David Harewood Learns Horrifying Details of “Barbados Slave Code” | Smithsonian Channel

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  • @theycallme4799
    @theycallme4799 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    It's amazing that George Washington's house, brother, and history of Barbados are not taught, or referred to in American History..
    And that we as Americans aren't taught these things, in their reality.

    • @clarkie246
      @clarkie246 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      As a BARBADIAN i find some people find it hard to believe some of the things that happened here,we are connected to North and South Carolina,Boston,Maryland and Virginia.We have so much HISTORY some Barbadians dont have a clue

    • @theycallme4799
      @theycallme4799 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@clarkie246 respect.

    • @Mize2dx
      @Mize2dx ปีที่แล้ว +3

      All by Design....They Also don't tell us Crispus Attucks was a Freeman from the Island of Barbados and Prince Hall...Bajan History is deep.

    • @clarkie246
      @clarkie246 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Mize2dx Yip,Google List of Barbadian Americans

    • @Mize2dx
      @Mize2dx ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@clarkie246 Oldest Synagogue in the Western hemisphere is also on the Island.

  • @JenaEmerald
    @JenaEmerald 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I pray we can reconcile the evils of the past and acknowledge the damage done and promote healing through dignity and respect.

    • @beberodriguez4160
      @beberodriguez4160 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      How can you reconcile anything when the perpetrators have never atoned.

    • @travelingjohn69
      @travelingjohn69 ปีที่แล้ว

      the only way we can reconcile is if we return the trauma back to certain members of the white race who would deserve racism and brutal treatment thrown in their face.

    • @JenaEmerald
      @JenaEmerald ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@travelingjohn69 brother I don’t think to return the hatred is the best way. Dignity and respect is the foundation for healing, we’ve had a black president and have a black lady as Vice President now.
      Let’s agree on the truth that there was oppressive laws, racism was a terrible part of our past as a nation. It happened. Let’s admit it was wrong, and work on making things right, rather than promoting revenge for the generations that were not involved?

    • @surfboarding5058
      @surfboarding5058 ปีที่แล้ว

      Slavery is still around to this day all peasants are enslaved of all colors

  • @IamAvidity
    @IamAvidity 2 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    It's shocking to me how little we change, how little we learn, over such long periods of time filled with such horrific violence against each other.

    • @GibDozer1
      @GibDozer1 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Except from the earliest civilizations to just a couple hundred years ago slavery was a common practice. Now in most developed nations it's illegal.
      What is the lesson we failed to learn in regards to the enslavement of human beings?

    • @vivianlunsford4052
      @vivianlunsford4052 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@GibDozer1 There's only a few Countries in the world where Slavery is still going on so I think you need to start with them if you don't know what country they are they're the same countries that have been doing it since the beginning of time to their own people Africa India any of the Eastern countries just about has it

    • @darrickmalloy6909
      @darrickmalloy6909 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@GibDozer1 majority of white population dont understand exactly why these laws are righteous. They dont get it. Still!

    • @GibDozer1
      @GibDozer1 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@darrickmalloy6909
      The "majority" come now. Let's not be hyperbolic about such things.

    • @cantagiousca5220
      @cantagiousca5220 ปีที่แล้ว

      Muslims own millions of african slaves still

  • @edwardfletcher7790
    @edwardfletcher7790 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    David is a really great actor..
    And he's totally right about how it's empowered racism.

  • @kingnick6260
    @kingnick6260 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    I am still baffled at how slaves were historically documented as treated worse than animals

    • @michiganlineman357
      @michiganlineman357 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      "Were" ?? There's still millions of modern day slaves but nobody care about them nothing to exploit

    • @kingnick6260
      @kingnick6260 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@michiganlineman357 no one is discrediting the fact there are still slaves today. I am just always appalled about the lengths taken to dehumanize us, even till this day

    • @michiganlineman357
      @michiganlineman357 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@kingnick6260 nobody is dehumanizing the black population more then themselves.

    • @danewoods7880
      @danewoods7880 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Because they were more of a threat, being human after all. Horses, cows etc don't hold secret meetings to plan escapes and rebellions

  • @julzhepburn3688
    @julzhepburn3688 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Mauritania didnt make slavery illegal until 2007,,same year iphone was invented ,

  • @petermorton301
    @petermorton301 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Black/African people are the strongest 🙌🏿 people on the face of this earth 🌎

  • @FGH9G
    @FGH9G 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Loved him in Blood Diamond as the villainous Captain Poison.

  • @Jenny-e4v
    @Jenny-e4v 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Don't forget slaves hands were tied behind their backs on the ship

  • @rocxsolid
    @rocxsolid 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The black people in America wondering about where they came from looking at England and British people like 😐😑😒

  • @rooskiwolf1653
    @rooskiwolf1653 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Who owned the Boats and Auctions?

