The Secret Group That Planned an Insurrection Against Slavery
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Moses Dickson, a traveling barber in the years before the Civil War, had a secret- he was one of twelve members of a covert society that planned to recruit men who were “courageous, patient, temperate, and possessed of sound common sense.” Their goal? Launch a coordinated insurrection against slaveholders and claim land for black people in the South. And they almost did.
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What I found most surprising is the ability to create and manage a spy network that was never betrayed or leaked.
Right this is up their with Agent 666 of the Culper Spy Ring. Never known who for a very long time
I agree with your comment but what caught my attention was "theSuzberry" has me thinking you are also a Súzanne 😊
Informing on people who are victimizing others in your neighborhood is not analogous or even comparable to betraying people who are trying to free the enslaved.
@@susieusmaximus5330 Money.
Do you know how many spies and allies were writing on behalf of the Jewish people during the occupation throughout Europe? Some are ancestors to the Mossad in Israel today. To no defect.
Aggressors and subjugators throughout history have always called those that resist their brutality terrorists.
Yep, can we say ISRAEL!
More likely some conceptual equivalent where applicable. The usage we're familiar with is only a few centuries old and is probably more than a little rooted in Western notions of social order.
@@tesmith47my friend, be mindful of the fact that you are living through history as that conflict plays out. It is very easy for bad actors to take thoughtless cheerleading and us it as propaganda for their own goals.
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As the great-great-grandson of this man, I am especially proud of him and proud that so many people hear about his contributions to African American society.
Does your family share any more of this type of history about your ancestor publicly? I would love to follow you all and learn more.
Is there more shared history? I love us.
@mimimybroww11 mi God u are firece❤
But you arent proud of the MANY WHITE soldiers who died to abolish slavery and your people arent doing anything to abolish slavery in your countries.
@@clarencejackson4666
SO WOULD I!!!!👍👏
Seriously Moses Dickson deserves his own movie.
It’s so sad that so much of our history has been hidden. Thank you for sharing this story. Instead of censoring books, we need to have this on the front pages of our history books.
The children of this generation have no idea how great and intelligent our ancestors were.
Not to say it isn't sad, but the fact there is so little knowledge and proof of the existence of this clandestine group and the networks they set up speaks to their skill and tactics.
My favourite thing about the Knights of Liberty was the power of disguise.
The disguise is love.
I love hearing about people and organizations like the Knights tbh. It reminds us we don’t have to passively accept the violent status quo, and that yes, sometimes violence is a necessary tool for overthrowing it. Maybe the groundwork didn’t lead to what was planned, but it certainly helped lead to abolition anyway (barring prison slavery anyway, that still needs ending).
I'm impressed that the Knights were so patient and disciplined. You rarely see that in planned rebellions, and its lack often leads to failure - I bet they would have succeeded.
As others noted, I found ten years of secrecy astounding
As the Louisianan remembering what I was taught from my elders it actually happened in Kenner parish Louisiana right outside of New Orleans. There was a slave insurrection on one of the plantations.
Sounds like that might be what is called the German Coast Rebellion - 1811.
As a Quaker this is wonderful to hear about, we hear narratives that run- settler northern botanist visits a plantation, sets up a run of the Underground Railroad in the one day they are there, moves on to another plantation. I always wondered who in slavery would trust that stranger without confirmation by other people in trusted relationships?
Maybe the Quakers were as much someone to attract the thoughts of the enslavers who thought their captured people were not capable on their own. I’m definitely going to include this information in future discussions and lessons at quaker meeting. Thank you.
Live learn love... it takes the least effort.
Hate will steal your own dreams.
This is so true. Mich of the history is always taught with so many holes in it and we are driven to think that major happenings were just because of coincidence. This gives us more nuance into how these escapes would have happened. Full in those holes a bit. It's good because it dispels the idea that Black people did nothing towards their own freedom and jus waited on others to save them. All along though, many were not accepting of their plight.
I never knew this history. Thank you for teaching this to me today!
