I never learned anything in that slavery countdown in school, so once again, educational as usual. Keep the good work and topics going as always. Thanks Simon.
1/ Your school sucked, sorry bout that. 2/ Don't ever take anything in these vids by "Simon" seriously, he just reads out articles, word for word, that he finds: he doesn't fact check, and he cannot seem to tell a real article from absolute rubbish.
Guy Pierson, you are exactly right. Probably takes this guy 10 min to put together a show. If someone really wants to know about these issues: Read a well-sourced book.
I haven't read this book ' lies my teachers taught me ' but my high school government teacher (in 1984) are FB friends & he recommended it to me. (I may not have gotten the title exactly right) I wonder what the term is for ' lying by omission in the position of an instructor ' ?lol
Viking household slaves were called thralls. So if you were made a slave you were enthralled. Gives you a different perspective about today's use of the word, eh?
@@TobbeStorm How about you get a job instead of wasting time commenting on three year old RUclips comments? Lmao. And no I won't respond to any more of your comments. Because, unlike you, I have things to do with my life other than harass random RUclips comments trying to get under their skin and failing miserably.
@@KaleighAmanda I do have two jobs at the moment, so don’t need another. Before graduating from university that is. Which I remember when i see them begging outside of the supermarket; if I can do it then so can they right? Not trying to harass you but wondering if getting a job is one of the problems you are facing, since I really don’t see anyone else begging. Seems to me that I did get under your skin, although I didn’t mean to
Thank you for actually including the Gypsy slavery that is normally forgotten by everyone. And most importantly that you made sure to bring up todays problems native Americans are missing and murdered at 4 times the national average and completely ignored it is obvious part of human trafficking and yet nobody gives a damn. I have 4 couisns we haven't seen in over 15 years no idea if they are even alive and yet nobody but the tribe tried to find them.
@@tomazou2010 - no one needs an excuse not to contribute to society. I work 60 hour weeks making about 60K year. After paying state, federal, SS, health-care, real estate taxes, excise taxes on my car, special bags for my trash, trash pick up...how much is left in my pocket? I also paid for my son's private education because schools are so terrible! If I was a "single Mom" I'd collect somewhere around 50K from welfare for doing nothing. Easy to see why so many people are getting frustrated and dropping out.
You don't really understand slavery if you believe this. There is far more involved than "disposable income". Also, most people have far more options than they think. They are simply unwilling to give up their traditions, habits, creature comforts, or way of life.
dimpleseve Sadly most American schools don't cover slavery as a whole. And, they only cover black slavery for the part they do cover. There is a Great book called Lies My History Teacher taught me. There are MANY FACTS that school a here have wrong! I know this two ways, as an American military brat in Europe and doing research with my friends who are teachers and 1 is a principle. This is part of why I homeschooled my two boys.
Barbara Vance Some teachers are too worried about offending black students with slavery movies that have the N word in it to teach about slavery. I as a teen had a white teacher take me out into the hallway to let me know he was playing a slave movie that had the N word in and wondered if I would be offended. I said I want to know about this horrible part of history and that word doesn’t bother me. So some teachers are worried the N word in slave movies are going to offend students so they don’t play slave movies or teach very much about slavery but will teach about the Holocaust, Native Americans, Christopher Columbus supposedly finding America which is a lie and every other horrible historical event in human history but a slave movie has the N word in it and “Nope not gonna show it, don’t want to offend certain students”.
There are some flaws: The Vikings did not limit to live in what is now Denmark, they lived in the whole of Scandinavia and Iceland. The decision to close off Japan to the west was not a direct consequence of slave trade.
They had settlements in those places but they were not the predominant and native culture there as they were in Scandinavia. which is why they are not associated with those regions, same as Muslims are not associated with Scandinavia despite the fact that we now have several settlements in Scandinavia because they are neither a majority nor a native minority.
Sohave The majority of Vikings involved in raids and settlement in Northern England and Scotland were from what is known as Norway. The Raiders and settlers of the south were mainly from what is known as Denmark.
***** thats a bit too much maybe some of them dont know those things alot of people are born into islam and those people give brith kids into slam what are you going to say some one like you if you where born into slam
Frank Woods they are not muslims, they don't represent muslims, slave trading, slaving is prohibited in Islam, you can call them whatever you want such as Arab slave traders but they don't represent Islam. You should accept that there were many evil people who enslaved others including in areas such as Saudi Arabia that made defamed Islam.
The important thing to remember is that we are ALL descended from slaves. Every single one of us. We love to think we we're royalty because we like to delude ourselves with grandiosity but NO we were slaves. Yet, they survived and past on their genes so that we can be alive today. I thank my ancestors for being survivors. I'm sure they swallowed their pride and bent their heads and took lashing on the back but they survived. Thank you.
WilliamOccamensis are you Slavic? My family comes from communist Czechoslovakia and came to America...... my last name literally translates to comb or ridge depending on how you use it ?
@WilliamOccamensis That is arrant nonsense. The Slavs speak a language which is Greek-based, not Latin-based, and the word "Slav" has nothing to do with slavery; it is a designation for a large ethno-linguistic group of people. Their ancestors are the Scythians, Sarmatians, Alans, etc. The Slavs are ancestors of, for instance, the Irish. In Ukrainian, which is a Slavic language, the word for "slave" is "невільник" (pronounced "nevil'nyk") which signifies "one who is deprived of liberty". Slav has nothing to do with slavery, except in the minds of the unschooled. You’re welcome.
