America's First Museum Dedicated to Telling the Story of Slavery

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The Whitney Plantation is the first museum dedicated to telling the story of slavery in America and memorialized all who have worked and lived on it's grounds. Former prominent Lawyer John J. Cummings III and Dr. Ibrahima Seck have made it the remainder of their life's work to bring stories of the enslaved to light.
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@TruthAndLight4995 4 жыл бұрын

I saw records of my great great great- grandmother listed as inventory with furniture, horses, and cows. When she was about 6 years old she was valued at $50. The fact that she was the slaveowner’s child didn’t matter. It is a GREAT EVIL to father children then to list them as inventory that can be bought and sold!

@GabriellaGabrielle 4 жыл бұрын

Omg.

@-Bloomingtales 4 жыл бұрын

The PTSD is still in our blood ... bc I want to weep after reading this.

@makaveli7360 4 жыл бұрын

Ppl really be like it was so long ago like wtf

@monaeblackeaglequeen8974 4 жыл бұрын

@@GabriellaGabrielle omg

@Bigmommafluffy 4 жыл бұрын

I don't really to give your comment a "like" because what happened to your family is disgusting. Your whole history pivots on slavery. I wish there was a way to find your great great great grandmother's ethnic name. At the very least, her true name should be known and given. The right thing to do is reparations.

@mburst71 4 жыл бұрын

People who don't like this video don't like it because they feel overwhelmingly ashamed of what their ancestors did and don't want to address it. We can talk about the Holocaust all day long but because they have to see us everyday then we need to just forget about it.

@lidiayucon5720 4 жыл бұрын

Ruby G if you’re truly sorry the best way to show it is to stand up and respectfully walk other whites through the same mental perspective you have come to have. I am grateful that you have this perspective and that you acknowledge history the way it should’ve been but if you’re truly sorry, pls put the effort to fight against other close minded perspective and/or ignorance and get them to understand the truth and how to deal with it as well. I’m sure many whites deny the truth cause they don’t know how to deal with the reality of how cruel their ancestors where. If doing this is to much to ask then pls don’t insult us by expressing grief while sitting back and doing nothing to end this ones and for all.

@RedRubyG 4 жыл бұрын

Lidia Yucon now you’re insulting me. You don’t know nothing about me and no right to make the comments you did about what I do or do not do. I don’t stand for ignorance and racism any time any where, i did not go into detail as to how I go to enforce this but like I said, I’m aware of what’s happened and what’s still happening. I will stand for equality always and have done so living my life the way I have. Pls be respectful and mindful when making comments about how truly sorry I am.

@kattalady8114 4 жыл бұрын

You got some light in you. Sorry you're ashamed of your ancestors 😞

@kattalady8114 4 жыл бұрын

@@RedRubyG see Ruby....doesnt matter what you say. They won't accept it. They will use every opportunity to make whites feel bad. You can't win.

@ShyraR 4 жыл бұрын

@@kattalady8114 who is THEY?, use a singular approach

@priscillas986 5 жыл бұрын

It simply amazes me how a HUMAN can treat another HUMAN!

@alexadjekum1543 4 жыл бұрын

And then call themselves Christians, go to church on Sunday

@robertrobinson140 4 жыл бұрын

Alex Agykum The Methodist, Presbyterian etc even kept slaves and hired them out. It was beyond belief and most Christians just say Christians ended slavery.

@toneyingram732 4 жыл бұрын

Satan people will always do you WRONG

@toneyingram732 4 жыл бұрын

@@alexadjekum1543 false prophets Satan people

4 жыл бұрын

Hypocrisy, Hypocrisy, Hypocrisy; but now they call it DEMOCRACY !!!

@michellehunter2993 4 жыл бұрын

America want black people forget and forgive. Not possible when we haven't addressed the issue of racism.

@kimgibson2368 4 жыл бұрын

Racism works both ways...

@michellehunter2993 4 жыл бұрын

@@kimgibson2368 totally agree and either way, I don't like it. Don't like racist black people too. The world is to large and colorful for us to be racist.

@sweetnessisrael235 4 жыл бұрын

Exactly decades later it's still a racism issue. Truth be told that want us to forget there evil history forgive and forget I know better and I don't.

