Roots Recovered: Reclaiming Our Names
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- čas přidán 22. 02. 2024
- Original Air Date: 2/23/24
"Roots Recovered: Reclaiming Our Names" is a documentary from 13News Now that explores the growing interest African Americans have in discovering their ancestral names. The research is a challenge because the names of enslaved people before 1870 were often not documented.
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I know the (slave) name of one of my African Ancestors. He was Igbo. He was over 6’5, and his daughter, my great great grandmother Henretta was 6’3! She married a man who was about 5’10 because she said “Otherwise there’ll be no end to my children!”. She was born a slave, but died free at 99 years old in 1962. Let that sink in! My mom remembers her well because she lived with my grandparents for a long time when she was a child. My mom’s going to be 68 this year. The legacy of slavery is much closer than we acknowledge. She was 6 when her great grandmother passed. She’s now a grandmother and will be a great grandmother herself soon. She’s only 67! I’m 44. I remember my maternal great great grandmother. She was 104 when she passed. I was 17!!! She began having her children at 13. My great grandmother had my grandmother at 17. My grandmother had my mom at 20, and she’s her 3rd child. My mom had me at 23. I’m 44. And I became a mom at 26. My older sister was a teen mom, making my mom a grandma at 41. We’re a year apart. She will be a grandma in a few months by her son. And an African enslaved man named Sip Brown is upon whose shoulders we all stand!❤❤❤ Thank you, Papa Brown, for being the absolute force of nature that was strong and withstood every obstacle that was placed before you so that we can all be here living your dreams of freedom and prosperity in the foreign land that you knew nothing of. You were a mere teenager yourself but you were withstood it all, managed to find true love on the plantation with MeMaw Helena and had 17 living children with her who all were able to live free or be born free. You were able to save because you were a blacksmith and you bought the land that’s still in our family so you could have a safe haven for your children and grandchildren. Your dreams were adopted by your children and my Grandma Henretta was able to educate all of her children through college. Most obtained at least a Master’s degree, but 3 were Ph.Ds! They kept buying the surrounding land and we had the poor yt people coming to pick cotton for our family!!! I’m so humbled by the story of you, Papa Brown. And I’m thankful for that legacy of love, strength and faith that’s been passed to each generation from you to me. You are proud of each and every one of us I know. I have been told by my elders who have heard their grandmother Henretta’s stories of her father that I have his same strength and stubbornness lol. I am proud to be like you! We have the same birthday so I have always felt connected to you, Papa. I don’t know if you picked the date or if it was the actual day of your birth but since I was a child I have always lit a candle on my calendar just for you! I used to require that they sang happy birthday to you, too! 😂😂😂😂 But I know that you live on through us all!❤❤❤❤❤
I’m sorry to anyone reading this long comment. But I had to take the opportunity to express my gratitude to the only ancestor that I know from Africa. I feel like I had to honor him with my words and tell him of all the things that were made possible once his foot landed on the shores in Savannah, Ga. This seemed like the perfect time and place for that. ❤❤❤
Thank you for sharing!!!! 💯🔥♥️
Talking to the dead is WITCHCRAFT (necromancy) - Leviticus19:26; Deuteronomy 18:10; Galatians 5:19-20; Acts 19:19.
@@user-pz5vz5dr6k child, bye. You can keep all that! I’m not invoking their spirits. I’m just speaking from my heart out loud and hopefully they’ll hear it in Heaven because we’re all Christian, Southern Baptist to be exact. I know about the Bible because I have studied it since I was a child. So don’t come being negative and judgmental on something that’s so positive.
@@user-pz5vz5dr6k shut up fool
@@Nille0212 Thank you so much for sharing the history of your ancestors. God be with you and bless you and your family. Much aroha from New Zealand❤❤
I SALUTE every Black African American. You all are patient and brave at what you do. You never gave up in tracing our Ancestry. Thank you.
In England we couldn't find or being allowed to find any information on our History. They were hidden from us, and still is.
Stay Strong, Unity is Strength. I am back in my Country or Place of Birth.
We’re not African Americans
A Black African American doesn't exist and never has. Nothing is hidden from you, that's an excuse and anyone who has accomplished anything never made excuses. Do the right thing.
