IMPORTANT: The photos of the women up until minute 9:35 is NOT MARY ELLEN PLEASANT! In reality it is Queen Emma of Hawaii. While investigating sadly her pictures came up so I believed it was Pleasant but, I was Mistaken! Supposedly they fairly looked alike! Sorry for the confusion!
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How much some people suffered because of their race , gender , social status etc but they still went on to make a mark in society and in the annals of time . They are the true heroes and heroines of this world .
And the Bell family was able to establish generational wealth, having stolen it. Mrs. Pleasant's descendants were deprived of both the knowledge and the benefits of her life which should have been available to them... another gut-wrenching robbery.
Oh she was so wronged! She suffered great injustice. Shame on all who contributed, especially Mrs Bell. (A woman scorned) A very intelligent lady who was decades ahead of her time.
So true! It’s a shame we don’t see very many women with her qualities propped up on the mainstream. it’s all these horrid lying, cheating, swindling, fake and socially engineered created personas we see lifted up as bastions of women’s rights and protectors of children when they’re anything but. People back then had so much integrity and grit. They couldn’t be purchased or swayed by the all mighty buck. This was a real woman for sure.
How would they fon her descendentes they would have to run dna on her and put it in a database. They won’t do that. Also, do you remember back in the day the whites would steal land from AA. They would kill the family and take over the land. That happenedALOT!
What an amazing woman! She accomplished more in her life, than most of us can dream of. I've often wondered why when they do history in schools, they don't talk about some of these amazing people! It's sad that most people won't ever hear of her! Thank you for your research.
@Windigo1919,I used to find history boring but when it's from the perspective of someone who lived through it, it's fascinating. My grandmother was born in 1896, and when she talked about the first car and airplane etc, I could listen for hours. I love reading about the settlers and early mining towns, just the day to day life. They were such strong people, you can't help but admire them. we really don't appreciate how easy we have it compared to what they lived through.
Nicole Perron same, i thought it was boring too until my mid teens. Except for when my grandma who was born in 1919 told me about her life, how she met my grandpa while they were studying at university and he was part of the anti Nazi movement here in Sweden and later went to the war in Finland as a volunteer. My mom has lots of letters between them during their time apart and it’s just precious.
I emailed and suggested this video after seeing the video u did on Mary Stagecoach Fields. You did a awesome job again 😊 I love it here (on your channel) thank you.
Thank you for this suggestion, every time I read or hear about the great accomplishments that black women did back then I'm amazed and humbled. Never heard of her and so glad and angry 😠 at the same time.
Also, people need to stop judging Mary's decisions based on modern attitudes. People made decisions in reference to the paradigm they lived in. What's ridiculous today wasn't so in the past.
@@Jerseyboondocks well maybe u didnt earn it and she did taking care of u all of your life and him good for her has nothing to do with her being white just being sick of being a sucker 😥😥😥
David Brown -- I couldn't believe that a woman of her spunk and intelligence would transfer ownership to someone else. She didn't imagine the repercussions of such an action?
Sergpie wrong. She knew damn well because of her race she had to struggle and ended up losing everything because she couldn’t even put her house in her name. Clearly you didn’t watch the video with comprehension. But it’s whatever to me.
@@sergpie Obviously the White people of her time cared more about her Race and Gender. She didn't start to have any problems until she declared that she was in fact Black on her Registration and not White.
Very enlightening well researched and delivered, another example of how good people like her are forgotten over time for the incredible contribution she clearly made and the sacrifices and degradation she suffered. It's good to know about people like this. Thank you.
What a fascinating story. Mary Pleasant is sadly not someone I had heard of till now. She did well for the abolitionist movement. What awful jealous people. Poor Mary. She had guts and was ill used by people who couldn’t stand her success.
I didn’t know about this exquisite woman. Thank you for the info and once this lockdown is over I’d like to make a trip to San Fran and leave her some flowers. Respect to my strong blk woman of color.
I am not surprised. She literally gave her money away when she offically changed her race and put everything in Belle's name. (I wonder if his family retain their ill gotten wealth.) She did some really stupid things in her either platonic or intimate relationships with men. She never learned "to keep your money separate from your bed and heart". Interesting woman & history. Thank you.
I am not sure why you are surprised. It happens daily. Why do people believe that because you have family that it automatically means unconditional love?
