As a white American I can say, it would have been nice to learn about these thing in school growing up. Some white people say they have no shame or guilt because they didn’t do it, then why don’t we teach kids our true history if ur not ashamed!

@HunterBidenscrack

10 ай бұрын

@@tehran2090we’re not big fans of you either.

@maryellenshock

10 ай бұрын

I am also white, and I have been fascinated for years! One or the first book that I bought through a book club was Roots. I've been fascinated since. Did research on sally hemmings.

@anonymously_me1803

10 ай бұрын

Thank You!

@user-zy8yj4rw5x

10 ай бұрын

wtf where u school at digleberry city

@seancagney8897

10 ай бұрын

There is a lot of stuff they don't teach you about in history class, they pick and choose what you learn... Do your own research I guess and read different sides of things and thoroughly. When learning history though you should not let it hinder your NOW or future, reflect, learn and so on but don't let it deter you today from moving forward and living a fulfilling life.

I love what Mary Elliott said, “They didn’t come with empty heads. They came with empty hands.” That’s a powerful statement.

@opaqueblackhole

10 ай бұрын

@@JasonWilliams-um2nt Dr. Suess (world changing) quote: "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not."

@lestefani9517

10 ай бұрын

Then how come they are doing so badly today? Even a Mexican who can't speak English and no education can get ahead of them in a few years lol

@AnotherOak

10 ай бұрын

basic denial.

@omggiiirl2077

10 ай бұрын

​@@JasonWilliams-um2ntyes it is, because people always love to act like we don't have a culture and that we just pulled things out of the air. All that American culture that this country loves to take credit for comes from us, it's an acknowledgement that our culture and Americans culture isn't just European. And that we didn't just get stripped of what makes us African when our ancestors were brought here, we recreated Africa here in the states, and it was so good that it even changed they way white folks live their lives.

@ab71640

10 ай бұрын

What would be great if they could connect those relative in Africa to bring their story full circle.

Never forget where you came from. This community needs to be talked about more and bring light to American history.

@erikstone2321

10 ай бұрын

Why? Just to breed more racism and black supremacists?!? Nah that’s ok!

@Rob-iy2rt

9 ай бұрын

It is talked about a lot and taught in schools. There is a point when it just gets annoying. Every cultures experienced slavery in their past, and every culture had slaves, including Africans. It's just history.

@justinschrank4806

9 ай бұрын

It's talked about literally constantly.

@s.wvazim6517

9 ай бұрын

Good point I always wondered if 400 years after the Romans did there thing across the world people were still having a go at them.

@tonyherdina9142

8 ай бұрын

Don't forget who put an end to slavery worldwide. And who trafficked these people at the beginning of the supply chain.

Being from Mobile, Alabama, I never knew how much history was so close to me. It’s a very sad story however I’m glad that it is being told.

@roseamberzine5846

10 ай бұрын

Nova Scotia Canada also has an Africatown.

@catdaddy2643

10 ай бұрын

Alabamy always shocks me, I don’t like what was done in those lands.

@cartergomez5390

9 ай бұрын

​@@catdaddy2643I feel the same way 😊

@gigwgt

9 ай бұрын

How did you not know the history would be strong? You live i. The Deep South…

@winniethuo9736

8 ай бұрын

​@@catdaddy2643 I hope you have the chance to observe what you yourself is doing to the lands you are a part of. One may say the future! If you were to live your life all over again after this leg, would you be content with your participation? Would you be an observer or the observed. The society or looking in as an outsider. I think this is a more fruitful enquiry.What do you think?

What happened to those people was an unimaginable nightmare. It's absolutely despicable what humans do to one another.

@AboutMyIssue01

10 ай бұрын

@@Jakil557he things you people say to justify the sick things your ancestors did are genuinely amazing Also bringing African born slaves was banned in the early 1800s , there were breeding farms and other in inhuman ways of fattening their pockets. I know this is just KZread and you can say whatever you want but atleast try not to be so ignorant it genuinely proves our point.

@themangarage2203

10 ай бұрын

@@AboutMyIssue01 Its a historical FACT that African slaves were willingly sold sold to the white salve traders by other Africans. They were enslaved by other Africans usually as a result of plunder after raids on rival tribes. It all comes down to human greed whether on the part of the Africans who raided and captured them or the Europeans who bought and then sold them. It was wrong for all parties responsible. Just don't try to frame this as a racial issue because Humans have been enslaving each other for millennia regardless of skin color. Its wrong no matter what but virtually all cultures and colors of the world were guilty of it at some point in history.

@ASunDivine7

10 ай бұрын

​@@Jakil557lies😢

@eunicemoyo6024

10 ай бұрын

This pink pple they're not human they are elies, even there skin talk 😁😁😁they can't stand the sun so sad 😊😊😊

@billadolla6582

10 ай бұрын

@@Jakil557definitely an uneducated response but aye it’s your world

Only 160 years had passed. People think of slavery in America as such ancient history that we should just get over... We're talking about great grandparents and grandparents who lived with those stories and through Jim Crow and later practices

@DRob-gq3ki

10 ай бұрын

Yea the democrats are total pricks for all that.

@sb1234ist

10 ай бұрын

EXACTLY!!

@erikstone2321

10 ай бұрын

Only 160 years? That’s a long time!!!! Way longer than any lifetime! That’s like 10 generations!!!! But cool story bro! Blacks loves Jim Crow because they hate White people and wanted segregation hence why they still segregate themselves! Even DECADES after Jim Crow ended! Plus Jim Crow was only in the south.

@Gerrard_7up

10 ай бұрын

How hard can it be to also trace those west Africans , who started the misery . It seems they have escaped proper scrutiny for too long . They also got an extended reprieve from the "ROOTS" novel , what a demonic inspired lie that was .

@minoltaaraya

9 ай бұрын

Yes! 🙌🏾👏🏾 My MOM got spit at going to school, cursed out - Jim Crowe didn’t end till 1965 -1968 (the south?) and it definitely wasn’t a smooth transition.. but yeah, we should just get over it. 🙃🖤

I hope the ship is raised whole, and soon, to be preserved and displayed in a museum with as much information about it's 'passengers' as possible!

