold as slaves in the Ottoman Empire, decades after American blacks were freed." Thomas Sowell
How is that statement "dumb"? It is a fact. It is important to be familiar with world history--not a small, selected portion of history. @@JesseWright68
I have the day off work in recognition of the Juneteenth Federal Holiday, and was looking for something to watch that would tie into the spirit of the day. This story certainly fit that mold.
What about all the modern-day slave's in places like saudi arabia and africa & even china and mexico They love slavery lets talk about those countries who never stopped slaving
@@bubba2for2 People are afraid to talk about Arab / Islamic slavery. Some people will come up with all kind of excuses even though that slavery is legal in the past, present and future in Islamic law.
people need to acknowledge the past in order to heal even if they didn't do it but you've benefitted over the generations. if you don't acknowledge that wrong is wrong, you carry the sins of your ancestors.
Thanks very much for sharing your story. It is a historical event that we would not know about, but you and your ancestors have made it available to America and to the world by passing the story on from generation to generation.
It's time to talk about the African people who actually rounded up then enslaved and then sold their fellow African people ! The whites were only secondary in this crime .
imagine not holding the people who caught and sold you to the salve traders accountable, then getting freed and refusing to go back but play victim demanding "reparations"
It's horrifying to think of what humans are capable of doing to each other. Chained to each other with no room to move around to even relieve themselves. And in the US most people believe there's nothing we should/could do to make reparations. I don't know how it should happen, but it should.
Reparations can easily happen. Look how much money the government has been giving to Ukraine alone. But when it comes to actual US citizens, all we hear is excuses
12 million?????? Dear God! This whole chapter in human history is sick. It is beyond comprehension. This is a story that needs to be told. $9000 for humans? For innocent sold off like merchandise. I'm South African. I'm very aware of the history of slavery in this country but no matter where you come from, this is one of the greatest evils ever committed against humanity.
Dude this chapter 8n human history is as long as human history itself nothing special here just another group of people bying slaves who got captured and sold....by there own people.
Read the book, "Barracoon." It's Cujo Lewis' story. What 60 Minutes left out was the brital way those people were captured and enslaved by fellow Africans before being sold to the Clotilda. Perhaps the most cynical aspect of the story is that the whole thing began as a bet between two Mobile businessmen over whether it was even possible to skirt the law and the U.S. Navy and get a shipment of slaves into the country 52 years after such imports were banned. Two wealthy men make a bet and people living thousands of miles away were upended.
Another touching and beautiful story about human strength, it is amazing what these people did, hope that one day this African town flourish and show once again human strength to all of us, what an example❤️
It's so crazy that they literally enslaved these people and then built a highway through their booming town... this is so sad... the tragedy never ends... 💔
The Boat isn't even that deep. They could build a wall around the Coltilda and remove the water above it. It's called marine excavation? Correct me if I'm wrong.
This! That's it! What Black Folks have simply been looking for! None of us thinks that anyone needs to feel guilty about what happened 100 years ago and more. What we want is a simple acknowledgment and understanding that what happened was wrong, horribly wrong. The problem with acknowledgment though is it also means you have to accept the truth that what you have today is potentially from the ugly and the evil your ancestors perpetrated in the past. That is what makes you feel guilty.
Slavery wasn't unique to black people. Millions of Eastern Europeans were taken as slaves by Turks and this only stopped in the late 1800s. Southern Europeans were being raided by Arab-North Africans and taken as slaves. There were indentured servants in the English colonies, usually Irish, who were slaves in everything but name. Arab Muslims took more Africans as slaves than anyone else did, close to 20 million to the Middle East and North Africa from 600ad to the early 1900s. Latin America, 95% of African slaves that went to the Americas went there. African people themselves - their Chiefs were selling their own people. The only people to have fought wars to free slaves are White people, White Americans did so, and the English / British Empire banned slavery world wide in their territories in the early 1800s and forced Arabs to stop and others from then on.
@@henrylockett7838 Nobody ever denied it, but recently a lot of dumb retards buy into sensationalizing it. In the scope of history of the world there's nothing particularly special about it.
I learned about slavery in junior high. I also learned about the holocaust in elementary school. I am grateful for that because we need to know our history that way it is hopefully never repeated.
😢😢😢how could anyone be so gruel and inhumane 😢😢😢how could any person treat anyone so inhumane only because of the color of their skin😢😢😢Dear God, continue to bless and look out for Your African children 😢😢😢
That was for 110 slaves not one can you imagine how much money he made off of them but this country don’t want to pay reparations to the sons and daughters of the slaves but they pay the holocaust victims son and daughter billions of dollars for seven years and slavery was 400 years With over 20 million people die so you do the math this country will always be cursed.
This is an awesome story. I was in a college psychology class. The professor had an Ice breaker moment. We each introde ourselves & tell where our ancestors came from. Israel, Italy, Mexico, China, etc. But when the black people gave intro...their (our) history only went as far as Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, etc. Thnx for the story!!
Guess there weren't many native Americans in the class. It wouldn't have been a very interesting exercise in my school because we're all native from the same place 😅
So glad you are showing this story. Just re-read Zora Neale Hurston's 'Babacoon' where she speaks with Mr. Lewis. I am glad this story was created because now we can address the misinformation in the movie 'The Woman King.' Mr. Lewis describes how the Dahomey women led the captives to the men, but more importantly, in this book we see that the Dahomey are in fact not heroes, but villains.
@@TheCanalZoneAnd yet they are upheld as 'Woman King Warriors.' I'm not sure what the point is you were trying to make, but to reiterate my point, The Dahomey were villains to me, but we live in a time where history is so re-written, if we don't pay attention, we will have no idea what is going on. Anyone who mistreats anyone is in no way a hero to me. The Dahomey's were villains, pushed by a pro-villain narrative that promotes mistreatment. No human being should be mistreated and if we as human beings ever see someone else mistreated, it is our responsibility to make it right for the mistreated. There is an onion for you to peel.
O, the agonies of slavery. It is a painful time... The cruelty and barbarism is burned into the memories of every Africans descendants😢. ( I know I recognised that voice immediately...I love this man. He is a professional to the core but his giggles, when he goes off into one is priceless.
