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Da’Shaun | they/them
DaShaunLH
y’all don’t know what “trauma porn” means and it’s upsetting me and my homegirls. i’m tired of “slave movies” because they’ve become fantastical. they don’t tell more than one type
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Retired Hot Boy
TheGoodSin
If you’re a black American. You gotta know the strength of your ancestors is in you. A lot of us didn’t make it through slavery. But if you’re here your
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Sia's Pancakes
siaseamoose
(a thread, might delete bc it's 4am when i write this idk if i'm alive lol) This is going to sound very unpopular but it confuses me when people try
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| Anjii - द Lit 🔥 |
Anjii_95
PTSS : How slavery and oppression affected the epigenetics n DNA.A THREAD - Post traumatic slave syndrome (PTSS) is defined as “a condition that exists when a population has experienced multi-generational
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Tom Barson
tbarson49
1/ This is crazy. Whatever Gary Becker said, "human capital," as used by economists, denotes the increased productivity that people gain through education and experience. It's not something that people
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Kyle J. Howard
KyleJamesHoward
PSAWhen you refer to slave master theologians as simply having a “blind spot”, you’re not only showing bias towards your heroes but profoundly minimizing the evil of chattel slavery. It
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joanna schroeder
iproposethis
Hey white parents, The "slave auction" happened on TikTok between white kids like yours and like mine. Not Nazi kids. American white kids. Sit down with your kids and explain
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West Wing Reports (edited by Paul Brandus)
WestWingReport
Abraham Lincoln, a former one-term Congressman and lawyer, condemned slavery - this day in 1854 - during a speech criticizing the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which Congress had passed five months earlier.
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Scott Coley
scott_m_coley
In conversations about our nation’s original sin and its aftermath, don’t talk to me about slavery in other civilizations over the course of human history. Our nation celebrates founding documents
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YaNanous
Unpopular opinion: when most of you discuss white women wrt slavery, you don’t get it. It’s not that white women had loads of power (which you all claim), it’s that
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jelani cobb
jelani9
Some things worth remembering on Juneteenth: Texas’ size and isolation allowed slavers to keep knowledge of Emancipation from the enslaved. Large slaveholders in coastal areas also moved enslaved people around
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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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Ben Albert
coachbenalbert
I’m going to start a new series to promote an understanding of systemic racism. Everyday I plan on posting about a topic which established, promoted, or continues to support the
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Heidi N. Moore
moorehn
Seeing some threads that suggest Hamilton was not against slavery. As far as everything I read, he was a committed abolitionist. Here are details from Chernow's autobiography to contextualize. Hamilton
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Sean.
Shorrrn
Even at university this isnt always told. My first year history module on British economics from industrial revolution to Thatcher we spent 3 lectures on the industrial revolution. One 2
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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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