I am originally from Winston County Alabama, known as the “Free State of Winston” because they refused to secede from the Union and attempted to secede from the State of Alabama. It being a mountainous area it had very few slaves and less than a dozen slave owners. It was a station on the railroad on they way up north from the black belt of Alabama. There are numerous hidden caves and bluffs that were used to hide escaped slaves, men hiding from the Confederate home guard, moonshine stills etc.... still to be found in the forest. It was also were the majority of the men who made up the 1st Alabama Calvary (Union) came from.
Another outstanding historical video from InRangeTV. I love these just as much (or more) than the 2Gun or Mud Test videos. Fantastic content from fantastic people. Thank you, Karl, for telling these important and meaningful stories.
It is important to study the aspects of history that directly lead us to ask "Hans, are we the baddies?" Otherwise we'll wind up wondering why there's skulls on our caps again. I bet the Townsends would do a fine duet on the subject with you fellas.
I really appreciate how you approach this topic. It seems so often that the “second amendment community” (or at least a vocal minority) get caught up with far right ideologues who would deny the implications slavery has in the modern era. Of course, they will usually denounce slavery, but rarely talk on the barbarity of it or the deep roots of its nature that still affect us today. You guys always excel at presenting the facts, and once again I just really appreciate everything you do. Thanks for the fantastic content - both this video and others.
The second amendment doesn't say anything about your right to be an Asshole with a gun. Guns I can handle. It's the assholes with them that are a little trickier.
Awesome video. Content really made me appreciate how bad it was to be slave. My big problem with making it a race issue today is that I come from mostly Scandinavian homesteading immigrants that came to the US in the 18th century, probably to get away from oppression in Europe. They didn't own slaves. They were individuals. The brutality was only made possible by the states creation and enforcement of race/slavery laws. The rulers. I don't like that our culture now thinks if you are white your family used to do terrible things to blacks and indians. It's all racism. I have enough sins of my own to atone for let alone someone else's great, great, great, great grandpas.. Just sick of hearing all my life thru public education that whites were mean to blacks. Turns out people are mean to other people a lot in history regardless of colors. Everyone needs to do better and do good for others.
It is a shame that this topic isn't more prominent within the 2A community. Abhorrent things like slavery and oppression are predicated on disarmament of those who are to be oppressed or enslaved. Many of the restrictive laws that forbid or strictly govern the ability of citizens to own and bear arms in the USA can be directly traced back to "Jim Crow" legislation that was selectively enforced depending on the ethnicity or social status of those who ran afoul of the "law".
Jim States You shouldn’t feel responsible or guilty over it, as you had nothing to do with it (being not born yet). Most of the support for policy that seeks to repair the lingering damage done to descendants of slaves is done out of a sense of egalitarianism and justice, rather than guilt.
Some commenters might complain about some of the non gun related videos you make, especially the historical ones, but I love them. I wasn't taught much of this in school, because American history is often taught in black and white rather than shades of gray. It's important to learn your nation's history, so we can see how far we've progressed. Or regressed. Anyways, loved the history lesson. Pity it has to come from TH-cam, but that's just the kind of world we live in now. Jeep up the great work, Karl. And Ian, whenever you're not in Narnia lol
You know, all of this is stuff I already knew about, And yet I'm still happy you made this video. This really is important for people to understand/be reminded of. It can be too easy to be dismissive of the suffering and struggles of peoples past.
This is why I love IR. You don't shy away from topics that might piss some viewers off or make people uncomfortable. I thought the music choice was very good too.
I live in Madison, IN. I never thought the InRange crew would visit my small little town. It would've been cool to meet but I probably would've been too excited. Great video, I'm just shocked.
These sorts of videos and the reactions to them really make me love this community. Nobody asked InRange to put out something like this, but they did it because it's a good thing to do. And we as viewers don't complain that it's irrelevant to the channel, we appreciate the devotion to relaying history honestly and accurately, and the quality of the production that this channel always brings to the table. Great stuff.
Outstanding overview Karl. As I'm learning more about my family history, I'm learning about how certain of my ancestors, who were Free, went to the North to reduce the potential of being enslaved. I'm also learning about other later ones who were active participants in the Underground Railroad. It would be very interesting if you and Ian created a video or series of videos about the firearms used by people such as Harriet Tubman or John Brown (albeit as controversial as he was and still is). Also, to what extent slaves were used in Confederate firearms factories and to what extent they may have sabotaged production or otherwise covertly protested or helped the Union cause, similar to some extent to what the Polish and Belgians did when the Nazis invaded their countries and confiscated their firearm factories.
I live in southern Wisconsin, and there's a lot of old artifacts and hideouts from the underground railroad back when abolitionists were hiding slaves from bounty hunters or trying to smuggle slaves into Canada. there's even still this old restaurant near where I live that used to be a stop on the underground railroad.
Great video as always, Karl. I have never felt as though my Patreon dollars have been wasted or even slightly misspent, and I implore you all to support the channel.
