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https://apnews.com/article/prison-to-plate-inmate-labor-investigation-c6f0eb4747963283316e494eadf08c4e Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands BY ROBIN MCDOWELL AND MARGIE MASON ANGOLA, La. (AP) — A hidden path to America’s dinner tables...

:laff::laff::laff: Our ancestors were incredibly eloquent!!!!

Also, on the term Vagabond relating to slavery. Salute to my drapetomaniac 4th Great Grandfather who said fukk this and escaped slavery in Georgetown, Maryland (now DC) and proceeded to Canada, where he rose to become Bishop of the Canadian Province of the African Methodist Episcopal Church...

:francis: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/4321?s=1&r=1

I’m gonna need coli militants to get on their job. This is like if they signed into law saying the jews benefited from being rounded up and sent to concentration camps. This is bad.

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*They moved the Tik Tok link. I posted the YouTube link (not time stamped) instead. Thoughts?

It’s comprehensive and very good. From a UK perspective but dealing with the entire history of Trans Atlantic slavery. Including America, Africa and other places. It’s good to watch to answer racists who complain about slavery. I watch a lot of these but this is the first one I’m posting. Cacs...

He makes some very valid points :jbhmm:

There’s a lot of BS and gender war crap happening on social media, but I appreciate Omowale Afrika’s efforts to get to the root of the issue and help push us forward. Definitely check his page out. Here is his interview with Dr Joy DeGruy. She is absolutely brilliant and has dedicated...

In contemporary discussions, the two are often not compared with each other because of the distance in time between the two. I think this is probably due to recency bias. But should Trans Atlantic Slavery, the largest forced migration of humans ever, be treated the same way, in contemporary...

Many if not the majority of the African slaves were brought here during the British colonial period. It was the UK that set up the slavery system and the United States simply inherited that. Much of the US were also under French, Spanish, and Dutch rule at one point and all three powers...

This is massive: :wow: Haiti’s Lost Billions 6 Takeaways About Haiti’s Reparations to France Haiti’s Lost Billions The Root of Haiti’s Misery: Reparations to Enslavers https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/20/world/americas/haiti-aristide-reparations-france.html 6 Takeaways About Haiti’s...

I do sales for a antique/estate selling business. Basically I research and find old shyt then price it and sell it. anyway, today I found an original 1840 census. You can obviously search this online but it’s something about seeing “free colored persons” counted and slaves being marked to...

Efunroye Tinubu (c. 1810 – 1887), born Ẹfúnpọ̀róyè Ọ̀ṣuntinúbú,[1] was a powerful Yoruba female aristocrat, merchant, and slave trader in pre-colonial and colonial Nigeria She sold slaves to Brazilian and European merchants in violation of a 1852 treaty with Great Britain outlawing the slave...

Definition of ANACHRONISM :unimpressed:

Xinjiang: more than half a million forced to pick cotton, report suggests More than half a million people from ethnic minority groups in Xinjiang have been coerced into picking cotton, on a scale far greater than previously thought, new research has suggested. Xinjiang: more than half a...

When the Enslaved Went South Interesting article on Slaves heading south not north in the mid 1800's. Definitely some items I didn't know. Long Article,