The Plantation System in Southern Life (1950)

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  • čas přidán 8. 05. 2018
  • "Eurocentric view of the plantation system and its effect on Southern U.S. culture."
    From the Prelinger Archive.
    Coronet Films (also known as Coronet Instructional Media Inc.) was a leading producer and distributor of many American documentary shorts shown in public schools, mostly in the 16mm format, from the 1940s through the 1980s (when the videocassette recorder replaced the motion picture projector as the key audio-visual aid). The company, whose library is owned and distributed by the Phoenix Learning Group, Inc., covered a wide range of subjects in zoology, science, geography, history and math, but is mostly remembered today for its post-World War II social guidance films featuring topics such as dating, family life, courtesy, and citizenship. - wikipedia
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Komentáře • 558

  • @1inhiservice
    @1inhiservice Před rokem +71

    "Until the lion learns to write, every story will glorify the hunter". ~African Proverb

    • @ericscaillet2232
      @ericscaillet2232 Před rokem +3

      Lion still cannot write,and here you have it.

    • @mufasa1794
      @mufasa1794 Před 7 měsíci

      @@ericscaillet2232 lmao u think u sound smart huh? Lmao ur pathetic

    • @viceaves6574
      @viceaves6574 Před 6 měsíci +2

      Amen

    • @cragjones1799
      @cragjones1799 Před 4 měsíci +3

      Great quote.

    • @fussypeg8561
      @fussypeg8561 Před 3 měsíci

      Or the chicken puts a word in about meat eating.

  • @clytchan
    @clytchan Před 5 lety +336

    The narrator said, “The slaves had little wealth.” The slaves didn’t have ANY wealth back then.

    • @amycollado864
      @amycollado864 Před 4 lety +8

      Rheal Nyce right!!

    • @angelbennett3891
      @angelbennett3891 Před 4 lety +11

      Rheal Nyce ReWHITING history at RVERY turn...

    • @paulawhatleymatabane6452
      @paulawhatleymatabane6452 Před 4 lety +38

      Not true. I am black, having traced enslaved ancestors on both sides of my family. Little wealth is accurate. some enslaved persons had little gardens and precious few possessions, hence "little wealth" is accurate. @@angelbennett3891

    • @sondrajean955
      @sondrajean955 Před 4 lety +13

      " back then", or EVER! Isolation was important. "Cheap" slave labor? Slaves had NO wealth & NO freedom.

    • @dn30001
      @dn30001 Před 4 lety +16

      @@paulawhatleymatabane6452 did some retracing on my ancestry to. Its hard to convince others of this when they only think wealth is paper money

  • @edwinrobertson4279
    @edwinrobertson4279 Před rokem +58

    Gotta love the very clean version of this story. The slaves had little wealth, the slaves lived in smaller houses on the plantation, the slaves did almost all the work. No mention of the fact that slaves did all of back breaking work, they weren't paid, they were beaten and murdered, forced to live in shanty huts not houses, were raped by slave owners, were forced to work in very bad conditions, were turned against each on purpose by the slave owners. This was done by the owners giving some slaves special treatment over others, were separated from their families, But anyway......the narrator gives a very clean low key version of what was truly a cruel devastating situation for the slaves. This is why we must tell our own story.

    • @theCosmicQueen
      @theCosmicQueen Před rokem +1

      why would they want kids to feel all that devastating worst part of it? that is adult subject matter . kids can't take it. theyneed to feel good, be happy and play at school not hate each other or start feeling mentally ill.

    • @tyreswallace9759
      @tyreswallace9759 Před rokem +8

      ...Well.They don't want to tell the Whole truth,but if your not telling the whole truth.You might as well be telling a lie.

    • @ericlightfoot-uh9sq
      @ericlightfoot-uh9sq Před rokem +8

      What do you mean,"don't want kids to feel the devastation part of it".. All generations need to know about their past. What there elders went through in order for them to do certain things that they want to do today... Not text book history and or opinions of others but what people really went through.. And I'm not only talking about Black kids I'm talking about all kids. Everyone needs to know TRUE FACTS about the past of every races journey. It's good to know about the people you interact with on a daily basis..
      IN MY OPINION OF COURSE

    • @citizenkang2524
      @citizenkang2524 Před rokem

      @@theCosmicQueen The hate is there regardless of critical race neo-feudal U.S. HISTORY portrayed

    • @Paladin1873
      @Paladin1873 Před rokem +1

      Much of what you say is accurate, but murder and rape by slave owners was the exception, not the rule. Slaves were an investment, so brutalizing and killing them served no economic purpose. Many slaves were paid, particularly those with valuable skills. Some slaves bought their freedom with their earnings. A seeming paradox existed when former slaves bought other slaves to work for them. I have read this was often done to protect and preserve family members, but I don't know the full details.

  • @DJXS5813
    @DJXS5813 Před 2 lety +122

    You can still see these plantation homes all across the South. The conditions that existed then still exist all across the Southern states. Tobaccos, Cotton, Sugar cane, Corn and Soybeans are all still grown in these areas. The only thing that has visibly changed is the fact that all the labor that was once performed by the now reluctant slaves, has been replaced as the narrator says by heavy machinery. The blacks that formerly were the slaves or the descendants of those slaves now still live on small tracts of land with poor or substandard housing while the white land owners and their descendants still live sometimes in the same grand plantation style mansions. As someone who grew up in the shadows of this time in history, I watched my mother and other elders of the community picking cotton in the fields for just pennies a day. While the white landlords enjoyed huge profits affording them all the privileges that we today are still fighting for.

    • @merriferrell2818
      @merriferrell2818 Před 2 lety +5

      Sharecropping, then migrant labors, now immigrants..esp food production

    • @merriferrell2818
      @merriferrell2818 Před 2 lety +3

      I think of Fannie Lou Hamer

    • @squarebidnezz4524
      @squarebidnezz4524 Před rokem

      @@merriferrell2818 They're good at tarnishing a legacy. She's identified with feminism as much as civil rights for blacks.