As a 2nd Amendment rights advocate, I bring up gun control being a 400 year old racist strategy that was used to control blacks in America. The first gun control law passed in the colony of Virginia in 1620 banning blacks from owning firearms. A human must have the ability to protect themselves from the tyrannical enemies of freedom. As an American veteran that is also black I'm proud of how far America has come in such a short amount of time to stand for freedom for all people. We must stay vigilant and protect our freedom by political awareness, practicing our civic duty and protecting the civil rights of all people regardless of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation or background. Thank you for all of your work. This was a powerful and informative video. America is a great country because of our ability to grow and learn from our past but that past must be known and not white washed. Freedom is never free, someone has paid for it in full sometime in the past. It's our job as citizens to insure their sacrifice wasn't in vain.
I loved the fact that throughout the video you didn't refer to the slave catchers as bounty hunters, but as mercenaries. The popular imagination places connotations of "bounty hunters" as this morally gray anti-hero which secretly is a good person, while "mercenary" is still connotated by a love of money and greed which will drive them to do anything so long as they get paid for it. Excellent work!
One of the big causes of friction between the USA and Britain in the first half of the 19th century was slavery. A number of American slave ships had to put in to the Bahamas due to very bad weather and the slaves were freed at gun point by Royal Marines as slavery was illegal in the British Empire. The war of 1812 also had a slavery element because any slave who stepped on board a Royal Navy ship and wanted to join joined as a free man. This made the "owners" of the slaves very unhappy. Also a large number of stately homes dating from the late 18th century were built on the back of the slave trade. Even by the end of slavery in the British Empire large sections of British society made money of the trade and slave plantations. There is currently a project to digitize the compensation records that the British government paid to those involved in the trade, from massive investors to little old ladies who used the proceeds as a pension.
And then there's the "odd" quirk to British law that slavery was never legal in the British isles since slave was never a legal definition that applied to a person in the British isles and was only made illegal in about 2007. A person could be a slave in another country but while on British soil they were not legally slaves, (Parts of the British Empire did not always have the same laws apply to it as Britain did)
@Foxtrot_13 This is also why they were free the moment they were across the border into Canada. Technically slavery was already illegal in the British Empire, but it was an old obscure thousand year old law that no-one realised was there, a slave made it to London and slave hunters found him here and tried to ship him back and then this old law came to light, immediately freeing any slave in England itself, and the judge read it into precedent to apply it to the whole British empire thereby freeing them all :D After this a Royal Navy detachment was formed specifically to free slaves where they could. This part of the story is often left out and yet is an important part of why entering Canada was the way they could guarantee freedom and really should be mentioned as part of any discussion of the railroad.
Though British Slave Owners did exist on the Carrabian isalnds. The City of Liverpool was a large slave port. There is ambiguity all over. I have seen pictures of the 16th century in English historic houses were black people are portrayed as the same staus as the white subjects. In one picture , well known to me as I come from Jersey in the Channel Island's, The Death of Major Pierson, look up the picture expalnation would take to long, places predomanailty Pierson's Officer Servant, he is not described as a slave, and wouldn't have been one in that position, a black man known as Pompey, avenging his master. He too became a Hero of the action.
Awesome Pawn: Blame the Scots on the make. A blockade runner during the American Civil War, built on the Clyde , outfitted and armed could be payed for outright with one succesful run. War is always big buissniess for someone. One result was Britian developed the cotton trade with India to a huge extent. No doubt some of the Indians would have preffered The South had won.
My wife and I enjoyed the rationing during ww2 that you did and once again you guys have outdone yourselves...historical content with no agenda or bias...just the facts
It’s appalling to know that even in today’s society, with all we know of the atrocities committed against our fellow human beings, there are some that continue to condone slavery.
I guess I will have to be that guy. Imagine you are now the owner of 10000 acres of land and you have to be productive and industries with all of it, do to the fate of a fledgling democracy depends on it. You will probably not be able to pay bottom dollar to your neighbors to due the manual labor required as they to now have just as much if not more land. This country was built on the backs of slaves and anyone who denies that is ignorant. Without them we probably would have went bankrupt and absorbed by surrounding powers. At the early stages it was a necessary evil.
@@CB-dp1zs thats not true, this is just slavery apologia nonsense. people think of the north as being a primarily industrial society and the south agrarian, but in fact the north actually had far superior agricultural capabilities to the south. and northern farmers, black or white, were paid. there is no evidence that supports the theory that the US would have collapsed without slavery, it is pure fabrication.
@@jayzenitram9621 I don't know where and when you went to school in Texas but I can tell you for certain they pounded the harsh reality of slavery in my head in the 90s.
@@damaster77854 When I grew up in Texas, we learned about slavery, but we were also made to think of reasons to excuse and defend it in debates. I remember quite clearly the argument pushed by the Texas Board of Education that the Civil War didn't have to do with Slavery but states rights. This was while living on the black side of town in Austin, Texas, segregated East and West by HWY I-35. At the time I didn't think much of this (and that was in the late 1990s early 2000s. Now it makes me sick. I'm glad Karl and InRangeTV put this together. Its important history for everyone in this country and the world.
True history and fact is again shared on Inrange. I've been watching for years and I have no plans of quitting. Love your details, exploration, and down to earth truths.
