Women's Experience Under Slavery: Crash Course Black American History #11

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3 жыл бұрын

Slavery was inherently cruel and unjust, and it was cruel and unjust to different people in different ways. Today, Clint Smith teaches you about the experience of enslaved women, and how their experience of slavery was different than men. Women had a unique vantage point to understand slavery, and were particularly vulnerable to some terrible abuses under the institution.
Clint's book, How the Word is Passed is available now! bookshop.org/a/3859/978031649...
SOURCES
- Samuel H. Williamson & Louis Cain, "Measuring Slavery in 2016 dollars," MeasuringWorth, 2020.
-"A Prelude to War: The 1850s." African American Lives: The Struggle for Freedom, by Clayborne Carson et al., Pearson Longman, 2005, pp. 221-222.
-Modern History Sourcebook: Sojourner Truth: "Ain't I a Woman?", December 1851
-Quoted in Deborah Gray White, Ar' n't I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South, rev. ed. (New York: Norton, 1999), 102.
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@breek.8678 3 жыл бұрын

Remember doing a genetic dna tests as a class for a project. The 8 or 9 African Americans in the class were absolutely shocked to see they all had European ancestry (I believe ranging from 15% to 24%) I’m only half African American…. My father is an East African immigrant but I even had 14% Western European dna results. It was intensely confusing, until our teach explained the leading theory suggests most of the mysterious European dna in African Americans came during slavery. He said genetic studies done across the US find that every descendant of slaves has European dna. That’s A LOT of rape!

@blueberrymuffin113 3 жыл бұрын

I really like that this host’s speech rate is a little slower as it helps me to keep up as a non-native speaker :)

@Satan-Is-a-Lawyer Жыл бұрын

It’s amazing what these black women had to go through for me to be able to have the opportunities and freedoms that I have now.

@stephonrogers7382 3 жыл бұрын

There's a book that I've read three times and it was about an enslaved woman hiding from her master for several years. If interested it's called Letters from a Slave Girl: The Story of Harriet Ann Jacobs. I highly recommend this book.

@xoxopuppies12xoxo 3 жыл бұрын

These series always teach me so much more than college classes ever did. This is seeing history from a personal point of view, instead of a broad lens and it makes it so much more impactful.

@mustbeaweful2504 3 жыл бұрын

I knew this episode was going to make my heart heavy.

@Shelovesdeep 10 күн бұрын

He is such a good presenter. He talks about things slowly and seriously, giving respect to parts of history that are tragic and terrible. Definitely the best person to describe a subject as serious as this.

@DuranmanX 3 жыл бұрын

This is like Sophie's Choice meets the Color Purple. Absolutely horrifying stuff, but important that it be taught.

@butterflyzero0 3 жыл бұрын

Even their own accounts weren't truly their own if they were being filtered and put in a dialect that they didn't even speak.

@therealryan1329 2 жыл бұрын

Black American history, otherwise known as American history

@kellbing 3 жыл бұрын

I'm glad Crash Course is here to teach accurate history, especially considering the fact that schools want to remove anything that may make the US look bad.

@mikejunior80 3 жыл бұрын

These videos are so educational and the content well organized. Thank you guys at Crash Course.

@ljeans531 Жыл бұрын

I love vids like this. They help the unimaginable crimes of slavery become more understanding. It's terrible to listen to, but we must not become numb or advert our eyes from the suffering of people in the past or today.

@gabriel_kyne Жыл бұрын

it's disgusting that my country has done nothing to make reparations for slavery

@kwiiin_ 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for speaking and teaching about my Black sisters. Women are so often overlooked, especially BIPOC women.

@imdifferent7294 Жыл бұрын

So many views but very little comments.

@poziloc 3 жыл бұрын

Thank You CrashCourse for doing this!! Thank You!

@aprilvojtek8007 Жыл бұрын

So what has changed instead of collars on our necks they use handcuffs instead of making us work in the field they give is minimal wage and have us work 8 hrs a day modem labor

@abdulghafoor6766 Жыл бұрын

How cruel these people were? ?

@Just2gofoods Жыл бұрын

Great videos. I’m learning so much. Thanks.

@jeanremy5036 Жыл бұрын

What a shame to inflicting that type of a harsh treatment to those poor women; on type of it and selling them at market bargain prices was very dehumanizing and I don’t care about what eras it was!

@isaacwalsh5031 3 жыл бұрын

This series is reallyhelpful and informative. Keep up the great content

@jasong705 3 жыл бұрын

Love your videos thanks for the info this history needs to be in schools as well

@2samarie2 3 жыл бұрын

I hope these videos are being shown in classes

@MaryamShakiba Жыл бұрын

Thanks that was really informative 🙏

@davidcrosthwaite Жыл бұрын

How were so many of these people so well spoken/written with what I would have though would be limited education at best? It’s a shame their genius was wasted on slavery and menial labour. We’ll never get to know what they could have achieved if given the chance

@YOUR-WORD-IS-YOUR-BOND 11 ай бұрын

Our ancestors were actually PRISONERS OF WAR....

@matheeson Жыл бұрын

Thank You Brother

@kymomma9335 Жыл бұрын

White woman here, trying to understand the shit African Americans went through. . I love history

@SusanBinks 3 жыл бұрын

Outstanding.

@jellofuel 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you sincerely for the trigger warning, I know this is sensitive content. But that might be why these videos are necessary, because you can either deal with history or address it - and people will often take the path of least resistance. The toughest road can be the right road, and in this case, it's both. Thank you, Crash Course! And keep up the good work.

@philipbenjamin1371 Жыл бұрын

I am subscribe great channel just found it now

@zoraidadumit4126 Жыл бұрын

Honestly descendants of the families that enslaved people back then should be fined and the families of the people that were enslaved should be compensated. Equality is not enough. Compensation should be the proper way to says I'm sorry.

@Benni777 3 жыл бұрын

Black women are strong, beautiful and powerful! 💪🏽💪🏾💪🏿

@williambilyeu9801 3 жыл бұрын

This is very well done and very accurate. I would highly recommend the narratives of both Sojourner Truth and Harriot Jacobs in the "Slave Narratives" from Library of America. However, there is also the narrative of William Wells Brown in the same volume where he discovers that his "wife" prefers to remain as the mistress of their former master.

@MessaicComic 3 жыл бұрын

man . . .

@TeamMostRequested Жыл бұрын

Nice video

@ThatsJustMyBabyDaddy 3 жыл бұрын

And America still hasn't made good on this tragedy.

@rioncitylife1917 3 жыл бұрын

hi Crash Course, hi everyone " such a insitful story, well worded learned a lot", :)

@SuperTonyony Жыл бұрын

Indigenous Americans should get their lands back, and Black Americans should receive reparations. It is always the RIGHT TIME to do the RIGHT THING

@latanyafrancois6108 Жыл бұрын

Things need to stay alive so we our people don't forget and we don't go backwards to be own by anyone else as a property and stay Free and own our own business nobody else steal our ideas for any reason we got to stop using drugs so we'll be able to have the same as Mexicans and Chinese and Japanese and Abbric own business like we used to

@onlytoloveyou1 Жыл бұрын

Ain't I x7 Ain't I smokin strong, Ain't I puttin on, ain't I rockin yays, ain't my money long Ain't I x7 Ain't I in the ville, ain't I on the hill, ain't I on a mil, ain't I ain't I real