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  • čas přidán 15. 02. 2016
  • The Whitney Plantation is the first museum dedicated to telling the story of slavery in America and memorialized all who have worked and lived on it's grounds. Former prominent Lawyer John J. Cummings III and Dr. Ibrahima Seck have made it the remainder of their life's work to bring stories of the enslaved to light.
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  • @mburst71
    @mburst71 Před 4 lety +1495

    People who don't like this video don't like it because they feel overwhelmingly ashamed of what their ancestors did and don't want to address it. We can talk about the Holocaust all day long but because they have to see us everyday then we need to just forget about it.

    • @lidiayucon5720
      @lidiayucon5720 Před 4 lety +46

      Ruby G if you’re truly sorry the best way to show it is to stand up and respectfully walk other whites through the same mental perspective you have come to have. I am grateful that you have this perspective and that you acknowledge history the way it should’ve been but if you’re truly sorry, pls put the effort to fight against other close minded perspective and/or ignorance and get them to understand the truth and how to deal with it as well. I’m sure many whites deny the truth cause they don’t know how to deal with the reality of how cruel their ancestors where. If doing this is to much to ask then pls don’t insult us by expressing grief while sitting back and doing nothing to end this ones and for all.

    • @RedRubyG
      @RedRubyG Před 4 lety +27

      Lidia Yucon now you’re insulting me. You don’t know nothing about me and no right to make the comments you did about what I do or do not do. I don’t stand for ignorance and racism any time any where, i did not go into detail as to how I go to enforce this but like I said, I’m aware of what’s happened and what’s still happening. I will stand for equality always and have done so living my life the way I have. Pls be respectful and mindful when making comments about how truly sorry I am.

    • @kattalady8114
      @kattalady8114 Před 4 lety +3

      You got some light in you. Sorry you're ashamed of your ancestors 😞

    • @kattalady8114
      @kattalady8114 Před 4 lety +20

      @@RedRubyG see Ruby....doesnt matter what you say. They won't accept it. They will use every opportunity to make whites feel bad. You can't win.

    • @ShyraR
      @ShyraR Před 4 lety +19

      @@kattalady8114 who is THEY?, use a singular approach

  • @TruthAndLight4995
    @TruthAndLight4995 Před 4 lety +1368

    I saw records of my great great great- grandmother listed as inventory with furniture, horses, and cows. When she was about 6 years old she was valued at $50. The fact that she was the slaveowner’s child didn’t matter. It is a GREAT EVIL to father children then to list them as inventory that can be bought and sold!

    • @GabriellaGabrielle
      @GabriellaGabrielle Před 4 lety +34

      Omg.

    • @-Bloomingtales
      @-Bloomingtales Před 4 lety +142

      The PTSD is still in our blood ... bc I want to weep after reading this.

    • @makaveli7360
      @makaveli7360 Před 4 lety +77

      Ppl really be like it was so long ago like wtf

    • @monaeblackeaglequeen8974
      @monaeblackeaglequeen8974 Před 4 lety +6

      @@GabriellaGabrielle omg

    • @Bigmommafluffy
      @Bigmommafluffy Před 4 lety +81

      I don't really to give your comment a "like" because what happened to your family is disgusting. Your whole history pivots on slavery. I wish there was a way to find your great great great grandmother's ethnic name. At the very least, her true name should be known and given.
      The right thing to do is reparations.

  • @priscillas986
    @priscillas986 Před 5 lety +703

    It simply amazes me how a HUMAN can treat another HUMAN!

    • @alexadjekum1543
      @alexadjekum1543 Před 4 lety +70

      And then call themselves Christians, go to church on Sunday

    • @robertrobinson140
      @robertrobinson140 Před 4 lety +17

      Alex Agykum The Methodist, Presbyterian etc even kept slaves and hired them out.
      It was beyond belief and most Christians just say Christians ended slavery.

    • @toneyingram732
      @toneyingram732 Před 4 lety +16

      Satan people will always do you WRONG

    • @toneyingram732
      @toneyingram732 Před 4 lety +11

      @@alexadjekum1543 false prophets Satan people

    •  Před 4 lety +6

      Hypocrisy, Hypocrisy, Hypocrisy; but now they call it DEMOCRACY !!!

  • @michellehunter2993
    @michellehunter2993 Před 4 lety +1155

    America want black people forget and forgive. Not possible when we haven't addressed the issue of racism.

    • @kimgibson2368
      @kimgibson2368 Před 4 lety +32

      Racism works both ways...

    • @michellehunter2993
      @michellehunter2993 Před 4 lety +38

      @@kimgibson2368 totally agree and either way, I don't like it. Don't like racist black people too. The world is to large and colorful for us to be racist.

    • @sweetnessisrael235
      @sweetnessisrael235 Před 4 lety +21

      Exactly decades later it's still a racism issue. Truth be told that want us to forget there evil history forgive and forget I know better and I don't.

    • @kaliliahwilson741
      @kaliliahwilson741 Před 4 lety +37

      How can we forgive and forget when we are STILL being oppressed? If another country attacked the United States, this country would be quick to retaliate and no one would be saying the United States should forgive and forget. People of color are the only people that are told to forgive and forget

    • @whatthefrickbro
      @whatthefrickbro Před 4 lety +12

      Blacks are the true racists

  • @leiasiapatterson349
    @leiasiapatterson349 Před 4 lety +883

    They created generational wealth off the backs of our ancestors and now their children tell us “ well all have the same 24 hours to make money” 🤦🏾‍♀️ #ImTriggered

    • @queenroyalty2141
      @queenroyalty2141 Před 4 lety +11

      Awh but we do.
      It's all in how you see it.
      Enslaved or slaves.
      That is not our story.
      That's our tragedy
      Rise Up mighty people we have no clue of who we really are and the power that we possess.
      It's our job to go back and visit our our past., before our life was disrupted and interrupted by strange people who didn't look like us, but bare an image of what we are according to the wealth they have acquired by robbery and thievery.

