As books are burned & banned, it’s important that all of U.S. history is forever amplified and not hidden. The holiday season meant something very different for American slaves, my ancestors. ibw21.org/reparations/...
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I had no idea about this. Thanks for sharing!
dec 30, 2024, 6:00 pm • 1 0 • view
Thank you for this educational material.
dec 30, 2024, 11:02 pm • 0 0 • view
How many are trying to erase and deny would be the same people who would say the holocaust never happened. History is history one can not simply put their fingers I their ears or their head in the sand and say it never happened!.
dec 31, 2024, 9:58 am • 1 0 • view
My students read about this New Year's Day abomination in Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Education is key!
dec 30, 2024, 9:58 pm • 1 0 • view
This “dual citizenshttt-ish” f’Elon is taking American tax Payers money and are currently building car factories in red China with those funds‼️🤬‼️🤬 Be alert and of sober mind. Americans are building the enemy’s Workforce. “the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.”
dec 30, 2024, 6:32 pm • 4 1 • view
The Congress under 14.3 must do their job‼️ And the Supreme Court, in their skewed opinion , cannot say otherwise. It also takes 2/3 of the Congress to override the Supreme Court Ruling Scott v Sanford (yeah boys, Dread-Scott Slavery is a Thing) ->> it’s an example of the Court getting it Wrong🇺🇸
dec 30, 2024, 6:11 pm • 1 0 • view
Rough to read but important to know and acknowledge. Thanks for sharing and happy new year
dec 30, 2024, 10:47 pm • 5 0 • view
Pure evil. I don't know how anyone could think it's anything else.
dec 30, 2024, 11:28 pm • 3 0 • view
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jan 1, 2025, 1:21 am • 0 0 • view
Look up the Barbra Streisand effect.
dec 31, 2024, 1:08 am • 2 0 • view
Very informative. thank you for posting
dec 30, 2024, 6:49 pm • 5 0 • view
Thank you for sharing some history I did not know.
dec 30, 2024, 9:38 pm • 0 0 • view
Thanks for sharing☺️
dec 30, 2024, 7:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Thank you for posting. Like many others, this was new for me. Please keep the articles coming.
dec 30, 2024, 7:01 pm • 0 0 • view
I did not know about this. Thank you for sharing.
dec 30, 2024, 7:19 pm • 0 0 • view
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dec 31, 2024, 1:34 pm • 1 0 • view
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dec 30, 2024, 5:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Thanks for posting this. Learning on BlueSky. . .
jan 12, 2025, 7:53 am • 0 0 • view
😥
dec 30, 2024, 4:58 pm • 0 0 • view
The foundation of this country was fractured from the beginning. Taking land from the Indigenous people, genocide, taking their kids to boarding schools. Compounding that with slavery and the fight for Civil Rights. It’s gonna take a lot to repair the damage. Book burning is NOT the answer. 📚🔥😡
dec 30, 2024, 9:35 pm • 0 0 • view
Was there a sales tax on slaves?
dec 30, 2024, 7:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Thanks for sharing. I’d heard about the origins for black people but hadn’t seen it spelled out like this before. So important to share all of our history and not only the parts that make certain people feel good.
dec 30, 2024, 10:48 pm • 14 1 • view
Thank you for this. Somehow left out of my history book.
dec 30, 2024, 4:14 pm • 3 0 • view
I never knew about this. It’s a shame what we were never taught. Thank you for sharing.
dec 30, 2024, 9:46 pm • 3 0 • view
Thank you for sharing this truth. I never heard of this. 😢
dec 30, 2024, 9:15 pm • 6 1 • view
I'd stay well away if I were you
dec 31, 2024, 5:23 pm • 0 0 • view
What do you mean by this?
dec 31, 2024, 10:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Stay away from the offer by the person in the post beneath
dec 31, 2024, 10:46 pm • 0 0 • view
Thank you for sharing this truth that must be told and taught in our history classes.This is heartbreaking.💔😡
dec 30, 2024, 10:42 pm • 0 0 • view
We treated black people as though they were animals, and there are some who wish that practice could become law again. It's not part of our history that we should be proud about, but the story must continue to be told lest we forget. Southern people still think they won that war.
dec 30, 2024, 5:43 pm • 4 0 • view
Thank you for this enlightening article! The reason others are kept illiterate, is so there are few if any records left behind of the atrocities that were/are perpetrated.
dec 31, 2024, 12:45 pm • 2 0 • view
Damn.
