Magnolia Mound Plantation in Baton Rouge, Louisiana | Built in 1791!
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- The plantation house was once the center of a 900-acre operation with frontage on the Mississippi River. The main house was built circa 1791 as a small settler's house and as prosperity came to the lower Mississippi Valley, the house was enlarged and renovated in 1802-1805, to become the elegant seat of a major landowner. Spanning the colonial era and early statehood, Magnolia Mound's collection of furnishings and decorative arts include one of the foremost public groups of Louisiana-made objects, in carefully restored and documented settings.
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The sugar cane mill is just like the one I grew up with as a child. My Grandfather was born in 1883 and my Grandmother in 1890 and they raised me. I am now 66 years old and I can tell you exactly how to use this cane mill. The U bolts at the top held the long pole that was hooked up to a horse and in my case it was granny the old mare. As Granny would walk in circles my Uncle would feed the cane stalks through the mill and the juice would collect in a bucket. It was us children who kept the buckets changed out and carried to our Granny and Aunt who stood at a huge cast iron kettle that was at least 5ft in diameter. The kettle was heated with oak wood and the cane would be cooked down to syrup and then we would bottle the syrup. From that we used it in many recipe's and my favorite was pulling homemade sugar cane taffy. My sisters and I would have our hands buttered with home made butter and when our Grandmother cooked the syrup down just right and cooled it she would have us girls pull the taffy out 6-8 feet and she would catch it in the middle with a big wooden spoon and raise it up high and we would come together and double it and continue pulling until it had just enough butter added and it was the perfect candy. Hope you enjoyed this little snippet of my life.
I enjoyed this story thoroughly; you are a wonderful storyteller! You should have your own UA-cam channel; I bet people would love your stories! Thank you so much for sharing, and in such detail :)
Anyone who wants to see the sugar cane making process should come to our local Syrup Festival in Henderson, Texas the second Saturday in November. Henderson is about 60 miles east of the Louisiana/Texas border from Shreveport/Bossier City and Marshall, Texas. Henderson is approximately 20 miles south of Kilgore, Texas on State Hwy. 259, 40 miles east of Tyler, Tx. On Hwy. 64, about 45 miles north of Nacogdoches, the oldest town in Texas, on 259. A wonderful, historic place too. You can not only watch them make cane syrup, you can buy the yummy syrup and also butch stalks of sugar cane. A fascinating process…ya’ll come see us in November of 2023…it is a really fun day with lots of east Texas history.
@@nancycurtis488 I think I'm going to have to check that out myself!
Thank you for your detailed description of this process!
They did not work at Magnolia Mound did they ? My pawpaw worked the fields at Magnolia Mound
I'm 80yrs old and can not travel thank you . I also like the calm voice and how you go back and put in your corrections
Well thank you so much for the kind words! I try to be thorough and present the material well. Thanks for watching and supporting the channel ❤️
Except for the 80-year-old part, I agree with everything else in this comment!
@@heidixxx2454 thanks so much 😊
I also enjoyed his calm voice. Always happy to hear veterans
Thank you for your service. I'm a Vet myself. I appreciate your sharing these places. There is room for paying respect to the past. Commenters who heckle and put it down don't have an understanding of the fact if not for the past we wouldn't be here. Everything had to start somewhere and it wasn't our choice. Ignorance is difficult to overcome,well for those who won't be taught. It rears it's ugly head here pretty often. We'll tolerate and let it go. Go with your feelings. It's okay!!
Thank you so much for the encouragement and thank you for your service as well! Which branch did you serve with?
cool!
man. that diorama is one of the smartest learning tools one could ever hope to see in a place such as Magnolia Mound! love it!
another great vlog!
thank you!
It really was pretty cool huh! I love small scale models like that; especially when the attention to detail is so great. And thanks again for the compliment! ❤️
@@travelwithoutacause 👍
The garden area by the sugar press was most likely to grow the sugar cane,. The round stone with the square hole is a milling stone. Wheat or some grain. Thanks for the tour.
Thanks so much for that info; I kind of figured that area was used for something like that. I would've never made that guess about the milling stone, though, that's interesting! Thanks for watching!
