#Emancipation

Latif Nasser

latifnasser

The Black Belt story is painful but profound. The death of plankton led to the life of cotton, which led to the bondage of enslaved people who harvested it, which led

Roy Turner

TrickyKid2

It’s a Wonderful Day to talk @Prince To be clear this thread will be covering the two versions from the recently released #SOTTSUPERDELUXE Box Set. His original version as well

Bill Figueroa

IranChinaGuy

Inspired by my answer on @askhistorians yesterday, I decided to share a thread about #Slavery in #China. What was slavery like in China? Who were #Chinese slaves? And how did

Marc Caputo

MarcACaputo

Lost Cause meet Crazy Cause: using Juneteenth to tear down of the San Fran. statue of Ulysses S. Grant —who won the Civil War that led to emancipation, long before

Jeff McFadden

homemadeguitars

This is a dangerous topic and I ask for careful reading before replies.In order for the US to have the economy it had, and still has, he's right: slavery was

Terry Stokes

TerryJ_all_day

Today my parish, St. Philip's, Harlem, celebrates the (unofficial*) feast of Peter Williams, the second black man ordained in TEC. I am delighted to have had the honor of creating

micah | JUNETEENTH

HOLLYWOODMADDEN

the history of juneteenth- just in case you don’t know share this thread and educate yourself!! juneteenth is one of the oldest nationally celebrated holidays in celebration of the abolishment

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zei_squirrel

one thing chomsky and marxists get right: there are no more skilled ideologists for the ruling class, whose job it is to manufacture consent for the racist, classist status quo

Leslie Harris

ProfLMH

The New York Times and The Smithsonian Magazine have both reported on the research of @Utterly_Jessie, who published an essay about Alexander Hamilton's ownership of enslaved people, his legal work

Rema♥️🇬🇭

Remaone1

Thread of the behind story of Ghana y'all need to know The red represent the blood of those who died in the country struggle the independance. The gold the mineral

Club Passim

clubpassim

Passim is featuring Black folk musicians in honor of #JUNETEENTH2020 . Today is a celebration of the emancipation of the last remaining enslaved African Americans in 1865 @vancegilbert's live shows

The Rājaputra

therajaputra

Ever wondered why Marathas, Sikhs, Muslims, Jats, Ahirs, Gujjars, Ahoms, Socialists, Left, Right, some Southerners, or even some Brahmins can't stop attacking Rajputs? Wondered what purpose does it solve for

dr. tricia matthew

triciamatthew

I'm not going to do a hashtag syllabus thing, but here's stuff to read and listen to if you want to think more about my read of "Bridgerton"Imoinda's Shade: Marriage

toxic feminist era (she/they)

pussyriottt

criminalising triple talaq and why it is anti muslim women: a thread gonna break it down point by pointbackground history - two kinds of divorces in the sharia, the first

Fledgist 🥀🇯🇲🇬🇧🇺🇸

Fledgist

On 1 August 1834, Britain abolished slavery in its colonies. While this was greeted with rejoicing by the slaves of the British West Indies, and by British abolitionists, not everyone

Matthew Hall

MatthewJHall

"The Bible condemns all oppression. American slavery is systematically oppressive, as essential to its existence. Therefore the Bible condemns American slavery." (William Henry Brisbane, 1847) Brisbane's "Slaveholding Exa

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