slavery

Ona Judge was one of Martha Washington’s slaves who escaped while the Washingtons were living in Philadelphia, the capitol of the young United States at the time. President Washington used the power of the U.S. government to unsuccessfully pursue her capture until the end of his life. Here &...

SOMETHING YOUR TOUR GUIDE MIGHT NOT TELL YOU: The heart of NYC’s Financial District is built on a huge 18th century African Burial Ground. Some 419 Africans were discovered in 1991, a large portion women and children. The burial ground extends from Broadway Southward under City Hall, and...

A Border Patrol agent looks at the Rio Grande river with Mexico on the left and the US on the right from a railroad bridge in Laredo, Texas on May 2, 2006. Agents often patrol for migrants trying to illegally enter the country. At another time in history, the US government was trying to keep...

OG History is a Teen Vogue series where we unearth history not told through a white, cisheteropatriarchal lens. In this explainer, Adam Sanchez explains myths of the Civil War, including the truth about President Abraham Lincoln's motivations for ending the practice of slavery in the United...

"Reparations" for slavery, war, or other destructive acts is only an outrageous idea when it comes to African-Americans in the United States. :francis: Meanwhile, Australian Aborigines: Stolen Generations to get $73m compensation in NSW package First Nations people (Native Canadians)...

Yes, they really do exist outside of entertainers :whoo: . Love how down to Earth the Browns are - I guess because they are newer money. In the U.S. today, the average African-American household owns just 6 cents for every $1 of wealth held by the typical white household, and blacks make up...

Two centuries ago, America pioneered a way of thinking that puts human well-being in economic terms. Eli Cook Money and markets have been around for thousands of years. Yet as central as currency has been to so many civilizations, people in societies as different as ancient Greece, imperial...

Celia was facing the gallows when she went on trial in 1855 for the murder of the white slave owner who had been raping her. She warned the white slave owner that the rapes had to stop. Celia, 19, had endured five years of assaults by Robert Newsom, the Missouri widower in his 70s who’d...

I'm reading this book: A Peoples History of the United States ( shoutout to @R.E.N. Spells Ren for putting me on) and I always knew Columbus and the Spaniards were scumbags :pacspit: but the things I've just read. . And we know that Africans traveled to and settled these lands thousands of...

It's Not Mass Incarceration, But Slavery: Speech By Max Parthas We have to get it right we still have slavery. The exception clause in the 13th needs to go.

We built this shyt off our backs. Atleast watch 14:45 and on. Didn't understand the concept of the sugar trade.

:picard: Cacs in the comment section wild offended :troll:

Came across this segment, thought it was interesting, especially concerning the benefactor of the museum.

Sweet golly :snoop:

Don't misinterpret this being ashamed of being black, I know that black people have a special meaning on this planet and inherently given gifts that others don't. I love being black, despite the struggles it brings some days. But just knowing that I'm descended from men that just got their...

My last name is Benson and I'm currently looking at African names to change it. But 1st I'm going to submit an Ancestry.com application to see where my line mostly derived from. We really walking round outchea with last names that don't belong to us. I read a long time ago that freed slaves...

Riddle me this real quick please. No its not a word of endearment. No its not OUR word. No the meaning hasn't changed caused you added an "a" to the end of it. No the meaning hasn't changed cause you replaced the"gg" with "kk". Might as well add another k to complete the trilogy (NiKKKa) . That...

I'm working on my final essay and came across some very neat information. As you know, since the colonial era to the American revolution, ideas about African-Americans were used in propaganda either for or against the issue of slavery. Thus, Watson and the Shark, 1778 by John Singleton Copley...

Posting something different than my usual thottie thread for a moment :skip: :patrice: :dame: :hhh: For the nikkas That wanna read a list, courtesy of @Cowboyz89 cause my lazy ass ain't making one :mjgrin: