Real Slaves Speak To Us from the 1930s. Could This Be Played In Schools Today?
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- This is a program that ran on National Television in 1963 and was designed to help teachers deal with prejudice. It showed how to use photographs and audio to help students to analyze deeply ingrained prejudices.
The professor uses some of the work of the Works Progress Administration, the WPA, who in the 1930s, paid professionals to record the narratives of former slaves like what is heard here. Amazing and authentic.
The WPA, as part of its Federal Writers' Project, undertook a massive oral history effort during the 1930s to document the experiences of former slaves. This project interviewed thousands of people who had been enslaved, capturing their stories, life experiences, and reflections on slavery and freedom. I feel that these narratives are a crucial primary source for understanding the history of slavery in the United States.
The WPA slave narratives are primary historical documents that provide firsthand accounts of slavery. They are valuable for understanding this period in American history, offering perspectives that are not often found in traditional textbooks. These narratives, while invaluable, were collected during a time when the former slaves were quite old, and the interviews were conducted within the social and racial context of the 1930s. This context can influence how the narratives were recorded and are presented.
The title “Lay My Burden Down" refers to a book that compiled some of these narratives. "Lay My Burden Down: A Folk History of Slavery.” The title is derived from a spiritual song and symbolizes the release from the hardships of slavery.
The WPA slave narratives have been used extensively in educational settings to provide firsthand accounts of the experiences of enslaved people. These narratives have been instrumental in teaching about slavery, African American history, and the oral history tradition.
Critical Race Theory is a framework used primarily in legal studies that examines the relationship between race, law, and power. The controversy in places like Florida often revolves around perceptions of CRT and its applicability in K-12 education. Some argue that CRT is not taught in K-12 schools, while others are concerned about any curriculum they believe might be derived from or influenced by CRT principles. In April 2023 Florida had passed legislation and set educational policies that affect how race, history, and related topics are taught in schools. This includes laws that restrict certain ways of teaching about race and history that are seen as aligned with CRT.
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David Hoffman
a brilliant description of Jim Crow segregation lived by this man - ruclips.net/video/IXUFiXeNZV4/видео.html
Just watched it David. Quite powerful.
Your right, it is quite relavant to our current situation.
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1.8 mullion dead for 62 years of silent u.s. gold mining
No one should be treated like property. But we have a different problem today, with people claiming they are property when they are free. What those who gave those testimonials then would do with the freedoms we have now I wonder? Certainly not complain about it, they knew what slavery and injustice really is like, they would waste little time in doing the things they could not do before.
"ran to Grandma Gracie" yep NO they did NOT sell off their children. in fact if the north had NOT burned so much down, They kept records of marriages and births, celebrated them. Jeff Davis brought in Teachers... as many. The Carvers had George Washington Carver highly educated, HIram Revel elected in 1870 again 1870 to MISSISSIPPI CONGRESS, 4 yr undergrad degree 3 yrs law school: Puts the start of his college ... education at 1863. < TRUE.
What propagandas can do.
Free Palestine.
Sadly, this isn't something that just happened 150 years ago. This is something that happens today in many places around the world.
I think something that gets wrongfully taught about slavery is that white Americans are the only people that had slaves.slavery began at the beginning of time and still happens in different parts of the world.also whites and Europeans didn't go into Africa and capture them to use as slaves.they actually bought slaves from kings and queens in Africa
Like Africa.
@@phantomblade89 I watched the movie The Mauritanian about Guantanamo Bay and the imprisonment of so many without trial. I didn't know the word Mauritanian and looked it up. I was not expecting an African country to pop up where slavery still continues. In fact, I didn't realize that slavery exists in a few countries in Africa. I know about modern slavery in the form of sex trafficking but didn't know hereditary slavery still existed.
Human trafficking, child labor. Slavery simply took on new forms.
Yep, Arabs enslave, buy and sell blacks every day in Northern Africa.
