@@marvinheemeyer6660 Except for not putting white supremacy on a public platform and catering to Oligarchs. Back to Presidents in the background, where they belong.
@dandagod official with good reason! 99% of them are on the corporate teat. we pay taxes and they give all of it to billionaires/corporations, who don't even need it.
@Shay Do you mean after they were purchased from other Africans, and brought to the Middle East, South America, and North America it was impossible for them to run away, almost the same way they couldn't run away from those who sold, and enslaved them in the first place in Africa where they were bought, and sold by Africans to other Africans
@Shay Every continent has always had some sort of thriving economy as peoples learned agriculture, and stopped being nomadic. I have heard of the Moors, and to say the Moors were black way over simplifies who they were, considering a large portion not only originated in Western Africa, but Northern Africa, and the Middle East places like Morocco, Algeria, Yemen, Syria etc. Also explains why they would conquer places like Malta, Sicily, Spain, and other parts of the Mediterranean. Rice production in North America began in the mid 19th century, which is also the time where large migrations from Asia to North America began. My comment was made because you made it sound like only peoples from Africa knew how to cultivate, and grow rice. Did you know more African slaves were taken to the Middle East than North America, and the reason there are far less decedents in the Middle East today is because a vast majority were immediately castrated?
That's a very wrong assumption of the entire situation. Reconstruction went fine, but it didnt involve embarrassing and looting the south like the north wanted. Johnson was impeached for firing a cabinet member, not for reconstruction stuff.
Just love your narrative voice!!! It’s perfect balance of tone and volume 🍿 You can either stay up all day listening or fall fast asleep either one is OK with me!
@@fionafiona1146 lol don't even bother. You ask these people to cite any misinformation, and they just remain vague and faux-enlightened. It's the QAnon way
There was uncultivated land given to former slaves as housing. There were also settlements in remote parts of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida that were created for former slaves.
Redistributions as in give them the slave owners land? That would be like enslaving the enslavers. It makes sense in a way although I wouldnt choose that route if I was trying to hold the union together and keep the country happy.
@@GuyFromTheSouth Slave owner would still have had some of his land, but the extreme too much amount of extra land he would be holding would be taken away & redistributed among the slaves who had nothing. They fought & won a bloody war in which over 300k northerners died to hold the Union together, what's again with pandering to these former slaver owners? Keeping bunch of former slave owners happy doesn't result in keeping the country happy, since they make up a few percentage of population. Leaders at the time especially Johnson had a chance to set things straight, they blew it.
Ulysses Grant was still General of the Armies during Johnson’s term and did as much as he could to protect ex-slaves via Federal troops. He was President from 1869-1877. He made significant progress via Reconstruction durning those years. By the end of his second term the nation was tired of Reconstruction and many of its provisions were not continued by Rutherford B. Hayes and the succeeding Congress. Southern whites took full advantage and were mostly unfettered in their abuse of Black people. That’s when life really became bad if you were Black.
And yet protesters took down a bust of Grant, the only president outside of Lincoln that actually tried to help black people in that time period. Shows they don't know much about history and why it's important to learn it. 🤷♀️
@@briannaaaron6804 they didn’t take it down because of his relationship with black people they took his down along with Columbus and Junipero Serra due to their awful treatment of native Americans. Natives experienced severe cultural genocide under Grant. Look up the war against Lakota people. They knew their history.
@@mesij6798 Actually, it partially did. It was done on Juneteenth, and and it was because he supposedly owned one slave that he freed long before the Civil War. And his wife came from a slave owning family. However, Grant was the leading general of the Union army who got General Lee to surrender at Appomattox Court House, and when he became president he passed the 15th Amendment and prosecuted the KKK. He also tried to push Native Americans as equal citizens, but you had a lot of generals ignore him and they did what they wanted. I'm not saying he was effective in helping Native Americans, but I am trying to say he tried to mend fences.
@@briannaaaron6804 So essentially you knew why they took down the bust you just wanted to try and make it look like they didn’t know their history...I can’t imagine why you’d do that🧐... Anyways no Grant did not try to mend fences with Native Americans by pushing them to be “equal” you mean pushing them to reservations and killing those who didn’t comply. He treated them terribly. It’s history there’s no need to justify it. y’all need to accept that the people you guys tend to glorify or defend weren’t worth defending.
Love your videos! I have never thought or been taught about this period, from an Arkansas public school kid. Many things are glazed over in history in the south.