    • @bjschaus3513
      @bjschaus3513 Před rokem

      My family were poor whites who worked in the fields. None of my family ever owned large tracts of land. Ive inherited nothing. Those whites that owned plantations and benefited greatly are a very small percentage of whites.

    • @nomad5031
      @nomad5031 Před rokem +1

      Just as slave catchers were replaced by police, slaves in the fields have been replaced by the incarcerated prisoners....

  • @scrapbookboxing1094
    @scrapbookboxing1094 Před 4 lety +58

    It amazing how the narrator glorified the lifestyle of black life in the south. Great information. Thanks very much.

    • @davidruffin9828
      @davidruffin9828 Před 4 lety +18

      Remember now, this is 1950, only thing that changed is the age of our opressors

    • @the2ndcoming135
      @the2ndcoming135 Před 2 lety +4

      Oh, so we wasn’t winning then?🤔

    • @the2ndcoming135
      @the2ndcoming135 Před 2 lety

      @Benjamin Morris Hi, my name is Alpha. I’m also independent, family owned and operated. Who is y’all?😁

    • @kelcey7579
      @kelcey7579 Před 2 měsíci

      ​​@@davidruffin9828god dam bars, we get rocked to sleep to easy forget everthing, like things changed

  • @teetataylor
    @teetataylor Před 5 lety +184

    Why did they called it "cheap slave labor" when my ppl didn't get paid for that labor

    • @sandracheeks1811
      @sandracheeks1811 Před 5 lety +13

      Although the slaves didn't get paid, they still cost the owner: purchasing them, feeding them, housing them... so although it was very cheap when contrasted with paid laborers, it was not free labor. Not saying this was right... TOTALLY NOT.

    • @sandracheeks1811
      @sandracheeks1811 Před 5 lety +1

      Tyrhol Biosphere I understand that they were not paid anything, my point was that they were still not “free” labor to the owner as he had to pay a purchase price to buy the slave as well as food, lodging (such that it was) to “maintain” the slave. So it was far cheaper than having to pay waged workers, but having slaves doing labor was not “free”. Again I am not justifying this in any way, I’m simply pointing out that fact.

    • @Msboochie2
      @Msboochie2 Před 5 lety +24

      They’re liars.... were you expecting those people to be honest about their evil barbaric system? It will never happen. While their were costs associated with their business, the laborers were not paid, so it was free labor. No money was paid to the people who did all the work. They are always trying to downplay their evil deeds, that is why they are using terms that are clearly disingenuous, never expect to hear truth from demons who would heap such suffering on a whole race of people simply for monetary gain.

    • @bigvalley4987
      @bigvalley4987 Před 5 lety +2

      teeta6794 taylor
      👁👁That Is What I Am Talking About... They are illegal and crying about Low wages, and my Folks build this Country without No Wages. Life fortunately did not wait for you and the peeps that want to pretend. Read up on all the various types of America History. My People build streets , brick by brick. Read up on American History as a oh picket on the USA and not Your Native Country. I am proud of my People for being a hard working. And less appreciated. But highly duplicated. I will hold this truth until the Day I Die...🎬

    • @sanchez73day36
      @sanchez73day36 Před 5 lety +15

      The slaves got paid with abuse and rape and scraps of food.

  • @davielove11
    @davielove11 Před 5 lety +126

    Definitely a Eurocentric view of plantation life.

    • @GjaP_242
      @GjaP_242 Před 3 lety

      3:45

    • @GjaP_242
      @GjaP_242 Před 3 lety

      10:01

    • @the2ndcoming135
      @the2ndcoming135 Před 2 lety

      Well, this reminded me of the most peculiar circumstance involving a Nigerian school girl that was just released from captivity after 17 years. Forced into marriage, I’m assuming raped, and also forced into motherhood and conversion to Islam. And, with all that she remained committed to her God. Committed to her sexuality. Committed to her country. And, she even maintained her modest Muslim attire. I almost feel slight disgust proclaiming that that is amazing of her. Her captors were Black too, btw.

    • @higher_pwr8178
      @higher_pwr8178 Před 2 lety

      US slave labor plantation system from a purely American perspective.

    • @johnnyporter3713
      @johnnyporter3713 Před 2 lety +2

      Definitely some bullshit

  • @edoedo8686
    @edoedo8686 Před 5 lety +30

    I remember these Coronet films in my 70s high school...I always felt uncomfortable, and left me confused in class. What the teachers said about this left me with many answered questions...

    • @amarbyrd2520
      @amarbyrd2520 Před rokem +3

      They call them "documentaries" when they contain propaganda

    • @edoedo8686
      @edoedo8686 Před rokem +1

      @@amarbyrd2520 yea...I so agree.

    • @fiyahriddims
      @fiyahriddims Před rokem

      Ain't no way I would have sit in a class and watched this bull💩. And that's the problem right there. You are cowards to allow this to even be made, the word slave should NEVER be spoken out of a white mouth. They all should be "put in their place" for even doing the evil 💩....... Black people will fus and fight each other but let the white race disrespect us in ever way. We are the weakest!!!!!

    • @kelcey7579
      @kelcey7579 Před 2 měsíci

      ​@@amarbyrd2520I learned something

  • @Kalyopa
    @Kalyopa Před rokem +6

    The narrator is giving an impression of a romantic coexistence between slave masters and slaves, excluding the cruelty that was a daily dose at these plantations against the slaves to achieve maximum yield

  • @Mark-yb1sp
    @Mark-yb1sp Před rokem +10

    If the South had such fine manners, politeness, poise , and dignity…… how the Hell could they justify owning another human being? Oh wait,…..We have a word for that….. 🤨

    • @daniellebarrett7887
      @daniellebarrett7887 Před 6 měsíci +1

      A Disgraceful piece of crap & IN your time YOUR truth is a BIG FAT LIE, YOU WHITE FOLKS WILL GET YOUR JUST REWARDS ON JUDGEMENT DAY OR BY A FATE DUE TO THE DECENDANTS LIVING NOW!!!