I do admire the melanated Americans trying to find their roots.
The evil British has done this evil to Africans ,and they should NEVER be forgiven. They caused all this because of their jealousy and greed.
Britain have blood on their hands for the evil they have done.
What about White African Americans? Tone/color of my outer skin should not matter!
In England, the African populous is the most knowledgeable about their roots, FYI
We are too in the Caribbean. I won't address what you call "white Africans", no such.
Great documentary and thanks for featuring us!
Who is us? who are you? Do the right thing.
😂 Hallelujah Yahushua 😅❤😂
I have a female ancestor who was on my maternal side. She was found to have been born in Africa
on a death certificate. So far, we do not know her actual name, but I gave her a name from India that translates to "Survivor." The name is Tisha.
How do you know if she exist is she doesn't have a name and how do you know if she is related to you if she has no name, what did you use to cross reference? Do the right thing.
Africans were not here nor allowed hear til 1904.
@nonyabidness1838 the slaves were Africans
So glad you found your ancestor. Thanks for sharing. God bless you. 👃👃❤❤
This documentary is so great! Thank you for sharing so much information and family stories. Janet and Harold Roach's story is beautifully amazing.
The 1870s is not the first time we were mentioned by names on the census. There were free people of color and they were definitely on the census as such in 1850 & 1860
Research done by indigenous people looking for their roots should be free as a form one form of reparations
right on
That’s a great idea.
Ask the African government 2 give every DOS some land N Africa.
EVERYTHING should be free for us, education, healthcare, no rent/mortgage, no utilities, and no paying taxes all in addition to our reparations money of $20 billion each individual Black American, not family unit, but each individual from newborns through the eldest Black person.Parents and legal guardians should not be allowed to spend any of their children's money at all, but made to sign it over to each child on his or her twenty-first birthday unless that child chose to leave home at age eighteen. If a child is a ward of the state, it should be given at age sixteen. Thus, it should be mandatory that all children be taught money management, financial planning, and financial independence in school from kindergarten throughout high school.
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Wonderful beautifully done.
Try Church records also ( baptism records) . My elderly cousin lived to be 107 yrs . This was in the 80s , she stated that she was born into slavery and that when a child was born on the plantations , the slave owner's wife would take a piece of rag or brown paper and put the name and date of the child's birth.
So on that note, maybe they still have an inventory list 😢. I say it that way because that's how they thought of us.
And it is well known, about how america loves to save their trophies. Good luck all the way from Louisiana
The drums reminded me of a bazaar and show my grandmother took us to called Dance Afrika in Brooklyn …..Beautiful ❤️
The REAL GREATNESS! I FOUND MY AFRICAN RELATIVES IN WARRI STATE OF OYO. WE HAVE COMMUNICATED! PEACE AND BLESSINGS TO YOU AND YOURS ❤
Wonderful! Blessings to you and your family. 💞
Wow. How?
Not taking that ancestry DNA test
@@virginiatribe64486516 didn't because it's a troll
New Orleans, Louisiana here, checking in. Praise to the ancestors. Ase’ 🤲🏾⚜️🖤
I had a black preacher tell me I blasphemed because I said Jesus was black. And that was before I awakened to the truth of who we are but I never believed Christ was a white European man knowing what part of the world he was born in.
Jesus wasn't white nor black, Jesus was descended from Hebrew who were Jews so he was an Mediterranean. Jews would have looked like the Palastineans, Iraqs, Iranians, & Arabians.
@@stormy-le6pb No he didn't, he looked like my brother's and father!
@@stormy-le6pb Mediterranean…nonsense. Such a made up term not to have to deal with the Africanness of much of the people surrounding the Mediterranean in which Africa was clearly the center.
@@stormy-le6pb oh yeah, btw..Hebrews were not “Jews”
@@757CitiesReppa In academic studies, beyond generally agreeing that "Jesus was Jewish" & beyond generally agreeing he was from Western Asia, there R no contemporary depictions of Jesus that can B used 2 determine his appearance. Blacks say whites cant say he was white but blacks can't say he was black either.
That’s why Black Americans are coming together and fighting for Our Reparations. Reparations or no vote!!!!
