The Plantation System in Southern Life (1950)

2018 ж. 8 Мам.
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"Eurocentric view of the plantation system and its effect on Southern U.S. culture."
From the Prelinger Archive.
Coronet Films (also known as Coronet Instructional Media Inc.) was a leading producer and distributor of many American documentary shorts shown in public schools, mostly in the 16mm format, from the 1940s through the 1980s (when the videocassette recorder replaced the motion picture projector as the key audio-visual aid). The company, whose library is owned and distributed by the Phoenix Learning Group, Inc., covered a wide range of subjects in zoology, science, geography, history and math, but is mostly remembered today for its post-World War II social guidance films featuring topics such as dating, family life, courtesy, and citizenship. - wikipedia
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  • "Until the lion learns to write, every story will glorify the hunter". ~African Proverb

    @1inhiservice@1inhiservice Жыл бұрын
    • Lion still cannot write,and here you have it.

      @ericscaillet2232@ericscaillet2232 Жыл бұрын
    • @@ericscaillet2232 lmao u think u sound smart huh? Lmao ur pathetic

      @mufasa1794@mufasa17945 ай бұрын
    • Amen

      @viceaves6574@viceaves65745 ай бұрын
    • Great quote.

      @cragjones1799@cragjones17993 ай бұрын
    • Or the chicken puts a word in about meat eating.

      @fussypeg8561@fussypeg8561Ай бұрын
  • The narrator said, “The slaves had little wealth.” The slaves didn’t have ANY wealth back then.

    @clytchan@clytchan5 жыл бұрын
    • Rheal Nyce right!!

      @amycollado864@amycollado8644 жыл бұрын
    • Rheal Nyce ReWHITING history at RVERY turn...

      @angelbennett3891@angelbennett38914 жыл бұрын
    • Not true. I am black, having traced enslaved ancestors on both sides of my family. Little wealth is accurate. some enslaved persons had little gardens and precious few possessions, hence "little wealth" is accurate. @@angelbennett3891

      @paulawhatleymatabane6452@paulawhatleymatabane64524 жыл бұрын
    • " back then", or EVER! Isolation was important. "Cheap" slave labor? Slaves had NO wealth & NO freedom.

      @sondrajean955@sondrajean9554 жыл бұрын
    • @@paulawhatleymatabane6452 did some retracing on my ancestry to. Its hard to convince others of this when they only think wealth is paper money

      @dn30001@dn300014 жыл бұрын
  • Gotta love the very clean version of this story. The slaves had little wealth, the slaves lived in smaller houses on the plantation, the slaves did almost all the work. No mention of the fact that slaves did all of back breaking work, they weren't paid, they were beaten and murdered, forced to live in shanty huts not houses, were raped by slave owners, were forced to work in very bad conditions, were turned against each on purpose by the slave owners. This was done by the owners giving some slaves special treatment over others, were separated from their families, But anyway......the narrator gives a very clean low key version of what was truly a cruel devastating situation for the slaves. This is why we must tell our own story.

    @edwinrobertson4279@edwinrobertson4279 Жыл бұрын
    • why would they want kids to feel all that devastating worst part of it? that is adult subject matter . kids can't take it. theyneed to feel good, be happy and play at school not hate each other or start feeling mentally ill.

      @theCosmicQueen@theCosmicQueen Жыл бұрын
    • ...Well.They don't want to tell the Whole truth,but if your not telling the whole truth.You might as well be telling a lie.

      @tyreswallace9759@tyreswallace9759 Жыл бұрын
    • What do you mean,"don't want kids to feel the devastation part of it".. All generations need to know about their past. What there elders went through in order for them to do certain things that they want to do today... Not text book history and or opinions of others but what people really went through.. And I'm not only talking about Black kids I'm talking about all kids. Everyone needs to know TRUE FACTS about the past of every races journey. It's good to know about the people you interact with on a daily basis.. IN MY OPINION OF COURSE

      @ericlightfoot-uh9sq@ericlightfoot-uh9sq Жыл бұрын
    • @@theCosmicQueen The hate is there regardless of critical race neo-feudal U.S. HISTORY portrayed

      @citizenkang2524@citizenkang2524 Жыл бұрын
    • Much of what you say is accurate, but murder and rape by slave owners was the exception, not the rule. Slaves were an investment, so brutalizing and killing them served no economic purpose. Many slaves were paid, particularly those with valuable skills. Some slaves bought their freedom with their earnings. A seeming paradox existed when former slaves bought other slaves to work for them. I have read this was often done to protect and preserve family members, but I don't know the full details.

      @Paladin1873@Paladin187311 ай бұрын
  • You can still see these plantation homes all across the South. The conditions that existed then still exist all across the Southern states. Tobaccos, Cotton, Sugar cane, Corn and Soybeans are all still grown in these areas. The only thing that has visibly changed is the fact that all the labor that was once performed by the now reluctant slaves, has been replaced as the narrator says by heavy machinery. The blacks that formerly were the slaves or the descendants of those slaves now still live on small tracts of land with poor or substandard housing while the white land owners and their descendants still live sometimes in the same grand plantation style mansions. As someone who grew up in the shadows of this time in history, I watched my mother and other elders of the community picking cotton in the fields for just pennies a day. While the white landlords enjoyed huge profits affording them all the privileges that we today are still fighting for.

    @DJXS5813@DJXS58132 жыл бұрын
    • Sharecropping, then migrant labors, now immigrants..esp food production

      @merriferrell2818@merriferrell2818 Жыл бұрын
    • I think of Fannie Lou Hamer

      @merriferrell2818@merriferrell2818 Жыл бұрын
    • @@merriferrell2818 They're good at tarnishing a legacy. She's identified with feminism as much as civil rights for blacks.

      @squarebidnezz4524@squarebidnezz4524 Жыл бұрын
    • My family were poor whites who worked in the fields. None of my family ever owned large tracts of land. Ive inherited nothing. Those whites that owned plantations and benefited greatly are a very small percentage of whites.

