When mentioning being nice to slaves and love being ways to quell slave rebellion, he neglected to mention the best psychological tool that the slave owners had against slave rebellion: Christianity. As long as slaves believe in heaven and hell they're going to be more willing to accept hardship in exchange for heaven and fear rebelling over fear of ending up in hell.
@princessazizah2768
7 жыл бұрын
Treestump & Thunderarch It wasn't christianity my ancestors were not allowed to practice. It was their own culture which is not religious at all. Christianity was use against them so that they would forget how to practice their own culture which was and is still more powerful than anything you can imagine or dream. Their are many movies about my ppl in Hollywood except they use fun characters like wonder woman or ppl like the ones in Apocolyto. They're telling the truth. But just not the entire truth. And they've always used non "black" ppl to depict who the slaves "my ancestors" really were. And who we are today. We have a long time to go at this rate of discovering the Jewels of America and those who are scattered. But no, christianity was no threat. It was my ancestors culture that was the true threat. The books that they were told not to try to read was really the documents and writings they took away from them when they took the ppl. They took their names, their tribe identity, and so. That's why the descendants scattered cling to other outside cultures and make a fool of they self. They don't have their own. It was beat out of all the ppl before us and never past down. But it had nothing to do with that christian junk. Christianity was made up to give to the ppl before us to pass down instead of the TRUTH.
@mrbigstufable
Жыл бұрын
Excellent point, Christianity is poison.
@BuzzLightyearr12
Жыл бұрын
Amen
@jamescareyyatesIII
Жыл бұрын
Same for all religions. Brahmins use reincarnation to oppress the poor.
@EvelynOnline9205
Жыл бұрын
Religion has always been a tool for control.
@kirkpailthorp2373
7 жыл бұрын
Abandon hope all ye who approach the comment section...
@kirkpailthorp2373
7 жыл бұрын
For the record this was not a statement of position. Instead it was a tongue-in-cheek reference to how regardless of whether of not the video contained factual errors this is an emotional charged topic for both sides of the political spectrum which tends to make the already caustic you tube comments downright nasty.
@ballz4kidz
7 жыл бұрын
translation: I'm a racist imbecile
@yoman3461
7 жыл бұрын
The Glorious Winged Hussar 😂😂
@andythompson1807
7 жыл бұрын
Translation: People who use the word "cuckold" as a political insult are mental 10-year-olds, and a bunch of them will show up in the comments here.
@clintonjefferson6494
7 жыл бұрын
Christopher Harper Digicash Indeed
@icewaterfall101
7 жыл бұрын
While physical slavery has diminished greatly over the centuries, the slavery of the human mind has increased so rapidly that people don't even realize what is being done to them every single day.
@paul1809we
7 жыл бұрын
I really despise people that take documents and the content out of contacts to suit their narrative.
@benjamincurwood
7 жыл бұрын
you mean "context"?
@Gabriel2oh6
7 ай бұрын
@@benjamincurwoodno he meant people who get their content off of their contacts.
@death69k
7 жыл бұрын
I get that white people weren't the first abolitionists, but wasn't England unique in allocating resources to specifically fight slavery? I'm thinking of the West African Squadron en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Africa_Squadron
@death69k
7 жыл бұрын
That's true but that doesn't negate the fact that they sent a fleet to combat slavery.
@CynicalHistorian
7 жыл бұрын
They were indeed forceful when they got around to it, but that was well after Haiti had already gained its independence. Afterall, the US joined that squadron while it maintained slavery. I'll actually talk about the African Slave Patrol in a couple weeks.
@WORKERS.DREADNOUGHT
7 жыл бұрын
The British public were largely ignorant of the way slaves were treated and when working class people found out they most often sided with the slaves - such as the Society for the Relief of the Black Poor & the repatriation to Sierra Leone (along with numerous white wives). Much of the acceptance of slavery was based upon their being "heathens" but as more became Christians the abolition movement grew.Not only did Britain send a fleet to Africa it also overthrew African states whose economy had been based on slavery & which collapsed as the slave trade ended, which was a major driver for British colonial expansion.Most white & Irish slaves (clan chiefs would also sell their clansmen into slavery for profit) were sent to Barbados not continental America, where they were known as "redlegs".
@wideasstv
7 жыл бұрын
SOS DD "Adopted by"? It was a derogatory term used by southern democrats to describe whites laboring alongside their black counterparts prior to and following abolition. It's used again today by the same democrats to ascribe southern whites as racists. The irony is likely above you. However, shame on you.
@KSmithwick1989
7 жыл бұрын
+ George Jungle The Southern Democrats integrated themselves into the republican party after Civil Rights Act. They have virtually little in common with todays party, most of them have died of old age.
