My Dad would tell me what life was like for him as 12yr old black boy growing up in Mississippi. Every Summer he would go over to Alexandra Louisiana and live with his Aunt and she would send him to work in the cotton fields. And the plantation owner would pay the labors when ALL the cotton was harvest and shipped to the buyers and sold for what ever the going price was at the time. My Dad had to give his earnings to his Aunt, in return she would give him enough money to buy his school clothes. The harvesting always lasted into late September or early October and as a result, my Dad was NEVER able to start school on time. He eventually had to drop out of school to work full time to help feed the family, he said all that "hard work" led him to join the US Army which brought him to Ft Lewis Wa in 1957 and that's when he met my Mother and I'm a product of that union...Thank you retired SFC Eddie Simms Sr.....RIP.
@Eddie Simms Just read your post and it brought me to tears. My father had a very similar upbringing. Lived in Greenville, MS during the 50's and 60's and would "chop" cotton as youth to help the family. Granddaddy left the family for another woman so my dad dropped out of high school and enlisted in the Army cause chopping cotton just wasn't enough to support a household of 7. While most cats back then hated Army life, he thought it was a step up in because he didn't have to share a bed with two brothers or fight over food with them. As he used to say the Army gave him three hots and his own cot. Ended up getting stationed in Thailand in '71 where he met my mom, married her and brought her back stateside where I was born. RIP SSG R.J. Jr.
@@TEDSHOTTHAT when you think about it, it still happens today. If you work for a corporation, you’re working to put food on the table and that’s really it. It doesn’t matter if things have come forward between now and then, it’s all the same principle “you work, we keep the money and live the extravagant lifestyles” we all can’t be tycoons.
Democrat/Republican is segregation except Dems are 1st in racism practices . People self segregate anyway. People create communities (China town, etc). People locked up so that as well. People typically seek out their own race in general. Weird that it matters to everyone at some level.
Segregation is bad. This is why I oppose BLM and the KKK. Both want people segregated by skin - different schools, living quarters, hospitals.... tragic.
That's a dumb way of looking at the world. You can't avoid hierarchies because they're part of nature. It's more like, intelligent people who put in the work providing opportunities to people who didn't or couldn't. Communism has never worked. Capitalism has raised more people out of poverty worldwide than any other system.
Very different than what is shown today, but very informative, especially about how things were seen in the 1950s. I do find it weird many people believe all southerners had slaves. That was only the ultrawealthy, 80%+ had no slaves and either worked their own farms, were indentured servants, or had other jobs. It's not like every family had a plantation, that's the 1%.
That is very true. Life was hard for poor white people too but they did have their freedom and they had the ability to leave and star a differently lide elsewhere. What's also interesting is that poor white southerners today hold fast to the idealic view of The Antebellum South but what they don't realize is that life wouldn't have been that great for them anyway. Only white male land owners lived well.
@@marcusbrutus9578 I know. The families of slave owners lived a life of luxury. But that was only a small percent. With that said, a lot of the white people romanticize over the antebellum south don't realize they wouldn't have enjoyed many of the spoils of it. Also those poor whites that lived there at the time had the freedom to leave and many did. They could travel wherever they wanted. Slaves didn't have that privilege.
This video made me angry. It seemed to me that the video really tried to paint slavery as a “normal and reasonable method of life.” Slavery was a horror, and the USA, both South and North, are culpable.
Slavery was legal, Constitutional, and common. Hand labor was necessary for crops like cotton, tobacco, and rice. Slavery was actually more expensive for the farmers than share cropping. Under share cropping the farmer did not have to pay for food, health care, clothing,, and other expenses. When purchasing a slave the farmer had to pay up front for an entire lifetime of labor. With share cropping you paid the labor after the harvest. The is no obligation to share croppers in the off season like there was for slaves.
Hi, I am making a documentary about my uncle who was the son of a sharecropper and I am wondering if I could use a portion of your great video. Video only no audio.1 minute tops.
This maybe an unpopular opinion consider it's not some WOKESTER point of view, but I think the film did a great job in explaining the one subject that is all too taboo to talk about in America, and that is Class and Caste system, which wasn't and still isn't unique to Southeastern United States. What did exist in the south was a class and caste system. (Which exists in the rest of America). Sadly, the subject of race is pushed on and baited on the public so the greatest taboo subject in America (Class & Caste) never gets talked about. Class & Caste system never gets talked about in America because everyone is suppose to believe this myth that in America everyday homeless people are becoming billionaires and there is limitless opportunity everywhere, and that no ones standard of living ever goes down.