  • @slowboogie8118
    @slowboogie8118 Před 2 lety +22

    "Almost all the work" 😂 😂 😂 How about ALLLLLL THE WORK!!!

    • @theCosmicQueen
      @theCosmicQueen Před rokem

      are you joking? they hired a few non slaves for things. and white women sewed and embroidered clothes, linens, crochet , knitted etc as idleness wasn't considered a virtue. Even noble european women always did. They worked people all day because that's what white people were used to doing themselves, before they got rich. And all other white people did if not rich. Dawn to dusk, and even after dark by candlelight.

    • @fernandocaceres609
      @fernandocaceres609 Před rokem +1

      Facts

  • @ianlondon2888
    @ianlondon2888 Před 2 lety +13

    LOL... Privileges is not a word to describe slavery. And, slaves weren't a labor system; it was a chattel system, like using donkeys to pull a cart.
    Labor systems require some exchange of consideration (even if it's insufficient).

    • @theCosmicQueen
      @theCosmicQueen Před rokem

      some people even today work for housing, clothes or food. you are saying,they di d not receive money wages. And, they were not free. neither is a woman in her marriage , if she feels bound by her religion; nor does she get paid if she is a stay at home wife or mom. she may get beaten as well.

    • @ianlondon2888
      @ianlondon2888 Před rokem +1

      @theCosmicQueen I agree with most of your statements, independently of what I said or the topic of slavery.

    • @Universal_Rose
      @Universal_Rose Před 9 měsíci

      @@theCosmicQueenWhite women always trying to talk about their “oppression”. How do you think it was for those slave women who were ACTUALLY enslaved and weren’t seen as ppl. You wanna play the struggle Olympics? Everything white women went through had NOTHING on what black women went through and that’s throughout American history. Don’t get married if you have such a problem with it. Nobody is forcing you. I love white tears, they’re so delicious.

  • @stilllearning2855
    @stilllearning2855 Před 6 lety +91

    I see what they did there- slaves had ZERO wealth and ZERO privileges.

    • @darnellplayer743
      @darnellplayer743 Před 6 lety +3

      Old Lady Justice. Yep, just like now. State-of-mind-slavery is in full effect.

    • @thetooginator153
      @thetooginator153 Před 3 lety

      Still Learning - Exactly what I was thinking.
      I grew up in the sixties in Marin County, and I NEVER saw a Coronet Film. Our teachers would have quit if they were asked to show films like this. We generally watched science films.

    • @Virus-xm7qc
      @Virus-xm7qc Před 2 lety

      @@thetooginator153 yeah like like watch FOX NEWS, WHILE we keep our heads in the sand.

  • @Dina_Darling
    @Dina_Darling Před 5 lety +70

    This film tries to sanitize the wicked facts of a very dark and ruthless time in America. There are no whips or chains. Slaves wearing clean clothing; button down shirts with all the buttons and leather belts too. A male slave was actually wearing a wedding band! Overseers are seen talking civilly to the blacks. They even put a little money in the their pockets by referencing slave labor as cheap. No. Slave labor was free. The narrator says the slaves did “almost all of the work”. You have got to be kidding!!

    • @toddmiller5656
      @toddmiller5656 Před 5 lety +7

      That was the way cinema was concerning slavery until 1977 when David Wolper produced the miniseries 'Roots'. Films like 'Gone With The Wind ' and 'General Spanky' presented a sanitized view of slavery. It was 'Roots' that brought out the horror of the practice.
      The narrator also fails to mention that the Southern Class System not only included planters and slaves but also lower class whites who were told that blacks were inferior to them. Hence the roots for segregation.

    • @shagar5448
      @shagar5448 Před 4 lety

      I suspect that at the end of slavery it was more like the military although not as civil as they present it in the film.

    • @sekhmetnubian1020
      @sekhmetnubian1020 Před 4 lety +2

      Their attempts to sanitize it is just another testament against them. Wicked evil detestable beings.

    • @frag9575
      @frag9575 Před 4 lety +3

      @CaliforniaCheez your delusional to look at it so black and white. It was people involved who were treated like animals. You cant treat human like animals. Especially a highly intelligent and spiritual people who had their society and civilizations dating way back than any other. You need to find yourself

    • @pinklady6224
      @pinklady6224 Před 4 lety +3

      @CaliforniaCheez Go read Uncle Tom's Cabin and you will get a good glimpse into what slavery was really like. The lady that wrote that book lived a very long time ago and she did not sugar coat anything about the harshness of slavery.

  • @williamschlenger1518
    @williamschlenger1518 Před rokem +10

    I remember these films in highschool.You think it's educational when you're young.

    • @slim555555
      @slim555555 Před rokem

      This is educational because it serves to show upcoming generations what the reality was for slaves, these things, forgive the pun, cannot and should not be whitewashed.

  • @Awakeningspirit20
    @Awakeningspirit20 Před rokem +5

    It is not uncommon, actually quite common, in the South and not even the Deep South, post-2020, to see apartments or neighborhoods with "plantation" in the title as if to imply a luxurious atmosphere to the dwelling-space. You might as well call it "concentration camp".

  • @junioraustin394
    @junioraustin394 Před 3 lety +58

    This narrator speaks of the white southerners "hospitality, gentle manners and courtesy". He forgot to mention that it was all a facade-----for none of these graces were extended to blacks. They just nonchalantly enslaved, whipped, murdered, raped, denied them their humanity, and abused them in every way humanly possible.

    • @thealphaandomega9348
      @thealphaandomega9348 Před 3 lety +8

      All facts, this is why history books need to be re-written in the U.S. cause the true history has been omitted and diluted so much. They write things they way they want others to see it instead of telling the whole unfiltered truth.

