A look INSIDE of an African Slaves House in South Carolina 

Thank you all for viewing and commenting. I appreciate your comments and respectful perspectives on this video and the information shared. If you enjoyed this video, you may also enjoy my video filmed at Drayton Hall Plantation in Charleston, S.C. The video is entitled, "Africans Buried in the Backyard of Drayton Hall Plantation" | Black Babies Used as Alligator Bait You can view it here,ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0_m_TSWOvFE.html In addition, you may want to view my video on the Tuskegee Airmen monument in South Carolina. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NFS76aCXWEg.html Enjoy! ✌🏾🙏🏾💖🌻😊

if those tress could talk omg OUR ANSECTORS paid the price just cuz of our color I honestly believe EVERY SINGLE ONE OF. THEM ARE IN HEAVEN WITH GOD!!

As a kid, I remember houses like these. Some white folks still referred to them as the slave quarters or the slave shacks, and they still housed black people as late as 1970. They were lined up along a dirt road behind the B&B Big House (the old plantation mansion) where I stayed for one summer. The people living in those shacks still did the same work they had always done. I ate at the smoky Black Shack because it had the food I liked: fried catfish, fried chicken, BBQ ribs, black-eyed peas, green beans, corn, mashed potatoes, biscuits, etc. The white operator wouldn't accept my business, because it was for black folks only. However, the blacks bought the food for me, and one time when I was low on money, an old black man paid for my dinner entirely. Now I have to pass on his generosity forever.

The trees know all the truth!

It is heartbreaking to see how small the homes for the slaves were, compared to the mansions they built for themselves. This small house looks like a large dog house. It is a shame what was done to these slaves. God bless all the slave’s children.❤️🙏

I think with we have to stop referring to our ancestors as slaves. Our ancestors were “enslaved” against their will. So we need to refer to them as “the enslaved.” Thank you.

I'm in Greenville, SC and we (SC)do have a lot of deep rooted history. Some good some bad..a huge thank you to my ancestors for being strong enough to endure the pain just so we can be here today. Thank you ❤️

IT takes a true Demonic person with no Soul!!To treat another Human being like that, While sleeping peacefully at bedtime!A True DEMON!! However I'm knowing in my soul,Thier day will come, When standing in front of Our Almighty God in Heaven,In the name of Jesus Christ Amen 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

My paternal grandmother was the daughter of a line of slaves. She told us younger generation the stories of her parents. As a child, she lived on land that belonged to the old slave master. She referred to him as "Old Marse," which meant "Old Master." So, my grandmother, who was born 133 years ago, saw slave owners with her own eyes. Even though slavery was said to have ended in 1865, African Americans endured Jim Crow, meager wages, debt peonage, and often unfair sharecropping among other disadvantages. Many lived in the old slave shacks as they worked on the plantations after the Emancipation Proclamation.

When I was a girl my grandfather (born in NC 1902) told me that his grandmother was a slave who told him that when she went to town the white man would tie her to the post along with the horses. White people did not consider blacks as human. Remember three fifths of a human being.

My grandma was on one..When i found that out, i realized how close and connected i am to what happened to our people. And it made me realize why my ancestors so heavily protect me.

They never talk about this kind of stuff in American schools.. The true history of America...

Before my grandma passed away decades ago,she took us to a plantation in South Carolina and as we were walking she said,this is where I was born. I could not believe it,I was absolutely shocked and filled with all kinds of emotions. She never wanted to return to the south as she hated it,but I reckon it was her saying goodbye.

I’m from South Carolina and we have alot of hidden deep history

There's a spirit of depression, fear and oppression, and desperation that dwells in those places!!

This is deep. Being from Mississippi I wanted to know more about who I am so I sent my DNA to Ancestry and found that this is the region where my ancestors were first slaves. They were from Cameroon and Nigeria.

My oldest granny has experienced this.she told me everything. It's so hurtful

My ex-husband took me to Puerto Rico when we were married we toured the islands and we saw the chains that was inside the cement that they used to hold the slaves legs and arms with it was devastating to me I was only 20 years old and to see it in person it hurt my soul that humans has actually go through that

You cannot go through this and not feel some kind of way for how slaves were treated

you don’t need to apologize even if you were upset. you have a right to feel whatever it is. this was a tragedy that happened but also a triumphant time where those men & women went through to help their future generations to never go through it again.

The fact they mention rice as a cereal crop on that plantation is a big clue as to the origins of those enslaved Afrikans. They were sought for their skill and background in growing and harvesting west Afrikan rice for thousands of years.