@BigA-trucking

8 ай бұрын

There names an society from which they came from was stripped away from them..their “information” was stolen an I don’t see how’s it’s possible to retrieve it

@lutzderlurch7877

8 ай бұрын

@@BigA-trucking With archeology, you never know what tiny fragments of history you might end up finding. Some small glimpses into peoples lives or some hints at their story. Things that help bring them further along the way from cold, empty statistic towards actual human being.

@RY-os9vw

8 ай бұрын

@@lutzderlurch7877 Yes-DNA will help as well.

@yessirree5747

7 ай бұрын

We dont have room for important history. Unless it is a current druggie named George Floyd, then they will make a statue of it.

I never knew this piece of History this is the first time I've ever hearing anything about this. I'm overwhelmed.. this should never be forgotten. God bless those descendants. I'm over 60 years old. I'm white and I was raised in the northern part of Michigan. I want to know why I don't know or have ever heard of this. Now I've got to know more I will be researching this and sharing. I just want to know why people like me have never heard of this.

A history that should never be forgotten.

@345mrse

10 ай бұрын

Which history is that?

@moneyhungryvisionzz7450

10 ай бұрын

@@345mrsegtfo troll

@DBEdwards

10 ай бұрын

I wasn't born then. Neither were my parents. I don't give a fig. That's life.

@residentrump3271

10 ай бұрын

It certainly won't be repeated in murikkka

@sew_gal7340

10 ай бұрын

we cant forget it...we are reminded every minute every second of every day. its tiring if anything

“History, despite its wrenching pain cannot be relived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.”

@justinallen9104

10 ай бұрын

I agree, we should send them back where they belong, stay brave!

@nedkent5239

10 ай бұрын

Perfection!

@donniedonnie639

10 ай бұрын

If anything was changed in the past, none of us would exist.

@keyfield8967

10 ай бұрын

Good point- don't be like that idiot Ron DeSantis and try to bury America's past...

@Chancentrane

10 ай бұрын

@@donniedonnie639this is a brain-dead take and you’re spamming it everywhere. It’s obvious you’re just desperately trying to justify horrific aspects of American history just because you don’t like to learn and accept those difficult truths. It happened, and now we exist, so DEAL WITH IT 😂

I'm so happy that I was able to hear your messages!! I'm sending all of my positive energy to you!

Mr foster turning up and saying he is sorry makes me cry...He wasn't there but he understood that story was part of his history n and I just to say God bless his heart. Thank you ao much for your kind words. Much love and greetings from Papua new guinea to you...

I think it’s a blessing to have grown up with this much detail and knowledge about an enslaved ancestor, who was literally first. Many of us don’t even know where to start. ❤

@ebonyr.b.1216

10 ай бұрын

so true

@RONALDO-ij6qu

10 ай бұрын

If you are seeking a Deeper Sense of Afro American History- Our Local Prison Systems Will Provide an Abundance of Fact/Knowldege/Proof/Detail/Current Status Of the AfroAmerican Individual (including) the Crimes Commited By That Particular Individidual.

@micahgelfand8282

10 ай бұрын

​@@RONALDO-ij6qu Wtf?

@gildapatterson7792

10 ай бұрын

Get professional help (Henry Louis Gates) to research your ancestry. However, Black Americans' pasts are really fragmented (broken up) to do the research alone, and it would probably take a lot of money to do a thorough research (it has been over 400 years since the first slaves were brought to this country).

@RONALDO-ij6qu

10 ай бұрын

@@micahgelfand8282 ► MAGA

Had no idea they outlawed bringing new slaves in the early 1800s. The folks went through true oppression. The will and strength is amazing.

@cassandraroper9208

10 ай бұрын

They kept it though.

@RK-su4hs

10 ай бұрын

Humans have forced people to be slaves since the beginnings of man’s existence in the earth Usually their own people All great civilizations of the past eg Roman, Egyptian, Persian etc were built on the sweat & tears of slaves Bringing Africans to America ie the first time slaves were sent far distances from their homes This became possible as the 19th. century was the century of transportation… Sad reflection on man’s inhumanity to man “Be the change you want to see “ Mahatma Ghandi

@morgenhoop

10 ай бұрын

I bet you'd be shocked if someone told you half of Africa was still enslaved to this day. Dumbazz. "i had no idea!?!?!" The arrogance in you is mind blowing.

@jsandiego2394

10 ай бұрын

I mean, I would much rather have a SAFE AMERICA , than an entire people stuck with what happened 200 years ago! And then to NOT want to do anything to better as a people!? ....smh

@hash8169

10 ай бұрын

We need to pass reparations

This is very powerful and it was very emotional to watch. May those who were enslaved and forced to endure such horrific conditions rest in eternal peace 🙏🏻

It is a testament to the resiliency and decency of these modern descendants that they live honorable lives. One gets the sense that, despite the grave injustices inflicted on their ancestors (treated like animals), they live in a way that is exemplary, without bitterness, with no hostility to the system that still keeps them down. We should all be so morally refined.

@Laronsmith6949

8 ай бұрын

Well said!

@BBFLYRISEN

8 ай бұрын

We do have bitterness and hostility toward the system. And many of us do NOT live exemplary lives or anything near it. And many of us can see through what you just said. 🙄

@rr7firefly

8 ай бұрын

@@BBFLYRISEN If we do not live an exemplary life then perhaps it is time to begin living in a way that we would want. That is a worthy goal for every human being.

@BBFLYRISEN

8 ай бұрын

@@rr7firefly You are right. That is true of everyone. We can all do better in one area of life or another.

@pvxmovies9611

7 ай бұрын

@@rr7firefly the world is here to stay, it is a matter of time. i hope they wont be treated the same way by others in future.