    • @leewuo4443
      @leewuo4443 Před 4 lety +12

      They say pull yourself by your own boot straps but news flash, Amos 8:9 will set the record straight and Planet X is really coming for payback.

    • @waltercooper7199
      @waltercooper7199 Před 4 lety +7

      This was deep💯

    • @IslenoGutierrez
      @IslenoGutierrez Před 4 lety +13

      Glammed By Leilo Who is they? Most whites in the USA’s past didn’t own slaves. This is not the history of most white Americans.

    • @blameTheDane
      @blameTheDane Před 4 lety +20

      ​@@IslenoGutierrez True... And what about the Asians? they were slaves too forced to build the rail roads?
      find a black person carrying about that please.. what about the jews in Egypt? white people were slaves too, vikings didn't care about color.
      This is why this hypocritical

  • @lorrainejohnsoncoleman1670
    @lorrainejohnsoncoleman1670 Před 4 lety +433

    Kathy Hambrick, a Black woman has a museum along the same river road and has been telling this same story with dignity,grace and truth twenty years before this man came along

    • @dharmon8798
      @dharmon8798 Před 4 lety +41

      Thank you for that information.

    • @okikeure7422
      @okikeure7422 Před 4 lety +54

      Thankyou for that information, but it's not a competition

    • @soyamado2222
      @soyamado2222 Před 4 lety +5

      Thank you for this morning information

    • @keaundraanderson
      @keaundraanderson Před 4 lety +6

      Lorraine Johnson Coleman where is it?

    • @mrsbillionaire
      @mrsbillionaire Před 4 lety +49

      River Road African American Museum
      406 Charles Street
      Donaldsonville, LA 70346
      225.474.5553
      africanamericanmuseum.org/

  • @outcast1er385
    @outcast1er385 Před 5 lety +289

    I traveled far to visit the plantation today and it was very emotional and amazing. It is a must see.

    • @raspberry_dreams
      @raspberry_dreams Před 2 lety +3

      What was it like?

    • @lesha673
      @lesha673 Před 2 lety +3

      yes I visited this plantation 3 years ago. it was overall yet powerful

  • @chethunt2455
    @chethunt2455 Před 2 lety +53

    My heart breaks to think of how greed and brutality can make people be so inhuman to other human beings.

    • @oldschooloc2110
      @oldschooloc2110 Před 2 lety +1

      Well Chet, all I can say in response to your statements is Black people were never viewed as humans. And guess what, many whites still think Black people as "less than human!" Some give their pets more humane respect than they would ever give s Black person.

    • @Nasamusa
      @Nasamusa Před rokem +2

      Greed? No hate, jealousy!

    • @tenttinderline
      @tenttinderline Před rokem

      ​@@oldschooloc2110 unless you're me and hates every human and wishing for the nukes to cleans this earth

    • @KlikQuot
      @KlikQuot Před rokem +2

      @@oldschooloc2110 which is foolish, no one really created anything new. Most the inventors are black that’s why it’s foolish

    • @carolynstarkey8889
      @carolynstarkey8889 Před 9 měsíci +1

      The evil system of White supremacy!

  • @toniejones425
    @toniejones425 Před 3 lety +212

    I'm a first grade teacher..and I don't care what the curriculum says..I'm adding it.

    • @ottodidakt3069
      @ottodidakt3069 Před 3 lety +11

      That's the spirit !

    • @shek7121
      @shek7121 Před 3 lety +1

      BROOOOOO

    • @rainesc8739
      @rainesc8739 Před 3 lety +8

      YAAS! I came to know parts of history that were not often included or written in the books but because of my histroy professor, he shed light to a lot of important things. I wish I had known earlier! So you're doing great by teaching the young ones a part of a great big truth outside the shackles of the curriculum.

    • @lolawilson1027
      @lolawilson1027 Před 3 lety +4

      💯👏🏽✊🏽

    • @87musiclova
      @87musiclova Před 3 lety +5

      As a future teacher, I whole-heartedly support this! I have had plans to do the EXACT same thing. The truth needs to be shared; even the ugly parts that are hard to learn.
      P.S. I wish schools removed Columbus Day out of the curriculum lol!!!!

  • @judyjones4959
    @judyjones4959 Před 4 lety +80

    My maternal 5th generation grandmother was born in 1762, my DNA links me to the Bamileke people of Cameroon. My 4th generation maternal grandfather Jacob Samuel was listed on documents in Franklin County, Virginia as property. Yes, I'm proud of you for bringing their story to life Dr. Seck.

    • @hinatababe97
      @hinatababe97 Před rokem +1

      Heyy 🇨🇲

    • @soy_0scar7
      @soy_0scar7 Před rokem

      May GOD bless and protect you in the mighty name of JESUS! May GOD and JESUS break every chain the enemy has formed against you and liberate you! May GOD and JESUS fill you with GODliness and love to get through any challenge! GOD IS GOOD! JESUS IS GOOD! GOD is love in times of hate, GOD is strength in times of weakness, GOD is light in times of darkness, GOD is harmony in times of chaos, and GOD is all you need and more! If you need more love/strength/anything GOD is there! GOD LOVES YOU JESUS LOVES YOU! GOD BLESS!

    • @darrylmotley3946
      @darrylmotley3946 Před 10 měsíci

      So go father back to Israelites all of these western nations in African are new set up by European governments

  • @becomingdazhuniquefrance2615

    I’ll be taking my boys to this museum this summer and other museums and after that we’ll be going to Ghana.

  • @monicabarber6313
    @monicabarber6313 Před rokem +13

    I visited this Plantation two weeks ago. The history that is there is like no other. The story of Victor Haydel being told and so much more. I advise everyone to take a tour of this Plantation you will not be disappointed.