    • @thealphaandomega9348
      @thealphaandomega9348 Před 2 lety +1

      @Benjamin Morris Good. It still wouldn't justify how white ⚪ creatures, treated the enslaved on U.S. soil. Nothing will ever excuse it, no matter how many excuses you try to come up with. You owe a debt that will be paid in full. This is the final solution 😊

    • @theCosmicQueen
      @theCosmicQueen Před rokem

      excuse me, but no, that di d not happen as a matter of course. it was only the more sadistic people who could stand doing such things. others did not.

    • @junioraustin394
      @junioraustin394 Před rokem +1

      @@theCosmicQueen To enslave another human being, alone, is sadistic.

  • @baruchisrael8054
    @baruchisrael8054 Před 4 lety +16

    Now we needs to hear the slaves narrative of this same account.

    • @baruchisrael8054
      @baruchisrael8054 Před 3 lety +1

      😂🤣

    • @the2ndcoming135
      @the2ndcoming135 Před 3 lety +1

      Best comment. Good God Almighty the ignorance is on full display in the comment section😂

  • @Virus-xm7qc
    @Virus-xm7qc Před 2 lety +12

    UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!!!!

  • @pablotolson7728
    @pablotolson7728 Před 6 lety +130

    Never forget what we produced for this ungrateful country.

    • @bigvalley4987
      @bigvalley4987 Před 5 lety +6

      Pablo Tolson
      I Hear You Loud And Clearly.🥰 Ungrateful and forgetful😔😔😔😔

    • @bigvalley4987
      @bigvalley4987 Před 4 lety +10

      Now the illegal immigrants are claiming that the Country will not survive without them. Please get serious!

    • @Angel-tw3ko
      @Angel-tw3ko Před 4 lety +9

      @@bigvalley4987 don't get caught up in that racist lie.. they want us to be pitied against one another! We are all God's children regardless of legal status

    • @nexaudio3748
      @nexaudio3748 Před 4 lety +8

      Angel 1973 that’s what white people want you to keep telling yourself.

    • @juancamilosotopayares2811
      @juancamilosotopayares2811 Před 2 lety +4

      Wasn't u but ur grandparents u ain't done anything fam

  • @AC-kl8gi
    @AC-kl8gi Před 5 lety +16

    I can't watch this.

  • @wes2262
    @wes2262 Před rokem +32

    Did people actually make this with a straight face? This is pure comedy.

    • @generevelsjr.4971
      @generevelsjr.4971 Před rokem

      Not comedy nothing funny at all no shame for the owners or narrator

    • @ajl2232
      @ajl2232 Před rokem

      Wite razist propoganda!

    • @NestaVision2007
      @NestaVision2007 Před rokem

      Yes, they did and this is the world many of the state legislations are are sneakily reconstructing their state laws towards...

    • @johnathandaviddunster38
      @johnathandaviddunster38 Před rokem

      @@ajl2232 pity the ignorance of RACISM....

  • @reecesamuel2023
    @reecesamuel2023 Před 5 lety +45

    Almost all the work? ... hun... ok.. i guess

    • @awesome5506
      @awesome5506 Před 5 lety +1

      I guess dictation and beatings count as work...smh

    • @reecesamuel2023
      @reecesamuel2023 Před 3 lety

      @Joy for Eternity ??? "Ignorant slaves"???
      Do you identify yourself as "white"...

    • @poetcomic1
      @poetcomic1 Před 3 lety

      Most slave owners had rough cabins, a bit of land and a slave or two who worked alongside the owner. The biggest single slave owners were... the Southern Railroads. Of white Southerners ONLY SIX PER CENT OWNED SLAVES at the beginning of the Civil War.

    • @the2ndcoming135
      @the2ndcoming135 Před 2 lety

      So, Faith without works does get you death, huh?🙆🏽‍♂️

  • @RovingRoy
    @RovingRoy Před 5 lety +47

    Everything was so perfect. Slaves were happy being unfree and poor. After all, the white massa was so benevolent, the slaves didn't have to do any thinking for themselves, except to learn by force how to do hard manual labour and be subservient under the whip....it was a utopian paradise for all. IF YOU BELIEVE THAT, you also believe Trump is skinny.

    • @bobbrawley2612
      @bobbrawley2612 Před 5 lety +1

      He's very skinny

    • @paulawhatleymatabane6452
      @paulawhatleymatabane6452 Před 4 lety +1

      that is not the perspective presented in this film. stop exaggerating

    • @Virus-xm7qc
      @Virus-xm7qc Před 2 lety +1

      @@paulawhatleymatabane6452...and you SOUND like Paula White.

    • @paulawhatleymatabane155
      @paulawhatleymatabane155 Před 2 lety

      Is it necessary to resort to ugly name calling just to make a point? Could you not just ask what thoughts/facts I relied on in making my opinion?

    • @Virus-xm7qc
      @Virus-xm7qc Před 2 lety +2

      @@paulawhatleymatabane155 SORRY. , I didn't know Paula WHITE was name calling, just thought it was a label

  • @davidruffin9828
    @davidruffin9828 Před 4 lety +27

    This film was made during the Jim Crow era, so we'll catch all the lies and non truth.

  • @dondelrio1869
    @dondelrio1869 Před 5 lety +36

    Why does he keep saying cheap labor. It was not cheap, it was fucking FREE for over 400 years!!!

    • @robertcuminale1212
      @robertcuminale1212 Před 2 lety +5

      It was cheap because the workers were unpaid but not without costs. They were purchased. The price increased after1808 when federal law promoted and signed by President Thomas Jefferson prevented the importation of slaves. There was also the cost of feeding, clothing, and housing . The author is right in saying "cheap labor" because it was not free.

    • @tabaismack2980
      @tabaismack2980 Před rokem

      Sooo truer

    • @everettwilson1416
      @everettwilson1416 Před rokem

      It was pretty close to it
      Based on the profit it produced

    • @stefangeorge2844
      @stefangeorge2844 Před rokem +2

      Interestingly enough, most current economic research has shown slavery to be more expensive overall than wage labor in the antebellum South. See the work of Gavin Wright. Plantation slavery was very inefficient and backwards at the time, which is one factor of what made it an impediment to the growth of industrialization and the commodification of labor.