@kaliliahwilson741 4 жыл бұрын

How can we forgive and forget when we are STILL being oppressed? If another country attacked the United States, this country would be quick to retaliate and no one would be saying the United States should forgive and forget. People of color are the only people that are told to forgive and forget

@whatthefrickbro 4 жыл бұрын

Blacks are the true racists

@leiasiapatterson349 4 жыл бұрын

They created generational wealth off the backs of our ancestors and now their children tell us “ well all have the same 24 hours to make money” 🤦🏾‍♀️ #ImTriggered

@queenroyalty2141 4 жыл бұрын

Awh but we do. It's all in how you see it. Enslaved or slaves. That is not our story. That's our tragedy Rise Up mighty people we have no clue of who we really are and the power that we possess. It's our job to go back and visit our our past., before our life was disrupted and interrupted by strange people who didn't look like us, but bare an image of what we are according to the wealth they have acquired by robbery and thievery.

@leewuo4443 4 жыл бұрын

They say pull yourself by your own boot straps but news flash, Amos 8:9 will set the record straight and Planet X is really coming for payback.

@waltercooper7199 4 жыл бұрын

This was deep💯

@IslenoGutierrez 4 жыл бұрын

Glammed By Leilo Who is they? Most whites in the USA’s past didn’t own slaves. This is not the history of most white Americans.

@blameTheDane 4 жыл бұрын

@@IslenoGutierrez True... And what about the Asians? they were slaves too forced to build the rail roads? find a black person carrying about that please.. what about the jews in Egypt? white people were slaves too, vikings didn't care about color. This is why this hypocritical

@lorrainejohnsoncoleman1670 4 жыл бұрын

Kathy Hambrick, a Black woman has a museum along the same river road and has been telling this same story with dignity,grace and truth twenty years before this man came along

@dharmon8798 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for that information.

@okikeure7422 4 жыл бұрын

Thankyou for that information, but it's not a competition

@soyamado2222 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this morning information

@keaundraanderson 4 жыл бұрын

Lorraine Johnson Coleman where is it?

@mrsbillionaire 4 жыл бұрын

River Road African American Museum 406 Charles Street Donaldsonville, LA 70346 225.474.5553 africanamericanmuseum.org/

@outcast1er385 5 жыл бұрын

I traveled far to visit the plantation today and it was very emotional and amazing. It is a must see.

@raspberry_dreams 2 жыл бұрын

What was it like?

@lesha673 2 жыл бұрын

yes I visited this plantation 3 years ago. it was overall yet powerful

@chethunt2455 2 жыл бұрын

My heart breaks to think of how greed and brutality can make people be so inhuman to other human beings.

@oldschooloc2110 2 жыл бұрын

Well Chet, all I can say in response to your statements is Black people were never viewed as humans. And guess what, many whites still think Black people as "less than human!" Some give their pets more humane respect than they would ever give s Black person.

@Nasamusa Жыл бұрын

Greed? No hate, jealousy!

@tenttinderline Жыл бұрын

@@oldschooloc2110 unless you're me and hates every human and wishing for the nukes to cleans this earth

@KlikQuot Жыл бұрын

@@oldschooloc2110 which is foolish, no one really created anything new. Most the inventors are black that’s why it’s foolish

@carolynstarkey8889 9 ай бұрын

The evil system of White supremacy!

@judyjones4959 4 жыл бұрын

My maternal 5th generation grandmother was born in 1762, my DNA links me to the Bamileke people of Cameroon. My 4th generation maternal grandfather Jacob Samuel was listed on documents in Franklin County, Virginia as property. Yes, I'm proud of you for bringing their story to life Dr. Seck.

@hinatababe97 Жыл бұрын

Heyy 🇨🇲

@soy_0scar7 Жыл бұрын

May GOD bless and protect you in the mighty name of JESUS! May GOD and JESUS break every chain the enemy has formed against you and liberate you! May GOD and JESUS fill you with GODliness and love to get through any challenge! GOD IS GOOD! JESUS IS GOOD! GOD is love in times of hate, GOD is strength in times of weakness, GOD is light in times of darkness, GOD is harmony in times of chaos, and GOD is all you need and more! If you need more love/strength/anything GOD is there! GOD LOVES YOU JESUS LOVES YOU! GOD BLESS!

@darrylmotley3946 11 ай бұрын

So go father back to Israelites all of these western nations in African are new set up by European governments

@monicabarber6313 Жыл бұрын

I visited this Plantation two weeks ago. The history that is there is like no other. The story of Victor Haydel being told and so much more. I advise everyone to take a tour of this Plantation you will not be disappointed.

@becomingdazhuniquefrance2615 4 жыл бұрын

I’ll be taking my boys to this museum this summer and other museums and after that we’ll be going to Ghana.

@Sussexxsquad 3 жыл бұрын

I’m dying to go to Ghana!

