#Enslaved

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So a right wing conspiracist/fake historian is saying, "Kamala Harris has a slaveowning ancestor, so she was never underprivileged! Dems, you support someone whose ancestor OWNED SLAVES!" But what US

katemessner

KateMessner

In a recent review of The Next President, someone objected to the page that discusses America's first presidents because it includes the fact that most of them enslaved people. I'd

Ava-Santina

AvaSantina

In this interview David Starkey said:‘Slavery was not genocide, otherwise there wouldn't be so many damn blacks in Africa or in Britain would there?’This interview was pushed on platforms and

Terrance Carroll

speakercarroll

If it seems like I'm fired up about faith & politics today, I am! Since enslaved African were 1st exposed to Christianity its been used as a cudgel used to

Choctaw & Chickasaw Freedmen

ChoctawFreedmen

Happy Birthday to iconic abolitionist, writer, and statesman Frederick Douglass. Because he was enslaved, he was never 100% sure of when his actual birthdate was, but knew it was in

Nicka Sewell-Smith

neeksmith

I’m sure you’ve the initial order that General Granger read in Galveston 155 years ago, but there’s a huge part of the story that folks may not know about. #JUNETEENTH2020

Curtis Harris

curtismharris

The US is actually fairly unique in the Americas in that the federal government did NOT compensate masters for emancipation, with the exception of DC Emancipation which covered about 3k

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kristoncapps

The Emancipation Memorial in Lincoln Park was funded entirely by freedmen and women. They should have gone with Harriet Hosmer's design — which would have showed Abraham Lincoln flanked by

Jasmine Soliman

JIsoliman

TW: Gamification of enslaved peoples. I know, its fashionable and digital humanities projects might get extra funding, but **not everything needs to be gamified**Please read @NAMansour26 's entire thread. Some

Leslie Harris

ProfLMH

The New York Times and The Smithsonian Magazine have both reported on the research of @Utterly_Jessie, who published an essay about Alexander Hamilton's ownership of enslaved people, his legal work

Professor Wright

Savion

Before Wall Street was the center of financial trade, it was the largest slave market in the North. Yes, and it is STILL located in that same area. And exactly

Caitlin G DeAngelis

cgdhopkins

One way to think about how many of Massachusetts' "patriot" leaders were enslavers is to imagine a dinner party John Adams attended in Boston in 1771. Of the ten men

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

Victoria aut morte

AutMorte

Black man goes on spiritual journey to trace his slave ancestors... finds out his black ancestor was a slave master! Lest we forget: the British were enslaved by Rome

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)

Khensu Neferhetep The Reminder

KNeferhetep

Sometimes I ask my children to vote on what they would like to eat. Because I pay for the food my vote really is the only vote that counts. If

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