dec 31, 2024, 1:04 am • 1 0 • view
An excellent record of our history is found on the podcast "History That Doiesn't Suck," hosted by Greg Jackson.
jan 1, 2025, 2:23 am • 0 0 • view
I don't care
dec 30, 2024, 7:54 pm • 0 0 • view
I’m a direct descendant of John Alden of Pilgrim fame. He participated in the Thanksgiving slaughter of the natives, the real story of the holiday. The history I learned was bullshit. “When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school it’s a wonder I can think at all.” (Paul Simon)
dec 31, 2024, 12:15 am • 12 2 • view
I don’t know that I ever heard of New Year’s Day as hiring day for slaves. I will look at the day through a different lens from now on. We cannot let this history be destroyed by those who want to whitewash the past rather than learn from it so we can do better.
dec 31, 2024, 6:12 am • 1 0 • view
I've never understood why Blacks celebrate the 4th of July. Freedom as lost that day and it should be a day of mourning.
dec 31, 2024, 3:17 pm • 3 0 • view
Knowledge is power.
dec 31, 2024, 11:38 am • 1 0 • view
Shameful
dec 30, 2024, 4:40 pm • 2 0 • view
Thank you for sharing...
dec 31, 2024, 12:37 am • 1 0 • view
Book banning… right up there on the christo facist list of idiocy. Damn ! People are stupid. (And getting stupider doing stuff like this)
dec 31, 2024, 10:56 pm • 1 0 • view
If you were to draw a Venn diagram to include those people who scream loudest about "cancel culture", and those who want to supress these aspects of US history, you would only need one circle.
dec 31, 2024, 5:49 am • 2 0 • view
We're taught so little so they can pretend that there's something to be proud of 😢
dec 31, 2024, 2:16 pm • 1 0 • view
Thank you!. I can Remember, reading about this many years Ago..Good to reflect on those times n what took place on JAN One. My 88-year-old mom always say that saying whatever you do on New Year’s Day that’s what you’ll be doing all year. Now I know the meaning behind that saying ,thanks for sharing.
dec 31, 2024, 10:28 am • 1 0 • view
dec 30, 2024, 11:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Agreed. Little known history fact. Same can be said for July 4th and reason why butter pecan is the preferred flavor of black Americans…
dec 30, 2024, 5:27 pm • 2 0 • view
I've never heard that about the flavor. Why is it favored, besides being delicious?
dec 30, 2024, 5:41 pm • 1 0 • view
On my great great grandmother’s plantation, “massa” would sic the dog on them if four or more of them congregated. So they would put bread or something similar in their pocket and feed the dog where he’d become docile. That’s where the phrase “Hush Puppy” came from.
dec 30, 2024, 10:07 pm • 1 0 • view
Thanknyou got the history that was not taught to so many.
dec 30, 2024, 7:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Heartbreaking
dec 31, 2024, 3:06 am • 1 0 • view
A true statement it should be taught in all schools to enlighten us about the past, and reminds us of what can happen in the future
dec 30, 2024, 5:07 pm • 0 0 • view
It's a heartbreaking story and a part of history that I'm sure few are aware of. Thanks for sharing.
dec 30, 2024, 10:19 pm • 1 0 • view
𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔠𝔞𝔫 𝔟𝔲𝔯𝔫 𝔞𝔩𝔩 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔟𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔰 𝔦𝔫 𝔶𝔬𝔲𝔯 𝔰𝔱𝔞𝔱𝔢, 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔭𝔯𝔬𝔟𝔩𝔢𝔪 𝔦𝔰 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔠𝔞𝔫 𝔫𝔬𝔱 𝔟𝔲𝔯𝔫 𝔥𝔦𝔰𝔱𝔬𝔯𝔶 𝔫𝔬𝔯 𝔠𝔞𝔫 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔯𝔢𝔪𝔬𝔳𝔢 𝔬𝔫𝔢 𝔰𝔱𝔞𝔱𝔢𝔰 𝔩𝔦𝔟𝔯𝔞𝔯𝔶 𝔟𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔰 𝔣𝔯𝔬𝔪 𝔞𝔫𝔬𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯 𝔰𝔱𝔞𝔱𝔢, 𝔰𝔬 𝔥𝔦𝔰𝔱𝔬𝔯𝔶 𝔴𝔦𝔩𝔩 𝔯𝔢𝔪𝔞𝔦𝔫 𝔦𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 [ 𝔲𝔫𝔦𝔱𝔢𝔡 ] USA 𝔞𝔫𝔶𝔴𝔞𝔶𝔰 𝔴𝔥𝔢𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯 𝔱𝔢𝔵𝔞𝔰 𝔞𝔩𝔞𝔟𝔞𝔪𝔞 𝔪𝔦𝔰𝔰𝔬𝔲𝔯𝔦 𝔪𝔦𝔰𝔰𝔦𝔰𝔰𝔦𝔭𝔭𝔦 𝔣𝔩𝔬𝔯𝔦𝔡𝔞 𝔟𝔲𝔯𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔟𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔰 𝔬𝔯 𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔡 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔪 𝔟𝔞𝔠𝔨 𝔱𝔬 𝔞𝔪𝔞𝔷𝔬𝔫 !!!!!