@AiraCamille 4 жыл бұрын

That's why I have a big respect to the black community in the US especially to those who are really trying hard to lift up the black reputation despite the media and social scrutiny.

@Nasamusa Жыл бұрын

Indeed Aira!✊🏿

@Jasmine-et4zm 4 жыл бұрын

I'm a resident of Orleans Parish, they shouldn't charge African Americans to visit...

@naturalbae 3 жыл бұрын

Same here and I also feel that we should not be charged, not even for our ancestry report

@annowens5019 3 жыл бұрын

"Stamp Paid" .... Beloved ...Toni Morrison (Nobel Laureate)

@SchoolRumble4ever22 3 жыл бұрын

While I agree that would be really hard to enforce. You would have to legally define what is and isn't black and im sure many people would fall to the wayside. I think it should be free for everyone honestly.

@naturalbae 3 жыл бұрын

@@SchoolRumble4ever22 I don't have to define it on job applications or when the vendors charge me more because Im a black woman. Or when I apply for capital for my business, they only ask. So the same should apply. It didn't have to be defined when they had "white only and blacks to the back"

@kikihowe4799 3 жыл бұрын

LilCaramel who will pay for all the buildings and the upkeep ....it’s good that it exists and remains ...

@toniejones425 4 жыл бұрын

I'm a first grade teacher..and I don't care what the curriculum says..I'm adding it.

@ottodidakt3069 3 жыл бұрын

That's the spirit !

@shek7121 3 жыл бұрын

BROOOOOO

@rainesc8739 3 жыл бұрын

YAAS! I came to know parts of history that were not often included or written in the books but because of my histroy professor, he shed light to a lot of important things. I wish I had known earlier! So you're doing great by teaching the young ones a part of a great big truth outside the shackles of the curriculum.

@lolawilson1027 3 жыл бұрын

💯👏🏽✊🏽

@87musiclova 3 жыл бұрын

As a future teacher, I whole-heartedly support this! I have had plans to do the EXACT same thing. The truth needs to be shared; even the ugly parts that are hard to learn. P.S. I wish schools removed Columbus Day out of the curriculum lol!!!!

@alexadjekum1543 4 жыл бұрын

Most Americans don’t know their history because they don’t want to know their history, is embarrassing, it wasn’t nice.

4 жыл бұрын

It wasn't THEN and it isn't NOW !!!

@renecurry6551 4 жыл бұрын

@ 👄Really?!! You're in that much denial?!!!

@LFortune 4 жыл бұрын

...and because it is contrary to the high minded self-mythologizing that is the bedrock of American history and culture.

@CaylaMarieeeeee 4 жыл бұрын

Rene Curry Many of them are. I went to court today and I was so proud of myself for asking her to stand up to injustices. I asked her to please not to turn a blind eye! I asked her if she believed all Leo and authority figures are fair. She said no.

@quenh7085 4 жыл бұрын

It’s not history because it still exist.

@ishaspeaks4536 4 жыл бұрын

God bless this African man, beautiful soul and great teacher

@maydavalle 2 ай бұрын

To see one of them…to tell their story and bring them back to life.- Dr. Ibrahima Seck

@RE-im1xm 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing, Painful Place. I visited just last month. I will never forget it.

@tiffanyfoy1039 4 жыл бұрын

Hi🤗🤗 I have a few questions Is there a cost? Do you have make an appt? It is in Atlanta right ? Who was your guide? Me and my girls are looking to do something like this, I think it's something THAT's is needed right now😩😩who knows I might find some kin folk on that list🙂

@msvyneontheside 4 жыл бұрын

I visited it 2018, very powerful!

@msvyneontheside 4 жыл бұрын

@@tiffanyfoy1039 it's in Louisiana right outside of New Orleans...Google Whitney Plantation for more information. Very educational for your children,for us all.

@charleneross8335 4 жыл бұрын

Visiting and touring The Whitney/Haydel plantation was a wonderful experience and was a lifechanging experience that i will never forget. NOLA will forever hv a special place in my heart. I purchased Bouki Fait Gombo, written by Dr. Ibrahima Seck, and its a phenomenal book, his research was mind blowing and his detail for all the information was incomparable, which gives and tells the history of "The German Coast," known as NOLA. When touring the grounds of the Whitney Plantation, you can feel the presence of the ancestors and slaves who lived and worked there. It was emotional, sad, but beautiful all at the same time. We absolutely loved it.

