@@RadicalCaveman This video is racist and omits many important facts about the thousands of Black and Native American slave owners - they owned over 22,000 African slaves
This is a magnificent example of what happens when we engage in inter- and transdisciplinary studies: Geology, genetics, and history all bonded together by a powerful tool, GIS. BRAVO!
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That black belt is truly stunning. It's insane how lasting an effect that's had on literally all of the history of your country. I have to wonder what similarly seemingly minor landscape features have affected every other place on earth, it's mind-boggling.
I had a similar epiphany reading about agricultural development in Finland. The west had soil soft enough for wooden plows, the rocky east relied on slash and burn. That little detail affects everything; language, culture, architecture, hereditary disease patterns. The old slash-and-burn lands weren't fertilized with manure and slowly depleted of trace minerals like boron, which affects forest growth to this day.
I love learning about these kinds of connections. "It's the same band over and over again." That's when the video went from interesting to fascinating for me. We know that old geology affects the modern world, but this was a particularly striking example.
Geography. More specifically, Geographic Information Science (GIS). The maps that showed the relationships between all of those histories and data (geology, geography, history, politics, etc.) is GIS.
@@teru797The geology 100% explained the populations that are currently there. This was an interdisciplinary education that showed how various aspects from the past affect the present.
@@teru797 YES! Where was the Geology? All I heard was cotton, cotton, cotton. Political hack job. I hope people see this for what it is. The rocks & soil don’t care what color anyone’s skin is.
This is the best thing I’ve seen from PBS in a while. Great episode. I didn’t know this channel existed. You guys should really cross-advertise with the other channels more often. SpaceTime, Eons, and Smart did an awesome collab a few years back.
Growing up in the 80s in Alabama we were taught about the Black Belt and that it was an ancient coastline but none of the socio-economic and demographic connections and correlations were ever mentioned. This video really should be taught in every school in the USA today.
I've also heard of black earth in the central U.S., probably from the same inland sea, making it the "bread basket." Also, that there is a similar region in Ukraine, which is why the colors of its flag represent a blue sky over fields of golden grain.
@@TheChunkyluver53 Things are far more interconnected than we think, this video proves that? Like geography has always shaped history, there's a reason so many great civilizations popped up around rivers. I was taught that in school, why not this?
What age would you teach it? That is a lot of complexity for K-12 school age. Maybe as a college prep course. However; slaves were imported by the Dutch simply because they could not get any lower classes to immigrate; same for England...lot of work no workers. After you have used up the Native Americans, non-Spanish people (which Spain did) to actually create a permanent colony. Vs the countries that just wanted a base for their companies for trade...but forgot that they needed to recruit farmers to grow food. Not sure why cotton was so important hemp linen was considered the best and grew natural unless the home countries had no idea how to process it on a massive scale. (1832 How women can increase their husband's social status". )
That band is also called the I-95 line or the water fall line, because many rivers have water falls when they hit this rock change. This made ideal locals to set up cities where cargo had to be off loaded from barges, explaining why a major high way connects the points. The cities may be an additional reason for the demographic and politic map.
They were discussing the black belt in Alabama. I-95 does not run through or really anywhere near Alabama. I know the black belt feature carries on into Georgia and the Carloinas, so maybe that is what you are referring to. This area of Alabama isn't really known for waterfalls or urban centers, though. It does include the city of Montgomery, but most of it is pretty rural.
One word, GOP. Don't get me wrong, in the not-very-distant past, Democrats were the "bad" guy. But in today's extreme political climate, telling truth become a sin, guess who to blame?
"The places we live, and even the soil under our feet, make a certain set of histories possible; but they don't make any one history inevitable" Powerful words from Shane Campbell-Staton.
Anyone else needed a moment to gather themselves after this one? What an amazing episode. I feel this one could have been at least twice in length with how deep and layered the subject matter turned out to be. I especially loved the allowance to sit with those uncomfortable moments in the conversations without blame or judgment
Agreed. If we don't learn from our past mistakes, we're doomed. It's shitty that we have to have these types of conversations but so necessary for us to learn and grow together. More videos like this please, and job well done! ❤👏👏👏
They could not go deeper because then people would see this video omitted so many facts - There were Millions of White Irish and Scottish slaves. Many White slaves lived and married African slaves. He was an idiot and not scientific to assume it was rape
This is so interesting and like someone else said in these comments, a lot deeper than I thought it would be. As someone from Atlanta, it now makes sense how the Piedmont feels different compared to the rest of the South.
Thank you for this. I saw this on Google Earth several years ago and never found a satisfying explanation of it. I figured out from other geography videos that it was a coastline but the in depth explanation of the thing was elusive and I never even knew what to call it.
I had seen the link between geology and the Black Belt reported, but the piece you crafted here is so much deeper in detail and thought. Thank you for creating something I can share with my students.
This video is garbage trash that omits so many facts. Black Americans owned 10,000 African Slaves. Native Americans owned 12,000 slaves. White Irish Slaves lived and married African slaves.
Except they omitted so many facts. Black Americans owned 10,000 African Slaves. Native Americans owned 12,000 slaves. White Irish Slaves lived and married African slaves.
@@cht2162this is a racists one side story - they make racist assumptions also omitted that only the 🇺🇸🇬🇧paid millions to free slaves - China, Arab, Africans, no one else’s tried to stop slavery
Jesus, that bit about "European paternal line, African maternal line" truly made me tear up and feel ill. It's disgusting that that kind of abuse (on top of the horror of enslavement) was common enough to leave a lasting genetic impact. Thank you for sharing this.
