A Sharecropper's Voice
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- Опубліковано 16 жов 2024
- Sharecropping practice emerged following the emancipation of Black slaves in the United States. Sharecropping soon introduced a new form of slavery to former slaves. Many blacks didn't have land of their own to grow crops, build homes or for commercial farming. They were drawn back into a form of slavery through Freedmen Burearu Labor Contracts. They would work portions of the land owned by whites for a share of the profits from the crops. The land owners would furnish seeds, clothes, food and farm equipment. The company store owner would allow them to purchase need items on credit throughout the year and and to settle up at the end of the crop year. When it came time to settle with the store owners, the black farmers and their family was always short of what he owed the landowner.
that poor man is still in pain. many people pave the way for us (the younger generation to have a better life. god bless you sir, and many others like you.
cathy thomas the ladies were very attentive to him. Wow he’s suffering, I feel his pain. My father worked hard like that. I love this man.
@Hjdid V HGH d YOU SHOULD TAKE THE TIME TO READ DEUTERONOMY 28....THIS IS PART OF THE CURSES UPON THE HEBREW CHILDREN BECAUSE OF THEIR FOREFATHERS IDOLATRY WHICH WE HAVE CARRIED OVER TODAY....CHASING THAT BAG GOT US HERE
I cry too. He is important and so are his parents.
Tracy's Kitchen and Appalachian Adventures l cried too, his story is so touching. Tracy you too have a Deep SOUL.
This man's testimony touched my soul ! I was crying with him. Mr. McNeal has been carrying all of this around with him all of his life !! I hope that letting the tears our helped unload some of his pain. I have so much respect for you Odell McNeal ! Peace and love to you and your family ALWAYS !!
I’m sure this was not the first time he cried
Awwwwwww if this don't make you want to improve I don't know what will!! Much respect to my elders and ancestors.
It takes alot for a grown man to cry! Lord Jesus Help him
These people are absolutely amazing, these horrible living conditions were meant to break these people, however, Black people are still standing tall, strong, undefeatable! Unbelievable! I think we'll just 'keep on pushing' as the Impressions said!
Thank you for your labor sir!! It takes a real man to cry for his Mother.
I was humbled by this video. I realize I've lived in heaven after hearing and seeing the tears and pain in this man eyes from the hell that this mans family endured as share croppers. Thank you for sharing this story.
Thank you for your story Mr. McNeal thank you for and all the others for paving the way!!!
THis is what we all need to hear. I need to learn more about all of my history. This is a big part of it. Thanks Mr McNeal for everything you have done for us.
when i tell you this touched my spirit!!!! thank you mr.mcneal
WOW.. This King soul has been broken. Odell McNeal thank you for your spirit and truth.. God will redeem he's people. Isaiah chapter 63 KJV (King James Version) ... 4 For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come. Israel.. Shalom..AP..
I am crying with him. My family was also sharecroppers in the South in the 40's until the early 60s. I get angry when I think of how we were cheated and denied our "human rights"
Sarah McGee No wonder the 1960 and 70s was a huge civil rights era for them!!!!
It makes me sick to my soul!!! Something many white people didn't and many still don't have!!!
God bless you! As a young woman I Tip my hat off to you. Your a True Survivor❤❤❤❤
I"m very humbled by his story...
Take me back .... I was browsing UA-cam and stumbled upon this video... I can only imagine the suffering and pain that they endured in those days... My heart cried for him and all those that suffered.... We have a place in society because of them.... Oh! How they endured! My God... People nowadays should humble themselves because if it weren't for our forefathers, I don't know what would have become of society today...
Msunknown412 Everyone in the South Sharecropped unless they had a another Trade or lived in the city....EVERBODY....WHITES TOO!!! My Grandmother and her kids..my Uncle s Sharecropped....it was a way of life in the South for all.....another form of Slavery
Your channel just popped in my feed. I know this video is 10 years old but I'm so glad to have heard his story. My mother picked cotton too and I heard in person her stories too.
They say there is no possible way black people of this era can suffer from PTSD. I can't imagine what it must feel like for him to pass by the plantation house thinking of all the pain and suffering it brought to his family. While the owners and their descendants live the life of luxury from his family's hard labor.
wow my mom was born 1963 this is blowing my mind I was born in 1984 even though we both live to see a black president Barack Obama and it's 2017 now that I'm watching I pray for God sakes you through my whole generation amen I appreciate this broadcast thank you😭😭😭😭
Allisha Kitt my Grandparent and their kids Sharecropped.... ALL POOR IN THE SOUTH SHARECROPPED UNLESS THEY HAD ANOTHER TRADE OR LIVED IN THE CITY...
that was so sad to see this man cry like this.