@authenticallyannette4455 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing. Going to read that book you’ve suggestee

@JD-tn8nb 4 жыл бұрын

I’ve been to the whitney plantation. It is an experience like no other. It is a somber experience. The owner was there. I got to meet him he told us all about this place and how he restored it.

@footballsden5039 4 жыл бұрын

90 percent of Americans don’t know their history.

@ottobong 4 жыл бұрын

And they don’t want to know either..

@godsgirl7201 4 жыл бұрын

True!

@adelheidspringer7470 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, you are right. It is not taught in school. If the parents don't know they also cannot teach their children. I am German, have been here about 35 years. My children grew up here, went to school here and none of this was taught properly. I had to piece all my knowledge together myself by researching, reading, etc.

@Flower-ck2bs 3 жыл бұрын

They have been brainwashed to be easier to control😟

@panicmosem5969 3 жыл бұрын

And only 10% of African slaves were sent to America!!! Guess this makes 100% 😑

@convoswithpassion2398 4 жыл бұрын

I wish I could go to this place to see the history there.

@TorrenceBrannon1960 4 жыл бұрын

You can go. Keep in touch with me as I do tours to New Orleans. You can hit me back here or email me to connect at famlisoul@gmail.com. My name is Torrence Brannon-Reese ( Torrè).

@TorrenceBrannon1960 4 жыл бұрын

Keep in touch, I conduct New Orleans tours, famlisoul@gmail.com, Torrè Brannon-Reese is my name.

@msljacky84 4 жыл бұрын

Ikr!!

@teetarquin7012 4 жыл бұрын

Passionate One I was there in 2017. It broke my heart.

@TMIDiva 6 жыл бұрын

Tours of the Antebellum mansions will always focus on gracious luxury, the lifestyles reflected in the cult of Gone With The Wind and other fictions depicting the proud Southern White as benevolent and ethical. Finally, a museum that reflects the true nature of Plantation culture for what it really was: a prison with barbaric tyranny against a whole race of helpless abductees. This shame is so great, much of the evidence must have been destroyed and it is heartening that a white man pulled together this museum to memorialize the devastating truth. See through the institutional applications of lies and always set your path toward truth.

@nialcc 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I wanted to say the same thing.

@mermaidwe2743 4 жыл бұрын

True some white southerner are smarter. I have a cousin that truely believes only northern troops committed terrible crimes during the civil war. I have tried to enlighten him to no avail. Now he doesn't talk to me. No loss.

@ecclairmayo4153 4 жыл бұрын

@@mermaidwe2743 - im sorry to hear that. Its a shame he made it where it had to come to that

@HandsofGlory1 4 жыл бұрын

It's sad that some white ppl get mad when the tour guides tell the horrific truth about slavery

@tanishazoa138 2 жыл бұрын

@@HandsofGlory1 what's worse is hiding the fact you were sold into slavery by your own people and of you weren't sold you were put to death. But let's not talk about that. Let's not talk about the freedoms you have now. Let's not talk about the opportunity you have because more often than not it's wasted, why? The culture

@Winterscreations81 4 жыл бұрын

Me and my family went to Louisiana a few months ago for family vacation and it was the first place we went to. It was so many emotions involved. Great guide spoke on all the history about the plantation grounds, the slavery quarters and the big house. I learned a lot of new things I didn't know. I found out that they still had some of their bloodline was either living on the plantation grounds or working there. People should go and get something out of it.

@dreamcatcher5538 4 жыл бұрын

Read "Rural Museums--Southern Romance" by Maya Angelou

@Winterscreations81 4 жыл бұрын

@@dreamcatcher5538 thank you. I'll go check that out.

@Beetwate305 4 жыл бұрын

Winterscreations81 r u single ?

@Winterscreations81 4 жыл бұрын

@@Beetwate305 no I'm not single.

@Winterscreations81 4 жыл бұрын

@@Beetwate305 your name is killing me 😂😂 it threw me off for a minute.

@nicohana7308 4 жыл бұрын

If we owned our history we’d have to acknowledge that our society is currently systematically racist, we’d have to revamp our history, and be honest about how this country became what it is...

@spursnation5422 3 жыл бұрын

How is it systemic racism, we had a half black president, we have black governors,mayors , city council members, police officers, black business owners, are you freakin kidding me!!!! 🤷🏻‍♂️

@fluffypuppy0 3 жыл бұрын

Nicohana exactly!

@annowens5019 3 жыл бұрын

"...There Are None So Blind, As Those That Will Not See..." Some questions don't change who you are... they reveal who you are.

