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Capital FM presenter, and former JLS star, Marvin Humes visits Jamaica to track down his family history. However he's shocked to discover his black ancestors were slave owners! What will he discover next?
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@bethelshiloh 3 года назад

On these shows, people often feel proud or ashamed depending upon who their ancestors were. We don’t need to feel either. It is what it is. No reflection upon us.

@vestty5802 3 года назад

In truth people have good moral ancestors and ancestors who we feel ashamed to have

@mcr2356 3 года назад

@@vestty5802 Exactly. People forget 6 generations ago you'd have 124 direct descendents, let alone 10 generations.

@shakia_says 3 года назад

Actually it is a reflection on us. It’s what you do with it when you know better

@mcr2356 3 года назад

@@shakia_says Why do you think that?

@morgainedepolloc4161 3 года назад

Very good point. There are many who have the DNA of both slave owners and the enslaved. We need to reconcile for our own personal needs---this will make us more loving people . Public shaming will not lead to reconciliation, only division. No need for public shaming. We need to move forward. Also keeping in mind, skin color does not always identify those with enslaved ancestors or slave owning ancestors.

@petern1938 2 года назад

'I would like to think he didn’t treat them like animals, but that he was a good slave owner' - brilliant, I think this is called denial.

@rituraj4447 2 года назад

He is distinctly uncomfortable and is trying to come to terms with it.

@johntomlinson6849 2 года назад

@@rituraj4447 Er, lying....

@carib_feet69 2 года назад

What slave owner is good ?

@vaughangarrick 2 года назад

@Blackness _blackness some treated their slaves well....granted not many but some did

@user-pw6vl4jl5f 2 года назад

@@vaughangarrick yeh but Marvin's didn't 👀👀

@thenaturalhuman9568 2 года назад

Notice how rationalizes it once he finds out the truth “ i would like to think he didn’t treat them like animals”, the “but he was a good slave owner” line seems acceptable to him now, i wonder if it was before

@brittanyhayes1043 2 года назад

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@johntomlinson6849 2 года назад

Nope!!!

@johnl5316 2 года назад

...I am sure from my family tree that my ancestors had 100's of thousands of slaves over many centuries. It means that they were not losers

@nforne 3 года назад

"I've got one more record for you." Pure Columbo.

@titussoul64 3 года назад

Absolutely brilliant!!😂

@Pirosbor 3 года назад

Lol *starts to walk towards the door, stops and raises one hand with a finger pointed* "Oh...er...just one more thing..."

@bobapbob5812 4 года назад

Race relations and slavery in the Western hemisphere is more complicated than we admit.

@llcooljay520 3 года назад

Instead we like to just pretend those relations are over nowadays.

@bobapbob5812 3 года назад

@@llcooljay520 exactly.

@optimist-warmheart8291 3 года назад

very complicated

@rufdymond 3 года назад

If people are educated there is nothing of surprise here, certainly not to me…yes it’s complicated, but it really wouldn’t be any other way.

@crispybug 2 года назад

Very true My neighbour is Tunisian but after doing a dna test he found that he had some Cornish heritage which dated from the Barbary slave trade

@skippymagrue 4 года назад

The really sad part is there are so many slaves in the world now and there is so little done about it.

@32446 3 года назад

I deal with some of the aftermath of it in my work. It’s a tragedy.

@thethrashyone 3 года назад

It's easier for people sit around and moan about American slavery than to talk about the fact that you can literally buy another human being right now in another country.

@shakia_says 3 года назад

@@thethrashyone seriously?! “Moan” about it when it still affects people to this very day! Very insensitive and racial. Just because you’re outraged about something doesn’t mean you can’t also be equally outraged about other things too

@robertm2663 3 года назад

This is very true, and in some cases this modern slavery is the harshest type of servitude.

@wandamcgann7728 3 года назад

yes and they call it human trafficing

@vagabond-yj8pn 3 года назад

I just found out that I am the descendent of one of the slaves that Marvins 4 x grandfather owned. I think Marvin owes me some reparations!

@xxxxxx-tq4mw 3 года назад

The american vice president’s father’s family of, kamala harris, was also a major slave holder in Jamaica.

@nonenone9338 3 года назад

🤦

@wandamcgann7728 3 года назад

marvin did not do it, marvin can not help what his ancestors did just like you can't be responsible for what your ancestors did. so check your ancestory out you might owe him some reparations.

@cheese9144 3 года назад

the BLM movement wants to know your location

@bastifar1 3 года назад

@@wandamcgann7728 Then explain the "cancel culture" process to us.

@MarcoMazziniYT 3 года назад

This guy was shocked to learn the fact that not only whites owned slaves. If only he studied history.

