Women's Experience Under Slavery: Crash Course Black American History #11

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  • čas přidán 30. 07. 2021
  • Slavery was inherently cruel and unjust, and it was cruel and unjust to different people in different ways. Today, Clint Smith teaches you about the experience of enslaved women, and how their experience of slavery was different than men. Women had a unique vantage point to understand slavery, and were particularly vulnerable to some terrible abuses under the institution.
    Clint's book, How the Word is Passed is available now! bookshop.org/a/3859/978031649...
    SOURCES
    - Samuel H. Williamson & Louis Cain, "Measuring Slavery in 2016 dollars," MeasuringWorth, 2020.
    -"A Prelude to War: The 1850s." African American Lives: The Struggle for Freedom, by Clayborne Carson et al., Pearson Longman, 2005, pp. 221-222.
    -Modern History Sourcebook: Sojourner Truth: "Ain't I a Woman?", December 1851
    -Quoted in Deborah Gray White, Ar' n't I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South, rev. ed. (New York: Norton, 1999), 102.
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Komentáře • 57

  • @breek.8678
    @breek.8678 Před 3 lety +1920

    Remember doing a genetic dna tests as a class for a project. The 8 or 9 African Americans in the class were absolutely shocked to see they all had European ancestry (I believe ranging from 15% to 24%) I’m only half African American…. My father is an East African immigrant but I even had 14% Western European dna results. It was intensely confusing, until our teach explained the leading theory suggests most of the mysterious European dna in African Americans came during slavery. He said genetic studies done across the US find that every descendant of slaves has European dna. That’s A LOT of rape!

  • @blueberrymuffin113
    @blueberrymuffin113 Před 3 lety +1337

    I really like that this host’s speech rate is a little slower as it helps me to keep up as a non-native speaker :)

  • @stephonrogers7382
    @stephonrogers7382 Před 3 lety +929

    There's a book that I've read three times and it was about an enslaved woman hiding from her master for several years. If interested it's called Letters from a Slave Girl: The Story of Harriet Ann Jacobs. I highly recommend this book.

  • @xoxopuppies12xoxo
    @xoxopuppies12xoxo Před 3 lety +584

    These series always teach me so much more than college classes ever did. This is seeing history from a personal point of view, instead of a broad lens and it makes it so much more impactful.

  • @mustbeaweful2504
    @mustbeaweful2504 Před 3 lety +576

    I knew this episode was going to make my heart heavy.

  • @Shelovesdeep
    @Shelovesdeep Před 6 dny +2

    He is such a good presenter. He talks about things slowly and seriously, giving respect to parts of history that are tragic and terrible. Definitely the best person to describe a subject as serious as this.

  • @Satan-Is-a-Lawyer
    @Satan-Is-a-Lawyer Před rokem +30

    It’s amazing what these black women had to go through for me to be able to have the opportunities and freedoms that I have now.

  • @DuranmanX
    @DuranmanX Před 3 lety +351

    This is like Sophie's Choice meets the Color Purple. Absolutely horrifying stuff, but important that it be taught.

  • @kellbing
    @kellbing Před 3 lety +651

    I'm glad Crash Course is here to teach accurate history, especially considering the fact that schools want to remove anything that may make the US look bad.

  • @gabriel_kyne
    @gabriel_kyne Před rokem +160

    it's disgusting that my country has done nothing to make reparations for slavery

  • @butterflyzero0
    @butterflyzero0 Před 3 lety +478

    Even their own accounts weren't truly their own if they were being filtered and put in a dialect that they didn't even speak.

  • @therealryan1329
    @therealryan1329 Před rokem +38

    Black American history, otherwise known as American history

  • @mikejunior80
    @mikejunior80 Před 3 lety +303

    These videos are so educational and the content well organized. Thank you guys at Crash Course.

  • @ljeans531
    @ljeans531 Před rokem +22

    I love vids like this.
    They help the unimaginable crimes of slavery become more understanding.
    It's terrible to listen to, but we must not become numb or advert our eyes from the suffering of people in the past or today.

  • @kwiiin_
    @kwiiin_ Před 3 lety +311

    Thank you for speaking and teaching about my Black sisters. Women are so often overlooked, especially BIPOC women.

  • @abdulghafoor6766
    @abdulghafoor6766 Před rokem +21

    How cruel these people were? ?

  • @kymomma9335
    @kymomma9335 Před rokem +19

    White woman here, trying to understand the shit African Americans went through. . I love history

  • @imdifferent7294
    @imdifferent7294 Před rokem +19

    So many views but very little comments.

  • @poziloc
    @poziloc Před 3 lety +115

    Thank You CrashCourse for doing this!! Thank You!

  • @isaacwalsh5031
    @isaacwalsh5031 Před 3 lety +182

    This series is reallyhelpful and informative. Keep up the great content

  • @aprilvojtek8007
    @aprilvojtek8007 Před rokem +17

    So what has changed instead of collars on our necks they use handcuffs instead of making us work in the field they give is minimal wage and have us work 8 hrs a day modem labor

  • @YOUR-WORD-IS-YOUR-BOND
    @YOUR-WORD-IS-YOUR-BOND Před 11 měsíci +6

    Our ancestors were actually PRISONERS OF WAR....