Marcia Baker it’s actually quite common, even today. She was in a vulnerable position and-per a point made by someone in this reply thread-so was Bell’s widow...and, questionably, her son. Lord knows what the nature of this circle of interaction was. This was a short survey of a life full of many intrigues and avant-garde enterprises. It would have so nice for Mrs. Bell and Mdm Pleasant to have been visceral allies...but, no.
Time And Place Totally AGREE, but what other options did she have in that time period. She was caught between a rock and a hard spot. Maybe she should have kept up the charade..... I’m thinking it might have been her best bet. So damn unfortunate her last days were so awful.😖😖😖😖😖😖
Warren Byrd Visceral allies..... Sistahs in struggle, but no; jealousy and playing societal prejudices impacted the potential for good work continuing. So much like these days when females will scratch each other’s eyes out over a man.... sucks, but true🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
What an amazing woman. Another woman accused of "witch craft" as a strategy to steal her property. I bet her business partner's wife was insanely jealous of her.
Great story about Mary Ellen Pleasant she was an interesting and inspiring woman and accomplished alot in spite of her hardships. I've heard of her before but not in depth as you portrayed her.
Forgotten Lives This is so interesting and very tragic. Thank you for highlighting her life. She deserves to be remembered. You are doing some amazing and important work!! Keep it up!!! (New subscriber)
As a Black person for the future please don’t identify us as Negros we prefer to be called black, or African Americans to be politically correct if you’re talking about descendants of African Slaves born in America. Get that straight it is very offensive to call us “Negroes” in America, But I appreciate the historical video. Just fix your vocabulary next time. Thanks “The Black Community”
@@babayaga5017 But I agree. She shouldn't have done that. She could have helped many more people to freedom AND wealth, while disguised as a white woman.
This what am saying we should of learn about her in School not just Harait Tubman, alot if Black History that was never taught. Thank You for this Video
Perfect time to wind down. Lol. Kids keep me on my toes. Keep up the great content! Much appreciated. Be safe everyone 🖤 Edit: Sad what came of Mary after Belle's passing!
What an amazing woman. Such a sad end for someone so courageous. To be a woman and african american AND successful in those times much have been so difficult
Excellent job! Well researched and written. You are correct, she should be remembered. One thing hit me while watching. Instead of “...Her and two others...” She and two others. ‘Her’ didn’t get thrown off. She did. Again, well done! I am recommending this work to others. Thank you! Keep up the excellent work! :)
Her second marriage was in the Quaker community and registration with civil authorities need not have been done because the quaker community accepted that marriage in the sight of god was the only one necessary.
This my seem harsh as heck but I would have made sure everyone was out and burn that mug to the ground. All those lies against the woman and you have the nerve to live in her house.😡
Remember the mormons who married more then 1 wife per church's orders, then the government steps in takes there property, wealth, material things, lives and enslaved these mens and there church didn't stand behind them but the stood infront with there hand out to take those property's years later and claimed they will make sure the family's recieve the earnings from these properties and they would over see these accounts and if the church finds the family in the right mind to have rights to these funds then the families may obtain there descendants property's back.. that has been 150 years later and we as the descendants are still enslaved and superseeded over those who see only in the church's eyes... We are still enslaved and we know about the bonds and properties and they still hide them.
Sounds like my thieving family in New Orleans and Mississippi stole our inheritance. I thought my siblings and I was the only to have ur inheritance stolen from "FAMily."
Thank you for enlightening us to Mary Ellen Pleasant. It is so unfortunate that after all of the good she had accomplished as an abolitionist that racism would rear it's ugly head at the end of her life. RIP
They watched her wealth and popularity like a hawk waiting to devour a person like her. To be a woman, black woman at that, and with money was a no no in their eyes! Still today.
Boa Gaming did you pay attention? Did you listen to the entire clip? Of course she didn’t earn that as a cook. She had many other ways in which she made money., shares in laundries, dairies, boarding houses, restaurants, even Wells Fargo Bank. She was estimated to be ‘worth’ $30,000,000 at the time, the equivalent of $850,000,000 today.
@@magpiesneedle2575 yes he clearly said as a cook and domestic servant and that she she would listen and invest. He did not say what you did or rearrange the way you did. At 4:36, he should have said she was making 500 a month from everything, not making it sound like it was from that.
The narrarator very clearly said that she was earning $500 a month as a cook. End of his sentence, no adding in...and she was the owner of this that and the other thing, so, clearly YOU were not paying attention.
Another great video, FL. I had heard of Mary Pleasant somewhere else, but your video went much further in detail. Your research is better than most. Thank you.