  • @THALASA
    @THALASA 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    The ones that made money on this build magnificent structures and statues that still stand today

  • @joannabell9294
    @joannabell9294 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you

  • @grclarke7065
    @grclarke7065 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Who owned the boats and banks? John Newton. Barclay's. Bank of Scotland, to name a few.

  • @julzhepburn3688
    @julzhepburn3688 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Can,t work out how these people arnt talking about the 600,000 people currently IN SLAVERY NOW ,in Africa,
    DO they really care or NOT,,lets talk about current slavery ,
    Or shall i go into how as a woman im still traumatised by the witch burnings of the church ..millions burnt for useing herbs to heal and delivering babies ,,

  • @mercygraceful4924
    @mercygraceful4924 ปีที่แล้ว

    I am curious as to why the English/British will separate themselves from Americans enslavers

  • @GesunddurchWissen
    @GesunddurchWissen 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    And the worst for these poor people must have been that they were captured and sold by their own people. A double trauma as who can you trust if not your own people and they betrayed you! Reparations won't work as all the people involved are long gone and who is supposed to pay from the African side? Forgiveness only can bring permanent change.

    • @user-yx4ok7oe6d
      @user-yx4ok7oe6d 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Thats what they wanted you to believe, and you believed.🤓

    • @BramptonAnglican
      @BramptonAnglican 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      That’s not true.

    • @AT-gu8by
      @AT-gu8by 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What about Germany’s role in colonial Africa, Namibia and Tanzania, they were the breeding grounds for
      German Eugenics trials, and institutional racism? Why are German troops refusing to leave Mali, when the Malians have told them to leave! …what do you have to say about that?

    • @GesunddurchWissen
      @GesunddurchWissen หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@BramptonAnglican most likely you have never read a book about it as I have not yet met an african able to read of book of several hundred pages and then understand it. read and you will understand.

    • @GesunddurchWissen
      @GesunddurchWissen หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@user-yx4ok7oe6d most likely you have never read a book about it as I have not yet met an african able to read of book of several hundred pages and then understand it. read and you will understand.

  • @Cazzac111
    @Cazzac111 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Jeremy Drax, brother of Richard Drax, is listed in Epstein’s ‘Little Black Book’.

  • @bambinomalle37
    @bambinomalle37 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Lord have mercy!!!

  • @clementgavi7290
    @clementgavi7290 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is the past of which can consider those who have behaved that ways were in error. The problem is when nowadays in the framework of a parliamentary cooperation between the continent of Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific in one side and the European Union in the other side, where each side has its chief negotiator. In other words, the European Union has its chief negotiator and the countries of Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific have a chief negotiator and that their chief negotiator is a representative of a 60-year-old bloody and dynastic tyranny in West Africa, Togo and when the Caribbean, Africa, the Pacific refer this past, it is absolutely sad and disappointing that even nowadays the minds still believe that when it comes to Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific, authoritarian, brutal rulers are appropriate. This is why among nations it is the 60-year-old dynastic and bloody tyranny in West Africa that must be the chief negotiator for all these other nations. It is terrible.

  • @vmwindustries
    @vmwindustries 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    400 years ago things were absolutely crazy! So glad things are not like that now.

    • @rob379lqz
      @rob379lqz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Are you living under a rock? You may wish to do some research on N Korea, Somalia, China…

    • @henryc1000
      @henryc1000 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Evidently you do live under a pile of rocks thinking things were crazy only 400 years ago. Slavery goes back way further than 400 years ago dude🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪

    • @vmwindustries
      @vmwindustries 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@rob379lqz Very 👍 true! There many places in the East that need to stop this barbaric practice of slavery and torture. Not sure they are using a British rule book though. Suppose I should say glad things aren't like this im the West.

    • @GibDozer1
      @GibDozer1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@rob379lqz
      Slavery was common place in most of the world until a few hundred years ago dating back to the earliest human civilizations.
      Now it's illegal in most developed nations. So yeah, he's right. Humanity has come a long way in a short time relative to our existence.

    • @pfinniganallen
      @pfinniganallen 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Very naive comments here

  • @brettwescott2793
    @brettwescott2793 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love him on Supergirl

  • @JianYZhong
    @JianYZhong 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    It’s so common to hear Westerners accuse China of “slavery”, “genocide”, “colonialism”. But the reality is that nothing China has done remotely approaches the horror of real slavery, real genocide, and real colonialism. Applying these labels to China is doing injustice to the victims of real slavery, real genocide and real colonialism. It dilutes the horror of the actions that Western “civilisation” has historically inflicted on non-Westerners. I wish people like Nancy Peolosi, Justin Trudeau, etc would listen to a real historian tell them what real slavery, real genocide and real colonialism is like. And just as we rightly hesitate to use “Holocaust” to describe the experience that Palestinians face today, why are we so quick to use “slavery”, “genocide” and “colonialism” to describe acts by non-Westerners?
    We need to better calibrate our understanding of slavery, colonialism and genocide. Perhaps the Smithsonian could do something to address this.

