"Slavery was a system in which enslaved people lived in fear, fear of being sold, fear of being separated from their families or their children or their parents, fear of not being in control of their bodies or their lives, fear of never knowing freedom. No matter what their clothing was like, no matter what food they ate, no matter their quarters looked like enslaved people lived with that fear. When human beings aren’t being treated as people details like the clothing they wore, the food they ate, and their housing become secondary."
-- Jessie MacLeod, associate curator and lead curator of the Lives Bound Together Exhibit, explaining the living conditions and treatment of the enslaved at Mount Vernon in this video. This video is catered to answering questions for a younger audience, but as Mount Vernon historian Mary Thompson writes, "many of the worst things one thinks about in terms of slavery - whipping, keeping someone in shackles, tracking a person down with dogs, or selling people away from their family - all of those things happened either at Mount Vernon or on other plantations under Washington’s management." We encourage you to learn more about slavery at Mount Vernon using our resources: www.mountvernon.org/slavery Mount Vernon’s Slavery RUclips Playlist: bit.ly/3g6fEVt Mary Thompson’s book: bit.ly/3ga5H9w Mount Vernon’s Museum Exhibition Lives Bound Together: bit.ly/34oo9JF
@OmgLookAtTheYuckerMan Waaiong y'all all just crazy AF. Making it out like say if i had a wife who was black and was cooking and cleaning etc it would be a form of slavery. Slavery is over and it only exists in y'alls extremely simple mind space which isn't much.
What ever happened three hundred years ago is irrelevant its an easy excuse to do what ever you want with no reprisal.....get a sense of humor or is that awhite only thing to have because of the ancient scrolls of slavery say it is .. btw suck it!
It doesn't matter if that's how people were raised or if black people sold their own into slavery (which was absolutely wrong btw, not trying to defend them) - Slavery was WRONG. If you have common sense, you know that if a humanoid being thinks, talks, and acts like anyone else, that's a person, and, being a person, you would also know that no person would want to be OWNED. There were plenty of people who were against slavery, so if they can figure it out, so could slave owners. Slavery is BAD. I cannot believe that is something I have to explain.
i meannn there were some good treated slaves...by good i mean better than being beaten daily and killed,being fed properly ya know.not everyone wanted slaves just to bully
Antwaun Robinson im not disagreeing with you but not all slaves were treates that badly...its kind of like getting kidnapped by some creep but he treats you good,feede u well,doesnt torture you,buys u things...its fucked up but he could be doing a lot worse things...slavery is one of the worst things ever done by humans but not all of them were visiously beaten and murdered
@@nba_strictly_0870 Lol. There is no such thing, man. I'm hip to where you trying to go, but there's no way to say "I treat my human property well." Feel me? If you want to treat them well, let them leave. That's treating them well. Of course not all slave masters would be rude in their approach to enslaving humans, because you catch more flies with honey than vinegar. In other words, you'll get your human property to do more work and like you more if they tell them to do something with a smile rather than with a whip... Kind of like today's world.
Like property i guess. I'm not sure it's possible to treat a slave 'fairly'. I mean...if you wanted to treat someone 'fairly' you wouldn't own them as property.
I suppose it means "fairly" in context of other slave owners. Washington's way was perhaps "the lesser of two evils" I suppose one could say, and from that viewpoint, while being treated as property is objectively still wrong, I suppose it can also be said that even the treatment of property varies from owner to owner, and as I understand it, Washington privately he expressed a belief that slavery's end would ultimately be necessary for the nation's survival. Really makes me wonder how much Washington's views on slavery changed over the course of his life.
@Starscream91 Especially considering slave owner Benjamin Franklin released his slaves in life and became president of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society. Not all slave owners were like Benjamin Franklin.
Read Frederick Douglass’s memoirs. He had a remarkably varied set of experiences, some of which he could look back on positively, and others were truly terrible.
@telsa roadster Please tell me that should have had a sarc tag. Most people working for minimum wage are teenagers or other entry level workers. It is not intended to support a family. Of course, its original purpose was to prevent black men from finding employment.
@Drake Only recently, you should see the old videos about Mount Vernon. One would never believe a slave ever lived there, and when they did talk about them it was as if it was a trip to Disneyland.
I don't know if they didn't sugarcoat. But I appreciate the answer was fairer than a simple "he treated them well, or he was kind to them" which would be ridiculous. A slavemaster that demands exactly all slaves back was probably into some gruesome activities, we also know he was into the occult being a high ranking freemason and a slave at Mount Vernon described him worse than his neighbour slavemasters and since the worst of them was probably horrible, I can't even imagine what George Washington did. Let's just be honest here, the man was mostly just for show and people idolized him because they needed someone to glorify.
Bill Osborne Your opinion that it wasn't sugarcoated can be deemed as an assumption. What if it was in fact sugarcoated? Put it this way... if u were to document say your childhood, I would not be surprised if certain things that were perhaps incriminating/embarrassing/etc. were conveniently left out.
Intercepting Fist apparently some slave owners tried to treat slaves as human beings and respect them as human beings is it that hard of a concept to understand?
2:44 "we don't think whipping was a constant occurrence at Mount Vernon, but it happened regularly." AKA: it didnt happen all the time, but it did happen all the time.
I do not believe it happened all the time on every farm. I'm sure that some were very cruel...others, not so much. I read a piece where the author stated Jefferson raped Sally Hemmings. Hogwash. Hemming was Martha Jefferson's half sister. It was said she looked very much like the late Martha. Hemmings stayed with Jefferson till he died, and, then lived in Charlottesville until her death. I fully believe Jefferson and Hemmings were in love. Interracial relationships were taboo...and while Hemmings had special quarters near Jefferson, it was in a basement room..dark and dismantling. It is a fact that Slavery owners routinely raped young Black slaves...a disgusting situation.
@@jdstearman nono, in the middle east slavery continued until very very late, but only until 1960 at most Now people there are almost slaves but at least they're not property
Emma Raff i actually enjoy boink doll rampages bevause the crash and burn - it was God that said to treat our slaves fairly and like our own? (These young have whore, score and steal for skills. THEY belong in a field too.)
@Jeremy Shaffer only were not on a plantation being forced into manual labor with no pay and little to no clothes or food and we don't get whipped if were not acting accordingly lol
you have not read the Bible then? of course I am against ownership of human beings. but in the Bible, GOD's Holy Word, it did matter that slaves were treated well and that slaves obeyed their owners. slavery has taken place from as far back as we have records and is still taking place today.
@@seichorn4079 that's not the slam dunk you think it is. You just described the reason why a lot of people don't trust the bible or Christianity in general.
@@AStrangeWindmill wasnt going for a slam dunk. I was relating historical information. every culture on this planet kept slaves from as far back as was recorded. even blacks in Africa kept slaves. slavery is ongoing in Africa and the Middle East. as well as human trafficking which is slavery. the United States is always the target for harsh criticism. but every nation shares in the guilt.
@@seichorn4079 what does that have to do with the price of tea in China, though? Slavery in North America or Europe doesn't become better or worse simply because it also happened in Africa or the Middle East.
@@AStrangeWindmill not sayig that. Im saying that throughout history, slavery was practiced in all nations. it was a normal practice and being such, the treatment of those slaves does matter. just like the treatment of employees matter. or the treatment of anyone you hold power over. have you never studied psychology or anything really? you are arguing points that dont make sense in the context of history. you realize you dont have the power to change history right? lol!
@Dra O no society needs poorly uneducated** hillybillys who right songs about how much whiskey they drink n drugs etc.pfffft your argument is lame get a new one.
@@lukemain4222 Just something I've thought about growing up, but how humbling would it be if the Great Trump plan implodes, like it's going right now? Billionaires and average Americans could all be naked and hunting rats in NYC? Naked Floridians hunting wild hog with a kitchen knife? I know you are far superior to me, but I pray for you, that when stuff hits the fan you and your family are still living in luxury. I will always try to build up and you and my other Americans Happy Birthday America!! It's the 4th!!
@@malachibrunson8154 We can all agree it is not right to own slaves, even if you take people from a worse situation it does not excuse it, but lets not fool ourselves living in Africa was violent and not fun. A lot ot people forget that in Africa they also had slave traders and slaves, they were than sold to europeans and taken to the USA, south America to work on plantations or similar.
0:56 - "So of course, even though Washington believed he was being fair, from the perspective of enslaved people, it's quite likely that they didn't agree." You don't say!
IDK. The fact that they complained to him about rations, etc. may say something that at least they didn't fear they would be killed for speaking about these things. Maybe there was a plantation next door where the owner hired to most brutal overseers possible and the Mt Vernon slaves thought they had it good by comparison? Obviously their perspective would be different than Washington's, or any northern abolitionist, or anyone living today.
@@michaelsantos8377 could you prove that All slaves were treated that way? Without any proof, your generalization is plain dumb. If you are shown evidence of just 1 slave that was treated well, then your generalization crumbles and the girl's question becomes a valid query.
Well slaves were usually worked to death elsewhere in the Americans or castrated and killed in the Arab world. Compared to how most slaves or even peasants were treated at that time Washington’s was luxury. But as she said at the end of the video they still lived in fear and had no lives of their own.
sparkle jump rope gangsta Relatively to most of the world which was being worked or starved to death in much worse conditions. And he did free them upon death.
I remember as a kid and I first found out that George Washington had slaves my teacher assured me that he treated them kindly. You can have a great man founded a country who was also cruel and self righteous. People are complicated and, you know, people.
margaret nesbeth When I think about it, I don’t feel like people always mean they “founded” it in the sense that they discovered the land. I see it as the built the institutions that would’ve used to run a functioning society, they had people that would build and raise a “civilized” community, and they came up with a lot of systems we use today. This is just my perspective, but I think it makes a lot more sense to say that these people founded the country in this sense.
@@margaretnesbeth593 I think they meant "founded" more in the sense that they played an essential role in the formation of the country into what it is today, part of it's "foundation" if you will
@@margaretnesbeth593 no America was not founded before the revolution. The native Americans were not unified, they were split into hundreds if not thousands of tribes. Many of them did have their own nations such as the iroquois, aztec, and inca. But the aztecs were conquered and turned to mexico and the inca to peru, the natives such as the iroquois and did not found America. And all the people born and raised in the americas for generations now are native at this point and we should all be working to improve the lives of everyone in our countries.
No, we need to teach and remind people that the 'founding fathers' were rich monsters not people to idolize. It's disgusting how our history paints them as great men while they stole, murdered and enslaved.
@Alexis Fitzroy Because George Washington and his slavery fiasco was in the 1700's. People pissed off today at a man that owned slaves centuries ago thus the mention of it now being 2020. People need to stop digging into the past, being pissed off about it, holding people today accountable for actions of people int he past and move forward with their lives. The only thing holding anyone back in today's society is themselves. That's why!
Tommy Vega I’ll put it like this. If I had to be a slave I’d want to be Washington’s. Washington was known for his noble character. Perhaps not perfect but better than most. I think that it isn’t a stretch to assume he treated his slaves with that same nobility.
The Mean Arena for one look at the title of the video..and two...holocaust, 9/11, Christopher Columbus, all “ancient history” but yet nobody seems to say that about that huh
She said it wasn't a "constant occurrence but it did happen regularly". I take it to mean that people weren't getting whipped all day everyday, but it happened often enough. HTH.
@@joee7850 I liked your comment, but we can give her a little credit. She is addressing a young girl. I know from parenting experience that the deeper you go, the more timid your answer becomes. Try giving the sex talk to your 8 year old because they want to know what sex is.
yeah he thinks whipping is fair says it all thinks keeping slaves until he told otherwise. heart and conscience should have told him before it became his job to fix it
I'm really impressed that you guys didn't sugarcoat this. Thank you. Here's what I'd like to know: how aware of these conditions were the white abolitionists, like Lafayette, who had close relationships with Washington?
There are no surviving documents in which Lafayette specifically comments on conditions at Mount Vernon, but he visited Washington’s home, so he would have been aware of how enslaved people lived there.
I don't know if they didn't sugarcoat. But I appreciate the answer was fairer than a simple "he treated them well, or he was kind to them" which would be ridiculous. A slavemaster that demands exactly all slaves back was probably into some gruesome activities, we also know he was into the occult being a high ranking freemason and a slave at Mount Vernon described him worse than his neighbour slavemasters and since the worst of them was probably horrible, I can't even imagine what George Washington did. Let's just be honest here, the man was mostly just for show and people idolized him because they needed someone to glorify.
Michael Flores Your opinion that it wasn't sugarcoated can be deemed as an assumption. What if it was in fact sugarcoated? Put it this way... if u were to document say your childhood, I would not be surprised if certain things that were perhaps incriminating/embarrassing/etc. were conveniently left out. I'm just being open minded, and no, I am not black.
George Washington's Mount Vernon I disagree that it is certain Lafayette would have been aware of how Washington treated his slaves simply since he visited Washington's home. A host may curse, fart, and pick his nose when alone but refrain when in front of guests.
Hey joapps. Super interesting reply. I dont know why being black or not was relevant. To me, the bar for "sugarcoating" was whether or not the video tried to say Washington was somehow not as responsible for the daily horrors of living as a slave. The video did not say that. For a 5 minute video, I think we can say it was very frank. Since the length is short, we can assume a lot of things were left out. That doesnt mean it was sugarcoating anything. As for Lafayette, I dont understand your comment, if I'm being honest.
In terms of profitability to treat a slave harshly or not provide for his needs is a stupid business move. You let your slave get sick, whip him into unconsciousness doesn’t keep your costs down. If you lose a slave because you aren’t very smart you will have to buy another. So Washington being smarter and of a better character than most probably treated his slaves better.
I wish I learned this in school. Giving a different perspective on Washington is helpful for us Americans to realize that the Founding Fathers were not Gods to be worshiped but products of their time with deep flaws. Of course, this doesn’t excuse their actions, but it forces us to examine our values instead of just having blind nationalism.
These oligarchs didn't find anything. Revolution and servile insurrection is always wrong, regardless of the outcome. Its usually worst, for the average citizen. Taxes actually went up on the average citizen, after the war. Washington was never elected president. He was selected, by the other slave owning oligarchs.
@Todd Warmbrodt Not true. How do you figure? Today America has more people incarcerated, than any other country on earth. 71% of the wealth, since 1776 as been inherited. That wealth was made on the backs of slaves, slave labor.
@Todd Warmbrodt America is 47 th in the world in life expectancy. #1 in infant death, mortality rate. 1% control 88% of the wealth. Currently has over 1000 military bases in the World. China, Saudia Arabia, South Korea, Japan hold 90% of American debt. America currently spends 780 billion a year on military. Today 150 million people in this oligarchy have no health care. 500 thousand year file bankruptcy. Infrastructure is crumbling. Empires come and they go, for the same reasons.
@@rstuv8141 Man chose sin in Eden. God's holiness has never changed. However who he reveals that holiness too, and when he reveals that holiness does change. The wages of sin is death.
My 6 year old niece informed me that they were teaching her about Washington and on how "great" he was. Of course I felt the need to let her know who he was in his totality. My heart became heavy as I saw her reaction but at the same time proud that she expressed sadness and disappointment. She said "that's not right". Yes my sunshine no one should ever own another person. To be free is universal.
@@texashoosier7318 because it was completely different socially, culturally, even entertainment was different at that time. You think people back in those days had any rights to start with? Until America came along and give us ideas on stoic freedom, we've always yearned for freedom but America itself is the IDEA of freedom where people of all race and Creed come together and try to firm common ideas and find a middle ground so we can all try to have satisfaction through the whims of legislation.
Marjorie Tillman I cant speak for the education of the past but I think modern education, while I don’t always agree with their presentation of bipartisanship, I think they give a pretty wholistic view of history especially of black Americans
@@unhhgcrxexhjvuvujchcrzwzwz7956 I have to disagree with you. Where in American history is black history talked about or really studied? Do we know which countries majority of Africans can from? What prominent African figures were active during slavery? What was black life like after the reconstruction? I know most will say we study black people in history but, it is not the same as European history.
cottonballus well ya to be perfectly honest the continent of Africa has very little influence on our society besides introducing us to their form of slavery. I’m not see if that what your referring to or you mean African Americans. And if you mean African Americans Federico Douglas and Harriet Tubman are insanely influential black Americans who get talked about constantly.
@@unhhgcrxexhjvuvujchcrzwzwz7956 you are right. The african continent doesn't have anything to do with our country. Neither does the European/English country. Yet we are taught in schools about the English people and their ways of life and politics. Not to dismiss European people but, black history did not start with slavery. I understand that Africa does not mean nothing to some but, others would like to know the who, why and what really happened to lead to the actions of the traders and accomplices. I believe that to highlight only certain African American figures are highlighted to try and pacify those who do not want to really look at American history. That is a problem and that is why people are now tearing down statues. Teaching onesided, incomplete and faulty history will ensure we will repeat the histroy we are seeking to know.
Truth Finder ur right it’s not like Europeans just showed up and were like “look at these idiots let’s enslave them”, they saw Africans with other Africans enslaved and bought them form them. But honestly who cares, throwing around blame is just we stupid as anything else
The concept of owning humans is repugnant. It still goes on in lots of the world, including parts of Africa Glad the USA eradicated it within our borders.
