I have never heard this information. And I am so glad that you're bringing it out and letting us all. Know exactly what happened. They did not deserve to be treated like they were. They definitely need to be remembered.💖
What is amazing is how we can rise above the harsh and inhumane circumstances we lived over. We don’t have the hearts and souls of those who enslaved us. We want to heal move forward and with equitable treatment.
The same laws and ppl who took away our freedom and rights should fund our education and therapy... Therapy should be performed by p.o.c.'s who don't have agendas.. my black, male therapist needed therapy himself.. so we must learn and heal so we can heal others.. after therapy, then we can talk reparations.. don't give money and land to broken ppl.. they'll squander it and lose it right back..
I am a Newfoundlander, whose family arrived pre-Jamestown on our Island of Newfoundland. I want so much to learn about the African experience here and their lives. All records seem to show only servants and that includes indentured. I know the history is here but how to find it is difficult. 1619 is so important.
The First African Slaves to be forced into Americas were extremely depressed!! Being on a strange ship, to a strange land, separated from their families/tribes, depression were upon many of them for a very long time ... 😞
I wish you could have talked about John Gowen, who was an Angolan who arrived in 1619 and was indentured and was perhaps the first free African in North America after he bought his freedom. He was also able to buy his son Michael’s freedom so he could be raised as a Christian and be educated. He was my direct ancestor.
I was hoping this was discussed too. I've found a link in my family so the way back to John and Mihill Gowen also. From what I've found so far, their graves are lost but there are so many records of them owning land. My dna showed African dna we were unaware of so I started chasing on family search and there the whole story was.
@d.d.sarason8749 he traveled with Cabeza de Vaca in the early 1500's after his expedition was shipwrecked in Galveston. 4th grade Texas history covers that expedition. 4 of them survived and lived for 8 years I believe it was, sometimes as slaves to the natives and sometimes as medicine men, along the Rio Grande. They crossed both sides freely back then. CdV journal was full of information about what the natives ate for food because without them, they would have starved. I believe Cabeza de Vaca made it back to Spain. His original journals are lost but he published it them later. He may have been the first African to set foot on American soil but he wasn't brought to America in the slave trade. He came from Spain with the expedition. He died in Cibola, a Zuni tribe they thought was the city of gold. When Coronado came later they found the Zuni wearing his clothes and were told they had killed him because he came in advance of the Spaniards to announce them and was rude and demanded they be given women or alternately they believed he was impersonating a medicine man and killed him for that. Different theories exist. Regardless his status was set in Spain rather than being captured and brought to America for the sole purpose of being a slave. He seems to have lived as an equal to the Spaniards in America. They were all captured by the indigenous on Galveston, all escaped, and all started on the journey towards Spanish controlled Mexico trying to get home.
MY HEART HURT AND ACHE FOR MY ENSLAVED PEOPLE AND WHAT THEY HAD TO ENDURE. MY ANCESTERS, GREAT AND GREAT GREAT GRANDPARENTS WERE INSLAVED IN VIRGINIA NOT FAR FROM HAMPTON. I NOW ALSO LIVE IN ISLE OF WRIGHT COUNTY.
"Roots" is exaggerated and full of lies, Slaves were expensive, and needed to be kept healthy, some masters were abusive, but they were part of the plantation owners lively hood , it may have been minimal, but they were fed ,housed and clothed ... if my forefathers had not endured,a horrible ship journey, starvation,and bitter winters , I would not be living in this great country today... if your ancestors had not survived a horrific journey and endured slavery, you would probably not be living in this great country today either... if you existed, you would likely be in Africa, enslaved or starving... probably both...
No worries Rebecca, I am a US History teacher and will be teaching THIS to my students. I am learning different perspectives of our history everyday, and breaking the cycle of the single narrative.