I from Oklahoma slaves also walked the Trail of Tears!!!

Buildings like these must be preserved forever; so we (and the world) never forgets.

If I would've been alive then I would have been on the underground railroad to help free people. Slavery was so wrong. I am white and have nothing but love and respect for peoples of all color. No one should be repressed due to their color or culture.

Amen to all your prayers. I'm white Christian and RU-vid brought me here. I'm so sorry that slavery happened and continues to happen to this day actually. God sees all and those who do not repent will be brought to account. X

How could so called hurman being do this to other people.

It still aches my heart what the slaves had to endure. Awful.

The trees are alive. Yes the earth will cry out.

Billie holiday-strange fruit.......listen to it she talk about what was going on in the south

Our country was founded off of slavery and the hardships that these unfortunate souls endured. Our country was founded off the exploitation of others whether it be the Blacks, Natives or Asians. It was truly evil on how our founders have treated these groups and how our country is still treating them today.

I’m from Mississippi (one of the worst states to be a slave in) and the delta still looks like this ...I got sad every time I ever rode thru there🙏🏼🙏🏼

When you start researching your family history you realize you don’t have to go back too far in time to locate your enslaved relatives. My 96 year old mother remembers a woman who was a slave. This woman happened to be her great grandmother born in 1848 Mississippi.

I am working on a family tree and have been able to find my great great great grand parents...born 1853 and 1857...... Now when I have names...and working on getting photos....saying slaves vs thinking of my actual family members names....it feels sooooooo different. I concur as someone mentioned in another comment....the word slaves make it sound so impersonable and reduces them 💕💕 It wasn't who they were born to be or an identity they took on willingly.....it was what somebody else made them, a life forced on them 🙏🏾🙏🏾💕💕

Thank you for sharing this video. I think all our younger generations need to learn more about our history. I think all the slave houses should be left and not torn down or hid. Because this is what happened in history and should not be hid or forgotten. These were our Ancestors.

I visited the African American museum in DC. The upper floors were about musicians and accomplished black people including inventors, doctors and politicians. The lower floors showed the horrors, the slave ships, cuffs that looked too small and other terrible things. They had full sized slave quarters set up. They didn't have doors, since the enslavers felt free to come in any time. Very moving. Everyone should visit. And the cafeteria was fantastic.

It hurt knowing in your imagination how they lived in fear everyday of there lives beaten raped abrused the worst of food they had to eat whatever yes it hurt when i see this and it bring tears

I grew up in a home very similar to that which was left to my grandma from her grandmother ( my great great grand) located in Huntsville Texas and set 1/2 a mile from the penitentiary. We were told that my great great great grands received their 40 acres and a mule in which the house was then built. It still sits on the land but with tons of trees growing over it. The younger generation are so wrapped up in their lives that no one wants to invest in the up-keep. However, it’s formed around a massive about of history. History seems to be forgettable when our grands and great grands leave this world.

These videos are so hard to watch but I can't stop. I figure if they can live through it the least I can do is learn and hear their stories.Wish I knew who was where and when as far as my family. God bless.

I've been to The Middleton Place in SC , which is a slave plantation. It was very educational, I highly recommend that others do visit one of then. And she's right, you can almost feel their presence there. And the place also feels peaceful.

So sorry this was done to all these beautiful people.❤️🇨🇦❤️

We are all brothers & sisters in Christ and one day the people who began this evil deed will have to answer for this. No human being deserves this kind of treatment. Thank you for sharing this. This caused my heart to ache! 😪

It's important to honor your ancestors. I believe you can still feel their presence in Mississippi.

I’m from New Orleans Louisiana ..I had grown up around these beautiful regal and majestic trees I’d loved the Spanish moss hanging down off of this oak trees there are many varieties that Spanish moss will grow on… I also have seen many times I have voodoo well often bring in Moss Into their rituals… Including Moss voodoo dolls..There’s quite a lot of history with these trees and the fungus Which is Spanish moss.. but truly there’s no lie these trees these beautiful live oaks have seen so much they have seen pain happiness sadness torture and they still give their protection whether it’s for somebody hanging (Because of the open arms of the trees welcoming) for Marriages ( welcoming arms) they bring solace and peace to those in need... that is what I was raised to believe that is what I feel… I don’t look for backlash I mean no harm but as a born New Orleans Native ...We have deep ties to go in and go back 7 generations

Wow, this is a strong video. I try to teach my daughter factual history. More then the Pennsylvania public school system teaches her. As sad as this is, I cannot wait to show her this video to give her a true understanding of the hardships that your and many of others ancestors had to live.