@timonferguson9062
7 жыл бұрын
Hey, so um, I'm about to get real unpopular real quick. So on Indentured Servitude, it's much more, um, complex in that the "Criminals" were convicted of being the wrong ethnicity, the two examples of course being the Irish Clearances and the Suppression of the Jacobites, in the case of the Jacobites you can of course call them traitors but it was the case that many Scots who had had nothing to do with it were caught up in the sweep, in both cases you were forced to either sign the documents or be executed, I want to be very clear on this just how "Voluntary" these indentures were is super contentious, and given the points in time were the majority of them occured it is much more likely that they were coerced then not. Once brought to the Americas there was often little in the way of Centralized Authority to monitor that the Indentures were being treated within the confines of the law, and in the case of the Irish and the Jacobites racist attitudes and hatred of the "Traitors" would likely have lead to a certain reluctance on the part of many people in authority to abide by the laws rather than turn a blind eye. Then of course we get to the fact that depending where the plantation was the indentured could very well be stuck for life, as if they were far enough from any other settlement being "Freed" meant at best a very long walk with no food and water, so a sort of chain of contracts would occur with the indenture having to sign a new one each time or face starvation. Part of the problem is we have little evidence on either side and in the case of criminal acts shouldn't really expect much, especially if athouritys were turning a blind eye, so this all quickly leads down the rabbit hole of conjecture. After doing as much reserch as I could into this my Personal Oppion is that De Jure there were no white slaves but De Facto there was. I await the inevitable screaming matches that occur whenever I give my opinion on this one, -Timon
@pureholy
7 жыл бұрын
No one is claiming that being an indentured servant was a walk in the park. The point is, that period of indenture, whether voluntary, coerced or enforced, was limited. Yes many people no doubt died before there time was up. Some may have faced freedom with nothing. Yes some people were denied release at the end of their time - this may have been because they had committed a crime while indentured and their ‘sentence’ was - fairly or unfairly - increased. Whatever the reason, the extending of the contract could be challenged in court, they had rights. Slaves cannot challenge their slavery, it is for life, they have no rights and, crucially, it is/was a status passed to their children. No doubt some indentured servants were treated badly, but that was not the norm. In Britain in the 18th and early to mid 19th century some orphans and pauper children were sent to factories and mills, they had to work long hours and were not permitted to leave, they got no pay and they had no choice, so I guess, for a while, they were ‘slaves’, it was a system that was open to and was abused, but if they lived and their period of ‘apprenticeship’ (commonly 10 years) was completed, they could leave or stay on as a paid worker. Being an indentured servant or pauper apprentice meant you were in a crappy situation that could last for years, but it is was still not true slavery.
@yurika12
7 жыл бұрын
Timon Ferguson sounds like you change the meaning of a slave to include having no legal rights and such. a slave is one who is the legal property of another. If you had a contract, they were slaves. Maybe not for life, but then would you say that those slave who were freed weren't slaves in the past? A slave is a slave. one could be treated worse or better, be forced into it or "volunteer".
@nightflight83
7 жыл бұрын
So I guess you oppose the use of the term "sex slavery," since it isn't necessarily a permanent state. Right?
@hunter5822
7 жыл бұрын
Timon Ferguson thank you for saying what should be said.
@hotdogman38
7 жыл бұрын
Timon Ferguson amen brother
@_AshB45_
7 жыл бұрын
This was very enlightening. I didn't know there were people that actually believed some of these myths, makes me wonder if any of them actually paid attention in History class. Still I was not aware of most of the details you went over. I'm always happy to learn more about things I have only vague knowledge about. So thank you for the lesson ^_^
@danic9304
7 жыл бұрын
What an interesting video! I like that it is well balanced, tackling myths from different parts of the political spectrum. As an undergrad I did a single semester module on the Peculiar Institution - I found it a fascinating subject. Far more complex I anticipated
@a.delattree.1392
7 жыл бұрын
Indentured servants were subject to having their contract extended without their agreement, and were often inherited by new masters when their old one died, thus completely renewing their contract for its original length. Working indefinately without consent is slavery. While this doesn't negate the injustice of African slavery, African slavery doesn't negate the suffering of people working in bondage as indentured servants either. That would be like saying it's okay to abuse a child as long as there have been others who were abused worse.
@servoaugusta513
7 жыл бұрын
One injustice does not have fall in the exact category of another. Slaves *were* different from indentured servants legally. The mark of slavery did pass from person throughout his line and were classified as not human.
@Alistarwormwood
7 жыл бұрын
#10 You seem to have intentionally forgot about about Britain's 60 year Crusade to end the trans-Atlantic slave trade via the West Africa Squadron. This is probably what people are talking about.
@Alistarwormwood
7 жыл бұрын
also don't claim to only focus on slavery in America, and then when it comes time to talk about abolitionism- suddenly switch gears to talk about Ancient China. You're being intentionally dishonest.
@alfredwan8574
7 жыл бұрын
And half of the time Africa is mentioned. so dishonest
@servoaugusta513
7 жыл бұрын
Um he didn't. He said he'd be *mostly* be referring to America because that's where the majority of these myths permunate from but didn't explicitly or implicitly say he'd exclude discussing anyone else.
@CynicalHistorian
7 жыл бұрын
They indeed tried, as did the US - but the African Slave Trade Patrol was almost entirely ineffective. That does not speak to the issue at hand with #10 though. This claim fails to account for the people who were actively fighting slavery for centuries (ie the slaves themselves), just to give the credit to the people who were ultimately responsible for maintaining the legality of the institution in the first place. Such a claim is like giving credit for the civil rights movement to the US congress.
