#Enslaved

Elysabeth Grace aka Dr. Margo J Hendricks

Elysabethgrace

#BlackAcademicWoman #ShakespeareStudies #EarlyModernEnglishCulturalStudies I have my coffee.This is a long thread so grab whatever you want to drink and pull up a chair. I offer no apology for its length

Don Robotham

dondee_don

An interesting question: why did a small country like JA have this outsized global cultural impact. Some thoughts: a) JA had most extensive oppressive large slave plantation regime; b) long

daanis 🔥👊🏽💃🏽

gindaanis

Before you dismiss yesterday's crowd. Before you mock their class or intelligence. The US has long used local militias and volunteers to carry out its genocides. And dismissing them this

Erin L. Thompson

artcrimeprof

Want to know more about how white supremacy is baked in to the US Capitol Building? Let's think about the statue topping its dome. She symbolizes Freedom... and was made

Anti.Anaesthetic ☭📉

Cosmoproletan

It’s important that we understand the establishment of the United States with its declarations of natural liberty as the creation of a “republican tyranny”, a system in which the absolute

was that a nerve?

primediscussion

A lot of white America is shocked and fatigued right now because for the first time in any of our lives, we’ve pressed pause nationwide on pretending that racism isn’t

Michael Harriot

michaelharriot

One of the most popular misconceptions about black history is that over time, America has gradually become less racist and more tolerant. That is not true.Since y'all want a BHM

Hilary Hughes

hilmonstah

I've been thinking a lot about Memphis in the last year, and how its history - and music history - is so crucial to the bedrock of American popular music.

Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee

DLCC

In 2009, Terrance Carroll was chosen by his colleagues to serve as speaker of the Colorado House. Leading their Senate counterparts since 2007 was Peter Groff. For the first time

Coastal Carolina Athletics

GoCCUsports

Today is #Juneteenth , also called Freedom Day or Emancipation Day. A day of celebration that recognizes that on the 19th of June in 1865 in Galveston, Texas the last

Jack Miller

politicalmiller

The House will vote TODAY to make #DCstatehood a reality.If you haven’t heard of DC statehood, you should. Here’s why. [thread] American independence was fought under the rallying cry “No

Austere, W17

se7enteen55

Ask yourself – does humanity seem like a happy species to you by any means? What part of living in democracy, republic (or communism or whatever) do you really like? The education? The

Rebecca Pierce

aptly_engineerd

TIL that the first Jewish US senator was a pro-slavery politician from Florida whose father immigrated from Morocco. He fought to recapture former enslaved people in the Second Seminole War

Simon

MalkyDungeon

A wee thread about my comic, saints and uncertaintyIn this story I use the rider from the Govan sarcophagus on a Strathclyde battle flag Who the Sarcophagus was actually made

abolitionism = spicy reformism

no_slave_coasts

Thread: How the enslaved in Brazil used the u.s. civil war (1861-1865) to force Brazilian slavemasters into the crisis that led to "abolition".First, some very quick background. 1) More slaves

kyle a.b.

kyalbr

I was talking to a friend last night about Lovecraft and why the book and the first episode worked so much for me. It’s that race was an original American

By continuing to use the site, you are consenting to the use of cookies as explained in our Cookie Policy to improve your experience.