#Slaves

Asking “how can we have public safety if we abolish police & prisons?” is like asking “how can we harvest cotton if we abolish chattel slavery?”It’s a question reflecting a
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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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Every year on Memorial Day I think about David Blight's 2001 book Race and Reunion. A former coworker / Civil War buff recommended it to me. Still gets less attention
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Happy "White Grifter Sails to Wrong Continent and Shit Starts to Get Weird" Dayhttps://daily.jstor.org/when-native-americans-were-slaves/ In my ongoing writing of the Kony book I dug deeply into the ancient charts used
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When people say “Slavery was hundreds of years ago. Why are we still talking about it?”They are technically correct.But I am 56 years old, and my Great-Grandmother was born a
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People in this country can live their whole lives only interacting with people of their own racial background because most of it is physically segregated. How can we fight racism
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5 horrifying ways enslaved African men were sexually exploited and abused by their white masters #Thread Time and time again, the horrifying experiences of enslaved Africans working on plantations in
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A FB commenter called me a traitor and demanded I leave *his* country. SPOILER: My family and I have as much title to this land as he does. We paid
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These people are completely dishonest and since you want to keep qting me—>A thread on slavery in Islamic history, & debunking many of the historically erroneous claims Islamophobes like this
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When I was 5, we had a set of books about WWII. The cover was a collage of photos, airplanes, soldiers, the atomic bomb, Hitler etc. I noticed pinwheels and
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Fuck off home Polish vermin and Gypsies stealing our jobs shouted by disgusting xenophobic, racist Brexshitards for the last 4 years but now they don't move their lazy asses to
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Shouldn't a society that cares about the rights, safety, and the respectful treatment of women be against prostitution and the porn industry?Although one might argue that both of these can
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Reminds me of the comical but wrong translation of a Persian name of grape type into English as "young men's testicles"!The grape type is called Khair-i-Ghulaman & translates to alms
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about this time every year, when prom memories come up, I think about my friend who asked his gf to prom, which is when her parents realised she was dating
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1. Whenever I come across stories of slavery and slave trade, my skin crawls at the sheer evil humans perpetuated against other humans. But then, when I study the culture
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I love the true crime community because we are stubborn & believe that human beings matter & that justice is important.But jesus fucking christ, the indoctrination of conspiracy theories in
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