As a teacher here in the south I tell you, they don’t want to hear about this. Pundits are going to school board meetings, yelling and screaming to avoid facts to be taught.
Truth! I've taught in a collaborative curriculum environment. It seemed to help things click for students. It's too bad that model isn't more prevalent.
Not much social science here. If it were there would be discussions slave traders world wide and not just the small part that was the African s selling to the European powers
Human activity is shaped by the location of activity and the region's resources, the study of this correlation is called "geography". It is a fascinating subject of study.
"I welcome diversity in my genome, I just don't like how it got there." This part of the video with the 23nMe guy was impactful. Everyone should understand what this science is uncovering.
@@Watch-0w1 I like this way of thinking. I say it this way; We are all one and the same with slight variations on the theme. This way I'm a citizen of the globe rather than just a US citizen. It destroys any sense of racism or culturally biased hate. I've had to rewrite my thoughts because I grew up in the South but I think I'm a better person now because of that struggle. Even though I probably have some of that Genghis Khan in me.🤠
Knowing in the abstract sense that your ancestors did some messed up stuff is one thing. Having that abstract turned into a visible reality, being shown the genetic receipts? That hits differently.
I've touched on this type of topic in my geology 101 classes. The northwestern portion of Arkansas is mountainous and hardly had any slavery. The people that lived in these areas rarely supported secession prior to the civil war. They saw it as, "a rich man's war". I'm going to do a little more than touch on it now with this video. Thanks for producing it.
Besides the core subject of the video being interesting, this is also a great example of the power of modern data visualization tools. Those tools make it easier to discover patterns.
It is fascinating to see the power of interconnecting sciences, geology, biology, anthropology through data analysis. These perspectives do give us insight, positive and negative, into ourselves and we should keep looking and trying to be better.
I've had while people tell me that I'm racist for saying that Mr. Slave Master, Mr. Plantation Owner, Mr. Plantation Owner's Teenage Son... th-cam.com/video/7FmNXq-dnV0/w-d-xo.htmlsi=Nv2wGath-BjXN2H2&t=583 Because White People were Rapy...
@@JustJoe326there is no extreme left in this country. Our furthest left of barely left of center on the political spectrum. Suggesting there's somehow parity is not only a false equivalency, it's a bad faith argument. Centrism is, at best, naivety. And at worst, apathy. A position of ignorance or unconcern. People deserve better than mid humans asking them to compromise on liberty and progress.
The amount of history, specifically human history that is hidden due to water levels is mind-blowing. Annnnddd then this episode takes a totally different direction than expected 😮
9:55 - It really seemed like the 23andMe guy was doing his best to tap-dance around the issue. Then he just "to be blunt"ed it. Good on him for telling the actual truth, not continuing to use euphemisms and couching in faux "it was good actually".
I thought he was not dancing around it, he was trying to say it without saying the harsh words, just pausing to make sure folks got it.... then he decided that was not certain enough and went for it. Just my impression.
If you think about it further, probably all of us are the product of a rape somewhere along the line. You just have to go back far enough. It's awkward for him because he is talking on camera, and (with the research he's done) he probably knows the names of the people involved.
theirs no reason for him to avoid the issue, blacks were the ones who captured and sold each other for the slave trade, they should blame Africans for it.
It took a lot of guts to make that statement publicly, and I applaud him for that.I'm not a fan of 23andme, though. Their sharing of our genetics is troubling.
These revelations about recent Human migrations, both voluntary and forced, and their connections to ancient environments is another great addition to our knowledge. This cross-disciplinary research can suggest answers as to why ancient Humans migrated to the Fertile Crescent region of the Middle-East, the Indus Valley of south Asia, even the migration from northern Asia into the western hemisphere. The very ground they walked on and survived on can help answer the question of "Why Here?"
Absolutely. Explains a lot of insights into the concentration of vast wealth into specific companies/individuals, along with their campaign contributions.
This is so fascinating. I am glad that there are scientists and scholars who pursue their intellectual curiosity in this way. One example, unrelated to this particular line of enquiry but equally important, is one of many contributing causes of the French Revolution: weather. Several years of poor weather conditions resulted in poor crops,particularly wheat. Lower yields caused wheat and therefore bread prices to rise and, as bread was a staple of the French peasantry’s diet, they were starving. This tends to make people a tad crabby and resulted in the French peasants becoming “revolting”. You can’t blame them. So,when scholars and scientists begin “to think outside the box”, these lines of enquiry result in a whole new way of looking at historical events. I have just subscribed!
I grew up on this ancient shoreline and I remember learning about this and it made total sense when I looked at how flat the terrain was south but there was like a line where the hills and mountains started in the middle of the state (Alabama) I grew up in an area with a huge limestone deposit that was known for having a lot of fossils in it from the prehistoric ocean. The effects it's had on human history is another very important layer to be aware of
Its just a title it can only contain so much information. Titles often do not begin to touch the complexities of a video. But this title does give a general idea to what the video is about which is that ancient ocean left behind layer of fossilized organisms that influenced the later history.
