Posting something different than my usual thottie thread for a moment :skip:
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For the nikkas That wanna read a list, courtesy of @Cowboyz89 cause my lazy ass ain't making one :mjgrin:
These notes shine a light on the complex relationships that slaves had with their masters.
After escaping or being liberated, most former slaves were probably more than happy to never speak to their erstwhile masters.
After all, what would you say?
Though little evidence of this...
Trump has suspended all US refugee programmes and banned immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries, three of which are AU members
The head of the African Union has criticised Donald Trump’s ban on immigration from some Muslim-majority countries, saying it presents “one of the greatest...
I finally got around to watching this today and :wow:. I believe the documentary deserves its own thread.
I highly recommend that everyone take 100 minutes to view it. The way it traces the exploitation of Black labor and bodies and the origins of the myth of Black criminality from late-stage...
Was researching this when the entire Kaepernick ordeal went down and read on here about the other lyrics from the song. Particularly:
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more!
Their blood has...
I know a sista that started out babysitting for this cac family right.
A few months on the job they approach her and say that they've seen her struggling and they "GIVE" her a used car so she can get back and forth easier. Sista is elated that she can now drive instead of taking the bus...
Perhaps this is the reason why it's always a concern when Black Americans decide to take up arms.
HISTORY 101: The 2nd Amendment Exists Because Founding Fathers Wanted To Protect Slavery
Captain Custer (right) of the 5th Cavalry sits with a Confederate prisoner, Lieutenant James B...
On this day 151 years ago, the final bastion of (old school) slavery was abolished in Gavelston Texas by the Union Army. Granted it wouldn't be until December that the 13th amendment finally killing (old school) slavery was passed. Celebrate Juneteenth and remember the sacrifices of our...
They spew typical white supremacist points like:
"America wasn't built on slave labor"
"There were just as much white slaves as black slaves"
"White slaves were treated worse than black slaves"
....Why are they even talking about slavery? The guy on the left makes alot of...
what them crackka ass teachers know about the sturggle
they gonna tell us how we lived :dahell:
they gonna tell us what our people did :dahell:
- blackierobinson
According to legend, Abraham Lincoln greeted Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1862 by saying "So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war." Whether the story is true or not, the sentiment underscores the public connection between Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Civil War.
^...
Why do people think slavery and racism is a southern thing?
Staten Island had Slavery....so did Pittsburgh. Were there any other northern cities that did? Time to dispel this notion of the North being this progressive utopia.
@cole phelps
272 Slaves were sold to Save Georgetown university. What Does It Owe Their Descendants?
WASHINGTON — The human cargo was loaded on ships at a bustling wharf in the nation’s capital, destined for the plantations of the Deep South. Some slaves pleaded for rosaries as they were rounded up...
:francis: before we partake in traditions that were forced on us throughout the years, let's know the real origin of them.
THE REAL STORY OF THANKSGIVING
Most of us associate the holiday with happy Pilgrims and Indians sitting down to a big feast. And that did happen - once.
The story...
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