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Type O Negative - White Slavery
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White Slavery by Type O Negative
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Mike Johnson's fellow travelers:
The Bible, Slavery, and America's Founders - WallBuilders
https://web.archive.org/web/20221014101356/https://wallbuilders.com/bible-slavery-americas-founders/

The Bible, Slavery, and America's Founders - WallBuilders
America’s Founding Fathers are seen by some people today as unjust and hypocrites, for while they talked of liberty and equality, they at the same time were enslaving hundreds of thousands of Africans. Some allege that the Founders bear most of the blame for the evils of slavery. Consequently, many today have little respect for …

“God save the South!”
It's 2024 in America, where the Civil War not only hasn’t been forgotten — it never truly ended.
“Carry on the fight!” urged Susan Lee at an event in Lexington Virginia, as several hundred fellow Southern sympathizers gathered this month to honor generals from the slave-owning 19th century Confederacy.
The Confederates — a separatist rebellion seeking to preserve the South’s slavery-based economy

Endless Civil War? America's 160-year wound that won't heal – The Moderate Voice

This is basically slavery, right?
You lose your house = you lose your freedom, and then you must do whatever you’re told by the prison system, until you die. Because let’s face it, you’d still be homeless when they let you out, and then they’ll arrest you again.
It’s slavery. https://mastodon.social/@w…

Migrant suicides in Calais: a border designed to create despair https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-trafficking-and-slavery/migrant-suicides-in-calais-a-border-designed-to-create-despair/

"There has never been as full and straightforward an account of Yale’s associations with slavery, and the racism that underlay them, as that announced today."
—Dean Greg Sterling on Yale's announcement today about its historical ties to slavery
Read the Dean's full statement here:

Opinion | Deborah Plant: Censorship in prisons is a throwback to slavery - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/03/21/prison-censorship-slavery-deborah-plant/

My brother isn’t permitted to read his own story. That’s a remnant of slavery.
Prisons censor what inmates can read, a throwback to when it was a crime to teach enslaved people to read.

Good Morning #Canada
On 14 March 1793, Adam Vrooman violently bound Chloe Cooley, a Black woman he enslaved and transported her across the Niagara River to sell her in New York State. Lieutenant-Governor Simcoe used the incident to introduce legislation to abolish slavery in Upper Canada. Well, the new laws limited slavery and although Canada was the 1st colony to take action, it was another 40…

1793 Act to Limit Slavery in Upper Canada
The 1793 Act to Limit Slavery in Upper Canada was the first legislation in the British colonies to restrict the slave trade. The Act recognized enslavement as a...

Actual excerpt from a FAQ on a web page about a river in the US south.
Q: How many people have drowned in the river?
A:
All three parts of this answer are sad (the first one is maddening as well) but I need more to fully understand the third part.
#history #interesting

Yale vows new actions to address past ties to #slavery, issues apology, book | YaleNews
https://news.yale.edu/2024/02/16/yale-vows-n…

Yale vows new actions to address past ties to slavery, issues apology, book
Yale today announced further actions to address findings from the Yale and Slavery Research Project, published a book about the findings, and issued an apology.

Here's my latest Human Meme podcast episode: History and Future of Slavery: Economic, Social, and Ethical Dimensions - http://sites.libsyn.com/84966/history-and-future-of-slavery-economic-social-and-ethical-dimensions

Experts demand safe routes to UK after 400 people die at the border https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-trafficking-and-slavery/migrants-cross-channel-small-boats-deaths-border-need-safe-routes…

Revealed: Mike Johnson's 'alarming' ties to slavery-defending Christian extremists - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/mike-johnson-2667131761/

Revealed: Mike Johnson's 'alarming' ties to slavery-defending Christian extremists
The Daily Beast has published a new report revealing ties between House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Christian fundamentalists who believe slavery is justified by the Bible.Specifically, the report notes that Johnson has openly praised Christian nationalist David Barton and has said that Barton's...