@user-vd5ii4eo7u 3 года назад

You took the words right out of my mouth!

@msjannd4 3 года назад

I know!!!! Africans sold other Africans *to* America!!!!

@inthecalabash2759 3 года назад

He’s shocked because that’s his family…

@bnanaaasbrown9529 3 года назад

Stephanie No, simplifying a complex concept is pretending that slavery only pertains to the transatlantic trade. The fact is that the history of slavery goes back far longer than that and with even more unpleasant circumstances. It also continues to this day, and the African continent is rife with it.

@leefox3834 3 года назад

Who do they think they got them off originally

@ericaabawe8038 3 года назад

I could listen to that lady in the church all day - what a beautiful accent.

@mazinwonderland3077 3 года назад

We are only answerable for our own actions, not those of our ancestors.

@Lambchop2701 3 года назад

Absolutely spot on!

@Lambchop2701 3 года назад

@3rdclass Citizen who’s accountable and for what?

@kenrehill8775 2 года назад

Tell BLM that

@moragcampbell3577 2 года назад

@@kenrehill8775 👏👏👏

@Greenz1100 2 года назад

Generally, everyone should research their history. If anyone did research it is the Government that is answerable for the actions and the future funding. However, like Marvin, everyone needs to research their ancestors. I have researched mine and no slave owners in my ancestry. Research is key, Patel might create a law about it.

@saucywench9122 3 года назад

8:20 That moment you realize you know nothing about history.

@jimjiminyjaroo300 3 года назад

Yeah right. Eek.

@ShqipeKnocksMMA 3 года назад

No idea how this man is surprised about any part of his dna make up when he looks so ethnically ambiguous that he could look local in most parts of the world lol

@honest1296 3 года назад

History of people is so complicated. People who bleat on about who did what to who as though they know are foolish. People who imagine themselves born in that time being beacons of present day political correctness are foolish. No, they would just be a another cog in the wheel of that time.

@nickdial8528 3 года назад

Exactly right. No one knows who they would have been or how they would have thought.

@DRAZA247 3 года назад

The first slaves of the world were taken by their own people. It goes back thousands of years, its terrible but we need to be honest about everything and only then can we heal each other's pain.

@Linz0440 3 года назад

Go and read about the invention of race then.

@user-vd5ii4eo7u 3 года назад

PREACH!

@spongemaster 3 года назад

@@Linz0440 what do you mean by invention? Different races of humans with different physical characteristics have existed for as long as humanity has. It wasn't just something that someone came up with one day.

@lydiaedwards8100 3 года назад

@@spongemaster people didn't think of each other in terms of race. They thought of each other as different tribes or country men.

@schnek8927 2 года назад

@@lydiaedwards8100 ... which is exactly the same thing... In the end it still comes down to ”these people are different so i’ll categorise them”. Also, things exist even if humans haven’t come up with words for them yet, just sayin’...

@pattyloof 3 года назад

This was quite common in Louisiana also. As one of my cousins (a historian) said, "if you were rich, you owned slaves". They didn't see it as we do now. Who knows what actions we do now that our descendants will shudder at 200 years from now?

@morgainedepolloc4161 3 года назад

Was also common in Southeastern NC long before the US Revolutionary War.

@KellySmunt303 3 года назад

I think we're gonna look back in disgust that we enslaved and ate animals

@GORT70 3 года назад

@@KellySmunt303 if you have something intelligent to say, feel free. But this statement was pure stupidity.

@nutyyyy 3 года назад

@@GORT70 But it's a good point though isn't it? Eating meat seems natural for me and most people. Who knows if in 200 years it will be considered taboo or even criminal? Then we will all seem like monsters.

@warbler1984 3 года назад

@@GORT70 thank you for being so unintellectual

@iguanaman08 3 года назад

This is why we shouldn't judge people from the past. There's no point. Judge the man who is alive today.

@krtcampbell9007 2 года назад

Not there ancestors by no mean but a mans past behaviour is usually a good indicators of his future behaviour but people can change but not many. Or did you also mean not by there relatives actions or there countryman.

@manofwar577 2 года назад

And I will judge this naive fool.

@brittanyhayes1043 2 года назад

Yes

@cole396 3 года назад

Facts such as these make the whole reparations argument so much spicier. Seems your family owe some themselves Marvin old chap.

@JDAfrica 3 года назад

He has a selective memory - as he spoke out about George Floyd and racism a year after this show. His wife apparently tried to scrub her skin off as a child (she wrote in an article), because of racism.

@cockoffgewgle4993 3 года назад

They owe reparations for receiving reparations lol

@bluetextbooks 3 года назад

The slave owners were paid reparations. Why is it so spicy for descendants of slaves to receive reparations?

