What Actually Happened When Slaves Were Freed
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- čas přidán 29. 06. 2024
- American schoolchildren are taught that the slaves in confederate states were freed when Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862. However, while that may be true in a technical sense, the reality of actually freeing those slaves was far more complicated.
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It’s not like they decided to stay...they literally had no money or means to leave their vicious captors.
And they didn't know how to live like that, I think for some of them, just the thought of having to survive on there own was terrifying
They were like people in prison for decades, they were institutionalized and afraid to be on their own. They didn't know how. The fear of the unknown can be a terrifying thing.
And yet they all seem to have feet in the pictures.
@@vic6784 that's true
@Rice Glue I believe so too
Honestly slavery is vile and disgusting BUT I can’t imagine the existential crisis and anxiety of “freedom”. Like where do you go from there, how would you be treated , where do you start, where do you get property etc etc etc. I would be so overwhelmed
He talked about this in recent video. You are correct about all of this
You really spoke what's in my mind. Yes slavery is horrible but if I were a slave who has been groomed mentally that my purpose is to serve my master, a sudden independence would certainly makes me feel lost. The uncertainties post-slavery would be very scary.
I would have committed suicide Death is better than bondage
Exactly. You're 50 years old; slavery and life on a plantation are all you have ever known.
Now you are told you are free to go. Go where? How? What could you possibly do? There would be no way to wrap your head around it.
@@MrJayehawk ikr, it must have been a very difficult moment for them. The existential crisis post-slavery... God bless all of them 😔
It's incredible that all this happened recently enough in history to be captured in photographs! Brings it home..
150 years ago is like yesterday to you? Also you can still go take photos of plenty of slaves that exist to this very day in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East!
The Movie @Emancipation!!!...🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
@@werewolflover8636
Keep trying to downplay American black slavery....just ridiculous..
@@yepisaidit1507 exactly, that shit boils my blood! They want to sweep it under the rug so bad like this was centuries ago when people today still feel the effects
@@eazybaby5094 stop repeating history shi annoying
There are some amazing interviews with former slaves on CZcams from the early 20th century where they discuss this topic. I remember more than one of them used the phrase “turned out like cattle” to describe what happened after they were freed. They were no longer slaves, which was obviously an improvement but they were turfed out to fend for themselves with no money and nowhere to live. I think people forget that ending slavery was only the first step forward for these people and their lives remained very hard.
They were first taken to one of the Caribbean islands too, for 6mos to a year, in order to be "broken" and taught their purpose on earth was to serve the white man.
You should check out a book by
Sowande' Mustakeem, "Slavery at Sea; Terror, Sex, Sickness and the Middle Passage", she lives in my home town of St. Louis, and is a professor at Wash U. It's a tough read, it was absolutely brutal. Then I saw a video just the other day about slave breeding, and the horrors of that aspect of slavery, some owners flat out didn't even have a plantation, just a giant "breeding camp" like a puppy mill. Young boys were expected to perform and impregnate by age 13 or they were often castrated, and woman by were supposed to start birthing by 14 and have at least 15 -18 babies before menopause. Nightmares beyond imagination.
Thanks for sharing this. When did it start getting better?
What? It never did. They nor their family got reparations for their abuse or free labor. It never improved
@@9395gb No you're right, freed slaves never got financial compensation or help. They made new lives using just their skills, contacts and hard work and determination. It's an amazing testimony to the human spirit..
@@jeanhind8198 testimony to their survival but slavery is an injustice that has never been rectified reparations have not been paid. The situation descendants of US slavery has not improved and I don't see how anyone could say otherwise.
White owner: "Ok, well, you're free to go."
*Awkward silence*
"Soooo, we good?"
White owner: *extends fist for a fist bump*
@@xaiga2056 😂😂😂
White Owner: Lincoln you fucked us, look at 2020-2021 will be the same.
@Krazee Kracka MAN That's fair...
~ lol, OMG I seriously did NOT think I would laugh watching this lol ~
We can all be glad we don‘t have to endure such pain like they did.
Just wait... if Criminal Biden becomes President you'll be able to experience it firsthand.
@@monkeygraborange oh no for sure he’s definitely going to enslave black people again and bring back Jim Crow. Do you people even read what you type?
@@mesij6798 this was obviously a joke dont get ur naps all in a bunch
@@crybabyfans3162 oooh... what a burn! 🥱
@@aluminumfoil770 😴😴 k didn't need that
This should be CONTINUED to be taught in schools.
@andyd3447 folks like DeSantis doesn’t want this to be taught. Why would that be? Proper education is powerful. Knowledge is powerful. However, it has to be applied. We can’t wait for the school system to teach U.S. History. As adults we must do it. I’m tired of hearing this lies “O, this will make white children feel bad.” How many years have black children been feeling bad, and treated badly.
Perhaps this is the fear. Little white children may learn their grandparents, and great-grandparents may have been the ones stopping the Nine black students from entering Little Rock Central High School.
Or learn about Ruby Bridges, who at age six, was the first Black child to desegregate William Frantz Elementary. Daily she faced racial epithet from mostly white women. We got photos. Perhaps they may see their ancestors angry faces darting at this child.
Nah
@@NoSleep-th7uu why?
It’s crazy to think slavery was a thing… people are just cruel.
It still is a thing in many parts of the world. In total numbers, there are more slaves today than there ever have been
Imagine if Abe had Twitter to announce slaves were freed.
I'm sure Twitter would be quick to "correct" his tweets
1860s Twitter is a delightful thing to imagine
@Don Clark they took down the new york times post
...or if Jesus had Twitter to announce that the inherent money worship of capitalism would lead to an amoral society.