@FastFoodLifers1
7 жыл бұрын
Here are the Two issues with #10. #1. You said you were going to talk specifically about America. Therefore it doesn't matter what China did, or anyone else. #2. In America the White Male held the Power, the White Male was the only one with the AUTHORITY to stop Slavery. No matter how many Slave Rebellions, the only way the Slaves (of ANY and ALL Races) could stop American Slavery was by killing those in charge until the Government folded. This did not occur. So it is very true that IN AMERICA Whites ended Slavery. Because, as we are constantly reminded, it was ONLY Whites that held the Institutional Power. You want to argue that because it was also Whites who CREATED Slavery (specifically IN AMERICA as a Law with protections under a Legal System allowed by a Government) that they can not be credited for ending it... but this is faulty logic. If Whites as a whole were intent on keep Slavery in America, the ONLY way it would have ended without Whites ending it would have been an entire overthrow of the Government that supported the practice. At the end of the day, as sleazy as you feel it sounds... yeah, Whites (SPECIFICALLY in America) did 'end Slavery'. They were the only ones with the POWER to do so. This does NOT discredit the many Slaves that fought and raised hell until a small group of Whites heard them. In fact, it raises what those that sacrificed did to an even HIGHER level... because they were some how able to compel enough of the very group that held power over them to release that power and risk their status in that effort. They who had nothing were able to convince those with everything to lose... to risk it all to aid them. I mean, it doesn't get much more impressive than that.
@miguel47viana30
Жыл бұрын
As descendant of those who started the Atlantic slave trade, yes, Africans had African slaves as a consequence of wars, but only after Europeans created the demand were wars started with the main objective of creating more slaves.
@oliverfischer4788
7 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the good list of literature on the topic, and the solid research. The fact that none of the critical commentators can list a single serious research to back their criticism speaks volumes.
@comradestarbucks2726
7 жыл бұрын
One thing to note about the cirst myth is that there was reportedly a lot of "mishandling" of indentured servants' contracts, resulting in them being trapped in service for, well, as long as the one holding the contract saw fit. Also, for some reason the timespan of 18 years is stuck in my head as related to the origin of the term 'redneck'.
@claudinet8367
7 жыл бұрын
Thank you. That was a great history lesson and you covered a lot of ground in just 14 minutes.
@CoalCrackerPyro
7 жыл бұрын
I just can’t grasp the concept, no matter what date and time, anyone, ever thought it was ok to own another person...
@SimonAshworthWood
7 жыл бұрын
The claim that many slave owners were "kind" and "loving" towards the people who they enslaved depends on your definition of "kind" and "loving". It might fit an abusive person's definitions of "kind" and "loving", e.g. the definitions imagined by those rare men in modern times who have kidnapped girls or women in first world nations and kept them isolated from the world as sex slaves. Keeping someone as a captive, especially when the captors violently assault or kill slaves who flee, is not being "kind" nor "loving". ANY slavery certainly is not a healthy definition of "kind" and "loving".
@BePatient888
7 жыл бұрын
+The Cynical Historian, this video will hurt many a butt. I hope you have asbestos underwear, because the flames are coming.
@daneman63
7 жыл бұрын
+Vinchenzo C you mean like, this videos going to hurt his butt cuz it's so full of shit?
@queentwilightsparkle4975
7 жыл бұрын
I'm not offended at all, actually cynical historian you are a really good fact checker. Thank you for posting your videos. Your videos are interesting to watch :)
@MrJeffcoley1
7 жыл бұрын
Thanks for debunking the myth: Indentured servitude was NOT the same thing as slavery. People entered into the contracts willingly (although there are stories of people being duped or Shanghaied), it was a means of learning a trade and getting passage to America. I have heard that even some American Indians entered indentured servitude contracts.
@hasturspeaks
7 жыл бұрын
Loves me some history. Objective means to understand fully, without judgement
@Paaka
7 жыл бұрын
Instead of mass incarceration they should make inmates indentured servants
@D.CORRY1
7 жыл бұрын
He said "many MASTERS were kind to their slaves" Is he fuckin serious😂😂😂
@Zren89
7 жыл бұрын
Dwayne Corry it's a question of sevenrity. Some treated their slaves incredibly poorly, others recognized them as an investment and those slaves led lives of (relative) comfort. None would have let them go willingly (though there were instances of slave owners manumiting their entire plantation's population upon their death) and the Master - Slave dynamic could never be called truly equal or fair, it stands to reason some were treated better than others.
@FightsRightsAlways
7 жыл бұрын
IamZren89 You are twisting history around. Most slaves who wanted to stay with their owners,did so because they provide safety, food and shelter and were protected from being attacked and killed. Very,few stayed because of "good conditions " or that they "liked" they liked their owners . Especially when the civil war broke out.
@ghostryder94
7 жыл бұрын
Read Mark Twains biography. His family had one when he was a boy that was pretty much a loved member of his family. After the war when he became a very wealthy man he had various servants on the payroll. The blacks were the highest paid.
@Magichands700
7 жыл бұрын
Of course many Masters were kind to the slaves. It would be stupid to mistreat the slaves. Mistreatment fostered revolts and revolts ended with dead slaves. That would be a financial loss. Some loved their slaves, that is why the average African American is no longer dark black. Many slaves were freed when they past their working prime. Many slaves were allowed to earn money so they may purchase their freedom. Slaves sired by master were kept on the plantation, after all they were family. In hind sight it is easy to forget the dynamics of the society that existed. Slaves often took pride in the plantations they lived on and in their owners. This is not a popular bit of history, but true none the less. After the war, when the slaves were allowed to have a last name, they often took their owners name. It was a different place and a different time...
@jjbb84x
7 жыл бұрын
Of course they were! To the HOUSE slaves! Field slaves were a whole different thing, a distinction the slave masters deliberately enforced to encourage division among the slaves as a whole and undermine any chance of them uniting in revolt.
