Not true. I am black, having traced enslaved ancestors on both sides of my family. Little wealth is accurate. some enslaved persons had little gardens and precious few possessions, hence "little wealth" is accurate. @@angelbennett3891
You can still see these plantation homes all across the South. The conditions that existed then still exist all across the Southern states. Tobaccos, Cotton, Sugar cane, Corn and Soybeans are all still grown in these areas. The only thing that has visibly changed is the fact that all the labor that was once performed by the now reluctant slaves, has been replaced as the narrator says by heavy machinery. The blacks that formerly were the slaves or the descendants of those slaves now still live on small tracts of land with poor or substandard housing while the white land owners and their descendants still live sometimes in the same grand plantation style mansions. As someone who grew up in the shadows of this time in history, I watched my mother and other elders of the community picking cotton in the fields for just pennies a day. While the white landlords enjoyed huge profits affording them all the privileges that we today are still fighting for.
My family were poor whites who worked in the fields. None of my family ever owned large tracts of land. Ive inherited nothing. Those whites that owned plantations and benefited greatly are a very small percentage of whites.
Gotta love the very clean version of this story. The slaves had little wealth, the slaves lived in smaller houses on the plantation, the slaves did almost all the work. No mention of the fact that slaves did all of back breaking work, they weren't paid, they were beaten and murdered, forced to live in shanty huts not houses, were raped by slave owners, were forced to work in very bad conditions, were turned against each on purpose by the slave owners. This was done by the owners giving some slaves special treatment over others, were separated from their families, But anyway......the narrator gives a very clean low key version of what was truly a cruel devastating situation for the slaves. This is why we must tell our own story.
why would they want kids to feel all that devastating worst part of it? that is adult subject matter . kids can't take it. theyneed to feel good, be happy and play at school not hate each other or start feeling mentally ill.
What do you mean,"don't want kids to feel the devastation part of it".. All generations need to know about their past. What there elders went through in order for them to do certain things that they want to do today... Not text book history and or opinions of others but what people really went through.. And I'm not only talking about Black kids I'm talking about all kids. Everyone needs to know TRUE FACTS about the past of every races journey. It's good to know about the people you interact with on a daily basis.. IN MY OPINION OF COURSE
Much of what you say is accurate, but murder and rape by slave owners was the exception, not the rule. Slaves were an investment, so brutalizing and killing them served no economic purpose. Many slaves were paid, particularly those with valuable skills. Some slaves bought their freedom with their earnings. A seeming paradox existed when former slaves bought other slaves to work for them. I have read this was often done to protect and preserve family members, but I don't know the full details.
Although the slaves didn't get paid, they still cost the owner: purchasing them, feeding them, housing them... so although it was very cheap when contrasted with paid laborers, it was not free labor. Not saying this was right... TOTALLY NOT.
Tyrhol Biosphere I understand that they were not paid anything, my point was that they were still not “free” labor to the owner as he had to pay a purchase price to buy the slave as well as food, lodging (such that it was) to “maintain” the slave. So it was far cheaper than having to pay waged workers, but having slaves doing labor was not “free”. Again I am not justifying this in any way, I’m simply pointing out that fact.
They’re liars.... were you expecting those people to be honest about their evil barbaric system? It will never happen. While their were costs associated with their business, the laborers were not paid, so it was free labor. No money was paid to the people who did all the work. They are always trying to downplay their evil deeds, that is why they are using terms that are clearly disingenuous, never expect to hear truth from demons who would heap such suffering on a whole race of people simply for monetary gain.
teeta6794 taylor 👁👁That Is What I Am Talking About... They are illegal and crying about Low wages, and my Folks build this Country without No Wages. Life fortunately did not wait for you and the peeps that want to pretend. Read up on all the various types of America History. My People build streets , brick by brick. Read up on American History as a oh picket on the USA and not Your Native Country. I am proud of my People for being a hard working. And less appreciated. But highly duplicated. I will hold this truth until the Day I Die...🎬
Well, this reminded me of the most peculiar circumstance involving a Nigerian school girl that was just released from captivity after 17 years. Forced into marriage, I’m assuming raped, and also forced into motherhood and conversion to Islam. And, with all that she remained committed to her God. Committed to her sexuality. Committed to her country. And, she even maintained her modest Muslim attire. I almost feel slight disgust proclaiming that that is amazing of her. Her captors were Black too, btw.
Still Learning - Exactly what I was thinking. I grew up in the sixties in Marin County, and I NEVER saw a Coronet Film. Our teachers would have quit if they were asked to show films like this. We generally watched science films.
This narrator speaks of the white southerners "hospitality, gentle manners and courtesy". He forgot to mention that it was all a facade-----for none of these graces were extended to blacks. They just nonchalantly enslaved, whipped, murdered, raped, denied them their humanity, and abused them in every way humanly possible.
All facts, this is why history books need to be re-written in the U.S. cause the true history has been omitted and diluted so much. They write things they way they want others to see it instead of telling the whole unfiltered truth.
@Benjamin Morris Good. It still wouldn't justify how white ⚪ creatures, treated the enslaved on U.S. soil. Nothing will ever excuse it, no matter how many excuses you try to come up with. You owe a debt that will be paid in full. This is the final solution 😊
"None of these graces were extended to blacks. They just nonchalantly enslaved, whipped, murdered, raped, denied them their humanity, and abused them in every way humanly possible." THAT is total bullcrap, what you're saying.
This film tries to sanitize the wicked facts of a very dark and ruthless time in America. There are no whips or chains. Slaves wearing clean clothing; button down shirts with all the buttons and leather belts too. A male slave was actually wearing a wedding band! Overseers are seen talking civilly to the blacks. They even put a little money in the their pockets by referencing slave labor as cheap. No. Slave labor was free. The narrator says the slaves did “almost all of the work”. You have got to be kidding!!
That was the way cinema was concerning slavery until 1977 when David Wolper produced the miniseries 'Roots'. Films like 'Gone With The Wind ' and 'General Spanky' presented a sanitized view of slavery. It was 'Roots' that brought out the horror of the practice. The narrator also fails to mention that the Southern Class System not only included planters and slaves but also lower class whites who were told that blacks were inferior to them. Hence the roots for segregation.