  • @davidcrosthwaite
    @davidcrosthwaite Před rokem +29

    How were so many of these people so well spoken/written with what I would have though would be limited education at best?
    It’s a shame their genius was wasted on slavery and menial labour. We’ll never get to know what they could have achieved if given the chance

  • @jeanremy5036
    @jeanremy5036 Před rokem +12

    What a shame to inflicting that type of a harsh treatment to those poor women; on type of it and selling them at market bargain prices was very dehumanizing and I don’t care about what eras it was!

  • @jasong705
    @jasong705 Před 3 lety +95

    Love your videos thanks for the info this history needs to be in schools as well

  • @Just2gofoods
    @Just2gofoods Před rokem +3

    Great videos. I’m learning so much. Thanks.

  • @2samarie2
    @2samarie2 Před 3 lety +128

    I hope these videos are being shown in classes

  • @jellofuel
    @jellofuel Před 3 lety +189

    Thank you sincerely for the trigger warning, I know this is sensitive content. But that might be why these videos are necessary, because you can either deal with history or address it - and people will often take the path of least resistance. The toughest road can be the right road, and in this case, it's both. Thank you, Crash Course! And keep up the good work.

  • @zoraidadumit4126
    @zoraidadumit4126 Před rokem +17

    Honestly descendants of the families that enslaved people back then should be fined and the families of the people that were enslaved should be compensated. Equality is not enough. Compensation should be the proper way to says I'm sorry.

  • @MaryamShakiba
    @MaryamShakiba Před rokem +1

    Thanks that was really informative 🙏

  • @williambilyeu9801
    @williambilyeu9801 Před 3 lety +94

    This is very well done and very accurate. I would highly recommend the narratives of both Sojourner Truth and Harriot Jacobs in the "Slave Narratives" from Library of America. However, there is also the narrative of William Wells Brown in the same volume where he discovers that his "wife" prefers to remain as the mistress of their former master.

  • @Benni777
    @Benni777 Před 3 lety +410

    Black women are strong, beautiful and powerful! 💪🏽💪🏾💪🏿

  • @matheeson
    @matheeson Před rokem +3

    Thank You Brother

  • @SusanBinks
    @SusanBinks Před 3 lety +72

    Outstanding.

  • @MessaicComic
    @MessaicComic Před 3 lety +76

    man . . .

  • @philipbenjamin1371
    @philipbenjamin1371 Před rokem +2

    I am subscribe great channel just found it now

  • @ThatsJustMyBabyDaddy
    @ThatsJustMyBabyDaddy Před 3 lety +395

    And America still hasn't made good on this tragedy.

  • @SuperTonyony
    @SuperTonyony Před rokem +11

    Indigenous Americans should get their lands back, and Black Americans should receive reparations. It is always the RIGHT TIME to do the RIGHT THING

  • @TeamMostRequested
    @TeamMostRequested Před rokem +3

    Nice video

  • @rioncitylife1917
    @rioncitylife1917 Před 3 lety +56

    hi Crash Course, hi everyone " such a
    insitful story, well worded learned a lot", :)

  • @latanyafrancois6108
    @latanyafrancois6108 Před rokem +10

    Things need to stay alive so we our people don't forget and we don't go backwards to be own by anyone else as a property and stay Free and own our own business nobody else steal our ideas for any reason we got to stop using drugs so we'll be able to have the same as Mexicans and Chinese and Japanese and Abbric own business like we used to

  • @onlytoloveyou1
    @onlytoloveyou1 Před rokem +2

    Ain't I x7 Ain't I smokin strong, Ain't I puttin on, ain't I rockin yays, ain't my money long
    Ain't I x7 Ain't I in the ville, ain't I on the hill, ain't I on a mil, ain't I ain't I real

  • @hipairbrush1053
    @hipairbrush1053 Před 3 lety +214

    Slavery was a horrible thing. I'm glad it's over.

    • @wahoo2384
      @wahoo2384 Před 3 lety +46

      is there anyone watching this who isn't?

    • @SMOUGH8558
      @SMOUGH8558 Před 3 lety +295

      Its generally over for America, but sadly slavery is still going on in a lot of other countries.

    • @coffeebean4356
      @coffeebean4356 Před 3 lety +191

      Sadly, it's not completely gone all over the world :( but one step at a time

  • @Benjamin-ol4jx
    @Benjamin-ol4jx Před rokem

    @3:26
    Absolutely miserable

  • @susanparker767
    @susanparker767 Před rokem

    ✨🙏🏼✨

  • @LaNefertitiPerkins
    @LaNefertitiPerkins Před rokem +1

    Hi nefertiti 💎🧿

  • @brainstormingsharing1309
    @brainstormingsharing1309 Před 3 lety +39

    👍👍👍👍👍

  • @christiankassa884
    @christiankassa884 Před 4 měsíci

    He has a great lens
    Black history is kinda depressive

  • @wellbeingadvocate
    @wellbeingadvocate Před rokem +2

    During ENSLAVEMENT.

  • @user-xp8ji2lh6p
    @user-xp8ji2lh6p Před rokem

    😑

  • @jorgedelangel4873
    @jorgedelangel4873 Před rokem +1

    That's Nebraska not america.