Thank you for your honesty. Slaves didn’t have beds to sleep on at all. That is his way of attempting to white wash history and the reality of what was done to slaves in America.
Thanks for doing this video, I thank God for my ancestors and the DNA That lives inside of me from them. My great- aunt is 94 years old and she talks about her grandma who was a slave. That would make her my great great grandmother! I have a blanket that she made that was given to me by my grandmother!
Iam from Beaufort south Carolina my great-grandfather was a slave from Barbados the place they sold him is still in Beaufort a book writer name mr.blackman wrote about my grandfather shadrick manigo yes you feeling those slaves spirit are still there and they happy you there.😅😊😂😂
You mean what they endured in africa, where slaves were castrated, buried alive and sometimes cannibalized? Yes, that was pure evil. These slaves with white masters were the lucky ones.
So many people come to Savannah and see all the beautiful decorative things, but few see the other side of Savannah's dark history of Slavery. These Amazing people HAD NAMES. They had Epic lives that few know about. Many of them where members of First Bryan & First African Baptist Church. First Bryan sits on the oldest continuous parcel of real estate owned by African Americans in the US. Many of the members worked in these homes, but purchased their freedom. Many of the African American churches in Savannah house these important records of their members. They have records of their names, their lives, hopes, wishes and dreams. Savannah needs to take the time to really look into the lives of these Amazing Individuals. THEY WERE MORE THAN JUST SLAVES. We just have to take the time to really SEE them. Thank you for shinning a light few in Savannah want to acknowledge.
This IS a fascinating town. I will return this year as I will be at the same event. Thank you for your comment and please consider subscribing to my vlog.
@@judithyatesbesttruecrime2635 Savannah's African American History is very rich, but largely not represented in Savannah. The nations 2 oldest Black Churches are in Savannah. First Bryan and First African. Many of the servants that work in these homes were members. Many purchased their freedom and brought land. First Bryan Baptist Church sits on oldest parcel of real estate owned by African Americans in the United States! The coined phase "40 acres and a mule" was developed by African Americans from the Savannah Yamacraw community and given to Sherman as a nationwide theme for America. The history goes on about these Amazing Americans. We just need people to tell their story. Slavery was just one part of their lives. Andrew Bryan, George Liele, Andrew Marshall to name a few.
@@anthonymaxwellNYthank you very much for your comment references. I would like to explore more able these brilliant ppl. God bless you and your Familia.
@@anthonymaxwellNYDowntown is where the slave trading was ‘I was there in 98 This really bothered me I still think about it today passing Savannah Ga on my way to Fla Also I have visited Charleston SC Been thru all those homes and slave cabins there too !Also visited a plantation in New Orleans I am proud to say my great great grandfather was a farmer from North Carolina who fought for the north or Union ,Grandpa Moore survived the war
When I toured antebellum homes in the South, I was so saddened by the slave cabins. Someone said the plantations should be destroyed. I think they should be preserved as a historical reminder of the past. Preserve them for the same reason the prisons of the Holocaust were preserved. Seeing is believing and not forgetting.
I lived in Mississippi in the 60s. I was stationed there. I drove all over the Old South and I too stepped inside some of the old slave quarters and the opulent plantation mansions too. I've visited Tomas Jefferson's plantation near Charlot. I've visited the Anti-bellum plantations along the Mississippi. I've been to many museums in the Old South. I've known and been friends with many African Americans who live in the South. I do not think Slavery was always cruel, but I do think that it was wrong. Being a white farmer/settler and being a slave in the Old South was a hard scrabble existence. Slaves were very expensive, sometimes costing over $1,000 that when a new house cost that much. R.E. Lee's family insured Arlington House for $7,000. Moreover many slave owners were kind and loving individuals. All plantation owners in the South employed slaves on their farms. Think Washington and Jefferson. Two great, educated, thinking men. Slaves to their credit did the best with what they had and many if not most thrived. They developed their own culture and eventually took over the South. They invented their own music, dances and sense of humor that became so popular with the citizens that they were eagerly mimicked by Whites in the minstrell shows. Al Jolsen made a killing in black face, many others too. Abe Lincoln's family cabin was no better than slave quarters. In the diggings at Monticello they found pieces of violins and stemmed glassware. Slaves were allowed to sell their services on the open market and some, if not many, were allowed to keep at least some of their earnings. Some slaves, like Frederic Douglas were eventually able to purchase themselves and therefore their freedom. So many slaves were freed upon the death of their owners that eventually the Southern government made the practice illegal. Slaves perservered in what was by far an imperfect system and we should honor their memory because of their bravery and tenacity. While they did not like being enslaved they dealt with the system which, while not the right thing to do, on some level, worked.
