I am just enthralled with these histories!

Don heart was broken when he was told that his slave ancestors were own by Native Americans. It's gonna take a few minutes for him to adjust his whole concept of reality. Even I felt it.

@stormstorm7396

4 жыл бұрын

Smh i look at them so different now

@ashablack2291

4 жыл бұрын

We normally see them as victims but to know that they had a hand in our pain.

@QueenofNonSequitur

3 жыл бұрын

@@ashablack2291 African Americans owned African Americans back then too.

@illuddivinus3309

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah but what they didn’t say or mention is that it was better to be virtually indentured through the tribe nation state, rather than lashed, beaten or killed as a slave in the US. To this day, ancestors of black native tribesman recount stories of being able to marry native woman and take on land to start families. As well as learn and be taught the native cowboy ways. My 5th grade teachers great grand parents were that exact story.

@sc-bj2fs

2 жыл бұрын

@@illuddivinus3309 try again. Native Americans were no different than African Americans who owned slaves.

Fun Facts: Native people in North America had been practicing slavery long before whitey showed up. It was fairly common for children and women to be taken during tribal combat - then put into slavery.

Can you imagine what they went through. My eyes are filled with tears.

The stories of these freed slaves should serve as an inspiration for people of all Races and backgrounds. Regardless of your past you can build a good future

This is so exciting to hear ... I really feel my history class really let me down. So many memories and family stories need to be brought into the light. America would not be here without this history. We owe it to all our ancestors to share this history.

Oh wow "free-man".... That had to hurt a little realizing what that last name meant 😭😭

Very interesting video. Definitely a good watch. For whatever its worth, my great great great Grandfather owned 290 slaves in Winston-Salem North Carolina. After the War, nearly every last former slave returned to the plantatation to assist him in the rebuilding of the farm, and all its amenities. While slavery was most certainly a great injustice, my ancestor (James Griffith) was by all accounts a very generous master. It is suspected that he may have fathered DOZENS of children.

@elijahsexton7472

7 жыл бұрын

Robert so if you thought you were Cherokee you might be part black

@stormstorm7396

4 жыл бұрын

YOUR SO PROUD CONGRATS👌😣

@firstnamelastname8323

3 жыл бұрын

@@stormstorm7396 Well, God and Jesus are pro slaves so you should be proud of it too.

@ericsniper9843

2 жыл бұрын

I can't believe Robert is saying that an enslaver was "a generous master." He probably did father dozens of children from unwilling young girls. This guy sounds like a serial rapist to me.

@buttersyrupnpancakes It's amazing! And, slowly, our perspectives start to broaden...

I’m hook on all this and have been curious from childhood,been a descendant of Europeans and some Spanish and Afro- Caribbean. Now the game is on. My question here is: in your program I see there are no revelation on relations among each other. Or is that for later delight in your ancestry program.keep up the good work mr Gates, such a delight.

idk why but I am more interested with the people who have the same last name as their ancestors than the one who don't

I have no understanding how any 'peoples' who lived in bondage & horrific circumstances could do the same to others. The oppressed became the oppressors; stupefying!

@gameragodzilla

5 ай бұрын

Even the British were enslaved and conquered by the Roman Empire for centuries.

Wow! It’s mind blowing that the native Americans, after what they had been through, would number one, have slaves; and, number two, refuse to give them up. Someone, pick my jaw up from the floor.

@vatricegeorge

9 ай бұрын

Yep and this story is erased from African American and Native American museums. My family was enslaved by the Creek. They did receive citizenship in 1867 and 160 acres each. Most of the Tulsa Greenwood citizens were formerly enslaved by NA tribes. The treaties signed forced the tribes to give African citizens 40 to 160 acres of native terrority land.

@gameragodzilla

5 ай бұрын

The British were enslaved by the Romans for a long time as well. Being a victim doesn’t mean you won’t be a victimizer as well. Real life is always more complex.