      @bjschaus3513@bjschaus3513 Жыл бұрын
    • Just as slave catchers were replaced by police, slaves in the fields have been replaced by the incarcerated prisoners....

      @nomad5031@nomad5031 Жыл бұрын
  • It amazing how the narrator glorified the lifestyle of black life in the south. Great information. Thanks very much.

    @scrapbookboxing1094@scrapbookboxing10944 жыл бұрын
    • Remember now, this is 1950, only thing that changed is the age of our opressors

      @davidruffin9828@davidruffin98283 жыл бұрын
    • Oh, so we wasn’t winning then?🤔

      @the2ndcoming135@the2ndcoming1352 жыл бұрын
    • @Benjamin Morris Hi, my name is Alpha. I’m also independent, family owned and operated. Who is y’all?😁

      @the2ndcoming135@the2ndcoming1352 жыл бұрын
    • ​​@@davidruffin9828god dam bars, we get rocked to sleep to easy forget everthing, like things changed

      @kelcey7579@kelcey7579Ай бұрын
  • Why did they called it "cheap slave labor" when my ppl didn't get paid for that labor

    @teetataylor@teetataylor5 жыл бұрын
    • Although the slaves didn't get paid, they still cost the owner: purchasing them, feeding them, housing them... so although it was very cheap when contrasted with paid laborers, it was not free labor. Not saying this was right... TOTALLY NOT.

      @sandracheeks1811@sandracheeks18115 жыл бұрын
    • Tyrhol Biosphere I understand that they were not paid anything, my point was that they were still not “free” labor to the owner as he had to pay a purchase price to buy the slave as well as food, lodging (such that it was) to “maintain” the slave. So it was far cheaper than having to pay waged workers, but having slaves doing labor was not “free”. Again I am not justifying this in any way, I’m simply pointing out that fact.

      @sandracheeks1811@sandracheeks18115 жыл бұрын
    • They’re liars.... were you expecting those people to be honest about their evil barbaric system? It will never happen. While their were costs associated with their business, the laborers were not paid, so it was free labor. No money was paid to the people who did all the work. They are always trying to downplay their evil deeds, that is why they are using terms that are clearly disingenuous, never expect to hear truth from demons who would heap such suffering on a whole race of people simply for monetary gain.

      @Msboochie2@Msboochie25 жыл бұрын
    • teeta6794 taylor 👁👁That Is What I Am Talking About... They are illegal and crying about Low wages, and my Folks build this Country without No Wages. Life fortunately did not wait for you and the peeps that want to pretend. Read up on all the various types of America History. My People build streets , brick by brick. Read up on American History as a oh picket on the USA and not Your Native Country. I am proud of my People for being a hard working. And less appreciated. But highly duplicated. I will hold this truth until the Day I Die...🎬

      @bigvalley4987@bigvalley49874 жыл бұрын
    • The slaves got paid with abuse and rape and scraps of food.

      @sanchez73day36@sanchez73day364 жыл бұрын
  • I remember these Coronet films in my 70s high school...I always felt uncomfortable, and left me confused in class. What the teachers said about this left me with many answered questions...

    @edoedo8686@edoedo86865 жыл бұрын
    • They call them "documentaries" when they contain propaganda

      @amarbyrd2520@amarbyrd2520 Жыл бұрын
    • @@amarbyrd2520 yea...I so agree.

      @edoedo8686@edoedo8686 Жыл бұрын
    • Ain't no way I would have sit in a class and watched this bull💩. And that's the problem right there. You are cowards to allow this to even be made, the word slave should NEVER be spoken out of a white mouth. They all should be "put in their place" for even doing the evil 💩....... Black people will fus and fight each other but let the white race disrespect us in ever way. We are the weakest!!!!!

      @fiyahriddims@fiyahriddims10 ай бұрын
    • ​@@amarbyrd2520I learned something

      @kelcey7579@kelcey7579Ай бұрын
  • Definitely a Eurocentric view of plantation life.

    @davielove11@davielove115 жыл бұрын
    • 3:45

      @GjaP_242@GjaP_2423 жыл бұрын
    • 10:01

      @GjaP_242@GjaP_2423 жыл бұрын
    • Well, this reminded me of the most peculiar circumstance involving a Nigerian school girl that was just released from captivity after 17 years. Forced into marriage, I’m assuming raped, and also forced into motherhood and conversion to Islam. And, with all that she remained committed to her God. Committed to her sexuality. Committed to her country. And, she even maintained her modest Muslim attire. I almost feel slight disgust proclaiming that that is amazing of her. Her captors were Black too, btw.

      @the2ndcoming135@the2ndcoming1352 жыл бұрын
    • US slave labor plantation system from a purely American perspective.

      @higher_pwr8178@higher_pwr81782 жыл бұрын
    • Definitely some bullshit

      @johnnyporter3713@johnnyporter37132 жыл бұрын
  • If the South had such fine manners, politeness, poise , and dignity…… how the Hell could they justify owning another human being? Oh wait,…..We have a word for that….. 🤨

    @Mark-yb1sp@Mark-yb1sp Жыл бұрын
    • A Disgraceful piece of crap & IN your time YOUR truth is a BIG FAT LIE, YOU WHITE FOLKS WILL GET YOUR JUST REWARDS ON JUDGEMENT DAY OR BY A FATE DUE TO THE DECENDANTS LIVING NOW!!!

      @daniellebarrett7887@daniellebarrett78874 ай бұрын
  • LOL... Privileges is not a word to describe slavery. And, slaves weren't a labor system; it was a chattel system, like using donkeys to pull a cart. Labor systems require some exchange of consideration (even if it's insufficient).

