#Slaves

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

NowThis

nowthisnews

California became the first state to adopt a law mandating the study and development of proposals for reparations. Assembly Bill 3121, authored by Assemblymember Shirley Weber (D), received bipartisan support

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

Keith Davidson

AnotherFineTwit

THREAD: Historian Simon Webb provides the history of the song ‘Rule Brittannia’.Referring to @BBC’s consideration of Rule Britannia as a Nationalistic song celebrating slavery, Simon said “It’s hard to explain

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ilikechamomile

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY TO COLOMBIA Here’s some of the faces you don’t see that much of A Thread: This is in Cartegena Colombia its a dance called

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SassySouthern10

1/10There has been a tremendous amount of discussion about racial inequality and slavery in our nation. What many should realize is this: The first slaves in the "New World" were

Lucious Left Foot

LoganKish

I was raised in a small, conservative town all my life. When I graduated high school, I went to an HBCU for going on 6 years. My time in both

BLACK CONSERVATIVE

blackrepublican

Black Slavery Myths DebunkedClaim: Every civilization had slavery.FACT: “Slaves were NEVER chattel until recently — NEVER in world history were slaves considered chattel until MODERN times.” — Dr. David Neiman#slavery#slaveryfacts

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jamiaaaa_a

With everything going on right now . This is a good time to tell y’all about Delphine LaLaurie . okay y’all , this lady was FUCKED up . she would

The Telegraph

Telegraph

How accurate is #HamiltonFilm ? *thread*The musical has turned the Founding Father into a hero. Since the release on Disney+, though, some are asking to remove it because it glorifies

Nyarai Nhau

nyashaneta

If we really want to discuss slavery then we must do it fairly. Let’s not pick & choose which part of the slavery supply chain we want to discuss. Africans

The Cosmist Insurrection, Inc. ™

yungneocon

The Indian Ocean, North African & Eurasian African Slave trade recorded some 9-14 million slaves sold—an underestimate due to deaths & given that the trade continued into the 20th century—over

Wanda Walker Needs a New Hobby

Rainbw_mansion

I feel like there's a difference between fantasy/sci-fi fics that explore themes of slavery and how that impacts a character's relationship with their world and those who have it mostly

Fr Blob the Priest losing the Culture War

BobNLestrange

Late capitalism accords a human being value only when he is being productive. Leisure is a waste of time. But human beings are created for rest and the things we

Mamachell

mamachell

Ok so i've been wanting to get back into doing history threads. I am going to attempt The Slavery Abolition Act. I wanted to do the research b4 hand BUT

Ari Fleischer

AriFleischer

In addition to opposing mob violence, there's another reason statues of our founding fathers, including those who owned slaves, should not be abolished.They were Enlightenment thinkers who, w one sentence,