The truth about Jackson’s savagery was just as disturbing as the fake news. After a particularly bloody battle in 1814, Andrew Jackson’s men counted the dead Indians by cutting off their noses. They collected 557 noses.
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Jackson ran an ad in the Nashville Gazette, in October, 1804, for the capture of a runaway slave, which stated that in addition to the reward, he would pay an extra $10 per 100 lashes (up to 300), to anyone who willing to inflict them upon his miscreant property. He was known to hold a vengeful lifetime grudge against anyone whom he felt had slighted him, regardless of how minor the supposed offense. His betrayal the Choctow tribe, whom he persuaded to become American allies over the British during the war of 1812, culminated in the “Indian Removal Act” (Trail of Tears), of which he took personal responsiblity to see implemented, resulted in the death of thousands of men, women and children. It’s no surprise that the current occupant of the White…
Here are brief sketches of two African American artists who left their home country due to racial discrimination and sexism during the early 1960s. Settled in Germany, they became important contributors to the art scene, but have never been inscribed into either German or US art history curricula. Pioneers in their practices, each artist exemplifies the Black space in art fields that people would never ascribe to them.
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Why They Left America | Contemporary And
Slavery
in the Quaker World
Katharine Gerbner, September 1, 2019,
Friends JournalQuakers have long been hailed as heroes of the abolitionist movement.
Friends like Anthony Benezet and John Woolman worked tirelessly to
convince other Whites to abolish slavery and embrace liberty for all.
Fourteen years ago, when I began research for my book
Christian
Slavery, I wanted to understand this abolitionist history better. I
started with the “beginning”: the first antislavery protest in North
America, written by German and Dutch Quakers in Pennsylvania. But as I
quickly learned, this was only part of the
story when it comes to Quakers and slavery.
The 1688 Germantown Protest, as it is often called, was the first
document in North America to denounce slavery. It is an extraordinary
document. It declares, among other things, that the authors are “against
the traffick of men‐body.” It goes on to explain
that slavery cannot be a Christian practice and that it is against the
Golden Ru…
They
were once America’s cruelest, richest slave traders. Why does no one know their names?
Hannah Natanson, September 14, 2019,
The Washington Post
The two most ruthless domestic slave traders in America had a secret language for their business.
Slave trading was a “game.” The men, Isaac Franklin and John
Armfield, were daring “pirates” or “one-eyed men,” a euphemism for their
penises. The women they bought and sold were “fancy maids,” a term
signifying youth, beauty and potential for sexual exploitation
— by buyers or the traders themselves.
Rapes happened often.
“To my certain knowledge she has been used & that smartly by a
one eyed man about my size and age, excuse my foolishness,”
Isaac Franklin’s nephew James — an employee and his uncle’s protege
— wrote in typical business correspondence, referring to Caroline
Brown, an enslaved woman who suffered repeated rape and abuse at
James’s hands for five months. She was 18 at the time and just over five
feet tall.
continu…
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Why
we should remember 1619
Amanda Brickell Bellows, August 18, 2019,
The Washington Post
Four hundred years ago, the first Africans set foot on mainland
English America. Held as captives first on a Portuguese slave ship and
then an English privateer, they had endured a grueling journey across
the Atlantic Ocean during the summer of 1619. They traveled
from present-day Angola to Point Comfort, Va., where they were sold to
the colonists of Jamestown. The arrival of enslaved Africans in colonial
Virginia would shape not only the future of Jamestown, but also the
subsequent development of the United States.
On this anniversary, we should acknowledge slavery’s deep roots
and recognize the significant role that captive and free African
Americans have played in building the United States of today. During the
nation’s earliest days, economics and racism intersected
to launch the insidious institution that would bring fortune and
privilege to some and inequality, violence and dea…
C& Special Edition #Detroit
On
Death, Loss, And Processing A (Black) Archive
Curator, writer, and artist Legacy Russell ponders the possibility of
materializing a Black archive in spaces where language cannot travel.
