#Enslavement

Cornsoup conissour

rezdreams

Natives and African Americans have a shared history in enslavement by colonists. Between 2.5-5 million people indigenous to the Americans were enslaved by white colonists. Enslaved Natives were often shipped

Bugs Bunny🥕

YeahWhatsUpDoc

I'm going to break out some stuff from Soviet Psychopolitics. This is relative to today. Surely, more than just the Soviets have used these techniques, by now. The booklet is

Hannah Riley

hannahcrileyy

my friend just reminded me of this thought experiment from Bryan Stevenson -- imagine if, post WW II, Germany had kept the death penalty. Imagine that they still use it

Tweeting Historians

Tweetistorian

Welcome to day two of my #tweetistorian and #EarlyModernPeriod spree. Since yesterday's thread was about the colonist origins of the word "cannibal," today we'll explore those late 15th and early

Chris Dashiell

cdashiell

Slavery went unchallenged in surviving literature since ancient times. Aristotle, for instance, just assumed it was the natural order. Enslaved people were against it, of course, but if they left

Caitlin G DeAngelis

cgdhopkins

Larry Bacow just sent out this "I believe" email about loving the American Dream or whatever that doesn't make any mention of the ways that Harvard has specifically profited from

Samuel Otigba

SamuelOtigba

It is easy to remain in your comfort zone especially if you aren’t one given to ambition till adversity happens. The day I couldn’t afford to pay my new rent

Peter Mandler

PeterMandler1

For some reason, elite decisions without democratic participation to erect statues in the past are 'the people's preferences', but democratically elected local authorities' decisions to take down statues today are

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

Sarah Killam

sarahjoykillam

Meditating on Revelation 1 today, so here’s an atonement thread for your Monday evening: penal substitution & Christus victor in Rev. 1:5b-6. “To him who loves us and freed us

Christine Whyte

ChristineHWhyte

Exodus Cry are appropriating the language of 'abolition' in order to push an extremist anti-sex, anti-LGBT agenda.https://twitter.com/SlaveryMuseum/status/1339149039431012353 Prostitution is not the same as slavery, because sex work

Alicia Crosby

aliciatcrosby

Some of you are genuinely surprised & dismayed by the incoming election results & while I'm not, I'm touched by the tenderness present in that.You genuinely believe that people can

Red Sky Rising

RedSkyRising20

If you want to depopulate the population, you cant go to war with the people when they outnumber you 3Million to 1, so you slowly ease them into submission. Control

a Black-passing Latina.

aliciasanchez

When you're Afro-Latina from Miami, you are deeply familiar with the racism, white supremacy, classism, anti-Blackness, individualism and disdain of socialism (while benefiting from it) that emboldens Miami Cubans to

Collingwood 🇬🇧

admcollingwood

THREAD: (1/6) Please read the powerful story linked, and imagine how you'd feel if your daughter had been kidnapped, raped and sold into sex slavery, and how it would feel

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