#Enslaved

Stephen Kent

Stephen_Kent89

Almost to the end of my chapter on "Free Will" and whether it exists, for my book #HowTheForceCanFixTheWorld. Been thinking a lot about it. Then my daughter randomly comes up

Abhishek Mukherjee (@SachinAzharCT)

ovshake42

Bina Das was born on this day, 1911.She was, to put things in the simplest way, an Indian freedom fighter.On February 6, 1932, her convocation day, she tried to shoot

SLANK

DabSquad_Slank

The Deepest South: The United States, Brazil, & the African Slave Trade - Gerald Horne (2007) our ancestors didn’t embrace the U.S. flag they attacked it, they saw it for

Lebogang Jessica Kelebemang

PoxicBarracuda

Okay okay, I didn’t want to comment into this until I was sure I truly understood what was going on. I’d like to believe that she doesn’t know or understand

Keri

KeriResists

White men have had superiority complexes since the existence of white men. They’ve always feared being inferior. POC have always been stronger, more muscular, harder workers, and that threatened the

Pontius Pilate

ChiefKappa23

Happy Juneteenth to everyone! Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. Dating back to 1865, it was on June 19th that

Elijah the Middleborne

TheMiddleborne

The history of slavery in human history is complex and stretches from pre-history to the present day. It includes people from every culture, race, religion, and creed as both the

The Clean Libertarian

LibertyDrew84

The Jedi are just as bad as the Sith: A thread... Exhibit A: as we all witnessed in The Phantom Menace, Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan are saints for saving Anakin from

Harsh Gupta Madhusudan

harshmadhusudan

I saw a Pak writer tweeting about bhakts/1000 year war.Only part of “India” which was enslaved for that long approx is West Punjab (Sindh longer, rest much less). And it

Fangirl Jeanne

fangirlJeanne

Sanditon and the pineapple.I’ve been wanting to discuss the British show, Sanditon, currently airing on PBS in the US.It’s an adaptation of Jane Austen’s incomplete manuscript of the same name,

#pocketsareagenderissue

KimPRobabli

Things I’ve said to ppl who make weird ass anti black comments that bring me small amounts of petty joy - a thread Updated as I remember Context -

Rachel Shelden

rachelshelden

It's #JUNETEENTH2020 and Black scholars, writers, and activists are providing so much wonderful context for this important holiday. Here is a thread of the articles, threads, and podcasts out

Don Robotham

dondee_don

An interesting question: why did a small country like JA have this outsized global cultural impact. Some thoughts: a) JA had most extensive oppressive large slave plantation regime; b) long

Lisa D. Cook

drlisadcook

I am a macroeconomist who uses lynching in economic analysis & was a student of George Akerlof, Barry Eichengreen, David Romer & Paul Romer.When I taught at Harvard, I taught

Kalaya'an Mendoza | ᜃᜎᜌᜀᜈ

KalaMendoza

I am a Filipinx American residing on stolen Native land, in a country built by & on the lives & forced labor of enslaved Africans; I have a responsibility to

dasini

bazinbar

The relationship between Assyrians and Yezidis — a thread: A Christian chronicle at the beginning of the 19th century mentions how the Yezidi princes traditionally paid a solemn annual visit