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   @FuHackers-wx9lq

   February 12, 2024 at 1:40 pm

   Young black kids… need to hear this. Wait, maybe young white kids should. Folks of a darker shade… Assistanted in 🇺🇲 moving forward. A black man, even created penicillin. Could you imagine not having that? Why do people let white male politicians decide what facts you should know? I don't understand the young folks of todays. ✌️

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   @user-ue1xl6im8p

   February 12, 2024 at 4:32 pm

   If anybody was paying any attention you would have heard the commentator in the video that the African slaves were freed after being indentured servants! Africans were not indentured servants he lied! This is a whitewash video!

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   @vidajohnson3712

   February 12, 2024 at 7:28 pm

   There are many black teachers in the US who taught their students black history along with American history in the 50s, 60s and 70s. I am a senior who learned some black history as a child. My parents also told me some black history. As a teenager I studied black history on my own because this country has alot of black historians. So it is not true that black history wasn't taught here.

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   @tracydodson9997

   February 12, 2024 at 7:44 pm

   About time we hear our history as women and the bravery, wisdom, courage etc etc of our foremothers is inspiring and reminds us that we can choose to go around or through our mud puddles just as they did. Makes absolutely no difference what color, we should be proud as women to be able to be brave enough to handle life's battles thanks to all those women paving the way with their hard won battles
   Thank you for this amazing video 🎉

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   @mizfrenchtwist

   February 12, 2024 at 11:18 pm

   hello , you have delivered a wonderful , well researched account………..it's so refreshing , when someone outside of the culture , values our history , much appreciated . keep up the great work🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰……………

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   @semiliterati

   February 12, 2024 at 11:59 pm

   I never heard of Mary Fields, but now I love her so much. I recognized Josephine's story a few sentences in, but I don't even think I've seen half of these photos. Vavoom, I think is the right word.

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   @mgcocasal

   February 13, 2024 at 12:02 am

   As a white woman may I just say I am SO sorry?

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   @gaslitworldf.melissab2897

   February 13, 2024 at 2:19 am

   By definition tales are fictitious, hence the expression "tall tales." Now ya know.

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   @Nothinggirl

   February 13, 2024 at 5:57 am

   Love your channel 💕🩷 you always do good ☺️

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    @MellowLongStocking

    February 13, 2024 at 1:53 pm

    Thank you for this information. I have been misclassified and given the misnomer of "black, colored, negro, mulatto, African American but it is not my history or my nationality. I descend from the Choctaws, Indigenous to what my ancestors called Turtle Island (North and South America). Do your own research into your own genealogy and you will find your history does not match up with the narrative. My ancestor who I have traced back to 1808 was stolen off a road where she was playing near the her village. She was force to give birth at age 10, that child did not live. I am a descendant of her next two children who she gave birth to at age 12. The family who enslaved her bread slaves from Children captured on this land like a puppy mill. A famous WWII hero is a descendant of hers and he is misclassified as a African American, Doris Miller.

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    @yvettecabey4755

    February 13, 2024 at 2:50 pm

    I appreciate it.

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    @reneedennis2011

    February 13, 2024 at 9:25 pm

    Thank you for this documentary. You talked a couple of people that I didn't know about.

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    @ittybittykittymama7582

    February 14, 2024 at 4:13 am

    Thank you FL, for reminding us that this country was built by people of all colors.

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    @adeleennis2255

    February 14, 2024 at 7:04 pm

    My great grandfather (x13) lived to at 109, possibly 113 years old. He was born in Wales. His wife was hung in 1692 during the Salem witch trials.

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    @mrgeno4682

    February 14, 2024 at 9:09 pm

    There was a tale in the Ark-La-Tex. About a lady called "Boxcar Annie". My grandparents said she rode the rails around there.

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    @judyjudy51

    February 15, 2024 at 4:27 am

    🥲

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    @ansylem

    February 15, 2024 at 11:58 am

    Illiterate my ass really , stop doing that and painting Africans and dark skinned people as Illiterate

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    @ansylem

    February 15, 2024 at 11:58 am

    Thanks for the help with our history , but you all need to stop making us look as if we were dumb , uneducated, stupid, and illiterate . Firstly our knowledge and intelligence comes from nature and the earth, the white man's knowledge comes from books , secondly , 3nglish is a made it language and we were forced to learn this and we overcame that as well , please say this in your videos , WE ARE NOT AND NEVER WAS DUMB, PERIOD.

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    @bahiyyahmoore4851

    February 15, 2024 at 12:41 pm

    White Irish were slaves as well as Benjamin Franklin

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    @lorriet2922

    February 15, 2024 at 2:04 pm

    Really enjoyed this segment. Very informative and peaks my interest to do more research.

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    @worldsofhope

    February 15, 2024 at 4:48 pm

    Thank you for your in-depth research. I was especially fascinated to find out about King Charles II who provided the land for the Quaker William Penn the father of Pennsylvania…King Charles II, nicknamed "Blackboy" was also yhe grandson of King James Stewart of Scotland VI and King James I of England….
    King James was a black man….the Bible….The photos showing him whlite has been whitewashed..King James' mother was Mary Queen of Scots also a black woman.❤Gloria Jean

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    @kofoblue3172

    February 15, 2024 at 4:54 pm

    I am a descendant of Mary Fields on my grandmothers side of the family. My uncle used to tell me stories about her as they were told to him by people who knew her.