My 4th great grandfather came to America on one of these ships. It’s crazy to know that one of my ancestors survived this. We don’t talk about the middle passage a lot but it was the most brutal part of the whole thing.

@SuperKaz88

10 ай бұрын

Are stories of how your ancestors were sold to people in the americas? Did whites just go to africa and steal these people or were they stolen in africa by other blacks, and then sold to white folk? Genuine question, sadly our public education system does not educate on this matter very well.

@vmlksm9

10 ай бұрын

@@idontcareanymore2473 Back then, ppl didn’t consider themselves “the same” just because they shared the same skin color. Just how the British & Irish didn’t consider themselves the same though they are the same genetically. So technically the British Caused a Famine against their own ppl by todays standards.

@Sunnytrucks9014

10 ай бұрын

​@@idontcareanymore2473your white friends convinced them to go into that trade, we know what happened to the people that refused to be involved with the British in Nigeria

@BIGMIKESKNUTTS

10 ай бұрын

@@idontcareanymore2473lol, tell them about Obama and Hillary’s Libya experience, and how they are still actively trading slaves. Democrats hate facts

@ianwinkler6224

10 ай бұрын

@@idontcareanymore2473 I learned this in my african american history class, but they described 'slavery' to be much different in african culture. Usually it was after another tribe lost a war and they would have to serve for some years only until they worked themselves up through the winning society and then they could be free. It was white people that would take them away to work indefinitely for generations so they could make huge profits and they treated their slaves much much worse.

Just imagining what those poor people were put through gives me chills. I would have lost my mind on that ship. And then to be enslaved afterwards, my God!

@cutime6712

10 ай бұрын

It's fake

@RONALDO-ij6qu

10 ай бұрын

Most were Criminals, as most are today.. Yes I agree. Chilling..

@non-kh7tm

10 ай бұрын

​@@cutime6712i believe in you. Most ship was made by wood Back 1800 and they will ruin when they wrench by the water. Most migrants came here with ship no by plane. It can be those ship too.

@user-ug2hk3go6i

10 ай бұрын

@@cutime6712 What is fake?

@bullybully

10 ай бұрын

@@RONALDO-ij6qupeople in a different country were criminals??? Lmao ok says the white folks who raped robbed and murdered the criminals 😂😂😂

I’m so happy for them to know exactly where their ancestors came from. So many of us wouldn’t know where to start

@OSIYO267

8 ай бұрын

These people are not from Africa these people were already in America. The blacks today are the original indigenous people of this land. But they gave their rights to the so-called Indians AKA native Americans. They were considered civilized and the indigenous people were considered uncivilized but they were already here before anybody got here.FACTS

@OSIYO267

8 ай бұрын

Go and research the true depictions of the indigenous native Indian tribes that were here. They look just like the so-called African Americans today.and btw African-American is a misnomer these people boys misclassified been reclassified just sold their history would be lost and given to another group, which is the five civilized tribes. And those so-called five civilized tribes are really Mongolian. They are not native to the Americas 💯🌎

Thank you for covering this and preserving true history

I’m an Islander in the Caribbean. Therefore I may have African blood in my dna, and I’m so proud of it. Happy Juneteenth 🎉❤

@Xobloot-qf2mj

10 ай бұрын

Everybody's DNA comes from Africa. That's what the experts say. Except for mine. I am the lord Savior

@Blackman19498

10 ай бұрын

@@Xobloot-qf2mjyou are a nut 🥜 😮

@idontdohumans5950

10 ай бұрын

How do you think you got to the island 🏝 where you you think you came 🤔 ftom 😮

@xahnairyztheurbanlegend4889

10 ай бұрын

You do life started in Africa and Adam and Eve are what ppl now stupidly call "black".

Stories that need to continue to be told.

@SelengiaMlawi

10 ай бұрын

MAGA goons regard this kind of thing as " woke" and part of CRT which they would rather erase from everyone's mind. Everyone is waiting for criticism and erasure of landings from Europe as dangerous/ unnecessary memories.

@RANS87IROCZ

10 ай бұрын

They should focus on the entirety not just African transatlantic trade! It's a grift, because men like Tippu Tip put his own in this situation! Not to mention? zero mention of any slavic people or Irish when every group was, they push it as a wht n blk issue when reality it was a rich vs poor? How so? Wealthy men like Anthony Johnson is another to learn about, though media grifters won't tell any

@wepsychoit2002

10 ай бұрын

True like how the bantu tribes enslaved raped murdered the pygmies tribes to extinction And how the Muslims treated the Christian slaves its very naughty

@arleatriceburroughs1455

10 ай бұрын

If they don't tell it tell your children yourself I did period !

@truthseeker4298

10 ай бұрын

Its in the bible

This is incredible and powerful and this is what true empathy and sincere apology and forgiveness looks like. This is how it should be. We should be able to acknowledge the horror of our past, denounce our ancestors actions and accept one another.🙏🏼

It is a painful, but beautiful story because it shows the strength of the survivors to build a life in spite of the cruelty imposed on them. All Africans brought to the Americas and the Antilles had skills, spoke several languages, practiced beautiful religions, understood the energies of nature in a way that modern science has never been able to explain. They brought their art, dance and music encrypted in their souls. I was glad to see you playing drums because it is a very soulful instrument. Drums emit penetrating sounds capable of travelling for miles. The rythm and sound of drums is capable of lifting the human spirit in a way no other instrument can. Thanks for telling your story and for educating all of us.

OMG. As a Mexican having our land taken away and treated like you don't belong alone is an uncomfortable feeling passed from generation to generation. This is another level of true evil.

@donniedonnie639

10 ай бұрын

You would not exist if one single thing was changed in the past. This is silly!!!!

@nathanielovaughn2145

10 ай бұрын

Welcome to mankind and human nature.

@jocykujo

10 ай бұрын

it’s truly heartbreaking

@mizzjacksonxoxo

10 ай бұрын

This video isn't about Mexicans...😕😕

@RuinStatue

10 ай бұрын

Blame spain.