I love what Mary Elliott said, “They didn’t come with empty heads. They came with empty hands.” That’s a powerful statement.
Then how come they are doing so badly today? Even a Mexican who can't speak English and no education can get ahead of them in a few years lol
basic denial.
@@JasonWilliams-um2ntyes it is, because people always love to act like we don't have a culture and that we just pulled things out of the air. All that American culture that this country loves to take credit for comes from us, it's an acknowledgement that our culture and Americans culture isn't just European. And that we didn't just get stripped of what makes us African when our ancestors were brought here, we recreated Africa here in the states, and it was so good that it even changed they way white folks live their lives.
What would be great if they could connect those relative in Africa to bring their story full circle.
This is all fake
As a white American I can say, it would have been nice to learn about these thing in school growing up. Some white people say they have no shame or guilt because they didn’t do it, then why don’t we teach kids our true history if ur not ashamed!
@tehran2090we’re not big fans of you either.
I am also white, and I have been fascinated for years! One or the first book that I bought through a book club was Roots. I've been fascinated since. Did research on sally hemmings.
Thank You!
There is a lot of stuff they don't teach you about in history class, they pick and choose what you learn... Do your own research I guess and read different sides of things and thoroughly. When learning history though you should not let it hinder your NOW or future, reflect, learn and so on but don't let it deter you today from moving forward and living a fulfilling life.
@@HunterBidenscrackyour name being the blackest man alive just proves to me how low your self esteem is 🤦♂️🤣 but I feel you I wouldn’t want to admit that I was white either 🤷♂️
What happened to those people was an unimaginable nightmare. It's absolutely despicable what humans do to one another.
@@Jakil557he things you people say to justify the sick things your ancestors did are genuinely amazing Also bringing African born slaves was banned in the early 1800s , there were breeding farms and other in inhuman ways of fattening their pockets. I know this is just RUclips and you can say whatever you want but atleast try not to be so ignorant it genuinely proves our point.
@@AboutMyIssue01 Its a historical FACT that African slaves were willingly sold sold to the white salve traders by other Africans. They were enslaved by other Africans usually as a result of plunder after raids on rival tribes. It all comes down to human greed whether on the part of the Africans who raided and captured them or the Europeans who bought and then sold them. It was wrong for all parties responsible. Just don't try to frame this as a racial issue because Humans have been enslaving each other for millennia regardless of skin color. Its wrong no matter what but virtually all cultures and colors of the world were guilty of it at some point in history.
@@Jakil557lies😢
This pink pple they're not human they are elies, even there skin talk 😁😁😁they can't stand the sun so sad 😊😊😊
@@Jakil557definitely an uneducated response but aye it’s your world
Quite despicable how the Meaher family refuse to acknowledge their direct descendants to slavery and how their intergenerational wealth was built upon slavery.
No it’s not
A history that should never be forgotten.
Which history is that?
@@345mrsegtfo troll
I wasn't born then. Neither were my parents.
I don't give a fig. That's life.
It certainly won't be repeated in murikkka
we cant forget it...we are reminded every minute every second of every day. its tiring if anything
Had no idea they outlawed bringing new slaves in the early 1800s. The folks went through true oppression. The will and strength is amazing.
They kept it though.
Humans have forced people to be slaves since the beginnings of man’s existence in the earth
Usually their own people
All great civilizations of the past eg Roman, Egyptian, Persian etc were built on the sweat & tears of slaves
Bringing Africans to America ie the first time slaves were sent far distances from their homes
This became possible as the 19th. century was the century of transportation…
Sad reflection on man’s inhumanity to man
“Be the change you want to see “
Mahatma Ghandi
I bet you'd be shocked if someone told you half of Africa was still enslaved to this day. Dumbazz. "i had no idea!?!?!" The arrogance in you is mind blowing.
I mean, I would much rather have a SAFE AMERICA , than an entire people stuck with what happened 200 years ago! And then to NOT want to do anything to better as a people!? ....smh
Slavery still happens in Africa today....crickets on that.
Only 160 years had passed. People think of slavery in America as such ancient history that we should just get over... We're talking about great grandparents and grandparents who lived with those stories and through Jim Crow and later practices
Yea the democrats are total pricks for all that.
EXACTLY!!
Only 160 years? That’s a long time!!!! Way longer than any lifetime! That’s like 10 generations!!!! But cool story bro! Blacks loves Jim Crow because they hate White people and wanted segregation hence why they still segregate themselves! Even DECADES after Jim Crow ended! Plus Jim Crow was only in the south.
How hard can it be to also trace those west Africans , who started the misery . It seems they have escaped proper scrutiny for too long . They also got an extended reprieve from the "ROOTS" novel , what a demonic inspired lie that was .
Yes! 🙌🏾👏🏾 My MOM got spit at going to school, cursed out - Jim Crowe didn’t end till 1965 -1968 (the south?) and it definitely wasn’t a smooth transition.. but yeah, we should just get over it. 🙃🖤
Thank you for covering this and preserving true history
Bla bla bla
Agreed❤
Ya we pay them now and get free emprisoned convict labour it's legal way and we have iPhones too so
@@vergilito1 just don’t break the law Toby
“History, despite its wrenching pain cannot be relived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.”
I agree, we should send them back where they belong, stay brave!
Perfection!
If anything was changed in the past, none of us would exist.
Good point- don't be like that idiot Ron DeSantis and try to bury America's past...
@@donniedonnie639this is a brain-dead take and you’re spamming it everywhere. It’s obvious you’re just desperately trying to justify horrific aspects of American history just because you don’t like to learn and accept those difficult truths. It happened, and now we exist, so DEAL WITH IT 😂
Just imagining what those poor people were put through gives me chills. I would have lost my mind on that ship. And then to be enslaved afterwards, my God!
It's fake
Most were Criminals, as most are today.. Yes I agree. Chilling..
@@cutime6712i believe in you. Most ship was made by wood Back 1800 and they will ruin when they wrench by the water. Most migrants came here with ship no by plane. It can be those ship too.
@@cutime6712 What is fake?