And just like those who survived the Holocaust received reparations, guess what the descendants of the enslaved should receive? My great grandmother's grandmother was the last of the slaves, and her granddaughter, my great grandmother, sat in my house, living through Jim crow, learning about black massacres, etc. Yall feel for the enslaved, but as soon as reparations are bought up, all that alleged empathy goes out the window
Thank you for this. Had a similar experiences outside of New Orleans, at the Oak Alley Plantation. We got out of the car behind the house...something in the air and on the breeze felt heavy and sad. The enslaved people had a plaque. That's it. I found myself dizzy. And I found myself becoming angry. We did the stupid tour...as I had no idea what to expect. It was all about the owners and their grand home and wealth. I wanted out of there. The owners were of NO interest to me. And I was horrified how they glossed over the enslave people. I think the spirits were as well...they made their presences known.
If you ever decide to visit New Orleans again, look for a tour of the Whitney Plantation. Some tour operators do double plantation tours with a combo of the Laura, Whitney and Oak Alley Plantations. The Whitney Plantation is the only one dedicated to+focused on the lives of the enslaved.
WOW before I even got to 15:22 I was sitting here saying to myself that those are the spirits of those that lived there. The shortness of breath, still feeling warm and you know that the AC was on. Yes, those were the spirits that you encountered. Thank you so much for sharing this and allowing yourself to actually experience it, which is why you had those feelings. I'm from VA but now I live in GA and I will be visiting this location.
I did NOT expect it, I can tell you. I went in just thinking it would be interesting, and I was tired of the tours where they gloss over the slave's lives. Thank you for your comment and please consider subscribing for more!
@@Creole_Ladyim late yet was thinking the same thing. Every symptom is menopausal. No disrespect because I am pretty sure those poor souls were mad as hell, and not at peace.
The fact that you knew the most important house was the quarters means so much to me. Ty for providing history, and tour, I could feel the energy of our ancestors as you were filming.
I appreciate you explaining this dwelling. Many people attend southern tours because of the beauty of these homes, but never allow themselves to feel empathy for people who lost everything, and I mean everything. They were not treated as people and they were stripped of dignity. No one can imagine the intense sadness these beautiful people endured. God Bless their souls. Thank you so much for sharing your experience.
Don’t forget about the bugs, lice, flies, dragonflies, mosquitoes Florida, stink from the horses. Heat in the summer time heat. Think of a nightmare camp trip that never ended until you died.
I just wanna say how much I appreciate you. You did a great job with your footage and the narration. I appreciate your sensitivity and care for the enslaved. We did a fantastic job with this video and I thank you again. I wish I could give you a hug for your authenticity, and as a friend. You are a beautiful person that has a beautiful soul. Thank you for this video.❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thank you for this video -- you have presented this history to us in a way that honours the people who were, as you so perfectly say, "kept here." I respect and appreciate you!
I believe you about hearing the cries. Going on vacation to Florida, we traveled a road that led beside a plantation, a huge place. Towards the back my eyes fixated on what appeared to be where slaves would have been kept. As we drove by slowly , everyone in the car taking in the scenery, I became very saddened emotionally and I swear that I heard the cries of people, many people. I told my husband and by the look on his face, he believed me, he saw how upset that I was. Ill never forget those cries and that was around 30 years ago.
Wow! Thanks for sharing this video. I felt that same feeling you felt when I visited Charleston SC. There's a street there called Market St. Slaves used to be auctioned there. It is now a street full of vendors. Sort of like a flea market. I couldn't stand to be in that place. I could feel the presence of my ancestors' souls. This is great Black History information.
Check out my video where I toured Sav by night. Very strange. Lots of terrible history here, but I do love the town. Thank you for writing here and please consider subscribing for more!