@CaliforniaCheez your delusional to look at it so black and white. It was people involved who were treated like animals. You cant treat human like animals. Especially a highly intelligent and spiritual people who had their society and civilizations dating way back than any other. You need to find yourself
@CaliforniaCheez Go read Uncle Tom's Cabin and you will get a good glimpse into what slavery was really like. The lady that wrote that book lived a very long time ago and she did not sugar coat anything about the harshness of slavery.
@@bigvalley4987 don't get caught up in that racist lie.. they want us to be pitied against one another! We are all God's children regardless of legal status
I remember these Coronet films in my 70s high school...I always felt uncomfortable, and left me confused in class. What the teachers said about this left me with many answered questions...
Ain't no way I would have sit in a class and watched this bull💩. And that's the problem right there. You are cowards to allow this to even be made, the word slave should NEVER be spoken out of a white mouth. They all should be "put in their place" for even doing the evil 💩....... Black people will fus and fight each other but let the white race disrespect us in ever way. We are the weakest!!!!!
The narrator is giving an impression of a romantic coexistence between slave masters and slaves, excluding the cruelty that was a daily dose at these plantations against the slaves to achieve maximum yield
Most slave owners had rough cabins, a bit of land and a slave or two who worked alongside the owner. The biggest single slave owners were... the Southern Railroads. Of white Southerners ONLY SIX PER CENT OWNED SLAVES at the beginning of the Civil War.
If the South had such fine manners, politeness, poise , and dignity…… how the Hell could they justify owning another human being? Oh wait,…..We have a word for that….. 🤨
A Disgraceful piece of crap & IN your time YOUR truth is a BIG FAT LIE, YOU WHITE FOLKS WILL GET YOUR JUST REWARDS ON JUDGEMENT DAY OR BY A FATE DUE TO THE DECENDANTS LIVING NOW!!!
It was cheap because the workers were unpaid but not without costs. They were purchased. The price increased after1808 when federal law promoted and signed by President Thomas Jefferson prevented the importation of slaves. There was also the cost of feeding, clothing, and housing . The author is right in saying "cheap labor" because it was not free.
Interestingly enough, most current economic research has shown slavery to be more expensive overall than wage labor in the antebellum South. See the work of Gavin Wright. Plantation slavery was very inefficient and backwards at the time, which is one factor of what made it an impediment to the growth of industrialization and the commodification of labor.
LOL... Privileges is not a word to describe slavery. And, slaves weren't a labor system; it was a chattel system, like using donkeys to pull a cart. Labor systems require some exchange of consideration (even if it's insufficient).
some people even today work for housing, clothes or food. you are saying,they di d not receive money wages. And, they were not free. neither is a woman in her marriage , if she feels bound by her religion; nor does she get paid if she is a stay at home wife or mom. she may get beaten as well.
@@theCosmicQueenWhite women always trying to talk about their “oppression”. How do you think it was for those slave women who were ACTUALLY enslaved and weren’t seen as ppl. You wanna play the struggle Olympics? Everything white women went through had NOTHING on what black women went through and that’s throughout American history. Don’t get married if you have such a problem with it. Nobody is forcing you. I love white tears, they’re so delicious.
Everything was so perfect. Slaves were happy being unfree and poor. After all, the white massa was so benevolent, the slaves didn't have to do any thinking for themselves, except to learn by force how to do hard manual labour and be subservient under the whip....it was a utopian paradise for all. IF YOU BELIEVE THAT, you also believe Trump is skinny.
are you joking? they hired a few non slaves for things. and white women sewed and embroidered clothes, linens, crochet , knitted etc as idleness wasn't considered a virtue. Even noble european women always did. They worked people all day because that's what white people were used to doing themselves, before they got rich. And all other white people did if not rich. Dawn to dusk, and even after dark by candlelight.
I watched a video yesterday on youtube about how people that visited a plantation were pissed off about how their guide was always talking about the slaves. They wanted to here about the lives of the slave owners. How the hell do you think you're going to tour a plantation and NOT hear about slaves? That's how reprobate these people are.
5:56 Isn't that the Burrus house in Benoit? It wasn't "abandoned during the Civil War". The Burrus family lived there till about 1920, and then various sharecroppers occupied it. Nothing in this film is exactly accurate, lol.
This is educational because it serves to show upcoming generations what the reality was for slaves, these things, forgive the pun, cannot and should not be whitewashed.
It is not uncommon, actually quite common, in the South and not even the Deep South, post-2020, to see apartments or neighborhoods with "plantation" in the title as if to imply a luxurious atmosphere to the dwelling-space. You might as well call it "concentration camp".
This is hard to watch! I love how the narrator says "plantation social patterns have left a lasting influence on life in the south... the separation of society into distinct groups"...oh you mean SEGREGATION??!!! This was dangerous propaganda at it's worst smh
I can imagine that you never knew Jim Crow firsthand. Well, I did and I'm glad you probably did not. It was not fun.. And this film is CORRECT and incisive about lasting impact of plantation i.e. slavery. It did lead to separation. Why is this propaganda? We always called segregation "racial separation", and understood the total lie of "separate but equal." The film is very clear and careful to never claim any equality of outcomes or life chances for blacks and whites. He makes it clear at the end that whites still own the land, live in the better house, have a high life style. Blacks were still low level labor, rented the houses, and did not own the land. Yes, it's subtle and muted that black farmers rarely got paid cash since they got "part of the crop." If the crop failed or brought a low price, black tenants were left in debt to land owner. The film was made in 1950, in midst of Cold War when any criticism of American society especially racial oppression/inequality was not tolerated. you need to grasp the WHEN of this film, look at how the filmmaker subtly uses images so you can see the continued oppression for yourself without him having to say it. In which case the film would have been censored. This was a time when just 4-5 five years later, all southern TV stations refused to carry the Nat King COLE Show because they didn't want a Negro to be in white living rooms even on TV as anything but a servant. Save Cole and other entertainers playing themselves, nearly ALL black characters in American TV and film were cast as servants. unskilled labor or prisoners. Check it out for yourself.Read J. Fred McDonald "Blacks and White TV." This instructional film was NOT another version of Gone With the Wind. It is actually amazing for its critical though muted insights of truth.
