The Untold Story: Slavery in the 20th Century
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- A documentary about peonage and outright slavery in the American south after slavery was abolished.
Winner Audience Award at the 2009 PATOIS New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival.
Featuring Mae Wall.
Directed by Joshua Johnston.
Executive Producer Antoinette Harrell.
My grandad was kidnapped and enslaved by a man named Paul D. Preacher in 1935, in Earl Arkansas. This was allegedly a huge, story at the time. Not only in Earle but in the whole country.
As someone that got tf outta Arkansas, I believe it.
It is terrible that our Government officials seem to not care about the sufferings that has happened to Black people in the US. It is no telling how many Government officials and Law Enforcement are in on this holding Black people down. We as Black people are being marginalized and still suffering.
"How can anyone read history and still trust politicians?" -Thomas Sowell
"Government is a disease masquerading as its own cure." -Robert LeFevre
"To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea." -James Madison
UNREAL! How did those demons get away with that all of these years? Slavery has always been led by evil and demonic mindsets. They need to be accountable and need to give their land and money to the people they have had in slavery all of this time, for what they did. The judicial department that knew about it needs to be accountable as well. This needs to be in the world news for all to see. UNREAL!
XACTLY WE MUST SHARE THIS!!
I’m so pissed off. I just can’t imagine the horrors they had to endure. Our government is screwed & has been even now
Yesssss it still is
reparations are owed for all Black Americans.
the PLAINTATION land should be sold and the money divided between the people held in bondage
This is mind blowing. Also shameful, disgusting, reprehensible, and embarrassing.
This just hurts so bad.
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I lived in Alabama for 22yrs. It’s 2024 and I personally know and met people who are still slaves in rural Alabama.
have you reached out to law enforcement? not local as they might be conniving, but state?
U got to be kidding
@@dmf500 the last time I was there the plantation owner had died. And his son allotted 2acs and gave them a new mobile home. So they were happy about that and not having to pay housing expenses. From my understanding the family I met had been there on that land for 4 or 5 generations and they didn’t know anything else. So they refuse to leave.
I'm the director (and pretty much sole technical crew 😃) of this film. It still amazes me that the vast majority of the country hasn't realized what seems like the most basic common sense: when they outlawed slavery, many didn't comply. Best efforts indicate pockets with a through-line all the way back to when it was legal were not fully stamped out until the 1970s. And that's just the extreme end of a spectrum of peonage and forced labor just briefly touched on in the film, sheriffs arresting many different races based on trumped-up charges, and send them into the fields, sawmills, etc. (The commenter on Jewish reparations is a lazy bot for not watching the film. Jews were sent to those places to labor too, as were Italians, and others). It's not that different from today, but was a much bigger carte blanche to arrest many "undesirables" for vagrancy, and send them away for a long sentence of hard labor. I think it's fair to say certain counties in Mississippi were some of the most lawless places in the world throughout much of the 1800s-1900s, that you wouldn't even want to pass through.
WOW WELL U HIT ME UP WEN IF U EVER GO BACK DOWN THERE!!!
THANK YOU!!
Well I just don't like how you were so accurately list to say that it was basic common-sense know it wasn't for people that couldn't read or write for people that didn't know where they were going to go for people that had nothing or no one to turn to it wasn't basic common-sense what was basic common-sense was the need for survival because that is a natural instinct
@@teelora1322 believe the persons comment is referring to peoples mindset today regarding slavery. Many people actually believe that it ended when it was outlawed so the person is saying that it’s common sense to know that’s not what actually happened rather it continued beyond that, as shown in the documentary.
Edit: To add a word.
do you support reparations for Black Americans?
THIS SCREAMS REPARATIONS!!!!!
this is the comment I want to see!! We are working day and night to see this through. I'm apart of a few committees.
It’s still happening… This has alot to do with the many missing blacks in America
Remember they made a movie about this kind slavery
title, please? I wanna watch it
WE NEED 2 SHARE SHARE SHARE!!!
so these people don't deserve reperations, but jews do?