    @ianlondon2888@ianlondon28882 жыл бұрын
    • some people even today work for housing, clothes or food. you are saying,they di d not receive money wages. And, they were not free. neither is a woman in her marriage , if she feels bound by her religion; nor does she get paid if she is a stay at home wife or mom. she may get beaten as well.

      @theCosmicQueen@theCosmicQueen Жыл бұрын
    • @theCosmicQueen I agree with most of your statements, independently of what I said or the topic of slavery.

      @ianlondon2888@ianlondon2888 Жыл бұрын
    • @@theCosmicQueenWhite women always trying to talk about their “oppression”. How do you think it was for those slave women who were ACTUALLY enslaved and weren’t seen as ppl. You wanna play the struggle Olympics? Everything white women went through had NOTHING on what black women went through and that’s throughout American history. Don’t get married if you have such a problem with it. Nobody is forcing you. I love white tears, they’re so delicious.

      @Universal_Rose@Universal_Rose8 ай бұрын
  • "Almost all the work" 😂 😂 😂 How about ALLLLLL THE WORK!!!

    @slowboogie8118@slowboogie81182 жыл бұрын
    • are you joking? they hired a few non slaves for things. and white women sewed and embroidered clothes, linens, crochet , knitted etc as idleness wasn't considered a virtue. Even noble european women always did. They worked people all day because that's what white people were used to doing themselves, before they got rich. And all other white people did if not rich. Dawn to dusk, and even after dark by candlelight.

      @theCosmicQueen@theCosmicQueen Жыл бұрын
    • Facts

      @fernandocaceres609@fernandocaceres609 Жыл бұрын
  • The narrator is giving an impression of a romantic coexistence between slave masters and slaves, excluding the cruelty that was a daily dose at these plantations against the slaves to achieve maximum yield

    @Kalyopa@Kalyopa Жыл бұрын
  • UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!!!!

    @Virus-xm7qc@Virus-xm7qc2 жыл бұрын
  • I see what they did there- slaves had ZERO wealth and ZERO privileges.

    @stilllearning2855@stilllearning28556 жыл бұрын
    • Old Lady Justice. Yep, just like now. State-of-mind-slavery is in full effect.

      @darnellplayer743@darnellplayer7436 жыл бұрын
    • Still Learning - Exactly what I was thinking. I grew up in the sixties in Marin County, and I NEVER saw a Coronet Film. Our teachers would have quit if they were asked to show films like this. We generally watched science films.

      @thetooginator153@thetooginator1533 жыл бұрын
    • @@thetooginator153 yeah like like watch FOX NEWS, WHILE we keep our heads in the sand.

      @Virus-xm7qc@Virus-xm7qc2 жыл бұрын
  • Landlord often stole from the tenants

    @YellowFuzzzz@YellowFuzzzz Жыл бұрын
  • This film tries to sanitize the wicked facts of a very dark and ruthless time in America. There are no whips or chains. Slaves wearing clean clothing; button down shirts with all the buttons and leather belts too. A male slave was actually wearing a wedding band! Overseers are seen talking civilly to the blacks. They even put a little money in the their pockets by referencing slave labor as cheap. No. Slave labor was free. The narrator says the slaves did “almost all of the work”. You have got to be kidding!!

    @Dina_Darling@Dina_Darling5 жыл бұрын
    • That was the way cinema was concerning slavery until 1977 when David Wolper produced the miniseries 'Roots'. Films like 'Gone With The Wind ' and 'General Spanky' presented a sanitized view of slavery. It was 'Roots' that brought out the horror of the practice. The narrator also fails to mention that the Southern Class System not only included planters and slaves but also lower class whites who were told that blacks were inferior to them. Hence the roots for segregation.

      @toddmiller5656@toddmiller56565 жыл бұрын
    • I suspect that at the end of slavery it was more like the military although not as civil as they present it in the film.

      @shagar5448@shagar54484 жыл бұрын
    • Their attempts to sanitize it is just another testament against them. Wicked evil detestable beings.

      @sekhmetnubian1020@sekhmetnubian10204 жыл бұрын
    • @CaliforniaCheez your delusional to look at it so black and white. It was people involved who were treated like animals. You cant treat human like animals. Especially a highly intelligent and spiritual people who had their society and civilizations dating way back than any other. You need to find yourself

      @frag9575@frag95754 жыл бұрын
    • @CaliforniaCheez Go read Uncle Tom's Cabin and you will get a good glimpse into what slavery was really like. The lady that wrote that book lived a very long time ago and she did not sugar coat anything about the harshness of slavery.

      @pinklady6224@pinklady62244 жыл бұрын
  • This narrator speaks of the white southerners "hospitality, gentle manners and courtesy". He forgot to mention that it was all a facade-----for none of these graces were extended to blacks. They just nonchalantly enslaved, whipped, murdered, raped, denied them their humanity, and abused them in every way humanly possible.

    @junioraustin394@junioraustin3942 жыл бұрын
    • All facts, this is why history books need to be re-written in the U.S. cause the true history has been omitted and diluted so much. They write things they way they want others to see it instead of telling the whole unfiltered truth.

      @thealphaandomega9348@thealphaandomega93482 жыл бұрын
    • @Benjamin Morris Good. It still wouldn't justify how white ⚪ creatures, treated the enslaved on U.S. soil. Nothing will ever excuse it, no matter how many excuses you try to come up with. You owe a debt that will be paid in full. This is the final solution 😊

      @thealphaandomega9348@thealphaandomega93482 жыл бұрын
    • excuse me, but no, that di d not happen as a matter of course. it was only the more sadistic people who could stand doing such things. others did not.

      @theCosmicQueen@theCosmicQueen Жыл бұрын
    • @@theCosmicQueen To enslave another human being, alone, is sadistic.