Certainly minimized the brutality of slavery.....but at least in this you actually learn something about how the plantation worked. Today, all you get out of a movie on slavery is a 2 hr @ss whoopin'. Don't learn anything.
6:54 😮 They say it plain. We just don't be wanting to hear it. 10:11 The plantation system has contributed to... the separation of society into distinct groups...... (Hence segregation discrimination ghettos HBCUs PWUs BET Awards (vs Grammys) RedLining Gentrification ....) The Legacy of Slavery
@@theCosmicQueen Yeah,It's about money,but not for black folks...and their always treading on established black neighborhoods to do gentrification.We can't even have our own neighborhoods any more.but every body else can.They breakup our homes as a people,and many can't see whats happening,Their giving away what was traditionally ours to immigrants and big business and we get dispersed.The love of money is the root of all evil.
My grandfather is 78 yrs old and still very fit and healthy...and he still say "yessah and yessm" to white ppl..hes never left Savannah Georgia and that's all he know..but I have to remind him..grandad we not slaves no more. And u dont have to address those demons as such becuz were not less than them! I hate what they've done to my ancestors!!! I'm disturbed that they still get offended if u dont put money on the counter..I'm from NY first generation born here and when ever I'm in the south..especially the deep south..its 2nd nature to put my money on the counter..not becuz it's a unwritten law..but becuz I dont want the devils energy on me.
There is a cost to maintaining the lives of humans. So it wasn't free, as they provided everything that the slaves had or used like housing, food, clothes, footwear, furniture, medicine, etc.
@@theCosmicQueen I would hardly consider the upkeep of kidnapped humans a “cost” especially considering they had to make meals of “food” their captors considered waste, that there was no healthcare, no paid time off. “Provided”? The slaves built and produced everything they were so graciously provided….using the trees they had to chop down, mortar they had to create, and roof for their heads that had to physically build. And they built the homes their captors stayed in too. So just stop it.
I grew up in the Old South of the 1950s and 1960s. Everything portrayed in this film is technically accurate, but very incomplete. It was a great time to be white unless you were white trash. If you were black it was a bit better than slavery, but far from ideal. If you want to get an honest feel for this period, I recommend reading "To Kill a Mockingbird", which is set in the 1930s, but still valid. If you want to get some sense of what it was like as the Old South was vanishing in the 1960s, I recommend watching the movie "In the Heat of the Night".
The "planters" were the Enslavers for those who didn't grasp this. The narrator was a bit modest in his reference to certain things to not upset the fragile egos of the "planters" descendants who viewed this clip back then. 🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾🤦🏾♂️
are you joking? nobody wants a race war and you are an idiot if you think that's a good thing to have. of course they had to modulate it. things were far different by then. so much so that they had to teach about it as a very strange and different history.
Grow more olive trees!!! They are BRILLIANT!! They can live and produce olives for 3000years !!! They don't need much water !!! They are a key in fighting desertification !!!
Wouldn't you just love to see this film made by Black people? Just astounding as to what this doesn't mention-- at the time it was made, Jim Crow was very much in effect.
Interesting look at the 1950s interpretation of this history. A bit sanitized and incomplete. The audience seems to be school kids. Thus, it was made to give an introductory look at the topic. No film could capture the whole story. Would be a good exercise to make a similar film now and see the differences in the interpretation
I drove through the subsidized housing in Kansas City. Several young women with multiple babies. It made me think that they were still living like slaves.
idk, they were receiving multiple benefits for those babies and probably lived somewhat well for the basics. might even have multiple child support streams perhaps. Not only black women who do that.
I live in Kansas City wtf the subsidized housing??? You mean the Hood it’s called the hood we got a white hood a black hood a Asian hood a Italian hood a Mexican hood a mixed hood we got hoods on hoods out here🎉
First of all, as a black person, the intro music sounded too cheery to be talking about the plantation system.The video left out how terrible blacks were treated. That was apart of the plantation system too!!!! For example, being whipped.
Love, Honor and Respect to the hardest workers on the planet. I just wish the Slave Plantation Workers got something out of all the wealth that was given to the south.
The separation of society into distinct groups at the end of the video was most telling, as if today 1950, we are more civilized than the past and have obtained the perfect society. Even when they learn they don't learn, and today 2022, they don't even learn, step one.
According to Frederick Douglas plantations in Delaware. Also had their own forests, sawmills, carriage makers, horse raisers, canneries and owned the ships, and ship making facilities. Douglas was a skilled laborer “chalker” whose job was to precut and prefit lumber for the shipmaker carpenters. He had to be good at math. And able to read instructions and blue prints. Douglasses first master was black. And he escaped by being able to forge seaman’s papers. Which allowed him to cross state lines. So the small plantation stereotypes and ignorant slave stereotypes were not always true. For references see The Life & Times Of William Douglas which combines his autobiography and other historical documents.
They talk about plantation life creating southern society. Thing is, the vast majority of whites in the south were not wealthy slave owning planationers.
They may not have been wealthy, but a regular white person of modest means in the South, might still own a slave/s. Slaves were purchased but slaves were also inherited, loaned-out, and rented-out and traded like horses. Sometimes a common family would have one slave or maybe two slaves who were related, like a mother and her child. It was all a totally sad, cruel, and disgusting crime.
You see the beauty of this is that there is no opinion by the narrator, he is simply stating what each group has and what they do. That is how history should be taught, and then it is up to me to say hey why the slaves do all the work and live in the smallest houses? I don’t want to be told what to conclude. Just show me the facts and let me decide.
I saw the previews. . .on the fence about this flick - my cup runneth over on our hurt/insightful past - on the flipside THE WORLD KNOWS Who we are majority of us have reached the zombie apocalypse
I visit George Washington plantation in Western Virginia. They closed off the slave quarters, reason why is they stated that is was soooo horrendous. But I felt that the tour was not as effective if I/we could not see the whole story. Of days of old.🎬 Some Peeps went bankrupt after the free labor was pulled from the old rotten Farmers taken advantage. And now they have illegal Hispanics and anyone else Illegally over here🤮
VALERIE BLOUNT first of all, it’s LATINO, not Hispanic because they don’t come from Spain. Secondly, what’s the hell was the reason for saying illegals in a way that’s takes away their humanity? History always repeats its self and how they are targeting undocumented people is a disgrace. Be mindful of the things you say because that ‘illegal’ title is straight up disrespectful.
