Real Slaves Speak To Us from the 1930s. Could This Be Played In Schools Today?
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- Опубліковано 19 лис 2023
- This is a program that ran on National Television in 1963 and was designed to help teachers deal with prejudice. It showed hoe to use photographs and audio to help students to analyze deeply ingrained prejudices.
The professor uses some of the work of the Works Progress Administration, the WPA, who in the 1930s, paid professionals to record the narratives of former slaves like what is heard here. Amazing and authentic.
The WPA, as part of its Federal Writers' Project, undertook a massive oral history effort during the 1930s to document the experiences of former slaves. This project interviewed thousands of people who had been enslaved, capturing their stories, life experiences, and reflections on slavery and freedom. I feel that these narratives are a crucial primary source for understanding the history of slavery in the United States.
The WPA slave narratives are primary historical documents that provide firsthand accounts of slavery. They are valuable for understanding this period in American history, offering perspectives that are not often found in traditional textbooks. These narratives, while invaluable, were collected during a time when the former slaves were quite old, and the interviews were conducted within the social and racial context of the 1930s. This context can influence how the narratives were recorded and are presented.
The title “Lay My Burden Down" refers to a book that compiled some of these narratives. "Lay My Burden Down: A Folk History of Slavery.” The title is derived from a spiritual song and symbolizes the release from the hardships of slavery.
The WPA slave narratives have been used extensively in educational settings to provide firsthand accounts of the experiences of enslaved people. These narratives have been instrumental in teaching about slavery, African American history, and the oral history tradition.
Critical Race Theory is a framework used primarily in legal studies that examines the relationship between race, law, and power. The controversy in places like Florida often revolves around perceptions of CRT and its applicability in K-12 education. Some argue that CRT is not taught in K-12 schools, while others are concerned about any curriculum they believe might be derived from or influenced by CRT principles. In April 2023 Florida had passed legislation and set educational policies that affect how race, history, and related topics are taught in schools. This includes laws that restrict certain ways of teaching about race and history that are seen as aligned with CRT.
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Thank you
David Hoffman
a brilliant description of Jim Crow segregation lived by this man - ua-cam.com/video/IXUFiXeNZV4/v-deo.html
Just watched it David. Quite powerful.
Your right, it is quite relavant to our current situation.
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1.8 mullion dead for 62 years of silent u.s. gold mining
No one should be treated like property. But we have a different problem today, with people claiming they are property when they are free. What those who gave those testimonials then would do with the freedoms we have now I wonder? Certainly not complain about it, they knew what slavery and injustice really is like, they would waste little time in doing the things they could not do before.
"ran to Grandma Gracie" yep NO they did NOT sell off their children. in fact if the north had NOT burned so much down, They kept records of marriages and births, celebrated them. Jeff Davis brought in Teachers... as many. The Carvers had George Washington Carver highly educated, HIram Revel elected in 1870 again 1870 to MISSISSIPPI CONGRESS, 4 yr undergrad degree 3 yrs law school: Puts the start of his college ... education at 1863. < TRUE.
What propagandas can do.
Free Palestine.
Imagine being so fearful of your baby being sold into slavery that you reckon that baby is better off dead. Terribly sad.
I'm curious why they would sell a baby, who wants a baby slave that can't do anything.
@@xpusostomos perhaps they weren't literally babies when they were taken, but a few years old. The trauma and tragedy are the same ☹
@@yippee8570 the video says 1 or 2 years old, and your silly comment doesn't answer the question.
"ran to Grandma Gracie" yep NO they did NOT sell off their children. in fact if the north had NOT burned so much down, They kept records of marriages and births, celebrated them. Jeff Davis brought in Teachers... as many. The Carvers had George Washington Carver highly educated, HIram Revel elected in 1870 again 1870 to MISSISSIPPI CONGRESS, 4 yr undergrad degree 3 yrs law school: Puts the start of his college ... education at 1863. < TRUE.
What propagandas can do.
@@xpusostomosare you daft? You think someone who buys a baby expects it to just start working the fields immediately? You aren’t even asking in good faith. We have many historical references to corroborate this but you don’t do your own research. You are tiny.
It should be played in schools today. Slavery was a near universal human institution around the world. Where there was not enslavement there was feudalism. History is nuanced and has much to teach us and should not be used for political soundbites only.
Was? Still is.
History is just that, His story.
It only benefits the winners.
Most proper that have eaten the red pill at some point in their real lives understand this.
And this is why we need the accounts from the actual people like this that can tell us the truth.
The fact they still teach children Columbus discovered America and the pyramids were built with wooden hoists and by a few thousand people tel us most of the books we read are a farce.
Slavery in America was very different from other nations and time periods. In West/Central Africa (Congo, Mali, Ebo, Songhai, etc) there existed among the tribes a slave-rank structure or classes focusing on domestic, conscription or court slaves that had varying levels of social status, wealth, freedoms. Slaves, dating to Christians of the 1st century, to the ancient Israelites, were to be treated humanely under law. Even given the option, after a period of time passed, to be free (Exodus 21). In other countries, slavery was only to happen if the individual owed a debt, was a prisoner of war, or religious reasons.
Until Pope Innocent around 1488. By the 16th century the blessing of the Roman Church lead to the purchasing of slaves without reasons of debt, religion or war. Black slaves, in America, were largely not treated with any humanity. Very few attained freedoms, liberty, social status, wealth. They were as disposable as cattle until 1808, which ended the slave trade…but took another 57 years to end slavery in America.
IF it ended there, I would agree we should see it as an ugly means to an end of a developing nation. But it didn’t end there. Jim Crow Apartheid began just 12 years after private slaves were outlawed by the Emancipation (Only the State could have “Slaves” henceforth, as ‘involuntary servitude.’) and lasted, either in de Jure or de facto legal application, until 59 years ago.
People trafficked or held against their will, do they need to accept that these practices? No. Do not condition your children to condone. Evil is evil, no matter if thousands of years or a single night.
There is no nuance. Evil is evil.
Sadly, this isn't something that just happened 150 years ago. This is something that happens today in many places around the world.
I think something that gets wrongfully taught about slavery is that white Americans are the only people that had slaves.slavery began at the beginning of time and still happens in different parts of the world.also whites and Europeans didn't go into Africa and capture them to use as slaves.they actually bought slaves from kings and queens in Africa
Like Africa.
@@phantomblade89 I watched the movie The Mauritanian about Guantanamo Bay and the imprisonment of so many without trial. I didn't know the word Mauritanian and looked it up. I was not expecting an African country to pop up where slavery still continues. In fact, I didn't realize that slavery exists in a few countries in Africa. I know about modern slavery in the form of sex trafficking but didn't know hereditary slavery still existed.