Very rewarding to see his family members are doctors, Lawyers and professionals

@KenTaylor-qs8mi

10 ай бұрын

Not all of them are doctors and lawyers .

@edgarh252

10 ай бұрын

@@KenTaylor-qs8misame thing could be said about every family no matter their skin color.

@msb5818

10 ай бұрын

Would be more rewarding if they where given their reparations

@darthsidious8926

10 ай бұрын

Choose to make something of themselves instead of blaming the system and shooting up there neighbourhoods

@AngelicaAngel888_

10 ай бұрын

​@KenTaylor-qs8mi they didn't say all 🤡

So glad you are showing this story. Just re-read Zora Neale Hurston's 'Babacoon' where she speaks with Mr. Lewis. I am glad this story was created because now we can address the misinformation in the movie 'The Woman King.' Mr. Lewis describes how the Dahomey women led the captives to the men, but more importantly, in this book we see that the Dahomey are in fact not heroes, but villains.

@TheCanalZone

4 ай бұрын

The Kingdom of Dahomey's primary export was slaves.

@whitepowderruns

3 ай бұрын

​@@TheCanalZoneAnd yet they are upheld as 'Woman King Warriors.' I'm not sure what the point is you were trying to make, but to reiterate my point, The Dahomey were villains to me, but we live in a time where history is so re-written, if we don't pay attention, we will have no idea what is going on. Anyone who mistreats anyone is in no way a hero to me. The Dahomey's were villains, pushed by a pro-villain narrative that promotes mistreatment. No human being should be mistreated and if we as human beings ever see someone else mistreated, it is our responsibility to make it right for the mistreated. There is an onion for you to peel.

Thanks very much for sharing your story. It is a historical event that we would not know about, but you and your ancestors have made it available to America and to the world by passing the story on from generation to generation.

This is an important part of our history as a country and needs to be preserved.

@HumanBeingsRThinkingBeings

10 ай бұрын

Mind Begs the Question: Anti Semitism - Sternly dealt with Racism,Islamophobia - If not Equally Sternly dealt with Equality,Elitist?

@MS-st1zb

10 ай бұрын

Preserve what you want and rid of what you dont want. That is going to work out splendidly.

@noname6339

10 ай бұрын

This isn't out history

@DRob-gq3ki

10 ай бұрын

We should be proud that we ended slavery 150 years ago because most people live in countries where it REMAINS LEGAL!

@BIGMONEYMEDIA

10 ай бұрын

WAIT TIL YOU FIND OUT THE REAL IMPORTANT PART THAT BLACK PPL WERE ALREADY HERE BESIDES THE MOORS WHO CAME FROM AFRICA AND THE WHITE LOW CLASS SLAVS WHO HAD TO BE INDENTURED SERVANTS IN THE NEW WORLD.

I can’t imagine being locked in a ship like that, packed like sardines. No human deserves to be done like this…

@dickdiamonds3410

10 ай бұрын

Yeah it's even worse that they did it to their own people

@JoniAntonioo

10 ай бұрын

@@dickdiamonds3410who bought them? Who was there to fuel the demand?

@stephenholmes1036

10 ай бұрын

Copying the romans who moved slaves from the UK and north Africa in even worse conditions

@stephenholmes1036

10 ай бұрын

@@JoniAntonioo cheap labour

@marim7697

10 ай бұрын

​@@stephenholmes1036Free labor

Really powerful video. History should never be forgotten.

Another touching and beautiful story about human strength, it is amazing what these people did, hope that one day this African town flourish and show once again human strength to all of us, what an example❤️

My grandmother, Jessie Eirby Gay told me stories that included the name Kujo!!! She lived in Mobile, Alabama and talked over and over about Africatown !!

@mrsmincey9731

10 ай бұрын

My mom's dad family last name is Gay my grandfather is the only living descendant left out of 14 kids i believe. 🤔

Whats also sad is this same type of events happened but the buyer was a child abuser. Imagine a ship like that with 110 children! So many evils were done no one wants to remember 😔

@MerwinARTist

10 ай бұрын

Everyone is a child of someone! Wars are started and continued by the same cold hearted people. You have to look beyond the smokescreen.

@justinallen9104

10 ай бұрын

I want to remember. I want to send them back.

@nickj8521

10 ай бұрын

episteins island

@shaunharn1998

10 ай бұрын

Now their descendants are the ones enjoying the benefits of them being taken out of a underdeveloped continent into a first world country

@darthsidious8926

10 ай бұрын

Epstein is just the tip of the modern slavery ice berg

Good episode right here. I’ve always felt Alabama calling to me for some reason, a lot of pain and a lot of beauty is held over there.

Thank you for this video.

"Making a way out of now way..." "...they didn't come here with empty heads, they came with empty hands, so they found a way to make a way and they relied on each other and were resilient." Black excellence. From the beginning.

@justinallen9104

10 ай бұрын

LOL, black excellence sold them to the whites! you all cracking me up!

My entire paternal side are from Alabama and lived in Africa town. I am almost certain they were on Clotilda. And it actually didn't stop. When researching I've come across census when asked where they were birn it stated Africa- meaning they were still being brought here. My daddy born and raised in Mobile. Just like his father in 1920. I can get about 150 years of them being in this same area. They are well documented.

@gamalbh4364

10 ай бұрын

Hello Stephanie, I love African American I have been to US special Alabama colonel Jamal Baluchi from Bahrain 🇧🇭 😊

@mikkelmichael9944

10 ай бұрын

All black race are from same continent Africa! ur nationality is immaterial.

@oforimensah4711

10 ай бұрын

The Lord is coming to set everything right!! We got to hold on and keep the faith. Joel 3 In those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, 2 I will gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. *There I will put them on trial* *for what they did to my inheritance, my people Israel,* *because they scattered my people among the nations* *and divided up my land.* 3 They cast lots for my people *and traded boys for prostitutes;* *they sold girls for wine to drink.* 4 “Now what have you against me, Tyre and Sidon and all you regions of Philistia? Are you repaying me for something I have done? If you are paying me back, *I will swiftly and speedily return on your own heads what you have done. 5 For you took my silver and my gold and carried off my finest treasures to your temples. 6 You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, that you might send them far from their homeland.* 7 “See, I am going to rouse them out of the places to which you sold them, and I will return on your own heads what you have done. 8 *I will sell your sons and daughters to the people of Judah,*

@donniedonnie639

10 ай бұрын

If the past were different you (and I)would not exist.