@@RONALDO-ij6qupeople in a different country were criminals??? Lmao ok says the white folks who raped robbed and murdered the criminals 😂😂😂
OMG. As a Mexican having our land taken away and treated like you don't belong alone is an uncomfortable feeling passed from generation to generation. This is another level of true evil.
You would not exist if one single thing was changed in the past. This is silly!!!!
Welcome to mankind and human nature.
it’s truly heartbreaking
This video isn't about Mexicans...😕😕
Blame spain.
This is very powerful and it was very emotional to watch. May those who were enslaved and forced to endure such horrific conditions rest in eternal peace 🙏🏻
I think it’s a blessing to have grown up with this much detail and knowledge about an enslaved ancestor, who was literally first. Many of us don’t even know where to start. ❤
so true
If you are seeking a Deeper Sense of Afro American History-
Our Local Prison Systems Will Provide an Abundance of Fact/Knowldege/Proof/Detail/Current Status
Of the AfroAmerican Individual (including) the Crimes Commited By That Particular Individidual.
@@RONALDO-ij6qu
Wtf?
Get professional help (Henry Louis Gates) to research your ancestry. However, Black Americans' pasts are really fragmented (broken up) to do the research alone, and it would probably take a lot of money to do a thorough research (it has been over 400 years since the first slaves were brought to this country).
@@micahgelfand8282 ► MAGA
My 4th great grandfather came to America on one of these ships. It’s crazy to know that one of my ancestors survived this. We don’t talk about the middle passage a lot but it was the most brutal part of the whole thing.
Are stories of how your ancestors were sold to people in the americas? Did whites just go to africa and steal these people or were they stolen in africa by other blacks, and then sold to white folk? Genuine question, sadly our public education system does not educate on this matter very well.
@idontcareanymore2473 Back then, ppl didn’t consider themselves “the same” just because they shared the same skin color. Just how the British & Irish didn’t consider themselves the same though they are the same genetically. So technically the British Caused a Famine against their own ppl by todays standards.
@idontcareanymore2473your white friends convinced them to go into that trade, we know what happened to the people that refused to be involved with the British in Nigeria
@idontcareanymore2473lol, tell them about Obama and Hillary’s Libya experience, and how they are still actively trading slaves. Democrats hate facts
@idontcareanymore2473 I learned this in my african american history class, but they described 'slavery' to be much different in african culture. Usually it was after another tribe lost a war and they would have to serve for some years only until they worked themselves up through the winning society and then they could be free. It was white people that would take them away to work indefinitely for generations so they could make huge profits and they treated their slaves much much worse.
Imagine just taking people and treating them like trash. People who were minding their own business in their own country. No words for that evil
It's still happening
When their fellow countrymen gathered them up and sold them to be taken away as slaves
@@johnkeith2450 Exactly, I love how people seem to conveniently forget that
@SL Nobody forgot a thing. It's just people like you try to use that as some sort of crutch, making it seem like what happened after they got here okay, since the heniousness started in Africa first.
@@Rob774 If it didn't start in Africa they would have never got here
I never knew this piece of History this is the first time I've ever hearing anything about this. I'm overwhelmed.. this should never be forgotten. God bless those descendants. I'm over 60 years old. I'm white and I was raised in the northern part of Michigan. I want to know why I don't know or have ever heard of this. Now I've got to know more I will be researching this and sharing. I just want to know why people like me have never heard of this.
Put very simply (and no disrespect intended) you weren't the right color to know.
I would be willing to bet that probably a smattering of people that were of the Black and / or mixed race ethnic group probably new tangentially or had heard bits and pieces of similar stories. However, people that look similar to yourself probably knew, next to NOTHING about this subject.
You don’t even know what a real black person is. You have never had to be around them. A good life up there
Mr foster turning up and saying he is sorry makes me cry...He wasn't there but he understood that story was part of his history n and I just to say God bless his heart. Thank you ao much for your kind words. Much love and greetings from Papua new guinea to you...
Stories that need to continue to be told.
MAGA goons regard this kind of thing as " woke" and part of CRT which they would rather erase from everyone's mind. Everyone is waiting for criticism and erasure of landings from Europe as dangerous/ unnecessary memories.
They should focus on the entirety not just African transatlantic trade! It's a grift, because men like Tippu Tip put his own in this situation! Not to mention? zero mention of any slavic people or Irish when every group was, they push it as a wht n blk issue when reality it was a rich vs poor? How so? Wealthy men like Anthony Johnson is another to learn about, though media grifters won't tell any
True like how the bantu tribes enslaved raped murdered the pygmies tribes to extinction
And how the Muslims treated the Christian slaves its very naughty
If they don't tell it tell your children yourself I did period !
Its in the bible
Never forget where you came from. This community needs to be talked about more and bring light to American history.
Why? Just to breed more racism and black supremacists?!? Nah that’s ok!
It is talked about a lot and taught in schools. There is a point when it just gets annoying. Every cultures experienced slavery in their past, and every culture had slaves, including Africans. It's just history.
It's talked about literally constantly.
Good point I always wondered if 400 years after the Romans did there thing across the world people were still having a go at them.
Don't forget who put an end to slavery worldwide. And who trafficked these people at the beginning of the supply chain.
I hope the ship is raised whole, and soon, to be preserved and displayed in a museum with as much information about it's 'passengers' as possible!
There names an society from which they came from was stripped away from them..their “information” was stolen an I don’t see how’s it’s possible to retrieve it
@@BigA-trucking With archeology, you never know what tiny fragments of history you might end up finding. Some small glimpses into peoples lives or some hints at their story. Things that help bring them further along the way from cold, empty statistic towards actual human being.
@@lutzderlurch7877 Yes-DNA will help as well.
We dont have room for important history. Unless it is a current druggie named George Floyd, then they will make a statue of it.
Very rewarding to see his family members are doctors, Lawyers and professionals
Not all of them are doctors and lawyers .
@@KenTaylor-qs8misame thing could be said about every family no matter their skin color.
Would be more rewarding if they where given their reparations
Choose to make something of themselves instead of blaming the system and shooting up there neighbourhoods
@KenTaylor-qs8mi they didn't say all 🤡
Being from Mobile, Alabama, I never knew how much history was so close to me. It’s a very sad story however I’m glad that it is being told.
Nova Scotia Canada also has an Africatown.
