Issa Rae’s Dramatic Family History Is Like a “Soap Opera” | Finding Your Roots | Ancestry©

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She’s so beautiful

Her skin is like creamy Hersheys milk chocolate. Just flawless.

So Issa Haitian ayyyye

Yes you was great in the Barbie Movie gurl 9/30/23 .

To all those who believe this is a “Gotcha” it isn’t. Many free blacks purchased members of their families aka “engaging in the slave trade” just to free them. It technically made them a slave owner but it’s understandable as many of them either freed their black slaves or kept them as workers as that was all the slaves knew how to do. It was very dangerous being a free black slave depending on the state you were in. This is not a “complicated” institution. This guy is trying to paint a picture that did not exist. Any actual black slave owner who was engaging in the same as white slave owners were both a miniorty and an exception to the rule. Free blacks overwhelmingly bought slaves to free them or provide better treatment, end of story and that’s a fact.

As a person of New Orleans creole descent, this is similar to a lot of our family histories too. My family has been in New Orleans for hundreds of years and before that Haiti. I never knew how I and my city were connected to Haiti until I researched my family tree.

I work at a country club and know some members by the name Charbonnet. I wonder if they are related.

Not shocking. Free blacks were known to purchase slaves so they could free them.

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Often?

Black Americans are so ignorant of the black slave owners in the USA and in Africa.

Hers can make a movie

Hi edagdwg God bless this special story of what happens when you are blessed to know the truth about your own family stay strong and enjoy your life. God is always around taking care of his children life is soooooo real Linda j. Peace

Lemme guess , They came here on a boat….

I been telling ppl about those Black Slave Drivers

Issa needs to go to Senegal ❤

I’m from New Orleans and it’s so cool to me how a lot of us are connected.. especially if you have creole roots. So amazed to see she has roots to a prominent New Orleans family that are still prominent. Love it ❤

I want someone to do this for me lol

I love this actress. A genius, transmits incredible energy. I want more seasons of insecure!!!

She is a real beautiful woman ❤😊

Exactly, in Haiti, the Mulatoes were also slave owners in Haiti and also Jamaica, Quadroons were called Brown people and many owned slaves and were worse than their White fathers!

Free person of colour, were Creoles or Mulato, not Black. Gates is a 1 droppist so he calls Mulattoes, Black.

Would love to know more about her Dad’a side. Did they trade slaves?

Again, doing something for celebrities and famous people, when ALL deserve to know their history that was hidden from them. Stolen histories should be returned.

Wow it be your own people smh 🤦🏾‍♀️

I found a very interesting history on both sides of my family. One side descends from slaves while my other side has Native American roots as well as people who fought in the Revolutionary War

I wonder does this show actually help REGULAR folk and not just those in the entertainment industry????

I want to be in the show

If you’re White and your consuming her content,, just know, she hates you and doesn’t support you

This was a great story for Issa and her family to hear about. I enjoyed this video.

This is an amazing story. All my ancestors were slaves but unfortunately we don’t have many records on them and not for a lack of trying.

Well, black Africans sold other black men and women to white men waiting on ships on the shore.

She’s soooooo pretty 🤩

This is french colonual history and Louisiana history that is not taught on a national level so people of that background learn the history of the south as their history when in fact that narrative is not theirs. It is the story of Louisiana that is there's. This comes from America needing to assimilate peoplr for its own national narrative

But is Anyone PAYING ATTENTION though..this ENTIRE thing was said in CODE. Most people DON'T even know who issa actually is. " Shes" been putting on a front this WHOLE time. I see right through this B.S though. The things that happen on earth ALWAYS directly reflect what has happened in the higher realms BEFORE "so called issa" even got here.

Apparently in French-owned Louisiana French men (being French) had (Black) mistresses. They set them up in pretty little houses and so these women (who were officially slaves) had their own domestic slaves. (Don't know if this phenomenon has been properly researched. Anyway it's an interesting bit of information.)

This was phenomenal! I would love to see her paternal side and also, I would love for ancestry to take these creatives TO their respective homelands. Issa in Haiti for the first time?! I’d love to see it! It would make this project even much more full circle ✍🏾

Amabla is an Indian name, not a White European name. Indians have been in Haiti and the Caribbean for at least four centuries. Remember, Haitians were free in Louisiana. And, Haitian mulattoes acted as banks and lent money to White slave owners in Louisiana.

Her slave owner were black. Her white side were slave owners as well in Haiti

thanks to Ancestry, after 50+ years, my adoption papers were unsealed, I found out I had 2 younger brothers and sisters. I found them a year apart and ever since, the 3 of us have been video chatting on fb and I couldn't be happier! So many holes and unanswered questions FINALLY answered, what an amazing gift!!!!

Allll the charbonett are light skin in new orleans. girl call yo pplz, Charbonnet Funeral Home.

Hi Barbie!

This was corny. Why did they only trace her white lineage's story. Then also, why didn't they explain the reason and background of the black slave owner and HOW he came into owning her great great great great grandmother.

she is glowing, so pretty

Slavery was very complicated even more so in Louisiana

The Hamite Egyptian enslaved my people

She needs to turn it into a movie