To hell with ALL slave "masters"

@@Akil- bless your heart

And now we are all slaves of the Fed and the Rothchilds

As a historian who has worked at several historical homes, the majority of the time the stories of the slaves were not recorded and thus not preserved for later generations. Often times you only have a name or two recorded if you just have that. Remember slaves could not read or write therefore personal diaries or letters for the most part, would not exist. How do you present to guests what you do not know? I would welcome YOU do as much research on the slaves at the Shirley plantation and when you find anything, IF you even find anything, share it with them so they can present it. As a historian, I am sick and tired of being accused of "white washing" when the fact is you simply can not present what you don't have and can not document. And then if you do find some interesting documented slave information and present it they will accuse you of "gloryifying slavery". In this PC world historians and historic sites are constantly under attack. We are not guilty of the sin of slavery. We are only story tellers of what we can verify and document historically. Now put that virtue signaling into action. Go research and find all the slave information and share it with the historic site. They would appreciate it. But if you can't find any slave infomation to share then we can accuse you of white washing.

Why are you knocking these people? What do you think slaves did? They worked fields and some kept house. If you listened to the video, you would have heard that the family BOUGHT many vegetables and things from the slaves who had their own gardening areas. You are not better than the historians who do tour guides or the Hill/Carter family members who owned and ran the plantation. Virtue signaling is cheap and easy, establishing a successful plantation in the sixteen hundreds in a hostile wilderness and keeping it going for generations is not cheap, easy or done by bad, villainous people. Get off your high horse.

Very cool

No political correctness. People were slaves and you're trying to change history. History is NOT politcially correct. Fredrick Douglass talked about the "Slave narratives" not "enslaved narratives". Laws like the "Fugitive Slave Act are history, they were not called the "Fugitive Enslaved Act". I refuse to change history for the sake of PC.

Do you think people are too stupid to not know that slaves were people? People are sick of the Politcial correctness BS. They were slaves and changing that history does them a disjustice. History is NOT politcally correct. It is what it is. Read the historic documents. Was the law called the "Fugitive Enslaved Act" or the "Fugitive Slave Act"? Was Frederick Douglass's work called "The Enslaved Narritives" or " The Slave Narritives"? But we ahve all seen your virtue singnaling.

No, the Shirley Plantation was built and maintained by slave labor. I know a woman who's a direct descendant of Shirley Planation Slaves.

@@americanlady738 Slaves did not design and build this property. Nor did they carve the furniture. You are absolutely mad.

They absolutely did. Cope. @@Gr13fKvlt

A different family perhaps, since yours is not the same spelling...

In Virginia an hour away from sundown town too 😳 I know there are descendants who deserve a piece of this "beautiful place"

@@businessbuilder92 Which town was sundown town? Still learning about history.

@@HHWC100 a little place called "fieldale Virginia Henry County" I used to live not far from it the kkk used to have marches over there and as a black person myself I was never welcome even in the gas station over there

So let's attack a history museum. Your virtue signaling is well seen.

As a historian who has worked at several historical homes, the majority of the time the stories of the slaves were not recorded and thus not preserved for later generations. Often times you only have a name or two recorded if you just have that. Remember slaves could not read or write therefore personal diaries or letters for the most part, would not exist. How do you present to guests what you do not know? I would welcome YOU do as much reserach on the slaves at the Shirley plantation and when you find anything, IF you even find anything, share it with them so they can present it. As a historian, I am sick and tired of being accused of "white washing" when the fact is you simply can not present what you don't have and can not document. And then if you do find some interesting documented slave information and present it they will accuse you of "gloryifying slavery". In this PC world historians and historic sites are constantly under attack. We are not guilty of the sin of slavery. We are only story tellers of what we can verify and document historically. Now put that virtue signaling into action. Go research and find all the slave information and share it with the historic site. They would appreciate it.

I don't have a great answer for that. Our organization is still working to overcome biased omissions like this. We are a very small organization who are very eager to hear from our viewers. Especially when we haven't done our best work as storytellers. You can find our contact information here vpm.org/contact .

Good question! So many folk want whitewash slave history/PLANTATIONS.

