Ex Slaves talk about Slavery in the USA

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but John Henry Faulk<font color="#CCCCCC"> may have</font> experienced the<font color="#E5E5E5"> most profound</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> effect</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> he</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">was a graduate</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> student when he</font> interviewed<font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> former slaves including</font> the two<font color="#E5E5E5"> women</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> you hear in</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> this broadcast</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">himself interviewed just before he died</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">in 1979 Faulk</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> was going on about</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> how he</font> believed in giving blacks the<font color="#CCCCCC"> right to</font> go to<font color="#E5E5E5"> school giving them the right</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font> vote<font color="#CCCCCC"> giving them</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the right to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> go into</font> anything they qualified for<font color="#CCCCCC"> and then he</font> said he experienced an epiphany <font color="#CCCCCC">yes something</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> out</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> on a wagon ton with</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">this old black man</font> and was telling<font color="#CCCCCC"> what a different kind of</font> white man I was I<font color="#E5E5E5"> remember him looking</font> at me<font color="#CCCCCC"> fair saddling kind of sweetly and</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">condescending and say you know you still</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">got the disease</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> honey I know you think</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">you're cured but you're not cured</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> you</font> can't give me<font color="#CCCCCC"> the right to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> be a human</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">being</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">I'm</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> born with that right now you can</font> keep me<font color="#CCCCCC"> from having</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> that if you've got</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">all the policemen and all the jobs on</font> your side you can deprive me up<font color="#E5E5E5"> but you</font> can give<font color="#E5E5E5"> it to me and I've</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> born with it</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">just like it was</font> I got it had a<font color="#E5E5E5"> profound effect on me I'm</font> furious<font color="#CCCCCC"> with him but the more reflect</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">out the more profoundly in effect I</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">realized this was where it really was</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">tell you</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the truth when I sent over</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">today I don't</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> know how I'm living I</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> knew</font> that this is<font color="#E5E5E5"> well look like for me I</font> can't you saved all our<font color="#E5E5E5"> lives motherless</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">live</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> fishing the free-falling the slave</font> they<font color="#E5E5E5"> know</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> battery right</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> all the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">dyno the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> teachers</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> mind you must</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> marry</font> mrs. mom didn't<font color="#E5E5E5"> wear</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> gold she has a</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">single this star just like he's thrown</font> from launching<font color="#CCCCCC"> anyone good</font> they are haunting voices from the past <font color="#E5E5E5">not actors reading a script or scholars</font> reading a text but the actual voices<font color="#CCCCCC"> of</font> men and<font color="#E5E5E5"> women Americans who were born in</font> slavery my name is<font color="#E5E5E5"> housing huge</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I was born in</font> charge of Virginia my grandfather Blanca taught ourselves<font color="#E5E5E5"> my grandfather were a</font> hundred<font color="#CCCCCC"> and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> fifteen years</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> old when he</font> died and<font color="#E5E5E5"> now I am 101 yo</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> hope you didn't</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">have no</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> beds when you saved he won't sit</font> on<font color="#E5E5E5"> the floor solitude</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">a lot</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> wire people we didn't we didn't</font> know nothing<font color="#E5E5E5"> didn't I wrote a notebook</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">of Harriet Smith remembering what she</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">saw as a small girl</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> during the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> final</font> days of the<font color="#E5E5E5"> Civil War we said I spit on</font> that<font color="#CCCCCC"> picket fence</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> all day long</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> seeing</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">them soldiers going</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> back the silence on</font> different<font color="#E5E5E5"> pages coming solely colored</font> soldiers<font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> joy to Stewart house right</font> these recorded memories were<font color="#E5E5E5"> along</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a</font> thousands of interviews<font color="#E5E5E5"> done within</font> slaves<font color="#E5E5E5"> in the 1930s and 40s</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">did you remember</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> slavery days there was</font> I<font color="#CCCCCC"> remember</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> liked</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> food nor the name of</font> all the<font color="#E5E5E5"> children call</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> everyone the</font> children's name did<font color="#E5E5E5"> you belong in the</font> days of all the results of these digitally enhanced recordings are arresting almost unbelievable the idea of hearing the voices of actual slaves from the plantations of<font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Old South</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> is</font> as powerful as startling really<font color="#E5E5E5"> as if</font> you could hear Abraham Lincoln or robert e lee's speak listen again to fountain <font color="#E5E5E5">hughes who was born in 1848</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> we were</font> saved<font color="#CCCCCC"> we</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> browned people</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the sellers like</font> yourself<font color="#E5E5E5"> horses without hope Nora get</font> our option<font color="#E5E5E5"> bench than</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> there for children</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">of only bitch who beat on</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Eunice singers</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">who didn't own a canyon</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> much of what</font> these three former slaves say may at first seem unremarkable<font color="#E5E5E5"> much of what</font> they say may<font color="#CCCCCC"> surprise</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> upset and</font> their calm demeanor is at odds<font color="#E5E5E5"> with the</font> evil and violence we associate with slavery<font color="#E5E5E5"> here is 91 year old Texan Laura</font> Smalley<font color="#E5E5E5"> talking in the 1940s about the</font> outcome of<font color="#E5E5E5"> a tussle between two</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> women</font> one<font color="#E5E5E5"> black one white one slave one</font> mistress the mistress tried to slap the slave but the black<font color="#E5E5E5"> woman pushed</font> into a chair<font color="#CCCCCC"> Laura Smalley was a girl at</font> the<font color="#E5E5E5"> time but she remembers vividly</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> what</font> happened to the<font color="#E5E5E5"> black woman when the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">master came home but I think that woman</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">poor old woman</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> cat