Officially on the bucket list of places I must visit

I went to this museum yesterday. I was expecting them to talk about the most depressing part of slavery,when I got there I wasn't sure why I wasted my time..I was so wrong,my children and I left there with so much great information to process..The history that is taught in our school is not true or so manipulated the ower understands this and he is trying to do his part by properly educating a listening ear..If anyone decides go this will be a great experience.

If they knew my history they'd understand why I can't name one grandparent passed my 3rd... They would also understand how envious I am of those who can trace back 15 generations and sometimes more... This museum is needed

God bless this man. Wish all was like this. Beautiful man.

I must say that this guy is a rarity. He seems to be truly trying to understand the depth of mental pain and physical pain that was forced and condoned upon the African people. The "it" he speaks of is the very thing that most white folks refuse to acknowledge and or speak of. The rape, lynchings, separation of family, daily beatings, cultural rape, just to name a few evil actions. I personally have always been a Nat Turner fan, because no race or human should ever suffer this type humiliation. I'm very pleased to see a European /American trying to come to real terms with atrocities og his ancestors. It's the only way we all can try to get past it.

"If you don't understand the source of the problem, how can you solve it?" Absolutely loved this - it makes you think deeper into this whole project.

A treasure. We must never forget our history.

I so hate that term black history in school when referencing things like civil rights and slavery or... jazz, because you also have another course called American history, it separate one from the other. It implies further that slaves weren't citizens and absolves the government of the responsibility they had to protect them from the injustices they endured.

When i attended university i met up with Africans also studying there. I befriend the student, introduced me to his families. I introduced them to my families too. I took them to the MARAE of my whanau, we made a hangi for them, their played with our children. Its was the bestest weekend ever. We shared culutres, history songs, dance music....food. we learnt from each other. We all went home. This was in 1999. I graduated in 2002.

It is my moral obligation as an African American to share the truth about slavery and how it affects us today. Healing is in knowing and then growing...

God bless this man!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️I just watched a tour of Nottoway plantation and the woman was dressed in an old style southern slave masters dress glorifying the old plantation owners. She even bragged about how well the slaves were treated there. She said that many of the ex-slaves stayed after slavery had ended and how “COOL it was to still have may of the descendants of those slaves still working there today”. I’m thinking how is that in any way cool!!! Those people stayed on and worked because they couldn’t read or write and didn’t have money of their own! It’s so sad that she ( the white tour guide) doesn’t get it or does not care to.

There is no way anyone should disagree with this video, the truth hurts but it will be told and never ever forgot that this country was founded on it we should never apologize for telling what happened till this day💪

The next time I visit New Orleans, I'm going to the Whitney Plantation. I'm making it my mission.

I to am a fan of John Brown and Nat Turner. Having said that, I am fascinated with my heritage. Also, I have spent quite a bit of time researching my ancestry. John Cummings and this museum is a blessing. Like any other museum, such as the Holocaust Museum, it authenticates our history. That terrible dark period for those of color who were enslaved in this country. I plan to visit this museum in the very near future.

The young generations need to learn about it.

Kanye may want to take a visit here to get a real understanding of 400 years and if we had choices or not🤔😕😞😔🙏🏾🙏🏾

i have difficulties to understand why many white people in america are offended by projects like this and go out of their way with "whataboutisms" as well as "get over it" and "white apologism is sad" ... etc. this isn't an attempt to make you, as an individual, feel guilty about being white. you don't have to apologize to anybody, unless you want to on behalf of your ancestors. but that's not what people expect. what you should do is accept, that this is part of american history. it happened, and it's important that people are aware of that and question the reasons for it so it can't happen again. it doesn't hurt to restore a little bit of dignity to those who were victims of slavery either, but that's not even the point here. i really don't see why anybody would be against museums like this. it might hurt to understand that your ancestors might have been part of this slave-owner society. but whether they were or not doesn't change that this happened in american history. so what's the problem?

You can never change the past. What was done was done But we can decide our future. And as hard as it sounds We must embrace the cold pass To have a educated excepting future “Never ignore the elephant in the room It will just trample you”

Slavery is still painful for me...even as a grown woman.

Thank You for this channel. I just subscribed and I will tell others. God Bless.Much LOVE from Georgia

It good to tell and inform people about the past. To understand what is going on now.

We had a school field trip here

I don't need to know what happen because it hasn't stopped...I appreciate this Gentleman and his "awaking"

I've visited many slave plantations in the South but where are the ones here in the North? There is the Sylvester Manor on Shelter Island in Long Island New York and I'm reading this book by Mac Griswold called The Manor 3 centuries at a slave plantation on Long Island-knew nothing of this place before....WHY is that I wonder something about history it can not remained buried for every.

Just went to AA history museum in D.C. the slavery museum will be my next trip

My people if you don't know, Deuteronomy 28 speaks of a curse of us coming on slave ships

Thank you John Cummings.