@EliteSports217

10 ай бұрын

This is fake

Why would they accept his apology without him repaying what his ancestors stole. Any wealth he still has should be given to them if he is truly sorry. That's like my grandperents robbing a bank and leaving me the money. Then I just saying sorry but then keep the money they left me.

Thank you to everyone who made this documentary possible. God bless you all. We are the children.

Great quote by the lady: The slaves came with empty hands not empty head. Regards from India❤

@BIGMONEYMEDIA

10 ай бұрын

THE SLAVS CAME AS WHITE LOW CLASS INDENTURED SERVANTS READY TO SETTLE IN AND GET COMFORTABLE.

It’s never too expensive to recover history.

@thebill8891

10 ай бұрын

There are millions of rich black Americans why can’t they help It’s a shame

@xavieriswavier

10 ай бұрын

@@thebill8891why would the descendants of the slaves have to help. The slavers have to do it, which is why they’re doing it. You’re just mad at black people for no reason you racist

@enigma6451

10 ай бұрын

@@thebill8891 why should they participate in what was done to them? After so many years of refining the white pool, your brain cells are still lacking

@RONALDO-ij6qu

10 ай бұрын

If you are seeking a Deeper Sense of Afro American History- Our Local Prison Systems Will Provide an Abundance of Fact/Knowldege/Proof/Detail/Current Status Of the AfroAmerican Individual (including) the Crimes Commited By That Particular Individidual.

@fractalmadness9253

10 ай бұрын

As much as a coffer dam around it.

Powerful interview! Thank you! We must remember and pass it on to our kids! Write a book!

Interesting...the most convincing and powerful action of a human is a genuine smile. Without words, it alone expresses much forgiveness.

Unlike millions without a clue about who their ancestors were or where they came from, these people are truly blessed 🌹.

@kezsovreign

10 ай бұрын

Right! It's just so beautiful ❤

@efemzyekun900

10 ай бұрын

The first enslaved African, mentioned by his African name, Olúwálé in this video is a Yorùbá man from present day South West Nigeria. His name means God brought me home.

@juliostevens9480

10 ай бұрын

With all the DNA Black Americans not knowing where they come from is a choice at this point.

Imagine just taking people and treating them like trash. People who were minding their own business in their own country. No words for that evil

@kerimaltuncu8152

11 ай бұрын

It's still happening

@johnkeith2450

11 ай бұрын

When their fellow countrymen gathered them up and sold them to be taken away as slaves

@sl5946

10 ай бұрын

@@johnkeith2450 Exactly, I love how people seem to conveniently forget that

@Rob774

10 ай бұрын

​@SL Nobody forgot a thing. It's just people like you try to use that as some sort of crutch, making it seem like what happened after they got here okay, since the heniousness started in Africa first.

@sl5946

10 ай бұрын

@@Rob774 If it didn't start in Africa they would have never got here

What a tearjerker, the power of an apology 😢😢😢

It is a sad and dark history yet rich in pride and courage. I commend these people for speaking truth to power. These stories are important.

That thankful hug brought tears to my eyes. Such amazingly resilient people…they need that town!

@Paulftate

10 ай бұрын

No reparation

@wrightphotos1759

10 ай бұрын

We know that stupidity and evil thrives in you.

@USEtheDERRICK.4workouts

10 ай бұрын

Shut up it didn’t happen . How could a boat without a motor make this trip ? Through the burmudah triangle at that ?

@morgenhoop

10 ай бұрын

@@Paulftate I got the feeling that its a money grab also. Curious to see what the top wealthy folks are sharing with their fellow boat ancestors.....i bet its ZERO!!! Welcome to America.

@BlackGeoYoutube

10 ай бұрын

We need REARATIIONS

These stories are so painful, makes me want to cry. I can't fathom how people could be so heartless as to enslaved another human being to gain wealth, and all of this sanction by the highest office of their Religion. I can never come to terms with that.

@DBEdwards

10 ай бұрын

Get with the programme, babe. It's called Capitalism. Product does not matter. Making the Quid does. .

@NTJedi

10 ай бұрын

Slavery is very real in many countries still today, but mainstream news media won't tell you those stories. Check Africa for example where there's plenty of popular slavery still happening today, perhaps people should start asking why is "real" slavery ignored by mainstream news media when ancient slavery is shown on the news instead??

@eddiekulp1241

10 ай бұрын

Trying to apply modern norms to the past is stupid . Back then slavery was legal . There was money to be made . May not have been right but was way it was

@Theelby33

10 ай бұрын

Yet many still fought against this horrendous practice. I wonder when someone says that's just the way things were.

@marcwells03

10 ай бұрын

Have you read genesis 21. God loves slavery

Very interesting, very informative. This needs to be more well known.

Crazy how African tribes captured and sold off their own to help put this in motion. And even today, tens of millions are enslaved in Africa. I guess some things never change.

I'm a 39yr old White Brit, watching this had me tearful 😢 all the way through, but was so educational and important to learn more on what happened. I'm heartbroken 💔 but also glad I watched and learned more. Thank you to the producers for this information piece. Let this never be buried in History, and never be repeated. Pray for on-going efforts today against human trafficking operations or any slavery ongoing anywhere in the world. Strong people, their decendents can be very proud of their resiliance. The Meaher's should give all land to the residents of AfricaTown and they need to remover their name from everywhere. That highway 🛣 was all deliberate and the industry etc all trying to erase the history and cover up. It's all sickening. I would love to see the Meaher family take action to make reparations by giving up land and wealth.