But not factual, There were Millions of White Irish and Scottish slaves in many countries. Many White slaves lived and married African slaves. He was an idiot and not scientific to assume it was rape
This is a phenomenal video showcasing just how interconnected so many things truly are. The data on the voting maps is not only mind-blowing, but it is also just incredibly important information for the public to be aware of when it comes to discriminatory practices like gerrymandered districts that were specifically drawn to favor certain demographics over others. You guys could have totally tied in the recent Alabama battle over redistricting in which "Allen v. Milligan, the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) upheld Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) and ruled that Alabama’s 2021 congressional map illegally diluted the voting power of Black Alabamians." It's truly amazing how all of the sciences - biology, geology, geography, etc. - impact us in ways we never imagined. For anyone interested in the fight for more equal representation of Black Alabamians, the League of Women Voters has a pretty good break down that I'll link below. Living in Wisconsin as we fight against our own gerrymandering, I think it's super awesome to see state legislatures being held accountable for their blatant attempts to disenfranchise their citizens. "What’s Happening with Alabama’s Redistricting Post-Milligan?" - League of Women Voters www.lwv.org/blog/whats-happening-alabamas-redistricting-post-milligan
I knew that our ocean was much farther inward at one time since I was a little girl. I live in SC, and my family has a camp on the Edisto River. It is about an hour from the beach. My brother and cousins would play in the river, and we found hundreds of shark teeth, including megladon shark teeth. My great grandmother had one bigger then her hand, that she had found. We still find them to this day. Also, my dad hunted on old plantation hunting club, that had a sand pit. It’s about 20 miles from the river, inward towards the middle of SC. Our favorite thing to do was to find shark teeth and fossils all along this sand ridge. I could never understand why we were finding shark teeth so far from the ocean, and my little mind concluded that the ocean had to have covered these areas at one point in history. Very interesting how all of this ties into plantations and the production of cotton in this state, along with the enslavement of Africans. Wishing love and light to all.🌞🌻🌻🌻🌻
This almost brought me to tears and I was not ready for it. We need a heads up when we are about to have our science hurt us. Wonderful episode. More like this.
Incredibly well done! As an Alabama resident, I've noticed this confluence before, but I haven't seen all of these things articulated and put together so well. Yes, these are all things that should be studied and discussed in schools.
For anyone interested in taking this further, look up the fall line. It is the original coastline of the US and runs this same path. Its probably what determined this plankton/chalk line thats mentioned in this video. it runs all the way up the coastal plain up the eas5ern U.S. an it determined where many of our oldest, first major cities are located. There are satelite images of this line and some of these cities. Super interesting subject...have fun diving deep!
Damn. That was a crazy watch. I know geologic happenings can affect cultures and such. But it's usually mountains and rivers. Getting to blame ancient zooplankton for all sorts of horrid things would be a grossly reduced meme, but it's still crazy to think about. I could go on but I need to sit with this more. My world view has shifted a bit.
Ancient zooplankton isn't too blame, even the video addressed that. People are. The zooplankton just set a stage that horrible people chose to exploit.
@@xianvox22and the Sun, plate tectonics, the guy who made a boat, the bronze age, iron age, when it rained that one time. Pseudo science, political propaganda masked as some enlightened thought. Eugenics will be making a come back I guess
I think we have to add highway development to the mix. I don't think the democrats in central SC have as much influence on the local level and along highway 26 through Columbia the boots on the ground making the choices are Christian white Republicans from the upstate.
This is one of the most fascinating videos I have watched! How events of millions of years ago still impact us today. This just blows my mind. Well done to the researchers!
This is incredible. I teach African-American history, so I was familiar with "Black Belt" history, but the connection to the chalk shelf.. astounding! It makes me think of French historian Fernand Braudel who argued that geography can explain so much about the development of human culture, including the power of nations, their wars, and even their boundaries. Of course as Campbell-Staton explains that they are connected to geography does not explain HOW we choose to use those lines, since slavery and war are definite choices that humans make.
@@Theoryofcatsndogs worse than that; the complicity between most all parties to keep down the ugly parts of the past, to "just don't ask," to say "no, we did them a favor" so that those folks whose grandfathers actually DID these horrible things...they don't want to feel bad about it, they don't want to think about it, they certainly don't want to be called out on it. Therefore: they arranged for everyone to forget. Or they tried. It hurts me that my own ancestors probably contributed to this pain. I'm just an average white lady, none of my own bloodlines are from the South, but at the same time...even people in Ohio had some part in the slave trade, if nothing else by buying the cotton. It's not really any better if you look at the German part of my ancestry either. Difficult to face, and uncomfortable: I can see why the Powers that Be (and have been) would want this swept under the rug. I hope like hell that all that "blue wave" keeps pushing, until they flood out all the red, everywhere.
This video is truly so amazing. The way it incorporates so many different things together. I started university around 10 years ago and I've seen this shift in the way people discuss science now. A lot more focused on practical and human issues (which you'd think is the point but I'm not gonna get into that rn). Seeing those different versions of the same map is truly sooooooo compelling but also so heartbreaking. It must've been a tough one to film but I'm really glad this was made! I cannot wait to see what else yall do ❤
This video is just a pack of lies and omitted facts that didn't fit their narrative. There were millions of White Irish Slaves that lived with and married African slaves - only an idiot would assume his ancestors were involved in rape without any data
Wonderful, and educational on so many levels! I had never tied the Haitian revolution and cotton in the USA before, I always thought the French just produced sugar seeing it's far more profitable to grow and refine on site. I would like to learn more about this in particular,
Early on, it *was* mostly sugar as the demand for cotton was not super high. But, in the mid 18th Century, the spinning jenny and mechanical loom were invented. Now, French aristocrats had been wearing a curious stiff and yet soft cotton fabric called DeNîmes after the city in Southern France where it was developed since the Middle Ages. Usually, dyed with the ultra-expensive import from India, indigo. Although highly practical, this was a luxury fabric due to the labor intensive production: the tight jacquard weave requires a skilled weaver and many hours. But with the invention of the mechanical loom, suddenly "denim" as it was known in English could be produced as easily as wool. Meanwhile, indigo was being grown in South Carolina: as a result of slave expertise and labor. Full denim suits and dresses became a trend, so French plantations switched to cotton. This is all a half century before Levi Strauss btw.
