Marvin Humes Shocking Slave Owner History | Who Do You Think You Are
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Published 2018-08-06
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All Comments (21)
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This guy was shocked to learn the fact that not only whites owned slaves. If only he studied history.
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'I would like to think he didn’t treat them like animals, but that he was a good slave owner' - brilliant, I think this is called denial.
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On these shows, people often feel proud or ashamed depending upon who their ancestors were. We don’t need to feel either. It is what it is. No reflection upon us.
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Notice how rationalizes it once he finds out the truth “ i would like to think he didn’t treat them like animals”, the “but he was a good slave owner” line seems acceptable to him now, i wonder if it was before
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"I've got one more record for you." Pure Columbo.
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I just found out that I am the descendent of one of the slaves that Marvins 4 x grandfather owned. I think Marvin owes me some reparations!
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Race relations and slavery in the Western hemisphere is more complicated than we admit.
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The really sad part is there are so many slaves in the world now and there is so little done about it.
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I could listen to that lady in the church all day - what a beautiful accent.
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This is why we shouldn't judge people from the past. There's no point. Judge the man who is alive today.
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We are only answerable for our own actions, not those of our ancestors.
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No idea how this man is surprised about any part of his dna make up when he looks so ethnically ambiguous that he could look local in most parts of the world lol
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8:20 That moment you realize you know nothing about history.
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The British made a huge effort to stop slavery, at massive cost and in lives too, they were the ones that did this, no one else.
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The first slaves of the world were taken by their own people. It goes back thousands of years, its terrible but we need to be honest about everything and only then can we heal each other's pain.
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This is what happens when you get your education from Netflix and Hollywood.
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That moment he realised his family wasn’t a victim
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This was quite common in Louisiana also. As one of my cousins (a historian) said, "if you were rich, you owned slaves". They didn't see it as we do now. Who knows what actions we do now that our descendants will shudder at 200 years from now?
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History of people is so complicated. People who bleat on about who did what to who as though they know are foolish. People who imagine themselves born in that time being beacons of present day political correctness are foolish. No, they would just be a another cog in the wheel of that time.
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What about the Arab slave trade? Why are they not talked about? Or how the dominant tribes enslaved the tribes they conquered and sold them at the shore when the ships showed up to buy them. All of this can be confirmed by looking it up.
