As a second generation Bajan it is always funny to me that plantation slavery is associated with cotton over sugar cane. The British were deep in the business in the Caribbean and it lasted well after the end of slavery. The last person to cut and process cane in my family was my grandmother.
Because "cotton" is *THE AMERICAN* slavery experience. Florida, South of Lake Okeechobee ONLY, is 1 of only 2 places in the USA that has a massive amount of sugar cane fields, and those were developed AFTER slavery ended. There's just almost nowhere in the USA that is both warm and wet enough to make sugar cane commercially successful. In the mid to late 2000s I worked for U.S. Sugar Corporation for 4 years at their headquarters in Clewiston, Florida. The town motto is *_"America's Sweetest Town."_* Still, the USA acreage, although HUGE, still doesn't hold a candle to the Cuban sugar cane harvest. I live in the Florida Keys now, and both here & in Cuba after harvesting the cane they burn whatever plant matter is left in the field. If the wind is blowing North across Cuba we can strongly smell their burning fields over 100 miles away in Florida, and many times see the smoke as well. I've never lived in another "factory" city before or since. It's like the City of Clewiston & U.S. Sugar Corporation are the same thing, because Clewiston is just a 'one-trick pony', and without U.S. Sugar the town would almost cease to exist. Here's a visual graphic of where sugar cane is CURRENTLY grown in the USA. The 5% unaccounted for is grown in the state of Hawaii. i.pinimg.com/originals/8c/c8/2c/8cc82c11808f2deeffbe0c076f6cf17f.jpg
@@chapo9416 But I believe he’s correct on them not being present, or not to any significant degree before slavery ended. In the 1760s, Americans got their sugar from the West Indies.
@@kalebnbrown And your point is? Lots of people worked lots of jobs, cotton picking is still something that gets done today. It's not as if she was a slave. Same goes for sugar cane so it's not as if you're arguing against the original comment
Being a brazilian, but in love with your channel, this is now one of my favorite videos. Since I've never realized how New Orleans slavery history is similar to most of brazilian slavery history and how brazilian music is also the combination of african rythms and european instruments.
@@cleovintora59 Also, in a sense, Salvador is, to Brazil, what New Orleans is to the USA. The traditions of the enslaved peoples in Brazil influenced the whole national culture, but in the State of Bahia, that influence was better preserved, because during the late 19th Century, places like São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro went through many municipal regulations on subjects such as clothing, hairstyling and language to try and unify the national identity into something more akin to the European fashion, in part exactly to erase many African traditions on clothing and habits, wherein Salvador never quite applied those regulations to the same level. That's why, when you see 18th and 19th Century paintings by artists such as Debret, you can see enslaved dressing in particular styles, wearing make up and fashioning their hair in particular ways that are remarkable for their expressiveness and not a mere imitation of European fashions (while the white men and women walked under the tropical sun of Rio de Janeiro wearing coats, overcoats, top hats and furs). In Salvador, some of that survived as influence to certain fashion trends and in the cultural and historical "character" of the "bahiana".
Yeah, just looking at those anchor chains I literally shuddered. Slave ships and all the weird torture device shit involved in the institution are just profoundly creepy.
Lets speak of how in the 1840's women ( often black) was brought into prisons to mate with inmates . Those children created of black inmates was raised in jail until they was 10 and then sold to prison officials
@@aaroncohen2700 He said black inmates. I highly doubt that anyone at that time would be actively working to raise the black population by breeding them with criminals. Remember, at the time, many people believed crime was a genetic issue. What slave owner wants slaves that are going to be unruly or possibly even murder other slaves?
Honestly, I"m just listening to this while working and learned so much in six minutes. If you did 6-10 minute episodes like this every now and then where you just informally talk about cool stuff like the origin of voodoo or the history of places like Congo square, things that may seem random but are just super interesting, we'd just all be so much better people. Love this stuff, thanks!
Sugar was such a profitable crop that French diplomats did everything in their power to keep the carribean sugar islands during the peace negociations after the Seven years war. In return they gave up Canada and all their Indian ambitions in favour of the British. One could argue that keeping these sugar islands kept the French monarchy alive for a few decades more
You're 100% right I watch the documentary called Big Sugar sadly enough as a French Canadian they didn't actually care about Canada we weren't that valuable they were even losing money at some point a small island what's far more valuable then Canada
And, one could argue, set forth a chain of events that caused the revolution in America. If the British had held just one profitable sugar island, they could have eased their debt load significantly, never needing to impose the sugar act or stamp act in the colonies. Instead the inherited Canada, which at the time was close to no profit on goods exported (timber, furs, and some fishing). In fact, the negotiation was seen as so lenient to the French in allowing them to keep such profitable colonies, some would argue it just allowed a temporary peace while France would regroup, leaving many British in power constantly paranoid and expecting war again with them…
Says who the europeans who wanted to erase to fact that actually haiti or san domingue was profitable for 20 years it was a unified island . But this is counterproductive for the European Colonial powers and the Emerging US in getting acceptance as a world power.