He would have been blocked immediately!!
Wait... some slave owners lied about it?
I'm starting to think them slave owner folk might not have been very good people... 🤔
@Don Clark because the actions of our ancestors reflect the actions of our current president? You are quite bigoted and ignorant mate~
@Josh because it was simply "the way things were" back then? Nonsense, there were reasonable people existing in that time that knew it was wrong just as it is now.
@Josh
"you like slavery? i suggest you try it." --John Brown
@Josh The slaves formed an army.. Did it all by themselves...all black army ..Harriet tubman was their war General... Civil war was black vs white....That's what really happened???. You're brainwashed.
@@Onionbagel Neo Nazis believe in slavery. Trump calls them good people.
Use your common sense 😂
From a book years ago I learned that many left the plantation the very day they were freed. However, once they got off the property, they realized they didn't have anywhere to go. Many of them soon returned to the edge of the land, sitting along the road with no place to go. In their case, freedom really was a word for nothing left to lose.
This video from Weird History really touched me as being one of the BEST so far for its detailed profound description of those times! Excellent work!
The fact that a former slave was able to save 3 years worth of money from washing clothes and then buy a house in the city says a lot about the current economic crisis in America. No working class American doing the equivalent could save money for 3 years and purchase a house.
In Detroit you can!
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@@cezz1105 Nobody wants to move to Detroit tho 😭
@@blackroyalbrand1287 bro don't believe all the stories and rumors you hear about Detroit. Did you know downtown Detroit was voted as one of the top ten tourist spots in the US? Now I'm not saying Detroit isn't without it's problems. But believe me there are a whole lot of worse places to live.
It makes me ill.
It's so weird to think that I would have been a slave if I was born in the wrong generation and or in the wrong place, I would be owned by someone, that's just so messed up😔
I'm sorry our country is so terrible to you guys. People today still are extremely racist and I'll never understand
have you seen the opening of the new season of Fargo?
"i am a criminal. i stole this head, body and limbs from my master." (paraphrased, possibly)
somebody was cutting onions when i was watching it, i am quite sure.
Also weird to think I could have been wealthy and happy and could just dedicate myself to my passions and my family if I’d been born in a different place and to different people :/
The really sad part is there own people is who sold them to us
Or today if you were born into a poor family in for example Bangladesh. Working for a dollar in some sweatshop for western companies. Slavery is still relevant today.
Or for Apple.
medium.com/modefica-global/from-apple-to-adidas-brands-use-ethnic-minority-slave-labor-in-china-cd3ce41864ac
The idea of owning another person, and treating them like animals is horrendous and appalling, in every way, shame on all involved, and all who looked away!
Some stayed as employees so they can save enough to purchase their own land and home. Not only was it unthinkable changes but without any currency, where would they live? At least there, they had living quarters, they knew the work and stayed with their loved ones.
I read a slave account from a lady who was maybe 20 when she was freed. She said the master called a meeting and told them they were free. Everyone was upset because a meeting usually meant someone would be sold. Anyway none of them knew what he saying and they all just went back to working. Then a union man came and told them in simple terms and they all left.
They couldn't believe what they where hearing. It didn't make much sense in those days. Glad they all left
They had a Union...?
@@jeanhind8198 the union army!!!!!
@@FBA_God_Emperor_Doom (laughing!) OK, thanks DJ - makes sense now!
@@jeanhind8198 HAHAHAHAHAHA this comment got me laughing so hard. Jesus Christ
I suspect it was a gradual change. News didn't travel as fast as it does today.
Not just gradual. And it's not just a little faster now. You get news live as it happens. They didn't get that then. And even so it was during a war. The words of Lincoln didn't matter until Lee surrendered. And in reality the words didn't really matter. Lincoln hated the slaves and the EP was a PR and military move. Sad how people celebrate him when he didn't care about them at all. People forget about the Corwin Amendment.
@@davidfence6939 yeah, Lincoln didnt care about equal rights and stuff, they teach us to celebrate him in schools but he's not worth it
@Krazee Kracka MAN its true, google it, its very sad but true
@Krazee Kracka MAN nah I got a whole bakery🎂🎂🎂
@Krazee Kracka MAN Because Lincoln said himself he wouldn't have freed slaves if he didn't have to. Educate yourself outside of what you learned in the American education system. Why do you think America is not going to make America look good
As a Mexican I'm more than certain some of my ancestors were slaves, same for most Mexicans.
I've went to the places there in Mexico they worked slaves to death. Most recently a place where they smelter metals to send back to Spain.
It was absolutely horrible. I'm certain that place is haunted. Tiny little places to sleep in, barely enough for everyone to lay down. Surrounded by walls. It was horrible hearing how most slaves there would've probably met their end.
And to think the Spanish crown still refuses to admit it didn't anything wrong while ruling its colonies. "In their right" they say.
Messed up
Hola. Yo soy de Puerto Rico. La historia de la esclavitud en hispanoamérica sigue en las sombras. El que pudiera ocultar que era negro lo ocultaba y hasta hoy en día en Cuba y en Puerto Rico se habla casualmente de "mejorar la raza"
Tbh every race was enslaved
@@MaskedMazter some worst than others though.
@@MaskedMazterthat doesn’t mean they have the right to enslave others
This is like me learning history in history class all over again. Only now I'm more interested this time.
Read Deuteronomy 28 15-68 for a real black history lesson
My formerly enslaved gr gr grandparents (born in the 1840s) left the plantation but lived elsewhere in the city using their skills and connections to work and survive. Eventually my grandmother, along with her parents and siblings, left the plantation state (in 1920) to move to the Midwest for better opportunities and to get away from the kkk.
