“ THE PLANTATION SYSTEM IN SOUTHERN LIFE " SHARECROPPERS AFRICAN AMERICANS COTTON FARMS XD14664
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This color educational film from the 1950s is about the history of Southern plantations in the USA, from the Civil War days to "the present". The film was produced during the era of Segregation and as such, contains many outdated terms and concepts, many of which may be offensive to a modern audience.
Opening titles: A Coronet Film - The Plantation System in Southern Life (:10). A white family on vacation looks at an old plantation home built before the Civil War (:31). Inside a home, the family looks around at the beautiful furnishings (1:00). A map that explains how the plantation was organized (1:28). Slaves lived in dilapidated, small houses (2:01). Blacksmith shop run by African American (2:19). Hand labor done by the slaves including spinning thread, cutting firewood, etc. (2:28). A wagon is shown bogged down in mud; two African American men struggle to get their team of horses to pull it out. Because of roads like this and poor transportation in general, in-house production of many items was the norm (2:44). A sternwheel riverboat or steamboat on the Mississippi (3:03). Slaves move bales of cotton onto a steamship (3:18). Slaves in the field pick cotton (3:36). White minder or foreman on a horse talks to slaves in the field (4:03). White man gets off his horse and meets his family at the house (4:29). Map of the United States shows plantations from Virginia to Texas; tobacco, cotton, and sugar were the main crops (5:05). Plantation home in ruins, that was abandoned after the Civil War (6:06). Rich land; source of labor - the slaves remained (6:38). African Americans picking cotton today as part of sharecropping system (6:59). A landlord and his tenants work on a farm (7:24). Tenant farmers and their families live on the plantations today, and the homes of the White owners and Black workers are compared (7:51). People at work on the farm, judging from the man's shirt this is near Wayside, Mississippi in Washington County (8:14). Paved roads exist today (8:33). Cattle graze (8:49). A Ford tractor plows a field (9:09) and a McCormick harvester at work. A man among the soy bean crop, riding a John Deere tractor (9:40). African Americans pick cotton today (9:57). People exhibit southern hospitality with manners and food while the narrator speaks about "society separated into distinct groups" as a veiled attempt to justify segregation (10:08). African Americans pick cotton in the field as they have for hundreds of years (10:33). End credits (10:42).
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This film is quite factual. I just turned 62 and both my mother and father are Caucasian. My mother's family were share croppers and primarily grew cotton.
Industrial revolution!
May 19 1850
Three men have passed out during shift . Two child workers died in the factory machinery . No stop of Factory happened during the shift.
Every day of operation of a Northern State factory! 7 days a Week! 52 Weeks a year! Child workers lost limbs and dies every day! Men lost limbs and died every day! Women didn’t even matter to calculate on the injury list!
Learn your history before you comment
Still learn your history!
@@thebasicquestion2853 If you are telling me to learn my history, please inform me as to what part of this film is wrong or inaccurate. Please give a time code so that I can hear the dialogue and view the pictures at that moment.
At least in south Alabama, cotton has fallen to less than half the agricultural products grown here. Peanuts, corn, and soybeans are now among the top crops. Almost no hand labor is used for growing and harvesting any of these crops. Many more people are employed for poultry raising and timber production than work with traditional field crops. The sharecropping system is extinct because the production from small parcels of land isn't sufficient to provide a family with a living. Land leasing is common, where owners lease land otherwise fallow to farmers. These owners are not involved with crop raising, only with leasing their land. The era of trying eke out a living on a small parcel of land is rapidly coming to a close as large farms are becoming more and more common, as is corporate ownership. This has reduced agricultural employment, formerly the leading employer. This has caused an increase in poverty and a depopulation of many southern towns, some of which are only a small step above ghost town status.
This is going to be a septic comment section.
The narrator forgot to mention the Great Migration of 1910, which saw many Black families escape the gross inequalities of the plantation system, and leave the South for a better future.
Core Civic renamed itself… so… its cool.
It's so strange watching this.
Was it part of Southern culture to portray slavery in a positive light? Because watching this makes the "Land Owners" seem quite benevolent. That was the most, excuse the pun, white washed description of slavery I have ever seen. Almost makes one want to curse those damn Yankees! An important documentary though. Not for it's objective description of the economic structure of Southern Plantations in pre-civil war America, but as a representation of how shallow and non-judgmental these short films produced for the educational system were in the 1950's. I guess the films had to be acceptable to be shown in Southern schools without offending any of those "Land Owners."
Share cropping is NOT slavery. My mother and her family share cropped. They could have given up their piece of land at any time and moved on. During WWII many moved north to working the factories. They were absolutely free to leave at any time. Share cropping is an economic arrangement.
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1950.
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@@PeriscopeFilm Just don't cover up the original year they were released.
The year of production is mentioned in the description.
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I wish the plantation system were completey abolished. Fascinating history, but so sad and hateful.
The plantation system HAS been abolished. The actual "plantation system" ended with the civil war. In it's place came tenat farmers and that system is pretty much gone as well.
This video is soo cringeworthy. It may be historical, but it's vile. Absolutely vile. And the narration, so pleasant .. devoid of appropriate emotion per content being spoken on. Very weird video.
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My goodness! Romanticizing slavery?
Moore did you just try to downplay slavery
History: Right or Wrong, it happened.
God bless the Old South. I love it so much. My home forever. #DIXIELANDFOREVER
God bless Lincoln, Sherman, Meade and Grant
@@thebrokenrattle unsweetened tea and tyranny too right Billy Yank ?
@@PETTIGREW1861 Tea is to be thrown into the sea. As for tyranny, we liberated the slaves you kept.
@@thebrokenrattle you liberated them by raping and murdering them as a matter of policy that Lincoln rewarded Yankee soldiers to do. Backed by Abolitionist who said their goal was the extinction of the black race such as New York Senator and union General John Dix. Impressive 🙄
Is this still going on?
What do you mean by "this?" Slavery? Share-cropping? Mechanization? Changing crops? What, specifically, do you mean?
What do you think?
w h a c i s t
The people seemed to get along so much better back then.
😂
You mean like the civil war years?
@@jamescampbell9533 😄
Surely you jest.
As long as the slaves did all the work and never complained everyone was cordial. Otherwise, it was sheer hell and slaves were beaten as needed, it’s just sick.
The USA has not progressed much.
White people are the most discriminated against people nowadays and white males the most.
The USA has progressed tremendously. You just don't know or recogniced to what extent.
I would like to belong to one of the aristocratic families)
Be a slave owner?
@@R.U.1.2. Why not? I would be the most kind slave owner in the world) I love people)
That's racist!
Not at all