The Atlantic slave trade: What too few textbooks told you - Anthony Hazard
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Slavery has occurred in many forms throughout the world, but the Atlantic slave trade -- which forcibly brought more than 10 million Africans to the Americas -- stands out for both its global scale and its lasting legacy. Anthony Hazard discusses the historical, economic and personal impact of this massive historical injustice.
Lesson by Anthony Hazard, animation by NEIGHBOR.
To all of you people who is calling Ted Ed biased because the Arab slave trade wasn't mentioned : THE VIDEO IS ABOUT THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE , THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE , THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE With that being said , this video is on the Atlantic slave trade , mentioning anything about the arab slave trade would be pointless because that's NOT the topic of the video. STOP trying to belittle one situation in favor of another , YES slavery in general was/is bad. The video is just highlighting thr Atlantic Slave trade.
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Did they do a video about the Arab slave trade?
Wait, this video titled "The Atlantic slave trade: What too few textbooks told you - Anthony Hazard" is about the Atlantic Slave Trade? Go figure!
lol just kidding. Thanks for your comment. False claims of bias on UA-cam come fast and furious, so my hat is off to you for stepping into the breach.
doesn't matter. the Arab slave trade didn't leave lasting hate between races, they castrated their slaves.
if the atlantic slave trade was the arab slave trade, there'd be more peace between races today.
Arabs did have a part in the Atlantic slave trade. Typically, east coast prisoners of war (or simply the victims of raids to get slaves) where marched to the barracoons of Mozambique, on the Indian Ocean, where they were sold to Portuguese slave traders. Then they were loaded on ships bound for the Americas, usually Brazil.
Of course Arabs also bought slaves for their own use in the Arabian peninsula, and for much longer. The last big batch of African slaves landed in Saudi Arabia in 1948. The Saudis didn't outlaw slavery till 1962. Consider that the next time a Muslim tells you that only through Islam will the black man find salvation.
“Believing that in death, their souls will return home” had me tear up :(
It actually hurts to know think of how terrified they were to make this a last resort.
@@yvieoluoch66 I just imagined their feeling of losing all hope 💔
Yep
@V Stormfeltwitch Sounds like the isekai anime i've been watching recently. It is good to imagine something like that happening
well Native Americans was almost extinct. so African slaves had it better in a sense. not that its good or anything.
This was actually a really good breakdown. As a person of color we often forget the involvement of Africa and also the long-lasting impact it still has today.
America was already populated with people of color, this is miseducation at it finest. They invaded and conquered a populated land in America
@@cornellblevins1778 Not even close to a misdirection. It takes two to tango. Overhwhelming majority of the salves were sold by people of their own race. Thats just a fact. The Europeans bought them off other Africans as this video told you because they got a profit and cared about their own kingdoms. To deny this is denying reality.
As the person above you mentioned this is often forgotten. It dsnt mean its the focal point its exactly what the person said forgotten.
@@maxpowers4436 Exactly. Slavery was motivated by desires of capitalism-like desires, and the desire for profit, power, and land. Really, slavery is an abhorent mark on human history and what we are as humans. Enslaving each other to be made to do work for another. And it's sad to think that to this day, there are still so many regions that engage in neo-slavery, by getting people to come over to areas only for them to have their passports stripped, identities removed, and humanities torn. And slavery deprives the essence of what humanity and compassion are and what they can be.
@@maxpowers4436 yes they were sold by their race but they were sold by enemy ethnic groups Remember Africa is the most diverse continent on the planet so different tribes in Africa sold the enemy tribe for guns and other things. Just like the Europeans sold enemy European tribes example the Romans and the Germanic peoples
@@bbp2930 it was a very complex situation indeed.
the guy that wrote this, Anthony Hazard, is no joke my social studies teacher…i’m not even kidding
You are lucky
@Tinkerbell Fairy You cant kidnap people and force your morals and values on them. They stripped them of their humanity which no one has the right to do.
It's very evident he's a social studies teacher...
Bro youre so lucky
Lucky you
I'm Mexican American on my mother's side. She told me that my grandfather when he came to the US in 1908 saw African American ex-slaves with parts of their ears cut off. This is the first time I have ever heard those experiences confirmed.
I'm Mexican American on my dad's side and British German on my mom's side. Very complicated feelings in my body and heart. Crazy stuff. Sad world. Hope it changes already.
@@immortal5271 you had no control over it, it's not your fault
@@immortal5271 you do know Europe is made up of different country's?
Do you know who Vincent Guerrero was?
@Oplitis Λ so we should just look at that and act as if they did not start it right ?
“Believing that in death, their souls will return home” that sentence is really upsetting
2019!!!
Yeah that made me sad
duh..sounds similar to christianity
squishy paws yes people are not entitled to their lives only God is. So suicide is a big sin
@Bullets in Bacon Grease America was definately Not the least ! America is a supercontinent genius!
Proud of my ancestors for being very patient and enduring harshness of the unthinkable
huh?
The meek shall inherit the earth, stay strong sis, God has a plan for us, we will understand why we have to endure so much when he reveals his final plan. The more they oppress us the stronger we get, they've been at us for a coupla hundred years but were still here smarter, craftier, stronger. That's why we scare them so much our will for survival comes from a divine source. uThixo anikusele nonke.
You shouldn't separate yourselves from us. See, I don't know who my great great great grandfather was, and you probably don't know yours either. So why bother about it? Let's hang out some time.
Meanwhile 600 years ago: your ancestors killing, capturing, enslaving, and selling eachother to foreigners.
@@vuyophama8668 What god?
The fact they committed suicide in hopes their souls would return home is actually heartbreaking
There is an aspect of the trans-Atlantic slave trade that is seldom mentioned: the US was a relatively small player in it. More slaves to taken to central America and south America than to the US. The biggest player was Brazil, importing literally 10 times more slaves than the US.
+charlie wired This libel could not be more inaccurate. I don't know where you conjured these so called "facts" or why you are spreading them, but think next time before you try and shame or scapegoat a whole religious group.
+Ben Lechter (Flexter) I don't know either where he get the information/misinformation, whichever it may be, but if you don't know where he got it, how can you say that "it could not be more inaccurate," but then decline to provide any explanation of how you know that to be the case?