I never knew about so much you lay out here in the video. Never knew the US was such a small importer of slaves. Never knew about the systematic concubines (forgot the term you used). Never knew that sugar was the biggest cash crop back then. I love all the overlays you used, the cutaways to different shots with your commentary still there, and your commentary itself. You know what this makes me? HUNGRY for more of your content. The little bit of feedback I can give: add some soft background music. Nothing overpowering, just something barely audible but fitting to the video's theme. Maybe something from the era or some jazz. But youd have to decide after adding it Please keep educating us. I think you have something great here. I subscribed. Keep up the good work!
5 % of 15,000,000 is still 750,000 slaves. Put it into context of the US population of 1800 that was just over 5 million and the population of the whole world was under 750 million.
@@lavrentivs9891 Yes, but that's sort of like saying that someone who kills one person is on par with Ted Bundy. Both are evil, but one is a significantly higher grade of evil
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There is so much good music in Nola, including and especially jazz. I only need refer to my personal favorite, Tuba Skinny. Poor attempt at humor. Open his mouth and fill it with Étouffée.
FABULOUS video! I'm going to use this in one of the social studies classes I teach. (Also, to change the subject for just a second, long hair becomes you very nicely.)
Ah, sugar, sucre', or "white gold," as it was affectionately known back then! Most of the plantations in New Orleans became sugar plantations around the turn of the nineteenth century, cher, when an especially efficient form of sugar granulation was discovered here by Etienne de Bore, along with his two Cuban friends. Voila, lots of sugar addicts were born across the globe, as granulated sugar was now available for their desserts and coffee, whereas previously it had had to be chopped off a sugar loaf. Fortunes made of "white gold" were born here, as well, and there were more millionaires in the New Orleans area than any other part of the country in this time period (the early 1800s). Many of their luxurious mansions remain today in NOLA's famed Garden District, where one can even find sugar kettles, remnants of the harsh plantation life, that have been turned into fountains.
@CommandoDude Not even limited to those things. Black gold can for example also refer to iron ore (in places where it has been and is one of the fundamental natural resources) etc.
Your videos sort of renew my interest in history. I intend to study it in university even though I'm not having a very good experience in my A-Level history course right now, but seeing how you talk about topics like slavery and imperialism very much makes me think my interest in history won't go to waste.
AIFAHRA HORGGHRO no, it’s because Haiti had the unfortunate start as being led by former slaves. These slaves didn’t have much education, nor practice in republican ideals, DUE to slavery. The island was also blockaded and economically destroyed. Cut out your racist shit.
AIFAHRA HORGGHRO yes pls tell me how the slave colony of haiti wasn’t already a failed state. I’d rather be poor kid in a 3rd world country any day over a slave during the 18th-19th centuries lmao
Interestingly enough, Uncle Tom's cabin had a role in finishing slavery. Peru's oldest and most important newspaper published the novel on daily basis and ending slavery became an issue.
@colin minhinnick Well, Cuba and Brazil didn't abolish slavery until 1886 and 1888 respectively. Nobody seems to mention this when unnecessarily bashing America for retaining slavery that long when those two countries didn't abolish it until the 1880s.
@colin minhinnick Yeah, thankfully the northern states were better and abolished slavery way much more earlier than the South. In fact, I read somewhere that Vermont was the first sovereign nation to abolish slavery, and it did it in 1777. Also, the northern states actually abolished slavery much earlier than the European powers.
Atun-Shei, first of all, I'm a huge fan of your work. When I see your work, I remember a lot of the classes that I had about colonial and imperial Brazil. I studied History and Social Studies in University, but because of economic issues, was never able to graduate, but that never stopped me to continue reading and the thing that I found the most incredible about the New Orleans history it's how close the reality and the issues that you bring about this city ressembles in the history of almost every city in Brazil. And because of this, I think that you should also check up some brazilian historians, like Florestan Fernandes, Sergio Buarque de Holanda, Gilberto Freire and also some brasilian writers from the late XIX and early XX century, like Machado de Assis, Euclides da Cunha, Carolina de Jesus and others. I can combine a very nice list for you, and if possible, have a direct line of contact with you, so I can help not just in the look out for this books, but also if you need some help in the context about some of this materials. Thank you very much for your work.
On historical fact that depresses more than most is that in 1747 German chemist Andreas Sigismund Marggraf successfully isolated pure Sugar from sugar beet, a crop that grew very well in Europe and could be used as a fallow crop in between wheat harvests, but was unable to commercialize it successfully. Imagine if he had and the Caribbean and south American sugar trade just stopped being profitable in the mid 1700's?
As they drew near the town they saw a black man stretched on the ground with only one half of what he wore, which was a kind of linen frock; for the poor man had lost his left leg and his right hand. Good God, said Candide in Dutch, what are you doing here, friend, in this deplorable condition? I am waiting for my master, Mynheer Vanderdendur, the famous trader, answered the black man. Was it Mynheer Vanderdendur that used you in this cruel manner? Yes, sir, said the black man; it is the custom here. They give a linen garment twice a year, and that is all our covering. When we labor in the sugar works, and the mill happens to snatch hold of a finger, they instantly chop off our hand; and when we attempt to run away, they cut off a leg. Both these things have happened to me, and it is at this expense that you eat sugar in Europe... -Candide- (Not my favorite translation, and I left out the ironic bit about the church which condones slavery, but I had to post this when you got to the bit about sugar.)
