There is no such thing as a "fair" slave owner, because the very act of owning another person, and counting them as 3/5ths of a person, is the most unfair way any person can ever be treated.
She's from the South. Of course ! How can anyone not know beforehand ? 🤷♀️ They literally fought a war over this. She's not dumb, she would have known her family MIGHT have had slaves. It was normal back then...
"I would like to know did he treat them well. Was he a fair plantation owner." This reveals a vast ignorance of the nature of slavery. As if you could enslave a person and somehow refer to it as treating them well or fair. As if there was a way you could effectively carry out this despicable practice in a way that was not barbaric and wholly self-corrupting at its core. I would suggest anyone who thinks this is a reasonable question read a book published in 1839--decades before the Civil War--entitled "American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses." A small portion of the way into the book you will be divorced from any such ignorance as Reba exhibits here.
Obviously this shows a lot of ignorance on her part, but it's also very similar to the way a lot of slaveholders at the time talked. Slaveholders, like anyone else, liked to think of themselves as good people, and they would compare themselves to other slaveholders, making fun of those they saw as overly lenient, admiring those who ran their plantations in an orderly and disciplined manner, and being appalled at those who were overly cruel (never mind that cruelty was built into the system). Perhaps most outrageous of all, some slaveholders (like Martha Washington) were disgusted at how little gratitude her slaves showed her for her kindnesses.
Disagree. There were some slave owners who were incredibly fair. Others weren’t. Let’s not forget that African chiefs were complicit in the slavery of their own people. Slavery has existed since the dawn of time and is mentioned frequently in the Old Testament. It’s nothing new and goes on today in West Africa.
@@graffic13 : NOT a wig!! There's more than one video, on here, of her getting her hair done---and, there's more than one pic, floating around, of her, as a young girl, with red hair, like her mother and eldest sister. The reason it looks like a wig, is because she rarely has it parted. The reason they rarely part it, is because she has an extremely high forehead (also seen in pics of her, as a young girl), and it's easier to just brush the front, forward, and the back, back.
I don't understand the surprise of people that trace their ancestors to slave days then are shocked they used slaves. That was the way of the world in the South, the whole society, yes your great greats probably had some slaves at some point. That also goes for ancestors of most commenters here judging a single southerner having slaves when it was the norm. Just because we see it as horrible today doesn't mean it was illegal or shameful to a huge society then and maybe that should just try to be more accepted. (I do know all my peeps are from the north). 🤷
If anything this made my heart wrench for Reba. Knowing this was her ancestor and probably somehow feeling responsible but also knowing that this was none of her doing. Also for her ancestor to have been an indentured servant at 9 is an incredible story with such rich American beginnings.
Alex Haley has in recent years admitted that his book Roots had very little to do with the truth, even his own search for his family roots was not completely truthful. I think the one thing we can all agree on is that slavery was and is one of the worse things that one human can do to another.
It was nothing kind gentle or fair about selling men women and children taking them from their land denying them the right to read have accessible healthcare the right to be able to provide for themselves which has taken place continuously over 590 years. But God is so good you will reap what you sow and you shall so what he will punish those down to the 6th and 7th generation and thereafter. It's no getting around it this was inhumane. No such thing as people enjoy having their children and family sold.😢👎🏼
That's a harsh thing to say almost 160 years after slavery was abolished in the US. It is very easy to judge when you didn't grow up being taught that slavery was just a natural thing.
I don’t I just watch the whole video and I don’t think it was ever found out what kind of man he was. Obviously, he owned people, so there’s that mark against him.
Just because he owned slaves doesn't mean he was abusive. In some cases they were treated like dear family members...even receiving property in the owner's will. History is just history, a past recording the signs of the times. It can't be changed. Accept it and make your own history.
I agree with you on certain things. We can’t change the past, but we shouldn’t excuse it either. Slavery is wrong, no matter who did it. None of us alive today committed these acts and nobody alive today is a direct victim. It’s a fact that more Europeans were enslaved by the Barbary pirates, but 2 rights never did make a wrong. Slavery still exists today in West Africa. Let’s concentrate on that instead.