It sounds like that's just how you feel. Are you intuiting reality? Remote viewing? Psychic connections? Asking Charlie Charlie on a Weegie board? Or...
Or based on what evidence do you stake your claim and your certainty?
I must say, charlie wired at least sounds like he got the info SOMEWHERE, whereas it SOUNDS like you just made stuff up. But please correct me.
By the way, I also, have come across the statistic that at the peak of American slavery only 1.4%* of Americans owned slaves. If we isolate only the Southern states, that number still rises only to about 4%, if I remember correctly. As for the rest of it, I have no idea.
* I would like to mention though that the 1.4%(and the 4% statistic) while they may be true, are necessarily very misleading. Imagine a plantation with a father, mother, 6 kids, maybe 2 grandparents living there as well. All of them effectively own slaves in that they order them about, live off their labor, and are directly served by them. However, technically they don't "own" them. Of those 10 people, most likely only the Father owns all the slaves. He is part of that 1.4%, but the rest of them are not. If we multiply that 1.4% by 10 for all the white family members living on the plantation, just as a very approximate guess, we get 14% of Americans effectively living as slave-owners.
Also, one should bear in mind that one slave owner does not necessarily own only one slave. So a 1.4% slave owner rate does not mean that there were only as many salves in America as would equal 1.4% of white people. One owner could own upwards of 100 slaves if he were wealthy enough with a large enough plantation.
However the 1.4% statistic, if true does tell us one important thing. The great majority of white people were poor themselves, did not own slaves, and were most likely not far removed from effectively being slaves themselves to the rich elite.
+brindlebriar I'm not going to waste my time with an ignorant POS debating a rumor that has been so widely disproven by historians far more intelligent on the subject than us. If the guy wants the truth, he can find it anywhere that's not some fringe Anti-semitic group propagating lies. If he doesn't, he wouldn't listen to anyone else. People believe what they want to believe.
+charlie wired Even though this is clearly not true (not only because it has been disproven many times by historians, but also because no one has ever kept record of statistics like these, do you really think someone went and asked all jews what their opinion was on the civil war, as you said "nearly all of them supported the south", say that it were true, how is it relevant for anything? What do you propose with these so-called "facts"? That it was planned by some sort of secret, jewish council? That people that descent from Northern Europe are in some way better than jews, and therefore we should... what? Like, is it really relevant for anything?
+Simen Tomren Grip the guy's just a good ol' fashioned jew hater, thats all
this is sickening. the fact that people actually could do this to another person kills me.
Dehumanization is a powerful tool.
I doesn't kill you, you're still alive aren't you?
Of course it's sickening. Unfortunately, slavery still exists today, largely in parts of Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
The whole world had slavery, including the white countries.
@.yva
Yes , It Is sad. I am Ghanaian Born in Southern Europe and i studied the Mediterranean History ,and i have Learnt that Barbary Pirates(North African) and Ottman Pirates Captured 2.5million White European Christians between the 16th and 17th Century.
History Is important because can teach all of us that everybody could be or could Become a Victim or a Bad Person .
Crimes Don't have a specific color or a specific race
Anyone could be a culprit.
Thank you, it really helps us all when you provide all of these videos and putting all the hard work in it.
I've NEVER thought that Europeans could go to Africa and simply take people into slavery. I've always believed there was an arrangement between the parties involved. Many thanks for corroborating my theory.
Where have you been for the past 40 years? The miniseries "Roots" was one of the most watched miniseries on television. It clearly showed the main character being abducted by people from an enemy tribe hired by white people, rather than the white people themselves. Where have you been?
Europeans came with guns.....
The “arrangement” you’re referencing = people still getting kidnapped, just by nations in closer proximity to them
@@sakhu8945 And they gave those guns away to the africans. Besides, guns shouldn't of been enough to hold you all back
The vast majority of slaves were bought, not taken. Bought from Africans.
Mention slavery, some people automatically jump to defensive mode.
fr this comment section is wack
@Kirsty Birsty There is truth to that.
But...
They weren't carried over to the Americas in African-built ships and dumped here.
The ships from the Americas, designed to carry as many people in its hold as possible, didn't show up with money (or whatever the medium of trade was) by accident.
Those operating the ships didn't whisper: "Don't worry, it's a ruse. We'll let you all off down the cost."
Nor did they say; "Or, if you wish, you can come to the Americas with us, where we offer you freedom and citizenship.
Nope, nothing like that. They cannot say, 'We did not want this, we did not enable this, we had nothing to do with this.'
They were property, bought to be auctioned, sold, used.
"Y’all sold of your own people." And how well would that have worked, had there been no market? No whites ready to buy them?
White people love to say don't put something there ancestors did on us but at the same time benefit from money that is past down from what there ancestors did and think somehow they have nothing to do there just innocent. Blood money
@@debo4487 Not every white person ancestors own slaves or was a part of that . There is white people that is struggling just like everybody else .
True when whites are the only ones being blamed it's probably a natural reaction. No mention is ever made of the Jewish, African or Arab role in slavery.
Not sure what textbooks you guys were reading, but this is exactly what was in mine.
Many text books in the USA never mention the fact that other tribes would enslave each other.
Mine didn't. Luckily my mom taught me everything I needed to know.
Exactly what he spoke about in the video. Not what they teach you in Georgia. That slavery was short term and that slaves were treated well.
Remember that this is the USA we're talking about.
Their education isn't on par with European.
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Thank you for putting out a more comprehensive view of it. It's also enlightening to know what the consequences were to the African nations who were left.
Really great video. I was never taught - and never thought about - the effect on the African civilizations. Thank you for this video.
I like how the narrator explains that slavery is at odds with Christian ideals, and how proponents and practitioners of slavery had to go through some logical calisthenics to justify their crimes.
As the days went on from when tRump was elected in 2016, I have questioned more and more each day about my own Christianity.
@@danherrick5785 That's bull shi'ite....
You're not a Christian. You're trying to BLAME Christians for what some PEOPLE did...
CHRISTIANS my delusional friend FOUGHT & DIED AND FREED THE SLAVES...