      @junioraustin394@junioraustin394 Жыл бұрын
  • Our Ancestors! 🙏🏾

    @naturl2012@naturl2012 Жыл бұрын
    • Yes

      @darcellawoodall835@darcellawoodall835 Жыл бұрын
  • It is not uncommon, actually quite common, in the South and not even the Deep South, post-2020, to see apartments or neighborhoods with "plantation" in the title as if to imply a luxurious atmosphere to the dwelling-space. You might as well call it "concentration camp".

    @Awakeningspirit20@Awakeningspirit2011 ай бұрын
  • Never forget what we produced for this ungrateful country.

    @pablotolson7728@pablotolson77286 жыл бұрын
    • Pablo Tolson I Hear You Loud And Clearly.🥰 Ungrateful and forgetful😔😔😔😔

      @bigvalley4987@bigvalley49874 жыл бұрын
    • Now the illegal immigrants are claiming that the Country will not survive without them. Please get serious!

      @bigvalley4987@bigvalley49874 жыл бұрын
    • @@bigvalley4987 don't get caught up in that racist lie.. they want us to be pitied against one another! We are all God's children regardless of legal status

      @Angel-tw3ko@Angel-tw3ko4 жыл бұрын
    • Angel 1973 that’s what white people want you to keep telling yourself.

      @nexaudio3748@nexaudio37484 жыл бұрын
    • Wasn't u but ur grandparents u ain't done anything fam

      @juancamilosotopayares2811@juancamilosotopayares28112 жыл бұрын
  • I remember these films in highschool.You think it's educational when you're young.

    @williamschlenger1518@williamschlenger1518 Жыл бұрын
    • This is educational because it serves to show upcoming generations what the reality was for slaves, these things, forgive the pun, cannot and should not be whitewashed.

      @slim555555@slim555555 Жыл бұрын
  • Why does he keep saying cheap labor. It was not cheap, it was fucking FREE for over 400 years!!!

    @dondelrio1869@dondelrio18695 жыл бұрын
    • It was cheap because the workers were unpaid but not without costs. They were purchased. The price increased after1808 when federal law promoted and signed by President Thomas Jefferson prevented the importation of slaves. There was also the cost of feeding, clothing, and housing . The author is right in saying "cheap labor" because it was not free.

      @robertcuminale1212@robertcuminale12122 жыл бұрын
    • Sooo truer

      @tabaismack2980@tabaismack2980 Жыл бұрын
    • It was pretty close to it Based on the profit it produced

      @everettwilson1416@everettwilson1416 Жыл бұрын
    • Interestingly enough, most current economic research has shown slavery to be more expensive overall than wage labor in the antebellum South. See the work of Gavin Wright. Plantation slavery was very inefficient and backwards at the time, which is one factor of what made it an impediment to the growth of industrialization and the commodification of labor.

      @stefangeorge2844@stefangeorge2844 Жыл бұрын
    • @@stefangeorge2844 You a fool. How can anything be better than free 🤔

      @dondelrio1869@dondelrio1869 Жыл бұрын
  • Certainly minimized the brutality of slavery.....but at least in this you actually learn something about how the plantation worked. Today, all you get out of a movie on slavery is a 2 hr @ss whoopin'. Don't learn anything.

    @09rja@09rja Жыл бұрын
  • Now we needs to hear the slaves narrative of this same account.

    @baruchisrael8054@baruchisrael80544 жыл бұрын
    • 😂🤣

      @baruchisrael8054@baruchisrael80543 жыл бұрын
    • Best comment. Good God Almighty the ignorance is on full display in the comment section😂

      @the2ndcoming135@the2ndcoming1352 жыл бұрын
  • I am fortunate enough to live in Cincinnati Ohio that boat is in Cincinnati ....the history I'll never forget

    @feliciakershaw7765@feliciakershaw77655 жыл бұрын
    • Cincinnati is a southern town. What's it doing in Ohio?

      @bobbrawley2612@bobbrawley26124 жыл бұрын
  • This is making my stomach 😩 turn. "Cheap" or free slave labor.

    @sondrajean955@sondrajean9553 жыл бұрын
  • Grow more olive trees!!! They are BRILLIANT!! They can live and produce olives for 3000years !!! They don't need much water !!! They are a key in fighting desertification !!!

    @johnathandaviddunster38@johnathandaviddunster3811 ай бұрын
  • Did people actually make this with a straight face? This is pure comedy.

    @wes2262@wes2262 Жыл бұрын
    • Not comedy nothing funny at all no shame for the owners or narrator

      @generevelsjr.4971@generevelsjr.4971 Жыл бұрын
    • Wite razist propoganda!

      @ajl2232@ajl2232 Жыл бұрын
    • Yes, they did and this is the world many of the state legislations are are sneakily reconstructing their state laws towards...

      @NestaVision2007@NestaVision2007 Жыл бұрын
    • @@ajl2232 pity the ignorance of RACISM....

      @johnathandaviddunster38@johnathandaviddunster3811 ай бұрын
  • The crazy shit is in Kentwood, Louisiana this still occurs. FOR REAL FOR REAL smh

    @AngelicTroubleMaker-LaVooDoo@AngelicTroubleMaker-LaVooDoo6 жыл бұрын
    • Thank you for sharing your observation with us, Empress.

      @atruemusician3904@atruemusician39045 жыл бұрын
    • 😢

      @thephoenix2176@thephoenix21765 жыл бұрын
    • DAMN!!!!

      @galeunderdue6905@galeunderdue69055 жыл бұрын
    • Isn't that Britney Spears hometown?

      @DJSwezzleMusic@DJSwezzleMusic3 жыл бұрын
    • @@DJSwezzleMusic Yes, it absolutely is!!🤩

      @AngelicTroubleMaker-LaVooDoo@AngelicTroubleMaker-LaVooDoo3 жыл бұрын
  • I can't watch this.

    @AC-kl8gi@AC-kl8gi5 жыл бұрын
  • I watched a video yesterday on youtube about how people that visited a plantation were pissed off about how their guide was always talking about the slaves. They wanted to here about the lives of the slave owners. How the hell do you think you're going to tour a plantation and NOT hear about slaves? That's how reprobate these people are.