❤️❤️♥️ to Don . 🌹🙏✝️😇❤️

Tina still looks good damn

Maya Angelou and Kentucky Shannon had the same mouth

IT HAS BEEN 400 YRS. MY PEOPLE...TOO LONG..YOUR GENES WILL NOT ALL YOUR HEADS TO BOW FOREVER. THE LORD GOD WILL NOT DISCIPLINE US FOREVER ... YOU ARE STRONGER💪🏿 THEN ALL!!! I KNOW YOU FEEL IT TOO MY MOST ANCIENT PEOPLE 🤴🏿👸🏿.......TIME TO RISE AND SHINE ✊🏿✊🏾...🌅 YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL..👰🏿 I LOVE YOU MORE!!!!😍🥰

I didn't know that the Indians were involved in the slave trade

@elijahsexton7472

7 жыл бұрын

Janet Bet bet you don't know much about the trail of tears either...terrible history bruh

@unbatheduncle

2 жыл бұрын

Everyone was involved it shows evil comes in all forms

Well, it's time for reparations from both Native and White Americans! Unbelievable!

@ChunkyPuffsRaichu

4 жыл бұрын

Reparations are not necessary. Mutual respect for each other is.

@navajoguy8102

3 жыл бұрын

My forebears were in a US Army prison camp in Bosque Redondo during the Civil War. They didn't own anyone as slaves.

@MrRobertGriffith Dozens of children? I guess he was very generous.... lol

I agree, why don't you do average people??? We have questions about the Unknown.

I know some freed men took the surname Freeman, which made sense before emancipation, as a way of deterring slave catchers and those who'd assume they were slaves. I have known a few Freemans. To a man, and woman, they were light-skinned black people, educated and sophisticated; a clothes designer, a Tuskeegee Airman/jazz drummer (from a noted family of pro players). Probably many of the free ancestors were children of the master, thus lighter skin and kinder treatment. It seemed to me, from knowing these folks (I am white), that their ancestors probably got a leg up, a better start, than later freed slaves got; more likely literate, for one thing. They must have been many of the early educated black middle class. Anyway, the Freemans I've known were smart and sophisticated, of the academy, not "the 'hood."

Native American sovereignty doesn't have anything to do with land ownership. The Chickasaw didn't have sovereign authority over their land. Their sovereignty was over members of the tribes.

Yup yup yup

I wish that many African Americans would get DNA'd, and compare their results to the African people in in Africa. I am sure they will find their ancestors.

@jrdardonl

Жыл бұрын

Que seguramente también tendrán sangre europea.

I never knew the Native Americans owned slaves.

This is comfusing where did they get the dna of great great great ancestors idont know biology someone plz explain it to me

@Verradonairun

4 жыл бұрын

If I understand correctly, the people doing this show have access to information from 3 different sources: 1) your DNA, 2) information about your ancestors held in public archives, such as births, deaths, marriages, divorces, business transactions (including the purchase and sale of slaves), and only if you're very lucky 3) written sources such as local news paper articles about your ancestors, personal diaries of your ancestors or people who knew them and letters written by, to or about your ancestors. If you want to know how they can trace your DNA back to different tribes in Africa, that's by comparing your DNA to a database of DNA-samples taken from Africans living today. These databases are still very small because only a small number of Africans have had their DNA sequenced and registered in those databases. You then get a powerful computer to compare the DNA samples and if the computer says that there's a match between you and a group of people living in for example southern Ghana today, then these DNA-tests will say you're Ghanaian, even though there was no Ghana back in the day when your ancestor was taken from Africa, only different tribes, kingdoms and empires, so your ancestor wouldn't know what Ghana. He'd say he was a proud citizen of the Ashanti Empire, for example, and I guess he'd be pretty devastated if he learned that his Empire had fallen apart after his death, but that's another matter. Having said that, it's possible to obtain the DNA from your great, great, great, great... ancestors even today, assuming we found their graves, or more precisely: if we found a tooth which had belonged to them, since teeth act as time capsules for DNA. While DNA isn't a completely stable molecule (it's a molecule that consists of more than 300 million atoms, and the bonds between these atoms will break down over time) it's stable enough to last about 1,5-1,7 million years trapped in a tooth, depending on the temperatures it is exposed to. This means that it would be no problem to extract and sequence the DNA of your great, great, great grandfather, but the technology used in this type of research isn't available to the public yet. Only the finest universities have it and they're busy doing research on sable-tooth tigers, mammoths and other ice age animals. Sorry for the long message, but I'm very passionate about teaching and learning. And by the way, English isn't my first language, so if I wrote something that you didn't understand then let me know and I'll try to rephrase the point.

