#Slavery

Cassandra Good

CassAGood

The undemocratic way the electoral college works now is not even what the founders intended. And the electoral college itself was a compromise that nobody was fully satisfied with /1https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1324824219180584967

Ahmad Ibn Mosharraf 🏴‍☠️

IbnMosharraf

Nobody talks about keeping sex slaves unironically except a delusional teenager. But there is an elephant in the room that no one is addressing.It's prostitution and rapes in barracks. Especially

maya morena

themayamorena

A better curator of “Modern slavery” would have been Karen E Bravo or Julia O'Connell Davidson.This movement and it’s ideas are based on anti blackness and devaluing slaveryThreadhttps://twitter.com/SlaveryMuseum/status/127830032

Thomas A. Foster

ThomasAFoster

As Confederate statues come down, I'm reminded of what still needs to go up. Encourage @Reagan_Airport & @Amazon to memorialize those enslaved at Abingdon: "The Virginia portion of Amazon’s HQ2

Arjun Sampath 4 HR&CE Ministry

Indumakalktchi

It was not Manusmriti the cause of caste discrimination. Biblical theory of India and the Myth of Ham *****************************According to Bible there was a great flood, after which the descendants

Angus Johnston

studentactivism

If city councils and private institutions had had the power to remove Confederate statues at the beginning of this year, there would have been a lot fewer Confederate statues available

Patrick De Oliveira 🌹

PLSOliveira

It's not that statues can't teach, but that they can also erase (often the very purpose of monumentalization). We see this dynamic in two representations of Thomas Jefferson in D.C,

Kevin Gannon misses Grogu

TheTattooedProf

Hi there-Civil War historian here. So, uh...this is really, really far from "The Truth." Got a minute? /1https://twitter.com/senatormcdaniel/status/1029916257490018304 2/ Lee certainly did not believe slavery was wrong. In an 1856

Dave @🏠🖖 #BlackLivesMatter #WeAreStarfleet

1701Trekkie

Hey Rhode Island Trekkies, let's talk about the name of our state and why it's time to change it. It's Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. That's a lot of words.

Jefferson Davis

Jeff_Davis1808

1/Was it an insurrection? When certain sovereign and independent States form a union with limited powers for some general purposes, and any one or more of them, in the progress

Sean Dunn

SeanDun97838512

My heart goes out to the families of all of those lost on 9/11 and I mourn the death of every single one of those people who died instantly or

Janine Francois

itsJaninebtw

*LONG THREAD* Really interesting to see people talk about mixed-raceness /colourism w/o any historical analysis that situates why some DSBW feel the way they do. Is this not generational? Class

ACCO

CounteringCrime

1/7 Today’s @SenateJudiciary hearing on #CDA230, as predicted, focused on how social media spreads misinformation & suffers from political bias. @counteringcrime wants to point out a few highlights when the

Meg Kinnard

MegKinnardAP

Officials in the historic city of Charleston, South Carolina, are expected to vote to remove a 100-foot-high statue of former vice president & slavery advocate John C. Calhoun.I'll be in

random facts girl

soychicka

Every time I hear someone talking about reparations, I wonder why we don't do the logical thing to fund initiatives: ANYONE who inherited wealth derived from human slavery must

Kevin M. Kruse

KevinMKruse

In case you missed it, my creepy stalker @DineshDSouza is back, repeating his bizarre claim that "progressive historians" never write about how the Democratic Party was the party of slavery,

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