    • @dondelrio1869
      @dondelrio1869 Před rokem

      @@stefangeorge2844 You a fool. How can anything be better than free 🤔

  • @YellowFuzzzz
    @YellowFuzzzz Před rokem +3

    Landlord often stole from the tenants

  • @AngelicTroubleMaker-LaVooDoo

    The crazy shit is in Kentwood, Louisiana this still occurs. FOR REAL FOR REAL smh

  • @shogun8dchosen172
    @shogun8dchosen172 Před 4 lety +22

    I didn’t realize that this type of film existed....nothing like a bleached version of history 😒

  • @feliciakershaw7765
    @feliciakershaw7765 Před 6 lety +5

    I am fortunate enough to live in Cincinnati Ohio that boat is in Cincinnati ....the history I'll never forget

    • @bobbrawley2612
      @bobbrawley2612 Před 5 lety +1

      Cincinnati is a southern town. What's it doing in Ohio?

  • @sondrajean955
    @sondrajean955 Před 3 lety +9

    This is making my stomach 😩 turn. "Cheap" or free slave labor.

  • @mrheimdall
    @mrheimdall Před 4 lety +5

    I watched a video yesterday on youtube about how people that visited a plantation were pissed off about how their guide was always talking about the slaves. They wanted to here about the lives of the slave owners. How the hell do you think you're going to tour a plantation and NOT hear about slaves? That's how reprobate these people are.

  • @naturl2012
    @naturl2012 Před rokem +11

    Our Ancestors! 🙏🏾

  • @FenderGreg
    @FenderGreg Před 2 lety +11

    Very informative on how the south and residents agriculturally transitioned from slavery. Doubt you could make a documentary like this today.

    • @realdeal5714
      @realdeal5714 Před rokem +2

      Nope it's not going to happen. This is why history is so important. Thanks Reelblack 💘

  • @ebonybruce6473
    @ebonybruce6473 Před 4 lety +19

    This was made in1950 just like today America was still not trying to say they did anything wrong

  • @landeno
    @landeno Před rokem +4

    Did he say “cheap slave labor?” Surely he meant free.

    • @theCosmicQueen
      @theCosmicQueen Před rokem +1

      There is a cost to maintaining the lives of humans. So it wasn't free, as they provided everything that the slaves had or used like housing, food, clothes, footwear, furniture, medicine, etc.

    • @landeno
      @landeno Před rokem +1

      @@theCosmicQueen I would hardly consider the upkeep of kidnapped humans a “cost” especially considering they had to make meals of “food” their captors considered waste, that there was no healthcare, no paid time off. “Provided”? The slaves built and produced everything they were so graciously provided….using the trees they had to chop down, mortar they had to create, and roof for their heads that had to physically build. And they built the homes their captors stayed in too. So just stop it.

  • @thealphaandomega9348
    @thealphaandomega9348 Před 3 lety +18

    The "planters" were the Enslavers for those who didn't grasp this. The narrator was a bit modest in his reference to certain things to not upset the fragile egos of the "planters" descendants who viewed this clip back then. 🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾🤦🏾‍♂️

    • @theCosmicQueen
      @theCosmicQueen Před rokem

      are you joking? nobody wants a race war and you are an idiot if you think that's a good thing to have. of course they had to modulate it. things were far different by then. so much so that they had to teach about it as a very strange and different history.

  • @1aikane
    @1aikane Před rokem +1

    Interesting look at the 1950s interpretation of this history. A bit sanitized and incomplete. The audience seems to be school kids. Thus, it was made to give an introductory look at the topic. No film could capture the whole story. Would be a good exercise to make a similar film now and see the differences in the interpretation

    • @constancemays4601
      @constancemays4601 Před rokem

      It certainly would!!!!! We watched these films in school when I grew up in the 1960s. There was the Civil Rights movement going on then too. It would be wonderful to show an updated version of this film discussing such realities of various forms of punishment to slaves if they tried to escape. When I visited a historic plantation one of the things that stuck with me was simply seeing the names of slaves listed as property along with livestock

  • @johnnywilliams7488
    @johnnywilliams7488 Před 4 lety +11

    Glorifieing that shit

  • @tiffanyi5645
    @tiffanyi5645 Před 4 lety +14

    This is hard to watch! I love how the narrator says "plantation social patterns have left a lasting influence on life in the south... the separation of society into distinct groups"...oh you mean SEGREGATION??!!! This was dangerous propaganda at it's worst smh

    • @paulawhatleymatabane6452
      @paulawhatleymatabane6452 Před 4 lety +5

      I can imagine that you never knew Jim Crow firsthand. Well, I did and I'm glad you probably did not. It was not fun.. And this film is CORRECT and incisive about lasting impact of plantation i.e. slavery. It did lead to separation. Why is this propaganda? We always called segregation "racial separation", and understood the total lie of "separate but equal." The film is very clear and careful to never claim any equality of outcomes or life chances for blacks and whites. He makes it clear at the end that whites still own the land, live in the better house, have a high life style. Blacks were still low level labor, rented the houses, and did not own the land. Yes, it's subtle and muted that black farmers rarely got paid cash since they got "part of the crop." If the crop failed or brought a low price, black tenants were left in debt to land owner. The film was made in 1950, in midst of Cold War when any criticism of American society especially racial oppression/inequality was not tolerated. you need to grasp the WHEN of this film, look at how the filmmaker subtly uses images so you can see the continued oppression for yourself without him having to say it. In which case the film would have been censored. This was a time when just 4-5 five years later, all southern TV stations refused to carry the Nat King COLE Show because they didn't want a Negro to be in white living rooms even on TV as anything but a servant. Save Cole and other entertainers playing themselves, nearly ALL black characters in American TV and film were cast as servants. unskilled labor or prisoners. Check it out for yourself.Read J. Fred McDonald "Blacks and White TV." This instructional film was NOT another version of Gone With the Wind. It is actually amazing for its critical though muted insights of truth.