Excellent! Suggestion: How about doing a story on the mysterious “Leatherman” who for 30 odd years walked the same circuitous route through NY, Massachusetts, and Connecticut at such a regular and steady pace that about every month he would appear back in the same town he’d been before. He eschewed handouts from those who offered them and he rarely spoke and shied away from people wanting his photograph. All his clothes were of pieces of leather, sewn together. He eventually passed away from mouth cancer in a cave in New York on a Wintry day. No one knew who he really was nor where he came from but some said he had come from France where he’d been a young leather merchant engaged to the daughter of his wealthy employer, but when this fell through its said he became despondent and began his eccentric travel route in America.
What a lovely woman Even with all the racism she rose above to be a success and held her head high while those who despised her success were evil and thus I’m sure paid the price in the end
Her beaded purse hangs behind glass at Fort Mason, in San Francisco. I saw it! And it has many, many beautiful, colorful beads all over it. Just gorgeous. 🌉
Her life would have made a great story. I've been Black my entire life, and never heard of her. She was desrespected, and all they wanted was her wealth. What was done to her, was an act that happened to many Blacks that owned wealth. There are too many Black People that have been forgotten. God, bless her!!!!
At the time slaves were property. Slave owner owned each slave and could free do with them as they wanted because they had no rights as human beings. During the signing of the Declaration of Independence omitted black people because then they’d have the same human rights as their masters. So she was stealing people slaves and freeing them so they had the right to claim their own humanity
Our people were not human beings, and could do whatever they wanted to them. Actually, that ignorant idea continued during Jim Crow Era. It wasn't that long ago, either. We must never forget. Never We are Black forever!
@@AndrewVelonis a man could raise a family on that $19. Before ww1, $1.00 per day was typical for skilled labour. In 1913 the fed. Reserve took over the job of money creation and that's when runaway inflation kicked in. A days pay in 1900 will now get you a half cup of coffee.
I thought that's as well but in the comments he answered that he meant per month and said she was much in demand as a cook by rich and wealthy men, she also owned a restaurant and she also invested so perhaps combined she made that much!
@@AndrewVelonis During the California Gold Rush, it was possible. 1936 is the Great Depression. My great-grandfather was U. S. Postmaster of Beaufort, S. C., 1891-1896 @ $1500 yr/($125/month). In a different economic period, he was making $24/month, as a professor, when he died, in 1914. The same can be said, in my life. I was going to join the Navy, in 1971 @ $72/month, as an E1 ; but, changed my mind. When I joined the Army @ E-1, just 3.5 years later; my base pay was $343. It's according the economy ; especially, the BOOMING Economy of the California Gold Rush of 1849‼️ People were paying bills with gold dust and nuggets. There was also price-gouging for services-rendered; from legitimate jobs to prostitution. Even during Slavery , slave-values, according to time periods, went back & forth, from the hundreds/ per person..... to the thousands & back. A typical Cadillac was $1500 in 1914 & $900 in 1936‼️
Just finished watching the video & reading the comments. Thoroughly enjoyed the video, as always. The positive comments I agree with, answers to the negative...well said! Texas
I feel so connected to her. My great-great-great grandmother was an escaped light-skinned slave, too. I have made $ with my male partners and had to leave homes, cars, boats, properties and start from scratch over five times in my life. I am pale skinned, but fierce. I do not identify as white. I am African-American, Native American, Jewish and then white. I always stick up for those being bullied and send love and light into the world. Her Spirit lives on in people like me...may her soul guide me to greater happiness.
IMPORTANT: The photos of the women up until minute 9:35 is NOT MARY ELLEN PLEASANT!
In reality it is Queen Emma of Hawaii. While investigating sadly her pictures came up so I believed it was Pleasant but, I was Mistaken! Supposedly they fairly looked alike! Sorry for the confusion!
I really want the best from your channel. Family members around the world right now are utilizing your page for stay at home education/entertainment. I apologize for my comments earlier and I sincerely wish you nothing but best in your endeavors. 🙏🏼🌺 Be Safe ... We your fans need you
It is a common misconception unfortunately. I've been seeing photos of Queen Emma used for Mary Ellen Pleasant for years.
Thnx for sharing. Sending love from Chicago. Never heard of her at all before now. Keep up the great work!! 1st time subscriber today for sure!!
Thanks for the honesty😘
Have you done a video on Queen Emma yet? It seems as if one would be pretty interesting.
"I'd rather be a corpse than a coward..."
