PICKING COTTON (Country Style)
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- Опубліковано 6 січ 2021
- Ever Picked Cotton? We take a look at the history and impact of Cotton in the South, from Slavery to Sharecropping. If you don't learn something in this video, You are out of your Cotton-Picking mind!
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I'm writing this on February 11, 2023. I am saddened to inform that Rudolph Pringle (featured in the plaid shirt) has passed away. God Bless his legacy. RIP Rudolph.
My Condolences
Sending my condolences 🙏
My condolences rip this is one of my favorite episodes I love your channel brother art
Bless him and his contribution it was so educational!
I send my Prayers and condolences to the Country Style and Pringle Family!
I used to pick 300 pounds a day. I am now 72 years old and I lived in Drew Mississippi
I don't understand why Discovery Channel or National Geography hasn't offered you a TV series yet. I truly believe you would get awesome ratings. 💪🏿
Thanks Sargent Anderson.
That's the God honest truth.
He needs to retain ownership. I like what he is doing.
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Not always good to alliance yourself with big companies. Often they will take your creativity and stress you the hell out. Erykah Badu quotes that in one of her song.
Our country is amazing 👨🏻🦳
Proud to be an American👴🏻
@@Barrywheatlythethird make america proud again
Just like the good old days👴🏻
Hey Art. I'm 81 and have heard fair to mifflin since I was a little boy and never knew where it came from until today. Ya never get to old to learn lol
Wow, Thanks for telling us that James. Be Blessed. Country Style
I just learned the saying today my dad said it my hole life.
Growing up in a small town in Texas, i used to hear my dad and the other elders say "fair to middlin" a lot😊😊☺☺
My mana is 82 and says that all the time.
We need to learn all we can from real men before they're gone! Thank You brother!
Truth
So true
This is ur great grandpa old “home” -👴🏻
This is as American as Apple pie. Emmy-worthy stuff, here, Art!
Hello Dear❣
You look so beautiful🍧😍
Totally agree 😊
Thanks Marcie...you guys are great
Where are you from Queen?
I just showed this to my mother whom is 79 years old an this made her reminiscence on her cotton picking times in West Tennessee near Memphis.. Art you always have something educational an interesting to share with us!!
Thanks Chad. Tell your Mother I say hey. Country Style!
Thank
Art your saying hey made her day as she loves watching Country Style with me!! You and the guys really have something special
Today im going to see my mother who is 86 and shoe her, she is originally from SC
Elvis picked at Black Cat farms just across the state line from Memphis in Arkansas when he was a boy. My grandparents picked in Arkansas and Texas.
"ah yes i love the opposite color of cotton, brings back memories" 👴🏻
Man, thank you for this Brother. I miss the days when I could sit back and hear the elders talk about days gone by.
Talk about it Art educate these youngsters about some black history
This is so beautiful
bro, this segment is a slap in the face black ppl. its whitewashed and filled with inaccuracies.
Research The Black Boule by Steve Cookely. THESE UTUBE CHANNELS STRANGER THAN FICTION START WITH RICK ROSS PANDORA BOX. NICHOLSON 1968 START WITH THE NEPHILIM. SHAKING MY HEAD PRODUCTIONS. THE WATCHMAN.
@@freemindg4886 You'd have to break into the Vatican to get our true history dating back to Moses. It was the Pope who commissioned our slavery. Harvard and Yale have secret libraries that hold our true history before the invasion of Africa, the invasion of "The New World" (America), the enslavement and murder of the indigenous peoples, the kidnapping of black people from the West Coast of Africa. It also holds hundreds of books and other items made from the skins, teeth, hair and bones of slaves. Those libraries are very secret, and are only accessible to "Elite" members of certain societies here in America. Prestigious European University libraries have the same things.
outstanding
I couldn't help but get emotional thinking of our ancestors suffering. May their souls rest easy
I too was emotional and couldn't watch this episode right away...watching the next day...reminds me of what my grandfather and mother went through and all the sad stories that came along with...but we have to face the truth.
I thank both of you for your comments. This is history. It's ok to be emotional about it. Real talk
I totally agree with that comment also I'd like to stress that the two individuals that would be a with art in the cotton field we're two very good friends of mine they're both good guys I think a lot of that came from what they went through so thumbs up to you guys
It truly hits the soul.
Sad thing
“Just like the good ol’ days” 👴🏻
Oh nahhhh 💀
My mom grew up in Pavo, Georgia and even though she is only 66 she spent her childhood picking cotton. Because of that she never let me, her only daughter, do anything workwise outside. When the family cleaned the yard I was forced to stay inside and watch at the window. I wasn't even allowed to plant a flower because of the hard childhood my mother had. She later told me that her goal was for her daughter never to work outside if she could help it.