@Msunbird02 3 жыл бұрын

Countries with Antidiscrimination and Equal Opportunity laws cannot be "systematically racist". Your statement is an oxymoron and logical fallacy.

@spursnation5422 3 жыл бұрын

There would be no racism if people would stop talking about it and take responsibility for their own lives and stop blaming the white man for their own failures in life!!!

@MrsMack-bw5qd 4 жыл бұрын

Who disliked this very real informative video. That's sad

@shimmer4771 Жыл бұрын

They dislike because they don't want to acknowledge what happened. They'd rather bury it and pretend it never happened.

@gideonamedu1093 6 жыл бұрын

Thank God I wasn't born back then

@scottdellrobinson 4 жыл бұрын

Gideon Amedu if you are black, you gotta sort of uneducated to publicly make a comment like that

@rockstar9ism 4 жыл бұрын

Mystery Everlasting how lmao he’s glad he wasn’t born back then and you should be too black or white

@robertrobinson140 4 жыл бұрын

It was white supremacy white Christian supremacy.

@kattalady8114 4 жыл бұрын

@Kristie C oh noooo! Not sainted Native Americans too?

@mitzithompson6585 4 жыл бұрын

I know

@virginiabobian8230 3 жыл бұрын

We here about the horror that happened in Mississippi; Alabama; Tennessee; South and North Carolina; Virginia; Arkansas, but we have heard little about the horror that happened in Louisiana. I plan to visit this plantation. Thanks to the gentleman who are doing this service for us who don't know all of our painful history.

@Kekeskray 4 жыл бұрын

i dont think people understand how most not all light skin black people came about. i kno im pretty but when someone comments on my skin tone or try to tell me im not just black i have to be mixed with something... i think about the stories ive heard about the women in my family being raped by their masters and the pain i feel for them is unexplainable.

@HectorHernandez-mk2no 3 жыл бұрын

Beauty is pain....its sad to hear the truth about how the past really was

@janeiamaria8885 3 жыл бұрын

biracial or lighter afro?

@mascara1777 2 жыл бұрын

yes and black women were raped in the 20th century and told no one if a white msn raped them because they knew nobody cared.

@anieciawilliams735 4 жыл бұрын

I respect this man for what he did with this museum. I hope to on day visit. His opening statement is so true others accept and have uncounted movies in the holocaust but slavery gets people up in arm. We must acknowledge the pass, we must never truely forget, our ancestors had a LONG fight we should honor them.

@harlandrodriguez1501 3 жыл бұрын

How can people be so cruel.. It breaks my heart..

@iismyalias 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for posting this video. The sooner Americans deal with and own this part of our history the less it will hang over us and continually divide us. The Germans have already done this in regard to the Holocaust with memorials and open apologies and in other ways and they've been able to move forward. Its way past time America did the same.

@evalinacesarcassule5097 Жыл бұрын

The Germans just "forgot" to do the same with the African holocaust that they promoted in Namibia...

@soy_0scar7 Жыл бұрын

@lillieholmes1376 4 жыл бұрын

The first thing this man said is very true,, which was maybe we are not forgetting, because we never knew,,,, Is all the more reasons why History should be taught in schools...

@BenJamminKraftbc 4 жыл бұрын

Wow.. this answered a lot of questions that we simply were not told about in school growing up in Canada. I can honestly say, I am ashamed. Every human being on the planet is just that, a human being. Everyone deserves their chance to be heard and live free.

@southernman5839 4 жыл бұрын

The people back then are responsible. Why would you be ashamed of what you didn’t do? We have no control of what other people do.

@Aceshot777 4 жыл бұрын

Because there are a vast majority of whites who still praise their ancestors and pretend they did nothing wrong. And by not learning the history and understanding their mistakes, THEY would be bound to repeat as well. No one is blaming whites today for what happen to our ancestors. We WILL blame whites today for not trying to fix what their ancestors set upon us. That's all blacks want. Change. PERMANENT change for the better.

@KimberlyPurpoz 4 жыл бұрын

@ BJ Kroft - If you are ashamed, then do something about it.

@KimberlyPurpoz 4 жыл бұрын

@@southernman5839 The Caucasoids passivity to their ancestors' evil wrongdoings of the past, today, and plans for the future speaks volumes. You all have done very little and don't have no intensions to do anything because you all like gray supremacy because everything benefits you all only. You all ARE responsible for all of this and negative karmic energy is brewing for you all to marinate in. You all time for suffering is coming multiplied. Your little empire is going to fall. It is long overdue.