Yep. These are the kind of people who change the world.
Hey baby
This should teach us a lesson , keep your money in your name.
Unless there are liens, taxes, fines against it.
When he said that I was like noooooo
Umm, women weren't able to have houses in their name without a man could've been the reason...
@Jeffery Jones weak link
Hey beautiful
How much some people suffered because of their race , gender , social status etc but they still went on to make a mark in society and in the annals of time . They are the true heroes and heroines of this world .
And the Bell family was able to establish generational wealth,
having stolen it. Mrs. Pleasant's descendants were deprived of
both the knowledge and the benefits of her life which should have
been available to them... another gut-wrenching robbery.
Mary was a smart, successful woman. It's sad that she built her wealth only to have it taken away by horrible people.
She was also a murderess and forced many females into prostitution and unwanted marriages.
All women are smart.
Just ask them.
@@t4705mb6 Yes we are.
@@MzYumYum Heck yeah, she had whole stables of hookers (mostly "high-end")
@@anitaboneshow Where did u get that information?
Oh she was so wronged! She suffered great injustice. Shame on all who contributed, especially Mrs Bell. (A woman scorned)
A very intelligent lady who was decades ahead of her time.
Thats throughout American history
So true! It’s a shame we don’t see very many women with her qualities propped up on the mainstream. it’s all these horrid lying, cheating, swindling, fake and socially engineered created personas we see lifted up as bastions of women’s rights and protectors of children when they’re anything but. People back then had so much integrity and grit. They couldn’t be purchased or swayed by the all mighty buck. This was a real woman for sure.
Makes you wonder if perhaps her husband and Ms. Pleasant were really lovers.
This woman was a boss!!!
FACTS👏👏👏👏
Very resourceful and had a lot of hard bark on her. Good looking, too.
Absolutely
Literally a whole g out here👏🏽👏🏽real boss behavior I enjoyed this
YEAH BIG BOSS AND BIG FACTS
Her decendents should sue for ownership of any of the estate thst remains. Common story of life in america for AA.
Butta Pecan but did she have brothers sisters or cousins?
How would they fon her descendentes they would have to run dna on her and put it in a database. They won’t do that. Also, do you remember back in the day the whites would steal land from AA. They would kill the family and take over the land. That happenedALOT!
ladydede88 That’s so true!! His family was planning that for awhile, just waiting on him to die...
I agree.
Mixed woman, she just wasn’t African American she was also Hawaiian.
She sounds like a great woman. Her biography would make a great movie!
Dont l.j et Netflix or lifetime make it. They lie
What an amazing woman! She accomplished more in her life, than most of us can dream of.
I've often wondered why when they do history in schools, they don't talk about some of these amazing people!
It's sad that most people won't ever hear of her! Thank you for your research.
because, sadly, american history is largely white-washed.
@Windigo1919,I used to find history boring but when it's from the perspective of someone who lived through it, it's fascinating.
My grandmother was born in 1896, and when she talked about the first car and airplane etc, I could listen for hours.
I love reading about the settlers and early mining towns, just the day to day life.
They were such strong people, you can't help but admire them. we really don't appreciate how easy we have it compared to what they lived through.
That is sad. Especially considering that Mary and people like her helped build America.
Great points.
Nicole Perron same, i thought it was boring too until my mid teens. Except for when my grandma who was born in 1919 told me about her life, how she met my grandpa while they were studying at university and he was part of the anti Nazi movement here in Sweden and later went to the war in Finland as a volunteer. My mom has lots of letters between them during their time apart and it’s just precious.
I emailed and suggested this video after seeing the video u did on Mary Stagecoach Fields. You did a awesome job again 😊 I love it here (on your channel) thank you.
Keavia Washington faberific suggestion Miss K more of em please doll 😉
Picketty Witch thank you 😊 I have so many that I can suggest but I don’t want to overwhelm him lol I’ll suggest one from time to time
Thank you for this suggestion, every time I read or hear about the great accomplishments that black women did back then I'm amazed and humbled. Never heard of her and so glad and angry 😠 at the same time.
This was really good
Thanks very much for the email and suggestion! I really appreciate it :)
Also, people need to stop judging Mary's decisions based on modern attitudes. People made decisions in reference to the paradigm they lived in. What's ridiculous today wasn't so in the past.
True
Forcing women to fuck people they don't want to fuck is wrong no matter the epoch.