dec 30, 2024, 8:10 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm writing one that will no doubt be banned once published... he won't like it lol
dec 31, 2024, 2:44 am • 1 0 • view
I can't understand how anyone could hear a mother crying out for her stolen children and not see their humanity. Just evil.
dec 31, 2024, 8:05 am • 3 0 • view
Have you been to a local library lately? Ours are bereft of history books, especially those written at the time of the events they are about. Why? The librarians said the books have been replace by "newer, more accurate books" … The same things happened in Russia prior to the Russian Revolution.
dec 30, 2024, 6:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Excellent read. I'm filing it under my very large "I had no idea..." folder.
dec 31, 2024, 4:45 pm • 3 0 • view
😪
dec 30, 2024, 7:06 pm • 0 0 • view
The real history of humanity is an example of oppression, injustice, and tyranny. We could take these facts and realize. Thus changing the path of civilization. Our own ignorances obstruct the way.
dec 30, 2024, 3:47 pm • 7 1 • view
Yes, unimaginable what far too many millions went through, and today the hate persists. Better, but not completely free.
dec 30, 2024, 6:39 pm • 2 0 • view
Thank you for this. I never knew.
dec 30, 2024, 7:11 pm • 5 0 • view
May every generation of every last slave owner be damned forever. I try very hard to make things better, but, alas, I am one, too. So, I carry my damnation and beg your forgiveness. Vote to make yourselves free. I did.
dec 31, 2024, 2:08 am • 4 1 • view
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jan 14, 2025, 6:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Keep reminding people that these books, removed from libraries by the ‘forces of the Right’, are still readily available EVERYWHERE ELSE like at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Google Books, and all of the publishers, on-line, and are storable on our phones, tablets, and computers.
dec 31, 2024, 1:26 am • 11 1 • view
Utter failure of the US education system that this isn’t more widely known. If history makes you uncomfortable, great, you will be less likely to repeat and do better. Knowing the uncomfortable things of our past is not a bad thing, stop being afraid…talking to you anti-woke mob.
dec 30, 2024, 11:48 pm • 1 0 • view
Care and wish the GOP had any respect for history .
dec 30, 2024, 11:46 pm • 1 0 • view
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dec 30, 2024, 4:55 pm • 0 0 • view
I never knew this. :-(
dec 30, 2024, 6:24 pm • 4 0 • view
Thanks for the history lesson.
dec 30, 2024, 10:51 pm • 1 0 • view
Thank you for sharing this. 💔
dec 30, 2024, 7:31 pm • 1 0 • view
😢🤬
dec 30, 2024, 5:45 pm • 0 0 • view
I never knew. Thank you for the lesson.
dec 30, 2024, 3:46 pm • 12 0 • view
politicalamericans.com/high-schools...
dec 30, 2024, 7:30 pm • 0 1 • view
Good one! We used to do student hosting for A fine arts camp. The young German dancers were so Impressed with western culture. But the Russians and Japanese were already there! Money talks
jan 5, 2025, 10:30 pm • 0 0 • view
A Native mother & her child are also pictured. It became common for the genocidal land-thieving invaders to massacre tribes & falsely accuse them of murder. Surviving women & teens were shipped to Haiti to become slaves. Infants & children up to 12 yr olds were "indentured" meaning killed in private
dec 30, 2024, 5:39 pm • 5 0 • view
Thank you for sharing this—it means a lot.
dec 31, 2024, 8:27 am • 1 0 • view
💔💔💔💔
dec 30, 2024, 5:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes!
dec 30, 2024, 8:48 pm • 0 0 • view
I didn’t know this, so I appreciate the information..although appalling.
dec 30, 2024, 8:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Fuck
dec 31, 2024, 4:55 pm • 2 0 • view
Wow. I'm sorry to hear that, I didn't know.