The problem is, slavery is not at odds with Christian ideals. In fact, the Bible supports slavery. No logical calisthenics needed. In Paul's letters to the Ephesians, Paul motivates early Christian slaves to remain loyal and obedient to their masters like they are to Christ. Ephesians 6:5-8 Paul states, “Slaves, be obedient to your human masters with fear and trembling, in sincerity of heart, as to Christ” which is Paul instructing slaves to obey their master. Similar statements regarding obedient slaves can be found in Colossians 3:22-24, 1 Timothy 6:1-2, and Titus 2:9-10. Why don't you try actually reading your holy book?
@@HarshDude126 Satan - for what ever reason, has lawful authority on the earth - for a limited time, about 6000 years until his contract runs out - and Christ returns.
Until that time is up, slavery will be a Satan instituted fact of life.
Paul instructs Christians on how they should react & behave in light of the New Covenant... He likely didn't want people/slaves rising up in revolt.
There's a war going on - perpetually, Christians have to take it on the chin a lot.
God doesn't endorse slavery, he condones it - with tremendous anger stored up for the day of reckoning.
You know nothing about our God. You have no UNDERSTANDING of the Bible.
It may well be you are not meant to and therefore will never...
If I were you I would make the attempt.
@@danherrick5785 Is Christianity certain people who may not live up to the standard, or is it the teachings in the Bible and the goal of working to achieve an extremely high standard.
TY for pointing out the religious aspect. Often christians will deny that religion was used to justify this.
Religion is one of the easiest things to exploit.
What's interesting (and kinda sad) is that the Catholic church were against the slavery of Native Americans, but had no problem with African slavery.
Religion will by used to justify pretty much anything.
Did you even watch the video, moron? They didn't use religion to justify slavery. On the contrary they needed to justify their actions because christian beliefs where against slaving another human being. Therefor they came to the idea that black people where sub-human and destined to be slaves. I'm amazed how many stupid people think like you(the thumb up-s).
Tyr Caelestis Consus "Did you even watch the video, moron? They didn't use religion to justify slavery. On the contrary they needed to justify there actions because christian beliefs where against slaving another human being. Therefor they came to the idea that black people where sub-human and destined to be slaves. I'm amazed how many stupid people think like you(the thumb up-s)."
Calls someone a moron
Proceeds to use the word "there" in place of "their"
Your argument is invalid.
Well done. Precise. Very clear. I appreciated the lesson's ability to tie together motivations, actions, impact, and the events that followed. This film was viewed by my junior high school student and I approve.
"Believing in death their souls will return home" 💔so heartbreaking
Hey even if you are watching this for an assignment, do think about the deeper meaning of it all and don’t pass it off as annoying homework. You’ll be surprised of how much you’ll actually learn
@Razol fr
@Razol imagine even having homework
@Razol imagine calling one of the most horrific things to ever happen..”annoying homework”
@Razol privileged people should be glad u even get to do homework
@@driedcarbide3408 I’ve been looking for a few days, but I still can’t find who asked
There are 46,000,000 slaves alive in the world today according the GSI global slavery index. Mostly across Africa, Mid East and India. Also, Arabs took 17,000,000 African as slaves through the centuries. Little known and little mentioned.
HAL Today, Sudanese blacks enslaving their own people.
HAL I guess all major civilizations can be disgusted and ashamed by parts of their history.
I hate when people act like there is your people or my people, we are all family (22nd cousins at most) and we all should start acting like it. The only ones separating us are the greedy and fearful cowards running the world!
lol, no. arabs did not "take 17 million slaves". can you show any serous source for that claim (apart from some anti-islam right wing propaganda websites)?
Sudanese muslims enslaving sudanese non-muslims for fun, gain, and profit. Just like always.
Good video - the word "Trade" is so often ignored.
Money has always been more important than anything else.
Will always be. Look at American Heath care.
I watched this towards the end of 7th grade History and now I'm watching it 3 months into 9th grade lol
U Indian?
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You neglected the 50% that went East, and were gelded, no offspring. Slavery was never just a western thing it was a world thing, and is still very active today in many cultures. The world as a whole has yet to learn the value of life.
you couldn't have said it better , maybe state time of hundreds of years before with the arabs , gelded was what some said was the reason there were nearly 4 million slaves in usa as it was not a practice that was used in usa hence the high number freed
Also there is a huge amount of ignorance towards how what is now the UK, financially ended a HUGE percentage of slavery around the world FINANCIALLY by buying the slaves freedom from their "owners". A debt which was still being paid off by the current working generations until 2014. Therefore those that may have been born into slavery, or who's ancestors were freed from slavery, can thank the British taxpayer.
@James whatever way you look at it, the FACT is, that British taxpayers were paying the debt off until it was finally settled in 2014.
...they literally talked about African tribes having slaves and then later selling them to Americans. But I do agree with you that there is a ton of slavery still happening today that is swept under the rug.
@@joneubanks9686 Yes, they surely did. Most did not make it, though, as the Muslims were so diabolical towards their slaves.
This is very brilliantly shown in Steven Spielberg's movie "Amistad"
African Here
This makes me heartbreaking 💔 so much and i wish africa could fully become prosperous and developed!!
It is prosperous if you compare Africa with its past, instead of other continents.
Afria was more prosperous then today before slavery and invasion began.
the story telling animation of this video is one of the best i've ever seen......great job animation team
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The content though is the same incomplete distorted narrative that blames whites for everything, but to their credit, they almost.. say that without the co-operation of the local leaders there would be hardly any trade at all. It is very rare to come across such information, even partially given
@@infinitydreamzz No it is not.
@@Apelles42069 yes it is...
R.I.P To all of my ancestors and those who had to go thru this for me to be here today...
My family thanks you
But we are all slaves now and our masters wear little hats. research is the key
@@rodjames8983
As in the time of Noah..........
@Bullets in Bacon Grease
Matthew 24: 37-39.
R.I.P to my ancestors who bled and died by the million to free yours.
Listen to Dr Tony Martin. He was a Trinidadian-Tobagan academic and historian who got 'cancelled' for publishing his research.
CLR James, Eric Williams, Walter Rodney
The most important part of this video is one minute long, beginning at 1:17 . If you’re looking to point blame, it tells you exactly who to point to……
Or you could blame the west African tribal cheif and the African tribes who took and sold slaves for thousands of years. That might make you question your hatred though!
Point to the Bible. It fully lays out the rules for slavery and thus justifies it.
