Two Former Slaves Born in 1842 & 1852 Talk About the 1850s - Enhanced Video & Audio [60 fps]
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- Two former slaves talk about life during the times of slavery in America, referring to the 1840s and 1850s. The lady on the right was born in 1842 and the man on the left was born in 1852. Filming took place in 1944. The video has been speed-adjusted, sharpened and colorized for best clarity. Audio was restored with EQ adjustment and noise removal tools.
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Look @ the video on my page I recorded the 1850s slave schedules and released them to the public. EVERY SLAVE OWNER IN AMERICA WAS BLACK!
This channel deserves to be archived and placed in the Library of Congress! Kudos, great work and labor of love. Truly wonderful, and a major act of public service to let us TH-camrs and the world connect emotionally with now vanished generations, and appreciate our common humanity.
My grandfather was born on a plantation in Greene County Georgia in1850; his son, my father, was born on that same plantation in 1911.
If you have cashapp pin it. You deserve it!!
"Where did you live BEFORE Washington?"
"I told you. . ."
Gets me every time
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Because he said "I've lived here all my life", meaning Washington. So he answered both questions with one answer lol
Typical grandparent answer 😂
@@OhHamburgers0258 yep, the interviewer seemed more senile than the old gentleman.
@@hman0121 I assume he already knew, but wanted him to tell the camera. I have a feeling the old man didn’t understand that.
Even though it wasn't much info, it is amazing to see who my forefathers fought to free.
And to think that little girl might’ve been sold to another master and ripped apart from her mother and father at anytime.
00:56, she said they had a big pan filled with sand by and an old slipper, scrubbing up the floor
That old man was the embodiment of "don't make me repeat myself".
Seems to me it might have been traumatic to repeat, so he didn't want to have to repeat/re-live it.
200th thumb up I rule :)..
Protection mechanism.. if you give wrong answers you might get beaten
@@tedlovejesus By who, the interviewers? You weird sicko lol
Lol he wasn’t aware that the interviewer was asking again for the camera
In 1994, I met a man who was 107 years old. Born in 1887, and was as sharp as a tack. I had lunch with this man and enjoyed a long conversation with him. He lived in an assisted living center. Walked with a cane, but was quite mobile. I would have guessed he was around 75 years old, but the nursing home owner informed me that the man was 107.
Here's some perspective for you:
* He was 16 years old when the Wright brothers first flew.
* He was 30 years old when the U.S. entered WWI.
* He was 40 years old when the first talkie (movie with talking dialogue) was released.
* He was 40 years old when Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic.
* He was 42 when the stock market crashed in 1929. 54 when Pearl Harbor was attacked.
* He was 60 years old when we broke the sound barrier. 82 when we put a man on the moon.
* He had worked for General Motors in Flint, Michigan and had been retired for over 40 years when I met him.
In his lifetime, he saw the advent of the automobile, the airplane, electric power in homes, refrigerators, movies, television, jet power, rocket power, nuclear power, men in space, satellite television, the invention of the internet, and was completely aware of all of these things at the age of 107. Meeting him was a remarkable experience that I'll never forget.
thank god he never seen the rise of social media!
@@MrHowzaa lmao
@@MrHowzaa lmao true
I wonder what was going through that man's mind the day man landed on the moon, especially being able to remember a time when man did not fly in heavier than air aircraft.
@@jodij2366 He was amazed at all that mankind had accomplished in his lifetime. And by the way, at the time I met him, man had landed on the moon a quarter of a century before this conversation. He was already retired for over 15 years when man landed on the moon.
I'm not sure how long this man lived after I met him. But he was in excellent health at 107. Walked with a cane, but got around pretty well. He was witty and quick. It wouldn't surprise me if he lived several years longer.
Funny old man didn't understand they were being filmed. The interviewer had obviously asked him these questions previously so the old man thought the guy had a bad memory 🤣
I know, it just cracked me up!! I wish they had kept the interview going.
No, he said, "I've lived here (Washington) all my life"
@bw been swirling since 1462 Do you have a link?
at 1:04 it sounds like the old man says"i was a slave all my life"
@bw been swirling since 1462 So if you don't have the video and haven't come across the video how do you know there's more to this footage?
That lady had an incredible clarity of mind for 102!
I hope to have her mind and live that long with it.
No southern accent either.
@@timeandtimeagain4391 Actually she does. There are many "Southern" accents depending on where one is.
@@zzzzxxxxxz6017 lol!