Fun fact Escorting and burlesque was started from slavery , allot of mixed race women were groomed into sex workers at young ages because they were fetishized for their lighter skin , thin hair and thicker shapes , many of our strip clubs today are old brothels where these young women worked , I visit Congo square often as I’m from new Orleans, I thank you for telling our bitter yet beautiful story, the city holds so many secrets , so much suffering over so many generations.
Sugar is such a big business they designed the superdome to look like a sugar Bowl even the battle of new orleans was kinda swayed by barrels of sugar the British used as cover for cannons and such
My education of American slavery (beyond the high school basics) comes learning about the music that came from New Orleans, not just the Jazz also! I was very interested in the creole's music in general. I think a lot of white carpetbaggers heads must have been scratching when they head down to New Orleans and find what they would have called "black" people, having grand opera performed every night, with the symphony doing the same. I absolutely loved the schedule of this one music patron: Diner, Symphony, Opera, Afterparty. It is very sad to see this upended by Plessy v Ferguson, though in retrospect I probably am somewhat idealizing a relatively privileged class. From this studying, I branched out to my general interest in the subject today. Great video, thanks.
ExtraCredits ExtraHistory series did a 5 part series over the Haitian revolution. The arts pretty good and they make it really entertaining and do it justice I think.
Larkin Hancock yea, they’ve picked up a lot of momentum since they started. I wish I had more time to watch them all but that’s just like me. I’ll binge one specific show for a while them wander off and get interested in something else. Eventually I make it back though.
@AIFAHRA HORGGHRO I mean thats no truly fair to those people. Their economy was screwed by all other nations surrounding them they were Financially crippled by France then boycotted by all other Powerful nations surrounding them because the idea of a Nation of freed slaves was dangerous to them. They were left to crumble. Even the United States had the assistance of other countries after their revolution. I still like the Haitian revolution just due to the politics that came with it alone on top of the battles and different characters that came into play.
@@Peasant_of_PontusIn the early 1800s you would’ve been hard-pressed to find someone of Western dissent Who would not qualify as a racist by today’s standards. Napoleon would’ve been comfortable in the majority. Not an approval just a fact.
Notice how the tomb of the unknown soldier is this sprawling, vast and tightly guarded area surrounded beautiful architecture. And the tomb of the unknown slave is so small and not guarded at all. Really says a lot.
Certain lines simply make me laugh. Lines like "look at how many of us there are....there is only one man with a whip over there. We. Should. Mur. Der. Him." Is my humor a little warped...yes but sometimes simple tones of speech make things more funny.
Good video...except for one detail...jazz is not the un-syncopated form of music. Jazz was syncopated...meaning that the beats in the bass have notes which come between the basic beats of the melody. In folk and classical music the beats of bass and melody come down together. Ragtime music has the most obvious syncopation.
Mr Thompson aye ours aren’t the first nor the only ones, and let’s be honest it’ll never end slavery is human nature sadly from the Aztecs to the Arabs
@@rangergxi To be honest, this shows that color of skin doesn't define if a person will be a slave owner or not. Besides, the case of Liberia is one prime example that emancipated slaves can become some nasty men.
In countries like mine it's easier to understand the way slavery actually was in New Orleans prior to the early 1800s. Slaves were a precious commodity and Spanish law granted them a legal status. They worked in the fields as well, but they were mostly urban labourers and servants in Lima and elsewhere. In fact, slavery was in steady decline in the last decades of Spanish viceral government. Independence war meant the de facto liberation of thousands of slaves in exchange to fight the Spainards. After the war the slave population dwindled drastically. In the mid 1850 slavery was abolished after a short civil war. Slavery wasn't a big issue but the price the government paid to slaveholders for ransom. It was a scam as most of them were old or non existent.
@@BadWebDiver I don't think it's La Amistad. The style of dress is different, more like something that would have been worn by Portugese or Spanish slavers a few centuries earlier, but I could be wrong. (And, yes, I know La Amistad was a Spanish slave ship.)
It's important to note that the reason that the Haitian revolution went south in the way that it died was due to isolation and attack by the burgeoning United States (particularly the Southern Colonies, naturally), who feared what black self-liberation implied for the future of their slaving empire
Does not match the narrative of this video...even as he dismisses the facts with well "that's not here nor there". He states that the rebels eliminated everyone else in genocidal attacks.
Highly un syncopated would be all on the beat. Jazz is usually pretty syncopated. I assume that was just a mistaKe but I figured I’d comment anyways just incase it might help anyone.
*CORRECTION* An enslaved person who rose up and killed their oppressor was not a murderer, they were considered heros and freedom fighters, same as if a hostage killed their kidnapper.
