#Slaves

maya morena

themayamorena

A better curator of “Modern slavery” would have been Karen E Bravo or Julia O'Connell Davidson.This movement and it’s ideas are based on anti blackness and devaluing slaveryThreadhttps://twitter.com/SlaveryMuseum/status/127830032

Don Watkins

donswriting

This is totally wrong, IMO. 1. There is a glaring difference between founders and confederates. Founders are celebrated for creating a system based on individual rights, but didn't fully live

Dr. Rachel Schine

RachelSchine

In medieval Arabic chronicles, the ethnicity of qiyān (enslaved entertainers) is often unstated unless the woman becomes an umm walad (mother of an owner's child), at which point it still

Krishnan

cvkrishnan

Let me be as frank as possible @dhume. India and many other countries find global liberalism and certain forms of universalism as itself a form of conspiracy by developed countries

David G

_DavidG_82

In 1861, Abraham Lincoln expanded the law to form the legal basis for waging the Civil War. ... After the Civil War, the Insurrection Act was further amended to give the president authority to enforce the

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nidaaro

On this day of Black History Month, I want y’all to know that Argentina systemically erased it’s black population from 50 % (in some provinces) in the 1700’s to about

Lugh

lugh____

Small Thread of LOL facts I found with the ending relating to Kamala Harris and her Ulster-Scot Presbyterian Slave Owning Ancestor: According to John Mitchel in the Last Conquest Of

Renata Pumarol

RenataPumarol

1619 project is an excellent piece of work by @nhannahjones but I really wish it was clear that this project is about US slavery, not American slavery. (A THREAD 1/6

Stephen Langtry

StephenLangtry

The story of Goedverwacht (near Piketberg) begins with an enslaved woman, Maniesa, originally from Bengal, India. She was held in slavery by Hendrik Schalk Burger. Burger was a widower whose

Adam Michael Wood

adammichaelwood

I keep finding out that what most people think parables are about is wrongIn other wordsOften, the Standard & Obvious Plain Meaning of the Story, is directly the opposite to

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DavidJoy_Author

Histories and heritage have always been complicated at best. Like everything else that’s human, there’s a constant teetering balance between the ugly and the beautiful [a lengthy but well-intentioned thread]…

Griff Ferris

g__ferris

If we’re gonna talk about the UK’s history with slavery, how about we talk about the MPs whose money + power comes from slavery?Thread: Richard Drax MP (2010-now)Lives in 7,000-acre

Hannah Shepherd

hannahjshepherd

On the 1st of February 2021, the Japanese govt updated the comfort women section on the History Issues Q&A page of the Foreign Ministry website. You can see the differences

Colin Kalmbacher

colinkalmbacher

Neal Katyal is currently defending multinational corporations' right to own slaves before the Supreme Court right now in the consolidated cases of Nestlé USA v. Doe I and Cargill, Inc.

Vinay Gupta

leashless

The world is a single interwoven pattern of unacceptable truths.The US lifestyle uses 8 times the natural resources the world can sustain, if we all shared it. The top 10%

WenGuangLie 🇺🇸

guang_lie

@TeraWHunter - a professor of history at Princeton University wrote this article in 2017 in response to Ben Carson referring to enslaved Africans as immigrants:https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/03/09/slaves-werent-immigr

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