Now you see why the Reactionary Right hates our History.
Happened across this through UA-cam’s algorithm - and I intend to share it. This is so amazing! I wonder if any of my ancestors were able to participate? Many men from my maternal great grandfathers side can be traced to fighting in the Civil War for our freedom - it would be that much more awesome if they were able to be part of these secret organizations fighting for our liberation.
Because of the covert nature of the organizations and the dangers they faced, the reality is that your (our) Ancestors might well have been members of these underground organizations.
Claim it in their names, I say!!!
You can do it today. Love
Those four white lads from Liverpool tried to lend a hand
A glove. Grow and the grows.
Peace then...out
How is there not a movie of this?!?
Because imagine is important and so is powerful blk people
White hegemony
THANK YOU! I am a filmmaker. My thought exactly. Period pieces are very expensive to produce. But with today's technology an independent filmmaker could make this cheaply... I am already working on a historical film about my great uncle, but this one would be much cheaper to make. Thank you PBS. I have a lot of research to do.
White studios won’t let that happen
It's either blaxploitation, black victims, or nothing. Ain't no movies about blacks killing whites ever gonna be made in America. So, get used to Kevin Hart or Oprah. Ya ain't getting nothing better than that
Wow! This was cool as heck! I know that we still stumble on secret stations of the Underground Railroad, but to know that such a network existed further validates the notion that the underground railroad, and the enslaved and free conductors and stationmasters were some of the most brilliant clandestine operators for freedom that this nation has ever known.
I know that all humans are African -- darkest brown to the lightest pink-beige.. yetti we still stumble on secret stations of the Overground passing white Railroad, but to know that such a network of fugnuts exist further validates the notion that the advantages and benefits of white identity racism, and the enslaving of free culturally conducted and stationed brains were some of the most brilliant clandestine operators for freedom of racist ideology that this nation has ever known of no color lol
All humans are Africa - brown running from pink-beige passing as "white" is lucifer's laughter lounge
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I can't get enough of this Moses Dickson character. I mean he was a legend for the sheer number of black people he was able to recruit. Makes me wonder what would have happened if he had gone through with the rebellion.
We freed ourselves. Whether you were a Gullah Maroon, Dismal swamp maroon, Louisiana maroon, Maryland rebel, a Knight of liberty, or a black civil war soldier. We were always going to free ourselves. My black Americans should look up these unsung hero’s because America will always depict us as helpless and subservient.
Now all we hafta do is REWRITE THAT GOD-DAMNED 13th AMENDMENT!!
@@user-dj7wv5ok2xcan’t rewrite amendments. Can only propose new ones.
@@user-dj7wv5ok2xRewrite it into what exactly?
It'm glad the world has improved enough for such a PBS documentary/educational episode to be made possible for universal distribution. I'm 36/37 and within my lifetime, this sort of accounting eould have undoubtedly been suppressed. Being able to view Turner and other rebels against slavery who were not of European ancestry was unhead of. Just having Orson Welles support Brown would have been viewed as "inappropriate" or "inconsiderate" of "Southern sensibilities".
While the world is definitely gone upside down in some ways, being able to see honor bestowed upon a suppressed portion of history is relevant.
I wonder if PBS will someday create/back/air a documentary based upon historian and legal scholar, Gerald Horne's, *_The Counter-Revolution of 1776-Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America_*? I hope they do.
Thanks for this work. It gives this millennial hope for our future.
Also props to this show's host and the producers for not caving (unlike the US military and other organizations) to repugnant dress codes. While it might not seem like much (and can certainly be said to have fit in with the time period mentioned in this mini doc), seeing a brother rocking natural hair on a PBS show that in prior decades would have been charged with "glorifying violence" or in a coded or uncoded way, threaten European American hegemony and thus be rejected for fear of how it would be received in Southern States.
*Thanks be to social progress.