    • @marianotorrespico2975
      @marianotorrespico2975 Před rokem

      @@paulawhatleymatabane6452 --- Thank you, for the facts.

    • @rebeccaLV
      @rebeccaLV Před 5 měsíci

      Yes, SNL could have a field day with that script. They might win an Emmy for it!

  • @pdg1021
    @pdg1021 Před 5 lety +21

    The plantation system is still alive to this very day! It never died in the south.

    • @tankhead62
      @tankhead62 Před 5 lety +1

      you are so right about the slave system still exist, Lisa

    • @darleneanderson137
      @darleneanderson137 Před 5 lety +1

      FACTS

    • @matthewthomasjames
      @matthewthomasjames Před 4 lety +3

      It exists and it's called the welfare system.

    • @richk320
      @richk320 Před 4 lety

      It's called the U.S.

    • @rockywilliams8433
      @rockywilliams8433 Před 4 lety +5

      My grandfather is 78 yrs old and still very fit and healthy...and he still say "yessah and yessm" to white ppl..hes never left Savannah Georgia and that's all he know..but I have to remind him..grandad we not slaves no more. And u dont have to address those demons as such becuz were not less than them! I hate what they've done to my ancestors!!! I'm disturbed that they still get offended if u dont put money on the counter..I'm from NY first generation born here and when ever I'm in the south..especially the deep south..its 2nd nature to put my money on the counter..not becuz it's a unwritten law..but becuz I dont want the devils energy on me.

  • @johnathandaviddunster38
    @johnathandaviddunster38 Před rokem +3

    Grow more olive trees!!! They are BRILLIANT!! They can live and produce olives for 3000years !!! They don't need much water !!! They are a key in fighting desertification !!!

  • @Bill-uo6cm
    @Bill-uo6cm Před 6 dny

    Very informative and unbiased documentary, devoid of all of the hysteria that typically accompanies the discussion of nearly every topic today

  • @09rja
    @09rja Před rokem +7

    Certainly minimized the brutality of slavery.....but at least in this you actually learn something about how the plantation worked. Today, all you get out of a movie on slavery is a 2 hr @ss whoopin'. Don't learn anything.

  • @dwightcannon9884
    @dwightcannon9884 Před 4 lety +6

    3:43 Did the narrator say, "Cheap slave labor"... How about "Free slave labor"...

    • @the2ndcoming135
      @the2ndcoming135 Před 3 lety +1

      Meaning, they got rewarded with something. Hence the point of cheap. I’m sure they didn’t work on empty stomachs, for instance.

  • @Vincent50
    @Vincent50 Před 4 lety +6

    No wealth no privileges for the slaves tell the damn truth. Cheap labor and cruel BS.

    • @the2ndcoming135
      @the2ndcoming135 Před 3 lety

      That would require snitching tho🤔

    • @theCosmicQueen
      @theCosmicQueen Před rokem

      it certainly wasn't cruel to everyone across the board. it's like saying bad things may be legal but a lot o f people refuse to do them anyway.

  • @lordluvsme9378
    @lordluvsme9378 Před 4 lety +17

    DEEP! This should be talk in schools. Black people let's put our pride aside and learn. Once we get our land back let's build!!!

    • @thabomuso2575
      @thabomuso2575 Před rokem

      There are lots of good documentaries that describes the economic system of the South much better than this piece of propaganda.

    • @ericscaillet2232
      @ericscaillet2232 Před rokem

      Africa's waiting...

    • @lordluvsme9378
      @lordluvsme9378 Před rokem +1

      @@ericscaillet2232 so Is Europe Eric, why don't head BACK that way and pick out a nice cave for yourself.

  • @hebrewbrown1900
    @hebrewbrown1900 Před 4 lety +6

    WHERES " NAT TURNER WHEN💥💥💥💥 YOU NEED HIM"!!***

    • @the2ndcoming135
      @the2ndcoming135 Před 3 lety

      Waiting for y’all to stop being lazy and put in some work too. He ain’t gonna get your freedom for you🤷🏽‍♂️

    • @theCosmicQueen
      @theCosmicQueen Před rokem

      dead, and today would go to the gas chamber.

  • @beesbulletsandrecyclingcan7802

    Eye dont want no damn landlord

    • @theCosmicQueen
      @theCosmicQueen Před rokem

      well, neither do i, but i've always had one since adulthood, an d i am white. so are most renters.

  • @joemaxfield6978
    @joemaxfield6978 Před rokem +3

    Now we need to end our crime problem.

  • @bramlintrent1145
    @bramlintrent1145 Před 7 měsíci +2

    5:56 Isn't that the Burrus house in Benoit? It wasn't "abandoned during the Civil War". The Burrus family lived there till about 1920, and then various sharecroppers occupied it. Nothing in this film is exactly accurate, lol.

  • @Kalik8000
    @Kalik8000 Před 4 lety +7

    6:54 😮 They say it plain. We just don't be wanting to hear it.
    10:11 The plantation system has contributed to... the separation of society into distinct groups...... (Hence segregation discrimination ghettos HBCUs PWUs BET Awards (vs Grammys) RedLining Gentrification ....)
    The Legacy of Slavery

    • @theCosmicQueen
      @theCosmicQueen Před rokem

      Gentrification isn't about race it's about money.

    • @tyreswallace9759
      @tyreswallace9759 Před rokem

      @@theCosmicQueen Yeah,It's about money,but not for black folks...and their always treading on established black neighborhoods to do gentrification.We can't even have our own neighborhoods any more.but every body else can.They breakup our homes as a people,and many can't see whats happening,Their giving away what was traditionally ours to immigrants and big business and we get dispersed.The love of money is the root of all evil.

