The #FugitiveSlaveAct of 1793 was not well enforced due to widespread opposition to it in 1793.
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
#AmericanSlavery
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Northup’s story remains a clear record of how slavery functioned not only through chains, but through laws that denied entire groups the right to be believed.
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Book Suggestion: Let Us Descend: Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields… #WSMVP #Descendreimagining #reimaginingAmerican #Americanslavery
Newsom signs bill creating Bureau for Descendants of American Slavery in major milestone for reparations
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Also, going back further - #generationalwealth in 🇺🇲 was created off the backs of #slaves of all ethnicities - #chinese #african etc... #americanslavery created the railroads and industries (like cotton) NEVER forget this!! #slaveryneverended #jimcrow #thisisamerica
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Link to paper from which the above screenshot excerpt was obtained:
“This Slavery Business Is a Horrible Thing”: The Economy of American Slavery in the Lives of the Enslaved”
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William Craft's literacy about slavery as a business enterprise continued to evolve after his parents were sold in their old age. 6 When Craft was sixteen years old, his enslaver demanded that he and his brother gain training in skilled trades—as a cabinet maker and blacksmith, respectively—to increase their value to potential buyers. “If a slave has a good trade,” Craft revealed, “he will let or sell for more than a person without one, and many slaveholders have their slave taught trades on this account.” However, before Craft completed his training, his enslaver decided to sell Craft and his siblings in a series of transactions. While Craft's brother was sold to another slaveholder, Craft and his younger sister were “mortgaged." “Before our time expired,” Craft wrote, “he sold my brother, then mortgaged my sister . . . and myself, then about sixteen, to one of the banks, to get money to speculate in cotton.”' Craft's enslaver subsequently defaulted on his loan and the bank placed Craft and his sister up for auction to the highest bidder. Craft's experience as an enslaved teenager made an indelible mark on his views of his enslavers' economic interests. He learned that slaveholders' financial goals, bound up in obligations to financial institutions and a market for enslaved labor, drove his family apart. 8 7
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This screenshot briefly describes the intergenerational impact on the families held in bondage as a result of the antebellum South's dependency on slave labor.
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The Museums throughout Washington, but all over the Country are, essentially, the last remaining segment of "WOKE.” The Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL, where everything discussed is how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was, and how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been Nothing about Success, nothing about Brightness, nothing about the Future. We are not going to allow this to happen, and I have instructed my attorneys to go through the Museums, and start the exact same process that has been done with Colleges and Universities where tremendous progress has been made. This Country cannot be WOKE, because WOKE IS BROKE. We have the "HOTTEST" Country in the World, and we want people to talk about it, including in our Museums. 8.37k ReTruths 35.6k Likes 8/19/25, 1:46 PM
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Very well.
Since felon34 thinks #slavery wasn't so bad, I say we sell him, his children, his grandchildren, future grandchildren, and future great-grandchildren to Canada, where they can pick up the new skill called “cleaning the forest floors”.
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Accurate. #AmericanSlavery
#AmericanConcentrationCamps #CoreCivic #GeoGroup #AmericanSlavery youtu.be/fxqnLvJnWqQ?...
They're all running away.. always with hands up and phones in hand
Zero threat getting beaten while chased reminds me of something
#Django
#AmericanSlavery
AMERICA we are back to SLAVERY of POC
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#WakeTheFuckUP
#RESIST the #OrangeTreason
#FUCKtRUMP
Toney: One Man’s Long Journey Through #AmericanSlavery
Presented by Dr. Scott Giltner, Professor of History, Culver-Stockton College, Canton Missouri. Free Zoom event hosted by @stacyacole.bsky.social 7 June 2025. Register here theyhadnames.net/event/
#AmericanSlavery of foreign workers
Another good reason to #BoucottISA No Buyer, no need for slaves
JUST SAY NO TO REPARATIONS! FIND OUT WHY. Read our bestselling exposé on the “peculiar institution,” facts that have been suppressed for 150 years: “Everything You Were Taught About #AmericanSlavery is Wrong, Ask a Southerner!” www.searavenpress.com #NoReparations
The #FugitiveSlaveAct of 1793 was not well enforced due to widespread opposition to it in 1793.
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
#AmericanSlavery
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My talk on the Muslim prince who spent 40 years enslaved in Southwest Mississippi
#BlackHistory #Slavery #MississippiHistory #AmericanSlavery #AfricanAmericanHistory
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An Black American family standing in front of former slave quarters at the Hermitage Plantation in Savannah, Georgia Margaret Garner was born into the harsh and unforgiving reality of slavery around 1834, in Boone County, Kentucky, on the Maplewood plantation. Her birth, like that of countless other enslaved individuals, marked the beginning of a life without freedom or control over her own destiny. The Maplewood plantation, situated in the rural heart of Kentucky, was one of many Southern estates where Black Americans were enslaved and forced into grueling labor, with little to no rights or protections.
It's day 3 of #bhm and today I will be talking about #MargretGarner
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1. Margaret Garner was born into slavery in Boone County, Kentucky, around 1834, on the Maplewood plantation
#NewYear’sDay #history #USHistory #AmericanSlavery #AfricanAmericanHistory #BlackAmericanHistory #MyAncestors #blacksky
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#AmericanSlavery 2.0
“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced,”
#JamesBaldwin wrote.
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