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US doctors and others involved in this experiment were also involved in similar experiments in prisons in the US and on several thousand orphans (some as young as 10), mentally ill people, epileptics, soldiers, prostitutes and prisoners in Guatemala also without their knowledge or consent. In Guatemala they wilfully infected many of the subjects or allowed them to be infected by others. One mentally ill woman who was already close to dying was further deliberately infected with gonorrhea in her eyes and urethra as part of the experiment. While many of these experiments were going on Nazzis from Germany were on trial at Nuremberg for carrying out human experiments. The results of a commission investigating some of these atrocities was deliberately released on the same day as the O.J. Simpson murder trial verdict so it would be overshadowed. Several of the doctors and scientists involved later reached high positions in the Public Health Services, Assistant or Surgeon General or top posts at various universities or had scholarships or centers named after them. The US has conducted experiments of various sorts on MILLIONS of its citizens without their knowledge or consent, in schools, prisons, health institutions and on military personnel, releasing a variety of agents and toxins over cities, in subways, stadiums, in public events, in the water supply. Quaker Oats Company and MlT even participated in a government experiment where kids were fed radi0actif oatmeal.
Dark Work" the Business of Slavery in Rhode Island. Written by Christy Clark-Pujara a Black woman. Suggest reading or at least watching a quick RU-vid lecture of hers to better understand the full history of slavery and how Rhode Island/New England played such a heavy role in slavery and in particular the buying and selling of people/slaves from Africa to the America's
Normally I'd be annoyed at repeated comments on multiple videos but comment this as often as you need to. That book should be required reading for a full understanding of Rhode islands role in slavery and more broadly new england.
Dark Work" the Business of Slavery in Rhode Island. Written by Christy Clark-Pujara a Black woman. Suggest reading or at least watching a quick RU-vid lecture of hers to better understand the full history of slavery and how Rhode Island/New England played such a heavy role in slavery and in particular the buying and selling of people/slaves from Africa to the America's
Remember very well train traffic on the old "Willimantic Line", which was a branch line of New Haven RR. Freight traffic was very important for the Narragansett Brewery, Otto Henn Coal and Oil and the Arlington Grain Company in Cranston! Remember a steam switcher at the A and P warehouse. Old track from the siding was still evident from the bike path! Enjoyed your film since I grew up in this area over 80 years ago.
Hi Peter, I'm very glad you enjoyed it. In hoping to set up some screenings of it again soon, I haven't since the pandemic started. Whereabouts are you located? If you're semi local i can get in touch once i do!
@@anthrospin Hi, I am now living in NH (we left RI after the great flood of 2010) Always interested in RI history especially Cranston and North Kingstown and Brown University. Best...........Peter
You people has cause a lot and lot of damage to black body... Hiv injected in Afrikans body, syphilis, and what you did to ANARCHA westcot. And you still keep on doing it till this day.... How do you look at yourself in a mirror. I don't you are human being really.... C'est incroyable, diabolique Atroces 👹
I cannot understand how the black people can freely trust the government to have their best interests in mind and to readily accept their care after this horror
Problem with Ms Evers and many others in the earth is lack of accountability for their own actions. Order followers are the death of a nation. Morals are the healing. They are all guilty of murder.
My Ggrandmother born in 1864 said she worked in the those mills and suffered terribly. She was 9yrs old and stood on boxes, and because her fingers were small, easy to work the looms. She died in 1953 at 98.
When I started making this documentary i had no idea how long it would wind up being or the kind of impact it would have on those who have family history in the mill. These are the stories i wish I could have included. Thank you for this comment
On all of these RU-vid documentaries about the Tuskegee experiment it always talk about that they had symptoms but they never gave the understanding how did they obtain simplest for them to do the experiment that they inject them?
I don't think they were injected or otherwise infected. There were mobile clinics in rural areas. They diagnosed syphilis patients as having "bad blood" and decided to study the progression of the disease, even after a cure was available. The individuals contracted it however they contracted it. The experiment was in observing how it progresses untreated because they had a rural population of people without any other option or any advocacy within society as a whole. Without a clear diagnosis they couldn't try and go elsewhere because they couldn't articulate the problem. And they were threatened with losing access to the mobile clinics and free healthcare services they provided if they went elsewhere. So the insidiousness of the study wasn't in infecting the people they studied, it was in forcing them to stay under their care when not actually treating them
i wished you talked more about the huge sums of money slater and the other capitalists made from the people of RI. the idea that they did it for the betterment of society is propaganda.
The documentary was ultimately about the 1922 textile strike. The vast majority of the documentary which did not discuss the strike was context. I did not claim they did any of it for the betterment of society. That quality of life improved (especially early on) is undeniable, but I'm pretty sure any documentary that discusses mounting machine guns to the roofs of buildings to break strikes that were being held due to mass wage cuts, increased work hours, and mill owners evicting workers to sell their housing is not trying to claim it was done for the betterment of society.
"...a bunch of people got killed." lol Please look into the camera when telling the story. Why are you looking around all the time? The guitar playing is distracting. I'm trying to listen to you, the music is in the way.
