Slavery - Crash Course US History #13
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Date: 2022-04-04
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Angela
The United States of America and all countries involved in the Atlantic slave trade are scarred by hundreds of years of promoting the idea that black people are not human, less than human, worthy of mistreatment, and unequal. If you think about the power of branding, all it takes is a few commercials to convince many people of an idea, let alone hundreds of years of promoting an idea in every way possible, it fascinates me that some people can't understand how hundreds of years of branding doesn't translate into post-slavery life right up to today. I mean really? After emancipation it's not like the white population just suddenly, magically accepted black people as equal. The brainwashing was too indelible and it showed itself by laws, behaviors, and attitudes that affected every part of black life from keeping black people from Equal Housing, equal education, and so much more including multiple historic examples of white people burning down wealthy black towns. So of course we see the effects today.
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The United States of America and all countries involved in the Atlantic slave trade are scarred by hundreds of years of promoting the idea that black people are not human, less than human, worthy of mistreatment, and unequal. If you think about the power of branding, all it takes is a few commercials to convince many people of an idea, let alone hundreds of years of promoting an idea in every way possible, it fascinates me that some people can't understand how hundreds of years of branding doesn't translate into post-slavery life right up to today. I mean really? After emancipation it's not like the white population just suddenly, magically accepted black people as equal. The brainwashing was too indelible and it showed itself by laws, behaviors, and attitudes that affected every part of black life from keeping black people from Equal Housing, equal education, and so much more including multiple historic examples of white people burning down wealthy black towns. So of course we see the effects today.
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Becca
God damn it! There is no escaping the fact that this series is brilliantly informative & as a avid history buff I come back to the Crash course series time & time again because. well, it-s brilliant & its marvellously informative. But, I do wish he-d calm the hell down! I physically flinch when this (charming & clever) young man goes into his -Mr Green, Mr Green! - routine & there-s certainly no place for it in this particular episode. I don-t suppose there-s the slightest hope of toning it down just a bit. No, I suppose not. Oh well, I shall just have to endure it then.
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God damn it! There is no escaping the fact that this series is brilliantly informative & as a avid history buff I come back to the Crash course series time & time again because. well, it-s brilliant & its marvellously informative. But, I do wish he-d calm the hell down! I physically flinch when this (charming & clever) young man goes into his -Mr Green, Mr Green! - routine & there-s certainly no place for it in this particular episode. I don-t suppose there-s the slightest hope of toning it down just a bit. No, I suppose not. Oh well, I shall just have to endure it then.
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Kimberly
It-s also important to note the monetary value of buying and owning slaves went up dramatically after the US outlawed the future Importation of slaves, allowing only the slaves already here to be bought and sold.
This distinction is often left out entirely when pro-slavery factions sought to further their message of how -well they treated their slaves as they were so expensive-. Their argument lacks credulity when looking at the so-called -high cost- of slaves over the 400 yr history of slavery in America.
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It-s also important to note the monetary value of buying and owning slaves went up dramatically after the US outlawed the future Importation of slaves, allowing only the slaves already here to be bought and sold.
This distinction is often left out entirely when pro-slavery factions sought to further their message of how -well they treated their slaves as they were so expensive-. Their argument lacks credulity when looking at the so-called -high cost- of slaves over the 400 yr history of slavery in America.
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Why
Honestly, i wonder what humanity would have been like, if slavery didn-t happen. Was slavery the only way fir countries to be diverse? If it was the only way, let-s assume that slavery never happened but i still would exist. I would be in Africa and i wouldn-t live in an advance society ( in technology, art etc. But i enjoy all those things. That-s why i think that slack was a bad thing but at the same time, i am where i am because of it. I just hope that there was another way.
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Honestly, i wonder what humanity would have been like, if slavery didn-t happen. Was slavery the only way fir countries to be diverse? If it was the only way, let-s assume that slavery never happened but i still would exist. I would be in Africa and i wouldn-t live in an advance society ( in technology, art etc. But i enjoy all those things. That-s why i think that slack was a bad thing but at the same time, i am where i am because of it. I just hope that there was another way.
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O. G.
Im so glad, I finished school because the one subject i hated the most was history because everytime it was the same and they didn't truly teach us about the cultures of a slave before they were a slave nor did they truly teach us how they revolted. Thanks for this video, it will really help with the book I'm writing. -
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Im so glad, I finished school because the one subject i hated the most was history because everytime it was the same and they didn't truly teach us about the cultures of a slave before they were a slave nor did they truly teach us how they revolted. Thanks for this video, it will really help with the book I'm writing. -
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1truShadow
I appreciate this documentary but at the same time my ears hurt hearing people called slaves these are human beings in captivity if anything the monsters owned these other people were the slaves slaves to the ease of Life slave to the system slaves 2 just having people subjugated & this is our true
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I appreciate this documentary but at the same time my ears hurt hearing people called slaves these are human beings in captivity if anything the monsters owned these other people were the slaves slaves to the ease of Life slave to the system slaves 2 just having people subjugated & this is our true
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Flem
Christ, it-s hard & grim enough to listen to this horror story without -Mr Green Mr Green- shrieking excitably like some kind of lunatic who drinks too much coffee, calm down, teach & inform, it-s what your good at, forget the theatrics PLEEEASE!
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Christ, it-s hard & grim enough to listen to this horror story without -Mr Green Mr Green- shrieking excitably like some kind of lunatic who drinks too much coffee, calm down, teach & inform, it-s what your good at, forget the theatrics PLEEEASE!
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John
No offense, but I came here to learn about the history of slavery. how it started, what happened during, and how it ended. But all I got was a random bunch of facts from -what happened during-.
-Sigh-
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No offense, but I came here to learn about the history of slavery. how it started, what happened during, and how it ended. But all I got was a random bunch of facts from -what happened during-.
-Sigh-
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Petti
Weird how as a Canadian, we knew racism was wrong and abolished it, but then still treated the Indigenous population like monsters. Residential schools alone. Just tragic.
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Weird how as a Canadian, we knew racism was wrong and abolished it, but then still treated the Indigenous population like monsters. Residential schools alone. Just tragic.
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Rety
USA is a failed system, racist, elitist and unjust. Is good just for 1%. Working class was abandoned for decades. Trump Cartel in the WH is not a coincidence.
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USA is a failed system, racist, elitist and unjust. Is good just for 1%. Working class was abandoned for decades. Trump Cartel in the WH is not a coincidence.
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