    @mrheimdall@mrheimdall4 жыл бұрын
  • Almost all the work? ... hun... ok.. i guess

    @reecesamuel2023@reecesamuel20235 жыл бұрын
    • I guess dictation and beatings count as work...smh

      @awesome5506@awesome55064 жыл бұрын
    • @Joy for Eternity ??? "Ignorant slaves"??? Do you identify yourself as "white"...

      @reecesamuel2023@reecesamuel20233 жыл бұрын
    • Most slave owners had rough cabins, a bit of land and a slave or two who worked alongside the owner. The biggest single slave owners were... the Southern Railroads. Of white Southerners ONLY SIX PER CENT OWNED SLAVES at the beginning of the Civil War.

      @poetcomic1@poetcomic13 жыл бұрын
    • So, Faith without works does get you death, huh?🙆🏽‍♂️

      @the2ndcoming135@the2ndcoming1352 жыл бұрын
  • This film was made during the Jim Crow era, so we'll catch all the lies and non truth.

    @davidruffin9828@davidruffin98283 жыл бұрын
  • Did he say “cheap slave labor?” Surely he meant free.

    @landeno@landeno Жыл бұрын
    • There is a cost to maintaining the lives of humans. So it wasn't free, as they provided everything that the slaves had or used like housing, food, clothes, footwear, furniture, medicine, etc.

      @theCosmicQueen@theCosmicQueen Жыл бұрын
    • @@theCosmicQueen I would hardly consider the upkeep of kidnapped humans a “cost” especially considering they had to make meals of “food” their captors considered waste, that there was no healthcare, no paid time off. “Provided”? The slaves built and produced everything they were so graciously provided….using the trees they had to chop down, mortar they had to create, and roof for their heads that had to physically build. And they built the homes their captors stayed in too. So just stop it.

      @landeno@landeno Жыл бұрын
  • Everything was so perfect. Slaves were happy being unfree and poor. After all, the white massa was so benevolent, the slaves didn't have to do any thinking for themselves, except to learn by force how to do hard manual labour and be subservient under the whip....it was a utopian paradise for all. IF YOU BELIEVE THAT, you also believe Trump is skinny.

    @RovingRoy@RovingRoy5 жыл бұрын
    • He's very skinny

      @bobbrawley2612@bobbrawley26124 жыл бұрын
    • that is not the perspective presented in this film. stop exaggerating

      @paulawhatleymatabane6452@paulawhatleymatabane64524 жыл бұрын
    • @@paulawhatleymatabane6452...and you SOUND like Paula White.

      @Virus-xm7qc@Virus-xm7qc2 жыл бұрын
    • Is it necessary to resort to ugly name calling just to make a point? Could you not just ask what thoughts/facts I relied on in making my opinion?

      @paulawhatleymatabane155@paulawhatleymatabane1552 жыл бұрын
    • @@paulawhatleymatabane155 SORRY. , I didn't know Paula WHITE was name calling, just thought it was a label

      @Virus-xm7qc@Virus-xm7qc2 жыл бұрын
  • 5:56 Isn't that the Burrus house in Benoit? It wasn't "abandoned during the Civil War". The Burrus family lived there till about 1920, and then various sharecroppers occupied it. Nothing in this film is exactly accurate, lol.

    @bramlintrent1145@bramlintrent11455 ай бұрын
  • Very informative on how the south and residents agriculturally transitioned from slavery. Doubt you could make a documentary like this today.

    @FenderGreg@FenderGreg2 жыл бұрын
    • Nope it's not going to happen. This is why history is so important. Thanks Reelblack 💘

      @realdeal5714@realdeal5714 Жыл бұрын
  • Glorifieing that shit

    @johnnywilliams7488@johnnywilliams74884 жыл бұрын
  • The plantation system is still alive to this very day! It never died in the south.

    @pdg1021@pdg10215 жыл бұрын
    • you are so right about the slave system still exist, Lisa

      @tankhead62@tankhead625 жыл бұрын
    • FACTS

      @darleneanderson137@darleneanderson1375 жыл бұрын
    • It exists and it's called the welfare system.

      @matthewthomasjames@matthewthomasjames4 жыл бұрын
    • It's called the U.S.

      @richk320@richk3204 жыл бұрын
    • My grandfather is 78 yrs old and still very fit and healthy...and he still say "yessah and yessm" to white ppl..hes never left Savannah Georgia and that's all he know..but I have to remind him..grandad we not slaves no more. And u dont have to address those demons as such becuz were not less than them! I hate what they've done to my ancestors!!! I'm disturbed that they still get offended if u dont put money on the counter..I'm from NY first generation born here and when ever I'm in the south..especially the deep south..its 2nd nature to put my money on the counter..not becuz it's a unwritten law..but becuz I dont want the devils energy on me.

      @rockywilliams8433@rockywilliams84334 жыл бұрын
  • I didn’t realize that this type of film existed....nothing like a bleached version of history 😒

    @shogun8dchosen172@shogun8dchosen1724 жыл бұрын
    • #very bleached to the whitest white..smh

      @barbaraanderson6205@barbaraanderson62054 жыл бұрын
    • That's sad. Too many ppl don't realize.