Every one of my relatives were sharp as tacks until the day they died. And most of them were in their low 100s, except for my aunt, who passed at 112 in her own bed in her own home. I think folks were just tougher back then.
Stories like these are fascinating. Last week, as a 17 year old, I met a man born in 1935, who shook hands with a veteran of the Civil War, who shook hands with a veteran of the Revolutionary War. I could live to 2100 and still only be 3 handshakes away from the Revolutionary war.
History is fascinating.
My grandpa was born in 1937 and his grandpa (my great great grandpa ) was a slave
@@gima6275 That must’ve been an old old grandpa, but wow. Super cool
@@Idisagreethisisnotanon Hes still alive I just dont see him as much 😂
my great grandfather was a slave and he told my daddy that he screwed the white lady of the house every time her husband went away.
@@gima6275 Nah I’m talking about his grandpa lol. Slavery ended in 1865 so the dude must’ve been born ~1850 at the latest I believe… you know his birthdate? That stretch into history is fascinating.
The first utterance of the old man is said to be "indiscernible," but it's not. Listen closely and you'll hear him say, "I was a slave all my life." What a treasure.
I thought the same as you. It wasn't necessarily the answer to the question he was asked, but it definitely wasn't indiscernible.
I totally agree! I heard the same.
Yeah, the interviewer said, Mr. Haney, where did you live as a slave?". Then Mr. Haney said, "I was a slave all my life".
These people may have been slaves but they sound more educated than many people do today.
Lots of character in both of these people.
Back then black people had self respect. Not anymore lol
@@soioioioioioio34 right because you know all about that right?
@@soioioioioioio34 racist asf
@@soioioioioioio34 because they was taught and was around white civilised folk
@@soioioioioioio34 That is one of the racist things I have ever heard. Do you know that many people across the world think white Americans have no self-respect? You sound as educated as they do.
“I was a slave all my life…” hurt my soul..God bless every last one of them
Amen, and to those that made it through. “ I look back and wonder at how we got over,”
This hit hard. My great grandfather was born in 1839 in Alabama. Born into slavery made his way north passing away as a free man. He was so afraid of being caught that he decided not to have children till much later in life as my grandfather wasn’t born until 1912. He was 72 when his last child came into this world. The chain may have been broken from his hands and wrists but the mental chains stayed with him till the end. Videos like this help me connect to OUR past. Thank you
@@ciaraoh9102 I’m not following. No anger involved just the impact that it has on my family.
my past only goes back to 1997
Does your family keep any stories of him when he was younger?
@@r.alexander9075 yes. We actually know quite a bit about him. From his siblings being taken and scattered and his mother and father which just a few years ago we finally got names. One day I’d love to write a movie about him.
@@MrHyde-fu5sr these people ache to participate in the tragedy of slavery. I don’t get it.
Seeing and hearing people who were born in the 1840's and 50's is simply unreal. They literally lived right through the American Civil War and would've been able to tell you all about what life was like around that terrible time.
It’s mesmerizing to me!
It was slavery that was the terrible time for them.
@@Pou1gie1it was all pretty terrible, but at least they had some hope.
Amazing... voices from the past. Hard to imagine the world these people lived in
It’s hard to imagine because they were living in another dimension than we are now
Sure, in 2022 it seems like hell on earth but many slaves were treated well, all things considered. A roof over your head and meals to eat after an honest days work wasn't all that terrible when you consider my ancestors, right around this same time, were being starved by the millions in Ireland by the same Brits that brought these slaves to the USA.
Not really….they had much of the same hopes, aspirations and fears that we do today, just had a different set of challenges to deal with.
@Mark Seymour The segregation into the 1950s was due to the civil war. Lincoln didn't want the country to split up again over the slavery issue, so after the war was solved and the slaves were freed federally, the states were allowed to make segregation laws at first, knowing that the future would be more likely to end the laws once people had grown closer together.
And yet in 150 years, people then would feel they watching ancient history looking at 2022. I wonder how much the world would’ve changed by then.
I dont believe in a god, but i sure do hope slave owners have to explain themselves
Absolutely
Agreed
Imagine being a kid and not having time to play. Imagine living the one life you have as someone's property....unreal!
Lived it for almost 7 years in this generation. Only my case it was sex trafficking. Nevertheless, slavery still exists. Right here in America. Edit: Especially child sex slavery. For me it was from age 12-18.
@@sexuallyattractedtodoorkno9586 That is horrible. I'm so sorry that happened to you.