Karl, exceptionally well done. Edification with my morning coffee; sobering as it might be, it is oh so relevant. As a history teacher, this is will surely become supplemental material for future lessons. Thanks again for all you guys do.
It's deeply ironic when Quentin Tarantino depicts a more visceral and accurate depiction of slavery in Django, than Ron Maxwell does in his "historical epic" Gods and Generals.
Great video. You make the specter of slavery feel very real and uncomfortably close. It's incredible how "Am I not a man and a brother?" was even a question that needed to be asked less than 200 years ago.
There are so many good comments, too many to give a like. It helps restore my faith in humanity from the clutches of those who value people unlike them as lesser or inhuman.
Truth be told, I half expected the comments section to either be filled with racist garbage or already locked for racist garbage - I was quite pleasantly surprised to find the opposite. It makes me all the more proud to be part of this community and to support InRange.
I am a FIRM believer that the scars left by slavery can and will never truely leave the US. They simply run to deep. But things like this, small as they may be, are what will bring us ever closer to making those scars into blemishes and then maybe, just maybe something we can actually learn from.
I am far removed from North America. But philosophically I believe we should continually ask ourselves if we are doing the right things for the right reasons and never take it for granted. This works best if we try to understand the lessons of history, but are not tied to the pain and injustice there.
Stop being selfish Brodie. This has to do with Everyone's concepts of Freedom and justice. And more difficult , where does your freedom end and your responsobility to others start?
An emotional topic (even from the other side of the world), presented professionally and succinctly. I have upgraded my patreon support in appreciation of your talents. Good work.
I came for the gun videos, but stayed because of your historical content. It's refreshing to see the plight of my ancestors discussed in an honest fashion. This is top-tier content and I subscribed to your Patreon without hesitation. Phenomenal work - more of this, please!
This was an excellent video, and why I love this channel so much. What a great little history piece. I would like to see you guys do more of this stuff. Maybe cover the old west history and cowboys or something to that effect.
Nice job guys. I love all the history videos. This is a particularly important subject that we need to acknowledge. Great job by the 1 man who assisted over 1800 slaves. Nice to see locations. I hope the road trip is/was enjoyable. Keep up the great content
People have so little idealpf real life in the 1800's. Slavery continued long after 1865. With children and others. My Grandmother was sold into slavery in 1898. When her mother(who was Pennsylvania Shawnee) died her father abandoned the family. Her story always makes me both very sad, and very angry. She was a great woman.....
I would love for Karl to talk about this. But if I were to give my unprofessional thoughts on this, I think the Chinese (and Asians in general) are often "forgotten" from the historical race debate because they were never "slaves," even though they were treated as such, and that they are not as loud or complain as much as the African Americans at present.
Where we are now is built on the blood of those that came before us. It's sometimes a hard subject, but a necessary one. Thank you. Even if I might not agree with everything you say at times, you're willing to actually start these difficult discussions which, on the whole, people need to be reminded of in order to really cherish what we have today, and to make sure we never slip back into anything worse.
Karl, I'm from Chicago and the suburb of Ford Heights, IL on the far Southside has significant history with the Underground Railroad. One site where runaways were held still stands and is commemorative
I think that the past was well and truly reckoned withehat with an entire war and hundreds of thousands killed, etc.... unfortunately the infatuation modern America has with slavery and Race these days borders on obsessive fetishism..
Thank you for doing another one of these. Great quality and subject again. Making history like this palpable and real will go a long way of helping people understand the impact of it all.
The struggle to eradicate slavery in the US was indeed long and convoluted. Many compromises had to be made for each step forward. I thank God for the courage and foresight that made it possible.
I love those historical videos you make. You really have storytelling skills. Both you and Ian have one of the few ''gun channels'' that I can watch without feeling uncomfortable with the presenter.
I appreciate that this video doesn't sugarcoat Canadian society, in the mention it makes. Things are changing for the better now, but the old version of Canadian history sort of treats freedom as a binary - slave = not free, not slave = free, and therefore in our cultural mythos Canada becomes a golden bastion of freedom. The reality is more nuanced in the sense that while formerly enslaved people who made their way to Canada might enjoy certain rights, and not be subject to the horrors of being treated as chattel, their access to certain parts of society was still severely limited, and they were bound to be discriminated against by some or most of the people they met, to varying degrees. Freedom is a fundamental right, and they may have regained it when they crossed the border, but it doesn't guarantee that you can find work or feed your family, especially when you're treated as a second-class citizen. Also of note is why slavery was never as popular in Canada as it was in the United States. We like to think of ourselves as morally superior, but the reality is that if Canadians had been wealthier, and if Canada was more conducive to the types of agriculture which benefit from manual labour (fruit, cotton, and other hand-picked products, as opposed to grains) we would likely have followed the same path.
Great coverage of a very hard topic. So much misinformation about the entire topic that it is hard to discuss without being accused of some kind of bias by someone.