HORNES BOOK SHOULD BE REQUIRED READING FOR ENTIRE COUNTRY!!!!!😅😅😅😅😅😅
@@tesmith47 Along with his other ones. I thank Chris Hedges for introducing Dr. Horne to my unintentionally ignorant ass. It's been revealing. It wasn't until I started reading *_The Counter-Revolution of 1776_* that I realized just how infantilizing American history tends to be of slavery. At least, as taught in the North by the turn of the millennium. Like, I couldn't fathom why folks didn't resist when studying the institutions of slavery. Yet, I later learned-ah, they did in fact resist. And a lot. In fact, enslaved folks often hooked up with the locals here to harass (military definition) the colonial invaders. It was only due in general to the unprecedented violence and insanity of European brutality that tended to win out along with overwhelming numbers. If it weren't that it was a French colony and that the Haitians went above and beyond (in escalating fashion in direct response to European violence), Haiti probably would have been recaptured.
It made me ill reading about how sickly single minded these imperialist slavers were. To an extent that is difficult to readily fathom. Not only did Haitians have to fight to the death for their liberation, but they were forced by European monsters to do things that likely screwed ethically with people for generations. Like, holy hell. Europeans were some seriously sick peeps, yet you don't typically see that brutality in school lessons.
People who were enslaved just "got enslaved" and then "got free", unless the lessons were by bigots, then they had to "justify" slavery. 🙄 Lord…
As strange as it probably sounds, I think it's powerful and meaningful to show the full histories of humanity. Like, why is it great to glorify European rebellion, but not also acknowledge how it was also just to fight to the death against those who enslaved people? Why are European colonialists just revolutionaries and Black folks and those folks living on these continents first somehow wrong for fighting back, or just simply not mentioned? It is disgusting.
Like, I remember driving home with my Dad from college one day and I was randomly humming and suddenly did a "gag. WTF‽… No! Not that song, brain!" And I had to explain to him that my Oregon Public School education from the 1990s in elementary "introduced the civil war" by having uur choir/music sing simultaneously and in seemingly " equal ethical fashion" " The Battle Hymn of the Republic" alongside "Dixie". Due to my Dad's heart disease and C-PTSD, he seldom attended my school performances, and thus hadn't realized that this was done. He about drove off the freeway in shock. 😅
Like-🙄 literal "whitewashing" much? (Literal, since Europeans self-identified as "white".)
Oh man this is really cool. It's interesting to me just how connected everything is. How people create organizations and how they help in all sorts of ways. And even without them starting a rebellion, their organizational work still was crucial. Underground railroad. And the founding of schools. Work that continues as a foundation for the present. Thank you guys for your great videos as usual.
I will be watching
Whenever I think KoL I think of the Knights of Labor, so it was awesome to hear about the Knights of Liberty. I love hearing about people organizing for their own liberation, it really gives me hope. Thank you for this channel's work, I absolutely love it!
I went on an Underground Railroad group tour of New York, Canada, Detroit and Cleveland in October. I learned so much then & after watching this video today, learned more.
10 years of preparation...wow. And then to call it off after all that time? Patience doesn't even begin to cover it. Impressive!
I never knew this, thanks for sharing. But, I just knew deep in my bones, that a people who came from warriors in West Africa, would not just idly accept their fate without putting up a fight. Thank you ancestors, because of you I strive, I live, I triumph!!
They come from indigenous American warriors not West Africans.
Warriors From West Africa Wouldn’t Have Got Put In Bondage
West Africans put our people in bondsge and sold us to slavery. @@POWER2DAGODZ
@@xtraprebel6274no, they did not. That’s a conspiracy theory. Don’t know why black Americans reject our history.
For so long I thought Abraham Lincoln thought much more highly of enslaved people than I now think he did. I had him on a pedestal, and I'm a little ashamed of the esteem in which I used to hold him. So thank you for making information like this available. I feel like the picture I have of that time period is a little more fllled in now!
