Read Full Story: bit.ly/2cQFNXV Known as “King of the Rice Planters,” Ward had 1,130 enslaved Blacks on the Brookgreen plantation in South Carolina. In 1850, Ward controlled six large plantations and produced 3.9 million pounds of rice.
My Grandmother was a Quaker in Philadelphia and owned property in New Jersey. Her ancestors were anti slavery people and were part of the Underground Railroad sending escaped people north to Canada. My Grandmother told me stories about the Quakers setting out colorful quilts on the line overnight. There was a code set up for people to read. Diamonds were for a safe house and bars meant to keep going down the road.
@@youarewrong5523 “In 1776, Quakers were prohibited from owning slaves, and 14 years later they petitioned the U.S. Congress for the abolition of slavery. As a primary Quaker belief is that all human beings are equal and worthy of respect, the fight for human rights has also extended to many other areas of society.”….Google search
@@kevinstubbsjr9851.. Wow?😳.. Oh really now😅.. For one..all races were enslaved by their own. And Blacks also had White Slaves and Blacks here in the states owned their own slaves also. More blacks owned slaves than the Southern whites did. Also.. There were more White Slaves than Blacks. And.. Today slavery is going strong as ever. You need more Education on this subject because that yappin you did there Made no Sense at all. Start off with.. "Thomas Sewell". Real Educated Black man for ya.. Hope it Helps.
And many people are held in bondage today in Muslim countries and some other places. I hope that man eventually grows past this someday, it shouldn't exist in the 21st century.
What an insult to actual slaves to compare them to dirt bags that raped, robbed, murdered, and ruined lives with drug sales to get behind bars rightfully so.
Haha. The gypsie romani community of asian indian ancestry live in countries with much higher standard than the average in india, pakistan or banglades, but that doesnt change their situation. They were brought as slaves to todays eastern europe by the ottomans who raided india. They were war captives. The emancipation of the european asians (Indians, romani) was also in the 1850ies hungary and romania
My great grandfather was an indentured servant. He died of a heart attack and my great grandmother had to work to pay off his debt. She died a few years later leaving my grandmother an orphan.
And never forget the thousands of people who died to bring it to an end. I hate racism whether it be whites hating blacks or blacks hating whites. It would be better if each were to stay to his own in their own homelands. But that's asking for a perfect world and that's not going to happen
@@slowas-hell7933 Which comment are you referring to, the Hell is a very busy place full of remorse or the no such such things as a slave owner being nice to his slaves?
Revelation 13:10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
@@baneverything5580Oh you mean the part where it says to treat them nice and with respect and then to free them when their debt is paid or after a year or something like that I haven't read it for a minute. Yeah it's f***** up but it was a Norm at the time so they tried to make rules on treating them nice. It's basically empathy how would you feel if you were in their situation majority of the time they owed you money or you purchased them from an enemy Army that had captured them in a conflict it was no different in African slavery different tribes would go to war with one another men would be captured and sold to the highest bidder the Bible told us to free them once they have worked off the amount of money we paid for them which the Bible called it a debt it's not like the slave really had a choice in the matter but to be honest it was a preferable Choice other than death now many of the slave owners in the United States were not Christians so they did not follow that law they were Jewish and they followed the talmud and that's a whole different kind of worms that I am not allowed to get into on RU-vid is comment probably won't make it far just because I mentioned it. I've studied many different religions out of all of them I could say wholeheartedly that Christianity is the truth the way and the light. It's not perfect because man is not perfect
@@truthreigns3465 Good I want them to hate us. If they never recognize that they were betrayed by their own people and recognize that they themselves are their biggest problem, then we can control them forever.
@@truthreigns3465 You need to 'open' your eyes and read historically accurate books on the subject before you post. Come out from under the rock of ignorance you've allowed your mind to be under. You will learn something you did not know prior to your post.
Anthony johnson was a slave owner in 1620 USA I believe Northampton area, he was one of the first and he was black, now that's never brought up in history class.
You could be a descendant of the slaves that guy franklin had. We often took on the last name of the master that we belonged to so instead of my name being kunta kinte its toby Franklin
How else are we going to find some white person with the same last name and get our reparations😂 we want money give me money I need more money you owe me money😂😂😂 go get a job
What's even funnier is this isn't even a correct list the largest slave owners in the United States were Jewish. One of the largest was a black man. It seems this is just another video trying to push a black and white narrative when history is more nuanced than that
@malasangre583 the party switch isn't real the only thing that did switch is the South now votes Republican and the north votes Democrat. Yeah the colors on the map switched😂 we realized we were wrong so we joined the party of Lincoln I don't know why the hell y'all started voting for Democrats😂 and honestly at this point it doesn't even matter with lobbyist groups like aipac lobbying the American government for support for Israel every single one of our Congress members and senators have received money from aipac. Except for one.