Where in the Midwest. Alot of states didn't exist back than and where still Native American territories.
That’s very interesting. Thanks for sharing. I can’t imagine what it must have been like to be a slave first, but then what it was like to be freed.
@@garrisonnichols7372 My maternal grandparents moved to Kansas in the late 1920s. (My grandma brought her elderly parents with them.)
@@ladymonacoofthebluepacific2571 why Kansas? What's out there? Seems like a boring place to live
@@ladymonacoofthebluepacific2571 is it because the taxes are cheaper. Alot of people are leaving Massachusetts because it's so expensive here.
I can only imagine, they were probably harassed, treated like dirt,spat at , ripped off etc, another hell they had to go through.
A lot of slaves who were treated humanely by plantation owners often stayed. Because of uncertainty, they knew were free and could leave , but what was out there for them? Legal racism. A lot stayed awhile until they felt safe. But still suffered backlash, hatred, discrinatiom. This wasxa psychological slavery.b
Sadly Slavery is still a thing.
@@ayopaulie9116 sex trafficking, even in some cases domestic abuse, kiddie porn etc many African Americans treated like crap, discrimination, jobs poverty, get rid of racists cops in police force. Not all whites are bad there are good caring people out there. But it's scary to think 70 million racists in America.v
@@maryannemelenka9250 when did I ever say that... Im saying there is still slavery in other country's sadly.
Where the slave actually freed? Or did the slave patrol came into existence putting the
ex-slaves in prison to continue doing free labor. There is a book and a movie called:
“Slavery by Another Name”
Imagine that she was able to buy a house after only three year's of savings.
You can't talk about American history, without
mentioning slavery and the massive contribution
it provided for the foundation of the country.
The ORIGINAL Americans--whether you like it or not--is made-up
of two races: Whites and Blacks.
(Anglos and Africans)
The rest of them are "Johnny come latelys.
Now you will have to spend your life or 25-40 years to own a home these days.
@@davidestate honestly was just going to write this. it's absurd to think that three years of work could actually get you a house in the 1800s
@@AndreyEvermore Yes, it's before that greed of home sellings came into play. A home was sold only on the bases of how much someone wanted to sell it for. Now, we use comps and seller greed to price homes. I home today it still cheaper to build then what it sells for. I live in Canada, and the homes in 1985 where I live were sold for $190,000 where as in Toronto they were $55,000. Today where I live the homes sell for $1.8 Millions and in Toronto average $900,000. A new home in Brooklyn, NY cost $2,500 (1853)
IMAGINE HOW PEOPLE'S BUSINESS AND HOUSES 🏘️ WERE JUST TAKEN AWAY BECAUSE OF MOB VIOLENCE
as of 2021 it's officially a federal holiday! CRAZY we had to wait this long for that date to be recognized.
To go from being slaved to being free was a scary experience for many. Stories of old slaves remaining on plantation were common, while many settled for a system that resembled bondage: share cropping.
There are stories of black families wandering the roads.
@@SandfordSmythe It is for this reason Southern states aimed to enact “Vagrancy Laws” that created a convict lease system, locking up propertyless wanderers and *forcing them into slave labor.*
American corporations willingly participated in this system just as German corporations willingly participated in Jewish slave labor in WW2.
No wonder it’s deemed slavery by another name.
Don't forget,grandfather clauses,black codes,sundown towns and the mess incareration of black men for new,petty laws.
Most people prefer a Familiar feeling of Pain to an Unknown release.
@Mitistouchyamama why ?
It’s so sad I still can’t wrap my mind around how you can take ppl against their will and sell them like a dog to another human and then buy someone like they are property. And it’s still happening today wth
Well, it was a profitable business for them. They didn't care about other communities. While minor communities couldn't defend themselves. So......
And slavery still goes on quite frequently in Africa all these centuries later.
@Jo Sm Mohammad was a slave trader? Where did you hear that? Every text I read describes him as a regular merchant albeit an extremely prolific one.
@Jo Sm Wow, just wow. I grew up in an Islamic theocracy that portrayed him as a freer of slaves. He even had a black apostle (Ballal) who was supposed to be the representative of the freed slaves. Not that I liked him before - he and his 14 wives, the youngest of whom (age 10) he married when he was 50 - but this takes the ick to another level.
@Jo Sm I like how you have actual quotes to back up everything. So they even lied about Aisha. Our religion teacher said she was married at 9 (the official age of consent in Islam, for girls,) but Muhammad waited until she was 10 before he consummated the marriage, which was another lie. I also remember verses in Koran talking about Muhammad's female slaves (called 'Kaneez') but again, our religion instructors translated that as female servant, even though Muhammad had sex with one of them while two of his wives listened. The surah that told that story was about how those wives had no right to complain. Now that I know she was a slave, it makes it even worse. What an icon. 😒
The wildest part about all of this is that a single person could save money for three years and have enough to buy a house.
I’ve learned more about history from CZcams. Than I’ve learned from school
Thing is they weren’t actually “freed” for another two years
@David DeVito Are you truly that ignorant or just a good troll?
Sounds like they were.
155 years on slavery is still going on in America
Slaves in the border states weren't really freed until The 14th Amendment.
@@johnclaxton9878 yes in sex trafficking.. not African American slavery.
Ok, let’s hear about the Tuskegee Airman.
YES
as a black Airman, I love those guys!
Thank all of y’all and I appreciate you sharing your experiences with me. I want to learn so much more. I even appreciate the architect of the Romans in the Colosseum. We all make this world beautiful. Just like when they built the pyramids.
Let's talk about Liberia. What the former slaves did to the Africans.