Its called whitewashing!!!

If you noticed they never mentioned slaves built that beautiful complex. And they used indentured servitude before using the word slavery nor did they mention any slave taverns or show them?. Hmm

@@Akil- If they don't talk about slavery then you say they are "white washing" history and then if they do talk about slavery you all say they are "glorying slavery and romanticizing slavery". SO racist if they do and racist if they don't.

well they were African not American

WHAT UP? Their trying to hide what really happened there. Trying to sugarcoat it! Just like Holocaust Deniers!

@@MienemLeben lol, it was nothing like that.

Meade Music your right. It was much worse

Do you realize how many white people lived the same way? People in the 1930s still had dirt floors. You can't compare hundreds of years to today. Brainwashed

And people today still eat pig intestines by choice. Slaves were also fed lobster. I don't hear you complaining about that

No reparations. Ever.

Meade Music just in case you missed it. The North won the war. Dixie land is no more.

@@nicolefisher4779 Ha, ha. There are parts of the south that you can visit where you would never know it.

@@williamshelton4150 I believe that!

Isn't it interesting how the US government and slave holders tried to buy land in Africa so the freed slaves could go back home. Africa refused to sell land and didn't want them back. I guess that is why they sold them in the first place. They had to buy land where Liberia is today.

No, they had land grants from the King.

Meade Music And free labor as well ... And a few indentured servant‘s ! So stop it !

STOLEN LAND!!!!

well yes of course. That was the point in buying a slave so you would not be out of money on labor thus making a bigger profit. It was smarter to have many slaves if one could afford it.

Meade Music are you serious? The King gave away land. You a really are delusional and believe because your White, you must be right.

Slaves were mentioned in this video. Did you not watch it? And Indentured servants working off their debt were mentioned too.

Edna Kelley indentured servitude was not real. White people love to make themselves feel better

Absolutely, I want to hear more about the contributions of the slaves. I am sure the owners of the plantations kept recordkeeping on the maintenance and daily business of these plantations.

@@nicolefisher4779 You're ignorant. There was very much indentured servants. Starting at Jamestown, VA.

@@ednakelley814 yes I know it was real however it is not the same thing at all. White people love bringing up that crap up. Stop your ignorance.

WHAT UP? You understand all areas in the world had slaves whites,blacks,Jews etc .. all of Europe, the United States,Caribbean islands etc all owned slaves, it’s a horrible sad fact. If you know your history.. it was Africans selling off other tribes humans etc. plus whites etc. Please don’t think it’s just the usa etc.

@@honeybubsakajenna : yep and some Tribes in Africa, still happens.

That dont mean its ok yalll sick in the head devils

@@rachelk5720 No slavery compares to the system Europeans created. When Africans ruled in Europe they brought with them education, hygiene, etc.

Using your logic I guess we need to ban the Democrat party. It was connected to slavery in that it had the pro-slavery platform

What many people don't understand is often times historic places don't have much information on the slaves. Remember, slaves could not read or write so you don't have much in the way of primary source documents like diaries or letters, etc.. When I worked at a historic site, often we didn't even have any names to start research with and even if we had a a name we didn't have a last name. It's easy to set back and criticize historians so I encourage YOU to go research the slaves here and pass along any info you find. IT ISN'T EASY. And when you don't find anything, we can accuse YOU of white washing.

It was AGAINST THE LAW FOR A SLAVE TO READ OR WRITE!!! The few who could read could only read the SLAVE BIBLE! Yes…. Those existed! But get caught reading a newspaper! YOU WOULD BE HANGED FROM ONE OF THOSE BIG BEAUTIFUL TREES and all the other slaves forced to single file walk by and OBSERVE WHAT COULD HAPPEN TO THRM! Tell it right if you’re going to speak omit!

@Rebecca Swanson were you there? I doubt it.

Don't fall for this troll. It comments and bullies to get a response

You look like a FAT one like sadly so many folk in 2019😔

Meade Music Denial !!!! Of the truth! How can you live with yourself. With such blinders on. You are just like the rest white privilege at its finest !!!

Conditioning

And just how is an inanimate brick and mortar structure guilty of anything?