Extraordinary video. some of these instances of slavery we have never heard of. It should be a capital crime to enslave a person, including especially sexual trafficing.
Thank you for noting modern-day slavery on this list. Perhaps you could make another video detailing this terrible practice, especially the forced sex and labor imposed on children? So many people are completely clueless about this heinous practice, and your channel is very effective in getting people to sit up and take notice. Thank you for that.
America invented the worst kind of slavery. but no parts of it. There are several things that can make slavery gruesome -foreign slaves -slavery based on race -privatized slavery -slavery that allows for violent abuse -slavery that disallows your human status -chattel slavery -slavery that makes your children slaves -slavery that treats you like an animal or worse -slavery that subjects one to sex acts -inescapable slavery (not based on debt or cant move away from salve class at all) all of this existed in some place somewhere in some form before, but america was the first institution that had all of these things at once, thus making ours the most gruesome in history.
@jarron you know that law that comes under scrutiny every now and then about undocumented ppl having children, and their children are citizens now. ie all ppl born in the U.S.A. are citizens. That law was originally so nobody was born into slavery. It has never been repealed. Also overly cruel treatment was also a crime here. "Cruelty of a dependent" Not to be confused with minors or children. While technically illegal, but not uncommon was sex with slaves. Laws were hard to enforce in those times. Not trying to say it was't horrible, but allowing your argument to be poked full of holes waters down your valid points.
The thing is though we literally had to read an article that said that the concept of race was started a few centuries ago and that slavery was invented in the 1600s, I feel bad for the gullible kids who soak this up and believe all this
Something we certainly don't learn in school is that slavery was quite legal in the Arabian peninsula well into the 1960:s. It should be possible to find someone who was enslaved then and is still alive - if any journalist finds that such a story is worth telling. Mauritania is probably better known.
Possible of course, but I doubt it as guest workers today are deprived of their passports and have to live under what is very slave like conditions. This goes for both female domestic help and male construction workers, e.g. in Qatar. My point is that no one seems to have pursued this story.
Slavery is quite legal in the United States to this very day, as long as the slaves are called "convicts" and the slavery is called "community service." That's the point of the privatization of prisons. Amendment XIII: "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, EXCEPT AS A PUNISHMENT FOR CRIME whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
What about "Harvesting of the steppe" - slave raids against Slavs in Eastern Europe committed by Tatars and Nogais? Or slave raids of Ottoman Turks in Balkans?
Gypsies were not all slaves, only Vlachian Gypsy tribes, the Beash and Vlach Romani. On the other hand, Gypsies keep slaves even to the present day, in modern countries like Hungary or Romania. They usually coerce helpless people into working for them under inhuman conditions, often keeping them in pens and regularly beating them. Other times they coerce girls into sex slavery. The police frequently reports the finding of such slave pens, but of course for the sake of political correctness they never use the term "slave". The Gypsies call these people "chichka", and the word itself is a deadly insult to any Gypsy, they'd attack you right away if you dare to use it.
Yet America seems to be the only country that is held in bondage over slavery issues, because everything is related to slavery according to some people.
John's Picks because America was still segregated until 1964 you separated yourselves from the people you enslaved because you felt superior. There are still people alive today who lived through this time. Meaning it is not ancient change has been a slow slow process. That is why America is still the only country still held bondage over slavery issues.
@@lovelyt8022 or because race based politics are profitable, due to the gullible masses, white and black alike, gobbling it up. The irony is, the liberal elite who pander to race, have further impoverished blacks. Welfare keeps them reliant on the government teet. The liberal run cities have the worst poverty and most crime in the country. Yet, they'll keep voting for Democrats because, free money. It is a shame blacks don't realize they can take care of themselves better than the government can.
I assure you, the United States is not the only country still struggling with issues rooted in slavery. In fact, if you watch the video again you’ll see examples. It only seems that way because African Americans have a disproportionately large voice and representation in music, sports, movies, and other media. And the US has disproportionate representation in those same channels of communication across the world so you hear their much issues more. Most marginalized peoples across the world are so poor and powerless that they are effectively invisible to mainstream society. So their stories are rarely told and very few ppl care about them.
American/African still screams slavery or whatever you call it,eventhough they're all free to do what they want.But you know bitterness and entitlement go side by side.Maybe they want America to be like Africa.
Here in the US we also had white slaves. Not as numerous as black slaves they were usually debtors. The rule was once your debt was worked off you were to be set free. There was a loop hole in this as you could be sold at any point in your "service" and would then have to pay off what ever "value" the seller and buyer had decided on. This usually meant you were stuck for life.
I am very glad you mentioned modern day slavery as number 1. It would be great if you could do a video of the top 10 countries where slavery exists or something similar so people can understand what modern day slavery is.
I think it exists everywhere STILL to a greater or lesser degree. Evil knows no borders and it doesn't just go away. Do a search on human trafficking. You will be depressed,
Italian Soldier from WW2 southern blacks by percentage owned more slaves than whites. it sounds ridiculous, until you realize that only around 1% of southerners actually owned slave, or even had access to them. the south up until the reformation was like its own aristocratic, feudalist society. most whites where sharecroppers or debt-bound servants. it wasn't uncommon for freed blacks (usually a favored houseslave owned by a dying owner, think Django) to actually purchase slaves and land, because then they were legally identified as land owners with property and could no longer be impressed back into forced servitude. their slaves would be freed, and then do the same.
The ancient Egyptians never kept slaves. We know this because they meticulously documented every aspect of their culture, even stuff that made them look bad, yet never mentioned slaves.