@nikibronson133
7 жыл бұрын
I was really skeptical at first because I saw you in my recommended and honestly thought you were going to be one of those racist people that said pretty much almost everything you've disproved in this video and I usually identify as an independent and your video was very well-made well-researched thank you for linking your sources because nobody ever links their sources and your sources came from credible reputable news organizations and not places like the Federalist or whatever the equivalent would be to someone who is liberal. I knew the majority of these because I really love history and studying history and watching documentaries and the intricacies of history and also disproving common knowledge that we believe but ends up being incorrect but actually learned a couple things from your video and that is what I always try to find in a good KZitemr learning new things better factual so very good job and you definitely got a new subscriber
@lw1343
7 жыл бұрын
Very good info. Reading through the comments, lots of sensitive folks.
@Buddhamaniac
7 жыл бұрын
My main objection to your video is that you seem to imply that indentured servitude was just a walk in the park, then you were free of your contract, and you went your merry way. Large numbers of indentured servants never lived to see the end of their contracts. There were many many abuses of the indentured servant system that you gloss over or don't even mention. You seem to have an inherent bias against admitting that many many white people labored under a terrible system that frequently abused them as badly as anyone suffered.
@lellis121
7 жыл бұрын
James Scott Not true. He did not even imply that indentured servitude was a "walk in the park." He simply stated that chattel slavery as.practiced on the U.S. was not equivalent to indentured servitude. While he exained the differences between the two. He also commented on cruel masters of indentured servants who did not honor the contract.
@Buddhamaniac
7 жыл бұрын
You don't have to tell me what he said, I watched the video as well. I just don't believe him. He minimized the effects of indentured servitude at every turn so he could make his case for the horror of chattel slavery, which no one is arguing against. In the time of white slavery and its twin brother 'indentured servitude' the colonies were run by Planters, for Planters and indentured servants had NO rights, regardless of what a worthless, unenforceable piece of paper said. The Magistrates did as they were told. "Servants" were told of jobs serving the upper classes of British North America for a short time and then promised a parcel of land with which to start their new life. It was a crock. When they got to the New World they found out they were 'serving' by working in the tobacco fields, their 'contracts' were lengthened by years for ridiculous infractions, and if they survived their service, they found out their promised land parcel was deep in Indian country. Try reading a book like White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America by Don Jordan and Michael Walsh. It might give you something to think about. And unlike our author here they don't use Snopes and Slate as "sources."
@everyonethinksyoureadeathm5773
7 жыл бұрын
Yes chattel and indentured are different. Indentured servitude was often cornered, ordered or swindled. Children in Great Britain would often disappear (hence the term kidnap "kid-nap"), because they were minors a seller would co-sign on behalf on a indentured contract, families even sold their children to pay off debts. You had a choice either go into debtors prison or sign your life away on a indentured contract. Stories and movies based on a person getting dunk in a bar then finding themselves on a boat to somewhere actually did happen frequent in the poorer corners of the UK. Indentured servants were treated harsher, although they had legal protections under their contract those were rarely enforced by the magistrates themselves. It was far more common occurrence magistrates would hand wave abuses that indentured servants would bring against their contract owners. The suicide rate of indentured servants was abnormally high, and contract owners did everything they could to lock in the indentured servants indefinitely through legal means. In essence indentured servants were made slaves through Law. If you were indentured, food services for a week added 2 weeks to your contract, clothing a month, illness 3 months. Tobacco seeds, equipment 6months to a year extra on your contract from any simple research and books on the subject on this matter. If your plot of land did not produce well enough you were in debt to your contract owner dependent of the cost. This constantly rolled over yearly, go read a contract I think there are a few digitized through the Library of Congress. No one is downplaying chattel in fact what this "historian" is doing is downplaying a form of slavery (that is what indentured servitude is) as non-slavery.
@34Jazzi
7 жыл бұрын
boo whooo
@jm-gj2ho
7 жыл бұрын
I feel the same way, but then some people start talking about reparations that I would have to pay.
@faithismine128
7 жыл бұрын
20 years of indentured servitude,not a life sentence,no big deal,in a time when life expectancy was 35.
@pflernak
7 жыл бұрын
I wonder at what age your servitude could be made legal?
@faithismine128
7 жыл бұрын
+Kudjoe Adkins-Battle I don't have kids.I hate them.
@blackearl7891
7 жыл бұрын
Clint Davis life expectancy was 35 due to high mortality rate among children and infants.
@davidmedlin8562
Жыл бұрын
Your comment shows your bias, he never said it was "no big deal" he said its simply and factually not the same thing.
@slickrick75150
7 жыл бұрын
😂all these people fighting in the comments
@Magichands700
7 жыл бұрын
now you see how a war could start over it. And it has been dead over 150 years.
@rr3901
7 жыл бұрын
Great Video! It was very informative. I hope the people going around repeating these alternative facts view this video!
@caressaclark1042
7 жыл бұрын
The most respectfully given, and non-biased information on this topic i have ever seen.
@sushitime8622
7 жыл бұрын
Agreed. That must be why the SJWs and the Geeks hate it so much! :P So many crazy people these days ...
@nunyabiznez6381
7 жыл бұрын
I admire his attempt but he relies on multiple flawed sources for a lot of incorrect information.
@mjwastellingthetruth8077
7 жыл бұрын
Caressa Clark I'm black and I agree.But I still had to check his sources to make sure they were legit.
@kameronbriggs235
7 жыл бұрын
Caressa Clark irish slaves in the U.S. at one point was about equal to african american slaves. they were kidnapped from ireland, almost 2/3 of them. they were forced into these conctracts. they did worse jobs since they were cheaper, not bought from africans but kidnapped. white christian culture and the british empire, largely the 10 commandment.... are what mostly ended slavery world wide. idc what this guy says, hes got bias sources. anyone can go through the documents and check the numbers, they kept records on it. also... the white christian culture thing is a worldwide event, so its kindof complex to go over it on the world scale... but their colonization and the u.s. backing out of the slave trade were the absolute largest factors in ending slavery in the world. the ending of slavery involves philosphy and history. i think you need to be well versed in history AND PHILOSOPHY.