Alabamy always shocks me, I don’t like what was done in those lands.
@@catdaddy2643I feel the same way 😊
How did you not know the history would be strong? You live i. The Deep South…
@@catdaddy2643 I hope you have the chance to observe what you yourself is doing to the lands you are a part of. One may say the future! If you were to live your life all over again after this leg, would you be content with your participation? Would you be an observer or the observed. The society or looking in as an outsider. I think this is a more fruitful enquiry.What do you think?
It’s never too expensive to recover history.
There are millions of rich black Americans why can’t they help
It’s a shame
@@thebill8891why would the descendants of the slaves have to help. The slavers have to do it, which is why they’re doing it. You’re just mad at black people for no reason you racist
@@thebill8891 why should they participate in what was done to them?
After so many years of refining the white pool, your brain cells are still lacking
If you are seeking a Deeper Sense of Afro American History-
Our Local Prison Systems Will Provide an Abundance of Fact/Knowldege/Proof/Detail/Current Status
Of the AfroAmerican Individual (including) the Crimes Commited By That Particular Individidual.
As much as a coffer dam around it.
The comments suck. Ya’ll want us to forget about slavery but constantly bring up the holocaust and give them reparations when it didn’t even happen in America.
The Holocaust was about genocide. Blacks were not trying to be eradicated. Besides, I rarely.hear about the Holocaust, but everyday there is something black and race related on the news including slavery.
"Making a way out of now way..." "...they didn't come here with empty heads, they came with empty hands, so they found a way to make a way and they relied on each other and were resilient." Black excellence. From the beginning.
LOL, black excellence sold them to the whites! you all cracking me up!
I can’t imagine being locked in a ship like that, packed like sardines. No human deserves to be done like this…
Yeah it's even worse that they did it to their own people
@@dickdiamonds3410who bought them? Who was there to fuel the demand?
Copying the romans who moved slaves from the UK and north Africa in even worse conditions
@@JoniAntonioo cheap labour
@@stephenholmes1036Free labor
This is an important part of our history as a country and needs to be preserved.
Mind Begs the Question:
Anti Semitism - Sternly dealt with
Racism,Islamophobia - If not Equally Sternly dealt with
Equality,Elitist?
Preserve what you want and rid of what you dont want. That is going to work out splendidly.
This isn't out history
We should be proud that we ended slavery 150 years ago because most people live in countries where it REMAINS LEGAL!
WAIT TIL YOU FIND OUT THE REAL IMPORTANT PART THAT BLACK PPL WERE ALREADY HERE BESIDES THE MOORS WHO CAME FROM AFRICA AND THE WHITE LOW CLASS SLAVS WHO HAD TO BE INDENTURED SERVANTS IN THE NEW WORLD.
It is a painful, but beautiful story because it shows the strength of the survivors to build a life in spite of the cruelty imposed on them. All Africans brought to the Americas and the Antilles had skills, spoke several languages, practiced beautiful religions, understood the energies of nature in a way that modern science has never been able to explain. They brought their art, dance and music encrypted in their souls. I was glad to see you playing drums because it is a very soulful instrument. Drums emit penetrating sounds capable of travelling for miles. The rythm and sound of drums is capable of lifting the human spirit in a way no other instrument can. Thanks for telling your story and for educating all of us.
I’m an Islander in the Caribbean. Therefore I may have African blood in my dna, and I’m so proud of it. Happy Juneteenth 🎉❤
Everybody's DNA comes from Africa. That's what the experts say. Except for mine. I am the lord Savior
@@Xobloot-qf2mjyou are a nut 🥜 😮
How do you think you got to the island 🏝 where you you think you came 🤔 ftom 😮
You do life started in Africa and Adam and Eve are what ppl now stupidly call "black".
Yes africa- Such a beautiful successful continent and people- such incredible inventions and creations for mankind- LOL
My entire paternal side are from Alabama and lived in Africa town. I am almost certain they were on Clotilda.
And it actually didn't stop. When researching I've come across census when asked where they were birn it stated Africa- meaning they were still being brought here.
My daddy born and raised in Mobile. Just like his father in 1920. I can get about 150 years of them being in this same area. They are well documented.
Hello Stephanie, I love African American I have been to US special Alabama colonel Jamal Baluchi from Bahrain 🇧🇭 😊
All black race are from same continent Africa! ur nationality is immaterial.
The Lord is coming to set everything right!! We got to hold on and keep the faith.
Joel 3
In those days and at that time,
when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
2 I will gather all nations
and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat.
*There I will put them on trial*
*for what they did to my inheritance, my people Israel,*
*because they scattered my people among the nations*
*and divided up my land.*
3 They cast lots for my people
*and traded boys for prostitutes;*
*they sold girls for wine to drink.*
4 “Now what have you against me, Tyre and Sidon and all you regions of Philistia? Are you repaying me for something I have done? If you are paying me back, *I will swiftly and speedily return on your own heads what you have done. 5 For you took my silver and my gold and carried off my finest treasures to your temples. 6 You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, that you might send them far from their homeland.*
7 “See, I am going to rouse them out of the places to which you sold them, and I will return on your own heads what you have done. 8 *I will sell your sons and daughters to the people of Judah,*
If the past were different you (and I)would not exist.
This is fake
Unlike millions without a clue about who their ancestors were or where they came from, these people are truly blessed 🌹.
Right! It's just so beautiful ❤
The first enslaved African, mentioned by his African name, Olúwálé in this video is a Yorùbá man from present day South West Nigeria. His name means God brought me home.
With all the DNA Black Americans not knowing where they come from is a choice at this point.
Really powerful video.
History should never be forgotten.
Great quote by the lady: The slaves came with empty hands not empty head.
Regards from India❤
THE SLAVS CAME AS WHITE LOW CLASS INDENTURED SERVANTS READY TO SETTLE IN AND GET COMFORTABLE.
These stories are so painful, makes me want to cry. I can't fathom how people could be so heartless as to enslaved another human being to gain wealth, and all of this sanction by the highest office of their Religion. I can never come to terms with that.
Get with the programme, babe. It's called Capitalism. Product does not matter. Making the Quid does.