The Ottoman Janissaries as well. For more than two and a half centuries Christian boys were kidnapped in their thousands and raised in captivity to serve as warriors for the Sultan.
You failed to mention that slavery is still legal in the US (provided it's punishment for a crime). This is why many prisons (in particular for-profit prisons) are able to get away with forcing their inmates to work for next-to-no pay. Given the enormous prison population in the US and the fact it's so disproportionately black, it's clear that black slavery never really ended in the US; it just got prettied up a little
Some of them are getting butthurt and will attack you because they won't admit that they are indeed hypocrites.Just for example the people who bashed you on the comment section. Hypocrisy is the new norm.Pathetic in denial aholes.
Why is it as an American student I only learn about what my ancestors did to Africans hundreds of year ago in a WORLD history class. I am apologetic to what my ancestors did regarding slavery in the United States even though I took no part in such thing. What makes me angry is that the WORLD history textbooks never mention of any other incidents of slavery making it seem biased towards whites enslaving blacks. In short I believe every race was once a master and a slave at one point in history but people tend to show whites enslaving blacks as the example of slavery even though it was far less brutal than other times in history were slavery was apparent. All of this is not to make lesser of any form of slavery but to point out the bias in history text books and education systems.
the issue of AMERICAN slavery has nothing to do with other countries. what was done in the past cannot be undone BUT WHITE PEOPLE today can help fix the problem today from the past
I remember working for Walmart in 2013, I was 18 years old. I was getting paid $7.45 and was a part time associate yet worked more than 40 hours. Sometimes they wouldn't let me leave until 3 a.m. or else I would get a write-up. We couldn't have lunch until we were told and that was sometimes up until the 7th or 8th hour of being clocked in. It was horrible. We couldn't leave even if we were scheduled to leave at a certain time. They wanted you to work without breaks, and couldn't leave until your department and 2 others were perfectly fully stacked, cleaned, product faced front, and no customers in the area. Which is IMPOSSIBLE. I hated that job. I literally felt like a slave.
My German-Irish-British roots were poor. Have not been able to find any direct or indirect link showing my family owned any slaves. Some of my Irish ancestors were known to live with (been slaves, servants, nannies, etc.) German families once they came to the U.S. Another part of my heritage is Native American (Cherokee to be exact).
right of course. I had forgotten about this problem for a short while, now thanks to that reminder I get yet another thing to add the to growing list of things wrong with the world! oh boy how exciting this is always my favorite part!
One point of worthy note, is the current use of slave labor in modern day U.S. prisons. Especially now, as the prison industrial complex grows larger with the implementation of private prisons, the use of "state owned" prisoners incarcerated for minor offenses, such as drug possession and theft, has never before, in the history of mankind, been so staggering.
Doing a stretch for 3 drug charges 2 assaults , only worry is other convicts , with food, AC and medical is provided (our tax money) . That's not slavery peanut.
Slavery is still alive all over the world. It's called different things and has differing degrees depending on where you live. In the Western world it's called taxes. Some people in the West get as much as 50% of the value of their yearly labor taken from them. They are 50% slaves. In North Korea they have nearly 100% of their labor taken so they are 100% slaves.
Slavery is super useful. Given our overreliance on fossil fuels and foreign labor, perhaps we should look at a limited implementation in the forcefully migrated first world? We could put our new neighbors to productive use and we could lower our carbon footprint simultaneously.
Chad Vader Speak your mind. We all are entitled to our opinions. Short of posting something that violates the YT rules we agreed to, we have the freedom to talk about anything we choose.
4:15 You made an error. While the terracotta soldiers were not likely modeled on any person in particular, the people who crafted them however were massacred upon the death of the Emperor. This in effect was a type of ritual if not just a way to prevent the location of the tomb from being revealed as it was a secret project.
Imo if you don't own a business or inherit a fortune you are a slave. A person working at a restaurant making less than 1% of what the owner makes per hour is just sorry. Everything is just about the money anymore, we could be so much more if we just removed currency all together. We are all human, should all pull our weight and should do things for each other regardless if we get anything in return.
Just using it as an example... Just hear me out, from a single atom to a single cell is a huge jump and the size of a single cell to the human body is about the same as the size of us to the universe around us. Each cell does very little on its own but together they keep the body going. This is the meaning of life, many coming together to conquer the reality around it. A cell that puts its own desires and survival above the whole has a name, it's cancer. We have to come together as atoms have, followed by cells and there is a much bigger dimension that we as individuals will never see. It is sad that the ant is closer to achieving this goal than humans are.
I agree that what you describe would be best... but slavery still achieves what you speak of... where nations fought each other at first. progress and stability developed once one side won and enslaved the other. it is hard to convince people of anything, much easier to just make them do it by force.. that is why our civilization is not going to change as far as that goes for quite a while.
Elisha Jamie I hate that argument because communism's failings are not based on some nebulious definition of human nature. communism fails first and foremost because of very real infrastructure issues that come from a command economy. simply put, the only communist states to last are the ones that have adopted some sort of free enterprise (China is the most obvious), not because its "human nature" but because states based on inflexible markets with little understanding of scarcity fall apart.
anerat 2:14 it's hard to hear because mumbled but I hear " Scandinavian and err what is now Denmark". I was going post the same thing but I went back heard this. It was a bit difficult to hear.