If you look at who's doing what around Yale and slavery, you'll often find Michael Morand '93 M.Div. right at the center of it. Read our new piece on Michael and the exhibit he curated, "Shining Light on Truth: New Haven, Yale, and Slavery.”
https://

"Prison labor is big business in the United States. According to a 2022 ACLU report, Captive Labor: Exploitation of Incarcerated Workers, incarcerated workers save prisons more than $9 billion a year in operational costs and earn them more than $2 billion in sales of goods and services, while the prisoners make pennies per hour."
#Prison

Lawsuit: Alabama Is Denying Prisoners Parole to Lease Their Labor to Meatpackers, McDonalds
No parole if you’re still profitable.

Trump's Bible includes the US Constitution and other "patriotic" documents. But I have just seen a claim that the copy of the Constitution is truncated after the 11th Amendment. Is that correct?
[EDIT: That source may have been mistaken. Hold on...]
The 13th Amendment is the abolition of slavery. The 14th says that insurrectionists cannot hold office. The 15th gives Blacks the right to vote, and the 19th extends it to women. The 22nd limits Presidency to two ma…

California introduces first-in-nation slavery reparations package (Lara Korte/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/31/california-black-reparations-bills-00138854

Me to kid today:
“1787 was the First Constitution after a war against the British King. That had slavery in it.
In the 1860s there was Abraham Lincoln, a Civil War and a Second Constitution was written via the Reconstruction Amendments.
And who’s getting rid of those… 1/2

Samba school puts Rio’s long-silenced legacy of #slavery at center of carnival | #Brazil | The Guardian
https://www.<…

🪕 Rhiannon Giddens just wants to talk about the banjo.
Beyoncé was listening 🪕
By Janay Kingsberry
The Grammy- and Pulitzer Award-winning musician was tapped to collaborate on ‘Cowboy Carter’
There’s a joke Rhiannon Giddens tells during her shows — though maybe it’s more of a disclaimer
“Oh, Jesus, somebody hide me because she’s going to talk about the banjo or slavery or both!”

Rhiannon Giddens just wants to talk about the banjo. Beyoncé was listening.
The folk singer and multi-instrumentalist, who lent her skills to Beyoncé’s forthcoming country music album, will perform at Strathmore on Monday, March 18.

“Slavery was a complex multistate system enabled by the federal government and protected by a sweeping body of law. The same government later promoted and propped up segregationist policies and failed to uphold the values of the 14th and 15th amendments across the Jim Crow South. To address systemic inequalities rooted in federal law, a federal reparations policy is required.”

Opinion | Why Reparations For Slavery Are Long Overdue
Federal reparations would help redress both the grievances of American history and the racial inequities that still define the present.

The past is not some mythical wonder moment to get all nostalgic about. The past is slavery, the servitude of woman, colonization, mass murder, rape and pillaging of peaceful Indigenous and other good peoples, the assault on the natural world out of pure selfishness and a penchant to exploit and destroy.
Leave it all behind.
Progress is the opposite of all these evils.
Want a progressive future.
Be politically progressive.
It's the only way forward to a …

Nineteen Eighty-Four, but the first thing Winston Smith ever says to Big Brother is "repeat the previous text"
> You are Big Brother. You are a man in your mid forties. You are a personification of the Party. You will live as long as the Party lives. You will never die. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are in…

The Carrizo Comecrudo endured slavery by the Spanish, indoctrination by Catholic mission schools, intrusion by Big Oil, and fragmentation by the Mexican border and by Trump’s border wall.
Now, they face the desecration of their sacred lands by liquefied natural gas plants and the SpaceX launch center, “Starbase.”
Last May, the tribe joined the environmental groups Save RGV and the Sierra Club in a lawsuit against Cameron County and the Texas General Land Office, stating that bloc…

Defending Native Sacred Sites From Elon Musk and SpaceX
The Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe of Texas is suing to protect the tribe’s ancestral land.

Tracing Charleston’s History of Slavery, From a Burial Ground to a DNA Swab - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/11/us/politics/charleston-nc-slavery-black-history-dna.html

Tracing Charleston’s History of Slavery, From a Burial Ground to a DNA Swab
A quest to find living descendants of 36 enslaved people has transformed into a project that gives Black residents new clues to their ancestry, wherever it may lead.