Bet the farm most kids back in the 1850s, black, white, rich or poor, didn't have a lot of "play time". On your other point, you're someone's property right now.....you just haven't figured it out, yet.
You are right now through debt and taxes
We've been so censored that I didn't even know that a video of slaves from the 1800's even existed. This is the first time I've seen this & it makes sense why they'd try their hardest to minimise the view count of these types of videos. Have these kind of videos ever been used in schools, universities etc.
I grew up in UK & never once been show anything like this in order to educate me on past heinous human rights abuses etc.
They seem so sweet, rip little old lady & man with a great sense of humour.
I saw a French lady interviewed on television about 25 (?) years ago, she was 107 as well. She was the oldest woman in the world at the time. She was very clear in her thinking and speech. She spoke English in the interview. She said she knew Vincent Van Gough when she was a girl, she said he wasn’t a very nice man at all, the way she knew him was because her father owned an art shop that sold paints which Vincent would come in to buy. She said he was always cranky and rude! Lol
The interviewer asked her if there was anything else she would like to do at her age. She thought for a second or two, and said, yes, I’d like to have a cigarette. They asked if she smoked, and she said she did, they asked when she gave up, and she said when she was 103. The interviewer asked why she gave up at 103. And she said it was because she went too blind to be able to light her cigarettes! So the interviewer gave her a cigarette which she smoked in the interview and she had this incredible smile on her face like she just went to heaven Lol!!!
She also said said that she didn’t do anything different to anyone else to live so long, she just thought God had forgotten about her. She had a great sense of humour still, which I will never forget.
They believe now that woman was a fraud and was decades younger than she claimed
That's funny, my grandfather knew someone famous too, Jackie Robinson the famous baseball player, because my grandfather was his family's mailman! He also said the family was quite rude, it may be something about famous people 😅
Her name : Jeanne Calment
She was 122, not 107. She also managed to outlive her own daughter, which is sad.
That's Jeanne Calment. She was born in 1875 and died in 1997.
They were alive when some people born in the 1700s were alive.
That's so crazy to think about. Especially when I think my dad was born in 1950, was alive during the same time as these people who were alive when people from the 1700s were alive
Haha it is weird to think about, isn't it? Time is such an odd yet amazing thing
Yes. And when they were born, it was not unusual for the oldest folks alive than to tell stories/events from the 1600s.
Wow... How do you even find these videos? I find them very fascinating
Hours of digging around on the internet lol. Glad you enjoyed it and TY!
@@Lifeinthe1800s Thank you for your research and putting the videos together here.
@@Lifeinthe1800s thanks. I envy your findings
@@Lifeinthe1800sdo you know the name of who filmed by chance? 😊
I wish it were a longer recording 😢These are people we could learn so much from
I’ve only read about accounts in books. But to SEE someone talk about it who was actually a slave is unreal!!!! Your work is very very important.
Go to the Middle East. Lots of slaves you can interview😂
1:07 lmaooo grandpa felt like he was being interrogated "I told you" 😭🤣
Ikr? Lol! But I really wanna know where he was from before Washington now 😜
“I was a slave all my life” he said. As for her it sounded like she said “They had a pan of flan and you filled the pan into the lower slipper scrubbing the floor” (filling in the indiscernible parts)
"They had a big pan of flan, silver pan and an old slipper" that's what I hear, although I have no idea what it means :)
Can of sand and an old slipper that she used to polish the floor.
Silver sand to polish the floor with
Sounded like "sand" to me. I doubt they were using "flan" to scrub floors.
@@hankhafliger482 Makes sense. The sand was used for scrubbing floor boards and other wooden surfaces. Sand plus a slipper on the hand would do a quick job of cleaning/resurfacing floors. Battleship New Jersey has a video on the subject.
Wow! that lady doesn't look or sound that old! Bless there hearts ❤️
She still has a very commanding voice for being 102.
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Wow, it’s incredible to imagine that people who were slaves were also around for the advent of movies and ‘talkies’. I mean, I knew it was true in the abstract, but to see people talking about being slaves is almost unbelievable, and awful.
They will have been around for the first plane! The first permanent photographs were taken about twenty years before they were born, by the time they died we had full colour cinematic movies. Not to mention they lived through both world wars! Things can move pretty quick, if you’re forty plus now you will remember a time without the internet or mobile phones hard to imagine for someone in their twenties. As for slavery, sadly it is still very much a reality in the world today, it’s just ignored by the media in favour of self flagellation, over past wrongs which were at great human and financial cost put right, we should in reality be doing more to free current slaves.