This is brilliant. I can’t wait to share it with my students!❤
This warms our heart! There is also some wonderful Rogue History material on PBS Learning Media available for educators (for free). pbsnc.pbslearningmedia.org/collection/rogue-history-collection/
@@pbsoriginsmore please. Please keep in mind that you have a large segment of UA-cam viewers between the age of 60 and 70 that never even finished high school that love this kind of short documentary about critical points in our history and when we're scrolling and find something like this it's a rare thing and be so don't forget us especially the gentleman who narrated this one he did an excellent job
Others have touched on being surprised at being able to form and run such networks as the Knights of Liberty, but when you think of how they acquired and disseminated the skills & tradecraft required to make such an endeavor successful; the vast areas involved - almost half the landmass of the current Lower Forty-Eight - in an era before personal communications and when most participants could hardly stroll into a Western Union to send telegrams unnoticed...it's nothing short of astonishing.
Dickson was truly special! To be able to create and grow such an organisation and then have the strategic foresight and restraint to call off the strike. Just spectacular! Anyone who has studied political and military history can readily appreciate the incredible brilliance of calling off the attack. If the Knights had struck, that would almost certainly have united white people from both the North and South behind the fear of an armed black populace threatening to overrun the nation.
I've heard about this only in the last decade or so. This makes me feel good knowing my people actively worked to secure our freedom.
A "freedom" which to this very day we STILL don't fully have!
Wowzer. Before this video I would have sworn under oath that black Americans wouldn’t have organized a armed army rebellion to fight slavery. This was wonderful to learn about.
Well this will definitely make you scratch your head! Ask yourself how did Georgia and most of the South had American Colored Folk or Negros in Congress and General Assemblies for thw Republican Party during the 1860s-1890? Georgia had a Colored/Negro Senator in 1870 (Jefferson Hamilton Long) ( Republican). You had the Original 33 in Camilla, Ga. Who were the original 33 Colored/Negro Republicans elected to the Georgia Assembly in 1868. Mississippi had a Colored/Negro Senator (Hiram R Revel) (Republican) in 1870. As well as Alabama, Florida, & South Carolina. Also, the all Colored/Negro city of Wilmington, NC was thriving heavily before it was overthrown in a coup in 1898 (VOX has a video about it on UA-cam titled “When White Supremacy Overthrew A Government”). Texas Republican Party was founded by 150 Negros and just 20 Anglo Saxons in 1867. Doesn’t match what we were taught. Also, the Immigrants from European, North African and Asian nations only arrived in the mid 1800s through the 1920s (30 to 60+ Million through Ellis Island and six other ports of entry). This timeframe this up perfectly with the massacres/burnings/drowning of Negro towns and cities in the mid 1800s through the 1930s kind of like a coup of a Nation just as Wilmington, NC 1898. We were taught that the “Union Soldiers” were the good guys but when you research the “Devils PunchBowl” Natchez, MS 1865, you see that Union Soldiers corralled 100k Free Negros (Men,Women,Children) and locked them into a concrete wall concentration camp and worked and starved them to death. “The Union Army did not allow them to remove the bodies from the camp,” Westbrook explained. “They just gave ’em shovels and said bury ’em where they drop.” Now ask yourself, How could 100K+ so called slaves converge onto one city? In Mississippi of all places? Did they have cell phones, Twitter, or Instagram?🤦🏾♂️ The city of Natchez was most likely already their city and those houses and the luxuries in Natchez were theirs. I would highly suggest researching all of the Massacres below and with what you know now with regards to the Negros Republicans in running the Republican Party during the 1800s, I would take a lot of the slave narrative with a grain of salt and look at thing from what seems to be a military coup.
Colored/Negro Led Republican Cities Massacred!
