Never learned this in my elementary or high school, or when we visited The New York Experience (those of a certain age will remember that!). I do recall the African burial excavation. Thanks for posting.
What one does in the dark will come to light. It's too bad that people have especially Black people, have to dig, seek, find our own history. I have to pay to go to college to finally learn some truths and there's still so much more to learn. When whites went through such great efforts to keep their secrets hidden, makes it that much harder. I appreciate this video.
@@coxnballs Everyone knows the North practiced slavery, they ended years before the Civil War. The difference was that the South was making too much money off it and business elites knew it was not going to be a sustainable, immoral and reflecting badly on the United States.
Every company that was established back then, that are now million and billion dollar companies became rich off the backs of slaves....Africans and free labor!!!! And people wonder why reparations are needed! Our ancestors built these empires for free as their descendants inherited a lifetime of hardship, poverty and brokenness. We are OWED this!!! No one is giving us anything as it has already been earned through our ancestors! And NO ONE needs to come for me about looking for a hand out on any level because I am a professional working full-time with a side business.
"Despite the harsh treatment." But they were wrapped and burried with care and love. These people just don't have it in them to tell the truth. If they had cared about and loved them so much, then they would've never enslaved my ancestors, in the first place!
Arrmia Benton I interpreted that statement to mean that the care and love was supplied by the family members and friends of the deceased, not the enslaved person’s owner. At 3:29 in the video there is an illustration of a burial attended only by fellow African Americans. Like you, I doubt that the owners showed much care or love.
The city has a moral obligation to educate more New Yorkers about this horrifying past. I live here and had no clue it was the city with the 2nd highest number of slaves. Fascinating yet incredibly depressing video; I am glad that I clicked on this
@@michelej9496 I really dislike the whole "african proverb" trend. africa has a huge variety of different cultures, with each of them having their own proverbs. it's bizzare because it is usally done by progressives who use it qs a way to elevate african heritage (which by itself is a great thing) but it actually kind of ignores the actual wealth and diversity of cultures all over africa. people don't generally say "european proverb" when they mean something said by germans, italians, french etc. i wish we would have the same care and precission when talking about the much, much larger and more varied pool of african cultures. i know you didn't mean it negatively, so I don't try to attack you, it's just something that always irritates me a bit.
This is THE most concrete, engaging, and informative history piece I've watched about NY. I learned more fom Prof. Singer. in 19 mins on this than the tradtional schooling, a muesum trip, or personal experience. I know the areas he's talking about, never knew the history...like this. Very interesting and deep this is ..Thank You guys☝🏿💯✨
These poor slaves were actually very intelligent and master craftsmen in their profession yet were treated unworthy of being treated with respect. Maybe because these Africans were quick learners with great intelligence the white owners and eventually Government were scared of what these people could achieve so made sure there was a lack of schooling/teaching for their future generations. These slaves really left a great Legacy in which proves that the Black race is really far more superior in intellect, Good Morals, Integrity and Godliness than the White race. Which really stands the test of time judging by the way the World has gone due to greedy White Bankers. If your Black...be Proud...Thank and Bless your Ancestors for reminding you of your Abilities within. I'm white but would never have agreed with Slavery if I lived in that time because I see people as human beings not commodities ..it comes from the Heart and Soul. The Film "ROOTS" made such an impression on me as a child...I actually cried at the sadistic treatment of the slaves as I did watching the cowboy films...I loved the Native American Indians and hated the dirty, drunken, cruel cowboy's. So much cruelty in History but no one in Authoritative Positions remembers today as it still continues. Sad but True !
I feel my Ancestors Spirit at the BURIAL GROUNDS.... I pay homage to them for their sacrifices and always admire their beautiful work in building NEW YORK CITY😇🙏🏾😭💐‼️💥💥💥. BLACK LIVES MATTER
Fabulous work, thank you to all involved in this documentary. Had I not been searching for my French ancestry in colonial New York, I would have never heard of this history. It amazes me how much of our history has been lost to time and unfortunately, so much appears hidden purposely.