Understandable
Very true
@RRY PHILL so? Your point? You prove the very thing the original poster mentions- "judgmental". Trolling the comment on every Reply
People Can Be SO Cruel When They Lack What Others Have. If She Was A Voodoo Queen - Her Enemies Were WORSE!
I don't like stories with paintings and shit I need record historical facts.
Mary Ellen should've put a curse on Mrs. Bell!
Her eyes give away that she had spiritual gifts , she looks like madam blavaski
True her enemies were worse
This woman deserves more recognition.
Thanks for the upload. Stay safe, everyone!
You stay safe also.
@@bettyjames4155 ♥
Thanks for watching, you too!
I never heard of her, but I throughly enjoyed your narration!
7:53 "...I'd rather be a corpse than a coward."
I was with her, from the start, but she Really won me over with that quote.
Year 1875 / $30,000,000 = Year 2020 $705,485,454.55....almost a Billionaire
@Elizah Williams No, they are not. She never had any children either and none of her relatives claimed her fortune.
Nope, 717,000$. That’s almost one million
People are like that even today. If they can screw you out of everything you own they would do it in a heartbeat.
Which is why you anticipate it and make absolutely certain they can't, "principles" should be secondary to that.
So true. My own mother took my inheritance money from my deceased father.
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@@Jerseyboondocks well maybe u didnt earn it and she did taking care of u all of your life and him good for her has nothing to do with her being white just being sick of being a sucker 😥😥😥
David Brown -- I couldn't believe that a woman of her spunk and intelligence would transfer ownership to someone else. She didn't imagine the repercussions of such an action?
This channel has a huge variety of cultural diversity 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
She should be honored and her image on a U.S. bill!
Typical behavior from evil devils. She was truly was wronged but this is nothing new.
I think you guys care more about her race and gender than she did.
They rotting in hell be tortured over and over by Gods servants trust me their deaths didn't go in vain.
Sergpie wrong. She knew damn well because of her race she had to struggle and ended up losing everything because she couldn’t even put her house in her name. Clearly you didn’t watch the video with comprehension. But it’s whatever to me.
Sergpie yup you wasn’t listening right lol
🤦🏾♀️
@@sergpie Obviously the White people of her time cared more about her Race and Gender.
She didn't start to have any problems until she declared that she was in fact Black on her Registration and not White.
Wow, I’ve never heard of her. Thanks for sharing. 💜
My pleasure!!
Very enlightening well researched and delivered, another example of how good people like her are forgotten over time for the incredible contribution she clearly made and the sacrifices and degradation she suffered. It's good to know about people like this. Thank you.
What a fascinating story. Mary Pleasant is sadly not someone I had heard of till now. She did well for the abolitionist movement. What awful jealous people. Poor Mary. She had guts and was ill used by people who couldn’t stand her success.
Cree Summer looks a bit like her.
yes, that's what I said the minute I saw her! She could play her if a movie was ever made.
Omg I just said that before seeing your comment
Her doppelganger.
LOL
Yes ma'am she does 😊
What an amazing woman. Thank you for doing this one.
Thank you so much :)
In all of my 49 years of living, I've never ever heard of this extraordinary woman who started the 'Underground Railroad in the West'. WOW
I didn’t know about this exquisite woman. Thank you for the info and once this lockdown is over I’d like to make a trip to San Fran and leave her some flowers. Respect to my strong blk woman of color.
Thanks son do that all the best. In your life
@@sebastianefreeman2795 no doubt
Comedy Central did a "Drunk History" episode on her. Lisa Bonet did a great, hilarious job of portraying her.
She was a brilliant woman. It's hard to believe that the family took her property & money. So sad
I am not surprised. She literally gave her money away when she offically changed her race and put everything in Belle's name.
(I wonder if his family retain their ill gotten wealth.)
She did some really stupid things in her either platonic or intimate relationships with men. She never learned "to keep your money separate from your bed and heart". Interesting woman & history. Thank you.
I am not sure why you are surprised. It happens daily. Why do people believe that because you have family that it automatically means unconditional love?
Marcia Baker it’s actually quite common, even today. She was in a vulnerable position and-per a point made by someone in this reply thread-so was Bell’s widow...and, questionably, her son. Lord knows what the nature of this circle of interaction was. This was a short survey of a life full of many intrigues and avant-garde enterprises. It would have so nice for Mrs. Bell and Mdm Pleasant to have been visceral allies...but, no.