  • @AiraCamille
    @AiraCamille Před 4 lety +86

    That's why I have a big respect to the black community in the US especially to those who are really trying hard to lift up the black reputation despite the media and social scrutiny.

  • @Jasmine-et4zm
    @Jasmine-et4zm Před 3 lety +128

    I'm a resident of Orleans Parish, they shouldn't charge African Americans to visit...

    • @naturalbae
      @naturalbae Před 3 lety +9

      Same here and I also feel that we should not be charged, not even for our ancestry report

    • @annowens5019
      @annowens5019 Před 3 lety +3

      "Stamp Paid" .... Beloved ...Toni Morrison (Nobel Laureate)

    • @SchoolRumble4ever22
      @SchoolRumble4ever22 Před 3 lety +6

      While I agree that would be really hard to enforce. You would have to legally define what is and isn't black and im sure many people would fall to the wayside. I think it should be free for everyone honestly.

    • @naturalbae
      @naturalbae Před 3 lety +3

      @@SchoolRumble4ever22 I don't have to define it on job applications or when the vendors charge me more because Im a black woman. Or when I apply for capital for my business, they only ask. So the same should apply. It didn't have to be defined when they had "white only and blacks to the back"

    • @kikihowe4799
      @kikihowe4799 Před 3 lety

      LilCaramel who will pay for all the buildings and the upkeep ....it’s good that it exists and remains ...

  • @ishaspeaks4536
    @ishaspeaks4536 Před 4 lety +58

    God bless this African man, beautiful soul and great teacher

    • @maydavalle
      @maydavalle Před 2 měsíci

      To see one of them…to tell their story and bring them back to life.- Dr. Ibrahima Seck

  • @RE-im1xm
    @RE-im1xm Před 4 lety +82

    Amazing, Painful Place. I visited just last month. I will never forget it.

    • @tiffanyfoy1039
      @tiffanyfoy1039 Před 4 lety +3

      Hi🤗🤗
      I have a few questions
      Is there a cost?
      Do you have make an appt?
      It is in Atlanta right ?
      Who was your guide?
      Me and my girls are looking to do something like this, I think it's something THAT's is needed right now😩😩who knows I might find some kin folk on that list🙂

    • @msvyneontheside
      @msvyneontheside Před 4 lety +1

      I visited it 2018, very powerful!

    • @msvyneontheside
      @msvyneontheside Před 4 lety +2

      @@tiffanyfoy1039 it's in Louisiana right outside of New Orleans...Google Whitney Plantation for more information. Very educational for your children,for us all.

  • @JD-tn8nb
    @JD-tn8nb Před 4 lety +26

    I’ve been to the whitney plantation. It is an experience like no other. It is a somber experience. The owner was there. I got to meet him he told us all about this place and how he restored it.

  • @charleneross8335
    @charleneross8335 Před 4 lety +57

    Visiting and touring The Whitney/Haydel plantation was a wonderful experience and was a lifechanging experience that i will never forget. NOLA will forever hv a special place in my heart. I purchased Bouki Fait Gombo, written by Dr. Ibrahima Seck, and its a phenomenal book, his research was mind blowing and his detail for all the information was incomparable, which gives and tells the history of "The German Coast," known as NOLA. When touring the grounds of the Whitney Plantation, you can feel the presence of the ancestors and slaves who lived and worked there. It was emotional, sad, but beautiful all at the same time. We absolutely loved it.

  • @alexadjekum1543
    @alexadjekum1543 Před 4 lety +476

    Most Americans don’t know their history because they don’t want to know their history, is embarrassing, it wasn’t nice.

    •  Před 4 lety +3

      It wasn't THEN and it isn't NOW !!!

    • @renecurry6551
      @renecurry6551 Před 4 lety +13

      @
      👄Really?!! You're in that much denial?!!!

    • @LFortune
      @LFortune Před 4 lety +12

      ...and because it is contrary to the high minded self-mythologizing that is the bedrock of American history and culture.

    • @CaylaMarieeeeee
      @CaylaMarieeeeee Před 4 lety

      Rene Curry
      Many of them are. I went to court today and I was so proud of myself for asking her to stand up to injustices. I asked her to please not to turn a blind eye!
      I asked her if she believed all Leo and authority figures are fair. She said no.

    • @quenh7085
      @quenh7085 Před 4 lety +3

      It’s not history because it still exist.

  • @convoswithpassion2398
    @convoswithpassion2398 Před 4 lety +60

    I wish I could go to this place to see the history there.

    • @TorrenceBrannon1960
      @TorrenceBrannon1960 Před 4 lety +2

      You can go. Keep in touch with me as I do tours to New Orleans. You can hit me back here or email me to connect at famlisoul@gmail.com. My name is Torrence Brannon-Reese ( Torrè).

    • @TorrenceBrannon1960
      @TorrenceBrannon1960 Před 4 lety +1

      Keep in touch, I conduct New Orleans tours, famlisoul@gmail.com,
      Torrè Brannon-Reese is my name.

    • @msljacky84
      @msljacky84 Před 4 lety +1

      Ikr!!

    • @teetarquin7012
      @teetarquin7012 Před 4 lety +2

      Passionate One I was there in 2017. It broke my heart.

  • @footballsden5039
    @footballsden5039 Před 4 lety +250

    90 percent of Americans don’t know their history.

    • @ottobong
      @ottobong Před 4 lety +10

      And they don’t want to know either..

    • @godsgirl7201
      @godsgirl7201 Před 3 lety +2

      True!

    • @adelheidspringer7470
      @adelheidspringer7470 Před 3 lety +9

      Yes, you are right. It is not taught in school. If the parents don't know they also cannot teach their children. I am German, have been here about 35 years. My children grew up here, went to school here and none of this was taught properly. I had to piece all my knowledge together myself by researching, reading, etc.

