#black-soldiers — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #black-soldiers, aggregated by home.social.
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Cocaine Cowboys: Reloaded released in 2014
omits that Black People were disproportionately drafted into Vietnam so I rated it at 1
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@two1fivethycker, Black Royalty, shared the video below
@queeneaj2020, Black Royalty, replied:
BABEEEEE this sister dropped the HAMMER on this conversation! BRAVO 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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@ms.sued_nym, Black Royalty, shared the text and image below.
My uncle said Black American soldiers & Vietnamese soldiers would run into each other during battles sometimes. They were just young men, scared & running
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@johngainey48 wrote:
3 US soldiers died in Kuwait 🇰🇼 from a Iranian missile.🫡
and chose to share no evidence of such bc there is none.
when the truth is that they died in Jordan in 2024.
Source: https://apnews.com/article/drone-attack-soldier-killed-jordan-sanders-georgia-947c5c440e149154b06bc1bc29d84a19 -
@calling_marijane, Black Royalty, wrote:
It’s recruiting season. DO NOT let your kids be slaughtered in this illegal war. Community College and trade school are great alternatives!
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#blackwomen #92percent #blackrecruits #blacksoldiers #usmilitary #iran #blackmastodon
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an American inventor and Union sailor in the American Civil War.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Flemming_Jr.
#blackinventors #blacksoldiers #blacksailorsWilliam Edward Burghardt Du Bois (February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American sociologist, writer, historian, and
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when he was murdered in the New Cross fire.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Cross_house_fireLilian Bader (née Bailey; 18 February 1918 – 14 March 2015) was one of the first [biracial Black] women to join the [british] armed forces.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilian_Bader
#blacksoldiers #barbados #ireland/2
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How long before Trump is similarly set against Black Military Vets?
https://mastodon.social/@audubonballroon/115614467882730211
#blackmilitary #blacksoldiers #blacklivesstillmatter #blackwomen #blackpeople #blackamerican #police #whitepeople #whitedevil #blackhistory #blackmastodon
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Dutch answer to the removal of the boards at #Margraten US military cemetery, honoring black US soldiers who died while liberating the Netherlands in WWII. This grave injustice went counterproductive for the US government, as shown.
Courtesy to Dutch TV show ‘Even tot hier’ BNNVARA
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'Among the most accomplished and fabled tribes in Africa, no tribe was considered to have warriors more fearsome or more intelligent than the mighty Masai. It is perhaps surprising then to learn the traditional greeting that passed between Masai warriors. “Kasserian ingera,” one would always say to another. It means, “And how are the children?”'
from Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome by Dr Joy DeGruy
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Isaac Woodard Jr. (March 18, 1919 – September 23, 1992) was [a Black] American soldier and victim of racial violence.
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#blacklivesstillmatter #blackmen #blackpeople #blackamerican #whitepeople #whitedevil #blackhistory #blacksoldiers #blackblind #blackdisabled #blackpwd #blackmastodon
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Charles Hamilton Houston (September 3, 1895 – April 22, 1950) was [a Black] American lawyer. He was the dean of Howard University Law School and NAACP first special counsel.
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#blackmen #blackpeople #blackamerican #blacklawyers #blacksoldiers #blackfirsts #blackleaders #blackmastodon
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'As early as the Middle Ages, “Moors were commonly viewed as being mostly [Black] or very swarthy, and hence the word is often used for negro,” according to the Oxford [english]
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#blacksoldiers #blackpeople #blackhistory #blackromans #blackeuropeans #blackbritish #blackmastodon
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As much as I love the idea of shaving my face with a razor, I almost never do because the hair that grows back in invariably curls into my skin and causes painful bumps. And then I can’t shave
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Roman Ducksworth Jr. (1934 – April 9, 1962)
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#blackmen #blackpeople #blackamerican #police #whitepeople #whitedevil #blacktivists #blacksoldiers #blackmastodon
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42 released in 2013 starring our brother Chadwick Boseman
People aren't going to like this. They're gonna do anything
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#blackmen #blackpeople #blackamerican #blackathletes #blackhistory #blacksoldiers #blackfootballers #blackbaseball #blackbaseballplayers #blackmastodon
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The Black movie A Soldier's Story released in 1984
"The worst thing you can do in [the South] is pay too much attention to the death of a negro under mysterious circumstances."
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088146
#blackmen #blackpeople #blackamerican #blackactors #blacksoldiers #whitepeople #howarderollinsjr #greatfilm #blackfilm #film #blackmastodon
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The shooting of Anthony Hill, a U.S. Air Force veteran, occurred on March 9, 2015, in Chamblee, Georgia, near Atlanta.
