I’m very appreciative of Clint’s speaking speed. His pauses add power to his words and allow me to conceptualize what he is describing. Thank you for this series! I hope more history courses keep on coming.

As a young black woman, it really means a lot to have this series, especially while coming of age. Thank you ❤️

Very well researched and expertly delivered. I appreciate their ability to pack so much nuance about a difficult subject into a 10 minute video.

As a history buff, I just wanted to thank you for presenting an unbiased and extremely factual history lesson. And your presentation was very professional. Well done.

I had never heard of Anthony Johnson. Thank you for bringing to light all these unheard stories. Keep making amazing content.

I am so glad for this series. It hurts, it does but it is so necessary to learn this abandoned history

As a white Canadian male this course is very educational for me. I've never understood how humans can be such a cruel. My limited exposure to the topic has left me ill informed. This series is proving to be a good source of information for me to understand the horrors that the enslaved went through. Of course, as any civilized person would, I find enslavement a despicable crime. It is heart wrenching to hear and see what went on but necessary and Clint is an excellent orator and the series seems very well written. I thank you. If you can tell me where I can get more information on what Canada's part was in the slave trade it would be appreciated. Thank you.

I love how im 22 and have been out of school for 4 years and still love watching these videos

This is heavy, however, a much needed education. The unfortunate problem is we refuse to teach it in school at such a level. I believe if we did it would completely change the way we act towards each other.

Black American History. I call myself black American because my upbringing is from generations of blacks who lived in America, not Africa. I respect those who are, in fact, African Americans. I really enjoyed this video. I think it's important to understand the difference between indentured servitude and slavery. I also think it's important to understand the suffering of others and not to belittle that suffering because of your own. We are all here together.

I am so grateful to have this course. I never thought I would see it happen, and that is the problem. African Americans never expect for their history to be known and told, so thank you for doing so and for having it come from an education African American man.

I love the original guy, but I love that they have a African American teaching their/our history. Black history is America history. Thank you for this crash course.

Love how CC helps navigate the complicated history of so many countries, keep doing the good work!

It's been 400 years, and we still aren't treating black people as fully human. I'm not sure which horrifies me more, what happened 400 years ago, or what is still happening today.

I've heard the Anthony Johnson story being brought up exactly like you described, but didn't know enough about it to rebut their conclusion. Now I can. Thank you!

Using this entire series to teach my homeschooled children black history. Public school teaches so much about European history but rarely touched on black history in it's entirety. My children will know their history, how far we have come and how far we still have to go.

Loving this series and learning so much. This history is so important. Will share to family and friends and across social media platforms.

I'm West Indian and started reading on my own about black history about 5 years ago. I thought that what I had read about slavery in the West Indies was evil but when I started reading about it in the USA...evil is not a strong enough word to use. My heart bleeds to imagine that some great-great relative of mine had to endure this. Slavery in my island is less documented so there is a lot that I still don't know about my country's past. Anyway, I have just discovered this arm of CrashCourse and am binge watching all the videos in order. I'm pretty sure I will need therapy when I am done. Has any European government ever just apologized for their participation in the Atlantic Slave trade? Just wondering.

This is how I wish it was taught in public schools. If history is about not making the same mistakes, then why is it that we only learn it was bad and inhumane, but never learn how it happened or why? Don't we need to know what conditions, beliefs and biases were in place in order for us to have normalized this treatment of another human being? THIS teaches that, and it really makes me wish I spent my class time asking better questions to have learned about all this before I tripped over this KZfaq series. Thank you, D. Clint.

Happy This Is Getting Recognition Outside Of February

Amazing videos! Thank you for making these videos and telling the history that is often not taught in schools. It’s so vital to talk about ALL U.S. history, especially the very dark side of it.

I can't believe I never learned about more than half the stuff they cover in Crash Course Histories

Clint, what are your thoughts on Bacon's Rebellion? My understanding is that it is often cited by historians as a significant shift in how the colonial governments treated people based on their race, in particular in distinguishing between white indentured servants and black slaves, as a means of preventing another uprising again, wherein white and black workers attempted to overthrough an oppressive government, and Viriginia attempted "divide and conquer" disadvantaged whites and blacks along racial lines, by placing black people - particularly slaves - at the bottom. Is this accurate? And will you discuss it in a future video? Thanks. I am enjoying this series so far. I look forward to what comes next.

Great job! Thank you Crash Course! So many facts that I wasn't aware of.

As a Christian this is so sad that slave owners twisted the Bible's words to justify their own wants. If you read the bible, you see that "dark skin=evil" is NOT true at all. God looks at our hearts, not our skin color

Honestly, this has amazing insight into the evolution of slavery in the United States.

I am here for this series. Keep up the great work and thank you to the patrons for the channel upport. Love from SEA. 👍👍

I love CrashCourse, wish I was able to have this kind of stuff when I was in school.

So grateful for this. Just now getting through the course.

I am interested in the relatively crappy ratio this crash course is getting. As far as I can tell the scholarship presented here is of an extremely high standard. This is a topic I thought myself relatively well acquainted with but have learned a great deal in the two episodes shown so far. What's up, people?

Thank you for this series

Commenting to feed the KZfaq algorithm. We you guys are amazing, keep up the amazing videos coming!

This is a good start to understanding slavery in America. Too bad it won't reach those most ignorant of the facts.

Some well needed truth. So informative, yet concise. Amazing work.

This is a difficult topic, And I'm happy yall ar covering it. See you next week

I was trying to figure out how it got so out of hand since slaves were mentioned all through world civilizations. Very helpful.

THANKS for the info

Excellent!

