#Slavery

Was looking through the Race & Slavery Petitions Project while doing genealogical research last night, & stumbled upon this case of an Atlantic slaver, John Holman: http://library.uncg.edu/slavery/petitions/details.aspx?pid=1085The
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dear white people who are “discovering” BIPOC ancestral traditions,⠀ this shit is for US. i get it that ancestral wisdom and indigenous religions work. we know. our people were doing
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I appreciate the contribution Gadamer makes to our understanding of hermeneutics and interpretation, but what do I know? I only bothered to read his work. Seriously though, Gadamer has a
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• Thread •Why Somalis aren’t black The term black is a social construct which has no scientific bases nor serves as an identity. The concept of black was created
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We have become a nation that has lost its collective mind!• If a dude pretends to be a woman, you are required to pretend with him.• Somehow it’s un-American for
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It’s romance when I cook & serve my woman. But na slavery if na my turn. Una dey mad. It’s cute when I build my wife & help finance her
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Just a reminder for when a politician is called pro life: Pro life means reverencing the unborn child and the inmate on death row equally. #Catholic teaching is that both
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When 21st century evangelicals look down from their ivory towers to judge the sins of our forefathers saying “farewell” to Edwards, or throwing away gavels, or generally just dismissing the
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This what they did to us black people. Put us in these ghettos with limited resources. So we fight and hate on each other while it’s someone on the outside
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Spent part of my Mother’s Day call with my mom talking about her work on Wages for Housework in the 1970s, which you’ve probably never heard Silvia Federici mention. Also
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The database created by Catherine Hall which details all those people who got paid compensation for loss of slave property and the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade. We ALL
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No. For 2 reasons:1) White Americans are considered the heroes when it comes to Jewish ppl & WWII; but for Blacks/indigenous ppl they are the unequivocal villains. So while they
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It is clear to me that the federal Liberal Party has instructed actors from the Australian Hotels Association to complain to sympathetic media to attempt to manufacture consent for a
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The depiction of Donkey in Shrek has always made me uncomfortable. Shrek is a white man and has only been played by white men (Bway + Tours). Shrek is the
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White men.- We ended slavery.- We gave women the vote.- We fought the Nazis in WW2.- We are being discriminated. - "White privilege" is a racist myth.- "Male privilege" is
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On this Biafra Day, another heroic Igbo history apart from the Ekumeku Movement already tweeted about, I’d love to recall is the Igbo Landing. Which was made popular recently by
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