Loved this program but I must say that Angela wouldn't have needed to be taught how to respect elders. That was instilled by her African community/village. That would have already been her tradition upon arriving on these shores. Also, she would already have had a religious outlook on life, from her native religion. I keep seeing Africans being betrayed as godless, culturesless, and barbaric before arrival. 👍🏼
I have been doing research on my own regarding my family... I have come to find out that if you go back in history a few thousand year's the truth about who we are will come to light... After the flood, the Bible says there was Noah, his wife and there 3 son's and there wives left.. From these came everyone else, Ham was the youngest son, from him came all the dark races, like the Canaanites, Egyptians, Ethiopians and Africans.... But not the Negros, Shem, the other son of Noah is the progenitor of the Negros or so-called African-Americans, but in fact we are not Africans thought we may look the same we are not...Africa is where our ancestors would go in times of war and such..We are Hebrew Israelites from the tribe of Judah... How we got into Africa was when Egypt, killed millions of Hebrews and destroyed there homes... Please do a internet search for the original Map of Negro Land which is found in Africa, now look at the Slave Coast, and above that you will find the Kingdom of Judah. Don't you find it strange that the Kingdom of Judah, and the Slave Coast, would be in the same place??? To prove the point please read in your Bible in the book of Deuteronomy chapter 28, the blessings and the curses... Because Judah sinned against GOD, they were lead into Slavery...It may be that some Africans were in the slave trade by mistake, the biggest number of slaves were Hebrews from the tribe of Judah, which includes Levy, and Benjamin.. After doing a DNA test, it came back to Bantu, Benin, Togo, Western Bantu, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Mali, and parts of Europe... The Kingdom of Judah, can be found between the Ivory Coast, and Benin, and Bantu nation...
Don’t you people get tired of spreading lies. That crap about black people coming from ham is bs! The Hamitic theory is an old racist theory people still believe in and the beginnings of the racism we see today that has permeated the globe. Google it. Research it. Several bs racist people created it to make an excuse to colonize and enslave Africans.
The Ship’s were purposely overloaded because they knew that 1/2 or more would die during the voyage. Just like today’s Prison’s, they are beyond capacity, COVID-19 is rampant, and some will die in Prison because of purposeful neglect! Have we really changed that much?
@@timsolomon8352 So, by this logic, they deserve to die by overcrowding them and exposing them to COVID. In America, supposedly the greatest country on Earth. No wonder so many of our young people are choosing death to self respect.
Hereditary slavery in Virginia wasn’t imposed until the 1660’s. One former slave/ indentured servant, Anthony Johnson, an African recorded as indentured in 1621, actually became a successful tobacco farmer and even owned slaves himself.
@@MILITANTMONEY Perhaps you’re just a crack baby who never studied actual primary sources but claims to be knowledgeable about history. You seem like one of the idiots going around claiming “we wuz kangz”. Sorry to tell you, you were not kings. The African kings sold you to the Europeans. So if you want to paint the white man as the bad guy, go ahead. However, you should know it that the black man was equally as guilty. They sold slaves in Africa long after slavery ended in America. “We wuz kangz!” 🤪
There is a lot of dodging around this topic. Yes, official slavery was not established in Virginia until later through laws. But I'd like to see the de facto status that existed for these individuals. Some were able to buy their freedom, but what about the others? I don't think we can easily term all of these folks "indentured servants". There are usually some voluntary agreement or legal coercion through the courts. I think it is very appropriate to see this as a start of slavery.
My great great grand parents were slave owners... I went to a seance and they think that black people should pay reparations for all of the harm that they have done to our society...
A free will, indentured servant, free African who voluntarily came to Virginia (United States) before the year 1619 is not the same as a free black African who was taken away from Africa against his or her own free will came involuntarily chained and bondage on slave ships and sold into.american slavery. Two very different things.
@@MROOOZZZZZ Whether a free indentured servant or involuntarily chained, the common denominator both sets of Africans both faced upon arriving in American is RACISM. A factor their descendants have to live with and through to this day.
STOP CALLING US AFRICANS. Just because we have brown skin doesn't make us "African". I know some east indians who are darker than me, yet they aren't called african. I'm sick of wyte people lying to us!
1776 was a date labeled America's beginning because that's when documentation happened, of course we were here before that, and you could talk about the beginning of America many different times, we all was taught about slavery in school, we all know tons about slavery, I get sick and tired of people acting like that America is trying to forget our past and we don't know about slavery, we all know about slavery and we think it's terrible, I've not met one single person that thought slavery was a good thing
@@joycesmith771 you mean the fact that I think slavery is terrible? 99.9% of people I've met in the United States thinks slavery is a terrible thing, and we were terrible for doing it, you disagree I guess?
Straight slavery amongst the Indigenous and African no such thing as this Indentured servant mess makes no logical sense when talking about these groups of people maybe for the Dutch to do there own or even Irish or England. Them folks took people land houses etc n said now u stay here u don’t own it we have no respect for u but u will up keep it. Come on now who in they right mind will willingly stay in those situations my people where not dumb…
Slavery in 1619 was not something just African people experienced, Europeans were enslaved by the Berbers and Turks the walls they build still stand. Only in Northern Europe it was forbidden, any person that was made a slave and came to the harbour of Amsterdam were free people, many people from Angola married in Amsterdam and build their lives there. And Angela being free in Africa is probably not true as she was enslaved by more aggressive tribes like the Ashanti who enslaved many and became rich doing so.
