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When the far-right attribute blame to George Soros for the *existence of non-white migration* they are using a polemical substitute for the anti-semitic conspiracy theory of "Jewish Communists" promoting “white

In 1793 the U.S. Congress enacted their first fugitive slave law which required every state to forcibly return slaves who had escaped from other states to their owners. It included

A runaway slave advert placed by Andrew Jackson. Bonus offered to torturers. (Tennessee Gazette, 3 October 1804) @markcheathem: "In 1821, [Jackson] ordered his nephew, Andrew J. Donelson, to have a

British slave traders forcibly shipped approximately 5.5 million enslaved Africans into their Caribbean colonies over a 180 year period yet when slavery was abolished just 800,000 enslaved people remained. (Beckles)https://twitter.com/ayoca

Racial_slavery_denialism.jpg An indicator of its prevalence on social media rn is that my work has been cited by multiple “fact check” teams (@USATODAY - @AFP - @Reuters - @thejournal_ie) over

It's not well known that the congregation of the First African Baptist Church in Richmond donated approximately $40 towards Irish Famine Relief in 1847. Around 2,000 members of the congregation

“...racism may wear a new dress, buy a new pair of boots, but neither it nor its succubus twin fascism is new or can make anything new.” - Toni Morrison

The most viral ahistorical "Irish slaves" this week is this copy and paste effort by Ronald Dwyer. This instance of the propaganda was first published in 2015 but in the