SHOCKING 'White Slave' propaganda in America

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This video delves into the complex history of 'white slave propaganda' used during the abolitionist movement, examining how images of white-looking enslaved children were strategically employed to garner sympathy from Northern white audiences. It explores the moral ambiguities involved in this approach and questions the implications it had on notions of race, childhood innocence, and the politics of empathy in the fight against slavery.
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@nytn

Let me know what you think!

@Willow-cw9te

Don’t you just love how people didn’t consider black people as full human beings and didn’t think slavery was bad until someone that looked like them was considered a slave? Yeah me too 🤔🤔

@SamanthaVimes

I was uncomfortable with the racism that emphasized how shocking it was that children who looked white were enslaved...but I

@rebeccamd7903

I had to use these photos to educate my own mother on slavery. A few years ago some politicians said we should go back to slavery and my mom started saying this. My heart was devastated. I had to try to reach her and prove that her own husband, kids, grandkids, & great grandchildren were all subjected to slavery due to the one drop rule and our family history. It’s a shame when you still have to fight for freedoms some people take for granted without ever considering what they have. Educate everyone about our past when you can!!

@mariannerichard1321

Another layer of calculus could have been: "What if a bounty hunter who chase after runaways in the Northern states mistake my kids for their bounties? What if a less honest one decide to cut the middleman and abduct one of my kids to sell them directly in the South? This is getting out of hand, shut up and take my money!"

@patriciabennett6465

Hi Danielle. Good to see you. Thanks for another topic of interest in Slavery and the abolitionist movement. The horrors of black people slavery and others were vastly different especially when you’re thought of less than human, an animal even. These thoughts are generational even today. The Abolitionist Movement beliefs during Slavery were not all the same. I’m glad you have found the proof of this in your exploration of Slavery and its path to racism and prejudice in America.

@moety2

I don’t think it’s complicated. It’s really simple. The abolitionist used what they had to achieve a goal. They knew their audience and used what would work. It would have been silly and a waste of time using a strategy that wasn’t as effective. The Quaker’s were against slavery. Didn’t stop or overturn it. The other side used the Bible to justify it. The abolitionist weren’t starting from zero. They understood what would work. Remember the movie “A Time to KILL”. A black girl was raped beat and left for dead. She survived. Her father then killed the men who did it and he was on trial for murder. At the end the lawyer went through the entire ordeal the black girl suffered in detail and ended with saying now imagine she was white. It worked. In essence, this is what the abolitionist were going for and just like in the movie, it worked.

@markcarlson9914 21 күн бұрын

The word slave is a reference to Slavic people who were enslaved by the Ottomans.

@qwq203

There were so many of every race that were enslaved. The North had Irish slaves , and the South had poor white and African slaves. Slavery was and still is a horrific crime against humanity. However, it has been and still is going on for millennias. While the North wanted to end the African Slavery, they still wanted to keep their Irish slaves. They managed to do this by using alternative wording. What I don't understand is that instead of playing victim now, why not fight for those who are still enslaved in other countries and try to save them.

@wtk6069

As an Appalachian, I've long linked the stereotypes against non-whites and "hillbillies", who were mostly Scots-Irish and Irish and were (usually) forcibly brought to the new world as indentured servants, then eventually pushed to the new western frontier of Appalachia by colonies who no longer had use for them. It's also why so many married Native Americans, because both were outsiders. I don't have statistics for all of Appalachia, but in the Kentucky portion, 90% of people with ancestors there at least five generations have some Native American blood, and it's almost always a mix with Scots-Irish,Irish, or both.

@BarkorBite

People don't understand the parallels with this, and human trafficking/ child labor...its still so prevalent that people don't realize someone maybe next door or down the street could be being exploited...I worked ( hard work) under the radar as a child...and I was born and raised here in America.

@adobewalls2008

My Grandfather was born in 1894 Mississippi to an Irish Father and Chocktaw mother. He also had a younger sister born in 1896. Around 1900, both his parents died from an outbreak of Typhus. One of the families in the area took both children in, but not out of the goodness of thier heart. They took my Grandfather and Grand Aunt in as slaves. Both were treated very badly. Our family history says that they were treated so badly that when the circuit preacher's wife saw how badly the little girl was treated, she returned a week later and demanded the family hand over the girl to her, and she raised the girl as her own daughter.

@bonniegropper

I have been watching some of your stories and being of Irish and Italian descent,it really hit home.When some of my Irish relatives referred to us as half white while watching Bull Conner sic police dogs dogs on kids my age getting bit by dogs and getting hit water from fire hoses made me wonder if I would be next.That was such an eye opening experience for me plus the cruelty I went through made me swear that when I got older that I would never behave that way towards

@KRW3321

I wonder if the abolitionists who used these white slave children as propaganda used them solely as a means to an end, knowing the kind of reaction they would illicit from white, northern audiences or if they themselves also empathized more with the white slaves?

@Me2Lancer

Thanks for sharing these photos of enslaved children in such an endearing and compassionate way. You've presented a reality that most of us were unaware of.

@lindyashford7744

What is most disturbing about this establishment of heirarchy is there is no mention of little girls in particular growing up to be young women, and how their mothers and grandmothers had progressed towards whiteness. Girls in particular as objects of purity and innocence. Honestly there is something really uncomfortable about this without the moral questioning of how they came into existence. Noticeably few boys except the silky haired kind…. This honestly reminds me of how we treat animals as pets, thereby taking away their rights to have and enjoy freedom. These little girls are symbolic tokens of whiteness, and though some of their promoters no doubt had a kind of good or better intention for those times, it shows just how the justifications work. The female forbears of these children were almost certainly the products of serial master/slave abuse, where were the exhortations to explore that in the context of the whiteness of the pious, prosperous and powerful?

@pete6300

Growing up in the south during the 80s and 90s, I am not surprised by those photos at all. The sad thing is we have regressed so far I bet these photos would blow kids minds.

@gazoontight

The one drop rule at work.

@owensomers8572

Speaking of a hierarchy of worthiness, I find it is manifested in "Uncle Tom's Cabin". Harriet Beecher Stowe was describing darker skinned slaves as less intelligent and capable, and lighter skinned slaves as brighter and harder working, and arguably suggesting these lighter slaves were more deserving of freedom. Possibly, some abolitionists may have been playing the long game, hoping to overcome issues like the "One Drop" rule to begin with. These stereotypes were likely prevalent at the time, but how much did Stowe's writings strengthen these stereotypes?