What you are saying is only what you think. The slavery in Africa at the time was nothing like the slavery in the Americas. No one said just African people experienced slavery. The slaves in the Americas were brought here by Europeans. The Trans Atlantic slave was entirely a European endeavor. Not bad me African got the Americas by the hand of a Turk or Berber. They also enslaved subsaharan African people.
What is the point of you telling us about European being enslaved by a government that doesn’t exist then or now. The American government built wealth off of free labor. That government exists today, and does the descendants of those slaves. Your ancestors came to America because Black American slaves laid the groundwork to make it possible. You have no say in this matter, but you want to downplay Black American history.
I have never heard this information. And I am so glad that you're bringing it out and letting us all. Know exactly what happened. They did not deserve to be treated like they were. They definitely need to be remembered.💖
My Aunt Lilly 1777, left a family diary of our history, which my Aunt has of today.
Lucky you. I wish I had the same
What is amazing is how we can rise above the harsh and inhumane circumstances we lived over. We don’t have the hearts and souls of those who enslaved us. We want to heal move forward and with equitable treatment.
The same laws and ppl who took away our freedom and rights should fund our education and therapy... Therapy should be performed by p.o.c.'s who don't have agendas.. my black, male therapist needed therapy himself.. so we must learn and heal so we can heal others.. after therapy, then we can talk reparations.. don't give money and land to broken ppl.. they'll squander it and lose it right back..
@georgeprince3169maybe equal treatment " on paper" " legislatively" " pplitically" . But in reality? " In practice"??? Mmmm.
I am a Newfoundlander, whose family arrived pre-Jamestown on our Island of Newfoundland. I want so much to learn about the African experience here and their lives. All records seem to show only servants and that includes indentured. I know the history is here but how to find it is difficult. 1619 is so important.
The First African Slaves to be forced into Americas were extremely depressed!! Being on a strange ship, to a strange land, separated from their families/tribes, depression were upon many of them for a very long time ... 😞
I wish you could have talked about John Gowen, who was an Angolan who arrived in 1619 and was indentured and was perhaps the first free African in North America after he bought his freedom. He was also able to buy his son Michael’s freedom so he could be raised as a Christian and be educated. He was my direct ancestor.
Thank you for posting this message. I found out through DNA that my maternal ancestors came from Angola; we may even be related!
I was hoping this was discussed too. I've found a link in my family so the way back to John and Mihill Gowen also. From what I've found so far, their graves are lost but there are so many records of them owning land. My dna showed African dna we were unaware of so I started chasing on family search and there the whole story was.
Esteban the Moor was an explorer born in Africa and disappeared in what is now Mexico in about 1539
@d.d.sarason8749 he traveled with Cabeza de Vaca in the early 1500's after his expedition was shipwrecked in Galveston. 4th grade Texas history covers that expedition. 4 of them survived and lived for 8 years I believe it was, sometimes as slaves to the natives and sometimes as medicine men, along the Rio Grande. They crossed both sides freely back then. CdV journal was full of information about what the natives ate for food because without them, they would have starved. I believe Cabeza de Vaca made it back to Spain. His original journals are lost but he published it them later. He may have been the first African to set foot on American soil but he wasn't brought to America in the slave trade. He came from Spain with the expedition. He died in Cibola, a Zuni tribe they thought was the city of gold. When Coronado came later they found the Zuni wearing his clothes and were told they had killed him because he came in advance of the Spaniards to announce them and was rude and demanded they be given women or alternately they believed he was impersonating a medicine man and killed him for that. Different theories exist. Regardless his status was set in Spain rather than being captured and brought to America for the sole purpose of being a slave. He seems to have lived as an equal to the Spaniards in America. They were all captured by the indigenous on Galveston, all escaped, and all started on the journey towards Spanish controlled Mexico trying to get home.
What pains me so deeply is how much the Haitians will have to pay to get their freedom from France!!!! How many centuries???????
loved both parts of this series. would love to see more.
It's Over. No more lies will be tolerated.
American Declaration of the Indigenous People's Rights #OrganizationoftheAmericanStates
MY HEART HURT AND ACHE FOR MY ENSLAVED PEOPLE AND WHAT THEY HAD TO ENDURE. MY ANCESTERS, GREAT AND GREAT GREAT GRANDPARENTS WERE INSLAVED IN VIRGINIA NOT FAR FROM HAMPTON. I NOW ALSO LIVE IN ISLE OF WRIGHT COUNTY.
