#Slavery

Silvia Secchi

ProfSecchi

Part and parcel of the US disfunction is the Jeffersonian agrarian ideal. It is based on erasing land theft and slavery while making farmers a special category worthy of praise

RJ Young

RJ_Young

Thread: It's not about Mike Gundy's shirt. Oklahoma State University admitted its first Black student in 1949. Back then Oklahoma State was called Oklahoma A&M, and it was a land-grant

Rasool Berry

rasoolberry

1/ “I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for that reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” - James BaldwinReflections on

Riale Mwazani

rialeallen

'Black Unity' lolhttps://twitter.com/Diddy/status/1294616616253165568 I saw a brilliant thread yesterday on why Somalis don't consider themselves 'black'.The thread describes black Americans as a people robbed of an iden

Unite in justice for the poor & oppressed

BreeNewsome

“I was prepared to support the humanity of Black people until I saw someone set a car on fire.” “I don’t know if I can support slavery abolition because I

Leiland

LeilandTanner

Do you see what I see?I first picked this scripture to read to my kids tonight before family prayer and to relate it to our world.Then I noticed the Chiasmus

Kelvin Odense (Not Odanz)

MrOdanz

Black Americans don't rate Africans at all. In fact, Black Americans think of Africans as inferior and treat Africans with contempt. They only reference Africa as "motherland" in debates against

National Geographic

NatGeo

Every Monday throughout #BlackHistoryMonth , we'll be passing the mic to someone from the @NatGeo family who will be highlighting an aspect of history or their work. Today we're hearing

avgvst

avgvstb

a fun game to play is to describe George Washington's presidency to neocons as if he were a present-day South American and then ask them if they'd invade and topple

Cory James Young

coryjamesyoung

Although she focuses on Baltimore rather than Philadelphia, @marthasjones_ book, Birthright Citizens, has a lot to add to this conversation. Indeed, it has shaped it! Also, thank you Black voters

G. K. Chesterton

GKCdaily

I am firmly convinced that the Reformation of the 16th century was as near as any mortal thing can come to unmixed evil. Even the parts of the Reformation that

Priya Satia

PriyaSatia

Some liberals who hysterically liken Trumpism to European fascism may indeed be blind to the longer reactionary political trajectories that led to Trump, as the "it's not fascism" intellectuals worry.

Corporate Machiavelli (Attending To Final Matters)

corporatemach

THREAD: Employees vs Employers “We who toil for other people have all in some way been captured by pirates and sold into slavery.” –Law 24 It should be said plainly;

SELFCONQUERING | The Arcane King 🌑👑

selfconquering

I was once sitting in a dimly lit train.Earphones in. Aggressive metal music blaring into my ears and my subconscious.I had a book with me. In my bag.But I didn’t

Natalie

quiqueliquique

I recently finished a dissertation chapter on the trade in Slavic captives via al-Andalus into the Islamic world in the 10thC. It was hard to write because I wanted to

Caleb McDaniel

wcaleb

1. Here's a short thought experiment that might help students or others understand why historians today reject "states' rights" as the cause of the Civil War. Imagine that 150 years

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