Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), a potential future GOP presidential contender, is drawing fire for describing slavery as a “necessary evil,” although he did so in the context of how he believes the Founding Fathers viewed it. He used the words in floor remarks about a bill he introduced to withh[...]
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October 15th, 2019 - 2:44 pm § in Misc.
AMERICA CELEBRATES SLAVERY AND EXTERMINATION OF CALIFORNIANS
Really? An AMERICAN coin celebrating the brutality and horror of Father Serra?? What Next? 20 dollar bill celebrating Andrew Jackson? Jefferson Davis Highway dedicated in Washington state? A military school dedicated to the murderers of Jemmi Cato? A monument to celebrate General Sherman’s e[...]
December 16th, 2018 - 9:41 am § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: The Slave Bible
This Bible was used by British missionaries in the 1800s to convert and educate slaves. The holy text has been edited to delete any portion of text that might inspire rebellion or liberation. Anthony Schmidt, associate curator of Bible and Religion in America at the Museum of the Bible kin Washi[...]
July 26th, 2018 - 9:19 am § in Misc.
July 26: Anniversary of death of last slave.
Daniel Devere FACEBOOK Cudjo Lewis is considered the last survivor of the last slave ship to enter the United States. Born around 1841 to a Yoruba family in the Banté region of Dahomey (today Benin), he was given the name Oluale Kossola (Kazoola). At age 14, Kossola began his training as a soldi[...]
April 18th, 2018 - 3:44 pm § in Politics
GOP legislators punish Memphis for removing symbols of rebellion, slavery, racism, and lynchings.
“Hateful, unkind, un-Christian, and unfair,” is how Memphis legislators describe a bill passed by Tennessee’s GOP-majority legislature stripping funding from the city’s upcoming bicentennial celebration in retaliation for removing statues of Jefferson Davis and Nathan Bedford[...]
November 16th, 2017 - 12:12 am § in Misc.
The bloody cluster .. centrifuges that still have slavery
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September 9th, 2017 - 1:41 am § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: An Associated Press investigation has found that Word of Faith Fellowship used its two church branches in Brazil to enslave.
Brazilians funneled to US church to work as “slaves” When Andre Oliveira answered the call to leave his Word of Faith Fellowship congregation in Brazil to move to the mother church in North Carolina at the age of 18, his passport and money were confiscated by church leaders — for safek[...]
Coming to America to Learn About Slavery
Chinazor Onianwah This is shocking. I admire Chimamanda for her success but her revelation that she did not learn about the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in high school in Nigeria is shocking to me. I went to high school in Nigeria and I learned everything there was to learn about the slave trade tau[...]