@jonroman9572

10 ай бұрын

The English should be commended for ending slavery world wide. The Arab Muslims took more Africans as slaves than any other group did, they started the trade actually in 600AD and Europeans picked it up from them in the late 1400s. The English banned it in the early 1800s and enforced it world wide as a Empire. Some of the Arab states had to have their shores bombarded with cannon, like in Morocco, to scare their Sultan into freeing his black slaves.

@drucshlook

10 ай бұрын

Mind your own Irish ;)

@Just-Human

10 ай бұрын

No one is a color

@PeteyS.D.

10 ай бұрын

Feel guilty?

@dweb2275

10 ай бұрын

Yeah the Brits were one of the largest slavetraders.

Wow! This is an amazing story. I was deeply touched by the words of that one descendant. He said that he felt no guilt because he didn’t do it but he would like to apologize because it was not right. I truly wish that all descendants from the profiting side of slavery could get to that place. America would be a better nation.

@keyfield8967

10 ай бұрын

The Freedmen and their families just wanted peace and be left alone from the marauding whites who always 'say' that hate Blacks, but always found their bland white azzes wanting to be near Blacks...huh

@NTJedi

10 ай бұрын

If the mainstream news media actually cared about slavery then it would be educating people about the REAL SLAVERY which exists in Africa today.

@keithcummings691

10 ай бұрын

Your anti slavery rhetoric has now been turned into antiwhite propaganda REMEMBER THIS FACT IT WAS THE WHITEMAN WHO ENDED SLAVERY IN AMERICA

@fedfan3079

10 ай бұрын

⁠@@NTJedithis is American history. A history not taught in school. What exactly would you like us to do with the many conflicts in Africa right now?

@NTJedi

10 ай бұрын

@@fedfan3079 If slavery is truly important than instead of looking at ancient history which cannot be changed the focus should be on locations where real slavery still exists. Mainstream news media needs to provide actual details of real problems in the world allowing people of power to take action... not a review of old history.

That broadcast is awesome.

It will be absolutely impossible to survive such a trip...

@u.s.lawyer8542

2 ай бұрын

Many did survive

Damn, that last moment made me cry... May that town prosper and be great!

@kasheem1747

10 ай бұрын

Relax it’s all lies

@themangarage2203

10 ай бұрын

I grew up in that area dude...go to that town and when your pockets are emptied at gunpoint you will cry for joy for the simply fact that you made it out alive lol

@kourtbowen7131

10 ай бұрын

Why do they always got to build a damn Highway or industrial plant around black communities? Like damn let us Live (Literally)🤦🏾‍♂️

@joelewis1776

2 ай бұрын

@@themangarage2203and surely there isn’t a connection between decades of disenfranchisement+poverty and crime… surely not right ? Try thinking a little.

@themangarage2203

2 ай бұрын

Try a winners mentality instead of a victim mentality. @@joelewis1776

I have the day off work in recognition of the Juneteenth Federal Holiday, and was looking for something to watch that would tie into the spirit of the day. This story certainly fit that mold.

@justinallen9104

10 ай бұрын

lol

@brunoantony9257

10 ай бұрын

Juneteenth. . .a fake holiday with a fake name. Certainly fits the target audience.

@jamommagotocollege

10 ай бұрын

Well at least you did not sit around drinking Bud Light.

@Moon-lt1dl

10 ай бұрын

Right on brother! Makes my heart happy

@curtisthomas2670

10 ай бұрын

The rays would love to get a holiday celebrating the day the South seceded

This touched my heart so much 😍 Thank You for providing and protecting the information of your Loved one's 😘 ❤️

Keep the stories coming

Powerful story. It is so disturbing that Africa Town was mostly destroyed in the attempt to wipe out people, businesses and their community. And yet, they continue on. I hope they get all that they are asking for and the Meaher family will step up to right some wrongs.

The highway definitely wasn't a coincidence it was definitely strategically placed there.. it really is fascinating. The Descendants are still there I pray that they never forget their history

@natashadickson4819

10 ай бұрын

I heard highways are deliberately built through black towns so that the next generation has no land to inherit and have to start from scratch with the burden of mortgages.

@spider46531

10 ай бұрын

All highways are strategicly placed and has nothing to do with color. I live near one that bypasses small towns and now those towns are almost dead

@missaamane8580

10 ай бұрын

@spider46531 it's absolutely does. Just because the highway you live next to might not anything to do with color... some are. Especially the part of miami where I live.... you gotta at least know history before you try to deny it

@genieess5403

10 ай бұрын

Don’t be naive, of course the highway was strategically place. It was put there to take the land and wealth of Black owners.

@TheV00d00D011

10 ай бұрын

@@genieess5403 absolutely interstate 10 in Los Angeles was placed in the black part of town on purpose. Like a slash of a blade through the black part of town, to demarcate the city.

He laughed, and first said he didn't do it. He continued to talk and then said I'm sorry. Hope it comes from the heart

Africa Town. What a beautifully simple name but so much emotion when I think about it. The link after so much hardship with your roots. To the links to your ancestral land.

I wasn’t going to comment on this video, but seeing this video just makes me want to burst into tears!!! Like oh my lawd😢pleaseeeee we need to keep black history in these schools!!! These kids need to know this history ‼️

@jenovaizquierdo

11 ай бұрын

Yes true, and teach respect to everyone as well.

@MISNM0

11 ай бұрын

❣❣❣

@CharlieNasty-cd5hu

10 ай бұрын

The word is commit

@MISNM0

10 ай бұрын

@@CharlieNasty-cd5hu Think they meant comment maybe....?

@justinallen9104

10 ай бұрын

lol, fine, but we need a white history month. Don't be racist.

Kojo names are very West African, God bless them. They went through a lot.

@znobbs9376

10 ай бұрын

Especially Ghanian

@cassandraowusu5945

10 ай бұрын

@@znobbs9376yes

I Love history and this moved me to tears. It also showed the continuing denial/cowardice of the family alive that benifit from their criminal ancestors.