Alejandro Ceballos well idk what splits Mexico from Central America but I don't think Central America exist they just say that instead of naming the 7 small countries their but from Canada to Panama would be north as the canal would be the only thing separating North and South unless the Rio grande goes from Texas to California which I don't think it does
Rather delighted to come across you guys giving us all this info we'd never begun to imagine we'd ever begin to think about, and all at a cost of zero, to us. As a terrible pedant, Simon, I venture to correct a tiny aspect of your excellently written and excellently presented commentary. Its SEDentry, not sedENTary. Cheers, keep on, thanks. Denis at the tip of Africa.
I never learned anything in that slavery countdown in school, so once again, educational as usual. Keep the good work and topics going as always. Thanks Simon.
I knew about some of it but not all.
1/ Your school sucked, sorry bout that. 2/ Don't ever take anything in these vids by "Simon" seriously, he just reads out articles, word for word, that he finds: he doesn't fact check, and he cannot seem to tell a real article from absolute rubbish.
Guy Pierson, you are exactly right. Probably takes this guy 10 min to put together a show.
If someone really wants to know about these issues: Read a well-sourced book.
It’s common knowledge if you read and pay attention
White people have been slaves too!!!!
I haven't read this book ' lies my teachers taught me ' but my high school government teacher (in 1984) are FB friends & he recommended it to me. (I may not have gotten the title exactly right) I wonder what the term is for ' lying by omission in the position of an instructor ' ?lol
Viking household slaves were called thralls. So if you were made a slave you were enthralled. Gives you a different perspective about today's use of the word, eh?
Mandy B thanks for that-I enjoy it when I actually learn something in the YT comment section instead of scrolling through undiluted hate. Thanks 👍
Mandy B wow!
most words have a history.
Romano Coombs White complexion?
Romano Coombs Wait the Catholic Church didn't ended the slavery.
As a Romani myself, I'm glad that at least one person knows about all the problems we have and are facing. :)
How about getting a job?
@@TobbeStorm How about you get a job instead of wasting time commenting on three year old RUclips comments? Lmao.
And no I won't respond to any more of your comments. Because, unlike you, I have things to do with my life other than harass random RUclips comments trying to get under their skin and failing miserably.
Tyson's guna get ya
@@KaleighAmanda I do have two jobs at the moment, so don’t need another. Before graduating from university that is. Which I remember when i see them begging outside of the supermarket; if I can do it then so can they right? Not trying to harass you but wondering if getting a job is one of the problems you are facing, since I really don’t see anyone else begging. Seems to me that I did get under your skin, although I didn’t mean to
...And causing.
This is one of your best videos. very informative well put together, unabashed. thank you!
Thank you for actually including the Gypsy slavery that is normally forgotten by everyone. And most importantly that you made sure to bring up todays problems native Americans are missing and murdered at 4 times the national average and completely ignored it is obvious part of human trafficking and yet nobody gives a damn. I have 4 couisns we haven't seen in over 15 years no idea if they are even alive and yet nobody but the tribe tried to find them.
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"You'll never make a living knowing all of this useless trivia," they said. YOU PROVED THEM WRONG! Props!
The first step to any solution, is recognition of a problem. I'm glad this video is here.
Well researched and almost perfectly narrated. I learned a lot because of you today. Thank you.
Kelly Michaels How would you know if it was well researched if you just learned about it?
And don't think you're not a slave if most of your life's income ends up fueling someone else's interests.
Yes
Jaša Gladež I try to tell people this all the time but they don’t get it.
Easy excuse to be unemployed and not contribute to society right?
@@tomazou2010 - no one needs an excuse not to contribute to society. I work 60 hour weeks making about 60K year. After paying state, federal, SS, health-care, real estate taxes, excise taxes on my car, special bags for my trash, trash pick up...how much is left in my pocket? I also paid for my son's private education because schools are so terrible!
If I was a "single Mom" I'd collect somewhere around 50K from welfare for doing nothing. Easy to see why so many people are getting frustrated and dropping out.
You don't really understand slavery if you believe this. There is far more involved than "disposable income".
Also, most people have far more options than they think. They are simply unwilling to give up their traditions, habits, creature comforts, or way of life.
can u do a video about human trafficking, its alot worse than u think
im sure its so horrible i wish i could help
It's a big problem here in Utah
Not as bad as slavery
Italian Soldier from WW2 those taken into human trafficing is 1 in the same as slavery
not in scale
In other words, basically, everyone's ancestor was a slave.
wah wah wah...! what do I have to cry about and flaunt around at to everyone!? wah.. wah.. wah....
duh
if everyone has a common ancestor, you're more right than you think
My ancestors were never slaves and they even fought against slavery
Alberto92 yes to a king or a master
Wow! I swear to you that I have learned more about slavery in this video then what I learned in school!
What kind of school did you attend?
Probably an american school if they refused to talk about slavery .
dimpleseve Sadly most American schools don't cover slavery as a whole. And, they only cover black slavery for the part they do cover. There is a Great book called Lies My History Teacher taught me. There are MANY FACTS that school a here have wrong! I know this two ways, as an American military brat in Europe and doing research with my friends who are teachers and 1 is a principle. This is part of why I homeschooled my two boys.
Barbara Vance
Some teachers are too worried about offending black students with slavery movies that have the N word in it to teach about slavery. I as a teen had a white teacher take me out into the hallway to let me know he was playing a slave movie that had the N word in and wondered if I would be offended. I said I want to know about this horrible part of history and that word doesn’t bother me.
So some teachers are worried the N word in slave movies are going to offend students so they don’t play slave movies or teach very much about slavery but will teach about the Holocaust, Native Americans, Christopher Columbus supposedly finding America which is a lie and every other horrible historical event in human history but a slave movie has the N word in it and “Nope not gonna show it, don’t want to offend certain students”.