@@amycollado864 --- YOU ARE HALF CORRECT. | The "illegality" of the Latin Ameican worker is not an insult, but the FACT that makes those women and men so valuable to the Confederacy. Valerie Blount stated facts.
It's not a joke. It's psychosomatic propaganda. A tool used to keep ppl deaf dumb and blind to the truth so that certain agendas can continue to be supported and moved forward. Immediately following African enslavement this type of offering was the norm... and still is.. in regards to racial socialization. It's not a joke.
Imagine adopting a little white child.... And they ask you 🤯Why Was There Slavery❓️ And you pull them to the side and say.... Well Little "Billy". You See, 😌 It's Like This 🤦🏾♂️ Agggghhh Shhh 🤣 This Gone Hurt A Lil Bit.
"Until the lion learns to write, every story will glorify the hunter". ~African Proverb
Lion still cannot write,and here you have it.
@@ericscaillet2232 lmao u think u sound smart huh? Lmao ur pathetic
Amen
Great quote.
Or the chicken puts a word in about meat eating.
The narrator said, “The slaves had little wealth.” The slaves didn’t have ANY wealth back then.
Rheal Nyce right!!
Rheal Nyce ReWHITING history at RVERY turn...
Not true. I am black, having traced enslaved ancestors on both sides of my family. Little wealth is accurate. some enslaved persons had little gardens and precious few possessions, hence "little wealth" is accurate. @@angelbennett3891
" back then", or EVER! Isolation was important. "Cheap" slave labor? Slaves had NO wealth & NO freedom.
@@paulawhatleymatabane6452 did some retracing on my ancestry to. Its hard to convince others of this when they only think wealth is paper money
You can still see these plantation homes all across the South. The conditions that existed then still exist all across the Southern states. Tobaccos, Cotton, Sugar cane, Corn and Soybeans are all still grown in these areas. The only thing that has visibly changed is the fact that all the labor that was once performed by the now reluctant slaves, has been replaced as the narrator says by heavy machinery. The blacks that formerly were the slaves or the descendants of those slaves now still live on small tracts of land with poor or substandard housing while the white land owners and their descendants still live sometimes in the same grand plantation style mansions. As someone who grew up in the shadows of this time in history, I watched my mother and other elders of the community picking cotton in the fields for just pennies a day. While the white landlords enjoyed huge profits affording them all the privileges that we today are still fighting for.
Sharecropping, then migrant labors, now immigrants..esp food production
I think of Fannie Lou Hamer
@@merriferrell2818 They're good at tarnishing a legacy. She's identified with feminism as much as civil rights for blacks.
My family were poor whites who worked in the fields. None of my family ever owned large tracts of land. Ive inherited nothing. Those whites that owned plantations and benefited greatly are a very small percentage of whites.
Just as slave catchers were replaced by police, slaves in the fields have been replaced by the incarcerated prisoners....
Gotta love the very clean version of this story. The slaves had little wealth, the slaves lived in smaller houses on the plantation, the slaves did almost all the work. No mention of the fact that slaves did all of back breaking work, they weren't paid, they were beaten and murdered, forced to live in shanty huts not houses, were raped by slave owners, were forced to work in very bad conditions, were turned against each on purpose by the slave owners. This was done by the owners giving some slaves special treatment over others, were separated from their families, But anyway......the narrator gives a very clean low key version of what was truly a cruel devastating situation for the slaves. This is why we must tell our own story.
why would they want kids to feel all that devastating worst part of it? that is adult subject matter . kids can't take it. theyneed to feel good, be happy and play at school not hate each other or start feeling mentally ill.
...Well.They don't want to tell the Whole truth,but if your not telling the whole truth.You might as well be telling a lie.
What do you mean,"don't want kids to feel the devastation part of it".. All generations need to know about their past. What there elders went through in order for them to do certain things that they want to do today... Not text book history and or opinions of others but what people really went through.. And I'm not only talking about Black kids I'm talking about all kids. Everyone needs to know TRUE FACTS about the past of every races journey. It's good to know about the people you interact with on a daily basis..
IN MY OPINION OF COURSE
@@theCosmicQueen The hate is there regardless of critical race neo-feudal U.S. HISTORY portrayed
Much of what you say is accurate, but murder and rape by slave owners was the exception, not the rule. Slaves were an investment, so brutalizing and killing them served no economic purpose. Many slaves were paid, particularly those with valuable skills. Some slaves bought their freedom with their earnings. A seeming paradox existed when former slaves bought other slaves to work for them. I have read this was often done to protect and preserve family members, but I don't know the full details.
Why did they called it "cheap slave labor" when my ppl didn't get paid for that labor
Although the slaves didn't get paid, they still cost the owner: purchasing them, feeding them, housing them... so although it was very cheap when contrasted with paid laborers, it was not free labor. Not saying this was right... TOTALLY NOT.
Tyrhol Biosphere I understand that they were not paid anything, my point was that they were still not “free” labor to the owner as he had to pay a purchase price to buy the slave as well as food, lodging (such that it was) to “maintain” the slave. So it was far cheaper than having to pay waged workers, but having slaves doing labor was not “free”. Again I am not justifying this in any way, I’m simply pointing out that fact.
They’re liars.... were you expecting those people to be honest about their evil barbaric system? It will never happen. While their were costs associated with their business, the laborers were not paid, so it was free labor. No money was paid to the people who did all the work. They are always trying to downplay their evil deeds, that is why they are using terms that are clearly disingenuous, never expect to hear truth from demons who would heap such suffering on a whole race of people simply for monetary gain.
teeta6794 taylor
👁👁That Is What I Am Talking About... They are illegal and crying about Low wages, and my Folks build this Country without No Wages. Life fortunately did not wait for you and the peeps that want to pretend. Read up on all the various types of America History. My People build streets , brick by brick. Read up on American History as a oh picket on the USA and not Your Native Country. I am proud of my People for being a hard working. And less appreciated. But highly duplicated. I will hold this truth until the Day I Die...🎬
The slaves got paid with abuse and rape and scraps of food.
