Chapter 15 lecture

that economy, everybody here has a job, baby. No? Ra your hands, you got a job. good video you guys. 
So when you get your paycheck, what do you do with your paycheck?. You pay taxes and what else you do with it? spend money. 
You spend money, right? How many you guys save money? A few of you guys saved it, okay. 
All right. That's good. Some of you guys save it, but most of it you spend, right? 
When you spend that money, you are then fueling the economy, right? So now that these slaves have their freedom, they are now part of the economy now, which is gonna be a big part why slave ended, honestly. um, so in this chapter we're gonna be discussing what is freedom. This is gonna be something that comes along every single time we discuss something freedom. 
What is freedom to you guys? allowed to do we want. Being to do anything you want, you you're able to do everything you want., like, I'm through my parents groups, so not for things, so Not? 
I mean, I'm I'math my own, but I still can't do anything I want to do. I wanna jump off the building and it skyide, but probably get arrested for doing that the right to make decisions for yourself. The right to make decisions for yourself? 
You have autonomy in that, right? Anything else, what is for you? I all reallyrities. 
Haven't all liberty civil, right? having an ability to have right unneath the law? anything else? 
Uh the right speak, I do something without constraint. Those are part of your civil liberties, your civil rights, right? Um all these are correct answers. 
They're so we could go on on and on about what freedom is, right? We can we could discuss this for the entire day, and and honestly, throughout this entire throughout this entire semester or this wintermester, we're going to be discussing freedom and what freedom looks like for you today and how we got to your freedoms of today, right? there's gonna be huge, there's gonna be a huge effect. honestly, there's a lot of chapters that I wish I could go over which you guys over bring before you go to break but we're not gonna get to them because we have to go so fast. here, right here, you see this? 
You see you gotta see this image? This is what it looks like in Congress at this time, where you see African Americans in a place that they are not necessarily allowed because they were dehumanized, but during the reconstruction area, you're gonna see African Americans get a lot of freedom that they didn't once have. and it's going to be one of the most times in history where they have a lot of freedom. you're not gonna get the second after this reconstruction area, you're gonna get three amendments.body, those what those amendments are? 14 15 14, 15 and what else? 
13, right? The 13th is gonna free the slaves. The the 14th is gonna make them citizens and the 15ths are gonna give them the right to vote, right? 
get the protections underneath those laws. After that this time you guys, this is in 1865, right? It's not gonna be until 19 1967 until another law of bills come across the necessarily secure volume for African Americans. 
Secure them from violence. It's not gonna be until 2021 that the antiitionion law actually, whereas illegal in a federal crime ofynch after the Americ of people. It's, right? 
All right, in this chapter, we're gonna be talking about the meaning of freedom. The meaning of radical reconstruction, recon radical reconstruction in the south in the overthrowing of reconstruction. All right, moving on. 
What versions of freedom did the former slaves and slaveholders pursue in the post war south? What versions of the freedom did the former slave the slaveholders pursue and theol war south? property. 
Oh, good they want property. Who? That is. 
Could they own property they wanted to own property, for sure? Um, that's definitely what their means of of work is going to look likehood, that isn't necessarily, and we'll get into that a little deeper than why that is I forgot, the supposed to danges, but it is so nasty. Man, it tastes so disgusting. 
But I stand like 70 something dollars on the contain. I got to be. or I anyway so another like so like Hongressonstruction area there that are gonna be a lot of African American senators that are gonna be definitely right not there, by way of violence. Um, blacks meaning of freedom during his top. 
Last thing about it, before they, before 1865, what freedoms and black had? Nine, right? They're not even seen as people. 
They're seen as property, right? About by the eyes of the law, right?, they have no no means to Rome, they have no reasons to go anywhere. So, if you at any point in time, say, the people who do live, you live in your parents' home, when you and your parents, tell them, what are you gonna do? 
When you have your own place to decide, what are you gonna do with your space? responsibility. Take responsibility you're not gonna go wow just a little bit. 
I mean, you all a little party here once in a while, let loose too. You' let loose, right? Right? 
That's the idea of it. African Americans have to develop their own sense of what freedom is, because there is no no no connection with what freedom is at all. The idea of freedom, they have no clue what it looks like or what it's supposed to look like. 
So they're defining their own ideas of freedoms. So one thing is they are gonna defined for sure is that they no longer want to work on the plantations. not for anybody, they've seen what will has brought to to white plantation owners. They they've seen it with their own eyes. 
