Roots: A History Revealed — Failed Promises | History
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Roots: A History Revealed
Season 1
Episode 1
A one hour, unblinking and fact-filled look at the real history of slavery, as revealed in Roots. This documentary features leading historians unpacking the history behind Africa at the time of Kunte Kinte and the Middle Passage, slavery on plantations.
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White democratic southerners to be exact.
It is unacceptable that slaves have not been paid for the great injustice. 😡😡
That professor is an idiot blaming the Republican Party. Read a book you idiot.
We bought the Blu Ray discs of the History Channel Roots and it is very well done.
where is your lord
Don’t start up w the northern Republicans
The Southern Democrats founded the KKK
Mentioning Northern Republicans is bs buddy
ive seen all theses videos now all i can say is
ITS TIME your family had paid kunta
RUN!! *intense music
Gunshot
REALLY LOUD HEARTBEAT including mine
Implicating the Republican party?…why partisan politics
The Republican Party freed the slaves. Never forget that.
Such lies and distortions
We need a johh brown
The institution of slavery was so deep that when slaves were finally free where did they go, they could’ve gone to the Caribbean Hawaii California France Italy instead they went right back into the fields and stayed in the country where they were enslaved.
Wowwwww this makes me have tears
Some people believe that these fields were actually hoe’d like this?? Didn’t you ever hear of mules? They used mules, roots was just a movie that was made to inflame.
At any rate, the 40-acres plan was short-lived. Less than three months after Sherman’s order, John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Lincoln, and Lincoln’s successor, Andrew Johnson, effectively rescinded the order. Tens of thousands of freedmen were forcibly evicted, their land redistributed among the white Southern planter class. Some whites were uncomfortable taking back the land, including one government official who had attended the Savannah meeting. (“I consider that the faith of the Government is solemnly pledged to these people, who have been faithful to it, and that we have no right now to dispossess them of their lands,” he wrote.) But most former slaves and Blacks in the South ended up either buying small, low-quality plots or working as sharecroppers. The deal was bad: Sell your crops to the owners at a fixed rate.
African-Americans are the only people who never got any restitution things have to change we’ve been treated wrong for too long
I loved it when Kisse spit in the white woman’s water. True racism
Don’t say formally enslaved
I had had a DREAM of a gold temple and brown sand and also a dream of people picking white stuff!my dad’s Jamaican tho👌im lost at how i had dream of cotten
What I call one of the greatest deceptions, promising freed slaves 40 acres and a mule, for all of their hard harsh labor then to really give them nothing if anything at all, shows how deceptive slavery was, very sad and extremely misleading 👀
it breaks my heart to even explain this to my kids. Their young faces when they learnt about this.
The real hebrews
What movie are those scenes from?? 0:54
In the south? Exploitation exists to this day… drug laws, welfare, etc. Slavery just changed how slavery is defined
Where can I find the 2016 series Roots ?
And now they’re destroying other nations because of Oil.
Different Era same exploitation.
As popular as the history channel is, this video on has 131k views over 4 years.
i like this i recommend it to u
You should be thanking us for rescuing you from Arab slave traders it was your own people who captured u had we known it was gonna turn out like this would of done the work our Selves I didn’t do it to your people but yet your anger still exists like I did it the reality is Africa’s a shh hole we gave you a better life here that you take in vein
Pink people are way too lazy to do anything own their own, they rather destroy the world than lift a finger.
So now they turned to 💩.…
Do people realize that this was also the same for poor white people at the time?
The difference at the time was, poor white people weren’t even promised 40 acre’s and a mule.
Poor white people of those days were in fact discriminated against because most land owners realized they could hire colored people for less!!
Did this clip mention what may be the one success of Reconstruction: Freeman’s Bureau of Education? Then and now, many people of all colors could rise because their education levels and employable skills would rise. I think education is still the key out of poverty.
Heartbreaking and there is no excuse or explanation for slavery that would be acceptable 😢