I agree! I love her telling our ancestors stories!

Agreed, school is all about the standardized tests, all about teaching everyone the same, the same things, the same curriculum. Its so sad that teachers have a hard time actually teaching us the true history of this country because it would have made a lot of difference.

@@crazybookcanary8941 It really would have helped so much. Sadly, my middle school history teacher was really racist in hindsight and she really minimized the truth about slavery, the civil war, and the jim crow era. When I was in school, middle school was really where we learned the most about US history. In high school, history curriculum was focused on European history, so I didn't even know how under-educated I was until college

@@scalylayde8751 damn, I had a history teacher that was the opposite. I’m so sorry.

@@crazybookcanary8941 I'm really glad you had a better experience.

@@scalylayde8751 me too however it’s just so sad I’m finding out others did not and how it’s contributing to the tensions and failed talks about racism we should be having. Now it all makes sense and it’s sad.

If you have any interest, there’s a historical novel out called Libertie about free black people living in Brooklyn in the 1860s and includes those who just escaped being enslaved in the south and New Yorkers who were freed during the 1820s manumission in NY.

@@laurenconrad1799 I am interested! Thank you for the recommendation!

Snaps for Cheyney 🙌🙌🙌👏👏👏and I'm sure the ancestors are glad for your company and the important work you are doing on behalf of their legacy, and your community today!!!🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

@Em Dee, not at all what I’m implying. I had to look up the word, and right there in type definition it said it was an event exclusive to the NorthEast. Trust me... I’ve lived up and down the West Coast, and am acutely aware of what’s happening.

I'm a lifelong east coast resident, & I just learned a new word.

I love your channel so much thank you 🙏🏼

I learn so much from your channel - thank you for your important work as you tell our stories.

It isn’t talked about nearly enough. I’ve lived in NYC and have been a history nerd my entire life and I didn’t know about it until I was 17.

I don’t think what you said was bad at all! And yes some decent things came out of slavery. We are strong and beautiful people no matter the time period. And it’s important to learn history so we don’t repeat it.

Nothing offensive about what you said.

What you said is true and appreciated. That’s why we want reparations, for the generational wealth that was not passed down to us but instead helped generations (and institutions) of White people be successful.

I think the phrasing in the last part is a bit off, sounds like you're attributing positives to slavery. But the spirit is there, and that's what matters. You're absolutely right, black people haven't gotten enough credit on their enforced labor and they still don't. As someone already answered you, this is why we need reparations. Thank you for being an ally.

And to think, a lot of white people (historical and present) had/has the nerve to call Black people lazy. One of the many reasons why America is seen as a powerhouse is because of the innumerable contributions of African Americans. The contributions of Black people in America

Thanks.

Thank you - it did help.

This would be beneficial towards everyone understanding more about racism, it honestly would if each person went into this knowing what the job entailed and it was done right. However look at it from everyone else's perspective right now, especially the museums and employers etc. We are so on edge racial and social wise, even the idea of hiring someone to act out and interpret the true lives of black people and to tell the history of slavery would put a target on their backs, including the interpreters, idiots would accuse them of attempting to promote slavery, in some twisted way because radicals are a holes. A lot of people are not trying to ignore the subject of slavery its just no one wants to become a target and loose everything. So they stay silent and try to stay out of it as best they can which the consequence of that is in a way it shows others that they are ignoring the subject of slavery when in fact their truly not trying to, its just any person with how the last year and half has gone will choose to put food on the table and a roof over their head over trying to solve racial issues. It sucks and it asinine but people sometimes don't have a choice but its not like they don't want to help. In a way Its a double edge sword, their damned if they do and damned if they don't. Of course you still have those who are racist and those who want to avoid the subject of slavery and its sad because it needs to be talked about and the best people to talk about it are black people and other people of color. I like your idea and I think you should stick with it. talk with the museum etc. directors in private, see what they have to say.

Hehe I was enticing people to check out the program. 😁 Pinkster is the Dutch word for Pentecost. The celebration of Pinkster became an African American holiday celebrated in New York and New Jersey.