Learning history isn't about assigning blame. As part of a "civilized" society we are should be able to collectively agree that certain things in our past are ultimately bad for us and should not be allowed.
@@TownleyChris Red herring is a logical fallacy.
@@TownleyChris Europeans didn't need anyone selling them slaves when they colonized Africa later on and carved it into neat geographical shapes between them (just look at a map of countries in Africa, those squares and rectangles didn't occur naturally).
Being African and learning the history from our perspective, I thought there would be so many faults with this video I would have to point out, but I'm actually quite surprised at how accurate this video was! Well done, and this side of the history needs to be told more often 👏🏿
Please explain the what is correct about this whitewash and propaganda?
Propaganda? Which part?
trevzns white wash? I'm Ghanaian, and my school makes it a point for us to go to different parts of the country to do research, hear legends from the oldest citizens, and visit the significant places where this history took place. I've been doing so for four to five years. I can surely tell you that this isn't the whitewashed version.
Nana Esi Okyere-N. Don't mind him, you'd be surprised how many people in Europe and America refuse to believe that there were Africans that profited from, and took part in, the Atlantic slave trade.
DudeistPriest Well the truth will remain the truth, whether it's believed or not
Man’s inhumanity to Man. Continues even today.
You are right bro
Yes, and unfortunately it will be this way until man lives no more on this planet....we are our own worse enemy...we label people animals (which btw is an insult to the Animal Kingdom) when we're really savages
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Make sure you find out who really did it!
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@@MosaIinda You think.
When the first caveman discovered/ invented the wheel and is the only one to make wheels, others worshipped him for that reason.
Some are just better, smarter, &/or just plain lucky than others.
My social studies teacher had our class watch this video and answer questions on it, really good video btw!
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Breaks my heart...can't even imagine everything they went thru in those boats alone...makes you appreciate the era your in..
Pete Ruiz Exactly😖😭😩
thru lmao
Its better to die of disease and famine quickly, then die of old age at 100, working youre whole life for nothing.
@@HotRossBuns
That's how life worked and still does
We’re still slaves 🤣🤣
As harsh as reality can be, it is good to learn the truth, because the truth is refreshing. Yes, the past is the past, that cannot be changed. However, the past can be used to learn from.
It can't be changed is a lie.. u can grant us that wealth back .. those family's who owned slaves are still millionaires today.. take it back from them it's simple
Therefore history shouldn't be forgotten
Deep
You are absolutely right ,my friend
Edom will have to pay for there sin's you will see...
Simple, informative and heartbreaking.
Imagine having a family and someone comes and take you to the ship so you never see your children again....so sad :(
it was a whole lot worse than that. imagine youre in your village minding your own business while a bunch of people from an enemy tribe near the coast (who had been dealing with ypipo) show up with weapons you've never seen before (guns, cannons,etc) and murder a bunch of people in your village to get you to surrender so they can capture you for the ypipo. imagine quite a few of your family members would have been murdered in the raid and then you and your children are marched to the coast where you folks are split up never to see one another again because one set of ypipo are taking you to this place while your kis are going to be taken to another place.
@@naitthegr8131 and you will never see it each other again
What about the Ottoman muslims? They traded milions of slaves. I miss the info in this interesting video. Do you have info about that too?
And with Ottomans there were Arabs and Africans raiding most European countries for slaves. For 600 years. Not to mention fearless, fanatical Turkish soldiers called Janissaries who were kidnapped as little kids in Europe from slaughtered parents.
Stop lie there is no evidence
@@gungun5059 If so far the only evidence to you is what CNN says right now you can just Google "Barbary Slavery". Wikipedia was put together by much smarter individuals than leftist TV anchors.
Okko , , U are Correct , , islam Started Slavery , , the video is half none sense 2 , , islam is full involved in slavery , , , islam = submit
@@larrylacause5181 How can what you say be true when Islam did not exist before 600 AD, and the Greeks, Romans held slaves long before Christ? The ancient Egyptians held slaves and the Old Testament Bible written about 1500 BC references slavery.
The ideology that slaves were destined to be slaves was not created by the Christians. That ideology had been around since before Plato and had never really been question until sometime in/near the modern eras. If you read ancient texts on the subject, such as the Roman philosopher Seneca, it was never a question of "is slavery moral," but rather, "what is the moral way to treat slaves." Most cultures throughout the world have used slavery at one point or another. Thus it is important to reemphasize to those of you who are students, that Africa is not the only country to have had its people enslaved. Remember the story of Sparticus of Rome? Sparticus was a Greek who was captured during a battle with Rome. In the ancient days, war captives became slaves. In fact, for Rome, Greek slaves were the prized slaves for their intelligence. Just something to keep in mind. Too many western kids today believe that only Africans were used as slaves, and that is simply not true.
Yeah, thars sad because slaves always existed in europe, but then white peopoe could not be enslaved anymore so instead of ending slavery they started enslaving peopoe form other races because that was acepted :(
African is not a country.
Also, it’s true that Christians did not invent the idea that some people were destined to be slaves, but they did subscribe to it. Many Christians were pro slavery and looked to the writings of Paul which said slaves should obey their masters and wait for the second coming of Jesus. Christians also argued it wasn’t okay to own other Christians as slaves, but it was considered fine if they were not Christian.
@@dylanmosley6237 Because Europe popularized it, people have a natural tendency to blame Christianity as the focal cause. But that isn’t true. Slavery and racism has been prevalent in just about every culture. Religion doesn’t solely define racism, our prejudice does.
@@Lucky_9705 But as stated in this video, the degree of that racism and slavery was very different. In Ancient Rome and Greece, as well as Africa, slavery was based on winning wars or birthright. Here, you had a cultural and religious power justify an entire race of people (regardless of where they are from exactly or how they got there) be regarded as slaves by default. And almost more importantly, as Tim states, the question in Rome was indeed what is the moral way to treat slaves - a question that was rarely asked during the Atlantic trade. The question then was what's the best way to maximize profits - leading to the accepted and sanctioned inhumane treatment of slaves, particularly in the Americas. Though, you are right that Christianity isn't to blame as it was only a vessel for capitalism and imperialism to flourish.