WILMINGTON, NC Massacre of 1898
CAMILLA, GA MASSACRE 1868
COLFAX, LA MASSACRE 1873
THE SOUTH CAROLINA CIVIL DISTURBANCES OF 1876
HAMBURG, SC MASSACRE 1876
NEW ORLEANS MASSACRE OF 1866
CLINTON, MS MASSACRE 1875
EUTAW, AL MASSACRE 1870
St. Bernard Parish, LA Massacre 1868
Opelousas, LA Massacre 1868
Kirk-Holden war 1868
Meridian, MS Massacre 1871
Vicksburg, MS Massacre 1874
Coushatta Massacre 1874
Clinton, MS Massacre 1875
Hamburg, SC Massacre 1876
Ellenton Massacre 1875 (Aiken,SC)
Red Summers (1919)
Cincinnati riots of 1829
Cincinnati riots of 1841
Atlanta Massacre of 1906
New York anti-abolitionist riots (1834)
Snow Riot Washington, DC 1835
Cincinnati Massacre of 1836
Detroit, MI Massacre of 1863
New York City draft riots 1863
Memphis, TN Massacre 1866
Thibodaux, LA Massacre 1876
Phoenix Election Riot 1898 (Greenwood County, SC)
Newburg, NY Race Riot 1899
Sour Lake, TX Massacre 1903
Argent Race Riots 1906 (Little Rock, AR) Springfield, IL Massacre 1908
Slocum, TX Massacre 1910
Lynching and Racial Expulsion Forsyth, GA 1912
East St. Louis, IL Massacres 1917
Ocoee, FL Massacre 1920
Tulsa, OK Massacre 1921
Rosewood, FL Massacre 1923
Blanford, Indiana Massacre 1923
Submerged Towns:
In Alabama you have the all Colored/Negro towns of Benson, Kowaliga, Sousana that we were told were established in the late 1800s were all submerged under Lake Martin. Henry and McKee Islands, AL are submerged under Lake Guntersville. In Georgia you have the all black town of Oscarville that is submerged under Lake Lanier. Redford, MT - Submerged Under Lake Koocanusa -
Nagos, MT - Submerged Under Lake Koocanusa
Dansbury CT - City of Jerusalem
The Great Flood Of Mississippi 1927 Free Negros were placed in RED CROSS CONCENTRATION CAMPS!! Yale University wrote an article about it you can look up titled “THE RED CROSS IS NOT ALL RIGHT!”
HERBERT HOOVER’S CONCENTRATION CAMP COVER-UP IN THE 1927 MISSISSIPPI FLOOD!!
In the state of Georgia you had the city of Petersburg, which had the same type of boats and canals that they have in Venice, Italy.
Interesting Facts About Petersburg GA
1 Petersburg, GA was an agricultural town in the late 1700s. Its main crop was tobacco.
2 Petersburg boats were flat-bottomed boats that were used to ship tobacco up and down the Savannah River.
Petersburg, Georgia is now an underwater ghost town after the Army Corps of Engineers flooded more than 72,000 acres to build what is today called Thurmond Lake. But what’s most fascinating about this underwater ghost town is that it had quite a rich and respectable history. That was, before it was flooded, leaving the city’s ruins underneath the rough waves of the lake.
Petersburg, Georgia was an important upriver market town located in Wilkes County, Georgia. It was initially founded by Dionysius Oliver in 1786, in order to better serve the region of Broad River Valley. The city gained importance within the tobacco industry as well as a source of delicious produce, and quickly became the third-largest city in Georgia, after Savannah and Augusta
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Come on people now...
True heroes to be honored forever. I didn't know of most of this. Thanks for telling us.
Thanks so much. I learned about the Civil War thanks to PBS and Ken Burns. This is a great addition to my knowledge of that era.
Thank you for sharing our history
Rogue History and Monstrum are by far my fave PBS shows, but Rogue history keeps doing it's best to edge it out with vids like this.
We love Monstrum too!
Once again I’m surprised at how my American public school education left out facts like this. I was taught about the Nat Turner uprising but never more than that. I remember how me and other students often wondered why the slaves didn’t fight back. The fact that our history lessons don’t include more information about slave rebellions - makes it easier for some modern day people to portray slavery as ‘not that bad’.
Really? Who says that?