dec 31, 2024, 3:21 am • 1 0 • view
I lived in Louisiana for about a year. The feeling I got was that the history is like a family secret that isn’t brought up but everyone’s aware of
dec 30, 2024, 9:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes, how America forgets 😑 umm
dec 30, 2024, 11:27 pm • 2 0 • view
I never knew this! Thanks for the article.
dec 30, 2024, 9:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Wow, I wasn’t aware of this! Thanks for sharing
dec 31, 2024, 12:39 am • 1 0 • view
Now we are slaves to the system. Jesus came to free us
dec 30, 2024, 6:13 pm • 1 0 • view
Thank you 💙
dec 30, 2024, 5:13 pm • 0 0 • view
The history of slavery was never taught in the U.K. so I learned late and slowly and I never knew this. Thank you for sharing.
dec 30, 2024, 10:57 pm • 4 0 • view
Thank you for sharing. One more sad injustice in our history. ☹️
dec 30, 2024, 11:37 pm • 2 0 • view
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dec 30, 2024, 8:12 pm • 0 0 • view
While some things have changed, some have stayed painfully the same. That's a fact that I am ashamed of. I hope for better some day.
dec 31, 2024, 12:35 am • 1 0 • view
I will never understand how people just normalized the treatment of other people like property. It must have been so bizarre and scary to live then.
dec 30, 2024, 3:37 pm • 14 0 • view
It's still normalized. "Back then" it was enforced primarily with weaponry. Today, it's enforced with more equal parts weaponry and money. Ask a homeless person if they feel they're treated like a person. Ask a Black or indigenous person, or a trans person.
dec 30, 2024, 4:13 pm • 18 0 • view
It's shifted more to the prison system these days.
dec 30, 2024, 4:32 pm • 11 1 • view
For profit prisons, for profit healthcare, for profit churches, billionaires beware we are all waking up !
dec 30, 2024, 4:53 pm • 6 1 • view
Yep, that part of slavery is still Constitutionally legal.
dec 30, 2024, 4:33 pm • 6 0 • view
Oklahoma state penitentiary runs a furniture factory with convict labor. I bet that they aren't even paid $1 per hour.
dec 30, 2024, 10:31 pm • 1 0 • view
Much less than that actually.....not even $1 per day. But $.54 per hour for "special projects."
dec 31, 2024, 11:41 am • 1 0 • view
Many southern States passed vagrancy laws that was another form of slavery. Chain gang prison labourers
dec 30, 2024, 9:24 pm • 3 1 • view
I like standup comedy because it's so great when it comes to storytelling.... Ali Siddiq relays his experience in prison really well with laughs for days. youtu.be/8j9NiWBWtTA?...
dec 30, 2024, 4:36 pm • 1 0 • view
I’m truly sorry…I wasn’t aware of this.
dec 30, 2024, 8:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Banned books make great gifts anytime!
dec 30, 2024, 6:36 pm • 2 0 • view
This is chilling. I had never heard New Year's being referred to as Heartbreak, or Hiring Day - nor what we cheerfully call Hogmanay, Watch Night. Thank you for posting.
dec 31, 2024, 12:47 am • 1 0 • view
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dec 31, 2024, 1:20 am • 0 0 • view
The innate cruelty is so hard to accept 😢
dec 30, 2024, 4:59 pm • 17 2 • view
Thank you. I’m 76, was raised in the south and never knew that. Not even in college history.
dec 30, 2024, 10:05 pm • 1 0 • view
This is one of the worst things I’ve ever read
dec 30, 2024, 9:14 pm • 2 1 • view
Another bot post. I swear at this point 99% of all interactions on Blue Sky are block engagement farming at this point.
dec 30, 2024, 9:08 pm • 0 0 • view
This makes me so sad. I have never understood how people were and still are so cruel.
dec 30, 2024, 6:03 pm • 7 0 • view
How good it is that we are told such things.
dec 31, 2024, 2:57 pm • 4 0 • view
Thank you for educating us about this. I read the linked article--heart-breaking.
dec 31, 2024, 3:27 pm • 2 0 • view
Or British. Don't forget the genocider Churchill. www.goodreads.com/book/show/30...
dec 30, 2024, 5:05 pm • 1 0 • view
The English and their Scottish lairds didn't stop at the hielans.
dec 30, 2024, 6:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Which books are banned and burned by the government?
dec 30, 2024, 5:27 pm • 0 0 • view
A country that can't acknowledge its past can't rise above it.