There is actually a interesting theory that Jazz came from North Africa, there are tribes there called Toeareg who basically picked the black people from the lands and sold them to who ever wanted to buy them, they have their own music which sound VERY similar to jazz, and the theory is that the slaves brought this kind of music with them. Look it up. For example, a song from Algeria Sahara region, example, it is based on ages old music. th-cam.com/video/0k1IEUQktD0/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/NYTrhviTJSk/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/6sdM-36eRGQ/w-d-xo.html
I read that, in Louisiana, slaves could sue their masters if they were too abusive; and that it was forbidden to break up slave families (they could get married). Personally, I think the latter was a bit more cynical than altruistic: it gave the owners hostages to compel slaves not to run away, but that's just me. What are your thoughts?
I can't say much on the other topics, but about being allowed to marry, that was kind of the same in all Catholic colonies. Enslaved people were allowed to marry there, and usually encouraged to do so, BUT that marriage didn't usually meant the slavers couldn't break down the family, even though that being seen as "not very kind" (at most). Marriage for enslaved people mostly meant that the Catholic church demanded couples be married or else they would be living in sin.
As a second generation Bajan it is always funny to me that plantation slavery is associated with cotton over sugar cane. The British were deep in the business in the Caribbean and it lasted well after the end of slavery. The last person to cut and process cane in my family was my grandmother.
Because "cotton" is *THE AMERICAN* slavery experience. Florida, South of Lake Okeechobee ONLY, is 1 of only 2 places in the USA that has a massive amount of sugar cane fields, and those were developed AFTER slavery ended. There's just almost nowhere in the USA that is both warm and wet enough to make sugar cane commercially successful. In the mid to late 2000s I worked for U.S. Sugar Corporation for 4 years at their headquarters in Clewiston, Florida. The town motto is *_"America's Sweetest Town."_* Still, the USA acreage, although HUGE, still doesn't hold a candle to the Cuban sugar cane harvest. I live in the Florida Keys now, and both here & in Cuba after harvesting the cane they burn whatever plant matter is left in the field. If the wind is blowing North across Cuba we can strongly smell their burning fields over 100 miles away in Florida, and many times see the smoke as well.
I've never lived in another "factory" city before or since. It's like the City of Clewiston & U.S. Sugar Corporation are the same thing, because Clewiston is just a 'one-trick pony', and without U.S. Sugar the town would almost cease to exist.
Here's a visual graphic of where sugar cane is CURRENTLY grown in the USA. The 5% unaccounted for is grown in the state of Hawaii.
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@@Matt_from_Florida i live in Louisiana and they have a lot of sugar cane fields
@@chapo9416 But I believe he’s correct on them not being present, or not to any significant degree before slavery ended. In the 1760s, Americans got their sugar from the West Indies.
My mom picked cotton during the 1950s in Mississippi.
@@kalebnbrown And your point is? Lots of people worked lots of jobs, cotton picking is still something that gets done today. It's not as if she was a slave. Same goes for sugar cane so it's not as if you're arguing against the original comment
Being a brazilian, but in love with your channel, this is now one of my favorite videos. Since I've never realized how New Orleans slavery history is similar to most of brazilian slavery history and how brazilian music is also the combination of african rythms and european instruments.
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽yes so true I'm from sao Paulo 🥰🥰🥰
man you guys have a dark history
Slavery really does create interesting and unique cultures and ways of life.
@@cleovintora59 Also, in a sense, Salvador is, to Brazil, what New Orleans is to the USA.
The traditions of the enslaved peoples in Brazil influenced the whole national culture, but in the State of Bahia, that influence was better preserved, because during the late 19th Century, places like São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro went through many municipal regulations on subjects such as clothing, hairstyling and language to try and unify the national identity into something more akin to the European fashion, in part exactly to erase many African traditions on clothing and habits, wherein Salvador never quite applied those regulations to the same level.
That's why, when you see 18th and 19th Century paintings by artists such as Debret, you can see enslaved dressing in particular styles, wearing make up and fashioning their hair in particular ways that are remarkable for their expressiveness and not a mere imitation of European fashions (while the white men and women walked under the tropical sun of Rio de Janeiro wearing coats, overcoats, top hats and furs).
In Salvador, some of that survived as influence to certain fashion trends and in the cultural and historical "character" of the "bahiana".
@@rickytambow9950were basically the last country to outlaw slavery
Wow, those are the actual shackles...
Jazmyn Brown 🙄
@@andreebesseau6995 why roll your eyes? 🤔
Powerful.
Yeah, just looking at those anchor chains I literally shuddered. Slave ships and all the weird torture device shit involved in the institution are just profoundly creepy.
Yeah holy shit, what a potent message.
Lets speak of how in the 1840's women ( often black) was brought into prisons to mate with inmates . Those children created of black inmates was raised in jail until they was 10 and then sold to prison officials
Inmates as in white prisoners?
@@aaroncohen2700 That is an excellent question that I would very much like to know the answer to.
@@aaroncohen2700 He said black inmates. I highly doubt that anyone at that time would be actively working to raise the black population by breeding them with criminals. Remember, at the time, many people believed crime was a genetic issue. What slave owner wants slaves that are going to be unruly or possibly even murder other slaves?