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Slavery is very real in many countries still today, but mainstream news media won't tell you those stories. Check Africa for example where there's plenty of popular slavery still happening today, perhaps people should start asking why is "real" slavery ignored by mainstream news media when ancient slavery is shown on the news instead??
Trying to apply modern norms to the past is stupid . Back then slavery was legal . There was money to be made . May not have been right but was way it was
Yet many still fought against this horrendous practice. I wonder when someone says that's just the way things were.
Have you read genesis 21. God loves slavery
Whats also sad is this same type of events happened but the buyer was a child abuser. Imagine a ship like that with 110 children! So many evils were done no one wants to remember 😔
Everyone is a child of someone! Wars are started and continued by the same cold hearted people. You have to look beyond the smokescreen.
I want to remember. I want to send them back.
episteins island
Now their descendants are the ones enjoying the benefits of them being taken out of a underdeveloped continent into a first world country
Epstein is just the tip of the modern slavery ice berg
They can never erase our history💪🏾❗
No big deal
They wrote ur history and you believe them. 🗿
Powerful story. It is so disturbing that Africa Town was mostly destroyed in the attempt to wipe out people, businesses and their community. And yet, they continue on. I hope they get all that they are asking for and the Meaher family will step up to right some wrongs.
I’m so happy for them to know exactly where their ancestors came from. So many of us wouldn’t know where to start
These people are not from Africa these people were already in America. The blacks today are the original indigenous people of this land. But they gave their rights to the so-called Indians AKA native Americans. They were considered civilized and the indigenous people were considered uncivilized but they were already here before anybody got here.FACTS
Go and research the true depictions of the indigenous native Indian tribes that were here. They look just like the so-called African Americans today.and btw African-American is a misnomer these people boys misclassified been reclassified just sold their history would be lost and given to another group, which is the five civilized tribes. And those so-called five civilized tribes are really Mongolian. They are not native to the Americas 💯🌎
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False information… only one ship… the Americans were home to indigenous African Americans they just don’t want y’all to know we were here first
Like many adopted Russians living in the USA today with no trace of their birth family
Wow! This is an amazing story. I was deeply touched by the words of that one descendant. He said that he felt no guilt because he didn’t do it but he would like to apologize because it was not right. I truly wish that all descendants from the profiting side of slavery could get to that place. America would be a better nation.
The Freedmen and their families just wanted peace and be left alone from the marauding whites who always 'say' that hate Blacks, but always found their bland white azzes wanting to be near Blacks...huh
If the mainstream news media actually cared about slavery then it would be educating people about the REAL SLAVERY which exists in Africa today.
Your anti slavery rhetoric has now been turned into antiwhite propaganda
REMEMBER THIS FACT IT WAS THE WHITEMAN WHO ENDED SLAVERY IN AMERICA
@@NTJedithis is American history. A history not taught in school. What exactly would you like us to do with the many conflicts in Africa right now?
@@fedfan3079 If slavery is truly important than instead of looking at ancient history which cannot be changed the focus should be on locations where real slavery still exists. Mainstream news media needs to provide actual details of real problems in the world allowing people of power to take action... not a review of old history.
It is a testament to the resiliency and decency of these modern descendants that they live honorable lives. One gets the sense that, despite the grave injustices inflicted on their ancestors (treated like animals), they live in a way that is exemplary, without bitterness, with no hostility to the system that still keeps them down. We should all be so morally refined.
Well said!
We do have bitterness and hostility toward the system. And many of us do NOT live exemplary lives or anything near it. And many of us can see through what you just said. 🙄
@@BBFLY_RISEN If we do not live an exemplary life then perhaps it is time to begin living in a way that we would want. That is a worthy goal for every human being.
@@rr7firefly You are right. That is true of everyone. We can all do better in one area of life or another.
@@rr7firefly the world is here to stay, it is a matter of time. i hope they wont be treated the same way by others in future.
The highway definitely wasn't a coincidence it was definitely strategically placed there.. it really is fascinating. The Descendants are still there I pray that they never forget their history
I heard highways are deliberately built through black towns so that the next generation has no land to inherit and have to start from scratch with the burden of mortgages.
All highways are strategicly placed and has nothing to do with color. I live near one that bypasses small towns and now those towns are almost dead
@spider46531 it's absolutely does. Just because the highway you live next to might not anything to do with color... some are. Especially the part of miami where I live.... you gotta at least know history before you try to deny it
Don’t be naive, of course the highway was strategically place. It was put there to take the land and wealth of Black owners.
@@genieess5403 absolutely interstate 10 in Los Angeles was placed in the black part of town on purpose. Like a slash of a blade through the black part of town, to demarcate the city.
Lady in the segment who was interviewed said there was a concerted effort to try to hide what was done. We're now in 2023 and there's no doubt evil is still trying to hide.
So who's the evil you're talking about ?
@@drucshlook the evil that makes a concerted effort to try to hide what took place in the history books that they call teaching CRT. The evil that in 1955 took a 14 year old boy from his relative's house. A white woman lied about what that young man did and they killed him, she was never held accountable for the lies that she told about that evil. Anything else you want to know about this filth you just let me know.
The so called YT man, there is no Person more evil and wicked than him, that’s why his Biblical name is the Devil.
Some people are inherently evil to the core and that will never change…
Never, ever to be forgotten! We got here against our will. And still have not recovered so many generations after!
Well... actually no one has experienced this... so...
We were already here.
@@bopmoo and no one is made to stay...
Sold by own fellow Africans
@@JohnDoe-yc1kx Not quite true and YOU know it! Don't get me started! If you need explanation, I will provide!
REPARATIONS ARE OWED TO ALL AFRICAN DESCENDANTS FOR CREATING AMERICA!
Trillions!!! Fk'n pay it
I wasn’t going to comment on this video, but seeing this video just makes me want to burst into tears!!! Like oh my lawd😢pleaseeeee we need to keep black history in these schools!!! These kids need to know this history ‼️
Yes true, and teach respect to everyone as well.
❣❣❣
The word is commit
@@CharlieNasty-cd5hu
Think they meant comment maybe....?
lol, fine, but we need a white history month. Don't be racist.
Kojo names are very West African, God bless them. They went through a lot.