1965 I visited a museum that had been a house used for the underground railroad. On that visit there was what might have been the world's oldest docent. She was 105 years old. She was born a slave around 1860 and was officially freed at the age of five though she informed me that she was probably closer to ten when she learned she was free. She said there was little difference in life for her at the end of the Civil War. She still lived on the same plantation. The only real difference was her parents became share croppers and could not be sold and separated. Her master essentially took emancipation in stride. He offered all his slaves a share cropping arrangement where they would work the same fields growing the same crops they always had. Then they would pay the master rent in the form of the crops they grew. What was left in crops they kept for themselves and could sell them and use the money to buy food or other needed items. Mostly they grew cotton and tobacco. The land was still owned by the same plantation owner so he charged them rent for the same shacks they had lived in. He still gave them the same hand me downs that the former house slaves, become paid servants wore out. She said that after five years her parents told her they had enough money saved up and were leaving. How they managed that I don't know. She said she never stopped calling the plantation owner "Master" probably out of habit. She was just surprised to learn at around ten that they were in fact all free and had been for five years. Perhaps the parents just didn't want to get their hopes up until they were off the plantation. Then they moved up north. She told of how it got really bad in the south around the 1870's and how relatives of hers were lynched shortly after her family moved up north. Her mother had learned to read a little so they could right letters back and forth with relatives around the country who did the same. She stopped visiting the south after around 1900. Then the fear grew back in the 1920's when the klan became very popular in the north. She described the 4th of July parade one year either in or near Boston as including a hundred white robed klansmen marching carrying klan flags and such and she and her family who had been at the back of the crowd along the parade route due to Blacks not permitted in the front, just left and never went to another July 4 parade again. This was in the BOSTON area not the deep south. I was five years old and remember vividly how I thought her skin looked like wrinkled up old leather and how her voice and hands trembled but how she spoke with such quiet force of resolve. She really wanted me to know what happened. I can't remember a tenth of what she said but the above are highlights. What stuck in my mind the most was that I was five years old the same age she was a slave and how she described her chores. Not adult chores mind you but hard work. At five she worked 12 hours a day six days a week Monday through Saturday. She said the old master would have her work 7 days if the Lord let him. She picked cotton and carried water to the older slaves. She described how her mother sobbed inconsolably as she watched her get whipped by the overseer hanging from her ankles with her dress hung down over her face. All for steeling a peach that had fallen to the ground. At five.
That's a horrible story at the end of your statement. God.
David Hoffman filmmaker
@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker She was just ONE surviving slave out of a few million. Not all told their stories. I just count myself fortunate that I can be her witness on occasion. I'm glad you are as well. These stories need to be told and preserved. I went to school in Massachusetts but had to move to the south to learn about Jim Crow. Every day I commute past an office building that currently rests on a confiscated historic Black cemetery. They never moved the bodies. People just park their cars, walk on and do their jobs on and over roughly 300 people the city decided are not worthy of the dignity of an undisturbed grave. Currently there are no plans to restore the cemetery. They won't even permit relatives to visit and pay respects and there are no signs indicating there are three hundred human beings buried under brick and mortar and pavement. But they do brag about how they preserved their memories by moving all the three dozen or so grave markers, mostly wood, to the new cemetery a few miles away 60 or so years or so.
@@nunyabiznez6381 Why did the black families sell their cemetery to the white man?
I wish everyone could hear these stories. It's such a heinous sin that there are so many more that will never see the light of day.
Yikes. Psychopaths will psychopath if given a free pass.
I really appreciate that even in the 1930s they had the presence of mind to preserve this history and allow the slaves to tell their stories without censorship.
That’s a very pessimistic image of the past you have.
The Civil War was one of the bloodiest conflicts of that age and the abolitionists won… why would they censor the horrors of slavery a few decades later?
Especially given this was a Federal Project, not some rebel teacher in a small school in the Deep South or something.
You say that like it wasn’t a given back then. We’ve been backpedaling so fast and “progressives” are the biggest culprits of radical censorship out of some perverted paternalism, while “conservatives” simply want to return to a feudal order
People weren’t as evil then as people today make them out to be
The issue now is political figures want to use people and separate them. Slavery was dealt with, millions died , trillions spent to free slaves in America and Africa. Yet they forget to sat that. Imagine the millions of white souls who died to free slaves and destroy the skave trade in Africa, not getting any love at all.
@@TheDungEater You saying this makes me beleive you didn't watch the video. Slavery was, is, and will always be EVIL.
Enslaved people are made visible when their voices are heard from the period of slavery. This makes them come alive as persons who were enslaved as opposed to being called a slave.
Is a person enslaved not a slave?
@@SomeKidFromBritain Of course. But it's problematic to teach it with the word slave. To not describe them as people first and then their condition of servitude second erases their humanity. A "slave" has the connotation of a listless object that always was and always will be one, and makes it sound as though slavery is *dictated by their own nature*, not what it is, which is *done by people*.
@@woozy7405 Slaves are people though? They are enslaved people. I think you are indulging pointless semantics.
Good semantical exercise.
@@SomeKidFromBritain it implies that they're "slaves first, people second" which is just wrong, really.
"slavery, as a matter of fact, was not good"
So why so many people in "western world" vote for communist/totalitarian ideologies to be enslaved?
Was searching for this comment...yeah...
haha I guess that wasn't a given to a lot of people in the 30s.
That's the best y'all can do uh... Nah. Apology not accepted.
@@DicelandEntertainment Um, okay? Lmao
You ain't never gonna do anything but fucking cry about it and continue to destroy your community anyway.
This gives me strength and helps me remember to keep going. Brothers and sisters today don't realize how hard it was back then. We came sooo far, only to regress into ignorance due to social media, tv and internet. SMH. The struggle continues...
