I don't use the word slaves anymore. They were kidnapped children, teenagers, and young adults - victims of an international human trafficking ring. The word slave is dehumanizing. If someone kidnapped you to another country, are you just that "slave" or are you still a whole person? I know we don't know all of their names, but we know they were human beings, kids, artists, comedians, teachers, parents who were stolen from their lives, families, dreams and potential. We need a more humanizing way to describe these strong and incredible survivors, than the monolithic shame-filled word, "slave".

@pamelamattox7881

2 жыл бұрын

They were slaves, can't whitewash our history.

@SuperStar-jr3nu

2 жыл бұрын

@@pamelamattox7881 - I guess someone who goes by the name "Pam" is used to tolerating sad, outdated and offensive nomenclature. You have repressed anger at your mom for naming you Pamela, I get it. And as someone cursed with a trucker rest-stop waitress name like Pam, you're probably too old and country to realize you're racist too. So I'm just gonna ignore anything else you have to say, clearly you've got misplaced rage. Get some help Pam.

@josm1481

2 жыл бұрын

Sadly, the death toll in Africa vastly outnumbered that elsewhere. 50-90% died before even setting foot in a ship. That's up to 100M people we don't know anything about.

@claraht.6999

2 жыл бұрын

@@SuperStar-jr3nu I say "imported ".

@dustincredible1249

Жыл бұрын

They were the criminals they were sold they were the murders and rapist they were not the kings and queens

Such a disgusting, horrible time in history. Absolutely unforgivable and tragic.

@jamalwilburn228

2 жыл бұрын

Many today are jealous as seen by the caravan from Hondorus and the crisis at the border. They'd be fine if it meant immediate transport to the US

@holysmoke8439

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed the african kidnapping n enslaving of whites was horrible n lasted far longer than american slavery

I love to hear stories of slavery survivors and how with technology we are able to connect and trace back roots. I wish the slaves were able to read and write so we can know more about who these people were.

@tarahp8054

2 жыл бұрын

Alot secretly were literate.

@holysmoke8439

2 жыл бұрын

They were able...learn your history most of the slaves were whites from Europe taken by africans. Education is key bro

@apolloangel4754

2 жыл бұрын

@@tarahp8054 yes ! How amazing would it be to have letters or stories

@latyshal.2286

2 жыл бұрын

I suppose you meant read and write in English or whatever the language of their captors because they were able to read and write in their own languages.

@apolloangel4754

2 жыл бұрын

@@latyshal.2286 yes I mean papers and letters that they could write and leave to their descendants

Good report and video.

I wonder how many other times slaves were trafficked over after it became illegal, and no one found out about it.

@josm1481

2 жыл бұрын

Like all illegal activity people can only estimate or guess. One thing that's ignored is, the Captain of the Clotilda said in his journal he was offered his pick from over a thousand naked slaves. He chose about 100. They offered to brand them for him and he refused. A question should be, what happened to the thousand or so left behind?

@naturalbeauty4734

20 күн бұрын

​@@josm1481What a disgusting nightmare!! 😩🙏

Can't tell broadcasting networks not to show CRT and Black History.

@linda_memolo

2 жыл бұрын

It’s black history month. No one knows what CRT means, pits just a talking point.

@TruthOverFear21

2 жыл бұрын

People know about CRT now cause they are banning any talk about racism in schools now. You think they banned books on Black Leaders by accident? Don't be deceive brother

Amazing segment! Now I know the Clotilda existed and feel a sense of happiness seeing great great grampa’s adversity transformed into his descendants liberation of our generation. A wonderful story about how far we’ve come as a nation. We must continue to press forward and never allow ourselves to fall backwards again.

I am watching their story on Netflix now. Great documentary. Sad but informative history lesson. The fact the kidnappers descendants and the people who were kidnapped descendants are still alive and can be “officially” connected (even though the kidnapped descendants know who they are), have even more proof to their history. They are definitely owed reparations and more. Clearly human trafficking 😢

I’m just wondering why there’s no video footage of the boat? All that is shown is a couple of pieces of wood. Just wondering….

@hawkrose2698

3 ай бұрын

Because it is a fictional story they have been using to make the whole time period a trauma fest for us. Which is was. But not the way they say it was . They think they are slick pushing this narrative.

" Dont fall away,leave love bleeding in my hands sgain. Am i the only place that youve left to go ? " - Hemmorage.

That’s only two and three generations dang

@laminediallo3253

10 ай бұрын

It's not 2 or 3 generations it's 16 generations ago.

