Comments by "Faramund" (@faramund9865) on "Genealogist Who Tracks Down Modern-Day Slavery Practices" video.

  1. His name is Karsten and I don't get that vibe at all. He just seems like he's below average with intelligence and not a bad person at all. Like someone mentioned before, looks more like an incest kind of vibe.
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  2. Donald can do whatever he wants, but he likes it there. And to be fair he doesn't really seem highly intelligent. So having a free place to stay while doing some work for food isn't all bad.
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  3. He's not though. He lives there rent free and is free to do whatever he wants. But he loves it there and is close to Karsten, feels like home to him. He wouldn't want it any other way. It's a progression right, their ancestors were eachothers slave/slaver. Then when that was abolished the Simralls offered to do sharecropping (not it's not slavery), which Donalds ancestors agreed upon, probably because there wasn't much else to make a living of as a former slave. And after the sharecropping was done they still decided to stay, I would guess because they didn't know any better and they weren't treated poorly at that point. It may seem like a really conspicuous and weird situation. But this man is free and chooses to stay there. Actually it seems the Simralls were never slavers, since they bought the place in 1899 when slavery was already abolished. So they just had the sharecropping going on. The slave owners of Donald his family were the Jeffreys, like is pointed out in the video.
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  4. ColinsCity I have to admit. I would want to find out my real ancestors too if I knew I was carrying the surname of the person who once kept them as slaves. I would make sure to change that surname very quickly.
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  5. So why does it belong to them? Because they were there first? You do realize they didn't inhabit all of America, only parts right?
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  6. BanaMUA Get out.
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  7. ellectrifying You know what’s powerful? A nuclear bomb.
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  8. Could use subtitles for some of these folks.
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  9. By no means has any historian ever claimed sharecropping is slavery. From wiki: "Sharecropping was a way for very poor farmers, both white and black, to earn a living from land owned by someone else."
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