Emmitt Smith's ancestor was trafficked at only age 11... 

In the UK they have tryed to get rid of slavery history even though some still exists and some slave owning family's still exist Thier decendents who proffered from this brutality tax payers in UK from 1837 till 2015 have been paying slave owning families compensation of losses these slave owners complained about because the slave trade brought them loss of buisness earnings apparantly so it took nearly 100 years to pay these slave owning decendents Thier compensation

Slavery has never ended it still goes on to this day in UK and many parts of the world it's absolutely disgusting that one human being could treat another like this it's dispicable in every sense

Oh yes they were!! They had a set place for this. Absolutely horrible!!😢

Yes disgustingly it was an active part of the slave atrocity! 🥲

You didn't know slaves were sent to breeding farms, that's how they increased their profit

Along with the Indians That is some of the shame of our ancestors.

I'm sorry you are JUST learning the truth of OUR country

If my direct paternal line was involved in slavery i would likely change my surname because i would be that ashamed. I know they aren't because they immigrated to the US in the 1880s from Germany.

I would be disturbed for sure. But I don't know if I would be ashamed exactly, because I didn't do anything. But it would make me wonder about any advantage my family had. Any money or education or standing or other advantages that had passed down through the generations. And I'd feel weird and guilty about that.

⁠@@junbh2agreed. It’s not something to be ashamed of. It is just history. You know better you do better going forward. That was the way of the world back then.

I'm curious, what is it about having an ancestor who was a Captain in the Revolutionary War that makes you ashamed? Most people are proud to learn they had an ancestor who was in the Revolutionary War, and to be an officer was an even higher honor. To my knowledge, there was absolutely no connection between the Revolutionary War and slavery, if that's what you're thinking. Are you confusing the Revolutionary War with the Civil War?

Damn RIGHT!!!!

I get it, slavery was incomprehensible and the constant reminders of it must be excruciating for some to hear but you ma'am do not have the right to tell descendants of those enslaved how to feel about America now. You don't have that right nor should you have the gall to do that regardless of how you may feel about it. There's no denying that what America did to those who were forced to build America on their backs and by their blood sweat and tears happened and bc of it, slavery will forever be a permanent stain on America's dark past but it did happen so if those who can live by the "lest we forget" banner and can remember their loved ones with respect and without outside intrusions then why can't those enslaved descendants embrace their ancestral history the same way without the dismissals from the one's whose ancestors may have played a role in it and who may have also generationally benefited from it so the question is Why can't All Americans whose ancestors did not immigrate nor freely chose to come here originally have their moment of remembrance in peace and without outside introspections.

Grow up

@@sarge4455 So Grown that I'm not offended nor threatened whenever truth is revealed

OK, but not all slave owners stood their male slaves in front of a crowd and sodomized them as a form of punishment. Chattel slavery was a horrifying practice, and it was particularly well-developed in the early united states. We can't make things better if we keep pretending we don't know what happened.

Thank you!!! Slavery took place EVERYWHERE!!!

But I believe the States was the last to stop doing it. And half the country fought to keep it.

This show isn't a world history class. It's a personal family history. So no need to educate us on slavery around the world. His family history is in America...that's why he's talking about America. First Amendment is freedom of speech. You don't have to like it. It's HIS family history and HIS personal opinion.

Yea but there wasn't a form of slavery that happened like slavery in America... Nothing close actually.

​@@TheAmtwhiteslavery ended in Europe and America before Africa and the middle East and Asia did