Thank you for this content!!!
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lol no we need revenge these people shouldn’t own this stuff like at all
This bot equates maga with slavery, that's what it is
No accountability. Regressed into ignorance because of following a herd that's led by strangers. But no no, just blame the tools that anyone can use and benefit from. The ignorance part was true at least
Social media? Because schools brainwash
😂 The fact you chose to cut this video so that it ends with "slavery, as a matter of fact, was _not_ good" absolutely made my day. Thank you, David Hoffman, as always, for your marvelous generosity and wealth of material culture from days gone by. These are incredible treasures for us to reflect on.
I know it wasn't likely at the time, but I wish this fantastic information could have been delivered by someone from the family or community of the people whose words are recorded. We have grown more sensitive over the years, to how simply recording and reporting the perspectives of "others" perpetuates myths of the past as something that is separate from today. When these kinds of stories are documented, there are usually some invisible but invaluable persons helping the published authors by connecting them with the people with stories to share. Those persons are rarely afforded so much as an acknowledgement in the publication, whatever its form, but their knowledge and experience is always indispensable for making the research possible. Those persons ought to be recognized at least as coauthors, if not the true authors, except societal stratification blocks them at every level from participating in that kind of academic realm.
yeah I was like "that's so tragic" but that at the end hit me out of left field
Valuable nuggets of wisdom here. Worth noting: a lot of these interviews are saved on the WPA website. I've been amazed by some of the stories; many thanks to you, David, for helping to put a human voice to something more than just dates and statistics.
None of this is "wisdom". And picking old scabs and re-infecting old wounds is insanity, not wisdom. Was slavery evil? Sure was. Is blaming slavery on present people who do not own slaves evil?? Sure is.
That website must be protected at all costs against the onslaught of fascist conservatives trying to rewrite history. They're already trying to force schools in Florida to teach kids that slavery was all sunshine and rainbows where the slaves were treated well and learned valuable life lessons. They will not stop until every school in America is teaching this to kids, and them banning and burning books just like the Nazis did is part of their efforts.
Anybody interview Kamala's slaves. Some of the people her family owned were alive when she lived.
That'd be fun.
You could throw in some decedents of Obama's family slaves.
Well, this isn't audio of enslaved peoples. This audio of a women reading a paper claiming it to be so
If American History is required in our schools, American slavery is certainly an integral part of it. Yet, it should be presented in a way to promote a peaceful brotherhood by learning from the horrible mistakes of the past. Parents especially should be the ones to help their children put things of this nature into a proper perspective, helping them to see and treat all people as equal members of the one human race.
Should we teach about racism if it exists. And today in American the predominant racism is against white people.
Or we pick and choose? How about the racism of blacks against whites in South Africa? Should we teach that was the white man who ended slavery? Should we teach that black people enslaved their own to sell to the white man?
Should we teach that only western nations don’t have slaves TODAY!
every other race has slaves as we speak.
@@WJACOTT Teach the whole truth about the subject. Again, the fact that such atrocities have occurred in many places on this earth testifies that such evils *cannot be viewed as the mark of any one variety of race or* *particular nationality.* All humans share a common origin. Therefore, there is *only one race,* the precious human race.
@@WJACOTTThere is no need to "teach" it today. It's all out in the open and not past history. Parents should instruct their children how to respond to any form of racial prejudice and injustice, while doing so in a manner as stated in the post about promoting peaceful relationships and learning from the past.
We have to teach the truth about history. American history on slavery is ugly. The way it started and ended even though we are still in it's process. There is more slavery in the world today than in that time.
Naw
3:26 WOAH THERE, LETS NOT GET CONTROVERSIAL!!!!11!!1!!! /s
I mean, in the 1930s it was still pretty controversial. Still had kids and grandkids of slave holders in high politics, and this was just a few years after Wilson was playing the birth of a nation in the White house. There still were tens of millions of people that thought that slavery was a good thing
David, I wish I had you as my high school history teacher in the 1970's the one I had put me to sleep. your film clips and documentaries and your description write up are very informative.
@drewpall2598
I was in high school in the 70’s as well. I share your wish as I’ve always wanted to know more about what we were NOT taught. Not only throughout the slave trade and slave era but throughout the course of American history altogether. 💁🏽♂️
My anglo family is from rural southeast Texas. My grandmother, with an accent so thick you could cut through, would tell me stories, many stories, similar to this. She wasn't on the right side of history, raised in ignorance with the bad traditions that come with it.
Luckily for the grandchildren, my mother was the first to go to college. Her children went to Harvard and Stanford. Slavery, like Poverty, is a disease born of ignorance and many other things.
We were raised to respect other peoples differences and merits, but it feels like the world we live in these days enjoys vanity and downright passive aggressive behvaior over accountability and equality.