I was born and rased in Togo west Africa I must say I could be related to Kodjo since we knew these stories did hapen because when slavery was so called abolish the slaves master went in to hiding taking people by force. I'm happy for Kodjo because he survive the horror of slavering and here we are today. I love to do my DNA Just to pay my respect to ancestry. Love always Lydia. "The Line of Judah has been crossed, one day the Lion of Judah will be resurrected"

@josm1481

2 жыл бұрын

Unlikely. They were Yoruba. The Dahomey claimed they were from Ghana but I think DNA suggests they were from Nigeria.

@josm1481

2 жыл бұрын

And yes, they were sold out of the slave port of ouidah, or Judah as you want to call it. The main slave port of the Dahomey. A kingdom so addicted to slavery it's king Gezo told the British he'd do anything they asked but give up slavery. So, the British negotiated, tried to bribe and eventually had to bombard the dahomey to stop selling their neighbors.

@isabellam1936

Жыл бұрын

Every black person should do ancestry dna. You’ll be surprised what the dna can tell you.

@KJB9566

Жыл бұрын

@@isabellam1936 and the Neanderthal

" Memories are where you laid them, drag the waters til the depths give up thier dead. What did you expect to find ? Was there something you left behind ? Hold me now i feel contagious, she cries her life is like some movie black and white. Dead actors faking lines,over and over again she cries. "

The SS Mar-A-Lago?

Nobody going to tell the story in Africa and how they got on the ship? All the survivors gave the same story.

Don't you know how to switch notifications on iPhone off?

I’m interested in what their life was like before America too. What was it like growing up like the culture and how did they get enslaved.

@UnfilteredAmerica

Жыл бұрын

Read the book Barracoon it’s about Cudjoe Lewis and his life

@naturalbeauty4734

20 күн бұрын

​​​@@UnfilteredAmericaThank you!! 👏 "This story is bleeding my soul!! 😭 🇧🇸

If you guys get to freely talk about your history, then we should get to talk about ours as well. This is not a story of hatred and fear, it is a story of hope and perseverance. We won't stop talking about our history just because some folks are uncomfortable with it. Do us a favor and stop trolling.

@jamespierce8342

2 жыл бұрын

Tf are you talking about?

@josm1481

2 жыл бұрын

It's uncomfortable for a lot of people. The Captain of the Clotilda was offered the pick of over a thousand naked slaves. He picked about 100 and the Dahomey offered to brand them for him. He said no. What happened to the thousand others? The slave traders in Africa were brutal.

Question everything

🌹

Wait..what’s it called??

Did she say that they were converted to Christianity 😮

They are due reparations

@PopOfGeniusFilmsVIPMediaScreen

Жыл бұрын

@SHADRACH YISRAEL AMAD Dude, what are you talking about. I'm African American and I'm a descendant of Slave ancestors, my own paternal grandmother was the granddaughter of a parents that were slave children in South Carolina. Stop with all of the weird analogies and pointless rhetoric. It makes absolutely no sense.

Hmmm… 🥴

The USS democrat party?

@linda_memolo

2 жыл бұрын

I used to vote either party based on their platform. The republicans have no platform, no morals, and are susceptible to an authoritarian leader/ cult leader. So, nope, blue all the way.

O My fsiiYt

Ya Kinda sick of talking about covid, race, and Politics. Find new material! I don’t watch news much because it’s never anything new or good.

@TruthOverFear21

2 жыл бұрын

Me too, but idiots keep on fucking up on treating people with respect and peace

@notofthisworld5267

2 жыл бұрын

Marico If that’s what they’re waiting for, will never happen. No, the real reason is to keep ppl divided. That’s the reality of it. All else is bs

@TruthOverFear21

2 жыл бұрын

@@notofthisworld5267 yeah bit we still have to reconcile with each other about the history that many other Americans doesn't want to discuss so we can learn, forgive and learn to truly live with each in peace

@linda_memolo

2 жыл бұрын

Oh, it’ll be good when trump gets indicted…🙂🙂

@notofthisworld5267

2 жыл бұрын

Linda Idc if he does. I’m neither party, and could give a rats behind about trump, race, or any other talking point.

Das rite

He was going to say, before she cut him off, that we are the real Israelites of the Bible, GOD’s Chosen…

@josm1481

2 жыл бұрын

But that would be nonesense.

@ktown4751

Жыл бұрын

@@josm1481 it's the truth.

@josm1481

Жыл бұрын

@@ktown4751 no, it's nonsense. You look desperate trying to impose another identity on Africans. It's embarrassing. Stop it?

@UnfilteredAmerica

Жыл бұрын

Stop it

Do we gotta do this ever year

@omg1103

2 жыл бұрын

You fool the younger generation doesn’t know who they are. You do not see the Jews complaining about remembering the Holocaust.

