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“I’ve always had an interest in American racial history,” she continues,
“and I think we can see that there are still wounds that haven’t been
properly healed. I know that it’s frightening for people to talk about
but unless you do, they’re never going to be healed. We’re learning that
this isn’t something to be solved; it’s a continuing conversation.
Equality isn’t a box we can just tick and be done with.” - Ruth Negga
“Loving is tapping into something, and it’s not about
politics... People need a couple like Richard and Mildred now; they need
to know that change from a grassroots level is possible, that there is
hope...”
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…
Wikimedia Commons “Slaves working in 17th-century Virginia,” by an unknown artist, 1670. byVincent SchillingSep 12, 2017 1619, the year slavery was born, or was it?
The Joseph Jenkins Roberts Center at Norfolk State University (NSU) held a conference called 1619: The Making of America
in September of 2013. That year is historically significant because it
was the first year Africans were brought to the colonies, slavery was
born and it was the year America’s first legislative body was founded.
In
an admirable gesture to honor all of the cultural relations happening
in the America’s in 1619, NSU hosted several Native speakers and those
familiar with Native history to address many issues not often covered in
today’s classrooms. During these sessions, many little known facts
about African Americans, Native Americans and slavery were addressed in
the years following 1619.
The Term Negro May Have Been Meant For American Indians
During the session Native Americans at 1619
Dr. Arica Co…
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.
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