in the peach</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> orchard</font> and flip them and no just<font color="#CCCCCC"> title has this</font> waiting around<font color="#CCCCCC"> the peachoid</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the truth</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">I remember that guess is well the black</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">to me I</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> can</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and round a tree and flip</font> them and<font color="#E5E5E5"> what she couldn't do them but</font> just<font color="#CCCCCC"> to go st. you know mystically</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> but</font> it<font color="#E5E5E5"> just had a</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> closed off down so a</font> tional<font color="#CCCCCC"> didn't have a</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> plum</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> naked but they</font> had a total down so a<font color="#E5E5E5"> waste and ever non</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">dented football you know</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I didn't snuff</font> the pipe out on a steel pipe out on<font color="#E5E5E5"> you</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">know</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> damaging</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the paper will</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> shoot a</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">fight smoking all out on the plantation</font> on which<font color="#E5E5E5"> Smalley was a slave sounds</font> brutal she recalls scrambling with<font color="#E5E5E5"> other</font> children<font color="#E5E5E5"> for food from a huge wooden</font> tray<font color="#E5E5E5"> like a hog trough</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> oh</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> let me know</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">would get</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> around that tree</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> wood spoon</font> and eat should you like moisture soup something like that no I'm<font color="#E5E5E5"> chilling it</font> around and<font color="#E5E5E5"> just fountain Hughes tells</font> his interviewer about<font color="#CCCCCC"> the relentless</font> round of work for him<font color="#E5E5E5"> on a Virginia</font> plantation time cut<font color="#E5E5E5"> tobacco</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">with the module cut all night long with</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">you</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> you've got</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">launching your</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> hangover night on didn't</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">you tired we tied you afraid to share</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">your time it was cotton not tobacco that</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">solidified slavery though the invention</font> of the cotton gin at the end of the 18th century made its processing easy but the crop still needed enormous amounts of unskilled<font color="#CCCCCC"> labor control</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of the slave and</font> his<font color="#E5E5E5"> labor through laws and regulations</font> became paramount<font color="#CCCCCC"> fountain Hughes talks</font> about one of those controls the<font color="#CCCCCC"> past</font> system now I couldn't<font color="#CCCCCC"> move him here</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">across the street</font> well I could go<font color="#CCCCCC"> for nobody's house out</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">I'll have a look for something</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> from my</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">master and if I had that pass at</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">will-call</font> pass if I had that pass I could go wherever he sent me and not have to be back you know<font color="#CCCCCC"> who are you said we</font> totally<font color="#CCCCCC"> they'd give me</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> another</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> past not</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">be let back so it's a shoehorn</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> even</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Emancipation didn't</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> truly free the</font> slaves freedom<font color="#E5E5E5"> freed slaves for more</font> travail<font color="#E5E5E5"> the end of the Civil War found</font> many cast adrift without skills and no place to go<font color="#CCCCCC"> and the Yankees who freed</font> them weren't always seen as benevolent liberators<font color="#CCCCCC"> a Yank along to all the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> good</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">horses</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to holy sword our flower shows</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> up</font> out in<font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> room let's go down</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the road</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">you</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> know the people</font> the ex-slaves left one hell for another perhaps<font color="#E5E5E5"> an even more dangerous one no</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">longer property they didn't have the</font> protections<font color="#E5E5E5"> afforded property when</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> we</font> were<font color="#E5E5E5"> slaves we couldn't either see</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I</font> forgot<font color="#E5E5E5"> free we did</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> not leave you</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> my</font> mother she did she<font color="#E5E5E5"> hunted places and you</font> bound yourself<font color="#CCCCCC"> for dollar</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> month but we</font> didn't<font color="#E5E5E5"> have no property we didn't have</font> no none<font color="#E5E5E5"> you have no well nothing we</font> didn't have nothing<font color="#E5E5E5"> against food like</font> you<font color="#CCCCCC"> Carol this</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> tandem and get along the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">best record in Texas the slaves weren't</font> told they were free until two months <font color="#CCCCCC">after the war ended</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Smalley remembers</font> that her<font color="#E5E5E5"> masters gave the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> slaves</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> a</font> dinner<font color="#E5E5E5"> and then they were free</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I don't</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">have the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> outside is functional food we</font> didn't know they<font color="#CCCCCC"> just thought</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> you know</font> we'll just<font color="#E5E5E5"> feed this you know them</font> didn't know we're<font color="#E5E5E5"> going see after she</font> wrote that time just<font color="#E5E5E5"> like he turns a</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">mouse you know then why to go like this</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">well</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> just</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> a you didn't</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> where</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> group</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">told</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> us all</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> just like you know it's on</font> our<font color="#E5E5E5"> camera in the narratives the slaves</font> used an interesting<font color="#CCCCCC"> phrase for the end</font> of slavery they say when the break came good times<font color="#CCCCCC"> easy times were not at hand</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the trials for millions of black</font> Americans didn't end in 1865 they <font color="#E5E5E5">continued</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Laura Smalley</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and her family</font> became sharecroppers Harriet Smith's first husband was killed by<font color="#CCCCCC"> whites</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">during the Reconstruction probably</font> because<font color="#E5E5E5"> of his political organizing</font> fountain Hughes went north to Baltimore and worked at numerous jobs including hauling manure<font color="#E5E5E5"> not an enviable job but</font> it was<font color="#CCCCCC"> the job of a free man</font>
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Channel: John L. Brooks
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Keywords: canis lupus productions, ABC news, slavery, negors, paltations, civil rights, cotton, JBUrban, black lives matter, black culture, blacks in America, historic records, born in Salvery
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Length: 9min 55sec (595 seconds)
Published: Tue Oct 11 2016
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I wish the narrator would shut up for more than 20 seconds at a time so we could listen to the complete story