Time And Place Totally AGREE, but what other options did she have in that time period. She was caught between a rock and a hard spot. Maybe she should have kept up the charade..... I’m thinking it might have been her best bet. So damn unfortunate her last days were so awful.😖😖😖😖😖😖
Warren Byrd Visceral allies..... Sistahs in struggle, but no; jealousy and playing societal prejudices impacted the potential for good work continuing. So much like these days when females will scratch each other’s eyes out over a man.... sucks, but true🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
Very interesting and incredible history! What a great woman she was! Because of her the world moved forward !
What an amazing woman. Another woman accused of "witch craft" as a strategy to steal her property. I bet her business partner's wife was insanely jealous of her.
That’s one of many things that came from the internet ❤
She should have never joined her money with Bell. It would have been better for her to wait until she was old to change to black.Keep your money woman
So she should have abandoned her principals for money?
Hind Sight for ALL a tool of the seasoned.
I'm sure bells family suffered for generations for their greed. Damn shame.
Hope so. I really hope so.
Hopefully
One can only hope.
I would hope Fred Bell paid for his lies and greed. FYI his father died from a fall down stairs
I remember reading this story, it's nice to see it on TH-cam. Thumbs up!
Great story about Mary Ellen Pleasant she was an interesting and inspiring woman and accomplished alot in spite of her hardships. I've heard of her before but not in depth as you portrayed her.
Be sure to check out the channel on Instagram: forgottenlivesyt
Forgotten Lives This is so interesting and very tragic. Thank you for highlighting her life. She deserves to be remembered. You are doing some amazing and important work!! Keep it up!!! (New subscriber)
As a Black person for the future please don’t identify us as Negros we prefer to be called black, or African Americans to be politically correct if you’re talking about descendants of African Slaves born in America. Get that straight it is very offensive to call us “Negroes” in America, But I appreciate the historical video. Just fix your vocabulary next time. Thanks “The Black Community”
Brianna thanks 🙏🏽
Did you say “black city whore”?
You’re lying to people. These photos are of Princess Of Hawaii. You’re lying to people
She should never of put her wealth in bells name. BIG MISTAKE
And his family is still living big off of her wealth 😡
bootsy clinton Really ? Omg that’s awful
It seems her BIGGEST mistake was saying she was black! Everyone wants to be black until it’s time to be black
@@babayaga5017 But I agree. She shouldn't have done that. She could have helped many more people to freedom AND wealth, while disguised as a white woman.
Unfortunately, she had no choice given the time period that she lived in. Women were screwed back then and Black women were screwed two times over.
Thank you for sharing this story; she should be in the history books.
They don't want people to know the real truth about. This history they want it all whitewash
Brilliant lady!it’s a shame that the Bell’s turned on her.
I remembered reading about her in Black fountains.
Never learned about her in school. I watched an episode of drunk history & decided to do research on her. Great video for this awesome woman!
Thanks for the comments :)
As someone born and raised in SF, I love this and have been to her park many times 💖
We stayed at Beltane Ranch for our honeymoon and while reading up on her I was like how has a movie not made about her?!?!
This what am saying we should of learn about her in School not just Harait Tubman, alot if Black History that was never taught. Thank You for this Video
🦋💙What an amazing woman! Fantastic job on this FL, as usual💙🦋
Thank you so much :)
Perfect time to wind down. Lol. Kids keep me on my toes. Keep up the great content! Much appreciated. Be safe everyone 🖤
Edit: Sad what came of Mary after Belle's passing!
This is so sad. What a wonderful brave woman.
My ancestors were Quaker abolitionists on both my mom and my dads sides. Always interesting to learn more about the movement.
What an amazing woman. Such a sad end for someone so courageous. To be a woman and african american AND successful in those times much have been so difficult
Very interesting and strong woman. We can all learn from her. Thanks FL 💛
Excellent job!
Well researched and written.
You are correct, she should be remembered.
One thing hit me while watching. Instead of “...Her and two others...”
She and two others. ‘Her’ didn’t get thrown off. She did.
Again, well done! I am recommending this work to others. Thank you! Keep up the excellent work! :)
Thank you for the support and recommending the channel! And thanks for picking that up, I'll try not to forget next time :)
That is why you are such a class act to watch and follow. Take care and stay safe.
This was an exceptionally moving bio. Thank you for being a voice for MEP. Xoxo
I’m a black Africans American kid and to have all this knowledge is amazing 😉
Thanks so much for posting this. I knew nothing about her. Please keep the posts coming. Stay safe.
Will do! Stay safe!