Not all insurrections are bad. Oh the one that happened a few years ago was, but what matters most is the reasons and actual objectives of an insurrection. Freeing slaves is a cause of such importance that it justifies these actions.
It’s incredible to recognize how relatively recent it was still accepted and taught in academics many various pseudoscientific or outright false ideas surrounding ‘race’ that linked to codifying (justifying/excusing) slavery, segregation, oppression and negative ethnocentric practices/ideas.
This includes the invention of what the US created as a ‘white’ race. The false idea of people existing as if ethnicity and such indicated a different species or whatever is arguably the prerequisites to enable, encourage or support a society that accepts and engages in what’s ultimately a very degenerative parasitic practice thriving off exploiting and dehumanizing people.
The slavery that benefited the few was also ‘corporate’ capitalist in nature which unfortunately creates what tends to act as a self perpetuating machine- that which definitely found benefiting to endorse those in higher academics to create not only justification for racism/slavery but to create an alternative reality that allowed a society to reject or deny empathy towards another human being.
While it’s not as prevalent today for legally codifying an artificial ‘caste’, it still occurs this dehumanization rhetoric and ideas surrounding the concept of migration, immigration and those who live in other countries.
It’s important to learn from historical examples for so many different reasons. We must remember that celebrating those who engaged in changing or fighting against bullshit was not just a people against ‘bad’ people doing ‘bad’ things. Although yes it was like that, there’s those elements of what allows or creates a degenerate asymmetrical state of consciousness amongst a particular society whereby we as a civilization continue to experience in any number of ways.
That’s what I encourage fellow humans to think and put into perspective we can achieve a continued betterment through learning/education and keeping a raw reality from being manipulated for future generations to study. Ect…. Word
THEY USED TO CALL US “SHINES” AS AN INSULT I ALWAYS WONDERED IF THAT’S WHERE THE SHINING IDEA CAME FROM
I grew up in the South. I've seen the vicious racism firsthand that so many people claim "doesn't happen anymore."
It happens.
I'm white. Grew up in white schools, white churches, white society. But what turned me away from that "racism is dead" pollyanna nostalgia and self-congratulatory celebration of white southern prosperity, was the very words and actions of the people I grew up with. Backhanded remarks, snide comments, and even specific actions towards minorities -- all dismissed with a laugh and the usual, "Oh, c'mon -- you don't really believe "equal" means equal, do you?"
The South is still facing the inherent, embedded ideologies of 150 years ago -- and they're just getting more and more riled up in recent years.
That's why it is so refreshing to learn about people like the Knights of Liberty -- true American heroes who fought for the rights of all.
As a native Southerner -- I say, unequivocally, that the "status quo" is worthless if it only protects the rights of some, and not all.
The spirit of the Confederacy is still alive and well in the South. While for many, it is merely a celebration of their cultural heritage -- the violent racism of Dixie is alive and well, too.
I fear we will soon need the spirit of Abolitionists and the Knights of Liberty in the aftermath of what's coming.
Thank you for putting out content that highlights the bravery of the men and women who fought for human dignity. We could always use more...
I really like your comment, I saw glimpses of racism when I would go visit my Grandfather and step grandmother in SC. I was 16 when My Dad and I went down to visit and we were going out to eat. My Step grandmother pointed out a white female with a mixed child. I didn't get it at first and when I did I couldn't believe It! She was such a Nice lady but when I finally understood why She was pointing that out.... I was shocked and saddened. -My Grandfather wasn't from South Carolina, He moved there after He retired. Anyhow, thank you for being so candid. 😊
Glad to be learning about all these folks; just yesterday I heard about John Brown and the baller speach he gave at sentencing. I suppose it would be information overload and reductive to cover everyone during grade school since so much is crammed into such little time, but I still would have liked to have the option to delve in this much. Thanks so much for making this information available.
Thanks PBS. I watched the first episode of Sesame Street and I haven't stopped watching... We are in this thing together.
Knights of Liberty might be the coolest name for an organization I've ever heard, and on top of that, they were anti-slavery insurrectionists? These guys are my new heroes
It's prouve that human beings are ressourceful no matter what!