@cockoffgewgle4993 3 года назад

@@bluetextbooks Because we're individuals. And it's racial discrimination to give people of one race something and not people of another race.

@limedickandrew6016 3 года назад

@@bluetextbooks Because they were never slaves themselves. Most of us will probably find ancestors in slavery if we go back far enough. Hell, you'd probably be compensating 90% of todays human population.

@JesusWins 3 года назад

What about the Arab slave trade? Why are they not talked about? Or how the dominant tribes enslaved the tribes they conquered and sold them at the shore when the ships showed up to buy them. All of this can be confirmed by looking it up.

@leabeauty837 3 года назад

This is Marvin’s ancestry

@enosger 3 года назад

I tell you why, because they made no records and also, if you research, it wasn’t all Arabs it was Muslim Persians who enslaved, North Africans that refused to convert. the Thea Arabs were in Africa as traders because they were not a powerful nation of people, you had to have some power to over power a people and enslave them.

@koffiegast 3 года назад

Well there is not much offspring if pretty much every male got made into a eunuch...

@coryhawley738 3 года назад

@@enosger slavery was only outlawed in Arab counties in the 1960s and it wasn't enforced there are still very open about owning and selling slaves they have human markets over there and they're all African

@Linz0440 3 года назад

Because the Arabs didn't invent racism.

@veronikahk1826 3 года назад

everybody wants to have ancestors to be PROUD OF.when you have the tota opposite YOUR BLOOD CURLS.i understand their disappointment greatly but it must go away.WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE EVEN FOR OUR PARENTS actions

@dannicatzer305 3 года назад

He should be proud of his ancestor regardless.. He rose above, got himself a wife a good plot of land and could afford two slaves.. I dont tend to judge what was acceptable in the past with 2020 morality.

@domfrancis3140 3 года назад

@@dannicatzer305 why should he be proud of his ancestors when others based on the colour of their skin are literally harassed and racially denigrated for being part of the slave ownership narrative even though the majority would have been mere peasants, then and even now? We need to view slavery as something that has been happening since the beginning of time and is and will continue for time immemorial regardless of colour, because with slavery comes power and money...and basically people can be evil.

@glynariksherwood 3 года назад

Hilarious. Went looking for oppression and found it.

@coveralljohn 2 года назад

It should be called "who are you" ?? never heard of him.

@cherijoseph7819 2 года назад

Slavery isn't funny.

@captainkenzie6873 2 года назад

@@cherijoseph7819 Yeah it is unless you don't like being a slave.

@cherijoseph7819 2 года назад

@@captainkenzie6873 What jibberish are you spewing?

@captainkenzie6873 2 года назад

@@cherijoseph7819Slavery is funny except for when you do not like being a slave.

@kpnut59 3 года назад

Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.(Matthew 7:12)

@dod6031 3 года назад

If you have studied the history of slavery in the Caribbean then this won’t be a surprise to you.

@matthewstokes1608 3 года назад

Ask Kamala Harris

@dod6031 3 года назад

@@matthewstokes1608 Context? I’m not really up to date with US politics (or any sort of politics to be fair I think politics is for idiots)

@annacanova7060 2 года назад

@@dod6031 her ancestors owned slaves

@Greenz1100 2 года назад

So I'm guessing you believe that Marvin's ancestors mentioned were not slaves? Where did you study slavery in the Caribbean? Did you study the British slave trade?

@Lilly-ud6qs 4 года назад

I found out through this that Marvin and I are distant cousins through the Williams lineage.

@ladydignity 2 года назад

Wow...

@kenrehill8775 2 года назад

So you’ve benefitted from the profits from slavery. Will you pay reparations?

@seangallagher6075 2 года назад

Sorry to hear that..

@martyal 3 года назад

He thinks that the land is going to waste. He should look around at the diverse wildlife inhabiting the area.

@domfrancis3140 3 года назад

Great comment.

@Koalatronic 3 года назад

I thought exactly the same. The Wildlife is probably grateful for this area of peace.

@josephineclark3900 3 года назад

I was shocked that he thought this way.

@hirsch4155 2 года назад

I think because he’s imagining his ancestors using the land, family pride thing.

@TheRausing1 5 лет назад

Fascinating. Colonial history is often so dark, and so surprising.

@firstnationbrit6365 3 года назад

And just as often courageous and inspiring. That’s the nature of history, imperial or otherwise.

@cockoffgewgle4993 3 года назад

*History is often so dark

@davidedbrooke9324 3 года назад

Lol, loving this, Ainsley Harrison was busy slagging off whites then find out their own relatives were slave owners.

@msjannd4 3 года назад

✔

@gaynor1721 3 года назад

You mean Ainsley Harriott.

@davidedbrooke9324 3 года назад

@@gaynor1721 Yes quite right, auto correct I Think, sorry.