    • @Flower-ck2bs
      @Flower-ck2bs Před 3 lety +4

      They have been brainwashed to be easier to control😟

    • @panicmosem5969
      @panicmosem5969 Před 3 lety +2

      And only 10% of African slaves were sent to America!!! Guess this makes 100% 😑

  • @Winterscreations81
    @Winterscreations81 Před 4 lety +40

    Me and my family went to Louisiana a few months ago for family vacation and it was the first place we went to. It was so many emotions involved. Great guide spoke on all the history about the plantation grounds, the slavery quarters and the big house. I learned a lot of new things I didn't know. I found out that they still had some of their bloodline was either living on the plantation grounds or working there. People should go and get something out of it.

  • @nicohana7308
    @nicohana7308 Před 4 lety +322

    If we owned our history we’d have to acknowledge that our society is currently systematically racist, we’d have to revamp our history, and be honest about how this country became what it is...

    • @spursnation5422
      @spursnation5422 Před 3 lety +9

      How is it systemic racism, we had a half black president, we have black governors,mayors , city council members, police officers, black business owners, are you freakin kidding me!!!! 🤷🏻‍♂️

    • @fluffypuppy0
      @fluffypuppy0 Před 3 lety +4

      Nicohana exactly!

    • @annowens5019
      @annowens5019 Před 3 lety +6

      "...There Are None So Blind, As Those That Will Not See..." Some questions don't change who you are... they reveal who you are.

    • @Msunbird02
      @Msunbird02 Před 3 lety +9

      Countries with Antidiscrimination and Equal Opportunity laws cannot be "systematically racist". Your statement is an oxymoron and logical fallacy.

    • @spursnation5422
      @spursnation5422 Před 3 lety +7

      There would be no racism if people would stop talking about it and take responsibility for their own lives and stop blaming the white man for their own failures in life!!!

  • @TMIDiva
    @TMIDiva Před 6 lety +428

    Tours of the Antebellum mansions will always focus on gracious luxury, the lifestyles reflected in the cult of Gone With The Wind and other fictions depicting the proud Southern White as benevolent and ethical. Finally, a museum that reflects the true nature of Plantation culture for what it really was: a prison with barbaric tyranny against a whole race of helpless abductees. This shame is so great, much of the evidence must have been destroyed and it is heartening that a white man pulled together this museum to memorialize the devastating truth. See through the institutional applications of lies and always set your path toward truth.

    • @nialcc
      @nialcc Před 5 lety +19

      Thank you. I wanted to say the same thing.

    • @mermaidwe2743
      @mermaidwe2743 Před 4 lety +22

      True some white southerner are smarter. I have a cousin that truely believes only northern troops committed terrible crimes during the civil war. I have tried to enlighten him to no avail. Now he doesn't talk to me. No loss.

    • @ecclairmayo4153
      @ecclairmayo4153 Před 4 lety +9

      @@mermaidwe2743 - im sorry to hear that. Its a shame he made it where it had to come to that

    • @HandsofGlory1
      @HandsofGlory1 Před 4 lety +28

      It's sad that some white ppl get mad when the tour guides tell the horrific truth about slavery

    • @tanishazoa138
      @tanishazoa138 Před 2 lety +3

      @@HandsofGlory1 what's worse is hiding the fact you were sold into slavery by your own people and of you weren't sold you were put to death. But let's not talk about that. Let's not talk about the freedoms you have now. Let's not talk about the opportunity you have because more often than not it's wasted, why? The culture

  • @MrsMack-bw5qd
    @MrsMack-bw5qd Před 4 lety +16

    Who disliked this very real informative video. That's sad

    • @shimmer4771
      @shimmer4771 Před rokem

      They dislike because they don't want to acknowledge what happened. They'd rather bury it and pretend it never happened.

  • @virginiabobian8230
    @virginiabobian8230 Před 3 lety +7

    We here about the horror that happened in Mississippi; Alabama; Tennessee; South and North Carolina; Virginia; Arkansas, but we have heard little about the horror that happened in Louisiana. I plan to visit this plantation. Thanks to the gentleman who are doing this service for us who don't know all of our painful history.

  • @Kekeskray
    @Kekeskray Před 3 lety +52

    i dont think people understand how most not all light skin black people came about. i kno im pretty but when someone comments on my skin tone or try to tell me im not just black i have to be mixed with something... i think about the stories ive heard about the women in my family being raped by their masters and the pain i feel for them is unexplainable.

    • @HectorHernandez-mk2no
      @HectorHernandez-mk2no Před 3 lety +3

      Beauty is pain....its sad to hear the truth about how the past really was

    • @janeiamaria8885
      @janeiamaria8885 Před 3 lety

      biracial or lighter afro?

    • @mascara1777
      @mascara1777 Před 2 lety

      yes and black women were raped in the 20th century and told no one if a white msn raped them because they knew nobody cared.

  • @anieciawilliams735
    @anieciawilliams735 Před 4 lety +13

    I respect this man for what he did with this museum. I hope to on day visit. His opening statement is so true others accept and have uncounted movies in the holocaust but slavery gets people up in arm. We must acknowledge the pass, we must never truely forget, our ancestors had a LONG fight we should honor them.

  • @iismyalias
    @iismyalias Před 4 lety +20

    Thank you for posting this video. The sooner Americans deal with and own this part of our history the less it will hang over us and continually divide us. The Germans have already done this in regard to the Holocaust with memorials and open apologies and in other ways and they've been able to move forward. Its way past time America did the same.

    • @evalinacesarcassule5097
      @evalinacesarcassule5097 Před rokem

      The Germans just "forgot" to do the same with the African holocaust that they promoted in Namibia...

    • @soy_0scar7
      @soy_0scar7 Před rokem

      May GOD bless and protect you in the mighty name of JESUS! May GOD and JESUS break every chain the enemy has formed against you and liberate you! May GOD and JESUS fill you with GODliness and love to get through any challenge! GOD IS GOOD! JESUS IS GOOD! GOD is love in times of hate, GOD is strength in times of weakness, GOD is light in times of darkness, GOD is harmony in times of chaos, and GOD is all you need and more! If you need more love/strength/anything GOD is there! GOD LOVES YOU JESUS LOVES YOU! GOD BLESS!