@BenJamminKraftbc 4 жыл бұрын

@@KimberlyPurpoz What do you recommend I do?

@mikeaskme3530 4 жыл бұрын

I wonder how long it will take me to read the comments and come across "well the Blacks sold their own", how many comments will i have to read before that line come up.

@kimgibson2368 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you...

@marthapalmer9667 4 жыл бұрын

mike askme They did sell their own.

@mikeaskme3530 4 жыл бұрын

@@marthapalmer9667 those who sold enslaved people to Europeans did no sell their own, no more than whites committed genocide against other whites, ie the Holocaust. African is not a country never has been, it is continent with multiple nations inside it with multiple ethnic groups. For you to say this, you mind as well say that all Europeans are responsible for slavery, because they all shared the same skin color . This includes Russia and the Slavic nations, are they just as responsible for enslaving people?

@arkmuzikproductions 4 жыл бұрын

If the slave masters didn't come with their trickery, lies and manipulation to Afrika none of this would of happened. They only sold their own cause they were lied to. Still the whites have a responsibility and the biggest role to play when it comes to slavery and you can never try turn this around on black people. If you're white you know very well what your ancestors were doing. Just like today's world people sell their soul willingly in the name of freedom, fortune and fame. Anyone who lies and controls another man is the devil and it runs deep in white peoples blood, the need and erg to control it's sickening and it's happening till date.

@mikeaskme3530 4 жыл бұрын

@@marthapalmer9667 what no answer Martha?

@mac609 4 жыл бұрын

Wonderful piece on the Whitney Plantation. Talk about full circle, it's fascinating to see Dr. Seck at a US plantation of his ancestors.

@reinaAndrob562 4 жыл бұрын

Those trees are taunting in the beginning . Where so many souls hung like strange fruit as Billie holiday sang . If you all haven’t heard that song , please do .

@andrkagraves8094 4 жыл бұрын

I visited this plantation in March. It was an excellent experience

@hiccadoodledoo6545 4 жыл бұрын

Mrs. Mortal is an awesome woman. I met her when I was in college in 1985. She is kind, intelligent and genuine.

@ayatheartist 3 жыл бұрын

I worked as a tour guide at this plantation for a year it was an amazing experience

@pissoff9399 3 жыл бұрын

how about the trutb Dont you know? African kings and Chiefs didnt build any prisons or mental hospitals. Instead the kings and Chiefs traded their criminals and undesirables people into the slave market. And if these afrocans were turned down by the slave traders than those africans were but to death in the annual crematories. So in a summary Africa's kings and Chiefs had made america their prison system

@Babesofthepower1113 4 жыл бұрын

This sinks deep into my soul 🖤🖤🖤

@caramelcandy5147 Жыл бұрын

My ancestors were slaves. I find no shame in that. I am proud of them. I am grateful to them because they endured and made it through. May they ever RIP.

@aprylaevans 4 жыл бұрын

This is something very powerful & something I would want to see.

@billross6013 4 жыл бұрын

I am glad an African is the curator. It feels so authentic, thank you Doctor.

@dontcopymystyle4469 3 жыл бұрын

Was thinking the same thing.

@ReNinaMinter 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for posting this video. It’s healing to acknowledge our painful past. I wrote an article on the blog site Medium called “I’m Black, Not African American” by ReNina Minter. I’m talking about why being enslaved is something we can’t just “forget”. 🙏🏾 Praying for more museums like this. 💛😃

@MelanatednNature 2 жыл бұрын

I'll check it out

@menaj2954 4 жыл бұрын

You must never forget the past to prevent reoccurrence. The guy effects of slavery is alive and well in America.

@blaceyeblu1326 3 жыл бұрын

I would love to sit and talk with Dr. Ibrahima Seck. I can't imagine a more informative and enlightening conversation for my mental freedom.

@lindastrickland8200 4 жыл бұрын

The only emotion I feel about slavery is anger. It has always been my strongest and the mere word does not even come close to describing my feelings about this part of our past. Our foundation. My anger on this is never at rest.

@Justforme7 4 жыл бұрын

juan hoshkaboo that’s not ur business or ur concern. She has every right to feel what she does for her ancestors and her self. if other parts concern u in this day an age go do something about it instead of acting tough on KZfaq.

@lindastrickland8200 4 жыл бұрын

To juan, I don't have to play the victim, even though my portion of the human race is still victimized on a daily basis by racists. Since you don't have the guts to use your real name, you apparently use your cleverly thought up monicker to hide behind with your racism. The next time you think you have something to say, make sure you know what you're talking about. You call yourself a man. Be one. I'm sure you teach that garbage to kids, if you have any. What a legacy to leave them. I'm sure your klandaddies are proud of you.