The 19th century in America has always been my favorite period of history bcuz it shows how we grew into the nation we became. Sort of the adolescence of the country. Good video.
I think we are still in our adolescence as a country. In Europe they have churches buildings that are 1,000 years old. We are still fresh out of the box here and we have a lot of growing up to do.
If you haven't done it already, please do one on the "Buffalo Soldiers" in regards to the Native American Wars. Also about how some Native tribes (Seminoles), took in and intermarriaged with escaped slaves.
In some respect we have come a long way.. in others, we haven't gone that far. We've learned a lot, but we still have a lot to learn. I pray we never forget the mistakes and lessons learned from our past.. and may it NEVER EVER happen again!
Nice summary but to be completly objective I thought you should have mentioned that from 1865 to 1876 the south was under Marshall Law and split into 5 military districts in which men had to have their oath of aligiance on them at all times and they were not allowed to own pistols or rifles, only shotguns with bidshot only for hunting game. And those carpet baggers were not nice people moving to the south to create a new middle class. They were opportunitsts trying to obtain land and property by paying the property taxes and hoping to easily gain the property if the owners could not make the payment in November.
Thanks for using black American. Seriously, this is one of the few channels that got it right. Where did the label "African-American" start? It's a polarizing subject.
@@m.j.e.5245 Lincoln had no hand in the creation of Liberia. Liberia was founded the 1820s by the American Colonization Society and became an independent country by the 1840s. Lincoln contemplated allowing voluntary migration to somewhere in Africa particularly Liberia.
You failed to mention that certain southern states recently paid off their debt from the civil war and thus continuing the poverty of all people living in those states even to today.
Even when you could debts from the Civil War, southern states still receive on average twice as much money from the Fed as they give. How exactly are they keeping you in poverty when the Federal Government is paying for all of your trailer park welfare?
@@matthewcapobianco9332 First of all the South gets more more money because of farming and well we all need to eat . Second the South is like every other part of the country. We’ve been modernized since the 70’s.
Exactly, why does everyone think that every black person ever in the world were slaves and discriminated against? I being an African myself, find it quite irritating. Black Americans are not the only black people!
1.3 billion black people live in Africa, 50 million in the US. I’ve been trying to get weird history to cover the Barbary Pirates and the Razzia’s, real African history from Algeria Libya and Morocco etc, and how they lived when they weren’t slaves
I have two thoughts about Reconstruction: 1) In an alternate universe where Lincoln lived, it would've gone a lot better for the ex-slaves. 2) Reconstruction ended far too early. It shouldn't have ended until the South was actually brought to heel and made to follow federal law. Any state that tried to implement Black Codes should've been militarily re-occupied until they corrected their behavior. It would've been preferable to have another civil war in 1876 than to put up with the South's behavior.
Would love to hear about Historic Stanton High school , and their most famous alumni, James Weldon Johnson. He wrote the song lift every voice and sing. Also first black school in the state of FL, and it burned down twice. A new building was built in a new location in 1953, and it is still open today as one of the top public high schools in the us
Johnson set the country back so many years, and it was disgusting for him to have been elected. He was beyond UNWORTHY of the office! 😢 And this so called history lesson is definitely bias and favors the South and very sanitized. Florida schools would love this version!
Very well done. Most white Americans don’t understand Reconstruction and the long-term effects were just as devastating as slavery. A great follow on to this would be Jim Crow then black incarceration.
that ignorance is all part of the plan. it sucks. i hope i can remain calm if i ever run into my high school history teacher in the future. ...because he has some explaining to do.
@@ShubhamMishrabro they only president that was the most honorable was JFK imo. he wasn't perfect but he was definitely better than his other 34 predecessors.