I remember a few years ago when I was at a military base here in Washington State with my dad and sister for the 4th of July, that I met one of the surviving members of the Tuskegee Airmen. And he told me he was proud that I was going to college to become a veterinarian. It honestly felt like he was my grandfather and being so honored to listen to his stories with the limited time I had to speak with him❤️❤️❤️❤️
I like how you present books in your documentary, I going to buy those and read them. Thank you for the title of the books.
Thank you for this episode....
I love all these historic photos. Amazing to get even a glimpse of that time
“Hey boss what’s that newspapers say?”
“You dont need to worry about it...”
Lol
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😂😂😂😂
LOl...That's messed up!
🤣🤣🤣
What I love about this: It's an accurate description of what happened in this country. A lot of people want to hide the dark history of the country, but this is what happened. I love this ❤
Very insightful, Great video 👍👍
Man, that's something. Former slaves faced an uncertainty about their future after the Civil War ended. I watched a series on DVD about Reconstruction from PBS. It shows a very different view of what happened after the slaves were freed. Some people left, others stayed at the plantations, some asserted their right to vote, and some created communities of free people. At the same time when it was going on, Southerners were faced with reality. Much of the region was destroyed, the economic growth which they depended upon slave labor was over, the men of military age of the South were coming back from the war seeing the world in which they had known been changed, and the people were struggling to get by. While freedom was rung in the South, a group of Southerners formed the Ku Klux Klan in 1866 at Pulaski, Tennessee with the idea of maintaining their way of life and making things difficult for the newly freed slaves. This would be an open fight which would determine the future of the country after a time of war.
The KKK was then declared a terrorist group and outlawed, the same year the NRA was formed. Nathaniel Bedford Forrest actually left the KKK that he had formed and denounced it due to its increasing violent nature. The KKK continued to exist in small quiet pockets for years until the 1950s when they came back to the forefront with its public and violent acts. In the late 1960s the KKK leaders denounced the violent actions of its past and reorganized as more a civic group, carrying out more peaceful protests and being more involved in the community and charities and declared its religious base. The Neo Nazi party (which formed shortly before WWII) then took over as the more violent group, though their group, like most pro-white groups has faded in influence, power and members in the last 40 years or so.
I also watched that series its really worth a watch
Zachariah Laryea. Thanks for the information! I’m gonna have to check it out
@Anthony Conino the trend for the white power groups have faded, but the black power groups have been on the rise since the 60s. The black panthers were the most prominent group (and in some cases also violent), they also faded into more peaceful work in the 70s with the rise of the NAACP. But the recent trend is that black power groups are rising again and becoming more violent which could force white power groups to ramp up in response. Who knows? Maybe Charlie manson’s predicted race war will come to fruition but not in his lifetime.
@@CamaroAmx White power groups have never had as much power as they have now, members are straight up getting voted into congress, and for the last 4 years a open racist have been president,
Interesting that they decided to skip the vicious cycle of sharecropping where they bought supplies on credit and then worked for a year to pay it off and once that was done they had to do it all over again.
There are soooooo many families in Louisiana and Mississippi still working off those “inherited debts”.
Sounds like peonage masquerading as tenant farming.
@Rudol Von Stroheim I’m from Louisiana (New Orleans) and I still have family in Mississippi who haven’t left their “situations “ . It’s really sad and unfortunately, slavery came with mental chains as well. There’s a woman in New Orleans who finds these families and tells their stories. I’ll include a link. There’s also a short documentary done by Vice on the subject.
I do the family research my own family members and have copies of share cropping contracts signed be my ancestors that would make you want to vomit. The wording used, was so blatantly racist but they had no choice if they wanted to put food on the table.
www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.eurweb.com/2020/01/20/black-families-still-living-on-plantations-in-mississippi/amp/
So title max and high interest rate cars is like sharecropping??? Lol
YES!
loved this man! great vid
Very interesting and informative. Thank you
Because we don't talk, dress, or work like this anymore. It feels like it was a long time ago. But the Emancipation took place only SIXTY THREE YEARS before my grandma was born in 1925. I grew up with her, listened to her stories, & helped in her garden. I'm only 27... The US is having a hard time with race today, partly because it wasn't that long ago that slavery was ok.
Hopefully she told you that Africans enslaved 1.5 million white people. It's easier to understand race issues when you know world history and not just American History .... as every group of people owned and had them at some point.
My grandfather was born Feb 1900. He still was a sharecropper up until 1985.
@@danimotherofchickens479 🤡
@@danimotherofchickens479 yea but they were north africans not sub saharan africans that enslaved whites . they also enslaved black people during the islamic slave trade . it was a brutal slavery they would castrate the slaves so they couldnt have kids . that is why there are almost no black or whites left in the middle east they butchered them instead of freeing them after slavery .
@@danimotherofchickens479 What a disingenuous comment. The writer is sharing a personal story on how they were affected by slavery in this country.
This is classic "whataboutism." Just admit that what happened to a lot of black people in the 19th century (and before) was horrible.
I'd never even heard of Juneteenth Day until I got stationed at Fort Hood in Texas 1993.
Cause it was started in Texas
I never hear of it and I'm a Texan
i learned of Junteenth and Black Wall Street, just this past year.
Many things are their just not popular. Just like most Americans have German ancestry and most of them don't celebrate their ancestry. But it's a fact many states celebrate German festivals which I think Americans don't know about. Things don't go popular until people want it. I wonder irish potato famine day would be mention too as many Americans have ancestry of them
This shows a lot about history classes. This is new to many smh.
So many slaves were murdered gruesomely once 'freed' and nothing was mentioned :(
I made the same comment !
"i have come for your slaves, and your slaves i'll have." what a frickin' line.