Um cotton is going to be before 1865, cotton from American America is gonna distribute 70% of the world's God. Bore 1865., they are going to make so much money from God, before Cotton, you have, um in the collie areas, you have tobacco in the Virginia area, you have rice and the South Carolina and Georgia. um those are gonna be the major crops coming from the the colonies, the middle colonies, until cotton arrives in like 18, 16, about or or not 1816 17 somethinger cotton is gonna arrive 1720s cotton are gonna ri and it's gonna take off from there. So 70% of the world's cotton is gonna be distributed. 
That means most people in the south too own plantation are gonna be extremely rich. So African Americans are gonna hold on to this idea that hey, if we can then control our own land or have our own land, we can think control our lab. So for you guys that do work, are you necessarily free? 
even if you don't work, are you necessarily have a freedom? No, right? Because then the end of the day, you still have to make a wage, right? 
If you don't wanna make a wage, there is I mean, there's a bridge right there, right there under 75, you probably get you to shopping cart and and chill out Air for a while, Have you a nice little condo, right? But technically, you still have there in some form sell your labor to necessarily have what we consider freedom now, which is consumerism, right? Being able to consume the goods that you want, right? 
But in African Americans's idea, what they're gonna say is, hey, our idea of freedom at this point in time are our families. So, before 1865, there is no idea of family life. There's a book called Rethinking Rufus. 
Rufus is going to be enslaves, male, um, who after after the war ends, you're gonna have the Freeman's Bureau, they're gonna go out and get personal stories. and Rufus is gonna tell his story about his enslavement and how he feels that this time enslavery has basically rendered him none void, because he has no family. Right? The family that he did have is somewhat his master decided that he needed to make with. a woman that he didn't decide for his own, a woman that didn't want him, right? 
But he had no choice but to try to make with this woman. This woman would fighting him every night, kick him, beat him, but he knows that if he doesn't create a child with this lady that both of their lives are in danger, right? So where she's seeing it that he's taking advantage of her, he she's not understanding that he has no responsibility in what he's doing, because he's being forced to do this, right? 
So therefore creating a unstable relationship, right? and then on top of that, Rufus talks about even when he does have a child, he has no control over that child either, right? Because that master could just come and take that child at any point in time. 
And still that child into slavery. So, where this child would never be found, where there would be no connections to necessarily protect you, you would you expect that as as you were growing up, you expected your parents to protect you, right? Now, idea of hey, if I get into a car accident or something bad happens to be someone who is gonna come and and make sure that I'm okay. 
But Rufus talk about, hey, um, I don't have that autonomy to do so. So not only am I being forced to have a family, I'm also being forced to not being able to protect them. I'm not for now, I can't take care of her. 
My wife could be sold for me. I can be beaten from not having these kids, so while his wife is thinking and he's raping her c without her said, that's what that is, right? And his mind he's doing everything he can to protect them. and they're alive and they're lively good. 
So the first thing the blacks black people are gonna do is try to find their family. They're gonna go out and they're gonna try to go to other locations to where they feel their family was sold out to, and they're gonna try to recreate this idea of a family life, right? Because your property, you don't necessarily you're not you're not seen as a family. 
You're not seen as a unit. Your marriage is not respected. Your your your kids are not protected. 
And then on that other scope of that, one thing that in a black community that's gonna be very strong, it's gonna lead to the civil rights is gonna be the church. Blacks are going to want to dive into the church because that's the one thing that has been consistent throughout their slavery times. The only time they had some sense of autonomy is when it came to religion and honestly, religion was used to necessarily make sure that they stayed slaves. 
As obedient slaves are that necessarily using the Bible to make sure that you knew that hey, our relationship between slave and you being a slave and me being your master's just underneath God. So the first thing they're gonna run to as far as the community life is won't to be church, and then the last thing is going to be school. Most schools are going to be adopted within the church, right? 
Now, we're gonna see this in a civil rights era with the freedom freedom movement, right? So, churches, family, these are gonna be the idea of important freedoms. The idea is not gonna be necessarily wealth correct right out the better, right? 
And I'm gonna think, oh, well, we just finished our our freedom, we just got our freedom, let's go back to work. That's not gonna be their idea. The idea is gonna be like me gain land for the work that I put in, allow me to find my family, allow me to build a church, allow me to have some kind of schooling. 
Because while I was a slave, I could read. it was illegal for a slave to have some type of knowledge of read. This picture right here is one of my favorite pictures, because it shows two things that are not necessarily, um common during this era. Um mother and daughter read. and the thing that stays out to me is that there's a mother and I daughter together in the same rooms. 
That that's very extremely unusual. And not only is there a mother and a daughter in a room, you see the daughter in the mother trying to read something and they probably don't know how to. right? So this is a a a huge gap as far as the moving forward of African Americans during this time. 