@@aaroncohen2700 It's been a year since this was posted but it does say ,black inmates.
Do you have any sources or proof to back that up?
"There are 2 of us and only one guy with a whip, we should murder him!"
Wow, that escalated quickly!
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In more ways than one.
Hell, it eventually got so bad that the Dominican Republic would fight it's own independence war against Haiti.
That's why you only wanna have *ONE* kid!
It's not even escalation if you consider the context of slavery on Saint Domingue.
If by "quickly" you mean years and decades of inhumane abuse.
@Jacob... as it should.
Honestly, I"m just listening to this while working and learned so much in six minutes. If you did 6-10 minute episodes like this every now and then where you just informally talk about cool stuff like the origin of voodoo or the history of places like Congo square, things that may seem random but are just super interesting, we'd just all be so much better people. Love this stuff, thanks!
Sugar was such a profitable crop that French diplomats did everything in their power to keep the carribean sugar islands during the peace negociations after the Seven years war. In return they gave up Canada and all their Indian ambitions in favour of the British. One could argue that keeping these sugar islands kept the French monarchy alive for a few decades more
You're 100% right I watch the documentary called Big Sugar sadly enough as a French Canadian they didn't actually care about Canada we weren't that valuable they were even losing money at some point a small island what's far more valuable then Canada
And, one could argue, set forth a chain of events that caused the revolution in America. If the British had held just one profitable sugar island, they could have eased their debt load significantly, never needing to impose the sugar act or stamp act in the colonies. Instead the inherited Canada, which at the time was close to no profit on goods exported (timber, furs, and some fishing). In fact, the negotiation was seen as so lenient to the French in allowing them to keep such profitable colonies, some would argue it just allowed a temporary peace while France would regroup, leaving many British in power constantly paranoid and expecting war again with them…
"A little over 10 years later, Haiti became a genocidal dictatorship.... But that's neither here nor there"
HOLD UP.
Says who the europeans who wanted to erase to fact that actually haiti or san domingue was profitable for 20 years it was a unified island . But this is counterproductive for the European Colonial powers and the Emerging US in getting acceptance as a world power.
@@kaleahcollins4567 Bruh they literally killed every white person on the island. That's a genocide
@Robertson Thirdly But they didn't kill only slave owners, they killed quite literally *every white person* on the Island
@Robertson Thirdly That is a fucking genocide
Robertson Thirdly A retaliation against genocide can be also defined as a genocide. That’s not mutually exclusive.
I never knew about so much you lay out here in the video.
Never knew the US was such a small importer of slaves. Never knew about the systematic concubines (forgot the term you used). Never knew that sugar was the biggest cash crop back then.
I love all the overlays you used, the cutaways to different shots with your commentary still there, and your commentary itself.
You know what this makes me? HUNGRY for more of your content.
The little bit of feedback I can give: add some soft background music. Nothing overpowering, just something barely audible but fitting to the video's theme. Maybe something from the era or some jazz. But youd have to decide after adding it
Please keep educating us.
I think you have something great here. I subscribed.
Keep up the good work!
5 % of 15,000,000 is still 750,000 slaves. Put it into context of the US population of 1800 that was just over 5 million and the population of the whole world was under 750 million.
That makes me HUNGRY for a hot and spicy McChicken!
@Robertson Thirdly The
@@lavrentivs9891 Yes, but that's sort of like saying that someone who kills one person is on par with Ted Bundy. Both are evil, but one is a significantly higher grade of evil
@@filmandfirearms A bit like when people equate Stalin and Churchill to Hitler then.
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I'm on a video spree of your New Orleans history, this information has been invaluable to me and my trip! Thank you!
I've so much love for what you're doing with this channel. It's what the world needs.
I don't know if, at the end, you're severely undervaluing jazz or severely, severely overvaluing the McChicken. Possibly both.
Ben Toth I pretty sure chick-fil-A out does a McChicken and I wonder what he has against jazz, the 1940s was the golden years of jazz.
The McChicken is one of the greatest inventions in all of human history. In the top 5, at least!
Why does it need to be either/or? I love listening to jazz while eating a spicy McChicken sandwich.
There is so much good music in Nola, including and especially jazz. I only need refer to my personal favorite, Tuba Skinny. Poor attempt at humor. Open his mouth and fill it with Étouffée.
Hey, that part was FUNNY. LOL.
Bruh I wish I could go on an actual New Orleans tour with you
FABULOUS video! I'm going to use this in one of the social studies classes I teach. (Also, to change the subject for just a second, long hair becomes you very nicely.)
Ah, sugar, sucre', or "white gold," as it was affectionately known back then! Most of the plantations in New Orleans became sugar plantations around the turn of the nineteenth century, cher, when an especially efficient form of sugar granulation was discovered here by Etienne de Bore, along with his two Cuban friends. Voila, lots of sugar addicts were born across the globe, as granulated sugar was now available for their desserts and coffee, whereas previously it had had to be chopped off a sugar loaf. Fortunes made of "white gold" were born here, as well, and there were more millionaires in the New Orleans area than any other part of the country in this time period (the early 1800s). Many of their luxurious mansions remain today in NOLA's famed Garden District, where one can even find sugar kettles, remnants of the harsh plantation life, that have been turned into fountains.