Human trafficking, child labor. Slavery simply took on new forms.
Yep, Arabs enslave, buy and sell blacks every day in Northern Africa.
1965 I visited a museum that had been a house used for the underground railroad. On that visit there was what might have been the world's oldest docent. She was 105 years old. She was born a slave around 1860 and was officially freed at the age of five though she informed me that she was probably closer to ten when she learned she was free. She said there was little difference in life for her at the end of the Civil War. She still lived on the same plantation. The only real difference was her parents became share croppers and could not be sold and separated. Her master essentially took emancipation in stride. He offered all his slaves a share cropping arrangement where they would work the same fields growing the same crops they always had. Then they would pay the master rent in the form of the crops they grew. What was left in crops they kept for themselves and could sell them and use the money to buy food or other needed items. Mostly they grew cotton and tobacco. The land was still owned by the same plantation owner so he charged them rent for the same shacks they had lived in. He still gave them the same hand me downs that the former house slaves, become paid servants wore out. She said that after five years her parents told her they had enough money saved up and were leaving. How they managed that I don't know. She said she never stopped calling the plantation owner "Master" probably out of habit. She was just surprised to learn at around ten that they were in fact all free and had been for five years. Perhaps the parents just didn't want to get their hopes up until they were off the plantation. Then they moved up north. She told of how it got really bad in the south around the 1870's and how relatives of hers were lynched shortly after her family moved up north. Her mother had learned to read a little so they could right letters back and forth with relatives around the country who did the same. She stopped visiting the south after around 1900. Then the fear grew back in the 1920's when the klan became very popular in the north. She described the 4th of July parade one year either in or near Boston as including a hundred white robed klansmen marching carrying klan flags and such and she and her family who had been at the back of the crowd along the parade route due to Blacks not permitted in the front, just left and never went to another July 4 parade again. This was in the BOSTON area not the deep south. I was five years old and remember vividly how I thought her skin looked like wrinkled up old leather and how her voice and hands trembled but how she spoke with such quiet force of resolve. She really wanted me to know what happened. I can't remember a tenth of what she said but the above are highlights. What stuck in my mind the most was that I was five years old the same age she was a slave and how she described her chores. Not adult chores mind you but hard work. At five she worked 12 hours a day six days a week Monday through Saturday. She said the old master would have her work 7 days if the Lord let him. She picked cotton and carried water to the older slaves. She described how her mother sobbed inconsolably as she watched her get whipped by the overseer hanging from her ankles with her dress hung down over her face. All for steeling a peach that had fallen to the ground. At five.
That's a horrible story at the end of your statement. God.
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@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker She was just ONE surviving slave out of a few million. Not all told their stories. I just count myself fortunate that I can be her witness on occasion. I'm glad you are as well. These stories need to be told and preserved. I went to school in Massachusetts but had to move to the south to learn about Jim Crow. Every day I commute past an office building that currently rests on a confiscated historic Black cemetery. They never moved the bodies. People just park their cars, walk on and do their jobs on and over roughly 300 people the city decided are not worthy of the dignity of an undisturbed grave. Currently there are no plans to restore the cemetery. They won't even permit relatives to visit and pay respects and there are no signs indicating there are three hundred human beings buried under brick and mortar and pavement. But they do brag about how they preserved their memories by moving all the three dozen or so grave markers, mostly wood, to the new cemetery a few miles away 60 or so years or so.
@@nunyabiznez6381 Why did the black families sell their cemetery to the white man?
I wish everyone could hear these stories. It's such a heinous sin that there are so many more that will never see the light of day.
Yikes. Psychopaths will psychopath if given a free pass.
Enslaved people are made visible when their voices are heard from the period of slavery. This makes them come alive as persons who were enslaved as opposed to being called a slave.
Is a person enslaved not a slave?
@@SomeKidFromBritain Of course. But it's problematic to teach it with the word slave. To not describe them as people first and then their condition of servitude second erases their humanity. A "slave" has the connotation of a listless object that always was and always will be one, and makes it sound as though slavery is *dictated by their own nature*, not what it is, which is *done by people*.
@@woozy7405 Slaves are people though? They are enslaved people. I think you are indulging pointless semantics.
Good semantical exercise.
@@SomeKidFromBritain it implies that they're "slaves first, people second" which is just wrong, really.
Slavery is as old as history. It is still happening today. I see reports of slavery in modern day Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and many other countries. It is tragic.
it's only going to get worse.
The communist chinese government has enslaved it’s own people to manufacture cheap junk for the west. Every time you go to Walmart, you’re participating in the modern slave trade.
And every single animal is a slave to humans
@@johnnyveganite9141 The Giant Squid isn't...
*"Slavery is as old as history."* And...supported in the Bible!
I am grateful for having many elder Negro friends who shared their memories about slavery when I was a child. Preciela was like a mother to me, starting as a young child and her assistance to my rearing, I will never forget. She could not read or write, but the love of her gentle hands taught me so many things about such as cooking and gardening, along with my mother, because of their long friendship. (Now she could firece, if anyone put their hands on me.)
She made such an impression on my life and others that I could not stop reading history.
"Why are people so mean?" I would often ask her sitting in her lap. Tears would sometimes well up in her eyes, and she would say softly, "I wished I's could keep you as a baby, but one day, you will understand. Growing up with dark skin, many have perished." I would just hug her and tell her how beautiful she was.
It's very sad the human memory has to be saddled with the tragedy of slavery. I knew many black people growing up, and most of them were honestly the nicest people I knew.
@@davidm1149 I agree, having grown up in Alabama, Oklahoma, and Texas. Slavery is without doubt the ugliest stain on the human soul that there is
and ever has been. The real tragedy of it is that it continues in some parts of the world today. It needs to be eradicated completely and by whatever
means are necessary to accomplish this task. The human soul has no color to it and neither should our love, awareness, and care of others. All
human beings have red blood and if we simply must associate a color with other people, let it be the red color of blood that we all share.
You sound like a dirty racist yourself. Using an n-word to describe POC?! And how anyone can tell you about memories of slavery, unless you over 100 years old.
And saying that POC you mention as being like a mother? Thats horrifically offensive, and bigoted, you should be ashamed of yourself!
Sounds like this poor female was practically a slave of your family, you're disgusting, you are a disgusting bad person and no POC should have anything to do with you, except to spit in your racist face.
1:34 "I just said it to the wrong person."
2:06 Miss Eliza Mixon.
No more fear, why still use that word?
@@davidm1149 Yeah it sucks cause of the how the manufactured illiteracy, opportunities, crime operations and propaganda have made them in the worst position. There's many out the projects but the culture still has deep scars.