I've lived in Michigan my whole life And was raised in a house that had hidden passages and secret stairs It always confused me and freaked me out to hear about the south forcing there laws on Northern states, and those laws where about owning people And the modern lost cause myth makes it all the more aggravating
My great great grandfather was a surveyor on the Underground Railroad. His brother was an architect and designed some of the stations. Lol, never gets old.
Great video. My father is from Amherstburg, Ontario which with its relatively narrow crossing of the Detroit River was a very popular place for escaped slaves to cross in to Canada with the help of Detroit-based abolitionists William Lambert and George DeBaptiste. Many would remain in the town and surrounding Essex county and Canada's own civil rights movement began in the nearby town of Dresden. One of the descendants of the escaped slaves, Wayne Hurst, just retired after four consecutive elections as the mayor of Amherstburg. Just a place you might like to visit if you want to do a video on what the escaped slaves found at the end of the line (and you're right, it wasn't pretty at the time and they certainly did not find a warm welcome).
Thank you. People (all of them, across the world. and in the USA) make assumptions about guns and the opinions of the people that come loaded with those guns. Life is broader than one tool. This video proves gun lovers can understand that. The USA is in a unique historical position now. The voice of every poster on the internet can be heard; and thanks to a hard won tradition of free speech a channel built on guns; that youtube may rub out at any time; posts a video that ranks along side the Dole Institute's lectures as a challenging secondary source for US history.
"Slaves, obey your human Masters in everything. Don't work well only being watched, in order to please men, but work wholeheartedly, fearing the Lord" Colossians 3:22 Btw I found this one well just flipping through the Bible looking for *a* quote (there's a couple) about Jesus owning slaves. Not trying to bash your religion, just pointing out one of many contradictions.
Karl I love this content. I am studying to be a social studies teacher. Seeing content like this continues to inspire me. Can't wait for the next parts keep up the good work! Never forget.
I grew up in an abolishinists area that had houses as part of the Underground Railroad. Once bounty hunters for escaped slaves brought 4 into town. To not openly defy the law they invited them into a tavern for drinks. When they came out their captives were gone and no one could say what happened.
Karl - excellent content mate and fascinating. I know IRTV is mainly modern and sport related but these history docs segments are some of your best. MORE!!!!! Esp the Wild West ones.
Technically, the Confederate State succession and the following Civil War was probably the closest the 2nd Amendment has been put to use (by definition) as the Confederate saw the American gov't as tyrannical.
History is always ugly when we look back. That doesn't mean we shouldn't.
Nicely done im glad you didnt sugar coat this, just plain facts well done sir
I am originally from Winston County Alabama, known as the “Free State of Winston” because they refused to secede from the Union and attempted to secede from the State of Alabama. It being a mountainous area it had very few slaves and less than a dozen slave owners. It was a station on the railroad on they way up north from the black belt of Alabama. There are numerous hidden caves and bluffs that were used to hide escaped slaves, men hiding from the Confederate home guard, moonshine stills etc.... still to be found in the forest. It was also were the majority of the men who made up the 1st Alabama Calvary (Union) came from.
Similar, Mississippi had the "Free State of Jones"
Another outstanding historical video from InRangeTV. I love these just as much (or more) than the 2Gun or Mud Test videos.
Fantastic content from fantastic people. Thank you, Karl, for telling these important and meaningful stories.
It is important to study the aspects of history that directly lead us to ask "Hans, are we the baddies?" Otherwise we'll wind up wondering why there's skulls on our caps again.
I bet the Townsends would do a fine duet on the subject with you fellas.
I really appreciate how you approach this topic. It seems so often that the “second amendment community” (or at least a vocal minority) get caught up with far right ideologues who would deny the implications slavery has in the modern era. Of course, they will usually denounce slavery, but rarely talk on the barbarity of it or the deep roots of its nature that still affect us today. You guys always excel at presenting the facts, and once again I just really appreciate everything you do. Thanks for the fantastic content - both this video and others.
The second amendment doesn't say anything about your right to be an Asshole with a gun. Guns I can handle. It's the assholes with them that are a little trickier.
Awesome video. Content really made me appreciate how bad it was to be slave. My big problem with making it a race issue today is that I come from mostly Scandinavian homesteading immigrants that came to the US in the 18th century, probably to get away from oppression in Europe. They didn't own slaves. They were individuals. The brutality was only made possible by the states creation and enforcement of race/slavery laws. The rulers. I don't like that our culture now thinks if you are white your family used to do terrible things to blacks and indians. It's all racism. I have enough sins of my own to atone for let alone someone else's great, great, great, great grandpas.. Just sick of hearing all my life thru public education that whites were mean to blacks. Turns out people are mean to other people a lot in history regardless of colors. Everyone needs to do better and do good for others.
It is a shame that this topic isn't more prominent within the 2A community. Abhorrent things like slavery and oppression are predicated on disarmament of those who are to be oppressed or enslaved.
Many of the restrictive laws that forbid or strictly govern the ability of citizens to own and bear arms in the USA can be directly traced back to "Jim Crow" legislation that was selectively enforced depending on the ethnicity or social status of those who ran afoul of the "law".