  • @gideonamedu1093
    @gideonamedu1093 Před 6 lety +448

    Thank God I wasn't born back then

    • @scottdellrobinson
      @scottdellrobinson Před 4 lety +27

      Gideon Amedu if you are black, you gotta sort of uneducated to publicly make a comment like that

    • @rockstar9ism
      @rockstar9ism Před 4 lety +51

      Mystery Everlasting how lmao he’s glad he wasn’t born back then and you should be too black or white

    • @robertrobinson140
      @robertrobinson140 Před 4 lety +30

      It was white supremacy white Christian supremacy.

    • @kattalady8114
      @kattalady8114 Před 4 lety +1

      @Kristie C oh noooo! Not sainted Native Americans too?

    • @mitzithompson6585
      @mitzithompson6585 Před 4 lety

      I know

  • @BenJamminKraftbc
    @BenJamminKraftbc Před 4 lety +50

    Wow.. this answered a lot of questions that we simply were not told about in school growing up in Canada.
    I can honestly say, I am ashamed.
    Every human being on the planet is just that, a human being.
    Everyone deserves their chance to be heard and live free.

    • @southernman5839
      @southernman5839 Před 4 lety

      The people back then are responsible. Why would you be ashamed of what you didn’t do? We have no control of what other people do.

    • @Aceshot777
      @Aceshot777 Před 4 lety +15

      Because there are a vast majority of whites who still praise their ancestors and pretend they did nothing wrong. And by not learning the history and understanding their mistakes, THEY would be bound to repeat as well. No one is blaming whites today for what happen to our ancestors. We WILL blame whites today for not trying to fix what their ancestors set upon us. That's all blacks want. Change. PERMANENT change for the better.

    • @KimberlyPurpoz
      @KimberlyPurpoz Před 4 lety

      @ BJ Kroft - If you are ashamed, then do something about it.

    • @KimberlyPurpoz
      @KimberlyPurpoz Před 4 lety +1

      @@southernman5839 The Caucasoids passivity to their ancestors' evil wrongdoings of the past, today, and plans for the future speaks volumes. You all have done very little and don't have no intensions to do anything because you all like gray supremacy because everything benefits you all only. You all ARE responsible for all of this and negative karmic energy is brewing for you all to marinate in. You all time for suffering is coming multiplied. Your little empire is going to fall. It is long overdue.

    • @BenJamminKraftbc
      @BenJamminKraftbc Před 4 lety +2

      @@KimberlyPurpoz What do you recommend I do?

  • @caramelcandy5147
    @caramelcandy5147 Před rokem +4

    My ancestors were slaves. I find no shame in that. I am proud of them. I am grateful to them because they endured and made it through. May they ever RIP.

  • @harlandrodriguez1501
    @harlandrodriguez1501 Před 3 lety +6

    How can people be so cruel.. It breaks my heart..

  • @lillieholmes1376
    @lillieholmes1376 Před 4 lety +28

    The first thing this man said is very true,, which was maybe we are not forgetting, because we never knew,,,, Is all the more reasons why History should be taught in schools...

  • @reinaAndrob562
    @reinaAndrob562 Před 4 lety +6

    Those trees are taunting in the beginning . Where so many souls hung like strange fruit as Billie holiday sang . If you all haven’t heard that song , please do .

  • @mac609
    @mac609 Před 4 lety +8

    Wonderful piece on the Whitney Plantation. Talk about full circle, it's fascinating to see Dr. Seck at a US plantation of his ancestors.

  • @mikeaskme3530
    @mikeaskme3530 Před 4 lety +40

    I wonder how long it will take me to read the comments and come across "well the Blacks sold their own", how many comments will i have to read before that line come up.

    • @kimgibson2368
      @kimgibson2368 Před 4 lety +1

      Thank you...

    • @marthapalmer9667
      @marthapalmer9667 Před 4 lety +4

      mike askme They did sell their own.

    • @mikeaskme3530
      @mikeaskme3530 Před 4 lety +10

      @@marthapalmer9667 those who sold enslaved people to Europeans did no sell their own, no more than whites committed genocide against other whites, ie the Holocaust. African is not a country never has been, it is continent with multiple nations inside it with multiple ethnic groups. For you to say this, you mind as well say that all Europeans are responsible for slavery, because they all shared the same skin color . This includes Russia and the Slavic nations, are they just as responsible for enslaving people?

    • @arkmuzikproductions
      @arkmuzikproductions Před 4 lety +9

      If the slave masters didn't come with their trickery, lies and manipulation to Afrika none of this would of happened. They only sold their own cause they were lied to. Still the whites have a responsibility and the biggest role to play when it comes to slavery and you can never try turn this around on black people. If you're white you know very well what your ancestors were doing. Just like today's world people sell their soul willingly in the name of freedom, fortune and fame. Anyone who lies and controls another man is the devil and it runs deep in white peoples blood, the need and erg to control it's sickening and it's happening till date.

    • @mikeaskme3530
      @mikeaskme3530 Před 4 lety +1

      @@marthapalmer9667 what no answer Martha?

  • @ayatheartist
    @ayatheartist Před 3 lety +3

    I worked as a tour guide at this plantation for a year it was an amazing experience

    • @pissoff9399
      @pissoff9399 Před 3 lety

      how about the trutb
      Dont you know? African kings and Chiefs didnt build any prisons or mental hospitals. Instead the kings and Chiefs traded their criminals and undesirables people into the slave market. And if these afrocans were turned down by the slave traders than those africans were but to death
      in the annual crematories. So in a summary Africa's kings and Chiefs had made america their prison system

  • @hiccadoodledoo6545
    @hiccadoodledoo6545 Před 4 lety +2

    Mrs. Mortal is an awesome woman. I met her when I was in college in 1985. She is kind, intelligent and genuine.