It amazing how the narrator glorified the lifestyle of black life in the south. Great information. Thanks very much.
Remember now, this is 1950, only thing that changed is the age of our opressors
Oh, so we wasn’t winning then?🤔
@Benjamin Morris Hi, my name is Alpha. I’m also independent, family owned and operated. Who is y’all?😁
@@davidruffin9828god dam bars, we get rocked to sleep to easy forget everthing, like things changed
Definitely a Eurocentric view of plantation life.
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Well, this reminded me of the most peculiar circumstance involving a Nigerian school girl that was just released from captivity after 17 years. Forced into marriage, I’m assuming raped, and also forced into motherhood and conversion to Islam. And, with all that she remained committed to her God. Committed to her sexuality. Committed to her country. And, she even maintained her modest Muslim attire. I almost feel slight disgust proclaiming that that is amazing of her. Her captors were Black too, btw.
US slave labor plantation system from a purely American perspective.
Definitely some bullshit
I see what they did there- slaves had ZERO wealth and ZERO privileges.
Old Lady Justice. Yep, just like now. State-of-mind-slavery is in full effect.
Still Learning - Exactly what I was thinking.
I grew up in the sixties in Marin County, and I NEVER saw a Coronet Film. Our teachers would have quit if they were asked to show films like this. We generally watched science films.
@@thetooginator153 yeah like like watch FOX NEWS, WHILE we keep our heads in the sand.
This narrator speaks of the white southerners "hospitality, gentle manners and courtesy". He forgot to mention that it was all a facade-----for none of these graces were extended to blacks. They just nonchalantly enslaved, whipped, murdered, raped, denied them their humanity, and abused them in every way humanly possible.
All facts, this is why history books need to be re-written in the U.S. cause the true history has been omitted and diluted so much. They write things they way they want others to see it instead of telling the whole unfiltered truth.
@Benjamin Morris Good. It still wouldn't justify how white ⚪ creatures, treated the enslaved on U.S. soil. Nothing will ever excuse it, no matter how many excuses you try to come up with. You owe a debt that will be paid in full. This is the final solution 😊
excuse me, but no, that di d not happen as a matter of course. it was only the more sadistic people who could stand doing such things. others did not.
@@theCosmicQueen To enslave another human being, alone, is sadistic.
"None of these graces were extended to blacks. They just nonchalantly enslaved, whipped, murdered, raped, denied them their humanity, and abused them in every way humanly possible."
THAT is total bullcrap, what you're saying.
This film tries to sanitize the wicked facts of a very dark and ruthless time in America. There are no whips or chains. Slaves wearing clean clothing; button down shirts with all the buttons and leather belts too. A male slave was actually wearing a wedding band! Overseers are seen talking civilly to the blacks. They even put a little money in the their pockets by referencing slave labor as cheap. No. Slave labor was free. The narrator says the slaves did “almost all of the work”. You have got to be kidding!!
That was the way cinema was concerning slavery until 1977 when David Wolper produced the miniseries 'Roots'. Films like 'Gone With The Wind ' and 'General Spanky' presented a sanitized view of slavery. It was 'Roots' that brought out the horror of the practice.
The narrator also fails to mention that the Southern Class System not only included planters and slaves but also lower class whites who were told that blacks were inferior to them. Hence the roots for segregation.
I suspect that at the end of slavery it was more like the military although not as civil as they present it in the film.
Their attempts to sanitize it is just another testament against them. Wicked evil detestable beings.
@CaliforniaCheez your delusional to look at it so black and white. It was people involved who were treated like animals. You cant treat human like animals. Especially a highly intelligent and spiritual people who had their society and civilizations dating way back than any other. You need to find yourself
@CaliforniaCheez Go read Uncle Tom's Cabin and you will get a good glimpse into what slavery was really like. The lady that wrote that book lived a very long time ago and she did not sugar coat anything about the harshness of slavery.
Never forget what we produced for this ungrateful country.
Pablo Tolson
I Hear You Loud And Clearly.🥰 Ungrateful and forgetful😔😔😔😔
Now the illegal immigrants are claiming that the Country will not survive without them. Please get serious!
@@bigvalley4987 don't get caught up in that racist lie.. they want us to be pitied against one another! We are all God's children regardless of legal status
Angel 1973 that’s what white people want you to keep telling yourself.
Wasn't u but ur grandparents u ain't done anything fam
I remember these Coronet films in my 70s high school...I always felt uncomfortable, and left me confused in class. What the teachers said about this left me with many answered questions...
They call them "documentaries" when they contain propaganda
@@amarbyrd2520 yea...I so agree.
Ain't no way I would have sit in a class and watched this bull💩. And that's the problem right there. You are cowards to allow this to even be made, the word slave should NEVER be spoken out of a white mouth. They all should be "put in their place" for even doing the evil 💩....... Black people will fus and fight each other but let the white race disrespect us in ever way. We are the weakest!!!!!
@@amarbyrd2520I learned something
The narrator is giving an impression of a romantic coexistence between slave masters and slaves, excluding the cruelty that was a daily dose at these plantations against the slaves to achieve maximum yield
Almost all the work? ... hun... ok.. i guess
I guess dictation and beatings count as work...smh
@Joy for Eternity ??? "Ignorant slaves"???
Do you identify yourself as "white"...
Most slave owners had rough cabins, a bit of land and a slave or two who worked alongside the owner. The biggest single slave owners were... the Southern Railroads. Of white Southerners ONLY SIX PER CENT OWNED SLAVES at the beginning of the Civil War.
So, Faith without works does get you death, huh?🙆🏽♂️
If the South had such fine manners, politeness, poise , and dignity…… how the Hell could they justify owning another human being? Oh wait,…..We have a word for that….. 🤨
A Disgraceful piece of crap & IN your time YOUR truth is a BIG FAT LIE, YOU WHITE FOLKS WILL GET YOUR JUST REWARDS ON JUDGEMENT DAY OR BY A FATE DUE TO THE DECENDANTS LIVING NOW!!!
