I was blessed to have caught the tail end of the Old South. My grandfather and great grandfather did well growing cotton. I lived next door to my grandfather, and he was a big influence on me. He was happiest when he was working in his cotton fields. He was born in 1892. I worked in fields and a cotton gin in the Mississippi Delta in my early life.
My grandparents and great-grandparents lived on plantations in the Mississippi Delta. Listening to their stories, I was determined to graduate from college become successful.
I hope you have found the success I'm sure you've worked very hard for. I know things aren't as easy for some folks as they are for others, especially now.
15:10 ‐ 16:04 slavery adapting to the times , fast forward into today's slavery is live and well , just because you are getting paid it does not mean you are not enslaved , minimum wage is a joke , prison system is another branch to slavery, and just look who is the minority in prison and who is the majority. It's all systematic
Thank you for posting this informative video. I was attempting to show my son just how important cotton as a crop was to the South and how transformative Eli Whitney’s invention was and this video helped tremendously.
I feel a compulsion to state the truth, that's all. Slavery was also endemic to the entire US. When the North "freed" their slaves in the early 1800's, the slave owners often waited until the slave was just about the age to grant their freedom,(somewhere around 20, I think), then sold them South. That's where the expression "sold down the River" originated. Also, the Transatlantic Slave Trade originated and was operated from the North Eastern States, most notably Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
I enjoyed how with their approach of describing slavery like it was glamorous, and minimized all the free labor that was not discussed. The biggest export was cotton up until the civil war. 3/5 of the world was getting their cotton from the us. Upwards to over estimated 3 billon dollars, and keep in mind that you didn’t pay labor. Once that cotton gin was instituted with how cotton being more readily you need more salves because you were now able to pick/produce more cotton, which generated more income not more wages for those doing all the labor.. seeing all the phots in I guess giving hope to an already human trafficking, mistreating, dehumanizing, as if pictures was that of hope, not survival. History was knowing how many slaves took their lives instead of living in the institution of slavery and don’t get it confused, slavery didn’t end in 1865 the south and reconstruction era after the Lincoln was assassinated in how the south forced the union out, and with the emergence of the KKK slavery, and the fugitive salve act, slavery was back... through Jim Crow and civil rights era, and current mass incarceration era..Through laws in oppressing voting, convict leasing, intimidation, flat out the institution of slavery was wrong no race should have been treated that way.... systematically wrong, period! If you subscribe to the institution of slavery then you are the problem.
Christopher Clark Historical events influence more of the future than you’re likely aware of. So many of our current problems are cyclical at closer inspection. The invention of “sub-races” and its associated prejudices are indelible impacts on the human race. The less the past matters, the closer we are to repeating it in the future.
Of course it was a huge deal. I believe that would have changed regardless of that supposedly (civil war). Lincoln didn't even abolish it in the north until after the war was over. It's all politics. They don't actually care unfortunately. If so, they wouldn't have stopped there. It would be abolished world wide. And it isn't.
I like showing this to my students in order for them to grasp the intensity of Southerners on cotton and slave labor. I also stress how wrong slavery was and share slave narratives. An economy built off the back of brutality and forced labor on a great people who were kidnapped from their homes to build the south.
They were kidnapped by mostly the Dahome Tribe's African king and sold to Europeans. And they were shipped via the Transatlantic Slave Trade by New England slave ships. Slavery was an American institution, not merely Southern.
don't worry. everything they built general sherman destroyed. mississippi is widely known to be the poorest state in the union today. in the 1860 some of the largest wealthiest plantation owners had set up plantations there. slavery didn't end because of the civil war. it just turned into something that both white and blacks shared in.
@karenbartlett1307 Don't forget how the fugitive slave act gave southern human traffickers free liberty to take free black Americans up from up north into the slavery institution. Some of those free black Americans were not even born into slavery. But yet were kidnapped and dragged south to be forced to work on plantations and breed more slaves
Cotton was bought by the British from the Turkish Empire in the XVIII Century. After the cotton gin the North American cotton became CHEAPER for the British! So the cheaper cotton was engin for the textile branch of the industrial revolution.
But at the end of the season the white share cropper will tell the black share cropper. That he made no profit therefore he worked for free that after expenses are paying the black former food and other things that were needed that when all the work was done end of the year there was no profit slavery by another name as well
After the civil war they were also free to leave with nothing. But the tactic is this after leaving the sharecropper was simply say that you owed him money and had to work that debt off so you were not free to leave the whole situation was a catch 22. This is where your black laws also came in if you were stopped and did not have a job or any paper stating you worked out of specific place you were arrested for vagrancy in prison and loaned out possibly to the same sharecropper or other industries. Fannie Lou hamer left but her family stayed in order not to incur that or to pay off any debt owed due to the process mentioned above. But she had to leave simply because she wanted to register to vote. There is no freedom in that
@@maggiemae7539 What are you talking about. This is more than an issue of debtors Court. Black Freedman were arrested simply for not having papers stating they were working and caught up in sharecropping this is not Dennis Court they just were not paid and cheated out of their labor slavery by another name read the book. And the part about white people regardless to how poor they were they always had an opportunity to work their way up we did not The history of Birmingham Alabama sloss furnace as well as the minds. As well as so many other places in America. This was not Dennis Court this was simply imprisonment and forced free labor. This lasted in some places up until the sixties. Debtors Court lol
You know what I just realized..., rice papers gonna melt an dissolve in the mere rain.. so fwiw that currency would nevervhave been worth it from the GETGO lol thatd be a fun mess to have on ones hands if they were just even outside if during the rainy season... lols trynna not be soaked.
Without queen Soybeans, King Cotton dies because of the birth of George Washington Carver a slave we were able to keep cotton as King along with queen Soybean and prince peanut.
@@davec1615 In Brushton, New York, 30 people were caught committing welfare fraud. Wanna guess what “race” they were? White!!! How about the food stamp millionaire from Ohio another white guy caught committing welfare fraud while living in a mansion. And lastly in 2016 Donald Trump a millionaire payed $750 in taxes. (But that’s not stealing right?) The poor and middle class pay more taxes than the 1%. So who’s giving who what?
@Pack Action exactly. White peoples also ask the government for money and again pay less taxes.(not all white people) just like not all black and brown get welfare.
This is one reason.and only one.there are a lot more reasons blacks should be paid reparations.cotton was king for the united states a lot of money was made.off of free labor.
@@victordonavon292 I'll take your word on the exact quote because I don't want to back and search for it, but with that said, what difference is made by the use of the words "cotton industry"?
It was likely not so much that cotton was king as heroin and rum were king that was entering the U.S. from Cuba and South America by way of the Southern coastal states and distributed as far as Canada. It is the same situation nowadays with drugs and why the border state of Texas produces the most cotton and yet most likely drugs is KING entering Texas from the Mexico border. But also people are fooled when they are told that cotton needs a dry climate and so the draught conditions deliberately created by build up of bacteria and germs in the refusal of the community sanitation department to sanitize streets and dumpsters with cleaning products causes numerous life threatening illnesses therefore making hospitals and the medical industry KING in cotton communities. If people want a healthier community to live in then move away from the Southern States that have so much cotton and medical centers.