The problem was that I loved working outside and gardening and in my teens I would get flower clippings from the neighbors and secretly plant them in areas of the yard that my mother wouldn't see. She didn't graduate high school so she really pushed us to finish high school so we didn't end up like her. Thanks for this video.
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Thanks for sharing your story I really enjoy reading it and I can imagine how hard that was to plant something and you have to sneak to do it but later on you end up having a smile because you had A chance to watch it grow. I have to say it is a very sensitive topic I'm mentioned to my daughter that I would like to grow some cotton and she was very upset with me she told me to grow the cotton in the container and when I get through with it throw it away. I love planting as well growing vegetables and everything, and why do I want to grow cotton? It's the experience of it all.
I look at podcasts, reaction videos web series and interview but this show just might be the best thing on UA-cam! Hell of a job fellas
Appreciate that
We appreciate yall! Country style
I LIKE TO SEE Y'ALL HAVING COUNTRY FUN BUT THIS TIME YOU HIT US WITH SOME EDUCATION ON LIFE BACK IN THE DAYS👍👍👍
Thanks Boss Man, there's always more fun to come too
@@artfennell114 👍I'm. waiting
“Keep going” - 👴🏻
Wild💀
HAHAHAHAHAHA
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Omg 😂💀
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"$3 a day and a place to stay" My goodness. Thanks for the historical context. Something every American should see. I really admire the attitudes of Mr. Hezekiah and Mr. Rudolph.
You've done it again, Art 👏🏾
Thanks Nicole
Please keep telling our stories Mr. Art Fennell. We love Country Style, Thank you ~
👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿
Will do Sammagoose
@@artfennell114 ur AWSOME& handsome
Please do..
Nice they still picking it up 👴🏻
wtf is your profile a fricking soictica
It's nice to see they still have that in them
Brings so many memories-👴🏻
My Grandmother, God rest her soul, picked cotton as a child in Cameron, SC. She came from a family of share croppers. This was their way of life. I can still hear her stories of her childhood picking cotton. She died at 98 yrs old. These stories are a part of our oral history. Great balance told in this piece. Keep up the great work...Country Style!
Thanks Donna. God Bless your Grandmother's soul
This was pretty powerful. You could feel them brothers at the end.
Mr art i am 62 year old and I memory those hot days in the field those were gd days and bad days think u Jesus. I am from tylertown ,ms
Mr Hezekiah is my favorite. I'd love to just hang out with him and talk. Salute Art
I'll be sure to tell him you said that. Thanks
"Come here boy. I paid good money for you" - 👴🏻
Be quite
@@carcharodontosaurusplssubb6977 I'm good
I’m not trusting you👴🏿
@@carcharodontosaurusplssubb6977Do you mean Quiet?
@@carcharodontosaurusplssubb6977☝️🤓
Taught me something I didn’t know. Money is made of cotton.
It's common knowledge. plastic money gained prevalence a few decades ago, it attracts less bacteria and is more durable.
“I want the whole field picked by tomorrow morning” -👴🏻
When I was a young girl I had a boyfriend that would go down South Carolina back in the early 80's and pick cotton I hope he tought his kids about this history.
I will be 58 years old in 3 weeks I spent all my Summers with my grandparents in Mississippi it came back home in the winter time St Louis always said I had the best of both worlds
That's right boy get back to work-👴🏻
My great great grandmother picked cotton in Alabama, my grandmother used to tell me all the stories she received as a yougin’ this why i will always love my ppl ✊🏿
That fist in the air is a communist and evil symbol no matter what color it is
@@mma85libra thanks for your 2 cents bozo
Same for my grandparents in NC
I never thought i'd watch something like this and not be pissed. Thanks for this.
“This is my favorite video on UA-cam!”- 👴🏻
💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
Nahh
“Finally Jamal working for the first actual time!”-👴🏻
Why you need all this cotton anyway
@@truffles658 it's a fuckin joke
@@truffles658 clothes?
@@truffles658 no do oke thing don't ware any clothes
Cotton are grown for clothes idiot
Listening to Hezekiah's story explains why he's a jack of all trades. Just from observing previous videos he's so self sufficient, very interesting listening to his and Rudolph's story. 🙂
Hey Queen, yes Hez know his stuff for sure
@@artfennell114 Agreed😊
She's definitely a queen 😍
"How much for these 2?" -👴🏻
@Man "Here, take my $420 and it's a deal" -👴🏻
@@jakubpociecha8819 can i still get some monkeys? we can make a deal 👴🏻
excellent its like 1800 all over again. good old times my brother.