I didn’t realize that this type of film existed....nothing like a bleached version of history 😒
#very bleached to the whitest white..smh
That's sad. Too many ppl don't realize.
Facts 👏
Now we needs to hear the slaves narrative of this same account.
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Best comment. Good God Almighty the ignorance is on full display in the comment section😂
Why does he keep saying cheap labor. It was not cheap, it was fucking FREE for over 400 years!!!
It was cheap because the workers were unpaid but not without costs. They were purchased. The price increased after1808 when federal law promoted and signed by President Thomas Jefferson prevented the importation of slaves. There was also the cost of feeding, clothing, and housing . The author is right in saying "cheap labor" because it was not free.
Sooo truer
It was pretty close to it
Based on the profit it produced
Interestingly enough, most current economic research has shown slavery to be more expensive overall than wage labor in the antebellum South. See the work of Gavin Wright. Plantation slavery was very inefficient and backwards at the time, which is one factor of what made it an impediment to the growth of industrialization and the commodification of labor.
@@stefangeorge2844 You a fool. How can anything be better than free 🤔
LOL... Privileges is not a word to describe slavery. And, slaves weren't a labor system; it was a chattel system, like using donkeys to pull a cart.
Labor systems require some exchange of consideration (even if it's insufficient).
some people even today work for housing, clothes or food. you are saying,they di d not receive money wages. And, they were not free. neither is a woman in her marriage , if she feels bound by her religion; nor does she get paid if she is a stay at home wife or mom. she may get beaten as well.
@theCosmicQueen I agree with most of your statements, independently of what I said or the topic of slavery.
@@theCosmicQueenWhite women always trying to talk about their “oppression”. How do you think it was for those slave women who were ACTUALLY enslaved and weren’t seen as ppl. You wanna play the struggle Olympics? Everything white women went through had NOTHING on what black women went through and that’s throughout American history. Don’t get married if you have such a problem with it. Nobody is forcing you. I love white tears, they’re so delicious.
Everything was so perfect. Slaves were happy being unfree and poor. After all, the white massa was so benevolent, the slaves didn't have to do any thinking for themselves, except to learn by force how to do hard manual labour and be subservient under the whip....it was a utopian paradise for all. IF YOU BELIEVE THAT, you also believe Trump is skinny.
He's very skinny
that is not the perspective presented in this film. stop exaggerating
@@paulawhatleymatabane6452...and you SOUND like Paula White.
Is it necessary to resort to ugly name calling just to make a point? Could you not just ask what thoughts/facts I relied on in making my opinion?
@@paulawhatleymatabane155 SORRY. , I didn't know Paula WHITE was name calling, just thought it was a label
This film was made during the Jim Crow era, so we'll catch all the lies and non truth.
UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!!!!
"Almost all the work" 😂 😂 😂 How about ALLLLLL THE WORK!!!
are you joking? they hired a few non slaves for things. and white women sewed and embroidered clothes, linens, crochet , knitted etc as idleness wasn't considered a virtue. Even noble european women always did. They worked people all day because that's what white people were used to doing themselves, before they got rich. And all other white people did if not rich. Dawn to dusk, and even after dark by candlelight.
Facts
Did people actually make this with a straight face? This is pure comedy.
Not comedy nothing funny at all no shame for the owners or narrator
Wite razist propoganda!
Yes, they did and this is the world many of the state legislations are are sneakily reconstructing their state laws towards...
@@ajl2232 pity the ignorance of RACISM....
I watched a video yesterday on youtube about how people that visited a plantation were pissed off about how their guide was always talking about the slaves. They wanted to here about the lives of the slave owners. How the hell do you think you're going to tour a plantation and NOT hear about slaves? That's how reprobate these people are.
This was made in1950 just like today America was still not trying to say they did anything wrong
Because that’s a violation of Black God protocol😏
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5:56 Isn't that the Burrus house in Benoit? It wasn't "abandoned during the Civil War". The Burrus family lived there till about 1920, and then various sharecroppers occupied it. Nothing in this film is exactly accurate, lol.
I remember these films in highschool.You think it's educational when you're young.
This is educational because it serves to show upcoming generations what the reality was for slaves, these things, forgive the pun, cannot and should not be whitewashed.
It is not uncommon, actually quite common, in the South and not even the Deep South, post-2020, to see apartments or neighborhoods with "plantation" in the title as if to imply a luxurious atmosphere to the dwelling-space. You might as well call it "concentration camp".
This is hard to watch! I love how the narrator says "plantation social patterns have left a lasting influence on life in the south... the separation of society into distinct groups"...oh you mean SEGREGATION??!!! This was dangerous propaganda at it's worst smh
I can imagine that you never knew Jim Crow firsthand. Well, I did and I'm glad you probably did not. It was not fun.. And this film is CORRECT and incisive about lasting impact of plantation i.e. slavery. It did lead to separation. Why is this propaganda? We always called segregation "racial separation", and understood the total lie of "separate but equal." The film is very clear and careful to never claim any equality of outcomes or life chances for blacks and whites. He makes it clear at the end that whites still own the land, live in the better house, have a high life style. Blacks were still low level labor, rented the houses, and did not own the land. Yes, it's subtle and muted that black farmers rarely got paid cash since they got "part of the crop." If the crop failed or brought a low price, black tenants were left in debt to land owner. The film was made in 1950, in midst of Cold War when any criticism of American society especially racial oppression/inequality was not tolerated. you need to grasp the WHEN of this film, look at how the filmmaker subtly uses images so you can see the continued oppression for yourself without him having to say it. In which case the film would have been censored. This was a time when just 4-5 five years later, all southern TV stations refused to carry the Nat King COLE Show because they didn't want a Negro to be in white living rooms even on TV as anything but a servant. Save Cole and other entertainers playing themselves, nearly ALL black characters in American TV and film were cast as servants. unskilled labor or prisoners. Check it out for yourself.Read J. Fred McDonald "Blacks and White TV." This instructional film was NOT another version of Gone With the Wind. It is actually amazing for its critical though muted insights of truth.
@@paulawhatleymatabane6452 --- Thank you, for the facts.