@@roninhood1027 And now the technology moves even faster, so in a modern lifetime maybe people born whitout internet will also wintess this mordern era in 2022, but also 40 more years and in that future maybe we will have god knows what types of tech!
Get out of here, we all would own slaves if we could go back in time. Dont act like you wouldnt
@@roninhood1027 and also doing more to give reparations to the descendants of African American slaves. The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade has had long-reaching consequences. It is time their people are compensated, like Jewish people and Japanese people.
We still have the draft today in a lot of countries which is like the government feels entitled to send you to death at a time of their liking .. I'd rather have slavery
big pan of sand, filled with sand in the lower [indiscernible]
I know this because ol lady ash, born 1897, had a shaker of sand for scrubbing up in her log cabin home. I got quite a few stories about her but that'll be another day.
Very interesting! I spent hours trying to look up something of what it might be on the internet. Then finally left it as indiscernible!
sandsks very much
Remember, people aren't born "Slaves". Rather, they were Enslaved human beings.
Their children were born into captivity.
0:51- "they had a big pan of sand, silver pan and an old slipper, scrubbing up the floor."
From an old housekeeping book:
"Rub with a stout floor cloth or scrub-broom, well. Then sprinkle clean river sand, or finely pulverized sand stone, over the floor, pour on enough hot soap suds, and scrub perseveringly until grease marks and dirt are eradicated. Then continue to rinse your floor with clean water until the water is colorless."
1:06- "I was a slave all my life."
I bet you can understand Scottish accent too
That's probably why all those old houses rotted away. Putting all that water on the wood floors
Are you saying this from a book and it is scripted? As I was thinking the same thing!
@@dirkdillary4925 Facts!
@@dirkdillary4925 Facts!
In 1993 -1994 I was lucky enough to meet and play with my aunt who was born in 1907 and who’s mother was a slave. My great grandmother 😢 I just Remember her being so sweet.
The woman was still very sharp, too bad there is not a longer video
I met a 102 year old Woman in 2009. Her memory was amazing. She passed in 2012, but being in her presence was a gift.
My mom knew a lady who’d been born a slave. The lady was still alive in the early 1960’s. The lady’s family still live on the same land. It’s called either the Fryer, Friar, Frier or Fryar Community in Caldwell County Kentucky. My mom and brother went to visit them a couple years ago. My brother said they still have dirt floors and cook on wood fires inside the home. I’m not joking. Google it. They still live there. I wish someone would do a documentary on these people. I’ve only heard good things about them. Dirt poor and very honest people.
Great piece! Terrible story but nice to hear it directly from them
Thank you and yes I agree!
🥺”I look back and wonder at how we got over.” Blessings to all of those that endured.🙏🏾
The lady was 102 and the man was 92. Incredible
See. Slavery wasn't all bad.
@@thomasanderson9202 at least until they were freed
@@thomasanderson9202 I want to slap you upside your head for such an insensitive and asinine comment. Let someone own you and take your childhood from you and then tell all of us how slavery isn’t bad. SMH
92's not that incredible nowadays (my mom's almost 98) but I suppose back in the 40's it wasn't as common.
@awgesh!t I never joke :)
Living to 100+ in those days and under those conditions was a miracle.
Actually it wasnt.. the whole "people live.longer today due to medicine' is nonsense, because documentation was horrible up.until recently, amd also the quality of life and health of diet was significantly better back then...
And many people back then lived past 100, and they were in better shape than most centenarians today's..
@@brcage You make it sound like the average lifespan was longer in the 1940, 30s, and 20s. And sorry no it wasn't. We have plenty of death records to show that. In general a lot of people were healthier. And there's lot of modern problem that "mysteriously" they never seemed to have. So yes the health system, FDA etc has certainly been screwing with us. In general those that are fit now, and take care of themselves, especially at top levels are higher than any time in history. It's not so cut and dry.
@@brcage in the 19th century many people were constantly threatened by food shortages and hunger. Almost nobody could afford to eat meat on daily basis. Most people just ate the cheapest grains and sometimes fruits. They were in better shape probably - there were no cars or buses, so everybody walked a lot.
Perfect example of survivor bias...so yes its a miracle but that miracle must have to happen among millions and millions of individuals in the same situation. Also apparantly they were slaves only during the first decade or two of their life.
Anyone who generally made it to puberty and who wasn't conscripted usually used to live well past their 80s in those days.