Makes one wonder. In 1969, while serving in the US Army. A fellow soldier & I stopped in a Cafe to eat lunch. The waitress came up and said they don't serve blacks.
I was caught by surprise.
I was instantly filled with anger.
I confronted the waitress & the owner. I was a heartbeat from really attacking the owner.
My buddy stopped me, he physically took hold of me and pulled me out of that Cafe before I did any real damage.
I was livid. My buddy got me calmed down. We went to another place to eat and had no further problems. My buddy was very amazed at my anger. He had never had anyone white, get that upset over the racism around him.
He was amazed that I had been ready to fight for him. He said it happens all the time. He calmed me down and told me that he had never seen a white man defend a black man like that.
We had a good laugh over it.
When he asked me why I had gotten so upset about it, I told him how I truly felt. I told him that we had just gone through 8 weeks of hell in BCT. That we had all been dumb civilians in the begining. We were individuals. But that had changed over the months of combat training. We had all hurt & bled together. We wore the green OD uniform. We had sweated & struggled as a group. I told him that all I saw now, were Soldiers!
Word got around about what had happened. I had a number of fellow soldiers step forward to tell me they had respect for me.
I was 17 years old.
I still often remember that afternoon. 98% of our BCT brigade recieved orders for duty in Vietnam later that week.
I wonder what ever happened to my buddy.
It is possible to track down your buddy through US Army records. It will take some persistence and patience, and may be possible online.
In the mid 1960s, during racial upheaval, and desegregation, there were protests and marches in Charleston, SC [100 years after the Civil War]. While there was disorder, discord, and violence in the west and the north, in Charleston, things were mainly peaceful and courteous, with white people walking with black, and many different people walking with MLK. Your buddy might have been surprised, if he had visited Charleston.
Thanks for your service, Glenn. I felt the same way, going through BCT over 20 years ago myself--though we thankfully didn't have to deal with something as atrocious as segregation.
im white and been denied service in black owned establishments before... It didnt occur to me to attack the owner !!! you must be poorly educated
You're a good man
@@bza069 That's a moronic attempt at moral equivalence.
Valuable nuggets of wisdom here. Worth noting: a lot of these interviews are saved on the WPA website. I've been amazed by some of the stories; many thanks to you, David, for helping to put a human voice to something more than just dates and statistics.
None of this is "wisdom". And picking old scabs and re-infecting old wounds is insanity, not wisdom. Was slavery evil? Sure was. Is blaming slavery on present people who do not own slaves evil?? Sure is.
That website must be protected at all costs against the onslaught of fascist conservatives trying to rewrite history. They're already trying to force schools in Florida to teach kids that slavery was all sunshine and rainbows where the slaves were treated well and learned valuable life lessons. They will not stop until every school in America is teaching this to kids, and them banning and burning books just like the Nazis did is part of their efforts.
Anybody interview Kamala's slaves. Some of the people her family owned were alive when she lived.
That'd be fun.
You could throw in some decedents of Obama's family slaves.
😂 The fact you chose to cut this video so that it ends with "slavery, as a matter of fact, was _not_ good" absolutely made my day. Thank you, David Hoffman, as always, for your marvelous generosity and wealth of material culture from days gone by. These are incredible treasures for us to reflect on.
I know it wasn't likely at the time, but I wish this fantastic information could have been delivered by someone from the family or community of the people whose words are recorded. We have grown more sensitive over the years, to how simply recording and reporting the perspectives of "others" perpetuates myths of the past as something that is separate from today. When these kinds of stories are documented, there are usually some invisible but invaluable persons helping the published authors by connecting them with the people with stories to share. Those persons are rarely afforded so much as an acknowledgement in the publication, whatever its form, but their knowledge and experience is always indispensable for making the research possible. Those persons ought to be recognized at least as coauthors, if not the true authors, except societal stratification blocks them at every level from participating in that kind of academic realm.
yeah I was like "that's so tragic" but that at the end hit me out of left field
If American History is required in our schools, American slavery is certainly an integral part of it. Yet, it should be presented in a way to promote a peaceful brotherhood by learning from the horrible mistakes of the past. Parents especially should be the ones to help their children put things of this nature into a proper perspective, helping them to see and treat all people as equal members of the one human race.
Should we teach about racism if it exists. And today in American the predominant racism is against white people.
Or we pick and choose? How about the racism of blacks against whites in South Africa? Should we teach that was the white man who ended slavery? Should we teach that black people enslaved their own to sell to the white man?
Should we teach that only western nations don’t have slaves TODAY!
every other race has slaves as we speak.
@@WJACOTT Teach the whole truth about the subject. Again, the fact that such atrocities have occurred in many places on this earth testifies that such evils *cannot be viewed as the mark of any one variety of race or* *particular nationality.* All humans share a common origin. Therefore, there is *only one race,* the precious human race.
@@WJACOTTThere is no need to "teach" it today. It's all out in the open and not past history. Parents should instruct their children how to respond to any form of racial prejudice and injustice, while doing so in a manner as stated in the post about promoting peaceful relationships and learning from the past.
We have to teach the truth about history. American history on slavery is ugly. The way it started and ended even though we are still in it's process. There is more slavery in the world today than in that time.
Naw
My anglo family is from rural southeast Texas. My grandmother, with an accent so thick you could cut through, would tell me stories, many stories, similar to this. She wasn't on the right side of history, raised in ignorance with the bad traditions that come with it.
Luckily for the grandchildren, my mother was the first to go to college. Her children went to Harvard and Stanford. Slavery, like Poverty, is a disease born of ignorance and many other things.
We were raised to respect other peoples differences and merits, but it feels like the world we live in these days enjoys vanity and downright passive aggressive behvaior over accountability and equality.
I was proud of the progress in the 1990s thru 2000s, but I don't know how to feel about the United States today.
You said it yourself - your grandma was racist, but you aren't. It's going to take time, generations, for people to be accepting of new things
@@oscarinacan What the hell does "accepting" new things mean? I'm seriously curious what goes thru your people's brain. If I dont like a culture and want to live next to it I'm a bad person?
@@RobFromDenver Say for instance I dont like immigrants assaulting my country like its D-Day with boats, moving into my apartment complex cooking goats at 1 AM and smelling like 💩while living 25 in 1 room and making constant noise, leaving trash on the floor and the police being liberal/socialist puppets and not being able to remove them all + shitting on my religion. How is that for starters?
In your case - you really seem like a 'bad person', yeah.@@royale7620
@@royale7620It isnt cultural to denounce racism.
David, I wish I had you as my high school history teacher in the 1970's the one I had put me to sleep. your film clips and documentaries and your description write up are very informative.