I wish Ian would stop getting caught up with far-right weirdos like Larry Snickers
Jim States You shouldn’t feel responsible or guilty over it, as you had nothing to do with it (being not born yet). Most of the support for policy that seeks to repair the lingering damage done to descendants of slaves is done out of a sense of egalitarianism and justice, rather than guilt.
Some commenters might complain about some of the non gun related videos you make, especially the historical ones, but I love them. I wasn't taught much of this in school, because American history is often taught in black and white rather than shades of gray. It's important to learn your nation's history, so we can see how far we've progressed. Or regressed. Anyways, loved the history lesson. Pity it has to come from TH-cam, but that's just the kind of world we live in now. Jeep up the great work, Karl. And Ian, whenever you're not in Narnia lol
Thanks for the content Karl, not just the gun videos but this historic stuff from you and Ian is appreciated.
This is something i'd like to see more of
You know, all of this is stuff I already knew about, And yet I'm still happy you made this video. This really is important for people to understand/be reminded of. It can be too easy to be dismissive of the suffering and struggles of peoples past.
Telling the true story with unbiased neutrality to both parties is very tough thing to do, but you have done it again, Hats Off mate, much respect.
This is why I love IR. You don't shy away from topics that might piss some viewers off or make people uncomfortable. I thought the music choice was very good too.
Karl's presentaion should make you uncomfortable, it questions 'What everybody knows'.
I live in Madison, IN. I never thought the InRange crew would visit my small little town. It would've been cool to meet but I probably would've been too excited. Great video, I'm just shocked.
These sorts of videos and the reactions to them really make me love this community. Nobody asked InRange to put out something like this, but they did it because it's a good thing to do. And we as viewers don't complain that it's irrelevant to the channel, we appreciate the devotion to relaying history honestly and accurately, and the quality of the production that this channel always brings to the table. Great stuff.
Outstanding overview Karl. As I'm learning more about my family history, I'm learning about how certain of my ancestors, who were Free, went to the North to reduce the potential of being enslaved. I'm also learning about other later ones who were active participants in the Underground Railroad.
It would be very interesting if you and Ian created a video or series of videos about the firearms used by people such as Harriet Tubman or John Brown (albeit as controversial as he was and still is). Also, to what extent slaves were used in Confederate firearms factories and to what extent they may have sabotaged production or otherwise covertly protested or helped the Union cause, similar to some extent to what the Polish and Belgians did when the Nazis invaded their countries and confiscated their firearm factories.
you mean COMRADE john brown
This is one of the best, most important episodes of InRange and I thank you for bringing it us.
I live in southern Wisconsin, and there's a lot of old artifacts and hideouts from the underground railroad back when abolitionists were hiding slaves from bounty hunters or trying to smuggle slaves into Canada. there's even still this old restaurant near where I live that used to be a stop on the underground railroad.
Shout out to Milwaukee.
Great video as always, Karl. I have never felt as though my Patreon dollars have been wasted or even slightly misspent, and I implore you all to support the channel.
As a 2nd Amendment rights advocate, I bring up gun control being a 400 year old racist strategy that was used to control blacks in America. The first gun control law passed in the colony of Virginia in 1620 banning blacks from owning firearms. A human must have the ability to protect themselves from the tyrannical enemies of freedom. As an American veteran that is also black I'm proud of how far America has come in such a short amount of time to stand for freedom for all people. We must stay vigilant and protect our freedom by political awareness, practicing our civic duty and protecting the civil rights of all people regardless of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation or background. Thank you for all of your work. This was a powerful and informative video. America is a great country because of our ability to grow and learn from our past but that past must be known and not white washed. Freedom is never free, someone has paid for it in full sometime in the past. It's our job as citizens to insure their sacrifice wasn't in vain.
I loved the fact that throughout the video you didn't refer to the slave catchers as bounty hunters, but as mercenaries. The popular imagination places connotations of "bounty hunters" as this morally gray anti-hero which secretly is a good person, while "mercenary" is still connotated by a love of money and greed which will drive them to do anything so long as they get paid for it. Excellent work!
This is what makes this the best firearms channel on youtube. Thank you for bringing light to these topics and giving them the treatment they deserve.
Suns coming up, have coffee and history with Karl. Days off to a great start. Thanks for the video
Great video man keep them coming
You evoke difficult subjects in your national history. I hope there won't be too many trolls.
One of the big causes of friction between the USA and Britain in the first half of the 19th century was slavery. A number of American slave ships had to put in to the Bahamas due to very bad weather and the slaves were freed at gun point by Royal Marines as slavery was illegal in the British Empire. The war of 1812 also had a slavery element because any slave who stepped on board a Royal Navy ship and wanted to join joined as a free man. This made the "owners" of the slaves very unhappy.
Also a large number of stately homes dating from the late 18th century were built on the back of the slave trade. Even by the end of slavery in the British Empire large sections of British society made money of the trade and slave plantations. There is currently a project to digitize the compensation records that the British government paid to those involved in the trade, from massive investors to little old ladies who used the proceeds as a pension.
