#slavery — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #slavery, aggregated by home.social.
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The royal crown branded on enslaved Africans: Britain’s monarchy and the slave trade
From Elizabeth I’s backing of early voyages to royal investment in trafficking companies, generations of monarchs were central to Britain’s slave trade
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Monarchs, MPs and merchants: the register laying bare Britain’s slave-trading past
By David Conn Investigations correspondent; Illustration: Diana EjaitaExclusive: New research identifies thousands who profited from trafficking enslaved Africans and traces some financial links to institutions still operating today
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-interactive/2026/sep/14/register-british-slave-traders
#Slavery #Reparationsandreparativejustice #Africa #Liverpool #UKnews #Bristol #Caribbean #BlackLivesMattermovement #Labour #LiberalDemocrats #Conservatives #Politics #Worldnews #Monarchy #Business #Colonialism #Americas #TheGuardian #DavidConnInvestigationscorrespondent #IllustrationDianaEjaita
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The royal crown branded on enslaved Africans: Britain’s monarchy and the slave trade
By David Conn Investigations correspondentFrom Elizabeth I’s backing of early voyages to royal investment in trafficking companies, generations of monarchs were central to Britain’s slave trade
#Slavery #Monarchy #KingCharlesIII #UKnews #Worldnews #Colonialism #Africa #Caribbean #Reparationsandreparativejustice #TheGuardian #DavidConnInvestigationscorrespondent
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Real #protest is not giving your children to a #system that is #abusing you and your children in turn.
Don't have children if you really care and see the pattern which is too strong to think about 'a better life' or 'protest'.
By default our existence is from this crap and only way is not to give fresh meat to what eats away at us.
#Children #Reality #Morality #Sucking #Blood #Slavery #Abuse
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Real #protest is not giving your children to a #system that is #abusing you and your children in turn.
Don't have children if you really care and see the pattern which is too strong to think about 'a better life' or 'protest'.
By default our existence is from this crap and only way is not to give fresh meat to what eats away at us.
#Children #Reality #Morality #Sucking #Blood #Slavery #Abuse
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Real #protest is not giving your children to a #system that is #abusing you and your children in turn.
Don't have children if you really care and see the pattern which is too strong to think about 'a better life' or 'protest'.
By default our existence is from this crap and only way is not to give fresh meat to what eats away at us.
#Children #Reality #Morality #Sucking #Blood #Slavery #Abuse
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Jamaican delegation defends legal route of petition to King Charles for slavery reparations
By Natricia Duncan Caribbean correspondentPetition to king, who remains Jamaica’s head of state, is formally lodged in landmark visit to UK by officials
#Reparationsandreparativejustice #Slavery #Jamaica #KingCharlesIII #Colonialism #BritishMuseum #UKnews #London #Caribbean #TheGuardian #NatriciaDuncanCaribbeancorrespondent
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Jamaican delegation defends legal route of petition to King Charles for slavery reparations
By Natricia Duncan Caribbean correspondentPetition to king, who remains Jamaica’s head of state, is formally lodged in landmark visit to UK by officials
#Reparationsandreparativejustice #Slavery #Jamaica #KingCharlesIII #Colonialism #BritishMuseum #UKnews #London #Caribbean #TheGuardian #NatriciaDuncanCaribbeancorrespondent
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Jamaican delegation defends legal route of petition to King Charles for slavery reparations
By Natricia Duncan Caribbean correspondentPetition to king, who remains Jamaica’s head of state, is formally lodged in landmark visit to UK by officials
#Reparationsandreparativejustice #Slavery #Jamaica #KingCharlesIII #Colonialism #BritishMuseum #UKnews #London #Caribbean #TheGuardian #NatriciaDuncanCaribbeancorrespondent
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Jamaican delegation defends legal route of petition to King Charles for slavery reparations
By Natricia Duncan Caribbean correspondentPetition to king, who remains Jamaica’s head of state, is formally lodged in landmark visit to UK by officials
#Reparationsandreparativejustice #Slavery #Jamaica #KingCharlesIII #Colonialism #BritishMuseum #UKnews #London #Caribbean #TheGuardian #NatriciaDuncanCaribbeancorrespondent