Emperor Wang Mang! Thats the coolest Chinese name I've ever heard
There's a cave in china called "Wang Dong Cave"... I think that's far more hilarious xD
Wang Mang style?
My green grocer is named Sum Ting Wong.
I know a pair of really sexy Chinese twins, their names are Ho Lee Fuk and Sum Dum Ho.
no they arent, you just stole that from that troll news story with the crashed plane
There are some flaws: The Vikings did not limit to live in what is now Denmark, they lived in the whole of Scandinavia and Iceland. The decision to close off Japan to the west was not a direct consequence of slave trade.
Sohave also Ukrainian s weren't Stalin's primary targets. How we change it up to go w the timez....wow
Vikings emigrated everywhere, they lived in Russia, the Baltic and in Western Europe (Normans)
They had settlements in those places but they were not the predominant and native culture there as they were in Scandinavia. which is why they are not associated with those regions, same as Muslims are not associated with Scandinavia despite the fact that we now have several settlements in Scandinavia because they are neither a majority nor a native minority.
Well you said they "did not limit to live in what is now Denmark". I'm just saying they lived all over the place, not only Scandinavia either :P
Sohave The majority of Vikings involved in raids and settlement in Northern England and Scotland were from what is known as Norway. The Raiders and settlers of the south were mainly from what is known as Denmark.
you did not include Saudi Arabia
The History Nerd could this be Omission by Design?
Probably. His little exaggeration of the gulags really says it all.
***** i said that because it boring to talk about muslims and people are talking about muslims
***** thats a bit too much maybe some of them dont know those things alot of people are born into islam and those people give brith kids into slam what are you going to say some one like you if you where born into slam
Frank Woods they are not muslims, they don't represent muslims, slave trading, slaving is prohibited in Islam, you can call them whatever you want such as Arab slave traders but they don't represent Islam. You should accept that there were many evil people who enslaved others including in areas such as Saudi Arabia that made defamed Islam.
The important thing to remember is that we are ALL descended from slaves. Every single one of us. We love to think we we're royalty because we like to delude ourselves with grandiosity but NO we were slaves. Yet, they survived and past on their genes so that we can be alive today. I thank my ancestors for being survivors. I'm sure they swallowed their pride and bent their heads and took lashing on the back but they survived. Thank you.
It would have been worth mentioning that the word slave comes from Slav, and it wasn't just the Vikings who enslaved Slavs.
WilliamOccamensis are you Slavic? My family comes from communist Czechoslovakia and came to America...... my last name literally translates to comb or ridge depending on how you use it ?
@WilliamOccamensis That is arrant nonsense. The Slavs speak a language which is Greek-based, not Latin-based, and the word "Slav" has nothing to do with slavery; it is a designation for a large ethno-linguistic group of people. Their ancestors are the Scythians, Sarmatians, Alans, etc. The Slavs are ancestors of, for instance, the Irish. In Ukrainian, which is a Slavic language, the word for "slave" is "невільник" (pronounced "nevil'nyk") which signifies "one who is deprived of liberty". Slav has nothing to do with slavery, except in the minds of the unschooled. You’re welcome.
@Ryan Hreben your name literally means "comb" in Ukrainian. It is written "гребень".
This was an eye opener. I didn't know about Liberia, you're right we didn't learn this in school.
Extraordinary video. some of these instances of slavery we have never heard of. It should be a capital crime to enslave a person, including especially sexual trafficing.
It is in some places.
Thank you for noting modern-day slavery on this list. Perhaps you could make another video detailing this terrible practice, especially the forced sex and labor imposed on children? So many people are completely clueless about this heinous practice, and your channel is very effective in getting people to sit up and take notice. Thank you for that.
My history teacher is always trying to make it seem that America invented slavery
America invented the worst kind of slavery. but no parts of it. There are several things that can make slavery gruesome
-foreign slaves
-slavery based on race
-privatized slavery
-slavery that allows for violent abuse
-slavery that disallows your human status
-chattel slavery
-slavery that makes your children slaves
-slavery that treats you like an animal or worse
-slavery that subjects one to sex acts
-inescapable slavery (not based on debt or cant move away from salve class at all)
all of this existed in some place somewhere in some form before, but america was the first institution that had all of these things at once, thus making ours the most gruesome in history.
+Jarron WIlliams Dam Americans, always making things worse...
@jarron you know that law that comes under scrutiny every now and then about undocumented ppl having children, and their children are citizens now. ie all ppl born in the U.S.A. are citizens. That law was originally so nobody was born into slavery. It has never been repealed.
Also overly cruel treatment was also a crime here. "Cruelty of a dependent" Not to be confused with minors or children.
While technically illegal, but not uncommon was sex with slaves. Laws were hard to enforce in those times.
Not trying to say it was't horrible, but allowing your argument to be poked full of holes waters down your valid points.
The thing is though we literally had to read an article that said that the concept of race was started a few centuries ago and that slavery was invented in the 1600s, I feel bad for the gullible kids who soak this up and believe all this
I thought Brazil slaves had it worst conditions
Thanks Simon, I have been binge watching your channel all week.
Something we certainly don't learn in school is that slavery was quite legal in the Arabian peninsula well into the 1960:s. It should be possible to find someone who was enslaved then and is still alive - if any journalist finds that such a story is worth telling.
Mauritania is probably better known.
Possible of course, but I doubt it as guest workers today are deprived of their passports and have to live under what is very slave like conditions. This goes for both female domestic help and male construction workers, e.g. in Qatar.