Especially Ghanian
@@znobbs9376yes
I'm so happy that I was able to hear your messages!! I'm sending all of my positive energy to you!
This is incredible and powerful and this is what true empathy and sincere apology and forgiveness looks like. This is how it should be. We should be able to acknowledge the horror of our past, denounce our ancestors actions and accept one another.🙏🏼
Damn, that last moment made me cry... May that town prosper and be great!
Relax it’s all lies
I grew up in that area dude...go to that town and when your pockets are emptied at gunpoint you will cry for joy for the simply fact that you made it out alive lol
Why do they always got to build a damn Highway or industrial plant around black communities? Like damn let us Live (Literally)🤦🏾♂️
@@sunrise7ranch85and surely there isn’t a connection between decades of disenfranchisement+poverty and crime… surely not right ? Try thinking a little.
Try a winners mentality instead of a victim mentality. @@joelewis1776
I'm a 39yr old White Brit, watching this had me tearful 😢 all the way through, but was so educational and important to learn more on what happened. I'm heartbroken 💔 but also glad I watched and learned more.
Thank you to the producers for this information piece. Let this never be buried in History, and never be repeated. Pray for on-going efforts today against human trafficking operations or any slavery ongoing anywhere in the world.
Strong people, their decendents can be very proud of their resiliance.
The Meaher's should give all land to the residents of AfricaTown and they need to remover their name from everywhere.
That highway 🛣 was all deliberate and the industry etc all trying to erase the history and cover up. It's all sickening.
I would love to see the Meaher family take action to make reparations by giving up land and wealth.
The English should be commended for ending slavery world wide. The Arab Muslims took more Africans as slaves than any other group did, they started the trade actually in 600AD and Europeans picked it up from them in the late 1400s. The English banned it in the early 1800s and enforced it world wide as a Empire. Some of the Arab states had to have their shores bombarded with cannon, like in Morocco, to scare their Sultan into freeing his black slaves.
Mind your own Irish ;)
No one is a color
Feel guilty?
Yeah the Brits were one of the largest slavetraders.
That thankful hug brought tears to my eyes. Such amazingly resilient people…they need that town!
No reparation
We know that stupidity and evil thrives in you.
Shut up it didn’t happen . How could a boat without a motor make this trip ? Through the burmudah triangle at that ?
@@Paulftate I got the feeling that its a money grab also. Curious to see what the top wealthy folks are sharing with their fellow boat ancestors.....i bet its ZERO!!! Welcome to America.
We need REARATIIONS
It will be absolutely impossible to survive such a trip...
Many did survive
@@u.s.lawyer8542Listen, the story never happened.
We're strong people 💯
Not to mention even just from a Medical standpoint. People that lay in beds with no movement get bedsores. Imagine laying on wood for months on end ! You would die because the bedsores would be to the bone and heavily infected!
And they still can't reveal the location because some might destroy it? Somethings never change very sad
Think they are worried people would try and take artifacts for collections, etc. actually not hard to locate the exact spot with google earth
Or maybe it doesn’t exist
This is a ridiculous comment. Definitely exists
Thank you Zora N. Hurston for documenting 1st hand stories from our people. #Barracoon
Those Africans want nothing to do with black Americans.
Thank you for mentioning Zora N. Hurston, I knew I read a book about this story but couldn’t remember the name. I’m surprised they didn’t mention Barracoon:The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”.
My grandmother, Jessie Eirby Gay told me stories that included the name Kujo!!! She lived in Mobile, Alabama and talked over and over about Africatown !!
My mom's dad family last name is Gay my grandfather is the only living descendant left out of 14 kids i believe. 🤔
What a tearjerker, the power of an apology 😢😢😢
The Dahomey is actually Benin . A country so full of history it’s incredible. So deeply endoctronated in voudoo and I studied there in hight school for 5 years . Now I work in New York in Wall Street . What a life
Are you from there?
Un compatriote béninois ?
It is so hardbreaking as African American I feel that pain ... given that my great grandfather told me about the story and how he lost my great grandmother “wife” through torture when she got pregnant of her so called master. Bad indeed.
Yeah, Kool story Jussie.
Lmao, you can spot the bs
Lies
If your story is true let that be a lesson from your ancestors you teach people how to treat you by what you allow.
We’re not Africans !! Were the ISRAELITES!
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Deuteronomy 28:68 And the Lord shall bring thee into Egypt againe, with ships, by the way whereof I spake vnto thee, Thou shalt see it no more againe: and there ye shall bee sold vnto your enemies for bondmen, and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.
To you so called blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans, we are the children of ISRAEL! Read Det. 28:15-68! Time to wake up and return to our heritage of keeping the laws of God in the faith of Christ (Sirach 24:23, Rev14:12)! Shalom!
I'm here on Juneteenth to learn and acknowledge history. Thanks for this.
Painful to hear that a place as historic and important to American history ended up with a highway running through it and industry gnawing at it's borders.
That is typical of what happens in Black neighborhoods!
Look up how I 95 was built….. in Richmond Virginia the highway split Jackson Ward a black community in half
On behalf of proud white people, we hereby pass you on to the black community
This is wyt ppl propaganda
Building up Africatown will not happen if it only benefits the black residence or black people in general. If Africatown increases the wealth of whites it will happen and the bandwagon celebrating this town will overflow with them. Furthermore, all desendents of Africatown that moved away should to come together and work to protect Africatown and the legacy the was created there bc you are all you got no one is going to protect what is yours but you.
This was heartfelt!🙏🏽
I’m happy they have this much history because a lot of us will never know
Amazing how a simple apology and a hug can wipe away generations of harbored remorse, hate, grief and injustice! That's all it takes to live in peace and harmony. Thank you 60 minutes for this piece of journalistic gem.
not enough sorry fam its a start they need to pay whats owed ijs
What an idiot. This is why black people have nothing. His sorry means nothing without financial restitution. Black people need what was stolen. We need money to build successful businesses and communities. We need medical treatment, etc. We need self-reliance, but we need REPARATIONS to make it work.
@@miykhaelWE NEED OUR MONEY HUMAN TRAFFICKERS
Hmmm. Let's see if you would still be willing to say that if it happened to your child. It's not a simple apology. No. People have lifetime emotional issues because of it. You never get over such atrocities.