  • @lindastrickland8200
    @lindastrickland8200 Před 4 lety +7

    The only emotion I feel about slavery is anger. It has always been my strongest and the mere word does not even come close to describing my feelings about this part of our past. Our foundation. My anger on this is never at rest.

    • @Justforme7
      @Justforme7 Před 4 lety +3

      juan hoshkaboo that’s not ur business or ur concern. She has every right to feel what she does for her ancestors and her self. if other parts concern u in this day an age go do something about it instead of acting tough on CZcams.

    • @lindastrickland8200
      @lindastrickland8200 Před 4 lety +1

      To juan, I don't have to play the victim, even though my portion of the human race is still victimized on a daily basis by racists. Since you don't have the guts to use your real name, you apparently use your cleverly thought up monicker to hide behind with your racism. The next time you think you have something to say, make sure you know what you're talking about. You call yourself a man. Be one. I'm sure you teach that garbage to kids, if you have any. What a legacy to leave them. I'm sure your klandaddies are proud of you.

  • @menaj2954
    @menaj2954 Před 4 lety +12

    You must never forget the past to prevent reoccurrence. The guy effects of slavery is alive and well in America.

  • @andrkagraves8094
    @andrkagraves8094 Před 4 lety +5

    I visited this plantation in March. It was an excellent experience

  • @billross6013
    @billross6013 Před 4 lety +6

    I am glad an African is the curator. It feels so authentic, thank you Doctor.

  • @ReNinaMinter
    @ReNinaMinter Před 4 lety +8

    Thank you for posting this video. It’s healing to acknowledge our painful past. I wrote an article on the blog site Medium called “I’m Black, Not African American” by ReNina Minter. I’m talking about why being enslaved is something we can’t just “forget”. 🙏🏾 Praying for more museums like this. 💛😃

  • @Babesofthepower1113
    @Babesofthepower1113 Před 4 lety +8

    This sinks deep into my soul 🖤🖤🖤

  • @blaceyeblu1326
    @blaceyeblu1326 Před 3 lety +2

    I would love to sit and talk with Dr. Ibrahima Seck. I can't imagine a more informative and enlightening conversation for my mental freedom.

  • @aprylaevans
    @aprylaevans Před 4 lety +12

    This is something very powerful & something I would want to see.

  • @alybe2812
    @alybe2812 Před 4 lety +45

    This needs to be taught in school, children need to continue to be mixed with one another, if you want a better future fix the present and let go of the past, educate the children, forget trying to change the minds of adults, the children are the future

    • @conjurncraftstarot
      @conjurncraftstarot Před 4 lety

      Yes the children is whom i reach best! Hard to get to the parents

    • @lindastrickland8200
      @lindastrickland8200 Před 4 lety +3

      The problem is that racist adults are teaching racism to their children on a daily basis. That's one reason racism continues in this world.

    • @jherc12990
      @jherc12990 Před 4 lety +1

      Here in the states, when they talk about slavery it’s very watered down. They don’t teach about the extent of it and only talk about how it came to be, but not how it was. Even now I still learn a lot about the extent of slavery and how rooted racism is even in today’s society. I do research on my watching videos or reading. It’s sad to finally realize this. It’s shameful to not teach the complete history and show it as IT IS.

    • @prettygirl_me4699
      @prettygirl_me4699 Před 3 lety +2

      Let go off the past , huh ,did you tell Jewish people to let go off their past , huh

    • @Pou1gie1
      @Pou1gie1 Před rokem

      @@prettygirl_me4699 No, of course, they didn't.

  • @lindastrickland8200
    @lindastrickland8200 Před 4 lety +11

    I viewed the video Diving With A Purpose, about diving for the location of slave ships at the bottom of the Atlantic. Again, I could not name my feelings but I was in tears as I watched. Watch the video. I think you will understand.

  • @zhenful
    @zhenful Před 4 lety +5

    this video deserves WAY more views and appreciation

  • @AyeTahj
    @AyeTahj Před 4 lety +12

    What about Charles H. Wright Museum in Detroit ? Been around since the 60s and still open to this day educating on slavery . I went there for field trips every year living in Detroit .

    • @soy_0scar7
      @soy_0scar7 Před rokem

      May GOD bless and protect you in the mighty name of JESUS! May GOD and JESUS break every chain the enemy has formed against you and liberate you! May GOD and JESUS fill you with GODliness and love to get through any challenge! GOD IS GOOD! JESUS IS GOOD! GOD is love in times of hate, GOD is strength in times of weakness, GOD is light in times of darkness, GOD is harmony in times of chaos, and GOD is all you need and more! If you need more love/strength/anything GOD is there! GOD LOVES YOU JESUS LOVES YOU! GOD BLESS!

  • @neosoul7422
    @neosoul7422 Před 3 lety +3

    I want to go and visit all the Plantations in the US.

  • @jcanyiam8309
    @jcanyiam8309 Před 4 lety +4

    Dr. Ibrahima Seck YOU ARE A GOOD GOOD MAN! God Bless YOU.

  • @j.porlando5091
    @j.porlando5091 Před rokem +1

    “Behind hate, there is fear” greed is such a horrible thing.

  • @kimberlyanderson7060
    @kimberlyanderson7060 Před 4 lety +2

    I remember visiting this plantation when I was in Junior High School as a school field trip.

  • @northernsoutherngirl
    @northernsoutherngirl Před 4 lety +12

    Glad this was in my timeline today(9/15/19). Would love to take this tour of history.😉

  • @tbabycute1
    @tbabycute1 Před 4 lety +5

    Thank you Sir😢 thank you!!🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

  • @Findsomethinsafe2do
    @Findsomethinsafe2do Před 3 lety +1

    I’ve been here and written my name on the wall. I stood in the space of those that came before me. I’ve never felt so humbled so grateful for every tear that was shed and prayer they prayed.