Thank you very much for your work of bringing our history that was and is intentionally not taught in schools 😢

This was a great video, thank you

"There's a long way to go and a lot more to try to make sense of"..... Even now in 2021

I love this!

Amazing series

This is a wonderful series! It's engaging to learn more about the American side of my African-American heritage, alongside the African. Thanks to the researchers and historians, aswell as the wonderful host, Clint Smith.

Thank you for this.

This series is incredible! How would I best cite these videos using APA 7th edition? I'm not sure whose name goes first!

Very good video, thanks.

Thank you for the video.

Awesome content!!

6:04 I sense that the phrase "Sometimes, [this thing] can be used in bad faith," will be showing up quite a bit...

Had been eagerly waiting for the next video!

Very good, keep it up

Great Explanation!

Yes I’ve been waiting for this video for a week 🙌❤️

Slavery existed in the Northern colonies too. Don't forget that.

Thank you for raising more awareness on this topic

Thank you for this. Infuriating history, but important.

Love it.

Another great upload. 👍🏾

I love history. Especially US history. I’m so excited to see what gaps in my knowledge this series fills

Man, this is so well done. We’re sitting in front of these, my daughters and I. Keep’em coming. 👊🏻

Dang its crazy how the same codified law we follow today at one point explicitly stated black people were worth less. Just sad man.

This is a very informative and detailed series so far. I have been enjoying it although it is depressing.😪

You bring a great point. I remember reading Frederick Douglass' speech about "What is the 4th of July to a Slave" (or something close to that) in college and one thing that always struck me as odd was the end of the speech about God. While I completely agree with his argument in the speech, it always seemed a little odd to me to reject the 4th July, but he didn't reject the Christian God. I don't know if that was just appealing to the audience or if to Douglass it was okay to reject one but not the other. A little cognitive dissonance going on there.

We learnt this at my primary school in Australia

Awesome video, can't wait to see how american white and black people worked together to abolish this ugly slavery. Also it may be interesting to know which bible verses the slave owners used and the bible verses the abolitionists used to justify their causes.

It is not emphasized enough in US history classes how White landowners stole labor for centuries. Too often slavery is taught as an identity and forgone conclusion rather than as a generational crime that was forced upon human beings. The effects and consequences of which are still experienced into the present. These videos are informational and cover the issues with due respect and awareness of language. Thank you. “your debts are paid cuz you don’t pay for labor” LMM 2015

I am scared of my government so I don’t give them my ideas: I am so lucky and so are you. What if we took an oath that means we all win? What if we stopped fighting each other and found sustained ways of living? What if we turned around the climate change? Rejected individual power and increased total cooperation

Slavery is a human practice which preceded TAST (Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade) and proceeded it after emancipation. The world has more slaves today than at anytime in our shared species. We as Human beings need to work harder to prevent such behavior. People of all ethnic backgrounds have & still do participate in this human practice. May we in the US & abroad help to relieve the suffering of as many people as possible. Thanks 👍🇺🇲❤️💪🙏

While the gradual and systemic dehumanization of African slaves is not a question, I wonder if historians speculate the colonist's reason for doing so. I am left to imagine the convenience and perpetuity of a slave race simply based on skin color as the most probable reason. The religious justification for African subjugation I only find to be likely among the powerful and elite class, with religious separatist groups (non-state church and other protestants) becoming the seed of later abolition movements.

Thanks

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Thanks Mr.Smith!

I find it interesting, that the position of black people got actually worse. It's like economically exploiting them wasn't enough. They had to take their dignity as humans as well, to make sure that the system stays in place.

I wish we were told which "biblical passages" were used to make the argument at 8:41. Was the argument explicitly stated in scripture, or did people at the time make the argument based on their readings of scripture?

America is a Westernized multi-ethnic country with a Westernized multi-ethnic culture always has been always will be! Thanks 👍🙏🌹🗽

Who’s doing a edpuzzle?

14 million subs, 80 comments, one year old. I’m confused

Just a quick note. There is no justification in the Bible for slavery or for the superiority of white race. The reasoning behind the religious arguments were simply the highjacking of what being Christian ment. Malicious people usually rewrite things that could be used for their benefit. It is extremely important to make the difference between what some people claim Christianity is and what being Christian actually means.

They don't want their children to learn this

Christ the old days were kinda messed up

Glad the religious bit was added. It baffles me how loyal to Christianity the Black community is, 'til this day... 😖🤦🏽‍♀️⚛️

Religion is going to crop up several times during this series. Southern baptists actively opposed the abolishment of slavery citing the bible once again. Leviticus 25 if anyone is curious

I love how this addresses that slavery isn’t inherently racist. Race was invented as propaganda to keep slaves oppressed for economic reasons. We are all the same species.

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Amen

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They were 2 lazy to do they own work

The comment section is gonna be hot 🔥

This is so sad that we would do this to another human being. Especially on not seeing them as fully human. Today we have the same issue with abortion. Saying a baby is not human it’s only a feutus.

Hey brother Clint , I just wanted to add the the red Indian isent the only indigenous native FBA is as well. We where here already, first

I know this has been said before but thank you for making videos about black history. It’s something too few schools teach about in depth while talking American history.

Finally a real in depth history of African American history!

🤝🏿Breathtakingly elegant analysis/&dissection📽👑

This was gooood! Also, first comment! By the way, a book of alternative history I'd read mentions that in their alternate America, African indentured servitude was fully converted to slavery after a petition by an African indentured servant about the status of her children. Does this sorta thing have a parallel in real History, in colonies other than Virginia? Thanks once again, btw!

Why do we not learn about african slv owners in America in school, like anthony johnson and william Ellison? Or w slvs? Shout-out to crash course for this💪🏼 I'm looking forward to learning more.❤️

First. Great video.