I.. Thank you for the video, it was very informative and well edited, but... Oh my god I don't understand how this could be real. It feels like a nightmare, or a weird CreepyPasta like the Russian Sleep Experiment. But... Oh my god
Amazing video! It brings me back to a Rhode Island, that I never knew much about. I grew up in a Rhode Island, dominated by religious extremists, who made my life hell! There was no social outlet for me, because I was a gay nerd from a poor single-parent home. Rhode Island was a hyper-masculine state, where I was continually afraid for my life. I went back a few years ago for business to find that it was still the same miserable place, even though I have money now. Thanks for the video!
Is it systemic racism if they also do similar things to white people? Idk. The more I learn about how people are extremely dominant towards others with concern for them the less I believe this is racism and not something else.
You're the first to ever bring him up! Either in a comment or in discussion at a screening. That guy really needs a lot more popular media about him. This particular project was primarily about the textile industry and its eventual collapse, and how to see that legacy all over the state and beyond even today. The project had spiraled almost out of control with wanting more back story and context. I started with Roger Williams for no other reason than having to have made the cutoff at some point. He's plenty worthy of the discussion of the founding of the state and wouldn't have been completely out of place within this film except that he's so comparatively little known I felt his inclusion wasn't necessary. Not a bad idea to make at least a short piece on him though!
That's pretty much what it comes down to. They wanted to study the effects of untreated syphilis, and they knew they could get away with it by using a rural black community. One could argue that they didn't necessarily want them to die, but that's the outcome of untreated syphilis so the certainly didn't care that they were going to
Thanks for this video. I grew up in RI. I never met my maternal grandparents, as they died in the 30's. I know that my grandmother started working very young at a mill in southern CT. She lost two fingers working there; my mother told me that she always wore a glove to hide her injury. Despite that, my mother described her as "jolly" when she was growing up in Mount Pleasant in Providence. She and my grandfather had seven kids and I do know that when he was laid off from Brown and Sharpe, where he had a "good job" as a machinist, there was no "relief" at all. Nevertheless, several of their kids went to college, which was very unusual at the time. My grandfather demanded it. When so many complain about everything today, I think about how my aunts, mother, and uncles said, "we had nothin'" when asked about how they grew up.
I am just now delving deeper into this dark period of time. Thank you for the great informative video. Question for you sir, did u take the covid vaccine? What are your thoughts on trusting the govt after this experiment?
Thanks for the kind words. There are so many terrible events on history and I try to do my part to talk about both the good and bad. I and my wife both got the moderna vaccine. I can understand apprehension broadly speaking when it comes to governmental motives; however, in the case of covid, it’s been a remarkably transparent international effort to stave off the worst of a pandemic despite the formidable hurdles in both development and distribution. We both got the vaccine without hesitation. In the context of this video though, the Tuskegee study was a program by government and governmental scientists to study untreated effects of syphilis, denying proper diagnosis and threatening to withdraw healthcare if a subject refused to participate. Cases like this one make it painfully and sadly obvious why apprehension exists (particularly in communities color) but looking at the specifics of the two situations, they almost couldn’t be more different. Thanks again for the comment
The portrait of Samuel Slater by John Lavalle was commissioned by H. Nelson Slater in the 1950s, specifically for the Old Slater Mill museum. It does not date to 1924. Also Samuel Slater began his apprenticeship at age 14 with Jedediah Strutt, following the death of Slater's father. He did not work in the mills at age 10. He was a management apprentice, not a mechanical engineer. I'll stop viewing and leave it there.
Hey thanks for the comment. It’s been several years since this was researched so my memory of it isn’t 100% and I’d have to dig out notes for specific references. But I’ve read both 10 years old and 14 years old for when Slater began his apprenticeship. As this film is ultimately about the peak/collapse of the textile industry and how it shaped modern labor laws, and focused primarily on the 1922 strike, I went with the younger of the two ages in establishing the role of child labor in the mill system. I apologize if that is incorrect. If you are correct on the date of the portrait (and I don’t doubt you) then I’m definitely going to have to dig through my old notes and files and see where the hell that 1924 date came from. Lastly, I did not say he was a mechanical engineer. I said his proficiency in mathematics lead to his understanding the workings of the mill as a mechanical engineer would. I believe my exact wording was “he took to it like a mechanical engineer.” The wording was specific in referencing his capabilities, not his position.
Great and informative video, didn't get bored once, just to note two things, one I am currently wearing fruit of the loom underwear right now, though probably not made in Rhode Island and two my grandfather worked in these textile mills and retired from them.
Right boston oh they tossed tea in the Harbor yeah well RI burnt the whole ship and then took the captain as prisoner but yet somehow people Overlook Rhode Island first automatic see Boston awesome job on this video thanks for the 411
haha yup! Boston pushed the Tea Party as a way to get people excited for the history there. Rightfully so, but it’s not the earliest example by any stretch.
I hate this. Btw I was an Anthropology major for my under grad at SUNY GENESEO where the Black minority population was LESS than 1%. They NEVER taught about this. Not in Anthro or Sociology. I'm still paying for that education #thisisAmerica
Thank you! I’m glad you like it. I feel like I haven’t been posting as much as I would like but I’m working on a ton! I tend to share smaller updates on the Facebook/Instagram but in February I’ll have at least two new videos going up, and one update on my current major project (on scrimshaw and the whaling industry)
