Thank you for these Truths that are not written in the history of this country and taught to our children. We only get fragments and some pieces when the subject is highlighted in the short month of February!!!
I really appreciate your comment and I'm glad that I could shed some light on untold truths in our history. It's important to educate ourselves and future generations about the complete story.
@@ExploringCreationVids I was born and raised in Creswell NC . Miss Dorothy came there after I left . Glad I watched this never new some of the things I learned from this . But back then we where taught that slaves did build and dug the canals.
I’m currently reading The Waterman’s Song- Slavery And Freedom In Maritime North Carolina by David S. Cecelski. This video certainly fills in visual gaps that I needed to give life to my reading experience. I appreciate this greatly. - A Black Waterman
Thanks for this education and, in particular, giving a focus describing the extremely arduous labor of African American slaves who dug these canals. In describing slaves desiring freedom using those canals as an escape route it was most likely not the ones having dug the original canals but those who came after the canals were completed. I have always considered North Carolina to be one of America’s most beautiful states.
I think its a damn shame to let the canals fill in or grow over. So many people worked at the peril of the whip and malaria to dig them, to let those canals turn to stagnant overgrown ditches is disrespectful of all those who dug them.
@@apoliticallevi beliefs are nice but oxygenated water is nicer. the animal kingdom does not thrive in stagnant anoxic fetid water. but it is a really pretty belief.
@@apoliticallevi guess we better get rid of the roads that lead up to your house and mine, oh, and these houses we live in better be let to go to ruin so nature can come in, and hey, cant have any farms for the food you and I enjoy, no way, those gotta go too, I think your're on to something here, lets give it all back to the mosquitoes. right on.
My great grandfather and grandfather used to run a buy boat from Beaufort to New Bern through the clubffoot canal. My grandfather told me you could get into the canal for free. But it cost 10 cents to get out! I have a place on Dawson Creek right across the Neuse from clubfoot bay.
@ExploringCreationVids my grandfather was the skipper on the steamboat "Phillips" that ran fertilizer from New Bern up the Neuse as far as Seven Springs and up the Contentnea as far as Skuflton NC 903. Before ww1.
You can't have slave labor build technical structures, it only works for non technical jobs like gathering or clearing. Any slave that worked that canal in a technical fashion was trained as an engineer. Just like today the unskilled labor in construction digs ditches and the skilled labor builds the technical aspect
The capital building has no technical features? Built by contract slave labor. None of the scientists used as slave labor by nazis had any technical training? You confuse slavery with education. There were many folks held in bondage that after freed became scientists, engineers, politicians, professors businessman. Saying because you are a slave means you don't have mental aptitude. It means you're too ignorant to make that call!!
Were it not for the storm ditches built by Works Progress Administration workers in the 1930s, maintained til now by City workers, Chattanooga would be underwater today.
Although we acknowledge the great Injustice of Slavery where ever it is found we must also understand that life in Africa was often times no better for them and often worse. Life expectancy across the board was short. In fact compared to the then and the still ongoing brisk Arab slave trade in Africa those that were transported into America had it much better and were introduced to Christianity even if thru sinful and imperfect people. The Arabs on the other hand were and are more brutal with no value placed on human life at all. In summery life is hard, it is unfair but those unfortunates that fell into slavery were and are subsequently better off here in America.
@@ExploringCreationVids Yes sir..............fairness and the quest for truth in all evaluations of history must always be the goal and the facts will rest where they may. An excellent 1st person account of the African slave trade in the middle and later part of the 19th century are the writings of David Livingstone who kept quite detailed records of his explorations and missionary work in central Africa.
My state has a lot of “Irish canals”. The Irish were doing jobs that were unfit for dark slaves. Besides, How could your Africans dig canals? They never invented the shovel.
