The Story Of An Indentured Servant In The New World 

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You should try making traditional northern irish soda bread

Is there a way we can just donate to Carol to support her efforts? She's is absolutely incredible.

That was one of the most powerful things I ever watched

christopher stalter thank you so much for that comment. Now I have tears in my eyes. Your servant, Parson John

Update: oldest daughter told me that she insisted that her history teacher play this for the class today. She also said that they all really enjoyed (as much as you can enjoy this poor womans story) the video. There is something to be said about capturing the attition of a class of freshman.....lol...

@@christopherstalter449 Thanks again.... this is exactly who we love to reach out to. Ask your daughter to tell her entire class that Maggie says hello!

Sure

funny to see your comment. my middle name is christopher

It's a reenactment but this stuff is necessary so its not forgotten.

I’m on tears 😞

#impoverishedlivesmatter Let's not forget this happened too!

Carol needs her own channel - or at the very least her own theatre. I hope she's paid better than what the usual reenactors are paid. She's just outstanding. Better than Hollywood.

Absolutely. It’s truly a measure of quality by how immersed you are within a story

This is heartwrenching. It touches me, as a multiracial person with slavery and indentured servitude in my ancestral bloodline. It is awful that real people had to ensure this type of life. As much as we don't like to hear these accounts brought to life the awareness needs to be shared and these stories of these lost lives need to be appreciated. It is sad that there were so many people that believed they had the right to own a person and treat them in such a way. People like Maggie and others made it possible for us in the world today. Thank you for bringing Maggie and her story to life.

Quality better than most actress dont limite her lol

@@Yarncandybycherie yes . It is sad and aggravating, anger inducing, that people could think they had the right to treat human beings as property. Those choices by those men all those years back are still affecting the relationships between races today . I wish I could see a civilization where slavery never existed and white , black, brown, always got along and truly treated each other as brother and sister . Ir would be a beautiful thing . Be well . And thank you for your comment

My new response to everything

not sayin....... just tellin

I didn't know you can say something without saying it. I love that. It's my go to for now on.

😂😂😂😓

"Now Maggie I want you to tell her about him. She must understand that he is just such a man. Tell her. Tell it all."

She definitely deserves it, and he should get the supporting for the time staying in character just sitting there.

for sure, This Maggie Delaney character was so well done, and unfortunately encompassed so much of the suffering of the indentured.... and imagine, for practically nothing, you could be 'transported' and suffer the same, for nothing. I remember seeing some cartoons as a kid about the Aussie's transported away for nothings..... and they were treated thus as well..... no wonder they have that ingrained toughness.... not only the climate, and the hardships there, but also for the servitude forced upon them..... horrible thing in history, but should never ever be forgotten..... this was a perfect presentation in my view.

Bless her..💐

Right?!!!! It is appalling isn't it?!!!

I giggled everytime she said that!! Fantastic job!!!

no doubt eh? I had to watch this twice today. She sure brings that persona to life.

My heart went out to this family and others just like them. I think of my forefathers who sailed here from other countries. I never realized that they could of gone through this. This woman made this so real to see her heart broken as her children passed or took them to work on other farms. To never see her sons again is heart breaking. God bless them all

I’m with you

Anna C. Sahlstrom:She was Irish Steel.We built America.

Read "The Rat Pit" by Patrick MacGill. Which, while it occurs in the early 20th century, illustrates why you could understand why people would consider signing themselves to an indentured service contract. Ireland was worse still when Maggie would have signed her contract...

The part about indentured servants running away is why the African trade began to take over. This video could also be called, "When the Irish Weren't White."

I wholeheartedly agree!!!!!!!

@@onegirlarmy4401 The low priced whites kept dieing too fast, so that was the selling point for the more expensive Africans.

There were more indentured Irish in usa then blacks from africa, well before the Irish potato famine.

