The Plantation System in Southern Life (1950)

"Until the lion learns to write, every story will glorify the hunter". ~African Proverb

The narrator said, “The slaves had little wealth.” The slaves didn’t have ANY wealth back then.

Gotta love the very clean version of this story. The slaves had little wealth, the slaves lived in smaller houses on the plantation, the slaves did almost all the work. No mention of the fact that slaves did all of back breaking work, they weren't paid, they were beaten and murdered, forced to live in shanty huts not houses, were raped by slave owners, were forced to work in very bad conditions, were turned against each on purpose by the slave owners. This was done by the owners giving some slaves special treatment over others, were separated from their families, But anyway......the narrator gives a very clean low key version of what was truly a cruel devastating situation for the slaves. This is why we must tell our own story.

You can still see these plantation homes all across the South. The conditions that existed then still exist all across the Southern states. Tobaccos, Cotton, Sugar cane, Corn and Soybeans are all still grown in these areas. The only thing that has visibly changed is the fact that all the labor that was once performed by the now reluctant slaves, has been replaced as the narrator says by heavy machinery. The blacks that formerly were the slaves or the descendants of those slaves now still live on small tracts of land with poor or substandard housing while the white land owners and their descendants still live sometimes in the same grand plantation style mansions. As someone who grew up in the shadows of this time in history, I watched my mother and other elders of the community picking cotton in the fields for just pennies a day. While the white landlords enjoyed huge profits affording them all the privileges that we today are still fighting for.

Definitely a Eurocentric view of plantation life.

It amazing how the narrator glorified the lifestyle of black life in the south. Great information. Thanks very much.

Why did they called it "cheap slave labor" when my ppl didn't get paid for that labor

I remember these Coronet films in my 70s high school...I always felt uncomfortable, and left me confused in class. What the teachers said about this left me with many answered questions...

The narrator is giving an impression of a romantic coexistence between slave masters and slaves, excluding the cruelty that was a daily dose at these plantations against the slaves to achieve maximum yield

If the South had such fine manners, politeness, poise , and dignity…… how the Hell could they justify owning another human being? Oh wait,…..We have a word for that….. 🤨

I see what they did there- slaves had ZERO wealth and ZERO privileges.

"Almost all the work" 😂 😂 😂 How about ALLLLLL THE WORK!!!

LOL... Privileges is not a word to describe slavery. And, slaves weren't a labor system; it was a chattel system, like using donkeys to pull a cart. Labor systems require some exchange of consideration (even if it's insufficient).

Now we needs to hear the slaves narrative of this same account.

UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!!!!

I can't watch this.

Almost all the work? ... hun... ok.. i guess

Why does he keep saying cheap labor. It was not cheap, it was fucking FREE for over 400 years!!!

It is not uncommon, actually quite common, in the South and not even the Deep South, post-2020, to see apartments or neighborhoods with "plantation" in the title as if to imply a luxurious atmosphere to the dwelling-space. You might as well call it "concentration camp".

I remember these films in highschool.You think it's educational when you're young.