Sammie Baxter Thank You

Sammie Baxter FACTUAL!!!!!!! PREACH

Yes the shit is sad 😢

Truth

Your right about that

Amen Sister!!!

Exactly that's why I cant stand owing money to someone. Like he said "he never bought nothing on time. He would buy it later when he had the full cash.

@Fergus Coullenn Every one of us??? No, speak for your own lineage. What an ignorant comment!

I transcribed that interview for the Library of Congress. If u think he’s equating the brutalities of slavery with spending beyond your means your not listening, but that wouldn’t surprise anyone who has actually been listening!

Fergus Coullenn please name the members of your family who lived under Slavery? Since Slavery was ubiquitous that should be an easy assignment for you. I’m waiting.

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My Senegalese friends say this all the time. 💯 Truth!

Great quote so much of history is forgotten

Factz

Real talk

How's it feel that the electronic you type that message out was made by a slave.

It's amazing that we think of these things like they were ancient history. But 250 years is not so long ago.

You just blew my mind.

Poor o

@@joesmith7185 how so???? Lmao 🤣

Dana that's a blessing. We learn from our ancestors.

@@dixongrandkids That's right I pray to live a 100 years old and don't owe nobody 5 cents myself!

Priceless

He said "I'm 100 years old and i don't owe nobody 5 cent, and I aint got no money either"

He does not even sound old at all. Like srsly he sounds all of 80 years old.

True Grit because he was denied an education by white people because of the colour of his skin

His education was in mans inhumanity to man!

Education doesnt make you wise. Experience does.

Wisdom isn't measured in books

The word is 'intelligent'. That is what you are hearing. That's an intelligent man speaking, who would have had the potential to study a profession had he had the means and access to do so.

Brie Lax 44 this man sounds like a great example of a man. He did say there was people sold that where nasty or bad people. That is not excusing any bastard slave owners. People should not be slaves but not all people are nice and in good sense as this man seems.

Brie...did you go to college?

Amen!

As I listened teary eyed I shared the same sentiment

this is how all history should be told. In a way that empowers black people

That caught my attention too. It’s subtle but he makes a very real distinction there. It’s interesting to me that it seemed rather innocent. He wasn’t trying to drive home the point. It sounded like he was actually a bit disoriented by the question.

You do know that as a kid he was a slave as well as his parents so what he said is real about being a slave and proved to be more educated than you are. The free born were existent in the slave days but people were held as slaves still in his youth. This is from the recordings of the WPA Slave Narratives that were recorded between 1936-1938 and he was 100 years old at that time so do the math.

@@desmondcantwell480 math's, do the englis

You do realize when he said, "You mean when I was a slave?" He was asking to clarify which time period in his life was he being asked who he worked for.

@@jasonlawrence6548 I'm not certain he was just clarifying which period of time the interviewer meant. I immediately thought he might be making a distinction between work and slavery.

It is mandatory in schools. Unfortunately, the love of this amazing America is not taught. Just the opposite.

@@dougmiles4396 1) She meant vids like this, of the real life experiences. We spent a few weeks in my school talking about cotton and tobacco trading as well as Martin Luther King day to review the "I Had A Dream Speech". Yet they spent an entire semester talking about our state's Mountains and Volcanoes. A little interesting. 2) It's not surprising that hate is talked about more than love in this country, when their is more hate currently than love. It would be worse if we were ignoring the hate completely and blocking it out as if it doesn't exist. I think the solution is to address the hate with love.

What's the big deal? Slavery has been going on for 10000 years and in fact still currently exists in some African countries. Whites enslaved whites, whites enslaved blacks, blacks have enslaved blacks blacks have enslaved whites, Chinese have enslaved virtually everybody. What's the issue here? Just that whites have enslaved blacks in a more recent timeframe? That's stuff is over just like the other stuff is over. For God's sake get over it and quit making it a issue.

@@dougmiles4396 no ones mad at slavery. They're mad at the effects of slavery....and segregation, and the right to vote in recent history. And wage differences, land ownership differences, etc cetera. Slavery is gone and over, systemic disenfranchising isnt....

@Skip ads and it still hasn't done anything to erase to effects......

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Me too😞😖😢😢

I was like “me too”.