„So now we are equal citizens, yes?“
„Ask again in 100 years“
100 years later: Still no.
In Africa, Philippines and South America its true
@@stefanc4520 the Civil Rights act made a lot of headway. But it definitely took that
@@TheEnabledDisabled South America is very racist what are you talking about
@Melissa Farfalle It very true in China, Africa, south america, philipines, russia
Amazes me that my mother still want to claim that there are ‘good’ slave owners. If you own human beings then by definition you aren’t a good person.
Yes, they was the Father's of many slave's. No more free sex for them.
Good pimps and kindly cartel leaders also abound on planet earth...
@Mary Lou Irick *cough* Thomas Jefferson *cough*
I've often wondered why the slaves, of whom, when they first came over here had brought with them their primitive African religion of snake worship, but then, instead of continuing this atavistic and barbarous practice, they eventually came around to adopt the religion of their oppressors, Southern Baptist!
So, for all that, was their oppression nothing but work, intimidation and beatings. In short, hell on earth?
Don't get me wrong! I'm not saying that the practice of slavery was right! By all forms of justice, it simply couldn't be!
If one listened to the folk songs sung by former slaves, it would seem to indicate that they were relatively happy, despite their lives of bondage.
@@vincentperratore4395 Christianity has inflicted more acts of mass barbarism on more humans than any indigenous African religions ever have. The various branches of the church were among the biggest investors in slavery in the early colonial period of the americas.Do some reading. Africans worshiped a vast array of things then as they do now. Ethiopia was full of christians and muslims long before Europe was. Most of the enslaved were young including many children from many different cultures, so, breaking them of cultural roots was easy. The people whom you claim were so happy were 150 years or more into a process of cradle to grave indoctrination into a death cult called christianity which promises, with no proof whatsoever, that its gets better in death, after a life of misery. So, expecting most of those who have been brainwashed into subjugation and into that world view to do anything other than show a happy face to those holding power over them is really silly.
Thank you this excellent episode. ☮️
There should be a TV show with a season of multiple short films with each telling one of this stories.
James T Ayers deserves a movie.
Definitely would make a good history film
My first thought, our country needs a reminder that our past even though is not perfect, is full of great people and courageous heros.
praising white people for doing the right thing? (which is the bare minimum and they're actually still gaining something from it) That is so american!
Was just thinking the same thing. HE is one BADASS MotherLover.
@@jimpsjrmichel7423 maybe. But regardless of color, he did a great thing.
The government promised the freed slaves "Forty acres and a mule". Yeah...right.
TPAB
Is that what they told you in school?
Along with freedom comes responsibility of oneself.
@@luthercase9001 that’s like telling an abused child to help themselves get better.
@@luthercase9001 If one is treated like an inferior creature for generations, looked down on and discriminated by everyone in your community, without any education and without any capital and safety net, it's really difficult to "start new life" and be "responsible of oneself" The USA should have provided help for these tens of thousands of newly freed people that were more of less helpless.
Thanks very interesting and well researched
Great video
You know what’s weird history.... I am from West Point, MS. Where you showed that first slave picture at. My whole family if from there and my grandmother still lives there today. For all we know... that could be our family. That’s what comes with being black in America.
Have you asked your grandmother for stories? Try to record them if you can for your future generations.
Wow, you should find out!
@precision haze ... you still have time to delete this
@precision haze do you know most non British Europeans came in usa through indentured slavery. So you're great into ten grandfather must be slave of British too.
And the Holy Bible "God" is ok with Slavery Exodus 21:20-21, Leviticus 25: 44-46 & Jesus also said Slave obey your masters Luke 12: 47-48 if you black & believe in the Bible you are a discrace & should be ashamed of yourself
Former Slaves: we free now?
Americans: yes but actually no
Americans: I'm about to do what's called a pro gamer move
Incorrect
@@oxclan3149 Well they were technically free, but many got arrested for small or insignificant/madeup crimes and were forced to work to pay those crimes, for loong time
@If you don't vote for Biden, YOU AIN'T BIDEN Oh yes it does, people forget that crime bill that basically sent bunch of people especially black to lifetime of prison for having pot
@If you don't vote for Biden, YOU AIN'T BIDEN yup and we should think this election is perfect no fraud
While our history is dark and complicated, I believe we have come a long way and like anything in life we can only improve. As for the history pertaining to the video you made, well done on the coverage. It sad that some of the owners attempted to do them wrong while others were humane in their partings as they should have been and offered wages.
No one said we are proud of our dark side, but even as an American Indian that loves Thanksgiving, I'm proud that we grew past that and that we peacefully work together to only better our country.
I agree what you said, out nation like all nations have dark pass, but how we learn to forgive and move pass it is a truest test of our growth.
You're too optimistic
@@Izanagi057 hundreds of years. America had enough time
The slayves were bought from the Africans seling them. They were also selling them to the Ejws, Arabs, Spanish, Portuguese - but mostly to other Africans.
They also stole Europeans to sell - over 1.5 million is a rough estimate.
Europeans also sold white people to the highest bidder - here in the UK, roughly 1 in 10 white people were slayves. Barbados was created by 25,000 slayves - over 21,000 were white. The original people in America - over half the white people who landed were slayves.
Arabs and Africans have had slayves since recorded history. Native Americans had slayves too.
Chinese, Japanese, Indians - all long history of owning slayves.
Thank Allah for the enlightenment of Europe - and I say thank Allah because if the Islamic armies didn't conquer Greece, then their writings would not have been moved to Germany for safekeeping - those writings started the modern world!
@SINCITYLASVEGASFAMILY Makes you long for the days of the Empire - at least they had clear, noble goals!