In the bedroom with the baby's cot and ceramic pre pot, the pot was only used as an overnight pre pot. To wash your face etc they had a large ceramic bowl usually beautifully designed and decorated, with a large matching jug. The servant or maid usually brought up the jug with warm water in the morning so the person or people could wash before getting dressed. Glad you had your phone to film through the windows, worked well! Another informative and lovely explore! 🦘😊😀
The big barrel next to the back of the overseer's home is a cistern. It stored water that ran off the roof for household use.
Also, the beds look pretty comfy, even those of the slave quarters. The majority of people in China today sleep on plywood beds with very, very thin "matresses".
Another fantastic job showing the plantation. Keep em coming. I love looking at them.
You're so kind, and thank you for the encouraging words :) I love doing these and I look forward to doing many!
A, of course they didn't use a chamber pot to wash in!!!!!! However, as a person descending from BOTH slave owners and slaves, I believe that these houses should be preserved. Because many times slaves actually built them!! Their knowledge and skill needs to be appreciated and preserved!!!!
I couldn't agree more! There were MANY highly-skilled slave laborers that were vastly underappreciated; and their work still stands today. High quality indeed!
@@travelwithoutacause Were they master craftsmen right off the slave ships? I call BS on that.
That’s a very good point!
They are built better than Section Eight housing that Democrats keep their modern day slaves in.
Slaves were the labours... Did the cutting the carrying the mud mixing etc.
Overtime I'm sure they learned build skills. But no it seems unlikely they had any of these skills given the types of villages they came(kidnapped) from.
Aneth - Dill. The spice with a very light aniseed flavor and a favorite in the French kitchen.
The outside of my house looks almost exactly like this. Built in the early 90’s but was from the Southern Living collection. I love my porches.
I’ve bought another house that is 100 years old. All original cabinets, ceilings, floors, windows and 3 fireplaces. I love it.
I'm very jealous!
@@travelwithoutacause the porches on the house we built look just like Magnolia Mound. They are my favorite part of the house.
My 100 year old house is fantastic. It isn’t grand but it is beautiful. It’s where I live most of the time.
The other house will remain in the family since my daughter is buying it. She’s 30 and cried when I said I was selling it. All of her friends that practically lived there (I’d find teenagers on the backporch doing homework all the time) protested too. 😂
@@butterbeanqueen8148 yes, I'd absolutely love to have a house like that, ESPECIALLY with those porches
@@travelwithoutacause never say never! I’m rooting for you.
I just found your channel. I live in Greenwood Louisiana right outside Shreveport. We have a lot of historic homes and I used to own one that is on the tour of homes. I just love history and I am enjoying your videos.
Oh awesome, I'm vaguely familiar with the area; I'll have to go do some vlogs there! And thanks so much for watching; I really appreciate it!
Very beautifully done! Truly enjoyed it
Thank you so much!
Thank You for this delightful, well done series on old homes; so happy to have stumbled across it. The comments here are also a wonderful lagniappe in addition to the amazing architectural innovation!
Thank you so very much for the kind words, and thank you for watching 😃
Fantastic .oh my I love this house .the porch is breathtaking.i love the porch.
Isn't it beautiful! Wish I could've gone inside
And a cistern held rain water that might have been used for washing clothes, cleaning, etc. but that water was not used for cooking or drinking. There would have been a water well where water for cooking and drinking would have come from. My paternal grandparents married in 1897, lived in southern Illinois. The house in which they lived had no indoor toilets, no running water, no doors on the closets as a room, no matter how small with a door was considered a taxable room. They had a deep water well in the backyard where water was pumped for cooking and drinking and their cistern was in the screened in back breezeway and that water was for bathing, cleaning, washing but not for consuming. My grandparents died in 1960 and 61 at ages 84 and 86… they never to my knowledge had running water or an indoor bathroom…barely had electricity. Their first child, my Aunt Delsie, was born in 1898… there were 3 daughters and 3 sons…my daddy was the youngest child and he was born 21 years into their marriage in 1918. I loved going to see my grandparents because their house WAS so very different from our house in Irving, Texas where I grew up. Life must have been very, very difficult for those living on this plantation but what a fascinating look back in time. We live in east Texas and have visited some of the major antibellum plantations in Louisiana. Our home in east Texas was built in 1912…it is a neat old house too…we bought it 34 years ago and are only the second owners. Thank you.