I'm tearing up now

Philoshopos I was extremely impress when I Heard the same line. Impossible of imaging those horribles days. He sound wisdom and very intelligent. God bless him 🙏🏻💕

You're 100 pc right in what you're doing. Don't get all tied in a financial mess like the majority of the world.

I think he said everything he needed to say about it. Keep it simple

Keep doing you...

You’re right, but you always owe the “state”.

We are not living out of my a vehicle but we travel to make a living and We are actually building our house ourselves and paying cash as we can afford it.... It’s actually pretty rewarding and freeing

A true independent passing on Independence day.

HIHILOVELOVEYOUALLIS SOHURTFULLYSWEET. THANK GOD ITCAMEOUTTHISBABYSMOUTH.YOCANT MAKETHISUPAND GOD IS WITH HIM HE LOVES HIM SOME GOD. PRAISE THE LORD.loveubrother

I’m grateful also. We need these verbal histories to be taught and listened to.

Yes, I feel the same.

Exactly

Priceless!!

Absolutely

I wish we could have heard him sing.

Yup

No, not entirely, but it helps you to get more intelligent if you have an education. It's a start.

@@charlottebruce979 mr.fountain,the former slave would disagree.

@@charlottebruce979 unfortunately, that's not necessarily true. There are a lot of educated white people that I wouldn't consider to be very intelligent or enlightened.

SAY IT AGAIN

But if you also think, this is a 70+ year old recording, from a 101 year old man, it also makes you think of the wealth of information of our relatively short US history, still waiting to be discovered in archives/collections somewhere.

Jefferson Davis former slave George you might find it interesting

That was the norms of that world. It happened to all group of humans in that world. The strong enslaved the weak

Lest we forget they are also the 200 defenders of the Gates couple (Bill and Melinda).

lol VASTLY over-rated comment!!!

Then promised 1st and 2nd shift lunch if they signed in to dislike the video too!

dont get the joke

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Primary sources!!! Yes! 😍😍😍

The leftist schools do not approve...Teaches blacks to take personal responsibility. They can't have their meal ticket leave their plantations...

Never forget, no matter how hard they try to white wash history

J Giza meal ticket and leftist schools? Get fucking real

Absolutely sir.

Listening to this in June 2020, from Sydney Australia. No words. Its supposed to be a whole world away, somehow some of his stories feel relevant again

He has very good advice about debt. He’s rolling in his grave watching the world now.

My God!!!!!!

Facts literally makes me have to catch my breath.. deep

osu22221 sadly I don’t believe you.

Especially being in this country in the south. Alabama has similar stories too even Mississippi

@@blew6 dont forget Arab and African countries from this very day in the current year...

@@MitchellCH Yes, because it's vitally important that we deflect from the moving testimony of an ex-slave born in America speaking of his experiences in America as a former slave, and that of his family's experiences in America as American slaves, by pointing fingers at "Arab and African countries". Yes, let's do that rather than acknowledge the wrongs the person in the video is testifying to that occurred to him and those around him IN AMERICA. America isn't the only country with blood on its hands - the UK, for example, also has to look at itself because the chattel slavery of Africans during the transatlantic slave trade is unlike ANY OTHER. Its horrific legacies, including racism, continues to this very day. Nothing else compares - not even the modern slavery of today that you're pitifully trying to deflect to. And how do I know you're trying to do this? Because modern slavery is not limited to (mainly non-white) "Arab and African countries"; there is also a terrible trade across (mainly white) Europe but - OOOooooops! - you conveniently left that out. No prizes for guessing why.

@@Gooneress you are despicable for being more upset about slavery that ended over 2 centuries ago than slavery that is happening this very second. Totally disgusting. 👎

@@MitchellCH As I pointed out above, the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade has not ended. It continues to this very day - 400 years on from its birth. And everyone with a brain cell knows this. Unlike you, with your fingers pointing elsewhere, I am not choosing the form of slavery to "care" about. I care about the consequences of all forms of slavery because it means the victims do not enjoy EQUALITY and as black people around the world are STILL fighting for equality - an undoubted legacy of the transatlantic slave trade - I am entitled to be "upset". And if you really cared about modern slavery (hint: you don't), you would've mentioned modern slavery in Europe - not just ""Arab and African countries". One of the biggest anti-slavery charities has called on the European Union to do more about modern slavery; it is not restricted to "Arab and African countries". But you ignored that because you have an agenda. However your motives and your agenda are as clear and apparent to me as your fragility. In short, I don't give a flying fukk what you think of me because I'm not on this planet to please you.