      @Kalik8000@Kalik80004 жыл бұрын
    • Facts 👏

      @jasminejohnson2687@jasminejohnson26872 жыл бұрын
  • This was made in1950 just like today America was still not trying to say they did anything wrong

    @ebonybruce6473@ebonybruce64734 жыл бұрын
    • Because that’s a violation of Black God protocol😏

      @the2ndcoming135@the2ndcoming1352 жыл бұрын
    • 💯

      @jasminejohnson2687@jasminejohnson26872 жыл бұрын
  • This is hard to watch! I love how the narrator says "plantation social patterns have left a lasting influence on life in the south... the separation of society into distinct groups"...oh you mean SEGREGATION??!!! This was dangerous propaganda at it's worst smh

    @tiffanyi5645@tiffanyi56454 жыл бұрын
    • I can imagine that you never knew Jim Crow firsthand. Well, I did and I'm glad you probably did not. It was not fun.. And this film is CORRECT and incisive about lasting impact of plantation i.e. slavery. It did lead to separation. Why is this propaganda? We always called segregation "racial separation", and understood the total lie of "separate but equal." The film is very clear and careful to never claim any equality of outcomes or life chances for blacks and whites. He makes it clear at the end that whites still own the land, live in the better house, have a high life style. Blacks were still low level labor, rented the houses, and did not own the land. Yes, it's subtle and muted that black farmers rarely got paid cash since they got "part of the crop." If the crop failed or brought a low price, black tenants were left in debt to land owner. The film was made in 1950, in midst of Cold War when any criticism of American society especially racial oppression/inequality was not tolerated. you need to grasp the WHEN of this film, look at how the filmmaker subtly uses images so you can see the continued oppression for yourself without him having to say it. In which case the film would have been censored. This was a time when just 4-5 five years later, all southern TV stations refused to carry the Nat King COLE Show because they didn't want a Negro to be in white living rooms even on TV as anything but a servant. Save Cole and other entertainers playing themselves, nearly ALL black characters in American TV and film were cast as servants. unskilled labor or prisoners. Check it out for yourself.Read J. Fred McDonald "Blacks and White TV." This instructional film was NOT another version of Gone With the Wind. It is actually amazing for its critical though muted insights of truth.

      @paulawhatleymatabane6452@paulawhatleymatabane64524 жыл бұрын
    • @@paulawhatleymatabane6452 --- Thank you, for the facts.

      @marianotorrespico2975@marianotorrespico2975 Жыл бұрын
    • Yes, SNL could have a field day with that script. They might win an Emmy for it!

      @rebeccaLV@rebeccaLV3 ай бұрын
  • No wealth no privileges for the slaves tell the damn truth. Cheap labor and cruel BS.

    @Vincent50@Vincent503 жыл бұрын
    • That would require snitching tho🤔

      @the2ndcoming135@the2ndcoming1352 жыл бұрын
    • it certainly wasn't cruel to everyone across the board. it's like saying bad things may be legal but a lot o f people refuse to do them anyway.

      @theCosmicQueen@theCosmicQueen Жыл бұрын
  • Eye dont want no damn landlord

    @beesbulletsandrecyclingcan7802@beesbulletsandrecyclingcan7802 Жыл бұрын
    • well, neither do i, but i've always had one since adulthood, an d i am white. so are most renters.

      @theCosmicQueen@theCosmicQueen Жыл бұрын
  • Interesting look at the 1950s interpretation of this history. A bit sanitized and incomplete. The audience seems to be school kids. Thus, it was made to give an introductory look at the topic. No film could capture the whole story. Would be a good exercise to make a similar film now and see the differences in the interpretation

    @1aikane@1aikane11 ай бұрын
    • It certainly would!!!!! We watched these films in school when I grew up in the 1960s. There was the Civil Rights movement going on then too. It would be wonderful to show an updated version of this film discussing such realities of various forms of punishment to slaves if they tried to escape. When I visited a historic plantation one of the things that stuck with me was simply seeing the names of slaves listed as property along with livestock

      @constancemays4601@constancemays460111 ай бұрын
  • Thank you for this! II learned a lot!

    @ycumbess@ycumbess2 жыл бұрын
  • Love, Honor and Respect to the hardest workers on the planet. I just wish the Slave Plantation Workers got something out of all the wealth that was given to the south.

    @andieslive669@andieslive669 Жыл бұрын
  • Really watered down version that trips into lies.

    @michellem6826@michellem68262 жыл бұрын
  • WHERES " NAT TURNER WHEN💥💥💥💥 YOU NEED HIM"!!***

    @hebrewbrown1900@hebrewbrown19004 жыл бұрын
    • Waiting for y’all to stop being lazy and put in some work too. He ain’t gonna get your freedom for you🤷🏽‍♂️

      @the2ndcoming135@the2ndcoming1352 жыл бұрын
    • dead, and today would go to the gas chamber.

      @theCosmicQueen@theCosmicQueen Жыл бұрын
  • 3:43 Did the narrator say, "Cheap slave labor"... How about "Free slave labor"...

    @dwightcannon9884@dwightcannon98844 жыл бұрын
    • Meaning, they got rewarded with something. Hence the point of cheap. I’m sure they didn’t work on empty stomachs, for instance.

      @the2ndcoming135@the2ndcoming1352 жыл бұрын
  • Now we need to end our crime problem.

    @joemaxfield6978@joemaxfield6978 Жыл бұрын
  • Watch Jane Pittman, free on KZhead

    @jj7834@jj7834 Жыл бұрын
  • Wow.

    @darnellplayer743@darnellplayer7436 жыл бұрын
  • DEEP! This should be talk in schools. Black people let's put our pride aside and learn. Once we get our land back let's build!!!

    @lordluvsme9378@lordluvsme93784 жыл бұрын
    • There are lots of good documentaries that describes the economic system of the South much better than this piece of propaganda.

      @thabomuso2575@thabomuso2575 Жыл бұрын
    • Africa's waiting...

      @ericscaillet2232@ericscaillet2232 Жыл бұрын
    • @@ericscaillet2232 so Is Europe Eric, why don't head BACK that way and pick out a nice cave for yourself.

      @lordluvsme9378@lordluvsme9378 Жыл бұрын
  • I grew up in the Old South of the 1950s and 1960s. Everything portrayed in this film is technically accurate, but very incomplete. It was a great time to be white unless you were white trash. If you were black it was a bit better than slavery, but far from ideal. If you want to get an honest feel for this period, I recommend reading "To Kill a Mockingbird", which is set in the 1930s, but still valid. If you want to get some sense of what it was like as the Old South was vanishing in the 1960s, I recommend watching the movie "In the Heat of the Night".