That lady is amazing for 102. Contrast her with certain major public figures today. She must have been beautiful as a young woman. She would have been 18 when the Civil War started. She would have had a full experience of slavery. Interesting that she married a man a decade younger than herself. Was he a second husband? They must have had interesting personal histories, especially as they both seem to be intelligent and successful people. I hope their descendents know it and that it's also recorded somewhere in an archive.
Idk if it's fair to say she "had a full experience of slavery" unless you're talking from a scenic standpoint? Don't get me wrong, she did experience it to a degree but slavery was abolished nation wide in 1865. Most of their lives they lived as free people. She would have lived 23 years as a slave compared to 79ish years as a free woman, and the man would have been 13 years old at the time of abolition.
@@aggrogator4045 Plenty of people were NOT freed after it was abolished. They either stayed bc they had nowhere else to go and carried on their regular slave like life, or their masters tricked them that they won the war and slaves were not freed. I’d say no matter what, they had a very good idea of what a life in slavery entailed.
@@aggrogator4045 What are you even talking about? You have to have lived the majority of your life as a slave to fully experience slavery? That's just dumb.
She spent over 2 freaking decades as a slave. 24/7 being told what to do and when she could do it. That sure as hell qualifies as "fully experiencing slavery" in my book. She was born into slavery and wasn't freed until she was a full grown adult woman.
If you were someone's property from the time you were born until you were 23 you'd be singing a very different tune.
What you're saying is completely ignorant and disrespectful.
@@AMcDub0708 I was just coming to say this. Many were tricked or lied to, or not even told altogether about it until many years later. My mom actually had worked at Ford on the line making cars with two people who worked with former slaves. They told her how they mentioned the same thing, that they had been lied to for a long time until someone came and rescued them all many years after emancipation took place. Really sad and crazy to think of how recent this all took place in the grand scale of things.
@@AMcDub0708 Sharecropping is the name of one of the ways that continued enslavement went on that happened after it became illegal, as not all of these slavers followed the law. They fought it very hard, in overt and covert ways. They kept the freed people in ignorance, secluded on massive acres of land, telling them nothing of their freedom and preventing them from rejoining the world outside. There are videos with people who experiences this, quite recent ones compared to this.
Would love to see longer versions of all these interviews.
Sounds like a Biden press conference
She’s so articulate and elegant
Extremely articulate for her age and what she went through, agreed!
That's exactly what I was thinking! She talks better than some of the "educated" people I know, come to think of it, she sounds way better than me. She really was elegant.
@@samsmom400 She said she spent a lot of time "in the house", so she was probably exposed to educated people. She wouldn't have likely been in that situation if the people in the house were poor. Children tend to learn a lot just from absorbing what goes on around them.
@@samsmom400 From a different perspective! These two were most likely not slaves at all. Our American history system is just staged and scripted and just flat out lies. This about it this way, we were taught that the south was super racist during this time yet Georgia and most of the South had Negros in Congress and General Assemblies during the 1860s-1890. Georgia had a Colored/Negro Senator in 1870 (Jefferson Hamilton Long) ( Republican). You had the Original 33 in Camilla, Ga. Who were the original 33 Negro/Black Republicans elected to the Georgia Assembly in 1868. Mississippi had a Negro/Black Senator (Hiram R Revel) (Republican) in 1870. As well as Alabama, Florida, & South Carolina. Also, the all Colored/Negro city of Wilmington, NC was thriving heavily before it was overthrown in a coup in 1898 (VOX has a video about it on TH-cam titled “When White Supremacy Overthrew A Government”. Texas Republican Party was founded by 150 Negros and just 20 Anglo Saxons in 1867. Doesn’t match what we were taught. Also, the Immigrants from European and Asian nations only arrived in the mid 1800s through the 1920s (30 to 40+ Million through Ellis Island and six other ports of entry). This timeframe this up perfectly with the massacres/burnings/drowning of Negro towns and cities in the mid 1800s through the 1930s kind of like a coup of a Nation just as Wilmington, NC 1898.
At 1:04 he says "I was a slave all my life"
That old lady was the most well spoken centenarian I've ever witnessed. I wish everyone who got to be that old got to stay as sharp as her.
Getting to that age back then wasn't the same as now, where we now "cheat" with medicines and surgical procedures that make it possible to live longer. Those organic old folks were the real thing! True survivors and the fittest of them all.
@@TonesCalifornia Tough damn genes.
Still a good thing that people with medical conditions can now live longer and healthier than they ever had the chance to before.