I can.

There several videos of this recording.

Daniel, Hello. This video should have million of views and should be required viewing in History classes.

I can...He's wonderful...He should be heard by millions on Primetime TV, school assembly, etc ...The time is now!!!

Because our history is whitewashed, and suppressed.

leondarnell1 it shouldn’t come as a surprise. We are speaking of people stolen from skilled and wealthy civilizations. Who do you think engineered, pioneered, performed surgery, taught, built, designed prior to enslavement? Let’s not fall into what many would have you believe. Try to watch “Something the Lord Made” to see just how HIDDEN our legacy is...on purpose...

@@analyticalbeing6445 I appreciate your response but i believe you miss my point. I accept everything you say about our history. My point is that we hardly ever hear directly from an ex-slave...hearing this is what's great...

Old Black man sounds so humble and so much more intelligent than all BLM combined!

Exactly! For anyone to think anything less of their intelligence is pure ignorance

It's common sense jfc

I will.

After hearing him say the name I look him up. Grant had an amazing life himself. From rags to President. Only 4 months in office before he was killed.

Who is calling him ignorant?

My grandpa was white and sound ded just like him

He is old too. Nothing is the same way as it used to be, including the voice.

They make untrue statements to make themselves feel better or smart. Just ignore the lies.

@@jenniferj6580 right, like who would call a SLAVE ignorant? at that point they're just projecting their own insecurities

I'm sorry sir civil war vets and slaves should never be in the same sentence

@@kolanjah I'm sorry but that's extremely retarded

@@kolanjah you dint take advantage of affirmative action did you?

kalonji Lol not even the North? Are you sure you didn’t misread “civil war vet” for “Confederate soldier”? Even in that case I think the value of preserving such interviews is obvious, but it’s weird to think slaves and civil war vets can’t be mentioned together considering the entire war was about slavery.

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Obviously the same type of people that deny racism is a problem in America.

This is fake

I remember that series really well for some reason. Oh man, I'm old...

@@teyaneipierce8802 its not fake sis lol there’s multiple other interviews on the internet of other slaves this same person interviewed in the 20s-30s

@@jassmybaby8400 it’s fake. You talking to someone who is well connected with their roots. This is not real. Slavery never existed in the way that we were taught. Trust me. This is NOT authentic at all

Wow

Don't get rid of any thing just keep it like it's the last one and don't extend your wardrobe until more is Needed not wanted.

Find happiness

How about sell the clothes and invest the proceeds 😳🤷‍♂️

God bless you and your humble heart

So you just gonna live naked?

The first time he said " I belong to.." it sounded surreal..

Agree...thank you

Jefferson was known to have children with his slave women.

That is the way it was in slavery, humans beIng bought and sold, as property.

Barry Boo besides that it was being owned bought and sold, as if the people were property, the slaves had no choice of their own, no Human rights or Civil rights. Slavery is Evil.

And we are blessed to hear him across generations.

yes he was very strong at his age and i also beleive he was a good person

He was born in 1848 and said in this interview he was 100 years old. He also saw 2 world wars and the Nuclear Bomb, he lived through a lot of our modern history....

@@bryonmiller4326 3 wars

That man has lived a lot. Just cannot imagine the bearing of all of the atrocities that happened to him.

Yes even the great grans who were born in the late 80's to early 90's lived long lives. I got the chance to spend time with both my great grandmother's both died in their 90's but they were not the needy type of elders. Both walked up right and went up stairs. Thanks for your input please share.

Yes indeed

I agree.

I agree. My great grandmother lived to be 104 and of a sound mind!

@POINTTWOFIVEMOA trust me, there are prolly slave roll with him and his birth on them

That caught my attention too. People can't understand, he didn't work for..his life was that man's.

Also that they can switch employers

I caught that too.

