#Confederacy

The Historic New Orleans Collection

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On this day in 1861, delegates in Louisiana voted to secede from the United States. In New Orleans—the largest market for enslaved people before the Civil War—the independence was short-lived.

Marley K

MarleyK20

WHITE HISTORY FACTS DURING BLACK HISTORY MONTH! by @HannahDrake628"One of the top three slave traders in the United States was Rice Carter Ballard, worked with the large slave-trading firm of

Choctaw & Chickasaw Freedmen

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Just in case anyone was unaware: the Choctaw Nation chose to legalize chattel slavery within the tribe. Tribal members owned slaves of African descent and many enslaved people walked the

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li, gender godmother

perdricof

i see some leftists on here calling for senators and other democratic politicians to start acting like street activists--barricading doors, blowing up normsi want to take a moment to explain

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

POWERFUL video series by @thematthewcooke. What's happening in the US now is the mirror image of what happened after Lincoln was assassinated at the end of the civil war.

Brian Gay 🌻

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Slavery in the South could not have flourished without help from the North. The deeply religious Mass Bay colony built the first American slave ship. Liberal Rhode Island sponsored thousands

Kirsten West Savali

KWestSavali

It feels like I say this every few years, but this nation loves to lie about the depth of its character. And some people love to pretend that racism is

Catherynne M. Valente

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I suspect Repubs are only pantomiming because they know it won’t work & Biden will be sworn inLike kids playing with the stove, eyeballing Mom the whole time, knowing she’ll

Ali Velshi

AliVelshi

1/9December 21, 2020, marks 156 years since Sherman & 60,000 Union soldiers captured #Savannah. Sherman’s 285-mile, 3-week long “March to the Sea” devastated both the Confederacy & much of Georgia.

Padma Lakshmi

PadmaLakshmi

Storytime: So the Democratic party used to be the party of the confederacy. And Lincoln (a Republican) signed the Emancipation Proclamation. But our modern political parties underwent an ideological transition

Sarah Kendzior

sarahkendzior

"The attempted coup has moved into its violence stage. First stage was rigging -- voter suppression, USPS sabotage, etc. Failed. Second phase was courts; that failed too. Now we're on

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sialmirzagoraya

The Empire of Maharaja Ranjit Singh is often interpreted either as ‘secular polity’ or a ‘coercive imperial’ one, but there is a lot to be said about the Sarkar-i-Khalsa as

The Editorial Board

johnastoehr

My biggest hope is that this electorate sees the nature of the Republican project for what it is—a plot against a renewed America.https://stoehr.substack.com/p/the-old-regime-is-dying-hard?r=5msd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&a

Resist the Hologram - Stu Cvrk

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Thread – Some Light Reading for the BLM Crowd (and Others)1. “Black Lives Matter” (sic) is a classic Marxist movement. Even the name is a Marxist slogan. Their only goal

Rick Hills

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This powerful op-ed by ⁦@davidwblight1⁩ misses a troubling analogy between the creation of the Lost Cause Myth in the 1890s and Trump’s GOP today: Like Dems today, opponents of the

The Editorial Board

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1. I disliked President George W. Bush immensely. I thought he was illegitimate. The US Supreme Court decided his 2000 victory, not voters. I thought he was weak. Dick Cheney

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