@lindastrickland8200 4 жыл бұрын

I viewed the video Diving With A Purpose, about diving for the location of slave ships at the bottom of the Atlantic. Again, I could not name my feelings but I was in tears as I watched. Watch the video. I think you will understand.

@alybe2812 4 жыл бұрын

This needs to be taught in school, children need to continue to be mixed with one another, if you want a better future fix the present and let go of the past, educate the children, forget trying to change the minds of adults, the children are the future

@conjurncraftstarot 4 жыл бұрын

Yes the children is whom i reach best! Hard to get to the parents

@lindastrickland8200 4 жыл бұрын

The problem is that racist adults are teaching racism to their children on a daily basis. That's one reason racism continues in this world.

@jherc12990 4 жыл бұрын

Here in the states, when they talk about slavery it’s very watered down. They don’t teach about the extent of it and only talk about how it came to be, but not how it was. Even now I still learn a lot about the extent of slavery and how rooted racism is even in today’s society. I do research on my watching videos or reading. It’s sad to finally realize this. It’s shameful to not teach the complete history and show it as IT IS.

@prettygirl_me4699 3 жыл бұрын

Let go off the past , huh ,did you tell Jewish people to let go off their past , huh

@Pou1gie1 Жыл бұрын

@@prettygirl_me4699 No, of course, they didn't.

@Findsomethinsafe2do 3 жыл бұрын

I’ve been here and written my name on the wall. I stood in the space of those that came before me. I’ve never felt so humbled so grateful for every tear that was shed and prayer they prayed.

@soy_0scar7 Жыл бұрын

@neosoul7422 3 жыл бұрын

I want to go and visit all the Plantations in the US.

@AyeTahj 4 жыл бұрын

What about Charles H. Wright Museum in Detroit ? Been around since the 60s and still open to this day educating on slavery . I went there for field trips every year living in Detroit .

@soy_0scar7 Жыл бұрын

@zhenful 4 жыл бұрын

this video deserves WAY more views and appreciation

@jcanyiam8309 4 жыл бұрын

Dr. Ibrahima Seck YOU ARE A GOOD GOOD MAN! God Bless YOU.

@kimberlyanderson7060 4 жыл бұрын

I remember visiting this plantation when I was in Junior High School as a school field trip.

@ultimateclassic4092 4 жыл бұрын

Love what you're doing. Little word of advice though, there will be terrible people who will try to vandalize the property or worse. Guard the property day and night or install a lot of cameras around and hire surveillance personnel.

@kamal-hg5jg 4 жыл бұрын

This is June 2020 and there is still brutality in America Ring that bell 🔔 brother “ God bless the dead

@johnturner2946 3 жыл бұрын

Even the brothers with heart disease that died during an encounter with police for having fentanyl in their system causing their death due to heart failure ? Who ( video shows ) was claiming they can't breath long before they laid him down ?

@localuna4953 4 жыл бұрын

This is an amazing concept put into action. I am unable to leave my house much any more, but I do know that if I can choose a place to go if given the opportunity, this will be it. "Roots" the move, came out when I was a kid and I will never forget the lessons it taught me. When my daughter started watching "Reading Rainbow", she learned who Kunta Kinte was. I found it to be a great segway into that lesson. Unfortunately, this is the first I'm hearing of this, and it's 3 years later. Thank you for the information. Thank you to the beautiful people doing this. It's about time!

@tbabycute1 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you Sir😢 thank you!!🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

@CrazyTiffany86 4 жыл бұрын

I've been here. It's so worth visiting!

@northernsoutherngirl 4 жыл бұрын

Glad this was in my timeline today(9/15/19). Would love to take this tour of history.😉

@Cenycee 4 жыл бұрын

Me too!

@maricarmencalledemiguel7396 3 жыл бұрын

Poor people. It is heart-wrenching.

@KJayDarling 4 ай бұрын

I cannot describe the experience of visiting Whitney Plantation. Ive visited a handful, even in DR. This was emotional & enlightening. I'd encourage others to visit this carefully curated experience.

@beauteefulhill3830 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you sir for making this museum. I would like to visit this one day. I don’t understand why one race of people thought it was ok to have slaves when Almighty God created us equal, he made us and he gave us free will. He didn’t even take us as his slaves. A lot of people have a lot to answer to God for and he will see to it.