I was trying to be slick. Lol 👀

@@NotYourMommasHistory I lived in NYC all my life until I was 25 and never heard if it. Wow. I still have so much to learn

@@NotYourMommasHistory you were slick! 😉 I just didn't watch you video early enough to participate in your zoom.

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I somehow doubt it. At the end of the day chattel slavery is a different beast even to "old world" slavery, in part because of the ideas of racial superiority entwined with it. Think about for e.g. Irish indentured servants in the Americas vs. A black African slave in the Americas. Both were treated as inferior to white anglo society BUT the Irish person's term of slavery actually ended as due course of law, the black person's term of slavery only ended via intervention (running away or being freed - which was rare). The Irish person was then able to "pass" as a member of the white colonial community, or become more Anglicised, which afforded them priviledge (however small it was), over people of colour. It also meant he could access land, credit etc and make something of himself. Just like Scarlet O'Hara's dad in Gone with the Wind (yeah i know its fiction). Social mobility wasn't just a possibility, it was likely. But for the black slave, even if they were lucky enough to become free, ideas of white superiority meant that they were often excluded from credit, from buying land, and even where that was not the case, it's not like they could easily integrate into white free society when they looked so distinctively black, and black was coded as slave, as less than. Yeah lower class people had a shit time of it across the board, no one's saying they didn't, and clearly ideas on how to treat enslaved people were charted based on what was thought acceptable to do to the lowest rungs of white society. At the end of the day though, there's a qualitative difference once skin colour, rather than one's religion, became the marker of civilised society. (I say religion because in medieval Mediterranean slavery black people who were freed from slavery could access credit/land etc. But generally had to convert and take on European mores to do so. So they still had to erase their indigenous culture and become European/integrate, but it wasn't considered impossible or even implausible for them to be able to do this at the time. Fun fact there was a sizeable community of free black gondolieri in Venice in the 1500s.)

@@SplatterInker I was seeing things from the perspective of Roman slavery[ which I know more about in practical terms] where one could achieve high status within a household regardless of being a slave . I have never studied the short history of European settlers in the USA despite having lived in California for 3 years many years ago. I confess I was more interested in the Chumash Indians at the time as how people fit into land is one of my interests. My daughter worked on a dig at a free African American settlement when she first studied forensic archaeology but I had few details from her . So thank you for your opinion. Your pun on Moors is amusing. Of cause in Britain we have had black inhabitants for as long as we have had history and they have ranged from Emperor to servant status although I suspect as most were traveling of their own volition they would have been of higher status than most British especially pre Black Death when serfs were unable to leave their lords land. Skilled craftsmen could find work where they chose.

There are no good guys in war and both sides did their share of wrong

The Civil War was fought for slavery. Period. The Confederacy wanted to maintain and expand it, the Union wanted to halt its expansion and expand free states. I don't think that the powers that be on either side were doing it for benevolent reasons. They were doing it to solidify their hold on power. However you will never catch me saying that the Union in the CW we're the “bad guys”. I'm always cheering for the side that wasn't trying to expand the enslavement of my people. We can have more complex conversations about the North’s involvement in the institution of slavery, but we need to stop simplifying a very complex topic.

That's what I meant, to a non-American audience the reasons and issues behind what happened are extremely simplified and are presented in very definitive good v bad terms

I'm not american and the general view of the civil war was that the south were the bad boys, because they fought to keep slavery and the exploitation and abuse of human beings.

@@indalo1995 if we're honest, that's pretty much how it was taught in American schools. The number of American people who believe in the simplification is astounding

I’m not sure myself but it probably has to do with some of the small etymology differences between the words. A “people” is usually implied to be a united group with a shared identity, culture. A collective, that can act together. The word deflects attention on individuals and their unique experiences and identities. “Persons” does more to recognize that the thing this group of people had in common was enslavement. They came from various backgrounds and had individual lives. Enslaved persons were denied a lot of community and connection, too. But this is mostly a guess. Anyone who knows better can please correct me.

P.s. watching you get dressed or others doing it is my favorite part. Just to see all the layers going on in correct order is fascinating.