California ❤️ I grew up down South,went back and those houses still stands ✝️🙏🏾✝️🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

I recommend everyone to on a road trip( when life is better) and look at this history. I am white and from the north,my mother would seek out these places for me to see on our way to now Orleans,once a year. Extremely eye opening.

If they can live through that, surely We can survive and thrive through THIS- whatever the 'this' is in your life, (poverty, depression, death in the family, disease, loneliness, being talked about, lied upon, innocent and being thown in jail, and so on... even Covid!). Surely 'We' Can take up the banner, and with God, ...'GO ON'! 🙏

Thank you for this video. This is also something that I want to do. Interestingly enough, you mentioned the feeling of the Mossy Oak tree. Those trees have withstand a lot of injustices. You CAN feel the energy. I always go and touch the trees. I feel that I'm paying homage to the ancestral energy that still exists among the trees. Loving this video.

The value of these videos as a very graphic depiction of African American history is invaluable!

My husband is from South Carolina, and we spend a lot of time here in the Carolinas (we live in California, where I'm from). Just driving around his home place, we see a lot of these deep into the woods 😔.

I kept looking at the tree on the left thinking about how many slaves hung from it. Sent a shiver up my spine n a tear out my eye.

My ancestors from Ghana landed in Surinam,and when they saw the abuse ,they took off to the deepest forest and were never caught.They called them the Marroons. I AM IN THE USA and I still speak the African dialects and Dutch.Those houses look like the houses from the village that were build for the marroons after slavery because the Dutch had to build a dam.The white Dutch(Netherlands)people are kindhearted and they love blackwoman.

Heartbreaking... And this nation believes just because they gave us Barack Obama, that was recompense. SMH. America could never pay us back. If those trees could talk, my... What a story they would tell us!!

A weeping willow in the background, how appropriate.

Everytime I'm in the south i feel my ancestors! When i drive past any farm that has cotton growing or anything else growing! And some of the old structure 's that look like it could be from back then!

I’m from SC deep in the country and man now that I think about it all these old house we use to play in growing up might have been slave housing 🧐😧. But I’m not gonna lie you can real life feel the presence and how strong spirited inside of these houses is

I pray that all of the slaves who went through such suffering are in heaven now. Thank you for doing the video.

Even my bedroom is bigger than that house this is so sad and awful all because a man don't want to work for themselves they enslaved others and people still want to treat people this way to this day

The wood used to build it and the surrounding structures were more than likely to have been felled, milled, sawed and nailed together by those Afrikans too

I think South Carolina was the first state to secede from the union after firing on Fort Sumter. I've been studying a lot about the history of slavery in the civil war.. The first African American that entered the White House it was invited in by Abraham Lincoln was Frederick Douglass. I listen to it narrate if book about Frederick Douglass was a fantastic person. I love history

R.I.P....TO EVERY BLACK SLAVE!!!...THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS VIDEO!!!.... IF ONLY THE TREES COULD SPEAK!!!... UNDOUBTEDLY THIS IS APART OF BLACK HISTORY... EVEN AS CRUEL AS IT WAS!!!🙏🙏💔👍

This video is so emotional. God Bless our ancestors. May your souls continue to rest In peace. We stand on their shoulders. Thank you!!💖💖. My maternal and paternal grandparents were born in slavery, so this wasn't long ago. Thanks for the video. I'm so glad this video was in my recommendations. You have a new subscriber to your channel. 💖💖

The instant I saw that huge tree on the left (0:22), my first thought was: "If only that old tree could talk."

😭YEAH WELL, IM "SAD", VERY "SAD" AND DISTURBED ABOUT WHAT MY "ANCESTORS WENT THROUGH"!!💝

Looks like the house my Mom grew up in in Eastern Ky. She was a privledged white person with 10 siblings.

It's heart breaking

Can you imagine how many got killed because of Karen like behaviors, to die knowing you are being lied on must have been especially hurtful and scary.

