I don't understand how anyone could watch part 1 but not part 2, thank you for continuing the series!

As a french student in master degree I think that these informations ar e realy clear and interesting also, you should keep it up!

My class of young learners are LOVING your videos! My class is k-6th and they feel so smart after sitting through a video and stumping their parents with what they learned. Thank you and keep them coming! Ms. Mandee and Ms. Crystal at Trinity Learning Center in Boise, ID!

I can't help it. I saw Bacon's Rebellion and all I could think was Bacon's Rebellion: When Pigs Fight Back. Okay, back to my summer homework now.

I am a African American of mixed race heritage who recently took a DNA test and the results were very interesting... it said my ancestry is from "early" Virginia pre-1776 (Northern area). It also shows our migration to "early" Kentucky territory to Richmond Kentucky then into Southern Ohio & Richmond Indiana. I have followed up with this and discovered my family are DNA descendants of a person who is among the original signatures of the July 4th 1776 Declaration of Independence...

Thank you so much Richey, this video is helping me to flesh out my Geneology. :D

tom richey is a legend - got me through my a levels and now my degree

Your videos are really good!! Thanks!

This is a more concise explanation, thank you. Especially at 0:36.

Great video, very straightforward and easy to understand.))

using in my class! thanks

These videos are free college courses! Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Remember when Discovery Channel actually taught you something?

Very interesting- nicely done

Thank you for your informative videos 🙏

make a part 3! 🙏🏽

Great Video, and first time in my live i can say first comment. Even though i don't need this videos for academical purposes; It is a pleasure see how you devote yourself doing this, i watch this for solely amusement, i really enjoy them. Keep up the good work. And greetings from Colombia. PD: I hope if you please do a video about here someday, Dr. David Bushnell's book The making of modern Colombia, a Nation in spite of itself must be a good start. Bye Bye.

Wonderful video!!

literally saving college students lives rip :)

Hey Tom,I'm not sure if you'll read this comment but can you make a video on pre-Civil War America,the Lincoln-Douglas debates and all the good stuff in the era?

I was curious about indentured servitude. I'm an indentured electrician apprentice. My ancestors were indentured servants, in exchange for passage. They ended up in Appalachia.

SO INSPIRATIONAL

Wish my professors had been this fun!

thank you, really helpful!

I'm not even in APUSH or anything related but I really enjoy your videos. Keep it up

Amazing History 1301 lecture. I am going to pass my final exam ! 😊

Do you have any early artists renditions of these Powatan indians?

Very interesting.

If you are going to do the lecture on the indentured servitude and slavery, can you mention some of the circumstances that lead to the "servitude" of many Irish? There is a lot of discussion on that, and on whether they were slaves or not. Would love to hear your take on that. (To me, Cromwell's actions made a lot of it slavery, not indenture, as it was done at gunpoint, but that is my view)

Might I recommend a source for when you do go deeper into the origins of slavery in Virginia? Law in American History, Vol. I by G. Edward White.

How did the colonists feel about religious freedom? Did they tolerate other religions? Or did they persecute other religions?

Is there any information you could give about the irish convicts that were sent to the colonies during the early 1700s?

0:08 Indentured Servants & African Slaves Bacon's Rebellion 4:48 1622 Indian Massacre

(5:27) From what I recall the Spanish were on the extreme end with their brutal ways towards the natives in the Americas. One example would be "la monteria infernal".

The English learned a lot in how to deal with "natives" during the conquest and plantation system in Ireland.

Not bad, Tom. A couple of things. According to Edmund Morgan in American Slavery,American Freedom, the main reason that Planters continued with white Indentured servants until pretty much Bacon’s Rebellion was due to the high mortality rate and they were only half as expensive as slaves They rarely finished their indentures,especially in the seasoning year. Especially in the first 40 years, working as an indentured servant in Virginia, was often a death sentence and WAS as bad as anything slaves endured in later years. This is not a very PC thing to say these days, but it angers me when historians diminish their experience, to emphasize African slavery. Another reason for the “dangerous men, was that their masters would make a deal with their indentured servants to leave the contract a year earlier so that their Planter did not have to provide them with land, tools,,seed per the contract. they were so desperate to escape the situation, they would do this and then have nothing. During the same time frame, the black indentured servants/slaves were considered almost worthless by Sugar Plantation owners, who sent them to desperate continental planters. They were called Atlantic creoles. They were often literate, multilingual and they understood much of the white culture and its laws. They were a pain in the ass, in other words from the Planter’s POV. I recommend Many Thousands Gone by historian Ira Berlin. Berlin called them the Charter generation' and the Plantation generation with African “salt water” slaves totally submerged all of the meager gains made by the Atlantic creoles, which is a heart breaker. Anyway, cheers.

EVOLUTION OF SLAVERY AS AN INSTITUTION YES> WE NEED THIS VIDEO. thank

Those slaves arriving in 1619 werent Africans. They were West Indians from the islands captured by the Spanish and then taken by the Europeans at sea. Don't believe me....Research it or watch the videos by Kurimeo Ahau. He gives all the sources; not just stories. I have been digging into the Virginia history as my ancestors were there in the 1700s. All brown people aren't Africans. Look at the old maps 1500-1600s. They have bushy-headed natives, not the mulattoes ($5 indians). Africans weren't the ones with the knowledge of tobacco planting. I honestly believe the truth is being suppressed because nobody feels that brown people should get reparations or our land back. Just like South America has bigger pyramids than Egypt, but credit, nor explanation is given. America would be much greater if the true story of its original inhabitants were made known. It's not cool that people keep calling us Africans and black. We are Americans, point blank. We are still being schooled to be slaves. The slaves who did come from Africa basically went to the islands to be trained/disciplined; not to Virginia.