It beings such a wonderful feeling knowing that U can pen point the region and names connected to you to make you who you are!!!!
EXCELLENT from the being to the end…. Thank you for sharing. This is so beautiful …we all need to know this information…fff
❤ Awesome story from all that was involved in making the video.
I am trying to search my family history on my grandmother's side. Their last names are Baker/Perkins of Louisa Virginia. My grandmother's grandmother was named Molly Baker on her father's side. her son was William Carter Perkins. Miracles happen everyday. I am praying for one and I am a miracle.
"That African." JUST Wow.
It's time for REPARATIONS!
Stop beggin', the people in the audio wasn't beggin' and they had jobs just like you. Do the right thing.
I wear The most common slave name.. Smith.. it is a challenge within itself to provide this name when asked
Thank you for making this video. Knowing your ancestry is so important in helping you feel whole. I don’t know much about my father’s family because I wasn’t raised with him and that is a source of pain for me. Very inspiring video. ❤
Enjoyed this documentary
My Grandmother was borned Eva "Roach" in Guilford County, NC. I will be looking into a possible connection to Harold Roach.
My grandmother was Cherokee Indian, she married a black man. We all have redish brown skin color with curly hair. We have never received a dime from the Native American coservation. The government never recognized our geneology and our children never received the benefit of our land.
Keep fighting. You have two forms of reparations due your family.
Thank You for creating & sharing this 🕊
Beautiful thank you for sharing
I love this
Excellent body of work. It's time. We must pass on the legacy to this generation before they erase that too.
Before who erases what? How can anyone erase Your-story? I think you've erased it already by allowing others to think for you instead of learning who your family is. Do the right thing.
@@CentralParkBoogieright and we all not african I've found my history amerindian and dark Europeans who came to America. I think it's time for the truth which is in the records everyone can find if they truly want to nothing was erased it was hid but what's hidden can be recovered. Peace to you Africans who found your ancestors I hope this brings healing to you. I know for me finding my tribe here in America and Europe was life changing its a journey for me to renew the mind erase the lies that's the hardest for me.
@@Gaelicking Truly the most fulfilling pursuit I've ever undertaken. It's very telling when your family was in a county before it became a county. Also, it's always one in the family that takes on the meticulous task of allowing himself/herself to be guided by your ancestors. Something to be said about knowing your people weren't just an idea in limbo and you/me are on our earth-soil-portion. Do the right thing
@CentralParkBoogie they are trying now so what they mean they can erase it if we don't pass this on to the next generations. If they don't know then it will be Erased 🙌
@@Gaelicking???
Thank you for your beautiful video ❤
Never in the history of man, has there been a greater reaoson for reparations for the descendants of slaves.
My 3 X Great Grandfather surname was Walston and it goes back to 1820’s Northampton, Va. However his father’s surname during the 1780’s in Rye, NY was Jay. He was Angolan and enslaved by the lawyer John Jay.
Wow
And just came across an absurd comment saying Africans only came to the states in 1904 😮
@@lungamadoda6992THATS THE BEAR FAT HAIR GREASE INDIGENOUS NATIVES DENIALIST[MADAM C.J.WALKER AND GARRET] TRIBES ALA DANE CALOUSWEIRD&KUREMWHO DOGTRINE!!!
SH8TN RESULTS!!!
JUST IGNORE AND DO "R-E-A-L" RESEARCH AND INVESTIGATION!!!
Yeah I saw that comment too.😮@@lungamadoda6992
I birthed three ancestors and I will not fail them. ❤️❤️
Thank you!
I misunderstood what this documentary is about. I thought they were going to find out and reclaim African names not english names. What were our names before we had english names? Is it impossible to find
out what our names were before we became slaves?
If you are willing to acceptable the "T-R-U-T-H" it's very POSSIBLE!!! UNFORTUNATELY So many granma & great AUNT ANECDOTES muddy the water that it's very hard to do!!!
Lol what is an African name
American English is comprised of 26 indigenous languages and some of the languages of the colonizers . Names like Washington are not from European. Brown n Johnson people should be aware that a 5% total of the entire slave population only came to America over a period of 200 plus years and only certain ports
My nephew was able to, on his paternal side. His family did a great job of passing on their oral history, and they also had an ancestor that was actually born in Africa,and was listed on an early census.