My point is that no one seems to have pursued this story.
Still goes on today, and reported on. (Deep sigh) look it up
Your "deep sigh" strikes me as highly arrogant (deep sigh).
Slavery is quite legal in the United States to this very day, as long as the slaves are called "convicts" and the slavery is called "community service." That's the point of the privatization of prisons. Amendment XIII: "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, EXCEPT AS A PUNISHMENT FOR CRIME whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
Great historical content, as usual.
And *Emperor Wang Chung* made sure that everyone had fun that night...
@Dern Vader
LOL
Those were the dance hall days.
Greatest comment ever made.....dying!!!!
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Excellent video, thanks for sharing
What about "Harvesting of the steppe" - slave raids against Slavs in Eastern Europe committed by Tatars and Nogais? Or slave raids of Ottoman Turks in Balkans?
I love the further reading resources links on this channel. Thanks
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I enjoy your presentations, Simon, you do them better than most
Gypsies were not all slaves, only Vlachian Gypsy tribes, the Beash and Vlach Romani. On the other hand, Gypsies keep slaves even to the present day, in modern countries like Hungary or Romania. They usually coerce helpless people into working for them under inhuman conditions, often keeping them in pens and regularly beating them. Other times they coerce girls into sex slavery. The police frequently reports the finding of such slave pens, but of course for the sake of political correctness they never use the term "slave". The Gypsies call these people "chichka", and the word itself is a deadly insult to any Gypsy, they'd attack you right away if you dare to use it.
Sounds like the music industry!
@@Watergrovey No wonder the Jews love Gypsies that much.
Just found this channel tonight. Very interesting and the presenter has a great accent. I could listen all night without getting bored.
Yet America seems to be the only country that is held in bondage over slavery issues, because everything is related to slavery according to some people.
John's Picks because America was still segregated until 1964 you separated yourselves from the people you enslaved because you felt superior. There are still people alive today who lived through this time. Meaning it is not ancient change has been a slow slow process. That is why America is still the only country still held bondage over slavery issues.
@@lovelyt8022 or because race based politics are profitable, due to the gullible masses, white and black alike, gobbling it up. The irony is, the liberal elite who pander to race, have further impoverished blacks. Welfare keeps them reliant on the government teet. The liberal run cities have the worst poverty and most crime in the country. Yet, they'll keep voting for Democrats because, free money. It is a shame blacks don't realize they can take care of themselves better than the government can.
I assure you, the United States is not the only country still struggling with issues rooted in slavery. In fact, if you watch the video again you’ll see examples.
It only seems that way because African Americans have a disproportionately large voice and representation in music, sports, movies, and other media. And the US has disproportionate representation in those same channels of communication across the world so you hear their much issues more.
Most marginalized peoples across the world are so poor and powerless that they are effectively invisible to mainstream society. So their stories are rarely told and very few ppl care about them.
Some people make a great living as race baiting assholes.
American/African still screams slavery or whatever you call it,eventhough they're all free to do what they want.But you know bitterness and entitlement go side by side.Maybe they want America to be like Africa.
Here in the US we also had white slaves. Not as numerous as black slaves they were usually debtors. The rule was once your debt was worked off you were to be set free. There was a loop hole in this as you could be sold at any point in your "service" and would then have to pay off what ever "value" the seller and buyer had decided on. This usually meant you were stuck for life.
That was very very disturbing. Eye opening for someone who thought he was well informed about the world
Appreciate your #1 selection. Good closing.
This vid was interesting and informative.
Love the information I get from your videos.
I wonder what it was like when the idea of owning people first came around during the agricultural revolution. Like what was the reaction?
I am very glad you mentioned modern day slavery as number 1. It would be great if you could do a video of the top 10 countries where slavery exists or something similar so people can understand what modern day slavery is.
I think it exists everywhere STILL to a greater or lesser degree. Evil knows no borders and it doesn't just go away. Do a search on human trafficking. You will be depressed,
I would tell my students that we were all masters and slaves depending on where in history we looked.
Yes, I am sorry to report they did. Here in the U.S. and as well as in Africa.
Italian Soldier from WW2 southern blacks by percentage owned more slaves than whites. it sounds ridiculous, until you realize that only around 1% of southerners actually owned slave, or even had access to them. the south up until the reformation was like its own aristocratic, feudalist society. most whites where sharecroppers or debt-bound servants. it wasn't uncommon for freed blacks (usually a favored houseslave owned by a dying owner, think Django) to actually purchase slaves and land, because then they were legally identified as land owners with property and could no longer be impressed back into forced servitude. their slaves would be freed, and then do the same.
Joey Peckerwood true a long history there, I stand by my statement that been the Irish have been master. St Patrick was a slave on Ireland.
Wendy Taylor-Hamilton I
James Moore And how many slaves did you talk to? I'm SURE that many slaves were MISTREATED. Bit, the numbers are VERY skewed.
What an eye opener!! Thank you for giving it the attention it deserves!! Very sad.
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Absolutely horrible I can't believe that slavery is still happening.
Shout out to you my dude...love the videos
Worth noting that you accidentally said "North America" when you meant "North Africa" during your explanation of Barbary (Around 7:45).
Also that the activities of the barbary coast pirates were a major cause for the creation of our U. S. Marines.
Just read or listen to the Marine Corps hymn...
.."From the Halls of Montezuma
To the shores of Tripoli (Capitol of Libya).