@CommandoDude Not even limited to those things. Black gold can for example also refer to iron ore (in places where it has been and is one of the fundamental natural resources) etc.
@CommandoDude Not all that useful? You must not know anything about electronics.
@Blacka Đøn bit hard when my country wasn't remotely involved in the slave trade.lol
Porcelain was also considered "white gold."
This channel is incredible.
Excellent video. Very informative. Thank you.
To quote Jerry Seinfeld, “Ya like Jazz?!”
Your videos sort of renew my interest in history. I intend to study it in university even though I'm not having a very good experience in my A-Level history course right now, but seeing how you talk about topics like slavery and imperialism very much makes me think my interest in history won't go to waste.
great videos yet occasionally your humour quips dilute your important points. I truly enjoy your channel.
These are my ancestors I'm so proud to be connected to such a beautiful group of people. 🌬🍃📿📿📿💗
Your videos are so awesome. Keep it up
Outstanding. Thank you.
Being 2nd generation haitian in USA. It's always to see or hear. French or Creole words and not having to have it translated.
AIFAHRA HORGGHRO no, it’s because Haiti had the unfortunate start as being led by former slaves. These slaves didn’t have much education, nor practice in republican ideals, DUE to slavery. The island was also blockaded and economically destroyed. Cut out your racist shit.
AIFAHRA HORGGHRO like, you must be a troll. Then again, you do die the skeptic picture...
@AIFAHRA HORGGHRO And a poor troll, you are indeed
AIFAHRA HORGGHRO yes pls tell me how the slave colony of haiti wasn’t already a failed state.
I’d rather be poor kid in a 3rd world country any day over a slave during the 18th-19th centuries lmao
@AIFAHRA HORGGHRO They're also pretty unlucky with their land, they need to rebuld their country every year because of natural disasters...
Never heard of the tomb of the unknown slave. Sad school didn't tell me it exists. Yet I'm told about the tomb of the unknown soldier...
You’d be a great professor
He would!
Very informative... very good thank you.
do you have a video on Storyville? i think that would be a good one.. your videos are very interesting thank you for your work!
great movies, keep up the work!
Good stuff
Interestingly enough, Uncle Tom's cabin had a role in finishing slavery. Peru's oldest and most important newspaper published the novel on daily basis and ending slavery became an issue.
@colin minhinnick Well, Cuba and Brazil didn't abolish slavery until 1886 and 1888 respectively. Nobody seems to mention this when unnecessarily bashing America for retaining slavery that long when those two countries didn't abolish it until the 1880s.
@colin minhinnick Yeah, thankfully the northern states were better and abolished slavery way much more earlier than the South. In fact, I read somewhere that Vermont was the first sovereign nation to abolish slavery, and it did it in 1777. Also, the northern states actually abolished slavery much earlier than the European powers.
@@yashjoseph3544 that's an outright lie, dude. Slavery continued in the North for 10 years AFTER the Civil War.
@@wiilov Proof? How could slavery continue legally for that long if the 13th amendment was ratified in 1865?
Nice way to put the sponsor in at the end there. seamless.
Atun-Shei, first of all, I'm a huge fan of your work. When I see your work, I remember a lot of the classes that I had about colonial and imperial Brazil. I studied History and Social Studies in University, but because of economic issues, was never able to graduate, but that never stopped me to continue reading and the thing that I found the most incredible about the New Orleans history it's how close the reality and the issues that you bring about this city ressembles in the history of almost every city in Brazil. And because of this, I think that you should also check up some brazilian historians, like Florestan Fernandes, Sergio Buarque de Holanda, Gilberto Freire and also some brasilian writers from the late XIX and early XX century, like Machado de Assis, Euclides da Cunha, Carolina de Jesus and others. I can combine a very nice list for you, and if possible, have a direct line of contact with you, so I can help not just in the look out for this books, but also if you need some help in the context about some of this materials.
Thank you very much for your work.
I have no idea how they got those chains so straight but damn it looks so fucking cool
Very informative
Great video
This is the coolest f***ing channel ive seen on here and ive been here since youtube was founded
Thanks for the history lesson.
On historical fact that depresses more than most is that in 1747 German chemist Andreas Sigismund Marggraf successfully isolated pure Sugar from sugar beet, a crop that grew very well in Europe and could be used as a fallow crop in between wheat harvests, but was unable to commercialize it successfully. Imagine if he had and the Caribbean and south American sugar trade just stopped being profitable in the mid 1700's?
I did not have sugar this morning, thank you very much.
Thank you.
As they drew near the town they saw a black man stretched on the ground with only one half of what he wore, which was a kind of linen frock; for the poor man had lost his left leg and his right hand.
Good God, said Candide in Dutch, what are you doing here, friend, in this deplorable condition?
I am waiting for my master, Mynheer Vanderdendur, the famous trader, answered the black man.