@drewpall2598
I was in high school in the 70’s as well. I share your wish as I’ve always wanted to know more about what we were NOT taught. Not only throughout the slave trade and slave era but throughout the course of American history altogether. 💁🏽♂️
What’s interesting, is that this woman reciting the stories refers to the WPA, the U.S. Government’s initiative to employ and enable people during the Great Depression, and rather than explaining it herself, she encourages them to reach out to people in their respective communities. That was a gentle tool she employed to foster a greater human bond and continuance of our shared memory. The human cruelty and inequity depicted was a fact of life. There was and still is a great cost to that relationship and America needs to own up to it.
WTF do you think welfare is for? At least it WAS. It was supposed to help keep families together in 2 parent households. Not just blacks either. Now it rewards sluts for bad behavior. Of all races. BTW, I'm Southern, and the only people in my family tree who may have kept slaves were Choctaw Indians.
America owned up to it a loooong time ago, and things were getting better and better. The problems we have now are the result of decades of Democrat evil.
I don't think the question is whether or not America should own up to it. It happened before any of us were born, and those responsible are all long dead. The real question is, how do we put it behind us where it belongs? This national guilt trip perpetuates because we all know that it was horrible, but there is nothing we can do to change it. The very idea that people alive today should be held accountable for slavery is racism in itself. That is hardly the cure. It will only continue to divide us, and perhaps even more so than ever before.
"And America needs to own up to it."
But an undeniable fact does exists: In America , you earn your place. Blacks were a free ppl after 1865 (civil war)...free to build their own towns/cities/...free to build their own industries, free to build their own schools, free to carve out a place in America vast unsettled lands. They were in fact a free ppl. No ppl owe another ppl forced integration rights. Blacks received that in 1964 (civil rights act). It was in fact the biggest magnanimous gesture from one people toward another in human history. THAT should be pointed out! And what did America get after 1964? Cities went up in flames, looting/torching ofwheit business... #1 in homicide arrests (60 consecutive years), #1 armed robberies (60 consecutive years), #1 violence that cross racial lines (acts of racism for 60 consecutive years), #1 high school drop outs (60 consecutive years). On and on it goes. What about accountability?!
Do you know that the Great Depression was _caused_ by the Leftist-run Federal government? Without the tax hikes, unbridled spending and socialist policies, the stock market crash would have been recovered from in a matter of a couple years. It is absurd to think that a stock market crash would _naturally_ take _ten years_ to recover from.
Instead of letting the people who caused the problem suffer the consequences and get it over with, government greatly prolonged the hardship by preventing the recuperation, just like a person who takes painkillers for a back problem instead of getting it treated, only to make the problem much worse.
Thank you David 🙏🏾 Im 21 and man your life is only a dream to have as much historical films and research that isn’t shown anywhere I salute you for the amount of years you have stored in your vault.
I've learned so much from David's post, and I'm 68!
Share with your peers and enjoy! Mr. Hoffmans library is quite amazingly varied!
It does my heart so much to see you youngens aboard ❤️!
@d4rmthai.e536... I have enjoyed reading your comment and agree fully with your sentiments on David Hoffman.
@@luciehanson6250I agree with you! it's nice to see the younger generation enjoying David Hoffman as a filmmaker, storyteller, and a genuine caring fellow. 😊
@@drewpall2598although I’m rarely here due to vision problems, you both said it well. Thank you all, as I’m on a short visit here… but aren’t we all? Happy to be able to see tonight. ~
@@crystalbelle2349 Thanks you Crystal and take care. 😊
This is the real history. Stories from people. Pretty sickening how cruel man can be.
Thanks for sharing this. This hurts to watch, but they should be playing this in schools.
Why?
@@mr.horrorchild4094
So that young people can learn how wrong it is to own another human being.. that it causes so much suffering and is yet another type of evil..
@@C-Here Should teach them not to shoplift or play the knockout game while you're at it
@@mr.horrorchild4094 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@mr.horrorchild4094
Found the Trump supporting racist. Makes total sense.
This should be played in schools; it is a vital part of our history, and it goes on to this day. Our education is not limited to boundries.
Yes but sadly schools today are much more a place of indoctrination versus education. That what happens when political narratives are at play which inhibit the light of truth to be heard
It should be learned in schools but the past 60 years have proved that over teaching about one topic in history has consequences, in the 1960s about the time this video was made, that’s when they started drilling slavery into the school system and the black pathers a protest group came from this along side Martin Luther king, now fast for to modern time? Slavery is drilled even harder in school then before, everyone has a opinion on it, social media spreading those opinions like wildfire and all of a sudden BLM arises, yes people need to know about slavery but if the wrong person get ahold of this information and get angered instead of trying learn? BLM happens
@@Okay-pr9fphonestly bro I don’t know what school in this country drills on the slavery topic. Throughout middle school and high school I learned pretty much nothing about slavery other than that it happened and Lincoln abolished it. I’m 20 now and everything I’ve learned has been through my own research outside of school.
@@PimpNamedSlickBack1_ I’m 20 years old as well unless you lived in a small town? Literally every year I had history class we learned about slavery or They would teach anything about old America and they would tie back to slavery and the end of my years in high school they ramped it up even harder
@@Okay-pr9fp I lived in the city and went to catholic and private school. That’s pretty much all we learned about slavery and didn’t spend too much time on it. I think that it should be taught but I agree with you that BLM and its followers are completely out of control…and that’s coming from a black guy. The country would be better off without it in my opinion. But back to the slavery point, I think that if something happened than it should be taught. And I don’t buy the argument of white kids being made to feel guilty in class either. There’s no reason for them to feel guilty. Just like there’s no reason German school kids should be made to feel guilty when learning about 1939-1945. It’s history and it happened, so it should be learned.
Thanks for this David! Of all the channels on UA-cam, you have the most authentic old videos.
i read that as authistic, my bad 😸
Thank you for sharing this, we should never seek to silence the voices of those who have suffered wrongdoing at the hands of their oppressors, nor should we ever cease to shine a light of truth on our shared history lest we forget and miss opportunities to do better by those who deserve to be treated with equality.
The whole point of removing statues and renaming stuff is to ignore history and blank it out
and thousands of slaves were owned by Blacks, this fact is ignored
All these tales of woe. Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he'll eat forever.
@@stevepest4143Do we need to keep up statues of hitler to remember him? No. He was a stain on his country’s history and has been treated as such. The same should be applied for confederate generals (and possibly even Union generals like Sherman who pillaged raped and murdered the innocent).
@@RaptorFromWeegee That's the problem, they knew how to fish in Africa, white people made them fish for everybody else and they didn't have the right to succeed for themselves.
And you know that, of course, I'm just going to remind you, because you're not getting by with that here.
"slavery, as a matter of fact, was not good"
So why so many people in "western world" vote for communist/totalitarian ideologies to be enslaved?
