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Alex Oxford ☭💥
AlexOxford3
Time for some live tweeting again, in an attempt to get a little ways back to normal. I'll be covering the @TJMonticello webinar "Enslaved on Grounds: Slavery @UVA"https://youtu.be/d6CWELrEQ50 Event description:
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Africa Archives
Africa_Archives
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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Gordon Stables
gstables
Two months into this very different semester, I am constantly impressed by our colleagues at @USCAnnenberg. They teach & support our students while also finding time to continue their professional
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Natasha Lightfoot 🇦🇬
njlightfoot
So this article, while interesting, seems like it could have used the expertise of a greater number of historians of the slave trade and slavery to clarfify and more importantly,
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Smithsonian NMAAHC
NMAAHC
#OTD in 1865, enslaved African Americans were notified of their freedom by Union troops in Galveston Bay, TX—two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued.Known as #Juneteenth , this day
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katemessner
KateMessner
In a recent review of The Next President, someone objected to the page that discusses America's first presidents because it includes the fact that most of them enslaved people. I'd
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Caitlin G DeAngelis
cgdhopkins
Larry Bacow just sent out this "I believe" email about loving the American Dream or whatever that doesn't make any mention of the ways that Harvard has specifically profited from
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Women and Girls are Human ♀
gendercritter
The notion that obtaining "consent" is a get-out-of-jail free card for one's actions with respect to other human beings is amoral and intellectually lazy at best, evil at worst. /1
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Dana White
ItsDanaWhite
Ancestry dot com blessed me today. I knew my paternal great grandmother (Monserrate) in Puerto Rico, but my great grandfather was dead 21 years before I was born. I found
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Tweeting Historians
Tweetistorian
Hello everyone! Shall we talk a bit about slavery in the medieval Islamic world?The contours of Islamic history are deeply shaped by slavery and manumission (the freeing of slaves).https://twitter.com/Tweetistorian/status/1193767988006182912 Slavery
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Ursula Wolfe-Rocca
LadyOfSardines
In 1916, Black reparations activist, Callie House was charged w/ obtaining money or property by false or fraudulent pretenses, by “placing or causing to be placed, any letter. . .in
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Uju Anya
UjuAnya
The image this woman chose to illustrate her oppression is Anastácia, an enslaved African in 1700s Brazil. Her mistress ordered that iron spike torture device put to deform her face
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Adam Turns Zoom Video On
aharristweets
While many of us struggle to reconcile our profound love of what Washington did for our nation and that he was a slave owner, I have been deeply moved by
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lonté ✊🏾🏳️🌈
al0nte
Juneteenth is in a week. This is just a reminder that my ancestors were not slaves, they were ENslaved. Know the difference, know the implications. While they might sound the
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Historica Canada
HistoricaCanada
August 1st marks the day slavery was abolished throughout the British Empire, freeing enslaved people in Canada. Racial inequality and anti-Black racism are legacies of enslavement. Mark #EmancipationDay by learning
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UnmodernM
UnmodernM
When you do everything your dad tells you to do,you’re a slave.When you become better as a result of it, then to be a slave is in your BEST interest.And
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