The DHS is working to stop human trafficking around the world every day. In fiscal year 2019, HSI initiated 1,024 investigations with a nexus to human trafficking and recorded 2,197 arrests, 1,113 indictments, and 691 convictions; 428 victims were identified and assisted. HSI continues to make human trafficking cases a top investigative priority by connecting victims to resources to help restore their lives and bringing traffickers to justice.
This was an honest answer to this child’s question. I was happy to see that and not making it sound like anything but what it was. Cruelty at an extreme level, to another human being.
Chattel slavery, where you are property, and your children and their children will also be property, doesn't exist anymore. People still get exploited in lots of bad ways, but it ain't the same.
Code Name there are also degrees of cruelty. Washington was not the worst, but as a practical businessman, he enforced the rules to maintain order and control.
Steve Bingham and your point is...? Do you think this absolves blame somehow? Many poor people in Pakistan and India sell their young child into slavery today. The child is chained to a rug loom for years as he/she weaves rugs. So that is ok because his parents sold him. It matters not a whit that the initial sale was in Africa. The sin cloaks all involved up and down the line.
Steve Bingham yes blacks sold blacks, but they stayed in or near their country. Same customs same language, culture and the possibility of going home. None of it was good but the slave ships transporting people across the ocean was devastating. They were marked by skin color. It was the most evil.
Eric Smith You have the right to your own opinion but do you see how bad your comments sounds. Just think abt it for a second. Hope you and everybody that reads this has a blessed day
Eric Smith I didn’t expect you to respond so quickly😅 As a black person myself 1.) I don’t necessarily believe a major part of the black community try to politicize things like this but only a handful. 2.) Of course all your gonna see on a daily basis is black people not taking responsibility, because of the media. The media likes to only talk about that one handful and not the millions of other black people doing amazing things. There actively putting all the bad things that the small handful are doing and leading people to say things like “Ooo this is what black people are all about” Sorry for the little side rant, but I thank you for sharing this comment so we both can get two perspectives on these issues😄
Eric Smith Glad we could find A common ground. I do agree that they want to turn us on each other and just “mop it up”😂 Greetings from Texas and I’m just curious but how old are you? I’m 14. Just tryna test out my political knowledge cause it’s a good thing to have. God bless
The truth must be told ! Thank you so much for telling us all those facts we can not forget what happened in order to learn from the mistakes society did in the past! Let’s turn together and try hard to build a better world fo is all ❤️
@@alcostello6114 Apart from the fact that there were Black soldiers in the Civil War, after slavery came sharecropping, then segregation/Jim Crow, then ghettoization through redlining/gerrymandering, the prison industrial complex, and now gentrification. That, and there's still slavery in the United States and the world, and it disproportionally impacts people of color. There's still a lot of work to do.
You have to remember...slavery was part of life then. Every nation pretty much used forms of slavery. It wasn't til later that nations started ending slavery.
I absolutely love the way this woman answered this question. Plus, I love what she said at the end. "When human beings aren’t being treated as people details like the clothing they wore, the food they ate, and their housing become secondary." So very true.......
The black community will be better off if they vote for Donald Trump.BLM is oppressing the black community to bring in democrat leaders who don't give a fan about black community. Democrats = slavery Democrats = like Check it out for yourself.
I appreciate Ms. MacLeod's assessment and her ability to speak to Washington's treatment of his slaves while also talking about the institution as a separate, though related, issue
Very well done and honest. The staff and historians of Mt Vernon should be commended for not diminishing the story or falsely trying to paint GW in a better light than what socially was the norm.
Slavery is and has been a societal issue since the beginning of time and there are many forms of it still today. Let's try to address the problems of the present by learning from the past.
J Gowen the number is closer to 40 million technically, it‘s still very prominent in the Middle East and Africa, let alone the forced labour camps of Asia, and sex slavery is huge everywhere unfortunately.
@@toxicturtle9077 Yes, the dog is dead, but long lives it's chain. The legacy of slavery in the Americas lives on in how certain people are treated today. But I agree with the fact that all forms of slavery are wrong, but they cannot be addressed in the same way. Too many complexities.
@Stephen RunsHisMouth wow saying that someone's been "lied to" because they believe in something different? Totally not disrespectful and self-righteous. It's fine to believe in whatever, just don't disrespect others' beliefs. Be a descent person, I think God would want that too.
Stephen RunsHisMouth which Bible? There’s so many versions. Plus God is everything... man, woman, water, fire, air etc... I wouldn’t discredit The Almighty with a specific gender.
Thank you for making an honest video about this. I’ve often heard people, being from the Deep South, say, “Oh, well, such and such slave owner, was good to their slaves, and treated them fairly.” By whose perspective did they treat them well, these people were still considered property. Slavery is a disgusting part of our history as a nation, the only way we will ever be able to move forward, and heal, is to acknowledge that there is a whole group of people who lived a very different version of history, and it was not the wonderful version of freedom we like to tout in our history text books.
I don't know if they didn't sugarcoat. But I appreciate the answer was fairer than a simple "he treated them well, or he was kind to them" which would be ridiculous. A slavemaster that demands exactly all slaves back was probably into some gruesome activities, we also know he was into the occult being a high ranking freemason and a slave at Mount Vernon described him worse than his neighbour slavemasters and since the worst of them was probably horrible, I can't even imagine what George Washington did. Let's just be honest here, the man was mostly just for show and people idolized him because they needed someone to glorify.
M Mince I wish people throughout most of history had put themselves into slave’s shoes to help them understand how they felt so that they would be treated fairly instead of being bullied around by their owners, but no, slave owners didn’t give a damn about their feelings because they were not seen as human!
Slavery was objectively bad in ancient Rome and objectively bad later on, but I suppose that even the treatment of property varies from owner to owner. Makes me wonder why Washington even treated black people as slave property and didn't instead treat them as a family that were 100% human beings, as from what I understood, he wasn't as cruel as other slave masters were and apparently regretted having owned slaves later in his lifetime.
I am 73 years old and I went to school I never had a sugar coated history class or a teacher who changed our history to try to fool us. I knew slavery was wrong and so did the other kids.but you nit wits want to act like you discovered the real story because you want to take up racial divisions again and to you I say shame shame shame.
@@namelia4439 I think his point is : at the time it seemed perfectly reasonable . Like today crapping outside is a jailable offense ...back then it was commonplace . One hundred years from now our descendants will think we were barbarians too. For any number of reasons ( high crime , police brutality , animal eating , etc)
@Suzanne "You can argue the point with God when it is your turn to explain why" and you'll never get to explain your slavery apologetics to god because you're going straight to hell.
I first visited Mt. Vernon in about 1954 at age 13. I was shocked at the slave quarters right behind the mansion that were tiny structures looking like rabbit hutches. It was a horrifying sight, and in full view from the parlor windows of the mansion. I visited Mt. Vernon again in the 1990's, and those hutches were gone! The only thing to indicate that there had been slaves was a supposed common burial plot out of sight from the house, with an inadequate common description. I've never been able to get the stark image of those hutches out of my memory.
Or maybe or voice is usually shaky in front of a camera.... yeah they were treated like slaves, and she doesn’t want to go into horrific details to answer a 12 year olds question
Yes, living in slavery as property owned by someone else is living in fear due to not having any power or choices concerning your own life, or in the lives of those who depend upon you, namely children. Not being able to protect your children adequately would be a nightmare to any parent. All throughout history, slavery has been more than just poor treatment or fear of beatings or whippings, or even lack of good living conditions. It is the lack of personal power in your own life to be able to change things for better.
A key issue not addressed here is how Washington's viewpoint on slavery changed over his lifetime and how this may have influenced how his treatment of those he owned changed over time. Wahington's view on slavery prior to the war had been unremarkable and indistinguishable from that of any other large slaveholder; he sought to exploit the institution in pursuit of profit. But the war and the rhetoric of liberty and freedom that were used to justify the war posed a contradiction that a person as conscientious as Washington could not ignor. He felt increasingly trapped by the system of slavery and increasingly responsible for the well being of those enslaved people that lived on the farms of Mount Vernon. He stopped buying and selling slaves for profit and established a policy of keeping families together. He gave up trying to make the operation of his farms overcome the poor soils of Northern Virginia and operate as a profitable venture. Instead he operated them to provide food for Mount Vernon's population including his extended family, the families of his employees and of the enslaved persons in his care. Freeing Mount Vernon's slaves was limited by changing laws, by the difficulties of former slaves attempting to live as free persons and by his own inability to operate Mount Vernon without them. Nevertheless he provided for his slaves in his will by freeing those legally owned by him upon Martha's death. This is something that apparently no other among America's "founding fathers" was to do.
Much of those other aspects are talked about in other videos. This one was about the treatment of the enslaved, not necessarily about Washington's perspectives.
David, you mentioned something that relatively few people realize today: in many cases slaves could not just be "freed". Since slaves were viewed first and foremost as property, the owners were responsible for them, much the same way today you cannot just leave your car on the sidewalk when it doesn't work anymore. And since slaves could be inherited, or belong to a family and not an individual, the process of freeing those enslaved people was quite tricky.
In many cases, slaves could not be freed until the death of the owner. You have to understand that slaves had no legal status as citizens. At the time, states had far more say than they do now, and southern states refused to grant slaves any rights. Slave owners, in particular those who inherited slaves (as many did) were hamstrung by slavery laws. Even the most sympathetic had an extremely difficult time freeing slaves because of the laws in place that protected the institution. In most cases, the owner had to die and stipulate in his will that any slaves be freed, and even then it was tricky if those slaves were inherited, because then they were regarded as family "property" and passed on to the closest living relative. There are also cases of people inheriting slaves they did not even want, yet they were forced to take. Once again, this was all done to ensure that slavery didn't disappear. Even those who wanted to buy freedom for their slaves were in a difficult position because the cost was extremely high and during the 18th and early 19th century even the wealthiest Americans were "cash poor", meaning few people had large sums of currency. Most of the wealth during that time period was counted in the amount of land owned, not how much actual cash was on hand. As with many other aspects of the past, this part of history is far, far more complex than we are led to believe today.
David J Gill It does not matter that later in his life after he profited and became rich that he took a softer approach to the exploitation of those people was not as not as extreme does not undo his previous deeds. As he got older and knew that he would answer for his sins I’m sure that weighed on his conscious.
“If there be an object truly ridiculous in nature it is an American patriot signing resolutions of independency with the one hand and with the other brandishing a whip over his affrighted slaves.’’ - Thomas Day
Yeah what kind of idiots signs a constitution that says "All men are created equal" in it then still has slaves. American Schools today still brainwashes kids into thinking George bush and Christopher Columbus were great and amazing when in reality they were just cold hearted evil fucks.
Magneta Cyan it’s kinda simple. They didn’t think slaves were full human. More like between animals and humans. 3/5th clause and all. If you knew that, you’d understand why they signed a document saying “all men are created equal”.
@@alcostello6114 That had to do with representation in Congress. The south wanted the slaves to count 100% like whites. The north didn't want them to count thus they reached a compromise. The 3/5th compromise. Hope this helps.
@@chasencage4092 you don’t understand what I’m saying. The fact they considered a slave 3/5 of a person dictates pretty clearly they didn’t see them as fully human.
So was yo mama 😎💣💥🔥 I just OWNED you.. Plas how many years has it been till today since Washington BEEN DEAD. Good thing I'm white I would probably be a son to Washington and the blacks just get work. I thought middle school was long and hard. 😐
@@maureencora1 not hating anything. Why do some people in comments is some videos always think I'm hateful or have anger like this is star wars or something? The dark side
@GazB85 wow it's been a long time since I got comments on this video 😐 now you write back now? And man do you people take things too seriously and sensitive in the 21 century. 😒 what happened to the world??
A lot of bashing with how she answered in the comments. She's responding to a child y'all. She gave an educated informed response to a child. She didn't lie. We all know it was evil, the thing is though in that time period it was infact the norm. So for that time period compared to other slaves he may have infact treated them "fair".
It's a question the student wanted to know and the students of the class worked directly with the teacher, not Mount Vernon to determine what they were going to ask. We were simply happy to be able to respond to her excellent question.
Thank you for being honest because when I saw a white woman talking about this topic I almost tuned out but I’m happy I listen thank you for not sugarcoating it thank you for not trying to downplay black suffering
It is central to our mission not only to restore Washington’s home to the highest standards of preservation, but also to educate people about Washington’s life, legacy, and his home Mount Vernon. Integral to the Mount Vernon narrative is the story of the enslaved population that lived, worked and died here. While we would not presume to engage the complex institution of slavery as an all-encompassing topic, we do want to take the opportunity to discuss those enslaved individuals resident at Mount Vernon during George Washington’s lifetime and also General Washington’s changing views regarding slavery over the course of his lifetime. Because there will always be more to share than time to share it, we continue to add to our website an ever-growing repository of information and resources about the enslaved individuals of Mount Vernon, www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/slavery/
Xiomara He means that the original commenter came off racist by saying that she almost turned the video off when she saw that a white woman was the one talking about the subject
Wrong. They won’t whip people today because someone will use their 2nd amendment. Go out to their car and come back and do mass murder with an AR-15. That’s right people already do that.
I hear the argument that he was a product of his time and era. I've read the constitution, it is very eloquent and well thought out document. The authors of that document surely knew that owning another human being was immoral.
Since you seem to lack history knowledge let me just say at the time they weren't seen nor acknowledged as a person...probably thought it was closer to an animal than a person at the time...it was later in the mid 1800 when they acknowledged them as one third of a person...so technically at the time by the constitution it didn't applied to them
Sungmin Kwon at the very same time that some people didn’t even recognize slaves as people, a few of their own peers spoke out against their actions. their actions being enslaving human beings. so your comment and that bullshit history you claim is truth, is full of shit.
It's not so much a case that many persons of that era, familiar the Constitutional decrees of equality beneath Law, little understood it's benign inference freedom of equality all persons within jurisdiction of Constitutional Rule effected thru these Laws encased Justice for all. That the people of the day up north, even south thought of slaves as animals. Alone an insurgency in sectors, as today... power's corner acclaimed so, thought in vast minority of registry the plantation elite who to keep possession named such due a convenience sake own interest. However these master's paid toll of unjust practise were swiftly forthcoming. Rather a case more or less conditioned rationales prevailed upon a throwback on human development in a primitive sense, instate humanity's beginnings within a crude application of survival tactics. Misconstrueing the ancient rites upon the African Continent, now known the cradle of humanity, were rituals intact from our earliest beginnings. Traditions of warfare among denezins, dominance long in operation of suppression of species since humanity's start. Civil regions had cast off these excessive restraints in time called bondage, forced servitude, spoils of warfare. However regrettably uncivil, brutish mercenary endeavors cast avarice again. Stone cold, their were those who stood to profit, greed the impetus opportunity, procured licence to offend civility here in this new land of Just Laws. Take advantage of an old, actually ancient way of thinking 'might makes right' or force thru naturalistic means oppression can rule rather than Sovereignty of Universal Law. Materialistic-minded who offended newly formed statutes of beneficense under Constitutional Law. Universal Law established an equality overall. A nation We, the People challenged supremacy between these two titan contenders, a nation vested Universal Law or force..cohesion, conscription contesting what was termed the divine right of kings vs. the common person. Still ongoing today this contest of subservience to would-be masters the free peoples this nation subjugated. Far as Washington goes, not young then he had fought the good fight the birth of this nation an indenture of freed Destiny, taking it's dire effect upon himself. Battle worn this was not yo be his fight, it would fall to another ably possessing the Founding Father's vision more truer seen vista equality enobling a nation perhaps further avowed than even themselves. Slavery was deeply entrenched a system of conquest for centuries. A long battle lay ahead to remove its deceptive coils wound the new nation. Washington having given his all, retired to the remainder his life, who's sacrifices set upon its course by his duties fulfilled. It would fall to others to preserve its flight of freedom, slavery being one test of a nation able to endure. This test of Freedom failed when enslaving another, as Lincoln argued latter amidst his foes the hypocrisy of the new nation just freed claiming domain over another race. Lincoln's keen insights, lawyer's savvy sharpened a sword severed designs imperialism the fate of America. He tore apart the fragmented series of sentiment's appeal, opinions this, as that..instead relying heavily on Principle. Enduring truths steadfast in time. Armed eloquence of speech which rsised consciousness, adamantly a determination born of honest revelation exposed awry state founders leading up to installments slavery, since accepted on such ignoble grounds found inhumane, revealing all the sophistications of his day. Calling out wrong-headedness justified expedient and rendered moot all the excuses for exploitations any the despotic kings used in the past to oppress themselves priorly. Only the most arrogant a**holes of such mind-squalor gave that crux an argument animalistic in own favor heresies the Constitution. Such hedonist intoxicated freedom, having thrust the shackles tyranny from own wrist clasp tightly onwards grab sadistic featured, sought power ill-used freedom fought for a revolutionary war and won., Freedom one-sided only to enslave another? Blasphemy a treachery befallen like a scurge upon the free peoples. Lincoln later upon leadership whom the decisive test fell a turbulent showing of dominant wills, many of whom opposed him did not want to bow beneath the Sovereignty of Just Law but ride above as their own past oppressors did. Pride-filled fools who little understood what the Constitution truly was. A Document of benevolence the down-trodden everywhere, release the religious persecuted in set the prisoners free. Arrogantly swollen of pride, all to soon task-masters cut down by the Civil War which destroyed, thru cruelty of war, the descendants of those propagates of subservience others would witness death and defeat of imperialism. Blood ran freely losing everything on a stake that oppression would go unrewarded it's own endangering freedom-sake overall a peculiar ancient misery. An ideology destructive then, as now when Justice comes balancing acts of oppression.