Political freedom, what do you guys consider political freedom? voting, right? Having a voice and voting, how many you guys voted in this past election? 
get to the time. Did they get to the ball in time, they close it down, you How many you guys are registered to vote? The majority of you guys, how many you guys think that your boat doesn't matter? 
Wow, how do you think your boat doesn't matter? Anybody. I mean it does feel like we don't vote and that is gonna change. 
It does? but if you don't nothing is gonna change? Yeah, but I mean, yeah, yeah. 
So why do you think you're doesn't matter then? it's so small. It's like not even one%. 
What about you? Me? yeah, for the same reason, like there's of people. 
And you have more of an impact if you encourage gross people to vote, that's actually like an impact that would change their outcome.. What else? Why do you think you're both doing that? 
I mean, first of all, the actual Ellie college is what actually decides the president, and it's more like, what they were talking about, like, it's more about what people in, how have a bigger voice, like, how the math is to, or like I don't know, like people there's something to do instead of like, what what an individual person shows. I mean, that's that's the idea of a Republican, right? You both people in and necessarily have a voice for you to things like that. 
That's the idea of the appropriate. So, if all you guys think that you're both does encount, how many people you think like you or in your age group or want to think that they' both doesn't count and don't vote? A lot, right? 
So a lot a lot of people, which I'm telling you that idea of my vote doesn't count is that is each extreme well thought idea that people believe, right? people don't think they're they don't think they're vote matters, so how many people does that take out of the voting point out the voting poll if everybody thinks they're vote doesn't matter and they don't vote? just one percent, right? 
Millions. Your vote definitely counts when it comes to that idea, right? Whenever you think about it as far as a a large thing instead of a small thing, right?
acro and microray, when you think a long those skills, like that's a huge point. African Americans soon they found this political freedom, this idea, you're gonna have radical Republicans pushing rad Republicans are gonna be established through abolitionists, right? Abolitionists are going to push this idea of African Americanans needing the right to sustain themselves in America, having the right to sustain themselves in America. so they're pushing these laws. 
That's how we're gonna get the 13th or 14th to the 15th Amendment. they're going to have main main control of these houses. They're gonna have main control during the civil rights move or not occurring on during during the the civil the Civil War as well, that's why we' once you get it, honestly. um so they' once to push these ideas and necessarily say, hey, we have to make them a political stable in in America because they do have certain rights. They're gonna be a lot of competing ideas, though, right? 
about what to do with African Americans had to end reconstruction. There's gonna be an idea to send them back to Africa. America is gonna colonize a West African nation of Libya. 
They're going to colonize West Africa, and they're gonna say, we're gonna send free once we give them their freedom, we're gonna send them back to Africa. And this is actually gonna happen. Some are going to volunteer to move there. 
Are you still established nation now? They're gonna decide to move back to Africa, even though that they're the first set of slaves come to America in 1660 on a massive level, we have about like eight eight 800,000 to 500,000 slaves during that time. In America. that's a long time not to be in your own country, no? 
To people who are people who go back to Africa after they reconstruction have no knowledge of Africa or whatsoever, don't even know relatives don't know their own language, and that was by by by by far, right? They did that on purpase to make sure they could never get together and collude. So this idea this political idea of hey, let's just send them back to Africa. 
You're gonna have some Republicans even saying that, even though they're gonna say,ey,, we we wanna give them their freedom. Why do you guys think that it was such a push to give our African Americans have freedom? their economy was completely based on slavery, while the north was more up trading. 
The north was going through the first industrial revolution, so they have more factories and stuff like that. Um, the south is all gonna be built around slavery. Um, so, not necessarily political power, but what does that do when when you have a working class in the North, right selling their labor, right? 
selling their labor to gain money, but at the same time in that same market you still have slavery, what does that do to your value to go to work? lower is it, right? Like you can't go in there and be like, hey, I want $20 an hour. 
They're gonna laugh at you. They're gonna laugh at you and they're gonna say, we'll just get a slave to do it. for free. So it it's gonna diminish the market, right? 
It's not gonna allow free whites the necessary sustain themselves in the market. At this point in time, people are getting paid like ten cents a day. Who can survive all the 10 since a day? 
You know how I laughed at my daughter when she comes to me, she goes, I wanna go to the store, I have money, right? And if she opens up her high hand and she has a corner. and I'm like, what are you supposed to buy with that, right? Like, you need to stay a little bit more money, get out of here, right? 
No, no, I don't do that to. sometimes. But when the idea of people working for 25 cents a day, even during that time, that that's terrible. That's terrible money. 