@@ritad7927 so you missed when i said sorry is a start ? but that company thats worth $36 million today need to pay them for their ancestors free forced labor…..like my ancestors who was forced here unwillingly so yeah im cool with sorry but actions speak louder than words……
Those enslavers need to pay reparations to those the brought illegally to America. They broke the law.
Those enslavers and Slaves are all dead 😂 reparations to who ????
@@darrellpasion8925The people who did this have descendants too. Their descendants put factory's right by Africatown and caused cancer in the community. One Decedent of those Evil Enslavers is the Governor there. This story is ongoing.
The actual enslavers are already dead. And enslaved ones, too. What today's people have to do with all this?
They're all dead. The reparations thing is complete nonsense.
They are dead.
I’m a Nigerian I was on clubhouse the other day trying to educate African Americans that they are Africans, I was insulted & cussed out, they all say they not Africans that they are Europeans and Asians😢
It can be tough arguing with those "black" Americans😢 - they have coined terms like FBA, etc
@@ernestmwape what is FBA😢
@@Trash-Beatswe are fba. Period !
some believe they were never africans, some believe slavery never happened, they believe they are the actual native americans and their history was stolen from them @Trash-Beats
The inhumanity toward the people on the ships is staggering and sickening. And then a freeway was built through Africa Town. There needs to be a monument in Africa Town to those strong people, as one woman said -they came empty handed not empty headed.
Money should be invested in this community.
It’s horrific.
God help us 🙏✝️❤️
What happened to Africa Town is heartbreaking. Such a special and unique place that Town is to the US history means that it should be made a UNESCO protected place BEFORE the 90`s.
Highways and lakes always built on or through black towns. What a coincidence....NOT.
@HaselyLlewellyn One can argue the slaves should have gone to Africa once White people made slavery illegal. It’s not too late!
Im in tears, how can people be so heartless
Those are the Israelite ppl of the Bible.
All races were enslaved in different parts of the world at different times.
Please stop with the false equivalences.
The Atlantic trade was the largest by far mass distance forced migration.
@@naithngr81-jh2bb People of every race and color were enslaved - and enslaved others. "White people were still being bought and sold as slaves in the Ottoman Empire, decades after American blacks were freed." Thomas Sowell
You don't know how dumb statements like that come across.
How is that statement "dumb"? It is a fact. It is important to be familiar with world history--not a small, selected portion of history. @@JesseWright68
@@naithngr81-jh2bbliterally not true lmao
I have the day off work in recognition of the Juneteenth Federal Holiday, and was looking for something to watch that would tie into the spirit of the day. This story certainly fit that mold.
lol
Juneteenth. . .a fake holiday with a fake name. Certainly fits the target audience.
Well at least you did not sit around drinking Bud Light.
Right on brother! Makes my heart happy
The rays would love to get a holiday celebrating the day the South seceded
My heart breaks to see those people on the ship.
What about all the modern-day slave's in places like saudi arabia and africa & even china and mexico They love slavery lets talk about those countries who never stopped slaving
@@bubba2for2 People are afraid to talk about Arab / Islamic slavery. Some people will come up with all kind of excuses even though that slavery is legal in the past, present and future in Islamic law.
America was built on SLAVERY
Stop lying
@@bubba2for2we talking about in America
It's amazing what a sincere apology can do!! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
. .from who
When will Ghana and Nigeria and the others be held accountable for their heinous crimes ?
Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
@@Gerrardboss-v2g You sound White. Stop redirecting.
#reparations
That broadcast is awesome.
wow! what a great segment, thank you for sharing this
I do know most of are ancestors were already here right
people need to acknowledge the past in order to heal even if they didn't do it but you've benefitted over the generations. if you don't acknowledge that wrong is wrong, you carry the sins of your ancestors.
First you have to acknowledge what was done a “sin” which I do not sooo yeah.
The FACT that fellow Africans ENSLAVED AND SOLD their black brothers and sisters is the real crime ! Why is that overlooked ¿?¿?¿??????🤔☹️
@@Gerrardboss-v2g Rome didn't enslave 🐷people from other nations? 🤔🤔
@@residentrump3271 Rome did . They enslaved OTHER nations people , NOT their own !!!! 🙄😱☹️
@@Gerrardboss-v2g They still enslaved other 🐷people. Celts, Gauls, 🐷people
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Forget the titanic ..we need videos of this ship!!
Thanks very much for sharing your story. It is a historical event that we would not know about, but you and your ancestors have made it available to America and to the world by passing the story on from generation to generation.
History never fades away and its about time we talk about it
Actually the opposite, we need to stop focusing on the past so much and work on the future. But telling these stories are still important
my FL governor is spending his time and resources fading this type of education
we have been............... its in our high school text books.........................................................................
Speak for yourself, my brother in Christ.
It's time to talk about the African people who actually rounded up then enslaved and then sold their fellow African people ! The whites were only secondary in this crime .
I watched this clip with tears. What a world?????!!!! What a life ??????!!!!!!I looked at their decendendants utmost sympathy 😢😢😢😢😢😢
Why? They're clearly prospering?
@@thatsthejobbb8587it's called empathy and the right for everyone to tell their story. That's why
Crossing the Red Sea Bible Story from the book of Exodus. Moses is chosen by God to lead the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt
Don't leave out the part where Cudjoe was captured and traded by the "Woman King" and the Dahomey tribe
Why is he apologizing? That’s weird to me.
It's amazing to me how man kind would like to erase and forget about these events, but relish in events that suit their purposes, Amazingly heartless.
That hug and pat on the back was incredible .
Imagine being cramped in an area of 5 ft by 20 for two months that’s just pure torture 😢
imagine not holding the people who caught and sold you to the salve traders accountable, then getting freed and refusing to go back but play victim demanding "reparations"
@@justinallen9104if there’s no demand there wouldn’t be supply.
You can't "play" victim when you are indeed the victim
@@justinallen9104I had intended to craft an eloquent response, but got a headache trying to decipher your comment about the “salve trade.”
@@LT_1856 sure you did, you're so genius you can't be bothered to communicate with us plebs. Nagger.
