#Abolitionists

Tom

attentive

Actually going to do a "thread". A couple of friends recommended Waleed Aly's essay in The Monthly, "Woke politics and power", so I read it and I had a pretty

Caffeinated Living

WokeLiving

Alright educators, parents, women, this is a failure of education and curriculum. NO ONE should be flocking to SUSAN B. ANTHONY'S gravesight to celebrate the election of this (Black) woman

Erik Loomis

ErikLoomis

This Day in Labor History: December 28, 1869. The Knights of Labor were founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The organization grew slowly, but by the late 1870s, the Knights had become

Dave McKenna

djmckenna00

In short, we address the predominant form of theft in the US with civil court cases, not criminal cases. We have literally defined "wage theft" as not a crime. Theft

Aaron Astor

AstorAaron

Why is Pennsylvania so important to American history? 3 main reasons:1) Philly as Quaker/Mid-Atlantic Seaport2) Large-scale non-Anglo immigration and migration point to the West3) Energy resource production and distribution Philly

Seth Cotlar

SethCotlar

1. Why Conservative “Slippery Slope” arguments undermine American democracy (and have always been intended to do so). 2. I’ve taught a course on the History of American Conservatism for seven

John Furlan

jfurlan14

Weekend thread: @JoeBiden has hit the ground running to well-deserved applause from liberal social/MSM. He has rapidly taken action addressing four key crises he’s named, the good news. The bad

LB

laurenbull_

I’m going to be live tweeting this from 6pm — pray for my thumbs and for some fab audience questions! If you want to join in, the hashtag is #SafetyForWho

Liam Hogan

Limerick1914

I mean we only know about the Zong Massacre because after the murderers returned home their employers claimed insurance payments on their lost property, i.e. the people they threw overboard.https://twitter.com/mrianleslie/status/13620201235

Fledgist 🥀🇯🇲🇬🇧🇺🇸

Fledgist

On 1 August 1834, Britain abolished slavery in its colonies. While this was greeted with rejoicing by the slaves of the British West Indies, and by British abolitionists, not everyone

Dave McKenna

djmckenna00

Most theft is wage theft. Meaning, the dollar value of stolen wages is greater than the value, each year, of all burglaries+robberies, shoplifting, auto theft, combined. Yet, wage theft is

The News Literacy Project

NewsLitProject

During #BlackHistoryMonth , we will share stories of influential Black journalists & news media throughout U.S. history.We begin in 1827 with "Freedom's Journal," the 1st Black-owned & -operated newspaper in

Ibram X. Kendi

DrIbram

Perhaps the greatest anti-slavery speech ever uttered is “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July,” by Frederick Douglass, in 1852. I wanted to make the speech more accessible.

Patrick Corrigan

PatrickCorrigan

Who benefitted from slavery in Ireland? When it was abolished in British colonies in 1833, the equivalent of £millions of pounds was paid out in compensation to almost 100 slave

Dave McKenna

djmckenna00

Something I've learned while in law school is about the social construction of crime. I work in a legal clinic on wage theft cases, where employers have "improperly paid" workers

Dr Mia Brett, PhD

QueenMab87

Ruth Bader Ginsburg isn't a perfect person and she definitely has decisions worth criticizing but I'm not here for the anti-feminist need for perfection that erases her trailblazing work so

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