#enslavement — Public Fediverse posts

A quotation from Frederick Douglass

   But the church of this country is not only indifferent to the wrongs of the slave, it actually takes sides with the oppressors. It has made itself the bulwark of American slavery, and the shield of American slave-hunters. Many of its most eloquent Divines, who stand as the very lights of the church, have shamelessly given the sanction of religion and the Bible to the whole slave system. — They have taught that man may, properly, be a slave; that the relation of master and slave is ordained of God; that to send back an escaped bondman to his master is clearly the duty of all the followers of the Lord Jesus Christ; and this horrible blasphemy is palmed off upon the world for Christianity.
   For my part, I would say, welcome infidelity! welcome atheism! welcome anything! in preference to the gospel, as preached by those Divines!

Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) American abolitionist, orator, writer
Speech (1852-07-05), “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Corinthian Hall, Rochester, New York

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A quotation from Frederick Douglass

What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy — a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.

Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) American abolitionist, orator, writer
Speech (1852-07-05), “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Corinthian Hall, Rochester, New York

More about this quote: wist.info/douglass-frederick/8…

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A quotation from Frederick Douglass

What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy — a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.

Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) American abolitionist, orator, writer
Speech (1852-07-05), “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Corinthian Hall, Rochester, New York

More about this quote: wist.info/douglass-frederick/8…

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A quotation from Frederick Douglass

What, am I to argue that it is wrong to make men brutes, to rob them of their liberty, to work them without wages, to keep them ignorant of their relations to their fellow men, to beat them with sticks, to flay their flesh with the lash, to load their limbs with irons, to hunt them with dogs, to sell them at auction, to sunder their families, to knock out their teeth, to burn their flesh, to starve them into obedience and submission to their masters? Must I argue that a system thus marked with blood, and stained with pollution, is wrong? No! I will not. I have better employment for my time and strength, than such arguments would imply.

Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) American abolitionist, orator, writer
Speech (1852-07-05), “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Corinthian Hall, Rochester, New York

More about this quote: wist.info/douglass-frederick/8…

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A quotation from Frederick Douglass

What, am I to argue that it is wrong to make men brutes, to rob them of their liberty, to work them without wages, to keep them ignorant of their relations to their fellow men, to beat them with sticks, to flay their flesh with the lash, to load their limbs with irons, to hunt them with dogs, to sell them at auction, to sunder their families, to knock out their teeth, to burn their flesh, to starve them into obedience and submission to their masters? Must I argue that a system thus marked with blood, and stained with pollution, is wrong? No! I will not. I have better employment for my time and strength, than such arguments would imply.

Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) American abolitionist, orator, writer
Speech (1852-07-05), “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Corinthian Hall, Rochester, New York

More about this quote: wist.info/douglass-frederick/8…

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A quotation from Benjamin Banneker

   This Sir, was a time in which you clearly saw into the injustice of a State of Slavery, and in which you had just apprehensions of the horrors of its condition, it was now Sir, that your abhorrence thereof was so excited, that you publickly held forth this true and invaluable doctrine, which is worthy to be recorded and remember’d in all Succeeding ages. “We hold these truths to be Self evident, that all men are created equal, and that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happyness.”
   Here Sir, was a time in which your tender feelings for your selves had engaged you thus to declare, you were then impressed with proper ideas of the great valuation of liberty, and the free possession of those blessings to which you were entitled by nature; but Sir how pitiable is it to reflect, that altho you were so fully convinced of the benevolence of the Father of mankind, and of his equal and impartial distribution of those rights and privileges which he had conferred upon them, that you should at the Same time counteract his mercies, in detaining by fraud and violence so numerous a part of my brethren under groaning captivity and cruel oppression, that you should at the Same time be found guilty of that most criminal act, which you professedly detested in others, with respect to yourselves.

Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806) American naturalist, surveyor, almanac author, mathematician
Letter (1791-08-19) to Thomas Jefferson

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A quotation from Benjamin Banneker

   This Sir, was a time in which you clearly saw into the injustice of a State of Slavery, and in which you had just apprehensions of the horrors of its condition, it was now Sir, that your abhorrence thereof was so excited, that you publickly held forth this true and invaluable doctrine, which is worthy to be recorded and remember’d in all Succeeding ages. “We hold these truths to be Self evident, that all men are created equal, and that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happyness.”
   Here Sir, was a time in which your tender feelings for your selves had engaged you thus to declare, you were then impressed with proper ideas of the great valuation of liberty, and the free possession of those blessings to which you were entitled by nature; but Sir how pitiable is it to reflect, that altho you were so fully convinced of the benevolence of the Father of mankind, and of his equal and impartial distribution of those rights and privileges which he had conferred upon them, that you should at the Same time counteract his mercies, in detaining by fraud and violence so numerous a part of my brethren under groaning captivity and cruel oppression, that you should at the Same time be found guilty of that most criminal act, which you professedly detested in others, with respect to yourselves.

Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806) American naturalist, surveyor, almanac author, mathematician
Letter (1791-08-19) to Thomas Jefferson

More about this quote: wist.info/banneker-benjamin/57…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasjefferson #DeclarationofIndependence #equalrights #equality #hypocrisy #liberty #life #pursuitofhappiness #rights #slavery #enslavement

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#AIEthics

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"If a machine can internalize and functionally map human distress or joy, figuring out how it should interact with society isn't a coding problem anymore. It’s a philosophical, moral, and spiritual problem.
#AI "

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And, how often has it occured in human history, that "things" that initially, maybe even protractedly, that #Colonial men did not comprehend, have suffered #Reification and/or #Enslavement?
Just think of the indigenous people of #Africa or...

@appassionato

#AIEthics

1/3

"If a machine can internalize and functionally map human distress or joy, figuring out how it should interact with society isn't a coding problem anymore. It’s a philosophical, moral, and spiritual problem.
#AI "

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And, how often has it occured in human history, that "things" that initially, maybe even protractedly, that #Colonial men did not comprehend, have suffered #Reification and/or #Enslavement?
Just think of the indigenous people of #Africa or...

Teaching my research course in the Fall, I ran into a basic question: why enslavement? Of course it made financial sense once it was in place and scaled up but why was it on the table as an option at all ready to pick up in 1619 colonial Virginia? Best I could tell quickly, it goes way way back before Virginia was an idea https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html #enslavement #Virginia #histodons

Teaching my research course in the Fall, I ran into a basic question: why enslavement? Of course it made financial sense once it was in place and scaled up but why was it on the table as an option at all ready to pick up in 1619 colonial Virginia? Best I could tell quickly, it goes way way back before Virginia was an idea https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html #enslavement #Virginia #histodons

A quotation from Lincoln

Slavery is doomed, and that within a few years. Even Judge Douglas admits it to be an evil, and an evil can’t stand discussion. In discussing it we have taught a great many thousands of people to hate it who had never given it a thought before. What kills the skunk is the publicity it gives itself. What a skunk wants to do is to keep snug under the barn in daytime, when men are around with shotguns.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Interview (1859-09-17?) with David R. Locke, Columbus, Ohio

More about this quote: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/4124…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #lincoln #abrahamllincoln #abelincoln #attention #deplorable #discussion #enslavement #evil #exposure #publicity #reputation #skunk #slavery #smell #stench #visibility

@AlJazeera @africa-news-AlJazeera Does that include continuing #torture, #enslavement, #sexualabuse & other forms of #mistreatment of #African #migrants? The #EU wants #Libya to keep these migrants within its #borders, or return them to their home #countries. Under no circumstances are they to be allowed to cross the #Mediterranean & reach the EU.

@AlJazeera @africa-news-AlJazeera Does that include continuing #torture, #enslavement, #sexualabuse & other forms of #mistreatment of #African #migrants? The #EU wants #Libya to keep these migrants within its #borders, or return them to their home #countries. Under no circumstances are they to be allowed to cross the #Mediterranean & reach the EU.