Was it Mynheer Vanderdendur that used you in this cruel manner?
Yes, sir, said the black man; it is the custom here. They give a linen garment twice a year, and
that is all our covering. When we labor in the sugar works, and the mill happens to snatch hold of a finger, they instantly chop off our hand; and when we attempt to run away, they cut off a leg. Both these things have happened to me, and it is at this expense that you eat sugar in Europe...
-Candide-
(Not my favorite translation, and I left out the ironic bit about the church which condones slavery, but I had to post this when you got to the bit about sugar.)
Where’d you read that?
It’s Candide by Voltaire.
Fun fact Escorting and burlesque was started from slavery , allot of mixed race women were groomed into sex workers at young ages because they were fetishized for their lighter skin , thin hair and thicker shapes , many of our strip clubs today are old brothels where these young women worked , I visit Congo square often as I’m from new Orleans, I thank you for telling our bitter yet beautiful story, the city holds so many secrets , so much suffering over so many generations.
New Orleans was and still is pretty interesting and unique.
Are you a tour guide in Nola? I’d love to book a tour with you if so.
Can you make a video on the Louisiana Native Guard?
Also can you make on the anti-Spanish, pro-French rebellion specifically?
I've been at that exact spot. Wild.
I must mention
Sugarcane is not very mentioned in Brazil as one of the important crops, by coffe being more important
Do a series on Haiti!
Sugar is such a big business they designed the superdome to look like a sugar Bowl even the battle of new orleans was kinda swayed by barrels of sugar the British used as cover for cannons and such
My education of American slavery (beyond the high school basics) comes learning about the music that came from New Orleans, not just the Jazz also! I was very interested in the creole's music in general. I think a lot of white carpetbaggers heads must have been scratching when they head down to New Orleans and find what they would have called "black" people, having grand opera performed every night, with the symphony doing the same. I absolutely loved the schedule of this one music patron: Diner, Symphony, Opera, Afterparty. It is very sad to see this upended by Plessy v Ferguson, though in retrospect I probably am somewhat idealizing a relatively privileged class. From this studying, I branched out to my general interest in the subject today. Great video, thanks.
Haiti's history is truly fascinating.
ExtraCredits ExtraHistory series did a 5 part series over the Haitian revolution. The arts pretty good and they make it really entertaining and do it justice I think.
@@tybushnell9819 Thanks for telling me. I really used to like Extra credits but I took a break can't wait to binge this work.
Larkin Hancock yea, they’ve picked up a lot of momentum since they started. I wish I had more time to watch them all but that’s just like me. I’ll binge one specific show for a while them wander off and get interested in something else. Eventually I make it back though.
@AIFAHRA HORGGHRO I mean thats no truly fair to those people. Their economy was screwed by all other nations surrounding them they were Financially crippled by France then boycotted by all other Powerful nations surrounding them because the idea of a Nation of freed slaves was dangerous to them. They were left to crumble. Even the United States had the assistance of other countries after their revolution. I still like the Haitian revolution just due to the politics that came with it alone on top of the battles and different characters that came into play.
Wait, so how do they protect the monument from rusting? It doesn't look covered, do they pitch a tent? Do they keep a really close eye on the weather?
@colin minhinnick ahhhhhh, ok makes sense
What would happen if Napoleon gave Toussaint a few dozen ships and a small army and set him loose in the American south?
At that time the US was still on unfriendly terms with the British. No need to alienate the enemy of your enemy.........
Most likely the British Navy would have got in some gunnery practice. Napoleon was a Land power wasn’t very good at sea.
As much as I like Napleon he was a racist asshole when it came to black people, so that scenario is impossible with him in charge of France.
@@Peasant_of_PontusIn the early 1800s you would’ve been hard-pressed to find someone of Western dissent Who would not qualify as a racist by today’s standards. Napoleon would’ve been comfortable in the majority.
Not an approval just a fact.
@@leemarlin9415 Being complicit in an already established system is very different from a reactionary reversion of abolition.
Notice how the tomb of the unknown soldier is this sprawling, vast and tightly guarded area surrounded beautiful architecture. And the tomb of the unknown slave is so small and not guarded at all. Really says a lot.
I was just out there beginning of june haunting place
I’ve always read that indigo was an important crop early on in the US colonies, when and where did that take place?
Can you do a video on British diplomatic deals with slaves/ Canada in the American revolution
What’s the name of the film clip of slaves on the boat?
Certain lines simply make me laugh. Lines like "look at how many of us there are....there is only one man with a whip over there. We. Should. Mur. Der. Him." Is my humor a little warped...yes but sometimes simple tones of speech make things more funny.
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Idk. The buttermilk chicken sandwich is pretty tasty too. It's definitely up for debate.
Interesting history
Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it
The Hot'n'Spicy McChicken is a tough contender I will admit...
The lesson to be learned here: bring back the hot and spicy McChicken
here from ur reply
Hati. Gosh, I wonder why things went so wrong there when they worked out so well in North America.