Damn yeah that is some truly power stuff. What an absolute blessing this family has. There is nothing like black history, and thats coming from NZ lol. I mean i LOVE indigenous studies (incl. my own) but the history of African Americans is in a league of its own for what your ancestors endured & the true depth of the trauma you still carry from not having a place to truly call home 💔 Much love to you all, a truly brave and resilient race of people, youre amazing!!! Love to the guy who apologized for his ancestors too, i have a friend who went through a similar thing here in NZ & it broke her heart and this was over stolen land, not people stolen from their land, for slavery. Again, your such an incredible race of people!!! Much love to you all ❤❤❤BLM❤❤

wow! what a great segment, thank you for sharing this

@lynnwoodcarter3486

9 ай бұрын

I do know most of are ancestors were already here right

The sad part is that the Meaher family will still not acknowledge any of this.

@rodneyakjohnson451

10 ай бұрын

What u want them to say ?? Im sorry for something i didnt do..its like blaming someone who didnt have no part of it

@jkeelsnc

10 ай бұрын

Yes. At least an apology and certainly not complete silence especially since they profited so heavily from owning slaves and still do.

@parlaykilla

10 ай бұрын

​@rodneyakjohnson451 dude they profit from the past events smh

@darthsidious8926

10 ай бұрын

​@@parlaykillaso should Greeks Romans Africans apologise for there slaves they owend to? How about your ancestors I bet they once broke a law you gonna get on your knees boy and apologise?

so proud of the resilience and strength shown in the face of adversity. Beautiful!

Wow I did not see that ending coming! Beautiful ❤️

I’m happy they have this much history because a lot of us will never know

Thank you Zora N. Hurston for documenting 1st hand stories from our people. #Barracoon

@christopherb4015

10 ай бұрын

Those Africans want nothing to do with black Americans.

@betsyh2503

10 ай бұрын

Thank you for mentioning Zora N. Hurston, I knew I read a book about this story but couldn’t remember the name. I’m surprised they didn’t mention Barracoon:The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”.

The most crazy thing is that it took the Clotilda only one week in Benin to fill the ship with slaves. The king of Sahé had more than 4.000 captives at hand, from whom the crew of the ship were allowed to choose which ones to buy. What happened to the other 3.900 is not known.

As a decendent of Dahomey this is beyond amazing im crying this proves that we can be strong if we pull ourselves together it brakes my heart

And they still can't reveal the location because some might destroy it? Somethings never change very sad

@sambierster9019

10 ай бұрын

Think they are worried people would try and take artifacts for collections, etc. actually not hard to locate the exact spot with google earth

@Chalando.9431

10 ай бұрын

Or maybe it doesn’t exist

@sambierster9019

10 ай бұрын

This is a ridiculous comment. Definitely exists

I'm here on Juneteenth to learn and acknowledge history. Thanks for this. Painful to hear that a place as historic and important to American history ended up with a highway running through it and industry gnawing at it's borders.

@familyintraining6636

10 ай бұрын

That is typical of what happens in Black neighborhoods!

@kelvinmorris1991

10 ай бұрын

Look up how I 95 was built….. in Richmond Virginia the highway split Jackson Ward a black community in half

@Supremeteamcaptain

10 ай бұрын

On behalf of proud white people, we hereby pass you on to the black community

@noname6339

10 ай бұрын

This is wyt ppl propaganda

@ab71640

10 ай бұрын

Building up Africatown will not happen if it only benefits the black residence or black people in general. If Africatown increases the wealth of whites it will happen and the bandwagon celebrating this town will overflow with them. Furthermore, all desendents of Africatown that moved away should to come together and work to protect Africatown and the legacy the was created there bc you are all you got no one is going to protect what is yours but you.

At 8:26 the phrase making a way out of no way is used, reminding me of the theme song of Good Times. Keeping your head above water; making a wave when you can.

Read the book, "Barracoon." It's Cujo Lewis' story. What 60 Minutes left out was the brital way those people were captured and enslaved by fellow Africans before being sold to the Clotilda. Perhaps the most cynical aspect of the story is that the whole thing began as a bet between two Mobile businessmen over whether it was even possible to skirt the law and the U.S. Navy and get a shipment of slaves into the country 52 years after such imports were banned. Two wealthy men make a bet and people living thousands of miles away were upended.

@Bee-dp3st

10 ай бұрын

Masterminds of slavery always shifting blame. Just acknowledge the evil your people have done.

Never, ever to be forgotten! We got here against our will. And still have not recovered so many generations after!

@martinemikita9281

10 ай бұрын

Well... actually no one has experienced this... so...

@bopmoo

10 ай бұрын

We were already here.

@martinemikita9281

10 ай бұрын

@@bopmoo and no one is made to stay...

@JohnDoe-yc1kx

10 ай бұрын

Sold by own fellow Africans

@kattahb4103

10 ай бұрын

@@JohnDoe-yc1kx Not quite true and YOU know it! Don't get me started! If you need explanation, I will provide!

10:47 the intentional attitude of refusing to acknowledge the evil that paved way for their privileges is as bad as the evil perpetuated

I'm a firm believer in knowing your roots. I know some people don't care, but for those who want to know it is quite a journey. Some things are not pretty, but there's always fascinating information. You come to realize that it took a multitude of people coming before you in order for each of us to be here in this world.

I discovered Africa town about 2 months ago. I've been going over there for years and had no idea what I stumbled. Off but I felt something in my spirit telling me to go. And I have been that countless time just to take my shoes off. Feel the presence of the ancestors.

That hug and pat on the back was incredible .

Amazing how a simple apology and a hug can wipe away generations of harbored remorse, hate, grief and injustice! That's all it takes to live in peace and harmony. Thank you 60 minutes for this piece of journalistic gem.

@miykhael

10 ай бұрын

not enough sorry fam its a start they need to pay whats owed ijs

@BlackGeoYoutube

10 ай бұрын

What an idiot. This is why black people have nothing. His sorry means nothing without financial restitution. Black people need what was stolen. We need money to build successful businesses and communities. We need medical treatment, etc. We need self-reliance, but we need REPARATIONS to make it work.