It's not "troubling" for me even slightly, I'm over "white guilt", and won't be manipulated that way anymore. Of course slavery was terrible, it existed on every continent on the planet, and blacks owned other blacks as slaves in Africa for hundreds if not thousands of years before they first sold slaves to white people. If your family is from the Southeast US and family members were among the 5-8% of Americans that ever owned slaves *when slavery existed here*, you STILL had nothing to do with slavery, and have nothing to be troubled by, it's part of history and it's time to move forward. I have no problem whatsoever acknowledging the suffering and the hard labor of the slaves who dug canals, and slaves in general, and I acknowledge the benefits others gained from using the canals, but since my family did not even ENTER this country until the late 1800s/early 1900s, after the Civil War, and NEVER owned a single slave (being in Germany and Italy when slavery existed here), I have ZERO guilt... and neither should a single one of the tens of millions of *other* white people alive today whose descendants had absolutely NOTHING to do with slavery. Acknowledging and learning from history is good... using it to blackmail and guilt trip innocent people and convince black people they are perpetual victims who are stuck in helpless victim mode and can't achieve anything is sick, cowardly and destructive (esp to black people). White people trying to "help" black people by indulging this perpetual guilt and shame bullsh#t need to stop "helping" them (ie harming them), by assuming they can't achieve on their own today, because they can. I am OVER this bullsh#t, and I encourage everyone else (of every race) to get over it also. Blacks in Africa CONTINUED to own black slaves well into the 1900s, and slavery still exists in places there today, like Sudan. The British ironically were more responsible than any other country for actually ending slavery in the rest of the world, after they ended it in Britain... and chased down Arab slave ships (Moors), confiscated ships, and forced them to eventually give up slavery though they did NOT want to, and the blacks in Africa selling the slaves didn't want to stop selling them either. They also forced Brazil to end slavery in 1898(?), and the US (Thomas Jefferson) wanted to end slavery in the US when he wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence, but he had to remove that clause and be patient bc the southern colonies wouldn't agree to it, and they needed to keep all 13 colonies together to defeat the British (who had IMPOSED slavery on the colonies by the way, they were under British rule and the British brought the slaves here). That does not change the fact that the black slaves who dug these canals did heroic and exhausting work, and I hope they at least enjoyed the satisfaction of seeing the amazing feats they accomplished and were proud of that (regardless of how they felt about the slaveowners, or white people in general). Today black people in the US have more options and opportunities than black people in Africa do, and should take advantage of them and stop destroying their own communities and families (and fatherlessness is the main problem imo). I needed to vent... the pathetic and inappropriate white guilt and virtue signaling from guilt-ridden/@#$%ed-up white people flagellating themselves (and every other white person) for things they never actually did, needs to stop. Deal with your own family's guilt if they owned slaves, and come to terms with that, but don't impose it on the rest of us (and our ancestors) who had NOTHING to do with slavery. Italians weren't treated very well either when they arrived here... demeaned, called "wops"/"Guineas" and discriminated against, but they worked hard and assimilated into America, and poor black people can also--stop teaching them to HATE America. Slavery actually originated in Africa... but white people, Asians, Middle Easterners, South Americans, and every other race of people on Earth have been (or had) slaves at one time/place or another. Let's move FORWARDS people, stop the Emotional Blackmail, and stop living in the pa$t to extort money and sympathy from people who had nothing to do with slavery (and black Americans alive today were never slaves either, we've come a long way since then). Thanks for considering!!
Thanks for bringing up this important point! It's crucial to remember the sacrifices made by those who worked on the canals. Their hard work and dedication should never be forgotten.
At the time these canals were being built there was nothing wrong with the use of slaves. The reason for this is that throughout history and across civilizations slavery has been practiced across time and throughout civilizations. Societies decide their own moralities. These moralities may change over times for many reasons. When the first European traders arrived in Africa they came from societies that had abandoned the practice of slavery centuries before. They encountered in Africa societies that utilized slavery in both domestic and commercial situations. Why they decided it would be okay to adopt the practice of the Africans they encountered I cannot say. Was it because they were black? Was it because they weren't Christian? Was it because they were less technologically advanced? These are all possibilities. European and American culture would change over time and come to see African slavery as immoral, before the African societies would as a matter of fact. One thing is for certain. To condemn white societies for engaging in the practice of slavery while ignoring, forgiving, or expecting less of the Africans is white supremacy.