Thanks for that info! 😀
I went to the Magnolia Mansion in South Carolina. So beautiful! All of the rooms were attached to each other. Hugh doors because of the intense heat and humidity. The cook house was outside in another out building due to the heat and possibility of a fire. He had 500 slaves he called his roses. They loved him and a lot stayed after the war. Sherman burned it done during the Civil War. It was rebuilt but not as grand. The great south had a lot of tradition and beauty. The slave issue was very sad. I believe it brought it down.
Oh wow, thank you for that wonderful information! It's always great to hear that there were slaves that were treated very well, instead of the typical stories we all know about where they were treated terribly. Maybe one of these days I can make it out to South Carolina and do a video on that plantation. Thanks again for the info and thanks for watching!
Very Amazing & beautiful Old Plantation Home, Thanks For Sharing !!!
It was surely my pleasure! And thank you so much :)
I like your voice. I love touring plantation homes. So interesting! Great job!
Glad you enjoyed!
The wooden piece hanging above the table was called a punka (sp?) I believe. A rope went to the side and someone would sit or stand (generally a child I believe) and pull the rope to keep it cool. Love your tour. If you could go in and take the tour, then film a bit you could tell a bit more of the history and items? That would be wonderful for those of us who can not travel so easily any longer but still would love to "see the world". Thank you for the tour.
Interesting info, I've never heard of that before! One of these days I might go back and take the tour; I'd like that. Thanks for watching!
The fan above the tables main purpose was to keep insects off food and guests. There were no screens I'm thisperiod
We can’t forget the history of slavery. I don’t think you are glorifying slavery. Showing the past and the contrasts from the plantation owners, overseers and the slaves is very important lest we forget.
Those are some of the nicest slave quarters I’ve seen. Many I’ve seen were little more than sheds with no fireplaces, beds furniture etc. it was atrocious.
And what you were looking at that you couldn’t think of the name was a loom.
I think the piece hanging from dinning room is a old Fan of sorts someone would have to work it back and forth
Oh wow that's interesting; good eye.. I didn't even notice that
The someone would be a slave
Slavery happened. It is this country's history. As is what we did to the Indians. It is a truth and should be talked about.
What you may want to add in to that equation is that slavery happened all over the world at that time. Slavery had existed all over the world before this time. What is unique is that it was the Europeans and Americans who were the ones who ended slavery in the world. For the first time in history these two groups of people stood up and said slavery was morally wrong. That was a radical way of thinking. White males ended slavery and forced Arab and African nations, at gunpoint, to stop participating in the practice. Thousands of British sailors died in naval battles ending slavery and the slave trade of Africa. Hundreds of thousands of Union soldiers died on the battle fields of the US. As for the indians, the Europeans were just another tribe fighting over land. They lost. History should be taught, but not in a hand wringing mealy mouth sort of history, but in proper context.
Slavery has been interwoven into human history. Long before the US existed. It is the norm, not the exception. It has impacted every race. Black people/Africans were selling their own long before the US existed and still continued to sell their own after the US stopped the Trans Atlantic slave trade and had our civil war. White people ended it. Native Americans had slaves. Those slaves included black and white people as well as their. There were tribes that fought for the south in the civil war. Native Americans had a long history of warfare with each other long before the first European set foot on North America. The second migratory wave from Asia to North American wiped out the first wave and how do you think they did that? They killed them. Yet for some reason they have been romanticized. There were prosperous black slave owners in America, yes they existed. The first slave owner in the colonies was a black man named Anthony Johnson. This idea that only white people enslaved while the rest of humanity was rainbow and unicorns is a false narrative. Then there's modern day slavery were tens of millions of adults and children are coerced into forced labor using threats of rape, beatings and death whilst we as a society live passively alongside it. Slavery has been and still is, the corporations do it for us now.
this is so majestic to me I cant thank you enough for this video
@@divine9520 thank you so very much for the kind words! Thank you for watching and subscribing ❤️
Continue to work hard. I believe your channel and personality will go far… new subscriber.