Wow, such a great powerful video. My dad was 73 when he passed away in October of last year and he would tell us stories about being a young boy picking cotton and working in tobacco fields. I think if more young people learned about the absolute hard times their parents and grandparents had just to make a living, they would be much more respectful of them and value the things that are left to them once those people leave this life. Great video Art! Thanks for sharing!
I picked cotton in SC just to see how it was for my ancestors and I broke down in tears because I can't even imagine how the labor and demand on them was. God bless us all.
I tried it out here in Arizona and lost it people had the nerve to pull over to asking my wife and I are we okay I was like do it f#%kin look like it
@@thegreatkingscorpion Yes I know. It wasn't that long ago for my family that picking cotton wasn't a choice.
Visit California. You will see hard working Mexicans out in the fields picking strawberries at 6 am. You also see hard working Mexicans sell oranges and flowers on the street. They do whatever it takes to provide for their families. No offense, but when I hear about stories of slaves picking cotton in the old days, I think Mexicans have it just as hard, if not harder.
@@chasedownblocks1736 No need to compare. Most people of color have it hard and still do. Brown, black, yellow we've got our struggles.
@@robincorprew9007 yellow? Aren’t Asians “yellow”? They aren’t poc
Share cropping in cotton fields paid for my family's migration from Greenville Mississippi to California..this video definitely hits home for me. Thank u Big Mama & Big Daddy for the sacrifice!!!!! And thank you Art for this fabulous video!!
Thanks so much Brownskinned Empress. Glad you can relate. One family!
Wow that's an incredible sacrifice
My grandmother picked cotton to pay he way through school and became a teacher.
Clayton Mance...now that’s determination, I’m sure you are very proud of her🕯
Hard life,beautiful soul and succeeded
THIS TOUCHED ME DEEP.. R.I.P ANCESTORS . THANK YA'LL FOR ENDURING FOR US.. APTTMH
Education. I can remember when we use to go to my grand parent house in Delano, Ca. We would go and pick potatoes and also watermelon other fruit and nuts. We thought we were just having fun. Are time away from San Diego.
Thanks for sharing Leah
@@artfennell114 your welcome
My mother picked cotton in East Texas on the farm I currently stay on .Good video.
Wow Rudy. We need for our people to tell these stories and put them in writing so that they're never lost. Give these stories in writing to all of your family members and even those who aren't family even. People believe that this was such a long time ago but these people ware still living.
I wish I could give those 2 men a hug along with our ancestors. They were killed and taken advantage of, beat, raped, broke down because of the manipulation of the owners of the field. But today Thank God we have reasons and rights💕💕💕
“I miss the old days” - 👴🏻
Black people been through a hell of a lot in this country! Great video
Yep! that's why this country is "ours" as well, we built it! With our free and cheap labor.
I'm Choctaw as well..,
never said it wasnt, but Indians were not held in captivity for 300 years , and forced to labor.
@@g.choppa4448 The majority of American Indians were called Negros and enslaved. Then they were reclassified as "Black." Black Indians and Black African mixed on the plantations. The Natives farther "West" weren't enslaved. Also some ran to Canada and others mixed with Europeans.
@oakgrove1965 _ let’s ask the Indians which ones ?
Glad you went into depth people need to know the history of this country the good the bad and the ugly!!!
I'm from Arkansas and I remember my dad, aunt's and uncles telling me about their cotton picking days as a children in the 1950's.
good ole days js how i remember -👴🏻。
My grandparents, who were white, were sharecroppers in the middle part of SC. I remember many stories told by my grandma about her long days spent in the cotton fields. My dad and his siblings also helped in the fields. People were tough back then. Nowadays, we couldn't physically do what people in the early 1900s did. Thanks for this video.
how are you related to Tom Sawyer?
Y'all got paid off OUR backs y'all jus profited from US y'all ain't do NOTHING acting like they was in the field doing work, nah stop lying
Yes whites share cropped too all of the south had many fields you were picking something
N slave
@@callieduval3000 RIGHT!!! IT WAS AND STILL IS A BUSINESS, these folks act like it ended....WHAT DO U CALL UR JOB THEN? 🤔
I don't have the words to express just how much I enjoyed this. Thank you for your work and dedication. Thank you for knowing when to have fun and when to educate. Keep up all your good work.
That voice of Art is everything.
OMG. Bishopville, South Carolina is my hometown. Born and raised 803. Took many trips to the cotton museum. This was impactful
Right on brother share the history.