dec 31, 2024, 8:19 pm • 3 0 • view
It’s such a hideous stain on the history of humanity . The UK is littered with mansions all built on the profit of free labour and cruel exploitation. But it wasn’t just the rich profiting from misery . David Olosugo made a brilliant TV programme “Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners” worth a watch.
dec 31, 2024, 5:09 pm • 7 1 • view
Thank you for sharing this.
dec 31, 2024, 5:15 pm • 1 0 • view
Horrific. Everyone needs to know this.
dec 31, 2024, 7:21 pm • 1 0 • view
Thank you for sharing this. 💖
dec 30, 2024, 5:33 pm • 0 0 • view
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dec 30, 2024, 6:17 pm • 1 0 • view
Happy New Year. For Some.
dec 31, 2024, 10:36 am • 2 0 • view
How disgusting and awful. They tell us we need to get over it. We will never forget what they did to our ancestors!
dec 31, 2024, 2:05 am • 12 2 • view
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dec 30, 2024, 4:11 pm • 2 1 • view
dec 30, 2024, 11:12 pm • 29 6 • view
Heartbreaking
dec 30, 2024, 7:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Thanks for sharing this - I had no idea. You're right - it is important! I'm pretty disgusted about all the things that were conveniently left out of our history classes.
dec 31, 2024, 12:34 pm • 3 0 • view
Who knew New Year’s Day was dreaded by the American slave; now for some it’s a time of drunken revelry or blissfully being in mind altering smoke; and my ignorance! Shame!
dec 30, 2024, 10:34 pm • 0 0 • view
💯👍
dec 30, 2024, 10:26 pm • 0 0 • view
But I don't want to be sad. 😓🤨🤔
dec 30, 2024, 5:50 pm • 1 0 • view
👏👏👏👏👏
dec 30, 2024, 8:45 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm sorry that we are too cowardly to face who we are & have been - & so have no hope of healing - more than one person said to me 'why should we read CRT? why should we be uncomfortable?' because we did these things & made other humans very uncomfortable - we need to understand it to stop doing it
dec 31, 2024, 10:29 pm • 1 0 • view
I am ashamed of our history not truly being taught. I am ashamed that some people in our country think slavery was job training. I am ashamed the US refuses to admit its racist, xenophobic, genocidal origins.
dec 30, 2024, 8:48 pm • 13 1 • view
Desantis and the FL republicans 😡
dec 30, 2024, 9:33 pm • 4 0 • view
Stop the felon. Sign and share.
dec 31, 2024, 4:20 am • 1 2 • view
If the electoral collage looses the right to vote for Trump, does that give Harris the presidency ?
dec 31, 2024, 4:24 am • 2 0 • view
I don't know the answer, but it would certainly make sense. 💙
dec 31, 2024, 4:28 am • 2 0 • view
The 1619 Project should be required reading.
dec 31, 2024, 1:14 am • 18 1 • view
Never heard this before. Thanks for posting it.
dec 30, 2024, 8:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Thank you for teaching so we all can know.
dec 30, 2024, 9:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Thank you for sharing this, heartbreaking information to say the least.
dec 30, 2024, 4:59 pm • 12 1 • view
The rest of the world has copies, don’t you worry!! Your history will not be forgotten no matter how much rich white men want it!
dec 30, 2024, 5:00 pm • 13 1 • view
As hard as the White Christian Evangelical Republican Nationalists try to impede the history of these United States 🇺🇸 the US Library of Congress has copies of books that these fools believe make the suburbanites and their children cry. Tough shit !
dec 30, 2024, 9:57 pm • 1 0 • view
Banning books is the path of ignorance just exactly what dictatorship wanted
dec 30, 2024, 5:55 pm • 7 1 • view
Very interesting tidbit of Yank history. It's strange though to see that the practice was only conducted on one day though. In Greece, that was standard practice all year. A question, the article stated that it was what the White slave owners did; Why not slave owners of all epidermal hues?
dec 31, 2024, 10:19 am • 1 0 • view
There largely weren't nonwhite slave owners in the U.S. during that time period. There largely weren't nonwhite free people in the U.S. during that time period. The vast majority of dark-skinned people arriving in the U.S. during that time period were shipped in by the trans-atlantic slave trade.
jan 1, 2025, 11:10 am • 1 0 • view
Those white slave owners were also *extremely* racist, and those beliefs were reinforced by the inhumane treatment of the visually distinct black slave class.
jan 1, 2025, 11:13 am • 1 0 • view
That's interesting that you would put it that way; That members of the White races were "Racist" against those of the Black races. That's only because I believed that the dominant belief during those days of slavery, were that members of the Black races were actually another species entirely.