    @Paladin1873@Paladin187311 ай бұрын
  • "The separation of societies into two DISTINCT groups"...................Nuff said.

    @TheBigpoppa54@TheBigpoppa5411 ай бұрын
  • The "planters" were the Enslavers for those who didn't grasp this. The narrator was a bit modest in his reference to certain things to not upset the fragile egos of the "planters" descendants who viewed this clip back then. 🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾🤦🏾‍♂️

    @thealphaandomega9348@thealphaandomega93482 жыл бұрын
    • are you joking? nobody wants a race war and you are an idiot if you think that's a good thing to have. of course they had to modulate it. things were far different by then. so much so that they had to teach about it as a very strange and different history.

      @theCosmicQueen@theCosmicQueen Жыл бұрын
  • Well made, unbiased documentary.

    @Bill-uo6cm@Bill-uo6cm5 ай бұрын
  • U did almost all the work or who did all the work

    @coreymcgowen5202@coreymcgowen5202 Жыл бұрын
  • 6:54 😮 They say it plain. We just don't be wanting to hear it. 10:11 The plantation system has contributed to... the separation of society into distinct groups...... (Hence segregation discrimination ghettos HBCUs PWUs BET Awards (vs Grammys) RedLining Gentrification ....) The Legacy of Slavery

    @Kalik8000@Kalik80004 жыл бұрын
    • Gentrification isn't about race it's about money.

      @theCosmicQueen@theCosmicQueen Жыл бұрын
    • @@theCosmicQueen Yeah,It's about money,but not for black folks...and their always treading on established black neighborhoods to do gentrification.We can't even have our own neighborhoods any more.but every body else can.They breakup our homes as a people,and many can't see whats happening,Their giving away what was traditionally ours to immigrants and big business and we get dispersed.The love of money is the root of all evil.

      @tyreswallace9759@tyreswallace9759 Жыл бұрын
  • Stop it right there @the credits. Indiana University? This ought to be mystic

    @bobbrawley2612@bobbrawley26124 жыл бұрын
  • Thank you, you are appreciated for your wanting to educate people.

    @patandersen4271@patandersen42715 жыл бұрын
    • Pat Andersen Educate???? Are you serious? Watch Roots and 12 Years a Slave to start!

      @Dina_Darling@Dina_Darling5 жыл бұрын
    • You are a clueless individual if you think this is education

      @kmc123ist@kmc123ist5 жыл бұрын
    • 💩💩💩💩💩

      @markbouldin7181@markbouldin71814 жыл бұрын
    • Pat,..I'm going to assume your white to believe this is educating blacks🤔

      @corenpowers419@corenpowers4194 жыл бұрын
    • @@corenpowers419 This IS educating as it hammers home the sad realities of the plantation systems.

      @slim555555@slim555555 Жыл бұрын
  • The house necros Are the black celebrity LoL 😂🙌!

    @terrigurganus3720@terrigurganus37205 жыл бұрын
    • They are your politicians and law enforcement now!

      @DennisWilliams-nf2gn@DennisWilliams-nf2gn4 жыл бұрын
    • @@DennisWilliams-nf2gn how stupid.

      @theCosmicQueen@theCosmicQueen Жыл бұрын
  • WoW😲

    @juliahamilton9125@juliahamilton91255 жыл бұрын
  • Bro, good old times.

    @peterk.4266@peterk.4266 Жыл бұрын
  • According to Frederick Douglas plantations in Delaware. Also had their own forests, sawmills, carriage makers, horse raisers, canneries and owned the ships, and ship making facilities. Douglas was a skilled laborer “chalker” whose job was to precut and prefit lumber for the shipmaker carpenters. He had to be good at math. And able to read instructions and blue prints. Douglasses first master was black. And he escaped by being able to forge seaman’s papers. Which allowed him to cross state lines. So the small plantation stereotypes and ignorant slave stereotypes were not always true. For references see The Life & Times Of William Douglas which combines his autobiography and other historical documents.

    @jefferyhorton7496@jefferyhorton74966 ай бұрын
  • I am Montagnard indigenous watching .

    @jacobeksor6088@jacobeksor60885 жыл бұрын
  • I drove through the subsidized housing in Kansas City. Several young women with multiple babies. It made me think that they were still living like slaves.

    @sookie4195@sookie4195 Жыл бұрын
    • idk, they were receiving multiple benefits for those babies and probably lived somewhat well for the basics. might even have multiple child support streams perhaps. Not only black women who do that.

      @theCosmicQueen@theCosmicQueen Жыл бұрын
    • I live in Kansas City wtf the subsidized housing??? You mean the Hood it’s called the hood we got a white hood a black hood a Asian hood a Italian hood a Mexican hood a mixed hood we got hoods on hoods out here🎉

      @banditthesiberian8156@banditthesiberian8156 Жыл бұрын
  • The narrator said slaves almost did all of the work…wow.

    @deew2033@deew2033 Жыл бұрын
  • Plantation system

    @jonwrong1118@jonwrong1118 Жыл бұрын
  • Did he sayALMOSTall the work,,

    @mariecb1275@mariecb1275 Жыл бұрын
  • Ok this is pissing me off in 2022

    @thisisgossip@thisisgossip Жыл бұрын
  • You see the beauty of this is that there is no opinion by the narrator, he is simply stating what each group has and what they do. That is how history should be taught, and then it is up to me to say hey why the slaves do all the work and live in the smallest houses? I don’t want to be told what to conclude. Just show me the facts and let me decide.

    @BufordTGleason@BufordTGleason21 күн бұрын
  • Only reason I gave it a thumbs up, Was just to see how many lies they'll tell.