Thank you for putting all of these together, I'm just jumping in, and find this very humbling and pray for those that paid the price for stupidity. What I have learned of the slaves I feel they were mostly full of faith and hope to have lived the life they did. God Bless

Glad to find this video on South Carolina. I just looked online to find information on the African and African American communities of GA, FL, NC, Florida and found nothing except there were plantations there. The history of the Jewish immigrants and the railroads are well documented but there was little comparatively on the family names of Native Americans and the African (enslaved then freed populations} African - American populations. I remembered meeting Ser Seshsh Ab-Heter - C.M. Boxley at a National Park Service underground Railroad conference in the early 2000's. I had received several emails from him on the Forks in the Road projects throughout the years. I am so glad to find these videos. Document! Document! Document the exitance of your family please. Teresa R. Kemp Nana Efua Adadzewa 1st, Queen Mother Mankessim Traditional Area Central Region Ghana Africa, @1KeeperoftheFire

You are so right alot of people forget that tree's have life

I hope you will continue to do this. As a lover of history and a family tree deeply connected to it, I have subscribed and look forward to your work. I have studied history as my favorite topic for about 68 years and can never get enough.

Lord carry us

You saying you can almost feel their presence hit home for me! It’s so true! You really can feel it!

Thanks,my sister those who are running from their past are only running from their future,we need to know our past to measure our future How far we have come along

My grandmother said they had to sleep on dirt floors and it was so cold thank you father for taking care of our ancestors

You just feel the pain of what our ancestors went through that's all....😔🙏

It breaks my heart really how could people do this to other people 😞 so sad. I know it's in the past but still it happened and can't be brushed under the carpet 😭

Hello Ama! Thanks for sharing a glimpse of a piece of our ancestral history. If those (original) walls could talk.. 😢 Many blessings to you in your travels!

I'm from tennessee and this looks real similar to what poor whites of my area lived in in the same area. Really all the way up though the forties.

Beautiful sis! Salom Alaikum! Moms ppl from Carolina and I used to live sitting at my grandmas feet listening to stories of olden days.

as a Canadian we hardly learn about slavery in the USA. such an educational video

those are call sweet grass basket is even known today on the Coast of SC all the way down the South East coastal Georgia

Stay resting in Peace Beautiful Souls,In the name of Jesus Christ Amen 🙏🏾🙏🏾❤️

This is amazing that this was done. Such powerful work. Great narrative as well.

I'm so glad my Grandmother always talked about her life as a young girl.

Recently visited SC and a few plantations. Everyone who has an opportunity should, to see the part of history we read about, but actually being on the grounds that so many were exploited and treated worse than animals is sad and humbling and even more educational. It’s so hard to believe this went on for 400 years, horrific shameful history.

Visited one in the mid 90's and I have a pic of tears rolling down my face as I stood inside looking out of the only window. Dirt floor, wood stove were the two things there in room about 10x10. The spirit/atmosphere in the room was heavy!

Those trees tell the truth, wow

Beautiful and Thank You for bringing awareness to those who do not know the 'real truth' of history, from South Africa.

Oak trees can stand the test of time .... if they could talk

I Believe that's ramp, you just walk up & in. Great video ty

Great video. This is why we need to teach the younger generations in the urban areas that we are ALL equal. Period. I have a family friend who is from the south and her family endured this and they are the smartest, hardest working, god fearing people I know and who teach their children to have the same ethics unlike some of the entitled kids out here now who will say things like “that guy over there looks racist” and it’s just a white guy walking down the street, with literally nothing else to go on. This is both educational and Informative. Thank you!

This reminds me of a the Boone hall plantation my husband and I visited few years ago in SC. They had several original homes of the Guichee slaves that lived and worked on the plantation. I mean I enjoyed the visit learning history and way of life. They had a live play of a young lady who told the story over their day in life. Didn’t care about the house much. They kept the grounds beautiful

Most definitely! America is going to hell! The government needs to REPENT!

Thank you for the prayer you included. God bless them.

I am born and raised Charleston SC. You haven't mentioned where this video was recorded unless I missed that part. Based on others comments other are wondering the same. In Downtown Charleston off of Ashley Ave there is a tree we call the Hanging tree that they refused to remove because it's a part of " History" There is also McLeod Plantation that still produces cotton, and still has several slave quarters. Most of us who are native to James Island have to drive past it every day.

Thank you for sharing this video! Sincerely!! Tears! Blessings an Prayer to our ancestors!

I went to a plantation here in Md an I just couldn’t take it, i got mad as I thought about who lived there and what happened to them,I had to leave.

Thanks for sharing. I truly believe the ensalaved were brave and they should be remembered as such. And many Africans in Africa to this day, live in small cabins some not even this nice.

thank you so much for this video I live in Nashville Tn and my house that I rent is right behind the Hermitage. every time I go in my kitchen and cook or wash my dishes I can see the plantation and sometimes the feelings that well up inside of me. my house is huge my neighbors are nice but still just to know what i see every day,