Her second marriage was in the Quaker community and registration with civil authorities need not have been done because the quaker community accepted that marriage in the sight of god was the only one necessary.
It's so sad that she lost her fortune at the end.
Great woman she was! Loved your work on the video for this amazing story. Well done FLives! Thank you. Have a nice week!
Thank you so much :)
@@ForgottenLives Always my pleasure! Thank you
Another great find and narration! She won't be forgotten.
Thanks for the support! :D
This story had a tragic ending...it should be a movie
This my seem harsh as heck but I would have made sure everyone was out and burn that mug to the ground. All those lies against the woman and you have the nerve to live in her house.😡
I very much appreciate your work and listening about the history of this beautiful black woman
Loved this video what an amazing life and incredible woman, I hope the family who betrayed her got their karma
Glad to hear that, i didn't look that bit up so I'm not sure!
Remember the mormons who married more then 1 wife per church's orders, then the government steps in takes there property, wealth, material things, lives and enslaved these mens and there church didn't stand behind them but the stood infront with there hand out to take those property's years later and claimed they will make sure the family's recieve the earnings from these properties and they would over see these accounts and if the church finds the family in the right mind to have rights to these funds then the families may obtain there descendants property's back.. that has been 150 years later and we as the descendants are still enslaved and superseeded over those who see only in the church's eyes... We are still enslaved and we know about the bonds and properties and they still hide them.
Sounds like my thieving family in New Orleans and Mississippi stole our inheritance. I thought my siblings and I was the only to have ur inheritance stolen from "FAMily."
Awesome Video! Always Very Interesting and Never Disappointed! Thanks So Much!
Thanks for the support! Glad to hear!!
Thank you for enlightening us to Mary Ellen Pleasant. It is so unfortunate that after all of the good she had accomplished as an abolitionist that racism would rear it's ugly head at the end of her life.
RIP
If this isn’t the epitome of a grind story idk what is
What a legend, mad respect 🤘🏻
I'd rather be a corpse than a coward! Best quote ever!!!
Nice story of Mary Ellen Pleasant a tycoon and abolitionist. Her mistake was to put her money in businessman Thomas Bell name.
I am workin on my cars in my shed and I am grateful to your channel and your research on soo many subjects very cozy thanx man
Haters gonna Hate even then
They watched her wealth and popularity like a hawk waiting to devour a person like her. To be a woman, black woman at that, and with money was a no no in their eyes! Still today.
There is no way she was making $500.00 dollars a month in the mid 1800's as a cook. People would have been happy with that in 1950.
Where you there? No so stfu.
@@MsMedford do you know history, guess not.
Boa Gaming did you pay attention? Did you listen to the entire clip? Of course she didn’t earn that as a cook. She had many other ways in which she made money., shares in laundries, dairies, boarding houses, restaurants, even Wells Fargo Bank. She was estimated to be ‘worth’ $30,000,000 at the time, the equivalent of $850,000,000 today.
@@magpiesneedle2575 yes he clearly said as a cook and domestic servant and that she she would listen and invest. He did not say what you did or rearrange the way you did. At 4:36, he should have said she was making 500 a month from everything, not making it sound like it was from that.
The narrarator very clearly said that she was earning $500 a month as a cook. End of his sentence, no adding in...and she was the owner of this that and the other thing, so, clearly YOU were not paying attention.
Another great video, FL. I had heard of Mary Pleasant somewhere else, but your video went much further in detail. Your research is better than most. Thank you.
They need to make a movie of her live!! Instead of the typical slave movies.
Funny how nothing has changed to this day
Absolutely right!
Not much
great story may she rest in peace that was a nice one
I don't know how you always managed to come up with such fascinating and instructive stories. That's what I call useful work.
Thank you very much!
She was such a pioneer! Thanks so much for sharing!
Thank you so much for this bit of history
Excellent!
Suggestion: How about doing a story on the mysterious “Leatherman” who for 30 odd years walked the same circuitous route through NY, Massachusetts, and Connecticut at such a regular and steady pace that about every month he would appear back in the same town he’d been before. He eschewed handouts from those who offered them and he rarely spoke and shied away from people wanting his photograph. All his clothes were of pieces of leather, sewn together. He eventually passed away from mouth cancer in a cave in New York on a Wintry day. No one knew who he really was nor where he came from but some said he had come from France where he’d been a young leather merchant engaged to the daughter of his wealthy employer, but when this fell through its said he became despondent and began his eccentric travel route in America.
Thanks for the suggestion, will check him out!