I don't have to choose, I can condemn both equally, but one does not make the other acceptable, regardless of how it's rationalized. I don't live in Africa so....
@@edwardpearce1138 Well, I happen not to, but even so, it appears the collection of fables those who do believe consider his holy word does approve of slavery. Go read your own guidelines in Deuteronomy.
@@flintlockhomestead460 Sadly, many (most?) people who profess to be Christian do not follow the teachings of Jesus. Jesus called his followers to a higher standard. That higher standard is the basis of enduring peace and prosperity.
You had to go all woke and ruin a good thing. America built canals to move goods because there were no highways and trucks or rail systems in those days. The learned canal building from their European heritage and who do you think build the canals of jolly old England, Ireland, France and Spain?
Thank you for these Truths that are not written in the history of this country and taught to our children. We only get fragments and some pieces when the subject is highlighted in the short month of February!!!
I really appreciate your comment and I'm glad that I could shed some light on untold truths in our history. It's important to educate ourselves and future generations about the complete story.
I knew a little about slaves building canals in my state but this gave me a whole new perspective. This program was well done.
Thank you!
@@ExploringCreationVids I was born and raised in Creswell NC . Miss Dorothy came there after I left . Glad I watched this never new some of the things I learned from this . But back then we where taught that slaves did build and dug the canals.
I’m currently reading The Waterman’s Song- Slavery And Freedom In Maritime North Carolina by David S. Cecelski. This video certainly fills in visual gaps that I needed to give life to my reading experience. I appreciate this greatly.
- A Black Waterman
You are most welcome! Thank you for the kind comment sir.
Wonderful way to spend my afternoon
Glad you enjoyed it
Thanks for this education and, in particular, giving a focus describing the extremely arduous labor of African American slaves who dug these canals. In describing slaves desiring freedom using those canals as an escape route it was most likely not the ones having dug the original canals but those who came after the canals were completed. I have always considered North Carolina to be one of America’s most beautiful states.
Thank you for this ❤️🔥
You are welcome, thank you for watching
@@ExploringCreationVids 🙏
Love my home state of NC 🦅🇺🇲
Yes!
Loved this history 😊
Thank you!
That’s horrific the very thought of the working conditions is sickening
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Amazing
Thank you! Cheers!
I think its a damn shame to let the canals fill in or grow over. So many people worked at the peril of the whip and malaria to dig them, to let those canals turn to stagnant overgrown ditches is disrespectful of all those who dug them.
The animal kingdom gets to enjoy it and it’s a peaceful haven I believe.
Also it kind of got restored to its natural habitat before they dug it up to begin with
@@apoliticallevi beliefs are nice but oxygenated water is nicer. the animal kingdom does not thrive in stagnant anoxic fetid water. but it is a really pretty belief.
@@apoliticallevi guess we better get rid of the roads that lead up to your house and mine, oh, and these houses we live in better be let to go to ruin so nature can come in, and hey, cant have any farms for the food you and I enjoy, no way, those gotta go too, I think your're on to something here, lets give it all back to the mosquitoes. right on.
Damn, you are dumb.
I saw Tom Earnhardt fishing with Flip and Lefty. Mighty good company Tom.
My great grandfather and grandfather used to run a buy boat from Beaufort to New Bern through the clubffoot canal. My grandfather told me you could get into the canal for free. But it cost 10 cents to get out! I have a place on Dawson Creek right across the Neuse from clubfoot bay.
Thank you for sharing!
@ExploringCreationVids my grandfather was the skipper on the steamboat "Phillips" that ran fertilizer from New Bern up the Neuse as far as Seven Springs and up the Contentnea as far as Skuflton NC 903. Before ww1.
I live in Grifton right off the contenea
We built America with these hands ✋🏿🤚🏿✋🏿🤚🏿
And Lincoln would be proud of what you’ve done with the place; especially Chicago, Baltimore, and Houston…..
Labor work only. We had the knowhow. Some are leaders, others are followers....
@@Malama_Ki👍😂
Brunswick County has a huge ancient canal system for the old rice fields.
New Bern was the first NC State capital, Tryon Palace is there because of this
Bath 1st, Edenton 2nd, New Bern 3rd.