@@dee2251 The notion that “more Europeans were enslaved by Barbary pirates” is nonsense. We’re talking about 500 years of slavery in America, including Upper and Lower Canada, the British, French, Spanish and Portuguese colonies in Africa, the Caribbean, South and Central America, numbers in the millions, from the Indios enslaved, tortured and murdered by Columbus right through until the Emancipation proclamation. You’re right that “two wrongs don’t make a right” but diminishing the facts about the slavery by Europeans of Africans, Indios, Mayans, and Indians in California by the Spanish is a fact and we can’t pretend that someone else was “worse”.
There is no such thing as a "fair" slave owner, because the very act of owning another person, and counting them as 3/5ths of a person, is the most unfair way any person can ever be treated.
I feel like she knew all of this
No way they didn't fill her in ahead, given the reveal
I love me some Reba but with an accent like that, of course she knew but she has to keep up that image.
I agree with you! She didn't seem too surprised!
She's from the South. Of course ! How can anyone not know beforehand ? 🤷♀️
They literally fought a war over this.
She's not dumb, she would have
known her family MIGHT have had
slaves. It was normal back then...
Does knowing it beforehand change anything?
Selling and buying humans is an immoral atrocity it was ghastly
@@humanbeing1168 Based on what statistics
@@znayJTry Africa for one :) they LOVEEEEE their slaves,always have
Human trafficking is a multi-billion dollar industry right now. It's happening in the US right now and globally.
Slavery was the norm until British said it wasn't good. Ethiopia only stopped it in 1936 thanks to colonial Musolini. Freeing 500,000 slaves
"I would like to know did he treat them well. Was he a fair plantation owner." This reveals a vast ignorance of the nature of slavery. As if you could enslave a person and somehow refer to it as treating them well or fair. As if there was a way you could effectively carry out this despicable practice in a way that was not barbaric and wholly self-corrupting at its core. I would suggest anyone who thinks this is a reasonable question read a book published in 1839--decades before the Civil War--entitled "American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses." A small portion of the way into the book you will be divorced from any such ignorance as Reba exhibits here.
Obviously this shows a lot of ignorance on her part, but it's also very similar to the way a lot of slaveholders at the time talked. Slaveholders, like anyone else, liked to think of themselves as good people, and they would compare themselves to other slaveholders, making fun of those they saw as overly lenient, admiring those who ran their plantations in an orderly and disciplined manner, and being appalled at those who were overly cruel (never mind that cruelty was built into the system). Perhaps most outrageous of all, some slaveholders (like Martha Washington) were disgusted at how little gratitude her slaves showed her for her kindnesses.
😂😂😂 you're both reaching way too far
Reba is trying to learn!
@@crunchygodsYES!!!! ALL FACTUAL EVIDENCE-BASED👏🏿👏🏿
Totally agree. That's like saying someone is a nice r_pist or human trafficker.
More than likely the mother passed and there was another new mother to raise the child else where.
"was he a good guy, tho?"
"well, no. he owned slaves."
"yeah, but-"
"no."
"but-"
"NO!"
He can't be fair, if he owns slaves.
So what became of the slaves that no one bought?
No, he can't, she seems like she may not have thought too much about this subject, she seems to also come from a good place
Disagree. There were some slave owners who were incredibly fair. Others weren’t. Let’s not forget that African chiefs were complicit in the slavery of their own people. Slavery has existed since the dawn of time and is mentioned frequently in the Old Testament. It’s nothing new and goes on today in West Africa.
@@dee2251 Fair? considering they were slave owners, cause even other people had slaves, Okay
There was nothing fair about owning human beings. Nothing at all ever ever ever. Period. Your lame efforts to defend it in any small way is immoral.
Reba has some Celtic genes with that red hair
Her hair is died honey
@@rhentertainment3941: Her hair is natural honey!! She probably dyes it, now, to cover-up the gray, but ....
Wig.