  • @rgrif777
    @rgrif777 Před rokem +5

    The separation of society into distinct groups at the end of the video was most telling, as if today 1950, we are more civilized than the past and have obtained the perfect society. Even when they learn they don't learn, and today 2022, they don't even learn, step one.

  • @Paladin1873
    @Paladin1873 Před rokem +2

    I grew up in the Old South of the 1950s and 1960s. Everything portrayed in this film is technically accurate, but very incomplete. It was a great time to be white unless you were white trash. If you were black it was a bit better than slavery, but far from ideal. If you want to get an honest feel for this period, I recommend reading "To Kill a Mockingbird", which is set in the 1930s, but still valid. If you want to get some sense of what it was like as the Old South was vanishing in the 1960s, I recommend watching the movie "In the Heat of the Night".

  • @andieslive669
    @andieslive669 Před rokem +2

    Love, Honor and Respect to the hardest workers on the planet. I just wish the Slave Plantation Workers got something out of all the wealth that was given to the south.

  • @darnellplayer743
    @darnellplayer743 Před 6 lety +2

    Wow.

  • @jj7834
    @jj7834 Před rokem +3

    Watch Jane Pittman, free on CZcams

  • @sookie4195
    @sookie4195 Před rokem +6

    I drove through the subsidized housing in Kansas City. Several young women with multiple babies. It made me think that they were still living like slaves.

    • @theCosmicQueen
      @theCosmicQueen Před rokem

      idk, they were receiving multiple benefits for those babies and probably lived somewhat well for the basics. might even have multiple child support streams perhaps. Not only black women who do that.

    • @banditthesiberian8156
      @banditthesiberian8156 Před rokem +1

      I live in Kansas City wtf the subsidized housing??? You mean the Hood it’s called the hood we got a white hood a black hood a Asian hood a Italian hood a Mexican hood a mixed hood we got hoods on hoods out here🎉

  • @jefferyhorton7496
    @jefferyhorton7496 Před 8 měsíci +1

    According to Frederick Douglas plantations in Delaware. Also had their own forests, sawmills, carriage makers, horse raisers, canneries and owned the ships, and ship making facilities. Douglas was a skilled laborer “chalker” whose job was to precut and prefit lumber for the shipmaker carpenters. He had to be good at math. And able to read instructions and blue prints. Douglasses first master was black. And he escaped by being able to forge seaman’s papers. Which allowed him to cross state lines. So the small plantation stereotypes and ignorant slave stereotypes were not always true. For references see The Life & Times Of William Douglas which combines his autobiography and other historical documents.

  • @Bill-uo6cm
    @Bill-uo6cm Před 7 měsíci

    Well made, unbiased documentary.

  • @terrigurganus3720
    @terrigurganus3720 Před 5 lety +12

    The house necros
    Are the black celebrity LoL 😂🙌!

  • @jacobeksor6088
    @jacobeksor6088 Před 5 lety +1

    I am Montagnard indigenous watching .

  • @markbouldin7181
    @markbouldin7181 Před 4 lety +6

    "Rip-off" system

  • @michellem6826
    @michellem6826 Před 2 lety +3

    Really watered down version that trips into lies.

  • @bobbrawley2612
    @bobbrawley2612 Před 5 lety +1

    Stop it right there @the credits. Indiana University? This ought to be mystic

  • @amierichan1428
    @amierichan1428 Před rokem +3

    Wouldn't you just love to see this film made by Black people?
    Just astounding as to what this doesn't mention-- at the time it was made, Jim Crow was very much in effect.

  • @hellhigh1809
    @hellhigh1809 Před 5 lety +8

    20th. Century Slave.

  • @deew2033
    @deew2033 Před rokem +1

    The narrator said slaves almost did all of the work…wow.

  • @juliahamilton9125
    @juliahamilton9125 Před 5 lety +1

    WoW😲

  • @mareerogers364
    @mareerogers364 Před rokem +2

    This is pure lunacy.
    DeSantis would LOVE this video.

  • @judahYsrael8499
    @judahYsrael8499 Před 5 lety +9

    Narrator funny...this ish is a joke.

    • @Kalik8000
      @Kalik8000 Před 4 lety +1

      It's not a joke. It's psychosomatic propaganda. A tool used to keep ppl deaf dumb and blind to the truth so that certain agendas can continue to be supported and moved forward. Immediately following African enslavement this type of offering was the norm... and still is.. in regards to racial socialization. It's not a joke.

  • @davidruffin9828
    @davidruffin9828 Před 4 lety +2

    Only reason I gave it a thumbs up,
    Was just to see how many lies they'll tell.

  • @richk320
    @richk320 Před 4 lety +4

    "The crops remain,great numbers of negroes remain "....sheeeeesh!!

  • @peterk.4266
    @peterk.4266 Před rokem

    Bro, good old times.

  • @thisisgossip
    @thisisgossip Před rokem +2

    Ok this is pissing me off in 2022

  • @larrylove6759
    @larrylove6759 Před 6 lety +6

    Now after watching this go watch Goodbye Uncle Tom

    • @dwashington7567
      @dwashington7567 Před 6 lety +3

      mike Johnson i watched it.... 😔

    • @thephoenix2176
      @thephoenix2176 Před 5 lety +1

      I saw the previews. . .on the fence about this flick - my cup runneth over on our hurt/insightful past - on the flipside THE WORLD KNOWS Who we are majority of us have reached the zombie apocalypse

    • @the2ndcoming135
      @the2ndcoming135 Před 2 lety +1

      👍🏽

  • @coreymcgowen5202
    @coreymcgowen5202 Před rokem +2

    U did almost all the work or who did all the work

  • @TheBigpoppa54
    @TheBigpoppa54 Před rokem +1

    "The separation of societies into two DISTINCT groups"...................Nuff said.

  • @robertobrown4032
    @robertobrown4032 Před 4 lety

    Thanks that sistem ?he said?

  • @robertobrown4032
    @robertobrown4032 Před 4 lety +1

    Absoluty ? In my rural town?

