The Part of History You've Always Skipped | Neoslavery

First there were the Pilgrims, then there was the Civil War. After MLK ended segregation, racism disappeared from the country. If the Standard American History Myth that we've all been taught is incorrect - When was the last slave freed in America?

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-Books-
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II (2010)
Douglas A. Blackmon

-Documentaries-

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-Other-

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Research Assistant - Jesspsettle

Music - Michael Cotten

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Hashtags: #history #politics #slavery #neoslavery #convictleasing #debtpeonage #prisonlabor #prisonindustrialcomplex #blackcrime #convictlabor #reconstruction #segregation

0:00 Introduction
2:11 The Standard American History Myth
8:57 America’s Founding
17:29 Abolition
23:53 Civil War
32:29 Reconstruction
36:09 Black Codes
40:14 Convict Leasing
45:58 Debt Peonage
57:00 Jim Crow
1:06:26 Involuntary Servitude
1:11:26 Conclusion

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[KnowingBetter]

What parts of the Standard American History Myth did you believe?
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were founding fathers, but they didn't attend the Constitutional Convention. My bad.

[robertogil]

Slavery wasn’t abolished. it was redesigned

[michaelegan]

I think it would have been worth mentioning that when America's Black soldiers returned after serving honorably in WW2, they were not allowed to take part in the GI Bill. That means no low interest loans for purchasing homes, and no free secondary education. I learned this only last year… thanks high school and college education!

[manwithaplan]

This is why i hate when people say "Whats the point of knowing about History"

Because all this stuff can happen and will happen again if left alone and without any knowledge. On top of that it gives us ao much information on what to do and not to do in the future when it comes to legislation, judicial issues, and so much more important factors that can effect our everyday life

[accentplaya]

As a Black US military vet who literally has my family's bloodline of former slaves running through my veins, I genuinely appreciate you laying out the REALITY of the history of the government sanctioned targeting of fellow human beings solely because they have my skin complexion.

[mastersonogashira]

An old saying in Chinese:

“A page in your history book is a lifetime struggle of your ancestor”

[tangerine]

My 10th grade US history teacher announced to us that we would be taking a pop quiz that was worth 50% of our grade, and told us we had to get every answer right, otherwise, we failed. She handed us the "literacy tests" and said we had 10 minutes to complete it. Beside our understandable confusion as to what this had to do with history, we all failed, terribly. That's when she came out and told us that had we been black over 100 years ago, none of us would have been able to vote in the south, and told us these were the literacy tests the curriculum told her to teach us about. She is still my favorite teacher to this day, because she had such an amazing way of personalizing historic events to us.

[michaelcockerel]

Slavery by Another Name- Douglas A Blackmon
The Color of Law- Richard Rothstein
The New Jim Crow- Michelle Alexander
… are all great books the go along or follow up with this video.

[kariwilson]

I worked for a few years in a Civil War Historical House. I learned more there in one training week than my entire US Public Scooling.

On the Literacy Tests; the librarian for the museum showed me documents for one very, very infamous case. A black male tried to register to vote in North Carolina, and was passing every test they gave him. Turns out he was moving from Europe and was a licensed Doctor with a PHD. The tester ended up pulling a single sheet of paper from a bottom drawer and the Dr couldn't complete that test and so failed. The test was written entirely in Chinese and wasn't a test, but rather a receipt of goods.

Even if the Black passed the initial literacy test, Southern States would find some way to ensure they couldn't pass the next. Even if they had to make one up.

[sockatoo_]

my seventh grade social studies teacher said one lovely morning "pop quiz!" and then she handed out the first page of the literacy test that you showed. she had all of us take the test, and then she had said "all of you failed."

then she explained what the test we took was, and how it was used to prevent black people from voting all those years ago. everyone in the room was silent.

i went home and told my parents about it, and they said "they shouldn't be teaching you that."


she was a good teacher. i'm glad i had her.

[KeithBallardA]

The more I learn about American history, the less surprised I am that I was barely taught American history in school. They want a workforce, not an educated populace.

[sallypursell]

Thank you so much for this information. I am 72, have a college degree and I had heard of most of this only in passing. No one ever explained this through-line and I am embarrassed and ashamed of myself and our educational system. It explains institutional slavery. I am in your debt for this.

[darksaint]

"You learned everything you need to know about history in Elementary School, " is one of the most accurate indictments of the American education system that I've heard to date. As a person that was in advanced classes through an exceptional Elementary School, a decent Junior High, and an infamous High School that was in rap songs that tried to re-brand itself, the only thing the latter two institutions did was regurgitate information I had already learned. Seriously though, I don't recommend any schools that are featured in the rise of multiple rap artists.

[doggoking]

It's probably not a big deal for most people, but I would really like to thank your for including subtitles, it really helps

[marcopolo]

I usually skip anything to do with slavery because as a black man it’s exhausting. But this was so well done and factual I watched the entire thing. The fact it’s done by a white male is even more satisfying because no one can claim bias or prejudice. This was enjoyable and much appreciated. Thank you

[Homosexual_Harley]

it frustrates me how much prageru uses the whole "DEMOCRATS DID IT" to completely get rid of the fact it was the poltical right, not the left, the partys switched ideologies

[papasom]

My parents fled southern terrorism in the mid 50’s. Whenever mom would take us kids on a train ride back ‘down home’ as she called it, to visit grandma. I saw men on mounts, dressed in confederate uniforms, doing civil war reenactment. It was terrifying!

Granny’s house sat next to train tracks. Every night around 2 or 4 a train would come roaring by at top speed. Her home was a shack that would shake at the passing of those trains. You could see the outside through the walls and floor. No indoor plumbing, it was a one room shack with an outhouse ands potbelly stove she cooked on and warmed the shack with. Don’t have to go in the middle of the night, there was no lights and you never knew what was crawling around outside. I had no idea I was black until we took a stop in Tennessee on the way to Georgia. I was not allowed to drink from a certain fountain. I could go on and on about my experiences, but you get the point. Because of this video, I was compelled to share.

I know many may laugh at these 3rd world conditions in the riches country on earth, but I don’t care. Racism is a way of life here, till this day! I don’t expect empathy from evil folks. But, just know, the reparations America owes us will be exponentially more when you finally realize you must pay it.

[rawfermews]

I am black and growing up black in my schools I was taught in elementary “slavery happened, it was bad but then MLK came along and also Abraham Lincoln and now slavery go bye bye” and they never covered it more than that! This video is so informational!

[auroraofclanborealis]

The "we elected a black man as president, " thing is literally just "I have a black friend, " for the whole government.

[earningzekrom]

RIP to all the victims of slavery and neoslavery