Emmitt Smith's ancestor was trafficked at only age 11...

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  • Опубликовано: 25 ноя 2024

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  • @ellenwalker5762
    @ellenwalker5762 Год назад +5

    So shameful and heartbreaking

  • @mariacrouch7109
    @mariacrouch7109 Год назад +8

    This is so disgusting !!!! Terrible shameful they did this to children and adults💯💯💯😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

  • @TheIamtheoneandonly1
    @TheIamtheoneandonly1 Год назад +7

    This is terrible. The harsh reality of that era is just awful and yet, it still (in many modern forms) continues to this very day. 💔😪

  • @lizevans4534
    @lizevans4534 Год назад +7

    Went to the Slavery museum In Liverpool England ! Absolutely awful!! May all their eternal lights shine forever

    • @mariacrouch7109
      @mariacrouch7109 Год назад +1

      In the UK they have tryed to get rid of slavery history even though some still exists and some slave owning family's still exist Thier decendents who proffered from this brutality tax payers in UK from 1837 till 2015 have been paying slave owning families compensation of losses these slave owners complained about because the slave trade brought them loss of buisness earnings apparantly so it took nearly 100 years to pay these slave owning decendents Thier compensation

    • @mariacrouch7109
      @mariacrouch7109 Год назад +1

      Slavery has never ended it still goes on to this day in UK and many parts of the world it's absolutely disgusting that one human being could treat another like this it's dispicable in every sense

  • @darlulittledeer3738
    @darlulittledeer3738 Год назад +15

    wow. that is the first time I have read that slaves were bred. with no record of it, unlike the horses.

    • @barbarasturtevant8327
      @barbarasturtevant8327 Год назад +7

      Oh yes they were!! They had a set place for this. Absolutely horrible!!😢

    • @JM-vj7we
      @JM-vj7we Год назад +1

      Yes disgustingly it was an active part of the slave atrocity! 🥲

    • @veronicaharris8541
      @veronicaharris8541 Год назад +5

      You didn't know slaves were sent to breeding farms, that's how they increased their profit

  • @vcrouch6041
    @vcrouch6041 Год назад +19

    Very sorry Mr. Smith that we weren't the Christian nation we should have been and treated your people with so much disrespect and hurt.

    • @seekingserenity2973
      @seekingserenity2973 Год назад

      Along with the Indians
      That is some of the shame of our ancestors.

  • @daandebacker3967
    @daandebacker3967 Год назад +8

    I just learned how awful slavery was, even though I thought I knew.

    • @fatimaepes2828
      @fatimaepes2828 Год назад +3

      I'm sorry you are JUST learning the truth of OUR country

  • @steveperyer4850
    @steveperyer4850 Год назад +12

    My Family name is close to Emitt’s slave owner, and his Ancestor Morriah. My Family came from France, through Canada, and into the US in the 1800’s. My last Name is spelled Peryer, and would be very ashamed if my kin had been involved.😢

    • @lightyagami3492
      @lightyagami3492 Год назад +1

      If my direct paternal line was involved in slavery i would likely change my surname because i would be that ashamed. I know they aren't because they immigrated to the US in the 1880s from Germany.

    • @junbh2
      @junbh2 Год назад +6

      I would be disturbed for sure. But I don't know if I would be ashamed exactly, because I didn't do anything. But it would make me wonder about any advantage my family had. Any money or education or standing or other advantages that had passed down through the generations. And I'd feel weird and guilty about that.

    • @JudgeDredd_
      @JudgeDredd_ Год назад

      ⁠@@junbh2agreed. It’s not something to be ashamed of. It is just history. You know better you do better going forward. That was the way of the world back then.

  • @drusillawinters212
    @drusillawinters212 Год назад +22

    Emmitt, you can't trace your ancestry back to Africa because they were afraid of your people. Your people were stronger. Your people were smarter. Your people made their way of life and were a threat to their way of life. You can be proud even though you may not know who your ancestors were, you know what they were. They were a proud people with an iron will to survive. Stand proud.

  • @seekingserenity2973
    @seekingserenity2973 Год назад +2

    11 22 are angel numbers . You were meant to find your family .