Thank you for presenting this in a realistic, historical way. Slavery is still an issue today, so apparently we have to learn something from the past.

History is being corrected not rewritten but truth to the people.

Thank you Mr. Cummings for preserving our history, not trying to hide our history and accepting our history and not trying to hide it , you deserve a plaque for your recognition

Sounds like he trying to make amends for something in his lifetime as well

Abraham Lincoln was born in a Log Cabin in Kentucky State on February 12th 1809.

This is an amazing place. I love history and to see a place like this is like reliving history, and the only way to truly understand slavery is to go back to the roots and relive it.

Arguably the greatest shame in the country's history and no museum until 2014??

When I was in Martinique, I visited 2 museums about slavery. One was on the grounds of a former plantation. I thought to myself, “why don’t we have something like this in the United States?” I googled it and found out about the Whitney Plantation Museum

great video, definitely on the bucket list ! Thank you

I visited that place and it was amazing. You have to go!!!!

Black people come back to your motherland, your welcome,. Love to y'all

My 13 year old daughter and I visited the Whitney Plantation for my birthday on March 12. We drove from St Ann, MO after doing my research and seeing that this particular plantation shared stories from the experiences of Blacks (our ancestors). I must say, I am still feeling the energy of the visit. My daughter talked about it a little but I can tell the energy of our ancestors is with her and I know in time, as always, she will express herself when she's ready. I want to mention that the tour guide that we had was a white girl that wasn't knowledgeable about the historical slave trade/Amer. slavery and the Whitney Plantation or she didn't have the passion to convey the truths about the horrific experiences that my ancestors had undergone. So, when I saw another tour guide, (Cheryl), I joined her group and was enlighten with an abundance of information. I paid money for my daughter and I to receive real information, not sugar coated so yes, I ditched the first girl and joined another group and was very satisfied. There were ppl from across the country and out of the country that was in both groups. I was happy to see my fellow Black brothers and sisters at the plantation and instantly felt an connection. I had mixed emotions and I am still having mixed emotions back in Missouri.

We already have one. There's a place called the underground railroad freedom center. Its located in Newport, Kentucky.

This is amazing, thank you. I now know of a place that I'd love to visit in the south :)

"North of 8 million..."

Absolutely needed. This is my 2nd time watching this replication of slave children statues, in that room, and it's almost too hard for my heart to take, and brings me to tears. I have grandchildren their ages, is why it hurts so, to even think they would be put in a situation like that. That scene affected me so I had to pray and ask God, what can we do now to help better things. The one answer that came to me was those children, and the adult slaves only felt hate around them, so on my part I can put more love in my heart, and try not have any hate being felt by others, coming from me. Whether I like it or not, those enslaved children and adults died for my gain. I don't like how this happened, and wish it hadn't happened, but it did, the damage was done, I feel we have an obligation to pick up the torch, and carry on, from their works. I'm truly grateful and thankful, to any and all, who knocked down doors and barriers, I can freely walk through now.✌🏽❤🙏🏻 🌲🌷🌲❤AFRICA ❤🌲🌷 God bless John Cummings for the intricate, and exquisite work he's done on this plantation museum, and Dr. Ibrahima Seck, the historian, who explains slave history, so well. Thank you.

Every country in the world can have these museums and each will be portrayed as the "bad" guy in a different country lol

Yes, slavery is horrible.but it should be said that the original slaves in africa, were sold by other african blacks that had captured them in tribal wars and raids...for land and power..and that is never spoken of, and it should. My grandmother was a black woman, (in cuba) and I can talk,because I am 1/4 black, Yes, no one can take away my heritage of which i am very proud to be....but....i hate it when my brothers and sisters ignore these truths that we are here because our own brothers captured us and sold us to the ship captains...(way back when), yes, and also, SADLY IN TODAY 2019....black people are still taking, capturing, and ENSLAVING black people and selling them into slavery in africa, both FOR sexual and for work... VERY SAD ! now in 2019.... and we need to face this reality..! because my black brothers and sisters only talk of the white man...and never mention these truths....and WE, OUR ANCESTORS, are also guilty of this, .lastly but not least, in the time of slavery, here in America, there were 900 black Slave owners.. ! ! ! yes... the archives prove that there were 900 black slave owners that owned black slaves...( i know, hard to believe ! ) ( I saw that truth spoken, by that black man that does that tv show about ancestry....he said it... and that is never spoken of either ! . We need to realize that we have not been innocent of slavery ourselves and that WE are still doing it in Africa.! The world never changes and history repeats itself and we need to confront our own demons, to be fair, because God is fair and we must be fair and just. We have to change the rhetoric , we need to be honest with ourselves.....and that is where real change will happen, i believe ! There is nothing to get over, it is a reality that has to be faced...but there are good and bad whites and good and bad blacks... can anyone deny them, we all need to repent of our sins and ALL of us need salvation that comes from the cross. thank you for reading. if you respond, I may not see it because i am rarely on the computer...but i might...anyway, . thank you for reading.