@howardminkler484
7 жыл бұрын
you are a slave if you are in prison...
@johnharris8393
7 жыл бұрын
howard minkler one line moor ron
@howardminkler484
7 жыл бұрын
John Harris lol
@ericscott3040
7 жыл бұрын
Howard Minkler then don't go to prison...
@jordanthomas4379
7 жыл бұрын
Your an idiot
@howardminkler484
7 жыл бұрын
Jordan TRusso fuck your opinion
@dakotanelson5722
7 жыл бұрын
not all slaves were forced to work for the Confederacy some voluntarily joined
@mrtoddlogan
7 жыл бұрын
Dakota Nelson Yeah..more than likely under duress.
@mikenicholson7465
7 жыл бұрын
Dakota Nelson, slaves were following their owner's in these instances. This was not voluntary.
@Islamisthecultofsin
7 жыл бұрын
I met a Black man whose grandfather was a slave and fought for the Confederacy. When asked why he said that he had every confidence that the South would end slavery after the war ended.
@mizushogun
7 жыл бұрын
Islamisthecultofsin he would be sadly mistaken
@Islamisthecultofsin
7 жыл бұрын
I saw in a video somewhere that the South did free the slaves in final months of the war. I haven't verified this yet. Another video said that slavery was collapsing on its own and mechanical farm equipment hadn't even been invented yet.
@robertmattison1282
7 жыл бұрын
Thanks for putting this up of youtube
@lionchampion587
7 жыл бұрын
Excellent - really enjoyed the video. Keep up the good work.
@amberpierce9844
7 жыл бұрын
Abe Lincoln was indecisive AF!
@therealyooper7548
7 жыл бұрын
In my area iron mining was a big thing in the middle of the 19th century. The miners lived in Iron company housing and were paid in company script, which was only good in the company store. A story was related to me about a old fellows father who worked in the mines and was injured. He was carried to his house and laid on the kitchen table for the family to deal with. Granted they weren't slaves but only a notch or two above the slaves.
@Samos900
7 жыл бұрын
If you pause the video during the document part with "slave" highlighted, you'll see that 75 percent of its usage is to refer to the south as "slave holding states" not necessarily talking about slavery as an entity.
@LbsOfWDRO
7 жыл бұрын
Great job! Thank you for informing those who don't know about these truths. I think I'm going to read the comments.
@Mastermind4life
Жыл бұрын
Lol you know this video gets hated on when top comment can’t get over 100 likes. How could you say something so controversial but yet so correct.
@rmwf8836
7 жыл бұрын
I'm glad you took a balanced approach to this politicized issue
@rr3901
7 жыл бұрын
Great video! Totally unbiased and historically based. Your critics must have taken the alternative history courses taught by the Alt-right!
@alexthewebdesigner1856
7 жыл бұрын
I already knew at least half of this stuff but it was nice to hear your narration anyway :)
@dantcp
7 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the video. It set a couple of things straight for me.
@davidshane1782
7 жыл бұрын
good video alot of people know nothing about history and just go along with what someone else says with out checking facts keep it up man
@vitaniharton4765
7 жыл бұрын
Hello, I am a black person(from what I know and has been informed of by my family), and after watching this, I feel better about myths about the nature of slavery around the world was. Thank you for the video.
@mrreaper8826
7 жыл бұрын
Slave-maker ants have practiced slavery long before humans did.
@michaelswords4416
7 жыл бұрын
What's the classical song that was played at 5:14? It's bugging the hell me, can't remember.
@CynicalHistorian
7 жыл бұрын
It's from a set of songs by Martin Klem. Their all called "Peaceful Piano(s)," but there's 29 of them. Don't remember which one of those it is.
@michaelswords4416
7 жыл бұрын
The cynical historian it's ok mate it popped into my head. it's Pachelbel's Canon. Thanks anyway.
@freelanceopportunist559
7 жыл бұрын
Could you do a video about penal colonies of Australia. I think transporting the poorest people out of society, for mainly petty crimes....plus the year long boat ride to a hostile land, where you're forced to build the colony from sandstone......was pretty much slavery. Im curious to know what you think
@JJW77
7 жыл бұрын
You truly did your research of this subject - 10 common slavery myths. Thanks for the truthful facts.
@Belfry_pat
7 жыл бұрын
Great video! And you're absolutely correctt on 'two wrongs don't make a right' (something the comment section should learn)
@boochparadise
7 жыл бұрын
The fact that not all institutions of slavery were the same doesn't change the fact that there were plenty of Irish men and women who were considered legal property.
@brendon2462
7 жыл бұрын
Indentured survitude was voluntary and the contract was entered into on a basis of consent by the individual. From my understanding it was simply an exchange system. An indentured servant would work for so many years in exchange for land. And it was to promote and encourage settlement in North America.
@BlueBaron3339
7 жыл бұрын
It's the little things that get me, such as that newspaper ad from 1768, taken out for the return of the Irish servant gal, Martha Carr. "She is thought to have gone off with a couple of sailors, deserted from the ship Randolph, lying at Chester town, Kent County." Sounds like the beginning of a very interesting story. Pity we'll never know what happened.