    • @soy_0scar7
      @soy_0scar7 Před rokem

      May GOD bless and protect you in the mighty name of JESUS! May GOD and JESUS break every chain the enemy has formed against you and liberate you! May GOD and JESUS fill you with GODliness and love to get through any challenge! GOD IS GOOD! JESUS IS GOOD! GOD is love in times of hate, GOD is strength in times of weakness, GOD is light in times of darkness, GOD is harmony in times of chaos, and GOD is all you need and more! If you need more love/strength/anything GOD is there! GOD LOVES YOU JESUS LOVES YOU! GOD BLESS!

  • @christopherb4015
    @christopherb4015 Před 2 lety +2

    I think all of us alive right now can change this country forever by just being good people.

  • @CrazyTiffany86
    @CrazyTiffany86 Před 3 lety +3

    I've been here. It's so worth visiting!

  • @ultimateclassic4092
    @ultimateclassic4092 Před 4 lety +32

    Love what you're doing. Little word of advice though, there will be terrible people who will try to vandalize the property or worse. Guard the property day and night or install a lot of cameras around and hire surveillance personnel.

  • @localuna4953
    @localuna4953 Před 4 lety +1

    This is an amazing concept put into action. I am unable to leave my house much any more, but I do know that if I can choose a place to go if given the opportunity, this will be it. "Roots" the move, came out when I was a kid and I will never forget the lessons it taught me. When my daughter started watching "Reading Rainbow", she learned who Kunta Kinte was. I found it to be a great segway into that lesson. Unfortunately, this is the first I'm hearing of this, and it's 3 years later. Thank you for the information. Thank you to the beautiful people doing this. It's about time!

  • @KJayDarling
    @KJayDarling Před 3 měsíci

    I cannot describe the experience of visiting Whitney Plantation. Ive visited a handful, even in DR. This was emotional & enlightening. I'd encourage others to visit this carefully curated experience.

  • @beauteefulhill3830
    @beauteefulhill3830 Před 4 lety +4

    Thank you sir for making this museum. I would like to visit this one day. I don’t understand why one race of people thought it was ok to have slaves when Almighty God created us equal, he made us and he gave us free will. He didn’t even take us as his slaves. A lot of people have a lot to answer to God for and he will see to it.

  • @sugarlove
    @sugarlove Před 3 lety +5

    Thanks for sharing history ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @maricarmencalledemiguel7396

    Poor people. It is heart-wrenching.

  • @Classyk99
    @Classyk99 Před 2 lety +1

    I have been to this plantation . By far was one of the most informative tours I took.

    • @shimmer4771
      @shimmer4771 Před rokem

      I wish I could go. I would love to see what it was like.

  • @kamal-hg5jg
    @kamal-hg5jg Před 4 lety +19

    This is June 2020 and there is still brutality in America
    Ring that bell 🔔 brother “ God bless the dead

    • @johnturner2946
      @johnturner2946 Před 3 lety

      Even the brothers with heart disease that died during an encounter with police for having fentanyl in their system causing their death due to heart failure ? Who ( video shows ) was claiming they can't breath long before they laid him down ?

  • @cathythomas9128
    @cathythomas9128 Před 4 lety +6

    Enjoyed the documentary.

  • @sharingmythoughts1552
    @sharingmythoughts1552 Před 2 lety +2

    When I watch videos like this, it makes me more determined than ever to support reparations for slavery.

  • @jacobzaranyika9334
    @jacobzaranyika9334 Před 2 lety

    Thank you 🙏
    I will watch this in full later.

  • @miaj4170
    @miaj4170 Před 4 lety +4

    You said that RIGHT!!

  • @ShayeReese
    @ShayeReese Před 3 lety +4

    Thank you for this, I know my ancestors do not want me to forget them no matter what horrible torture they went through.
    Give me my identity!
    I’m not some of these people that want to forget about the horrible things that happened
    I’m not ashamed, I want to know more.

    • @soy_0scar7
      @soy_0scar7 Před rokem

      May GOD bless and protect you in the mighty name of JESUS! May GOD and JESUS break every chain the enemy has formed against you and liberate you! May GOD and JESUS fill you with GODliness and love to get through any challenge! GOD IS GOOD! JESUS IS GOOD! GOD is love in times of hate, GOD is strength in times of weakness, GOD is light in times of darkness, GOD is harmony in times of chaos, and GOD is all you need and more! If you need more love/strength/anything GOD is there! GOD LOVES YOU JESUS LOVES YOU! GOD BLESS!

  • @angelafender
    @angelafender Před 4 lety

    There are so many documentaries for slavery. It is also one of the first things we learned in school.

  • @happyfunjenn
    @happyfunjenn Před 3 lety +1

    So important for us to remember the past and realize what pieces still remain that need to be fixed to finally reach true equality.

    • @soy_0scar7
      @soy_0scar7 Před rokem

      May GOD bless and protect you in the mighty name of JESUS! May GOD and JESUS break every chain the enemy has formed against you and liberate you! May GOD and JESUS fill you with GODliness and love to get through any challenge! GOD IS GOOD! JESUS IS GOOD! GOD is love in times of hate, GOD is strength in times of weakness, GOD is light in times of darkness, GOD is harmony in times of chaos, and GOD is all you need and more! If you need more love/strength/anything GOD is there! GOD LOVES YOU JESUS LOVES YOU! GOD BLESS!

  • @ANGELSLVME
    @ANGELSLVME Před 4 lety +4

    I like when he said”it was a rich white boy who started this mess, and a rich white boy, who is doing SOMEThing about it”

  • @CaliDreams1
    @CaliDreams1 Před 4 lety +15

    Until our country as a true and meaningful conversation about slavery we will never truly be free. when I mean free I am not just talking about African Americans, but all people because slavery was not just about African's but all other brown people who were abducted and brought into slavery. This is a very important museum that does not gloss over what it was like at that time to be colored person.

