#Antebellum

Olivia Yeager

OliviaYeager3

#introaas200 https://www.thedailybeast.com/django-unchaineds-bloody-real-history-in-mississippi Django Unchained, though a very good movie, is not a real slave story. It’s good to watch for entertainment, but these dramatized ‘slave nar

Obbie Tyler Todd

obbietylertodd

I don’t know if I ever qualified as a “Neo-Confederate,” but I certainly bought into the Confederate mythology in my early 20s. As a freshman at the University of Kentucky,

Barrett Goodwin

HogwildWarrior

THREAD: Tonight’s images of the police response to protests over the murder of #GeorgeFloyd have me thinking about the juxtaposition of two images out of the Midwest in recent weeks:

Tanna Leclaire

trsherrill

Hello, very confused non-Michiganders wondering wtf all these Confederate Battle Flags are doing at a protest in Lansing, MI.Allow me to chat a bit about the demographics/history/culture of The Superior

MimZWay

MimZWay

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

Ashton Merck

awmerck

Disrupting the Cause Lawyering Narrative -- great panel by 3 early career scholars that questions how we should define and understand "cause lawyering" -- #ASLH2019 (thread 1/13) Alexandra Havrylyshyn begins

VANITY FAIR

VanityFair

Fear can feed hate, prejudice & injustice. These storytellers—@VictorLaValle, @TananariveDue, @BushRenz, @NiaDaCosta—are using fear to fight those things. More on the Black Horror Renaissance:http://vntyfr.com/WmRrKG9 After Ge

Tricia Pendergrast

traependergrast

In the antebellum period, the United States' framework for medical licensing collapsed.What happened? (Hint: there are implications for today)[a #medhistory thread] Early medicine in the US was far more art

Keri Leigh Merritt, Ph.D.

KeriLeighMerrit

I have so much to do today but if I could I'd write an op-ed on the ways slaveholders & the #Confederacy kept poor whites uneducated, illiterate, & ignorant of

thotcrime

thotcrime3

Another trope I'm sick of: the Modern Jezebel. She's the music industry's answer to the hyper-sexualized Black female imagery first made famous in the Antebellum South, where it was used

Son of Baldwin (Robert Jones, Jr.)

SonofBaldwin

Much like the brutal plantation system of US antebellum slavery, where the enslaved could sometimes purchase their freedom or the freedom of loved ones if they could come up with

Morgan Jerkins

MorganJerkins

*cracks knuckle*Okay y'all here we go. In the September 2018 issue of VOGUE, Beyoncé said that she was a descendant of a slave owner who married an enslaved woman.People were

Secret SoSHHiety

SouledOutWorld

The Noahide pandemicBy The Irish SavantThursday, 31 October 2019Noahide Laws are, according to Wikipedia, "a set of imperatives which, according to Talmud, were given by God as a binding set

Daniel J. Burge

DanielJBurge

I’m seeing a lot of information on Twitter today regarding manifest destiny. I wanted to do a brief thread to point those who are interested towards scholarship on the topic.

Bloomberg Opinion

bopinion

The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed many longstanding injustices, economic and social, that make life unduly perilous for Black Americans.There’s one that deserves more attention: How physicians treat patients very differently,

Movies Silently

MoviesSilently

One quick thing about BIRTH OF A NATION that has come up as an attempted "Gotcha!"Basically, it's:"But if it's so pro-Confederate, why does the film portray Abraham Lincoln so positively?"And