That's not something that's gonna sustain you, especially not you with the family, so that that's gonna be the competing idea, right? So, people are once slavery is ended, even those northern is that in that war where you feel like they're doing it for this morality thing, it's not necessarily for a morality thing. They're doing it to make sure that they can sustain themselves. 
And the idea of moving African Americans out of that market completely, what does that do to the market?? It increases. It increases their value as far as work, right? 
Is there is less people to do the work, so what do they people have to do when you have we history and economics go hand in hand, right? You have to think about the economics of to understand the history of it. When you have a high demand of something, right, that means there's a lot of it. 
What does it do to the prices? Huh? A high demand lowers the prices. prices knows that when you have a high that means everybody can buy it, right? 
Everybody can buy it if there's a high demand. That means the prices are low. They're gonna still make their money either way it goes, right? 
Even at the lowest price. When you have a low demand of it, right? It's gonna do the exact opposite. 
That means there's a small market for it, only wealthy people are gonna be able to do it. So wealthy people are gonna buy it at at a lower market. That means the price is gonna be extremely high. 
And we'll go through that over and over. We'll see it in the automotive industry. We're gonna see it now in today, right, in the housing market, right? 
and the housing market where there's a load demand or something prices are going or are going to go extremely high. and that's going to pull people out of the market trying to buy, and then it's gonna fluctuate back and forth, right? land labor and freedom. land labor and freedom. one thing in economic. Those are basic things in economics, right, land, right? 
and labor, they go hand in hand in economics as well, right? So, one thing that is not being recreated over again is what one thing you cannot make over again. Like, if you start making leg, you got how old I want you to see me an email right now, I wanna be a part of it. 
If you can start making land, I wanna sell it, all right? You cannot create landing over again. So therefore, if you have the land, right? 
That means you can do what you want to it, right? That that is that is another cause of economics, right? L? 
That's something that you cannot determine or rebild land, water, those are things that are are naturally given to you. You can do whatever what you want with the land, right? Say you have some I have some land right now. say the parking lot. 
I own all columns parking lot. I can charge all you guys money to parking that parking lot, right? It's my right to do so, right? 
Because it is my land. And there's nothing you can do about it if you wanna go get the class on time, you're gonna pay me, right? That's the idea of taking charge of my land, okay, say, I own that parking lot and I say I want to throw a gas station in it. 
Or I want to create a Walmart out there, right? It's my land. I can do whatever I want to. 
This is the same idea that African Americans are gonna think. If you can control your land, you can then control your labor. How many you guys control your labor now? 
How do you control your labor? Oh, I can change my schedule, choose when I wanna work sometimes. You can choose when you wanna work, if you wanna work less than more, but what does that do to your pay? 
Yeah, it breise it down when I work less. So, that's your way of controlling your labor, right? You maybe but maybe you still want more money, right? 
So, one thing you guys are doing now in this classroom, you're controlling your later. And how you're controlling your labor is because you're getting your education and therefore you're gonna take that education and you're gonna go to the job market, you're gonna say, hey, I'm more qualified than a person that doesn't have this education. So therefore you have to pay me more, right? 
That's the idea of it, correct? We all agree on that. That is gonna be the same idea in which what is going on? 
is this classroom also. All right, that's gonna be the same deer our African Americans are gonna have. That's gonna be their push to gang land, right? 
They wanna gang land so there can control their labor. They no longer want the masters to have control over their labor because they understand how harsh their labor is, right? They've lived under for a lot the last 200 years, right? 
They understand how harsh that labor is, so they know if they gain access to their land, they can they control their labor and therefore it will give them more of economy over their freedom, right? That's the idea of it. Once you control your land, you own your own leg, you can control your labor and then your freedom. 
The idea, the reason why that's such a huge idea, because during this time period we're talking about what's the main thing to the economy? what's the biggest thing in our economy during this time period? 1865 or before 1865?? 
Cash crops, orage. That's the biggest thing that's that's what's making people rich. The first industrial revolution is gonna fail, because of that the competition within the market. 
The competition as far as labor within that market, okay? All right, here is another profound pigeon. You're going to have generations of slaves together. 
So the idea of family is such a huge thing to dress, hey, I want over my wife was, even though she was not recognizing my wife. I want to g g g get access to my kids. um I wanna gain access to to all my family, you know, and this is a picture of every a whole entire generation of family. My great grandmother was born in 1950. and she died in 2021. 
She died in 2021, and I always ask her like, like how like you experienced this entire generation of life, right? You went from life with with where you where your parents could have been slaves right her mother died at 95. Crazy she died, picking foruns, and she slipped and broke her hip. 
