Women's Experience Under Slavery: Crash Course Black American History #11
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Date: 2022-04-04
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Bree
Remember doing a genetic dna tests as a class for a project. The 8 or 9 African Americans in the class were absolutely shocked to see they all had European ancestry (I believe ranging from 15% to 24%) I-m only half African American-. My father is an East African immigrant but I even had 14% Western European dna results. It was intensely confusing, until our teach explained the leading theory suggests most of the mysterious European dna in African Americans came during slavery. He said genetic studies done across the US find that every descendant of slaves has European dna. That-s A LOT of rape!
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Remember doing a genetic dna tests as a class for a project. The 8 or 9 African Americans in the class were absolutely shocked to see they all had European ancestry (I believe ranging from 15% to 24%) I-m only half African American-. My father is an East African immigrant but I even had 14% Western European dna results. It was intensely confusing, until our teach explained the leading theory suggests most of the mysterious European dna in African Americans came during slavery. He said genetic studies done across the US find that every descendant of slaves has European dna. That-s A LOT of rape!
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jellofuel
Thank you sincerely for the trigger warning, I know this is sensitive content. But that might be why these videos are necessary, because you can either deal with history or address it - and people will often take the path of least resistance. The toughest road can be the right road, and in this case, it's both. Thank you, Crash Course! And keep up the good work.
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Thank you sincerely for the trigger warning, I know this is sensitive content. But that might be why these videos are necessary, because you can either deal with history or address it - and people will often take the path of least resistance. The toughest road can be the right road, and in this case, it's both. Thank you, Crash Course! And keep up the good work.
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William
This is very well done and very accurate. I would highly recommend the narratives of both Sojourner Truth and Harriot Jacobs in the -Slave Narratives- from Library of America. However, there is also the narrative of William Wells Brown in the same volume where he discovers that his -wife- prefers to remain as the mistress of their former master.
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This is very well done and very accurate. I would highly recommend the narratives of both Sojourner Truth and Harriot Jacobs in the -Slave Narratives- from Library of America. However, there is also the narrative of William Wells Brown in the same volume where he discovers that his -wife- prefers to remain as the mistress of their former master.
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Stephon
There's a book that I've read three times and it was about an enslaved woman hiding from her master for several years. If interested it's called Letters from a Slave Girl: The Story of Harriet Ann Jacobs. I highly recommend this book.
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There's a book that I've read three times and it was about an enslaved woman hiding from her master for several years. If interested it's called Letters from a Slave Girl: The Story of Harriet Ann Jacobs. I highly recommend this book.
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Sona
These series always teach me so much more than college classes ever did. This is seeing history from a personal point of view, instead of a broad lens and it makes it so much more impactful.
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These series always teach me so much more than college classes ever did. This is seeing history from a personal point of view, instead of a broad lens and it makes it so much more impactful.
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Kelleen
I'm glad Crash Course is here to teach accurate history, especially considering the fact that schools want to remove anything that may make the US look bad.
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I'm glad Crash Course is here to teach accurate history, especially considering the fact that schools want to remove anything that may make the US look bad.
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Selkie
Even their own accounts weren't truly their own if they were being filtered and put in a dialect that they didn't even speak.
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Even their own accounts weren't truly their own if they were being filtered and put in a dialect that they didn't even speak.
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