#SLAVE

John Harris

drjohnaeharris

Emilio Sanchez is one of the most interesting and important abolitionists you've never heard of. He was an anti-slave trade spy in #NewYorkCity in the 1850s and 1860s //THREAD Born

Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

sejr_historian

Setting protestors’ motivations for toppling him and Grant’s admirable work aside the he “briefly owned one slave” argument is problematic. Most slave owners owned

davidallengreen

davidallengreen

Thought experimentAssume many of the estates in Jane Austen (the "thousands per year", dowries etc) were based in part on slaveryTo what extent would that change anything for you as(/if)

Shane Vander Hart

shanevanderhart

Ulysses S. Grant who won the Civil War without which Confederate states would have continued slavery for who knows how long. Yes, he owned one slave for not quite a

Ridvan Aydemir | Apostate Prophet

ApostateRidvan

Mohammad owned numerous slaves, had sex-slaves, over 11 wives, a child bride that he married at 6, and he was a warlord who ordered to slaughter and enslave nonbelievers. There

Sho Kuwamoto

skuwamoto

This week, we partnered with our friends at @AdobeXD and @sketch to move away from the "master component" terminology.Predictably, we were met with a few replies from haters who thought

Katrina Jackson. TIREDT.

katrinajax

As much as I find bell hooks’ work on love interesting I think I’ve finally hit on why it never fully works for me. It’s so shockingly nostalgic. This lil

Unfuck Your Habitat

TeamUfYH

I'm seeing lots of people totally stunned by the fact that RI's official name is "The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations." What could a tiny New England state

🌻 Olivia A.🌻

OliviaHoney11

Euro-Africans (The mix-race children of European men and West African women.) were able to criss-cross the Atlantic. Some were very wealthy because of their background. Like Anne Rossignol. Anne was

John Harris

drjohnaeharris

What was Walt Whitman doing on a slave ship in 1856? /Thread Whitman had recently published the first edition of Leaves of Grass. Reviews were mixed. He was struggling financially.

abolitionism = spicy reformism

no_slave_coasts

“The key to understanding the contrasts between the slave system of the United States and that of the Caribbean and Latin America… probably lies in variants in the emphasis upon

No Bigots, Idiots, or worthless trash🚷🚯|BLM

TheWolfmanHulk

The influence of Friedrich Nietzsche on Kentarou Miura’s Berserk Berserk has taken some influences from the ideas of German philosophy Nietzsche. The most common example is the Ubermensch, also known

Historic.ly

historic_ly

Strawman: You cannot judge slaveholders by today's standards. Me: Ok. Let's judge him by what their contemporaries thought of them:https://twitter.com/historic_ly/status/1265817171663499264?s=20 Samuel Johnson wrote this in response

Clint Smith

ClintSmithIII

Between 1936 and 1938, the federal government collected the narratives of over 2,300 formerly enslaved people. I tracked down the descendants of people who were interviewed and wrote about what

Rebecca Pierce

aptly_engineerd

TIL that the first Jewish US senator was a pro-slavery politician from Florida whose father immigrated from Morocco. He fought to recapture former enslaved people in the Second Seminole War

abolitionism = spicy reformism

no_slave_coasts

refusing to center antiblackness is another level of counterinsurgency that can't be contained to just the state, "the ruling class", or the far right. it's the bedrock of an entire

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