@@iokei7926 Thank you for the information! I’m glad that I now know that the degree of slavery and racism differed by culture. In any case, it must be stopped.
Thank you. Never heard half of those details. Why couldn’t history classes be this fun and informative.
Not fun but interesting
Really informative for such a short video. Also, whoever made the art is amazingly skilled!!!
The history of Africa is extremely sad, it's crazy how it can go from rich educated powerful kingdoms such as Mali, Songhai, Morocco, Egypt and Ghana, to being to being a jumbled mess of nationalism, violence, crime, civil wars, poverty and lack of resources. I pray that someday Africa can bounce back, but it's not looking like it.
norgan true
norgan yes, we need to colonize them more
winning &making peace-I there were many problems long before them, but they were definitely a driving force in the creation of ethnic and nationalistic struggles
norgan Africa has they youngest POPULATION on earth.Which means in the future it will have the biggest growth of any continent.Thats WHY China is putting so MUCH money in infrustuctual to sell to Africans and trade.They have the biggest growth of any continent.4 percent is huge.
Actually the past empires (now nations) your
spoke of are doing quite ok today just look at Accra ,Ghana our perception of Africa is kinda warped Because west and north Africans are becoming semi prosperous alike to what Korea and China used to be like. I would also like to say that all countries have their rural areas and that allot of the farmers who are too poor to emigrate are happy with what they have is just that they look poorer than American farmers. Though it should be noted that the more corrupt nations in the East and centre: raveged by Islamic fundamentalism and simply put bad cultural outlooks on progress. What I mean is that some nations prioritize tribes over allot of important things and culturally disagree with things that make nations develop like equality, children's rights, and secularism
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No i am here for a history lesson 😂
i am here for school but its incredibly interesting
Nope social studies teacher
This is exactly why it is important to remember our history, good, bad, or indifferent, and not to destroy it simply because you feel that it is mean or demeaning of certain groups. We need it as a reminder of just how far we have evolved as a society.
@Kamarah Riggins-Tigney (Student) ok
This info is so amazing and so f'd up at the same time.
I went to public schools in Texas, graduated high school in 2016, and all of my history books taught me this.
Shame on Both participants. The Buyers & Sellers- Smdh
The sellers had no idea how the slaves would be treated. They didn't treat their slaves that way.
@@yard2x637 no excuse, a person for an object? Df bro
theydontknow806 🤦🏾♂️ the “sellers” sold war captives and criminals
And the kidnappers too
But if you base it on statistics..with a true moral output....base the punishment on...number 1.what total population percent sold..
Number 2.what total population percent bought and used slaves
The numbers are in a complete pole position
And also he failed to mention the extreme low percentage of owners in the u.s
And that
Less than a quarter of the slaves imported to the u.s
Due to trade and port laws
Acctualy stayed in the u.s....
The ideology that the u.s
Specifically the south are the worst is insane
And the people who hold it...are legitimately crazy....they will do everything in thier power to insult .. riticle and belittle anyone who disagrees with them...and simply say it is written
instead of giving a
reference to any fact...when there is none..not only that but all historical documentation seams to closeline
Everything and anything they have to say.....like the illegal trade cut to the south that started in 1858
Before slavery was the issue
And it had to do with paper and hemp...
When the .c.s was a legitimate country with its own laws, money military and tenets.....
The illegal confiscation of land in the south
The c.s boycott on Europe that caused famines. And food shortages around the world.......
Its ridiculous how controled information is
Instead of anyone contesting this information everyone just dosnt care
This subject is and accseptance speech to groups based on collective narsassisim and constituency segregation for political funding
This was well written and explained. I especially appreciate the graphics and visual aspect of it. Kids need visual pics to get a sense of the scale, the atrocities and the full pic of what slavery looked like. We never hear about the effects slavery had on Africa and worldwide which is disappointing and it needs to be talked about. I especially wasn’t aware of WHY Tribes and African Kings cooperated with Europeans in enslaving Africans, makes sense the “reasoning” yet still and will always be appalling!
It is appalling. Slavery existed in Africa for ever. They sold slaves to Arabs, other Africans and eventually to Europeans. The Africans took the slaves to other parts of Africa, the Arabs took them to the Middle East and N. Africa, the Europeans took them to the New World for they thought that the Africans were more resilient to work in the tropical conditions in the Caribbean and surrounding areas. Mauritania, African country, has a population of four million people of which 600.000 are slaves. Today.
Slavery still persists and our African leaders continue to give us up to be swallowed by the dictates of the West. Need evidence? How is Africa doing economically, "spiritually", intellectually? What major contributions have we (Africa as a continent) made in the area of medicine, technology etc. Even if we have tried, has it or have our contribution(s) transcended the African borders? We know what our ancestors went through,but how are we changing the narrative starting from our leaders?
I've heard about the conquering of other tribes bur never heard about criminals also receiving the punishment of enslavement. I'm curious of the ratio.
Blacks who are living in AMERICA TODAY, and who use colonial era slavery as a licence to hate and badmouth whites, should actually be THANKFUL that their ancestors were plucked out of west Africa and brought over to THIS continent four centuries ago, cause OTHERWISE they might still be living something like THIS instead ua-cam.com/video/YQjec7Pohgo/v-deo.html .
Blacks who are living in AMERICA TODAY, and who use colonial era slavery as a licence to hate and badmouth whites, should actually be THANKFUL that their ancestors were plucked out of west Africa and brought over to THIS continent four centuries ago, cause OTHERWISE they might still be living something like THIS instead ua-cam.com/video/YQjec7Pohgo/v-deo.html
it's alarming how humans can get accustomed to such cruelty and let it go on for 600 - 700 years.
Very simply put, the TRUTH. And IT'S the hardest subject for most to discuss. Not even for the better.
Hey, I'm not that good at English but this video is SO well made, the onscreen animations and the readen text is so great. Big applause from here.
Thx for making me smarter.
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Just commenting to let you know that your English is actually quite good!
@@brittneybrisbin744 Thanks, you just made my day 😊❤
Very enlightening video as a young black man I want to understand more of the fact of slavery. Instead of the hearsay we get on a daily basis.
There is plenty of information on the internet you just need to know where to look. Start by doing a Google search on the Atlantic Slave Trade and go from there :)
Eleventy Won Thanks for the info definitely will check it out, and let you know how I like it.