Wow! My family came to Chicago during the Great Migration, leaving sharecropping in Mississippi behind. My grandmother would give my mom an apple, orange, peppermints, and nuts for Christmas. She passed that tradition on to us! We never knew where that came from. Thank you you much for sharing, and God Bless you all.
He loved his Mamma.
I live in Mississippi and my daddy doesn't talk too much about his past, but it's even more sadder than this.
Omg, I'm crying for this man...this is real and so very sad.
Our people have gone through so much to get to where they are today. I never take it for granted for what I am allowed to do in todays world. It is because of my mother and father and my ancestors who pave the way for me. I can never stop thanking them. Amen amen and Amen.
Great video!
I appreciate this video and the content. I am proud of my ancestry and I'm unashamed of the struggles my ancestors endured; I'm proud of them.
Bless his Heart he's A Strong Black man to Have Went through All those Hard Times I Cry with you My folks Worked Hard Too Making hardly Nothing a Week It was 11 of us Children you know We Had to Survive on Whatever We Could. God seen you and my Family Through. Blessings Mr. Odell
And he's talking about the 1930s and 40s! This really magnifies the hell of chattel slavery! Smh...
That is upsetting to hear, but also important and humbling to know. May God be with him and his family. Thank you for doing this interview!
I bet there are still black ppl today in 2019 somewhere in these remote places still in chattel slavery. This breaks my heart. These ppl are way closer than we realize. I’m so sorry he went through this. I’m glad his story is out here. We can’t forget them. They are us 💔
My grandfather (moms dad) was a Alabama sharecropper working in 110 heat. In 1953 he passed out at a roadside shop of heat exhaustion. Ambulances wouldn’t take him to nearby hospital because he was a blk man, 2 blk men that were there thru him in back of their pickup and took him where he later died of a heart attack. My mom was 16
I cried with him.. what a beautiful soul ...
modern day slavery that's all that is. It was abolished in 1865 but somehow it managed to survive in some way..... absolutely horrific
God Bless him and his family.
#THIS BITTER LAND
Watered with my soul
The fruit it bears
Leaves me so cold
This bitter land
Does nothing for love
This bitter land
Brings pain from above, oh-oh
and the stump in the oval office says make America what again?
Look at the hard times our people had and we hateing and killing each other has to stop man
🗣️Amen🙌🙌..
I am hurt. I can still feel their pain.
This is a handsome man and he certainly does not look his age.
Agreed
I am humbled by my ancestors.
So sorry. Life had been so cruel. May god bless you
This right here brought tears to my eyes . My God . 💖💖💖
Tough to watch!! Living in the south I here so many stories like this.. To think sharecropping is taught in school as a "step up" for black people..Teach your children..
If I never meet you in this life you changed my life and I love you and will not let your hard life be forgotten... YOU ARE A KING AMONGST KINGS AND YOU MADE AWAY
My parents were sharecroppers but I found out that land land they worked on was their land. And it was took and gave to foreigners.
Just the mere "thought" of how hard his mother worked broke a 71yr old man and brought him to tears 😢, that's some deep pain & trauma. Lord have mercy!
My people have got to be the strongest people on the planet. Good Lord 🤦🏾♂️💔 Keep pressing ✊🏾
This breaks my heart because he still carrying the pain. Lord bless his heart.
😂😂🧤♥️thank u elder for blowing the trumpet
Thank you Mr.McNeal
Broke my heart to see him cry. I wish our young people would become abreast of the trials and tribulations our people have been through !
We should be teaching our children in U.S schools about people like him. Everyone else in good and all. I’m an avid history buff but these people shouldn’t be taught about just as much as a George Washington or a JFK. They made this Country with their bare hands and barley clothes on their backs.
compelling! yet his tears are like liquid prayers of healing for the veneration for our Ancestors; so endearing and humbling [silence] THX Sis for sharing the good works
And whites call us lazy..they have no clue.its part of their evilness, I'm 68. I know what he is talking about.
So happy you are in heaven, and do not live in these killing fields.
God bless this poor man.God bless him.His life &His mamma &daddy life should have been better.we all need to help our brothers and sisters.
Your life sounds the same as I grew up in Georgia. I am a share cropper’s daughter. I also remember what my parents went thru all th way into the 70s, early 80s When my Dad got sick and could not work anymore, my family was kicked off the farm.
Thank you! I will show this to my children, so they know, just so they know!