Good video...except for one detail...jazz is not the un-syncopated form of music. Jazz was syncopated...meaning that the beats in the bass have notes which come between the basic beats of the melody. In folk and classical music the beats of bass and melody come down together. Ragtime music has the most obvious syncopation.
awesome name
Why did our ancestors do this, it’s horrific, the french paid dearly for what they had committed in Haiti
They did it because it was profitable.
David Hughen our ancestors weren’t the only ones. The better question would be “why did ANYBODY do this?”
Mr Thompson aye ours aren’t the first nor the only ones, and let’s be honest it’ll never end slavery is human nature sadly from the Aztecs to the Arabs
Come on man, the Hot and Spicy McChicken isn't even MDonald's greatest gift to the world.
Additional it's not even sold around the world. Try to get one it in Europe...
What happened to the free colored people after the Lousiana purchase?
They continued as a privileged class and even supported the confederacy.
@@rangergxi To be honest, this shows that color of skin doesn't define if a person will be a slave owner or not. Besides, the case of Liberia is one prime example that emancipated slaves can become some nasty men.
@@NarquelieNarmo 100%. Your skin colour doesn't make you an oppressor, your power and ability/willingness to oppress others does.
@@LordVader1094 Unless you are in a system that oppresses people based solely on the colour of your skin.
Lavrentivs That’s where privilege based off race comes into play.
In countries like mine it's easier to understand the way slavery actually was in New Orleans prior to the early 1800s. Slaves were a precious commodity and Spanish law granted them a legal status. They worked in the fields as well, but they were mostly urban labourers and servants in Lima and elsewhere. In fact, slavery was in steady decline in the last decades of Spanish viceral government. Independence war meant the de facto liberation of thousands of slaves in exchange to fight the Spainards. After the war the slave population dwindled drastically. In the mid 1850 slavery was abolished after a short civil war. Slavery wasn't a big issue but the price the government paid to slaveholders for ransom. It was a scam as most of them were old or non existent.
Jazz, Blues, and Rock and Roll are slavery's gift to the World.
God please let them rest in Peace my Brothers and Sisters
man New Orleans is so Cool. its the only place in the US I want to visit.
What was that movie clip on the slave ship from?
Amistad???
(Not really sure, but it's the most famous slave ship movie.)
@@BadWebDiver I don't think it's La Amistad. The style of dress is different, more like something that would have been worn by Portugese or Spanish slavers a few centuries earlier, but I could be wrong. (And, yes, I know La Amistad was a Spanish slave ship.)
Sugar is made into RUM.
It's important to note that the reason that the Haitian revolution went south in the way that it died was due to isolation and attack by the burgeoning United States (particularly the Southern Colonies, naturally), who feared what black self-liberation implied for the future of their slaving empire
Does not match the narrative of this video...even as he dismisses the facts with well "that's not here nor there". He states that the rebels eliminated everyone else in genocidal attacks.
Highly un syncopated would be all on the beat. Jazz is usually pretty syncopated. I assume that was just a mistaKe but I figured I’d comment anyways just incase it might help anyone.
1:33. Me as I eat my. Christmas tree brownie
it was spanish first - french second
*CORRECTION* An enslaved person who rose up and killed their oppressor was not a murderer, they were considered heros and freedom fighters, same as if a hostage killed their kidnapper.
You really don't have a clue what you're talking about, do you? Modern sensibilities have not been around forever, quite the opposite, in fact
Bring back the hot and spicy to cali
Loved willy wonka
Just seeing a commercial for a (now) just created an incredible cognitive dissonance. 🤯
Thought you were going to say Marijuana >.>
History repeats itself especially 2020 smh
Are you a history teacher
You must have some amazing McDonald's in your town. I've never gotten a Hot and Spicy McChicken that wasn't old and dry.
I do like me a good jazz song so I got completely feelings on this one hand slavery bad put on the other hand jazz music
Do not forget these slaves also did mining in South America. Another thing is people were classed in Latin America based on race.
Try the BK hot and spicey 😉
There is actually a interesting theory that Jazz came from North Africa, there are tribes there called Toeareg who basically picked the black people from the lands and sold them to who ever wanted to buy them, they have their own music which sound VERY similar to jazz, and the theory is that the slaves brought this kind of music with them.
Look it up.
For example, a song from Algeria Sahara region, example, it is based on ages old music.
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The mcchicken is adored internationally
I read that, in Louisiana, slaves could sue their masters if they were too abusive; and that it was forbidden to break up slave families (they could get married). Personally, I think the latter was a bit more cynical than altruistic: it gave the owners hostages to compel slaves not to run away, but that's just me. What are your thoughts?
I can't say much on the other topics, but about being allowed to marry, that was kind of the same in all Catholic colonies. Enslaved people were allowed to marry there, and usually encouraged to do so, BUT that marriage didn't usually meant the slavers couldn't break down the family, even though that being seen as "not very kind" (at most). Marriage for enslaved people mostly meant that the Catholic church demanded couples be married or else they would be living in sin.
Atun-Shei Films: For me it's the McChicken
I would say the spicy McChicken 😒
Not true the maroon revolts of Jamaica was also successful