Anybody notice like the leading calls of old people falling, falling and having some kind of major surgery and never ill environ. So, you had access to all this knowledge, but you've seen so many generations stards. You went to a place where you couldn't go to school. 
You seen integration. You've seen an African American president, right? I think she was born during Wilson's administration? 
Yeah, during Wilson's administration, you've seen electricity come to your house. You lived throughout the Great Depression, like there's tons of just like information or things that you've experienced, right? Um, and and this is huge, great getting access to family., you see some slave not necessarily being in on their family. 
They mightap onto to people who live on the plantation with them. They and call their family because they have no access to other family, right? Because their family's been sold off into a place where they can't buy. 
But this is gonna be a a culination of how blacks are kind of pulling theirselves back together from this this somewhat of a genocide, right? The first African American church, this is what is gonna look like. religion is going be huge in African American culture, even to this day, um, assembling at the church, um, the reason why it's gonna be huge because the one African American in, um on a plantation that can read is probably gonna be the minister. The master is gonna allow the minister to read in order to to um make make the relationship between slaves and their master more more strengthened, right? 
Because of this African American someone you can trust, is reading this Bible to you, then you know that I'm not lying to you that you're supposed to be submissive to me, right? This idea that God gave dominion to all likes over things on the earth or an creatures and animals on the earth, this idea is something that this this slave is supposed to tell. And their stories in the Bible that necessarily says that. um the idea of calling someone Barbaric is gonna be the idea of making them less human. 
So therefore, you can therefore have them million number of them. The Bible is gonna be using a lot of tricky ways, of course, you have your keen James version, you guys know what this Keen James version is of the Bible? And anybody understands it? 
No, you know where it comes from? Huh? You know where it comes from? 
King James where he is another Bible? Does it come from England? It comes from King James himself right. 
He is going to throw out books in the Bible and he's gonna write what he feels like is impertinent for you to know, and he's gonna have itated so that he or he can understand it out of the Hebrew language, right? And it's going to be the mass the most consumed Bible throughout the world, right? The Bible has been written over 1500 times, you guys. and in different ways of translations of ways. 
King James is gonna be the most popular because he not just gonna be the switch from England conversion from Capolicism to Protestant, right? And the anybody here Catholic? you guys go to mass? 
Yeah, yeah. How many times you guys read the Bible? I go to Bible study like usually like weekly. you read it? 
We I believe you read Romans. you read yourself? No, well, I read everybody in a group, yeah, I read priest, right? He comes up and he says this is what the Bible says. 
Right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, in in Christianity is totally different, right? 
The idea of hey, we gonna read the Bible, ourselves rather than have the priest dictate the Bible Bible to us. This is the idea the same idea of this black character, right? This black man on this plantation who would therefore himself a slave, he's probably gonna be treated nicer than other slaves, right? 
Just to necessarily keep that that that friendship or the the he's still gonna be a slave, but he's gonna be treated just slightly better. He might get the clothes, the old clothes of the master, to give him some kind of favoritism to make sure that he's speaking in a good terms of what the master wants him to speak about. This is what plantations are gonna look like in 1860. 
You see this mass quarter right here? They're gonna be all together, no one's gonna be spreading apart. 1881, theau spread apart it is. Slaves are gonna leave this this quarter. 
So in Georgia, you're going to have um the ordinance, the 15th ordinance, right? It's going to say,ey, you're gonna have the general come down, he's gonna say, hey, um, we're confiscating this land from these slave owners and we're gonna give 40 acres so and a mule to AfricanAmeric who are on this on this plantation, right? They're gonna give out 48 acres in a mule, you. 
President Lincoln himself is going to deny that order. It's not gonna be it's gonna be none and void. that land is gonna be confiscated and giving back to the slave owners, right? slowly but sure surely is gonna happen. 
Um, so while they're spreading out, counting this land as their home, right, you still have the church and the school right next to each other. They're counting this land as their own during we can their reconstruction era, but slowly all this would die off and we come back into the slave owner's hands. Masters without slaves. 
Masters without slaves, you guys, um, this picture right here and it itself shows, um, for the first time in history, you're gonna see um slave owners happen to do marryual labor. The idea with slave are you guys, um, before the read the competition to also why slave shouldn't be free, before the Civil War, or whites are gonna hold on to this idea of autonomy, right? We only can have freedom if we have slaves, because if we don't have slaves, we have to work, right? 
And this is what's gonna happen when slaves are freedom, because they're gonna leave the field. They're not gonna work anymore. You're gonna have some ideas of saying, hey, please work we'll give you we'll give you give you pay, if you work, but you're not they're not gonna be able to sustain that because the idea of still trying to control that labor is what wax are gonna wanna do. the slave plantation on it and not all people in the South are gonna own slaves. slaves you guys are gonna be expensive. about $1,800 per person. 