Wow, thank you for the super kind words! And welcome to the channel 😊
I don't think they used the chamber pot to wash in !! A pitcher and bowl on a wash stand would have been used !! We need to know about plantation life and the horrors of slavery and not erraticate it from history !!
Chamber pot was only used for human waist
Slavery for sure it's not a good thing, to be owned it's horrible. But we all have to work to eat. And it's not every Plantation owner that mistreated their workers! In fact it was very few.
@@fayee8986 true
No…a “chamber pot “ was ONLY used as a place to go to the bathroom at night or during bad weather…it was not used for washing. There was usually a large bowl and matching pitcher that was used for washing of the face, hands and body since there was no running water or a bathroom with a tub…and the bowl and pitcher was usually set on what was called a “dry sink”.
Interesting info, thanks for the clarification!
The slave quarters (the duplex) was quite fancy. Most quarters were mere shacks which provided no protection from the elements. Slaves were expected to work nights, hence the spinning wheel and weaving loom. Meals were usually grits/cornmeal mush seasoned with smoked pig's feet (or any other part the owner didn't want) added for protein. Small plots were sometimes provided so the slaves could grow their own food (in their spare time). Dandelions and wild berries were also eaten.
Well now you pay $10.00 for a pack of pig feet not even 10 piece
Yes, I'm sure the quality of life varied greatly for slaves - depending on whether they lived and who they worked for. Sad to think about
They worked between 5-8hrs per day. Each Plantation owner had specific rules... from research regarding Chattal Slavery. This was no kind of Vacation.... It was cruel... !!
@@gigigiseleworld Slavery was always cruel no matter what country it existed in and it existed in every nation on every continent but this was the way the world had always existed since the dawn of man (Until Europeans and Americans decided it was morally wrong for the first time in history).
@@gigigiseleworld Who said it was?
Thanks for reading the historical signs for those that are sometimes just listening 👍
You're very welcome, it's my pleasure to do so :)
Thank you! This was wonderful! Note that the overseers house must've been rebuilt seeing the CW ended in 1865 and it was built in 1870 after slaves were freed. The chamber pots went on the floor and there was a pitcher and wash basin on the table in the corner of the room (@ 41:27) Also that diorama is incredible! My guess would be the goofy fence kept horses or other large livestock from escaping without having to close a gate behind you.
Wonderful observations! And thank you so much for the info 😃
I hope to do more like this in the near future, as it's been a while. Thanks for watching ❤️
I really enjoyed watching your video. Thank you for sharing it. Pigeon is the french word for a dove. Pigeonnier is the "house" of the doves.
Interesting! And thank you so much!
Thank you. It was lovely tour. We seen enough to know what it's all about. I wonder what they done with the whole Stables. You know the buggy and carriage and wagon houses to. It's a shame it's all been done away with. So thankful the house or there still. I thoroughly enjoyed it now the workers houses called slave houses. Was it on a grand scale. But according to what I've seen or some of these people come from and still live today that lived in Grass huts and slept on the ground. They cooked on the ground a little hole in the ground. So it was very up to date for them. According to where they came from. They work they ate like everybody else. We still have to work to eat today. It's sad to be in captivity. It's our history! And I'm glad I've got to see some of it.
Hi. Great video! Historic homes and Plantations don't want filming of the interior because it discourages in person visits; which equals lost revenue. By the way I'm a new Subscriber and didn't catch your name? Keep up the great work 👍
Hi David! My name is Matt, and thanks for the kind words! Yes, I try to be totally respectful of places when I visit them. With this vlog, they just didn't want anyone walking around in the house alone, but photos and all that were allowed. That's why I just snuck done pics through the windows.