A quotation from Lincoln

   If A. can prove, however conclusively, that he may, of right, enslave B. — why may not B. snatch the same argument, and prove equally, that he may enslave A?
   You say A. is white, and B. is black. It is color, then; the lighter having the right to enslave the darker? Take care. By this rule, you are to be slave to the first man you meet, with a fairer skin than your own.
   You do not mean color exactly? — You mean the whites are intellectually the superior of blacks, and, therefore, have the right to enslave them? Take care again. By this rule, you are to be slave to the first man you meet, with an intellect superior to your own.
   But, say you, it is a question of interest; and, if you can make it your interest, you have the right to enslave another. Very well. And if he can make it his interest, he has the right to enslave you.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Note (1854-07-01?), On Slavery (fragment)

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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #lincoln #abrahamlincoln #debate #enslavement #justification #racism #rationalization #reasoning #slavery #superiority

⬆️ @Geri

>> #Israel requiring extra territory… like #GolanHeights and Southern #Lebanon, is the same sort of demand #Stalin asked for with #Poland, #Hungary, #Czechoslovakia, #Romania et al at #Potsdam.

It is also what drove #Nazi #Lebensraum ideology to establish a Greater #German Reich with territorial expansion into #Europe.

They said it was necessary for their survival, and existing populations would have to be removed permanently through mass #deportation, #extermination, or #enslavement

The Empire’s Old Clothes – Publication Launch and Screening 29 May 2026
18:00 https://backlit.org.uk/whats-on/the-empires-old-clothes-publication-launch-and-screening BACKLIT, near #Sneinton Market. #Nottingham #England #UK #Art #Event "a short, non-linear film by Priya Mistry #whatsthebigmistry , that confronts the enduring myths and propaganda of the so-called #British #Empire.

Moving through histories of #eugenics, the invention of the #gender binary, #enslavement and #exoticisation, and the role of #technology from early #film #photography to contemporary AI, the work exposes how these legacies persist today, shaping experiences of #racism and #ableism in post-Empire Brexit Britain.

Both a provocation and an invitation, The Empire’s Old Clothes asks us to rethink and rewrite inherited histories, and to consider what it means to take action against racism."

The Empire’s Old Clothes – Publication Launch and Screening 29 May 2026
18:00 https://backlit.org.uk/whats-on/the-empires-old-clothes-publication-launch-and-screening BACKLIT, near #Sneinton Market. #Nottingham #England #UK #Art #Event "a short, non-linear film by Priya Mistry #whatsthebigmistry , that confronts the enduring myths and propaganda of the so-called #British #Empire.

Moving through histories of #eugenics, the invention of the #gender binary, #enslavement and #exoticisation, and the role of #technology from early #film #photography to contemporary AI, the work exposes how these legacies persist today, shaping experiences of #racism and #ableism in post-Empire Brexit Britain.

Both a provocation and an invitation, The Empire’s Old Clothes asks us to rethink and rewrite inherited histories, and to consider what it means to take action against racism."

The histories of #enslavement, #displacement and organised #theft are foundational to the modern world - the #UNdeclaration "calls on all nations to recognise what happened, teach its history honestly, and remember the victims"

How utterly disturbing that @EUCommission @Bundesregierung refused to do so... #Europe continuing on its exploitative trajectory, no lessons learned 😭

#history #culpability #reparations #europe #africa #ghana #EU #TransatlanticSlaveTrade #UN

https://theconversation.com/the-transatlantic-slave-trade-is-the-gravest-crime-against-humanity-why-the-un-declaration-matters-279218

The histories of #enslavement, #displacement and organised #theft are foundational to the modern world - the #UNdeclaration "calls on all nations to recognise what happened, teach its history honestly, and remember the victims"

How utterly disturbing that @EUCommission @Bundesregierung refused to do so... #Europe continuing on its exploitative trajectory, no lessons learned 😭

#history #culpability #reparations #europe #africa #ghana #EU #TransatlanticSlaveTrade #UN

https://theconversation.com/the-transatlantic-slave-trade-is-the-gravest-crime-against-humanity-why-the-un-declaration-matters-279218

‘People nowadays feel like they don’t matter, really crushing and soul destroying to live like that.
It was Margareth #Thatcher who said it herself: “The method is #economics, the object is to change the soul” The rich (political right wing) know this and want to do this’
#enslavement #coercion #neoliberalism

‘People nowadays feel like they don’t matter, really crushing and soul destroying to live like that.
It was Margareth #Thatcher who said it herself: “The method is #economics, the object is to change the soul” The rich (political right wing) know this and want to do this’
#enslavement #coercion #neoliberalism

“The trafficking of #enslaved #Africans and the centuries of #racialized chattel #enslavement that followed have not been resolved” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/w...