I was proud of the progress in the 1990s thru 2000s, but I don't know how to feel about the United States today.
You said it yourself - your grandma was racist, but you aren't. It's going to take time, generations, for people to be accepting of new things
@@oscarinacan What the hell does "accepting" new things mean? I'm seriously curious what goes thru your people's brain. If I dont like a culture and want to live next to it I'm a bad person?
@@RobFromDenver Say for instance I dont like immigrants assaulting my country like its D-Day with boats, moving into my apartment complex cooking goats at 1 AM and smelling like 💩while living 25 in 1 room and making constant noise, leaving trash on the floor and the police being liberal/socialist puppets and not being able to remove them all + shitting on my religion. How is that for starters?
In your case - you really seem like a 'bad person', yeah.@@royale7620
@@royale7620It isnt cultural to denounce racism.
*teacher from 1956* "this can touch and teach students"
*teacher from 2024* "I'm not allowed to teach anything about this because our state governor prohibits it"*
this stuff and even MORE is taught in schools, what are you talking about
It’s so backwards isn’t it?
@@user_name_taken_9188Florida.
People who know how to learn: "I'm bound to come across this information at some point by some source, so I'll just hold myself accountable for what I learn in my life. That way i can always blame myself for listening to stupid people."
This is taught in schools. It seems there is an effort to keep it from being taught or to change the narrative in order to support political agendas and keep us fighting among ourselves.
Thank you David 🙏🏾 Im 21 and man your life is only a dream to have as much historical films and research that isn’t shown anywhere I salute you for the amount of years you have stored in your vault.
I've learned so much from David's post, and I'm 68!
Share with your peers and enjoy! Mr. Hoffmans library is quite amazingly varied!
It does my heart so much to see you youngens aboard ❤️!
@d4rmthai.e536... I have enjoyed reading your comment and agree fully with your sentiments on David Hoffman.
@@luciehanson6250I agree with you! it's nice to see the younger generation enjoying David Hoffman as a filmmaker, storyteller, and a genuine caring fellow. 😊
@@drewpall2598although I’m rarely here due to vision problems, you both said it well. Thank you all, as I’m on a short visit here… but aren’t we all? Happy to be able to see tonight. ~
@@crystalbelle2349 Thanks you Crystal and take care. 😊
Its really touching how that Yankee soldier tried his best to make her understand she was a human. I bet despite the switching it changed her life.
Sadly, that's not why he did it. Or probably not - I wasn't there, after all. He most likely told her to say that knowing that it was a perceived insult to the owner, as well as knowing full well what the response would be. There was a widespread effort during the Civil War and restoration period to stir up as much trouble between slaves and their owners as possible. Keep in mind - she had never been whipped before, and her grandma knew as soon as she heard it that the child must've done something to prompt it. Upon hearing what she said to the owner, the grandma ALSO whipped her. I'm not defending slavery here, just trying to add context.
@@0megacron sounds more like you're just interpreting it through a modern bias that people couldn't possibly have cared about slaves whereas that's not anything like what is said historically. People passionately cared about the life and freedom of the slaves.
@@binabina4445Yes, you can tell by the owner’s response how passionately he cared for his slave and saw her as human.
This is the real history. Stories from people. Pretty sickening how cruel man can be.
Just any man in particular?
@@brad9092 Not a real honest man, are you?
@@leonfrancis3418 lol relax my man, life is too short!
It is hard to imagine being so cruel to any living thing, and yet such cruelty is common
Not to people that deserve it though. But these people yes its horrifying
@@1984isnotamanual no one deserves slavery that's a joke.
the problem really is in how to address the condition.
@@rustyshackleford1465 I didn’t say they did, I said that some people deserve cruelty. Not slavery particularly.
Human conditioning is more powerful than one can imagine
So true, she killed her own baby for no reason. Pure evil. Sadly, over 1 million American women kill their babies each year, which is more deaths than all the wars and murders combined.
It cannot be overstated that these are the most important accounts of slavery there are, directly from the victims themselves. Something every American should have to witness.
Thank you. This is only a drop in the ocean, but it hopefully helps our understanding a little more.
"Twelve Years a Slave " and "Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee" should both be required reading in all American schools.
Propaganda
Absolutely.
Why? We don't get taught about the white slaves in Europe because it doesn't help you, all it does is make you have victim mentality
@@lisac1619Bootlicker
I constantly tell people it isn't "woke" to take into consideration the absolute trauma done to the black population of this nation. Everytime someone says they oughtta "get over it or stop living in the past" I find it pertinent to remind them just how recent that past was. We are genuinely less than a hundred years from when blacks were legally kept from human rights like voting, places to live and basic equality afforded a human. If you want to really put into perspective, the last living person who had been a slave in his childhood only died in the early 1960's. Think about that. We were less than ten years from landing on the moon, The Beatles were starting to get popular and there was literally a person in existence who had legitimately beem legally considered property.
that is an astoundingly good way to contextualize the discriminiation black americans face today
i hate the word woke its just a catch all term used by conservatives to describe anything more left on the political spectrum than them
half the beatles are still around too
I’m proud to share while looking into my Ancestry DNA I had a great grandfather who fought for the North.