And sometimes more than that, so not all of them some people are gonna have large families and they are gonna work slaves, but most people or work the fields themselves without slaves, but those people are not gonna necessarily be rich even. They're not gonna make as much money as these masks massive plantations that some slight over his own. But the idea of them losing that slate that that um they losing those slaveryers are gonna be very big. 
So we understand their slaves want their own land, right? That's their's their full idea of autonomy, right? Only in that land so they can then do reporting control their labor. 
Why is it gonna have a competition thought about that? They're not gonna like the idea of of blacks having their own their own jobs, being able to control their labor. So they're gonna get together, right? 
You're gonna have a group of people in South Carolina, a group of people in Georgia, they're gonna get together and they're gonna meet and they're gonna say, you know what? they won't come to work, right? So the idea is, hey, we get them to stay on the plantation, we tell them we're gonna pay them, and then at the end of the week, we don't pay them, right? 
We'll say, oh, we'll give you a dollar for a week's worth of work, right? And at the end of the week they don't pay them, so what ends up happening is that he slaves end up jumping for plantation to plantation, until they get tired of it, right? Like, no one's paying us, we're working, and then not only are they they say they're gonna pay us, they still wanna treat us or make us work just as hard as we we're slaves. 
Anybody wants to go to work and work hard? Anybody here wanna go to work and work hard? No. 
Nobody?inda. You do? 
Yeah, because of other principal of it, cause if you work hard, you should gig like you ri the reward of it, what's your idea of working hard? Working hard. What's your idea working hard? 
Like pushing yourself to your capacity. So, so, like, in manual labor, how do you do that in in the real estate world? Do you real you sleep, flying it's not really man it all mental and I mean, that's hard work, too. 
Yeah, it is hard work. I agree. Do you do you think that you come in school is hard work? 
No. No? Positive. 
It's still working. You have to wake up.s still work, you still have to make a commitment to it, right? You still have to make that make a commitment to necessarily getting achieving the botest you want, right? 
So, I would consider that hard work, but the idea for you is to probably gain the education and not have to work so hard. I'm telling you, I didn't go to grad school that works so hard. I didn't. 
The idea is the more education I gained, the more money I could make and the less I have to work. in my mind. Right? And and if vice vers the less education, I would have the more I would have to work to gain probably a small amount of money, right? 
Or someone's kind of capping my potential of how much money I can make, right? So these are gonna be the same idea that the slaves are gonna have, right? They're gonna say, hey, we we want us to have we wanna go to work. 
We do what we don't wanna work as hard. We don't want you trying to beat us. We don't want you to try to try to dominate us in a way with saying that we have to work from sun up to suale, right? 
Like in a farm town wise, right? Or right anybody has has a ranch ever been on a ranch before? That's hard work, right? 
Working out there all day when the sun comes up, comes down. So I had I have a wrenching Alabama. I have 168 acres of land, and I used to have all these animals, man. 
Horses, like cows, I still have a goat his name building. ability to goat, right? I um it will be some days where, like, it would be cold outside and um the cows will start walking up to the fence like,ey, where'sey at? And I'm like, no, I'm not coming out there, right? 
So I was like, okay, I have I have to give this up out where I'll make beef of them, and you know what I'm saying, and he good or well, or sell them off or whatever, so I got rid of all myounds and suffer Billy. Billy's pretty too. like, he sits in his little corner or whatever, but the idea of working that hard is the farm labor is not easy. We all agree to that, right? 
And that's probably like the hardest work ever you ever have to do. So these labers are like, hey, we don't wanna work that hard. The idea the North you guys after the Civil War is, hey, is that blacks and whites are gonna live in harmony and and blacks are gonna go straight to work. 
But that's not the case, the blacks are gonna want their own a time. They're gonna want their own name. white is gonna sell, their ID is to controlled, the labor is still. Whatever I can do to control the labor. lie che whatever I can do to control the labor. 
So what they're gonna do is they're gonna breach and never sell land to African Americans. They're gonna come together, these plantation owners and they're gonna say, hey, we're not selling any land to them. What we'll do is we'll get them until until share profit contracts, and we'll control the land by that way. 
That means sharecopping contracts are gonna be agreement between the land owners and the workers to say, hey, you can live on this plantation. and you can work how you want to. At the end of the harvest, which we know harvest season is like right now, harvest season is coming to the end, you're gonna come into harvest and you're gonna go straight into sewing. So right now is a good time to grow all your greens, right? 