Was searching for this comment...yeah...
haha I guess that wasn't a given to a lot of people in the 30s.
That's the best y'all can do uh... Nah. Apology not accepted.
@@dicelanddrc4765 Um, okay? Lmao
You ain't never gonna do anything but fucking cry about it and continue to destroy your community anyway.
Thank you. This is only a drop in the ocean, but it hopefully helps our understanding a little more.
This gives me strength and helps me remember to keep going. Brothers and sisters today don't realize how hard it was back then. We came sooo far, only to regress into ignorance due to social media, tv and internet. SMH. The struggle continues...
Thank you for this content!!!
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This country needs more men like you Mr. Hoffman. Thanks for sharing
I really appreciate that even in the 1930s they had the presence of mind to preserve this history and allow the slaves to tell their stories without censorship.
That’s a very pessimistic image of the past you have.
The Civil War was one of the bloodiest conflicts of that age and the abolitionists won… why would they censor the horrors of slavery a few decades later?
Especially given this was a Federal Project, not some rebel teacher in a small school in the Deep South or something.
It's no secret that countless Africans were captured by fellow Africans who later sold them to European traders. The fact that such atrocities have occurred in many places on this earth testifies that such evils cannot be viewed as the mark of any one variety of race or particular nationality. Hate has no one color, language or flag. Realizing this helps us to avoid taking an extreme position or revengeful attitude when confronted with such shocking history regarding racial or nationalistic hatred.
*"...such evils cannot be viewed as the mark of any one variety of race ..."* But it was one particular race in this country (USA).
You, sir, are an apologist for white racism and also for the practice of slavery. Your parents were racists too, I suppose.
@@feathermerchantBut it wasn't one particular race around the world. And even in this country, it wasn't the entire race. I'm from a rural, white community in the "North" that was a hub of the underground railroad. The white ancestors there risked a lot to help slaves get to freedom.
@@feathermerchant Since *there is truly only one human race,* we must try to understand what happened. One prominent magazine reported that *"slavery was a crime not merely against blacks but all humanity. Guilt* must be shared by both races, since many slavers were Africans.”-Time, January 24, 1977, p. 56.
@@woody5476 I did not claim it was the entirety of one race. Does the word'predominately' help?
What a shame our educational standards today are so low versus 5 decades ago
Most of my ancestors were slaves, I'm from Eastern Europe. Many Americans think only black people were slaves, but the word slave came from the word "Slav". Slavs were used as slaves well before black people were enslaved by white people. When someone talks about "white privilege", I'd like to let them know not all white people are created equal, Slavic people were considered second-class human beings for a very long time. Slavery is not based on skin color, but vulnerability. My granny, who's now 85 (gonna be 86 in December), while she didn't live in the feudalist era, she along with her family were peasants. They didn't have a floor in their house, only dirt. They had the bare minimum to survive, but they never starved. The only reason I exist now, is because that bomb that hit close to her shelter in WW2, did not explode.
Very interesting, David! As always, thanks for sharing.
Thank you for the video. Such tragic stories.
This should be required to be played in all schools to all students. Especially where it has to be forced on a school board to show it.
As long as the students are made aware that the people living today are not responsible for these horrible events.
@@peterbulloch4328 - The lack of racial equality today is the fault of racial inequality back then. Hearing the actual voices of former slaves would teach our children just how truly horrible slavery was. That’s legitimate education as it gives them first hand information.
Consequently, white people have since spent another century and a half building generational wealth and enjoying privileges denied to black people under decades of Jim Crow laws, enacted by the next generation of white people. Those laws kept black people’s opportunities and rights subjugated so they continued to live in poverty with limited rights.
So today, no, we personally didn’t do it. I didn’t and you didn’t. We didn’t actively find the workarounds to legally keep them in poverty. But we can quit denying the realities of the anti-Christian, anti-decency, and outright evils of slavery. And we can correct those things that our ancestors did by leveling out the playing field. We have generational wealth and advantage. They don’t. We can easily balance that out and shore up the last of the laws so that we all get to live and thrive truly equal.
The money for it? The national pot has plenty to accomplish that. The government isn’t coming to rob you. If we need more money, we should start by taking it from the bloated salaries and even more bloated perks given to our useless Congress members. We can quit buying thousand dollar hammers for the Army and all those countless other stupid things we hear reported about government waste.
That money in the hands of descendants denied opportunities, educations, and inheritance would lead to a lot more houses being bought (a housing and construction boom), small businesses started (a big boost to the national economy), and the ability for all Americans to live more equal like we have long said we believe in.
Infividually, it won’t hurt any of us white people. Collectively, we today can finish cleaning up our great-granddaddies collective sins. And then get on with life, once again setting the example for the world about what the word “equal” really means.
@@peterbulloch4328 No, but plenty of people seem to want to go back to them.
@@MySerpentine Who do you see as being those people?
@@mikeb5372 Half of the Republican party, for a start.
It's nice to meet you, friend. I really appreciate your sharing this with todays generations. It is so important that the reality of the hell that was is shared so that society will never make these mistakes again. Thank you so much for sharing. I wish you continued success and happiness always.
Strange how such a short story can have such a powerful and lasting impact!
It hurts my heart... but needs to be known... thanks David 😎👍
*teacher from 1956* "this can touch and teach students"
*teacher from 2024* "I'm not allowed to teach anything about this because our state governor prohibits it"*
this stuff and even MORE is taught in schools, what are you talking about
It is hard to imagine being so cruel to any living thing, and yet such cruelty is common
Not to people that deserve it though. But these people yes its horrifying
@@1984isnotamanual no one deserves slavery that's a joke.
the problem really is in how to address the condition.
@@rustyshackleford1465 I didn’t say they did, I said that some people deserve cruelty. Not slavery particularly.
Human conditioning is more powerful than one can imagine
So true, she killed her own baby for no reason. Pure evil. Sadly, over 1 million American women kill their babies each year, which is more deaths than all the wars and murders combined.
I’m proud to share while looking into my Ancestry DNA I had a great grandfather who fought for the North.
Side note, it’s always fascinating to see how the world was back in these days. My grandfather was born in 1932 , so this video was how the world was during his formidable years.
Another absolute treasure.
Now if we'd all simply treat one another like treasures as individuals and groups, all would be well.
@iahelcathartesaura3887... I love your sentiments, the dreamer in me wish it could be, but I also know that reality is often unkind.
There'll Always be Mao, Pol Pat, Stalin, Hitler or Fidel.
Be meek, but never weak . .
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And yes. It should all be talked about, dissected, analyzed, studied. All of it. Frederick Douglas letters to his former master should be scrutinized in middle school.