@@travelwithoutacause I remember going to St. Francisville back in ‘86, I believe. The Oakley (Audubon) would allow us to take pictures inside, Rosedown wouldn’t let us take inside, The Cottage, I think, would let us take pictures, and The Myrtles would allow pictures taken inside except no flashes were allowed. They didn’t want light to damage paintings and cloth of furniture. Can’t remember if there was wallpaper on any walls but, that would have been off-limits as well.
@@JohnnyUtah15 oh wow, I haver beg to any of those yet, although I was super close to going to Oak Alley Monday. That's on the list, though. Crazy to think that flashes could damage materials like artwork and fabrics.
@@travelwithoutacause whoa, Oak Alley, glad it’s on the list. My mom will like that video in the future!
Yeah, I was kinda skeptical when I was first told about it but, it made sense at The Myrtles because the room where I took the photo with the flash was quite dark. I think over time the elements got to the paintings and fabric, they forbade the flashes.
Now, the Rosedown seems like a different story. It was well-lit with daylight and interior lighting. I think the owners didn’t want the inside photographed/video as a preference. I’ve seen some more recent videos where they were allowed to film, can’t remember if photos were allowed or if anyone had taken any.
Very interesting indeed. I wonder how they figure out that flash would ruin that stuff over time.. I hope to vlog all those places sooner than later!
He wasn't called the manager he was called the overseer
Really enjoyed your video and the explanations for each part of the plantation. Thanks for a great job.
Oh thank you so much for the compliment! I truly appreciate the kind words ❤️
Thanks for showing the history!
Beautifully presented! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!
Thank YOU
Aneth is a 5000 year old herb in the anetheum family. Closest relation to Dill weed
Oh awesome, thanks for that! I had no idea
@@travelwithoutacause You are most welcome! Awesome and respectful video!
You're so very kind, and thanks for watching! It means the world :)
@@travelwithoutacause Subscribed!😁
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Absolutely loved seeing this video thanks for sharing !
Thank you so much! It was absolutely my pleasure :)
It was fascinating. What upsets me is progress. When you see express ways through the land it’s heartbreaking. Where that ugly highway is I assume the sugar plantation was there and it probably went right down to the rivers edge. I can just imagine the slaves loading the sugar sacks onto the steamboat. I think that large barn like structure was the sugar processing factory. Some slaves where treated better on some plantations then others. I was surprised to see a large fireplace in the slaves quarters many slaves didn’t have a fireplace where they could keep warm and cook. Some where treated with such cruelty. It wasn’t just the black slaves that where forced to work these plantations, the mentally incompetent were used to work the plantations and farms too. It was an awful time for them as well. And nothing has changed for people with mental disability. They still get treated like outcasts in this day and age. Somethings never change. Their is still discrimination in people, they still carry it in their hearts and in their minds. We will never change these things however we must learn from our past. People all over the world still mistreat their employees and staff and over work them and under pay them today. We will never end slavery and as long as we have men and women in controlling powerful positions in our world money , greed and opulence is what rich people seek and as long as we have these hideous ugly traits you will never have unity between the haves and have nots. A lot more changes still need to be made in this world so we can all live as one in harmony with each other and share what we have in generosity and love. Love is the key. Why humans are so miserly and greedy and cruel to one another is something I can’t grasp because I have never been this way myself thanks to a life of abject poverty. I am thankful that I have always lived a life of poverty and cruelty because it has made me appreciate the simple pleasures in life such as clean running water and food if you can afford it and a tiny shelter over my head and a few items of clothing. It makes you rich in spirit and brings you closer to Jesus. Heaven is my treasure and I am very looking forward to my death. 😊
Beautiful insight, Dianne ❤️. It's a very somber past indeed, and all we can try to do is look forward and be better. It's a crazy world we live in, isn't it. Thanks for the comments 😊
Fabulous! Love love love
Thank you for the footage.
Thank you for watching!
The diorama is wonderful!
@@sandiefiliberto8012 yes! I loved that as well! I wish my audio was better on that part.
And the house still standing a wooden house what I don’t understand is my grand mother house falling apart built 1974 I don’t get it
Cause these were built with that good ole Cypress lol
Wood clad homes require an enormous amount of upkeep both money and labor.