Like lettuce, all your vegetables, if you if you have that kind of form, this is a great time to grow that, because you have less sun to burn those things. So, they're gonna say at Harvardest time we're gonna come and we're gonna split the crops, 60, 40, 50, 50, whatever, whatever, but when it all came said and done at the end of that, it's not gonna be the case. They won't to necessarily either take all the cropss or leave them not with their agreed amount of crops. 
In the way they're gonna do that is by anybody ever see those old Western movies with the stores, with everything in it. right? So they'll know Western movies that have like jars of candy, huge bags of flour they're supposed to last forever, right? And these scenes are costing like a dollar, 15 cents stuff like that, right? 
In that store you have a keeper, right? And that keeper is usually the land owner, right? in the area, cause before before slavery or or during slavery, before slavery actually got established, we're established an America, you have plasse sold in square acre miles. 
You have the own square acre mouth is? It's about 648 acres in a square acre of mileage. So that means one plantation owner, they will buy that for a dollar acre. 
So 648 they give you 648 acres of land. So what do you think your neighbor is? Nowhere, right far? 
So they would have they would put a store on that land like maybe in the corner where people can travel and in that each sharecopters are gonna go to that store and buy all the supplies they need. Now, Brandon, they might not have the cash to buy these supplies, and then person who owns the land is actually the ones that necessarily keeping the bookkeeping. So they're gonna write down, hey, you got a pencil, a paper, um a bag of flour, this is gonna cost you three dollars, right? 
So when it comes to the eggs to collect their crops, what they're gonna do is they're going to say, well, you owe me a dead. So I'm taking all these crops. Now, no one isn't gonna be able to to necessarily no one is gonna comment basically make sure that this this dynamic of of what labor looks like is going to necessarily be fair. 
There's not gonna be any oversight within that relationship. So this is gonna happen pretty often, and on times I say, most people are gonna be up out of there and they're gonna move and try to go to another situation. Or eventually move north, right? 
Where people don't want to be there. Freem Man's Bureau, the Frean's Bureau is gonna be established during this time period. Reconstructions on period. 
And the Freem Man's Bureau, the one thing they're supposed to do is necessarily make sure that African Americans are having a fair shot and becoming citizens in America. They're gonna be overstooling hospitals, social issues, um land issues. They're gonna try to make sure that that African Americans are getting fair shot at becoming a a a citizen in America, right? 
Because think about it, you went from one day having absolutely nothing, not even the clothes on your back belonged to you. to one day having all this autonomy to do everything, right? So you need some kind of goddage in there, some kind of social programs that necessarily ensure you into the American society. um unfortunately, during this time period, though, while we're having this Fre man's Bureau and we're inablishing ourselves, there's still gonna be a failure to learn reform, right? That special order f field um put out there about Sherman, General, Sherman is gonna be overturned, so they're not gonna get that 40 acres in them, you like they expected, right? 
They're not gonna make we get that land in which they they um they wanted to work theirselves in control their labor. Do we all agree that land this money? you guys know how much land costs here in the Dallas W. 
DMW expensive. I'm talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars for not even a half an acre. It's a lot of money, right? 
L Let's think about during this time, even that $648 that they were paying for that square air square mile of acreage, they still a lot of money to them, right? So, not having land reform that necessarily let's let's go back. Did you guys believe that African Americans should have had land reform during this stuff? 
the land of the masters. Yeah, do you believe that would be fair? situation. 
So, is the master's land and then it goes to, a special order 15 is gonna deviate deviium all the land of theashion to his slaves. I don't think so, no? So, what are you what do you guys are what are you guys think should have happened? 
during this time here without land you have nothing. Absolutely nothing. And technically, the landed there did you know his line that was taken from the unions, can we read it up?. 
You think they paid the Indians for airline? Straight goods, right? Strangest savagery, right? 
So, so so with that say, question was, do you believe that the masterland should have gone to a slaves? Yeah. Just like, just just been handed back to him? 
The idea of 40 acres in the muse is to give them 40 acres. Yeah, it's tricky, is like, yeah, you gotta have lands, make money. but it's also it's like their land. So someone came was like, the house that you have now, you gotta give it to this other person. 
That it would be like, I would be like, this my land and my parents paid forward and stuff. So it was tricky. So maybe like, give him a portion of it, absortion that was not all of it? 
