Habitation Haydel 

Thank you for giving Black Americans who were enslaved the justice of their story being told. This happened to millions of Blacks. Too many people still don’t know his horrific history. I’m glad you are giving it the respect it deserves. From using the term “enslaved” humanizing my ancestors when for so long we were/still get dehumanization. So much respect and love to you! THANK YOU!

As a black male living in America, I'm glad that one of the best storytellers is shedding light on history. It's a lot of states trying to jump over this period in time and it's good for everyone to know that America hasn't been the best to all its citizens.

Learned more from your history, than was taught in school. Black woman who loves your meticulous work.👊

I’m addicted to somewhere sinister AND this is monsters lol. You are a master storyteller my friend.

as a black woman living in Texas, these stories are being untold and I often am looked at with wild eyes while telling non black people these things. thank you for being a non black person keeping this history alive by retelling these horrid stories.. it is not about us being angry. it is not about ‘living in the past’. it is about not reliving such things by being aware that they happened in the first place.

Well told! Thank you so much for saying "enslaved workers" throughout. It's much more humanizing. I realized you alternated between that and calling them slaves, however I appreciate the effort. I know it is still somewhat "new" way to characterize these beings that way. Just found your second channel and am binge watching. I love the sound of your voice.

Great story. These stories MUST be told, so that we never go back in time.

Dude! I really do think this would be a cool series…like covering different slave instances in the southern states. It’s a painful part of US history that needs to be heard! Keep up the good work!!

While hunting for morel mushrooms, I found a good place that was on private property. I knocked on the front door and asked the elderly lady there if she minded if I hunted for morels in the woods near her house. While there, I noticed a ramshackle old building with no windows and a rusty bar to lock the outside on the front door. As I left, thanking her with some of the mushrooms I'd found, I asked her what the building was for. "Oh, that's where muh great, great grandpappy kept the help," she replied. Not until walking away did I realize she must've meant slaves, and was mortified.

Future story should be Black Wall Street 🤗😁💯 Thank you so much for this one💛 very well told

As an African American-i say thank you for covering this....not sure if i can listen all the way through just yet-so painful. Glad this information is getting to people! 🙏🏽

There is a case from the late 90's in Southeastern Georgia known as the "Tomato Patch Murder". It's interesting, salacious, and I bet you'd do an amazing video on it!🙂👍

Something that will always really bother me now that I’ve nursed two kids, is how the slaves weren’t good enough as people but their breast milk was good enough for your children??

As a African American with slave descendants thank you thank you thank you 🙏 You are brilliant and I love that this was put it we as a race continue to have struggles but they acknowledgement of where we came from serves as needed history to share and keep alive

Phenomenal and gripping, especially when one considers Tom’s story happened over and over. Enslaved humans wanted to be free. When one knows the history, everything going on today makes a bit more sense.

Thank you for the interesting content you consistently provide.

So heartbreaking. Thank you for this story. These stories must be told.

Thank you for covering this! Slavery was so glossed over when I was in school. I read the Diary of Frederick Douglass as an adult and that’s when the true horror really sunk in for me. It should be required reading in every school in the USA.

In school we learned about this (went to a very diverse school) and between this and other countries held as slaves, its almost unbelievable how horrible people treated other people. its almost as if compassion and empathy wasn't even invented until the 70's when things BEGAN to change. and even to this day in places around the world they still treat people terribly. You covered this topic very well. keep up the amazing work!

Man, love your new channel. Really unique content.

I'm almost enjoying this more than "Monsters" notice I said almost. Each one has been better than the one before. I look forward to the next place

Slavery is a part of American history that many want to gloss over. Many don't want to think of their ancestors, their grandparents as being so wrong. Still to this day, half the country want to prop up the confederacy as heroes fighting for their cause. But the truth of it is much darker. Until we as a country reconcile with our past atrocities, we are doomed to continue spinning our wheels. We have to reconcile with the idea that being white and Christian isn't a good thing. The way Christianity has become in America, it's the most hateful, the most racist and the most dangerous organization we face. Anyone who can hide behind Jesus or the Bible to discriminate, or to be hateful, isn't worth wasting time on. Great video Peace ✌️

Great job! Continue to tell the stories of the silenced wherever that takes you we are better informed for it.

I was HOOKED to this one! When it was over i was like WELL DID TOM MAKE IT?? Omg or did he die or did he make a family. Ur killing me not.knowing.lol I LOVE both ur channels!! Been watching monsters for a LONG time! This channel is like as mind blowingly good!!!!

Both ur channels are 🔥 thank u for ur hard work n dedication when doing these cases. 😻

This is an excellently told story.

Great video. I can't believe the quantity of quality content you provide on this channel as well as Monsters. Keep up the amazing work.