    • @lameechcurry1675
      @lameechcurry1675 Před 4 lety

      Felicia Thomas you beter worry about right now white people would love to own slaves and beat you to death believe that

    • @pimpiniseasy2778
      @pimpiniseasy2778 Před 4 lety +1

      Felicia Thomas false black people just need to know their history and rights then everything else will come into place.

  • @Trund27
    @Trund27 Před 4 lety +2

    A sacred duty. Thank you.

  • @birgitwetzka4041
    @birgitwetzka4041 Před 2 lety +1

    Thank you!! I believe in Enlightenment of History.

  • @stuffimobsessedwith
    @stuffimobsessedwith Před 3 lety +8

    There should be more museums like this & student visitation should be mandatory. A couple years ago, I visited Auschwitz with my class & even tho we were learning about it, actually being there was very eye opening.

    • @soy_0scar7
      @soy_0scar7 Před rokem

      May GOD bless and protect you in the mighty name of JESUS! May GOD and JESUS break every chain the enemy has formed against you and liberate you! May GOD and JESUS fill you with GODliness and love to get through any challenge! GOD IS GOOD! JESUS IS GOOD! GOD is love in times of hate, GOD is strength in times of weakness, GOD is light in times of darkness, GOD is harmony in times of chaos, and GOD is all you need and more! If you need more love/strength/anything GOD is there! GOD LOVES YOU JESUS LOVES YOU! GOD BLESS!

  • @Littleofeverything
    @Littleofeverything Před 4 lety +3

    I’m just now discovering this video 😩

  • @nancyayala2217
    @nancyayala2217 Před rokem +1

    The Whitney plantation is a gift for us to never forget about slavery. And all the evil that took place. We must never forget

  • @lisacotton322
    @lisacotton322 Před 3 lety +1

    It’s about time. We need to talk about this. That’s why we haven’t moved forward yet.

    • @pissoff9399
      @pissoff9399 Před 3 lety

      how about the trutb
      Dont you know? African kings and Chiefs didnt build any prisons or mental hospitals. Instead the kings and Chiefs traded their criminals and undesirables people into the slave market. And if these afrocans were turned down by the slave traders than those africans were but to death
      in the annual crematories. So in a summary Africa's kings and Chiefs had made america their prison system

  • @gladysmorgan5680
    @gladysmorgan5680 Před 4 lety +30

    this house looks like the 1 in Django the movie

    • @mssha1980
      @mssha1980 Před 4 lety +4

      I think the movie was filmed there

    • @rickychisolm1376
      @rickychisolm1376 Před 4 lety +2

      It was filmed there

    • @tonywhite5085
      @tonywhite5085 Před 4 lety

      That's because it is that house in the movie. The field was edited a bit though to hid the cells in the background.

  • @aarkamudug4478
    @aarkamudug4478 Před 4 lety +23

    I wish they used the word “victim” instead of “slave”

  • @angelaking5835
    @angelaking5835 Před 4 lety +1

    Thank you very much i am brought to such heartache though..as a black woman of almoat 2020 i hope that my grandsons see change in there life time.Thank you both well 3 for this history wake up call.

  • @alezandradavila2581
    @alezandradavila2581 Před 4 lety +1

    I would love to support visit this place great way to reach kids adults on history !! When covid is over would love to go

  • @pineapplesunkist537
    @pineapplesunkist537 Před 4 lety +33

    Hundred yrs ltr no BLACKS still trying to find OUR plc in America... Even if born here!

    • @jaajaarogers9101
      @jaajaarogers9101 Před 4 lety

      Pineapple Sunkist yes so true , still not free now 2019

  • @wellablack4883
    @wellablack4883 Před 4 lety +40

    WOW the African realized it could have been him...DEEP....

  • @educationalvideosforprimar1844

    Love the opening line!

  • @pr4496
    @pr4496 Před 3 lety

    Thank you for this museum

  • @earlrogersjr3026
    @earlrogersjr3026 Před 3 lety +4

    I really enjoyed this video because some of the countries that showed up in my DNA test was Senegal Benin ,Togo . .What I would really like to see a video on is the countries in Africa that we’re involved in the slave trade and had a lot to do with slavery which no one else seems to want to talk about. Most of what we hear about Slavery in the United States are that Europeans and Arabs were the ones that were involved in slavery. No one mentioned the fact that quite a few of the slaves were Muslims.

  • @danielescanaba596
    @danielescanaba596 Před 6 lety +7

    I like to hear the details of what was going on.

  • @MichaelSmith-yg8mc
    @MichaelSmith-yg8mc Před rokem

    This is amazing and soul-healing.

  • @michaelrussell7854
    @michaelrussell7854 Před 2 měsíci +1

    In the reseach of my Paternal family, I discovered my Great, Great, Grandmother and her Baby Boy (my Great Grandfather) were brought to New Orleans and sold on the Slave Auction Block there

  • @candicemayes4604
    @candicemayes4604 Před 4 lety +3

    I will never understand how the greed of money and power be worth treating human beings like donkeys.

    • @juankroosfrausto7411
      @juankroosfrausto7411 Před 4 lety

      Of course you can't understand you were born in a different era but no doubt you'd be a racist in those times

  • @a.d.mitchell2613
    @a.d.mitchell2613 Před 5 lety +3

    I know for a fact we are not alone

  • @hockeygirl8401
    @hockeygirl8401 Před 4 lety +1

    I so want to go and see that museum

  • @kreyvegas1
    @kreyvegas1 Před 3 lety

    tHANKS FOR UPLOADING !!

  • @mamiefish4047
    @mamiefish4047 Před 4 lety +3

    The house shown on your cover is not Whitney, but Evergreen.