@apolloangel4754

2 жыл бұрын

We should be talking about it once a week

@calvinm1866

2 жыл бұрын

@@apolloangel4754 I wish I could like your comment a thousand times.

@xxmushisushixx1049

2 жыл бұрын

Do we gotta remember 9/11 every year?

@omg1103

2 жыл бұрын

@@apolloangel4754 it’s black history month. That’s why

I can't believe the community is ran down and not thriving....😂

American slave ship? Isnt that funny how they word these things as if Americans owned any of them. Who owned those slave ships? Do some research. Every one was registered to the British empire. Many were owned and registered by Jewish owners. Who owns the diamond mines and gold mines in Africa? Connect the dots. Slaves didn't just get on those ships. People were traded for European goods by their own African countrymen; rounded up and traded or sold to.the highest bidder. Look in Africa today. The presidents of 7 countries in Africa were overthrown by military leaders in a year. Look in America today. 50 dead in Chicago alone in one weekend and not a single cop involved and not a single white man involved- black on black crime. Spirits and principalities in high places none of you can see. I see. God bless us all. Bible says nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom. What is a kingdom? Do the math. It all goes back to sin. The love of money and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life is taking the entire world for one hell of a ride and this is the beginning of the worst times ever in the history of the world.

@augustnoon1548

2 жыл бұрын

Although I don’t specifically follow the Bible’s teachings, I do admire the philosophy it tells, like what you stated about our darkest days to come. As for the black community, people fail to realize that the people who sold the slaves were black as well. All to often people are confused with the facts on how black slavery was started. There’s so much pain and suffering in the black community and most of it is from black on black crime. It really erkes me whenever someone cries out racism when a black, male or female, is killed by law enforcement (I don’t deny that there isn’t racism in law enforcement nor do I not see a need for reform and most of it isn’t justified), or a host of stores, including grocery chains, refuse to help out the impoverished black communities because of theft. In the grand scheme of things, there’s a whole lot of issues that are refused attention, one being black on black crime. If it wasn’t for greed, ignorance or the governments refusal to actually help the black communities problems, the world would be in better place. Every one just needs to wake up and start helping each other, instead of looking through life from a toilet paper roll. Before calling me a racist because “I’m singling out the black community”, this applies to every community. Look at the facts, before jumping to conclusions and continuing to look through a toilet paper roll.

@rdallas81

2 жыл бұрын

@@augustnoon1548 I grew up in a black spanish Mexican Canadian area of NY and I have black family members. We came from food stamps and section 8 housing. Our parents were alcoholics and drug addicts. We seen it all.

@rdallas81

2 жыл бұрын

@@augustnoon1548 When one "Finds" God in their own heart through faith, JOY is replaced by pure spiritual bliss the second God sends his Holy Spirit to you through HIS grace, by YOUR Faith! The Holy Ghost comes from above Litterally and falls down upon and around the individual who is counted as righteous in Gods eyes and feels like a sheet of energy and pure love. Every hair stands up, you feel electrified and more than content. You feel the Holy spirit and you hear the holy spirit! Others "see" the Holy Ghost IN the true believer who all of a sudden becomes a TRUE KNOWER of God! That is How it happens. That is How It happened to me, and I never looked back. God is here. He truly is omnipresent. He saved me, he saved my life, and I showed others the power of God almighty who's Holy Spirit is very active in these days......For reasons that are biblical in scale and proportions. These days ARE those days prophesied millennia ago....If you have no idea of what I speak in any of it, you need to pray. Pray until you get Gods answer...His Holy Ghost.

@josm1481

2 жыл бұрын

The Clotilda was built in the USA. It was American. If you can't get basic facts right you should stop writing.

@josm1481

2 жыл бұрын

@@augustnoon1548 worse than that. This very story is sanitised to tell a very racially biased narrative. Ignored are some very inconvenient facts: 1. The survivors of the Clotilda all told a similar story. It was 'slaving season' and a Dahomey slaving party came to their village and slaughtered anybody who had no value and took the rest. 50-90% of slaves died in Africa, at the hands of African slave traders. 2. The captain wrote down what happened in his log. The Prince of the dahomey took him to a pen with over a thousand naked slaves and told him up pick out the ones he wanted. He then offered to brand them for him and the captain refused. 3. The Dahomey refused to give up slaving and the British had to bombard them to stop.

According to the same people the ships are still in use….

Oh no push more race hate. Shane on these reporters for pushing hate.