There were East Indians brought in by the British as indentures at the start of the colony that ended up being slaves fairly quickly. At some point, its been said that East Indians outnumbered Native Americans in the region. There are dozens of cases of East Indians taking their "masters" to court to gain their freedom. Eventually they were classified as negro, mulatto, etc. losing all rights. My ancestors had several, in fact, at least 1 was my ancestor (proven by DNA).

According to a paper on the Stanford University website (web.stanford.edu/class/e297c/trade_environment/health/htobacco.html) "The History of Tobacco and Its Growth Throughout the World" by Jason Young, "Tobacco, one of the most important cash crops in American farming, is native to the North and South American continents. It first became known to the rest of the world when European explorers in the 15th and 16th centuries saw it being used as a medicine and as a hallucinogen by Native Americans.. . "in 1612, John Rolfe, an Englishman and the future husband of Pocahontas, planted seeds of a West Indian variety of tobacco that flourished and produced tobacco stronger and sweeter than the short, tough variety previously grown in the area." When you said John Rolfe introduced the cultivation of tobacco, I assume you meant it was the first time it was planted as a profit-making crop by Europeans. Is that right?

My 9th Great Grandfathers indenture was sponsored by a Leonard Chamberlain. He left Scotland for Virginia in 1653.

4:12 : This man said as a labor force the planters saw slavery to be more convenient work force as opposed to indentured servitude. You don’t say?!…then he proceeded to list some of the least obvious and minute reasons as to how those planters arrived at their preference. WOW!😂 I wonder if in part 3 he’ll shock us by explaining how many of the slaves chose and preferred work over death.

I took an ancestry Dna test and my genetic community is Africans in North and Central Virginia

It's good to point out - In American History, the Irish were "never" slaves, but they were indentured servants. During that time, America didn't codify "slave codes" to legislate their "treatment". Also, they were considered 1/5 of a person and "property". They also could "work" for their freedom.

1:59 / 8:45

Worth pointing out that many of these ''Indentured servants'' where Irish prisoner-of-war and penal transports forceably moved as labourer servants to the Chesapeake colonies after the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland. Many where Children and Women, They didn't sign up to a contract to become Indentured servants. Miller, Kerby A.; Schrier, Arnold; Boling, Bruce D.; Doyle, David N. (2003). Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan: Letters and Memoirs from Colonial and Revolutionary America, 1675-1815. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 39. ISBN 978-0195045130.

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I love how you do not mention the terrorism ushered into the indigenous land of the Native Americans and the terrorism of chattel slavery

Not all were poor. Hence the gentleman title or few others. Those that came on the Supply with William Tracy were from gloucestershire and were mostly kin working to gain land as an agreement. I believe it was an acre a year after the first three years with a promise of no less than 10 acres for 7 years. Some were indentured as housewives or future brides. Most were farmers. The Supply ship was the "Money ship" the Mayflower was the supposed yo be the front ship to throw off the Spanish ships. The ship carried hundreds of plants and seeds and clothing many of the seeds and trees came from the Carter, Throckmorton estates. William did not believe in slavery of any man. He respected his workers mostly because they were kin and had the same goal in mind. Williams death and Powhatan death lead to the massacre and yet Williams dream lived on long after. The massacre did take half of the colonists that came with him on the Supply.

It was developed in Ire

Is Virginia still owned by the English Crown on a Lease type of Agreement ?

Some of my realatives were indentured servents from Scotland. Funny as I don't feel anger towards the people who made them work their fingers to the bone during that time,Should I ?

I read African slaves were actually allowed to marry Irish indentured servants at first before they banned it.

Not all indentured servants agreed to be indentured. My 7th great grandfather was a indentured servant. He was taken prisoner by the English put on a prison ship. Brought to Virginia and sold into servitude. He spent the rest of his life indentured. He was 14 when first sold. It took two more generations for my ancestors to finally be free from servitude. This story over looks more about servitude than it tells you. Indentured servants were charged for everything they needed clothes food medicine. All of this added years to the length of servitude. If you got married it could double had a child tripled have two children add more years to that. It was a snowball effect

There were indigenous dark melanated already here which the reds captured as 'slaves' to be transported to the islands and europe. You cannot use the 1619 troupe to cast a brush.

That picture is a picture of Indians doing what they were doing before the Europe arrived come on dude

Odd that this bit of history has been omitted from being taught to our children.

Weren't the first Africans on American soil indentured servants?

1619 brought black servants, older historians say.

They were not all endentured servants in 1619. Yhey were white english childen

American Indian villages were destroyed, which caused the need for the new candidates to be placed in P.O.W. camps called in your history books - plantations. Early plantations - 1634 middle plantation (VA), and Lawne's plantation (VA). [African-Americans???]

Oh and the 1 st black slaves came on a Portuguese ship

i would not call this video a lecture

Bless your racist heart

were they indentured servants or slaves? did they sign up for the deal or were their houses burnt to the ground before they were arrested and jailed for being vagrant and then SOLD? That happened to a great lot of so called indentured servants. Furthermore, James VI sold female and children MacGregor's in 1604 when 30 men were hung. "MacGregor clansmen, caught after refusing to renounce their name, were killed while the women were stripped, branded, and whipped through the streets before they and their children were sold into slavery in Britain’s new American colonies. when he outlawed MacGregors for poaching after he declared all the deer his own personal property". Put that in your history papers.

You have some free educated black that had some land they kept on changing laws on blacks and you know the old saying survival of the fittest

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