  • @anthonytaylor7928
    @anthonytaylor7928 Před 2 lety +2

    Wow he said little wealth and few privileges wow!!!

  • @PaulGreen11
    @PaulGreen11 Před 5 lety

    damn.

  • @kimel122
    @kimel122 Před 4 lety +2

    Don’t seem like much has changed.

    • @marianotorrespico2975
      @marianotorrespico2975 Před rokem +1

      Kim El --- CORRECT. | The minute you pass the city boundaries, youse in banjo country . . . and that follows from that stars-and-bars fantasy.

  • @kellyodowd3949
    @kellyodowd3949 Před rokem +1

    Sounds like an old Disney cartoon

  • @sidka8435
    @sidka8435 Před 4 lety +1

    And tobacco plantations were only in West Virginia?

    • @the2ndcoming135
      @the2ndcoming135 Před 3 lety +2

      Don’t waste your breath bro. Ain’t nobody in really tryna have a fluid discourse. It’s basically be mad at whitey time in here🤣

  • @patandersen4271
    @patandersen4271 Před 6 lety +21

    Thank you, you are appreciated for your wanting to educate people.

    • @Dina_Darling
      @Dina_Darling Před 5 lety +8

      Pat Andersen Educate???? Are you serious? Watch Roots and 12 Years a Slave to start!

    • @kmc123ist
      @kmc123ist Před 5 lety +4

      You are a clueless individual if you think this is education

    • @markbouldin7181
      @markbouldin7181 Před 4 lety +1

      💩💩💩💩💩

    • @corenpowers419
      @corenpowers419 Před 4 lety +4

      Pat,..I'm going to assume your white to believe this is educating blacks🤔

    • @slim555555
      @slim555555 Před rokem

      @@corenpowers419 This IS educating as it hammers home the sad realities of the plantation systems.

  • @Val-rv2xb
    @Val-rv2xb Před 4 lety +4

    First of all, as a black person, the intro music sounded too cheery to be talking about the plantation system.The video left out how terrible blacks were treated. That was apart of the plantation system too!!!! For example, being whipped.

  • @mariecb1275
    @mariecb1275 Před rokem +2

    Did he sayALMOSTall the work,,

  • @mrgeno4682
    @mrgeno4682 Před rokem +3

    100 years after the end of this I was 11. Let that sink in because it wasn't long ago. We won't even be 200 yrs out of this bs until 2065.

  • @BufordTGleason
    @BufordTGleason Před 2 měsíci

    You see the beauty of this is that there is no opinion by the narrator, he is simply stating what each group has and what they do. That is how history should be taught, and then it is up to me to say hey why the slaves do all the work and live in the smallest houses?
    I don’t want to be told what to conclude. Just show me the facts and let me decide.

  • @jonwrong1118
    @jonwrong1118 Před rokem +2

    Plantation system

  • @bedman2124
    @bedman2124 Před 8 měsíci

    The good ole days.

  • @taylorchristina5309
    @taylorchristina5309 Před 5 lety +3

    This past "Juneteenth"
    www.juneteenth.com/history.htm
    I was looking at an article and a man had saw that it was JUNETEENTH and read what it was... and was dead azz.. and was like..
    "I don't get it, and I am white! this is crazy!!
    WHY ISN'T THIS A NATIONAL HOLIDAY, BUT JULY 4th IS??"
    in my mind I am, like, uhhh get with the program..
    like how this past Juneteenth in my area was in the small park location that was like 1-2 miles from the house I lived in when I was married.
    It was on previous slave plantation.
    In fact the whole area basically was on some racial 'ish which I didnt find out until later.
    inside the "small park" which is hidden way back off the street.. it shows this/that... and I AM SUPPOSED TO GO THERE TO CELEBRATE THE FREEDOM OF SLAVERY THERE??? they don't chg. there but other parts of GA, dont quote me..but I believe they have paid tours... so its like you STILL making money off the expense of those ancestors. money for them, dark memories for us.

  • @bigvalley4987
    @bigvalley4987 Před 5 lety +9

    I visit George Washington plantation in Western Virginia. They closed off the slave quarters, reason why is they stated that is was soooo horrendous. But I felt that the tour was not as effective if I/we could not see the whole story. Of days of old.🎬 Some Peeps went bankrupt after the free labor was pulled from the old rotten Farmers taken advantage. And now they have illegal Hispanics and anyone else Illegally over here🤮

    • @amycollado864
      @amycollado864 Před 4 lety

      VALERIE BLOUNT first of all, it’s LATINO, not Hispanic because they don’t come from Spain. Secondly, what’s the hell was the reason for saying illegals in a way that’s takes away their humanity? History always repeats its self and how they are targeting undocumented people is a disgrace. Be mindful of the things you say because that ‘illegal’ title is straight up disrespectful.

    • @marianotorrespico2975
      @marianotorrespico2975 Před rokem

      @@amycollado864 --- YOU ARE HALF CORRECT. | The "illegality" of the Latin Ameican worker is not an insult, but the FACT that makes those women and men so valuable to the Confederacy. Valerie Blount stated facts.

  • @ragglandbrown1143
    @ragglandbrown1143 Před 6 dny

    7:15 back then he was called backra 😮

  • @Racojean09
    @Racojean09 Před 5 lety +1

    Plantations in the north next

  • @wandafisher7661
    @wandafisher7661 Před rokem +1

    The comment of "where the slaves did most of the work" baffled me???

  • @terrigurganus3720
    @terrigurganus3720 Před 5 lety +3

    I would have got whooped everyday I would have been like kontakt trying to expect every day if I could going back home to Africa!

    • @terrigurganus3720
      @terrigurganus3720 Před 5 lety +1

      Should've went up north New York City and Chicago and Los Angeles California why stay when you free!

  • @steveknoebber
    @steveknoebber Před rokem

    I heard that this film is being dusted off and ready to be incorporated into the new Florida School curriculum next year

  • @robertobrown4032
    @robertobrown4032 Před 4 lety

    Was banana then ?