@apolloangel4754

2 жыл бұрын

HISTORY IS RACE HATE ???? I would argue that refusing to learn other races history while we are all forced to learn white history is the real hate

@ms.harris807

2 жыл бұрын

Wypipo have been pushing anti-Blackness and blaming everyone but themselves. White people did this without a cause and their descendants justfy it. White people made this choice and now don't want to sleep in the beds that they made. Question. This is our story in America and you want Black people to not remember when the descendants of these people behave just like them to this very day. White people do not have any room to talk. You trying to blame reporters for hate that has always been here against Black people makes you suspect and guilty of racism. Just how should Black people respond to 402 years of continuous unjustified mistreatment by the colonizers and their descendants. Cover ups are being exposed and white arrogance makes them incapable of not making enemies everywhere melanated people are. This is the house that white people built. We are NEVER going to forget or fighting for what was stolen from us. If you can't deal with the real then keep your mouth shut.

They didn't live it so their opinions don't count

@harleyquinn5774

2 жыл бұрын

They’re more connected with their African roots than most.

@jthugg1058

2 жыл бұрын

@@harleyquinn5774 knowing about the past doesn't do anything for me 2022

@naturalbeauty4734

20 күн бұрын

​@@jthugg1058And that's why you're lost!!! 🙄

Aleast some people still care about Black History Month Happy Black History Month

Lies

@ms.harris807

2 жыл бұрын

I know. Your mama should've taught you better. "But I'm not racist". Save it fool.

What a way to make blacks more angry!

@TheBlumann

2 жыл бұрын

blacks? who actually says " blacks"?...oh yeah, usually those who don't know "blacks" as actual friends...anyway What makes blacks more angry is the lack of accountability this country shows to the effects slavery through systemic and generational impact. Do better.

@bsting601

2 жыл бұрын

With history ? The nazi's try to delete history . You'd fit right in with em

@notofthisworld5267

2 жыл бұрын

Gotta keep em voting democrat

@papawheelie5576

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheBlumann Demand reparations from the party of slavery - The Democrats. 👍

@bsting601

2 жыл бұрын

@@papawheelie5576 Then make the Republican dumb asses use a democrat flag lol . USA is a fucked up place.

Thank you NBC, we need it ! We need to feel guilty for what happened hundreds years ago, we need to pay for it in 2022….hurrays…..woke… 💩 💩 💩 💩 💩

@unvaccinatedAndPureBlood

2 жыл бұрын

This is abc. But yeah, they all liars so they're the same.

@TheBlumann

2 жыл бұрын

raped. maim. Kidnapped drowned beaten hung. worked to death. No wealth from there effort No accountability for the horrors inflicted. FOR MILLIONS! ...yeah, but your guilt matters more...

@laurent4186

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheBlumann blah Blah blah Blah Blah blah blah Blah Blah blah Past is the Past , move on ! Stop the guilt , stop that woke 💩

@TruthOverFear21

2 жыл бұрын

@@laurent4186 I bet you wouldn't say that to another Jewish person about the holocaust. We won't forget so we don't repeat the past dumbass

@TruthOverFear21

2 жыл бұрын

@@laurent4186 kzread.info/dash/bejne/aZ-amciumrCakco.html

who cares

@linda_memolo

2 жыл бұрын

who cares about you?

@scratchnoff7609

2 жыл бұрын

No a republican unless there blood involved

@bsting601

2 жыл бұрын

American history mate , get used to it snowflake

@JazznRealHipHop

2 жыл бұрын

I do

@bootnazz1786

2 жыл бұрын

Why you watching.go to a Nazi channel

It’s sad that people converted to Christianity the religion of their slavers instead of their native religion and beliefs.

@RAWALITY

Жыл бұрын

Because Christ is bring all to repentance God is good

Good lord MOVE ON!!! So sick of slave stories. We get it. Blacks we're slaves. Can we please turn the page??

@scratchnoff7609

2 жыл бұрын

No we can't, if black won't remind you kkk will.

@linda_memolo

2 жыл бұрын

I'm sick of people like you; ignorant, self obsessed, not seeing the big picture how history repeats itself, and how people were treated, and moved forward. No compassion? No history background? Pfffttt.. Stop with the grievances. You don't have it so bad.

@RUTHLESSambition5

2 жыл бұрын

@@scratchnoff7609 I don't need a reminder. It's 1000s of slave movies to tied me over 6 lifetimes

@RUTHLESSambition5

2 жыл бұрын

@@linda_memolo We will never be slaves again😂😂What world are u living in?? If anything they will be slaves when they lose power. They will have 0 allies. They screwed over EVERYONE

@scratchnoff7609

2 жыл бұрын

@@RUTHLESSambition5 don't forget your people like the McMichael an police that kill black while sleeping.

But poor jews....

We don’t need apologies just REPERATIONS Critical Race Deposits 💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