Yes, SNL could have a field day with that script. They might win an Emmy for it!
This is pure lunacy.
DeSantis would LOVE this video.
The crazy shit is in Kentwood, Louisiana this still occurs. FOR REAL FOR REAL smh
Thank you for sharing your observation with us, Empress.
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DAMN!!!!
Isn't that Britney Spears hometown?
@@DJSwezzleMusic Yes, it absolutely is!!🤩
Our Ancestors! 🙏🏾
Yes
I can't watch this.
Certainly minimized the brutality of slavery.....but at least in this you actually learn something about how the plantation worked. Today, all you get out of a movie on slavery is a 2 hr @ss whoopin'. Don't learn anything.
6:54 😮 They say it plain. We just don't be wanting to hear it.
10:11 The plantation system has contributed to... the separation of society into distinct groups...... (Hence segregation discrimination ghettos HBCUs PWUs BET Awards (vs Grammys) RedLining Gentrification ....)
The Legacy of Slavery
Gentrification isn't about race it's about money.
@@theCosmicQueen Yeah,It's about money,but not for black folks...and their always treading on established black neighborhoods to do gentrification.We can't even have our own neighborhoods any more.but every body else can.They breakup our homes as a people,and many can't see whats happening,Their giving away what was traditionally ours to immigrants and big business and we get dispersed.The love of money is the root of all evil.
No wealth no privileges for the slaves tell the damn truth. Cheap labor and cruel BS.
That would require snitching tho🤔
it certainly wasn't cruel to everyone across the board. it's like saying bad things may be legal but a lot o f people refuse to do them anyway.
This is making my stomach 😩 turn. "Cheap" or free slave labor.
The plantation system is still alive to this very day! It never died in the south.
you are so right about the slave system still exist, Lisa
FACTS
It exists and it's called the welfare system.
It's called the U.S.
My grandfather is 78 yrs old and still very fit and healthy...and he still say "yessah and yessm" to white ppl..hes never left Savannah Georgia and that's all he know..but I have to remind him..grandad we not slaves no more. And u dont have to address those demons as such becuz were not less than them! I hate what they've done to my ancestors!!! I'm disturbed that they still get offended if u dont put money on the counter..I'm from NY first generation born here and when ever I'm in the south..especially the deep south..its 2nd nature to put my money on the counter..not becuz it's a unwritten law..but becuz I dont want the devils energy on me.
3:43 Did the narrator say, "Cheap slave labor"... How about "Free slave labor"...
Meaning, they got rewarded with something. Hence the point of cheap. I’m sure they didn’t work on empty stomachs, for instance.
Landlord often stole from the tenants
Very informative and unbiased documentary, devoid of all of the hysteria that typically accompanies the discussion of nearly every topic today
I am fortunate enough to live in Cincinnati Ohio that boat is in Cincinnati ....the history I'll never forget
Cincinnati is a southern town. What's it doing in Ohio?
Did he say “cheap slave labor?” Surely he meant free.
There is a cost to maintaining the lives of humans. So it wasn't free, as they provided everything that the slaves had or used like housing, food, clothes, footwear, furniture, medicine, etc.
@@theCosmicQueen I would hardly consider the upkeep of kidnapped humans a “cost” especially considering they had to make meals of “food” their captors considered waste, that there was no healthcare, no paid time off. “Provided”? The slaves built and produced everything they were so graciously provided….using the trees they had to chop down, mortar they had to create, and roof for their heads that had to physically build. And they built the homes their captors stayed in too. So just stop it.
U did almost all the work or who did all the work
I grew up in the Old South of the 1950s and 1960s. Everything portrayed in this film is technically accurate, but very incomplete. It was a great time to be white unless you were white trash. If you were black it was a bit better than slavery, but far from ideal. If you want to get an honest feel for this period, I recommend reading "To Kill a Mockingbird", which is set in the 1930s, but still valid. If you want to get some sense of what it was like as the Old South was vanishing in the 1960s, I recommend watching the movie "In the Heat of the Night".
The "planters" were the Enslavers for those who didn't grasp this. The narrator was a bit modest in his reference to certain things to not upset the fragile egos of the "planters" descendants who viewed this clip back then. 🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾🤦🏾♂️
are you joking? nobody wants a race war and you are an idiot if you think that's a good thing to have. of course they had to modulate it. things were far different by then. so much so that they had to teach about it as a very strange and different history.
DEEP! This should be talk in schools. Black people let's put our pride aside and learn. Once we get our land back let's build!!!
There are lots of good documentaries that describes the economic system of the South much better than this piece of propaganda.
Africa's waiting...
@@ericscaillet2232 so Is Europe Eric, why don't head BACK that way and pick out a nice cave for yourself.
Grow more olive trees!!! They are BRILLIANT!! They can live and produce olives for 3000years !!! They don't need much water !!! They are a key in fighting desertification !!!
Very informative on how the south and residents agriculturally transitioned from slavery. Doubt you could make a documentary like this today.
Nope it's not going to happen. This is why history is so important. Thanks Reelblack 💘
Wouldn't you just love to see this film made by Black people?
Just astounding as to what this doesn't mention-- at the time it was made, Jim Crow was very much in effect.
When you let white people tell a story boy oh boy,
Interesting look at the 1950s interpretation of this history. A bit sanitized and incomplete. The audience seems to be school kids. Thus, it was made to give an introductory look at the topic. No film could capture the whole story. Would be a good exercise to make a similar film now and see the differences in the interpretation
The comment of "where the slaves did most of the work" baffled me???
Glorifieing that shit
I drove through the subsidized housing in Kansas City. Several young women with multiple babies. It made me think that they were still living like slaves.
idk, they were receiving multiple benefits for those babies and probably lived somewhat well for the basics. might even have multiple child support streams perhaps. Not only black women who do that.
I live in Kansas City wtf the subsidized housing??? You mean the Hood it’s called the hood we got a white hood a black hood a Asian hood a Italian hood a Mexican hood a mixed hood we got hoods on hoods out here🎉
First of all, as a black person, the intro music sounded too cheery to be talking about the plantation system.The video left out how terrible blacks were treated. That was apart of the plantation system too!!!! For example, being whipped.