Praying for my People🙏🏽💖
It's horrifying to think of what humans are capable of doing to each other. Chained to each other with no room to move around to even relieve themselves. And in the US most people believe there's nothing we should/could do to make reparations. I don't know how it should happen, but it should.
Well said.
Amen.
Reparations can easily happen. Look how much money the government has been giving to Ukraine alone. But when it comes to actual US citizens, all we hear is excuses
You mean whites and white driven supremacy psychosis
Food stamps,free housing,free schooling, medicaid,and much more. Those social programs cost the American tax payers billions every year.
12 million?????? Dear God! This whole chapter in human history is sick. It is beyond comprehension. This is a story that needs to be told. $9000 for humans? For innocent sold off like merchandise. I'm South African. I'm very aware of the history of slavery in this country but no matter where you come from, this is one of the greatest evils ever committed against humanity.
Who sold them? ...........
And how do you feel about the farm murders?
Dude this chapter 8n human history is as long as human history itself nothing special here just another group of people bying slaves who got captured and sold....by there own people.
@@StevenMarx-py8jcwell deserved
Read the book, "Barracoon." It's Cujo Lewis' story. What 60 Minutes left out was the brital way those people were captured and enslaved by fellow Africans before being sold to the Clotilda. Perhaps the most cynical aspect of the story is that the whole thing began as a bet between two Mobile businessmen over whether it was even possible to skirt the law and the U.S. Navy and get a shipment of slaves into the country 52 years after such imports were banned. Two wealthy men make a bet and people living thousands of miles away were upended.
Masterminds of slavery always shifting blame. Just acknowledge the evil your people have done.
I heard about that bet between two wealthy men. Some people are just full of evil.
Another touching and beautiful story about human strength, it is amazing what these people did, hope that one day this African town flourish and show once again human strength to all of us, what an example❤️
It's so crazy that they literally enslaved these people and then built a highway through their booming town... this is so sad... the tragedy never ends... 💔
The Boat isn't even that deep. They could build a wall around the Coltilda and remove the water above it. It's called marine excavation? Correct me if I'm wrong.
The documentary about this, Africatown, is very well made and an important part of American history.
important?
Wonderful interview! So powerful, thank you for sharing this story.❤️ #neverforget
This! That's it! What Black Folks have simply been looking for! None of us thinks that anyone needs to feel guilty about what happened 100 years ago and more. What we want is a simple acknowledgment and understanding that what happened was wrong, horribly wrong. The problem with acknowledgment though is it also means you have to accept the truth that what you have today is potentially from the ugly and the evil your ancestors perpetrated in the past. That is what makes you feel guilty.
Slavery wasn't unique to black people. Millions of Eastern Europeans were taken as slaves by Turks and this only stopped in the late 1800s. Southern Europeans were being raided by Arab-North Africans and taken as slaves. There were indentured servants in the English colonies, usually Irish, who were slaves in everything but name. Arab Muslims took more Africans as slaves than anyone else did, close to 20 million to the Middle East and North Africa from 600ad to the early 1900s. Latin America, 95% of African slaves that went to the Americas went there. African people themselves - their Chiefs were selling their own people. The only people to have fought wars to free slaves are White people, White Americans did so, and the English / British Empire banned slavery world wide in their territories in the early 1800s and forced Arabs to stop and others from then on.
No White Guilt 🚫
@@jonroman9572 We understand that but we're talking about AFRICAN AMERICANS in this video! Sheesh.🙄
@@henrylockett7838 Nobody ever denied it, but recently a lot of dumb retards buy into sensationalizing it. In the scope of history of the world there's nothing particularly special about it.
@@henrylockett7838why segregate history? Teach it all.
I learned about slavery in junior high. I also learned about the holocaust in elementary school. I am grateful for that because we need to know our history that way it is hopefully never repeated.
So amazing! Thank you for sharing!
Yes indeed it is colonel Jamal Baluchi from Bahrain 🇧🇭
😢😢😢how could anyone be so gruel and inhumane 😢😢😢how could any person treat anyone so inhumane only because of the color of their skin😢😢😢Dear God, continue to bless and look out for Your African children 😢😢😢
$9,000?? Dang that would have been extremely expensive back in those days.
I’ve always been curious how much slaves in general cost back then
That was for 110 slaves not one can you imagine how much money he made off of them but this country don’t want to pay reparations to the sons and daughters of the slaves but they pay the holocaust victims son and daughter billions of dollars for seven years and slavery was 400 years With over 20 million people die so you do the math this country will always be cursed.
A quick search shows between $800 and a thousand in today's money.
This is an awesome story. I was in a college psychology class. The professor had an Ice breaker moment. We each introde ourselves & tell where our ancestors came from. Israel, Italy, Mexico, China, etc. But when the black people gave intro...their (our) history only went as far as Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, etc.
Thnx for the story!!
Guess there weren't many native Americans in the class. It wouldn't have been a very interesting exercise in my school because we're all native from the same place 😅
So glad you are showing this story. Just re-read Zora Neale Hurston's 'Babacoon' where she speaks with Mr. Lewis. I am glad this story was created because now we can address the misinformation in the movie 'The Woman King.' Mr. Lewis describes how the Dahomey women led the captives to the men, but more importantly, in this book we see that the Dahomey are in fact not heroes, but villains.
The Kingdom of Dahomey's primary export was slaves.
@@TheCanalZoneAnd yet they are upheld as 'Woman King Warriors.' I'm not sure what the point is you were trying to make, but to reiterate my point, The Dahomey were villains to me, but we live in a time where history is so re-written, if we don't pay attention, we will have no idea what is going on. Anyone who mistreats anyone is in no way a hero to me. The Dahomey's were villains, pushed by a pro-villain narrative that promotes mistreatment. No human being should be mistreated and if we as human beings ever see someone else mistreated, it is our responsibility to make it right for the mistreated. There is an onion for you to peel.
O, the agonies of slavery. It is a painful time... The cruelty and barbarism is burned into the memories of every Africans descendants😢. ( I know I recognised that voice immediately...I love this man. He is a professional to the core but his giggles, when he goes off into one is priceless.
I'm not being rude but what part of Africa are you from without taking the fake DNA ancestry test.