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Jamaican delegation defends legal route of petition to King Charles for slavery reparations https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/sep/12/jamaican-petition-delegation-king-charles-slavery-reparations #ReparationsAndReparativeJustice #Slavery #Jamaica #KingCharlesIii #Colonialism #BritishMuseum #UkNews #London #Caribbean
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Jamaican delegation defends legal route of petition to King Charles for slavery reparations https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/sep/12/jamaican-petition-delegation-king-charles-slavery-reparations #ReparationsAndReparativeJustice #Slavery #Jamaica #KingCharlesIii #Colonialism #BritishMuseum #UkNews #London #Caribbean
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Jamaican delegation defends legal route of petition to King Charles for slavery reparations https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/sep/12/jamaican-petition-delegation-king-charles-slavery-reparations #ReparationsAndReparativeJustice #Slavery #Jamaica #KingCharlesIii #Colonialism #BritishMuseum #UkNews #London #Caribbean
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Jamaican delegation defends legal route of petition to King Charles for slavery reparations https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/sep/12/jamaican-petition-delegation-king-charles-slavery-reparations #ReparationsAndReparativeJustice #Slavery #Jamaica #KingCharlesIii #Colonialism #BritishMuseum #UkNews #London #Caribbean
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It’s astonishing how so few people understand that the #confederate flag is a symbol of #slavery. #uspol
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RE: https://woof.tech/@witchgirls/117252749516510721
If USians spent any time at all being informed about the foreign policy practiced on the behalf of US interests ( #capitalism and the military industrial complex) they would better understand why the US was attacked in 2001. Instead most are ignorant of decades of violent US interventions into the affairs of other nations.
I'm not sure if it's willful ignorance or just the general lack of concern USians have had about the functioning of "their" government. Regardless, it's not a valid shield for the violence done every year by the US.
The violence of #US #imperialism has never been acceptable. An economy that profits from never ending #war and war profiteering of a huge domestic arms industry should never have been but it is and it is ongoing. And USians refuse responsibility .
This is a violent nation founded on #genocide, #slavery and #colonialism. #Democracy here was always a lie cultivated by a wealthy ruling class. And it was just an extension of the same in Europe.
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RE: https://woof.tech/@witchgirls/117252749516510721
If USians spent any time at all being informed about the foreign policy practiced on the behalf of US interests ( #capitalism and the military industrial complex) they would better understand why the US was attacked in 2001. Instead most are ignorant of decades of violent US interventions into the affairs of other nations.
I'm not sure if it's willful ignorance or just the general lack of concern USians have had about the functioning of "their" government. Regardless, it's not a valid shield for the violence done every year by the US.
The violence of #US #imperialism has never been acceptable. An economy that profits from never ending #war and war profiteering of a huge domestic arms industry should never have been but it is and it is ongoing. And USians refuse responsibility .
This is a violent nation founded on #genocide, #slavery and #colonialism. #Democracy here was always a lie cultivated by a wealthy ruling class. And it was just an extension of the same in Europe.
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RE: https://woof.tech/@witchgirls/117252749516510721
If USians spent any time at all being informed about the foreign policy practiced on the behalf of US interests ( #capitalism and the military industrial complex) they would better understand why the US was attacked in 2001. Instead most are ignorant of decades of violent US interventions into the affairs of other nations.
I'm not sure if it's willful ignorance or just the general lack of concern USians have had about the functioning of "their" government. Regardless, it's not a valid shield for the violence done every year by the US.
The violence of #US #imperialism has never been acceptable. An economy that profits from never ending #war and war profiteering of a huge domestic arms industry should never have been but it is and it is ongoing. And USians refuse responsibility .