I am as astonished with this information as the presenter is. The ability to trace ancient limestone deposits through maps of political outcomes is such a profound illustration of the inequities and injustices of American history.
The first time I learned about the previous ocean in North America was when I camped in the desert with my family in Mexico. We went on a hike and I found a giant boulder with a weird porous crust around it. After taking a closer look for a couple minutes I realized they were fossilized barnacles. I kept looking around and found a hand full of different small shrimp like fossils. Really interesting stuff
I was wondering why this episode was meandering all around between geology and genetics but it was absolutely worth the journey when it was all tied up in the end. Great work!
Interesting how the choices we (or our ancestors) make determine so much. The fact that this ancient coastline produced a perfect environment for growing cotton is one thing. What humans did with that environment is really sad. They could have farmed that cotton in other ways and still created cotton t-shirts for us all. We still could create cotton t-shirts in ways that don't exploit people (this time in other places). Why do we make the choices to use what our planet has built for us, in ways that are so destructive and damaging to so many of us? Profit for a few is not a good enough excuse anymore, if it ever was.
These datasets really should be used for the benefit of the species as a whole. We have the knowledge and the means that no individual should need ever go without food, water, shelter, clothing, and healthcare.
This is a terrific video. If I had one quibble with the presentation is that it didn’t explore the link between the calcium carbonate bedrock and plant nutrition, especially for cotton. Why is Ca2+ so essential for intensive cotton production?
I lived in Alabama briefly, near the Talladega Nat’l Forest, and I’ve found fossilized shells along the summits. It never ceases to amaze me to imagine a world where places like that were underwater at one point in time.
Aside from the sun, everything you see is the product of supernovae fusing hydrogen into heavier elements. We're all made of the same stuff; we all share common ancestry; we're all family.
West Virginia's history and economy goes back even more millions of years to a bajillion dead trees. So i can relate a little (tho affecting Appalachia culture isn't as huge as African-American culture)
This is exactly the type of show I look for from PBS Terra.
How ancient Earth/Terran processes impact our past, present & futures.
Thank you!
Yeah full of woke virtue signaling. Way to go.
@@ImpendingJoker Yeah, how dare anyone pop your racist little ideological bubble!
@@ImpendingJoker - It sounds like you need a huge alarm clock to shake you into reality.
@@RadicalCavemanhow it's not racist if it's true.
@@RadicalCaveman This video is racist and omits many important facts about the thousands of Black and Native American slave owners - they owned over 22,000 African slaves
This is a magnificent example of what happens when we engage in inter- and transdisciplinary studies: Geology, genetics, and history all bonded together by a powerful tool, GIS. BRAVO!
This episode was deeper than I was ready for
Right? I was just ready for a geology lesson. Glad we got more ❤
That's a great way of putting it.
Same here
Not me.. I've had while people tell me that I'm racist for saying that Mr. Slave Master, Plantation Owner, Plantation Owner's Teenage Son... th-cam.com/video/7FmNXq-dnV0/w-d-xo.htmlsi=Nv2wGath-BjXN2H2&t=583
Because White People were Rapy...
100%
That black belt is truly stunning. It's insane how lasting an effect that's had on literally all of the history of your country. I have to wonder what similarly seemingly minor landscape features have affected every other place on earth, it's mind-boggling.
I had a similar epiphany reading about agricultural development in Finland. The west had soil soft enough for wooden plows, the rocky east relied on slash and burn. That little detail affects everything; language, culture, architecture, hereditary disease patterns. The old slash-and-burn lands weren't fertilized with manure and slowly depleted of trace minerals like boron, which affects forest growth to this day.
I love learning about these kinds of connections. "It's the same band over and over again." That's when the video went from interesting to fascinating for me. We know that old geology affects the modern world, but this was a particularly striking example.
I like to learn and will learn.
This episode was WAAAAAAY deeper than what the headline gave off. I needed MORE of this topic of DNA and historical graphs
Another reason to love geology. It is not just the past ❤
And genealogy too..
Geography. More specifically, Geographic Information Science (GIS). The maps that showed the relationships between all of those histories and data (geology, geography, history, politics, etc.) is GIS.
there was hardly any geology in this episode
@@teru797The geology 100% explained the populations that are currently there. This was an interdisciplinary education that showed how various aspects from the past affect the present.
@@teru797 YES! Where was the Geology? All I heard was cotton, cotton, cotton. Political hack job. I hope people see this for what it is. The rocks & soil don’t care what color anyone’s skin is.
This is the best thing I’ve seen from PBS in a while. Great episode.
I didn’t know this channel existed. You guys should really cross-advertise with the other channels more often. SpaceTime, Eons, and Smart did an awesome collab a few years back.
Growing up in the 80s in Alabama we were taught about the Black Belt and that it was an ancient coastline but none of the socio-economic and demographic connections and correlations were ever mentioned. This video really should be taught in every school in the USA today.
I've also heard of black earth in the central U.S., probably from the same inland sea, making it the "bread basket." Also, that there is a similar region in Ukraine, which is why the colors of its flag represent a blue sky over fields of golden grain.
Because those are two different subjects that just overlap slightly
@@TheChunkyluver53 i dont understand how you can watch this video and call this a "slight overlap"
@@TheChunkyluver53 Things are far more interconnected than we think, this video proves that? Like geography has always shaped history, there's a reason so many great civilizations popped up around rivers. I was taught that in school, why not this?