What a lovely woman
Even with all the racism she rose above to be a success and held her head high while those who despised her success were evil and thus I’m sure paid the price in the end
May God Bless her soul ❤ she deserves much more
Her beaded purse hangs behind glass at Fort Mason, in San Francisco. I saw it! And it has many, many beautiful, colorful beads all over it. Just gorgeous. 🌉
Her life would have made a great story. I've been Black my entire life, and never heard of her. She was desrespected, and all they wanted was her wealth. What was done to her, was an act that happened to many Blacks that owned wealth. There are too many Black People that have been forgotten. God, bless her!!!!
Such an injustice. I would've burned that mansion to the ground.
They need to do a movie of her life. Thanks for sharing.
My paternal grandmother is a Pleasant. Her family is from New Orleans and Acadiana Louisiana. I wonder if she’s my ancestor.
She had no children i believe, but maybe a distant relative!
Hey family
So many black american lives really and truly are forgotten.
Thanks, this is cool.
Indeed! Glad you enjoyed!
@@ForgottenLives Are Thomas Bells descendants alive?
Interesting lady. In an Agatha Christie novel the kill dresses as a servant to avoid being noticed. See.s like the idea is an old one.
I think you did well but probably wouldn't call her a slave stealer...people aren't property.
Of course human beings aren’t property, but at that time, her crime was theft, since she was abetting slaves’ reach for freedom.
At the time slaves were property. Slave owner owned each slave and could free do with them as they wanted because they had no rights as human beings. During the signing of the Declaration of Independence omitted black people because then they’d have the same human rights as their masters. So she was stealing people slaves and freeing them so they had the right to claim their own humanity
@@rahea7 sounds like Human trafficking
Our people were not human beings, and could do whatever they wanted to them. Actually, that ignorant idea continued during Jim Crow Era. It wasn't that long ago, either. We must never forget. Never We are Black forever!
$500 per month as a cook in those days is hardly possible. She would have been doing well to earn that in a year.
I noticed that. My father was making $19 per week in 1936. That was still poverty level, but one could eat and pay the rent
@@AndrewVelonis a man could raise a family on that $19. Before ww1, $1.00 per day was typical for skilled labour. In 1913 the fed. Reserve took over the job of money creation and that's when runaway inflation kicked in. A days pay in 1900 will now get you a half cup of coffee.
I thought that's as well but in the comments he answered that he meant per month and said she was much in demand as a cook by rich and wealthy men, she also owned a restaurant and she also invested so perhaps combined she made that much!
$500 was possible, during the California Gold Rush‼️
@@AndrewVelonis During the California Gold Rush, it was possible. 1936 is the Great Depression. My great-grandfather was U. S. Postmaster of Beaufort, S. C., 1891-1896 @ $1500 yr/($125/month). In a different economic period, he was making $24/month, as a professor, when he died, in 1914. The same can be said, in my life. I was going to join the Navy, in 1971 @ $72/month, as an E1 ; but, changed my mind. When I joined the Army @ E-1, just 3.5 years later; my base pay was $343. It's according the economy ; especially, the BOOMING Economy of the California Gold Rush of 1849‼️ People were paying bills with gold dust and nuggets. There was also price-gouging for services-rendered; from legitimate jobs to prostitution. Even during Slavery , slave-values, according to time periods, went back & forth, from the hundreds/ per person..... to the thousands & back. A typical Cadillac was $1500 in 1914 & $900 in 1936‼️
7:50 "...I'd rather be a corpse than a coward..."
She was gorgeous 🌺❤️
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Just finished watching the video & reading the comments. Thoroughly enjoyed the video, as always. The positive comments I agree with, answers to the negative...well said! Texas
That was an awesome story! Thank you.
I'm humbly amazed to have learned that she helped with the Underground Railroad, and a supporter of Abolitionist John Brown, excellent video
I believe she should be remembered today for actions against racial prejudice against African Americans.
I can’t over how much she looks like Cree Summer
Absolutely. Im watching Different World right now.
Good story. Thank you for sharing.
I feel so connected to her. My great-great-great grandmother was an escaped light-skinned slave, too. I have made $ with my male partners and had to leave homes, cars, boats, properties and start from scratch over five times in my life.
I am pale skinned, but fierce. I do not identify as white. I am African-American, Native American, Jewish and then white.
I always stick up for those being bullied and send love and light into the world.
Her Spirit lives on in people like me...may her soul guide me to greater happiness.