#Slavery

I was reading about Hayes/Tilden and got depressed (thanks @nedfoley!!) so decided to write a quick thread about Josiah Walls, whose fascinating story I am writing about in my book.
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I find this Jill Lepore op ed extremely frustrating. 1/https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/truth-reconciliation-tribunal-trump-historians/2020/10/16/84026810-0e88-11eb-b1e8-16b59b92b36d_story.html To begin with, though Lepore treats them
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1. We are entering a period of unprecedented threat to our democracy. Sound hyperbolic, look at the facts. @realDonaldTrump is deliberately lying to the American voters about a public health
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Four hundred years ago today the Mayflower left England for America, carrying the “Pilgrims” who founded Plymouth Plantation. A century ago this anniversary was a huge deal; now it’s…complicated (thread)
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Løve Jîhå∂ [Thread]What is happening in Kochi? This is going to be a long thread; purely from the notices in the marriage registrar's office. Almost ALL notices there are of
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I have to confess that I do have what I guess some would call "purity tests," though I prefer to think of them as perfectly reasonable requests. Morals are supposed
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The group Open Texas is setting up a rally outside Frisco City Hall. I just overheard one woman tell another, “what a great excuse to have a party with all
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The Trap The Democrats Walked Right Intohttps://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/the-trap-the-democrats-walked-right?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=twitter "In the current chaos, I’ve come to appreciate Marcus Aurel
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Tonight, we're going back to the evening of November 17th 1966. A Clown puppet-show that launched the medical Pandemic we know today as Trump Derangement Syndrome.It was injected into the
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C/W:Slavery, black violenceWe really need international solidarity. It's not ethically important but the US is responsible for a significant portion of the harm internationally. I am going to piece together
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Thread on our bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee Russia report"At the direction of the Kremlin," Russians threatened our democracy in 2016—and that threat remains for 2020. And one issue they exploited
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This was some interesting bulleted thoughts from someone else I thought was worth the share:We are living in a Bizarre World:• If a dude pretends to be a woman, you
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gonna vent for a sec: it’s really hard for me not to express the intense anger i feel at people promoting white supremacy, racial capitalism, policing/surveillance, etc. i have to
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https://www.tracingcenter.org/resources/background/james-dewolf/“The DeWolf family fortune was built on the buying and selling of human beings. DeWolf slave ships brought the enslaved from the west coast of Africa to auction blocks in
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So, let me do a bit of story time on @KanyeWest, since he thinks he's out of The Sunken Place. And I can't thank @JordanPeele enough for his metaphor. *stirs
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When I was involuntarily coerced into Mormonism 40 years ago, I was told our leadership spoke directly to Jesus, that my 12-year-old self could defeat Satan, & God's only true
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