What age would you teach it? That is a lot of complexity for K-12 school age. Maybe as a college prep course. However; slaves were imported by the Dutch simply because they could not get any lower classes to immigrate; same for England...lot of work no workers. After you have used up the Native Americans, non-Spanish people (which Spain did) to actually create a permanent colony. Vs the countries that just wanted a base for their companies for trade...but forgot that they needed to recruit farmers to grow food. Not sure why cotton was so important hemp linen was considered the best and grew natural unless the home countries had no idea how to process it on a massive scale. (1832 How women can increase their husband's social status". )
That band is also called the I-95 line or the water fall line, because many rivers have water falls when they hit this rock change. This made ideal locals to set up cities where cargo had to be off loaded from barges, explaining why a major high way connects the points. The cities may be an additional reason for the demographic and politic map.
They were discussing the black belt in Alabama. I-95 does not run through or really anywhere near Alabama. I know the black belt feature carries on into Georgia and the Carloinas, so maybe that is what you are referring to.
This area of Alabama isn't really known for waterfalls or urban centers, though. It does include the city of Montgomery, but most of it is pretty rural.
The interstate follows ancient roads.
This information should be taught in all US schools. Thank you for researching and airing it.
Yeah, I didn’t learn this till college
One word, GOP.
Don't get me wrong, in the not-very-distant past, Democrats were the "bad" guy. But in today's extreme political climate, telling truth become a sin, guess who to blame?
I’m pretty sure this video is banned in Florida.
It's critical race theory...
@@masterofnonetech This is history.
"The places we live, and even the soil under our feet, make a certain set of histories possible; but they don't make any one history inevitable" Powerful words from Shane Campbell-Staton.
Anyone else needed a moment to gather themselves after this one? What an amazing episode. I feel this one could have been at least twice in length with how deep and layered the subject matter turned out to be. I especially loved the allowance to sit with those uncomfortable moments in the conversations without blame or judgment
Well said. Difficult material was handled with respect, and not shied away from.
Agreed. If we don't learn from our past mistakes, we're doomed. It's shitty that we have to have these types of conversations but so necessary for us to learn and grow together. More videos like this please, and job well done! ❤👏👏👏
They could not go deeper because then people would see this video omitted so many facts - There were Millions of White Irish and Scottish slaves. Many White slaves lived and married African slaves. He was an idiot and not scientific to assume it was rape
This is so interesting and like someone else said in these comments, a lot deeper than I thought it would be. As someone from Atlanta, it now makes sense how the Piedmont feels different compared to the rest of the South.
Thank you for this. I saw this on Google Earth several years ago and never found a satisfying explanation of it. I figured out from other geography videos that it was a coastline but the in depth explanation of the thing was elusive and I never even knew what to call it.
I had seen the link between geology and the Black Belt reported, but the piece you crafted here is so much deeper in detail and thought. Thank you for creating something I can share with my students.
Not only are these facts phenomenal, but you who studied it and put it together for us to watch are the real phenomenon to be proud of! Thank you!
How come you dudes don’t discuss the topic?
This video is garbage trash that omits so many facts. Black Americans owned 10,000 African Slaves. Native Americans owned 12,000 slaves. White Irish Slaves lived and married African slaves.
This is why they continue to try to gerrymander these areas. Thank you for this. So fascinating.
Yes ancient oceans caused GERRYMANDERING!!!! You my boy are going places!!!
That final link was jaw dropping...absolutely brilliantly made! Thank you for posting!
Except they omitted so many facts. Black Americans owned 10,000 African Slaves. Native Americans owned 12,000 slaves. White Irish Slaves lived and married African slaves.
@@daveistrading So?
@@cht2162this is a racists one side story - they make racist assumptions also omitted that only the 🇺🇸🇬🇧paid millions to free slaves - China, Arab, Africans, no one else’s tried to stop slavery
Jesus, that bit about "European paternal line, African maternal line" truly made me tear up and feel ill. It's disgusting that that kind of abuse (on top of the horror of enslavement) was common enough to leave a lasting genetic impact. Thank you for sharing this.
This is the interdisciplinary story that explains why we need to teach social sciences _and_ STEM.
I totally agree. And music classes, too!
This video was surprising and amazing. Thanks PBS
(I donate to PBS monthly - everyone else should, too.)
Yes!
As a teacher here in the south I tell you, they don’t want to hear about this. Pundits are going to school board meetings, yelling and screaming to avoid facts to be taught.
Truth! I've taught in a collaborative curriculum environment. It seemed to help things click for students. It's too bad that model isn't more prevalent.
Not much social science here. If it were there would be discussions slave traders world wide and not just the small part that was the African s selling to the European powers
Human activity is shaped by the location of activity and the region's resources, the study of this correlation is called "geography". It is a fascinating subject of study.
"I welcome diversity in my genome, I just don't like how it got there." This part of the video with the 23nMe guy was impactful. Everyone should understand what this science is uncovering.
I appreciate how respectful they were of each other.
We all have little of each other.
I remember they say 50 percent of population are descendent of Genghis Khan
@@Watch-0w1 I like this way of thinking. I say it this way; We are all one and the same with slight variations on the theme. This way I'm a citizen of the globe rather than just a US citizen. It destroys any sense of racism or culturally biased hate. I've had to rewrite my thoughts because I grew up in the South but I think I'm a better person now because of that struggle. Even though I probably have some of that Genghis Khan in me.🤠
Knowing in the abstract sense that your ancestors did some messed up stuff is one thing. Having that abstract turned into a visible reality, being shown the genetic receipts? That hits differently.