This brought me back to my years of slavement in my native land with my own people. We are called katolong which means helpers. But Katolongs are not helpers. They are something other than human. We are not included in the food budget. We ate left overs and scraps. We provided our own clothing. Each Katolong could only afford one which our mistress would provide as part of our pay. We slept on racks in the laundry room where it's wet and slippery. And we work endlessly, scrubbing the floor, ironing, cooking, washing dishes and since there were no modern conveniences like washing machines, clothes are washed by hands.
C Cemanes I’m so sorry to hear this. I think it’s so easy for people to assume that there aren’t people enslaved as in your experience. You are an inspiration for surviving, thank you for sharing your story.
@James Reilly First telling me to shut up about something will have the opposite effect for you! I'm not one of these people in the streets crying about slavery, nor am I someone who feels guilty about things my ancestor have done. I simply made a comment about how shitty slavery was and you try to lecture me about the history of the world and slavery and then tell me to shut up. I've done my family tree so I know where my ancestor stood in relation to slavery...Just because every civilization in history has done it, doesn't make it right...You sound pro slavery, not to mention wound a little tight!
I read the book Never Caught about a slave at Mount Vernon who escaped. Though that woman never got to write her story, her actions speak very clearly. The book was really good.
Historical, it's been explained; if the slave is well behaved they're treated well (fed, clothed not whipped/beaten) if they aren't well behaved they're punished for it. That's considered fair treatment. They weren't cruel just to be cruel, that's what's seen as fair to them.
Well in some instances people had to purchase their own spouses but legally since a black person wasn't allowed to free their own slaves (a right given only to white people) they would then be in a sense forced to own their own spouses indefinitely. I would imagine in those very rare cases slaves would be treated well.
@@Cynnas the problem with that statement is that not every slave owner followed those principles. A vast majority of slave holders would inflict many forms of violence from sexual violence to physical violence on the people they owned just because they wanted to or because they wanted to be feared. This is also documented in many plantations as well as documented in written first hand accounts of the slaves themselves.
I can’t see how anyone with a good heart or self respect could own a slave.That was a very disgusting part of history.To treat human beings worse than animals.
Slavery had existed for thousands of years. Africans had their own slaves and sold them to Arabs who used and sold them to Romans etc and on and on. Looking at the US while harsh treatment was certainly occurring not all slaves were treated “worse than animals”. Some slaves were taught to read and write others even got a little bit of money etc it’s a common misconception that every slave owner was a blood thirsty maniac
Ken Haddad Thats true one of the first men to ever own slaves was a former african indentured servant a BLACK slave owner very ironic and there were a few others too
Bush did 9/11 All false! Sorry but history was written by white supremacists. I don’t believe A WORD they say especially when it comes to the demonization of black people. They will always say anything they can to help support their narrative. They still practice these sneaky tactics to this day, just look how they try to demonize police brutality victims FOH ALL LIES SMFH
Seems like George Washington couldn't just free his slaves by law. Here's what I found. "Of the 317 slaves at Mount Vernon in 1799, 123 individuals were owned by George Washington and were stipulated in Washington's will to be freed upon his wife's death." "Neither George nor Martha Washington could free these dower slaves by law. Upon her death the slaves would revert to the Custis estate and be divided among her grandchildren." Under the Barton law of 1806, freed slaves w/o papers from their former masters, would be recaptured by the state of VA & placed back into slavery. Many of those state agents would rip up the papers freed slaves had & sell them back into slavery anyway. That's the old Dixie Democrat party for you. No wonder the U.S. Civil War was unavoidable.
This is why Ona Judge (enslaved, owned by Martha) escaped. She was never caught. Just finished reading the book, Never Caught, about Ona Judge. Fascinating story.
Its funny how these slave owners always seem to request that ' upon my death I request freedom of my slaves. I guess where you are going slaves aren't needed.
@@bigh9884 They usually did that, thinking the enslaved person would be too old to be of value for a sale. Some enslaved were not even freed then. Many times they were passed down as part of an inheritance.
Actually to creditors. These plantation owners were in debt up to their neck, as the old saying goes. Slaves, as personal property, had to be sold to pay off any debt, including any mortgage on Real Property. Once the debts were paid, then any remaining property went to the heirs. Given the rule that personal property had to be sold to pay off any mortgage, the only thing left was the real estate. The heirs would then remortgage the real estate and buy most of the personal property back, that included most of the slaves. Thus freeing slaves in a well was much like a begger writing a well giving his spouse a million dollars. I.e. there was no money to give and thus a meaningless clause in a will.
I think there was a ton of sugarcoating. It was almost entirely from GW’s perspective, and offered ideas like “well of course it was logical to punish them after they did something bad, or feed and clothe them as cheaply as possible” which is a disgusting way to justify slavery being “of the times,” as though there weren’t abolitionists fighting against slavery; as though enslaved people didn’t know slavery was wrong and aren’t fully-formed human beings. Anything defending slavery as an action “of the times” is sugarcoating.
@@nataliep856 its not "justifying" the actions from a moral perspectice but rather explaining the way slaves were seen as tools by Washington and other slave owners.
Duker I’m not more worried about it; I’m just arguing about perspective. Nobody today is going around saying “any slavery happening in the world right now is fine!” But people act like slavery in the US was a sign of the times, or that the effects are no longer being felt, and neither is true. The effects of slavery can be found in redlining, in policing, and in mass incarceration. There’s a loophole in the 13th amendment allowing slavery in the case of a convicted person-I.e. in prisons. You should check out “13th” on Netflix it’s a great documentary. It deals with the way laws have been created explicitly to round up Black people-like “loitering” during reconstruction or the war on drugs in the 80s-to continue prison labor in this country. Our economic system would collapse without it. Black kids are more likely to be arrested for marijuana possession than white kids, even though white and Black people use drugs at almost the exact same rate. It’s not a coincidence. I’d highly recommend you check out that documentary it’s super smart, not too long, and challenged a lot of my beliefs about this country. :)
@@nataliep856 here is the problem, "it was in his best interest" should not be used at an excuse, but its built into American propaganda. Maximizing profits is supposed to be the natural state of the white race, leaving everyone else at their mercy.
What is “fair” about chattel slavery? In war you have a “fighting chance”.In slavery you’re fighting FOR a chance...to fight for a chance...just to be CONSIDERED a Human Being. But, don’t worry... WE are still HERE. And... “The game is (still ) afoot”.
I really appreciate your honesty with the question. Several years ago my family visited Mt. Vernon and went on a tour about slaves at Mt. Vernon. The tour guide sugar coated everything, even going so far as to say GW taught some slaves to read. When we asked where the evidence was for this she didn't have any. This was my experience with the tour in 2013 as I posted on a review about Mt. Vernon. However, I must say the most discouraging and disappointing part of our visit had to be the Slave Life tour. I should have known not to expect much when there were a total of 20 people on a tour (6 families) given only once a day and the guide indicated it was a big group. What was most upsetting about the tour was her attitude towards George Washington and slavery. These were the points that I as well as the others on tour took issue with: 1. George Washington did not agree with slavery but in order for him to become a successful planter and rise up within his world he had no choice but to have slaves. 2. George Washington didn’t get his money’s worth out of his slaves since he had to care for them after they were no longer able to work. When this was challenged that the average slave recouped the price it took the buy them within a year she insisted that it was still a losing proposition since the slaves were allowed to relax and enjoy their post slave days on the plantation. This comment in particular angered most in the group and as one of the other persons indicated she made it seem as if they had a 401K and that after working 15 hours a day from the age of 10 until retirement that they really had that many years left to “enjoy” their retirement”. 3. George Washington gave everyone a chance to work their way to the main house/big house since he used a merit system. This in turned allowed slaves to be promoted like any other job and if a slave worked hard enough then they could make it a skilled job or the main house. My problem with the whole tour was that she refused to admit that he was flawed like any other person, but kept insisting on his magnificence. Was George Washington a good man? Yes and no. He was a founding father, our 1st president, and fought for our country’s independence but he was also a slave owner who did not believe that all men (regardless of color) were created equal and the tour needed to reflect that.
Thank you for sharing your feedback, Sharon. Over the past four years we have sought to make the lives and contributions of the enslaved individuals more prominent in our Mansion interpretation and Specialty Tours. We also seasonally provide the opportunity for visitors to participate in a wreath laying ceremony at the Slave Memorial: www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/slavery/the-slave-memorial-at-mount-vernon/ Because there will always be more to share than time to share it, we continue to add to our website an ever-growing repository of information and resources about the enslaved individuals of Mount Vernon: www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/slavery/ We also have an exhibition in our museum entitled 'Lives Bound Together: Slavery at George Washington’s Mount Vernon.' Through this exhibit, we aim to share the lives and biographical experiences of those who lived and worked at Mount Vernon in bondage in the 18th and 19th centuries: www.mountvernon.org/plan-your-visit/calendar/exhibitions/lives-bound-together-slavery-at-george-washingtons-mount-vernon/
@BilboKoira And Hitler created the Autobahn and Volkswagen so let's try to remember that instead of bringing up the Holocaust, right? I guess it's easy for some people to overlook the sins and flaws of their heroes. I guess there will always be people who can shrug their shoulders and think historical horrors aren't that bad if their ancestors were not impacted. And I guess there is nothing that can really be done to get everyone or at least most people on the same page. Child abuse is horrific but unless you personally experienced it, it's not going to hit (pardon the pun) the same way it does for someone who was abused. Sure, you can feel bad but at the end of the day, it's really not your problem and you really don't care.
@@markjohnson6194 Geeze Mark, did a strangers RUclips comment really make you that upset? You had 2 ways you could have responded and still communicated your idea... You could do it kindly or arrogantly. I think the smarter way to do it would be kindly, but thats just my opinion. Personally I don't think taking pride in your own perceived intelligence to be a good thing; no matter how smart you think you are, there will always be people smarter
@@myrnawashington9057 I take the view that whenever we do business with multinational corporations or big banks we are taking part in slavery, because with the smallest amount of research you can always find ties to slave labor in the supply chain... I really try to support small businesses and I do bank with a credit union, but its really unavoidable to not take any part at all. Unfortunately slavery and war have always been the two most profitable industries in the world and I think it would be foolish to assume it is a thing of the past.
SO WE CAN SAY , HE TREATED HIS SLAVES HORRIBLY. HE CONDONED ABUSE, SEPARATED FAMILIES , AND MADE BLACK PEOPLE WORK FOR HIM FOR NO WAGES. THAT'S A CONCENTRATION CAMP!!! HOW HORRIBLE!!! HOW IS THIS A HERO??!!!
@@AbigailAbi-Yah A slave is a slave lady! Get over it. The question can't be any more ridiculous. How did George Washington treat his slaves? Obviously he treated them like a slave. Whooping, beating, lashing, thrashing etc. You expect him to have dined alongside his slave? What if I say he made the slave the best man at his wedding? You happy now? 😁History is history. There is good and bad. Going back and rewriting is not possible. George Washington is one of the founding fathers of the nation. He is an absolutely legend in all aspects, and any action from his part which is considered today as a trespass or transgression, is very much excusable!
No matter how "well treated" , it's always demeaning to be considered someone else's property. Slave masters had life and death control of the people they held in bondage. This horrible fact is always dismissed by those who claim poor Southern whites had it worse or almost as bad. White people weren't auctioned off like livestock, beaten, abused or had families seperated on a whim.
So nobody was pimpin they’re women??? Pahleeze women and children have bought sold and traded all around the world forever and now that we have the most equality you want to dig up the dark part of our past and cause trouble today? Why not get along now in the ways of our lord and savior Jesus has said and make America great again or better yet make the world great!
@@jona3180 Well I'm more than pretty sure you're wrong about that. In fact I know you're wrong. You're not the first to use this Irish slave myth to defend white folks. There were both white and African indentured servants, but absolutely no white slaves. America introduced African slavery gradually, at first Blacks were servants only.
This may well all be true -- but keep some things in mind: 1) When the Declaration was signed and ratified, one of Jefferson's complaints about slavery and the Atlantic Slave Trade were removed. This paragraph basically mocked George III, who Jefferson claimed was "Christian," yet continued slavery and the Slave Trade -- something he saw as immoral and evil. The Founders truly wanted to abolish slavery -- but the issue was, 2 of the original 13 colonies did not: Georgia and South Carolina. This meant that had Jefferson's paragraph remained in the Declaration, the idea was twofold: 1) The King would have been over-excited, and ordered officers of the British Regulars to commit greater atrocities than they did, and 2) That slavery would have been outlawed, had the Colonies won the war. Georgia and South Carolina did not agree to this -- and because they did not, that paragraph about slavery and the Atlantic Slave Trade had to be removed, else the Declaration not be unanimous. 2) After his death, Washington freed the slaves he owned -- save for those of his widow. Jefferson could not free his slaves, because he died poor and destitute -- quite the difference from today, when a former president gets Secret Service protection for the rest of their lives, as well as a government stipend, after they leave office.
Good input Isaiah. Jefferson Died July 4th 1826 (as did John Adams) in bed at his beloved home of Monticello. He was not wealthy but in some debt though hard to say poor looking at a balance sheet with property values included. Cash flow was a different matter; not good. Jefferson did attempt to include the ending of Slavery in our founding documents. He did provide for the freeing of a number of his slaves opon his death. but due to a number of things he was not in a position to free them all. The Jefferson's extended family involved a number of plantations and there were financial obligations and entanglements to complicate matters. To understand Jefferson and his thoughts about slavery one must look to his record as a member of the house of Burgess, the colonial government of Virginia colony. He was likely the most highly respected intellectual his time. His scholership was broad boundless and well recognized. While there he introduced legislation on three occasions that would have curtailed or eliminated the practice of slavery in Virginia. All three times he spent his political capital in the effor but each time was defeated by his fellow house members. Subsequent to these defeats he later wrote That he was sure slavery would end but was resigned to the fact the it would not be in his generation. He passed 39 years before the emancipation.
..Good input Scott...P.S...I thought since we were giving out historical memorial wreaths of honor to the founding fathers. I thought I'd add a complimentary quote of the late Thomas Jeffersons last words on his death bed..."He said..."Indeed"! "I Tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just and that His JUSTICE cannot not SLEEP forever. Considering that numbers,nature,and natural means[ Law of reciprocity?] Only,a Revolution of the "Wheel of Fortune"an exchange of situation[slaves becoming Masters & Masters becoming slaves] is among POSSIBLE events,that the exact SITUATION may BECOME probable by SUPERNATURAL interference...Thomas Jefferson....And May the solemn Last WORDS of the President of the United States of America become PROPHECY fulfilled in these Last Days...[Jeremiah] [30:16] "KJV"...Thats all...Amein!🤓...Shalom
@@sethmeyer2443: And you're ignorant of history. Jefferson _despised_ slavery. If he didn't, why would he have: 1) Called out the hypocrisy of the King in the original draft of the Constitution? 2) Supported ending the importation of slaves by 1808? (Hint: This one is in the Constitution.) 3) Put forward not one, but _three,_ different proposals in the Virginia House of Burgesses, _which would have outlawed slavery in the Commonwealth of Virginia?_ Because anyone claiming "Jefferson was a monster" is outright wrong -- and is cherry-picking facts to suit an agenda and/or a narrative.
@charlie J ...Bravo!...That was simply brilliant! Sir,You displayed a certain eloquency coupled with insightful and historical relevancy that gave birth to Light!...That's all!...Shalom
I have known that many of the founding fathers owned slaves since I was a kid but it was certainly not taught in grade school , middle school or high school where I lived . This information has always been available during my lifetime . Also know that my grandmothers great , great grandfather had a plantation and owned slaves . Certainly thats unthinkable to us today but it is history and we have to live with it and do our best to make it right .
Its called Propaganda!!! People have been enslaved since the beginning of time. It was AFRICAN people who sold other AFRICAN People and there have been slaves of every COLOR CREED AND RELIGION!!! THIS IS NOT A WHITE AMERICAN OR SOUTHERN ISSUE ITS INHUMANITY OF MEN TOWARDS MAN!!!!
@@bigpappa642 in America and Europe it was a white people issue. Doesn't much matter who else was doing what. If some dude down the street beats his wife. Does that make it ok for you to beat your wife? No. Does it make it ok for you to beat _his_ wife? Also no.
@@buckleup7886 Columbus was describing North American INDIANS he had NEVER seen before and the only thing that he could compare them to was what he already knew and that was of AFRICAN people's!! The first document of SLAVERY in the American Colony's where that of IRISH WOMEN and CHILDREN not AFRICAN nor American INDIANS. If you dig deep into HISTORY and find actual Historical facts and not Political Propaganda that has been passed down threw time you can learn alot!!!