@sugarlove 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing history ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

@j.porlando5091 Жыл бұрын

“Behind hate, there is fear” greed is such a horrible thing.

@Classyk99 2 жыл бұрын

I have been to this plantation . By far was one of the most informative tours I took.

@shimmer4771 Жыл бұрын

I wish I could go. I would love to see what it was like.

@gladysmorgan5680 4 жыл бұрын

this house looks like the 1 in Django the movie

@mssha1980 4 жыл бұрын

I think the movie was filmed there

@rickychisolm1376 4 жыл бұрын

It was filmed there

@tonywhite5085 4 жыл бұрын

That's because it is that house in the movie. The field was edited a bit though to hid the cells in the background.

@cathythomas9128 4 жыл бұрын

Enjoyed the documentary.

@christopherb4015 2 жыл бұрын

I think all of us alive right now can change this country forever by just being good people.

@jacobzaranyika9334 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you 🙏 I will watch this in full later.

@miaj4170 4 жыл бұрын

You said that RIGHT!!

@Littleofeverything 4 жыл бұрын

I’m just now discovering this video 😩

@sharingmythoughts1552 2 жыл бұрын

When I watch videos like this, it makes me more determined than ever to support reparations for slavery.

@birgitwetzka4041 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!! I believe in Enlightenment of History.

@ShayeReese 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this, I know my ancestors do not want me to forget them no matter what horrible torture they went through. Give me my identity! I’m not some of these people that want to forget about the horrible things that happened I’m not ashamed, I want to know more.

@soy_0scar7 Жыл бұрын

@pineapplesunkist537 4 жыл бұрын

Hundred yrs ltr no BLACKS still trying to find OUR plc in America... Even if born here!

@jaajaarogers9101 4 жыл бұрын

Pineapple Sunkist yes so true , still not free now 2019

@Trund27 4 жыл бұрын

A sacred duty. Thank you.

@angelafender 4 жыл бұрын

There are so many documentaries for slavery. It is also one of the first things we learned in school.

@wellablack4883 4 жыл бұрын

WOW the African realized it could have been him...DEEP....

@stuffimobsessedwith 3 жыл бұрын

There should be more museums like this & student visitation should be mandatory. A couple years ago, I visited Auschwitz with my class & even tho we were learning about it, actually being there was very eye opening.

@soy_0scar7 Жыл бұрын

@angelaking5835 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much i am brought to such heartache though..as a black woman of almoat 2020 i hope that my grandsons see change in there life time.Thank you both well 3 for this history wake up call.

@MichaelSmith-yg8mc 2 жыл бұрын

This is amazing and soul-healing.

@aarkamudug4478 4 жыл бұрын

I wish they used the word “victim” instead of “slave”

@sharonshepard9447 3 жыл бұрын

so true - the word VICTIM is reality!!

@CaliDreams1 4 жыл бұрын

Until our country as a true and meaningful conversation about slavery we will never truly be free. when I mean free I am not just talking about African Americans, but all people because slavery was not just about African's but all other brown people who were abducted and brought into slavery. This is a very important museum that does not gloss over what it was like at that time to be colored person.

@lameechcurry1675 4 жыл бұрын

Felicia Thomas you beter worry about right now white people would love to own slaves and beat you to death believe that

@pimpiniseasy2778 4 жыл бұрын

Felicia Thomas false black people just need to know their history and rights then everything else will come into place.

@pr4496 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this museum

@jamesmason8052 3 жыл бұрын

So many thoughts, thank you

@danielescanaba596 6 жыл бұрын

I like to hear the details of what was going on.

@ANGELSLVME 4 жыл бұрын

I like when he said”it was a rich white boy who started this mess, and a rich white boy, who is doing SOMEThing about it”

@happyfunjenn 3 жыл бұрын

So important for us to remember the past and realize what pieces still remain that need to be fixed to finally reach true equality.

@soy_0scar7 Жыл бұрын

@hockeygirl8401 4 жыл бұрын

I so want to go and see that museum

@a.d.mitchell2613 5 жыл бұрын

I know for a fact we are not alone

@earlrogersjr3026 3 жыл бұрын

I really enjoyed this video because some of the countries that showed up in my DNA test was Senegal Benin ,Togo . .What I would really like to see a video on is the countries in Africa that we’re involved in the slave trade and had a lot to do with slavery which no one else seems to want to talk about. Most of what we hear about Slavery in the United States are that Europeans and Arabs were the ones that were involved in slavery. No one mentioned the fact that quite a few of the slaves were Muslims.