Playing
with Race
One is still stumbling across curated incredibilities taking place in
museums and art spaces which make us realise: we are absolutely not
there yet.
A
modern man brings his slave ancestor to life, revealing America's complex story
Janell Ross, August 30, 2019,
NBC News
FORT MONROE, Va. — Joseph Rogers started with his tie, unwinding the broad Balthus knot he’d wound that morning.
Then, he slipped out of his shined leather shoes, his slim-fit gray vest
and the matching trousers he’d worn for the trip to Fort Monroe, on the
Virginia coast, for a commemoration marking 400 years since the arrival
of the first Africans enslaved in what would
become America.
As Rogers stepped into a pair of mahogany cotton trousers, borrowed from
the American Civil War Museum’s replica clothing collection, this
21st-century black man — with a cloud-based calendar full of obligations
and a habit of walking double-time, chest out,
shoulders back — began to recede. Rogers was approaching character now,
ready to embody a 19th-century slave.
“I am James Apostle Fields,” Rogers said slowly, almost haltingly, to a
woman who inquired about his ou…
Connecticut
schools will be required to offer African American, Latino studies under bill that cleared Senate Thursday
Daniela Altimari, May 30, 2019,
The Hartford Courant
African American and Latino studies will be a required part of the
public school curriculum in Connecticut by 2022 under a bill
unanimously approved by the Senate Thursday night.
The measure, which cleared the House of Representatives earlier this month, now heads to Gov. Ned Lamont for consideration.
In an emotional speech on the Senate floor, Sen. Douglas McCrory,
a Democrat from Hartford spoke of the need for a more inclusive
history curriculum. He invoked Nipsey Hussle, the California rapper
and community activist who was shot to death in March, and
recited a few lyrics from Jay Z’s “Legacy.''
Too often, McCrory said, schools highlight the legacies of Martin
Luther King Jr. and Frederick Douglas, but ignore the achievements of
lesser-known figures such as Ida B. Wells, an investigative journalis…
The
Lost Promise of Reconstruction
Eric Foner, September 7, 2019,
The New York TimesAmong
the unanticipated consequences of the election of Donald Trump has been
a surge of interest in post-Civil War Reconstruction, when this country
first attempted to construct an interracial democracy, and in
the restoration of white supremacy that followed.
Many Americans feel that we are living at a time like the end of the
19th century, when, in the words of Frederick Douglass, “principles
which we all thought to have been firmly and permanently settled” were
“boldly assaulted and overthrown.”
Douglass was referring to the rights enshrined in three
constitutional amendments ratified between 1865 and 1870. The 13th
Amendment irrevocably abolished slavery. The 14th constitutionalized the
principles of birthright citizenship and equality before the
law. The 15th sought to guarantee the right to vote for black men
throughout the reunited nation. All three empowered Congress to enforce
…
Medicine continues to advance on many fronts, yet basic health care fails hundreds of women a year who die during or after pregnancy, especially women of color. Black mothers die at a rate that's 3.3 times greater than whites, and Native American or Alaskan Native women die at a rate 2.5 times greater than whites, according to a report out this week from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Can Racial Disparities In Maternal Deaths Be Reduced? : Shots - Health News : NPR
When European colonizers arrived in the 19th century, they documented the area’s Indigenous inhabitants, but the collodion process served to erase prominent markings known as tā moko, a centuries-old form of tattooing performed by the Māori people. In the wet plate photographs, Tā moko would barely show up.
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How a 19th-Century Photographic Technique Erased a Māori Tradition
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
~Kahlil Gibran (1883 –1931), Lebanese American artist, poet, and writer.
sexism is the primal, or first, form of oppression in humanity
Sexism is a form of oppression and domination. As author Octavia Butler put it, "Simple peck-order bullying is only the beginning of the kind of hierarchical behavior that can lead to racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, classism, and all the other 'isms' that cause so much suffering in the world."
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