Its interesting how they were of sound mind then. Nowadays, its a rare sight. Dementia imo is now a common phenomenon.
This is a treasure from a horrible time.
Agreed!
Horrible for them.
slavery was so recent. my grandma was already born when this was filmed and she’s only 79 now.
Slavery is still happening in 6 African nations. It’s very profitable for the owners. 6 AFRICAN NATIONS. No sign of ending. I can’t Wait till you all find out who is coming up over USA southern borders. @TF H
"Recent" is relative. Slavery ended nearly 170 years ago.
May God be with them forever more.
I wonder is it possible to find footage of possible interviews of people who lived in Northern Ireland in the 1800’s but the interview taking place and filmed in the 1930’s! I’d be super interested to see such footage! Keep up the amazing work 👍
It's mind-blowing to think that these people were not looked at as human beings, but as property.
You still as te today. The slave class extended, ot didn't die. With the advent of the federal reserve bank taking over the federal government and taxes making the feds rich, your labor is now spoken for all generations. No future generations can pay back today's debt, yet is guaranteed and pledged on your and future children's labor, which they will confiscate. They're already telling you ehsy they int er nd ggv or you yo est, and where you will lube, and what kind of property they will LET you have. Not to mention what they will and wont let you speak.
Its mind blowing that slavery still happens today, and people don't care at all.
@voguehaven5154 People care. It's just that the media doesn't report it so that enough people care.
It was the national commerce. The Africans had no issues selling each other either
Yes in all races
Children playing was rare anywhere in those days. Ask the people that were children in a poor Irish village. They were out in the family plot working from dawn to dusk trying to make sure there was enough food grown to survive. I asked my grandmother who was born in the 1890's about what games they played in Ireland and she just laughed - there were no games.
Slavery sucked but unless you were rich back then - play was a luxury for the rich.
oh give it a PHUCKING REST you guys are the worst Irish were not SLAVES no matter how many times you LIE and try to deflect
Slavery didnt just "suck", being poor is way different than being someone's property. It's not even close to the same thing. Stop the white guilt posting, Karen. Your grandmother was a free woman, not a slave. The duck is you on? Lol way to make something not about irish/white people anout them. Cant let blacks tell their story without trying to attach yourself that got nothing to do with you or your weak ass history.
Very true. However the brutality that black children faced was uniquely traumatic
@@aquaabundance4077 That is a myth and nothing more as was the treatment of slaves in general
These children of God were more civilized than the beings that had possession of them (not owned, bc you can't ever own the children of God)
Wow! Can't imagine how difficult their life must have been😢
How I wish I would have recorded my family! In the 1960s we had lunch with family members that were born in the 1880s. Their speech was much slower and more articulate. They were well-educated even as poor Farmers much better educated than today's college students. They knew Latin and they knew history. And they knew civics.
1:06 Man probably didn't realize he was being filmed and what it actually entailed.
Film had existed for nearly 3 decades by this point, and sound recording had been around for atleast a whole decade. He knew, but the interviewer didn't hear him say "I've lived here all my life" (Which was labeled as "inaudible", even though it's REALLY clear what he says.)
The subsequent question could be dismissed "Where did you live?" as him trying to get the answer to the question in recording, but then the question following "Where did you live before that?" couldn't be, the interviewer misheard the old man on his initial answer.
@@timeandtimeagain4391 not true. Slavery was legal in DC until 1850. Does the name Sally Hemmings not ring a bell? Who do you think built those monuments and grand buildings in DC? Certainly was not white people
@@timeandtimeagain4391 From a different perspective! These two were most likely not slaves at all. Our American history system is just staged and scripted and just flat out lies. This about it this way, we were taught that the south was super racist during this time yet Georgia and most of the South had Negros in Congress and General Assemblies during the 1860s-1890. Georgia had a Colored/Negro Senator in 1870 (Jefferson Hamilton Long) ( Republican). You had the Original 33 in Camilla, Ga. Who were the original 33 Negro/Black Republicans elected to the Georgia Assembly in 1868. Mississippi had a Negro/Black Senator (Hiram R Revel) (Republican) in 1870. As well as Alabama, Florida, & South Carolina. Also, the all Colored/Negro city of Wilmington, NC was thriving heavily before it was overthrown in a coup in 1898 (VOX has a video about it on TH-cam titled “When White Supremacy Overthrew A Government”. Texas Republican Party was founded by 150 Negros and just 20 Anglo Saxons in 1867. Doesn’t match what we were taught. Also, the Immigrants from European and Asian nations only arrived in the mid 1800s through the 1920s (30 to 40+ Million through Ellis Island and six other ports of entry). This timeframe this up perfectly with the massacres/burnings/drowning of Negro towns and cities in the mid 1800s through the 1930s kind of like a coup of a Nation just as Wilmington, NC 1898.