If you had toured the main house, you would have seen wall to wall carpet that was laid in strips. The slaves had to remove the long strips and take them outside to beat the dirt out of them then go back in and hand sew them back it. Very labor intensive. You were “fortunate” to be a town slave because they didn’t have to work in the fields. Can you even imagine the hardship and the determination these individual people had to survive such lives. God bless them and thankful we can celebrate their history by remembering and giving them the respect that they are due.
I did go into parts of the main house just out of curiosity to see the contrast and what tour guides had to say- in Nashville you tour the Andrew Jackson home and they will tell you, "Jackson was very good to his slaves." Next time I will ask, "So, he let them go??" Thank you for your comment and please consider subscribing.
In the 60's I lived and worked on a farm in Kansas. The standard work day was "sun to sun" or 12 hours. Everyone who I knew worked a 12 hour day. It was considered a standard work day and nothing unusual.
I visited the antebellum house in Savannah across the street from the Pirate House restaurant. They said the building behind the gift shop used to be slave quarters. I was definitely tapped on my shoulder by something I felt but couldn’t see. I do believe energy never dies; it is transformed into something we can’t see.
I do not believe that being a slave, usually, was hell on Earth. Most slaves probably accepted slavery as a reality of their lives and did their best to be happy and successful. Being a slave did not always keep them from doing that.
I visited the Owens-Thomas house a week ago. The two other mansions that I visited made no mention of the slaves. Some comments here try to say that poor people in Ireland and elsewhere lived in conditions just as bad. There's a HUGE difference. With other poor people: (1) Their families weren't torn apart against their will and sent to different slave owners. (2) They weren't completed prevented from owning and building things for themselves. (3) They weren't killed if they tried to escape to a better place. (4) Their bosses weren't allowed to whip or starve them whenever they felt like it. (5) Their women weren't allowed to be raped. (6) They weren't prevented by law from educating themselves. There are likely a million differences, that would take a hundred books to describe. There is a copy of a letter in the O-W house that was sent by the owner's wife to him, while he was visiting royalty in Europe. She describes how one of her female slaves skipped out for a few minutes to visit somebody at another house. The wife tells her husband how she had the slave thrown into jail and made to sleep with the vermin and bedbugs to teach her a lesson.
Wow, your ignorance is mind blowing! Let’s straighten this out. 1) The British manufactured a famine to make the Irish starve to death. 2) The British did things, like rape Irish men’s wives and sisters in order to make them fight back. 3) When the Irish fraught back, they were imprisoned and their land, money, and homes were confiscated by the British. 4) The British kept The Irish people’s homes, farms, and money for themselves. 5) The Irish were put in prison where they were worked to death or were shipped off to become indentured servants in America. 6) It is an outright lie that indentured servants only had to work x years and got land at the end. 7) Indentured servants were rapped. 8) Black slaves and Irish indentured servants were forced to “sleep together” to breed a superior slave. You aren’t helping black enslaved people by saying the Irish didn’t have it as bad. You aren’t helping anyone. Both the Irish and enslaved people had it horrible. It’s not a competition. The Irish and black enslaved people were allies, friends, and worked hard to protect one another. You are making a mockery of the relationship formed between the two groups by trying to pin them against each other.
You don't seem to know exactly what you are referring to about the early Irish Indentured. Nevertheless, there is PLENTY of pain and misery put upon several Peoples who were not considered "whyte" which always included the Irish at the time because the shizzy English that invented the whole concept decided it to be so. Frankly, I am glad to not be considered "whyte" by them even today, and will always stand up with and for my beloved community, which is the African American People. Even the 'big house' - be it the planter's home or these city mansions are actually monuments to the talent and innate strength of the slaves. The "whyte' people? They are dead AND forgotten.
I am glad you had interest and focus on the slaves and not their brutal owners who were made rich by them. It's too bad more people don't. So many focus on the owners, how much they owned and of course, the big mansion. The only reason they had that big house and money is because they forced human beings to work for them. A lot would not have had anything if it weren't for the slaves! Their struggles after the civil war and their new ways of enslaving people shows that. As for the heavy feeling you were having, I had it too and I'm watching this from Canada and never been to that house. There's a lot of anger, physical and emotional pain and sadness in that house. It's overwhelming. It doesn't seem like they are resting in peace. It feels like they are still trapped and still not free.