0:32 - Robert.E.Lee believed that slavery is evil and he fought for his home Virginia.

I wish everyone in this country would visit this plantation. It is so important for white as well as black people to understand this period of our country's history. Thank god for John Cummings.

The Kings and chiefs in Africa (and other places) sold and traded their people into the bondage of slavery. Slaves were provided with food, clothing and shelter as well as medical attention when neccessary and assigned chores (work) to complete in a timely manner. Slavery was abolished over 150 years ago. Now all people have to work or provide services to earn their income. People provide food, shelter and clothing plus needed medical assistance for themselves as much as their incomes will allow. These days are different only in that people can quit their jobs, refuse to work and live homeless of their own FREE WILL ! !

We enjoyed our visit last week.

We need a slavery museum. I didn't know about many American atrocities until I was out of school. Shine a light on the ugly past lest we repeat it.

The reality of slavery is a huge contradiction to the very core fundamentals of American Independence. This is why we don't see a lot of museums. Americans from previous generations would rather pretend it wasn't really a big thing and hoped it would be forgotten into the ash heaps of history. Fortunately, it hasn't been forgotten and I don't think it ever will. Historians are beginning to bring to light real American history and the incredible misery upon which the very foundations of this country was established.

Slave are the people of the bible read Deuteronomy 28 :15 -68 then go back up to 1-14

Do they not mention that Roma were the first slaves brought to the New World and that Native Americans were the first people enslaved on American soil? Do they not mention that Roma, Romanichal and other Romani were owned & traded by White, Black and Indigenous people of all different religious backgrounds?

I see several people saying: "But my ancestors didn't own slaves," but that doesn't mean they weren't complicate or did not benefit from the institution. Many people believe that the North had little to do with slavery, but the North bought raw supplies from the South to use in their factories. The yeoman benefited socially from not being the lowest class. Even those who believed in freedom for blacks did not necessarily believe in equality. These are just a few examples and really speak to why we need more education on the subject.

If they gonna tell it, tell it all

Thank you!

I think it's important for us to actually face not only the history & shame of slavery in this country, but also the history & shame of the lynchings, torture, segregation, etc. Every American should watch the 60 minutes episode with Oprah Winfrey re The National Memorial for Peace and Justice (opening 4/26/18) that aired on April 8th. Seeing actual photos is a powerful tool that will bring up emotions - horror, grief, anger, regret, and finally a desire to begin healing, because for too long there's been a quiet acknowledgement of these atrocities, without any true emotion or discussion or understanding of the African American experience in this country. Only when we face the shame and acknowledge the anguish, can we feel true sorrow and regret and try to move forward.

Oh the slaves had an idea. The idea wasn if they werent traded into the slave trade or they would of been sacrifice in Africa. So Africans begged to be put into slavery instead of being sacrificed by African's kings.

I read the Willie Lynch letter as a child but it wasn’t until I read it as an adult that I truly understand how he changed the structure of our families. Him changing our family structure still affects us today.... it’s the only true protection and stability that a person has .. family. Please go read the Willie Lynch letter and let’s break the cycles. Let’s reverse it ...☝️❤️

I wish I could like this more than once. What a beautiful, yet incredibly poignant documentary. Thank you for making it.

I'm 39 and live 45 minutes away from This Planation. I had no ideal it existed. I had a chance to visit and was I Suprised, sadden and enlightened about my history. My white friends can name their descendants. I on the only hand cannot.

Well now we have one in Montgomery, Alabama

Hebrews are the tribe of Juda and the awakening has arrived the Heboes are the Hebrews .

What a good idea, he seems like a really great guy. We had a similar "live museum" in Australia called "Old Sydney Town" which showed life as a convict under military colonial rule. There were live shows of whippings and hangings and executions, and it did a great job at showing just how brutal life was at the time. It would be great to see a similar thing here.

We have one in Charleston, SC. Maybe you should get out more.

Yes we can never change the post my bro

“The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submission on the other.” “The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath...gives a loose to his passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.” Thomas Jefferson

I'd never heard of slavery before I watched this video.

I went to Louisiana with my mom to come here.

Visiting the Whitney Plantation is a spiritual experience. You are walking on sacred ground when you step onto the Whitney. You can feel the presence of the ancestors in every corner of the land. It is theirs now. All theirs. Bless the heart of John Cummings for investing in the Whitney to help make it what it is today, under the leadership of Dr. Ibrahima Seck. Cummings' actions and words are those of a good-hearted man.