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    @tarecahubbard-holt1630

    February 15, 2024 at 6:09 pm

    I loved it! Thank you so very much. I went into it expecting to learn something new, but I did! ❤🎉

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    @edwinsharp9447

    February 16, 2024 at 5:45 am

    Someone should do a movie based on Stagecoach Mary, and cast Queen Latifah in the roll.

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    @corgeousgeorge

    February 16, 2024 at 9:10 am

    PT Barnum can suck it. Gross.

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    @user-yy5rk1vl5c

    February 16, 2024 at 9:06 pm

    I love black history of negritudes peoples and even black communities from Sub-saharan Africa countries and Caribbean countries and African-Americans communities in across America ❤❤😊😊

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    @user-yy5rk1vl5c

    February 16, 2024 at 9:15 pm

    Wow great awesome and even positively vibes to this oldest centernian African-American woman was born in 1686 and she was just 116 aged in 1802 that's Alice was very wonderful inspirational and powerful intelligent woman 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿🎉🎉🎉🎉😊😊😊👑👑

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    @EconMBAStudent

    February 17, 2024 at 12:47 am

    I was blown away by every woman’s life story. By what they endured, and what they contributed to history, thank you so much for the effort you put into the storytelling and accuracy, but more than that you put your heart into these stories, and that is noticed. I hope this channel rewards you in many ways. Thank you for sharing these compelling stories I am in awe of these women’s strength and fortitude.

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    @dreadnegus

    February 17, 2024 at 1:23 am

    Great video!!

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    @dreadnegus

    February 17, 2024 at 1:23 am

    Great video!!

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    @-t96

    February 17, 2024 at 9:07 pm

    Black History didn't start when slavery began and yet that is all that's told. The REAL Black History has been hidden and written in the bible since Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

    Black people of America, YOU are the real Jews. Read Deuteronomy 28 and ask any other nation who suffered through all those curses and are still going through them now!!

    It is time to wake up and return to your God! And your "African" brother who you try to trust in, hates you more than the white man!!!! They won't tell you the truth, that you were once king's and queens in Israel. They will tell you that you are a slave and your entire history is embedded in slavery. WAKE UP!! Follow the Lord your God with all your heart and open your eyes. YOU are the priests of God, YOU are God's people.

    If any are interested please watch Black History Told by the Prophets by IOGNEWS!!

    Isaiah 1:2-3 (KJV) 💥 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.💥

    The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. 👩🏿👨🏿👶🏿

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    @hotbreakers94569

    February 18, 2024 at 12:55 am

    All of these stories of beautiful, powerful and enduring black women for Black History month made my day. And also bring back fond memories of my report on Josephine Baker back in high school for French class. I was so astonished at all the things that she did yet she never saw the full recognition or got the full recognition in her lifetime. It's crazy to know we maybe remembered in history long after we are long gone as if it was in vogue and we are far from the physical world ❤

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    @kevinpoole4323

    February 18, 2024 at 6:36 am

    A Champion for Human Rights.

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    @ChildfreeMatto

    February 19, 2024 at 1:01 pm

    Thank you Forgotten Lives for having this video featuring African-American women who are now lesser known. Introducing people to these fascinating women. I throughly enjoyed this one.

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    @debbiemuhammad3659

    February 19, 2024 at 2:04 pm

    ALL SLAVES BROUGHT TO THE UNITED STATES CAME HERE IN CHAINS😡😡😡😡😡

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    @debbiemuhammad3659

    February 19, 2024 at 2:15 pm

    Idk how you can make the assumption that this woman was the oldest one on the planet at that time?? You couldn’t possibly have known that and neither did Isaiah Thomas

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    @khorne1221

    February 21, 2024 at 3:12 am

    The first lady, Alice of Dunk's Ferry lived to 116? Wow.

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    @HappyLife693

    February 21, 2024 at 4:03 pm

    As a southerner, I have heard the same statement from ancestors of slave owners as stated in this video (6:57), "We had slaves, but we were good to OUR slaves.". Slavery is bad no matter how "good" he was to her. I personally think it was worse to have slaves for personal status (i.e. someone to open the door, clean the house and other chores) than because an industry cannot sustain itself with paid employees because the cost at the market was low. Again, all slavery is bad! But no foreigner or resident of the northern US can hold his head high because he didn't put his indentured servant in the fields. Let's all recognize they all did it at some time and acknowledge it should never have happened. There is no way of equalizing the opportunities afforded the two races involved. But, black people are still living in an oppressive country and shaming the southerners (who are not all ancestors of slave owners) has not been working the past 200 years. Everyone own up to your part and see what can be done to shift the culture.

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    @Imissyoulou

    February 21, 2024 at 4:46 pm

    What about Elizabeth Reckley, the dress maker for Mary Todd Lincoln? She lived an interesting life, but died broke.

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    @milliebanks7209

    February 23, 2024 at 4:34 am

    I can't or don't recognize your accent! You do not sound like someone who truly knows their American history! For this reason, I'm out.

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