Is that why your entire post is in caps? Are you hoping that they might somehow here you?
@@clarkkentsuperman5911Her ancestors were also enslavers.
"Roots" is exaggerated and full of lies, Slaves were expensive, and needed to be kept healthy, some masters were abusive, but they were part of the plantation owners lively hood , it may have been minimal, but they were fed ,housed and clothed ... if my forefathers had not endured,a horrible ship journey, starvation,and bitter winters , I would not be living in this great country today... if your ancestors had not survived a horrific journey and endured slavery, you would probably not be living in this great country today either... if you existed, you would likely be in Africa, enslaved or starving... probably both...
I can't imagine how frighten my people were. There was no good in slavery, but it makes me so proud to come from them.
This is important history. But man that eerie background noise is weird.
Excessive use of it
Why didn’t I learn this in school? 😠
I know right but it's up to us to educate ourselves more on black history
@@jackpotdadon Yeah,the black america way..seek because everything that is truth is hidden. smh sad we're as a people akways behind the 8ball..
No worries Rebecca, I am a US History teacher and will be teaching THIS to my students. I am learning different perspectives of our history everyday, and breaking the cycle of the single narrative.
Because this is propaganda and is nonsense.
Because other things were more significant.
Loved this program but I must say that Angela wouldn't have needed to be taught how to respect elders. That was instilled by her African community/village. That would have already been her tradition upon arriving on these shores.
Also, she would already have had a religious outlook on life, from her native religion.
I keep seeing Africans being betrayed as godless, culturesless, and barbaric before arrival. 👍🏼
I missed something. Did or do Angela. Have any offspring or springs? Kudos to all and the Archeolohists as well. Sirs? Keep diggng
Too bad so many people are choosing not to use their endurance these days...
Portland, JAMAICA in the Building !!!
Big up yahself Kreiger!! Didn’t expect too see you here 050 the movement stay educated bredren.
The Black moors brought soaps and public baths to Eroupe
I have been doing research on my own regarding my family... I have come to find out that if you go back in history a few thousand year's the truth about who we are will come to light... After the flood, the Bible says there was Noah, his wife and there 3 son's and there wives left.. From these came everyone else, Ham was the youngest son, from him came all the dark races, like the Canaanites, Egyptians, Ethiopians and Africans.... But not the Negros, Shem, the other son of Noah is the progenitor of the Negros or so-called African-Americans, but in fact we are not Africans thought we may look the same we are not...Africa is where our ancestors would go in times of war and such..We are Hebrew Israelites from the tribe of Judah... How we got into Africa was when Egypt, killed millions of Hebrews and destroyed there homes... Please do a internet search for the original Map of Negro Land which is found in Africa, now look at the Slave Coast, and above that you will find the Kingdom of Judah. Don't you find it strange that the Kingdom of Judah, and the Slave Coast, would be in the same place??? To prove the point please read in your Bible in the book of Deuteronomy chapter 28, the blessings and the curses... Because Judah sinned against GOD, they were lead into Slavery...It may be that some Africans were in the slave trade by mistake, the biggest number of slaves were Hebrews from the tribe of Judah, which includes Levy, and Benjamin.. After doing a DNA test, it came back to Bantu, Benin, Togo, Western Bantu, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Mali, and parts of Europe... The Kingdom of Judah, can be found between the Ivory Coast, and Benin, and Bantu nation...
Don’t you people get tired of spreading lies. That crap about black people coming from ham is bs! The Hamitic theory is an old racist theory people still believe in and the beginnings of the racism we see today that has permeated the globe. Google it. Research it. Several bs racist people created it to make an excuse to colonize and enslave Africans.
I am sure Angella is just watching everbody. Hope her Mistress treated her fairly or well, or humane. Wow Angola.
Jesus’ has got to come.🕊🙏🏾
The Ship’s were purposely overloaded because they knew that 1/2 or more would die during the voyage. Just like today’s Prison’s, they are beyond capacity, COVID-19 is rampant, and some will die in Prison because of purposeful neglect! Have we really changed that much?
The ones in prisoned today is bc of their own choices, not that of others. So that's on them.
@@timsolomon8352 So, by this logic, they deserve to die by overcrowding them and exposing them to COVID. In America, supposedly the greatest country on Earth.
No wonder so many of our young people are choosing death to self respect.
