this video is phenomenal, i dont know how it doesnt have more likes/views.... great job

Amazing detail of the city.

This is an amazing video, are there more like it? Was this work completed? I'm a Richmonder born and raised and would love to know more info on this project.

Great workZ you should put this in vr so we can walk through the city

Cool map action. Thanks for the hard work.

Great work. Thank you

if you don't turn this into a civil war game than you are being selfish.

Well done. Thanks.

Great piece. Why Richmond though? What made it so central to that trade?

@martinv7651

2 жыл бұрын

The key to that is at the very end- the James River on the left, and rail heads on the right. Transportation of the enslaved from Virginia to Georgia, Alabama, Florida and other plantation centers made Alexandria and Richmond slave trading "capitols".

Maybe you can look at how other groups of people were handled like the Irish, Italians, Germans, etc. These groups, although not slaves, many were indentured servants and were paid little or no wages as they sought a life in America.

@SandfordSmythe

2 жыл бұрын

Let them toot their own horn.

@TheBatugan77

2 жыл бұрын

@@SandfordSmythe Oh really? Shove a saxophone. Toot that.

@SandfordSmythe

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheBatugan77 This is a production by a Richmond, VA organization. Don't expect them to do anything on the Irish or Germans. There are plenty of their organizations around.

@maarten1115

2 жыл бұрын

Back in those days most people were indentured in one way or another. Obviously slaves had it the worst but nearly all lower class citizens were tied down by debt or an otherwise inability to move away.

@MH-ro1lg

2 жыл бұрын

@@maarten1115 The Irish were once in such dire straits and so impoverished that slaves in america would donate goods to them, a process that was largely overseen by slave churches.

thank you

Any one see a business family named Yarborough, in Richmond, Virginia, any part of Virginia?

This is great

Thanks McInnis

Ah, a nostalgic look at the "good old days"...

@thomasuhl1263

2 жыл бұрын

Foolish comment. It’s a glimpse at a point in time we can look back on to see how far we’ve progressed as a society. If we do not learn from history we risk making the same stupid mistakes.

@tonylynch3246

Жыл бұрын

Those were the worse days of this country and we are still recovering from that sin

A total disgrace. A lot of innocent blood running through the streets of Richmond.

northern abolitionists lived off Slavery as much as southern planters. northern bankers made loans, northern insurance companies underwrote activities, northern textile mills bought slave cotton, northerners ate slave sugar and smoked slave Tabacco and before 1808, slave ships built and crewed by northerners transported slaves into the United States. Maybe the war happened because the guilty feeling of northern abolitionists and indignation of southern slavers at the hypocrisy of the abolitionists. And, what's crazy is that most people today are decedents of post-bellum immigrants who had nothing to do with slavery and just want to get on with life.

@brighamcook3853

2 жыл бұрын

Does this history offend you?

@loslobos786

2 жыл бұрын

I don't think you understand what the word “Abolitionist" means?????? Also before you throw stones at Northerners smoking southern tobacco and wearing clothing made of cotton remember REMEMBER your cell phone you love so much and nearly every piece of clothing you wear today was made by a modern day SLAVE in China and other parts of Asia, so how are you any different? Hypocrite at least those Northern boys died to get rid of their “guilt" what are you doing besides shit posting.

@TheBatugan77

2 жыл бұрын

@@loslobos786 Blah BLAH Blah BLAH Blah BLAH Blah BLAH Blah BLAH Blah BLAH

@loslobos786

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheBatugan77 aperantly you love your phone more than your fellow man, I bow to your excellently crafted response blah blah blah may your life be as blessed as theirs.

I think we need to get along blacks and whites or we won't have a country

good ol days

@tonylynch3246

Жыл бұрын

You’re part of the problem today.God does forgive sin but there is a price to pay and you will pay son.

People just making shit up nowadays lol

Not feeling that 1/3 of Richmond were slaves in 1853. Need a fact check on this one.

@rnelson37

4 жыл бұрын

1/3 is right. There were just under 10,000 enslaved people of a population of 27,570 in the 1850 census. There were nearly 2,400 free African Americans, so 45% fo the population was African American.

@NathanDudani

2 жыл бұрын

fAcT cHeCk

@jeffmorin5867

2 жыл бұрын

@@rnelson37 but...his FEELINGs....tell him that must not be true...

@GhostRider659

2 жыл бұрын

@@jeffmorin5867 It is a mind-boggling number from our perspective, so I'm not surprised he'd at least ask for confirmation. Historically speaking though, societies featuring slave labor often reached and even surpassed these proportions. Brazil around this time was around 40% slave labor iirc.

@frankjoyce76

2 жыл бұрын

that was my biggest issue also. GREAT video but i highly doubt 1/3 the richmond population were slaves given that Richmond was more powerful than DC at the time. Agreed slavery was there but not that high of a population