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#blackmen #blackpeople #blackamerican #police #whitepeople #whitedevil #blacksoldiers #blackvets #blackmentalhealth #blackmastodon
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Enlistment form for Abraham Jassum, Undercook, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, 5 October 1862, p. 1 (Compiled Military Service Records, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, public domain; click to enlarge).
Fleeing the brutal practice of chattel slavery in South Carolina during the fall of 1862, a Black youth walked into a recruiting station for the Army of the United States in Beaufort, South Carolina and told an officer there that he wanted to become a soldier. His name, according to his enlistment paperwork, was Abraham Jassum, and he was just sixteen years old.
Sadly, much of that teenager’s life has remained a mystery that has stubbornly resisted unraveling–until now. Thanks to documents recently copied by the U.S. National Archives for 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers: One Civil War Regiment’s Story, researchers now know that Abraham Jassum was born into slavery in Charleston, South Carolina sometime around 1846.
Although specific details about what happened to this teenager between the dates of his birth and army enlistment have not yet been found, researchers do already have several ideas. One theory is that Abraham’s surname was not actually “Jassum” because that surname does not appear to have been present on any federal census records for any plantation owners or other enslavers in South Carolina between 1840 and 1860, nor was it used for any Black Freedmen in South Carolina on federal census records that were completed after the American Civil War. Furthermore, there appear to be no U.S. Civil War Pension records that exist for any soldier with the surname of “Jassum.”
Another theory is that, by the time that Abraham reached the age of sixteen, he had been transported to Beaufort to be used as an enslaved laborer there (or was “sold as property” by his enslaver in Charleston to a plantation owner or other enslaver near Beaufort), and that he was freed by Union soldiers when Beaufort was occupied by the Union Army.
Fortunately, the Compiled Military Service Records (CMSR) file for Abraham Jassum does contain important details about his life between October 1862 and October 1865.
Bay Street Looking West, Beaufort, South Carolina, circa 1862 (Sam A. Cooley, 10th Army Corps, photographer, public domain).
What is known for certain is that he enlisted for military service on October 5, 1862 as an “undercook“–a designation that was first authorized for use by regiments serving with the Army of the United States by the U.S. War Department. Examined and certified as fit for duty by William F. Reiber, M.D., an assistant regimental surgeon with the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, Abraham Jassum was then assigned to the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers’ F Company.
Military records at the time of his enlistment noted that he was five feet, six inches tall and had black hair, black eyes and a black complexion. Muster sheets subsequently described him as a “Negro.”
During his three-year term of enlistment, he traveled with the 47th Pennsylvania to its battle, garrison, occupation, and other duty assignments in Florida, Louisiana, Virginia, Washington D.C., and South Carolina. While stationed with his regiment in Louisiana, he was documented as having been officially mustered into the regiment in June 1864, along with the other Black soldiers of the 47th Pennsylvania.
Additional military records of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry confirm Abraham Jassum’s service in 1864 and 1865, describing him as a “cook” or as a “private,” which appears to indicate that he may have been promoted at some point prior to his honorable discharge.
Issued his honorable discharge paperwork on October 4, 1865, while his regiment was assigned to Reconstruction-related duties in Charleston, South Carolina, he was given a small travel allowance to enable him to return to his place of enlistment (Beaufort, South Carolina), which seems to indicate that he chose to settle in Beaufort, at least initially, rather than remaining in the city where he had been born (Charleston), and instead of relocating north with his former regiment when it returned to Pennsylvania.
Researchers will continue to search for records that can shed more light on what happened to Abraham Jassum after the war, and will post updates if and when new data is uncovered.
Sources:
- Bates, Samuel P. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-5, vol. 1. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: B. Singerly, State Printer, 1869.
- Jassum, Abraham, in Civil War Veterans’ Card File, 1861-1866 (Company F, 47th Pennsylvania Infantry). Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State Archives.
- Jassum, Abraham, Civil War Muster Rolls (Company F, 47th Pennsylvania Infantry). Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State Archives.
- Jassum, Abraham, in Compiled Military Service Records (Company F, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry). Washington, D.C.: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
- Jassum, Abraham, in Registers of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-1865 (Company F, 47th Pennsylvania Infantry), in Records of the Department of Military and Veterans’ Affairs (RG-19). Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State Archives.
- Schmidt, Lewis. A Civil War History of the 47th Regiment of Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers. Allentown, Pennsylvania: Self-published, 1986.
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