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"They took it for more than it was, or anyhow for more than it said; the container was greater than the thing contained, and Lincoln became at once what he would remain for them, "the man who freed the slaves." He would go down to posterity, not primarily as the Preserver of the Republic-which he was-but as the Great Emancipator, which he was not."
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american-civil-war
politics
politics-of-the-united-states
slavery
slavery-in-america
slavery-in-the-united-states
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Shelby Foote |
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bb2a3db
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Where was the lecture on how slavery alone catapulted the whole country from agriculture into the industrial age in two decades? White folks' hatred, their violence, was the gasoline that kept the profit motors running.
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slavery-and-human-trafficking
slavery-in-the-united-states
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Toni Morrison |
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In Einstein's equation, time is a river. It speeds up, meanders, and slows down. The new wrinkle is it can have whirlpools and fork into two rivers. So, if the river of time can be bent into a pretzel, create whirlpools and fork into two rivers, then time travel cannot be ruled out.
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slavery-in-the-united-states
time-travel
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Michio Kaku |
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The mythology serves purposes darker than sentiment, nothing more so than the currently popular, and arrantly nonsensical, assertion that Lee freed his inherited slaves in 1862 before the war was over, while Grant kept his until the Thirteenth Amendment freed them in 1865. The subtext is transparent. If Southerner Lee freed his slaves while Northerner Grant kept his, then secession and the war that followed can hardly have had anything to do with slavery and must instead have been over the tariff or state rights, or some other handy pretext invented to cloak slavery's pivotal role.
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american-civil-war-biography
confederate
confederate-states-of-america
robert-e-lee
slavery
slavery-in-the-united-states
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William C. Davis |
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Jeems was their body servant and, like the dogs, accompanied them everywhere. He had been their childhood playmate and had been given to the twins for their own on their tenth birthday.
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slavery-in-the-united-states
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Margaret Mitchell |
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Slavery was immensely profitable to some masters. James Madison told a British visitor shortly after the American Revolution that he could make 257 dollars on every (black slave) in a year, and spend only 12 or 13 dollars on his keep.
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food-for-thought
founding-fathers
slavery
slavery-history
slavery-in-the-united-states
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Howard Zinn |
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e7f421d
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To celebrate freedom and democracy while forgetting American's origins in a slavery economy is patriotism a la carte.
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black-history
democracy
freedom
slavery
slavery-in-the-united-states
us-history
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Ta-Nehisi Coates |
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2fc7105
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In his book The African Slave Trade, Basil Davidson contrasts law and in the Congo in the early 16th century with law in Portugal and England. In those European countries, where the idea of private property was becoming powerful, theft was punishable brutally. In England, even as late as 1740, a child could be hanged for stealing a rag of cotton. But in the Congo, communal life persisted. The idea of private property was a strange one, and thefts were punished with fines or various degrees of servitude. A Congolese leader told of the Portuguese legal codes asked a Portuguese once, teasingly, 'What is the penalty in Portugal for anyone who puts his feet on the ground?
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slavery
slavery-history
slavery-in-the-united-states
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Howard Zinn |
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9d734e6
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Added to the shock of the routine violation of their bodies was the trauma of having to relinquish their children to unknown slave-holders. [W.E.B.] Du Bois considered this physical, mental, and spiritual abuse of black women--with its inevitable result being the destruction of the traditional African family--the highest crime committed by slave-holders and the one thing for which he said he could not forgive them.
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african-american-women
african-families
crimes-against-humanity
day-to-end-racism
forced-labor
forgiveness
heinous-crimes
history-of-africans
history-of-slavery
human-bondage
human-trafficking
international-women-s-day
physical-abuse
postered-poetics-by-aberjhani
psychological-trauma
quotation-poster-art
sex-trafficking
slave-holders
slavery
slavery-in-the-united-states
w-e-b-du-bois
web-dubois
wisdom-quotes
women-and-human-trafficking
women-around-the-world
women-in-history
women-s-history-month
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Aberjhani |
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14d1743
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The popular mocking of reparations as a harebrained scheme authored by wild-eyed lefties and intellectually unserious black nationalists is fear masquerading as laughter.
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hr-40
institutionalized-racism
prejudice
racism
reparations
slavery
slavery-in-the-united-states
white-guilt
whiteness
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Ta-Nehisi Coates |