πŸ‘οΈŽ︎ 97 πŸ‘€οΈŽ︎ u/Master_Iridus πŸ“…οΈŽ︎ Feb 27 2019 πŸ—«︎ replies

This was incredible to listen to. Thank you for posting.

πŸ‘οΈŽ︎ 9 πŸ‘€οΈŽ︎ u/speecyspicymeatball πŸ“…οΈŽ︎ Feb 27 2019 πŸ—«︎ replies

"I've heard educated people say, 'Slavery was 400 years ago!'. No it very much wasn't! It was two 75 year old ladies living and dying back to back." -Louis CK on Jay Leno of all places.

πŸ‘οΈŽ︎ 9 πŸ‘€οΈŽ︎ u/Wingardienleviosah πŸ“…οΈŽ︎ Feb 27 2019 πŸ—«︎ replies

Thanks for sharing! This was really interesting to watch, I hope they’ve preserved all of those interviews

πŸ‘οΈŽ︎ 12 πŸ‘€οΈŽ︎ u/nidayz πŸ“…οΈŽ︎ Feb 27 2019 πŸ—«︎ replies

"OMG slavery was like so long ago, get over it"

Seriously though... people like to think of slavery and oppression as something than happened so long ago but it is very recent and the scars are still lingering.

πŸ‘οΈŽ︎ 4 πŸ‘€οΈŽ︎ u/Chemical_Castration πŸ“…οΈŽ︎ Feb 27 2019 πŸ—«︎ replies

Seriously cool. Thanks for sharing.

πŸ‘οΈŽ︎ 7 πŸ‘€οΈŽ︎ u/unknowndatabase πŸ“…οΈŽ︎ Feb 27 2019 πŸ—«︎ replies

Funny thought and also not in subject at all but it is amazing that generations from now on will know what every politician, actor, or any famous person was like just as well as we are able to observe them today. pretty interesting when you think about it hundreds of years from now they will actually get to see how society evolved.

πŸ‘οΈŽ︎ 4 πŸ‘€οΈŽ︎ u/TheRealWorldNigeria πŸ“…οΈŽ︎ Feb 27 2019 πŸ—«︎ replies

They seam surprisingly chill about it

πŸ‘οΈŽ︎ 2 πŸ‘€οΈŽ︎ u/badmemes123 πŸ“…οΈŽ︎ Feb 27 2019 πŸ—«︎ replies

r/history would like this.

πŸ‘οΈŽ︎ 2 πŸ‘€οΈŽ︎ u/Sun-Anvil πŸ“…οΈŽ︎ Feb 27 2019 πŸ—«︎ replies
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