I never bought squat on credit. Fountain was a prophet :P

@@YourXellency makes sense for the times he lived in but you cant even rent nowdays without credit, or get a car (unless you go to a janky tote the note place) so dont see how thats possible nowdays

@@kristiskinner8542 I left America about 8 years ago. You're not entirely wrong either because I brought myself to Asia where I could live comfortably and have just a little of what other people in the US had. I was struggling to find a decent job for 2 years and ate only hotdogs and slept in closest and dining room floors in other people's apartments until 2013. I didn't have much credit, but I made investments with my combat pay in the mid-2000s.

Good advice 100 years ago. Today ehhh, not so much.

Pretty inspirational! He was a wise man ... much wiser than a lot of us in 2020!!

I feel the same way...it pierces your soul

Sorry for your loss and yes the elders are a blessing. The last of a dying breed. The next generation of elders will know nothing of that time.

@@SleepingGiantWakeUp as long as people like you and mrs gibby educate us with stories we'll have plenty to share

Thanks

I had an assistant teacher in FL who was a sharecropper growing up I wonder if it was her?! There was black and white kids in my class who threw spitballs at her and I told them off!!!

@@ragtimegalsmy family resided in south Florida. Homestead/Naranja Florida. I wonder. That would be incredible 🩷

Brilliant for his time... Good luck trying to live like that now days... You try buying a house or a car or pay for school with just the money you earn. You'd be living with your mom until you were 70

@@claudioserafino9910 Those people who bought (cars, houses, school) into society are in "DEBT" they are slaves in every sense of the word.

@@TalkMyShiit Couldn't agree more

@@TalkMyShiit A person who has debt can never really be free.

EclecticHillbilly I just said that ... 😉

You're welcome

slowjamz4life WOW!!!! thanks for sharing.

Are you a part of this family tree? I've been working on my Family Tree for over 2 years and I haven't been able to go past Thomas Jefferson. If you are, message me. I do have Aunts that are white and other family members that are mixed and praise GOD we love each other but I've always been interested in learning about my history.

@ndncountrygrits1120 Elizabeth I didn't expel the Moors. The order was never issued. The negotiation in draft letters of the Privy Council was about compensating a trader from Lubeck for English slaves he had retrieved from Iberia and returned to England. Caspar Van Senden petitioned for compensation, asking to effectively kidnap Moors from England in exchange, so he could sell them in Iberia. There were 89 English enslaved people returned to England. Neither the trade or expulsion ever happened. www.mirandakaufmann.com/blog/elizabeth-i-and-the-blackamoors-the-deportation-that-never-was

Wow.. if this is verified history that's incredible. Why don't we learn actual History in school.

Randolph Jefferson.

Never stop complaining or wanting a better life or demanding respect! (It's what they would have wanted for you.)

@@lindokuhlezondi323 never stop complaining? What?! Why would anyone complain about their situation after listening to Fountain Hughes talk about being a Slave, sleeping on a dirt floor with no bed, eating out of a trough, being forced to work whenever he was told etc etc? Especially if you live in the United States and you now can sleep in a bed, have a TV, have a cell phone, a car, a roof over your head, have a job, have money-or trying to make yourself better than the previous generation instead of relying on the Government to pay for everything? If you rely on the government, you become enslaved again!

@@Cabledeluz1977 So, one should not complain because YEARS AGO someone was a slave? I'm talking about NOW. One shouldn't accept an indecent life just because you're better off than enslaved people. One should be grateful for police racism because one is not a slave? One should be grateful for employment racism because one is not a slave?

@@Cabledeluz1977 Everyone deserves, at least, a decent life. One should never settle for anything less. Yes, one must complain if the police are mistreating one! One must complain when they experience undue employment discrimination! Why should they pay, say, a white person more than a black person for the exact same work? One must complain because it is constitutionally protected! One must complain!

@@lindokuhlezondi323 Do you even hear what you’re saying? Your comments have an entitlement to them! Why? If you or anyone doesn’t like your current situation then you do something about it! You change it! You are responsible for you! “Mistreatment of the police” “unequal pay” or “employment discrimination”. Those are legal actions. You’re gonna waste your time “complaining” about those issues when you could be improving your quality of life here. Do you want Slavery reparations? Or are you even descendants from Slaves? Most are not descendants from slaves in the US! Barry Obama wasn’t and neither is Kamala Harris. Instead of “complaining”about your situation, use the resources the US has available to improve your life! What makes the US different than any other country in the world? The United States offers anyone the opportunity to improve their current situation. Why do you think so many immigrants are fighting to get into the US? Because it’s such a terrible place to live? Give me a break! You sound like a 12 year old!