@colinbellew3020 3 года назад

His face was fckin priceless when he found out.Pure Gold it was.

@davidedbrooke9324 3 года назад

@@colinbellew3020 exactly! Blame us all the time and to find they were involved just as much is Karma!!

@JD-tg9cf 3 года назад

That moment he realised his family wasn’t a victim

@stuartblack6803 3 года назад

I found this hilarious

@njc7224 2 года назад

interesting assumption he never stated that are in his head a mind reader he came on the show to fins out his roots like alot of people do.

@Louisejames23 2 года назад

I think the term “slave” pretty much sums up what the owners thought of their property, however much Marvin tries to soften the blow..

@christinastclair7715 2 года назад

Most of my Irish family died during the famine, only my 4th great-grandparents survived. We couldn’t even afford food , let alone slaves.

@sams568 3 года назад

I believe that everyone should know as much about their family history as possible. I’ve always been interested in history in general and people’s history specifically. Everyone’s history creates a moment in time that people come in and out of, expanding that history into other’s lives. Some bad but mostly good. We are all intertwined. I go back to my philosophy that everyone is a book that deserves to be read, all have humor, drama, sorrow, anger, fear. Thankfully I’ve collected a substantial library (friends). What it lacks in quantity it more than makes up for in quality. Each person you meet contributes to your story making it richer.

@TVsez 3 года назад

This is what happens when you get your education from Netflix and Hollywood.

@neilevans4352 2 года назад

And the British government lol

@kyllepoiencot4361 3 года назад

GOT 'EM!! That dude's crushed now that he knows THE TRUTH! Someone should make a Curb your Racism or Curb your Ancestral Lineage or Curb your History Degree!!

@leetolbert1064 3 года назад

Thank you so much for taking the time for your great video! Great job!!

@nemoanon5615 4 года назад

Old story. Shake the family tree hard enough, skeletons will eventually drop.

@chrisper94 4 года назад

This demonstrates how contrived, complicated and ironic the political structure was in that era. But, only by knowing the truth can we find reconciliation.

@patsysadowski1546 4 года назад

As a Brit, there was an absurdity to Britain’s attitude to slavery. Despite the massive involvement, it wasn’t practiced in Britain and the duality can seem hypocritical. However the average commoner were abolitionists, as was Queen Victory. We then spent millions and millions trying to stop it by now policing the Atlantic and compensating Caribbean slave owners. That debt was finally repaid in 2015. I am fascinated by the description of Britain through the eyes of people like Frederick Douglass. He did speaking tours here.

@ptaylor4923 4 года назад

@@patsysadowski1546 🙄🤔 And yet Britain supported the South in the Civil War because they needed the cotton. Every time I hear Brit talking about how they ended slavery first, or were abolitionists and dish a country that ended slavery less than 100 years after the country's birth, after they themselves supported slavery for so much longer, I cringe at the hypocrisy.

@nigelsheppard625 3 года назад

@@ptaylor4923 that's not actually true. The British Empire did not side with the South, did not trade in munitions, though some people did trade in cotton, but also traded in cotton in Egypt (slave owning society) the Ottoman Empire (slave owning society) and Persia (slave owning society). The British worked against their own interests in ending the slave trade and slavery in the Americas.

@realmms 3 года назад

My family line is traced to the Caribbean via Indian indentured service ( slavery but not illegal) we were told that one person was worth less than the cost of one horse. He is so lucky that he has paper work to find and review. Many have none

@rosahacketts1668 Год назад

It was not slavery with indentured servitude as Indians were not rounded up put in chains forced on to a boat and forced to work 12 hours a day with no pay.

@raydaley1535 3 года назад

He won't be able to puff his chest out and say"My ancestors where slaves." But he will be able to puff his chest and say"I am British and the British outlawed slavery in 1807 when the rest of the world thought it was alright."Also that it cost so much that it was not paid back till 2013.Perhaps that will make him feel better.

@dendemano 2 года назад

Very few people are aware of the compensation that the British paid to slave owners, and only recently paid as you correctly mentioned. The lives lost in the pursuit of slave ships is another fact that is rarely mentioned, let alone appreciated.

@sulaak 2 года назад

Slavery was outlawed in Mexico in the 1700s, in the Benin Empire in 1700 way before the British outlawed slavery.

@dendemano 2 года назад

@@sulaak Wrong! William l, also referred to as William the Conqueror. In the 11th century he declared that anyone who set foot on English soil would immediately be granted the status of "free man". I'm not sure what point you were attempting to make, but what Mexico did or didn't do at that time had little relevance, geopolitically. The British on the other hand, not only made a statement on the global stage, but were willing to, as well as being able to spend money and risk the lives of our fellow countrymen in actively pursuing and policing the world's oceans. Please, please, don't triviliase the actions that quite simply saved hundreds of thousands from a lifetime of bondage. Oh yeah, know your history, just as our "Marvin Hughes" has started to learn.