@@D-Vinko That is not what he said. He said he had been a slave all his life.
My grandmother was born in 1917 and was a little girl on a plantation in Mississippi. She was the mater's child, not a slave. She loved to play with the slave children. She would be bad on purpose so she would be "punished" by having to eat in the kitchen with the slaves. My grandma never had any hate in her heart from a young age. She died of breast cancer at the age of 53.
Your grandmother was a kid playing with slave children in 1917??? 52 years after the 13th Amendment, which legally ended slavery was passed into law?!!?
1917? Lol. Slavery did not exist in the US in 1917, aside the wage slavery most of us know.
magnificent6668 there was slavery until 1975. Some sickos didn’t want slavery to end. Look it up.
@@magnificent6668 It ended in 1865 on paper. There were people held captive as slaves up until the 1960's.
I'm saying they have been lying. No offense to you
, the dates are lies. Many many lies are told surrounding the history of black people ❤@@FollowtheLight-un3ll
My 4 grandparents were all born in the 1800s. I only knew my maternal grandfather and I was too young to know what important questions I should have asked him, like about ww1 when he fought in Europe for England against my German grandfather who fought for Germany. Wish I could turn back the hands of time.
I don’t think Mr Haney liked the interviewer screaming in his right ear!
The Black Man clearly said "I was a slave ALL my life" SMMFH
Such a privilege being able to hear this first-hand testimony.
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I'm white and grew up in rural South Carolina, working on my step-dad's hog farm in a town that Sherman's troops came through during their famous march. There was/is a lot of Civil War history around that area and I remember thinking, as a teenager, long and hard about what it must've been like to be a slave. I worked outside on that farm year round and the summer's were extremely hot, humid, and miserable so I imagined doing that work, but as a slave. I also read a lot about the Civil War and some about slavery, even taking a class in college about slavery, and I can tell you I'd rather be dead than be a slave. What an absolutely horrid way to live your life, from birth till death. I've had some hard times in my life, even being homeless for a short time, literally starving many times, and being so exhausted I could barely stand, but I can barely imagine the kind of toughness it took to make it through being a slave on one of those big plantations. I greatly admire the generations that made it through.
I am white and live north of Detroit. I became interested in Freedom Seekers when I visited a park that had a historical marker about a farm that had been on the property which hid escaped slaves in a cave built by the farmer. The farmer's wife would make food for the people running. They continued on their journey to cross to Canada via the St. Clair River. Later years passed and Mohammed Ali bought that farm because he wanted riding stables. There is so much more to the story. I'm researching so many people hid those amazing people. Even the Indians along the lakes hid them and got them across the Great Lakes. The Indians felt a kindred spirit with the escaped slaves because of the mistreatment of both peoples.
@@margarettickle9659 very interesting! Thank God for that farmer and his wife, and the Indians who helped them.
Wow! An incredible chance at time travel! I can see and hear people that were born in the mid 1800s! They were slaves and can share their life just a little bit with me. I feel so lucky. They can live on(in a sense) and teach other people. My head is spinning! It’s like a form of time travel. Thank you so much for posting these historic films!
It really is a form of time travel!! TH-cam can contain garbage content but there is a PLETHORA of knowledge here too
I saw a a short video of Robert Todd Lincoln at the inauguration of the Lincoln Monument in 1926. It was none chilling to see a moving image of Lincoln’s son who was a young man when his dad was
Assassinated !
@@fluffybunni1276 wow! I’ll look that one up myself!! Thank you!!!
I believe the gentleman’s response was “I was a slave all my life” , could be wrong but that’s what it sounded like
Very nice. However, at 1:06 the gentleman says: "i was a slave all my life".
Awe there just a sweet old couple, bless their hearts 🙏for getting through those days. I feel connected to the Civil War Days somehow and I tell you I would have been one who set them all free. Thanks for sharing please continue to bring such amazing footage up for us to watch. God bless you.🙏
you would have been a Republican then.
Funny how Democrats claim to be for the people when they were the party of kkk and Jim crow
Thank you for having a heart
You have to remember that there were very few that wanted slavery. Most of Americans did not agree with
Wow that woman has an incredible way of speaking. So clear and focused. Hard to believe she was 102 in this video.
