Our tour of the Middleton Place Plantation
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- Our tour of the Middleton Place Plantation which is a National Historic Landmark, home to the oldest landscaped gardens in America and an enduring, vibrant, and essential part of the Charleston and American experience.
It's no secret that the Middleton's owned several thousand slaves to work in the rice fields along the Ashley River. There is a documentary called "Beyond the Fields" which is a must-watch.
Arthur Middleton A patriot and Signer of the Declaration of Independence.
There's so much history here so for more info please visit their website www.middletonplace.org
We saw two alligators while walking the gardens.
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I just learned today that Mary Helen Hering Middleton is my fifth maternal great-grandmother. My wife and I are planning to visit Middleton Place later this year, perhaps in the fall.
Oh wow! that's really cool. I love history and hearing about it like this. It's a beautiful place to visit, but very hot and humid in the summer.
Thank you so much for sharing your journey to Middleton Place.
It looks as though the land is healed and it’s a place of peace now.
Blessings to all who walked the land and their descendants 💟
And blessings to you and yours ☮️
Do we really believe the descendants of those who walked that land are “blessed?” if they did not escape the south, like my parents did, and they’re still living in the Carolinas, chances are they are living in poverty: as the Carolinas do not have very high income levels for African-Americans. The land
Looks peaceful today because of the sacrifices of the people who were forced to live there, for centuries, most never ever left the plantation their entire lives, half of them most likely being sold away from their families, as the only time they ever left, and forced to work for free. It looks peaceful today because the overseers riding atop their horses, cracking the whip, keeping those who built, ran, and maintained it in terror & exhaustion are long gone. The Carolinas were states that had to pass laws that you couldn’t work a slave more than 16 hours a day at a time when the work week was six days and not five. But all of that is brushed aside because two of the people who lived there, signed the declaration of independence which meant freedom and justice for y’all. My mothers grandparents were slaves, and the stories they shared made ROOTS look like Disneyland.. America will never heal, that land will never heal, till it is exposed to the light of truth to purify. But America prefers to romanticize stories which have a barbaric past.
thank you for that history, i honestly had no idea. i did read that many of the slaves never left the plantation even after they were freed. sad, i mean they had no where else to go.
There was nothing wrong with the LAND in the first place. Land is just that, land.
Very well done tour video, thank you! Through Ancestry, I found I am a distant dna relative of Issac Cox and Mary Middleton. I plan to visit Middleton Place next spring.
Oh that's awesome, Thank you for the kind comment. It was so fun to tour the property. I'd definitely visit again. I'm sure you will enjoy your visit as well.
I practically grew up here! At minute-mark-8.14 you see that there were 7 family members inside, right? It is SAID that despite the fact that it is forever sealed, that the inside caskets move and switch locations over time. You can use a flashlight to peer inside at dark. We have done this and they DO seem to be in different locations from time to time. No joke!
If you had only saw what my friends saw there that day, a man with a saber and a sword, three bullwhips… he came out of the tomb, threw his casket on the floor and beat one member of our party with the whip. Then the figure stabbed the saber next to the guys head, went back inside and the coffins, all of wood jumped back into different places. One coffin had flew outside and turned into a submarine and went into the ocean, had spanish moss growing all over it.
Wonderful video! I’m in Florence S.C.,
And I love to visit Middleton
Thank you for sharing this beautiful video!
You're very welcome, I thought the estate was absolutely beautiful and filled with so much history. I need to get back to Charleston. Thanks for watching my video. -johnny
Wow I want to visit
You totally should. It’s amazingly beautiful.
I’ve been there it’s enormous! Amazing what can be done with centuries of free labor from hundreds of people at the threat of torture & duress. We glamorize it, but we have no idea the cost to drain the swamp filled with alligators and snakes, fell the trees, build the plantation, clear of the fields,, clear and maintain those 1000’s of acres without Makita power tools - and no pay.
I agree, its hard to imagine all that.
I was a Navy brat in Charleston, and Dad took me to Middleton in 1976. It was/is a marvel for sure -- and like you, I thought: a marvel to the artistry of African-Americans or a marvel of threat and reality of torture of I suppose both. Like almost 100 percent of the South, what is beautiful is often couched in darkness and evil. But I'd visit Middleton again and again and pay due tribute to the folks who deserve it, not to the ones who never did.
@@nitanice I'd go again as well. It is beauty steeped in sorrow for sure
Beautiful !! The british were here right...
I'm fairly certain that many visited the Middleton family over the years so yes.
What is the correct name for those fabulous oak trees. Very ghostly looking.
We call them "Southern Live Oak" but the real name is "Quercus virginiana"
Thank you for that information. They are just gorgeous.
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Moments 16.24 thru 16.31- Back in the 1970's, those 2 little cottages were STILL occupied by descendants of slaves . I remember Miss Mary but can't remember the name of the other lady. Both were so sweet! I was a kid but would go visit them with my best friend who lived next to the plantation. My best friend's father worked for the 'Foundation' and lived on the Foundation-owned property. I learned that the families who worked for them would be allowed to retire and continue to occupy the homes till death. Some CZcamsrs have posted bad stats about the history of Middleton Place Plantation number of the slaves that they owned. And even condemned the fact that most of the slaves chose to STAY after being freed? WHY do you think they chose to STAY??? They were treated well and fair and rewarded for staying. Not ALL slaves were miserable and mistreated. Slavery was a TERRIBLE thing, no doubt! But a few slave owners treated them with kindness and were fair. When looking at the reconstructed slave houses at Middleton Place, and comparing to other plantations... SO much nicer!
That's why the last clips of the video were of the slaves houses. or some of it at least. Yes many did stay and they do hold annual picnic's on the plantation for the descendants. I feel like the Middleton's treated their slaves fair. At least that's what my research has shown me. Thanks for watching my video.
They may have been treated fair, but even so, they were still slaves with no rights.
The Middleton plantation is beautiful with all of the tall trees dating back many years ,,the gardens are pretty ,,but I am not to sure about the alligator ,,I would give him a lot of space,,, yikes,,,
Yeah i wasn't expecting to see a gator but we did. we kept some space for sure.
Something seems amiss. Did the original house burn down?
The Middletown Plantation house does not fit into the classical Greek style architecture of its day.
Yes it did. The ruins are still there on the property.