#Slavery

Bobbin Singh

Bobbin_Singh

We have 5,000 plus jails and prisons in the U.S. This is the most comprehensive and elaborate infrastructure of incarceration and punishment the world has known. "From slavery until today,

Garret Wassermann for PA 🌻

VoteGarret

Today is Juneteenth, the day in which the last of the Black slaves was released in Texas after the end of the civil war.The national black caucus of the Green

Woke Bible

BibleWoke

Rant: The flesh within me wants to go all Jeff Durbin and let fly with a few choice words but you'll get the sanctified version. But it is stuff like

Matt Swagler

lesindesirables

In 1957, Martin Luther King, Jr. went to Ghana, as the country celebrated the end of British colonial rule. He engaged with and spoke frequently about Africa anti-colonial movements for

Anand Giridharadas

AnandWrites

When I was a student in history classes, a common mantra was: Don't judge past people by present standards; that's anachronistic.One of the shifts happening now is the opening up

Openly Black Mikki Kendall

Karnythia

I don't know why people think the racism in the classics made them enjoyable for BIPOC readers. But, fun fact spending years immersed in lit that says your communities didn't

Caitlin G DeAngelis

cgdhopkins

I just received an email re: Harvard's plans to hire graduate students to continue the Harvard and Slavery research that I worked on for two years as the Harvard and

try jesus, don’t try me

zarimx

I can see the point about xenophobia, but I don’t think Black Americans descendant from US chattel slavery getting recognized for our unique history in this country is a bad

akhivae

akhivae

THREADThe Great Migration (1915-1970) of African-Americans out of the Southern U.S. to the cities of the Northern U.S. and West Coast sent shockwaves through the Southern U.S. Their economy had

Matthew Hall

MatthewJHall

"The Bible condemns all oppression. American slavery is systematically oppressive, as essential to its existence. Therefore the Bible condemns American slavery." (William Henry Brisbane, 1847) Brisbane's "Slaveholding Exa

Sean Zevran

SeanZevran

The notion of social progress is backward. Today, there is no question that genocide and slavery are wrong. There is no question the United States was established through these means.

James 💜 Loxley

oldnorthroad

This is my personal Twitter account, but I want to say this in my professional capacity as an academic deeply engaged in cultural heritage - it is not ok for

Jessica Marie Johnson

jmjafrx

I want to have a conversation about how hard it is to work and be a caretaker (child, elder, whoever) at the same time.../ ...but if that conversation doesn't foreground

the miseducation of cassius cruz

CRUELCASSIUS

i was watching stuff about how american slavery came into being and it showed me that Africans pre-slavery didn’t see themselves as all one. Pan Africaness is a new thing

Jed Shugerman

jedshug

The Hawley-Cruz faction & most House GOP are now "Bleeding Kansas" Republicans:I've been thinking about Kansas 1854-59 for a while.Let's be clear about what happens when political parties reject elections

davidallengreen

davidallengreen

Thought experimentAssume many of the estates in Jane Austen (the "thousands per year", dowries etc) were based in part on slaveryTo what extent would that change anything for you as(/if)

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