I grew up in a small New England town, near waterpower and Mr. Milliken bought a factory and created many jobs. He established a small hospital, bowling alley, and day care. These were nice for the 50s. Then the workers formed a union and he offered to take workers who wanted to go ,no union, back down South. Thank you Mr. Millikan you made my childhood nicer!
@@grindle1857 they didn’t own their houses. The same people who owned the factory owned the house and pushed the house prices up to the point you could hardly afford to pay rent. Children spent their childhood in the factory usually deafened by the sound. If you got injured your on the street and off to the workhouse which is a truly horrid place which pretty much surmounted to torture. The average was 14 hour work days 6 days a week all year round. The poor couldn’t even vote 😂 you had to earn at least 10 pounds to vote
I from where did the people who worked the mills come from - the countryside where their ancestors had farmed, tenant & owner, for centuries. Not deafening in the country, & you had your own kitchen garden.. This mad-migration always puzzled me - but then I prefer Country to Town..@@frontier_conflict
And the WHITE man who owned the land and his WHITE privileged children today benefitted more than your whole family!!!!! God bless your family for making America great 💪🏾
@@Christ_is_a_blackman100 What color is the privilege over in Africa? They may deny it but I bet if a person was to look in the right places in Africa they would find slavery still going on today.
Why was unionization more successful up north as opposed to having success in So.? "collectivization" and "paternalistic ... caring for their people..." Is that all?
Picking cotton on a hot summer day was not easy work. a factory in most places had a roof over it. The sun is relentless. Good for you but relentless. That's for a young man. As you age you can't take that heat. Cotton was a huge export to Britain and other countries. The south in the USA has the best cotton. This is true. They had free labor though. not entirely free but the price of the bought slaves and you had to feed them and take care of them good enough to work hard and produce. there in lies your problem. lol Currency was also a problem in the south. The rail system was not even close to the rail system in the north. that was a huge blow to the civil war in the south. they had the heart but not the means to keep their troops supplied while north railed supplies in and if if their were no rails they laid them.
I think the South would’ve been better off if left an agrarian society. No family should have more land than they could work in a day. That comes to about 40 acres.
Not much has changed. The robber barons are called Corporations, CEO's and Politicians. We give the majority of our life and productivity to the "Owners" and the government that is run by the "Owners". They, in turn, give us as little as possible but just enough to keep us from rebelling. We seem to be in a new "Gilded Age", such as the 3 billionaire space cadets.
@Bolton1289 I wouldn't expect sons of devils to shed a tear! You've cried enough about loosing the CIVIL war and now your gonna cry about loosing America to the browning of America according to the 2020 census!!!! Who's going to be the MINORITY now🤣💪🏻
@Bolton1289 your taste in music sucks, I saw your play list of elvis who stole black music and compilations of Confederate songs of TRAITORS to the U.S. trying to keep SLAVERY alive🖕🏾
No mention of the steel mills post antebellum at Birmingham, Alabama, but a good documentary, as a northerner, never heard of --""LINTHEADS" before, very funny!!!, though!!
The cotton gin made cotton incredibly profitible and also ensured the expansion of slavery from 700,000 in 1790 to 3 million in 1850. Interesting how they never teach that part of the story.
The southerner said that they were free agriculturists! Hmm - perhaps but the work was done by those who were not free. Frankly the trouble and ignorance of the South still exists becasue unlike the Revolution, we let these fighters for slavery stay - we should have kicked the whole lot out after the Civil War.
I grew up in a small New England town, near waterpower and Mr. Milliken bought a factory and created many jobs. He established a small hospital, bowling alley, and day care. These were nice for the 50s. Then the workers formed a union and he offered to take workers who wanted to go ,no union, back down South. Thank you Mr. Millikan you made my childhood nicer!
He declined the union?
Textiles,sawmills, such made a Southern Confederate States.
You could hear in the narrator voice that he felt uncomfortable TALKING about SLAVERY!
Generations of my family worked in the cotton industry in Northern England as nothing much but economic slaves.
And mine in the southeastern United States as sharecroppers. Anglo-Irish
But they were able to go back to their homes
@@grindle1857 they didn’t own their houses. The same people who owned the factory owned the house and pushed the house prices up to the point you could hardly afford to pay rent. Children spent their childhood in the factory usually deafened by the sound. If you got injured your on the street and off to the workhouse which is a truly horrid place which pretty much surmounted to torture.