Christian Johnson Check out a movie "Good Bye, Uncle Tom".
Read Slave narratives...
Words from the mouths of those who lived it...
Oh and another thing,
Even though 12 million slaves were shipped to America (the continent) only 300,000 went to the U.S. (America the country) most went to Spanish plantations in southern America
This is totally in a textbook.
The title doesn’t say it isn’t textbooks. It says few textbooks.
Yeah, the text books on slavery.
@@amselector So they make textbooks entirely about slavery? It's part of American history. Own it.
@@amywalker7515 Not just American major parts of Europe as well, slavery basically existed everywhere
Very Good! Love the animation
It's just like the United States doesn't teach in all of the schools what really happened in history with the treatment of Native Americans.
the u.s fails to teach that slavery started in africa.
McGraw-Hill, the largest publisher of school books, is headquartered in texas.
And also the tragic fact that due to americas isolation from africa and Eurasia, native people no immunity to the diseases that killed many people in the old world. These diseases killed up to 90% of native americans when the new world was discovered as diseases were transmitted.
Yo we learn more American history in England than you guys do in America
@Horner 37 The diseases that killed 30million + native americans were: smallpox, plague, tuberculosis and salmonella. These diseases had killed hundreds of millions in europe, asia and africa for a thousand years before native americans were exposed.
How about we start chastising those who continue to own slaves to this very day instead.
@@eplurbispablum : Er, where are these slaves that you talk of?
@@shibuya3185 - Heard of BOKO HARAM in Nigeria ?
What about a certain Pop star going to Africa and "adopting" a baby in return for money.................not a word muttered, I mean if you want to make a difference for ONE child at least take a child with a disability so that the child can get proper medical care...............but then that wouldn't look "COOL and HIP" on the RED CARPET.
@@shibuya3185 India is a good example
Everybody should own at least one!
“Believing that in death, their souls will return home” how painful is this? how heart wrenchingly painful is this? I am centuries late but I hope the souls are at peace now. I hope they have returned home.
Shut it yt, this is your people’s fault.
@@spamaccount8506 you’re making sensible people look bad, radlib.
this hurts so much just to hear. great video👏🏾
"cutting them ears off to mark them off as being sold " there's a lot more idd like to mention , our ancestors were going through the most
@@benhayter-dalgliesh5794 tell that to the Neanderthals
@@benhayter-dalgliesh5794 natural selection is natural selection
@@JerkandDork IK, that's my point, neanderthals died from natural selection, the jew's did not.
@S H wdym
@@benhayter-dalgliesh5794 no, natural selection is natural selection. Getting round up by Nazis is no different than getting eaten by wolves.
Well done analysis. I find it both amazing and distressing how low and animalistic we can become just for the allure of wealth. I think it continues today, in different forms.
Probably the most subtle form of slavery is capitalism (there is nothing subtle about communism)
@@fredgillespie5855 Indeed. The cleverest form of slavery might include those who do not realize they are slaves.
@@bobgillis1137 - 'None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free' (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
@@fredgillespie5855 Damn Wolfgang stole my quote !
Lmao YOU worship the the rich I don’t
Some God level transitions out here
I've always wanted to know more about my ancestors
I find it interesting whenever there's an educational video on slavery in the Americas, people begin to downplay the atrocities of it by giving modern statistics on violence in impoverished neighborhoods or worse, comment on how long ago it was so it should be discounted. Discounted as if these slave traders did not have predecessors who continued their legacy through laws.
Nevertheless. I believe this is the reason why real relations between other cultures can be hard. A real and honest dialogue is needed between cultures to start healing and uniting us. Division is the real enemy, it keeps us distracted from what's really going on. each culture and its communities have issues that need to be resolved. I don't think its up to the government to bring change to these communities. I believe that has to be the responsibility of the people within these communities to help themselves. The issues we all face as a nation, we should unite for. Not a liberal nor a dreamer; just someone who has real dialogue with people of opposing viewpoints. We may not agree on anything, but we are having an honest dialogue.
Because they are cowards who cant accept their history unless it glorifies them.
nyny74d This might even work if one side of the" dialogue" wasn't relentlessly shouted down.
So true unfortunately.
If neither side listens to the other but shouts at the other, it's not a dialogue but an argument, which is usually how these dialogues of this matter end up, one side trying to dominate the other with its views and beliefs in a condescending way. Only when all sides are truly willing to listen to one another respectfully, then true dialogue can take place. True dialogue will lead to true healing and restoration, which can only happen when there's a true desire to mend what is broken and better the status quo. True repentance produces forgiveness which in turn creates the path for a real reconciliation.
nyny74d even worse is the fact that we lied to " African " slaves descendants and tell them they are African when in truth tbey are actually proven to be Hebrews who migrated to Africa in 70 a.d. Fleeing from Roman Rule. This IS A FACT. They are israelites not African at least in our view. Eventhough Israel is actually north east africa on the same tectonic plate as the mainland.
the guy who made this is my social studies teacher!!
enjoy your useless degree
totally will considering that
was a year ago and he was my 7th grade teacher lmao
Jack Finn Kirrane useless? Social studies is one of the most important degrees my friend
Jack Finn Kirrane she's made you look like a right mug
Jack Finn Kirrane maybe for Americans
Absolutely horrific and sickening
It was terrible but it helped build the Americas. Not to justify what happened, but if it didn't happen the Americas wouldn't be what they are today.
@@naitthegr8131and america sucks.
Superb animation...great impartiality good work Ted
3:40 To perform dances to keep them excercised and to curb rebellion.
I feel like the media are still doing this?!
Very true..this is why i don't watch sports.give them drink and wine and entertainment and they shall never revolt..true to this day..
@@spencerdavis3794 well yeah, that is how it goes
celebrating touchdowns
@@spencerdavis3794 i missed the memo...