@manwhatda

10 ай бұрын

@@miykhaelWE NEED OUR MONEY HUMAN TRAFFICKERS

@ritad7927

10 ай бұрын

Hmmm. Let's see if you would still be willing to say that if it happened to your child. It's not a simple apology. No. People have lifetime emotional issues because of it. You never get over such atrocities.

@miykhael

10 ай бұрын

@@ritad7927 so you missed when i said sorry is a start ? but that company thats worth $36 million today need to pay them for their ancestors free forced labor…..like my ancestors who was forced here unwillingly so yeah im cool with sorry but actions speak louder than words……

❤ Nice!! Ty for sharing this story. Media is certainly one way to carry on the legacy. Wow!! 😌

Big mistake. People who had nothing to do with this are paying every day.

I still don’t understand how u can treat a human in such a horrible way

@ryancrawford8042

10 ай бұрын

It is a testament that poor white Americans believe anything rich white Americans tell them.

@tonywhite2567

10 ай бұрын

You can treat a human being this way when the depths of your heart is evil when evil has been passed down from generation to generation this is how you can do it.

@lovesyah4618

10 ай бұрын

Children of the Serpent treat human beings that way.

@blakebortles6098

10 ай бұрын

@@lovesyah4618 speak with forked tongue

@Gerrard_7up

10 ай бұрын

What's worse is the guilty Africans that rounded up , enslaved and sold their own people for profit . The fact that they are not held accountable up till today is the real crime !

Im in tears, how can people be so heartless

@DianaLou231

8 ай бұрын

Those are the Israelite ppl of the Bible.

So painful my brothers and sisters,be strong,we are with you, greetings from South Sudan (Africa).

I'd like to know what happened to the other ships that were used. There's got to be records of them.

It is so hardbreaking as African American I feel that pain ... given that my great grandfather told me about the story and how he lost my great grandmother “wife” through torture when she got pregnant of her so called master. Bad indeed.

@WutThaFuh

10 ай бұрын

Yeah, Kool story Jussie.

@matthewjk9016

10 ай бұрын

Lmao, you can spot the bs

@HimGoneWin

10 ай бұрын

Lies

@juliostevens9480

10 ай бұрын

If your story is true let that be a lesson from your ancestors you teach people how to treat you by what you allow.

@user74321

10 ай бұрын

We’re not Africans !! Were the ISRAELITES! 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾 Deuteronomy 28:68 And the Lord shall bring thee into Egypt againe, with ships, by the way whereof I spake vnto thee, Thou shalt see it no more againe: and there ye shall bee sold vnto your enemies for bondmen, and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you. To you so called blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans, we are the children of ISRAEL! Read Det. 28:15-68! Time to wake up and return to our heritage of keeping the laws of God in the faith of Christ (Sirach 24:23, Rev14:12)! Shalom!

History never fades away and its about time we talk about it

@willholmes8295

10 ай бұрын

Actually the opposite, we need to stop focusing on the past so much and work on the future. But telling these stories are still important

@manchildusa

10 ай бұрын

my FL governor is spending his time and resources fading this type of education

@FREEMASONKILL3R

10 ай бұрын

we have been............... its in our high school text books.........................................................................

@justinallen9104

10 ай бұрын

Speak for yourself, my brother in Christ.

@Gerrard_7up

10 ай бұрын

It's time to talk about the African people who actually rounded up then enslaved and then sold their fellow African people ! The whites were only secondary in this crime .

As horrific as that was 💔......& the way too many others 💔, it is an absolute must that this story is told so we face the cruel inhumanities of the past as a reminder to never ever never do it again!!! HUGS2U ❤

The Amistad visited Bermuda around 2003 in Dockyard and my oldest children performed in a concert. It was docked right in front of the clocktower. The Warwick Gombeys performed too. A few years later, there was an Amistad exhibit at CT Museum, we... my older children and I, and my parents saw. Now it's at Mystic Aquarium where I took their little brother when he was a toddler around 2009.

What happened to Africa Town is heartbreaking. Such a special and unique place that Town is to the US history means that it should be made a UNESCO protected place BEFORE the 90`s.

@ManOfAlkebulan

10 ай бұрын

Highways and lakes always built on or through black towns. What a coincidence....NOT.

@erikstone2321

8 ай бұрын

@HaselyLlewellyn One can argue the slaves should have gone to Africa once White people made slavery illegal. It’s not too late!

i watched the Netflix doc last year and now watching this rewind on Juneteenth I still get chills!! Such a powerful piece of history. Despite the tragedy I swell with pride knowing this community can trace their ancestors to Africa and seeing what they built when they had nothing is amazing!!❤🖤💚

@brunoantony9257

10 ай бұрын

Juneteenth is a fake holiday. Even the name is fake.

@Amitdas-gk2it

10 ай бұрын

What's the documentary name ?

@ashleysingleton7513

10 ай бұрын

​@@Amitdas-gk2itits called Decendant

@Nkkicute

10 ай бұрын

@@ashleysingleton7513 Thank you!!

@mabien11

10 ай бұрын

Born and raised in Mobile Al,believe it or not, I didn't know about this until I moved away. Older folks mostly didn't talk about the past. My grandmother lived near Africa town aka Plateau for 40+ years. It's pretty rough and worn down these days. Still happy the story is getting some light.

I’m a Nigerian I was on clubhouse the other day trying to educate African Americans that they are Africans, I was insulted & cussed out, they all say they not Africans that they are Europeans and Asians😢

@ernestmwape

22 күн бұрын

It can be tough arguing with those "black" Americans😢 - they have coined terms like FBA, etc

@Trash-Beats

22 күн бұрын

@@ernestmwape what is FBA😢

@bigdeneen

7 күн бұрын

@@Trash-Beatswe are fba. Period !

Thank you for this remarkable 🙏 reality😢