Beautiful water glory be to the MOST HIGH" also ROMANS 11:25-34 (KJV)
Does anyone know the name of the ceremony done in the beginning?
That's what I want to know
I will never live in the US again. I left 20 years ago. This year, I will find a home in Rwanda. Im now 62 years old.
This is so Sad...
The more stories that I hear like this …. the more I believe these yt’s are truly heartless and evil devils. Demons in the flesh….. cold and calculating, selfish…. just wicked spirited ppl. I pray God has relieved all of our mistreated ppl in the afterlife 🙏🏾❤️
Stop being so angry about nothing, you have allowed your mind to be infiltrated by the thoughts of others. Nothing could happen without your people's help. If you wanna know about yesterday look at today: how many people who look like us are affiliated from the highest levels of governments in each state and federal. Stop thinking so poorly of your ancestors as to make them out to be shuckin and jivin with no strength of body or mind. Where have you ever saw "yt" go into any inner-city in any state and take over sh!t? I know you have relatives, old and young, who are no nonsense people and none would even think to F with them. Right? Riiiiight? Your anger and lack of familial bonds are causing you to be what you hate. Do the right thing.
These people you term YT aint never done anything without the help of so-called black people, properly American people. No one, I mean none could come to this earth soil portion called America and take over anything, that's why you see us at every level of society today, in every position, in every administration. Our people have always messed with immigrants/foreigners, look at today, a bunch of n!66@$ voted to allow millions of foreigners to come here to take yo stuff. I mean, you payin' for them to have food, clothing, and shelter . . . and bicycles. Do the right thing.
I recall that’s how Elijah Muhammed of the Black Muslims described white people.
I work with Africans a lot …. And that do do not like us …. Me and my people are not African
Those may not like you. I’ve never had that problem with any “Africans”
All skin folks ain't kin folks, that's why they don't like us, they know we are not the same people, they are descendants of Ham, and we are descendants of Shem. And they know this, that's why they sold us into the hands of our Oppressor.
Those Africans might just don’t like you. I’ve never had problems with Africans from any part of the continent.
@@livinmylife5182 y’all take lies and hatred and run with narratives…you won’t reach the truth that way.
You do know that Africa is a continent made up of 54 countries, so when you say Africans, which part of Africa are they from? Or are you one of these people who think all Africans come from the same place and speak the same language. Have you ever thought it might be you that is the issue. When you say they don't like us who is this us?
We are the Israelites of the Bible. Our God is the God YHWH of the Holy Scriptures. Jeremiah 17:4 tells us that due to our disobedience, we will discontinue from our heritage. This is why at the 1:30 mark, we have zero knowledge of our ancestral history. We all have to repent from our sins, accept Jesus Christ in our hearts and return to God knowing that we're His Holy and Chosen people. May The Most High bless you on your journey. Shalom
Beautiful but most of us are not from Africa. Most of us are the offspring of the first inhabitants of Turtle Island now referred to as USA. We’re the indigenous Niijis misclassified as now as the early 1960s as black Americans after the Power Power Movement. And in the early 1980s African Americans
Well said
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Just curious to know, was any part of the African continent called by names of Uganda, Angola, or other such names in the C17? I believe places were named according to the tribes who inherited that particular region.
They where kingdoms not tribes
The names Ghana, Angola, Uganda, and such were given by Europeans.
@inesplain8870 thank you.
@@inesplain8870the African came from non black people too
My ancestors names were Keita of Mali.
I have to get in touch with them. Im searching for the name of the mother of my Great great grandfather! Its so hard when you don't have access to the records
We are American
True
Pleasant Webster is my ancestor on my father’s side.
America is the True Old World and WE are the Ancestors of the world not just Africa. America 1st!!
America is the true old world. Discovered just means "to see". I agree. Do the right thing.
NONSENSE BULLSHYTE MISDIRECTION AND OBSFUCKATION@FINEE$E!!!
