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BRIDGE OVER LAKE.
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BLACK REPORTER INTERVIEWING WHITE BIGOT WITH GLASSES, BOW TIE, & PLAID JACKET. TALKS ABOUT SLAVERY.
Norwood Hasty 0:04 No, no, I don't. Because it because when a slave came from Africa, he couldn't speak the language. He was totally untrained to do any, any job at all that would fit in with the civilization. Someone had to take care of him. Someone had to take care of him 24 hours a day. And it's pretty hard to do that unless you own the person. So I think slavery just had to be, in those early days Interviewer 0:35 Mr Hasty, what was life like in those early days. Norwood Hasty 0:40 As far as colored people were concerned, I feel that they were a good bit happier than they are now. They had less in the way of material things. But I can remember back in the 20s, when I was a small boy, they were always singing that they work. They had a great sense of humor. And now today, they just don't seem to care as much about that as the as as they used to. And I think they've lost their sense of humor, somewhat which I deplore. Interviewer 1:14 What do you think are the differences between the races? Norwood Hasty 1:17 I think there's a refusal to accept responsibility. I think there's a lack of motivation. I've tried here to promote people to formen superintendents, but they just refuse to do it. They just don't want the responsibility. They don't worry likely the white man, if they have troubles, they go to sleep, and wake up the next morning, that trouble is over. Interviewer 1:46 Is it possible that white people have something to do with the lack of ability for blacks to assimilate into this culture? Norwood Hasty 1:54 Absolutely. A white man has certainly been prejudiced. And to quite an extent, unfair. But customers die awful hard, it takes takes a long time. And everyone knew years ago that the nigger would have to be given equality but in the south, knowing negros as we think we do, we realized it would take time. It's been compared to, to straightening teeth, it takes a slow, steady pressure, you can't do it with a hammer. And, and white people's attitudes will change in time. I'm a lot more liberal than I was five years ago. And I know I'll be a lot more liberal, five years from now. And I think almost everyone else is in that category. Interviewer 2:48 What has tended to make you more liberal? Norwood Hasty 2:52 Well realization that the Negro is a human being like anyone else, Interviewer 3:00 Mr Hasty. What did you think we were before you began to think of us as human beings? Norwood Hasty 3:06 Well, in a way, we thought of you almost as a very superior pet, of something or other someone we had to take care of, because we had to do so much of their thinking for them. We had to do almost everything. For them that except living their own own lives, anything outside we had to do for them. |
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PLANTATION IN THE SOUTH. HISTORY OF SLAVERY. SLAVE MUSEUM. BLACKS IN CHARLESTON. POOR URBAN SOUTHERN BLACKS. BIG HOUSES.
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BLACK AND WHITE DRAWINGS OF SLAVERY IN AFRICA. SLAVES CHAINED TOGETHER. WHITE MAN HOLDING A BRANDING IRON TO BLACK SLAVE
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DRAWINGS OF SLAVES PACKED INTO SLAVE SHIPS.
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"NEGROS FOR SALE AT AUCTION TH'S DAY AT 1 O'CLOCK SIGN
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B/W DRAWING OF AFRICAN AMERICAN COUPLE WITH THIER BABY
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B/W DRAWING OF TALL WELL DRESSED WHITE MAN HOLDING BLACK BABY IN THE AIR BY THE HAND
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B/W DRAWINGS OF SCARED SLAVES
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B/W DRAWINGS OF SLAVE OWNERS
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OUTDOOR SHOT OF OLD SLAVE MART MUSEUM. AMERICAN FLAG.
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AFRICAN AMERICAN SMOKING A PIPE WALKS DOWN CIY STREET IN CHARLESTON
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VARIOUS SHOTS OF URBAN CHARLESTON LIFE
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OLD WOMAN RECALLING SLAVES & BLACK WORKERS.
Mrs. Lionel 7:42 Daisy was my little playmate, my me and my friend, and a daughter of all Katherine, who was a cook that We adored. And so all those years, we played together, and everyone was happy. We never heard of all these things we hear about today. And they were nearly 100 Enormous race plantation, with many animals around the beautiful old house and about 100 colored people there. Would we love them? They were friends. And then it's no disgrace to see they're like children when we see when we see that. It's because they all like happy children, some of them because they like to sit in the sun, rather than work hard. And then, and then rather, we'll play then work, Interviewer 8:41 if you could, would you paint a picture for us of what it was like on the plantation in your early days. Mrs. Lionel 8:48 It was a lovely happy time living in open spaces with many lovely colored people and animals and flowers and fields. My father had everything so bred from the pigs, horses to dogs, and the people had to be thoroughbred, and we would get into buggy with them and drive to the plantation from what we call the pine and where we live. Now and we will spend every Saturday this was we would spend the day in Fortune I can see now would give us dinner and we would have heavenly time and all April he was the dairyman that's all he did was. All we did was to skim the cream over these great big, big bowls of cloud and put them in the woods and tune tune this marvelous fresh butter. That was April's job. We didn't do anything else but love us and and skim the cream. |
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EXTERIOR SHOT OF BEAUTIFUL CHARLESTON MANSION
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INTERVIEW WITH RUBY CORNWELL, BLACK SCHOOL TEACHER.