You actually felt what our ancestors went through you felt there spirits. Wow ive never heard anyone actually felt what our ancestors was feeling and the Agana they went through..... Wow this was very informative.
@@judithyatesbesttruecrime2635 a couple of months ago i actually walked barefooted on a cotten field and picked a few pieces...my youngest son and sister as well walked on this cotton field my grankids got to see one.. Remind u we just buried my oldest aunt on my mother side that there father came from smiths plantation in jackson ga. So i had a real connection to that field... which i never even tore my pantyhose.😂 Thank you i will look forward to more from you❤
Just want to start off saying thanks for your informative video. You did a really good job I am African American and and the reason you felt the way you did is because our ancestors knew you could feel what they felt and you would help them be heard even after all these years.
Thank you for your comment and please consider subscribing as I toured more places. I agree - there are voices out there and everyone can hear- just open your ears.
People are still being treated this way. slavery never ended it just escalated to a new level (the hidden and forget about let me show fake empathy level). Horrible nothing never changed.
Ah, nooo, slavery no longer exists, at least not here in the USA. However, the institution is alive and well in many regions of the World. It's still in Africa and there is a company in America that goes abroad and purchases slaves so that they can free them in this country. Some people complain because they are providing a profit to the slavers, but they do it anyway. I have seen slaves.
Wow, this is extremely powerful! It is extremely important to tell their stories and to show that there were humans who here in these places that lived, loved, laughed, and did what they had to do under extreme and unbearable conditions everyday of their lives. Today most AA don’t even have a place to go and visit our ancestors graves as there are rarely any markers, nor info so we have to make sure these slave cabins are documenting before they are gone. It is one of the only physical things linking us with our ancestors who were brought here.❤
@@judithyatesbesttruecrime2635 It is unbelievable that humans could treat other humans so badly! Imagine capturing humans and tying them up, while transporting them to other countries! No baths for months on end. I always wonder what the women who menstruated did. What did they use for sanitary towels, where did they wash themselves? I always cry when I watch any videos, of slavery! It is inhuman! Thank you so much for sharing this video. Aroha from Aotearoa.
I don't think that the average slave's life was "that bad". While some were probably worked to death, but others were not. However, I agree that being enslaved was far from a perfect life and we are certainly better off now that the practice is no longer.
Thank you for sharing this visit. Its likely that you experienced the residual energy of those who once inhabited that space--clearly you are a 'sensitive'. Most people just shrug these sensations off or try to explain them away. Thank you for sharing your experience of their presence.
As a Christian woman, imho, I do not believe that the spirit filled room were the spirits of the enslaved people. Most of these people were also Christians who went on to heavenly paradise with the Lord. However, it is possible that their fingerprints have been left behind. Maybe the energy matter from those fingerprints can be felt, but not the spirit itself. I believe that the spirits in that room were demons of the enemy who seek to torture, torment, and kill people. Slavery is caused by Satan tempting mankind to do his evil work. His demons are always looking for people who are willing to turn over their lives to Satan’s desires.
The slave quarters was bigger and better insulated than the cabin my mother and 9 siblings were raised in. Only the very wealthy had feather ticking. The rest used straw to stuff the "mattress" and it had to be changed out a few times a year. No pillows then either. Beds were on the floor except the grandparents. Grandpa made a rope bed for them. Mattresses would be aired out, rolled up and stacked in the corner for family seating then used for sleeping. An old cook stove cooked the meals and heated the cabin. A table and chairs sat in the one room cabin and since space was an issue they had to rotate eating as the table only had 5 chairs. It was a rough life but they didn't know because in their community of poor farmers it was normal.
Your family were settler-colonizers who got their land via Indigenous Native tribes being illegally dispossessed through broken treaties the government made with tribes for their ancestral homelands. Many tribes were either killed or removed by the military. Don't bother doing whataboutism.
So you really think Slave life was better then your life growing up? You know nothing about it my friend. No one Black or White knows what it was really like but we do know American Slavery was the worst especially since it happened twice here which is part of MAGA
But you were not beaten, raped nor sold away. You still had rights and were thought of as human beings, not chattel. You can’t compare your situation to theirs. Your family had a choice in where and how you lived. They did not. It is doubtful they had feather beds and pillows either. They slept on the floor. I’m sure a straw bed would have been very appreciated. These things you see in this video were not actually there when the slaves were.