Ok this is pissing me off in 2022
Love, Honor and Respect to the hardest workers on the planet. I just wish the Slave Plantation Workers got something out of all the wealth that was given to the south.
"The separation of societies into two DISTINCT groups"...................Nuff said.
Now we need to end our crime problem.
That's Shirley Plantation in Virginia, is it not? Ten miles east of Richmond.
Today, it is illegal immigrants and our neighbor
Mexico that do most of what machines haven't taken over.
Nice post ...
WHERES " NAT TURNER WHEN💥💥💥💥 YOU NEED HIM"!!***
Waiting for y’all to stop being lazy and put in some work too. He ain’t gonna get your freedom for you🤷🏽♂️
dead, and today would go to the gas chamber.
"The crops remain,great numbers of negroes remain "....sheeeeesh!!
Thank you, you are appreciated for your wanting to educate people.
Pat Andersen Educate???? Are you serious? Watch Roots and 12 Years a Slave to start!
You are a clueless individual if you think this is education
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Pat,..I'm going to assume your white to believe this is educating blacks🤔
@@corenpowers419 This IS educating as it hammers home the sad realities of the plantation systems.
And tobacco plantations were only in West Virginia?
Don’t waste your breath bro. Ain’t nobody in really tryna have a fluid discourse. It’s basically be mad at whitey time in here🤣
The narrator said slaves almost did all of the work…wow.
Well made, unbiased documentary.
Did he sayALMOSTall the work,,
The separation of society into distinct groups at the end of the video was most telling, as if today 1950, we are more civilized than the past and have obtained the perfect society. Even when they learn they don't learn, and today 2022, they don't even learn, step one.
The house necros
Are the black celebrity LoL 😂🙌!
They are your politicians and law enforcement now!
@@DennisWilliams-nf2gn how stupid.
Really watered down version that trips into lies.
According to Frederick Douglas plantations in Delaware. Also had their own forests, sawmills, carriage makers, horse raisers, canneries and owned the ships, and ship making facilities. Douglas was a skilled laborer “chalker” whose job was to precut and prefit lumber for the shipmaker carpenters. He had to be good at math. And able to read instructions and blue prints. Douglasses first master was black. And he escaped by being able to forge seaman’s papers. Which allowed him to cross state lines. So the small plantation stereotypes and ignorant slave stereotypes were not always true. For references see The Life & Times Of William Douglas which combines his autobiography and other historical documents.
Plantation system
Eye dont want no damn landlord
well, neither do i, but i've always had one since adulthood, an d i am white. so are most renters.
100 years after the end of this I was 11. Let that sink in because it wasn't long ago. We won't even be 200 yrs out of this bs until 2065.
They talk about plantation life creating southern society. Thing is, the vast majority of whites in the south were not wealthy slave owning planationers.
They may not have been wealthy, but a regular white person of modest means in the South, might still own a slave/s. Slaves were purchased but slaves were also inherited, loaned-out, and rented-out and traded like horses. Sometimes a common family would have one slave or maybe two slaves who were related, like a mother and her child. It was all a totally sad, cruel, and disgusting crime.
You see the beauty of this is that there is no opinion by the narrator, he is simply stating what each group has and what they do. That is how history should be taught, and then it is up to me to say hey why the slaves do all the work and live in the smallest houses?
I don’t want to be told what to conclude. Just show me the facts and let me decide.
Now after watching this go watch Goodbye Uncle Tom
mike Johnson i watched it.... 😔
I saw the previews. . .on the fence about this flick - my cup runneth over on our hurt/insightful past - on the flipside THE WORLD KNOWS Who we are majority of us have reached the zombie apocalypse
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Sounds like an old Disney cartoon
Great upload but there's a few lies thrown in there
Only reason I gave it a thumbs up,
Was just to see how many lies they'll tell.
Absoluty ? In my rural town?
Minimum wage is the new plantation system.
Capitalism is The Mother of all Plantations
I visit George Washington plantation in Western Virginia. They closed off the slave quarters, reason why is they stated that is was soooo horrendous. But I felt that the tour was not as effective if I/we could not see the whole story. Of days of old.🎬 Some Peeps went bankrupt after the free labor was pulled from the old rotten Farmers taken advantage. And now they have illegal Hispanics and anyone else Illegally over here🤮
VALERIE BLOUNT first of all, it’s LATINO, not Hispanic because they don’t come from Spain. Secondly, what’s the hell was the reason for saying illegals in a way that’s takes away their humanity? History always repeats its self and how they are targeting undocumented people is a disgrace. Be mindful of the things you say because that ‘illegal’ title is straight up disrespectful.
@@amycollado864 --- YOU ARE HALF CORRECT. | The "illegality" of the Latin Ameican worker is not an insult, but the FACT that makes those women and men so valuable to the Confederacy. Valerie Blount stated facts.
😅 ain't nothing changed. This is still white man's world
"Rip-off" system
20th. Century Slave.
I remember we seen roots and went out and beat up about 4 snow guys my friend said they should have never made the movie
I am Montagnard indigenous watching .
Watch Jane Pittman, free on UA-cam
Don’t seem like much has changed.
Kim El --- CORRECT. | The minute you pass the city boundaries, youse in banjo country . . . and that follows from that stars-and-bars fantasy.
Thank you for this! II learned a lot!
Narrator funny...this ish is a joke.
It's not a joke. It's psychosomatic propaganda. A tool used to keep ppl deaf dumb and blind to the truth so that certain agendas can continue to be supported and moved forward. Immediately following African enslavement this type of offering was the norm... and still is.. in regards to racial socialization. It's not a joke.
Thanks that sistem ?he said?
Stop it right there @the credits. Indiana University? This ought to be mystic
Imagine adopting a little white child.... And they ask you 🤯Why Was There Slavery❓️ And you pull them to the side and say.... Well Little "Billy". You See, 😌 It's Like This 🤦🏾♂️ Agggghhh Shhh 🤣 This Gone Hurt A Lil Bit.
what are you advocating? adopting innocent kids to abuse them? criminal. GO TO JAIL NOW.
Wow he said little wealth and few privileges wow!!!
Wow.