The spinning photos made me SICK TO MY STOMACH why did you do that??? Interesting information, Please do not ruin the next one with nauseating spinning imagery
Weird History, I was surprised that before this video ended you didn’t discuss the Klan Formation. I would like to hear about the Harlem Renaissance or Black Panther Party
I wish people really understood that slavery did not end after the Civil War. I am descended from slaves, and ONLY ONE GENERATION REMOVED from slavery/forced labour, my mother, who is 52.. My GRANDMOTHER was born in 1926 on a plantation in Orangeburg South Carolina to two former slaves who had to remain on their plantation because there was literally nowhere they could go. My grandmother labored on plantations and farms , picked cotton and cleaned houses from the time she was 8 years old until she left the south in the 60s and came to New York. People love telling me "yoy have your dates mixed up your grandmother can't be a slave". SLAVERY AND FORCED LABOUR DIDNT END IN 1867. IT DIDNT END IN 1900, AND MY GRANDPARENTS WHO HAD WHIP MARKS, WHO WERE LYNCHED AND BEATEN WITH PIPES AND FLOGGED FOR EXISTING IN PLACES WHITE PEOPLE DIDNT WANT THEM TO. When my grabdmothers parents were savagely murdered during the SC riots,, Sundown towns still existed and she had to hide in the woods until it was safe to leave. When the entire country wants to kill you and keep your body parts as trophies there isn't much you can do. The sooner we acknowledge that this all didnt happen as long ago as people would like to think, the sooner we can assess these fucked up practices and learn how to not perpetuate this horrible history. I have FAITH IN THIS COUNTRY. I KNOW WE CAN DO BETTER.
while it's technically history, I think there's some arbitrary amount of time that must past before we can reflect on that event in a meaningful way. ie. why there aren't any documentaries on the 2010s. it's too fresh
Not only was Johnson a failure, but reconstruction was to be a overwhelming task for even the best prospect. Lincoln likely dodged a bullet (not the assassins) By being murdered. He wasn’t up to the task either and his legacy would likely have plummeted had he lived as president.
In any other country, the Confederacy wouldn't have been given the gift of conceding. The war would have been fought to an absolute conclusion. There wouldn't have been a "would have, could have, should have" argument on the part of southerners. They would have been totally defeated and their culture and way of life destroyed. That's how the Allies won WWII. The enemy had to be defeated so thoroughly that the very idea of victory would be absurd. The Union should have committed to the thing.
This is absolutely right. The southern ruling class should have been thoroughly crushed and their land redistributed. Appeasement was a crime - the legacy of this failure continues today. The US is a country which supports deeply engrained and systematic racism. Drive through parts of the American south today and you will see completely segregated communities. Apartheid still exists in the USA
In my view, the major flaws of Reconstruction were its failure to "Reconstruct" the infrastructure in the South and to "Reconstruct" the economy of the South. These were no doubt critically important initiatives which never came to full fruition. Clearly, this undermined the ability of the South to recover.
It was hard for South to recover since it's economy was mostly based of slave labour. Hence it wasn't possible to reconstruct southern economy. They should have done the land distribution from ultra rich planters & started industrialization of south.
For those of you saying it was a terrible time to live in: The US is still disproportionally incarcerating black people for minor offences to use them as a free labor force.
No, in the former slave states it was a uniquely black thing. It was extremely rare during that time for any other group other than blacks to sharecrop through the mid 50’s toward the end of the Great Migration. The term itself is from Reconstruction and was supposed to be a way for former slaves to farm land and share in the profits from crops that were sold. However it basically turned into legalized slavery. After this he Great Black Migration they started calling them migrant farmers because the people doing the work were now mostly from Mexico, Central and South America.
@@jay_kay709 at that time, sharecropping came to be 5 yrs after reconstruction. there were only 3 ethnicities in America. Blacks, whites and native Americans. sharecropping overwhelmingly dominated and effected the wealth of blacks then because they made no money from it and they didnt own the land.
Whahappened? I thought all the ex slaves went north after the war to be with their liberators...in the land of Lincoln?....where they lived happily ever after?
1:05 Why *wouldn't* you want to escape from the plantation if all you were afforded to wear was a skirt, a loincloth, or even less, a waistband! And why would your owner want you wearing only a waistband anyway??? 🤔🤨😡
I'd be interested to find out about the Nation of Islam's rivalry with Martin Luther King's coalition during the Civil Rights Movement of the 50s and 60s.
I can’t tell you how thankful I am for this RU-vid channel. I have learned more here than I have in any History class at school. Thank you for adding this particular video for our viewing pleasure. I live in the south, and as an African American of slave descent, it means a lot to me that we get to learn more about our history from an unbiased historical account.
Just goes to show how the government at the time oppressed black people so hard economically, they were never truly “free” Wouldnt you want to help them to better our country? I’ll never understand
As a Southerner, seeing titles like this makes me cringe all over. I can't wait to hear how me and mine are devils and everyone else is so blissfully innocent they can take their pot shots in total comfort. I agree, lynch mobs and spreading hatefully incorrect information to foment anger towards persons of a particular background hideous behavior. Im glad we have southerners to blame, else we might look around for the real villain and an actual answer.
