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“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” #MariaZakharova Pants on fire again! Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four was about liberalism, not totalitarianism, claims Moscow diplomat https://t.co/CLdWXE56DV
This #WomensHistoryMonth, discover the #Indomitable heroine, Eliza Harris of Uncle Tom's Cabin. This #HistoricalFiction is based on a #TrueStory. Eliza was real and so was her harrowing crossing of the semi-frozen Ohio River in 1838 to escape slavery.
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The sketch & final of Ira Aldridge the only African-American actor honored with bronze plaques at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-Avon. During the abolitionist movement he often addressed his audiences on closing night, speaking about the injustice of slavery.
10/16 But he and the Egyptians refused to cower. They marshalled their armies, aware that against them stood the most irresistible force history had known. At the field of Ayn Jalut in Palestine, Baibars confronted the Horde that had killed his family and sold him into slavery.
@R0yal3Pa1ac3 Can and will kick any ass you want him, just for ya know your planetary slavery.
Win-Win..?
In 1792 William Windham gave a speech in to Parliament, arguing for an immediate end to slavery. He said anyone arguing that slaves could wait for their freedom were:
“like the person who, when charged with cruelty for skinning eels alive, answered, they were used to it." 5/9
17. "But I believed Launun's main income stream was precisily the slavery..." Helen says, shocked.
This policy was intentionally lenient, intended to entice the Southern states to shorten the war as well as accept Lincoln’s emancipation policy by insisting that the new state governments abolish slavery.
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds. — Bob Marley
Just added to my Lockdown forms OS collection. Only O.075e - these ones seem to go quickly.Xx #nftart
Just so my non-American followers are aware, the stars n bars is slang for the “confederate flag” which represented The South during the civil war. What was the civil war about? The states right to own slaves. Guess which side was pro-slavery.
Masks are a historic symbol of slavery. That’s why you see waiters at the G20 serving the elites with masks on while the elites mingle maskless. It’s crystal clear to me now and I denounce it.
Diagram shows an intense stratification, which has been observed in antiquity with societies controlled by elites, and intense inequality which could be translated also as #slavery. #politics #History #Sociology Read more: https://t.co/eL3l0749hI
Within a month, South Carolina voted to secede from the United States and was followed ultimately by ten other states whose economies and identities were heavily tied to slavery. A month after Lincoln's inauguration, secessionists fired upon @FtSumterNPS, launching the Civil War.
This is the Lionessy - the main heroine of the game «Paws on the Sand», a 2D role-playing game (metroidvania) in the ancient Sumerian setting. She is an artist-liligress and was captured by the goddess of the underworld Ereshkigal into slavery.
#furry #metroidvania #indiedev
“Despite the many routes they have taken in matters of work and family, Black women have been associated with mothering other people’s children, particularly White children, since the era of slavery.” 3/7
Two dramatic stories of inventive escapes from slavery... & how Arts & Crafts helped educate (you'll get the pun when you read this)
Remembering the Black abolitionists of slavery in Yorkshire for #BlackHistoryMonth @ConversationUK : https://t.co/G4ZaspcLqA
TY @EmilyZMarshall
This is the actual man on which the movie D'Jango Unchained is loosely based.
His name is Dangerfield Newby, and he was a member of the John Brown raiders. He joined the gang to save his wife, Harriet and children from slavery.
#OnThisDay 1816 a combined @royalnavy & @kon_marine Fleet under Admiral Edward Pellew & Vice Adm. Theodorus van Capellen, bombarded the African port of Algiers to enforce the abolition of Christian slavery. The ferocious battle was a success freeing 3000 Christian slaves.
@charliekirk11, you are completely wrong on your take on American Slavery. By 1789, 8 of 13 states had slavery and this would expand till slavery was expunged in 1865.
Also, a vast majority of our founding fathers owned slaves. Everyone with a red dot owned slaves.
" Americas just two years after the Declaration of Independence, when freedom and financial stability were intimately bound to smuggling and slavery. "
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