Enjoyed the show my granddaddy was a sharecropper in Monroe Georgia
Ahh the good old days - 👴🏻
“Dude totally not funny😠”- 🧑🏻
Catch some Coton to increase your spirit 👴🏻
Picking cotton heard many stories from my grandma about it
My dad did the same thing when he was younger
@@LadyPinkster its crazy cause I learned that's how my mother was conceived my grandmother was raped by her owner and she had my mom its so much I can say it just blows me
Wow, Thanks for sharing Natalie. There is so much that our ancestors had to go through
@@artfennell114 yes it is they went thru a lot
I had it from both grandma and grandpa
Thank Hezekiah and Rudolph for sharing your story about the cotton field.
You bet!
I found this episode to be enlightening and heartbreaking. Our people are resilient. I thank Rudolph and Hezekiah for sharing their stories. I loved their attitude and spirit.
I'll be sure to tell them what you said Juanita
This was a somber but informative show. I grew up in South Carolina, ive heard many stories of working in the fields. The hairs stand up on the back of my neck and I get goosebumps to this day every time i drive past a cotton field. I appreciate the truth and testimony of the two gentlemen. Much respect to them and all of our ancestors who didnt have a choice.
I was in Florence last week and my son took me to Bennettville. Last year we visited the Cotton Museum.
P..S. I saw Cotton fields for the first time in my life!
I remember those days, my sister & I would go to the cotton fields with our parents, we mostly played & ate
Summer sausage & cheese that had laid in the sun, those were the days.
This were in the 60s in Tx...
At 16:40. My dad and uncles had the same expressions on their faces when they answered that question. Thank you Jesus for those who came before us.
God Bless your Dad and Uncles Marciano.
Art , you did good on showing part of our history. Your shows have always been entertaining and educational but this one hit home . I can see and hear the pain in these brothers. Reminds me of my parents and grandparents talking about cotton and Tennessee.
Europeans knew NOTHING about growing & harvesting crops or raising livestock Black folks did it all. United States could never repay your family & others for the free labor & knowledge they received from our ancestors by force. Your uncle & dad's story really touched me & also made me mad. Tell them we said thank you.
Exactly, more Skilled and Eli Whitney, didnt invent sht to make a job better for those enslaved a Black man had to invent it to make life better for him...Whitney took the credit like always..
@Jay Porter With all due respect. Your Grand Pa (more than likely) could read, write and count, and therefore (more than likely) wasn't cheated out of being properly paid for his labor. "Black folk" were forbidden to learn how to read, write, spell, add and subtract. "Black folk" could not look a white man in the eyes (let alone) challenge him without being possibly beaten, whipped, retaliated against, or lynched. "Black folk" just had to play dumb and grateful, shut up and take it with a smile on their face. Just saying.
You’re wrong about that my grandpa was a sharecropper & he’s white 12 kids when you were poor you had to do what you had to do, ... & course Europeans knew how to those things!!!! Where were you friend ? 🤠
@@msway836 facts💯💯💯
@jay, no doubt it was hard for your grandfather and many whites , but lets not kid ourselves if it were hard for them it had to be many times worse for black families. You say its not always about race, but unfortunately for blacks during those times in America it was all about race. They had no rights that any white person had to respect. Did your grand have to deal with sundown town laws. Stepping off sidewalk when opposite race walked down same sidewalk ? Are you saying blacks had the same advantages that your white grandfather had just because he was in white race ? I know its hard to talk about race and racism but unfortunately this is a huge part of Southern history, American history. And when you dont talk about it and keep sweeping under rug, just like in a house, it gets dirty. America has dirt under its rugs, and the house is dirty.
Thanks for the history lesson man....those we some tough times when our ancestors had to be in those fields all day. They paved the ways for us to do much better today.
Well said
I love these men, reminds me of back in the day. I am a South Carolina man born and raised, I wouldn’t want to be from anywhere else
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Just like the good old days - 👴
Wow! Thank you Mr Hezekiah, Mr Rudolph, and Art! Black History!!
I remember moving to Rocky Mt NC from Saginaw Mi and my girlfriend and I were headed to her parents home in Tarboro NC I believe, and we rode past a cotton field...I almost lost my mind LOL. I made her stop, and I grabbed a Piggly Wiggly bag and proceeded to try and put some in a bag, to which she replied " boy this somebody property you gon get us shot! 😂😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
252 in the building
Been around cotton fields, tobacco fields all my life. Eastern nc
Lmao that would be me 😂
@@mikegreen3680 Loved it there
Williston SC here thanks for always showing the bright side of country living
Good job 👴🏻👍🏼
It joke just before you get mad
@@DannyBoy719 ok
My family planted cotton and used it to pay for our college education. Enjoyed the viedo. Thanks Art
WHO PICKED YOUR PARENTS WHITE COTTON,DID YOUR PARENTS PAY FOR THE PARENTS OF THE CHILDREN THAT PICKED THAT WHITE COTTON FOR THEM?????✌🏿
Well done, well done. I never knew where the phrase “Fair to Middlin” originated.
