Slavery was inherently cruel and unjust, and it was cruel and unjust to different people in different ways. Today, Clint Smith teaches you about the experience of enslaved women, and how their experience of slavery was different than men. Women had a unique vantage point to understand slavery, and were particularly vulnerable to some terrible abuses under the institution.
Clint’s book, How the Word is Passed is available now! https://bookshop.org/a/3859/9780316492935
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– Samuel H. Williamson & Louis Cain, “Measuring Slavery in 2016 dollars,” MeasuringWorth, 2020.
-“A Prelude to War: The 1850s.” African American Lives: The Struggle for Freedom, by Clayborne Carson et al., Pearson Longman, 2005, pp. 221-222.
-Modern History Sourcebook: Sojourner Truth: “Ain’t I a Woman?”, December 1851
-Quoted in Deborah Gray White, Ar’ n’t I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South, rev. ed. (New York: Norton, 1999), 102.
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Remember doing a genetic dna tests as a class for a project. The 8 or 9 African Americans in the class were absolutely shocked to see they all had European ancestry (I believe ranging from 15% to 24%) I’m only half African American…. My father is an East African immigrant but I even had 14% Western European dna results. It was intensely confusing, until our teach explained the leading theory suggests most of the mysterious European dna in African Americans came during slavery. He said genetic studies done across the US find that every descendant of slaves has European dna. That’s A LOT of rape!
Black women are strong, beautiful and powerful! 💪🏽💪🏾💪🏿
I hope these videos are being shown in classes
Thank you for speaking and teaching about my Black sisters. Women are so often overlooked, especially BIPOC women.
These series always teach me so much more than college classes ever did. This is seeing history from a personal point of view, instead of a broad lens and it makes it so much more impactful.
I knew this episode was going to make my heart heavy.
Love your videos thanks for the info this history needs to be in schools as well
Outstanding.
This is like Sophie's Choice meets the Color Purple. Absolutely horrifying stuff, but important that it be taught.
I really like that this host’s speech rate is a little slower as it helps me to keep up as a non-native speaker 🙂
Thank you sincerely for the trigger warning, I know this is sensitive content. But that might be why these videos are necessary, because you can either deal with history or address it – and people will often take the path of least resistance. The toughest road can be the right road, and in this case, it's both. Thank you, Crash Course! And keep up the good work.
There's a book that I've read three times and it was about an enslaved woman hiding from her master for several years. If interested it's called Letters from a Slave Girl: The Story of Harriet Ann Jacobs. I highly recommend this book.
These videos are so educational and the content well organized. Thank you guys at Crash Course.
Even their own accounts weren't truly their own if they were being filtered and put in a dialect that they didn't even speak.
This is very well done and very accurate. I would highly recommend the narratives of both Sojourner Truth and Harriot Jacobs in the "Slave Narratives" from Library of America. However, there is also the narrative of William Wells Brown in the same volume where he discovers that his "wife" prefers to remain as the mistress of their former master.
Thank You CrashCourse for doing this!! Thank You!
I'm glad Crash Course is here to teach accurate history, especially considering the fact that schools want to remove anything that may make the US look bad.
And America still hasn't made good on this tragedy.
hi Crash Course, hi everyone " such a
insitful story, well worded learned a lot", 🙂
Slavery was a horrible thing. I'm glad it's over.
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This series is reallyhelpful and informative. Keep up the great content