Important note about the Thirteenth Amendment: It technically didn't *completely* outlaw slavery, it just shifted its practice into the American penal system. Article 1 of the Thirteenth Amendment states, "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." That whole, "except as punishment for a crime" part is an enormous factor in the institutionalized racism that still plagues Black Americans to this day.

Thank you for sharing my ancestor’s stories. I love both your channels. ❤️

Would love to see more content on these kinds of 'under-taught' sinister places. If you ever want to go north of the 49th parallel, Canada has plenty to choose from. As a country, we have a friendly, maplewashed image in the international community.... and it's built on a genocide that's never really stopped. The so-called residential school system alone has enough material for an entire series.

My ancestors were enslaved on Habitation Haydel. 🙏🏿 This is my first time listening to this podcast. The intro seems thoughtful. Listening to the rest now.

Thank you for this, they aren't teaching nearly enough of it in schools these days.

I’m early!!! Yay!!!! Love this channel!!!

Didn't think you would do one about my people, my ancestors who did everything I thier power to survive even though nobody cared about them. My heart ❤. I think about them every second of every day. They have doen so much for us to be free enough to walk the streets without getting hung everyday. These documentaries are usually about jews or native Indians but I do appreciate this so much. Thank you 💐

Jiles, your story-telling skill is unmatched.

As a black man this was eye opening. Thank you for the detailed research and well written educational documentary.

Wonderful historical account. I really appreciated the weaving of one man's escape with a bigger picture of history.

You are awesome. I never listen to slave stories because they paint them all as a docile monolith. I appreciate that you took the time to describe the individuality that existed. Also you explained the trauma that they experienced at the hand of slave owners on plantations that compounded their nightmarish existence. America likes to diminish it's culpability but what these owners did was beyond criminal, it was evil. And many of these white families and American institutions have what they have today because of slave labor.

I get so happy when I see that another Somewhere Sinister has been uploaded! Another excellent video- you're the best!

Thanks!

I love the opening music! It is perfect for the content

Finally made it over to this channel. Great storytelling in great voice. Thank you, this is a fascinating ep and topic. So much, and so fucking little has changed. There is no denying how baked-in racism is here in the U.S, and how said racism is still systematically rampant.

I've been to the Whitney plantation and just stepping on soil where my ancestors were enslaved,tortured, pillaged and murdered was quite the emotional experience. Thank you for telling this story!!

Hard to hear, but a good history refresher. Never, never forget. But be glad we've learned much since then.

That's absolutely amazing how far my people have come with soooo much evil barriers from those who will reap what they sow. God Bless

Thanks for telling our story. So many young people don't know it and many states are working to keep the information out of schools. This is so important. I'm glad you're using your platform so responsibly.

*Clicked and Saved* to show to my future grandbabies so they will learn their beautiful history, thank you young man for your always meticulous and thorough work👏🏾!!!

LOVE THIS DEEP SOUTH SERIES!!! As much as I LOVE THIS IS MONSTER !!

There was an Underground Railroad towards Mexico. When Mexico wrote its constitution so that any foreign slave that made their way to Mexico was free

As a British black person born and raised in East London which is the second most ethnically diverse place in the world second only to Toronto, Canada. I find it so abhorrently evil what my ancestors suffered in order to insure my existence. Why simply because an individual was unfortunate enough to be born to black parentage you were then consigned to a lifetime of bondage and suffering. I cannot thank God enough for the intervention of Abraham Lincoln. Possibly I'd not exist was it not for his courage in saying enough is enough of this morally corrupted society. I learnt a lot from this documentary and I've recommended it to all my friends and family to watch. Thank you so much for the enlightenment. Also the superlative narration is second to none. Big up bro and keep up the good work 👏👏👏

Imagine being so white that you got upset that Juneteenth became a federally observed holiday but then turn around 2 weeks later and celebrate your own freedom...

Thank you for this video

I really love this channel, and how hard it beats on the social injustices side by side technical notions. This channel makes a GREAT work. I always get the chills

Very interesting video. School left out pretty much all these horrifying details.. I think it’s very important for all this to be told & not glossed over.

Giles! I used to live in West Georgia on 20 acres. Unknowingly, I made it a point to get on the 4wheeler and learn the layout of the land and cannot believe how black families STILL live. I have many things from slave houses, partially collapsed Plantation houses, items dig up from around remaining fire places etc. I’ve sold most of the historical items however, I kept a few items. I have two hand sewn quilts with raw cotton batting ( we call them the good dream blankie). I have a cast iron shackle, cotton/seed separating paddle, handmade bricks, iron camp marker (ie soldier camp), a small bar of SILVER stamped AG. The bar of silver I had a Numismatics professor examine and it’s comprised of DEAD PEOPLE DENTAL WORK. If you ever want to know how and where to go exploring for historical treasure let me know. The land is a few miles from Warm Springs, President Franklin Delano Roosevelts backyard.