  • @kristinaarnold4776
    @kristinaarnold4776 Год назад +4

    I got very much into ancestry and I did a friends. His family unfortunately were slaves. Broke my heart it is hard to find information. Because records during that time. I'm not a professional It took me 60 plus hours. So I did my best, did find some missing family members. I also felt the need to apologize because I had found one of my great grandfathers a Captain in the Revolutionary war. I can't tell you how embarrassed and ashamed I was. We are still friends

    • @valerieconner1204
      @valerieconner1204 Год назад +2

      I'm curious, what is it about having an ancestor who was a Captain in the Revolutionary War that makes you ashamed? Most people are proud to learn they had an ancestor who was in the Revolutionary War, and to be an officer was an even higher honor. To my knowledge, there was absolutely no connection between the Revolutionary War and slavery, if that's what you're thinking. Are you confusing the Revolutionary War with the Civil War?

  • @BobSmith-kd4oc
    @BobSmith-kd4oc Год назад

    I find it strange how many people have confidence in their flesh. Sad

  • @gracemaerz8872
    @gracemaerz8872 Год назад +4

    African and Irish slaves were bred. Bless them all.

  • @briankoch3856
    @briankoch3856 Год назад +9

    Emmitt, yes slavery was a part of your destiny. But at the approximate time of 20:13 your comment " AMERICA The Beautiful" was pretty harsh.
    African Slavery, Egyptian Slavery, Chad Slavery, Ethiopian Slavery pre-dated America"s by several hundred years.
    Heck... Slavery is more prominent today in those aforementioned countries even TODAY.
    I abhor Slavery as much as you do but don't try to shame us AMERICANS today

    • @carolynmartin8182
      @carolynmartin8182 Год назад +2

      Damn RIGHT!!!!

    • @SoUSay-nr3ge
      @SoUSay-nr3ge Год назад

      I get it, slavery was incomprehensible and the constant reminders of it must be excruciating for some to hear but you ma'am do not have the right to tell descendants of those enslaved how to feel about America now. You don't have that right nor should you have the gall to do that regardless of how you may feel about it. There's no denying that what America did to those who were forced to build America on their backs and by their blood sweat and tears happened and bc of it, slavery will forever be a permanent stain on America's dark past but it did happen so if those who can live by the "lest we forget" banner and can remember their loved ones with respect and without outside intrusions then why can't those enslaved descendants embrace their ancestral history the same way without the dismissals from the one's whose ancestors may have played a role in it and who may have also generationally benefited from it so the question is Why can't All Americans whose ancestors did not immigrate nor freely chose to come here originally have their moment of remembrance in peace and without outside introspections.

    • @sarge4455
      @sarge4455 Год назад +7

      Grow up

    • @SoUSay-nr3ge
      @SoUSay-nr3ge Год назад +3

      @@sarge4455 So Grown that I'm not offended nor threatened whenever truth is revealed

    • @howcomeitsbeeping
      @howcomeitsbeeping Год назад +7

      OK, but not all slave owners stood their male slaves in front of a crowd and sodomized them as a form of punishment. Chattel slavery was a horrifying practice, and it was particularly well-developed in the early united states. We can't make things better if we keep pretending we don't know what happened.

  • @meme7591
    @meme7591 Год назад +2

    It wasn't just America who did slavery the whole world did slavery so don't look your nose down just that America

    • @carolynmartin8182
      @carolynmartin8182 Год назад +2

      Thank you!!! Slavery took place EVERYWHERE!!!

    • @TheAmtwhite
      @TheAmtwhite Год назад +8

      But I believe the States was the last to stop doing it. And half the country fought to keep it.

    • @eternalsunshine2485
      @eternalsunshine2485 Год назад +11

      This show isn't a world history class. It's a personal family history. So no need to educate us on slavery around the world. His family history is in America...that's why he's talking about America. First Amendment is freedom of speech. You don't have to like it. It's HIS family history and HIS personal opinion.

    • @deshawn3633
      @deshawn3633 Год назад +1

      Yea but there wasn't a form of slavery that happened like slavery in America... Nothing close actually.

    • @darkhighwayman1757
      @darkhighwayman1757 Год назад +1

      ​@@TheAmtwhiteslavery ended in Europe and America before Africa and the middle East and Asia did