jan 2, 2025, 1:50 am • 0 0 • view
That they were more akin to animals than to Homo-Sapiens. I could understand Racism between the white races, like the Germanics, Romanics and Slavs being against
jan 2, 2025, 1:51 am • 0 0 • view
each other but for them to be "Racists" against the Black races, that sounds a bit to progressive for back then. That would almost equate to,,, well equality. The elevation of the beast to sentience.
jan 2, 2025, 1:51 am • 0 0 • view
However, that would have to be with the Pion groups of the White races because the aristocracy had very close relationships with Arab and African slave owners. They ever had close relationships with American slave owners that descended from African races.
jan 2, 2025, 1:56 am • 0 0 • view
All regardless of the demographic/racial consistency of American and Colonial Slave owners. So my question on this point still remains. Why was it practiced on just one day a year and by those of White skin color.
jan 2, 2025, 1:57 am • 0 0 • view
jan 2, 2025, 11:27 am • 0 0 • view
Article source: time.com/5750833/new-...
jan 2, 2025, 11:27 am • 0 0 • view
Also, why were slaves that resisted going to a new owner, even for a year, thrown into prison. Again in Greece, being enslaved itself was a being in prison. Why wouldn't the slave be "in prisoned" within their new owners,,, ownership?
dec 31, 2024, 10:19 am • 1 0 • view
Rhetorical question or do you really not understand the difference between a jail cell and forced labor?
dec 31, 2024, 1:30 pm • 2 0 • view
Ah, I see. You must have received your education in the U.S., or you're a child. Very well. When someone is a slave, their existence is that of a prisoner. A cell is simply where they're housed when not serving. So putting a slave in Jail, would be a reprieve from serving.
jan 1, 2025, 6:17 am • 1 0 • view
Yes, it technically would be a reprieve from "serving", as you call it. It also makes it harder for them to escape or plot revolution, which the American slavers suspected slaves of constantly. It's fundamentally a demoralization tactic where the threat of being isolated and imprisoned was used to
jan 1, 2025, 10:30 am • 2 0 • view
help coerce them into performing the forced labor, as the threat of more forced labor is not very effective at coercing someone to perform that same forced labor. It's far from the only or worst demoralization tactic used. And yes, I am an American and we covered this particular subject in great
jan 1, 2025, 10:32 am • 2 0 • view
detail. We even have various museums devoted to explaining all the particular details of how slavery worked in the U.S.
jan 1, 2025, 10:33 am • 2 0 • view
Now if they would have put that in the article, I wouldn't have needed to pose the question. So it was what we call contemporarily, Sequestered Confinement. Sequester them from all human contact till they start to go mad. Got it.
jan 2, 2025, 1:42 am • 0 0 • view
It seems a bit extreme for something, as slight of a problem, as Slave Revolts though. I assume that that punishment was used more on the newly enslaved, in stead of it being a wide spread practice.
jan 2, 2025, 1:42 am • 0 0 • view
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to learn something new today.
dec 30, 2024, 7:25 pm • 1 0 • view
You sound rather racist love
dec 31, 2024, 12:06 am • 2 0 • view
Thank you for sharing. The truth needs to be told in order for all of us can have reconciliation.
dec 30, 2024, 6:00 pm • 1 0 • view
I did not know this *at age 50* about New Year’s Day in America. Reposting, with the hope that we can one day soon rebuild the education system into what it always should have been in this country. Thank you for sharing.
dec 31, 2024, 12:58 am • 0 0 • view
Thank you for sharing this, especially at a time where some are attempting to erase important history like this.
dec 30, 2024, 9:04 pm • 1 0 • view
OMG! This is another historical fact I didn't know. I travel North America and have learned so much about white written history vs. truth. Native American history is also quiet nightmarish. Thank you.
dec 30, 2024, 9:51 pm • 1 1 • view
Dr. NH, Agree,TY📖Many of us grew up in the belly of the beast. And fortunate to have escaped poverty, racism, war etc. As painful as history can be in America & other corners of the 🌎, important to protect archives. 💕Bio Harriett Tubman & NA 📘Empire of Summer Moon 🌟📚👏 Internet Archive archive.org
dec 31, 2024, 1:23 am • 1 0 • view
Thank you for adding this. I had no idea.
dec 31, 2024, 2:15 pm • 5 0 • view
There is so much I didn't know. The way our school systems gloss over slavery in America is absolutely criminal. I will continue to learn and even more importantly, make sure my grandchildren are informed of the truth of our Country's shameful history.
