The Untold Story of Black Wet-Nurses: Sacrificing Their Own to Feed White Babies!

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The Untold Story of Black Wet-Nurses: Sacrificing Their Own to Feed White Babies!


Dive into a lesser-known chapter of American history exploring the experiences of black wet-nurses, who were often compelled to breastfeed white babies, sometimes at the expense of their own children’s well-being. This video examines the historical context, personal narratives, and this practice’s lasting impact on black mothers and the…

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  1. From watching this video, I see the exploitation of African American women but I also see circumstances change with white women. It seems that all women are vulnerable to what society deems is 'right'.
    Our fight for equal rights is still beginning. Stay strong, have courage sisters!

  2. The creator of this content did an excellent job in arranging and presenting this information. I just subscribed and you should too because I want to continue being educated😊

  3. I feel awful for all the women i hate this happened and ashamed. You all will never be forgotten. In my mind you all are wonderful and beautiful. You are artists in motherhood and strength to have to endure the most horrific and injustices of human nature. My soul aches for you. Breastfeeding is God given and beautiful. I was jealous of family members who was able to nurse their babies. I was only able to nurse for two weeks. Then i could not. I was told by some i should not nurse at all and that was inappropriate. My third child i could not nurse at all due to medical complications. This part of history was unknown to me until now. All my ladies you are loved and beautiful. I pray many blessings for you in the name of Jesus. We may not live in this times but racism and other forms of slavery still exist. It just called something else. We still have further to go to stop madness and centuries of changing stereotypes and opening hearts and closed minds and ignorance.

  4. This goes to show that the racist criminals are psychopaths.
    Diabolical !!!

    If they really think they’re better than blacks; they wouldn’t have gone that rooting for why would anyone feed their babies with inferior food.

  5. The Black woman is the mother of us all. And the so-called white babies grew strong, and the white adults came and snatched the children from the black woman's honey suckle breast. When they separated the white children from the black mother's who cared for them. A sort of bond was made between the white children and the black substitute mothers. The white adults didn't like that, so they filled their children's minds with the toxicology of racism. 🍯 👶

  6. Sickening to me to have to breast feed a baby that isn’t mine but to let her own baby left to hang I’m so done they didn’t want them to feed there own baby thinking they may not have Milk for there horrible

  7. Thank you for speaking on this topic. I did not know the history of the Wet Nurses, but I had an older white lady tell me her grandmother had a Black woman breastfeed her baby because she couldn't breadtfeed her baby. I didnt know that was big business during salvery. I thought it was cruel for the white lady to tell me that the Black lady was breastfeeding the white baby because she was trying to help the grandmother breastfeed the White baby and that was why she was breastfeeding the baby. I see now it was expected of the Black Woman to feed the White baby. Thank you for telling us about our history. I am a 69 year old African American Woman and I didnt know about the Wet Nurses during slavery. When the White woman told me story of the Black Woman breastfeeding her grandmother's baby I now have a better understanding of what happen to my people all those centuries ago.

  8. Aunt Jemima was very much like women i have known. At least the personality ( she wasn't a rounded out individual ) The problem was that , she is a characterized person or of a person. Also she is not representative of black women in general . But she is not inhuman by any means . I a 57 year black ( dinosaur ) man

  9. This why people like governor Ron DeSantis, do not want black history to be told in the school system but yet they will have the history of the Jewish holocaust and other nations being told in their school system. This is just plain evil and if anybody called this racist, they are the racist, because this is just pure truth, and the history of a people that is not being told.