#ENSLAVED

Historic.ly

historic_ly

Matea Bolivar was an enslaved person, in the series Ana Harlen, an actress from Colombia plays Matea Bolivar. In real life, Matea was born in 1773. Bolivar always called her

Betsy “Aunt Beppi” Phillips

AuntB

One reason I’d like to read a non hagiography of Adelicia Hayes Franklin Acklen Cheatham is that there’s a lot in the stuff we do know that suggests her dad

Aella

Aella_Girl

The attempt to redefine racism away from the dictionary definition into the "systemic privilege" one is, imo, an attempt to remove the intensely horrible associations with actual racism, to minimize

kiwi

scifiemo

how far back can you trace your family's history? i find seemingly familiar names on slave documents sometimes but the lines of who is who is who are so blurred.

Ibram X. Kendi

DrIbram

In 1865, Black people all over the South were saying this Union officials: Do not abolish slavery and leave us landless and disenfranchised. Do not force us towork for our

uché blackstock, md

uche_blackstock

1) Since the pandemic started, people have been saying science has been politicized by this administration as if this is something new. Science *is* and has always been political, especially

A Windward Maroon

andraydomise

Orlando Patterson got tired of this shit 40 years ago, how are you nincompoops on the Ca$happ left still letting this nonsense flap out of your gums Calling slaves "property"

Kentah Gwanjez

GWANJEZ

"I'd rather die than be a white man's slave." Joseph CinquéIn July 1839 the Amistad set sail from Havana, Cuba, carrying 49 enslaved Mende people and 4 young children, recently

Ariela Gross

arielagross

1/in my research on trials involving enslaved people as property in Southern courtrooms, I read chilling descriptions of violent deaths at a white man’s hands in which a doctor testified

SAY HER NAME 🌻

x_VintageBesos

Oooh I wanna do a thread of Juneteenth facts! Brb. For those who don’t know, Juneteenth marks the emancipation of the last enslaved Black people in the confederacy. It started

12:34 🦋

simonafrancine

Hey yall. Tomorrow is Juneteenth, marking the day the last group of enslaved people were notified they were free. Tomorrow will also be the hearing of a very important bill.

BlackProGen

blackprogen

Please DO NOT buy into the hype that our ancestors were not documented at all before 1870, that we had no surnames before the 13th Amendment, and that we only

Lyrica Fils-Aime

LyricaFilsAime

#StopSaying“I was in the field today”indicating one was not @ the office/headquarters/central.Most #nonprofits are run by whiteppl(80% in 2018) & esp in NYC, they serve BIPOC. In NYC, 85%=students of

Smithsonian

smithsonian

#Juneteenth marks the day enslaved African Americans in Galveston Bay, Texas, were notified of their freedom. It's celebrated as the end of U.S. chattel slavery and our nation's second

Michael W. Twitty

KosherSoul

I'm going to say this. Plantations that are for profit are a big business in the South. To the extent that we explicitly DEMAND context, preservation of our Ancestors stories&places

Amanda Donoghue

femmescanbthems

AN HISTORICAL CEMETERY FOR ENSLAVED AFRICANS & THEIR DESCENDENTS IS BEING DESTROYED RIGHT NOW TO BUILD A STORAGE UNIT ON TOP OF IT. Follow Save Bethesda African Cemetery on FB