Side note, it’s always fascinating to see how the world was back in these days. My grandfather was born in 1932 , so this video was how the world was during his formidable years.
Land of the free home of the brave as long as you are packaged as the right white colour.
This country needs more men like you Mr. Hoffman. Thanks for sharing
Absolutely should be played in school
I didn’t expect the unintended hilarious punchline at the end, ‘ Slavery was not good’, understatement of the century! 😂
It hurts my heart... but needs to be known... thanks David 😎👍
I e always found when I watch videos or see pictures of slaves and their stories they always hold themselves like royalty.
Such suffering , such pin bit they look so majestic.
They have so much strength in their eyes , I can’t explain it .
These truly horrendous stories should be shouted from the roof tops, if we forget their stories we forget their names.
I’m so glad you are preserving these stories of the voices that are always hidden.
"strength in their eyes" ???
Then just there.
@@HeroInTheSun by that I mean you can look at someone’s eyes and just see the shallowness or pure evil and spite.
With the slaves I mostly see strength, like there’s still power in them.
I’d rather sit around someone at a dinner table with eyes like that than a creepy , vapid narcissist like the eyes of most politicians.
@@matthewjoseph9897 that’s the right description, the perfect one I felt.
Dignity . Thank you.
Well said!
Best to read and listen to the original material rather than cherry-picked components such as these. The range of views expressed by the interviewees is astounding and quite simply has no parallel in the innumerable external attempts at interpretation of slavery, the antebellum Southern culture, and the war itself.
This should be read at schools, so people will understand the terrible conditions and teach what real victims are.
Its amazing how so many can be led to believe that other humans are less than human for any reason
Cruel world back then, barbaric times all around for everyone , we today would not know what that's like
@@mostlyshorts7462 lol yeah that never happens today
@myzjed5576 not in America but in Africa and many Middle Eastern places there is still slavery today
@@mostlyshorts7462Sadly my friend, there are still plenty of people in America that view other humans as less than human.
@myzjed5576 some people have opinions on others in every race especially in America but not 1 owns a slave , that's not the same story in many other countries
Thank you for the video. Such tragic stories.
What's crazy is that there's more people in slavery today then any other time in history. This should definitely be played. We should study history, not rewrite it or erase it.
There are also more people in the world today
One of my ancestors in Roberson County, North Carolina, was interviewed by the Library of Congress in the early 1930s . He stated that several days before he was freed by Union troops in 1865, he was "whupped" by his master for trying to learn to read.
I think it is horrible that even today African Royalty sells their people into slavery.
In 1981, Mauritania became the last country in the world to officially abolish slavery, when a presidential decree abolished the practice. However, no criminal laws were passed to enforce the ban. In 2007, under international pressure, the government passed a law allowing slaveholders to be prosecuted.
1:05 that is SO sad 😞😞😞
I have a somewhat uncommon last name. Back in the 60's, if I was visiting a large city, I would look in the phone book to see if anyone had the same last name. I would call them and see how they might be related. While in Memphis, I called a man and he wanted to meet me. He gave me his address and directions and I went over there. I went to the door and knocked, and to my surprise, when he answered the door, he turned out to be black. He was retired from the military and, evidently, his ancestors were slaves on a small plantation outside of Atlanta. A plantation my ancestors owned. He said his great grandfather told him a little bit about those times. According to him, they were treated almost like part of the family and when the Emancipation Proclamation was declared in 1863, they all remained on the plantation. It was only when Sherman came through and burned Atlanta and destroyed the surrounding area that they all fled and took on the last name of their previous owners.
It's nice to meet you, friend. I really appreciate your sharing this with todays generations. It is so important that the reality of the hell that was is shared so that society will never make these mistakes again. Thank you so much for sharing. I wish you continued success and happiness always.
No. This could not be played in some schools across America today. Black history is being rewritten and erased so not to make people feel uncomfortable.
No, we have people like you to remind us everyday 😅
@@VoodooChild333 I noticed that the real Africans, don't wanting anything to do with blacks in America. My Real African co worker says the ones in America are evil 😂🤣🤣. I agree with him.
@@Dncsuxadic this a complaint?
My great great father at the age of 2 was sold off from his mother. After years of research and DNA I have been able to trace and reunite them
reunite who?
So he was still breathing? And she?
Your work is brilliant by the way david. Thank you for all you've done. preserving & sharing such profound personal. Cultural & historic moments.
Forever grateful for the work you've accomplished capturing humanity through out your career.