dec 30, 2024, 11:58 pm • 2 0 • view
That’s so horrifying I don’t know how to respond without sounding trite. There are no words.
dec 31, 2024, 6:06 am • 1 0 • view
Make sure a xecent number of books land in every other nation.
dec 30, 2024, 9:39 pm • 1 0 • view
How tragic and cruel.
dec 31, 2024, 11:53 pm • 1 0 • view
I can't connect to that site
dec 31, 2024, 3:42 am • 1 0 • view
❤️
dec 31, 2024, 1:53 am • 1 0 • view
Americans seem to prefer to not remember US history. If they did, they'd remember being humiliated by trump's "For Russia" NATO steel an aluminum trade war.
dec 31, 2024, 3:56 pm • 2 0 • view
The men who seek to hide this shame are the very same as the men who carried it out.If you are ashamed of something then you hid it and pretend it didn't happen.The Black experience in America is like none other.For today many Black people look into their White relatives eyes unknowingly or not 🤔
dec 30, 2024, 5:14 pm • 30 0 • view
The first slaves were the native people. But african slaves had the advantage of not arriving with a supportive community, as well as being more different in appearance.
dec 31, 2024, 4:31 am • 0 0 • view
I won't dignify that with a comment
dec 31, 2024, 4:36 am • 1 0 • view
You just did. Native slaves were so badly treated that few survived. Another reason why African slaves were imported. Natives further from the East coast were largely spared by imported African slaves. Why there are almost no native people on the East coast, once having a large native population.
dec 31, 2024, 4:55 am • 1 0 • view
Right On Black Relative, woke is woke is woke, of this I know not else…
dec 30, 2024, 6:41 pm • 0 0 • view
Knowledgeable is knowledgeable is knowledgeable. You can’t hide the past.
dec 30, 2024, 6:57 pm • 0 0 • view
No you can't and that is why so many rich White Privileges men have a problem with it. Ie Tulsa,Oklahoma www.neh.gov/article/1921...
dec 30, 2024, 7:10 pm • 9 2 • view
I was never taught about that horrific event in school, and only learned about it maybe 10 years ago. How many other important parts of our history was I not taught about???
dec 30, 2024, 7:17 pm • 4 0 • view
The U.S. Army giving Native American people blankets deliberately infested with smallpox as they were herded off to reservations is another horror I was not taught in school.
dec 30, 2024, 7:27 pm • 9 0 • view
Sad but true the Government objective was to get the land by any means necessary and they got the land.
dec 30, 2024, 7:31 pm • 4 0 • view
Hi sadly what we pass off as history is basically a Hollywood version of History. They leave these stories out on purpose because in my opinion are ashamed to put it in the history books. www.britannica.com/topic/list-o...
dec 30, 2024, 7:28 pm • 3 0 • view
Yes, it is a very sanitized version. And I think we can't have a genuine reckoning with the multi generational trauma that still affects this country deeply until we tell the truth about what happened, and continues to happen.
dec 30, 2024, 7:39 pm • 1 0 • view
Well you hit upon a key problem in my opinion. Racism is America Achilles heel and until we honestly face it the country will never heal.Some say well I'm not Racist so why do I have to worry?Putin exploit out Racist tendencies through Donald Trump against us.Now we have a convicted felon President
dec 30, 2024, 7:44 pm • 2 0 • view
Denying that racism exists is one of the key ways that the system keeps racism in place. I'm no expert, but from what I've heard the truth and reconciliation commissions in South Africa helped them heal & move forward after the end of apartheid and I think something like that could be helpful here.
dec 30, 2024, 7:50 pm • 2 0 • view
T&R Commissions could have been the right answer, but here we were too busy enacting ‘black codes’, segregation-‘separate but un-equal’ SC rulings, Jim Crow laws, institutional racism, voting poll taxes, voting literacy tests, etc. Literally, foot-dragging and fighting against the needed solutions.
dec 31, 2024, 1:38 am • 1 0 • view
Thank you for providing this important historical context, and a chance to grow from it. Much love in the coming New Year.🙏🏼💕
dec 30, 2024, 7:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Thanks for sharing this piece of history. I had no idea. I hope that one day the world will see every human being as equal; as it should be.
dec 30, 2024, 5:32 pm • 1 0 • view
We actually have a pretty awful history. Worst was the genocide of the Native Americans. One of my ancestors came over from Ireland between 1800 and 1833. Was immediately placed in the army where he deserted. My family thinks was disgraceful. But all the army was doing is kill Native Americans.
