The white man do look very educated. God bless education

This is so sad they are clearly about the same age but the color of their skin had them live 2 different lives 💜😔

I love hearing old people's stories.

Old Rolly. 😂 That voice is recognizable! If he was born in 1901 how was Peter his owner? RIP Sir. 🙏🏽

Happy Birthday

AMEN💙

As a child my neighbors father always had this black man with him everywhere he went... I asked his son, whom was in his 50's-60's one day why they were always together and he said after slavery ended the man's parents decided that they didn't want to leave because his fathers family had built them houses and took care of them.. Looking at the black community today it's the same thing only with the government. Why leave the plantation when the government takes care of you?

Mr. Jester Hairston was not a slave. The title of this video is horrible!

Absolutely bull shit narrative, all fabrication & fictional, poor actors. Indigenious American are not Slavic or from Slovenia, not from the region of the Black Sea. Slavic people migrated to the Americas & took the local names & identities 😅😂😤🤪

Ain’t no way 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨this is so sad he sitting there like a true slave just talking about slavery like it’s nothing 😢this is disgusting 🤮 and if i ever run in to any body that use to own my family it’s definitely going to be bloody hell to pay !!! Black people are so sad and lost 😞 it’s a shame 😢

I could sit and listen to elders talk for hours. They're always giving lots of golden nuggets for life's navigation.

HISTHREE-2.0: The blacks in the United States calling themselves African Americans which are the only people devoid of a nationality, for instance German people come from Germany, Russian people come from Russia, Korean people come from Korea, Palestinian people come from Palestine, Iraqi people come from Iraq, Libyan people come from Libya, Chinese people come from Chiiiyyna Lol, black people come from... well, YOU GET THE POINT. There is neither a nation called black or Africa. it's a continent with 54 different nation's on it. The question is, where's ours. And did DEUTERONOMY chapter 28 prophesy Hitler or the transatlantic slave trade/black SLAVERY. Come on people! It's as simple as reading a chapter!🧐 if you REALLY want the answers that God is revealing to us today. Which is 🥁 “who are the true Jews and who's the people being mentioned in Revelations 2:9+3:9?” Psalms chapter 83 uncovers the plot to conceal the people and by who. Deuteronomy 28 tells us how they did it with 400 years of slavery Acts7:6 due to our breaking the laws statutes and commandments. Isaiah 14 discusses the prophetic reconciliation/restoration of those people who went into that prophetic slavery, and the world peace that follows. I hope this is a blessing to you and all who read it. SHALOM🖤APTTMH🔥 see Emmanuel Boeing's map entitled NEGROLAND SLAVE COAST KINGDOM of JUDA. You're welcome

God bless you, Dr. Hairston. I hope someone got you a glass of water. 😊

Repent and trust in Jesus. He's the only way to Heaven. We've all sinned and deserve Hell. Sins like lying, lusting, etc. Repent and trust only in Jesus, and you will be saved! You can be saved because he took the punishment for our sins on himself when he died on the cross, just like someone can pay your speeding fine in court, and you get off free. Romans 3:23 John 3:16

This made me miss the elderly people who would sit outside the community store waiting on mail delivery, they would be talking about the old wagon days.

You finished college in 1929? That’s crazy.

I love this precious man! “Lilies of the Field” is one of my all-time favorite films. I go back to it often because I love this song in it in particular.

What high school was this?

He knows so much about black religious music

This is old

Kissed by the sun; amazing complexion, very articulate, and great memory for his age!

Wait … he said ooooooooo jesta .. like dude on jango

When I think of jeston hairston I think of the many laughs from tv show AMEN god bless him

Huck and Jim

July 9th! Same birthday as my husband! I love listening to these old stories! These men saw some very fascinating times! ❤

What a charming, delightful man. I wish I had gotten to know of him before today years ago.

He enslaved men .

Young people today don't understand sitting and asking questions. Will some day be something they will regret they didn't do. I hate that I didn't ask questions about my dad's family.

These comments lol are we missing the slave and owner lol

This is racism in the America I Love. I sang in Jester Hairston festivals in high school. That memory brought me to this video.

What a wise man he was. It’s been said that these types of interviews were prompted by the descendants of slave owners to control the narrative. It would be foolish to bash the offspring of his parents’ enslavers. His cooperation, like many, determined his future. I appreciate my ancestors’ tactics so that my generation can speak on what was really said behind closed doors. Happy Juneteenth.

This man reminds me so much of the Black men in my neighborhood growing up in the 1950's. Great personality, great everything.

Good man❤ RIH my heart is happy listening to help talk❤

Why is this title as it is? SLAVE and Owner??? Clearly, Jester Hairston was way more than a slave, if he ever was! Please stop diminishing people's legacy by trying to rewrite their history. His story is way bigger than what the misleading title eludes to...I'm happy I stopped on this video because I learned of an American legend.

Hell no

Wow, I just learned about him this morning. What spectacular man.

Whoa, he wore this song! 😮🙌🏾

So beautiful to see! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

A lot of slaves used wood chips in their pillow bag as a pillow during slave days

We found our Slave Owner Family. The Blackburns of Amarillo Tx

Love to hear this I play it over and over

Assumptions make perfect sense why they think we gave them Cotton or anything for tjat matter

The secret is whites were slaves before melanated ppl and they were poor before coming to America. They got pics of them in the cotton fields too... Dnd it wasn't the slavery they portray in these movies... It was indentured servitude, same thing today! Stop the bs and learn the truth or just stop speaking on what you don't know about. They came on boats as poor people, not the other way around... They was telling their history in movies like orphan Annie and the chimney sweep or whatever it's called. White kids worked in coal mines as orphans or slaves bcs their parents may have been poor. The black sut on their face is where the term BLACK people come from... Black is not a nationality and it don't describe our people... History was told in reverse... We're the true indigenous ppl of America, and to the planet for that matter, not African. We're the American Indian not Native Americans, it's a difference... Native American is a political term used to attempt to whitewash our history and make us believe we're foreigners to this land. As MLK said WE'VE BECOME EXILES IN OUR OWN LAND check out the ST MARY OF THE GOOD WINDS portrait and the 1828 Webster's dictionary definition of American. Our family history and records are other sources. I've always known my Gm was full blooded Cherokee, and to this day, we're the only people to get a constant name change to hide our true identity and to further their agenda, but WE'RE WOKE TO THE BS NOW!

This is priceless and very informative

Sounds to me like slaves had it pretty good.

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How could he bear the name jester, that's F'd UP 🤡🤹🏿

Warren Butler ? Lol

I was told that's his singing voice in the movie Lillies Of The Field

As a white male, growing up in an inner city project i always was fascinated listening to the older black neighbors and their stories. To this day, it saddens me to confront that part of America's past! I will never understand how Southerners back then considered themselves Christians!