And then there's the "odd" quirk to British law that slavery was never legal in the British isles since slave was never a legal definition that applied to a person in the British isles and was only made illegal in about 2007. A person could be a slave in another country but while on British soil they were not legally slaves, (Parts of the British Empire did not always have the same laws apply to it as Britain did)
@Foxtrot_13 This is also why they were free the moment they were across the border into Canada. Technically slavery was already illegal in the British Empire, but it was an old obscure thousand year old law that no-one realised was there, a slave made it to London and slave hunters found him here and tried to ship him back and then this old law came to light, immediately freeing any slave in England itself, and the judge read it into precedent to apply it to the whole British empire thereby freeing them all :D After this a Royal Navy detachment was formed specifically to free slaves where they could.
This part of the story is often left out and yet is an important part of why entering Canada was the way they could guarantee freedom and really should be mentioned as part of any discussion of the railroad.
Though British Slave Owners did exist on the Carrabian isalnds. The City of Liverpool was a large slave port. There is ambiguity all over. I have seen pictures of the 16th century in English historic houses were black people are portrayed as the same staus as the white subjects. In one picture , well known to me as I come from Jersey in the Channel Island's, The Death of Major Pierson, look up the picture expalnation would take to long, places predomanailty Pierson's Officer Servant, he is not described as a slave, and wouldn't have been one in that position, a black man known as Pompey, avenging his master. He too became a Hero of the action.
Awesome Pawn: Blame the Scots on the make. A blockade runner during the American Civil War, built on the Clyde , outfitted and armed could be payed for outright with one succesful run. War is always big buissniess for someone. One result was Britian developed the cotton trade with India to a huge extent. No doubt some of the Indians would have preffered The South had won.
My wife and I enjoyed the rationing during ww2 that you did and once again you guys have outdone yourselves...historical content with no agenda or bias...just the facts
We need more people like you in the 2A community,sir.
Great video. Would love to see you do a video on John Brown, his time in Kansas and the later Harper's Ferry raid.
Careful what you wish for, John Brown was a fanatic, they are dangerous no matters whose side they are on.
51WCDodge it would still be an interesting video,
It’s appalling to know that even in today’s society, with all we know of the atrocities committed against our fellow human beings, there are some that continue to condone slavery.
I don't believe that I've ever met anyone in my entire life that condones slavery. This is just fearmongering.
I guess I will have to be that guy. Imagine you are now the owner of 10000 acres of land and you have to be productive and industries with all of it, do to the fate of a fledgling democracy depends on it. You will probably not be able to pay bottom dollar to your neighbors to due the manual labor required as they to now have just as much if not more land. This country was built on the backs of slaves and anyone who denies that is ignorant. Without them we probably would have went bankrupt and absorbed by surrounding powers. At the early stages it was a necessary evil.
@@CB-dp1zs thats not true, this is just slavery apologia nonsense. people think of the north as being a primarily industrial society and the south agrarian, but in fact the north actually had far superior agricultural capabilities to the south. and northern farmers, black or white, were paid. there is no evidence that supports the theory that the US would have collapsed without slavery, it is pure fabrication.
Even if this is just a 2 video series, it'll be a more accurate and in depth look at this than what I got in the Texas Public School System.
Texas literally renamed the slave trade to "the triangular trade" in their textbooks in order to further obfuscate our history.
Caboose 92m same for Florida. It was lacking for lack of a better term
@@jayzenitram9621 I don't know where and when you went to school in Texas but I can tell you for certain they pounded the harsh reality of slavery in my head in the 90s.
damaster77854 I’m from Texas and only in college was I ever told the truth. I thought Eli Whitney was a black dude until I went to college.
@@damaster77854 When I grew up in Texas, we learned about slavery, but we were also made to think of reasons to excuse and defend it in debates. I remember quite clearly the argument pushed by the Texas Board of Education that the Civil War didn't have to do with Slavery but states rights. This was while living on the black side of town in Austin, Texas, segregated East and West by HWY I-35.
At the time I didn't think much of this (and that was in the late 1990s early 2000s. Now it makes me sick. I'm glad Karl and InRangeTV put this together. Its important history for everyone in this country and the world.
True history and fact is again shared on Inrange. I've been watching for years and I have no plans of quitting. Love your details, exploration, and down to earth truths.
Karl, exceptionally well done. Edification with my morning coffee; sobering as it might be, it is oh so relevant. As a history teacher, this is will surely become supplemental material for future
lessons. Thanks again for all you guys do.
It's deeply ironic when Quentin Tarantino depicts a more visceral and accurate depiction of slavery in Django, than Ron Maxwell does in his "historical epic" Gods and Generals.
Great video. You make the specter of slavery feel very real and uncomfortably close. It's incredible how "Am I not a man and a brother?" was even a question that needed to be asked less than 200 years ago.
There are so many good comments, too many to give a like.
It helps restore my faith in humanity from the clutches of those who value people unlike them as lesser or inhuman.
Truth be told, I half expected the comments section to either be filled with racist garbage or already locked for racist garbage - I was quite pleasantly surprised to find the opposite.
It makes me all the more proud to be part of this community and to support InRange.