@Reason1717
7 жыл бұрын
Now that was enjoyable because it was so educational. I for one am ready to learn. And learning starts with listening.
@Zren89
7 жыл бұрын
I like the video but some of your points are muddied by your other points...especially 4 and 5 how can a cause be both the reason for secession and NOT the reason for going to war to save the Union...? I think it's clear that it WAS in fact the driving force behind Lincoln's modus operandi and he simply stated what he did in order to underline that reunification was far more important on the whole (being a relatively new nation with little in the way of stature) but that he would do whatever was necessary to accomplish this.
@rejee2242
7 жыл бұрын
I new it. I moved to this country from Jamaican in 1983 and I seem to have been the only child listening in my 4th grade class that the African tribes caught other tribes to be slaves. Africans smh.
@Lanetgm
10 ай бұрын
When did you reenable the comments
@Spitfire1410
7 жыл бұрын
One of the better myth buster videos. Great video👍
@mattthecat03
7 жыл бұрын
well done.Would love it if you would consider discussing two subjects/topics 1-the phony ignored trade embargo north vs. south 2-the fact that more than a few wealthy Southerners could pay to have others serve in the CSA in their stead Thanks
@JAWZMUZIK1
7 жыл бұрын
One of the main things the kid has wrong is that the Civil War didn't start because of slavery. It had everything to do with slavery. Abraham Lincoln downplayed slavery in the beginning but admits in his second inaugural speech that it was all about slavery
@maureenj.odonnell4438
7 жыл бұрын
Well done, excellent video!
@seatbelttruck
7 жыл бұрын
Calling a prisoner a slave isn't really that far off in a lot of cases... Also, I doubt any country has 0 slaves. Human Trafficking happens everywhere. Though, I suppose that's a slightly different topic since it's illegal slavery.
@sotirisgeorgakopoulos6317
7 жыл бұрын
Anthony Johnson was said to live in the 1600's, why is his clothing in the picture so anachronistic? It resembles the attire of individuals in the second half of the 19th Century, not at all like what people wore in the 17th Century
@sdv4675
7 жыл бұрын
Another argument for 7. Slaves werent cheap, and they were important, so you take good care of them and make Sure they stay Well, and make Sure they function as they should
@von23om
7 жыл бұрын
I see you mentioned only the slaves from West Africa, but failed to mention the blacks that were kicked out of Europe and Germany at the same time... you're lost bro...
@kightsun
7 жыл бұрын
The jab at 12 years a slave ignored that the amount of violence depicted took place over 12 whole years
@RobMcCauslandArt
7 жыл бұрын
Very true about the Irish. "Sign on the door read, No Irish need apply"
@hwgray
7 жыл бұрын
In what year? There were "No Colored Need Apply" signs until at least 1965. In those days, unions, which are supposed to be so "liberal," today, were nothing but the Northern-white version of the KKK. Their point was to ensure that no coloreds could "take white men's jobs."
@rr3901
7 жыл бұрын
Discrimination and indentured servitude are not the same as chattel slavery. Did you watch the video?
@GuessIIIwho
6 ай бұрын
In the same letter as Lincoln sent to Greley ("if i could save the union"), he also adds: "I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men every where could be free." The 1st part without this one is often used to attempt a demonstration on how Lincoln didnt care about slavery.
@marvinwatkins8889
7 жыл бұрын
Great, verifiable research, excellent presentation, and I learned a few things. Nice tune too. But many will still refuse to believe these facts. The end looked a little like a Japanese battle flag from WW 2, but that's just a minor coincidence. Very professional.
@emilywallace4247
7 жыл бұрын
Regarding number 4, what can you tell us about foreign trade policies before the Civil War?
@truthseeker5310
7 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the good informative video bro
@nancypryor4004
7 жыл бұрын
Interesting and factual. Thanks!
@777Outrigger
7 жыл бұрын
What Lee fought for in his own words; “The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that preceded it.” Robert E. Lee I don't think Jefferson, Madison, or Washington could have said it better. Note - All the above were Virginians.
@haunted1ap2608
7 жыл бұрын
"In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution is a moral & political evil in any country." - Robert E. Lee
@centurionzen1005
Жыл бұрын
"WOMEN ARE ALL DYKES" - Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw See? I can quote mine to. That doesn't mean Lee didn't fight for slavery. The letter that line comes from is where Lee says that slavery was a necessary evil. As Lincoln said in response; if slavery is a necessary evil, it's hard to imagine what isn't.