Don't forget about the 7000 black slave owners
Okay, here comes where did you get those numbers from how about link or direct me to the source material ?
@@ronnelson930 it's available on Google search just type it in .
@@ronnelson930 it's all available here on RUclips just search for it all the sources and videos are just at your finger tips.
You can find all the things you want on Google search.
@@ronnelson930 Google it .
"Slavery, as a matter of fact, was not good."
We must not forget.
2 million Uyghurs enslaved in China today.
Still isn't.
There are different forms of slavery. Don't think it's just about American agricultural slavery over 150 years ago.
The right seems to want to.
In America, it’s called Chattel Slavery. It wasn’t just slavery. It was a uniquely cruel form of slavery. A uniquely American form of slavery. Chattel slavery is American history.
did u know that arabs castrated males completely ...uniqely misinformed
"Slavery was not good". Man, she should write Texas history books!
In some places, yes, this could be played in schools today. In my opinion though, this should be played in schools everywhere. I find it confounding to no end to know that racism still exists in this country, or anywhere for that matter.
Can you elaborate on what you mean by "still exists".
@@Mike-rk3wt I work in a southern factory and when I find myself among the "good old boys" I can blend in well enough they feel very comfortable using colorful language around me.
Sent a copy of a group chat to HR and got three fired, lmao.
@@Mike-rk3wt yes
@@andrewhooper7603 you'd make an excellent communist
@@andrewhooper7603 the people that you got fired, were they saying or doing anything that was work related and hurt other people? If not, then, you and I have very different views. I think all kinds of people have views that are absolutely abhorrent, but I would never try to get them fired from their jobs if their views were unrelated. If these people weren't doing anything other than expressing views you disagreed with then I don't see how that's any different than a 1984 I thought crime. You wanted them fired from a factory job. That means you believe they shouldn't have any form of employment at all. Then what? They're forced to go to the streets and become criminals? I'd rather have people have terrible thoughts that they share with their friends as opposed to taking them out of society where they will be forced to take much more drastic measures.
if we showed this in schools today they would accuse it of being "cRiTiCaL rAcE ThEoRy"
Yes, it belongs in schools. Bring it to light and develop dialogue and understanding. If X can be taught and is part of the curriculum, then so can Y.
Yes, people need to know bad things happened in the past
@@mr.horrorchild4094 It plainly states in black and white in the 'Black Almanac'--a Black source; available in every college library in the country--that 95% of the kidnapped West Africans were sold into slavery in Latin America. I have a sneaking suspicion that you will be fine with that history omitted.
Should this be played and taught in schools? Absolutely. But with context. What should NOT be taught in schools is that this is still a current condition.
Obviously, this is about history.
Well, no shit.
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this is so sad. Humans can be very very terrible people.
"First we overlook evil, Then we permit evil. Then we legalize evil. Then we promote evil. Then we celebrate evil. Then we persecute those who still call it evil." Fr. Dwight Longenecker
“In the Last Days, Good will be called Evil and Evil will be called Good.” Are We There YET ?
Somewhere right now in this world there are humans being smuggled in shipping containers for use and abuse to the highest bidder. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Yeah it should be played in schools to show how they treated and still treat Blacks to this day.
May God have mercy on us all.
I was just thinking of Harriet Beecher Stowe and her book Uncle Tom's Cabin. It is 400 pages and each chapter is about 4 pages. I could only read a chapter per day. It was too difficult and heartbreaking.
The USA did a terrible thing by allowing slavery. Why didn't they just hire and pay the workers and let them leave/quit if they wished?
People keep saying slavery has always been around fail to understand this slavery was a bit different than most of the others. They literally hated someone exclusively for the color of their skin and treated them like cattle
chattel slavery
Slavery was never stopped. We just call it employment.
Yes, show this in schools and tell children that slavery still exists in other parts of the world.
Not America's problem. The world needs to figure their own shit out and stop relying America.
when you say a comment like this you really tell on yourself that you don't really understand how horrific and inhumane the issue of slavery in the united states was, that's being talked about here in this video. it's almost as if you didn't listen to these stories and how horrific they are. it's almost as if you don't view the subjects in the video as human but simply as props to make a point. it's almost as if you have some kind of guilt about it reflected back on yourself because you feel like you should feel some kind of way about it, so you have to deflect the issue to some other country where you don't have to think too hard about it, where you don't have to take any kind of responsibility about it. where you don't have to do anything about it, where you don't ever have to really think about it. you would be wiser to not tell on yourself by making such stupid ass comments and just keep your mouth shut.
“And they’re farming babies, while slaves are out working.”
Chris Cornell
I think only 10% of what really happened to slaves has been told, only because the heart would fail if we really knew all that was done to them.