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for those of you that are the Lord gods flock (lions on the land).. i'll exodus us from their corrupt nations and bring us back under his rule over us (separated) facebook.com/groups/564121650373359/ (virtual meeting place)
the best way to describe the UK/US/EU/ISRAHELL (iniquity nations). is that it is a ship (corporation) the establishment are the crew officials (iniquity spirits) and the voters (human employees/slaves) are its rowers.. the rowers that play up end up getting put in the holding cell (jail time) and the non-voters (rebels) are the rats scurrying around on their ship getting exterminated where they can get them
I'm the man going around this corporate ship looking to take those worthy enough (equitable spirits) off of that ship and sail our own righteous ship instead
this righteous ship (to which the lord will give us) will sail with our Lord god watching over us and policing ourselves as we should in his eyes (todays writings are not originals but they do still contain some top notch commandments that i hands down before the Lord agree with)
not only from within the ship.. but from outside vessels looking to sink our ship or even capture it (all within a motionless enclosed pressured level plane world)
however instead of it being called a ship... it'll be a kingdom on the land surrounded by nations (other vessels) ua-cam.com/video/AzbcEus1Mbs/v-deo.html
proverbs 14
2Whoever walks in uprightness fears the LORD,
but he who is devious in his ways despises him.
11The house of the wicked will be destroyed,
but the tent of the upright will flourish.
28In a multitude of people is the glory of a king,
but without people a prince is ruined.
May the Lord god bless those of us (house of israel) and not all
So many untruths in this video. White people telling history is a joke.
this is exactly what the textbooks taught me
i know right lol
Too few text books today describe's this context in detail than ever before
Then you had a better education than I did... although to be fair I live in Australia which was far away from the AST.
What country did you get educated in?
In American education, the slave trade is all about feeling sorry for blacks - nothing about African monarchies or African warfare or arms racing or how Africa collapsed as a result of slavery being banned.
I've said once and will say it again
If humanity was perfect there would be peace
This was literally every february of my life. I don't know what you're talking about with my textbooks not telling me.
No mention of Arabs?
shhh!
Twomonthago no but not as brutal as the Europeans, you can buy yourself out of slavery from the Arabs but you can't from the eruopeans
Brown Brown not to put a grade on brutality, but you are greatly miss informed, you could literally look around today for confirmation.
Doesn’t fit the narrative, shush.
Defending slavery, you must be a compassionate liberal.
I was actually taught this in world history, surprisingly less in US history, however what we did not learn about is the slavery that continues today in certain countries.
Yes, like the US (13th amendment loophole)
Mauritania was the last country to ban slavery
@@supermananimationsstudios8519 but it still defacto practices slavery up to this day. The official ban is just for international posturing.
@@supermananimationsstudios8519 How is that relevant?
@@Fernball21 it is
In history, when any person who looked down on another for whatever reason. Slavery would not be far behind
How was any of this something not taught in textbooks? I speak from my own experience but this was standard teaching at least when I went to school ten years ago.
15 years ago we were not taught anything of African slavers. Only that Whites captured slaves and brought them over. This was in a Mississippi district.
This is one of the most honest unbiased explanation I’ve ever heard. I am impressed
I think he was soft on a few things o
So the world would be better if people and nations were seperated and if people kept technology to themselves. Got it.
False info.. The children of yisrael were enslaved not africans, two different ppl and other stuff on here totally false. Dis video was set up to misinform and misguide us
@@ewnard2005 no, the world would be better if people met and interacted while respecting each others dignity and free will.
@@durrtydog86 the british way.
Gonna tell y’all a fact that no one else in the comment section is saying.
Slavery has existed in every civilisation in human history. Only recently in the last 200-100 years did people realise that owning another person is a bad idea
Edit: damn there is quite a conversation going on in the replies, it’s getting a bit crazy.
Thank you
Oh but slavery is still legal and widely accepted, thanks to capitalism!
@@rorgorr2339 lol slavery is definitely not legal or widely accepted thanks to capitalism
The west started with ut
@@rorgorr2339 Thanks to small hats.
I've studied this before and everything he said is spot on.
There was a series of mining operations on the west coast of South America that produced a lot of silver that ended up with Spain becoming very rich and apparently required many people being shipped to that locality from the west coat of Africa. Slaves there that had a life span in this locality of about 3 years, as they were worked to death, quite often. Ended up financing the many unofficial wars fought in the Caribbean for a number of centuries. Nobody talks about this period in history, why is that?
I learned about in school
The amount of whataboutisms brought up regarding slavery is hilarious
Can you please do one for the Saharan/Islamic slave trade
M. Winchester The "Islamic" Slave Trade is better referred to as the Arab slave trade as it started way before Islam had even began as a way to bring slaves in for work on plantations. Also by calling it the Islamic slave trade you are saying that Africa was not part of the Islamic world when there were hundreds of thousands of Muslims living in Africa many of which lived in the kingdoms involved in the slave trade.
Yeup and slavery in the US South was supported by the bible.
P Ciprian Wait your trying to guilt the arabs for something that every single group of people did. Heard of the Knights of malta who captured arab slaves. Or the atlantic trade or the irish who were sold as slaves by the english. Slavery is slavery period.
Louis,
Slavery is not slavery, period. Please watch the video for the differences between historical slavery and the Atlantic Slave Trade.
that would make muslims look bad why on earth would western media do such a thing?
Please do a similar analysis of slavery in Islam - historical and contemporary.
@Mister Kiip Huh?
They'll never do that analysis and you know it
@Mister Kiip Ypu are talking as if Islam never gets criticised. Islam is the most hated group of people in the modern world. Just read the comments, everyone is mentioning how muslims forced people into Islam, took millions of whites as slaves, took many millions of Africans as slaves, raided Africa and Europe etc. Nobody gets criticised as much as we so yes, we are thabkful that media dpes not always have to throw us under the bus. Nothing but war and economic collapses would come out of it. It is well known that muslims are very loyal to Islam and their homeland. If you start picking on us and get backed up by the media, trust me, nothing good will come out of it. Do not poke the sleeping bear.
You people know very little history.
@Mister Kiip The Lutheran Protestants under Martin Luther learned their tricks and mastered them to oppress even worse. That is what the Lutheran Reformation is all about. Not all whites are bad, but the Lutherans are terrible against humanity to this day.
Anyone else just likes coming back to TedEd videos that you've already watch just cause
Nice tutorial. Gonna try it out
Despite the title, this is exactly what my textbooks taught me, and what I taught from later textbooks as a teacher.
So you're a current day victimhood purveyor.
Scott Brumley The title says “too few” it doesn’t mean it’s never mentioned, but too rarely mentioned.
