Of interest for some. Via @internetarchive
> Aruba’s Digitized Slavery Documents Added to UNESCO’s International Memory of the World Register https://blog.archive.org/2025/04/15/arubas-digitized-slavery-documents-added-to-unescos-international-memory-of-the-world-register/
Henry Box Brown (l. c. 1815-1897) was an enslaved African American who became famous as "the man who mailed himself to freedom" after he had himself shipped in a box from Richmond, Virginia, to abolitionists in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 29 March 1849. #History #HenryBoxBrown #Abolitionism #Slavery #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-24329-en/
In response to public backlash, the National Park Service restored original content to its webpage about Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad.
#resist #resistance #uspol #uspolitics #politics #democracy #diversity #equity #inclusion #history #education #slavery
“… Trump administration, had no basis or justification or excuse or pretext for that sale other than the financial and in-kind “consideration” (contractual value) it derived from its human trafficking with El Salvador’s dictator.”
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“The moment a Trump agent wrote to a federal court in Maryland that “the United States does not have control over Abrego Garcia or the nation of El Salvador,” it was confirming that it had sold Garcia to El Salvador for financial considerations and that the man was now, in every respect, the property of El Salvador—even as the United States, in the form of the second …”
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In search of Saadia
"Over the years of fighting anti-blackness in Tunisia, Mosbah has herself become a living archive of the stories of suffering and humiliation faced by those racialized as black."
Sojourner Truth's Escape from Slavery comes from the Narrative of Sojourner Truth, an account of the famous abolitionist's life as given to her friend and admirer Olive Gilbert and published in 1850. #History #SojournerTruth #Abolitionism #Slavery #USHistory #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2694-en/
@jackhutton Call this what it is: The modern slave trade. This picture is of a slave auction. #slavery #humantrafficking
Remembering Paul Robeson this weekend.
#usa
#PaulRobeson #BlackMastodon #africa #racism #genocide @blackvoices
@blackmastodon
@blackgirlnerds
#communism #socialism
@BLKNewsNow
#education #slavery #jimcrow
The History of Wealth
This #Passover, some of us will remember enslaved #Uyghurs by placing #cotton balls on our #seder plates. Learn more at
https://www.washingtonjewishweek.com/cotton-balls-on-the-seder-plate/
"We were slaves in Egypt
We will not turn away from those who are slaves today
We were redeemed from slavery
We will do our part to help the Uyghurs live in freedom
(Jewish World Watch Uyghur Freedom Seder)"
**Adam Smith on Slavery**
Jack Russell Weinstein
“_Smith offered an economic argument against slavery because he did not believe that monarchy (or freedom from it), wealth, or religion can be trusted to convince people to free their slaves._”
https://www.adamsmithworks.org/documents/adam-smith-on-slavery.
Mischief Brew - Coffee, God and Cigarettes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qhu2L9MHoj0
Coffee, God and cigarettes are all that you need
It's all that you need just to be
as free as me
Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad.
Comme je voulais regarder la série, mais que je comptais d'abord lire le livre, alors donc je l'ai acheté il y a... ho ben deux ans quand même, et il m'a fidèlement attendu depuis.
#Mastolivre
#bookstodon #livres #Books #bookstodon #history #slavery
#BlackHistory #Blackwriters
A new independent publisher for the fediverse! @nybooks joined last week (h/t to @FediFollows for letting us know). Here’s their review of historian Catherine Hall’s “Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism.” [Story may be paywalled]
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/04/24/charting-an-unheroic-past-lucky-valley-catherine-hall/
#Books @bookstodon #Reading #History @histodons #Jamaica #Slavery #HistoryOfSlavery
Sojourner Truth (l. c. 1797-1883) was an African American abolitionist, women's suffrage advocate, and civil rights activist who famously "walked away" from slavery in 1826, sued in court for the return of her son and, between 1843 and her death in 1883, became one of the most popular lecturers and preachers in the United States. #History #SojournerTruth #Abolitionism #Slavery #USHistory #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-24323-en/
@gerrymcgovern companies, corporations or individuals can declare bankruptcy and all their creditors just have to suck it up. But countries aren't allowed to escape- so,every day, some babies are born with debts around their necks that they will never repay. How far have we moved beyond #slavery
@lauren @lauren That is what they want. Since every public service will be privatized, work and workplaces will be unregulated.
#slavery #privatized #deregulation
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