I am a FIRM believer that the scars left by slavery can and will never truely leave the US. They simply run to deep. But things like this, small as they may be, are what will bring us ever closer to making those scars into blemishes and then maybe, just maybe something we can actually learn from.
I am far removed from North America. But philosophically I believe we should continually ask ourselves if we are doing the right things for the right reasons and never take it for granted. This works best if we try to understand the lessons of history, but are not tied to the pain and injustice there.
True Jim. Stop using the past to beat on the present, things have changed, learn from history and move forward.
What does this have to do with guns? It has everything to do with guns.
It has everything to do with freedom loving Americans
Two words. Beecher’s Bibles.
Stop being selfish Brodie. This has to do with Everyone's concepts of Freedom and justice. And more difficult , where does your freedom end and your responsobility to others start?
@@51WCDodge what are you going on about?
An emotional topic (even from the other side of the world), presented professionally and succinctly. I have upgraded my patreon support in appreciation of your talents. Good work.
WOW. This was both very unexpected AND very welcome. Keep it up!
I came for the gun videos, but stayed because of your historical content. It's refreshing to see the plight of my ancestors discussed in an honest fashion.
This is top-tier content and I subscribed to your Patreon without hesitation. Phenomenal work - more of this, please!
Very well done. Thank you for breaking out of the box and producing content like this.
This was an excellent video, and why I love this channel so much. What a great little history piece. I would like to see you guys do more of this stuff. Maybe cover the old west history and cowboys or something to that effect.
They already have covered quite a lot of old west stuff like stories about Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp.
Nice job guys. I love all the history videos. This is a particularly important subject that we need to acknowledge. Great job by the 1 man who assisted over 1800 slaves. Nice to see locations. I hope the road trip is/was enjoyable. Keep up the great content
Thank you so much for this video. So informative and important for us to know our great country's history, warts (and genocide) and all.
People have so little idealpf real life in the 1800's.
Slavery continued long after 1865. With children and others.
My Grandmother was sold into slavery in 1898. When her mother(who was Pennsylvania Shawnee) died her father abandoned the family. Her story always makes me both very sad, and very angry. She was a great woman.....
Karl, I really appreciate such an eye opening content, excellent work, thank you.
What of the Chinese workers who built the railway system. They were also treated as subhuman.
I would love for Karl to talk about this.
But if I were to give my unprofessional thoughts on this, I think the Chinese (and Asians in general) are often "forgotten" from the historical race debate because they were never "slaves," even though they were treated as such, and that they are not as loud or complain as much as the African Americans at present.
That would a good future video
Where we are now is built on the blood of those that came before us. It's sometimes a hard subject, but a necessary one. Thank you. Even if I might not agree with everything you say at times, you're willing to actually start these difficult discussions which, on the whole, people need to be reminded of in order to really cherish what we have today, and to make sure we never slip back into anything worse.
This is one of the hardest hitting pieces of journalism I've seen on this topic. Excellent work Karl.
Karl, I'm from Chicago and the suburb of Ford Heights, IL on the far Southside has significant history with the Underground Railroad. One site where runaways were held still stands and is commemorative
Thanks Karl, very informative and interesting. Love these vinjettes. 👍
All of the US needs to truly reckon with this past, and how it lingers and permeates every part of society even today.
I think that the past was well and truly reckoned withehat with an entire war and hundreds of thousands killed, etc....
unfortunately the infatuation modern America has with slavery and Race these days borders on obsessive fetishism..
5:18 (1838) $50 => $1,400 (2020)
$100 => $2,760
$150 => $4,140
9:54 (unspecified, assumed 1850) $1,000 => $33,000 (2020)
Thank you for doing another one of these. Great quality and subject again. Making history like this palpable and real will go a long way of helping people understand the impact of it all.
Its sad I didn't learn half of this in school and I'm just now learning it from a TH-cam channel that i go to for guns and whatifs. I need more Karl.
Karl for president!
The struggle to eradicate slavery in the US was indeed long and convoluted. Many compromises had to be made for each step forward. I thank God for the courage and foresight that made it possible.
Truly enjoy the historical vignettes keep up the great work.
Well put together and explained. This something that needs to be given more time in our schools here in the US.
Videos like this and Old West Vignettes are the main reasons why I'm a subscriber.
i just want to add that as a german, most of my history classes consisted of learning about nazis and ww2 in general
I love those historical videos you make. You really have storytelling skills.
Both you and Ian have one of the few ''gun channels'' that I can watch without feeling uncomfortable with the presenter.
Content like this is what makes this channel great.
Amazing, I love these history episodes
These vignettes are my favorite videos on YT, keep up the excellent work.
I finally subscribed and pledged on Patreon for both InRangeTV and Forgotten weapons because of this video. Keep up the good work!
I appreciate that this video doesn't sugarcoat Canadian society, in the mention it makes. Things are changing for the better now, but the old version of Canadian history sort of treats freedom as a binary - slave = not free, not slave = free, and therefore in our cultural mythos Canada becomes a golden bastion of freedom. The reality is more nuanced in the sense that while formerly enslaved people who made their way to Canada might enjoy certain rights, and not be subject to the horrors of being treated as chattel, their access to certain parts of society was still severely limited, and they were bound to be discriminated against by some or most of the people they met, to varying degrees. Freedom is a fundamental right, and they may have regained it when they crossed the border, but it doesn't guarantee that you can find work or feed your family, especially when you're treated as a second-class citizen.