I wanna give a quick shout out to Irish and Chinese Americans. Their work has been overlooked for a long time
We are still slaves,all who are not rich and in charge.
it is pretty horrible of you to compare this slavery to modern day existence.
The Mom's of 🗽 group would definitely report a teacher for sharing this! They have said it makes their children feel bad. Also some books refer to slaves as just workers now. They want to teach that they learned a lot of valuable skills lol. Their stories and lives are important to share and learn about. ❤
This is why first person historical accounts are so important. This made me nauseous to listen to....😢
"Slavery, as a matter of fact, was not good."
Somebody show this to Ron Desantis and Nikki Haley. If they had their way this would never be played in schools.
I am an African. I was born during apartheid in South Africa and during that time I was young enough to understand what was happening. In 1994 Nelson Mandela became the first black president of South Africa and Apartheid ended. I now live in a new democratic South Africa and life is so much better than it was during the apartheid years. I salute Nelson Mandela. He was a hero. I also salute Harriet Tubman, John Brown and Dr Martin Luther King. They were also heroes.
She did it with soberness and respect.
It sucks African kings was selling their own kind now we gotta deal with all the cry babies.
Why did you purchase stolen people? You do realize you are liable from profiting off stolen goods?
@@eyecueone87 I didn't buy nothing. Why did u sell them poor souls is the question lol
@@hatenate2070 Your government purchased slaves, taxed them and denied therm fair access to the infrastructure they help build. Pay up.
@@hatenate2070you realize white people in America are rich because of free labor. A bunch of lazy yts.
Please never let these stories be forgotten. We need to learn from our mistakes from the past, or we're doomed to repeat history
Funny how there never seems to be anyone reading aloud the more numerous accounts of slaves who were treated well, who loved their masters, or especially those whom lamented the end of slavery. But you can see videos of dozens of people recounting the same few accounts of slaves that were brutalized.
Slavery itself, not just the abuse, is deplorable. If you think otherwise, say hi to Robert E Lee for me when you see him in hell
stfu
This guy really came in here to defend slavery.
have some self respect bro
Ok so imagine if you will Dogs in the future learn how to talk and become “free”. Then we hear stories of how people abused their dogs and starved and beat them. Someone says, “hey wait a minute, I loved my dog and took good care of him. I didn’t know he’d one day be equal with me.” Then people would say, wow you think humans should beat and abuse and starve dogs and that would be good? That’s how much sense this comment section is making.
The craziest thing about this is the same argument that was argued for slavery was argued for abortion today.
Ex: my body my choice, if you don't like abortion don't have one but don't tell me what I can do with my body... My property my choice, if you don't like slavery don't own a slave but don't tell me what I can and can't do...
People are not property, we are All made in God's image.
That is very much not the same thing a collection of cells isn't a human being. To compare the subjugation and state sanctioned torture of humans to some lady deciding not to be a parent is frankly disrespectful and just plain stupid.
@@prixe12 a clump of cells that is what? Is it a cow that's growing. It's like saying I have a tree in my front yard but we don't know what it is yet it's supposed to be a banana and it's from a banana tree but we're waiting to find out.
You've literally twisted your logic to justify child sacrifice. I would ask at what point does it become a human by your logic.
I’m a modern day white slave with no constitutional rights own a house I’m not allowed to live in can’t travel across state lines to it with out permission had my children taken away from me All from a 365 day sentence 23 years ago
Oh, boo hoo.😭 Hardly a comparison.
You were a Free Person when you Chose to break the law.
Enslaved Africans did not have that luxury.
Misleading title
I find it telling that the Union Army does not get credit for their great sacrifice. Hundreds of thousands of white northern men joined to free people of a different race who most had never met, yet there is so much hatred against “white America”.
It doesn’t make a lot of sense to me.
Northern losses are generally listed as 440,000 killed and about 3X that many seriously wounded.
It still ranks as the most costly war America has ever fought. If you factor in how much smaller the population was back then the losses are even more staggering.
Because it was a big lie and every union man that died , died being used , free? They aren't property you are right , now they are slaves to the system like ALL OF US and most live life meaningless in a endless cycle of poverty , thanks
They fought to ensure they would have jobs as the USA expanded west! So-called “white” people didn’t want enslaved African descended people to take over jobs in these newly settled areas. Why else do you think so many lynchings occured in the Midwest states like Colorado, Indiana, Illinois and elsewhere
This would instantly be banned in most red states. Especially Florida and Texas.
BS
@phillawrence5148 Lol someone hasn't been paying attention to current events
@@elloowu6293 If you're talking about not allowing young children to be taught about sexuality, this isn't remotely the same.
@phillawrence5148 Then why are red states banning black history courses? Censoring history books and want history taught from a "both sides" standpoint. Which c'mon.
Also, teaching sexuality? 🤣 you mean teaching teenagers about relationships, consent and safe sex?