@@pattijesinoski1958 A source would be great, though I know you don't have one. There were almost 4 million black enslaved people in America in 1850, and there was barely over 1 million immigrant Irish at that time. And regardless, the fact that there were "more" of one or the other is completely irrelevant to warrant a comment in the first place, because even one single person of either (or any) ethnicity being so horribly treated is a dark, unforgiveable mark on American history. It's proof that regardless of how horrible Irish people had it, even though *back then* they were seen as inferior, today the color of dark skin is a reason to downplay what millions of people suffered while lighter skinned people are allowed unscrutinized compassion.

@@EmilyKinny How about we feel sympathy for all human suffering regardless of skin color?

Heard about soul drivers in high school - mid 1970s - that they were treated awful.

For sure

Amen!!! Shocking!!!!!!!

Poverty can always sharpen our vision to what is true and what matters....keep the Faith

Yes!!

Please. More like this!

I'm not Irish, but I felt it so deep as if it were truly my own! I'm running to order my Ancestry line. I traced my dad's family back to 1740 or 1750, but could go no further! I forget the exact year, but I have it all down in a book I made for him! I believe they came from Ireland! I had the name change several times in my research. The last was believed to be McClanahan, but could not confirm! It stopped near the sea, off the coast of Maryland and Virginia! My brain is addled at the moment from sobbing so! What you say is so correct, you can't forget who and from where you came! Have a truly Blessed day! Off to splash some cold water on my face! LOL!

As good as it is, I've read too many comments from people in Ireland really despising Americans who claim to have anything to do with being Irish.. I makes me not want to have all that much to do with my possible heritage.. why are they so hostile

@@uniquename846 I'm Irish and I don't see any reason why I would despise an American who is descendant from my country. On the contrary, I'd be so interested to know if I have any kin in the US. Don't let a few negative Nellies put you off getting in touch with your heritage. 💚

I was literally crying 3 minutes in!

"If this were a TRUE story"??? fkn ignorant clown.

@@WWG1WWGA This story was a compilation from court cases as stated by the actress in her interview. Maggie is not so much a "true story" as a representative story. And Theresa said "I'm sure most situations were" so perhaps we needn't call anyone an ignorant clown.

How many brothers did he have?

fartzinwind The elitists who run the world do everything they can to make sure no one gets anything. And the gov't has a history of taking back what was supposedly given. Just like they want us to believe that the oil barons were just regular folk who got lucky and struck that "black gold" when, if you research the genealogy, you find all the family connections to the "black nobility" and the thirteen bloodlines. Basically, they ran off and murdered anyone whose land was discovered to be valuable. All our history has been engineered.

Wow.

Thank you!

Lisa, I just discovered this raw look at what an indentured servant would have gone through from her own perspective and shared it on my Facebook page as well. Brilliant job by both actors, and thanks to Jon and the entire Townsends crew for bringing this to our eyes and hearts.

Yes. It truly is heartbreaking. There would be no hope if it were not for God. His love for us is so deep even though we do not deserve it and our sin hurts Him so much. Thank God for the mercy that He has shown us by dying for our sins and rising again so that we could have hope and a true spirit-filled life. He died for our sins, in our place so that by believing in Jesus we would not have to suffer eternally. Christ offers salvation and life as a free gift to all who would come to Him, repent and commit their life to Him. Believe in who He is and what He did for us. Commit your life in its entirety to Him, holding nothing back and you will never regret it. There will be hardships in life but He promises to be with you through them to all who would come to Him. To those who beleive in Him He promises to take all of the hardships in our life and to turn it around and turn it into something good to those who love God and are called according to His purpose. He will never leave you nor forsake you. John 14:6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me. -Romans 10:9-10 that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation. -Ephesians 2:8-9 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. -Hebrews 7:25 Therefore He is able to save completely those who come to God through Him, because He always lives to intercede for them.

There are good people in the world too. Those people make all the difference. I don't think we should forget that.

@@essimathews9056 True indeed!!! 😄

I think we all need to understand that a young America was not alone in how badly it treated what they referred to as the underclass. This treatment happened everywhere slavery/indenture was accepted. And that is the real crime. Human trafficking has no place in our world, yet it still exists. Please support any and all efforts to end human trafficking.

@@jesussaves4473 Jesus said on his own he can do nothing. Also that he is not good. Only GOD is. Look it up. lolol Desperate much?