Okay we all know the word usage is not the best and we know why… but okay looking past that, this is still an extremely valuable piece of video history.
We all know the word usage used by the narrator is not the greatest and we all know why… but looking past that, this is still an extremely valuable piece of video history.
The 13th amendment abolished it except for being incarcerated, which is why black codes were created. Trials were held immediately and so were the guilty convictions. The chain gangs were established and the country continued being built.
Chain gangs didn't build anything but roads. Skilled Irish contractors built the vast majority of southern cities. Farm workers don't easily convert to construction workers.
What a stupid statement!! Slaves were expensive cost about 10 times the price of a horse. The planter had to pay for a lifetime of labor up front with slaves. Sharecroppers got their portion of the harvest. There was no free labor. Slaves got free language training, free job training, free food, free housing, free utilities, free clothing, free medical and dental care, free retirement, etc. all in exchange merely for their labor. Much more expensive than the minimum wage of today.
These plantations would not have ran without slavery so obviously 90% will be about it. I mean why would you want a sugar coated version of events just because it makes you "sad"?
Now it’s called a democracy, even though we live in a Republic. Never Slavery though. They have the choice to kill themselves according to government officials. Freedom of choice is what they’d call it.
It was a system. It was made a by White Colonists. Institutionalized Slavery, just like Prison labor is Institutionalized prison labor whereby wealthy corporations like Walmart and others have contracts with the Prison Industrial Complex to have their products made cheaply. The Judge give Black people unfair and long sentences and this creates the cheap work labor in prison. Another form of America's SLAVERY.
Slavery would’ve been phased out within 40 years due to the Industrial Revolution. Slaves would’ve been obsolete. Reminder: slavery wasn’t invented in the USA or The South.
😪This explains why my parents... as opposed to attending grade school.... had to #pickedcotton ... and #sharechopped .... my dad "worked" in #USSteelMill under harsh conditions #blackcodes #convictlabor ... eventually settling down into a suburban area of LI, NY 1960s with 10 kids into 5 bedroom home corner lot home... by God's grace and mercy... 🙌🏾 🔅The United States Steel Corporation, also known as U.S. Steel, founded by J.P. Morgan and Andrew Carnegie. Statement issued by US Steel 2022 “U. S. Steel does not condone the practices of a century ago,”... “Given the amount of time that has lapsed, we, unfortunately, do not have comprehensive records relative to this situation.” “We would be pleased to consider a memorial plaque should members of the affected community express an interest."
Folks, Ask yourself a question why there are not many documentaries about the "Antebellum North". This point in time, many things in history have been purposely "changed" to make one side look terrible. Ah, ask yourself why there are less black land owners in the rural North, than compared to the rural South? There has been an unfortunate twisting of the truth, to only show one side of the things. I am not defending the "Old South" here, just pointing out that the other side of the story was destroyed after the war. Of all the money produced by slave labor, that went into the treasury, VERY INTERESTING that this same money was used PRIMARILY to build the infrastructure in the North. We were all guilty, not just one side.
@@B123. Not really. Owners had to house the slaves, feed them, provide basic clothing. I am not suggesting slavery was good or tolerable, but the term cheap labour is correct.
@@berenicemarchese1593 They built their own houses, grew their own food or ate the scraps from master, and got 2 outfits for the whole year. They were tying cloth around their feet in the winter and their feet were cracked because their shoes were worn out.
@@berenicemarchese1593 it’s not “cheap labor” when your forced to do it … blacks didn’t say we’ll work for , housing , food ,and basic clothes … we were forced to work and if we refused we were killed or beat
I know this has nothing to do with Slavory, but I have one thing to say. One time, I asked my mom, ''what race is my grand father?''. She said my grandfather was exactly and American-Indian, and had beautiful long braided hair. He wasen't a slave, but she didn't tell me the year he was born though. Anyways, he did pass away, for all I know, but that's how the generations of his Indian Race and his eyes, that's how I am African-American and a little mixture of Indian, but fully Black. That's how my mom told me I had slanted eyes. (small eyes)
This was the 1960s. They were freed slaves who couldn't find work and so returned from the north to do what they knew how to do. This time, they could come and go as they pleased but stayed because they could rent a home and got paid. Their choice. Hence tenants and landlords.
