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Today we launch Slavery & the UVA School of Law, a new website and digital archive that explores the law school's historical connections to slavery. http://slavery.law.virginia.edu/ Digitized lecture notes kept
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Ida Bae Wells
nhannahjones
Twitter is probably the worse possible place to discuss the complex & nuanced dynamics involving race. But I swear, the way we’ve been taught about slavery & US apartheid has
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Michael McKoy
mkmckoy
Cotton's full quote: "As the Founding Fathers said, it was the necessary evil upon which the union was built, but the union was built in a way, as Lincoln said,
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Adam Rothman
arothmanhistory
RIP Bernard Bailyn, quite a historian. I would like to add one point about his contribution to the historiography of slavery...https://twitter.com/jennyschuessler/status/1291929219715469313 In his landmark book, Ideological Origins of the A
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Zikhona Valela
valavoosh
Slavery was abolished in the Cape on this day in 1834. Slavery had been in existence for 176 years. Slave owners were compensated for this "loss of labour" (the audacity)
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john milbank
johnmilbank3
Re apologising for slavery we need to remember that it was not often seen as an absolute evil by any past culture, including the Western, and not by the Bible.
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Ida Bae Wells
nhannahjones
If chattel slavery — heritable, generational, permanent, race-based slavery where it was legal to rape, torture, and sell human beings for profit — were a “necessary evil” as @TomCottonAR says,
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ChooseTheLight ⚓
sakkoira
https://whitespaceonline.org/real-history-of-slavery-in-2-minutes/ A series of 2 minute videos based on Thomas Sowell's 'The Real History of Slavery'. Sowell exposes the extreme antiwhite nature of the current telling of the his
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Ida Bae Wells
nhannahjones
Slavery was 1 of the most popular metaphors used by white colonists during the Rev to describe their treatment by the British bc as enslavers themselves,they cynically understood other white
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Timothy Sandefur
TimothySandefur
It’s not remarkable that there was slavery in America. Virtually every society in history had included slavery up to that point. What was unique was the creation of a regime
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Ibram X. Kendi
DrIbram
In 1865, Black people all over the South were saying this Union officials: Do not abolish slavery and leave us landless and disenfranchised. Do not force us towork for our
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Emma Dabiri
EmmaDabiri
My issue with the removal of the statues outside the #shelbournehotel is the fact that it conflates the unique barbarity and enduring legacy of the trans Atlantic slave trade with
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Josh Marshall
joshtpm
FWIW, and pace Dingus Tom Cotton, no one at the constitutional convention or really at any other part of the creation of the American Republic said slavery was necessary to
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Thabiti Anyabwile
ThabitiAnyabwil
While some mount defenses of slavery and slaveholding, the seminal event of the Old Testament that helps define God’s relationship w/ His people is His literal freeing them from slavery
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Ida Bae Wells
nhannahjones
While I appreciate the free advertisement for our journalism a year after the 1619 Project published, certainly seems like in the middle of an unprecedented economic catastrophe, 140k dead from
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Richard Parker
velohistorian
If you cycle through the small pretty Lincs village of Stubton close to the Notts border you would never guess its links with slavery It was the home of Sir
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