Seems our propaganda media, owned and controlled thru Multi-Channel Networks, partnered with RU-vid and Google are *instigating thoughts of instilling pogroms* and division. Bait thread.
As a southern myself I don't see what the problem is. Each generation has its "devils". While the history is dark, it does not make the southerners of today look bad. I take pride in how far we have came as nation.
nice virtue signaling.. how is education about the history of " you and yours" is somehow placing blame? theses are facts.. as a southern myself i find this information useful and informative.. how can we fix today if we don't look at what made the problems in the first place? i would also love to hear what the "real villain and actual answer" is?
Johnson did not abandon Lincoln's Plan. Lincoln had proposed a "10% Plan" for re-entry of former Confederate states (10% of population had to swear loyalty to US and each state had to have a new constitution abolishing slavery, etc.) Johnson continued support for the 10% Plan; it was the Republican Congress that wanted more-- a "50 % Plan", Freedman's Bureau, and more. Johnson, a Democrat from Tennessee (Lincoln was the first Republican Pres. but had a split party ticket with Johnson in 1864) opposed Congress and thought that Reconstruction would be finished by the end of 1865-- so far from reality! Additionally, it was the Compromise of 1877 that effectively ended Reconstruction. There was an electoral tie in the 1876 Election- neither candidate ( Republican Hayes nor Democrat Tilden) had a majority of electoral votes; in such situations the Constitution says that the election goes into the House of Rep. to be decided. Reconstruction ended when House Democrats offered to support Republican Hayes in return for Republicans supporting the withdrawal of the remaining Federal troops from the South. This "back-room deal" is generally known as the Compromise of 1877 and it essentially left Blacks in the South under the control of the same Democratic Party that had supported slavery and secession.
Unpopular opinion: Instead of Government-sponsored food, homes, education and legal representation, which we continue to provide to this day, we should have sponsored transportation of former-slaves back to their African homeland.
There were alot of "Criminals" and people who were kidnapped and sent to America to become slaves. There were a good number of slaves from different countries with different languages and ethnic backgrounds, realistically there is no way all of them would make it to their homes, if there were any left at all.
Southern plantation owners: Our slaves like being slaves and are slaves voluntarily. Also Southern plantation owners: How dare you abolish involuntary servitude!? Why are my slaves leaving?!
The great migration did not begin until quite awhile after the war. Martin Luther King Jr. came to Connecticut after World War Two to visit relatives. He wrote to his mother that he went to Honiss’ Seafood Restaurant and was waited on.
Between Lincoln's death and Johnson's failure at Reconstruction the South has been hurting for years. Mostly the rich have stayed "rich" and the poor of both races have been kept poor
@@alastairward2774 I'm guessing you don't live in the south, but there are considerably more wealthy black people in the Southern major metros than the Northern ones.
He was never intended to do anything. Lincoln only chose him as VP because he was the only Southern Senator who didn't resign, so it was a show of loyalty to the Union overall to win votes for Lincoln's reelection. And once that was done, Johnson was just supposed to sit quietly behind Lincoln for the next four years. He was actually targeted for assassination the same night as Lincoln, but where Booth succeeded and the guy who targeted Secretary of State Steward at least managed to attack him, Johnson's guy chickened out and spent the night drinking.
Good video, and what a sad point in our nation’s history. Johnson was one of the worst presidents we’ve had. He squander such a great opportunity. Makes you ponder just how different America would be today had Lincoln lived to implement his intended reunification and reconstruction.
Yes. Johnson may have wanted to further Lincoln's goal of re-uniting the country without recrimination, but he sure didn't have Lincoln's ability. It was Abraham Lincoln's intension To unite us without cruel contention. But after Abe died Although Johnson tried. What ensued was unbridled dissention! ------------Limerick Rex
ya'll say slavery built America have y'all looked at the self I would much rather be up north y'all are talking about still hasn't been reconstructed? Y'all niggars want to act like you're so f****** special guess what I am not any more special than you and you are not any more special than me
@@limerickrex3354that's the silliest thing I've ever read. If the tyrant hadn't had an extra hole introduced to his head it would have been far worse. Johnson wasn't hated like Lincoln was. The South would have resisted far harder if Lincon were alive then.