@@ajchapeliere well said. My thoughts exactly, but better articulated.
I've touched on this type of topic in my geology 101 classes. The northwestern portion of Arkansas is mountainous and hardly had any slavery. The people that lived in these areas rarely supported secession prior to the civil war. They saw it as, "a rich man's war".
I'm going to do a little more than touch on it now with this video. Thanks for producing it.
Besides the core subject of the video being interesting, this is also a great example of the power of modern data visualization tools. Those tools make it easier to discover patterns.
This is absolutely flooring, to see all these maps laid out.
Maaan, crossing from natural history into people's history. Brilliant and right on time. This is amazing. Thank you!
W.EB Du Bois and Karl Marx are applauding in their graves 👏🏿✊🏿
Spectacular narration, immersive history, top level production, perfect host. 💜
It is fascinating to see the power of interconnecting sciences, geology, biology, anthropology through data analysis. These perspectives do give us insight, positive and negative, into ourselves and we should keep looking and trying to be better.
And if they taught those sciences this way in schools kids would start to recognize the importance of what those subjects were all about !
I studied history and this, this is history. Thank you for making and sharing this.
A simple like isn't enough to say how much I enjoyed this episode. Good stuff
This is incredible! This is the type of programming I could watch all day. Great host and valuable information! Very well done.
Excelent presentation 😁 Shane's voice is so smooth and engaging
A profoundly moving and profoundly interesting segment.
If Americans aren't learning this in highschool then that's a crying shame.
You can thank the rightist conservatives for that shame.
Geology is taught in high school.
I've had while people tell me that I'm racist for saying that Mr. Slave Master, Mr. Plantation Owner, Mr. Plantation Owner's Teenage Son... th-cam.com/video/7FmNXq-dnV0/w-d-xo.htmlsi=Nv2wGath-BjXN2H2&t=583
Because White People were Rapy...
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@@JustJoe326there is no extreme left in this country. Our furthest left of barely left of center on the political spectrum.
Suggesting there's somehow parity is not only a false equivalency, it's a bad faith argument. Centrism is, at best, naivety. And at worst, apathy. A position of ignorance or unconcern.
People deserve better than mid humans asking them to compromise on liberty and progress.
One of the best videos from PBS Terra I have ever seen. Great work!
Fascinating video!! This is something that should be taught in every schools!😊
That was not where I expected to end up. Very interesting.
The amount of history, specifically human history that is hidden due to water levels is mind-blowing.
Annnnddd then this episode takes a totally different direction than expected 😮
For one example, there's probably a lot of evidence of the migration of humans from Asia to North America lost just off the coast.
@@arkansasoutpost oh most certainly or any other ancient settlement on the "coast" is now covered by water/mud/sediment
Certainly explains all the marine fossils found in North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, etc.
and lost migration data under the sahara@@arkansasoutpost
This may be one of my favorite videos on TH-cam. Just wow.
9:55 - It really seemed like the 23andMe guy was doing his best to tap-dance around the issue. Then he just "to be blunt"ed it. Good on him for telling the actual truth, not continuing to use euphemisms and couching in faux "it was good actually".
I thought he was not dancing around it, he was trying to say it without saying the harsh words, just pausing to make sure folks got it.... then he decided that was not certain enough and went for it.
Just my impression.
If you think about it further, probably all of us are the product of a rape somewhere along the line. You just have to go back far enough. It's awkward for him because he is talking on camera, and (with the research he's done) he probably knows the names of the people involved.
theirs no reason for him to avoid the issue, blacks were the ones who captured and sold each other for the slave trade, they should blame Africans for it.
@@mcv2178 Yes, that was my take on it also.
It took a lot of guts to make that statement publicly, and I applaud him for that.I'm not a fan of 23andme, though. Their sharing of our genetics is troubling.
This is what i watch PBS for, well done, thank you.
I felt so many emotions throughout this dude, amazing job
It is fascinating how geology can be the basis for so many human endeavours whether bad or good.
That was an amazing perspective into pre-history, US history, and current events! Thank you!
These revelations about recent Human migrations, both voluntary and forced, and their connections to ancient environments is another great addition to our knowledge.
This cross-disciplinary research can suggest answers as to why ancient Humans migrated to the Fertile Crescent region of the Middle-East, the Indus Valley of south Asia, even the migration from northern Asia into the western hemisphere.
The very ground they walked on and survived on can help answer the question of "Why Here?"
Your work is incredible, thank you. This is such important history to be known.
Definitely one of the most captivating geology videos I have seen in a long while.
I'd heard a bit about this before, thanks for going into detail. I wonder if something similar could be done with oil and coal deposits
Absolutely. Explains a lot of insights into the concentration of vast wealth into specific companies/individuals, along with their campaign contributions.
This is so fascinating. I am glad that there are scientists and scholars who pursue their intellectual curiosity in this way. One example, unrelated to this particular line of enquiry but equally important, is one of many contributing causes of the French Revolution: weather. Several years of poor weather conditions resulted in poor crops,particularly wheat. Lower yields caused wheat and therefore bread prices to rise and, as bread was a staple of the French peasantry’s diet, they were starving. This tends to make people a tad crabby and resulted in the French peasants becoming “revolting”. You can’t blame them. So,when scholars and scientists begin “to think outside the box”, these lines of enquiry result in a whole new way of looking at historical events. I have just subscribed!
I grew up on this ancient shoreline and I remember learning about this and it made total sense when I looked at how flat the terrain was south but there was like a line where the hills and mountains started in the middle of the state (Alabama) I grew up in an area with a huge limestone deposit that was known for having a lot of fossils in it from the prehistoric ocean. The effects it's had on human history is another very important layer to be aware of
History is applied geology. Politics is applied history.