This is a violent nation founded on #genocide, #slavery and #colonialism. #Democracy here was always a lie cultivated by a wealthy ruling class. And it was just an extension of the same in Europe.
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RE: https://woof.tech/@witchgirls/117252749516510721
If USians spent any time at all being informed about the foreign policy practiced on the behalf of US interests ( #capitalism and the military industrial complex) they would better understand why the US was attacked in 2001. Instead most are ignorant of decades of violent US interventions into the affairs of other nations.
I'm not sure if it's willful ignorance or just the general lack of concern USians have had about the functioning of "their" government. Regardless, it's not a valid shield for the violence done every year by the US.
The violence of #US #imperialism has never been acceptable. An economy that profits from never ending #war and war profiteering of a huge domestic arms industry should never have been but it is and it is ongoing. And USians refuse responsibility .
This is a violent nation founded on #genocide, #slavery and #colonialism. #Democracy here was always a lie cultivated by a wealthy ruling class. And it was just an extension of the same in Europe.
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RE: https://woof.tech/@witchgirls/117252749516510721
If USians spent any time at all being informed about the foreign policy practiced on the behalf of US interests ( #capitalism and the military industrial complex) they would better understand why the US was attacked in 2001. Instead most are ignorant of decades of violent US interventions into the affairs of other nations.
I'm not sure if it's willful ignorance or just the general lack of concern USians have had about the functioning of "their" government. Regardless, it's not a valid shield for the violence done every year by the US.
The violence of #US #imperialism has never been acceptable. An economy that profits from never ending #war and war profiteering of a huge domestic arms industry should never have been but it is and it is ongoing. And USians refuse responsibility .
This is a violent nation founded on #genocide, #slavery and #colonialism. #Democracy here was always a lie cultivated by a wealthy ruling class. And it was just an extension of the same in Europe.
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#News: Freedom United pushes the #US, #UK, and #EU to pass #supplychain #laws. They demand an end to voluntary corporate responsibility and that #corporates must face #criminal penalties for #slavery #forcedlabour. @palmoildetectives #HumanRights ⚖️⛓️
https://www.freedomunited.org/advocate/failure_to_prevent/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer -
Trump, Paxton, The Founders, And America’s Long Excuse For Powerful Men
Stop assuming corruption defeats MAGA. America’s history shows powerful men, from slaveholding founders to corporate-backed authoritarianism, get a pass unless people organize for accountability.
#abolitionists #Accountability #AmericanExceptionalism #AmericanHistory #authoritarianism #corporatePower #CorporateWelfare #democracy #DemocraticSocialism #DonaldTrump #FoundingFathers #Healthcare #hiroshima #Inequality #KenPaxton #MAGA #MedicareForAll #moralityInPolitics #nagasaki #nuclearWeapons #Patients #politicalHypocrisy #PoliticsDoneRight #ProgressivePolitics #publicGood #publicOwnership #RepublicanCorruption #SallyHemings #selectiveAccountability #slavery #socialJustice #socialism #texasPolitics #ThomasJefferson #workers https://wp.me/p1OjMZ-p79 -
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/aug/23/british-corporation-continued-trafficking-of-enslaved-africans-to-guyana-40-years-after-abolition-reveals-letter. "The Slave Trade Act of 1807 abolished the #trade in #humanbeings in #British #territories. Then, in 1833, the Slavery Abolition Act banned #slavery itself in most of the British #empire. But an 1847 letter, written to Sandbach Tinne’s Liverpool office by Peter Miller Watson, who managed the company’s interests in Demerara, Guyana, refers to a ship from the company’s own fleet arriving with a 'cargo of negroes', including dozens of young #children."