@therightarmofthefreeworld4703 2 года назад

@@dendemano William didn't legally abolish slavery in England, but any subject who sold a slave or sold someone into slavery had to pay a fine to the king. This made him look like a good Christian while also funding the royal treasury. William wasn't the noblest person and was quite ready to set aside morals if he could work a situation to his benefit. Nevertheless, the practice of slavery in England did decline sharply over the next few hundred years. I don't know what that other guy is talking about. Mexico abolished slavery around the same time the British did, and Benin only gradually stopped their trade as the British blockaded their ports.

@dendemano 2 года назад

@Kim Ayo Yeah, I can't argue with that. Although, every world power has done it, and far worse. At least the British did make some amends. We have only just finished paying the compensation to former slave owners. We spent a lot of money and lost a lot of men in the pursuit of slave ships.

@militarymad2840 3 года назад

Slavery was not quite as simple as some people are making out.

@snowflakemelter1172 3 года назад

The British made a huge effort to stop slavery, at massive cost and in lives too, they were the ones that did this, no one else.

@matthewwillson6515 3 года назад

Also the British never started slavery it had been going on for centuries all over the world.

@Linz0440 3 года назад

Nope. There were lots of British who fought against ending slavery.

@snowflakemelter1172 3 года назад

@Marc Carran it's called putting things into perspective.

@snowflakemelter1172 3 года назад

@@Linz0440 they didn't win though .

@Linz0440 3 года назад

@@snowflakemelter1172 You ignoring systemic racism?

@AbnEngrDan 3 года назад

And this is the problem with imposing modern morals and social understanding upon history. 1) their understanding and 2) their reality was much, much different. Limited. It's not a question of right or wrong - its wrong NOW based on our knowledge and social enlightenment. Slavery was worldwide. American natives had slaves. Africans had slaves. Asians had slaves. Europeans had slaves (before the African slave trade). People are being sold lies. No ones hands are 'clean'. Every culture has had slaves at some point. But at that point in time, there was nothing wrong with it. Only our modern social/political revolution, from knowledge, has made it wrong; unacceptable.

@22gtrotter Год назад

WE still have slaves !

@haeuptlingaberja4927 2 года назад

How ironic that dude's initial reaction was "too bad this land isn't being properly used anymore," only to be blindsided by what should have been obvious: every large farming estate was a plantation, with all that the plantation entails...so, slavery.

@user-pw6vl4jl5f 2 года назад

This is amazing 😂😂 you can literally see or feel the disappointment.

@debbieslover 3 года назад

there's absolutely no point in investing your emotions and your identity in ancestry and heritage because you simply do not know know what went before... the culture and values you relate to are yours and yours alone, not based on your ancestors. Great things and terrible things have happened in the past for which you should take neither credit nor blame. Live YOUR life. Be kind productive and helpful, leave future generations to decide how you well did...

@helenamasiala3135 3 года назад

But its not true ! Its always going to be important whats your ancestry,ethnicity and heritage is.

@debbieslover 3 года назад

@@helenamasiala3135 I respect your values, but I question the feelings of guilt or pride people often feel which comes from the actions of those in their past, people they may never have met. I would have empathy for a grandparent who had been a POW, but I can't hold the people of that country responsible for the atrocities their nation carried out 70 years ago. Similarly, had my grandfather been decorated for his actions during the war, I may be proud of him, but it's up to me to make my own mark in the world. If My grandfather had been a nasty piece of work it would be up to me to rise above that and be a better person, but it would be unfair to hold me accountable for his actions, however terrible they may have been.

@OL-kj5kq 3 года назад

THE SALT MUST FLOW

@SuperUnemployable 3 года назад

Salty is Legion!!!

@karlosthejackel69 3 года назад

We are all Salty!!

@WeeNat313 3 года назад

Why is everyone saying this?

@OL-kj5kq 3 года назад

@@WeeNat313 Its a way of life. Clean living, freedom, free markets, and the American way.

@tracylrsw247 3 года назад

The land is home to many species now, which is fantastic!. Just because a piece of land has not been altered in some way by man, is not a shame.

@AltereggoLol1 3 года назад

Talk about getting in touch with your Roots.

@aditierneu9651 2 года назад

very good but your showing your age lol

@Jw-no7id 2 года назад

Once again history is proven to not be as clean or as cut and dry as people like to believe it is.

@survivortechharold6575 3 года назад

So is he paying reperations to Jamaica??????? I guess not. people don't have a clue.