If nothing else. Great lesson in how to play the game. When to be stoic, when to fight, the power of words. And some serious lessons in understanding movements and the motivations behind them, the types of people they draw and how the momentum can be used to achieve a goal. Brilliant man.
Unfortunately, Florida will not allow this in schools. I was blessed to have been too young for the draft, but the right age for affirmative action opportunities. All I needed was a chance, not a handout. I earned a Bachelors degree and a Masters degree. I started multiple businesses and supported dozens of small businesses and bright employees. I retired this year at 65. I sometimes think about how many more people of color could've achieved great things if not for slavery and racial bias in the decades to follow.
You have done beautiful things Dave and I thank you for sharing your thoughts and experiences.
David Hoffman filmmaker
What ages is it not allowed? I thought it was only elementary. At that age it can just cause discrimination. I wasn't offered actual classes on slavery until college and it never stopped me from knowing about it or having black friends. I'm glad my kids were homeschooled and didn't learn about it from public school teachers, frankly
It’s not about a handout it’s what is owed to ADOS. They never paid Black people reparations.
@@anuday2022never will. No one alive today should get paid for something they didn't personally experience by people today who had no ownership or responsibility for something that happened hundreds of years ago.
"Slavery, as a matter of fact, was not good."
We must not forget.
I e always found when I watch videos or see pictures of slaves and their stories they always hold themselves like royalty.
Such suffering , such pin bit they look so majestic.
They have so much strength in their eyes , I can’t explain it .
These truly horrendous stories should be shouted from the roof tops, if we forget their stories we forget their names.
I’m so glad you are preserving these stories of the voices that are always hidden.
"strength in their eyes" ???
Then just there.
@@HeroInTheSun by that I mean you can look at someone’s eyes and just see the shallowness or pure evil and spite.
With the slaves I mostly see strength, like there’s still power in them.
I’d rather sit around someone at a dinner table with eyes like that than a creepy , vapid narcissist like the eyes of most politicians.
@@matthewjoseph9897 that’s the right description, the perfect one I felt.
Dignity . Thank you.
Well said!
Good evening David, it could be ok to teach it in school now for history buff. Some school my not like it others may like it. I guess it hurts to see it and tell how it was. Thanks for sharing it.👍📸🙂
That ending killed me. "Slavery was not good" What a take away 😂
Really 😄 i was just laughing the entire video
Thank you for sharing this!
Thank you for uploading this. I took the liberty of downloading it for posterity in case the time comes that videos like this will be forbidden to be shared in America, starting with Florida where it is already a crime for teachers to do so in schools.
I wanna give a quick shout out to Irish and Chinese Americans. Their work has been overlooked for a long time
I was a little surprised at her last line. The fact that she had to say this at all, shows the progress that has been made in the last 50 years. Best to keep sharing the original words and let people reach their own conclusions, than to reinterpret things with CRT. We all figured it out just by learning actual history and speaking to people of other races. Thank you for sharing this!
CRT isn't being taught in any K-12 school so it's a moot point, and I'd argue that there are plenty of people who could use it anyway. If learning history and speaking to people ended racism, there wouldn't be any racists.
@@furiousapplesack Most people are born and live ignorant of the history of their and other cultures, to say nothing of modern cultural knowledge. You'd be surprised by how little knowledge leads to compassion and understanding.
@@robertross45Right. So I assume you know that many slaves, after being freed, obtained _their own_ slaves?
Or do you just learn poses.
@@theexpresidentsyou seem to focus on obscure things that rarely happened, and make it seem like it’s typical. Slavery was horrible with no redeeming value. Then segregation for almost a century after was horrible. Full stop. Only a bigot would try to imply otherwise, or to downplay it by claiming blacks were just as guilty.
Vibe with what you’re saying except about crt. Doesn’t sound like you know what it is.
Thanks for bringing these valuble and informative videos that help us to understand the good old days
Though I clicked 'Like', this made my skin crawl.
Thanks for the share. This is stuff schools would want to show if they get their hands on it. I hope it finds its way into schools, but UA-cam might just replace that function eventually.
Preserve this gem.
Even though the way she ends it with "slavery as a matter of fact was not good." comes off as humorous now for being such an obvious statement, back then slavery was so normalized people seriously would not know this.
They literally had carnival games that involved hurting slave children back then.
Absolutely should be played in school
Hi, David. Thanks for sharing such an interesting video. I should have known that it was you and your channel.
This was difficult to watch and hear. I know all of these things happened but it takes on a more truthful experience to hear the words of those human beings who were, through no fault of their own, considered less than human, just a piece of property owned by their masters. I am so glad that the abhorrent practice of slavery has been rightfully banished from our culture. What a punch in the gut to hear the words of these poor people speaking with a strong sense of fear and subservience. They weren't even afforded the basic human rights of Dignity and Respect. What a shameful legacy in American history.
Should this be played and taught in schools? Absolutely. But with context. What should NOT be taught in schools is that this is still a current condition.
Obviously, this is about history.
Geezuz this needs to be heard. 😢😢😢
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Read hundreds of accounts. Wish there were more audio versions. From the actual people. Like this... its one thing to hear this story, essentially though, thats all it is. Shes reading someone else's words.
One story in particular that stuck with me for example was so well written I could hear the laughter in the tone. She transcribed a scene where Union Soldiers were approaching across a field. Suddenly a bunch of Natives on horseback flying Andrews cross came out of the trees and ran them off as they engaged them. Comes across like she found it hilarious. Would love to have an audio version from her own mouth.
(Pretty sure she belonged to a blind old Indian.)
Yes, it belongs in schools. Bring it to light and develop dialogue and understanding. If X can be taught and is part of the curriculum, then so can Y.
Yes, people need to know bad things happened in the past
@@mr.horrorchild4094 It plainly states in black and white in the 'Black Almanac'--a Black source; available in every college library in the country--that 95% of the kidnapped West Africans were sold into slavery in Latin America. I have a sneaking suspicion that you will be fine with that history omitted.
Beautiful and sad.
Crazy to think that slavery still continues in this day in age in places like Asia, middle East ECT
It's different today than back then. It was institutionalized codified into laws.
the only way to overcome this dark history is to face the harsh realities of what happened- and not bury the facts under political litigation
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Its really touching how that Yankee soldier tried his best to make her understand she was a human. I bet despite the switching it changed her life.
Sadly, that's not why he did it. Or probably not - I wasn't there, after all. He most likely told her to say that knowing that it was a perceived insult to the owner, as well as knowing full well what the response would be. There was a widespread effort during the Civil War and restoration period to stir up as much trouble between slaves and their owners as possible. Keep in mind - she had never been whipped before, and her grandma knew as soon as she heard it that the child must've done something to prompt it. Upon hearing what she said to the owner, the grandma ALSO whipped her. I'm not defending slavery here, just trying to add context.