I literally sharecropped eggs & peaches with my grandparents on a white man land here in GA from 1979-1985. My grandparents literally did this all of their life
Actually very informational , don't know why everybodies hating. Of course they weren't gonna show how the slaves were really treated in a video for students lol
Me either! THIS needs to be destroyed ! VERY sad that people actually believe slavery was THIS civil and humane.. Whites working along side of blacks ??!! NO ! No mention of the barbaric practices inflicted .. ??
This is Warren hooks family plantation in the town of hooks TX Bowie County Texas Warren hooks is the founder of this town founded in 1845 had 98 slaves and a mix son name Forrest hooks and plenty African Americans hooks family in the area with that hooks blood my mom's mother father name was Forrest hooks he was from hooks TX but moved 18 miles away from hooks to a town called Dekalb TX in Bowie County Texas to a community on the red River called 3sides on the border of Oklahoma and Arkansas
That is very interesting. It good you know so much about family background. My great-great grandfather in Cass County, Georgia, had nearly 200 slaves before the War, but there is not even one suspected case of mixed-race offspring.
The first plantations were owned by Moors black royalty that was kicked out of Spain in1492 they ruled in Europe for 800 years they captained Columbus ships, look up word slavery it's named after slavic people yes white people were the first slaves also natives black slavery came later. The Moors ran the slave trade from the islands and Algiers Louisiana where the slave pens were held you can still see the star and crescent of Islam on police cars in New Orleans. The Moors had children with their white slaves and their white children ran the plantations some were know as Creoles of new Orleans. All history is a lie this truth will be know in the not so far future. Google Sundry Act.
Actually, that same technique was used by the Catholic and Orthodox Churches for nearly 2,000 years. Keep the peasants ignorant. They did not need to read because the priests could just tell them what they needed to know. Slavery has taken many forms.
@@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath Yes, until the ball changes of hand. Every empire has growth, boom, and decay. Anybody would think that the Roman Empire would end, but it did, and United States empire will end also, it is in decay now. You, living there, don´t see it. Me, living outside, do see it. Regards.
Cotton picking machines ended a lot of slave labor. Many freed slaves left the South for cities in the North. Others were given small plots of land to farm. Cotton is not a big product of the land since it depleted the soil, the cotton beetle, etc.
@@pankakotakismegalomavropou3355 Yes, slaves were very expensive to have. You had to buy them, and they weren't cheap, dress them, feed them, doctor them, and you were taxed for them.. so no, it was not cheap or free labor. Inhumane and abhorrent, absolutely.
Well on one side of my family didn't own slaves butbtheybwerevshare croppers of cotton my mom was 9 yes old having to pick cotton but they always had compassion for eithervrace
Literally we should award you the captain obvious award of the century. Do you think air conditioning is some like ancient technology??? Speaks to the strength of character of ALL Americans back in the day.
Imagine, no power,water, or any other bills where these blacks lived rent free in paradise daily. Forever in debt to they're plantation owners they will be, those were the days indeed !!!!🤔
They truly had it made in the shade and still do today even more 🙄 but they will never cease complaining and stirring up trouble at every chance .!!!!!!
Be not deceived. The blowback of this era is happening before our eyes. The whole Trump thing is really America holding on to the last vestige of “the good ole days.” It’s so poetic. Most of the people who are trying him in court are black.
Why?!! They were cared for back then. The master gave the slaves good food, housing, clothing, veterinary care, utilities, training, time off and retirement all in exchange for their labor. Today's minimum wage employers don't provide food, housing, clothing or medical care.
@Luís Andrade well it's apparent you havent done any actual historical research.. I hope one day you sit down and actually research old documents, whole families, whole cities, counties, and states, and not just be spoon fed history. You can start for free at familysearch.org. they have a great catalog search for local history. Ancestry library is also offering free services through December. Thats enough time to get a great start
The truth really triggers you, doesn't it. Does it make you "uncomfortable"? Does it make you feel ashamed to be white? "The truth shall set you free," Henry. But you don't want ot be free. You want to be comfortable.