Jews and Jewish people are different blacks are the real Jews were are not Africans it was a name given to us Jewish people are not Jews
O k a yyyyyyyyyyyyy
Yeah there’s no question about it in my opinion there needs to be reparation efforts toward the black community just the same as the Native Americans it is sickening to me how the white race has done this…. It’s time for the rich white man to pay his dues long overdue
The Cave Beast are not gonna give blacks anything, those $5 , straight hair, white skinned so called native Americans you see today are not the real Indians they are children of the colonizers aka Europeans that’s why they recieve reparations !
EXODUS 14:14 SPEAK FOR THE 12 TRIBES,TRUST ME JUDGEMENT DAY IS NEAR.
This is crazy. Only a few black folk know this story.
I met some slaves in the 80's in an Arkansas cotton field. You would have had to see it to believe it. The sherrif had the whole family slaved up even the children. IT IS NOT OVER BY ANY MEANS.
Nah this can't be true, really?
O HELL NO!!! THIS NEEDS 2 B KNOWN MORE!!!
Alabama also until somewhere in the late 60s and even 70s!!
THE MOST RESILIENT HUMANS TO EVER WALK THE PLANET, THE AMERICAN AFRICANS. Chains MOSTLY, truly off in the 1960s but even now their culture is essentially America's culture among tons of positive stuff they brought to the table🙌🙌
Black Americans*
Miss Antoinette yesss ❤❤❤❤❤
Kids of other cultures were treated this badly in the 1960s and were told this is why they had kids. For labor. It makes me weep, to remember that human abuses happened from someone else's backward controlling wants, but in their own home. Mental slavery is a cruel thing that is used as a weapon for those to keep them dependent and trapped.
ARE you referring to abusive parents? Not even remotely the same. However horrible, if ever revealed, there were many people a child could tell or turn to who would help them such as a neighbor, teacher police officer, stranger out the window, doctor etc. With the abuse of African Americans all of these people were in on it. One was as evil as the other and this is where Project 2025 wants to take us back to. This is what "Make America great again" means. WAKE UP.
SOMETIMES MEMBERS OF OTHER RACES, try so hard to compare general abuse to Slavery. THERE IS NO COMPARISON, not native Americans, not Asians, not the holocaust, NOTHING!!!! By the way I toured Dakau Concentration camp in Germany. This terrible thing happened over a few years, in another country(Germany) and the survivors and next generations can meld into society if they choose to once they were freed because they were considered white. Blacks were raped, burned alive, drawn and quartered, eaten by dogs after being hunted. Black babies were fed to alligators, all were forced to work until dead etc.....and we still suffer.
So the movies that have been coming out lately about this have been based on facts?! 😮😢
yup. that's why we're actively working to see that reparations are paid to all Black Americans with lineage to this country.
Did the slave owners get jail time ???
Heckkkkkkkkkkie NOOOOOOOOOOOO
He look scared to death
Grew up in the Mississippi Delta (.Drew) back in the 80's shopping cotton. I knew one of the men that killed Emmitt Till
If anyone sees this, I'm apart of several organizations that are actively working to seek reparations for Black Americans with lineage to American Slavery. If interested in helping, comment below and I'd be happy to share more information.
Horrific and sickening, also why would the father ever beat his own child, or abandon his own family? I would never do that to my child under any circumstances
The broad history of peonage, (which was actually illegal since 1867) presented here is largely correct. The specific story highlighted here is extremely odd to me and I can’t shake it off. How and why did her family get freed then? Then why did she apparently go right back to this again at 18 where she claims to have run away again? Why did that even happen? How come she never brings up specific names. The genealogist definitely should’ve been specific about the companies involved. To be fair, is it possibly to do with liable reasons?
God Bless all people who were slaves.