@@0megacron sounds more like you're just interpreting it through a modern bias that people couldn't possibly have cared about slaves whereas that's not anything like what is said historically. People passionately cared about the life and freedom of the slaves.
I have a somewhat uncommon last name. Back in the 60's, if I was visiting a large city, I would look in the phone book to see if anyone had the same last name. I would call them and see how they might be related. While in Memphis, I called a man and he wanted to meet me. He gave me his address and directions and I went over there. I went to the door and knocked, and to my surprise, when he answered the door, he turned out to be black. He was retired from the military and, evidently, his ancestors were slaves on a small plantation outside of Atlanta. A plantation my ancestors owned. He said his great grandfather told him a little bit about those times. According to him, they were treated almost like part of the family and when the Emancipation Proclamation was declared in 1863, they all remained on the plantation. It was only when Sherman came through and burned Atlanta and destroyed the surrounding area that they all fled and took on the last name of their previous owners.
I think all information should be public, but I also agree with Morgan Freeman. Ending racism is ignoring colors.
With the hatred for whites that is constantly being stirred up by politicians today, I don’t think it helps.
It should be read in schools today. When I found out _Huckleberry Finn_ was banned or edited because of the way the main Negro character was addressed and treated, I was appalled. How ever will people understand the evolution of today's difficulties, if they do not see the accurate state of affairs in the past?
The correct way to handle these things is to add a preamble to new printings, as has been done with restorations of old cinema recordings, or replays of older television shows:
" This program contains descriptions and treatment of people, which may be offensive to current sensibilities. They reflect times when people did not know better, or knew, and did not care. We know better, and this is a reminder of why. We leave this as it was, to set the context of the time. This is not an endorsement, nor an approval, but simply an authentic representation of those times. We see, we learn, and we do better. Ignoring the lessons of the past deprives us of the impetus to avoid repeating it."
Really? Do you really believe that is necessary to make sure nobody gets their feelings hurt?!! Please, give me a break. Why is that so important? If people don't pay attention to what they are being taught about history in school as they grow up, then that is their problem, not everyone else's.
Mark Twain never wrote a bad black character. They were always portrayed sympathetically, if at the same time often as somewhat simple minded. They were always simple and good. But that's in part because as a white boy whose uncle kept slaves, he was treated kindly by the slaves, who seem to have been affected by a kind of Stockholm Syndrome: keep on the whites' good side when they are young and maybe they won't abuse you when they grow up and own you. So Twain had a child's simplistic fondness for blacks who were kindly toward him as a child and who he addressed as "aunt" and "uncle" (hence Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben, by the way). But he was also a moral coward who never stood up against his white friends and relatives to object to slavery. He left the United States during the Civil War, and then later became a northern liberal and had to keep his liberal street cred by being a "friend of the Negro" in print and in society. There's nothing racist against blacks in Twain. He sublimated all his racism and contempt for people of color into hatred for the Native Americans. Twain never wrote an Indian character who was not lower than scum, subhuman. There's a passage in Roughing It about an Indian tribe that is not only hateful, if you swap out the word "Indian" in parts of it, and put the n-word in its place, you would swear a Klansman was rallying the boys for a good old lynching. Huckleberry Finn is a very complex work by a tortured man who hated himself and projected that onto society. For Twain, people were all good or all bad. He considered himself all bad. His wife was all good. Blacks were all good. Indians were all bad. Messed up person, Twain. But one thing he did *not* do was write a novel that expressed race hatred toward black people. Way too much guilt to do that.
My great great father at the age of 2 was sold off from his mother. After years of research and DNA I have been able to trace and reunite them
reunite who?
So he was still breathing? And she?
Those people are the ones who needed advocacy. Not the whiners of today.
Mr Hoffman, i appreciate how tou collection point indirectly to another limitation involved in slavery. A slave was not allowed to think or speak those thoughts. We should all be careful TO think for ourselves. Not just accept what we our told by news or young people by influencers.
Thanks a bit of reality
I was just thinking of Harriet Beecher Stowe and her book Uncle Tom's Cabin. It is 400 pages and each chapter is about 4 pages. I could only read a chapter per day. It was too difficult and heartbreaking.
The USA did a terrible thing by allowing slavery. Why didn't they just hire and pay the workers and let them leave/quit if they wished?
There are more slaves in the world today than in 1850. They're just not in America.
when you make such a comment you tell on yourself that you don't care about either historical american slavery or modern global slavery. lol
Classic anti-reparations response 🤡 🔫 . There are also still millions of survivors of the Jim Crow era.
One of my ancestors in Roberson County, North Carolina, was interviewed by the Library of Congress in the early 1930s . He stated that several days before he was freed by Union troops in 1865, he was "whupped" by his master for trying to learn to read.
Love the very clear, should be obvious statement at the end. ‘Slavery, as a matter of fact, was not good.’ It’s important to say.
Its amazing how so many can be led to believe that other humans are less than human for any reason
Cruel world back then, barbaric times all around for everyone , we today would not know what that's like
@@mostlyshorts7462 lol yeah that never happens today
@myzjed5576 not in America but in Africa and many Middle Eastern places there is still slavery today
@@mostlyshorts7462Sadly my friend, there are still plenty of people in America that view other humans as less than human.
@myzjed5576 some people have opinions on others in every race especially in America but not 1 owns a slave , that's not the same story in many other countries
I remember watching ’Dancing With Wolves’ as a teenager and realising how brutal the introduction of Europeans to the American continent was. Now slavery had an added dimension of sadism to the same brutality.
Various Native American tribes were at war with each other and killing each other for land and resources long before a single European ever set foot in North America. 😉
Thanks for sharing the stories.
What's crazy is that there's more people in slavery today then any other time in history. This should definitely be played. We should study history, not rewrite it or erase it.
In some places, yes, this could be played in schools today. In my opinion though, this should be played in schools everywhere. I find it confounding to no end to know that racism still exists in this country, or anywhere for that matter.
Can you elaborate on what you mean by "still exists".
@@Mike-rk3wt I work in a southern factory and when I find myself among the "good old boys" I can blend in well enough they feel very comfortable using colorful language around me.
Sent a copy of a group chat to HR and got three fired, lmao.
@@Mike-rk3wt yes
@@andrewhooper7603 you'd make an excellent communist
@@andrewhooper7603 the people that you got fired, were they saying or doing anything that was work related and hurt other people? If not, then, you and I have very different views. I think all kinds of people have views that are absolutely abhorrent, but I would never try to get them fired from their jobs if their views were unrelated. If these people weren't doing anything other than expressing views you disagreed with then I don't see how that's any different than a 1984 I thought crime. You wanted them fired from a factory job. That means you believe they shouldn't have any form of employment at all. Then what? They're forced to go to the streets and become criminals? I'd rather have people have terrible thoughts that they share with their friends as opposed to taking them out of society where they will be forced to take much more drastic measures.