You forgot to name William Ellison a black slave owner in South Carolina who needed his slaves. Made more money than white slave owners. The widow in Louisiana who was a black slave owner who made a lot of money down there.
they don't want you to know that. because then they'd have to admit that the eastern slave trade was much worse. that and you can still buy slaves in open markets in some countries. but they will never stop making money off this bullshit. black folks are nothing if they're not easily manipulated
While you likely have a few exceptions to the trend. Most of them went bankrupt and sold the property following the war. The term carpet bagger comes to mind. But again I’m sure a few exceptions undoubtedly exist.
The entire wall strert was built off slavery...literary this countries wealth was off the backs of enslaved Africans..the research need to be done...Lloyds of london, Lehman brothers, JP Morgan Chase, Aetna, NYLife insurance, Wachovia, N M Rothschild & Sons Bank in London, CSX trailway, Brooks brothers, AIG, USA today , Tiffany and Co, Barclay, HSBC all apart of human trafficking and the list goes on... Not to mention the reparations slave owners were given By the US government after Having to free the enslaved Africans
@@m.lewizz3297 Get over it man. My great great great great great great grandma was the most prolific slave owner in Scott County, Tennessee owning a total of 22 slaves. Guess how much I benefit from that? I don't! My dad and mom were very poor and that just proves that the wealth that my great great great great great great grandma had is LONG gone. I do not benefit from the fact that my ancestors owned slaves. That is ridiculous.
Being an abolitionist doesnt mean Lincoln wasnt a white supremacist. His debates with Douglas he declared whites would always be superior and freed blacks were like children needing white guidance. FACTS
Always that one...or two white people that try to even the score by bringing up something they probably heard in passing, umm free blacks bought other blacks, mostly family members, had to even make some indentured, they weren't buying and owning them to mistreat them.
when my people came here (Irish ) famine drove migration we were forced to pay huge sums of money for passage in the ships hold in the same conditions. plus an Irishman was worth half the price of a black man All started at the bottom you have to work your way up
Man quit it. Irish people were not held in chains forced to defecate and urinate on themselves due to the fact that they couldn’t move. Nor were they forced to come up on deck to dance so their muscles stayed strong, they weren’t forced to endure sexual assault by the crew. They weren’t “forced” to pay huge sums of money, however they chose to so they could escape the great famine.
More like lying about it. Some plantation owners were black! Using other blacks as slaves. That is what it was, at those times. All peoples were used at slaves. Barbary Coast, millions white by black muslims.
Wide scale slavery still exists in the United States in schools and prisons, where people are held in captivity against their will and forced to do work against their will under the threat of punishment.
@@cp3jordan956 United States History. Remember that high school class you said was totally boring and slept through? Yeah, that one. They said soem things in it... about the first 100 years of US history that involved killing a bunch of Indians and enslaving a bunch of dark skinned people and working them to death.
And in present day a former Republican President by the name of Donald J Trump fought like hell to help preserve and protect that Democratic American History.
Perhaps it would be edifying for you to learn the story of William Ellison? Mr. Ellison was a former slave in South Carolina who presumably purchased his freedom. Mr. Ellison had a very valuable skill, he could repair cotton gins and once free set himself up in that business and became quite successful. So successful, in fact, that he was able to purchase a very respectable home, hundreds of acres of land, and owned nearly 70 slaves. It seems, therefore, that the institution of slavery was not a uniquely "white" institution, as the current history of both Africa and the Middle East demonstrate quite clearly.
@shanceeaton9508 why are you obsessed with hiding them? The truth is easy to twist if you have a political goal, but im interested in the whole truth. My ancestors were enslaved for 400 years in North Africa, but that isnt a popular thing to speak about. It doesnt have any political value today. People are evil, but we need to move on with our lives, so that we can better ourselves. There are people who get rich off of retelling old stories and manipulating groups of people into not bettering themselves. I dont care what color of skin a person has. I only care about their character. I hope that people can learn the ways of peace and love and put away their hatred of each other. Hatred and war only benefits the wealthy.
Start all the slave owners were Jewish but a lot of them were it just so happens Jewish people look white but they are not ask you if they're white they'll tell you no depending on the time of day if they're pushing diversity they'll tell you yes😂
That's why I moved to Liberia I would much rather be in my motherland with my own people been staying around a bunch of people that don't want me. Everybody's different but I felt I would be the bigger man and leave let them do what they want in their Homeland and I'll go do what I want in mine and it's honestly pretty peaceful other than the Civil War a couple years back. But that happens United States might end up in a civil war in the near future. They brought us here but they can't keep us here sister. I welcome you back to the motherland
Who brought African Slaves to the Americas and Caribbean. The ships were owned by wealthy Democrats who lived in southern New England, namely Rhode Island.