@@buckleup7886 so you are part American Indian? You first say that Columbus documented dark skinned people who he only had knowledge of AFRICAN people's being of dark skin those documents from the first trip to the new world are still around but not documented cases of the first slave's brought to the new world? How does that even make sense or is it a huge conspiracy? Even King Gorge tried to stop the slave trade to the colonies and was told by Chief's of AFRICAN tribes that they would sell there captives from other tribes or kill them.. So the East Indian Trading company saw a opportunity for income and started the slave trade. But the INTER POINT IS THAT SENSE THE BEGINNING OF TIME THERE HAS BEEN SLAVERY OF EVERY RACE CREED CULTURE AND RELIGION ITS NOT EXCLUSIVELY AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY AGAINST BLACK PEOPLE. AND I SAY BLACK PEOPLE BECAUSE UNLESS YOU WHERE BORN IN AFRICA YOU ARE AN AMERICAN NOT AN AFRICAN AMERICAN. WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT TO CLAIM ALLEGIANCE TO A COUNTRY THAT SOLD THERE ANCESTORS AND TO THIS DAY HATES BLACK AMERICANS!! ITS THE ELITE CLASS OF ELECTED OFFICIALS AND THE NON ELECTED ELITE ESTABLISHMENT WHO ARE KEEPING THE RACISM ALIVE TO KEEP AMERICANS DIVIDED SO THAT THEY CAN CONTINUE TO CONTROL EVERYONE ON THE PLANTATION OF AMERICA AS THE TAX CATTLE!! WE AS A AMERICAN NATION NEED TO WAKEUP TO THE POLITICAL GAMES OF RACE BAITING AND TAKE BACK CONTROL OF OUR OWN COUNTRY AND OUR OWN LIVES WITH THE FREEDOM WE ARE ALL TO HAVE. THE RIGHTS GIVEN TO US BY GOD NOT GOVERNMENT THE RIGHT THAT WE ARE ALL CREATED EQUAL AND HAVE THE RIGHT TO PURSUE LIFE LIBERTY AND HAPPINESS AS WE SEE FIT AS ONE NATION UNDER GOD!!!
How awfully sad that people of color were treated this way. What an ugly time in history. My goodness. Thank you for answering this question, giving an explanation with such grace and compassion.❤️
You need to read up on world history, it will shock you. Also you benefit from modern day slavery. These people are beaten, shackled, raped and killed all for the many products you enjoy including the computer/smartphone you used to type your comment. Yet there is no outrage from society at large. People in present times like to think we are morally superior.. We are not. There were also prosperous black slave owners and Native Americans had slaves. Those two groups of people supported and fought for the south in the civil war.
Even if he treated them like kings and queens he treated them horrendously by virtue of the fact that they were enslaved!!! The whole system was rotten to the core so nothing that came from it was good, just or right!!!
Washington freed his slaves when he died. And he also actively sought to bring the end of slavery through legislation but alas that wasn’t possible because of the times.
Only 1 way to being saved from Just Judgement, here is a small hint, it’s not by trying to do “good” works. By works of the Law no one will be justified
Mr P , what does my comment have to do with knowing the Bible? What are you even talking about? I made a true indisputable comment. Only God knows whether or not if George Washington’s slaves were treated fairly or not and I’m sure he judged him fairly. Period, end of story. God is the judge not us.
Washington was a man of his time. He had grown up thinking slavery was normal and natural, just as Africans of the time, who also practiced slavery, probably also did. How many things in our culture that we take for granted will likewise seem shockingly wrong to people 200 years from now?
You are closed minded. You reminds me of a another culture thinking, if it's not affecting my race or culture, then it's okay. If a certain group in the same race views slavery as wrong and another group views it as okay, then it's wrong. The problem with you and people like you is that you stay in your comfort zone and never stand up for anything or anyone. Slavery is wrong no matter who or what race is the slave owner.
@@coconutjuice7777777 CoconutJuice - could be. In 200 years' time perhaps self-righteous Animal Lives Matter protestors will be vandalizing monuments to World War II heroes and Civil Rights Campaigners who once ate a lamb chop.
We can, and should, look back at our forebears and Thank God that we finally stopped doing some of the things they did. But if we intend to erase our history depending on our evolved societal values, where do we stop. Do we erase the Founding Fathers for killing and eating animals, for denying women the vote? MUCH of what was taken for granted in those days now makes us cringe. That does not mean we can rewrite - or erase it. Nor can we resurrect and judge them for behaving in a way that was considered acceptable in their era.
It is not a matter of erasing history or the Founding Father's, but it is a matter of accurately describing the actions and attitudes of the people of that time. The social acceptability of the times does not excuse the hypocricy of the individuals who agreed on the one hand that "all men are created equal and are endowed by there creator with certain inalienable rights. That among these are the right to life liberty and the persuit of happiness". Yet did not recognize enslaved black people or Native Americans as individuals that were equal to them in the eyes of their creator. That is the height of hypocrisy
orsocarmel what they did was create living document that will create a land of free people no matter race. What you have to understand is the time. You couldn’t immediately go into war with slave owners after the British where defeated. It would have been a disaster. The English could have just invaded again and we would have been colonized. What happened was the inevitable. Hundreds of thousands of Americans dying to uphold the constitution which says all men are created equal and Abolish slavery on US soil. No other country in the history of has ever done this.
@@orsocarmel so we also need to look at the period of history and general attitudes. Slavery was considered acceptable in the US and the entire world until Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves. The Egyptians enslaved the Hebrews. All of tha ancient civilizations kept and sold slaves. In the 1600s the Barberry pirates (who were black Africans) kidnapped and enslaved all races - particularly white Europeans. There were white Irish slaves in the colonies in the 1600s. The first documented person to own slaves in the colony was actually a black man. Most of the slaves that ended up in the US were sold by black tribes. Less than 10% of the population owned slaves and many slave owners were black or Native American. Slavery is still a terrible problem. Libya and Saudi Arabia have horrendous slave trade and they are hardly the only countries that are active. Hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of children and women are trafficked across vulnerable areas of our borders. The Open Borders folks either don't realize how bad the problem is or they don't care or they are profiting from modern day slavery. As a matter of fact, that NXIUM sex cult was keeping smuggled South American and Mexican sex slaves in their closets. Multiple Presidents and their families participated in the trafficking. Don't forget, it wasn't that long ago that women were considered property as well. But I don't dwell on that fact. Instead I am extremely grateful that I can vote, and work, and own property.
@@LoveLightLiberty6868 Truth, I really don't know why some can't get by this. It was a completely different era. They used to bleed people when they got sick, they burned women at the stake for being witches, none of those things exist now. Owning slaves during that period was just commonplace, and some blacks owned slaves as well, but no one does that now. Why hold on to hate for something that happened before even any of our grandparents were born? I just watched something very interesting right here on RUclips entitled Blacks in power don't empower blacks. Everyone regardless of race should watch it. It tells of the history of blacks in political positions and how it affected the black middle class. I think many would be shocked.
Today, most historians speak of “enslaved people” instead of “slaves.” This language separates a person's identity from his/her circumstance. Anything less than a resound "badly" would be an oxymoron. Paradoxical - is the title a trick question?
I noticed how she referred to "enslaved people"...I think it is a humanizing term because it reminds the listener that these were people in terrible circumstances, usually for their entire lives, but they were people with the same desires, wishes, and needs as any other person...
Enslaved is the active term for being who a slave. The only real alternative would be to say "the slaves" which is not only poor grammar, but sounds less humanizing than an enslaved person. She does not step away from how horrible slavery is, not once.
@@clubsnatcher I though that this was grammatically an example of the passive voice which uses the verb "to be" with the past participle. The agent which is introduced by the word "by" are Europeans; the subjects of that enslavement are another people - Africans (mostly from west of the continent).
A similar case is how people attempting to heal division and defeat prejudiced will refer to ethnicity rather than to race. The idea of people with dark skin being a specific race was disproved by a study attempting to genetically justify “racism.” There is only the human race, but the lie is still perpetuated by people trying to stir up hate and manipulate people.
the words she said didn't say that, but it was certainly the tone. Remember, she is trying to explain this to a teenage black girl. its an awkward discussion cause she has to explain why her racial ancestors enslaved and conquered her racial ancestors
Hard to imagine the frustration of a life of working hard all the time but always receiving “just enough but not any extra”. Part of freedom is to receive just compensation for labor.
"Slavery was a system in which enslaved people lived in fear, fear of being sold, fear of being separated from their families or their children or their parents, fear of not being in control of their bodies or their lives, fear of never knowing freedom. No matter what their clothing was like, no matter what food they ate, no matter their quarters looked like enslaved people lived with that fear. When human beings aren’t being treated as people details like the clothing they wore, the food they ate, and their housing become secondary."
-- Jessie MacLeod, associate curator and lead curator of the Lives Bound Together Exhibit, explaining the living conditions and treatment of the enslaved at Mount Vernon in this video. This video is catered to answering questions for a younger audience, but as Mount Vernon historian Mary Thompson writes, "many of the worst things one thinks about in terms of slavery - whipping, keeping someone in shackles, tracking a person down with dogs, or selling people away from their family - all of those things happened either at Mount Vernon or on other plantations under Washington’s management." We encourage you to learn more about slavery at Mount Vernon using our resources:
www.mountvernon.org/slavery
Mount Vernon’s Slavery RUclips Playlist: bit.ly/3g6fEVt
Mary Thompson’s book: bit.ly/3ga5H9w
Mount Vernon’s Museum Exhibition Lives Bound Together: bit.ly/34oo9JF
If you lived back then and was rich you'd of had slaves too. You dont understand anything anyways and you dont represent George Washington either.
@OmgLookAtTheYuckerMan Waaiong black people in Africa had slaves and sold them. You are just as confused as any other libturd out there.
@OmgLookAtTheYuckerMan Waaiong y'all all just crazy AF. Making it out like say if i had a wife who was black and was cooking and cleaning etc it would be a form of slavery. Slavery is over and it only exists in y'alls extremely simple mind space which isn't much.
What ever happened three hundred years ago is irrelevant its an easy excuse to do what ever you want with no reprisal.....get a sense of humor or is that awhite only thing to have because of the ancient scrolls of slavery say it is .. btw suck it!
It doesn't matter if that's how people were raised or if black people sold their own into slavery (which was absolutely wrong btw, not trying to defend them) - Slavery was WRONG. If you have common sense, you know that if a humanoid being thinks, talks, and acts like anyone else, that's a person, and, being a person, you would also know that no person would want to be OWNED. There were plenty of people who were against slavery, so if they can figure it out, so could slave owners. Slavery is BAD. I cannot believe that is something I have to explain.
“I don't trust anyone who's nice to me but rude to the waiter. Because they would treat me the same way if I were in that position.” - Muhammad Ali
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Absolutely right 💯 👌
Uh...a great quote from Muhammad Ali (1942-2016) 🥊
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@@JerichoMile4 yeahh Mann ripp
Shorter answer: No such thing as a well treated slave.
i meannn there were some good treated slaves...by good i mean better than being beaten daily and killed,being fed properly ya know.not everyone wanted slaves just to bully
Antwaun Robinson im not disagreeing with you but not all slaves were treates that badly...its kind of like getting kidnapped by some creep but he treats you good,feede u well,doesnt torture you,buys u things...its fucked up but he could be doing a lot worse things...slavery is one of the worst things ever done by humans but not all of them were visiously beaten and murdered
@@nba_strictly_0870 Lol. There is no such thing, man. I'm hip to where you trying to go, but there's no way to say "I treat my human property well." Feel me? If you want to treat them well, let them leave. That's treating them well. Of course not all slave masters would be rude in their approach to enslaving humans, because you catch more flies with honey than vinegar. In other words, you'll get your human property to do more work and like you more if they tell them to do something with a smile rather than with a whip... Kind of like today's world.
You would think common sense was involved but nope they see it as an innocuous happening?
@@shujaamwenyemaarifa6821 Wow smh he is trolling I think?
Like property i guess. I'm not sure it's possible to treat a slave 'fairly'. I mean...if you wanted to treat someone 'fairly' you wouldn't own them as property.
I suppose it means "fairly" in context of other slave owners. Washington's way was perhaps "the lesser of two evils" I suppose one could say, and from that viewpoint, while being treated as property is objectively still wrong, I suppose it can also be said that even the treatment of property varies from owner to owner, and as I understand it, Washington privately he expressed a belief that slavery's end would ultimately be necessary for the nation's survival. Really makes me wonder how much Washington's views on slavery changed over the course of his life.
Exactly! There’s nothing fair about being enslaved, starved, raped and whipped!
@Starscream91 Especially considering slave owner Benjamin Franklin released his slaves in life and became president of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society. Not all slave owners were like Benjamin Franklin.
strange lee ....facts but in them demons mind they really think that was fair
strange lee ....true facts, but those type with evil thoughts don’t think that way
Imagine being forced to work against your will and being someone’s property, and they say they treated you well because the gave you clothes.
Read Frederick Douglass’s memoirs. He had a remarkably varied set of experiences, some of which he could look back on positively, and others were truly terrible.
@telsa roadster Please tell me that should have had a sarc tag. Most people working for minimum wage are teenagers or other entry level workers. It is not intended to support a family. Of course, its original purpose was to prevent black men from finding employment.
Parents do this to their kids, even their teens, all the time. No excuse for that either!
Oh cry me a river.
@@Mc.Garnagle No empathy, huh? Why watch this video or reply to this comment?
I'm glad you didn't sugarcoat anything. Historical facts, good and bad, should be presented as honestly as possible.
@Drake Only recently, you should see the old videos about Mount Vernon. One would never believe a slave ever lived there, and when they did talk about them it was as if it was a trip to Disneyland.
I don't know if they didn't sugarcoat. But I appreciate the answer was fairer than a simple "he treated them well, or he was kind to them" which would be ridiculous. A slavemaster that demands exactly all slaves back was probably into some gruesome activities, we also know he was into the occult being a high ranking freemason and a slave at Mount Vernon described him worse than his neighbour slavemasters and since the worst of them was probably horrible, I can't even imagine what George Washington did. Let's just be honest here, the man was mostly just for show and people idolized him because they needed someone to glorify.
Bill Osborne Your opinion that it wasn't sugarcoated can be deemed as an assumption. What if it was in fact sugarcoated? Put it this way... if u were to document say your childhood, I would not be surprised if certain things that were perhaps incriminating/embarrassing/etc. were conveniently left out.
I'm just being open minded, and no, I am not black.
Agreed....
Question: How did George Washington treat his slaves?
Answer: 🗣HE TREATED THEM LIKE SLAVES
:/ I hate that, this is true.... :(
So, you didn't want to be a slave on George's farm. It sucked!
@TheRaokenx is this supposed to make people feel better or something? Can't sugar coat it.
Right!!..Duh!!??
Intercepting Fist apparently some slave owners tried to treat slaves as human beings and respect them as human beings is it that hard of a concept to understand?
2:44 "we don't think whipping was a constant occurrence at Mount Vernon, but it happened regularly." AKA: it didnt happen all the time, but it did happen all the time.
It means they didn't do it all the time, but it wasn't odd to see it happen.
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If it happend regularly it wasn’t odd to see.
I do not believe it happened all the time on every farm. I'm sure that some were very cruel...others, not so much. I read a piece where the author stated Jefferson raped Sally Hemmings. Hogwash. Hemming was Martha Jefferson's half sister. It was said she looked very much like the late Martha. Hemmings stayed with Jefferson till he died, and, then lived in Charlottesville until her death. I fully believe Jefferson and Hemmings were in love. Interracial relationships were taboo...and while Hemmings had special quarters near Jefferson, it was in a basement room..dark and dismantling. It is a fact that Slavery owners routinely raped young Black slaves...a disgusting situation.
Right such a contradiction
Short Answer: Being a slave is still horrible treatment
@Mike Ray I could be wrong, but I believe I heard somewhere that there is also ongoing slavery in the middle east too, no?
Mike Ray there are still slavery?
@@jdstearman nono, in the middle east slavery continued until very very late, but only until 1960 at most
Now people there are almost slaves but at least they're not property
@@alezar2035 ah, i see. Thank you for the correction, Sir!
Yep
so the short answer is he was a SLAVE owner and there is no arguing that slaves were NEVER treated fairly
Boss Baby's Dad
What do you mean who cares? Do you think slaveri is okay or something?
Compared to others yes
Imp Pro fair and slavery are two words that i hope to GOD are never used in the same sentence again
Yea they were? You are an ignorant piece of recreational equipment? What do stupid boink dolls that cant even read know?
Emma Raff i actually enjoy boink doll rampages bevause the crash and burn - it was God that said to treat our slaves fairly and like our own? (These young have whore, score and steal for skills. THEY belong in a field too.)
Yeah, they were e n s l a v e d. No matter how he treated them, he still treated them like property. Not ok.
@Jeremy Shaffer only were not on a plantation being forced into manual labor with no pay and little to no clothes or food and we don't get whipped if were not acting accordingly lol
@Jeremy Shaffer wow you typed two comments to my little one lol upset much? Must of struck a nerve the truth hurts I guess 🤷♂️
@Jeremy Shaffer not as much as u 😉
That's right I definitely agree.