Aren't there slaves today?
Best to read and listen to the original material rather than cherry-picked components such as these. The range of views expressed by the interviewees is astounding and quite simply has no parallel in the innumerable external attempts at interpretation of slavery, the antebellum Southern culture, and the war itself.
Screw trigger warnings; people need to learn about the brutal realities of history so that it may never again repeat itself. When something is presented in a raw, unfiltered format, it seems far more authentic, and is more likely to stick with us for the rest of our lives; it's so much more personal.
Slavery existed long before Americans banned it and is still practiced today. The focus shouldn’t be on those whom have already outlawed it. But on those that still practice it. The republicans ended slavery for the American slaves. The slaves did not emancipate themselves. If that truth were told taught the old Democratic Party would die and that is why it’s no longer taught in schools
have some self respect bro
this is so sad. Humans can be very very terrible people.
This is a great historical video and is definitely exactly what should be taught in school:actual history
Pretty brutal by todays standards and you need to be forced to see it
This is what needs to be taught in schools. The history of what struggles African Americans went through. Not new pronouns we need our children to learn to not offend a "new" group of people.
ironically, liberals are the ones pushing for this type of content to be shown in schools, while many conservatives have pushed against it
David Hoffman is a historian in my eyes. I can never forget some of his posts like this one. The horrors of humanity and the depths of darkness that was once considered very normal.
Love the way she sums it up: “Slavery, in fact, was not good”. If all Americans had had the basic humanity to make that admission after the fact, based on the clear evidence, as this woman did, the way forward would have been much easier for everyone. Revisionists, all the way forward even to current Florida governor Desantis, try to make the case for slavery having been a good thing for both parties and by doing so just prolong the pain and enmity and hold their society back from evolving to a better place. This woman shows that to be oh so evident and crystal clear.
When did Desantis make the case that "Slavery was good for both parties"? He never said that. Nor does the new curriculum in Florida (at the center of this controversy) say that. Vice President Harris purposefully misinterpreted one sentence out of context in order to claim that the curriculum said slavery was good for the slaves because she was trying to score political points.
*CLICKBAIT.* I expected to hear "real slaves speak to us from the 1930s".
Same. I wanted to see just how old they were when they spoke to the class lol
I think only 10% of what really happened to slaves has been told, only because the heart would fail if we really knew all that was done to them.
This should be read at schools, so people will understand the terrible conditions and teach what real victims are.
The Mom's of 🗽 group would definitely report a teacher for sharing this! They have said it makes their children feel bad. Also some books refer to slaves as just workers now. They want to teach that they learned a lot of valuable skills lol. Their stories and lives are important to share and learn about. ❤
i wish people would stop saying that Americans were never taught the truth about slavery, we all were. This is a good example.
Not true. Many of the hard truths are taught in a matter of fact or even positive light. Many more stories are never even mentioned. It is not being taught fully ot honestly in many places around the country.
What documentary is this from? I want this. What book is she reading from?
This really did break my heart to hear.
The term slave has its origins in the word slav. The slavs, who inhabited a large part of Eastern Europe, were taken as slaves by the Muslims of Spain during the ninth century AD. Slavery can broadly be described as the ownership, buying and selling of human beings for the purpose of forced and unpaid labour.
Thank you. As the grandchild of "illiterate" Slavic peasants who were nearly starved to death, somehow I have to be reminded all the time to "check my privilage".. We Eastern Europeans KNOW where that word comes from. It's amazing how the English language can take such liberties under the big sky of Russophobia yet bleeps out the "N" word also coined by "Spanish" human traffickers who's descendents get to check off a minority box for freebies.
Classic anti-reparations response 🤡 🔫 . There are also still millions of survivors of the Jim Crow era.
ok? what is your point
I think you can play this in school. Just as long as you remind them that during the time of the American slave trade that white people were also enslaved. Also, that all throughout history every race, color, and creed have been slaves at some point. The word slave was 1st used to for the white Slavic people that were captured and traded. If we teach them actual history and not the one that makes it seem that black people were the only ones ever enslaved, go for it. One more point. White Europeans did not go into Africa and capture black folks from their villages. Their own people captured each other during wars and territorial battles, and sold them to the whites on the coasts of Africa.
If you want the real history of African slavery go read Thomas Sowell and he'll enlighten you on some harsh truths that schools will never teach.
Well said, but you know that it will never happen. All whites are evil colonisers and deserve what ever they get. That's what they teach in schools these days.
Wrong. Thomas Sowell was paid to lie, paid to misinformation whites like you. The truth is known. Show the receipt that Africans sold 30 million Africans into slavery. You can't because it didn't happen that way. The European came in gave some guns, chains cannons and they went off killing raping enslaving. Today people in Ghana will tell you the truth that the African selling African is a lie. But you believe what ever helps you to sleep at night, just know God knows the truth
I think this is a great response. Thomas Sowell should be taught in every school.
You say,
"Their own people captured each other during wars and territorial battles, and sold them..."
They're STILL capturing people in Africa like this and selling them to each other, it never really ended, just the transatlantic part. And ever since the end of colonialism its gotten worse and worse.
Sure, but the point of the video is on American history. Adding this comment just seems to me as if you are trying to downplay the significance of slavery in the States, by comparing it to the rest of the world.
I’m so glad the commentator/host started off by saying this is American history! That’s exactly what it is and it should be taught in schools. This country is still trying to erase the parts of history that pertains to slavery and segregation. It may be an ugly part of history just like war, etc., but it needs to be remembered.
People keep saying slavery has always been around fail to understand this slavery was a bit different than most of the others. They literally hated someone exclusively for the color of their skin and treated them like cattle
We don't need to listen to slaves from the 1930s. There are 15 million slaves in Africa today! And an estimated 30 million slaves elsewhere in the world. We need to be listening to and freeing them. Oh I forgot, it's not about slavery.
america brought slavery to libya by ousting muammar gaddafi, shameful that the u.s. still promotes this horrific practice. but you shouldn't deflect from this video by pointing the finger elsewhere, it's really dehumanizing and you tell on yourself that you don't care about u.s. chattel slavery or modern day slavery when you do it. you would be wiser to just keep your mouth shut lol. if you dont care about people just go do something else man
Classic anti-reparations response 🤡 🔫 . There are also still millions of survivors of the Jim Crow era.
That is not remotely the same thing as chattel slavery. The key is slaves forever (including their descendants), not temporary servitude, etc.