If a “Teacher” knows the truth of this African History and chooses not to teach it, they are willingly contributing to the cover up and hence, part of the problem. Wouldn’t it be nice if children of all colors were taught the truth of American History? This inclusion would go a long way to help heal the pain and shame of an portion of American History that had equal value to any other History of the Beautiful Country. I can’t help but think that if America would simply apply is incredible constitution to include EVERYONE, what a wonderful country this would actually be. If she would only do that, live up to its own ideals, so much progress can be made in relationship to race and equality. Be well.
There are SO MANY LITTLE WHITE LIES, that the fact is, the whole world has been deceived, just as The Book of Revelations (of Yahushua the Messiah & erroneously called Jesus Christ) in the bible. We've been taught narratives & theories while the truth is purposely hidden by secret societies
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Yes. My feels are mutual. We've all been lied to. Columbus and stories about Lincoln, all lies. There were not heroes. I started learning about the truth after high school. I learned nothing about this in elementary, high school or college. Its America's dirty secret.
@Nick Arjomand Read the history of New York and other northern cities. Today Citibank, Lehman Brothers Domino Sugar and other have that OLD money.....generational wealth...you know the kind that affords college. The only way a person if color can go to "good" college for free is with scholarship or play the welfare game. Middle class is left out!!!
@Nick Arjomand Without the foundation of our ancestors none of this good ol USA would exist. Had the founding fathers reconciled with their captors and women in that age by providing every alienated right the constitution states. There was no need to amend it if all men and women were CREATED EQUAL from the beginning!!! We all are human and the atrocities that were compounded generation after generation to our sector of the population should not have been acceptable. Anyone with a heart can see this was/is wrong!!! We never wanted retaliation we want to be left the heck ALONE! Have you ever considered how our many advancements we would have had without their interventions? Every thing is connected. Go back in history to see. Also check the history of Black Wall Street. Areas where we were prosperous and jealous minded people came in burned, looted, and stole the land. You know the usual stick up! The has been a conspiracy against us for centuries. If it were you and your legacy wouldn't you be sick and tired? Some of our people here were original aborigines. You know Indian. We all are on borrowed land.
Bull shit!! Those companies took the wealth made from slavery and converted it to other ways to gain wealth. Simple as that. Like I can’t have a corporation and start another with a different name!!
Down South, we were taught to view the confederacy as hero's, and they made us go to the battlefields to look at their monuments. We got brainwashed, and still they have no shame!
Loving this one thanks for sharing very information blessed love to all knowledge is power hopefully everyone pays attention keep up the good work 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
Wasn't a love affair. THAT'S FOR SURE. Your ancestors came mostly by free will. Mine came enslaved.....HOWEVER, the creation of Tap was a result of Irish and Africans intermingling in the Five Points.
@@suzpeters6 , CRT is only taught at College level, and in most cases is an elective unless one is pursuing a degree in law; so it is ridiculous for conservatives to get their undies in a bunch over something that isn't being taught to schoolchildren, although perhaps it could eventually be included in a high school curriculum. The bigger issue is that nobody talks about, or is taught about, the history of Class structure of America. And make no mistake about it, America is most definitely NOT a classless society. Read "White Trash" by Nancy Eisenberg, a heavily researched and footnoted exploration of 400 years of top-down Class division in America, and how the ruling class has played divide-and-conquer in order to retain their grip on wealth and power. Racism against people of color was/is just a handy, convenient starting point for giving working-poor whites someone to hate and to scapegoat. As Lyndon B Johnson said, "If you can get even the lowest white man to believe that he is above the colored man, he won't notice when you're picking his pockets; indeed, he might even turn them out to make it easier for you".
So many corporations alive and still flourishing TODAY, BECAUSE OF my ancestors being bought, overworked and not being paid. Reparations don't have to come from our own tax dollars if all of these corporations PAY WHAT THEY OWE!!!!👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
So much knowledge. This is why reparations are a good idea. So many successful companies built on the backs of slaves. Then these same companies want to act like they're doing you a favor by giving you a job. GTFOH
+Alan Singer This is so relevant to the current Presidential Primary. Hillary Clinton is tied to taking money from all the players mentioned in this video. Wall Street, Lehman brothers, CitiBank CCA/GEO Group the two for profit prison Corporations and she has quite the racist history with having campaigned for segregationist Barry Goldwater who ran on a platform of Segregation and highly denounced the Civil Rights act. Also Hillary Clinton's Senate Mentor was Robert Byrd who was a KKK leader. Byrd also fillibustered against the Civil Rights act in the same year of Barry Goldwaters run for President. It's no wonder why Bill Clinton's Presidency led to MASS INCARCERATION of the black community (MODERN DAY SLAVERY) I believe that the Clinton's truly believe that black and brown people are Superpredators who deserve to be enslaved.