If one does not incite resentment then how can there be profit off of actions done to A by B for whom C claims D must pay for?

i know rite and we got 1.400 billion Blacks around the world too we dont need nobody for nothing i got all the people i need

Thank you for this. Wish to visit here someday.

This man didn't have to do this, we take our kids to Disney World, six flags, movies, we have to bring them here, All Americans need this. People say they're tired of slavery movies, but we're not tired of treating people different, in 2018 it is still real, the racial bribe changes always

I have to visit this museum!!!!! This is AMAZING

Oh thank god this comment section isn’t murdured

There are museums of slavery in England; at Liverpool, Bristol and London. Surprisingly they do not mention North African Barbary Coast slavers who seized white people from coastal towns in England, Ireland and from ships and ferries in the Irish Sea. Almost the whole population of Baltimore in Ireland were seized one night. For many years the slavers were based at Lundy Island off the Bristol Channel. It took the US Navy to stop them at North Africa -after the 1860's Civil War when there was some time to devote in releasing American citizens from slavery. Suppose it's not politically correct to mention black slavers dealing in white slaves. I'm near Liverpool and often see the ridiculous sight of a 'historian' pointing out sites of slave auctions near the docks, including metal rings the slaves were said to be shackled to. Basic research would inform them that the rings were used to attach ropes when lowering barrels into cellars. The trade was of manufactured goods from Britain, offload them at west Africa, collect slaves and ship them to the Caribbean and southern States, load with tobacco, rum, sugar, cotton and back to Britain. Profit all the way. It is a fact that ship's captains and other rich folks would occasionally bring a black slave back to England as a house servant but there is no evidence of regular slave markets taking place in Liverpool. I'm not an apologist for any slave trade but wish these 'historians' would publish only what can be proved and not what they imagine.

Education is the #1 knowledge. The educational system needs to correct there history and give today's youths a sense of acknowledgement and understanding that black history and Indian history is the purest form of American&world history

Martin been to the mountain top and found that one eye devil who is printed on the top of pyramid on the dollar bill.

This brings tears to my eyes and heart.😢 We have been soooo Oppressed and still are. I don't find excuses for my people but i do understand the long term effect it has on all of us. I constantly deal with this in my own family and GOD knows i hate it with a passion...

you've got one, it's called Detroit.

@3:45 "When he LOOK INTO THE ARCHIVES AND SEE THE Slave NAMES ONLY 1 from AFRICA "😆 Abdul 1836 Senegal South American. Barbados Cuba & Caribbean Names ___________________________________ Nanette. Leandre Hele'ne. Casimire Francois. Fracisco Jacob. Rosette Pate. Catherine Solomon. Rasalie Dominguez. Charlotte La Joye. Francois Sambo. Antoine Thomas. Joseph Joseph. Jacinta Dic. Antonio Pierre. Louison Marianne. Marie Joseph Manon. Marie Marthe. Charles Marche a Terre Margot. Minerve Jean. Augustine Jean Louis. Franchise Minette. Isabelle Jacques. Jordan Kitty. Luke Hagar. Abe Hannah. Bill Ana. Lucy Baptiste. Lucy Fanny. Constance

Must be an emotional place to visit. I'm from Texas and there are still small towns that you do not want to stop in while traveling.

That's like telling a woman who was brutally raped and beaten and left for dead to get over her past its over

If you don’t know what the ‘ it ‘ is then don’t ask the question. 🧐

It's not only in America, the problem is worldwide

Does one parade at a funeral, no because of respect for dead and does not dig up its corpse or stones to make a mockery. Time does heal wounds but not before the wound have not healed and move forward with a constant reminder about that wound or love ones lost from terrorism, slavery is a form of terrorism and constant reminder of cruelty .

Yes, these beautiful sculptures need a home so they're not outside.

Read Dueteronomy chapter 28 to know who they were before they identity was stolen😉

A bit like - I don’t know what they want of me, because they won’t contact me, so on and on we go.

If government knocks your teeth in and says keep it yourself it would be an it to get over

the fact that in 2020 they st@rted to notice the problem is honestly scary because there talking about police brutality but they should give a honest speach on black history on every news station ,they rarely talk sbout slavery and that worries me about america in the future

Thank you 🙏 The Atlantic

I think Egypt needs a museum on how the Pharaohs sold off their citizens

Those slaves were Hebrew people. The people of the Book. The Israelites. We are still here but we have turned our hearts back to Yah. He will restore us to our true homeland in Israel.

The devil stole 7 stars from my head and Our Heavenly Father said he will judge who I direct contact with

I’m surprised there aren’t any.

It’s important to confront this problem that happened so long ago than just pretending it never happened

This says something about America. Although this was a terrible time in history, there is no other country on the face of the earth that would let the people put up a memorial reminding everyone of a horrible mistake in ideology and actions it made.

need a museum for all races