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Robert P. George
McCormickProf
1/ I sometimes ask students what their position on slavery would have been had they been white and living in the South before abolition. Guess what? They all would have
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FREESOIL 🇮🇱
Freesoilyeah
1/ What if "slavery" was just called something else? Blacks worked fewer hours per year than free white farmers, had better nutrition as inferred from height (blacks are actually slightly
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Brian Gay 🌻
bgaymoreoften
Slavery in the South could not have flourished without help from the North. The deeply religious Mass Bay colony built the first American slave ship. Liberal Rhode Island sponsored thousands
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Nicholas A. Christakis
NAChristakis
I’ve been teaching, talking, and tweeting about this for years, but it’s worth repeating: the ongoing existence of real slavery in the world, today, doesn’t get the attention it deserves.
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Joshua D. Rothman
rothmanistan
The framing of the role of race and slavery in American history in the order to create the "1776 Commission" isn't surprising, but it's still remarkable somehow to see slavery
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George Reisman
GGReisman
Slavery as the Cause of General Loss While slavery enriched slave owners, it impoverished not only the slaves but also the United States as a whole. Its impoverishment of the
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Jim Robottom
jimrobottom
1/5 One of the survivors who died before his case reached First Tier Tribunal was my client. He was trafficked, sold + retrafficked into extreme labour exploitation over 3 years.
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Martin Daubney
MartinDaubney
Q. Why don’t Black Lives Matter care about modern day slavery? A. Could it be because most modern day slave drivers aren’t white? Even though most slaves are from BAME
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Kate Wilton
KateWilton1
My daughter was telling me about John Bolton, a slave trader and once owner of Storrs Hall on Windermere. A building I passed ever day to and from work. Born
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Ida Bae Wells
nhannahjones
It might be shocking to you to learn that most Black Americans descend from slave owners due to the pervasive sexual assault of enslaved women. The average Black American is
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Jim Robottom
jimrobottom
REMEDIES FOR PEOPLE SUBJECTED TO MODERN SLAVERY ARE COMPLETELY INADEQUATE.It makes me so angry. Reyes was issued in 2011. 10 years of work on these cases by @ATLEUnit+ others. 4
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MagaMama
BarbaraLeeBurn1
1) At the very least, society can try getting history correct. The war did not "begin" over slavery, The south was seceding from the union in a protest to taxation.
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Adam Kotsko
adamkotsko
Slavery was a world-historical crime unique in human history and uniquely severe and persistent in the United States. The Civil War was initiated by the South in order to maintain
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The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy
glasgow_sugar
I applaud the University of Glasgow for commissioning the research that revealed historic connections with Atlantic slavery (and allowed me time in institutional archives). I also applaud the institution for
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Renata Pumarol
RenataPumarol
1619 project is an excellent piece of work by @nhannahjones but I really wish it was clear that this project is about US slavery, not American slavery. (A THREAD 1/6
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Esther Swaffield-Bray
estherswaff
Thank you for the lovely interview @LadyCaraBentley and for highlighting the work of @IJMUK during the Covid Crisis: these are crimes that thrive in the dark; so shining a light
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