This video breaks my heart....had no idea
"Emperor Wang bang" that's my new stage name lol
The ancient Egyptians never kept slaves. We know this because they meticulously documented every aspect of their culture, even stuff that made them look bad, yet never mentioned slaves.
I think Mamlukes should have been included in this list. They were slaves trained in military discipline, case in point, Baybars.
The Ottoman Janissaries as well. For more than two and a half centuries Christian boys were kidnapped in their thousands and raised in captivity to serve as warriors for the Sultan.
well atleast they got to throw swords. lol!
Age of Empires 2 reference? XD
One of the best videos you've done. Bravo!
we are slave's to debt
stop using your credit cards
Cesar E then he'd have to whine about something else
Is fight club your favorite movie?
speak for yourself
+Hunter: This is by design.
Excellent video, TopTenz!
am i the only one watching this whilst being sidetracked by the thought of simon w a full head of hair?
I don't think he's ever had a full head of hair... I reckon he was born bald rocking a full beard.
You failed to mention that slavery is still legal in the US (provided it's punishment for a crime). This is why many prisons (in particular for-profit prisons) are able to get away with forcing their inmates to work for next-to-no pay. Given the enormous prison population in the US and the fact it's so disproportionately black, it's clear that black slavery never really ended in the US; it just got prettied up a little
The world is full of hypocrite's
And people that misuse the apostrophe.
Daniel Yamamoto You can always leave.🤗
Demon Rebel I could not agree more. Certain ones are here on RUclips.
Some of them are getting butthurt and will attack you because they won't admit that they are indeed hypocrites.Just for example the people who bashed you on the comment section. Hypocrisy is the new norm.Pathetic in denial aholes.
4:26 Emperor who? just keep rewinding it. it's perfect timing. I'm cracking up😂😂😂
I found this video heartbreaking.
Very informative video, well done.
Why is it as an American student I only learn about what my ancestors did to Africans hundreds of year ago in a WORLD history class. I am apologetic to what my ancestors did regarding slavery in the United States even though I took no part in such thing. What makes me angry is that the WORLD history textbooks never mention of any other incidents of slavery making it seem biased towards whites enslaving blacks. In short I believe every race was once a master and a slave at one point in history but people tend to show whites enslaving blacks as the example of slavery even though it was far less brutal than other times in history were slavery was apparent. All of this is not to make lesser of any form of slavery but to point out the bias in history text books and education systems.
John Why you think it was far less brutal makes no sense.
the issue of AMERICAN slavery has nothing to do with other countries. what was done in the past cannot be undone BUT WHITE PEOPLE today can help fix the problem today from the past
Don't ever leave us again Simon, please
Denmark is actually a part of Scandinavia
I love your videos. Comparing this video to your first few; you are such on a professional level it's as if watching a History channel show.
Stephen Sempel Just better !
You managed to avoid mentioning Islam
Keep up the good work!!!
Prisoners sentenced to hard labour are notably missing.
I remember working for Walmart in 2013, I was 18 years old. I was getting paid $7.45 and was a part time associate yet worked more than 40 hours. Sometimes they wouldn't let me leave until 3 a.m. or else I would get a write-up. We couldn't have lunch until we were told and that was sometimes up until the 7th or 8th hour of being clocked in. It was horrible. We couldn't leave even if we were scheduled to leave at a certain time. They wanted you to work without breaks, and couldn't leave until your department and 2 others were perfectly fully stacked, cleaned, product faced front, and no customers in the area. Which is IMPOSSIBLE. I hated that job. I literally felt like a slave.
Kat Dihr you could have left... big difference
Modern slavery is living paycheck to paycheck, just to pay the bills and be able to afford food..
My German-Irish-British roots were poor. Have not been able to find any direct or indirect link showing my family owned any slaves. Some of my Irish ancestors were known to live with (been slaves, servants, nannies, etc.) German families once they came to the U.S.
Another part of my heritage is Native American (Cherokee to be exact).
I actually learned all these in school
The fabulous android sadly you're probably in the minority
did you go to an expensive private school?
The fabulous android I learned this too and I graduated in 2011.
That's awesome
Moth - This stuff is taught outside America, only the USA refuses to teach facts. I learned all this stuff in Australia in public school.
Thank you for pointing out human trafficking and sex trafficking. It’s a very overlooked, current slavery.
Jokes on you I'm watching this in school
Great job!!
The Egyptians didn't own Hebrew slaves until AFTER the pyramids.
Finally someone who knows the truth
Chickenp00nage Of course the pyramida were built by the Old Kingdom when Egyptians were mostly black, before the Arabs started migrating down.
Alph, you would be surprised what people believe, like a great flood that happened right before they got started.
Egyptians couldn't of built the pyramids with slaves, they needed gangs of skilled craftsmen.
Dark master, I mean HEBREW slaves. "Prager university" says the ten commandments were given about 3000 years ago.
More people need to watch this.
7.45 you mean North Africa?
Blow high! Blow low! And so sailed we! (something something something) on the coast of High Barbary!
I'm now your slave
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right of course. I had forgotten about this problem for a short while, now thanks to that reminder I get yet another thing to add the to growing list of things wrong with the world! oh boy how exciting this is always my favorite part!
"Wish we could turn back time, to the good old days"
Spencer.... dude... that comment... so beautiful...