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7:31 George Washington died in 1799. Did he support this project before his death?
Anybody have any resources or any writings from David Ciesielski?
You can't have slave labor build technical structures, it only works for non technical jobs like gathering or clearing. Any slave that worked that canal in a technical fashion was trained as an engineer. Just like today the unskilled labor in construction digs ditches and the skilled labor builds the technical aspect
in all honesty- dey really didnt have the brain capacity fo tech stuff - i mean - we gottaaa start bein honest bout thangz
@@negro722 no!!! You're a troll, Sir.
You should google what an engineer is
The capital building has no technical features? Built by contract slave labor. None of the scientists used as slave labor by nazis had any technical training? You confuse slavery with education. There were many folks held in bondage that after freed became scientists, engineers, politicians, professors businessman. Saying because you are a slave means you don't have mental aptitude. It means you're too ignorant to make that call!!
Were it not for the storm ditches built by Works Progress Administration workers in the 1930s, maintained til now by City workers, Chattanooga would be underwater today.
Never ever mention that many black slaves were purchased from black slave owners in Africa. Nope. Let's leave that fact alone. Just sayin'.
Let's not mention many of the slaves were Indians
We are moors! not Africans, not black, not slavs, not Indians, not native Americans. The world knows we are Moors.
Although we acknowledge the great Injustice of Slavery where ever it is found we must also understand that life in Africa was often times no better for them and often worse. Life expectancy across the board was short. In fact compared to the then and the still ongoing brisk Arab slave trade in Africa those that were transported into America had it much better and were introduced to Christianity even if thru sinful and imperfect people. The Arabs on the other hand were and are more brutal with no value placed on human life at all. In summery life is hard, it is unfair but those unfortunates that fell into slavery were and are subsequently better off here in America.
Thank you for sharing your perspective on this complex issue.
@@ExploringCreationVids Yes sir..............fairness and the quest for truth in all evaluations of history must always be the goal and the facts will rest where they may. An excellent 1st person account of the African slave trade in the middle and later part of the 19th century are the writings of David Livingstone who kept quite detailed records of his explorations and missionary work in central Africa.
My state has a lot of “Irish canals”. The Irish were doing jobs that were unfit for dark slaves. Besides, How could your Africans dig canals? They never invented the shovel.
It's not "troubling" for me even slightly, I'm over "white guilt", and won't be manipulated that way anymore. Of course slavery was terrible, it existed on every continent on the planet, and blacks owned other blacks as slaves in Africa for hundreds if not thousands of years before they first sold slaves to white people. If your family is from the Southeast US and family members were among the 5-8% of Americans that ever owned slaves *when slavery existed here*, you STILL had nothing to do with slavery, and have nothing to be troubled by, it's part of history and it's time to move forward.
I have no problem whatsoever acknowledging the suffering and the hard labor of the slaves who dug canals, and slaves in general, and I acknowledge the benefits others gained from using the canals, but since my family did not even ENTER this country until the late 1800s/early 1900s, after the Civil War, and NEVER owned a single slave (being in Germany and Italy when slavery existed here), I have ZERO guilt... and neither should a single one of the tens of millions of *other* white people alive today whose descendants had absolutely NOTHING to do with slavery. Acknowledging and learning from history is good... using it to blackmail and guilt trip innocent people and convince black people they are perpetual victims who are stuck in helpless victim mode and can't achieve anything is sick, cowardly and destructive (esp to black people). White people trying to "help" black people by indulging this perpetual guilt and shame bullsh#t need to stop "helping" them (ie harming them), by assuming they can't achieve on their own today, because they can.