Jeremy Shaffer - Damn, things got all freaky and ignorant here really fast
“Whippings weren’t a constant occurrence but they did happen regularly..” 🤔🧐
GOOD!
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How is that good?
@@PrinceJes it just is!
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Being racist really seems a waste of energy. Wow, so upsetting.
@@PrinceJes sorry if my opinion upsets you! nothing personal!
How does someone treat slaves? It doesn’t matter if they are treated “good”. If someone is a SLAVE they are not being treated fairly at all!!!
you have not read the Bible then? of course I am against ownership of human beings. but in the Bible, GOD's Holy Word, it did matter that slaves were treated well and that slaves obeyed their owners. slavery has taken place from as far back as we have records and is still taking place today.
@@seichorn4079 that's not the slam dunk you think it is.
You just described the reason why a lot of people don't trust the bible or Christianity in general.
@@AStrangeWindmill wasnt going for a slam dunk. I was relating historical information. every culture on this planet kept slaves from as far back as was recorded. even blacks in Africa kept slaves. slavery is ongoing in Africa and the Middle East. as well as human trafficking which is slavery. the United States is always the target for harsh criticism. but every nation shares in the guilt.
@@seichorn4079 what does that have to do with the price of tea in China, though? Slavery in North America or Europe doesn't become better or worse simply because it also happened in Africa or the Middle East.
@@AStrangeWindmill not sayig that. Im saying that throughout history, slavery was practiced in all nations. it was a normal practice and being such, the treatment of those slaves does matter. just like the treatment of employees matter. or the treatment of anyone you hold power over. have you never studied psychology or anything really? you are arguing points that dont make sense in the context of history. you realize you dont have the power to change history right? lol!
Isn't the key word here still "Slave?" 🤔
Exactly. Property of commodity.
@@giveupgunsifyoulovebeingav8324 Deal with it.
@@giveupgunsifyoulovebeingav8324 but rock music etc. Isn't lol such a double standard smh🤦♂️🤦♂️
@Dra O no society needs poorly uneducated** hillybillys who right songs about how much whiskey they drink n drugs etc.pfffft your argument is lame get a new one.
Dra O ok boomer
My guess is, he treated them like slaves.
Which was better than being naked in Africa scavenging for dead animals.
Luke Main u are so fuking dumb if u believe that
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Just something I've thought about growing up, but how humbling would it be if the Great Trump plan implodes, like it's going right now?
Billionaires and average Americans could all be naked and hunting rats in NYC?
Naked Floridians hunting wild hog with a kitchen knife?
I know you are far superior to me, but I pray for you, that when stuff hits the fan you and your family are still living in luxury.
I will always try to build up and you and my other Americans
Happy Birthday America!! It's the 4th!!
Free food and housing, what mo yo want?
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We can all agree it is not right to own slaves, even if you take people from a worse situation it does not excuse it, but lets not fool ourselves living in Africa was violent and not fun. A lot ot people forget that in Africa they also had slave traders and slaves, they were than sold to europeans and taken to the USA, south America to work on plantations or similar.
0:56 - "So of course, even though Washington believed he was being fair, from the perspective of enslaved people, it's quite likely that they didn't agree."
You don't say!
It’s why it’s called a perspective
IDK. The fact that they complained to him about rations, etc. may say something that at least they didn't fear they would be killed for speaking about these things. Maybe there was a plantation next door where the owner hired to most brutal overseers possible and the Mt Vernon slaves thought they had it good by comparison? Obviously their perspective would be different than Washington's, or any northern abolitionist, or anyone living today.
That's why she said "of course", you donkey.
Here let me fix that response: They were treated horribly, they were human beings and deserved better.
Well they were slaves what treatment did you expect?
Slavery has existed for centuries and no slave was treated like a king.
@@michaelsantos8377 were they treated like humans?
@@rudolphpascual2872 do you know what slave means? Of course they were treated like 💩 that's what slavery is.
@@michaelsantos8377 could you prove that All slaves were treated that way? Without any proof, your generalization is plain dumb. If you are shown evidence of just 1 slave that was treated well, then your generalization crumbles and the girl's question becomes a valid query.
Like slaves.
Well slaves were usually worked to death elsewhere in the Americans or castrated and killed in the Arab world. Compared to how most slaves or even peasants were treated at that time Washington’s was luxury. But as she said at the end of the video they still lived in fear and had no lives of their own.
Gamenetreviews if he treated them like “luxury” then he would’ve freed them
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Relatively to most of the world which was being worked or starved to death in much worse conditions. And he did free them upon death.
Trechery Parcher
No studies on the conditions of slaves in America
@@@Gamenetreviews what is going on man #howslife
I remember as a kid and I first found out that George Washington had slaves my teacher assured me that he treated them kindly. You can have a great man founded a country who was also cruel and self righteous. People are complicated and, you know, people.
" founded a country" America was already " founded", first nation people's who kindly educated the newcomers in how to survive in their country.
margaret nesbeth When I think about it, I don’t feel like people always mean they “founded” it in the sense that they discovered the land. I see it as the built the institutions that would’ve used to run a functioning society, they had people that would build and raise a “civilized” community, and they came up with a lot of systems we use today. This is just my perspective, but I think it makes a lot more sense to say that these people founded the country in this sense.
@@margaretnesbeth593 Lol "First nation" it was a ton of warring and rival tribes, not a nation by any stretch.
@@margaretnesbeth593 I think they meant "founded" more in the sense that they played an essential role in the formation of the country into what it is today, part of it's "foundation" if you will
@@margaretnesbeth593 no America was not founded before the revolution. The native Americans were not unified, they were split into hundreds if not thousands of tribes. Many of them did have their own nations such as the iroquois, aztec, and inca. But the aztecs were conquered and turned to mexico and the inca to peru, the natives such as the iroquois and did not found America. And all the people born and raised in the americas for generations now are native at this point and we should all be working to improve the lives of everyone in our countries.
This is stupid...he treated them like "slaves" the end.
Remember this is a question from a six grader. So be nice.
You would’ve owned slaves had you been wealthy and raised that way
IKR!! As if slavery was a "choice" and slaves got to purchase their masters instead of the other way around.
No, we need to teach and remind people that the 'founding fathers' were rich monsters not people to idolize. It's disgusting how our history paints them as great men while they stole, murdered and enslaved.
What the lady said was very informative -not what you said
"Like slaves"
Next question.
Honestly lol
A stupid short answer like that won’t teach a 6th grader anything.
@@headphonic8 not by itself, no.
But you explain what slavery and treatment of the enslaved entails beforehand, I think it can teach a few things.
@@headphonic8 How tf do u give a slave any kind of treatment?? A slave is a slave which any way u want to put it
So in short.....he didn’t treat them good
It is 2020, how come people can't move forward? All that stuff is ancient history, long past, long gone.
@Alexis Fitzroy Because George Washington and his slavery fiasco was in the 1700's. People pissed off today at a man that owned slaves centuries ago thus the mention of it now being 2020. People need to stop digging into the past, being pissed off about it, holding people today accountable for actions of people int he past and move forward with their lives. The only thing holding anyone back in today's society is themselves. That's why!
Tommy Vega I’ll put it like this. If I had to be a slave I’d want to be Washington’s. Washington was known for his noble character. Perhaps not perfect but better than most. I think that it isn’t a stretch to assume he treated his slaves with that same nobility.
The Mean Arena for one look at the title of the video..and two...holocaust, 9/11, Christopher Columbus, all “ancient history” but yet nobody seems to say that about that huh
Erich Hoefert and your comment is not worth a response, with all due respect
“Whippings were uncommon but did happen regularly....wtf does that mean
She said it wasn't a "constant occurrence but it did happen regularly". I take it to mean that people weren't getting whipped all day everyday, but it happened often enough. HTH.
Did farmers the 15th century beat their horses? The same relevance. That was 150 years ago! Who the F cares?
I think it would be uncommon as far as everyone doing it but happened regularly for some bad slave owners.
TheMountainState 304 Constantly and regularly aren't synonyms.
@@DotterSvea go listen to some relaxing sounds...
She gets quieter the darker his past got
That's the guilt and shame she feels on behalf of Washington. Criminals will do this same thing when they are near to or straight up confessing.
It is dark, but you have to keep researching it gets worse even after the George Washington era.
@@joee7850 I liked your comment, but we can give her a little credit. She is addressing a young girl. I know from parenting experience that the deeper you go, the more timid your answer becomes. Try giving the sex talk to your 8 year old because they want to know what sex is.
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@@joee7850 guilt fpr what?? Cuz she white????
"Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it means to be a slave." -Rutger Hauer, 'Blade Runner'
And a COMMUNIST citizen!
One Humanity you’ve never been to the states mate?
This is like asking how sex traffickers treated their victims. GMAFB.
Exactly!!
yeah he thinks whipping is fair says it all thinks keeping slaves until he told otherwise. heart and conscience should have told him before it became his job to fix it
You mean kind of like how the Democrats treat blacks these days
@@phucknuts Kind of like how Republicans defend the statues of Slave Owners.
@@grimgoreironhide9985 Republicans FREED the slaves
I'm really impressed that you guys didn't sugarcoat this. Thank you.
Here's what I'd like to know: how aware of these conditions were the white abolitionists, like Lafayette, who had close relationships with Washington?
There are no surviving documents in which Lafayette specifically comments on conditions at Mount Vernon, but he visited Washington’s home, so he would have been aware of how enslaved people lived there.
I don't know if they didn't sugarcoat. But I appreciate the answer was fairer than a simple "he treated them well, or he was kind to them" which would be ridiculous. A slavemaster that demands exactly all slaves back was probably into some gruesome activities, we also know he was into the occult being a high ranking freemason and a slave at Mount Vernon described him worse than his neighbour slavemasters and since the worst of them was probably horrible, I can't even imagine what George Washington did. Let's just be honest here, the man was mostly just for show and people idolized him because they needed someone to glorify.
Michael Flores Your opinion that it wasn't sugarcoated can be deemed as an assumption. What if it was in fact sugarcoated? Put it this way... if u were to document say your childhood, I would not be surprised if certain things that were perhaps incriminating/embarrassing/etc. were conveniently left out. I'm just being open minded, and no, I am not black.
George Washington's Mount Vernon I disagree that it is certain Lafayette would have been aware of how Washington treated his slaves simply since he visited Washington's home. A host may curse, fart, and pick his nose when alone but refrain when in front of guests.
Hey joapps. Super interesting reply. I dont know why being black or not was relevant.
To me, the bar for "sugarcoating" was whether or not the video tried to say Washington was somehow not as responsible for the daily horrors of living as a slave. The video did not say that. For a 5 minute video, I think we can say it was very frank. Since the length is short, we can assume a lot of things were left out. That doesnt mean it was sugarcoating anything.
As for Lafayette, I dont understand your comment, if I'm being honest.
He treated them as slaves, it was in his interest to treat them to treat them with enough to maximize his profits. That says it all.
In terms of profitability to treat a slave harshly or not provide for his needs is a stupid business move. You let your slave get sick, whip him into unconsciousness doesn’t keep your costs down. If you lose a slave because you aren’t very smart you will have to buy another. So Washington being smarter and of a better character than most probably treated his slaves better.
I wish I learned this in school. Giving a different perspective on Washington is helpful for us Americans to realize that the Founding Fathers were not Gods to be worshiped but products of their time with deep flaws. Of course, this doesn’t excuse their actions, but it forces us to examine our values instead of just having blind nationalism.
Actually, being a product of one's time does "excuse" one's actions when centuries later someone is judging their actions using modern morals.
These oligarchs didn't find anything. Revolution and servile insurrection is always wrong, regardless of the outcome. Its usually worst, for the average citizen. Taxes actually went up on the average citizen, after the war. Washington was never elected president. He was selected, by the other slave owning oligarchs.
@Todd Warmbrodt Not true. How do you figure? Today America has more people incarcerated, than any other country on earth. 71% of the wealth, since 1776 as been inherited. That wealth was made on the backs of slaves, slave labor.
@Todd Warmbrodt America is 47 th in the world in life expectancy. #1 in infant death, mortality rate. 1% control 88% of the wealth. Currently has over 1000 military bases in the World. China, Saudia Arabia, South Korea, Japan hold 90% of American debt. America currently spends 780 billion a year on military. Today 150 million people in this oligarchy have no health care. 500 thousand year file bankruptcy. Infrastructure is crumbling. Empires come and they go, for the same reasons.
@@rstuv8141 Man chose sin in Eden. God's holiness has never changed. However who he reveals that holiness too, and when he reveals that holiness does change. The wages of sin is death.
My 6 year old niece informed me that they were teaching her about Washington and on how "great" he was. Of course I felt the need to let her know who he was in his totality. My heart became heavy as I saw her reaction but at the same time proud that she expressed sadness and disappointment. She said "that's not right". Yes my sunshine no one should ever own another person. To be free is universal.
charlir wood damn good come back.! Damn bums
Trying to put modern morality during past circumstances is completely insane.
@@skankhunt-zh8ky why?
@@texashoosier7318 because it was completely different socially, culturally, even entertainment was different at that time. You think people back in those days had any rights to start with? Until America came along and give us ideas on stoic freedom, we've always yearned for freedom but America itself is the IDEA of freedom where people of all race and Creed come together and try to firm common ideas and find a middle ground so we can all try to have satisfaction through the whims of legislation.
Tearing down historical heroes is a two-way street. For example, Martin Luther king Jr. was beat up prostitutes and was likely a rapist.
Wish history was taught correctly. The problems this country is having is due one sided history and inaccuracies. Thanks for the insight.
Marjorie Tillman I cant speak for the education of the past but I think modern education, while I don’t always agree with their presentation of bipartisanship, I think they give a pretty wholistic view of history especially of black Americans
@@unhhgcrxexhjvuvujchcrzwzwz7956 I have to disagree with you. Where in American history is black history talked about or really studied? Do we know which countries majority of Africans can from? What prominent African figures were active during slavery? What was black life like after the reconstruction? I know most will say we study black people in history but, it is not the same as European history.
cottonballus well ya to be perfectly honest the continent of Africa has very little influence on our society besides introducing us to their form of slavery. I’m not see if that what your referring to or you mean African Americans. And if you mean African Americans Federico Douglas and Harriet Tubman are insanely influential black Americans who get talked about constantly.
@@unhhgcrxexhjvuvujchcrzwzwz7956 you are right. The african continent doesn't have anything to do with our country. Neither does the European/English country. Yet we are taught in schools about the English people and their ways of life and politics. Not to dismiss European people but, black history did not start with slavery. I understand that Africa does not mean nothing to some but, others would like to know the who, why and what really happened to lead to the actions of the traders and accomplices. I believe that to highlight only certain African American figures are highlighted to try and pacify those who do not want to really look at American history. That is a problem and that is why people are now tearing down statues. Teaching onesided, incomplete and faulty history will ensure we will repeat the histroy we are seeking to know.
Truth Finder ur right it’s not like Europeans just showed up and were like “look at these idiots let’s enslave them”, they saw Africans with other Africans enslaved and bought them form them. But honestly who cares, throwing around blame is just we stupid as anything else
The concept of owning humans is repugnant. It still goes on in lots of the world, including parts of Africa
Glad the USA eradicated it within our borders.
The DHS is working to stop human trafficking around the world every day. In fiscal year 2019, HSI initiated 1,024 investigations with a nexus to human trafficking and recorded 2,197 arrests, 1,113 indictments, and 691 convictions; 428 victims were identified and assisted. HSI continues to make human trafficking cases a top investigative priority by connecting victims to resources to help restore their lives and bringing traffickers to justice.
Actually the whites stopped it here !! Not blacks / and the KENTI CLOTHE WEARING BLACK KINGS OF AFRICA STARTED IT AND PROFITTED OFF IT
Well said
Human trafficking is growing in the U.S. as in other parts of the World. Yes its Repugnant but its happening.
Is human trafficking legal in the US or illegal? Some of the comments in the thread are confusing...
This was an honest answer to this child’s question. I was happy to see that and not making it sound like anything but what it was. Cruelty at an extreme level, to another human being.
There are more slaves on this planet today, than in the 1850's.
(There are slave markets in Libya)
Dont forget China. We have a modern day slavery more brutal than those past centuries.
No! The Trans-Atlantic slave trade was the worst of human kind.
Chattel slavery, where you are property, and your children and their children will also be property, doesn't exist anymore. People still get exploited in lots of bad ways, but it ain't the same.
@@mergonzaga2271 not even close bud.
@william kane conservatives make up their own facts when reality is inconvenient. Ask K. Conway.
Um, slaves? They could’ve given them gold plated shackles and they would still be shackles. No amount of kindness or decency excuses slavery.
Code Name there are also degrees of cruelty. Washington was not the worst, but as a practical businessman, he enforced the rules to maintain order and control.
Steve Bingham and your point is...? Do you think this absolves blame somehow? Many poor people in Pakistan and India sell their young child into slavery today. The child is chained to a rug loom for years as he/she weaves rugs. So that is ok because his parents sold him. It matters not a whit that the initial sale was in Africa. The sin cloaks all involved up and down the line.
You aren't a slave
Steve Bingham yes blacks sold blacks, but they stayed in or near their country. Same customs same language, culture and the possibility of going home. None of it was good but the slave ships transporting people across the ocean was devastating. They were marked by skin color. It was the most evil.