    @davidruffin9828@davidruffin98283 жыл бұрын
  • Absoluty ? In my rural town?

    @robertobrown4032@robertobrown40324 жыл бұрын
  • "Rip-off" system

    @markbouldin7181@markbouldin71814 жыл бұрын
  • This is pure lunacy. DeSantis would LOVE this video.

    @mareerogers364@mareerogers364 Жыл бұрын
  • And tobacco plantations were only in West Virginia?

    @sidka8435@sidka84353 жыл бұрын
    • Don’t waste your breath bro. Ain’t nobody in really tryna have a fluid discourse. It’s basically be mad at whitey time in here🤣

      @the2ndcoming135@the2ndcoming1352 жыл бұрын
  • The separation of society into distinct groups at the end of the video was most telling, as if today 1950, we are more civilized than the past and have obtained the perfect society. Even when they learn they don't learn, and today 2022, they don't even learn, step one.

    @rgrif777@rgrif777 Жыл бұрын
  • Wow he said little wealth and few privileges wow!!!

    @anthonytaylor7928@anthonytaylor79282 жыл бұрын
  • The comment of "where the slaves did most of the work" baffled me???

    @wandafisher7661@wandafisher766111 ай бұрын
  • The good ole days.

    @bedman2124@bedman21247 ай бұрын
  • Thanks that sistem ?he said?

    @robertobrown4032@robertobrown40324 жыл бұрын
  • Don’t seem like much has changed.

    @kimel122@kimel1224 жыл бұрын
    • Kim El --- CORRECT. | The minute you pass the city boundaries, youse in banjo country . . . and that follows from that stars-and-bars fantasy.

      @marianotorrespico2975@marianotorrespico2975 Жыл бұрын
  • First of all, as a black person, the intro music sounded too cheery to be talking about the plantation system.The video left out how terrible blacks were treated. That was apart of the plantation system too!!!! For example, being whipped.

    @Val-rv2xb@Val-rv2xb4 жыл бұрын
  • 100 years after the end of this I was 11. Let that sink in because it wasn't long ago. We won't even be 200 yrs out of this bs until 2065.

    @mrgeno4682@mrgeno4682 Жыл бұрын
  • Great upload but there's a few lies thrown in there

    @rocksofoffence.righteousam2422@rocksofoffence.righteousam2422 Жыл бұрын
  • I heard that this film is being dusted off and ready to be incorporated into the new Florida School curriculum next year

    @steveknoebber@steveknoebber10 ай бұрын
  • This past "Juneteenth" www.juneteenth.com/history.htm I was looking at an article and a man had saw that it was JUNETEENTH and read what it was... and was dead azz.. and was like.. "I don't get it, and I am white! this is crazy!! WHY ISN'T THIS A NATIONAL HOLIDAY, BUT JULY 4th IS??" in my mind I am, like, uhhh get with the program.. like how this past Juneteenth in my area was in the small park location that was like 1-2 miles from the house I lived in when I was married. It was on previous slave plantation. In fact the whole area basically was on some racial 'ish which I didnt find out until later. inside the "small park" which is hidden way back off the street.. it shows this/that... and I AM SUPPOSED TO GO THERE TO CELEBRATE THE FREEDOM OF SLAVERY THERE??? they don't chg. there but other parts of GA, dont quote me..but I believe they have paid tours... so its like you STILL making money off the expense of those ancestors. money for them, dark memories for us.

    @taylorchristina5309@taylorchristina53095 жыл бұрын
  • Sounds like an old Disney cartoon

    @kellyodowd3949@kellyodowd3949 Жыл бұрын
  • Plantations in the north next

    @Racojean09@Racojean095 жыл бұрын
  • This made my stomach turn. Although this was made in 1950 🙄.

    @KIDNEYtickler3373@KIDNEYtickler33732 ай бұрын
  • Wouldn't you just love to see this film made by Black people? Just astounding as to what this doesn't mention-- at the time it was made, Jim Crow was very much in effect.

    @amierichan1428@amierichan1428 Жыл бұрын
  • He said cheap labor...you mean FREE labor

    @thedon7845@thedon7845 Жыл бұрын
    • it costs plenty to take care of people , duh. food clothes, housing, and everything else including doctors.

      @theCosmicQueen@theCosmicQueen Жыл бұрын
  • Theirs something about this narration that doesn't sound right it's toned down.

    @cowboys_9@cowboys_9Ай бұрын
  • I would have got whooped everyday I would have been like kontakt trying to expect every day if I could going back home to Africa!

    @terrigurganus3720@terrigurganus37205 жыл бұрын
    • Should've went up north New York City and Chicago and Los Angeles California why stay when you free!

      @terrigurganus3720@terrigurganus37205 жыл бұрын
  • "The crops remain,great numbers of negroes remain "....sheeeeesh!!

    @richk320@richk3204 жыл бұрын
  • Now after watching this go watch Goodbye Uncle Tom

    @larrylove6759@larrylove67595 жыл бұрын
    • mike Johnson i watched it.... 😔

      @dwashington7567@dwashington75675 жыл бұрын
    • I saw the previews. . .on the fence about this flick - my cup runneth over on our hurt/insightful past - on the flipside THE WORLD KNOWS Who we are majority of us have reached the zombie apocalypse

      @thephoenix2176@thephoenix21765 жыл бұрын
    • 👍🏽

      @the2ndcoming135@the2ndcoming1352 жыл бұрын
  • Where’s my 40 acres and horse

    @asscurt@asscurt Жыл бұрын
    • A mule, not a horse.

      @johnh.365@johnh.365 Жыл бұрын
    • Mule

      @shirleyeaglin9075@shirleyeaglin9075 Жыл бұрын
  • He makes it like it a great thing in the good book the Bible you’re time is coming fast 😳

    @williebateman3613@williebateman3613 Жыл бұрын
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