@@shirleyiqbal3995 you're right I wasn't but you do not know my family history. You're assuming a lot with no information. Don't point your finger at someone over your very wrong assumption.
Are you mourning for the ones who are killed daily in Chicago and other major cities? Slaves' quarters at plantations still standing after all these years are built better than Section Eight Housing.
I've walk past that house before. Thank you so much for providing this historical information. And being brutally honest about what you felt and saw And being brutally honest about what you felt and saw❤
My daddy family is from Georgia and Alabama states, and i growed up listening to them talk and they sounded like old time accents. And it has pass down to me sound like old southern accents. I hate that humans treated other humans like that. Not a good thing at all. Thank you for teaching this old Floridian something i didnt know.
That happened to me when I looked in that house at Stone Mountain Ga , I was looking around the plantation owners daughter room just like you, and it was roped off, I felt something like a spirit hit me and I felt dizzy,
I'd been to this house many years ago - this part of the tour had been closed to the public back then. I thought I heard voices behind the music, but it was very faint. The heavy energy of this place must've made it very hard to concentrate. (almost thought I heard you say that slaves were housed here from 1819 to 1985? ) I apologize if I'm mistaken. Slavery was truly evil and it's hard to even imagine anyone ever thinking it was somehow acceptable. 😔
Why does anyone wants to stay in the place after they die? I believe when a slave dies, the spirit went immediately to the arms of the creator and felt finally free. I found it hard to believe that any spirits want to stay behind in the place where they suffer so much. If the lady felt something maybe was the spirit of the enemy who slaves people.
I had that “ strange “ feeling in the basement of the Big House, where slaves cooked and washed. It was a feeling of intense discomfort, sorrow, fear, exhaustion. I read there about the slaves’ daily lives and was horrified. I couldn’t wait to get out of there!
According to Joel 3 in the Bible, the descendants of the slave owners got next, the whole nation of them. And for those who are curious about this scripture, yes, Black people ARE THE PEOPLE OF THE BIBLE!
Are you feeling the deep depression of what the poor of America are going through today. The slaves had it better than what us poor Americans have today….low paying, back breaking labor jobs with no health insurance or any mercy from our employers. Today, we are NOT allowed to sit down at our jobs here in south Florida. Try being a cashier at Publix….you can really feel the depression in that back breaking job of just how badly people are still treated. We bottom feeders are nothing more than modern day slaves…..paid very little and treated like crap.
@@penelopelopez8296 you have lost your mind how in the hell the slaves had it better being rape, hung, burned, pulled apart by horses no voice, sold away from their families, worked from Sun Up to Sun down with no pay! Which by the way our people have never been paid. Just Shut Up!
Had the same experience walking on land in Alabama not knowing it was once plantation land. Only difference was the misery felt dropped me to the ground sobbing. I felt a male and female spirit in shear agony. I felt as if I were being sucked into the ground and had to be helped back to my feet. A bystander said to me so you feel it too - then you know. I was so shocked, till this day whenever I think of this l burst into tears. This took place in 1977 in Anniston, Alabama.
To think the southern economy was created and ran on the energy of dehumanized people, for the sole purpose of creating wealth is mind numbing. Not only did they create human misery for the people sold into slavery, the landowners held all the political power and controlled the press. The slave owners also held down wages for white workers, as slave labor was much more cost efficient. Thus, education standards were very low in the south as most children had to find employment instead of learning to read. This ensured a high rate of illiteracy and poverty and subservience to the “plantation order” of southern society. In other words: no middle class in the Deep South.
It looks just how the majority of Dublin people lived 100 years ago. I mean Dublin, Ireland. Whole families lived in one room with no running water. The kids had it tough.
I think you were feeling the spirits of the place. That is why I would love to see this, but then again, I wouldn't want to enter a space where I am not wanted. It's absolutely horrifying and shameful what was done to the slaves.
I don't think slavery was "despicable" as much as it was wrong. Many slaves lived long lives and had children and families. They lived in cabins usually on the plantation. So, despicable? No, but certainly not the right or good thing to do and it was made illegal here and in Great Britain. Other places too. Today one can still purchase a slave and have him/her shipped here. It is not legal, but it happens.