I could listen to their stories all day long
Indiscernible = "a big pan of clams, filled with sand and an old slipper"
I thought she had said something about sand. I wasn't sure about the rest. Thank you!
Unfortunately I couldn't figure out what the old man was saying, not sure if he was speaking English, some kind of Creole or pidgin language, mumbling, or the recording was bad. I'll probably try again indefinitely if people keep getting my attention with likes and responses but it's pretty muddled whatever he said 😔
Possibly "I was a slave all my life" but that wouldn't answer the question he was asked so I'm not sure.
I think the old gent said “I’m a slave all my life” 1:03 heartbreaking 😢
I’m glad this exists. Amazing work! 👍
Indiscernible? I understood him fine. He said, “I was a slave all my life.” 💔
Can of sand scrubbing up the floor.
Today we have Transgender, Narcissists and every possible disorder and issue.
These people would laugh in the face of all of it.
I love how the old guy thought the interviewer was forgetful :D
I HANG OUT WITH THE DUDE IN THE LEFT !!!!
Sounds like current life to me
That old say was born around 180 years ago, probably had limited access to education, 102 years old, and yet here she is, you can hear for yourself, she is speaking perfect English, and better English than most Americans today...
This is so fascinating!! We hear people talk who talked to people who died in 1800s!! I too met someone born in 1893. My 1st job as nurse in 1997, lady named Mary was 104 in nursing home. She was confused, but she remembered the Titanic sinking and that whole event vividly!! The movie Titanic had just been released that year in 97. She passed in December that year. So interesting!!
I just did a search and both of these people are still living.....and in the same house.
This just goes to show how the 1800s aren't as far away from today as we think. There are plenty of people alive right now who were alive at the same time as these 2.
Mrs: an in depth analysis of her childhood and early adult hood in the slave days
Mr: I'm from Washington
Thank God someone was conscious enough to interview this reality of history & picture of God's grace! This is invaluable!
must be more to this interview.
The woman said, "a pan of sand" when it said 'indiscernible'. That's how they used to scrub wood floors in the day. A pan of fine sand and water. Then it had to be swept up, mopped, dried and oiled.
1:05 it is not indiscernible. He said, “I was a slave all my life”.
Big pan of sand, silver sand in the slipper***
That man is hilarious, "I already told you!" 😂 Love it!
@@franklinstephen3268 I have covid for the 7th time, trying to keep my spirits up while I isolate from my family.
If anyone cares, the name of the intro song is a parlor ballad called "Ah! May the Red Rose Live Alway" from 1850.
This is amazing. Thanks for posting.
TY! Glad you enjoyed it!
The Ancestors. You are dearly missed❤
I could tell by the way the lady spoke, she wasn't around the outdoor slaves much. She definitely speaks more educated than those that I've heard that appeared to not live in the plantation houses.
0:50 - "We had a big pan of sand, silver sand, and an old slipper" - Silver sand was a mixture of soap, sand, water and soda, commonly used to scrub floors during the Victorian era. I assume the old slipper was used as the scrubber. At least i hope it was...
This isn't long ago, by any stretch. Not excusing or condoning or alluding to anything, just an observation
Very true. Their recent descendants still live on and the generational trauma haunts us, as black people. We deserve reparations for it.
Her memory was excellent. I bet she could have told a lot more!
Very important to learn this part of history. Go to WPA SLAVE NARRATIVES AND PURCHASE THE BOOKS. NEEDED EDUCATION FOR ALL
Her speech is so eloquent!
No scripts, this is real talk.
Wow! Amazing footage. The woman is so well spoken. She sounds like she has some level of education. The man? Stubborn! "I told you already!"
We complain so much, and yet we live in best of times, we should be grateful
I'd say the 80s/90s were the actual best of times for America. Things are definitely on the decline now.
About 0.56 where the text says indiscernible, the lady says "we had a big pan of sand, filled with sand in an old [slipper]" and they used the sand to scrub the dining room floor where they ate the meals. Makes sense. The grit would scrub the dirt from the heavy work boots off the wood. In a butcher shop where I worked as a boy, they used coarse kosher salt to scrub the butcher block, rather than put anything with soap on that surface. Worked well, as the sand would.
I was going to comment the same thing!!!!! I understood what she said!! My grandma used to talk about scrubbing the floor with sand!! My grandma was born in 1911.