@@hobens1 Teaching history is not teaching victimhood. He said nothing of how it should be interpreted in relation to today.
That's what I was thinking too. I actually learned almost nothing from this video; I thought this was all common knowledge.
It's in literally every history text book
Not only did African kings sell prisoners of war, but Europeans also captured and stole people. Let's talk about all of the facts if we want to talk about slavery.
Lice wasnt the only reason they shaved them. Every African tribe has a hairstyle that shows where they come from. They were shaved so that they wouldnt know their tribesmen when they saw them. And no, not all tribesmen live in the same surroundings
"Europeans also captured and stole people" hmm i don't think so...and ony who trade and own slaves were from some parts of Europe, Eastern, North, South Europe never owned slaves.
You're quite welcome to produce a video on other forms of slavery, there's far too many to choose from. We accept that 'All Slaves Matter.'
But as Derrell Sam has noted, *this* video, is addressing *one* of them.
No you're wrong. The Europeans could never have been able to navigate through the African villages and towns without the help of the Africans. The Europeans did not know the topography, they allied themselves with our fore-fathers who sold our people. By 1851, King Kosoko of Lagos still sold slaves. Did you know who put him down and installed a new King that supported legitimate trade? The British government.
Let me just ask you something, if the Europeans capture some Africans and sold them, who do you think captured more and sold more. You’re own people sold you to the America’s and ruined the future of your country, that’s what this just showed you, stop trying to put all this on the white man.
@@joshflores6605 they project hate towards white people, even if 98,9% of them, at that time never had anything with slavery..
Do a follow up video on indentured laborers from India to South Africa next
Excellent breakdown and balance. Great job.
The truth is ONLY the truth when you tell the ENTIRE story.
This channel and Narrator would do well to remember this
Not going to tell any more of the story, other than the bits and pieces needed for the sympathy vote
You don't really want the entire story told. It'll just make you look worse.
@@sunnyedaize1262 Who is you?
Don Rollins
That's exactly what I was going to write
Goatboy9099 this video tells more than the history books they’re using to brainwash our kids today. School history books today completely neglect to mention anything about Africans owning other Africans and selling each other into slavery to foreigners (which was our ancestors; yes, I’m white) who happened to be white Americans.
They didn't mention how the majority of the slaves were imported to Brazil and other latin american countries. Surprisingly not many people know that.
Portugal and England were by far the most brutal slavers, that is well known.
the dutch brought chattel slavery to the colonies
thank you! They showed it on the world map but didn't touch South America
I think only 5% of the Slaves got to the "Thirteen Colonies", most were brought to the Caribbean, and South America.
Preston Garvey Most ended up in Brazil and the English territories, see nowadays if you can find big % of black people in Spanish speaking countries, except indeed the Caribbean Dominican Republic and Cuba or PR.
i always rag on TED-Ed and i'm honestly shocked that this taught me something, something that the media and general populus doesn't know
Ditto.
And also what should have been in the video, was the work of Carl Linnaeus. His work about the classification of plants, animals (and of course people) also helped to manifest a lot of the racial prejudice from the late 18th century on wards. I personally don't think that this was his intention, but those who adopted the skin colour code during the Spanish Inquisition in 1492 (to separate The Moors from the native Spaniards) should have all been in this video.
They actually teach us all this here in Brazil....
Lorena Fernandez I'm subna pull up on Brazil
Twistr what does that even mean? Try using English this time.
domdrty I am subject to take a vacation to Brazil really soon... i am actually planning a south American vacation for Nov...and I would like to see Brazil while I'm a there.
Invictus maneo PaxAmericana uh no. We don't have that at all
Here in Africa too. We know our story and we have never forgotten about you, african american brothers. and You should know that our people fought a lot.. please read about King Behanzin, the king of Abomey Kingdom who was killed because he fought against slavery. and there were so many other battles . i wish you knew all those stories.
Christians (which were the majority of the people in the US at that time) were greatly divided about slavery.
However, those christians who believed it was wrong (the abolitionists) eventually won.
Yea, eventually. Just sad so many people had to live their entire lives without knowing freedom before it finally transpired.
That's misleading -- that makes it sound as if the abolitionist movement were Christian.
@@chrisscrogum7023 It's been a few years since I studied the history of Africa and the era of African Slavery in the West, but I don't recall any NON-Christian abolitionist organization. If you know of any, please share it with us.
From Wikipedia "Throughout Europe and the United States, Christians, usually from 'un-institutional' Christian faith movements, not directly connected with traditional state churches, or "non-conformist" believers within established churches, were to be found at the forefront of the abolitionist movements.[1][2]"
nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/nineteen/nkeyinfo/amabrel.htm
evangelical Christians were most especially influential when pressing their moral issues forward into the public arena. Growing out of the Great Awakening, these Protestants, largely in New England, were inspired less by earlier Calvinistic doom and gloom theology than by concepts of human betterment under God’s grace and His gift of free will. Out of this fresh religious doctrine, called Arminianism, grew a movement that included the plea for the freedom of all of God’s human creatures, especially the Southern slaves. Eventually the antislavery cause with its strong religious support helped to create the Republican party in the 1850s.
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Atthough I'm watching this for homework, I'm actually glad and saddened at the same time.
I always thought it was the Portuguese who started slavery but as it turns out it was the African selling Africans just instead of getting a jail sentence you were sold and shipped away
POV: ur watching this for an assignment and hoping some answers are in the comments lol.
nah its just a bunch of arguing trust me i was looking for the same thing lmao
yup
nope
Im doing for test
@@bruh-jj4xj what is the answer number 5
so greed caused slavery
YES !!
Arya M
Also the cause of most wars.
*Greed, selfishness, PROVIDENCE, Deviant, immorality, INHUEMANE!* (HUEMAN=HUMAN)
Not so much greed, but capitalism. And to me more accurate Christian based capitalism.
The one people that were never slaves, are the ones responsible for the global phenomenon, Jews.
Slavery exists because blacks sell each other.
that is an important part of world history. thanks for the video.
Shut it yt.
@@spamaccount8506 ok bot. Blocked.
Can’t believe my Ancestors went through this.
Brutality was the reality of life back then. For everyone but especially African Americans.
Back on the fields - 👴