The round stone withe square hole in the center is a old stone grinding wheel to grind corn, wheat, etc.
Louisiana didn’t become part of the United States until 1803. So this was built before Louisiana was part of the US.
That is correct; I do apologize if I get a fact wrong here or there. I try to keep everything precise
@@travelwithoutacause I just happened to know that. No apologies necessary!
The round concrete laying on the ground under the oak tree was a mill stone for grinding corn. That is only half the mill the other half would have sat on it and it would be turned by a wooden handle that would turn the stone and grind the corn to meal.
Very interesting! I love learning new things through these vlogs and through you guys :)
Wow this is awesome,be great to metal detect those grounds and give them the artifacts
That's actually a really good idea!
Thank you for sharing!!
Thank YOU for watching!
I really enjoyed the video tour
Thank you so much!
Porch is called veranda, (wrap around)
Thank you for the beautifiul tour.
Thanks! Enjoyable
Thank YOU
Why did Overseers house have 2 front doors? I am loving your videos!!! I'm not able to travel anymore so this is my way to travel. I'm from the South but I've never been to these places!! Keep them coming!
Hi Elaine! I don't really know the answer to that question, but it's a good one.. I'm sure it was designed that way with a specific purpose in mind. And thanks for the kind words, I love that you're loving my videos ♥️ I will surely keep them coming!
I throughly enjoyed this video. Thank you!
Oh thank you so very much, it's great to hear when folks appreciate the videos :)
Been there and I really enjoyed it.
I appreciate the work you've done to create this video!
I live near Magnolia Mound, and I have visited it multiple times in the past two years. I'm sorry to say that compared to other plantations in Louisiana, they do a terrible job of incorporating the history of slavery into the story of the site. Public records show that hundreds of people were enslaved there over the years when it was operational, including at least one family that continued in peonage (debt servitude) for 30 years after the Civil War. That aspect of Magnolia Mound's history should be part of the story the curators tell. Why only focus narrowly on the history of just one of the families that owned it? Why not name and honor those who were enslaved there as well?
@@awoodw thank you so much for the kind words. I totally agree, if it's going to represent itself as a historical place, then they should represent the accurate history of it all.. Including the people. Thank you so much for watching, and feel free to stay in touch! ❤️
Great voice for this type of videos.
Thank you so much! Huge compliment!
@Travel Without A Cause you are welcome sir! And may God bless you this year 2023.
And same for you and your loved ones!
That was a horrible time, I hope we never go through that again. But they would not be here otherwise.
That is very true
Ask yourself who owned the slave ships...
And the African tribes that stole people from other black tribes to sell to the ships. The top black in Africa that made lots of money.
@@pattijesinoski1958 wrong
Kanye would tell you.. Hint hint
My pawpaw work the fields there in the early to mid 1900s
Built high up to prevent from flooding from the Mississippi.
Good thing because that river does indeed get pretty high!
What you called “big old green onions” looked like leeks to me…a delicious variety of onions that grow in very Sandy soil and take a lot of washing. Pigeons were raised in a “pigeonier”…probably I am not spelling that correctly…sorry…but adult pigeons and baby pigeons, called squab, were a source of food and most plantations had them back in the day.
Interesting! Thank you for that info 😀
Damn shame the 900 acres are no longer part of the property.
I agree 100%. Couldn't agree more!
you did a great job
Thank you so very much!
My great great great grandaddy was name George Joyce and could have been on this plantation
Oh wow, that's very interesting. Have you heard any stories about his life?
@travelwithoutacause We was researching last night and came across this information, when we get some more info I definitely will let you know.
@@wozzy334 that would be very intriguing indeed. Thanks!
@travelwithoutacause Thank you for the work you put into this video, good job!
@@wozzy334 you're very welcome, I love doing them. It's a fun hobby for sure. Thanks for watching
I have distant cousins that have a plantation in Mississippi with a separate slave cemetery.
Oh wow, could I visit it?
Yes!! The Pots and Pans Were Cast Iron. No "Stick-Free" back in That Time.