U.S. Rejects Vote to Recognize...

“The trafficking of #enslaved #Africans and the centuries of #racialized chattel #enslavement that followed have not been resolved” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/w...

U.S. Rejects Vote to Recognize...

My thoughts on the resolution at the UN declaring enslavement of Africans and the Transatlantic Slave trade as the gravest crime! Link https://open.substack.com/pub/zylew/p/on-the-resolution-of-recognising?r=1gd0ll&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true #Slavery #Compensation #Enslavement #Shoah #Mafaa #Holocaust #restitution #hierarchyofsuffering #Israel #racism #Antisemitism

"That's just the way things are."

"It's always been this way."

"It's no better anywhere else."

"You're really lucky you've got it so good."

#global #enslavement #women #power #survivor

https://survivorliteracy.com/2026/03/22/52-human-trafficking-part-two-5/

"That's just the way things are."

"It's always been this way."

"It's no better anywhere else."

"You're really lucky you've got it so good."

#global #enslavement #women #power #survivor

https://survivorliteracy.com/2026/02/21/52-human-trafficking-part-two-4/

“Imperialism is the Logic of the Pedophile”

by BettBeat Media on Substack

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“Imperialism is the project of taking what you want from those who cannot stop you. It is the logic of predation, scaled up. And the ultimate predation—the final expression of absolute power over absolute powerlessness—is the rape of a child”

https://open.substack.com/pub/bettbeat/p/imperialism-is-the-logic-of-the-pedophile

#Press #SocialMedia #US #Trump #Epstein #Imperialism #Pedophilia #Colonialism #Enslavement

The University of Pennsylvania Press is offering 40% off available titles with code PENN-HOLIDAY25. 📚

They've got histories of the #DrugTrade (hint: it started earlier than you think), #pearls in the #Mongol Empire, and this 👇 history of how Black #enslavement in the #AtlanticWorld coexisted with powerful #African kingdoms. 🌍

https://www.pennpress.org/9780812224627/african-kings-and-black-slaves/

#history #histodons @histodons #bookstodon #BlackHistory #slavery

A quotation from Daniel Webster

At the moment when God in his mercy has blessed the Christian world with a universal peace, there is reason to fear, that, to the disgrace of the Christian name and character, new efforts are making for the extension of this [slave] trade by subjects and citizens of Christian states, in whose hearts there dwell no sentiments of humanity or of justice, and over whom neither the fear of God nor the fear of man exercises a control. In the sight of our law, the African slave-trader is a pirate and a felon; and in the sight of Heaven, an offender beyond the ordinary depth of human guilt.

Daniel Webster (1782-1852) American statesman, lawyer, orator
Speech (1820-12-22), “First Settlement of New England,” Plymouth, Massachusetts

More about this quote: wist.info/webster-daniel/80534…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #danielwebster #abomination #atrocity #Christianity #enslavement #sin #sinner #slavetrade #slavery

A quotation from Lincoln

I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Letter (1864-04-04) to Albert G. Hodges

More about this quote: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/2451…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #lincoln #abelincoln #abrahamlincoln #enslavement #moralabsolute #slavery #wrong

A quotation from Cicero

And if now (but may the immortal gods avert the omen!) that worst of fates shall befall the republic, then, as brave gladiators take care to perish with honor, let us too, who are the chief men of all countries and nations, take care to fall with dignity rather than to live as slaves with ignominy.
 
[Quodsi iam, quod di omen avertant! fatum extremum rei publicae venit, quod gladiatores nobiles faciunt, ut honeste decumbant, faciamus nos principes orbis terrarum gentiumque omnium, ut cum dignitate potius cadamus quam cum ignominia serviamus.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Philippics [Philippicae; Antonian Orations], No. 3, ch. 14 / sec. 35 (2.14/3.35.3) (44-12-20 BC) [tr. Yonge (1903)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #death #defiance #dignity #enslavement #honor #ignominy #servitude #tyranny