African American Lives 2 : `A way out of no way 2

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Uploaded by on Jan 11, 2011

part 2 of series 2

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  • @buttersyrupnpancakes It's amazing! And, slowly, our perspectives start to broaden...

  • @ShadesOfRapture yeah but it sucks when people are set free, they still had to be slaves, like insult to injury.

  • omg natives? wow. poor Don Cheadle's ancestors :/

  • @vhickerson

    The term master as it applies to all things is a neutral term. It is neither good, nor bad in and of itself. As to what I mean when I say "generous master". I mean exactly that. A master (in the old South took on many different personas. The treatment of slaves also varied greatly from one plantatation to the next. While I am not trying to "justify" slavery, just pointing out the facts that on some plantatations life was pretty good.

  • @MrRobertGriffith Dozens of children? I guess he was very generous.... lol

  • Very interesting video. Definitely a good watch. For whatever its worth, my great great great Grandfather owned 290 slaves in Winston-Salem North Carolina. After the War, nearly every last former slave returned to the plantatation to assist him in the rebuilding of the farm, and all its amenities. While slavery was most certainly a great injustice, my ancestor (James Griffith) was by all accounts a very generous master. It is suspected that he may have fathered DOZENS of children.

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