@PrincessOverDoesIt

3 жыл бұрын

@@Verradonairun as an English teacher, I say this is EXTREMELY well written. I tend to find my students who use English as a second language tend to use grammar and mechanics more correctly than native speakers. 👍🏻

@spookyboi8446

3 жыл бұрын

If this is not a joke I can explain. Basically each individual has DNA. 1 piece of DNA is made from 2 pieces of RNA. Each of your parents contribute some of their DNA through their reproductive cells (called gametes i.e sperm and egg cells). Modern science is able to use your DNA and map identical features to your parents and then their parents (and so on). You do not need an actual physical DNA sample of the original person 10000 years ago because thousands of people alive today will carry the same DNA. We are all related at some point around 2 million years ago with the first mother and father of humanity and almost everyone alive today is related in some way. (I believe there are a few DNA lineages that are seperated or have gone extinct over the last few million years).

@spookyboi8446

3 жыл бұрын

@@Verradonairun much of this is accurate as well this show and and many genealogy experts use records like birth, marriage and census records. Some of the best kept records where by the church and having done my own extensive family research I have found that many times when you get back into the 1600s and 1500s you begin to lose many pieces of evidence and lots of ancestors also had name changes when they moved. For example my grandfathers last name was Presti, but I am 100% positive that it was changed from Lo Presti. Many of these records must be taken with some skepticism though because many times the records you see are the result of other peoples work which you must always second guess and double check. I have seen multiple times where a name or date was completely off the mark.

@meggtokyodelicious

3 жыл бұрын

DNA id bullshit. currently human DNA contains over 52 types of alien DNA . the labs hide it to createcfake human history in order to pursue cabal agenda. the royals were completely infiltrated by reptilians, drill lizards after artificially creating mud floods worldwide and killing tartarian civilization and angel civilization between 1774 and 1778. so they famous world fair didn't happen the way it supposed to be. ( watch stuffed beagle vids). on top of that in year 200 cabal added 100 years into our calendar, after ending Tartar giant civilization. ( watch mufflooding university vids). the great reset is the end of our current civilization, flooding worldwide too. ( watch chave weather vids). 2030 we no longer can eat meat, chocolates, nor have pleasure to watch martial arts cuz after the WW3, we aren't alive.

@luxxskrilla78 lol

@vhickerson The term master as it applies to all things is a neutral term. It is neither good, nor bad in and of itself. As to what I mean when I say "generous master". I mean exactly that. A master (in the old South took on many different personas. The treatment of slaves also varied greatly from one plantatation to the next. While I am not trying to "justify" slavery, just pointing out the facts that on some plantatations life was pretty good.

@ericsniper9843

3 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry my people lived in constant fear on these "good plantations."

@ishualcharron

3 жыл бұрын

Umm life was not pretty good. They were enslaved

@Kakkydidit

3 жыл бұрын

Except for not being able to leave and having no rights to see my children grow up, it sounds lovely. SMH

If I can be frank here, is it really a source of pride to find your ancestor who died fighting for a country and people who hated you, lynched your people and committed state terrorism on your kin?

@Verradonairun

4 жыл бұрын

He didn't fight for the US or for white people, he fought because he was promised freedom and land in exchange for his participation in the war. What enslaved man wouldn't take that deal, knowing that the alternative was to work all day in the heat of the sun and having to watch your women get whipped, raped and even murdered by your masters? These men who chose to go to war did so because they'd made up their minds that death was better than being enslaved.

@DarkeningSkies1

3 жыл бұрын

The pride comes from the ancestor going through hardship that they survived- they struggled through it and went on to put children into the world that are the reason you are here. I think the pride is there, in that general way. The circumstances are always going to be muddied by the extreme injustice that was a part of our ancestors lives.

Are they Africian Hebrews?

@unbatheduncle

2 жыл бұрын

No

@renedragmazzaroth8879

Жыл бұрын

IDK, What these lost blacks claiming next.

That’s a lie Don Cheadle, that was an enrollment form to be recognized as being a Chickasaw. Most of our ancestors where denied base on how dark our skin was and were labeled as black. So they wouldn’t get the land Benifits, But you had european people who could pay $5 to be recognized as a native. This is why our history is so lost. We got the wrong people teaching us that we are all Africans, and we’re not. Don Cheadle is a Chickasaw native, amazing!

@renedragmazzaroth8879

Жыл бұрын

Still indenial despite DNA shows he's African, you're delusional.

@87KHarris

Жыл бұрын

@@renedragmazzaroth8879 😏🧌