@cyberneticbutterfly8506 4 года назад

Its interesting to think about how the period of slavery that is recorded in history is given extra meaning. Yet through the thousands of years before this particular 19th century slavery, our ancestors had slaves commonly. There is noone who didn't have slave owning ancestors and there is no reason to attribute extra meaning to slavery in the 19th century just because it's slavery we know about. After all, it was done by people who are long dead to people who are long dead in either case. The difference in centuries, continents, or wether the stories are told today or part of history we are personally aware of, is inconsequencial.

@trinaroach2832 3 года назад

When you are walking down the streets of present-day Rome or Athens, how do you identify the descendants of people formerly enslaved there? Now walk down the streets of Kingston, Charleston, or Nassau...

@danielakut4861 3 года назад

@@trinaroach2832 Hit the nail on the head

@victorhopper6774 3 года назад

@@trinaroach2832 wow you will never understand

@Koalatronic 3 года назад

It's weird how he tried to almost justify the slavery at the end. If you're a slave, you're a slave. Whether you are beaten or not, you have already been stripped of your humanity. There was no such thing as a good slave master!

@kopman70 3 года назад

It's OK Hank, no one will be hammering down your door demanding reparations for your ancestors behaviour.

@valthonispaladine7999 3 года назад

Learn from history, don't wallow in it.

@maincontact8701 2 года назад

I love watching the self rightious get humbly put in their place by people that know and live real struggle

@christinehall6441 3 года назад

Can't keep punishing people living today over things they had no involvement or control over.

@jamesthompson2058 3 года назад

When history doesn’t compute to the PC narrative you’re been fed.

@ryano136 3 года назад

Great isnt it?

@jemmajames6719 3 года назад

This is the problem a lot of people are ignorant of the facts of slavery, it’s happened since man existed, from all colours, races and cultures, to all colours races and cultures.

@petern1938 3 года назад

The simple fact that most people don't, or won't, accept is that slavery is not about race, its about slavery. Europeans made slaves of other Europeans, Asians made slaves of other Asians and Africans made slaves of other Africans - slavery has existed in every part of the World throughout history.

@ronaldmiller1835 2 года назад

Sooooo true! Color does Not Make the person, Character Does!!

@ernestmwape Год назад

Wrong. Trans Atlantic Slavery was the worst form of slavery ever known to humanity. The other forms are mostly bonded slave labour (which still goes around rural parts of the world - call it sweat shops in Asia, brick kilns, farms, domestic servants in Arab world)

@lindabb7064 Год назад

And?

@TheAmtwhite Год назад

Give an example of Europeans being enslaved. I don’t think so. Maybe other types of control over people, but not true slavery.

@ernestmwape Год назад

@@TheAmtwhite can u imagine the audacity! He probably is browsing through records of all plantations and slaves his ancestors owned🙆‍♂️

@dski8097 Год назад

Facts hurt, more blacks need to learn true history.

@Kopite4life12 3 года назад

Just shows that history is more complex that the wokeists would have you believe!

@lhunt1959 3 года назад

Do not compare Jamaica to the US, it was a whole different world.

@latsnojokelee6434 3 года назад

I'm not sure it's a whole different world. The British enslaved both the Irish and Africans and brought them to Jamaica. A lot of the slaveowners were of English descent in the American south. Although I would agree with you that race relations in Jamaica were probably far better in the ensuing years than they were in the United States .

@lhunt1959 3 года назад

@@latsnojokelee6434 The difference was that Jamaicans rose up and overthrew their oppressors and started to self govern, self determination and took over there own destiny. In the US sure Slaves were freed but they were under another form of Slavery, segregation, Jim Crow laws, and also peonage slavery. The final anti slavery law was passed during WWII because Roosevelt wanted Blacks to feel better about fighting for someone else's freedom and not worry about their own oppression but they were still segregated. So ya there was a big difference.

@latsnojokelee6434 3 года назад

Good points.

@Pitchguest 3 года назад

@@latsnojokelee6434 Correction: the British did not enslave the Africans and brought them to Jamaica. They just purchased them. They already were enslaved by their African warlords.

@janepstk 3 года назад

How does it feel to have the shoe on the other foot? You going to pay reparations Marvin?

@jakebradley1688 3 года назад

Ainsly harriot first now this dude. It's absolutely hilarious 😂

@Hollows1997 3 года назад

Don Cheadle too (not his family but his family were owned by Native Americans)

@carapo66 3 года назад

Political correctness: Has left the conversation.

@strangelyjamesly4078 3 года назад

Someone needs to check their privilege.

@LethoHali 4 года назад

Anyone had the link to the first part of this? This is the first I am watching

@Rdfelic 2 года назад

How are people now realizing that every race had slaves??