Excellent Video
The video makes an important point. The ex-slaves already had a job they knew how to do, and a home. This was a time when most people did farming.
It was great for those who wanted to be farmers. However there were many scientists, doctors, Engineers, Statesman, and entrepreneurs born into a condition of picking cotton from sunup to sundown
Sharecropping was not a fair days wage for a fair days work, I would not not like a 'home' down Slave Alley in a slave shack - I would have wanted an education & to progress. Don't forget Jim Crow came hot on the heels.
Let's be real, Hays feared repercussions, that's why he let them get drunk on his liquor reserve
If “Hey guys ,we’re cool right ? 😅..” was a person
@Sherry smh
If he feared repercussions, the last thing he wanted was to give them liquor.
@@meirsolomon5626why? He got them drunk and partying. As one comment above said it's a way to say "we're cool, right?"
@@NoName-hg6cc drunk people can act up
What's frustrating is when people conflate chattel slavery with other forms. It's not the same. Period.
Are you telling me, that up until this time, not one slave owner recognized that slavery was wrong?!😱🇨🇦
for most part i think it was how they were tought while young with some of them they grew up around it
Of. Course not it’s called white supremacy!!!!!!!!
What they did to slaves is the worse someone can do to another human being. the way they separated families,the way they humiliated and the way they sold them like cattle and the way they overworked them and abused them both physically and emotionally it's disgusting.I have no words.. I admire each and everyone slave that ever existed for being so brave and for still having faith for not giving up and for doing whatever it is that needs to be done in order to stay alive..🥺 However as a Christian I know that all of those souls were taken straight to heaven and are now happy the Lord is Good and whenever someone suffered as much as they did because of human cruelty God heals their souls and in heaven gives them all the happiness and love they deserve.💖
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Doesn't "christianity" require that people need to accept a specific messiah dude (possible con artist) named jesus as their savior homie otherwise you'll burn in hell regardless of how you live your life or how much you suffer in life? Romans 10:9-10, Acts 4:12, John 3:16, Acts 10:43, Philippians 3:20, Ephesians 1:7 or some other bible shit like that? Otherwise it sounds like you're picking and choosing what parts of the bible you want to believe? "CHRIST"iantity means it's confession of Jesus as savior or it's hell and there is no exception or middle ground. Your super-important holy book says it clearly, if these poor slaves didn't openly accept JC as their savior they are destined for eternal suffering. PS all religion is dumb.
Thank you weird history for covering this difficult topic. You covered it as always with dignity
He covered it in a way that coddles a white audience. This vid is bullshit and gross. 1/4 of slaves died in the 8 years following slavery. Do you get that from the tone of this cheery ass video?
Chastitee Bowman What are these things that have never changed?
@@JesseBrown-qf6zp I could go on and on but one stat says it all; wealth share. It's a tricky number to pin down but American slave descendants/ADOS currently have 1-2% of the total US economy. So basically up 1% since freedom, lol. Basis of ALL of black American issues derives from this. Anyone saying otherwise is full of shit.
And lies slaves owner never celebrated with third slaves they killed most of then they would rather have them dead then free
Slavery was the worst crime against humanity
The number one reason for not leaving would be fear of the unknown, of what they are going to find when they leave
Slaves: we sa free!! Are we citizens yet??
Supreme court: nope
Are they gungans?
@@biglammo LMFAOO
Damn, pretty much 😂💀
@@biglammo hahaha
The quote from the Lincoln movie is perfect. The only way for him to get the approval was to make compromise. A quote from it goes like you can have a compass that points noth to take you north, but it won't take you around the swamps, mountains and hostile areas.
The end goal was always to free them, but to get everyone on board it took time.
I’ve been bingeing this channel a lot recently! Thank you 🔥
Very informative
THANK GOD FOR U TUBE! Outside of reading books like Runaway Slave, Bullwhip Days, etc, over the years. I've got more information from U TUBE than any teacher at any school. Truth may not always be popular, but, the more truthful we become the better off as a society we'll become. Yelling, blaming, anger, hurt, etc will be a part of it, but, after all of that happens, we all will end up cooler with one another, than we are nowadays. Good video from a good channel. I just subscribed!
This is one of the truest comments I've read on CZcams and I completely agree.
It is weird to realize that people actually enslaved people and treated them like they ment nothing.
Slavery happened all sound the globe not just to blacks
@@weshal5732 I know people love to push the idea demonizing white people like it's our fault
@@weshal5732 It happens now in the US Prisons
@@breh8327 I ain't white but if u wanna solve slavery u shouldn't demonize either side
@@weshal5732 nothing in the comment you replied to implied there was only slavery of Africans in North America. You okay, Joe?
Being from Dallas, I know all about Juneteeth...at first, when I was young in the late 60s, it was only for blacks...but by the late 70s, it was open to everyone...and Big Red soda (a Texas drink) was everywhere...there was no anger, but just celebration....
abilene tx. rememeber it well. good times.
You got a new sub
By the way I read Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi this year and it’s the story of two lines from the same mother. It goes over 300 years of generations from the beginning of slaves trade. It’s so good it’s the best book I’ve read in 2023.
How any of those slave owners ever believed they had a right to own human beings is beyond me.
If you want to do something rase awareness of today's slave traders. If you can presure your leaders into doing something.
Church said it was OK.
Because as unthinkable as it is to us nowadays back then it was the norm. Most humans are social creatures and are slaves themselves to whatever the social norms of their time are. It’s sad but when it’s all you know and are raised to know it takes time sometimes generations to undo a set mindset in a family.
@@vikafrench2429 Nope. They chose their ignorance for the benefit of free labor and casting their insecurities as aggression towards their slaves. They knew what they were doing but and chose comfort over righteousness.