"Take Off Your Blindfold and Open Your Eyes"
My grandmother had similar stories to guy
guttainfants mine too
😢 this hurts to watch the pain this man is feeling. The trauma these people have caused and then they turn around and call us lazy I never really cared about reparations because I don't want anything from them until I recently started following Mrs Harrell and learning the different stories of these people my people they deserve reparations for their grandchildren and great grandchildren and beyond that's owed to them and it's a shame they haven't gotten it yet those people those devils and their descendants have a lot to pay for and that day is coming
I seen this five years ago much respect for the people who did this interview'blessed who realize their spiritual poverty, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to them.They are blessed who grieve,for God will comfort them.They are blessed who are humble Matthew 5vs3 god real chosen people
I love my black family my people
Beautiful. I just wish the audio was better.
God Bless you brother
Sad...
My Jesus the pain, my people have endured. I'm heartbroken.
My mama and daddy left the south and came to California in the 60s my uncle came out here and brought the whole family out my grandmother and grandfather too.
I'm from Jenkins, Mississippi ..I was born in 1980 when I was about 4-5 at the church's they did give out apples an oranges I remember that,I also remember the KKK coming in front of our 🏠 burning crosse's with they ragley white gowns on...The shit imbedded in my head an it 2019
OMG he loves his mom been holding that in...
I'm a 79 year old white man who was born in south/central Arkansas. My daddy was a sharecropper. I spent my fifth Birthday in the cotton field helping the family get the crop in before the winter set in.
None of the black people in that area were sharecroppers. They all owned small family farms.
That is so hard it's even harder to know this was what 60 years ago. Dam how is this happening to us. God hear our cry and know our heart. We our the same as when u made us in your image. Hear our cry father God.
Breaks my heart. My daddy use to tell me about my grandma in Louisiana too!?
Slavery transformed into debt slavery. Things our great grandparent did just to keep a place to stay and the food on the table. Sounds like an issue that we are still challenged with today. Debt Slavery.
Mr. Odell I love you🥺😰😢💔you made me cry😔
The hardships this man went though would have killed lesser men. But His eye is on the sparrow...tears kept in vials ...
so so precious!
omg this breaks my heart
Immigrants are told slavery was over in 1865, along with hiss story books but overlooks the aftermath of share cropping.
I am so sorry you are carrying this around for many years. you still hurt inside and I am sorry for that.
He’s a national treasure I hope he’s okay
Wow..So sad
His soul still feel his mother’s pain of working so hard and the mistreatment she had to endure from white ppl. I believe we carry that same pain in our genes. That’s why we black ppl appear to be tougher than other races because we unknowingly carry around that same pain. I think all white ppl need to see stories like this so they can have a better understanding of why some of us black folks react to adversity the way we do... that deep down pain...
That is the salt of the earth right there....and it is on us that that dear brother will perhaps take all that pain to the grave with him. Read Frantz Fanon....thats is the only way to heal this kind of pain.
tried my best to understand it, but i cant figure out most of what he was saying......
and the English caption was just totally off.
The man is crying gosh leave him alone...He doesn't want to be reminded of slavery!
Juanita Woodard Whites also were sharecroppers.... It was slavery for THE POOR.....not just blacks.... My Uncles and Grandmother sharecropped....
Not slavery, injustice! Meant to destroy Black people, and some white people was splashed by the cesspool!
Juanita Woodard Those were my days as well,and they are very painful, but we must never forget them we must always remember.
Beverly Balius ma'am please make a video of white people who were share croppers. Right now thus video was about him and his experience. He said it was slavery to him. What's sad is his landlords didn't care.about her children needing their mother. She was hardly ever there for them as a child.
@@beverlybalius9303 spare us the false equivalency
We see you.We cry with you. So much pain
Heavy.
This story my me cry
the pain of being black
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You are not crying alone Mr. McNeal, then they wonder way we call them devils. Much respect Sir.
America needs to repent. Now 🙏
they were treated pretty badly
REPARATIONS for the family...
We can't hardly hear your conversation! Turn it up!
When God comes back to judge, those people who made people like these lives on earth a living nightmare shall pay for what they did. Those who are making it hard for black people and people of color today are gping to pay, if they don't repent and be washed of their evil sins. No, they have not and will not get away.
We see wat slavery really was not wat portrayed. We rebelled againstthe farmers that took our ancestors land cuz we could read or write well it was forbidden 🚫 and they the farmers land owners linked together put money in a pot and paid police to do so Incase of another rebel and made machines with other pot money and let us loose on the land we been on before pilgrims were here very sad 😢 made me as another man with same roots cry 😭
Your a fool
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Wow.
I thank my ancestors, and so happy,mI loved and repected them.
The tears are for the crazy people killing each other today! The bad mouth on all of you!
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She asked the man did his daddy get beat. He said no. She asked again in a way to coerce him into saying what she WANTED him to say. My family from Carolina were sharecroppers and I find it disrespectful for her to put words in the mans mouth. Hasn't he been through enough..........
Wow
so true. but they didn't get treated like animals because of their skin color.
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