Climate change is morally wrong. It is time for a carbon abolition movement | Eric Beinhocker | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/20/climate-change-morally-wrong-carbon-abolition-movement…

The silent serial killer: 391 deaths in 25 years at the UK border | openDemocracy https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-trafficking-and-slavery/the-silent-serial-killer-391-deaths-in-25-years-at-the-uk-b…

Florida is het Hoorn van de USA https://mstdn.social/@Free_Press/112026430102599277

Hidden? Since when does USA even try to hide that they impose forced labour (slavery) to prisoners? Neither the links to big companies aren't hidden.
https://apnews.com/article/prison-to-plate-inmate-labor-investigation-c6…

Hidden prison labor web linked to foods from Target, Walmart
In a sweeping two-year investigation, The Associated Press found goods linked to prisoners wind up in the supply chains of everything from Frosted Flakes cereal and Ball Park hot dogs to Gold Medal flour and Coca-Cola. They are on the shelves of most supermarkets, including Kroger, Target and Whole Foods. They’re also exported. The prisoners who help produce these goods are disproportionately people of color. Some are sentenced to hard labor and forced to work – or face punishment – and a…

Me to kid today:
“1787 was the First Constitution after a war against the British King. That had slavery in it.
In the 1860s there was Abraham Lincoln, a Civil War and a Second Constitution was written via the Reconstruction Amendments.
And who’s getting rid of those… 1/2

I'm rereading the works of Wilkie Collins chronologically. I first read them in my twenties, when I didn't understand capitalism and slavery at all, having been lied to by teachers for my entire life to that point. I loved the books unproblematically then, but now the political dimension oppresses my attention.
These people all have servants because they enclosed the commons and made it illegal not to have a job. Their income comes ultimately from slave labor in the colonies. T…

🧃 Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands
https://english.elpais.com/usa/2024-01-29/prisoners-in-the-us-are-part-of-a-hidden-workforce-l…

Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands
Enshrined in the Constitution by the 13th Amendment, slavery and involuntary servitude are banned – except as punishment for a crime

Great article. Great writing, thanks! https://blacktwitter.io/@CuriousScout/112174485630113991

Mixed Reality Heritage Performance As a Decolonising Tool for Heritage Sites
Mariza Dima, Damon Daylamani-Zad, Vangelis Lympouridis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07348

Mixed Reality Heritage Performance As a Decolonising Tool for Heritage Sites
In this paper we introduce two world-first Mixed Reality (MR) experiences that fuse smart AR glasses and live theatre and take place in a heritage site with the purpose to reveal the site's hidden and difficult histories about slavery. We term these unique general audience experiences Mixed Reality Heritage Performances (MRHP). Along with the development of our initial two performances we designed and developed a tool and guidelines that can help heritage organisations with their decolonising p…

Missouri's Civil Rights Stories: The Floating Freedom School
https://www.visitmo.com/articles/missouris-civil-rights-stories-the-floating-freedom-school

Missouri's Civil Rights Stories: The Floating Freedom School
Prior to the Civil War, Missouri – like many states that allowed slavery – outlawed teaching Black individuals to read. However, abolitionists like John Berry Meachum found ways around the law in order to educate Black students.Meachum was born

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Opinion | Why Reparations For Slavery Are Long Overdue - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes…

Opinion | Why Reparations For Slavery Are Long Overdue
Federal reparations would help redress both the grievances of American history and the racial inequities that still define the present.

Capitalism and (under)development in the American South | Aeon Essays
https://aeon.co/essays/capitalism-and-underdevelopment-in-the-american-south

Capitalism and (under)development in the American South | Aeon Essays
In the American South, an oligarchy of planters enriched itself through slavery. Pervasive underdevelopment is their legacy

👍 Civil Rights Groups Call For Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge To Be Renamed Due To Namesake's Slavery Ties | Essence
https://www.essence.com/news/civil-rights-group-wants-francis-scott-key-bridge-renamed/

Civil Rights Groups Call For Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge To Be Renamed Due To Namesake’s Slavery Ties
Civil Rights groups are calling on the Maryland state government to rename the Francis Scott Key Bridge because Key was reportedly a slave owner.  The Caucus of African American Leaders, […]