That was amazing! I've seen how geology can influence and impact people, but this is on an entirely new level! Well done!
Incredible power of human and natural history!
This is how history & geology should be taught in schools! Absolutely loved this episode! Definitely could be longer ❤
title does not accurately describe what this video is about
Totally agree, doesn’t even scratch the surface
I heard John and Maria eat meat everyday
Its just a title it can only contain so much information. Titles often do not begin to touch the complexities of a video. But this title does give a general idea to what the video is about which is that ancient ocean left behind layer of fossilized organisms that influenced the later history.
The ocean 120 million years ago was the cause of slavery. Got it. The ocean should pay reparations.
How so? Is black American history not American history?
That was completely fascinating.
But not factual, There were Millions of White Irish and Scottish slaves in many countries. Many White slaves lived and married African slaves. He was an idiot and not scientific to assume it was rape
This . Was. Fascinating.
Fantastic format, more please!
This is a phenomenal video showcasing just how interconnected so many things truly are. The data on the voting maps is not only mind-blowing, but it is also just incredibly important information for the public to be aware of when it comes to discriminatory practices like gerrymandered districts that were specifically drawn to favor certain demographics over others. You guys could have totally tied in the recent Alabama battle over redistricting in which "Allen v. Milligan, the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) upheld Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) and ruled that Alabama’s 2021 congressional map illegally diluted the voting power of Black Alabamians." It's truly amazing how all of the sciences - biology, geology, geography, etc. - impact us in ways we never imagined. For anyone interested in the fight for more equal representation of Black Alabamians, the League of Women Voters has a pretty good break down that I'll link below. Living in Wisconsin as we fight against our own gerrymandering, I think it's super awesome to see state legislatures being held accountable for their blatant attempts to disenfranchise their citizens.
"What’s Happening with Alabama’s Redistricting Post-Milligan?" - League of Women Voters
www.lwv.org/blog/whats-happening-alabamas-redistricting-post-milligan
I knew that our ocean was much farther inward at one time since I was a little girl. I live in SC, and my family has a camp on the Edisto River. It is about an hour from the beach. My brother and cousins would play in the river, and we found hundreds of shark teeth, including megladon shark teeth. My great grandmother had one bigger then her hand, that she had found. We still find them to this day. Also, my dad hunted on old plantation hunting club, that had a sand pit. It’s about 20 miles from the river, inward towards the middle of SC. Our favorite thing to do was to find shark teeth and fossils all along this sand ridge. I could never understand why we were finding shark teeth so far from the ocean, and my little mind concluded that the ocean had to have covered these areas at one point in history. Very interesting how all of this ties into plantations and the production of cotton in this state, along with the enslavement of Africans. Wishing love and light to all.🌞🌻🌻🌻🌻
This almost brought me to tears and I was not ready for it. We need a heads up when we are about to have our science hurt us. Wonderful episode. More like this.
Incredibly well done! As an Alabama resident, I've noticed this confluence before, but I haven't seen all of these things articulated and put together so well. Yes, these are all things that should be studied and discussed in schools.
This was one of the more interesting videos on YT. I've lived in the south all my life and didn't know this.
For anyone interested in taking this further, look up the fall line. It is the original coastline of the US and runs this same path. Its probably what determined this plankton/chalk line thats mentioned in this video. it runs all the way up the coastal plain up the eas5ern U.S. an it determined where many of our oldest, first major cities are located. There are satelite images of this line and some of these cities. Super interesting subject...have fun diving deep!
Thank You😊
Wow… the section with the maps was so deeply fascinating
One of my favorite series was Connections with James Burke decades ago. You are continuing this tradition and I thank you.
I loved that show. It should be streaming somewhere!
Damn. That was a crazy watch. I know geologic happenings can affect cultures and such. But it's usually mountains and rivers. Getting to blame ancient zooplankton for all sorts of horrid things would be a grossly reduced meme, but it's still crazy to think about.
I could go on but I need to sit with this more. My world view has shifted a bit.
Ancient zooplankton isn't too blame, even the video addressed that. People are. The zooplankton just set a stage that horrible people chose to exploit.
@@xianvox22 I'm aware.
@@xianvox22and the Sun, plate tectonics, the guy who made a boat, the bronze age, iron age, when it rained that one time. Pseudo science, political propaganda masked as some enlightened thought. Eugenics will be making a come back I guess
I think we have to add highway development to the mix. I don't think the democrats in central SC have as much influence on the local level and along highway 26 through Columbia the boots on the ground making the choices are Christian white Republicans from the upstate.
This is the most informative and interesting doc I’ve seen in awhile. The geological maps are fascinating.
This truly blew my mind.
This is one of the most fascinating videos I have watched!
How events of millions of years ago still impact us today. This just blows my mind. Well done to the researchers!
This is crazy...literally deeper than I've ever known
This is incredible. I teach African-American history, so I was familiar with "Black Belt" history, but the connection to the chalk shelf.. astounding! It makes me think of French historian Fernand Braudel who argued that geography can explain so much about the development of human culture, including the power of nations, their wars, and even their boundaries. Of course as Campbell-Staton explains that they are connected to geography does not explain HOW we choose to use those lines, since slavery and war are definite choices that humans make.