You are but one man who has a heart for wickedness and wickedness you shall do. As a rabbit runs for a hole, so shall your hand do as it diggs to its way of wrath, you who practice lawlessness, repent and seek to give God the glory.
That's because this list is incorrect. Aaron Lopez Moses Levy Jacob Franks Isaac Levy Nathan Simpson Justus Bosch John Abrams Henry crueger Jacob Phoenix Mordecai Gomez Nathan Marston Abram Lyell William DeWolf I can keep going I have a very long list this is the list of the people that owned the boats that brought them here. If we're going to go over the people that bought them we should also go over the people that sold them and yes they were Jewish.
It's not that you blame it all on them is that they took part and they should also receive some of the blame they should receive a just amount of the blame proportional to how much they took part over wait a second wouldn't that be judging them for something that they didn't even do because those people are all dead😂 so why would we be blaming white people either we shouldn't be f****** blaming anybody how about just get a f****** job😂😂😂
Very informative...glad that Era did not last long ...Slavery is still going on today in Africa and the Middle East. Someone needs to shine light on that too.
Beverly Balius that maybe true but it’s still don’t takeaway how black people were treated in the 40’s till the present time now! I mean the 60’s were terrible having no rights in the place you live is just like slavery honestly!
Beverly Balius -> alas, That's not likely to happen as long as we are simpering and grovelling at the bloodstained feet of Saudi Arabia & the Gulf States.
But God can.... most Americans don't and never had morals. Your heart is the guide. It tells you when you're doing wrong. Jesus had morals, that would measure up to today's standard. Please stop making excuses for evil. This includes all person involved. From the Africans that sold humans to the Europeans who bought and shipped them.
Interestingly, almost no African-Americans freed by the union adopted these surnames. Where's Hightower? It seems like every person with the surname Hightower is African-American.
cayogator- some indeed did- though the punishment if caught was lynching and often worse -some joined natives in the south - ther'are still remnants of proud mixed race amerindian/african people for example around New Orleans.
I'm white and it appals me that black human beings were held in bondage, and endured inhumane treatment. This was a horrific practice that should have never happened. I'm truly sorry that slaves had to endure the cruel treatment which some of their masters brought upon them...In the past, their was much suffering brought upon humanity.. and Our God, hears the suffering of all and in due time brings about about the freedoms of such. We live in the future where racism still exist. We are all Gods children and should treat each other as such.
Barbara, Wake up. The word slave is rooted in the use of using slavic peoples for labor against their will. Slavery has been going on since the beginning of time, practiced by all peoples. Islam was the largest violator and still is to this day. The Christians outlawed it in the civilized world in 1820 or thereabouts.
Barbara Blansett Don't feel sorry. Get out your checkbook and write a nice fat check to the NAACP. Slavery existed for centuries in every country. It's in the Bible. The only difference is that we encourage white guilt liberals like you to keep its memory alive. It's become the new holocaust guilt.
What about those who would and do make debt slaves of us ALL?! Little is mentioned of their role in the traffic of human beings even though they and their relations played a significant part.
"Slave owners" in Bible times were supposed to treat the people well, as if they were family members. There were laws to govern the way slaves were treated, and the "slave-owners" could not own them for longer than a particular period of time. Some "slaves" chose to stay with the persons they worked for after their period of "slavery" was ended because they were treated so well. They were more like employees who needed to work to pay off a debt/loan. They were not treated abominably without recourse, as opposed to what we have seen some were treated in more modern times. It's important to note how many different peoples were enslaved in this modern period. This is was not restricted to African slaves, i.e. Irish, and others. There were many countries from where they originated.
Its funny you say that because , I've been Googling that and trying to learn what companies today were founded on slave money but Its not in the open.Maybe even hidden.. Maybe I'll have more answers after I research these men.
Let’s not forget, slavery was legal. I’m sure many folks had reservations about the purchase of a human however the potential Commerce got the best of them. Like anyone would do. If it’s all you know.
John+ What about it? Pinks were known to trespass or invade shores of land that they weren't indigenous. Therefore they were held captive and put into slavery after being captured on shores that their feet doesn't belong. Rightfully so.FACTS!
I wonder what happened to the Hairston plantations? At one time the family owned a string of plantations that extended from Virginia to New Orleans and was the richest family in America.
No wonder why they wanted slavery to last forever. However some of these plantation owners weren’t too quick-witted. The funny thing is that southern politicians usually invoked the religion. Did they ever say that everything was just about money?