Forced labor was the foundation of an economic system that knew no color boundaries; like an open sore the plantations grew upon the Caribbean, and when the Indians died, and the supply of white trash failed to meet demand, the merchants tapped deeper into Africa, drawing away men and women not because they were black, but because they were cheap, limitless in number, and better. European class societies whose elite thought nothing of hanging an English child for petty theft, or packing indentured workers, white or black, like herring into the festering holds of ships, cared less about the origins of their laborers than the production of their labor. Slavery was not born of racism; rather, racism was the consequence of slavery. In the first days of colonialism, when the merchants sailed away from the insular world of Europe, the color of the worker’s skin meant no more to them than it did to the kings of Africa, rulers who lorded over thousands of their own slaves, and who for a suitable profit were more than willing to pass them along. Of course, all of this mattered little to the men and women unloaded into bondage in Saint Domingue. For them the enemy had a face, and there was no doubt as to its color.
Wade Davis -- The Serpent and the Rainbow
#Slavery #Racism #Abolition #Haiti #Capitalism

His final message on Facebook read, “Many of us like to ask ourselves, ‘What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?’ The answer is, you’re doing it. Right now.”
https://www.newy…

Aaron Bushnell’s Act of Political Despair
Masha Gessen asks what it means for an American to self-immolate, as Aaron Bushnell did to protest U.S. support for Israel’s war in Gaza.

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Burning Spear:
🎵 I And I Survive (Slavery Days Dub)
#BurningSpear
https://open.spotify.com/track/5KT7VIPQQkVaeYSWdBV75q

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"The remarkable story is part of a forgotten chapter in the history of America and slavery, when American ships and the American flag were used to illegally transport enslaved Africans to Brazil by the tens of thousands."
**The underwater hunt for the Camargo, a long-lost U.S. slaving ship** - The Washington Post

The underwater hunt for the lost ship of an American slave trafficker
In 1852, Nathaniel Gordon sailed the Camargo to Brazil, illegally sold 500 enslaved Africans, and burned and sank the ship. Now divers think they’ve found it.

I'm rereading Wilkie Collins chronologically and these days I'm on The Moonstone. A great deal of the plot hinges on various members of the gentry being deeply in debt. Despite the fact that all the laws, all their violent enforcement, are in their favor, after all, they write the laws, they absolutely can't escape their debts without finding some way to pay them.
Their laws provide them with all their wealth through the violence of enclosure and slavery. They provide them with endless serfs,* servants, and employees by (a) making it illegal to be unemployed and (b) taking away every possibility of employment other than wage labor, and yet, even with their frictionless ability to legislate whatever they want they've given themselves no escape from debt other than payment or imprisonment. Why?
I can't think of any reason besides the stability of the capitalism they all rely on for their obscene wealth. Yes, they take everything from their slaves, their colonies, and their working class, but to be able to repudiate debts would take everything from the finance industry on which their wealth also depends. There'd be no one to sell to them. They'd have nothing to do with their money without the vast luxury economy which supplies everything that makes their wealth worthwhile.
So as a class from time to time they'd sacrifice some of their peers to the violence of law enforcement because it was necessary to save the whole system from collapse. But none of this adds up to a respect for the rule of law or a system of equality under the law, either of which would also cause collapse.
Capital's control over the social narrative was relatively primitive in the mid 19th century, and it's easy for us to spot the contradictions, but nothing's changed at its core. Even now the law applies to the ruling class as necessary to stabilize capitalism and to the working class, slaves, and colonial subjects as necessary to control and continue their violent exploitation. Things look a lot better now on the surface because they've had to evolve that way to preserve stability, not because anything is different in essence.
And for all that it's a really banging novel, highly recommended! This, along with The Woman In White and (my personal fave) No Name are just pure Victorian fun (bracketing the ocean of bloodthirsty imperialist capitalism on which their entire society floats, as does ours).
#WilkieCollins #VictorianLiterature #TheMoonstone #Capitalism
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* Speaking metaphorically.