Very Important To Know Who We Are !!!!!! Time 2.36
My dad's family are Cabbagestalk's and I was told my mom's grandfather's name was Brady Campbell he had funeral homes in muddy water Mississippi and he was lynched
This is a good example that everyone not suppose to hate each other about collors and just help each other be human because God didn't created people on this earth to fight each other but to love this world that he created for us.God is love and he don't like what's happening now on this earth I hoping and praying that everyone will going to start to open their eyes to see what's really happening around us. Stop fighting for our childrens future. Just like my great grand mother told me,everyone of us will live this earth and no one can bring lands and everything it all going to left behind
ESTOS ENCUENTROS SON BUENOS 👍🏾 EN COLOMBIA HAY UN FESTIVAL EL PETRONIO ALVAREZ. ES UN EVENTO DONDE POR.VENDER LE LAMBEN AL BLANCO Y MESTIZOS 🇨🇴🇨🇴🇨🇴🇨🇴
It's our names
Ase o Ancestors 🖤🙌🏾
My dad told me that his peoples were from Ethiopia and he said he had a full blooded Black Foot Indian grandmother truth be told no doubt old school hard times Mississippi
Stop trolling
11:00 you cant own property in this little village unless youre a descendent??? Wow.
If so much are found in the U S. Can you picture what England has hidden or what was destroyed.
Our Foreparents Are Awake, and are here to remind and help us. Stay Strong my People.
Michigan Church giving reparations
My mother never told me I had family in Africa. I don’t agree
So who are your Jewish family members?! They lead you back to the Middle East?! I’ll wait.
DUE TO WS PC NARRATIVE BULLSHYTE PROGRAMMING SH IS "R-E-A-L"!!! JUST RMBR!!!
According to who?
We are Israelites, we don’t pray to Our Ancestors but to Yahawah/God only, in the Name of Yahawashi the Son of Yahawah/God of Israel.
So “Israelites” don’t acknowledge,recognize,venerate, or revere their ancestors in any capacity, huh?
Always 400 years, no matter how much time passes. 🙄
Notice all the names she said we're biblical names
I don’t consider myself African American two continents. I consider myself Hebrew Israelite
Be careful
But I don’t understand is this you have family members who are elder and he still sharp just like my grandmother was and it looks like he was placed in a home with all that family. I could’ve never allowed my grandmother who raised me to be in a home, never no matter what Sacrifices is what we have to do for the ones who took care of us. She was 101 still sharp.
Indentured means entrepreneurship…do you want to be a entrepreneur..
My ancestors came from EVERYWHERE in this world... I'm from EVERYWHERE 💯 yes I know
Very vague, which means you are being lazy. My ancestors come from right here in America. Everywhere? Germany? Uzbekistan? Do the right thing.
@@Mimi_622 Fuhshow, fuhshow, mine from Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia, Virginia, South Carolina, that's litty. Do the right thing.
@@CentralParkBoogieso what was your ancestors known as before the British came and named it America
@@msbrickcity_900 The British didn't name this soil America. I did a show addressing the name, using the sources available of course, some recent and some older sources. I only know my family as the names that I've always called them. When I find something different I'll take it from there. I can speculate based on the year, detailed maps, and what the people of a particular soil portion were called but I don't speculate when it comes to my family so Imma keep diggin', feel me? Do the right thing.
@CentralParkBoogie this country didn't become known as America until it was colonize its a name of an Italian man who is also European so my ? Again is if you so say you are a descendant of a family who was created here as 1st man and 1st woman what was they known as
Leviticus 26-38:42
38You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will devour you. 39Those of you who are left will waste away in the lands of their enemies because of their sins; also because of their ancestors’ sins they will waste away. 40“ ‘But if they will confess their sins and the sins of their ancestors-their unfaithfulness and their hostility toward me, 41which made me hostile toward them so that I sent them into the land of their enemies-then when their uncircumcised hearts are humbled and they pay for their sin, 42 I will remember my covenant with Jacob and my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.
"African Americans" are Atlanteans. Start there.
MILLONES DE ÁFRICANOS 💁🏽♂️👩🏽🏫👩🏿🦰🙅🏽♂️💁🏿♀️👩🏿💼🙋🏽♀️✍🏽👨🏿🦰👩🏽💼💁🏽♀️
These are Europeans names Not African names..im looking to change my name to an African
Name
Lol some Africans have so-called English names too. Stop
I’m a descendent of the Pharaoh King Ramsay the third
We are in the Scripture of Deut. The Blessing and the Curses. Curae starting in Deut 28-16:68. To include Brothas leaving their wices and Childrwn and the Hair issues Our Sistas have endured for Centuries.