So, I grew up in Peekskill NY. This doesn't surprise me at all. Part of the Underground railroad went through what is now the beach shopping center. This was just about a mile away. Not to mention how neighborhoods IN the city were STRICTLY segregated. Jewish, Irish, Italian, Sicilian, etc etc. Gang activity was not uncommon between the communities due to prejudice.
I'm sorry but Jews and Italians always lived together in New York City, as well as in Brooklyn and Queens, and everywhere else around NYC. In perfect harmony at that, because the family-based cultures were very similar, and they shared their lives and cultures together. I know, I grew up there. And Sicilians ARE Italians. Why don't you know that? And neighborhoods in the city were NOT 'strictly segregated'. People always choose to live with those who share their own culture. That's why we have countries and neighborhoods. No one chooses to live with those who don't share their values and cultures. It rarely works out well. You clearly have never lived next door to someone who hates you and your culture/country. They attack you at every opportunity. You want that? Really? Sorry, but living in Peekskill doesn't make you an expert on NYC neighborhoods and culture. Try again.
@@cjay2Relax. I'm not here to have an ego battle with you. I knew a lot of people that grew up in the city and they have some very different stories. Plus, I never said I was an expert. That's called strawmanning. I couldn't care less about NYC to be honest. If you had a different experience, let's have a conversation. But don't be a snowflake about it.
Some of this is a little oversimplified. For instance, the criticism of Tiffany’s. It was founded by a man who got funding from his father who transported cotton that was grown by slaves... Bit of an attenuated connection... The broader point, about NYC’s history of slavery is important though.
susanne anique - Well, my point is that at some point it becomes a game of 7 degrees to Kevin Bacon. And the truth is that most American companies and individuals would only be a few degrees away from slavery if they or their predecessors/ancestors existed in America at the time. Slavery was widespread and fundamental to the economy nationwide at the time. So selecting out one company like they did is strange if the connection to slavery isn’t more direct.
@@damnjustassignmeone To me, it sounds like a direct link. His family built it's wealth on cotton. Without slaves, there would be nothing to invest in Tiffany's. Tiffany's is one example of many. Should we not tell the truth about it? I think it is important for white America to acknowledge the truth, that their wealth is generational, their opportunities are built on the truth about history. Even newer white immigrant populations benefitted through the systems America was built on.. America owes reparations to black Americans, just as they paid out to Japanese Americans interred for a short time during the war , the nation should pay.
YOU know you can't TRUST anything they SPEW from their corpses. Liars, THIEVES, THIEVES, THIEVES, MURDERS, culture vultures, RAPISTS, Soulless, satanic
The complicity between North and South regarding Black peoples place in America is still happening,. Any injustice that can be done has and will continue to be done to us (Blacks), and other people of (Color) with little to no consequence for the perpetrator(s).
This explains why NYC and upstate NY areSO very DIFFERENT. NYC and upstate NY are like two different cultures and countries. Upstate was populated by anti-slavery New England Puritans, many of whom ran the underground railways to help runaway slaves.
If you are that hissy just because that institution used slavery then u can't handle anything. George W. Bush's family owned slaves in the past so did many other people in our modern age. Will you hate them too because of that? Might as well leave the country because this country was built on sins sins that came from the old world like Great Britain. Slavery goes back even further. Blame Christianity for tolerating it. Blame the Greeks, Romans and Spaniards. Oh and for that matter blame your own people who sold you for profit to the Europeans and other slave traders. Take all of this information into account, learn from it and try to make our world better.