My best guess would that the Knights would have eventually been shattered but that their actions would have helped start the American Civil War. This was definitely an interesting episode and it is amazing that even all these years later we don't know much about this group.
Thank you for shedding light on this extraordinary group of individuals
MY ENTIRE LIFE HAS BEEN IN FAR EASTERN KANSAS , AN AREA THAT WAS A HOT BED OF PRO SLAVERY/ ANTI SLAVERY BATTLES.
HEARING OF ALL THIS AS A YOUNG LAD GAVE ME A GREAT CURIOSITY OF ALL THIS!
IT WAS A LARGE UNDERTAKING TO PUT SUCH A NETWORK AS THIS TOGETHER!
WAS HARRIET TUBMAN CONNECTED WITH THIS GROUP IN ANY WAY?
AS A RAILROADER MY FAVORITE UNDERGROUND RR STORY WAS LITERALLY A RAILROAD OPERATION, WHERE TWO SUCCESSFUL BLACK BUSINESS MEN OWNED AND LEASED RAIL BOX CARS WITH SECRET COMPARTMENTS WHERE BLACK FAMILIES GOT TO RIDE NORTH TO FREEDOM!
IT HAD TO BE A PERFECT PLAN OF COMMUNICATION AND LOGISTICS , TO SUCCEED!
Wow! I need to learn about those business men. There is so much h history to learn
Your keyboard somehow got stuck on all caps....
Thank you. I had never heard of Mr. Dickson and his contribution to our people.
Until running across this video, I had not heard of the Kights of Liberty. So glad I have now. Baffles me how I can go though high school and most of my life not ever hearing of such. That's a shame.
Thank you for expanding my view of this history in particular. I am so embarrassed about how ignorant I was as a young woman. Ignorant of what was happening in the south in the 60s I went to a caring protestant church and they never said a word about what was going on in the South. Shame on them.
Religion is part of white supremacy
We really need this type is education in school - it’s important and interesting. This country don’t represent this time in history well enough imo. Thanks for all you do.
We're really pleased that our education team has put together some wonderful Rogue History material on PBS Learning Media available for educators (for free). pbsnc.pbslearningmedia.org/collection/rogue-history-collection/
Thank you so much for another great insight on how our people worked together to help change their situation and ours I am very grateful!.
it’s amazing that they maintained a 10-year plan without falling to infighting or betrayal
Beautiful. There is nothing my people can't accomplish when we work together!
We SERIOUSLY need this kind of history taught in our schools (instead of "slavery taught valuable skills!" bullshit). Also, I need the alt history novel where Dickson teams up with John Brown
Wow, I'm glad to learn about this. I love civil war history but (I graduated in 94) unfortunately the history I was taught was... Not sure how to put this... Not very inclusive. I hope things will change because this is interesting and important.
What courage.
As. A white female I wish that the history I was taught showed the truth of all races. If we gloss over what makes us uncomfortable we can't learn and improve.
I love this channel! Thank you
Excellent information! Thanks very much for sharing this knowledge!.....and please, continue doing the live readings - it is GREAT in 2023 to have a live human actually reading and discussing these things!
Amazing history I never knew. Presentation is, with no hyperbole, the best and will look for more from the host. 🤙
The very fact that these brothers helped to establish a spy network and support the Underground Railroad is nothing short of Black excellence. As a former communicator in the U.S. Navy, this is amazing history that needs to be shared in all aspects of American culture.
I think the Knights were Heroes. Part of their battle strategy would to release and arm enslaved people. Then take armouries and ammunition depots. I imagine their morale would be very high. Their courage, honed by brutal oppression, would have been exemplary and very difficult to beat. If I had been there I would have joined the struggle against slavery.
