#Slavery

Archaeologists! Politicians and sections of the British media are attempting to pillory a timely, excellent and much-needed report exploring the connections of colonialism and historic slavery to National Trust properties.
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A couple of things to say about this.https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/123976551/women-are-the-primary-victims-of-human-trafficking-new-zealands-plan-to-stop-slavery-forgot-them?cid=app-iPhone (1)“The spokesperson said the ministry w
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Yes, Lincoln was a pushover who was so desperate to bring our “badly divided country” together that he expended political capital on passing a Constitutional amendment banning slavery. That was
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My great great grandfather owned slavesWhen they were free’d he gave them their houses and offered them employmentHe was a “good” slave ownerThis is the story I grew up with
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Today, on #MLKDay , The Trump administration released this 1776 Report as a retort to the NYT's 1619 project which centered the American story on African-Americans and their contributions to
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There are few bigger examples of how poorly our education system is than when it comes to the issue of SlaverySlavery was forced onto the American colonies by the British
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1) How to talk to your snowflake bilgepuppy DemoKKKrat son/daughter/nephew/niece on Thanksgiving.2) "Why do you hate?" THEM: "WHAT??"3) YOU: "Well, your party is founded on hate. The DemoKKKrat Party was
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I was actually waiting for this response, which comes from people so addicted to grievence that they are unable to engage with the scholarship as it exists.https://twitter.com/sullydish/status/1274012867839365120 Read McPherson, read
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The de facto supermajority threshold was first forged against civil rights. Jim Crow-era segregationist senators repurposed a 1917 Senate rule to force every civil rights bill to clear a supermajority
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One of Trump's closest advisors just posted pictures of Winston Churchill, Abe Lincoln & Andrew Jackson followed with the statement: PRESIDENT TRUMP WILL NOT BE CONCEDINGWhy is that importantJackson fought
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African women being sold to slavery in Libya and yes this is recent! and happens every .single .day!Where’s #blm activists?Why these black lives don’t matter? Is it because they
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Just to be clear, the BBC demeans itself with the ridiculous suggestion that the National Trust has gone ‘woke’ (please stop normalising this meaningless rightwing jargon!!)and it also trivialises an
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Between 1936 and 1938, the federal government collected the narratives of over 2,300 formerly enslaved people. I tracked down the descendants of people who were interviewed and wrote about what
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in chapter 5 of _Wage Labour and Capital_, Marx asks the question "What is a Negro slave?"and answers with "A man of the black race. The one explanation is worthy
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This is for those who say things like.... "Well, slavery's been over. So why can't black people just get it together and succeed. Everyone else has."... "actions, not your race
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I didn't intend to write this now, but the times called for it: In this moment, the most tragic of outcomes would be that the demand be too timid and
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