@nunyabiznez6381
7 жыл бұрын
Side Note: Leopold II king of Belgium 1865-1909 owned the Belgium Congo (under the name of the Congo Free State) and I mean he owned all of that country, its earth, plants, animals and human inhabitants. They were to the last man, woman and child his personal property and were treated as such. He enslaved the entire nation. He had a personal army of mercenaries who terrorized the population and enforced the universal slavery of it's inhabitants. Each and every last human even the children were forced to do free labor for him from sun up to sun down seven days a week. Very little food production was permitted, only enough to keep the population barely alive. The population was tortured on a daily basis. Arbitrary and atrocious punishments included random amputation of limbs of children and rounding up entire villages for slaughter. There is no consensus as to the exact number of people who lived in that country during that period and more importantly the number of people who died as a result of their systematic genocide perpetrated by Leopold II for his personal gain. The best estimates put the number at somewhere between 8 and 10 million tortured to death. Yes I include dying of starvation and disease within the category of those tortured to death since it was caused by their enslavement. Keep in mind that, that number is greater than all the African slaves ever held captive in North America by those of European descent and he accomplished that in about 20 years. I am not stating this in any way to minimize the issue of slavery in the Americas. It was a horrible massive crime systematically perpetrated by one small group but with the tacit approval of the government and by extension the people well after the formation of the U.S. But I do think it is important to keep such things in perspective. We weren't the first, we weren't the last, we weren't the worst and we did eventually correct our mistakes and it has been 152 yeas since anyone has held the status of slave or slave owner in this country and 46 years since the last slave died (Peter Mills 1861-1972). It has been over 60 years since the last slave holder died (not counting those who may have, as children, been the de facto owners of slaves). While many of my ancestors did own slaves, many more were slaves themselves. Most people in this country are a mixture of ethnicity and cultures. My DNA report took days to unravel. If we were for example to punish all who are descended from slave owners and reward all who were slaves I would be slapped around a lot but rewarded even more, metaphorically speaking. Yes it is important to learn and know history and remember it in order to avoid repeating past mistakes if for no other reason, but we also need to focus on the current practice of slavery around the world as well as within our own borders. One example, over half of the "Asian Spas" in the United States keep slaves. They call them massage therapists. But they are really slaves that are exploited women held captive and are for all intents and purposes slaves. They are not permitted to ever leave the place of business. They turn over all the money earned to their owners. They cannot refuse many requests made by the men who visit such places. Fear and intimidation are used to control them and occasionally they are found dead. Most are either here illegally and are afraid of being returned to face unimaginable consequences or they have had their passports confiscated by their "owners" who paid to transport them here to exploit them. When they get too old they are sold off as domestic servants.
@aalihte3378
7 жыл бұрын
Even some Native American tribes ended up keeping "slaves" but they were considered prisoners of war and regardless of race, were treated equally. But it still happened.
@epcerne
7 жыл бұрын
During the time slavery was allowed by Britain, the British sold men from Ireland into slavery in the Caribbean. That is why you can find Irish names among people in the BVI who claim a distant ancestry.
@GoVandyBronc
7 жыл бұрын
A pretty fair assessment of slavery in the U.S. and world-wide. A common narrative of many well intending Southerners is that slaves were treated well and rarely was the whip or shackles used. While this might be true, I point out to them the most horrible detail of slavery of all: the selling away of children, likely never to be seen again by the parents. I wonder how many ex-slaves in 1865 and later were pitifully searching for their lost children?
@ds3434
7 жыл бұрын
giving yourself is so powerful and a calling
@nitroshortbus5625
7 жыл бұрын
The CIVIL WAR was about dividing a "nation" and further increasing the debt of this Nation so it would default on the loans already given to fight the "War of [In]dependence". The King/crown/vatican decided that a new form of slavery would replace the old one. So debt would be the means of control of the people and the states. During the Civil War, King George was so worried that the plan wouldn't work that he had an invasion planned during the war! They would've gone through with it if it wasn't for a little-known alliance[unknown and fact not taught by public schools] between the US and Tsarist Russia led to the Russian fleet showing up in force in New York and San Francisco. It arrived at a crucial time in 1863 when Britain and France were on the verge of intervening on the side of the Confederacy. In the end, after Lincolns murder the crown/vatican plans worked. Our debt was insurmountable and we did end up back to where we started as far as who controls us, but in much worse shape financially that led to the wealth of a nation being stolen from the people to pay the interest on the debt (1933 when FDR confiscated all the gold) Once declared insolvent our "representives" Pledged the people as surety and instituded the old BIRTH CERTIFICATE scam and we are now, wage slaves/chattel. THIS HAS BEEN HAPPENING SINCE Pope Justinian!!! Do you think Agenda 21 and the U.N. TAKE OVER is the final part of this plan. They have all the wealth now. They think we aren't necessary and basically the final part is to get rid of us altogether (Americans are to high maintenance) or to return to a serf/slave system. Do you really think our politicians run the show? Are they still talking about Russia or are they back to their normal duties of lying, lying about lying, and then stealing, passing mandatory laws to have a collapse of the entire system, so they can move in the white tanks and soldiers with blue berets. The founding fathers was a fairy tale and a lot of them were lawyers or loyalist to the King/crown/vatican.
@DIEIVTY
7 жыл бұрын
"Another important difference between Latin America and the United States involved conceptions of race. In Spanish and Portuguese America, an intricate system of racial classification emerged. Compared with the British and French, the Spanish and Portuguese were much more tolerant of racial mixing-an attitude encouraged by a shortage of European women-and recognized a wide range of racial gradations, including black, mestizo, quadroon, and octoroon. The American South, in contrast, adopted a two-category system of race in which any person with a black mother was automatically considered to be black."
@gyorgylukucks909
7 жыл бұрын
"The worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realised by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it." ~Slavoj Zizek
@CynicalHistorian
7 жыл бұрын
love me some Zizek, always the perfect kind of contrarian
@gyorgylukucks909
7 жыл бұрын
True enough, though I am curious what's your take on the given quote? would you say that good slave-owners were in a way worse?honest question hehe
@CynicalHistorian
7 жыл бұрын
I could see the argument being made, but it really depends on the definition of worse. Worse for abolition's sake, yes. Worse in terms of cruelty, most certainly not. Value judgments are difficult for me because of that.
@gyorgylukucks909
7 жыл бұрын
I see, I certainly agree with your statement regarding individual treatment by certain slaveowners, but I am to an extent also inclined to view how the structure of society maintains the predominant social fabric. btw if you don't mind me asking, wwhat would you say your personal political views are or where you lean towards?