@chiladdwhitney4926 2 года назад

“ you’re my favorite person in Jamaica “ “ hold that thought “ 😬

@Splozy 5 лет назад

Of course he didn't treat them respectfully, they were enslaved against their will. Doh!

@AreMullets4AustraliansOnly 5 лет назад

Yes but some slave treatment could be better than others. It would be a relief to know that his relative was not a complete sadist

@nomalangak 5 лет назад

@@AreMullets4AustraliansOnly ; Well he should have freed them the moment they were under his stewardship. So slave owner = sadist.

@music66swan 5 лет назад

@@nomalangak what is your point where does your axe want to grind

@marleymatthews7633 4 года назад

@@nomalangak that would have been a waste of money for him giving away his property

@petern1938 3 года назад

@@nomalangak You clearly have a very simplistic view of the world. At the time slavery was legal and the norm - a man could own another man in the way a man can own a horse now. Given that, why do you assume the man is a sadist? Are people who own horses al sadists?

@accavandam8673 3 года назад

Priceless!!!

@zoroastrianisticzoro297 5 лет назад

omg he owns 80 acres of land in a place like jamaica wow.

4 года назад

Too bad he feels that the land reverting back to nature is a bad thing.....it is what the planet need

@kwacou4279 3 года назад

@@Bot23 try buying it.

@barbaralouisebenjamin5918 3 года назад

Consider types of slavery. Indentured slavery to pay off a financial debt for yourself ir family also punishmment for wrongdoing or convict labour while incarcerated. But then there us captivity, kidnapping, sale by family members, subjects after war and poverty. There were many reasons for this horrible situation.

@andyd2033 3 года назад

very interesting!

@fishinwidow35 3 года назад

You should learn all of history not just what is convenient or fits a narrative you have been fed.

@haywoodyoudome 3 года назад

Salty Army represent!

@morena012 3 года назад

Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee 😂

@warriormasterdeath7093 3 года назад

REEEEEE

@denverdog44 3 года назад

REEEEEEEEE

@debdeb299 3 года назад

Reee-hee-hee!

@reefermadness8445 3 года назад

REEEEEEEEEE!!!

@lynnesmith2419 4 года назад

Oh what a beautiful old church!!

@Cottonstatecountry 2 года назад

I totally just came here for the comments and was thus rewarded!! 🤣🤣

@GaPeachtree 4 года назад

I need more than 10 mins!! Where can l watch full episodes?

@daytona1960 3 года назад

BBC iplayer

@annwltr 4 года назад

I wish I could delve deeper into my east Indian and Peruvian ancestry

@TyLarson 4 года назад

Powerful.

@grannypantsification 2 года назад

It’s never simple. Life is complicated. Very true.

@bigmike716 3 года назад

It's not right, but life was different back then. We have no idea what it was like to live back then.

@thehoneyeffect 3 года назад

It was wrong then and now

@mcr2356 3 года назад

@@thehoneyeffect He's not saying it wasn't wrong, it was just ingrained in the society at the time. In 200 years people will think us inhuman for slautering billions of animals a year.

@rebecca7570 2 года назад

We live in disappointing times - that young people aren't taught about all races as slaves and slave owners or that Britain led the way to abolition and that we only finished paying off the debt incurred in 2015.. There is a lot to be proud of if your british; if you look for it. 🇬🇧

@michaelh5593 9 дней назад

Marvin came in quite cocky but was soon humbled when he realised the reality.

@deeboudreau2040 3 года назад

REEEEEEE reeeeeeeee SALTY FOR LIFE

@rickjames154 3 года назад

yep yep

@reefermadness8445 3 года назад

Salt army is present !!

@robertdemon3550 3 года назад

Salty army reporting in.

@iscrewyouall 3 года назад

The salt will never stop flowing

@WeeNat313 3 года назад

Eh?

@onlygazza 2 года назад

This is exactly why historical facts shouldn’t be removed because it teaches lessons to people that assume they are better then others !

@russlanedixieland 2 года назад

People can not judge the past by our 21st century standards. Even slave owners were born into a system of slavery...we overcome our mistakes and move forward. Its ok. Its called life. Embrace it and learn from it.

@phyllislogie 4 года назад

This fact is not generally known but research into the ownership of slaves in the US has revealed that free blacks who were in a position to own salves, the slaves that they owned were often members of their own family whom they purchased to protect them. Therefore Marvin, don't be too alarmed because as I said, the ownership of slaves by other blacks was more often than not done for altruistic reasons.

@icilmaa 4 года назад

The BBC don't want us to know that.

@jbagger331 4 года назад

Or his ancestor was just in it for the money.

