I used to collect old clocks and at a sale one time there was a lady selling antiques . I noticed there was a huge Sessions mantel clock on her table and went over to ask about it. Turns out i was a large old mantel clock from The Shirley plantation. It was more than double the size of normal Sessions. I already had several normal sized one's but i ended up buying that one also. It was over two feet wide and 16" tall. I wish i had kept that one. This video brought back that fifty year old memory.
Wouldn’t it be great if we could have kept everything we accumulated in our lifetimes? That clock sounds awesome. It probably saw the army take over the house during the civil war. Thanks for viewing and commenting. Dave.
I visited there many years ago and was sitting under that 350 year old tree waiting for the tour to begin. I could hear "music", which turned out to be lots of wind chimes on the many trees on the property. With the birds singing and the wind chimes and looking out over the James River - it felt like heaven. Thank you for renewing this memory for me.
It is amazing to me how these videos always tell the story of how well the slave owners lived! However, many historians today advocate for calling these places “labor camps” or “slave labor camps” or "forced labor camps" rather than “plantations,” in order to avoid hiding the truth of what really happened in these agricultural operations using forced labor. The story is not told about how the plantation owners became so wealthy and able to build these homes nor how the enslaved people were whipped, raped, and treated as livestock.
Valerie Griner The way white folk romanticise slavery is incredulous. 🤔 . There is nothing grand or beautiful about what happened on this. Plantation. What happened was the worst form oh human indignity perpetrated by racists for 400 years and call it heritage.
He laughs as he says, they had to feed the slaves. I could only imagine what happened at that big oak tree that’s been living for three-hundred years, so healthy, nice and strong he so happily points out.
Don't worry God will fix everything but we must practice forgiveness despite their coldness and entitlement superiority complex. Understand there will be an wealth transfer one day and everything will go back to its RIGHTFUL owners so be patience.. and give thanks for what you/people WILL receive soon
Meade Music: Here you go again,attacking someone for speaking the truth. I'd like to know which part of what this person said that is false and why you are so triggered. Do you tell people who fly their Confederate flag and are still mad the South lost the war over a 150 years ago to... "get over it"?
Meade Music For you to say to African Americans to get over it is a disgrace and ao much disrespect. 400 years of slavery and still fighting for freedom. WE WILL NOT FORGET NOR SHALL WE EVER GET OVER IT, Because if we do, WE ARE NOT SHOWING OUR PEOPLE LOVE, RESPECT, AND HONOR TO THEM THAT CAUGHT HELL AND PAVED THE WAY FOR US TODAY.
My Grand father was born in Richmond on a plantation. In 1887 he had 7 siblings. James B. Carpenter was his name. He later moved to Baltimore, Md. He told me stories of life as he knew it. Sad stories sometimes difficult to discuss. I couldn't imagine what it was like. But the stories still have an effect today. He read the bible, was an elder in church. Worked until he was 84 years old. I also followed in his steps. I find peace and understanding by reading the Bible. I find the old testament of forgiveness for it tells the story of our history as Slaves and the years of cruelty endured over the years in the America's. I know there is a God and for all the injustice done to his chosen one's. The promise to gather his people from all the four corners and we will be priest to the nations and they will come to know and serve the true God. Zephaniah 3: 8-20 That day all will know the shame and hurt imposed on others for it will required of you 7 times over. That which you did to others will be on your head to endure. No amount of reparations could ever pay for the deeds done. But not I but God will repay. 6/5/17
Meade Music: why should he get over it? That is how he feels and other African Americans as well. He has a right to feel the way he does. Do you tell Jews to get over the Holocaust? i don't think so. Btw your "they had a much better life here" comment shows who you are as a person. Let someone kidnap you from wherever you live and ship you to another continent and enslave you, wonder how you'd feel? No matter where someone lives there is nothing in the world like being free to do whatever you wanna do. If another human being owns you, what kind of a life is that? Think about that before you attack someone because their ancestral history differs from yours.
worst than the holocaust, take millions of people from one part of the world and enslave and rape them for over 400 years. sounds pretty terrible to me. Playing victim? You are the victim because you are afraid to acknowledge the dark past and look at life from another perspective except your warped bubble. You know nothing of the world. You are so delusional it's sad. You want people to get over something that actually happened. Why?You are the ignorant one.
So when multiple European countries take millions of African people and force them to work for generations upon generations for their own monetary gain, hang and beat you if you try to run away -what do you call something like that? So millions of enslaved Africans wanted to work for white people and that was their choice right?
@@mimsicle1 Often times those cabins were moved else where or even destroyed in the later 1800s therefore when many of these places opened as museums later they didn't have any slave cabins.
they are trying to erase what they did in the past. The generation coming soon in SOME schools they are telling them the slaves MIGRATED to the usa for a better life to work... and like many plantations they keep the homes the slaves built with no credit to the builder but erase the homes the slaves lived on the property there as if they were never there?
Chris, thanks for watching and commenting on my video. This is a special corner of the world I would love to return to and explore. Yes, following history is exciting; so much to see and learn. Thanks again! Dave in Montana.
Yes Chris, imagine enslaving men, women, and children to work your grounds and mansion day after day and living in opulence while the slaves suffer. It's a shame none of the slaves thought of killing the "boss man" in his sleep and burning the plantation to the ground and escaping. Just imagine :)
