which sent shock waves throughout the slave-holding world, where haiti, on this island, which was all along populated by enslaved black people, lost the revolution, and overthrew their french oversears, and this terrified slave holders throughout the west, and so we began to see a push to say that there needed to be an abolition, not of slavery, but specifically an abolition of the trant trans-atlantic slave trade because places like south carolina already had a majority black population. there were more black people in south carolina than there were white people in south carolina, this made people paranoid so they ended the trans-atlantic slave trade and continued to keep the people enslaved and through the process of reproduction, which led to people being bred, like livestock, as i said earlier, and so they are, using a cloak of humanity, to disguise utter
to the american colonies, that secondly true. what they don t talk about is that the british rolling to the transatlantic trade slave trade. so, when we talk about 60 19 1619, and the 1619 project, that s more than a century than people, particularly the spanish and portuguese, had been bringing enslaved people to brazil, had been bringing them to the caribbean, had been bringing them throughout south america. that is why they were fewer. and so when you get to the other part of the the dissent based slavery versus trafficking and kidnapping people, that is motivated by the small thing called the haitian revolution, which sent shockwaves throughout the slave holding world, where haiti, this island, which was overwhelmingly populated by enslaved black people launched a revolution and overthrew their french overseers. and this terrified slave
uhh. mini boss! yoo-hoo, mini boss! today we celebrate the second juneteenth as an officially recognized federal holiday. eric while it is undoubtedly a festive occasion, it should also be a day of not only for black americans, but for all citizens in this country. the holiday memorializes the events of june 19, 1865. when a group of enslaved black people and gavel stun, texas were informed by federal troops that they were free. this was two years after president abraham lincoln had signed name anticipation proclamation releasing them from bondage, but in many parts of the confederacy freedom
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trick or treat. nothing but tricks up here. maria, since we played the sound from senator scott and what he had to say about what the administration might do when this comes to families separated at the border, your reaction? oh, my god. you know, there s no way you can really pay for the kind of trauma that this country has inflicted, but this is not the solution in this way. you have to understand that there is historical context. this country has taken children from indigenous people, it has taken children from enslaved black people, it has taken children during the japanese american citizens who were put behind bars during something known as the internment act. so all of this happened in our country. to take a situation that is so fresh and traumatic, it is so i m sorry, kind of capitalistic to be like, here s a lot of