@icilmaa 4 года назад

@@jbagger331 Europeans made it difficult for the Caribbeans to earn decent wages and live in humane conditions. They created and controlled the plantations and industries which came about as a result of slavery. They weren't about to share their so called success with the people they enslaved. Slavery was what they presented as being a regular form of income I suppose.

@wendellbeverly6060 4 года назад

Not always, one of my ancestors owned slaves that weren't family, a lot of slaves. I hope he wasn't cruel to them but chances are that he probably was.

@wendellbeverly6060 4 года назад

@@jbagger331 He probably was.

@johnl5316 2 года назад

I am sure from my family tree that my ancestors had 100's of thousands of slaves over many centuries. It means that they were not losers

@catwoman7462 3 года назад

I hope he's not one of those calling for 'reparations' as his own family already received theirs. As a 100% European woman why should I feel any guilt about slavery? My own ancestors were poor, and would have been classed as 'peasants'. I owe no apology for slavery.

@helenamasiala3135 3 года назад

Please shut up, its not about you and nobody expects from your poor family a apology

@catwoman7462 3 года назад

@@helenamasiala3135 It's not about any of the people who whinge on about 'The Slave Trade' either is it? None of them were slaves. Perhaps we should worry about the current slaves, and I expect you buy and use products made by slaves but don't give a toss about them, because your comfortable life wouldn't be quite so comfortable any more if you did care. Nobody should be apologising for what happened in history.

@limedickandrew6016 3 года назад

I'm from England, but my parents are from Eastern Europe, the land of the Slavs. The word 'Slav' is derived from the word 'Slave'. Yup, I think there is probably lots of slaves in my family history too, and no one cares a jot about giving ME reparations for past injustices. Not that I know anything about them, or even care.

@leesaunders1930 3 года назад

@@catwoman7462 the woman or girl who replied to you is incapable of understanding or reasoning. better not waste your knowledge on her.

@rickyray2794 2 года назад

Nobody owes an apology for slavery, not these days anyways. People who live in modern day Sparta don't feel the need to seek reparations for their ancestors being helots. Its all a little ridiculous, no history should be forgotten and we should learn from it.. but nobody alive today is responsible for the actions of those in the past.

@kx9651 3 года назад

My days getting better lol

@juniormynos9457 3 года назад

Best plot twist on RU-vid

@mencken8 4 года назад

Genes are inherited, they are not destiny.

@ShellSellars-Smith 4 года назад

Our histories are very complicated. I know it is disheartening to learn these facts.. my own heart sank when she told him. I know Native American's owned slaves and nobody likes to talk about it but, our history is that.. history and we are not responsible for what our ancestors did. I often wondered how Native American's could own slaves and refuse to give them up when they themselves were forced out of their land? Somethings should just be left in the past.

@EchoBravo370 3 года назад

Native Americans owned ALOT of slaves. And didn't want to give them up after the civil war ended. Complicated history.

@AfroDragon 3 года назад

@@EchoBravo370 Actor Don Cheadle ancestors was slave to Native American

@nforne 3 года назад

The thing is, it's not that complicated at all when you think about it. We're all human.

@denverdog44 3 года назад

REEEEEEEEE

@lilred5515 3 года назад

Not really shocking, everyone probably has a slave owner somewhere in the family tree it just might not be documented cuz some of it was way way back and unfortunately everyone did it to everyone. What really needs attention is slavery that's still happening in the modern day

@arthurmosel808 3 года назад

Sorry, if there was a slave owner in my family history it was quite a ways back and was an enslaved European. Most of my ancestors arrived in the US after the Civil War and the only ones who didn't were farmers in Indiana. Too broad a brush.

@dendemano 2 года назад

He treated them as slaves. Don’t fool yourself with that notion. He was prepared to hold another human being in bondage and inflict the most humiliating and cruel treatment upon them. It is often the case that the nouveau rich treat those of a lower status than themselves in a far worse manner than those who are used to dealing in relationships of a different class, or status.

@BlitzOfTheReich 2 года назад

The Caribbean has always had a cognizant perspective when it comes to slavery.

@elizabethelliott3175 Год назад

At 8:52, she's not his 'favourite person in Jamaica' anymore.

@christopherhill9619 3 года назад

Why do they always say "the British imported slaves to America" in these documentaries? America broke away from 13 Colonies in 1776 right? So was it not Americans importing them to America?

@rahowherox1177 3 года назад

Lol. The main or best traders were arabs and jews. You can spot the place names surrounding the big slave markets ... as well as through the records. But few mention this these days.

@slidenapps 3 года назад

The British had the ships that transported them

@christopherhill9619 3 года назад

@@slidenappswhat so after the war of independence we just said "hey U.S we know you've betrayed and killed your own British people, well yeah here's some slaves".