It’s actually a white man interviewing him he just calls him uncle

He called him uncle just as an endearing term. The interviewer is clearly a white man.

Back in that era in the south if you were white you showed older black men and women respect by using term uncle or aunt as a term of endearment, to say sir or ma'am, mister or misses could have gotten them or you or your parents burn out or worse if someone from the klan heard you. White southerners were just as leery of the klan as black people were, white children followed their parents lead in showing respect to older blacks, hence uncle or aunt. And visa versa racist taught their their children to hate, and the thing about the klan whites and blacks never knew who were in the klan, caution was always the rule of thumb. I grew up in the south in the sixties and was taught to say uncle and aunt to older black people.

@@omor33 That is an interesting insight. Having manners and respect for elders was a highmark of Southern culture, something dearly missed today.

huns Ainus our ancestors are always with us in spirit and in our DNA. We need to get it together

No, they aren't.

huns Ainus false. But go awfff

Reading your comment made me lose it and haven't even gotten to that part of the video.

Heartwrenching

American History is a lie

@@SuperNicole2611 you know it is, it's full of horror stories and murders, mass killings

Yes!!

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Amen

Debt is the current from of slavery.

Claudio Serafino dept and welfare both.

@@stevedarnell8444 Yes you're right, except everyone is in debt not everyone is on welfare, but when you are on welfare you're pretty much doomed to remain there forever.

Facts

Why so many ellipses? Use a damn period.

I like to use them too... is it against KZfaq comment standards? ...being rude seems pretty common place

@@chelsea358 It doesn't make any kind of grammatical sense fragmenting your sentences with ellipses. Nobody talks that way unless they're out of breath. It also makes the person typing seem either mad or condescending.

@@AugustTheStag Thank you for your comment.

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This is in the past but your assertion is as if it’s in the present. We are progressing.

Yes. This is real history.

Actually, they did have sodas. Coca cola came out in the 1890's, but it's not made like it is today and people didn't drink them like they do now. Cancer, diabetes, stroke and heart attacks weren't as prevalent either. People ate organic. (They grew there own food and GMOS were non existence.) No t.v. or video games for the youth. They worked in the fields. He even said in the recording, ever since he took that medicine from the doctor, it hurt his voice. Wisdom speaking from the past!

DMT Media yep. Modest hard work. Not eating to much. Exorcize. Not smoking. No stress because you don’t owe nobody.

I wouldn't include diet. Slave food was scraps. I think it was growing up with endurance and black folk who genetically strong.

Its because thwy ate the scraps of the masters. Now they make fake food so instead of doing hard work to obtain more organics. Theyve been growing fruit in tents with ten daily sprays of whatever toxics to preserve them? They wont poison their own. So thats why they lived.

We can barely live to 50. Life expectancy these days is literally 57.

man. that part and when he says he doesn't speak about it much because it makes people sad. heart breaking

That broke my heart hearing this sweet man say this. It's devastating to hear ...a stark reminder of how bad they were treated my God.

tripp me tooooo truly a blessing...im encouraged to be a greater soul

Tripp uploads right

Sad thing about it, we don't know. He could very well be one of our great, great. great...

There's not enough money in the world to pay him and his family for what he lost and what he suffered.

Alicia O. But his descendants still need the US Govt. to #CutTheCheck 🤞🏿✨💯💯

@@b1synrg190 lol at this point i want them to charter me a flight back to the motherland!

@Kelly Holloran he should've been paid in blood...bitch

Her. Queendom I’m sure he is owed much more money than I’ll ever see or could ever count. Still he is jus richer than most just for the humbleness, honesty and pure pride in his voice.

My grandfather was owned by Thomas Jefferson... heartbreaking to hear as a proud American. I'm white and my parents always taught me that all people want the same thing. Be acknowledged as a person. Regardless of color, religion etc. Thank you Mom and Dad

My soul BELONGS to Jesus Christ. I am so happy to belong to Him and not to my stupid self. Being a slave to Thomas Jefferson or George Washington is not the worst thing in the world! LOL

Dont just weep, learn, share, discuss, grow.