There was a civil war you know! These people never actually changed their minds. They were forced to act like it or they would go to jail.
There was no “coming to” for these racists, they just found other ways to manifest their anger and maliciousness.
Thank God good and justice prevailed.
We will say the same about abortion in years down the line
I like that we are getting a video about African American History. There should be more weird history from other cultures as well.
go through the channel playlists, there's tons of videos about europe, egypt and other cultures already
Exactlyyyyy not just Americans and English people.
Let it happen organically. No need to force it and pander or the audience will resent it. The history covered on is plenty diverse already
@@recluseren You are right there is a
(few) videos. Just saying, I want history from different perspectives. This is a great CZcams channel
All of history for lefty's, liberals and Dems started about 500 years ago.. right before that it was Adam and Eve. Of course they only talk about black slavery in America cause that's how life began...
In Miss. where i was born and raised there has allways been blacks with nice farms and property, it was not given to them by the Government they got it like everyone else hard work, and faith in themselves
Very light on the actual explanation. If you want a full explanation of how slavery slowly ended in the united states, I highly recommend knowing better's neoslavery video. It is a long one but it is definitely thorough.
Yes this was watered down and misleading slave owners were livid when slavery ended they never celebrated with their slaves they KILLED THEM They rather see them dead then free I’m not at all pleased with the content
Thank you weird history this is helping out so much with a book that I am attempting to write thank you so much again I really enjoy your narrations a whole new look at history class right
This would have been more complete if you mentioned the black codes and Jim Crow laws.
People don't like to say the wrongs of democrats
@@danimotherofchickens479 every time someone normal talks about the civil war they are speaking of the wrongs of democrats
pretty sure those are the same thing
@@danimotherofchickens479 who were conservative at that time. The Republicans were the liberals.
As shown in Family Guy:
Master: *Unchains slave* Ok, so you're free to go!
Slave: ...
Master: But, we're cool right?
A real fear.
Ashby‘s advice was not ironic, it was spot on.
I used to be a social worker doing foodstamps in Beaufort SC. I was amazed to see so many families who STAYED on the plantations
After the emancipation! They would even say “ I live on Orange Grove Plantation.” And that plantation is still there today.
And many 'black' towns were the result of ex-slaves inching their way away from the plantation, they may have just been old 'slave alleys' that developed into towns, or felled plantations where slaves never left. Have you seen the old film Pinky? It has a set up like this.
I Think this leaves out a lot. The confederacy did not recognize the Emancipation, wasn’t it only after they were occupied that they were forced to recognize it? what about the former slaves becoming “contraband” of the advancing union troops. also, no mention that EP did not include Union slave states such as Delaware and Maryland. this makes it sound like the EP immediately freed the slaves and the slaveholders just went along obligingly....
The Confederacy didn't recognize the Emancipation Proclamation because they didn't recognize the authority of the federal government. It is also possible that Union officers used the Proclamation as grounds to make emancipation a condition for paroling Confederate prisoners; this may explain why some plantation owners in Texas freed their slaves after their sons were captured in battle.
The Emancipation only affected slaves in the states of the Confederacy.... Maryland where slavery was allowed but had not seceded from the nation still fell under the fugitive slave act... also, Lincoln is on record saying if he were able to preserve the Union without freeing a single slave he would do it... he is on record saying the brown man was not the equal of the white man... but overall slavery didn't end until the war was over...
who cares about the south and emancipation. no seceret that the south was for the most part pro slavery. i want to hear why the union slave states keep their slaves until the 13th ammendment was ratified. 8 months after the war was over and done. TEACH TAHT SHIT SCHOOLS.
You're surprised that a 10 minute video about a very deep and complex historical topic left things out?
You're right about the non-confederate States ("the states not in rebellion") continued to hold their slaves. That ended with the 13th Amendment after the war. There's a special (2021) about Lincoln that shows the extreme effort he had to exert, to get the 13th Amendment ratified before the Southern states rejoined Congress.
❤ Informative.
Great doc... I am from Sri Lanka
This is really interesting. I always wondered what happened slaves, when first freed. Thanks for the video.
Slow very slow. I visited my aunt in 1969 in Oklahoma and we went to the Astro Dome in Texas in chartered buses. Once we crossed into Texas the buses pulled over and all the Blacks were ushered into one bus. When we stopped for breakfast and later went to the rest rooms we were talking with a group of ladies who happened to be Black and I asked how they liked the breakfast and silence. My aunt looked at them and smiled and I said I was from California. They smiled back and my aunt told me she would explain to me later. Later she told me in Texas the Blacks had to wait until after all the whites had eaten before the were fed and they ran out of time so they didn't get breakfast. A Black woman came up to my aunt and asked how I took it and she said the same as any decent person who have taken it, I was appalled.
@J Smith Who are you talking about?
Appalling
And we are also told that the Declaration of Independence in 1776 was America's birthday but they actually kept fighting until 1783. So they weren't actually "free" until 7 years AFTER the declaration.
My great mother was born in 1905,she was Irish and my great-grandfather who was mixed,known as coloured, was from South Africa
I wish more people would do diligent research to see the truth for themselves. I was raised in Alabama. Since I have looked at the facts instead hearing my uncles and family tell stories that sad to say were not always let's say unbiased.
I live in Chicago. I am american. I can do Anything. I pay taxes. I obey the laws. I show respect to everyone I meet. I stand up for the sick and frail. I help ANYONE I can." and don't care what race you are"
I AM FREE !!!
We need to put aside our differences.