There has always been slavery. For some reason people think only Blacks were slaves. Slavery is alive and well in Africa and the Middle East today and for some reason the public only recognizes plantation slavery.
Seems that the spirits were communicating to you and attaching to you. Thank you for this video, I hope it always stays. I need it for my ancestry work
We visited my husband's daughters down by New Orleans and as we were driving around, their cousins would always point out "that's where the slaves had to live." Or "that's what the slaves had to eat" she was such a tender soul, wanted to share the knowledge of the underdog
I lived in Savannah and worked at a restaurant Downtown. Serves are required to know and share the history of the home with patrons, but are not allowed to refer to the ghosts as slaves. Instead they are required to say that the hauntings are of “servant children.” 😒 I could never again in my life live down there.
I guess CRT would be out of the question here in America but every immigrant that came to America has a story and culture and we as a people are not allowed to tell our------shalom.
So you agree that descendants of the slaves should be paid reparations? Not even a comment on a 500 year holocaust yet you continue to capitalize on OUR pain.
If america thinks God will not repay for these atrocities they are foolish and misinformed...absolutely disgusting thank you for your empathy in showing this place❤
I'm like you, I've always been more interested in the slave quarters than the fancy main house. That being said, at 9:55, don't you mean 1885? I seriously doubt there were any slaves living there in 1985. Thanks for the video!
@@tanyadru1484 🤷🏿 I had the slightest clue. The floor had a cold draft and I went under there to put some insulation. I seen the giant hole under the second house, slave quarters I believe. The customer bathroom sit right in front of the building I'm talking about..
Slave Cabins look like the houses in most areas where it's a heavy population of black people in modern times. The big house on plantations look like where Caucasian people live for the most part. Really nice neighborhoods with big nice size homes.
There are ways to find ancestry through slaves records to keep track of family relations. So I don’t know why “historians” couldn’t determine familiar relations. A lot actually is known. Unless lost in fires or something where documents were destroyed. They like to keep it hush, but it’s there.
As a descendant of enslaved people, don't feel sad or sorry! Be an advocate for REPARATIONS we (Black Americans) have yet to be made whole from America's ORIGINAL sin. Im here to tell you our ancestors spirits are with us and All who played a role in the slave trade WILL pay for what was done and what you continue to do. A Lot of you think your hands are clean because YOUR ancestors committed these crimes but they are NOT. We are the True Hebrews God's chosen people you enslaved, you will pay for this. COVID19 is only the beginning of your judgment.
That is ridiculous! We ALL have been going through covid 19. What happened to enslaved people in the US (and around the world) is horrendous! However, we are ALL (every race- every country) slaves still to this day. Not in the same way as the enslaved African Americas we are speaking about here but covid 19 should show you how we do not have true freedom and we do as we are told. Yes, this is just the beginning for ALL of us (around the world) unless we open our eyes and come together as "we the people".
@@hoppas77 so you saying that any diease that comes out takes away our freedom? A disease can pop up anywhere at anytime around the world. Yes COVID 19 has been blown way out of proportion but it still a real disease that can kill or make sick.
I have toured slave quarters in much of the South. In many cases they were quite superior to the accommodations obtained by my mother's immigrant ancestors, they lived 9 to a room.
I'm a highly intuitive psychic. I feel the pain the tears the sickness. I can see Diane plain as day. She ran a tight household for the other slave's I hear her say I'm mamma D ma'am. God bless them all.❤
I dont believe they had beds - so many in one space is not possible to have beds in there so that one in the corner is just for show. God bless those beautiful people ❤and shame on those who took them🤬
When you finish talking about something you know nothing about ......the demonic demon white slave owners were the worst slave owners. They treated those slaves worse than they treated their animal's. This is why you only here about the demon white slave owners because they were all about brutal and cruelty treatment. They were the worst of all slave owners. I'm seventy years old and you can not tell us who did what. Stop with trying to whitewash your pathetic views.
@@brightemerald3924 not arguing, just stating a fact. also, the first slave owner in America was a BLACK man, Anthony Johnson. Let's see how you react to that fact. (this should be good)
If you don't believe me, that's OK. If you don't agree, that's OK, too. I would appreciate nasty remarks stay off the page. I don't post nasty remarks and expect and appreciate civil discussions.