My mother, a child of Kingstree, SC used it quite frequently.
This one brings back a lot of memories.
I showed this video to my momma and uncle and then the tears started flowing .... #hardtimeintheirlives💯✊🏾
God Bless the family Candace. Appreciate the support
Awesome episode. I never picked cotton but I chopped so many seasons. Just thinking back on it all after watching this makes me truly honor and salute those that had no choice but too pick.
Good stuff Mr. Fennell
My deepest respect to these gentlemen.
I use to sit and listen to my grandmother and father talk about picking cotton and to see it first hand was truly humbling.. I’ll watch this again with my dad so he can reminisce about growing up in the times where you had to work to survive! I always enjoy hearing it and Art you brought it home today with this!!! To the lady that said Emmy-worthy, you DAM right!
Appreciate you Bud. Thanks
I was never aware that money was made out of cotton.
Art getting real about the south storytime 💓 Happy New Year 2021
Happy New year
As sensitive as this topic is to our community and race, you still found a way to make this informative and entertaining, great video Art🔥
This is Fukn Pathetic! Slave mentality! He said it was pure hell! Fuck this content!
@@kevinfinney79 what are you talking about? lmfao people STILL TODAY pick cotton you FOOL. You act as if cotton was the only crop we were FORCED TO PICK. People of all colors from many countries have picked cotton. Cry more fake deep brother.
Well, grow a pair of bollocks then. Blacks in the US had it better than most other subjugated people through history. Remember, your oppression was 400 years tops, that’s nothing compared to what happened everywhere else in the world.
nothing sensitive about that just some cool black folks working hard !
@@slavaukrainitv2716 forced to work for no pay boi get on
This was absolutely INCREDIBLE! My grandparents had a farm AND I tried picking cotton ONCE! I made in 5 or 6 stalks up 1 row!! I HAVE NEVER ASKED TO GO BACK OUT TO THE FIELDS! 👍🏾. I went to school and graduated from Howard University, decades ago!👍🏾. We still have our land!
Wow, thanks for sharing Wanda. Go Bisons! (I went to SC State)
ART FENNELL : One of the few, best men, I’ve ever known graduated from SC State! He was my son’s principal of a specialized Aerospace HS in Detroit: 1 of 8 in the country, Dr. Alsace Johnson (RIP). I’m also one of the “ Hidden Figures”! We BISONS thank you!!👍🏾😎😊
I LEARNED MONEY IS NOT MADE OUT OF PAPER.. BUT COTTON.
Salute big brother art can we get some longer episodes please country style 💯💪🏿
All these videos hit, especially those big BBQs
This is an incredible video, thank you for making it! My grandfather used to say, “fair to middling” all the time and I never knew the origin but now I do. My grandmother’s sister’s fingers were contracted from arthritis from years of picking cotton; she passed decades ago so I’ll never know how many pounds a day she used to pick. Thanks for these videos Art, my husband and I love them!
art, your amazing man, thanks for the rich history.
I appreciate that!
Boy I remember those days only we pick more than once when it was still green we picked now it's dry so this is the last picking than on Saturdays we scraped cotton and could keep the money we made !!than I went to work in the textile mill and made the cloth because I was a weaver I ran 65 looms we called it making a honest living in 1980 I was making 3.65 an hour wow look where God has brought us from
Amen. Never forget
Spend many days picking cotton in Mississippi. I love how your show has been true to life and realistic. I see a lot and learn a lot watching your shows.
I am a 34 yr old white dude I have picked cotton my dad picked cotton for a living he said he worked with this black lady and she would outpick any person out there glad yall did a bud brought back memories of my dad he passed 5 months ago thank u guys
“I think you gotta do that faster or I’ll have to use it.” -👴🏻
Back in ma time this tradition was the best in America and it still is👨🏻🦳
keep picking em
Awesome job my elders at articulating the experience of hardship through generations of inequality, but being triumphant and still possessing this joy that the world didn’t give and the world can’t EVER take it away. Salute.
I love hearing those good ole stories from back in the day. I still question my Mom on what they endured, all I can say is " Its very Interesting "❤