Oprah can do as she pleases but yet she went all the way across oceans to adopt a village when she had 1 right in her own birth town.
HELLOOOOOOOOOO
The Gordon family should have to pay reparations to the Wall family, not Oprah
The world is our village. It’s her money she can do what she pleases. Furthermore, instead of speaking about what Oprah should have done why don’t you adopt the villages she hasn’t? There are plenty of people in need in our world for you to do your part. When you see a need, do something about it. Stop looking for others to do what you can.
Yes! She needs your help. She should hire you as a life consultant for $300,000!
Absolutely
It was not just white people who own slaves. It was all culture. God Bless
Pbs is now saying that it was the Latinos that build the railroad???
OK so they wanted the share croppers to buy tools to work for them. I guess people weren't in the position to bargain.
If indeed our founding fathers held these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal endowed by their Creator with such inalienable rights such as those of life liberty and pursuit of happiness then how in the hell did they not make slavery illegal from the very beginning of the creation of our country? The answer is to states constitutional constituents were holdouts they were from south Carolina and Georgia … there was a lot of argument but our founding fathers were so fond of the number 13 that they couldn’t bear to have just 11 colonies signing our constitution!
So they made a deal that slavery would be illegal in 20 years hence!
But for whatever reason that was all forgotten and it wasn’t until the 1860s that we had to battle it out again
Jump to the 1960s and it seems like the battle still rages on
You get to the 70s and people might be acting a little bit better
Get to the 80s it’s really not that impressive how black people are treated by the whites
To the 90s and it’s still not that good there’s too many black people in prison if you ask me
Of course we have the Killoryies
Thanks for the influx of cocaine that didn’t help the black community whatsoever
Now here we are in the 2000s and we have white criminals in government pandering to Black people telling them that if they don’t vote for them then they are not black!
Black people pandering to them telling them that black lives matter and yet the abortion rate in New York is such that there are more black babies born dead than alive in the state of New York and that’s a fact you can check it
Where did we go so wrong in the founding of our nation by seeing out of one side of our face that we hold these truths to be self evident all men are created equal endowed by their Creator with such in alienable rights as those to life liberty pursuit of happiness and then out of the other side of their face saying yeah Joe I understand you won’t make very much money this year if we take away your slaves so will allow the slavery to go on for another 20 years so your family doesn’t suffer….
It’s just disgusting and I think that if we are going to get taken apart as a nation God for bid then we at least need to give back to Louisiana purchase to the native people because they definitely got ripped off
Genealogical studies have revealed that there was a potentially very cozy Inlaw relationship between Jefferson and Napoleon it’s a fact you can check that too
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The black people can now educate themselves and rise above what they suffered in the past. I once taught school in the Mississippi Delta. We teachers worked very hard and provided the students with good learning experiences. The high school I taught in was almost 100% black. As with all students, some took advantage of the education offered while others did not.
The way you said that I could see you were a teacher that really didn't give a damn whether the kids took in the knowledge
It's funny how you guys want to beat a dead horse but nobody today has owned a slave and I'm not going to be held accountable with people have done in the past
Why are you even watching this video then? The guilt must be eating away at you, because you know that you benefit from what White people in the past have done to Black people. Also, we'll never stop discussing slavery; it's a part of history just like 9/11, WWII, and the Holocaust.
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They are just sharing their lives and their history. They didn't accuse you of anything. I remember that old expression, only a hit dog hollers.
Oh my god really grasping at straws. Yes the world used to suck. This wasn't slavery though. This was happening to all kinds of people back then didn't matter your color or race. This is how it was out in the middle of nowhere living on in working on leased land. This is still happening in Appalachia.
Rubbish. Be quiet.
Stop denying Black people's history _and_ enslavement! There's no comparing our chattel slavery to any other. This really happened past and recent. Lynchings happen and are marked suicide, recently as of 2014, 2022, etc.
ALSO WATCH COTTON PICKIN TRUTH
Wtf 🤯