slavery

When the Enslaved Went South Interesting article on Slaves heading south not north in the mid 1800's. Definitely some items I didn't know. Long Article,

I am 100% confused on "restavek" and I don't want to speak out of place, can one of y'all clarify on here? :ohhh::francis:

A monument to Christopher Columbus looms over Piazza Acquaverde in Genoa, Italy, in this 1894 photograph. (Bettmann Archive/Getty Images) By Stefano Pitrelli October 11, 2020 at 2:22 PM EDT ROME — While many Christopher Columbus statues were toppled this year in the United States — dragged...

I am happy this is getting discussed. But, I want to make sure that it is known that is was thousands of "rebellions" and "uprisings" during Colonial and Antebellum era. In addition to the Maroons in America - the American South. And... this is all press for Slave Rebellion Reenactment –...

Yes, it is a long-ish article but really interesting about the connections between a Congolese mystic, the Haitian Revolution, and a slave revolt in South Carolina From JSTOR Did Kongolese Catholicism Lead to Slave Revolutions? The legacy of Kimpa Vita, a Kongolese Catholic mystic, was felt...

you can find the book on amazon etc... book , "Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II." Book: American Slavery Continued Until 1941 Slavery in America didn't end with the Civil War. Between 1865 and 1941 millions of African-Americans...

Undergrads will vote on this tomorrow. Im a graduate student here now so unfortunately I am unable to vote on this. Basically in 1838 Georgetown was in a lot of financial trouble and resolved it by selling 272 slaves. If this passes it would create a $27.20 fee per semester for students, which...

Link: 5 horrifying ways enslaved African men were sexually exploited and abused by their white masters - Page 3 of 6 - Face2Face Africa

I’ve been traveling around the country for the past few years studying America’s divides — urban/rural, red/blue, rich/poor. There’s been a haunting sensation the whole time that is hard to define. It is that the racial divide doesn’t feel like the other divides. There is a dimension of depth to...

:patrice:Brehs... I'm going to be objective. I have questions. I've NEVER been a proponent of financial reparations. I've ALWAYS been a proponent of reparations in the form of services, subsidies, improved institutions & environmental changes in the communities that make up a large number of...

In this thread - we will be discussing the Slave Traders -- those personally responsible for selling our ancestors -- once they hit this land. Isaac Franklin and John Armfield: Franklin and Armfield Office was started in 1828 by Isaac Franklin and John Armfield. The office was known to have...

Know your history.

The slave dungeon footage :to: The economic power black Americans & Ghanians could form :whoo:

I am AADOS and some of the recent AA vs. all other Black threads just make me shake my head. Everyone who knows my posts know while I don't tolerate disrespect towards us I am not on this whole AADOS vs. Caribbean/African wave. I graduated from that bullshyt in middle school, ya'll should to the...

https://www.aaihs.org/the-fallacy-of-1619-rethinking-the-history-of-africans-in-early-america/ Since there were Africans that have been on this continent, because of Europeans, since the early 1500s, why do we use 1619 as the year in which "Americans" participated in the Oppression Trade?

According to this heifer here :mindblown: Racist ass cacs will go so far to defend their racism. These people are fukking evil :pacspit: Rename the park and take that statue down. I bet they wouldn't have a statue of Hitler :mjpls:

Who's celebrating? :blackpblessed: What's Juneteenth? A Guide To Celebrating America's Second Independence Day

A white South Carolina man who managed a buffet restaurant near Myrtle Beach admitted in federal court this week that he had beaten and verbally abused an intellectually disabled black cook, forcing him to work over 100 hours a week without pay for about five years, according to the Justice...

The players get paid a little bit of money so they deem it to be acceptable to be treated like legit slaves... The "Fans" though...? The Black "fans" ? Why the fukk would you still turn this shyt on Sunday after Sunday at this point. Can we have a conversation about how you very well may be...

we still can’t get reparations No talk of reparations but now both parties (not just the left) want our votes Biggest wealth gap in history. Still suffering from draconian poverty but everybody mum on writing one of the most historic wrongs done to a people It damn sure wasn’t a choice but...