dec 30, 2024, 5:23 pm • 6 0 • view
I just finished The Tide Between Us, it's historical fiction, but it actually tells how 10,000, Irish orphans were sent to Jamaica as indentured servants. Highly recommend.
dec 30, 2024, 6:49 pm • 2 0 • view
It will probably make me mad. If you read the history of Ireland, it is all about unconscionable oppression of Ireland by the English. Read about the Penal laws. Like my nephew says: I hate what the English half of me did to the Irish half of me. it is all history.
dec 30, 2024, 7:47 pm • 2 0 • view
It will, but I learned so much about the relationships they fostered, and why so many Jamaicans have Irish names. The oppression is something too many people forget
dec 30, 2024, 10:31 pm • 1 0 • view
Like Bob Marly? But I think his father was a Scotsman.
dec 31, 2024, 1:01 am • 1 0 • view
I feel that we're entering Fahrenheit 451 territory...
dec 30, 2024, 7:01 pm • 0 0 • view
My god, had no idea. Fuck public schools for not telling providing this context.
dec 31, 2024, 2:13 am • 1 1 • view
Generations of injustice... still here, but this time, sans sheep's clothing... #slaverbrains right out in the open...
dec 30, 2024, 5:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Thank you SO much for helping educate America and the world about ALL of America. I am doing what I can to do the same. God bless our cause. 🕯️
dec 31, 2024, 7:51 am • 2 0 • view
The illegal overthrow of the Nation of Hawai'i's monarchy by sugar cane Barron's and American Marines needs to be taught.
dec 30, 2024, 10:05 pm • 26 3 • view
Indeed. I did not know the real history of the Hawaiian islands until I visited. I envision a resurgence of native government.
dec 31, 2024, 2:10 am • 4 3 • view
What I hope for. Hawaiian Immersion Schools have really promoted accurate history, cultural teachings and the Hawaiian language. They started in the 90's. It is beautiful to hear 20+ year olds speaking O'leo, fluently.
dec 31, 2024, 2:16 am • 9 2 • view
The preschoolers conversing in it. The kids helping their parents and grandparents learn it, there was a loss for about 2 decades because of the missionaries outlawing it.
dec 31, 2024, 2:16 am • 6 1 • view
History is a learning tool! It gives us the opportunity to learn for ourselves just how brutal mankind can be to human beings! Caesar fed Christian’s to the lions, Christian’s today: demonize the other and approve of horrible acts upon others!
dec 30, 2024, 8:49 pm • 0 0 • view
Fascinating, and chastening, too. Thank you for sharing this.
dec 30, 2024, 6:02 pm • 1 0 • view
Thank you for posting this. I never knew about this practice
dec 30, 2024, 8:17 pm • 1 0 • view
Thank You For Sharing This Information On Slavery And The History Of Watch Night In The Black Church. ✊🏽
dec 30, 2024, 8:26 pm • 1 0 • view
Reckoning with history isn’t about blame it’s about building a future that learns from it. Are we ready to face the answers?
dec 30, 2024, 4:58 pm • 2 0 • view
I thought this was good to know, but when I posted it on my Facebook I got zero notices. Normally I get 20-30
dec 31, 2024, 9:33 am • 5 0 • view
Which reminds me to store away my old history books for the time when REAL history will be able to be taught once again in schools.
dec 31, 2024, 3:42 pm • 2 0 • view
This horrible part of our history needs to be taught in every single high school in the country.
dec 30, 2024, 9:00 pm • 3 1 • view
We have the internet now! We can use TikTok etc. Go where they are.
jan 5, 2025, 10:27 pm • 0 0 • view
I still can't believe the horror that was slave-owning America. The horrors we inflicted on innocent people from 1619-1865. 246 years of physical violence, sexual violence, and denying the humanity of tens of millions. Ripping a child from their mother for profit is unconscionable.
dec 31, 2024, 2:45 pm • 2 0 • view
👁️👃🏼👁️
dec 31, 2024, 5:09 am • 1 0 • view
I just learned about this the other day. I wish ALL history was taught in "history" classes! Thank you for the post & the reminder that we NEED to know ALL the history, not just what is whitewashed... Those who don't LEARN from history DAMN US ALL to keep repeating it!
dec 30, 2024, 4:59 pm • 37 6 • view
Thank you for sharing this missing piece of US history.
dec 30, 2024, 6:26 pm • 7 0 • view