Ruby Conwell 9:52 The southern white man just loves to see that all our new rules are happy. They they like it. They like the way things If people just leave him alone, there wouldn't be any problem. And some, I think, really believed it. And I think that that's one thing perhaps, that sort of throwing them off balance, but all of a sudden they're negros is weren't behaving the way they thought they ought to behave. He was just a doormat. And that's where the good relations came in. As long as you're a doormat. We have wonderful relationships. They just felt that until recently, relations between the Negroes and right we're just so very good, just wonderful relations, it's outside agitators. And yet, it never occurs to them that they will good on whose terms on their terms. |
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B/W SLAVE DRAWINGS
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STILL SHOT OF HARRIET TUBMAN
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BLACK AND WHITE SLAVE PAINTING
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BLACK AND WHITE SKETCHES OF THE REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT AMONG BLACK SLAVES. SLAVES HOLDING UP GARDENING TOOLS AND CHEERING.
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BLACK AND WHITE SKETCH OF A SLAVE REVOLT
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BLACK AND WHITE DRAWING OF NAT TURNER, SLAVE REBELLION. KILLED 60 WHITE PEOPLE BEFORE HE WAS CAPTURED AND EXECUTED.
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BLACK AND WHITE DRAWING OF WHITE SLAVE OWNERS CHOKING AND DRAGING A BLACK SLAVE
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BLACK AND WHITE DRAWING OF ADVID WALKER, A FREE BLACK MAN LIVINGIN THE NORTH SURROUNDED BY TWO WHITE MAN ON HORSES.
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VARIOUS DRAWINGS OF STRUGGLES BETWEEN BLACK PEOPLE AND WHITE PEOPLE.
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A READING FROM DAVID WALKER'S FAMOUS APPEAL
David Walker 13:00 I asked one question here, can our condition be any worse? Had you not rather be killed than to be a slave to a tyrant who takes the life of your mother wife and do little children? I speak Americans for your own good. We must and shall be free in spite of you. You may do your best to keep us in wretchedness and misery but God will deliver us from under you. And whoa whoa will it be unto you if we have to obtain our freedom by fighting? Throw away your fears and prejudices and we will love you more than we do now hate you. What a happy country this will be if the whites will only listen |
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BLACK AND WHITE DRAWING OF TWO BLACK MEN WHO HAVE BEEN HUNG
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"NEGRO KILLED - CREELEY RATIFICATION KKK" BLACK AND WHITE DRAWING
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YOUNG BLACK CHILDREN MOSTLY IN WHITE CLOTHES STANDING IN CHURCH PEWS SINGING "PEACE ON EARTH"
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INTERIOR SHOT OF AN OLD CHURCH IN CHARLESTON
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OLDER BLACK CURCH GOERS SITTING IN CHURCH PEWS. DENMARK VESEY, A FREED BLACK SLAVE, PLANS A SLAVE REVOLT ATTENDED BY 9,000 SUPPORTERS
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OLDER BLACK CHURCH GOERS SITTING IN PEWS FANNING THEMSELVES
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REVEREND HENRY BUTLER INSPIRES HIS CONGREGATION THAT SLAVERY WAS MET BY ISURRECTION
Henry Butler 14:26 So Danmark Vesey and anti slavery leader 1767 1822 He was an insurrection and so that tells me he organized an unsuccessful slave revolt here in Charleston, South Carolina. He and 34 other Negro conspiratorial so they call them will hang but it was Yeah. On this spot, and a little wooden structure down style. That didn't mark be He's a plan his insurrection. And then as now, some of the people could not keep a secret. And I can sympathize. Because I have a full Father, we're taught not to keep anything secret from the master. And there was a servant, who told the master of Denmark Vesey's interaction and of his plan. And of course, the plans were broken up. And then South Carolina, passed a law closing all schools, and daring negros to be called Reading and displays was closed. When we think of those that were hanging, those that were persecuted, those that were killed, those that have had hose and water poured on him, those that have had Bloodhound, on that trail, those that have been mistreated, and in the midst of it, somehow, they stood up, because they had a spiritual backbone that caused them to look beyond the temporary things of life. If we are to move, in this new day, we cannot have back bones, like a jellyfish. What is man, man is a part of God. Each man is a thought of God. Each man is entitled to be recognized. And we trust that in the future, we will not have to do whatever father's had to do. But if necessary, we have to do what is to be done. |
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CO OF BILL SAUNDERS, BLACK ACTIVIST, WALKS DOWN A STREET IN CHARLESTON
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Bill Saunders 17:05
All slave master and slave condition that existed 100 200 years ago is still here in Charleston, who we have black people were brought into this country for slave labor. We have worked as slaves from the time that we were brought into this country until the present time, I'm fighting so hard for black survival, because I believe that this country is getting to the place that they don't need that labor anymore, and says they don't need that labor anymore. They don't need black people anymore. The past have taught me that I got to do something for my race to survive in America. And that's why I feel like a lot a lot of us will have to start talking out and saying exactly how we feel about the situation, we really got nothing to lose, really, we got no job to lose, we got no business to lose. The only thing that we had got to know that lie on the map and taking that anytime he wanted. Just the thing that I am saying that I am preaching that instead of going to jail for a man all the time for nothing. If you're gonna go to jail, go to jail, go to jail for something, like make have yourself a plan and make some phone calls when you do go to jail. This is the this is the type of program but you've got to you got to the point that we don't have, we don't have no program to go to the man and say this is what we want. But there's a lot of things in my past that I'm guilty of first, my parents were black. And then I was born black. You're not guilty, you know of no crime at all except for being black. The white man is my oppressor. He's the one that controls the jail. He controls the hospital. He controls the army. He controls the Navy. He controls everything. And he's the man and I have to fight. White America got to wake up and realize and listen, and understand that not only black folk gotta make sacrifices, but white folks gonna have to stop making sacrifices, some sacrifices to make this country what it's supposed to be. Other than that there's not gonna be no country. |
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