Also of note is why slavery was never as popular in Canada as it was in the United States. We like to think of ourselves as morally superior, but the reality is that if Canadians had been wealthier, and if Canada was more conducive to the types of agriculture which benefit from manual labour (fruit, cotton, and other hand-picked products, as opposed to grains) we would likely have followed the same path.
Thanks for making a video on this important subject. Your work is much appreciated.
You guys make some of the MOST important content on TH-cam. Great work.
Thanks for doing this guys. Massively important subject and great to see you tackle it in such a head on and honest manner.
The main reason I got into Forgotten Weapons was the history. Great to see it on InRange as well.
I was already intending to increase my pledge, but this solidifies that.
Please keep up the great work on this series and the rest of InRangeTV!
These are the best content video's on InRange. Thank you Karl!
Great coverage of a very hard topic. So much misinformation about the entire topic that it is hard to discuss without being accused of some kind of bias by someone.
I've lived in Michigan my whole life
And was raised in a house that had hidden passages and secret stairs
It always confused me and freaked me out to hear about the south forcing there laws on Northern states, and those laws where about owning people
And the modern lost cause myth makes it all the more aggravating
My great great grandfather was a surveyor on the Underground Railroad. His brother was an architect and designed some of the stations. Lol, never gets old.
Karl, well done comrade. Just started supporting you on Patreon.
Great video. My father is from Amherstburg, Ontario which with its relatively narrow crossing of the Detroit River was a very popular place for escaped slaves to cross in to Canada with the help of Detroit-based abolitionists William Lambert and George DeBaptiste. Many would remain in the town and surrounding Essex county and Canada's own civil rights movement began in the nearby town of Dresden. One of the descendants of the escaped slaves, Wayne Hurst, just retired after four consecutive elections as the mayor of Amherstburg. Just a place you might like to visit if you want to do a video on what the escaped slaves found at the end of the line (and you're right, it wasn't pretty at the time and they certainly did not find a warm welcome).
I’m loving the historical videos. It’s a great facet of InRange.
Great video Karl! I love it when you dive into some local history! Always worth watching.
Thank you.
People (all of them, across the world. and in the USA) make assumptions about guns and the opinions of the people that come loaded with those guns.
Life is broader than one tool. This video proves gun lovers can understand that.
The USA is in a unique historical position now. The voice of every poster on the internet can be heard; and thanks to a hard won tradition of free speech a channel built on guns; that youtube may rub out at any time; posts a video that ranks along side the Dole Institute's lectures as a challenging secondary source for US history.
"Whoever steals a man and sells him, and anyone found in possession of him, shall be put to death.” Exodus 21:16
"Slaves, obey your human Masters in everything. Don't work well only being watched, in order to please men, but work wholeheartedly, fearing the Lord"
Colossians 3:22
Btw I found this one well just flipping through the Bible looking for *a* quote (there's a couple) about Jesus owning slaves. Not trying to bash your religion, just pointing out one of many contradictions.
Karl I love this content. I am studying to be a social studies teacher. Seeing content like this continues to inspire me. Can't wait for the next parts keep up the good work! Never forget.
I fell out of love with history after I graduated. These videos have helped spark a new love for history. Thank you.
Great job Karl. Thanks a lot for making this video
I'm binging these right now, and loving them.
Thanks InRange! Karl, I appreciate you doing these, informative videos.
Fantastic episode, I love these historical minis. Some of my favorite content that you do.
Thank you! Please keep them coming. Semper Fidelis
The telling of history cannot be improvised, this is but one of many stories which needs to be told of our history, Great job!
Excellent video and excellent commentary without any sugar coating but presenting the brutal reality of facts.
Awesome video! Never give up making this kind of content
"Fugitive Slave Act" - State's rights indeed
Thanx Karl, you're a good man and a natural storyteller. Freedom for all or none is a good concept to model your life on. Keep it up.
I grew up in an abolishinists area that had houses as part of the Underground Railroad. Once bounty hunters for escaped slaves brought 4 into town. To not openly defy the law they invited them into a tavern for drinks. When they came out their captives were gone and no one could say what happened.
This is so much better than the overproduced same again stories in media
Karl - excellent content mate and fascinating. I know IRTV is mainly modern and sport related but these history docs segments are some of your best. MORE!!!!! Esp the Wild West ones.
This is one of my favorite channels on TH-cam
It makes you think about where the actual "Bible belt" was, and possibly that being the reason why the northern states did so well overall.
If I remember correctly a few slave hunters were killed by abolitionists too. Probably one of the best uses of the 2nd amendment in US history.
Technically, the Confederate State succession and the following Civil War was probably the closest the 2nd Amendment has been put to use (by definition) as the Confederate saw the American gov't as tyrannical.
Good video Karl. A hard pill to swallow, but something that needs to be known by all. Good job of not candy coating the subject.