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Missouri Botanical Garden awarded $100K for connection to slavery https://www.allforgardening.com/1933125/missouri-botanical-garden-awarded-100k-for-connection-to-slavery/ #black #botanical #garden #GardeningMissouri #grove #Henry #history #house #JordynBurrell #mausoleum #Missouri #month #National #park #PROPERTY #SERVICE #Shaw #Slavery #StLouis #tower
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"We force animals to adapt to the constraints of farming modelled on the mass production of manufactured goods, whereas farming should respect the ethological needs of animals. This is a transgression because we grant ourselves an absolute right that we do not have. This violence towards animals is a condemnation of us. Yet our relationship with animals could be an opportunity to think about a way of inhabiting the Earth that makes coexistence with other species possible. This requires new foundations for ethics and politics."
– Corine Pelluchon
#factoryFarms #farms #ownership #coexistence #eugenics #capitalism #extractivism #appropriation #landGrab #plantations #slavery #nature #separation #epistemology #speciesism #antiSpeciesism #animals #philosophy #beliefs #squash #inhabitability #grievability #farming #quote #quotes
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Their Loved Ones Died to Give Us the Voting Rights Act. They Have a Message for the Supreme Court.
One of the simplest and most immediate steps Americans can take regain control of their rights is to simply vote and force accountability on politicians. “Otherwise, you sit there and moan and groan and don’t vote. They’re going to do what they want,”
Paywall free version https://archive.ph/vNuUe
#VRA #Voting #VotingRights #VotingRightsAct #Slavery #JimCrow #CivilRights #CivilRightsAct #SupremeCourt #constitution #USconstitution #Callais
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RAPPLER | Philippine & World News | Investigative Journalism | Data | Civic Engagement | Public Interest [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Trump imposes forced labor tariffs on 60 trading partners, including Philippines
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C of E’s £100m plan to address historical links to slavery faces legal challenge
By Chris Osuh Community affairs correspondentGeneral Synod hears that Project Spire has not been abandoned but staff have received ‘vile abuse’ from critics
#Anglicanism #Slavery #Christianity #Religion #Worldnews #Race #England #UKnews #TheGuardian #ChrisOsuhCommunityaffairscorrespondent
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Baptism record at Manchester Cathedral offers insight into Black Mancunian life in Georgian-era England https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/jul/05/baptism-record-at-manchester-cathedral-offers-insight-into-black-mancunian-life-in-georgian-era-england #Manchester #Anglicanism #Slavery #Christianity #Religion #UkNews
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🗽🎆 #France is preparing to illuminate the #StatueofLiberty for #America’s 250th anniversary.
The light show will highlight the #statue’s origins as a French gift after the #CivilWar and the #abolition of #slavery. Designed by #Bartholdi and engineered by #Eiffel, the #monument shipped to #NYC in 350 pieces.
#america250 #fourthofjuly #july4th #engineering #history #immigration #symbolism #independenceday #freedom
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Used to regret never having visited Europe but no problem: the US has turned into 1930s Germany!
Also never have used a time machine but no problem: the US has actually never left the antebellum South!
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📜🕊️ On June 19, 1865, in #Galveston, #Texas, Union General Gordon Granger notified the last groups of enslaved people of their freedom.
Freed people organized the inaugural celebration in 1866. Today the #holiday is observed as a way to acknowledge past faults and move toward a more perfect union.
👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/the-history-of-juneteenth
#1800s #19thcentury #1860s #1920s #americanhistory #usa #community #culture #family #history #parade #slavery #tksst #video
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✊🏽🇺🇸 Narrated by #LeVarBurton, the #poem Lift Every Voice and Sing powers this #animation in celebration of the anniversary of Juneteenth.
#Juneteenth marks the day when enslaved Black people in #Galveston, #Texas finally received news of their liberation in 1865.
👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/juneteenth-animation-google-doodle-for-kids
#1800s #america #americanhistory #art #artist #civics #civilrights #community #drawing #equalrights #google #government #history #holidays #poetry #racism #slavery #tksst #video
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The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West "West was opportunity. West was the future" Sale: $19 to $3.99 by David McCullough Rating: 4.4/5 (11,718 Reviews) #history #books #kindle #pioneers #americanhistory #ohio #slavery #education #founding #booksky
The Pioneers: The Heroic Story... -
Technology and dominance in the recent
First Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas, 15 May 2026* Chapter 3: TECHNOLOGY AND DOMINANCE
Some of the topics discussed are:
Automation, dignity of work
Protecting freedom against dependencies and commercialization
Breaking the chains of new forms of slavery
The normalization of war
Force without limits
The military-industrial complex
Weapons and artificial intelligence
The crisis of multilateralism
The need to disarm words
Justice >>
https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html#CHAPTER_THREE* Existential risk from artificial intelligence >>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_risk_from_artificial_intelligence* Martin Heidegger, The Question Concerning Technology, 1954 >>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Question_Concerning_Technology
#humanism #human #performance #enhancement #RemainingHuman #transhumanism #PostHumanism #AI #algorithms #machines #governance #regulation #humanity #fallibility #automation #commercialisation #transformation #dehumanisation #slavery #CommonGood #war #multilateralism #justice #TechnologyAssessment #TA #TechnologicalWorldview #techne #technologies #ScientificConsensus #PublicSphere #FLI #risks #existence #nature #RawMaterials -
@MissGayle Everything is bigger in the #UnitedStates. Church expulsions are never done individually. The spate of schisms over #slavery prior to the #CivilWar had seen some repair after #Reconstruction. https://christianhistoryinstitute.org/magazine/article/broken-churches-broken-nation/
But it was renewed in the South recently over #SameSexMarriage and #Transrights. https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2023/11/20/these-churches-have-split-over-lgbtq-issues-as-hundreds-more-united-methodist-congregations-leave-the-denomination/
#DonaldTheDeplorable #Trump is manically fanning the flames of hate by #Talibangelicals for his political survival. It won’t work.
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
Those who believe that the voice of the people is the voice of God may infer that any unusual opinion or peculiar taste is almost a form of impiety, and is to be viewed as a culpable rebellion against the legitimate authority of the herd. This will only be avoided if liberty is as much valued as democracy, and it is realized that a society in which each is the slave of all is only a little better than one in which each is the slave of a despot. There is equality where all are slaves, as well as where all are free. This shows that equality, by itself, is not enough to make a good society.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Lecture (1949-01-16), “The Conflict of Technique and Human Nature,” Reith Lecture, “Authority and the Individual” No. 4, BBC RadioMore about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/837…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #authority #conformity #democracy #dissent #equality #freedom #freedomofthought #herd #heterodoxy #liberty #majority #mob #popularopinion #slavery #tyrannyofthemajority #wethepeople #voxpopuli
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“The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.”*…
Images of Rastus Robot in an issue of Radio-Craft magazine from 1931… which might be the same thing?
As more and more folks are fearing obsolescence (if not, indeed, subjugation) by emerging technology, Matthew Wills reminds us that this fear– especially as embodied in androids– has a long (and dark) history here in the U.S…
Our word “robot” comes from Karel Čapek’s 1921 play R.U.R. In it, historian of robots Dustin A. Abnet explains, Čapek repurposed the Czech word for “drudgery” or “servitude” to refer to the artificial workers produced by the play’s Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti (Rossum’s Universal Robots) company. [See also here.] Created from synthetic organic material, and thus more android than mechanical, these worker-roboti ultimately overthrow their human masters.
The play was a sensation in Europe, and then a year later, in America, though something was lost in translation. Čapek used robots to criticize soulless Fordism—the “standardization and regimentation” of American capitalism—and hence the US’s political and cultural power in Europe and around the world. (Other Europeans would conceive of the robot in the same way, notably director Fritz Lang and screenwriter Thea von Harbou in the 1927 German film Metropolis.)
But a funny thing happened to these robotic symbols of American capitalism by the mid-twentieth century. They were Americanized by American capitalism. Americans, as Abnet notes, “turned a figure that initially rebelled against the dehumanizing effects of Fordism into a tamed electro-mechanical slave holding aloft a global empire of consumerism.”