Too emotional to watch
However I know that there is some of us from Africa
MOST!!! THE B4 GOT THE RABBIT PROOF FENCE PROTOCOL!!!
enslved people not slaved - you cant be "a kidnapped "-
Esau is gonna suffer a double portion of what they did to his chosen as the Bible says.
REALMENTE NO ES EN CUENTRO DE ÁFRODESCENDIENTES. 🇨🇴🇨🇴🇨🇴🇨🇴👩🏿💼🙋🏽♀️👨🏿🦰👩🏽💼💁🏽♀️👏🏽📄🙋🏽♀️✍🏽
Please go ahead with your reconnection with your roots. I dhare your burden.
We were not slaves
Our people will hold on to what they are taught based on what those who looks like them like Wear descendants were dark skinned not Caucasians in the 1700s they were fighting each for land here
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Everyone has different needs and interests in their culture.
P.S WE ARE NOT AFRICANS, WE ARE HEBREWS
BUT IM NOT AFICAN IM MY ANCESTORS WERE ALREADY HERE afrikkans didnt arrive til mid 1800's 🤬🤬
No one came form Africa she can’t find that
True
D N A ALL AFRICANS THEN MATCH WITH THE DIASPORA.
African Ancestry has done that to some degree.
@@TruthIsLikeTheSun Can the results be published?
Why do the Africán American need to know the genelogy. Us in the Caribbean just know that we are Africans . Period . Thats enough.
If you wánt to know your genelogy thats different and thats fine . But we here in the Caribbean knows we are AFRICANS . Does genelogy give identity.
Yes
Why not?
@@757CitiesReppa if it is that one wants to know thier genelogy fine . Its good to know who you are and what makes you up. But based on our predominant feature we cannot be mistaken . We in here in the Caribbean Knows we are Africans . Genelogy does not give us our identity . Our culture inspired Peter Tosh to sing ' No matter where you come from as long as you are a black man you are an African' Arguement done .
@@melisasimms2348 you’re missing the whole point…there is not ONE tribe in “Africa” there are many and they have different histories to how the came to be
@@757CitiesReppa We know there are several tribes and the knowledge of who you are and what makes you up may be benefical as it relates to which tribe . But in the Caribbean to divide us up along tribal lines has a negative connotion. In Jamaica political analysts get concern that politians wants to divide us into political Tribes. So to us Tribe is not necessary for An Identity , We African . In our mindset please.
Their family names are in Africa ! You need to trace your DNA back to Africa and your clans. And you are home again and heal completely as the chains would broken from your blood line.
No ancestry DNA test cannot Trace your bloodline look it up. It's Speculation for entertainment purposes.
😩 Slavery was soooooooooooo long ago 😒😒😒😒
Humanity is still enslaved in a worldwide system. We just are oblivious to it. No one is free in the beast.
If it was so long ago, then why was there African American people that were born and lived as slaves that didn’t pass away until the early 70’s. Educate yourself or you probably needed to get more as a child.
And what's your point...the effects are still evident to this day...like this clip is pointing out some of us aren't able to complete our genealogical history because of slavery.
@@JohnSmith-ct1nb You another "African American" born into slavery, gitcho outfit ready for work tomorrow. Do the right thing.
@@Nancybee1000 You're not able to complete your genealogical history because you're doing more complaining than trying. Stop being lazy and go get to it. Do the right thing.
Shinnecock n Yuchi American Indian not african. Brown not black. Always doing this with cameras rolling 😂
Pookie n Ray Ray da Indian
Employees da african american
I see we have someone who thinks for himself/herself, impressive. Salute! Do the right thing.
fuhshow, fuhshow . . . do the right thing.
Who is American Indian
@@msbrickcity_900
A large number of people 📺 callin african american. Folk who ain't workin for the enemies. Ain't nobody black these Brown skin folk.
@@msbrickcity_900 I did a show called Terms of Endearment and interestingly enough the word n!663r, with the hard "R" was what the American Indians were called. Do the right thing.