The average was 14 hour work days 6 days a week all year round. The poor couldn’t even vote 😂 you had to earn at least 10 pounds to vote
@@frontier_conflict OK, i'm aware of company owned towns BUT to compare slavery and all that it was is BS
I from where did the people who worked the mills come from - the countryside where their ancestors had farmed, tenant & owner, for centuries. Not deafening in the country, & you had your own kitchen garden.. This mad-migration always puzzled me - but then I prefer Country to Town..@@frontier_conflict
My Mom started picking cotton at the early age of 7 with my Grandma in South Carolina
I picked cotton in Mississippi in the 1960s. I was older than that though.
And the WHITE man who owned the land and his WHITE privileged children today benefitted more than your whole family!!!!! God bless your family for making America great 💪🏾
@@Christ_is_a_blackman100 What color is the privilege over in Africa? They may deny it but I bet if a person was to look in the right places in Africa they would find slavery still going on today.
That was pretty good
Nice video, thank you
Glad you liked it!
@@GPB This isn’t exactly an accurate historical account, you know that, right?
Excellent presentation.
Agreed 👍
While exploitation existed throughout the country, it seems to have been the only game in the South. Not a lot of wealth was created from innovation.
Child labor and slavery is a good thing. Signed, the old and new south
Why was unionization more successful up north as opposed to having success in So.? "collectivization" and "paternalistic ... caring for their people..." Is that all?
Picking cotton on a hot summer day was not easy work. a factory in most places had a roof over it. The sun is relentless. Good for you but relentless. That's for a young man. As you age you can't take that heat. Cotton was a huge export to Britain and other countries. The south in the USA has the best cotton. This is true. They had free labor though. not entirely free but the price of the bought slaves and you had to feed them and take care of them good enough to work hard and produce. there in lies your problem. lol Currency was also a problem in the south. The rail system was not even close to the rail system in the north. that was a huge blow to the civil war in the south. they had the heart but not the means to keep their troops supplied while north railed supplies in and if if their were no rails they laid them.
I think the South would’ve been better off if left an agrarian society. No family should have more land than they could work in a day. That comes to about 40 acres.
Sounds like misplaced nostalgia. Many small farms in post civil war years were sold because they were unprofitable. The farmer's kids need shoes too.
One child or 15...
Ugh! Thought this was gonna be about South America.
Modern south,,,,,,American history
profitable because you hard cheap labor....FACT
Lol "manufacturing wasnt respectable" but slavery was 😉
Discusting history of human abuse.
Not much has changed. The robber barons are called Corporations, CEO's and Politicians. We give the majority of our life and productivity to the "Owners" and the government that is run by the "Owners". They, in turn, give us as little as possible but just enough to keep us from rebelling. We seem to be in a new "Gilded Age", such as the 3 billionaire space cadets.
You are a racist sir
Free land and FREE LABOUR MADE America great 💪🏾
Wasn’t any of the land or the labor free
Did you shed a tear for the slave that was sold away from their mothers and mothers from children or LYNCHINGS?
@Bolton1289 I wouldn't expect sons of devils to shed a tear! You've cried enough about loosing the CIVIL war and now your gonna cry about loosing America to the browning of America according to the 2020 census!!!! Who's going to be the MINORITY now🤣💪🏻
@Bolton1289 your taste in music sucks, I saw your play list of elvis who stole black music and compilations of Confederate songs of TRAITORS to the U.S. trying to keep SLAVERY alive🖕🏾
The one gentleman sneered about the fact that the north had factories and sweatshops. How inhumane🤔🙄
...and conveniently left out that the south had plantations and slavery...
Got love the south first it was slaves then its child labor what where they thinking. Slavery was and child labor ate both horrible things
Chattel slave to wage slave, live Northern factory workers.
No mention of the steel mills post antebellum at Birmingham, Alabama, but a good documentary, as a northerner, never heard of --""LINTHEADS" before, very funny!!!, though!!
God bless Ely Whitney.
The cotton gin made cotton incredibly profitible and also ensured the expansion of slavery from 700,000 in 1790 to 3 million in 1850. Interesting how they never teach that part of the story.
The southerner said that they were free agriculturists! Hmm - perhaps but the work was done by those who were not free. Frankly the trouble and ignorance of the South still exists becasue unlike the Revolution, we let these fighters for slavery stay - we should have kicked the whole lot out after the Civil War.
if you havent notice your country has spent the years since the war doing nothing but killing people in other countrys men women and children
Southern charm..
This sounds like the southwest mining towns
South west miners didn't come from SLAVERY or share cropping (SLAVERY)