I am OVER this bullsh#t, and I encourage everyone else (of every race) to get over it also. Blacks in Africa CONTINUED to own black slaves well into the 1900s, and slavery still exists in places there today, like Sudan. The British ironically were more responsible than any other country for actually ending slavery in the rest of the world, after they ended it in Britain... and chased down Arab slave ships (Moors), confiscated ships, and forced them to eventually give up slavery though they did NOT want to, and the blacks in Africa selling the slaves didn't want to stop selling them either. They also forced Brazil to end slavery in 1898(?), and the US (Thomas Jefferson) wanted to end slavery in the US when he wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence, but he had to remove that clause and be patient bc the southern colonies wouldn't agree to it, and they needed to keep all 13 colonies together to defeat the British (who had IMPOSED slavery on the colonies by the way, they were under British rule and the British brought the slaves here). That does not change the fact that the black slaves who dug these canals did heroic and exhausting work, and I hope they at least enjoyed the satisfaction of seeing the amazing feats they accomplished and were proud of that (regardless of how they felt about the slaveowners, or white people in general).
Today black people in the US have more options and opportunities than black people in Africa do, and should take advantage of them and stop destroying their own communities and families (and fatherlessness is the main problem imo). I needed to vent... the pathetic and inappropriate white guilt and virtue signaling from guilt-ridden/@#$%ed-up white people flagellating themselves (and every other white person) for things they never actually did, needs to stop. Deal with your own family's guilt if they owned slaves, and come to terms with that, but don't impose it on the rest of us (and our ancestors) who had NOTHING to do with slavery. Italians weren't treated very well either when they arrived here... demeaned, called "wops"/"Guineas" and discriminated against, but they worked hard and assimilated into America, and poor black people can also--stop teaching them to HATE America.
Slavery actually originated in Africa... but white people, Asians, Middle Easterners, South Americans, and every other race of people on Earth have been (or had) slaves at one time/place or another. Let's move FORWARDS people, stop the Emotional Blackmail, and stop living in the pa$t to extort money and sympathy from people who had nothing to do with slavery (and black Americans alive today were never slaves either, we've come a long way since then). Thanks for considering!!
Tasking? Taxing lol
With black people being Indigenous to every single continent, how come they're only from Africa?
aint no telling how many died from snake bites too digging the canals .
Thanks for bringing up this important point! It's crucial to remember the sacrifices made by those who worked on the canals. Their hard work and dedication should never be forgotten.
At the time these canals were being built there was nothing wrong with the use of slaves. The reason for this is that throughout history and across civilizations slavery has been practiced across time and throughout civilizations. Societies decide their own moralities. These moralities may change over times for many reasons. When the first European traders arrived in Africa they came from societies that had abandoned the practice of slavery centuries before. They encountered in Africa societies that utilized slavery in both domestic and commercial situations. Why they decided it would be okay to adopt the practice of the Africans they encountered I cannot say. Was it because they were black? Was it because they weren't Christian? Was it because they were less technologically advanced? These are all possibilities. European and American culture would change over time and come to see African slavery as immoral, before the African societies would as a matter of fact. One thing is for certain. To condemn white societies for engaging in the practice of slavery while ignoring, forgiving, or expecting less of the Africans is white supremacy.
I don't have to choose, I can condemn both equally, but one does not make the other acceptable, regardless of how it's rationalized. I don't live in Africa so....
@@yvonnegivens2941 In the present day I agree with you. But in examining the societies of the past I am correct and you seem to be in denial.
For those who believe in the Christian God all enslavement of others is sin. "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
@@edwardpearce1138 Well, I happen not to, but even so, it appears the collection of fables those who do believe consider his holy word does approve of slavery. Go read your own guidelines in Deuteronomy.
@@flintlockhomestead460 Sadly, many (most?) people who profess to be Christian do not follow the teachings of Jesus. Jesus called his followers to a higher standard. That higher standard is the basis of enduring peace and prosperity.
That job was awful. Not men start a business and do it. You gotta pay a man his days earning. God is against that.
Yes
The cry of the Laborers in the field has come up to me,those whose wages you have with held
Yes it is just left them in the Africa just to be worked to death
You had to go all woke and ruin a good thing. America built canals to move goods because there were no highways and trucks or rail systems in those days. The learned canal building from their European heritage and who do you think build the canals of jolly old England, Ireland, France and Spain?
liars
"The first lesson is that things can be worse" umm he's a colonizer
So you absolutely missed the context of his statement and went straight to virtue signaling. 🥴👍
Chelsea B. - feel stupid?
When are you going back to Europe or Africa