Yeah, I would think like a maybe like a small portion, but I feel like this is the a small portion of you. We're talking about 68648 acres, I depends like what's like the goal like the community or like the whole country, because usually like like in history, you have to fight for things, so like, just give it someone something just not like, you can't really like a therminat, I feel like, the already pissed that losing the war and being able to lose slaves. So like being for to get a plan, I just created the second Civil War., because I regardless whatever happens, one size so you' upset about it, so it's not really a win win or like one side wins and one side, like loses the dead. 
Okay. so often does fight for it? does for? Yeah. 
I mean they just got no fight, right? You want to fight all over againboard? I mean, whoever wins it gets to land, that's that's all kind of works. 
So you have to think about the economy between slaves, former slaves and their master will, right? during this time, we're gonna reel into the gym pro era, right? A massive fear, right? 
You have the construction of the KKK to make sure that African Americans stay in what they call their place, right? And in a way, so fighting for it necessarily you you're just coming down. Right? 
Even even if it's not the people's land in which they're fight for, you still have people in the south that's gonna fight in the Civil War on the all the Confederate side. They don't even own slaves. Just for the idealistic that I am more dominant than you. 
The only reason why they would get involved, they don't have any slave or no, no, no, no dog in the fight, right? But they're gonna get involved just to make sure that I have seen more superior than than than thus, right? And the idea of not giving them land in this time is gonna definitely lead to more economic godfalls in the future. 
Right? Not being able to sustain themselves with reconstruction like they were supposed to to become valuable citizens necessarily economically, was there gonna beicting plans to make sure that how we get this because they're gonna be you're gonna have one side to say, hey, we need to fight to be economic Italy included because at this point in time, they are the work. African Americans are the work, right? 
The the sole work. So, going back on that, um I I don't know how you leave them out. I mean, they of course they got nothing out, right? 
and they slowly have to pull themselves economically up because of that, because at this point, Black, we can't get over how important land is, right? Even today, it still has important. land with nothing on it still has imported. You can least stop lay into a power company to put a pole there and charge in six grand a month. and it can only take a 30 feet. land is so important economically during this time and that time as well. 
Grant, anybody ever been to the deep South? Anybody ever been to, um I guess we're in Texas? I guess it's more Midwest, right? 
Um, to the Longview area, anybody ever been to Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, right? What do you see in the what were you been? I've been to Alabama a couple times. 
Alabama. Alabama once. Alabama, you, Mississippi, Mississippi. 
What do you guys see in those varies? A lot of properties and stuff? Nothing a lot of nothing. 
Nothing, nothing, nothing.s absolutely nothing, right? And this is gonna be because of this, right? This idea of nothingness, right? 
Do you remember, the only thing that is cropping um the the southern economy during this time is high. and during reconstruction, Lincoln's plan is going to be to to control or during the Civil War is to constrict their distrib distribution of K. They're going to call what they do the and the condo effect. They're gonna make sure that they blockade every port so they can't get caught out. They're gonna make sure that they burn in cotton field, they get to. 
So where they were pushing out 70% of the world's cotton by the time weonstruction is over, you have Egypt, you have Brazil, you have Portugal. They're gonna fill in that market. forther for the absence of American God. So, the South is never gonna be the same, ever again, and then you're gonna have the idea of the Redeemers. 
We're not gonna get to that. The redeemers are gonna gonna come in and suck it suck it in a little bit more. The redeemers are going to go in, you guys. and everything that that that African Americans get during this time after Andrew Johnson gains power and kind of like just says, hey, come, say you're sorry, and I'm gonna give you back everything, right? 
And I'm gonna put you in back into your political power. The Redeemers are going to come in after that is all set and done, and he's gonna say, um, they're going to strip all the schools of of wages, which I think we'll get into there a little bit later. All of wages, they're gonna make sure that that African American schools don't get funding, they're going to help segregation, push alone this idea of segregation, and it's not even gonna be close, not only you're not gonna get land, you're not even gonna get a fear shot of education. 
And we'll get more into that next chapter I think. I think. Also in this time, you guys, another conflicting thing is going to be the idea of labor, right? 
Wow, African Americans are trying to control their labor while they're trying to make sure that they they can have their own autonomy and have their own land, why are gonna say, all right, you don't wanna fall and work for free, or you don't wanna you don't wanna work for what we wanna pay you for? We're not gonna hire you at all. They're gonna go and get Chinese laborers so work as fields in the south. 
They're gonna go and get Mexican American Mexican laborers and and and recru them to come to America to work in the fields and the south during this time period, which is crazy, right? Because most immigrants in America, where do they still work at? in builds? 
Most Mexican American immigrants work in the fields for cheap labor still to this day. And there's government policy that necessarily depict that in 1940s with the basero program that's gonna say, hey, still come over here and work for a cheap labor. But we'll get more into that as we go on.