My dad and uncle was both murdrers and both died in prison. I could be filled with hate but I'm not because they killed three black men and the black owner of the gas station in Dothan Al. That was the turning point in my life. I'm now 82 years old don't know how much longer I have on this earth. But I wanted to give everyone a chance to learn what it took this old man a lifetime to understand.
Well said
I live in Louisiana and was fortunate enough to have a mom who raised me around black people. There is an amazing black man that I call my dad. And yet, even I didn't understand how bad slavery was and especially the fallout after the civil war. You know as well as I do that Southern history classes were deficient in that area...
@@sydmil0719
Deficient is an understatement.
It was, and has been an attempt to erase history and the facts.
Watch the Tulsa Massacre on May 31
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You don’t know how lucky you are. I see home-bred racist people everyday especially online, clouded with a thick smoke of hate and ignorance. Trying to imagine them seeing the light through all that smoke is damn near impossible.
I encourage everyone to read The Slave Narratives. Its an archive of interviews of the ex slaves.
They are written in the black Southern vernacular as spoken by them. It helps to read them out loud to understand them and get a feeling for a real person talking. This style of speaking has many levels to it. It can be very ironic and understated, with sly sense of humor.
Heart rending true stories.
One family in NC moved in with some of my sharecropper relatives for a while when the plantation was shut down. Supposedly, a number of families in that area did that and when my grandfather died, there were quite a few Blacks with the same last name attended.
6:46 Ex-slaves felt bad for their former owners. I wonder if that wouldn't be a case of Stockholm syndrome...
@J Smith Yeah I know, but what I'm saying is after everything they had to endure their entire lives, they still pitied their former masters.
@J Smith what you’re describing is pity to their abusers, not just a “local factory”
You’re assuming that every single slave was treated like a dog. I’m sure out of all the slave owners, there were at least a few that didn’t treat their slaves poorly. I’m sure a small handful treated them kindly, fed them well, etc.
@@nmiller248 Damn you're right, man. I think I've been watching way too many historically inaccurate movies about slavery 😑
Thanks :)
@@fabianatrindade56 Alongside what the other guy said, many of these slaves grew up with the families that owned them (assuming they weren’t sold). Think of it like leaving an abusive family member; yeah, you’re better off now, but you’re probably still always going to have some kind of feelings towards them.
Fantastic production. I'd like to see an episode detailing what really happened at the Stonewall riots.
I can’t begin to imagine the joy they felt upon hearing the news, nay god bless them
Some of the slaves were accused of being being stupid but I strongly disagree. Anyone who is made aware that he/she is now living in freedom and leaves immediately could not possibly be stupid. Leaving immediately demonstrates Intelligence in my opinion.
Booker is undervalued. He should be taught to every child
Crazy how he was a 5 time WCW champion after being freed. Can you dig it suckaaaaa
He worked for advancement in a place where making a mistake can get you lynched.
@@HANKHILLPROPANEARLEN ha
@@HANKHILLPROPANEARLEN Lol
"You'd think they'd get off the plantation as fast as they can?"
"They decided to stay?"
Wow! I'm sure they'd have moved w enough means and safety.
Because they didnt know a life outside of plantation work. So once they were free many of them went back to what they only knew.
It’s not that they had no money or idea what to do outside, you neeed money to live on your own and you need to have an idea of what it’s like outside the plantation to have an idea of how go survive also they had no rights or anyone fighting for them so bigots (half the country) could just murder them if they ever thought to be free, some slave owners lied about the freedom of slaves to keep them captivated others had complexes with enslaved people like I don’t remember who (sorry on my part) but one of America’s presidents had a on going “relationship” with a 14 year old enslaved girl (what’s disgusting and revolting is that documentary’s now make it seem like a love story or romantic mishap ughhh it makes my skin crawl) and basically this meant that slave owners were not willing to let go of there enslaved not only cause it was a financial drain but partially because of complexities in there relationships with slaves it’s actually an unspoken part of history.
I’m willing to answer questions about this not stupid statements (also sorry for my grammar English is my 4th language)
@@SteelRhinoXpress This is just you making up reasons from the top of your head.
@@RightWingRadioShow nope
Weird how it took 100 years after the abolishment of slavery for everyone to be treated and seen as equals.
Except even to this day they are not seen and treated as equal. Never have been.
And who are treated equal ? those white privileged eyes see a very different word … my God !🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️
A little correction: Lincoln didn't 'free the slaves' on 22 Sep 1862. That was the date of the 'Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation', which he wrote to warn the Southern States of what was to come if they didn't reunite with the Union by 1 Jan 1863. None of them did. So on 1 Jan 1863, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which 'freed' only those slaves in areas that were 'currently in rebellion'. It explicitly stated that in all areas that were under Union control, this order was not in effect, and those slaves were exempted from this order. In short, the Union people were allowed to keep their slaves in bondage. He even went so far as to name the exact locations where slaves were not to be freed. Since slavery was protected under the US Constitution, this edict could not be enacted without amending the Constitution, creating the 13th Amendment, which Congress did not pass until 31 January 1865, and this amendment wasn't ratified and made law until 6 December 1865. Both of those original documents are in the US Government Archives, and available for public viewing online. I suggest you read them in their entirety, because self-proclaimed 'historians' have cherry-picked and chopped them up to use only those parts that adhere to their narrative.
Open this link for the preliminary proclamation, click 'read more', then click 'read transcript'.
www.archives.gov/exhibits/american_originals_iv/sections/preliminary_emancipation_proclamation.html#
Open this link for the transcription of the final Emancipation Proclamation
www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured-documents/emancipation-proclamation/transcript.html
Y’all need to watch the movies, “North and south” I will warn you, there old, and have a sope opera vibes... but it’s really good, and dives deep into this very topic, and much others!