@@acdragonrider WHY LEAVE YOUR OWN COUNTRY WHEN YOU REALIZE AND KNOW ITS ALWAYS BEEN YOUR COUNTRY AKA #TURTLE ISLAND AKA NORTH AMERICA. #AFRICAN AMERICANS ARE NOT AFRICAN# ABORIGINAL#INDIGENOUS TO THIS LAND #PRISONERS OF WAR YOU MOFOS INVADED AND STOLE OUR LAND YOU LEAVE TAKE UR PALE FACE COLONIZING AZZ BACK TO EUROPE!!! THIS IS AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN OUR HOME FK UR LIES DEVIL WE ARE AWAKE AND NO LONGER ASLEEP U LEAVE OUR COUNTRY MOFO!!-
If you want a real zinger, search how Rhode Island benefitted off of slavery and its role..... We are real info nerds on here, if we caught this one.....LET'S GO.
That was great! I think its extremely important though to teach where slavery began, in the African continents where tribes were selling captured other tribes to the Arabs. Then of course they were sold to europeans and then those came to the new world. The larger view of slavery keeps things in more of a world perspective.
Yeah, but ummmm Supply and Demand? Would tribes "nations" be enslaving other nations if it were not profitable? Always on this exoneration bs. You didn't do it . WE KNOW!!!!!
M. C. - the erorr is describing all " whites " as slavers ; that would be the DEMOCRAT PARTY utilizing paramilitary groups such as the KGC, KKK, BLM, ANTIFA
THEY WERE FORCED AND LIED TO. The transatlantic slave trade was a sinister, demented, UNPRECEDENTED display of human genocide and brutality. That’s the facts Jan
Looking at the condition of America in these current times and assessing the plight of the people. I wonder - IS THIS KARMA ? Or, as the Bible mentions: "As a man SOWETH, the same shall he also REAP !!" " Indeed I TREMBLE for my country when reflect that God is JUST: that his JUSTICE cannot sleep for ever.........." (Thomas Jefferson)
I RARELY add public comments to RU-vid videos. As a New Yorker, I am compelled to state how well this video was done and how it affirmed my thoughts on reparations.
I hope whoever set that mic up learned to check the gain after this shoot. Audio quality of the interview is terrible. I recommend a 32-bit float recorder!
Slavery was not unique to America at the time, it was a common practice for thousands of years before old rich white Christian men abolished it. The word 'slave' comes from the Slavic people of Eastern Europe. This is history and there is no reason to feel guilty or ashamed of things that you did not do.
@@alikathiphopoprah5507 The point is that you are responsible for your own actions and that everyone probably has ancestors that were slaves or treated cruelly and/or unfairly by today's standards.
@@alikathiphopoprah5507 Yes and no .Certainly if a government commits illegal actions it should be held responsible. However, the issue at hand, slavery, was legal at the time it existed. History cannot be repealed. Another consideration is that a government consists of people agreeing to, or accepting rules or laws that govern individual behavior. The people of today cannot be responsible for what other people did in the past. To do so would be punishing someone for something that he did not do. This groupthink is just a rationalization for taking money from other people instead of earning it on their own.
@Sheridan Isashitstain not when originally made. The green is corrosion of the skin (made if copper) of the statue. So originally it was copper colored.
@@7aur you should talk to some immigrants who came here through New York. Since it was installed the statue of liberty has been a symbol of the promise of America. It's not very Grumpy, but definitely American. Read Emma Lazarus's poem "The New Collosus". And look (sad to say) at some of these Confederate Generals' statues. Those who fight to retain them are motivated by what they symbolize. In that case something not very American. That's why other Americans want to get rid of them. Art has been used to symbolize great ideals and horrible ideals. Look at the pyramids of Egypt,Maya temples, Stonehenge . The list is endless. Art definitely is capable of communicating through symbolization.
If story of slavery wont be taught in schools than the stories of our families will have to be taught between families. Its the stories and struggles of families.
Isn't it evident that Europe and America owe Africa so much, I mean so much... to appease them for all these years of perpetual exploitation, extortion, brutality and what have you... isn't it just obvious...
Negus, I challenge you to do something unknown because the history books would probably say that. RAP ABOUT THE BLACK KINGS AND QUEENS BEFORE AMERICAN SLAVERY. Educate, not reiterate.
I had absolutely no idea there was slavery in New York. I looked up this video after finding out Sojourner Truth was a slave in New York. My mind is blown!
