This is What Daily Life for an Enslaved Person in Virginia was Like

Correction: they weren't "taught" to do anything, but instead were FORCED to do EVERYTHING.

They manipulated the very word of God himself to commit these vile crimes on humanity.

I’m from VA and know there was slavery in my history. The more modern the teachings, the less focus there is on the true issue. Slaves were trained / broken like animals. They were great craftsman, family caregivers, etc bc if they weren’t, they were sold or worse. They were close to the family bc of the need, not affection. They had no choice in the family they were with. They had no choice to follow career, artistic or personal ambitions. I hate any story that tries to make the slavery situation look anything but horrific from day one to the very end. Even freed slaves were left with no means to survive, find family or gain opportunities to improve their lives. It’s ugly. Just ugly.

This must never repeat again, NEVER!!

It doesn’t matter how well someone is treated, They are own, Life without freedom is not worth living.

Psychology has taught us that slavery, oppression and such destroy the minds, hearts and souls of their victims. It is haunting…

You left out the part about slave masters forcing rape amongst there slaves so that can continue to have babies and maintain the proper number of slaves. When the slave master wasn’t raping them himself.

Every time I watch one of these videos, I get disheartened, but I do love to read and hear about history, no matter how sad it becomes at times 🙏🏾😞

It doesn't matter one bit what kind of work enslaved people were trained to do. Their lives belonged to someone else. They had no power. They lived miserable, uncertain lives. They never knew what their owner might do to them.

I was born up North, but I am the descendant of Virginia slave-owners (I struggle with calling them "enslavers" even though I know that's the modern term) who took their slaves west to Kentucky after wearing out their land. When I was a teenager, I found an old family will in my grandparents' documents in which the slaves were left to the eldest son, along with a grandfather clock and feather bed. Within the past year, my brother found an old clipping of an estate auction in Somerset at which one of my ancestors bought a female slave, Nancy, and her two children, Derek and Hannah. What I found strange was that my ancestors and the descendants of their slaves stayed in contact for generations. My late mother was taken to meet a member of the Black side of the family when she was a small child. (I am told there is some mixed blood but I don't know the details.) My mother's cousins would ask permission from the descendants of the slaves to go hunting on their land. So many mysteries...and the people who could answer my questions have passed away. Thank you for reading my comment.

I have 19 mixed grandchildren and 8 great grandchildren I treat them all the same and I couldn’t ask for better son in laws it’s a shame how their family’s were treated

My slave ancestors lived in Caroline County, Henry and Patrick County, Va. My slave Great Great Grandmother died at the age of 55, with the saddest countenance I had ever seen. Who knows how many of her children were sold away from her? Married to a man that they made her “breed” with. I saw the big house that her mistress grew up in. Huge, beautiful mansion, even by today’s standards. God knows what my Great Great Grandmother had to endure.

This narrator act as if slavery was some sort of multi-skilled trade school!

To think: "owning" so many slaves that it was considered "cost efficient" to set-up and operate a whole damn garment shop...soley to make clothing for them.

Ok I am glad I am not the only one that notices this video made slavery like it’s a bloody job/employment. 🤦🏾‍♀️

9:58 - it hurts to see those men stripped of their dignity - no matter if they were remunerated or not…incredibly sad…

It is not a myth that slaves had no money! IF YOU ARE OWNED by DEFAULT your “MASTER” owns YOU AND THAT MONEY!! You people will always look for loopholes but the loopholes are IN YOUR HEAD👹

This is making slavery look like voluntary employment, she wasn't a nanny she was a wet nurse and had no choice. This is garbage.

Trying to sanitize slavery is sickening. These people were treated like property, they were still slaves and forced labor.

If you are using slave labour is your farm really "self" sufficient?