@@graffic13 : NOT a wig!! There's more than one video, on here, of her getting her hair done---and, there's more than one pic, floating around, of her, as a young girl, with red hair, like her mother and eldest sister. The reason it looks like a wig, is because she rarely has it parted. The reason they rarely part it, is because she has an extremely high forehead (also seen in pics of her, as a young girl), and it's easier to just brush the front, forward, and the back, back.
Latest dna results show no such thing celtic ethnic. Read about the Beaker culture and the art movement and politics that created celtic culture myth
Devastating
I don't understand the surprise of people that trace their ancestors to slave days then are shocked they used slaves. That was the way of the world in the South, the whole society, yes your great greats probably had some slaves at some point. That also goes for ancestors of most commenters here judging a single southerner having slaves when it was the norm. Just because we see it as horrible today doesn't mean it was illegal or shameful to a huge society then and maybe that should just try to be more accepted. (I do know all my peeps are from the north). 🤷
If anything this made my heart wrench for Reba. Knowing this was her ancestor and probably somehow feeling responsible but also knowing that this was none of her doing. Also for her ancestor to have been an indentured servant at 9 is an incredible story with such rich American beginnings.
So sad
And I mean that
Love Reba
She needs to watch "Roots"!
Alex Haley has in recent years admitted that his book Roots had very little to do with the truth, even his own search for his family roots was not completely truthful. I think the one thing we can all agree on is that slavery was and is one of the worse things that one human can do to another.
It was nothing kind gentle or fair about selling men women and children taking them from their land denying them the right to read have accessible healthcare the right to be able to provide for themselves which has taken place continuously over 590 years. But God is so good you will reap what you sow and you shall so what he will punish those down to the 6th and 7th generation and thereafter. It's no getting around it this was inhumane. No such thing as people enjoy having their children and family sold.😢👎🏼
AGREED!!!!!❤❤❤
I love you very much
Duh...
0:25 what? 🥴
Big Deal
Sobering is correct.
Welcome Reba McEntire to your own personal struggle session
Her relative was t alone, for the time what’s your problem! Get over it!!
I love Reba but thinking there’s such a thing as being a “fair” slave owner is an unbelievable thing to say
Pure ignorance. She's trying to soothe herself.
That's a harsh thing to say almost 160 years after slavery was abolished in the US.
It is very easy to judge when you didn't grow up being taught that slavery was just a natural thing.
That’s because you seem to forget that there’s a lot of gray in life. it’s her way of wanting to know just how bad he was. He does sound pretty awful.
My guess is that your grandfather was in it for the money...
Somehow I find this news fitting. I’m NOT surprised.🥴
Why aren't you surprised, please explain?
@@humanbeing1168now whose the bigot.
How is it fitting?
At this point in life, who really cares!
I don’t I just watch the whole video and I don’t think it was ever found out what kind of man he was. Obviously, he owned people, so there’s that mark against him.
So did a lot of other people back then.
Just because he owned slaves doesn't mean he was abusive. In some cases they were treated like dear family members...even receiving property in the owner's will. History is just history, a past recording the signs of the times. It can't be changed. Accept it and make your own history.
I agree with you on certain things. We can’t change the past, but we shouldn’t excuse it either. Slavery is wrong, no matter who did it. None of us alive today committed these acts and nobody alive today is a direct victim. It’s a fact that more Europeans were enslaved by the Barbary pirates, but 2 rights never did make a wrong. Slavery still exists today in West Africa. Let’s concentrate on that instead.
Denying a human being freedom is abusive. What’s wrong with you?
@@dee2251 The notion that “more Europeans were enslaved by Barbary pirates” is nonsense. We’re talking about 500 years of slavery in America, including Upper and Lower Canada, the British, French, Spanish and Portuguese colonies in Africa, the Caribbean, South and Central America, numbers in the millions, from the Indios enslaved, tortured and murdered by Columbus right through until the Emancipation proclamation.
You’re right that “two wrongs don’t make a right” but diminishing the facts about the slavery by Europeans of Africans, Indios, Mayans, and Indians in California by the Spanish is a fact and we can’t pretend that someone else was “worse”.
He sold children.
He bought and sold babies. Those are the facts. Deplorable.