Nowhere was this more literal than in the Westinghouse Electric Company’s “simple remotely controlled mechanical men and women” used to advertise the company’s products from 1927 to 1940. “Technology did not have to run amok, Westinghouse’s robots suggested; it could instead become a tamed slave that empowered each individual consumer to become his or her own master.” In the American context, where the language of master and slave was rooted in racism, Westinghouse “connected robots to romanticized white myths about slavery.”
“Americans had always racialized robot-like creations,” continues Abnet, citing the first American automaton (a caricature of a Native American) and the “grotesque minstrel-like caricatures of Black and Asian bodies” that made up automatons in the late nineteenth century.
Westinghouse’s creations, named Herbert Televox, Karina Van Televox, Telelux, Rastus, Willie Vocalite, and Elektro, were promoted as docile domestic workers. Abnet quotes the New York Times’ science and technology editor extolling the benefits of the first of these “mechanical slaves” in 1927: “it obeys without the usual human arguing, impudence or procrastination.”
Rastus, Westinghouse’s Great Depression-era robot, was the most overtly racialized of these corporate robot slaves. Rastus was modeled on a minstrel show character: “black rubber ‘skin,’ overalls, a white shirt, and a pail hat.” In addition, “the robot had a ‘rich, baritone voice’ that would have been read as unmistakably black.” While “all of Westinghouse’s other robots told jokes…Rastus and its blackness were themselves the joke.”
In 1930, Westinghouse’s President explicitly expressed the prevailing white romanticism of slavery. In the company’s Electric Journal, he argued that without the exploitation of the “muscles of others,” there could be “no art, literature, science, leisure, or comfort for anyone.” Rastus’s “tamed black body,” stresses Abnet, “underscored the larger rhetoric of slavery that shaped the fantasy the company offered white consumers.”
“Ultimately, Westinghouse’s robots were not just about more efficiently accomplishing work or ensuring greater leisure time; they were a symbol that deployed racialized slavery in ways that could reassure white Americans of their own freedom, their own mastery over both technology and the bodies of others.”
Čapek’s robots had successfully rebelled, killing all but one human. In America, that couldn’t happen, at least according to the corporations selling the robot idea. But fear of a robot rebellion, like the fear of slave rebellion before the Civil War, remained. Abnet notes that the “most common robot story in American science fiction during the 1920s and 1930s told a story of white men, using their cunning, strength, and willpower to restore their authority over the robots who should be their slaves.” Movies, especially science fiction serials, often told the same story.
A century after R.U.R. and forty years after The Terminator, the uneasiness engendered by robots (and their droid, cyborg, replicant, and AI cousins) persists, reflecting longstanding concerns about labor, autonomy, and power…
Early automatons in the US evolved from symbols of revolt into racialized figures tied to labor and the legacy of slavery: “How America Racialized the Robot,” from @jstordaily.bsky.social.
* Erich Fromm, The Sane Society
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As we move on, we might recall that it was on this date in 1967 that Aretha Franklin’s up-tempo cover of Otis Redding’s “Respect” enter the Billboard Hot 100. It rose steadily over the next several weeks, hitting #1 in June, where it stayed for two weeks and won Franklin two Grammy Awards at the 1968 ceremony, including the first of eight consecutive Grammys for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance. An R&B classic, it has also become a protest anthem, thanks to its connections to both the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the second-wave feminist movement of the 1970s.
https://youtu.be/v4f22xl6Bvg?si=yn-pPhxjVoWgsA8k
#ArethaFranklin #automation #culture #history #KarelCapek #KarelČapek #OtisRedding #politics #prejudice #racism #Respect #robots #RUR #slavery #Technology #Terminator #Westinghouse -
The Federalist Is Super Mad Virginia Will No Longer Subsidize Racists