Ummm maybe the creation of a country
I like how you use the word people instead of African-American
In ur recommend too?
Eric Smith You have the right to your own opinion but do you see how bad your comments sounds. Just think abt it for a second. Hope you and everybody that reads this has a blessed day
Eric Smith I didn’t expect you to respond so quickly😅 As a black person myself 1.) I don’t necessarily believe a major part of the black community try to politicize things like this but only a handful. 2.) Of course all your gonna see on a daily basis is black people not taking responsibility, because of the media. The media likes to only talk about that one handful and not the millions of other black people doing amazing things. There actively putting all the bad things that the small handful are doing and leading people to say things like “Ooo this is what black people are all about” Sorry for the little side rant, but I thank you for sharing this comment so we both can get two perspectives on these issues😄
Eric Smith Glad we could find A common ground. I do agree that they want to turn us on each other and just “mop it up”😂 Greetings from Texas and I’m just curious but how old are you? I’m 14. Just tryna test out my political knowledge cause it’s a good thing to have. God bless
Don’t you mean KAnGs and qEENZ?
The truth must be told ! Thank you so much for telling us all those facts we can not forget what happened in order to learn from the mistakes society did in the past! Let’s turn together and try hard to build a better world fo is all ❤️
I think we learned those mistakes quite a while ago, you know... when about 300k white guys from the North sacrificed their lives to end slavery?
Did farmers the 15th century beat their horses? Same relevance. That was 150 years ago! Who the F cares?
@@alcostello6114 Apart from the fact that there were Black soldiers in the Civil War, after slavery came sharecropping, then segregation/Jim Crow, then ghettoization through redlining/gerrymandering, the prison industrial complex, and now gentrification. That, and there's still slavery in the United States and the world, and it disproportionally impacts people of color. There's still a lot of work to do.
He should have provided them with their freedom and dignity.
He did
sam t. When he was dying in his bed in 1799 or 1798 he gave freedom and a good life for his slaves
He allowed all of them to go free after his wife died.
Daddy Alex : Wonderful, but how many years did he benefit from legally owning several human being?
You have to remember...slavery was part of life then. Every nation pretty much used forms of slavery. It wasn't til later that nations started ending slavery.
I absolutely love the way this woman answered this question. Plus, I love what she said at the end. "When human beings aren’t being treated as people details like the clothing they wore, the food they ate, and their housing become secondary." So very true.......
We can't change the past, however we certainly can change the future
Us can`t live in the present. It`s still slavery in US
The black community will be better off if they vote for Donald Trump.BLM is oppressing the black community to bring in democrat leaders who don't give a fan about black community.
Democrats = slavery
Democrats = like
Check it out for yourself.
You can make up for the past
Adelle Near lol ok
katie how is that funny? Blacks being used to push racist democrat agenda is funny?
I appreciate Ms. MacLeod's assessment and her ability to speak to Washington's treatment of his slaves while also talking about the institution as a separate, though related, issue
Very well done and honest. The staff and historians of Mt Vernon should be commended for not diminishing the story or falsely trying to paint GW in a better light than what socially was the norm.
Slavery is and has been a societal issue since the beginning of time and there are many forms of it still today. Let's try to address the problems of the present by learning from the past.
27 Million around the world are slaves RIGHT NOW
J Gowen the number is closer to 40 million technically, it‘s still very prominent in the Middle East and Africa, let alone the forced labour camps of Asia, and sex slavery is huge everywhere unfortunately.
Maybe... But it sure did get those pyramids built in a reasonable timeframe..
What is there to learn? Slavery is bad? The discussion ended 160 years ago for fuck’s sake.
@@toxicturtle9077 Yes, the dog is dead, but long lives it's chain. The legacy of slavery in the Americas lives on in how certain people are treated today.
But I agree with the fact that all forms of slavery are wrong, but they cannot be addressed in the same way. Too many complexities.
George Washington walked around the plantation wearing a shirt that read "this shirt is 100% cotton and you picked it"" what w troll
We wAz kAnGs tho?
Brick of war The last shall be the first!
Paul Seay 😂
This should not make me laugh but it was funny.🤣🤣🤣
@@brickofwar9727 found the racist.
“We don’t think that whipping was a constant occurrence at Mt. Vernon, but it did happen regularly” 🥴🤷🏾♀️
Stephen RunsHisMouth bruh
They trolling for making this video
@Stephen RunsHisMouth wow saying that someone's been "lied to" because they believe in something different? Totally not disrespectful and self-righteous. It's fine to believe in whatever, just don't disrespect others' beliefs. Be a descent person, I think God would want that too.
@Ryan H It's called HISTORY and keeping records
Stephen RunsHisMouth which Bible? There’s so many versions. Plus God is everything... man, woman, water, fire, air etc... I wouldn’t discredit The Almighty with a specific gender.
Thank you for making an honest video about this. I’ve often heard people, being from the Deep South, say, “Oh, well, such and such slave owner, was good to their slaves, and treated them fairly.” By whose perspective did they treat them well, these people were still considered property. Slavery is a disgusting part of our history as a nation, the only way we will ever be able to move forward, and heal, is to acknowledge that there is a whole group of people who lived a very different version of history, and it was not the wonderful version of freedom we like to tout in our history text books.
I don't know if they didn't sugarcoat. But I appreciate the answer was fairer than a simple "he treated them well, or he was kind to them" which would be ridiculous. A slavemaster that demands exactly all slaves back was probably into some gruesome activities, we also know he was into the occult being a high ranking freemason and a slave at Mount Vernon described him worse than his neighbour slavemasters and since the worst of them was probably horrible, I can't even imagine what George Washington did. Let's just be honest here, the man was mostly just for show and people idolized him because they needed someone to glorify.
M Mince I wish people throughout most of history had put themselves into slave’s shoes to help them understand how they felt so that they would be treated fairly instead of being bullied around by their owners, but no, slave owners didn’t give a damn about their feelings because they were not seen as human!
Slavery was objectively bad in ancient Rome and objectively bad later on, but I suppose that even the treatment of property varies from owner to owner. Makes me wonder why Washington even treated black people as slave property and didn't instead treat them as a family that were 100% human beings, as from what I understood, he wasn't as cruel as other slave masters were and apparently regretted having owned slaves later in his lifetime.
@@electricmastro Washington was evolving toward the end of his life.
I am 73 years old and I went to school I never had a sugar coated history class or a teacher who changed our history to try to fool us. I knew slavery was wrong and so did the other kids.but you nit wits want to act like you discovered the real story because you want to take up racial divisions again and to you I say shame shame shame.
How did Washington treat his slaves? Like slaves.
AND THAT IS A BAD THING WHY?
Paul Wojnilowicz - ummmmmm...WHAT??!!?!?
@@namelia4439 I think his point is : at the time it seemed perfectly reasonable .
Like today crapping outside is a jailable offense ...back then it was commonplace .
One hundred years from now our descendants will think we were barbarians too. For any number of reasons ( high crime , police brutality , animal eating , etc)
@@paulwojnilowicz5265 that is a bad thing only if you consider yourself a human being
@Suzanne "You can argue the point with God when it is your turn to explain why" and you'll never get to explain your slavery apologetics to god because you're going straight to hell.
“Fairly” happens before your a slave. Anything after becoming a slave falls under “unfairly”. Period
I first visited Mt. Vernon in about 1954 at age 13. I was shocked at the slave quarters right behind the mansion that were tiny structures looking like rabbit hutches. It was a horrifying sight, and in full view from the parlor windows of the mansion. I visited Mt. Vernon again in the 1990's, and those hutches were gone! The only thing to indicate that there had been slaves was a supposed common burial plot out of sight from the house, with an inadequate common description. I've never been able to get the stark image of those hutches out of my memory.
Wow, that's an amazing story. I I live in the area now and haven't been there!
She couldn't even tell the history without her voice shaking she knows it was terrible
Better timid truth telling than lying with confidence.
@@ericstandefer9138 this is well written
Or maybe or voice is usually shaky in front of a camera.... yeah they were treated like slaves, and she doesn’t want to go into horrific details to answer a 12 year olds question
John C cool. it’s still horrific.
katie cool that there is still slaves in Libya today?
Yes, living in slavery as property owned by someone else is living in fear due to not having any power or choices concerning your own life, or in the lives of those who depend upon you, namely children. Not being able to protect your children adequately would be a nightmare to any parent.
All throughout history, slavery has been more than just poor treatment or fear of beatings or whippings, or even lack of good living conditions. It is the lack of personal power in your own life to be able to change things for better.
“how did george washington treat his slaves” like slaves lmao
Not all slaves were treated the same depending on the master
headphonic8 i know you capping 😹😹 dog they slaves there is no “treated depending on master”
@@Wavinnn Oh there is. Ask Simon Legree.
Remember this is a child asking the question
A key issue not addressed here is how Washington's viewpoint on slavery changed over his lifetime and how this may have influenced how his treatment of those he owned changed over time.
Wahington's view on slavery prior to the war had been unremarkable and indistinguishable from that of any other large slaveholder; he sought to exploit the institution in pursuit of profit. But the war and the rhetoric of liberty and freedom that were used to justify the war posed a contradiction that a person as conscientious as Washington could not ignor. He felt increasingly trapped by the system of slavery and increasingly responsible for the well being of those enslaved people that lived on the farms of Mount Vernon. He stopped buying and selling slaves for profit and established a policy of keeping families together. He gave up trying to make the operation of his farms overcome the poor soils of Northern Virginia and operate as a profitable venture. Instead he operated them to provide food for Mount Vernon's population including his extended family, the families of his employees and of the enslaved persons in his care.
Freeing Mount Vernon's slaves was limited by changing laws, by the difficulties of former slaves attempting to live as free persons and by his own inability to operate Mount Vernon without them. Nevertheless he provided for his slaves in his will by freeing those legally owned by him upon Martha's death. This is something that apparently no other among America's "founding fathers" was to do.
Much of those other aspects are talked about in other videos. This one was about the treatment of the enslaved, not necessarily about Washington's perspectives.
David, you mentioned something that relatively few people realize today: in many cases slaves could not just be "freed". Since slaves were viewed first and foremost as property, the owners were responsible for them, much the same way today you cannot just leave your car on the sidewalk when it doesn't work anymore. And since slaves could be inherited, or belong to a family and not an individual, the process of freeing those enslaved people was quite tricky.
In many cases, slaves could not be freed until the death of the owner. You have to understand that slaves had no legal status as citizens. At the time, states had far more say than they do now, and southern states refused to grant slaves any rights. Slave owners, in particular those who inherited slaves (as many did) were hamstrung by slavery laws. Even the most sympathetic had an extremely difficult time freeing slaves because of the laws in place that protected the institution. In most cases, the owner had to die and stipulate in his will that any slaves be freed, and even then it was tricky if those slaves were inherited, because then they were regarded as family "property" and passed on to the closest living relative. There are also cases of people inheriting slaves they did not even want, yet they were forced to take.
Once again, this was all done to ensure that slavery didn't disappear. Even those who wanted to buy freedom for their slaves were in a difficult position because the cost was extremely high and during the 18th and early 19th century even the wealthiest Americans were "cash poor", meaning few people had large sums of currency. Most of the wealth during that time period was counted in the amount of land owned, not how much actual cash was on hand.
As with many other aspects of the past, this part of history is far, far more complex than we are led to believe today.
@@mshefaa No, but it would make it better. It's called redemption, and it's an important part of the human experience.
David J Gill It does not matter that later in his life after he profited and became rich that he took a softer approach to the exploitation of those people was not as not as extreme does not undo his previous deeds. As he got older and knew that he would answer for his sins I’m sure that weighed on his conscious.
Thank you for being honest and answering this question honestly rather than ignoring it or twisting it. Very much appreciated!!
Cursed is the man who holds the keys to another man's freedom.
How about your job?
Meat packing plants and farms use illegals for cheap labor. People are bought and sold by Business owners and the Mexican cartels.
That's a good saying right there
Did you make that up or did you find it written on a bathroom wall somewhere?
And Washington gave up those keys when he died, in other words freed his slaves. So according to your logic, he isn't cursed.
“If there be an object truly ridiculous in nature it is an American patriot signing resolutions of independency with the one hand and with the other brandishing a whip over his affrighted slaves.’’ - Thomas Day
Yeah what kind of idiots signs a constitution that says "All men are created equal" in it then still has slaves. American Schools today still brainwashes kids into thinking George bush and Christopher Columbus were great and amazing when in reality they were just cold hearted evil fucks.
Magneta Cyan it’s kinda simple. They didn’t think slaves were full human. More like between animals and humans. 3/5th clause and all. If you knew that, you’d understand why they signed a document saying “all men are created equal”.
Al Costello the 3/5 Clause was for representation of slaves. The racism still existed but that’s not an example of if.
@@alcostello6114 That had to do with representation in Congress. The south wanted the slaves to count 100% like whites. The north didn't want them to count thus they reached a compromise. The 3/5th compromise. Hope this helps.
@@chasencage4092 you don’t understand what I’m saying. The fact they considered a slave 3/5 of a person dictates pretty clearly they didn’t see them as fully human.
There is that popular quote “There is no right way to do the wrong thing.” - Harold S. Kushner This quote had been used in veganism cases often.
Perhaps not, but a distinction can still be made.
Veganism is absolutely the wrong thing to do.
@@collinhennessy3190 why is veganism wrong? It's wrong to make sacrifices for the sake of your principles?
David Anewman wow lol. You’re f’d up man
@David Anewman No, it was not.
Slavery was Sin to All Human Beings.
and it is since it currently exists
So was yo mama 😎💣💥🔥 I just OWNED you.. Plas how many years has it been till today since Washington BEEN DEAD. Good thing I'm white I would probably be a son to Washington and the blacks just get work. I thought middle school was long and hard. 😐
@Misty Lover, Why are You Hating?
@@maureencora1 not hating anything. Why do some people in comments is some videos always think I'm hateful or have anger like this is star wars or something? The dark side
@GazB85 wow it's been a long time since I got comments on this video 😐 now you write back now? And man do you people take things too seriously and sensitive in the 21 century. 😒 what happened to the world??
A lot of bashing with how she answered in the comments. She's responding to a child y'all. She gave an educated informed response to a child. She didn't lie. We all know it was evil, the thing is though in that time period it was infact the norm. So for that time period compared to other slaves he may have infact treated them "fair".
It didn’t matter how he treated them. He was a slave owner!
So what. Get over it.
Slavers are terrorists. Slavery is terrorism. The USA's "founding fathers" were just low-life terrorists.
"It didn’t matter how he treated them. He was a slave owner!"
Some slaves might disagree with that.
Does it also apply to dog 'owners'?
@@bingola45 or maid or people in service industry in nowadays term.
You can have maid or servant, but how you treat them determine everything
@@bingola45 dummy really gonna compare people to dogs lmao
I don't think it's any coincidence that they chose a black girl to ask that question.
It's a question the student wanted to know and the students of the class worked directly with the teacher, not Mount Vernon to determine what they were going to ask. We were simply happy to be able to respond to her excellent question.
@@mountvernon das tuff
@Galleria Store they didn't even say he was kind to them. They said Washington said himself that he was fair. That doesn't make it true.
Very scripted and concocted to have a black girl in the beginning.
@Boss Baby's Dad Whatever helps you sleep at night with your white guilt. 😂😂😂
Thank you for being honest because when I saw a white woman talking about this topic I almost tuned out but I’m happy I listen thank you for not sugarcoating it thank you for not trying to downplay black suffering
It is central to our mission not only to restore Washington’s home to the highest standards of preservation, but also to educate people about Washington’s life, legacy, and his home Mount Vernon. Integral to the Mount Vernon narrative is the story of the enslaved population that lived, worked and died here. While we would not presume to engage the complex institution of slavery as an all-encompassing topic, we do want to take the opportunity to discuss those enslaved individuals resident at Mount Vernon during George Washington’s lifetime and also General Washington’s changing views regarding slavery over the course of his lifetime. Because there will always be more to share than time to share it, we continue to add to our website an ever-growing repository of information and resources about the enslaved individuals of Mount Vernon, www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/slavery/
@thomas anderson what?😂
Xiomara He means that the original commenter came off racist by saying that she almost turned the video off when she saw that a white woman was the one talking about the subject
It's almost like white people aren't a monolith. Imagine that
@@user-yi7td2sq9b what does that mean? I'm just curious
I love how caring she looked while sharing how the slaves were treated... She answered the question honestly and I respect that...Thank you.
Sounds like he was running his enterprise like most corporations today. The difference? They won’t be whipped due to laws.
Yet!
Wrong. They won’t whip people today because someone will use their 2nd amendment. Go out to their car and come back and do mass murder with an AR-15. That’s right people already do that.
@@battles423
As Marvin Gaye says
"LETS GET IT ON!"
Yet somehow we have a corporate wank in office someone really really dropped the ball 🤦♂️
God its sickening how very ignorant you assholes are!
I hear the argument that he was a product of his time and era. I've read the constitution, it is very eloquent and well thought out document. The authors of that document surely knew that owning another human being was immoral.
