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Posts Tagged ‘slavery’
February 28th, 2016 - 1:58 am § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: slavery as a way of making everyone free.
December 6th, 2015 - 4:36 pm § in Misc.
The 13th Amendment was ratified 150 years ago today
The 13th amendment permanently abolishing slavery was ratified and became part of the Constitution on December 6, 1865. (The 1863 Emancipation Proclamation only applied to “states in rebellion,” and was an executive order that could be rescinded by a future president.) It passed Congre[...]
November 20th, 2015 - 8:46 am § in Misc.
Anniversary of Spain “outlawing” slavery in the Americas, 1542
On The Black Top: The Founding Fathers Views on Slavery Carl Mack: from facebook Before I get started class, just a something to make you go hmmmmmm. Did you know that 12 U.S. Presidents were slave owners & 8 of them owned slaves while serving? Hmmmm my azz, SHYT!!! WTF!!! Now for today’s [...]
October 5th, 2015 - 9:38 am § in Misc.
Texas “educators” continue to lie to students.
McGraw-Hill’s Geography Textbook Says African Slaves Were Paid “Workers” A McGraw-Hill textbook given to children in Texas is referring to the slave trade as a “pattern of immigration.” REVOLUTION-NEWS.COM[...]
September 28th, 2015 - 9:01 am § in Misc.
Obama vs. Jackson
As we take down the confederate flag, lets give Jackson his due as founder of the republican Party Eight years ago a Clinton backer, complained that Obama was “usurping the historic Democratic Party, dating back to the age of Andrew Jackson, by rejecting its historic electoral core: white workers[...]
September 9th, 2015 - 1:45 am § in America
South Carolina: Why would anyone want to live there?
Stono Rebellion (sometimes called Cato’s Conspiracy or Cato’s Rebellion) was a slave rebellion that commenced on 9 September 1739, near the Stono River in the colony of South Carolina. The uprising was led by native Africans who were likely from the Kingdom of Kongo. The slaves may[...]
Why Do South Carolina Jews Deny Jewish Racism?
Over at William Quick’s website named Steveshits, my brother in law claims that I have said that “the KKK was founded in “Charleston South Carolina, where principles of the KK [sic] were written in a synagogue.[sic]” Sadly Bill is wrong about the racist history of the synagogue he now[...]
July 9th, 2015 - 11:38 am § in Misc.
A NEW STAMP:Commemorating the First Slave In America, Jul 9, 1640
“Whereas Hugh Gwyn hath by order from this Board brought back from Maryland three servants formerly run away from the said Gwyn, the court doth therefore order that the said three servants shall receive the punishment of whipping and have thirty stripes apiece. One called Victor, a Dutchman, t[...]
June 25th, 2015 - 11:05 pm § in Religion
Memories of the Middle Passage
Thousands of Rohingya Muslims are stuck in conditions like these on boats in South-East Asian waters[...]