This makes me wonder how Yasuke came from Slave to warrior, when the Japanese at the time had ready seen MANY foreigners
One point of worthy note, is the current use of slave labor in modern day U.S. prisons. Especially now, as the prison industrial complex grows larger with the implementation of private prisons, the use of "state owned" prisoners incarcerated for minor offenses, such as drug possession and theft, has never before, in the history of mankind, been so staggering.
yup. what he said
Doing a stretch for 3 drug charges 2 assaults , only worry is other convicts , with food, AC and medical is provided (our tax money) . That's not slavery peanut.
Thanks for informing us about modern day slavery
THANKYOU..... for making a good vid and not just saying slavery is European evilness and none else did it...
That seems to be all y'all care about.
Kudjoe Adkins-Battle or vice versa
i see we found the passive-aggressive racist.
The second one is the reason I’m Norse-Gael... the vikings eventually just settled where my family is from.
Slavery is still alive all over the world. It's called different things and has differing degrees depending on where you live.
In the Western world it's called taxes. Some people in the West get as much as 50% of the value of their yearly labor taken from them. They are 50% slaves. In North Korea they have nearly 100% of their labor taken so they are 100% slaves.
Thank you for spreading Nr.1
So now we are slaving away 8 hours a day at a crummy job most of our lives to buy food and pay rent! Whoohoo, progress!
trollbot east yeah.....only dumbasses. Smart people are investing.
Thanks for the Info
Modern Day Slavery
All the people who work in factories making clothes, cell phones, and pretty much everything you buy at Walmart
Most of what they sell in Walmart was made in China.
Slavery is super useful. Given our overreliance on fossil fuels and foreign labor, perhaps we should look at a limited implementation in the forcefully migrated first world? We could put our new neighbors to productive use and we could lower our carbon footprint simultaneously.
I thought we were only allowed to talk about the African slave trade?
Chad Vader Speak your mind. We all are entitled to our opinions. Short of posting something that violates the YT rules we agreed to, we have the freedom to talk about anything we choose.
I'm honestly surprised that this video didn't talk about the actual non-commonly familiar practices of slavery such as slaves as teachers...
Beware Chad. If you mention anything about africans thesec days, you might be accused of being racist. Fkn snowflakes.
because america is based on African slavery
What a phenomenal collection of facts !!!
You forgot economic "federal reserve" slavery with bankster overlords.
Because this is a fact-based channel.
4:15 You made an error. While the terracotta soldiers were not likely modeled on any person in particular, the people who crafted them however were massacred upon the death of the Emperor. This in effect was a type of ritual if not just a way to prevent the location of the tomb from being revealed as it was a secret project.
damn china, you scarry!!!
Imo if you don't own a business or inherit a fortune you are a slave. A person working at a restaurant making less than 1% of what the owner makes per hour is just sorry. Everything is just about the money anymore, we could be so much more if we just removed currency all together. We are all human, should all pull our weight and should do things for each other regardless if we get anything in return.
David Sisson no you do not get to compare low paying job to slavery
Just using it as an example... Just hear me out, from a single atom to a single cell is a huge jump and the size of a single cell to the human body is about the same as the size of us to the universe around us. Each cell does very little on its own but together they keep the body going. This is the meaning of life, many coming together to conquer the reality around it. A cell that puts its own desires and survival above the whole has a name, it's cancer. We have to come together as atoms have, followed by cells and there is a much bigger dimension that we as individuals will never see. It is sad that the ant is closer to achieving this goal than humans are.
I agree that what you describe would be best... but slavery still achieves what you speak of... where nations fought each other at first. progress and stability developed once one side won and enslaved the other. it is hard to convince people of anything, much easier to just make them do it by force..
that is why our civilization is not going to change as far as that goes for quite a while.
Pure communism has never worked. Human nature is not something we can overcome.
Elisha Jamie I hate that argument because communism's failings are not based on some nebulious definition of human nature. communism fails first and foremost because of very real infrastructure issues that come from a command economy. simply put, the only communist states to last are the ones that have adopted some sort of free enterprise (China is the most obvious), not because its "human nature" but because states based on inflexible markets with little understanding of scarcity fall apart.
Skandinavia is now Denmark? :P
Scandinavia now includes Denmark, Iceland, Sweden, Norway and Finland.
anerat I was thinking the same thing.. Denmark is in Scandinavia
anerat 2:14 it's hard to hear because mumbled but I hear " Scandinavian and err what is now Denmark". I was going post the same thing but I went back heard this. It was a bit difficult to hear.
Justin Schauwecker are you Sure about Finland, wasn't Finland part of Russia or a baltic region
Justian Scandanavia is just Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. Iceland, faroe islands, and Findland are Nordic countries, along with the previous three
as messed up as it is, it's nice to see acknowledgement of my peoples slavery when most people dont even know that romani people exist. thank you
"most people dont even know that romani people exist," because most people know them as "gypsies."
Mexico isn't central nor south America
Mexico is part of the North American continent, but in a social and economic sense, it's more part of South America, I believe.
That would be Latin America , don't mix geography with history
Alejandro Ceballos well idk what splits Mexico from Central America but I don't think Central America exist they just say that instead of naming the 7 small countries their but from Canada to Panama would be north as the canal would be the only thing separating North and South unless the Rio grande goes from Texas to California which I don't think it does
Alejandro Ceballos Well Mexico is trash of a country
Italian Soldier from WW2 Italy is a trash country
Rather delighted to come across you guys giving us all this info we'd never begun to imagine we'd ever begin to think about, and all at a cost of zero, to us. As a terrible pedant, Simon, I venture to correct a tiny aspect of your excellently written and excellently presented commentary. Its SEDentry, not sedENTary. Cheers, keep on, thanks. Denis at the tip of Africa.