Since you seem to lack history knowledge let me just say at the time they weren't seen nor acknowledged as a person...probably thought it was closer to an animal than a person at the time...it was later in the mid 1800 when they acknowledged them as one third of a person...so technically at the time by the constitution it didn't applied to them
Truth
Yet, was this honorable or just feasible. Not to mention his bed winch
Sungmin Kwon at the very same time that some people didn’t even recognize slaves as people, a few of their own peers spoke out against their actions. their actions being enslaving human beings. so your comment and that bullshit history you claim is truth, is full of shit.
It's not so much a case that many persons of that era, familiar the Constitutional decrees of equality beneath Law, little understood it's benign inference freedom of equality all persons within jurisdiction of Constitutional Rule effected thru these Laws encased Justice for all. That the people of the day up north, even south thought of slaves as animals. Alone an insurgency in sectors, as today... power's corner acclaimed so, thought in vast minority of registry the plantation elite who to keep possession named such due a convenience sake own interest. However these master's paid toll of unjust practise were swiftly forthcoming.
Rather a case more or less conditioned rationales prevailed upon a throwback on human development in a primitive sense, instate humanity's beginnings within a crude application of survival tactics. Misconstrueing the ancient rites upon the African Continent, now known the cradle of humanity, were rituals intact from our earliest beginnings. Traditions of warfare among denezins, dominance long in operation of suppression of species since humanity's start. Civil regions had cast off these excessive restraints in time called bondage, forced servitude, spoils of warfare. However regrettably uncivil, brutish mercenary endeavors cast avarice again. Stone cold, their were those who stood to profit, greed the impetus opportunity, procured licence to offend civility here in this new land of Just Laws. Take advantage of an old, actually ancient way of thinking 'might makes right' or force thru naturalistic means oppression
can rule rather than Sovereignty of Universal Law. Materialistic-minded who offended newly formed statutes of beneficense under Constitutional Law. Universal Law established an equality overall. A nation We, the People challenged supremacy between these two titan contenders, a nation vested Universal Law or force..cohesion, conscription contesting what was termed the divine right of kings vs. the common person. Still ongoing today this contest of subservience to would-be masters the free peoples this nation subjugated.
Far as Washington goes, not young then he had fought the good fight the birth of this nation an indenture of freed Destiny, taking it's dire effect upon himself. Battle worn this was not yo be his fight, it would fall to another ably possessing the Founding Father's vision more truer seen vista equality enobling a nation perhaps further avowed than even themselves. Slavery was deeply entrenched a system of conquest for centuries. A long battle lay ahead to remove its deceptive coils wound the new nation. Washington having given his all, retired to the remainder his life, who's sacrifices set upon its course by his duties fulfilled. It would fall to others to preserve its flight of freedom, slavery being one test of a nation able to endure.
This test of Freedom failed when enslaving another, as Lincoln argued latter amidst his foes the hypocrisy of the new nation just freed claiming domain over another race. Lincoln's keen insights, lawyer's savvy sharpened a sword severed designs imperialism the fate of America. He tore apart the fragmented series of sentiment's appeal, opinions this, as that..instead relying heavily on Principle. Enduring truths steadfast in time. Armed eloquence of speech which rsised consciousness, adamantly a determination born of honest revelation exposed awry state founders leading up to installments slavery, since accepted on such ignoble grounds found inhumane, revealing all the sophistications of his day. Calling out wrong-headedness justified expedient and rendered moot all the excuses for exploitations any the despotic kings used in the past to oppress themselves priorly. Only the most arrogant a**holes of such mind-squalor gave that crux an argument animalistic in own favor heresies the Constitution. Such hedonist intoxicated freedom, having thrust the shackles tyranny from own wrist clasp tightly onwards grab sadistic featured, sought power ill-used freedom fought for a revolutionary war and won., Freedom one-sided only to enslave another? Blasphemy a treachery befallen like a scurge upon the free peoples. Lincoln later upon leadership whom the decisive test fell a turbulent showing of dominant wills, many of whom opposed him did not want to bow beneath the Sovereignty of Just Law but ride above as their own past oppressors did. Pride-filled fools who little understood what the Constitution truly was. A Document of benevolence the down-trodden everywhere, release the religious persecuted in set the prisoners free.
Arrogantly swollen of pride, all to soon task-masters cut down by the Civil War which destroyed, thru cruelty of war, the descendants of those propagates of subservience others would witness death and defeat of imperialism. Blood ran freely losing everything on a stake that oppression would go unrewarded it's own endangering freedom-sake overall a peculiar ancient misery. An ideology destructive then, as now when Justice comes balancing acts of oppression.
GW was the only founding father who freed his slaves at his death. A highly unusual event
That wasn’t unusual
[GLX]Jchaos 777 who were the others?
Dogsoldier 1950 I believe Thomas Jefferson had slaves and even had children with one of them.
They were never freed.
[GLX]Jchaos 777 - yes it was!
This brought me back to my years of slavement in my native land with my own people. We are called katolong which means helpers. But Katolongs are not helpers. They are something other than human. We are not included in the food budget. We ate left overs and scraps. We provided our own clothing. Each Katolong could only afford one which our mistress would provide as part of our pay. We slept on racks in the laundry room where it's wet and slippery. And we work endlessly, scrubbing the floor, ironing, cooking, washing dishes and since there were no modern conveniences like washing machines, clothes are washed by hands.
where are you from?
C Cemanes I’m so sorry to hear this. I think it’s so easy for people to assume that there aren’t people enslaved as in your experience. You are an inspiration for surviving, thank you for sharing your story.
Start a rebellion. Don't accept be less than someone or serving them for nothing
I'm so sorry that you had to go through this. I hope you are okay now. Thank you for sharing this, stay safe and have a good day.
Phillipines?
I think we can all agree this was a despicable event in human history, unfortunately it still goes on today. ☮♾
@James Reilly First telling me to shut up about something will have the opposite effect for you! I'm not one of these people in the streets crying about slavery, nor am I someone who feels guilty about things my ancestor have done. I simply made a comment about how shitty slavery was and you try to lecture me about the history of the world and slavery and then tell me to shut up. I've done my family tree so I know where my ancestor stood in relation to slavery...Just because every civilization in history has done it, doesn't make it right...You sound pro slavery, not to mention wound a little tight!
@James Reilly I get the feeling you think I'm black...I'm not!
@James Reilly Whatever, you sure sound like one...Now piss the fuck off!
I read the book Never Caught about a slave at Mount Vernon who escaped. Though that woman never got to write her story, her actions speak very clearly. The book was really good.
How do you keep another person enslaved “fairly” exactly?
exactly. 😂
Wendy DeWolfe you can’t!!
Historical, it's been explained; if the slave is well behaved they're treated well (fed, clothed not whipped/beaten) if they aren't well behaved they're punished for it. That's considered fair treatment. They weren't cruel just to be cruel, that's what's seen as fair to them.
Well in some instances people had to purchase their own spouses but legally since a black person wasn't allowed to free their own slaves (a right given only to white people) they would then be in a sense forced to own their own spouses indefinitely. I would imagine in those very rare cases slaves would be treated well.
@@Cynnas the problem with that statement is that not every slave owner followed those principles. A vast majority of slave holders would inflict many forms of violence from sexual violence to physical violence on the people they owned just because they wanted to or because they wanted to be feared. This is also documented in many plantations as well as documented in written first hand accounts of the slaves themselves.
I can’t see how anyone with a good heart or self respect could own a slave.That was a very disgusting part of history.To treat human beings worse than animals.
Slavery had existed for thousands of years. Africans had their own slaves and sold them to Arabs who used and sold them to Romans etc and on and on. Looking at the US while harsh treatment was certainly occurring not all slaves were treated “worse than animals”. Some slaves were taught to read and write others even got a little bit of money etc it’s a common misconception that every slave owner was a blood thirsty maniac
Ken Haddad Thats true one of the first men to ever own slaves was a former african indentured servant a BLACK slave owner very ironic and there were a few others too
Bush did 9/11 All false! Sorry but history was written by white supremacists. I don’t believe A WORD they say especially when it comes to the demonization of black people. They will always say anything they can to help support their narrative. They still practice these sneaky tactics to this day, just look how they try to demonize police brutality victims FOH ALL LIES SMFH
They weren’t in control of any of those things...not their names, not their own bodies...nothing.
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Remember when Kanye west said slavery was good. That was so stupid, I think Kanye lost his mind.
Seems like George Washington couldn't just free his slaves by law. Here's what I found.
"Of the 317 slaves at Mount Vernon in 1799, 123 individuals were owned by George Washington and were stipulated in Washington's will to be freed upon his wife's death."
"Neither George nor Martha Washington could free these dower slaves by law. Upon her death the slaves would revert to the Custis estate and be divided among her grandchildren."
Under the Barton law of 1806, freed slaves w/o papers from their former masters, would be recaptured by the state of VA & placed back into slavery. Many of those state agents would rip up the papers freed slaves had & sell them back into slavery anyway.
That's the old Dixie Democrat party for you. No wonder the U.S. Civil War was unavoidable.
This is why Ona Judge (enslaved, owned by Martha) escaped. She was never caught. Just finished reading the book, Never Caught, about Ona Judge. Fascinating story.
Its funny how these slave owners always seem to request that ' upon my death I request freedom of my slaves. I guess where you are going slaves aren't needed.
@@bigh9884 They usually did that, thinking the enslaved person would be too old to be of value for a sale. Some enslaved were not even freed then. Many times they were passed down as part of an inheritance.
@Zeek Banistor lol bet you can't even let go of the fact that Obama was president
Actually to creditors. These plantation owners were in debt up to their neck, as the old saying goes. Slaves, as personal property, had to be sold to pay off any debt, including any mortgage on Real Property. Once the debts were paid, then any remaining property went to the heirs. Given the rule that personal property had to be sold to pay off any mortgage, the only thing left was the real estate. The heirs would then remortgage the real estate and buy most of the personal property back, that included most of the slaves.
Thus freeing slaves in a well was much like a begger writing a well giving his spouse a million dollars. I.e. there was no money to give and thus a meaningless clause in a will.
That sounded like a pretty honest answer with not a lot of sugarcoating & I appreciate that, especially given the presenters title.
I think there was a ton of sugarcoating. It was almost entirely from GW’s perspective, and offered ideas like “well of course it was logical to punish them after they did something bad, or feed and clothe them as cheaply as possible” which is a disgusting way to justify slavery being “of the times,” as though there weren’t abolitionists fighting against slavery; as though enslaved people didn’t know slavery was wrong and aren’t fully-formed human beings. Anything defending slavery as an action “of the times” is sugarcoating.
Natalie P why are you mores worried about slavery that ended 200 years ago than the slavery happening today in Africa?
@@nataliep856 its not "justifying" the actions from a moral perspectice but rather explaining the way slaves were seen as tools by Washington and other slave owners.
Duker I’m not more worried about it; I’m just arguing about perspective. Nobody today is going around saying “any slavery happening in the world right now is fine!” But people act like slavery in the US was a sign of the times, or that the effects are no longer being felt, and neither is true. The effects of slavery can be found in redlining, in policing, and in mass incarceration. There’s a loophole in the 13th amendment allowing slavery in the case of a convicted person-I.e. in prisons. You should check out “13th” on Netflix it’s a great documentary. It deals with the way laws have been created explicitly to round up Black people-like “loitering” during reconstruction or the war on drugs in the 80s-to continue prison labor in this country. Our economic system would collapse without it. Black kids are more likely to be arrested for marijuana possession than white kids, even though white and Black people use drugs at almost the exact same rate. It’s not a coincidence. I’d highly recommend you check out that documentary it’s super smart, not too long, and challenged a lot of my beliefs about this country. :)
@@nataliep856 here is the problem, "it was in his best interest" should not be used at an excuse, but its built into American propaganda. Maximizing profits is supposed to be the natural state of the white race, leaving everyone else at their mercy.
The fairest way to cover this is to show both his triumphs and his failings... An honest balance...
You wouldn't say that on a video about his triumphs. Just let people cover one topic in detail at a time.
What is “fair” about chattel slavery?
In war you have a “fighting chance”.In slavery you’re fighting FOR a chance...to fight for a chance...just to be CONSIDERED a Human Being.
But, don’t worry...
WE are still HERE.
And... “The game is (still ) afoot”.
I really appreciate your honesty with the question. Several years ago my family visited Mt. Vernon and went on a tour about slaves at Mt. Vernon. The tour guide sugar coated everything, even going so far as to say GW taught some slaves to read. When we asked where the evidence was for this she didn't have any. This was my experience with the tour in 2013 as I posted on a review about Mt. Vernon.
However, I must say the most discouraging and disappointing part of our visit had to be the Slave Life tour. I should have known not to expect much when there were a total of 20 people on a tour (6 families) given only once a day and the guide indicated it was a big group. What was most upsetting about the tour was her attitude towards George Washington and slavery. These were the points that I as well as the others on tour took issue with:
1. George Washington did not agree with slavery but in order for him to become a successful planter and rise up within his world he had no choice but to have slaves.
2. George Washington didn’t get his money’s worth out of his slaves since he had to care for them after they were no longer able to work. When this was challenged that the average slave recouped the price it took the buy them within a year she insisted that it was still a losing proposition since the slaves were allowed to relax and enjoy their post slave days on the plantation. This comment in particular angered most in the group and as one of the other persons indicated she made it seem as if they had a 401K and that after working 15 hours a day from the age of 10 until retirement that they really had that many years left to “enjoy” their retirement”.
3. George Washington gave everyone a chance to work their way to the main house/big house since he used a merit system. This in turned allowed slaves to be promoted like any other job and if a slave worked hard enough then they could make it a skilled job or the main house.
My problem with the whole tour was that she refused to admit that he was flawed like any other person, but kept insisting on his magnificence. Was George Washington a good man? Yes and no. He was a founding father, our 1st president, and fought for our country’s independence but he was also a slave owner who did not believe that all men (regardless of color) were created equal and the tour needed to reflect that.
Thank you for sharing your feedback, Sharon. Over the past four years we have sought to make the lives and contributions of the enslaved individuals more prominent in our Mansion interpretation and Specialty Tours. We also seasonally provide the opportunity for visitors to participate in a wreath laying ceremony at the Slave Memorial: www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/slavery/the-slave-memorial-at-mount-vernon/ Because there will always be more to share than time to share it, we continue to add to our website an ever-growing repository of information and resources about the enslaved individuals of Mount Vernon: www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/slavery/ We also have an exhibition in our museum entitled 'Lives Bound Together: Slavery at George Washington’s Mount Vernon.' Through this exhibit, we aim to share the lives and biographical experiences of those who lived and worked at Mount Vernon in bondage in the 18th and 19th centuries: www.mountvernon.org/plan-your-visit/calendar/exhibitions/lives-bound-together-slavery-at-george-washingtons-mount-vernon/
He didn't free his slaves they belonged to his wife's dead husband and that made them property of the estate so they didn't have a chance to be freed
@BilboKoira And Hitler created the Autobahn and Volkswagen so let's try to remember that instead of bringing up the Holocaust, right?
I guess it's easy for some people to overlook the sins and flaws of their heroes. I guess there will always be people who can shrug their shoulders and think historical horrors aren't that bad if their ancestors were not impacted. And I guess there is nothing that can really be done to get everyone or at least most people on the same page. Child abuse is horrific but unless you personally experienced it, it's not going to hit (pardon the pun) the same way it does for someone who was abused. Sure, you can feel bad but at the end of the day, it's really not your problem and you really don't care.
@@mountvernon George Washington was a monster, like all slave owners
He got rich, they got beat! Their children got nothing and his children kept wealthy. Who’s still wealthy now...?
He had no children you dumb fuck. He emancipated his slaves and set up a trust fund for their children in his will.
@@markjohnson6194 Geeze Mark, did a strangers RUclips comment really make you that upset? You had 2 ways you could have responded and still communicated your idea... You could do it kindly or arrogantly. I think the smarter way to do it would be kindly, but thats just my opinion. Personally I don't think taking pride in your own perceived intelligence to be a good thing; no matter how smart you think you are, there will always be people smarter
It's possible that he had children with a slave woman, which he would have never claimed as his child.
@@myrnawashington9057 I take the view that whenever we do business with multinational corporations or big banks we are taking part in slavery, because with the smallest amount of research you can always find ties to slave labor in the supply chain... I really try to support small businesses and I do bank with a credit union, but its really unavoidable to not take any part at all. Unfortunately slavery and war have always been the two most profitable industries in the world and I think it would be foolish to assume it is a thing of the past.
*How did George Washington treat his slaves ? Answer : With slavery, how else do you treat a slave !*
SO WE CAN SAY , HE TREATED HIS SLAVES HORRIBLY. HE CONDONED ABUSE, SEPARATED FAMILIES , AND MADE BLACK PEOPLE WORK FOR HIM FOR NO WAGES. THAT'S A CONCENTRATION CAMP!!! HOW HORRIBLE!!! HOW IS THIS A HERO??!!!
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Increible !! And don't ask why ?
+Samuel Hornet Wolf An African king told the English that if they didn't buy his slaves that he would kill them.