    • @mastermommissioneshider719
      @mastermommissioneshider719 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      China isn’t exempt in the world’s atrocious behavior by any means. Blood is on every nations hands. This really isn’t a them vs us issue. It’s an US (humanity’s) issue.

  • @mastermommissioneshider719
    @mastermommissioneshider719 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    How many of the wealthy and average people today would own another person if legal? It doesn’t matter the race b/c mankind is self serving at the core! Which is why slavery is a universal history, present practice in some places even among Africans and still has legs for future economics/politics. It’s wasn’t an English invention…slavery has existed far before the English among the Arabs, the Ishmaelites, the Israelites documented biblically before that. There will always be good masters and evil masters as long as mankind falls under those two categories. It’s easy to judge the past. The desensitization of the present generation is likely to lead to greater atrocities in the future. Current culture doesn’t need to classify other races as beasts to desire to enslave them. It seems all that is needed is to feel justified by vengeance upon descents or deem others stance on vaccines, politics, etc. worthy of controlling ones livelihood and resources. Could this be the start of the same hatred and evil repackaged and legalized? Us vs Them mentality destroys unity and allows for consciences to be seared when it comes to the lives of “them”. We already have a society that values property over human life. An intruder, thief and trespassers deserves death in the eyes of most. The present really isn’t any better than the past just inhuman in different legalized ways. Eh, nothing new under the sun.

    • @brendamcdonall5798
      @brendamcdonall5798 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Almost all Republicans would happily own people.

    • @marccrotty8447
      @marccrotty8447 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@brendamcdonall5798 Democrats are all in for killing unwanted preborn baby humans. Be prolife.

    • @Darie2006
      @Darie2006 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@brendamcdonall5798well we already know the democrats already own people against their will right now

  • @Amanlikeplu
    @Amanlikeplu 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Man has the same last name as me lol

  • @brettwescott2793
    @brettwescott2793 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I like Kim on Supergirl

  • @nesjo7777
    @nesjo7777 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Richard Drax........

  • @nicholasfeiock75
    @nicholasfeiock75 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Evil. Absolute power?

  • @jonnybluegiant7764
    @jonnybluegiant7764 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Enjoy your sugar

  • @incredingo
    @incredingo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    no one ever seems to mention the british saving many thousands of slaves by stopping ships heading to america

    • @factsdontcareaboutyourfeel7204
      @factsdontcareaboutyourfeel7204 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      British were the first to end slavery while Africa , middle east and Asia carried on , but , it doesn’t fit the narrative so it’s ignored.

    • @michiganlineman357
      @michiganlineman357 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      That's right the British are the good guys that's why 62 nations celebrate Independence from you . Smh pathetic mental gymnastics

    • @factanonverba7547
      @factanonverba7547 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@michiganlineman357 ☝️ point

    • @factsdontcareaboutyourfeel7204
      @factsdontcareaboutyourfeel7204 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@michiganlineman357 then explain the 54 countries who chose to stay with the British commonwealth with over 2 billion people 🤦‍♂️

    • @godflow2854
      @godflow2854 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@factsdontcareaboutyourfeel7204 Looks like you don't know much history. 62 countries that celebrate independence faced exploitation, brutality, thievery, racism under the British.

  • @Kvision77
    @Kvision77 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    What the heck he's crying about....got himself a white wife(smh)

  • @Jonathanfootball144
    @Jonathanfootball144 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Reperations are due and will come

  • @TESSAPOOKIE1
    @TESSAPOOKIE1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The slaves character Barbados were not Africans they were actually from America they were indigenous to America

    • @jeromeisaacs4428
      @jeromeisaacs4428 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @Darie2006
      @Darie2006 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      No they were not

    • @grdn02100
      @grdn02100 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@Darie2006 No some actually were, but certainly not the majority.

    • @Darie2006
      @Darie2006 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@grdn02100 exactly some … a few

    • @danewoods7880
      @danewoods7880 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Indigenous American slaves were those peoples who populated the Caribbean and South and Central America before Europeans arrived. Those people were the first slaves in the region but were not hardy enough for enforced labor. Europeans then imported white convicts and indentured laborers from their own countries but those were eventually supplanted by the imported Africans. Once the Caribbean model of African proved successful it was exported to North America.

  • @fordxbgtfalcon
    @fordxbgtfalcon 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    He has funny ears. 👂

    • @brendamcdonall5798
      @brendamcdonall5798 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You are insufferable in your ignorance and your lack of empathy. What do his ears have to do with slavery? You wear your racism like an Olympian wears a medal. The difference is that you are a shame.

  • @steelfigs9504
    @steelfigs9504 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow cool