They didn’t. Every - even marx - knew slavery is the least productive form of labor and retards the growth of modern economy. Southern slave holders wanted to get rid of their slaves and take advantage of the better European labor, the problem was what to do with the slaves. You can clearly see the damage caused in the unified states by simply letting them go free. Blacks have destroyed whole cities in the United States without building a single block. They’ve always been extremely violent, and the slave owners knew this.
did y'all forget Africa sold their own people as slaves to start it was the English bottom and brought them over here there is also slavery in the North and there were slaves in the South and fought for the Confederacy how ignorant people are not to do their research
Yah redemption Promise exactly !!! Amen ! And it’s sick how people are such slaves to money and all the other evils in this world. Those people deserved no respect. But God is going to handle them just like his word promised
Yah redemption Promise we Southerners of course are glad that Era is over with.....but all Historical Monuments and Statues and Cemeteries of Soldiers were given PROTECTION UNDER THE LAW. IT IS THE LAW......that being said...it was a terrible time in Our History and just remember....only a small percentage of Americans owned slaves.... I think i read like 3%....Most Americans at that time in the South lived just as Poor as Slaves lived.... Of course at least they had their Freedom so I am not taking up for it.
Punishing people for their parents actions is an evil deed & you should know better than to believe the Bible. The Bible was made to deceive. Your religion is a lie.
@@breAnnasmama You're technically on the far more evil side than any of those people. You're judging people. God never promised to punish anyone. To the contrary the Bible isn't even God's word.
tony G first of all the title of this video is called the biggest plantation owners second yes there were black slave owners but many many freed slaves would often buy their family members or figurative kin, Yes some were mean but not all.
@@natturner8641 Actually, yes...there were. There were several black slave owners here in Louisiana that I know of. I know it's hard to believe, but it's true...
That sounds like some bull to me. The only ones I’d agree with, based on WHITE surnames that blacks took as their own after the plantation slavery system finally died off, is Calhoun and i know i saw the name Franklin too. Plenty of black and white wandering the south and US today w those last names. But no, there must’ve been a biiggg owner w surname of Williams and Jackson. Both are very British surnames and still very white surnames in merry old England but not in the US. Unless someone has info directly refuting this, that’s my understanding of how and why so many black people and families today have British, Scottish, Irish, or even French surnames. I’m not here to trigger anybody though anyone under 30 probably will be just by my profile 🤦🏼♀️🙄... breathe ok. just came across this video and played to see the supposed big players. For the record I most certainly do oppose slavery of every kind. I don’t have to hate you in order to have love, respect and hope for my own race.
Inventories of enslaved people are well documented and this list of 9 slavers has no significant bearing on the surnames of descendants of enslaved people today. Some formerly enslaved names kept their plantation owners names and some chose new names.
It's a very dark spot in all of human history, yet we are the only country that nearly destroyed ourselves to stop it. And we are still fighting over it today. Which is stupid. Not everyone in the South had slaves. And not all slaves were black. Yet the government and our society today still, penalizes the entire region because of it. It's a talking point that has been beaten to death, but people keep resurrecting it. If you want to stop racism, stop talking about it. Morgan Freeman, a very intelligent and wise Southerner.
Unfortunately it is not so easy when slavery was abolished America continued to brutalised and mistreat black people who will always be seen as people of low value collectively you may get the odd musician or sports star which the world adores. But the world system will break if it starts to treat the black collective with equality. No point black people looking for equality in usa. Black people need to Align themselves to themselves the creater
If we are to heal from this then the ancestors of these horrible people must make amends. But still black people have to endure all of the things that represent this country and most of it’s forefathers being a reminder of the horror our people endured
@@kevinstubbsjr9851 that's stupid. How do you determine who the "ancestors" of these people are? And how do you determine who had enslaved family members? And do you also give reparations to the Irish slaves decendants cause from what I understand some of them were treated far worse and endured just as bad conditions as the black slaves. But I tell you what, let them figure out how much has been given out in welfare, food stamps and affirmation action for each individual that they decide to give to and subtract that from the take. Go back generations on that. This whole nonsense is just more democrat smoke screen, designed to keep everyone at each other's throats while they slit all our throats. SMH🤦♀️
This information does not do me any good if you can't tell me what corporations they represent today. Get back to me on that and I will make sure to never do business with them.
Phillip Long Phillip if they put your brain on a razor blade it would look like a BB rolling down a four lane highway.Your obviously deflecting. I,m done dude,I'll give you the last word.
no slavery in Uganda huh? man it shows how ignorant people are here in america, and shows your ignorance of any other country except for the one you hate, America,..I think you should take a trip to Haiti and see how free they are under the control of the UN, dumb ass you are
Henry Watson dude if the Europeans left North America this place would be a sewer just like the whole continent of Africa !! Everyone in the would wants to live in the paradise in America created by the whites if the whites left it would just be another ghetto