Thank you ❤

This is History. Not a sob "story"... these things really did happened. Thank you.

Thank you for being extremely respectful to black people. No side ra cist jokes. Side comments were funny and on point while being RESPECTFUL ✊🏾

Thank you for telling these stories

Excellent. We can never forget the cruel treatment these people endured.

Thank you for telling these buried stories of our nation's history and presenting them so well.

"He purchase two plantations.... and named them Carol and Whitney after his daughters... ...who married men with those last names." 😂 You got me there. Sounds like he named them after the guys his daughters married though. Lol!

For some reason, hearing you talk about Juneteenth brought me to tears. Somehow, so many people ridicule us for celebrating it and I don’t understand why. Thank you.

I'm again impressed by your work. Thanks so much for this one.

Sweet. Thank you . Great channel

1 of the best of all your amazing narrations. 💙

Oh wow! Thank you so much. I never knew they began breeding slaves because they could no longer gather them from Africa.

Magnificently and tragically accurate. Thank you so much!!!

I knew a lot of this from books but not about the new moms getting two breaks per day to feed their infants… how sad that thought is to me of a little tiny infant crying from hunger in a shack for hours wanting for it’s mom to return from the fields. We have come a long way as a society. So shameful.

15:17 Now...Buggs Bunny saying "What A Marooon!" makes more sense now

I too love this channel!!!

Talk about this and keep talking about it...that's the only way to counteract the frightening revisionism we're seeing more and more of in certain states' school curriculums. Looking right at you, Texas.

I love the fact you covered this. Know the area well. On the west bank of the Mississippi river.

I still can't understand how people thought this was ok!? Smh

I just love your channel been watching for years

I often think about the early days of America, when great minds were at work to create a Republic, industry was being invented, people traveled the land and made astonishing discoveries, and I am about to be so impressed by how American society was back then─ and then I remember we still had slavery. Nope, we were dumbasses.

Thanks for making us learn Soo much 🎉❤🎉 God bless 🙌 your family ❤🎉

I was able to visit the Whitney Plantation. Very very ummmm, sad but truthful experience. Thanks for a GREAT video!!! 💕💕

Thank you guys! Very good and important message. We are a mixed family and I've always wanted these guys to know the history of both.. the good and the horrendous. And hope that their generations will do better. 💔🙏🕊️

This gave me the saddest feeling

Excellent and so well-researched. 👏🏽

This video was extremely well done … Thank you very much …

Hello everyone!!!☀️Came from Monsters to Somewhere Sinister and I love it 💯

This was Sometime Sinister , not just somewhere. As you know this went on for many years.

Excellent!

I was not aware that you covered historical stories. Thanks for sharing

Always excellent. Great job, and thanks for the work that you put into this one example of slavery.

Fascinating. Thank you for doing this- you’re an excellent story teller, and you don’t pad out your narratives with irrelevant information. Very much looking forward to more of these. Cheers from the UK 🇬🇧.

Best episode yet...a much needed history lesson. Thank you.

I wish more RU-vidrs covered this era of American history!

Giles thank you so much for this..excellent

Parts of this country are starting to refusing to teach these parts of US history, these people deserve to have their stories told and not swept under the rug to help protect the narrative.

One of the most sinister stories of our short history.

Another great one 👍 thank you

This is a great video. Sometimes history gets lost in the details (many of which are boring details about politics, etc) so this is a great way to cut to what matters. It would also be amazing to hear about what it was like in places like Senegal and how these people were actually brought to the US.

Sorry to say. But when you spoke of the people being forced to work at 4am till after dark, had me thinking the work many of us do today only to make the company owners more wealth while we do the dirty work. Only to have barely enough for us to thrive. Certainly so given the huge inflation percentages lately. I’ll admit however, my opinion and what happened to the people of 200 years ago is NOT the same, in any way!

That was an amazing history lesson. I went to High School in 1960's and I clearly remember history books insisting that the Civil War was about State's Rights and NOT Slavery. when asked what the difference was, there was a lot of hemming and hawing, and the subject was quickly changed. I was fortunate to have a very hip Civics teacher who busted a lot of those myths with stories of the Jim Crow laws enacted that kept people enslaved. I also grew up in a very diverse Navy town in So. California so prejudice was not rife. It seems that a certain political party wants to drag us back in time to "The good ole days" stripping people of color, women and Indigenous people of all the hard earned progress. I hope you'll do a piece on the westward expansion of America and how this land's native people were betrayed at every turn. Thanks for all your hard work sir.

This should be on Monsters

I have at least one relative who fought for the Union in the Civil War.

Tough topic