Well, the difference is, that 99% of people in prison today deserve to be there, the slaves did not deserve it
Hereditary slavery in Virginia wasn’t imposed until the 1660’s. One former slave/ indentured servant, Anthony Johnson, an African recorded as indentured in 1621, actually became a successful tobacco farmer and even owned slaves himself.
Lier
i see ur tryin to run with that term indentured. the reasoning behind that delusion must be inate
@@MILITANTMONEY Perhaps you’re just a crack baby who never studied actual primary sources but claims to be knowledgeable about history. You seem like one of the idiots going around claiming “we wuz kangz”. Sorry to tell you, you were not kings. The African kings sold you to the Europeans. So if you want to paint the white man as the bad guy, go ahead. However, you should know it that the black man was equally as guilty. They sold slaves in Africa long after slavery ended in America. “We wuz kangz!” 🤪
There is a lot of dodging around this topic. Yes, official slavery was not established in Virginia until later through laws. But I'd like to see the de facto status that existed for these individuals. Some were able to buy their freedom, but what about the others? I don't think we can easily term all of these folks "indentured servants". There are usually some voluntary agreement or legal coercion through the courts. I think it is very appropriate to see this as a start of slavery.
The fact is slavery existed and was wrong whether owned by white or black
the First Africans Came on A Slave Ship to America was In Charleston, South Carolina.
The Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock 1620 and only meet American indians
My great great grand parents were slave owners... I went to a seance and they think that black people should pay reparations for all of the harm that they have done to our society...
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The first Africans in Virginia did NOT come on slave ships.
A free will, indentured servant, free African who voluntarily came to Virginia (United States) before the year 1619 is not the same as a free black African who was taken away from Africa against his or her own free will came involuntarily chained and bondage on slave ships and sold into.american slavery.
Two very different things.
Cuz the First Africans Came on A Slave Ship to America was In Charleston, South Carolina.
@@JADDA4REAL i said Africans... not African slaves.
@@JADDA4REAL I took DNA test first early African Americans comes in west Virgina then they spread out to South Carolina
@@MROOOZZZZZ Whether a free indentured servant or involuntarily chained, the common denominator both sets of Africans both faced upon arriving in American is RACISM. A factor their descendants have to live with and through to this day.
STOP CALLING US AFRICANS. Just because we have brown skin doesn't make us "African". I know some east indians who are darker than me, yet they aren't called african. I'm sick of wyte people lying to us!
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1776 was a date labeled America's beginning because that's when documentation happened, of course we were here before that, and you could talk about the beginning of America many different times, we all was taught about slavery in school, we all know tons about slavery, I get sick and tired of people acting like that America is trying to forget our past and we don't know about slavery, we all know about slavery and we think it's terrible, I've not met one single person that thought slavery was a good thing
I'll make u a slave right now
And that attitude is part of the problem.
But get used to it. Our voices will not be softened or hidden.
@@joycesmith771 you mean the fact that I think slavery is terrible? 99.9% of people I've met in the United States thinks slavery is a terrible thing, and we were terrible for doing it, you disagree I guess?
@@joycesmith771 what voices? I think we all agree that slavery was terrible
Straight slavery amongst the Indigenous and African no such thing as this Indentured servant mess makes no logical sense when talking about these groups of people maybe for the Dutch to do there own or even Irish or England. Them folks took people land houses etc n said now u stay here u don’t own it we have no respect for u but u will up keep it. Come on now who in they right mind will willingly stay in those situations my people where not dumb…
education education yeah
Slavery in 1619 was not something just African people experienced, Europeans were enslaved by the Berbers and Turks the walls they build still stand. Only in Northern Europe it was forbidden, any person that was made a slave and came to the harbour of Amsterdam were free people, many people from Angola married in Amsterdam and build their lives there. And Angela being free in Africa is probably not true as she was enslaved by more aggressive tribes like the Ashanti who enslaved many and became rich doing so.
What you are saying is only what you think. The slavery in Africa at the time was nothing like the slavery in the Americas. No one said just African people experienced slavery. The slaves in the Americas were brought here by Europeans. The Trans Atlantic slave was entirely a European endeavor. Not bad me African got the Americas by the hand of a Turk or Berber. They also enslaved subsaharan African people.
What is the point of you telling us about European being enslaved by a government that doesn’t exist then or now.
The American government built wealth off of free labor. That government exists today, and does the descendants of those slaves. Your ancestors came to America because Black American slaves laid the groundwork to make it possible.
You have no say in this matter, but you want to downplay Black American history.