Indeed! Haha
History is history is history!!
Auto correct kept spelling pee as pre! Sorry.🦘🥴
Haha, totally fine!
The round stone on the ground is a mill stone
Thank You for sharing.Hopefully this plantation took good care of their workers. Looks like they had what they needed , except freedom. Sad. Still a beautiful farm.
Hi, I just found your channel and subscribed! Interesting video, thanks for sharing. I thought the outhouse was kinda fancy with the seat covers and windows/blinds lol beautiful property but I'm always sad to see the slave quarters and to know it was their blood,sweat and tears that built it.....
I grew up with a privey
Interesting! Care to elaborate on that? Lol
Looks like the Foreman’s house.
Great tour! In many of these plantations that do tours, the focus is on the family and how rich they were but rarely is it mentioned that the slaves were why they were rich and had the life they did. The story of the slaves needs to be told during these tours. If it wasn't for their blood, sweat, tears and lives these white plantation owners likely wouldn't have had as much as they did. It doesn't matter how good the slaves might have been treated because the fact of it all is that human beings were owned, imprisoned, denied the basics, suffered tremendously and worked to death. I gasped when you showed that cement thing in the ground by the slave cabin because I'm pretty sure that is where the whipping post was. They should have one there to tell the whole truth of life on a plantation. They should tell the whole story, the good, the bad and the very ugly. How many poor people were whipped to shreds on that post? It's awful.
Thank you so much for the kind words! And yes, you're absolutely right about all of that indeed.
Totally agree
That memorial garden needs water badly.
@@johnharris8191 I would agree 😬
@@travelwithoutacause It is pathetic.
You are so handsome!! 🤭
As far as a kitchen they were slaves what made you think they wanted to be in there for real
If that old oak tree could talk.
You're so right! Just imagine 😃
So cool! Do you have an Instagram page?
Ironic that you ask that, because I'm actually going to put together my IG page today! Stay tuned!
@@travelwithoutacause looking forward to it. I’m watching the Rosedown video right now. It’s excellent!
Simply education that's it ok don't have a victim hood mentality like everyone else though just tell the history how it happened without emotion and feelings involved..... But everyone has been enslaved and i wouldn't really call it a mistake...😂
One day the legacy of slavery won't be painful to recall, it was a time in American history. Blacks ain't mad.
Rethink it...
@@gigigiseleworld just fair opinion.
Maybe the concentration should be on the freeing of slaves and changing of thinking of slavery as morally wrong, rather than that it happened.
The relevance of George Washington is moot. This land was governed under Spanish or French rule. The Florida Parishes bounced back and forth to English rule as well. The king of Spain returned Louisiana back to Napoleon in 1800.
It's a sistern.
Those pots you called water pots beside the beds in the managers house are called chamber pots. It is usually used by the ladies of the house to pee in at night. I understand your intention is not to exploit the slavery but if you make money from this video are you not exploiting that culture?
Hi Tony, thanks for the info! I sure hope I'm not coming across as exploiting anything at all. I simply set out to explore these beautiful places and share it with the world. When it comes to my approach to these videos, the fact that slavery took place there is secondary, but I simply choose to recognize it since it's there in front of us. I don't set out to highlight it or offer any opinions about it into any videos of mine.
@@travelwithoutacause I hear ya, I was raised in the deep south and probably know more about the matter than most folks. I totally get where you're coming from and I'm sure there will be many that don't, just saying !
yes it was unfortunate, and we didn't learn from any mistakes. we still think that we are the super people
Can't watch.. so nauseating.
That's too bad. The video really showed the difference in how the Owner lived vs the way Slaves lived. It's value is preserving the history so as not to be forgotten
I've been to a lot of these plantation tours and I don't like the way they romanticize the relationship of owner and slave.
Get over your woke self!
Houses along rivers were often raised a few feet above ground in case of flooding.
@@luzluz7850 So is your issue is that you don't like to think of what kind of relationship they may of had because it doesn't fit your modern way of thinking and how you hope your relationship would have been if put in similar circumstances? How about we go with history, rather than how you feel?