@@phillawrence5148it's not BS. use your brain sntead of commenting an knee-jerk reaction.
They already have banned courses like that. This isn't a hypothetical scenario.
An important lesson that can't be forgotten.
I don't actually think my comment is new or novel, I'm just commenting for the algorithm because we all need to do our part to keep the memory of this awful time alive so we avoid making the same mistakes. The people who did this evil were humans just like us. It is a terrifying sort of folly to assume that it couldn't happen again if we forget the lessons of the past.
Compare that to what the ottomans did to their slaves for nearly 700 years, horrors unimaginable
Not allowed to talk about that because they are Muslims.
The title of your video is dehumanizing: "real slaves". These are PEOPLE, who were formerly enslaved. They gave names and identities. And I know video titles have to be eye-catching and concise, but this so disrespectful.
No, there's enough of this in pupblic schools already, also in Hollywood. Why not focus on freedom and liberty, instead of dwelling on something that has nothing to do with you?
I have many clips on my channel about freedom and liberty. Search the words on my channel to find them.
David Hoffman filmmaker
Maybe it has everything to do with the problems of America today? Including the people who selfishly deny wrongdoing to others that they continue to benefit from?
@rsmith02 That's just stupid. Move on.. stop being a slave. Stop listening to the lies of the Democrats.
I think when people have a better understanding of the dispersal of humans out of Africa, they will come to realize that there really aren't very many differences between different ethnic populations.
You wouldn't be able to play this in Florida schools.
Why? They're a republican state. The republicans ended slavery in the US. Maybe you should do your research. I'm a New Zealander but know more about your history than you.
@@lisac1619 Dude, what a ridiculous comment on your part. First of all, the Republicans of history are not the same Republicans of now. Second, the governor of Florida literally wants to ban content like this. You would know if you actually looked anything up instead of assuming you knew things.
Sadly, there is definitely a chance for CAP when one group starts telling STORIES about other groups. Even sadder when a group believes the STORIES told about them by others.
This would be okay to play in schools. Unlike CRT, this is actual history.
just shows that you have no clue you’re talking about when you refer to CRT.
@@perpetualsick I do know what I'm talking about. CRT pushes bogus rhetoric with zero credibility.
Those people are the ones who needed advocacy. Not the whiners of today.
You don't get to separate them.
All you're doing is showing your real colors.
@@leonfrancis3418 you, as expected, are clueless.
@@no_handle_required you should probably explain your thought process instead of name-calling like a child
Most of my ancestors were slaves, I'm from Eastern Europe. Many Americans think only black people were slaves, but the word slave came from the word "Slav". Slavs were used as slaves well before black people were enslaved by white people. When someone talks about "white privilege", I'd like to let them know not all white people are created equal, Slavic people were considered second-class human beings for a very long time. Slavery is not based on skin color, but vulnerability. My granny, who's now 85 (gonna be 86 in December), while she didn't live in the feudalist era, she along with her family were peasants. They didn't have a floor in their house, only dirt. They had the bare minimum to survive, but they never starved. The only reason I exist now, is because that bomb that hit close to her shelter in WW2, did not explode.
The people here talking performativly about slavery in every time period except the one the video is about are delusional. Stop trying to shift the blame and guilt, stop trying to belittle the impact. Slavery has existed in many forms and does exist today, but this video is about how black Africans were enslaved like chattel by white Europeans for the benefit of a white European planter class and how that system only relatively recently vanished.
Get over it
@@locdinwithzaza Nah, I'm chilling.
@@benjaminashbaugh6761are you? Or are you lamenting over the past?
@@locdinwithzaza Me: "This time period was very bad, impacts our society negatively up to this very day, and should not be ignored or lessened by pivoting to blaming others."
You: "Oh, so that means you like it"
@@locdinwithzaza Seems like you’re trying to say that the past is unimportant and does not affect the modern day. Ridiculous.
This is so important. Thank you. Need to immediately teach this in schools.
Slavery is such a sensitive topic in modern day. It’s refreshing to hear about it in a purely educational, historic, and non political light.
But! But! But!
But, according to some members of the GOP, those slaves were being taught "valuable skills for work". 😠
This type of (chattel ) slavery was ONLY practiced in the West (mainly UK and USA). Others practiced indentured servitude.
Every part of history , the terrible , and the great , should be shared in schools we shouldn’t pick and choose what history is taught because it may “offend “ someone
truly stomach churning
This really did break my heart to hear.
my grandmother was a slave, she was born in mississippi in 1952. my mother and aunt, her only kids, were the first generation to not be born under a white master. so i laugh at her saying "the last slaves" when my gma is 72 and still alive telling us what happened to her.
This is awful and heartbreaking.
I have read that not having intact families was the cruellest aspect of slavery.
The problem of slavery is that slaves by their own hands make other slaves stay slaves.