#Slavery

Kim A. Wagner

KimAtiWagner

We often hear this question in debates about the Empire: 'Is there a single positive thing to be said, in your view, about the British Empire?' The answer is no

Champagne Sharks Podcast

ChampagneSharks

Still powering through Gone With the Wind, it’s too bad to watch in one sitting so I do an hour a day. I’ve come to realize Southern belles are the

Renée Landell

Nay_Landell

The Mammy stereotype.Mammy is the cheerful and willing house-slave. This cheerfulness is depicted in films/novels, namely the main character #AuntJemima from 'Gone with the Wind.' The Mammy was created to

Andrea Gallo

aegallo

Plantations are fascinating, complicated, nuanced places when they commit to telling the truth about their pasts (as some in Louisiana, including the famed Oak Alley, are increasingly doing). Places of

Dr Rob Thompson

DrRobThompson

Day 1 of Confederate Heritage Month. The U.S. Army's 55th Pennsylvania Infantry defeated slaver forces at the Battle of Simmon's Bluff in South Carolina on 21 June 1862. SC's treasonous

taehyung’s bestie

busansego

welcome to my history class: allow me to educate you on the history of black people being oppressed in the US because i fucking paid attention in history and know

NKCHS BLACK STUDENT UNION

nkchsbsu

I just remembered something... The knowledge I have of Black history today, I didn't have it until 10th grade. There are a lot of stuff I didn't know and I

Carlos Osweda

COsweda

ThreadThe importance of NEVER erasing, simplifying, or lying about history.Germans went from "We're all guilty" to "We're all victims."Neither claim is true.Watch this video later.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

Absurdistwords

absurdistwords

When you replace "Owned slaves" with"Was an active and willing participant in a vast conspiracy to kidnap children from their families in order to force them into industrial and sexual

Tom Malinowski

Malinowski

If one group can take down a statue of Jackson, others can topple one of Dr. King.The right way to do this is to petition your local gov't, and demonstrate

Tim Meshginpoosh

OldReepicheep

Yep.https://twitter.com/RaviScam/status/1263868045736337409 Ravi is gone. Even if you're a Ravi diehard, there's no productive reason to keep the NDA in place. Unhiding the bodies allows for transparency, and for appropriate lessons

Occultism Is Everywhere Bruh.

AChristServant1

The Bible is actual Black history & it’s backed up scripturally, geographically, & historically yet America loves to connect Blacks to American slavery & conveniently connect the Bible to whiteness.

dylan!

nxinoa

a t*ump supporter in my political science class is very uneducated and tries to argue very weak and preposterous claims so here’s a thread today he tried arguing that european

DEFUND & ABOLISH POLICE, REFUND OUR COMMUNITIES

BreeNewsome

We can't have honest discussions about colorism because it forces folks to confront how they've been conditioned through generations of oppression to hate & devalue black women in service to

Nicholas Guyatt

NicholasGuyatt

Have been reading John Chester Miller's 1977 book on Jefferson and slavery and it is _fascinating_ to think about Miller's liberal anxieties and red-lines through the prism of the current

Julian's Rum 🥃

JuliansRum

1/ First, think of [their] keystone as an INVERTED keystone. https://twitter.com/johnoutbakjak/status/1151976602575577089 2/ It is the keystone which keeps “the door” locked and barred. What does the door represent? 3/ Our