@CynicalHistorian
7 жыл бұрын
"I was a teenage anarchist, looking for a revolution"- _Against Me_ Then swung hard right while in the military. Went full hippy after getting out, and I think I've evened out overall. Suffice it to say, I've been all over the political spectrum, and don't really have the same hard-set politics as normal folks. Studying history has a way of blunting any ideology.
@josephsimien8613
7 жыл бұрын
Well done and very informative.
@dang9669
7 жыл бұрын
It was all "Indentured Servitude" until a black slaveowner challenged it in court and won, creating the first legal "permanent/generational" slavery.
@TheKeithbruce
7 жыл бұрын
the problem with slavery is people get their history lesson from Hollywood ........... which is the worst place to get a history lesson from
@adamsmith4195
7 жыл бұрын
Lincoln said a lot of things he didn't completely believe in order to help end slavery.
@welshpete12
7 жыл бұрын
I live in Wales Britain , I could never understand why some people from the US had such hatred for someone who skin was black, it makes no sense . I for one , can understand not liking a person . But that comes down to their personality , not the colour of their skin.
@star3catcherSEQUEL
7 жыл бұрын
I see a lot of people screaming "LIES! WRONG! LIES! THIS VIDEO IS WRONG LIES!" but not a lot of people actually refuting him with evidence.
@nebulan
Жыл бұрын
Rewatching after watching the reaction to the PragerU video. So a good video!
@y_fam_goeglyd
7 жыл бұрын
One of the biggest myths about slavery is that the Egyptians used slaves to build the pyramids. They were built partially by professional craftsmen and during the time of the Nile flood, when farmers could not work the land, the fittest males spent about three months a year labouring at the building site. There were villages set up for them which included bakeries, brewers and other food suppliers, and they got paid for their work in cash and in kind. There are even reports of these men going on strike when they didn't get their payments. One (at least) was because they weren't supplied with the makeup they used! So sorry to any Christians, but the bit about Hebrew slaves building the pyramids is bunkum. There is no record of a group of people called Hebrews or any other name associated with them, either. And for a country obsessed with keeping records (hence us knowing about the makeup strike), you'd think there would be traces of their existence at least.
@greenbyob
7 жыл бұрын
So long as we realize that just because it's what's on the books, doesn't mean it's what actually happened. Qin Shi Huang abolishing slavery doesn't mean slaves were all freed. Just because there were laws on the books doesn't mean the laws were upheld. We know not what we now, but what we were wanted to know.
@gustavoc.621
8 ай бұрын
In fact Juan Garrido, a black conquistador of New Spain, bought some slaves to search for gold, he had to leave Coyoacán when the Crown removed from government (Garrido supported Cortés)
@saypayme
7 жыл бұрын
you nailed it number nine is the one people need to know the most
@bridiesmith1075
7 жыл бұрын
Many of those in indentured servitude had been transported from Britain. Between 1718 and 1775 Britain sent more than 50,000 convicts to America. On arrival the convicts were auctioned off to serve out their sentences. Transportation was one of the factors leading to the American Revolution, though this is usually overlooked. It was only after the loss of the American colonies that Britain took an interest in settling Australia, transporting 160,000 convicts between 1788 and 1868. It is well known that Australia was founded as a convict settlement and that does not seem to bother Australians. Americans are generally unaware of their convict history and prefer the term indentured servant.
@46inchwoody
7 жыл бұрын
Actually the case of Anthony Johnson isn't a myth but more a misconception, he was one of first legally recognized slave owners.
@allnaturalflava
7 жыл бұрын
So most slave masters didn't treat slaves unfairly until they acted out and also masters ruled with love. What a crock!!
@nathanhoepner3369
7 жыл бұрын
Overall this is a pretty solid piece of work. One small disagreement though - using slave revolts to say that Europeans were not the ones who declared slavery to be wrong on principle. Enslaved people revolting against BEING enslaved THEMSELVES is common throughout history - most of the uprisings fail, but if they succeed, the rebels often go on to hold slaves themselves (Israel after the Exodus, for example). All enslaved Africans transported from Africa came from societies in which slavery was normal. Declaring not just that slavery is bad when it happens to me, or to my people, or to my fellow believers, but that it is wrong no matter who it is done by, and no matter whom it is done to - that is unique to the abolition movement begun in Europe. Of course, race-based slavery practiced on the scale of the trans-atlantic trade is also unique to Europe. Ideals take time, and lucrative practices die hard. The British Empire very nearly broke the imperial treasury in the process of abolishing slavery - that they were willing to do it anyway is a heritage that should not be besmirched.
@davidcooper8811
7 жыл бұрын
Seems difficult to accept state's rights played no role. SCOTUS ruled in the Dredd Scott vs. Sanford case that the federal government had no authority over slavery. This ultimately led to secessions. But the North rejected SCOTUS's ruling as did some lawyers and some politicians. So indeed, the South believed SCOTUS and the southern states had a right to do as they did...defend their sovereignty. But you're right in the sense, the South never claimed state's rights.
@lmonk9517
7 жыл бұрын
I think the worse part of the video was when he claimed that east Africa is still suffering from the economic affects of slavery when actually many kingdoms became filthy rich from the trade. African countries are poor partly because of colonialism but mostly because of the post colonial dictators and warfare.
@morehyeshiahtorahlessons5545
7 жыл бұрын
this video is pretty much on point Anthony Johnson couldn't be the first slave owner John Punch was a permanent slave in 1640
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