Say no to drugs, be a pro life you will make this man proud. Africans sold their own people, now politicians want to erase history, never receive anything free from gobernment nobody gives you anything for free there is always a catch and it could be fredom. look at Venezuela it has been happening 20 years and the TV talks day in and out about celebs, sports, sex, video games only to keep you busy and waste your time! TV is a piece of trash, they make money using us. Be a boss to the government they work for you, preserve history for the children of tomorrow so they can see if it happened before it could happen again, they want the future children not to know the truth. If we do not believe in God humans we do evil to each other.

@@marielamonaghan so just because people sell drugs do you buy them? They knew right from wrong, dont make excuses. God set the Hebrew slaves free, so that should've been an aha moment for the slave owners that it is immoral to possess another individual!

Indeed

So true! What a learning experience. I could sit for hours listening to the old and wise generations they been through almost everything imaginable! Have a blessed day

Yes

VAcreeper2000 just stfu

@@aukievahhall wtuwthwhhhbhhwhffgwghfrhrfhghwhgbhwfhwfgwwggghwgghhwhfhw

Adam Price Nothing but faith in God 🙏🏾

What about what your people did to this man.. Address him talking about what your ancestors did to him?

What stories do you have for us ?

@@idrisbenhanzine6250 men like this is may be fake they appear to be friendly than here comes the knife

@@idrisbenhanzine6250 you do know that less than 1% of white people could afford slaves? So chances are Steve’s people did nothing.

Honestly, during his time you would have called him property.

Drea lynne It’s the only way! Ya pay cash, it’s all done and paid for!☺️

@@maurtracey honestly I grew up seeing so many people using credit cards and were so in debt. I never thought of another way really but this isnt the first time I heard that using only cash helps avoid debt. I'm paying off my current small debt and I'm shredding my credit card. We got to listen to our elders they drop some serious knowledge.

Drea lynne Many years back, I too carried what for me was an awful lot of CC debt. I was going back to get my degree in Nursing, I was in my mid 40’s and I was so over my head that I saw no way out! I literally had to stop answering my phone! I swore that I would never, ever get myself into a position like that again, once I got out of it. It took me almost 10 years, between school and having to pay back my parents, then creditors but I did it!🎉 I still use my CC, BUT I NEVER charge more than I can afford to pay off in a month. My credit rating went from about a 520🙄 to now it’s about 845-860 it depends. It was funny, my older brother was telling me recently about how to raise my credit score and I said that I don’t think I need to, to which he replied: everyone needs to. So I pulled up my banking info and it has my score and I showed him, he was a little bit embarrassed! Lol I just KNEW that he wasn’t anywhere NEAR me in numbers, and that felt SO GOOD!!!😂😂😂 But you’re right, our elders absolutely KNOW! Cash IS King! Especially if you’re not well disciplined. I never used to be, but I sure am now! Good luck to you!!🙏🏽🙏🏽💜

I never owned a CC. It seems like a scam device.

I was once told by an elderly friend “If you want to make more money every month, don’t owe no body”. Didn’t really get it until I got 7 cc and a car note.

Women were rebellious if they ever wore pants back then

+Renee Lashae what sets us apart from them was their survival extinct...they had no choice but to be strong...they had to know how to hunt and farm to eat...and they had to build their own houses....today we have a false sense of privilege with no survival skills.

Black folks have the strength, but they're distracted by stupid shit. Hence THE REAL HOUSEWIVES franchise, etc.

You're probably way tougher than you think. Thank God we have electricity and water tho... Can't imagine.

He was enslaved but his mind was not!

Theresa Cole Thank you, sister. Too often these days good-hearted, well-meaning people speak of people being “slaves” not realizing that they are perpetuating the dehumanizing language of the slave culture and Jim Crow era. These are NOT slaves. Slavery is but a condition...not an identity. Rather they are enslaved PEOPLE! The first step in mistreating a person is to think of them as less than...a concept deeply ingrained in the American state and ethos. Wake up, and reject the dehumanization of all people! Be anti-racist!

Theresa Cole he was a slave. Being enslaved makes one a slave. He even said he was a slave.

Jack Smith It would seem so

He wasn’t enslaved; He was a prisoner