Why this is not taught in high schools across america I will never know
one word GOP
@@Theoryofcatsndogs worse than that; the complicity between most all parties to keep down the ugly parts of the past, to "just don't ask," to say "no, we did them a favor" so that those folks whose grandfathers actually DID these horrible things...they don't want to feel bad about it, they don't want to think about it, they certainly don't want to be called out on it. Therefore: they arranged for everyone to forget. Or they tried.
It hurts me that my own ancestors probably contributed to this pain. I'm just an average white lady, none of my own bloodlines are from the South, but at the same time...even people in Ohio had some part in the slave trade, if nothing else by buying the cotton. It's not really any better if you look at the German part of my ancestry either. Difficult to face, and uncomfortable: I can see why the Powers that Be (and have been) would want this swept under the rug.
I hope like hell that all that "blue wave" keeps pushing, until they flood out all the red, everywhere.
@@Joe-sg9llgrievances over policy
Geology is taught in high school, or do you mean with a side of political nonsense.
@@luciferblack3166the only political nonsense here is your comment.
This video is truly so amazing. The way it incorporates so many different things together. I started university around 10 years ago and I've seen this shift in the way people discuss science now. A lot more focused on practical and human issues (which you'd think is the point but I'm not gonna get into that rn). Seeing those different versions of the same map is truly sooooooo compelling but also so heartbreaking. It must've been a tough one to film but I'm really glad this was made! I cannot wait to see what else yall do ❤
This video is just a pack of lies and omitted facts that didn't fit their narrative. There were millions of White Irish Slaves that lived with and married African slaves - only an idiot would assume his ancestors were involved in rape without any data
Thank you for this content.
That was amazing! Taught a whole bunch of different lessons with one throughline of the geology.
This was absolutely astounding how those folks figured out this stuff !
The comment section is full of kind people excited about truth and education. So wholesome despite a serious topic
Great episode! I was hooked from start to finish. Thank you!
That overlay is wild
I live in north Florida, grew up in south Georgia. I had a litle bit of an idea about this. Love the detail of this episode.
That was a broad in-depth overview we all need to watch.
Great episode. Thanks to the production team
Amazing. I thought it was the warm climate and extended growing season that drove cotton there, you opened my eyes.
Wonderful, and educational on so many levels! I had never tied the Haitian revolution and cotton in the USA before, I always thought the French just produced sugar seeing it's far more profitable to grow and refine on site. I would like to learn more about this in particular,
Early on, it *was* mostly sugar as the demand for cotton was not super high. But, in the mid 18th Century, the spinning jenny and mechanical loom were invented. Now, French aristocrats had been wearing a curious stiff and yet soft cotton fabric called DeNîmes after the city in Southern France where it was developed since the Middle Ages. Usually, dyed with the ultra-expensive import from India, indigo. Although highly practical, this was a luxury fabric due to the labor intensive production: the tight jacquard weave requires a skilled weaver and many hours. But with the invention of the mechanical loom, suddenly "denim" as it was known in English could be produced as easily as wool. Meanwhile, indigo was being grown in South Carolina: as a result of slave expertise and labor. Full denim suits and dresses became a trend, so French plantations switched to cotton. This is all a half century before Levi Strauss btw.
@@golwenlothlindel So am I correct, they produced sugar not cotton at the time of the revolution?
@@MrMarkAMartin no. At the time of the revolution, in the last decade of the 18th Century, most plantations in Haiti produced cotton.
Omg, I love how you introduced Craig. I can tell this is going to be good.
This was very eye opening. Thank you.
Wow, those maps at the end astound! Thank you!!
I am as astonished with this information as the presenter is. The ability to trace ancient limestone deposits through maps of political outcomes is such a profound illustration of the inequities and injustices of American history.
The first time I learned about the previous ocean in North America was when I camped in the desert with my family in Mexico. We went on a hike and I found a giant boulder with a weird porous crust around it. After taking a closer look for a couple minutes I realized they were fossilized barnacles. I kept looking around and found a hand full of different small shrimp like fossils. Really interesting stuff
I was wondering why this episode was meandering all around between geology and genetics but it was absolutely worth the journey when it was all tied up in the end. Great work!
This was a rollercoaster
Interesting how the choices we (or our ancestors) make determine so much. The fact that this ancient coastline produced a perfect environment for growing cotton is one thing. What humans did with that environment is really sad. They could have farmed that cotton in other ways and still created cotton t-shirts for us all. We still could create cotton t-shirts in ways that don't exploit people (this time in other places). Why do we make the choices to use what our planet has built for us, in ways that are so destructive and damaging to so many of us? Profit for a few is not a good enough excuse anymore, if it ever was.
These datasets really should be used for the benefit of the species as a whole. We have the knowledge and the means that no individual should need ever go without food, water, shelter, clothing, and healthcare.
Human greed
What an eye-opener! This is gonna stick with me.
This is a terrific video. If I had one quibble with the presentation is that it didn’t explore the link between the calcium carbonate bedrock and plant nutrition, especially for cotton. Why is Ca2+ so essential for intensive cotton production?
I lived in Alabama briefly, near the Talladega Nat’l Forest, and I’ve found fossilized shells along the summits. It never ceases to amaze me to imagine a world where places like that were underwater at one point in time.
Aside from the sun, everything you see is the product of supernovae fusing hydrogen into heavier elements. We're all made of the same stuff; we all share common ancestry; we're all family.
Wow amazing episode Shane!
Phenomenal presentation!!
One of the best informational vid's I have seen in a long time. Really good research here.
West Virginia's history and economy goes back even more millions of years to a bajillion dead trees. So i can relate a little (tho affecting Appalachia culture isn't as huge as African-American culture)
Well that wouldn't be about how geology and white supremacy go hand and hand.