@@AbigailAbi-Yah A slave is a slave lady! Get over it. The question can't be any more ridiculous. How did George Washington treat his slaves? Obviously he treated them like a slave. Whooping, beating, lashing, thrashing etc. You expect him to have dined alongside his slave? What if I say he made the slave the best man at his wedding? You happy now? 😁History is history. There is good and bad. Going back and rewriting is not possible. George Washington is one of the founding fathers of the nation. He is an absolutely legend in all aspects, and any action from his part which is considered today as a trespass or transgression, is very much excusable!
Love her approach to the question. Gave a multi-perspective and well informed answer.
I believe I heard that Mr. Washington said, 'This is going to piss people off in 2020.'
No matter how "well treated" , it's always demeaning to be considered someone else's property. Slave masters had life and death control of the people they held in bondage. This horrible fact is always dismissed by those who claim poor Southern whites had it worse or almost as bad. White people weren't auctioned off like livestock, beaten, abused or had families seperated on a whim.
Absolutely right on this.
Whites weren't? Pretty sure the Irish were slaves before blacks. And much longer before that were Jews. Get off your high horse.
So nobody was pimpin they’re women??? Pahleeze women and children have bought sold and traded all around the world forever and now that we have the most equality you want to dig up the dark part of our past and cause trouble today? Why not get along now in the ways of our lord and savior Jesus has said and make America great again or better yet make the world great!
White people were actually slaves in the middle east back then
@@jona3180 Well I'm more than pretty sure you're wrong about that. In fact I know you're wrong. You're not the first to use this Irish slave myth to defend white folks. There were both white and African indentured servants, but absolutely no white slaves. America introduced African slavery gradually, at first Blacks were servants only.
Keep living the past you can't move forward you keep recreating the past .
I think there are technical issues while filming this video and why can’t we full screen
This may well all be true -- but keep some things in mind:
1) When the Declaration was signed and ratified, one of Jefferson's complaints about slavery and the Atlantic Slave Trade were removed. This paragraph basically mocked George III, who Jefferson claimed was "Christian," yet continued slavery and the Slave Trade -- something he saw as immoral and evil. The Founders truly wanted to abolish slavery -- but the issue was, 2 of the original 13 colonies did not: Georgia and South Carolina. This meant that had Jefferson's paragraph remained in the Declaration, the idea was twofold: 1) The King would have been over-excited, and ordered officers of the British Regulars to commit greater atrocities than they did, and 2) That slavery would have been outlawed, had the Colonies won the war. Georgia and South Carolina did not agree to this -- and because they did not, that paragraph about slavery and the Atlantic Slave Trade had to be removed, else the Declaration not be unanimous.
2) After his death, Washington freed the slaves he owned -- save for those of his widow. Jefferson could not free his slaves, because he died poor and destitute -- quite the difference from today, when a former president gets Secret Service protection for the rest of their lives, as well as a government stipend, after they leave office.
Good input Isaiah. Jefferson Died July 4th 1826 (as did John Adams) in bed at his beloved home of Monticello. He was not wealthy but in some debt though hard to say poor looking at a balance sheet with property values included. Cash flow was a different matter; not good. Jefferson did attempt to include the ending of Slavery in our founding documents. He did provide for the freeing of a number of his slaves opon his death. but due to a number of things he was not in a position to free them all. The Jefferson's extended family involved a number of plantations and there were financial obligations and entanglements to complicate matters. To understand Jefferson and his thoughts about slavery one must look to his record as a member of the house of Burgess, the colonial government of Virginia colony. He was likely the most highly respected intellectual his time. His scholership was broad boundless and well recognized. While there he introduced legislation on three occasions that would have curtailed or eliminated the practice of slavery in Virginia. All three times he spent his political capital in the effor but each time was defeated by his fellow house members. Subsequent to these defeats he later wrote That he was sure slavery would end but was resigned to the fact the it would not be in his generation. He passed 39 years before the emancipation.
..Good input Scott...P.S...I thought since we were giving out historical memorial wreaths of honor to the founding fathers. I thought I'd add a complimentary quote of the late Thomas Jeffersons last words on his death bed..."He said..."Indeed"! "I Tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just and that His JUSTICE cannot not SLEEP forever. Considering that numbers,nature,and natural means[ Law of reciprocity?] Only,a Revolution of the "Wheel of Fortune"an exchange of situation[slaves becoming Masters & Masters becoming slaves] is among POSSIBLE events,that the exact SITUATION may BECOME probable by SUPERNATURAL interference...Thomas Jefferson....And May the solemn Last WORDS of the President of the United States of America become PROPHECY fulfilled in these Last Days...[Jeremiah] [30:16] "KJV"...Thats all...Amein!🤓...Shalom
Thomas Jefferson kept his own children as slaves. He had more slaves than almost anyone. Jefferson was a monster.
@@sethmeyer2443: And you're ignorant of history. Jefferson _despised_ slavery. If he didn't, why would he have:
1) Called out the hypocrisy of the King in the original draft of the Constitution?
2) Supported ending the importation of slaves by 1808? (Hint: This one is in the Constitution.)
3) Put forward not one, but _three,_ different proposals in the Virginia House of Burgesses, _which would have outlawed slavery in the Commonwealth of Virginia?_
Because anyone claiming "Jefferson was a monster" is outright wrong -- and is cherry-picking facts to suit an agenda and/or a narrative.
@charlie J ...Bravo!...That was simply brilliant! Sir,You displayed a certain eloquency coupled with insightful and historical relevancy that gave birth to Light!...That's all!...Shalom
Question: How did he treat his slaves. Answer: owning them.
I have known that many of the founding fathers owned slaves since I was a kid but it was certainly not taught in grade school , middle school or high school where I lived . This information has always been available during my lifetime . Also know that my grandmothers great , great grandfather had a plantation and owned slaves . Certainly thats unthinkable to us today but it is history and we have to live with it and do our best to make it right .
There are soo many things not taught in school. For instance, the U.S. bombing of Dresden, Germany. 35,000 people died in one day.
Its called Propaganda!!! People have been enslaved since the beginning of time. It was AFRICAN people who sold other AFRICAN People and there have been slaves of every COLOR CREED AND RELIGION!!! THIS IS NOT A WHITE AMERICAN OR SOUTHERN ISSUE ITS INHUMANITY OF MEN TOWARDS MAN!!!!
@@bigpappa642 in America and Europe it was a white people issue. Doesn't much matter who else was doing what.
If some dude down the street beats his wife. Does that make it ok for you to beat your wife? No. Does it make it ok for you to beat _his_ wife? Also no.
@@buckleup7886 Columbus was describing North American INDIANS he had NEVER seen before and the only thing that he could compare them to was what he already knew and that was of AFRICAN people's!! The first document of SLAVERY in the American Colony's where that of IRISH WOMEN and CHILDREN not AFRICAN nor American INDIANS. If you dig deep into HISTORY and find actual Historical facts and not Political Propaganda that has been passed down threw time you can learn alot!!!
@@buckleup7886 so you are part American Indian? You first say that Columbus documented dark skinned people who he only had knowledge of AFRICAN people's being of dark skin those documents from the first trip to the new world are still around but not documented cases of the first slave's brought to the new world? How does that even make sense or is it a huge conspiracy? Even King Gorge tried to stop the slave trade to the colonies and was told by Chief's of AFRICAN tribes that they would sell there captives from other tribes or kill them.. So the East Indian Trading company saw a opportunity for income and started the slave trade. But the INTER POINT IS THAT SENSE THE BEGINNING OF TIME THERE HAS BEEN SLAVERY OF EVERY RACE CREED CULTURE AND RELIGION ITS NOT EXCLUSIVELY AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY AGAINST BLACK PEOPLE. AND I SAY BLACK PEOPLE BECAUSE UNLESS YOU WHERE BORN IN AFRICA YOU ARE AN AMERICAN NOT AN AFRICAN AMERICAN. WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT TO CLAIM ALLEGIANCE TO A COUNTRY THAT SOLD THERE ANCESTORS AND TO THIS DAY HATES BLACK AMERICANS!! ITS THE ELITE CLASS OF ELECTED OFFICIALS AND THE NON ELECTED ELITE ESTABLISHMENT WHO ARE KEEPING THE RACISM ALIVE TO KEEP AMERICANS DIVIDED SO THAT THEY CAN CONTINUE TO CONTROL EVERYONE ON THE PLANTATION OF AMERICA AS THE TAX CATTLE!! WE AS A AMERICAN NATION NEED TO WAKEUP TO THE POLITICAL GAMES OF RACE BAITING AND TAKE BACK CONTROL OF OUR OWN COUNTRY AND OUR OWN LIVES WITH THE FREEDOM WE ARE ALL TO HAVE. THE RIGHTS GIVEN TO US BY GOD NOT GOVERNMENT THE RIGHT THAT WE ARE ALL CREATED EQUAL AND HAVE THE RIGHT TO PURSUE LIFE LIBERTY AND HAPPINESS AS WE SEE FIT AS ONE NATION UNDER GOD!!!
How awfully sad that people of color were treated this way. What an ugly time in history. My goodness.
Thank you for answering this question, giving an explanation with such grace and compassion.❤️
White folks as well hello ottoman empire learn you're world history
@@Eman-pf4zz one thing about white folks is that they always find a way to make it about themselves
You need to read up on world history, it will shock you. Also you benefit from modern day slavery. These people are beaten, shackled, raped and killed all for the many products you enjoy including the computer/smartphone you used to type your comment. Yet there is no outrage from society at large. People in present times like to think we are morally superior.. We are not. There were also prosperous black slave owners and Native Americans had slaves. Those two groups of people supported and fought for the south in the civil war.
So he treated them like a slave master. Cruel, cheap and heartless with a eye only on their own gains.
She tells this part of history with a painful hesitant in her voice, do you know why? TRUTH HURTS!!!
Truth heals, lies hurt.
Maybe because she feels awful for the things that happened? It has nothing to do with her 😒
Marianne without a doubt that is just what that was.
...she was answering a question from a young black girl. Have you ever had to break terrible news to a kid? It’s not fun.
Not really, just an act, trying hard to sound sad. I find the whole topic ridiculous !
Not ok by today's standards of living, however back then it was business. Our Country has come a long way since then.
This lady presented a great answer.
John B we have records, accounts, and etc. you troglodyte. She simply told how living as a slave was a horrible experience.
Even if he treated them like kings and queens he treated them horrendously by virtue of the fact that they were enslaved!!! The whole system was rotten to the core so nothing that came from it was good, just or right!!!
We all know that, so why do we still have to go on about slavery? It is 2020, I think people should move forward. What do you think?
Something did come good of it. African Americans are today living in the greatest country in the world.
Washington freed his slaves when he died. And he also actively sought to bring the end of slavery through legislation but alas that wasn’t possible because of the times.
@@andrewholt6158 ...seriously? you are joking,right???
So true Maureen..This whole country was built on a corrupt foundation of liberty and justice for those they deemed acceptable.
I’m sure that God was fair in his judgement of Mr. Washington.
Only 1 way to being saved from Just Judgement, here is a small hint, it’s not by trying to do “good” works. By works of the Law no one will be justified
Mr P , what does my comment have to do with knowing the Bible? What are you even talking about? I made a true indisputable comment. Only God knows whether or not if George Washington’s slaves were treated fairly or not and I’m sure he judged him fairly. Period, end of story. God is the judge not us.
@Stacie Sigley God is real.
Stacie Sigley , one thing you cannot dispute regardless of intellect is that one day we’ll eventually find out who’s right and who’s wrong.
3alarm247 for owning a slave am sure a special is prepared in hell for him
Washington was a man of his time. He had grown up thinking slavery was normal and natural, just as Africans of the time, who also practiced slavery, probably also did. How many things in our culture that we take for granted will likewise seem shockingly wrong to people 200 years from now?
Legal Vampire Absolutely; well stated.
You are closed minded. You reminds me of a another culture thinking, if it's not affecting my race or culture, then it's okay. If a certain group in the same race views slavery as wrong and another group views it as okay, then it's wrong. The problem with you and people like you is that you stay in your comfort zone and never stand up for anything or anyone. Slavery is wrong no matter who or what race is the slave owner.
Probably eating meat.
@@coconutjuice7777777 CoconutJuice - could be. In 200 years' time perhaps self-righteous Animal Lives Matter protestors will be vandalizing monuments to World War II heroes and Civil Rights Campaigners who once ate a lamb chop.
They weren’t “his slaves” they were enslaved people and he was their enslaver. Put the onus of the moral burden where it belongs.
We can, and should, look back at our forebears and Thank God that we finally stopped doing some of the things they did. But if we intend to erase our history depending on our evolved societal values, where do we stop. Do we erase the Founding Fathers for killing and eating animals, for denying women the vote? MUCH of what was taken for granted in those days now makes us cringe. That does not mean we can rewrite - or erase it. Nor can we resurrect and judge them for behaving in a way that was considered acceptable in their era.
It is not a matter of erasing history or the Founding Father's, but it is a matter of accurately describing the actions and attitudes of the people of that time.
The social acceptability of the times does not excuse the hypocricy of the individuals who agreed on the one hand that "all men are created equal and are endowed by there creator with certain inalienable rights. That among these are the right to life liberty and the persuit of happiness". Yet did not recognize enslaved black people or Native Americans as individuals that were equal to them in the eyes of their creator.
That is the height of hypocrisy
orsocarmel what they did was create living document that will create a land of free people no matter race. What you have to understand is the time. You couldn’t immediately go into war with slave owners after the British where defeated. It would have been a disaster. The English could have just invaded again and we would have been colonized. What happened was the inevitable. Hundreds of thousands of Americans dying to uphold the constitution which says all men are created equal and Abolish slavery on US soil. No other country in the history of has ever done this.
@@orsocarmel so we also need to look at the period of history and general attitudes. Slavery was considered acceptable in the US and the entire world until Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves. The Egyptians enslaved the Hebrews. All of tha ancient civilizations kept and sold slaves. In the 1600s the Barberry pirates (who were black Africans) kidnapped and enslaved all races - particularly white Europeans. There were white Irish slaves in the colonies in the 1600s. The first documented person to own slaves in the colony was actually a black man. Most of the slaves that ended up in the US were sold by black tribes. Less than 10% of the population owned slaves and many slave owners were black or Native American. Slavery is still a terrible problem. Libya and Saudi Arabia have horrendous slave trade and they are hardly the only countries that are active. Hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of children and women are trafficked across vulnerable areas of our borders. The Open Borders folks either don't realize how bad the problem is or they don't care or they are profiting from modern day slavery. As a matter of fact, that NXIUM sex cult was keeping smuggled South American and Mexican sex slaves in their closets. Multiple Presidents and their families participated in the trafficking. Don't forget, it wasn't that long ago that women were considered property as well. But I don't dwell on that fact. Instead I am extremely grateful that I can vote, and work, and own property.
Your point is too nuanced for some on here
@@LoveLightLiberty6868 Truth, I really don't know why some can't get by this. It was a completely different era. They used to bleed people when they got sick, they burned women at the stake for being witches, none of those things exist now. Owning slaves during that period was just commonplace, and some blacks owned slaves as well, but no one does that now. Why hold on to hate for something that happened before even any of our grandparents were born?
I just watched something very interesting right here on RUclips entitled Blacks in power don't empower blacks. Everyone regardless of race should watch it. It tells of the history of blacks in political positions and how it affected the black middle class. I think many would be shocked.
Today, most historians speak of “enslaved people” instead of “slaves.” This language separates a person's identity from his/her circumstance. Anything less than a resound "badly" would be an oxymoron. Paradoxical - is the title a trick question?
I noticed how she referred to "enslaved people"...I think it is a humanizing term because it reminds the listener that these were people in terrible circumstances, usually for their entire lives, but they were people with the same desires, wishes, and needs as any other person...
Wow, thank you so much for mentioning that. I never noticed before, but it really does have a profound effect on how you view enslaved people.
Enslaved is the active term for being who a slave. The only real alternative would be to say "the slaves" which is not only poor grammar, but sounds less humanizing than an enslaved person. She does not step away from how horrible slavery is, not once.
@@clubsnatcher I though that this was grammatically an example of the passive voice which uses the verb "to be" with the past participle. The agent which is introduced by the word "by" are Europeans; the subjects of that enslavement are another people - Africans (mostly from west of the continent).
A similar case is how people attempting to heal division and defeat prejudiced will refer to ethnicity rather than to race. The idea of people with dark skin being a specific race was disproved by a study attempting to genetically justify “racism.” There is only the human race, but the lie is still perpetuated by people trying to stir up hate and manipulate people.
Why she sound like she saying “it won’t as bad as other places so it’s okay.” Am I the only one?
Did you listen to the whole clip? She said almost the opposite
the words she said didn't say that, but it was certainly the tone.
Remember, she is trying to explain this to a teenage black girl.
its an awkward discussion cause she has to explain why her racial ancestors enslaved and conquered her racial ancestors
@@NuRm69 I know what you're trying to say, but the whole white race didn't enslave the whole black race,
It's right. For 18th century times, Washington treated his slaves well based on the context of his era.
You want to deny the history?
@@aykatz3125 true
I just think it's more of trying to explain things to a young child.
Honestly, I think she did the best she could.
Hard to imagine the frustration of a life of working hard all the time but always receiving “just enough but not any extra”. Part of freedom is to receive just compensation for labor.