This is such a delight. I had not heard of Moses Dickerson. This has me thinking about work and the power of influence and network creation. One of the historical documents featured in the video and authored by Dickerson shows him with the title reverend. His being a traveling barber and the creation of the all Black hospital makes me wonder if he was a barber in the old surgical sense. Either way, he clearly had access to people and was capable of fostering a sense of duty and loyalty amongst them.
Sir, I learned there is nothing we as blk ppl can't do. What a major part of history I never heard about. Thank you, Mr. Moses Dixon, sir!!!!
Hell yeah. Great essay, delivery, & production quality. 10/10, subscribed & gonna start going through the back catalog
This was great, thank you for sharing!
❤ awesome as always thanks
Thanks for this! Just one of hundreds of stories that Florida would rather not acknowledge. Hadn’t heard of this before…I went to school in FL, go figure
Cant wait for another future fav: " Sovereign Nations"
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What a great video, I can't wait to look deeper into this incredible part of history.❤
I love this content!
cool piece of history for sure
Wonderful! As horrible as slavery was and still is for some people, it is Great to learn about these people and there will strength brilliance ingenuity etc. thanks for sharing this! Much appreciate the hard work and effort involved in this presentation! Became a subscriber from this:-) look forward to many more keep up the great work stay well have a beautiful day👍🙏
I wonder how different USA history had been if the liberation of slaves was more obvious their own doing and couldn't ever be played of as 'white people generously granted their slaves freedom'.
More like Haïti. But the story of Haïti would probably be different if it was less of an exception.
Cool, some of the history we should have been taught in school.
Thank you for the video i like the multiple stories behind written history.
I absolutely love this series, I knew that there was designs for a black nation but I didn't know it was like this.
Great content can you do a video on the gullah geechee
This could have been in assassin's creed !!
Well, there’s a whole passel of history I was unaware of! Thanks!
Black resistance in the antebellum period is always very inspiring. These men and women had to fight for their lives and go against the law to claim freedom, all within the jncrexibly violent society they lived in. People don’t understand, if you were Black, free or enslaved, your life was essentially at the whims of white people! There were no protections from kidnappers, US Marshall’s, or vengeful heirs of masters and mistresses. Knights of liberty deserve to have their history told! ✊🏿✊🏿
This was excellent, short, sweet, and to the point! What I found amazing is that they kept their code of secrecy!
So interesting. I love hearing about our deeper history.
Why, as a 58 year old Black man, am I just learning about this now? I am not at all surprised that this wasn't taught in school.
Read "Fire On the Mountain"! A great alternate history, if John Brown was successful and started a slave rebellion.
Im glad someone covered this story. I was blown away when i first heard about the 12.
Thank you for this video! I never heard of Moses Dickson or The Knights of Liberty. This should be taught in history classes. My question is, "Could it have worked?". Did they have the military ability to actually succeed in their uprising and fight the US army which certainly would have been called in? Could they have established an black republic like Haiti did?
Thanks for this!
Very cool- I hadn't known about this, but I'm so glad to know now! Thank you for the video!
Thank you. I had never heard of the Knights of Liberty. I’m just now really learning about slavery’s end (well sort of end). I’m so glad this came on my feed.
What "end"?!
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," said the slave owner.
That was awesome. Credit to those who lay the groundwork 🙌🏽
Whenever people say, "it's this year. We ain't taking it". Well, people should know they didn't just accept it.
Awesome sauce
Telegraphed Enigma type code. Interesting.
Inspiring, thank you.
Thank you
We need a secret organization now and forever. The mission is not complete
Wow I am grateful for your research. So much I did not know. Keep it coming!❤😊
Awesome brother. As i play Fallout 4, cruising the commonwealth with my main Minuteman Preston, your inspiring documentary came on. As a "former" 😏 National Guardsman i know the liberty the Knights stood for is everything America was supposed to be about and our similar methods is how we win. Thank you
Amazing history that I have never heard before
Excellent video, thank you!
Excellent video.
Formerly lost knowledge and history.
Ty so very much for your sharing this with us
God bless you and your family Brother 😊
Good info. Never heard of any of this.
Very well done. I enjoyed this