#slavery — Public Fediverse posts
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If #slavery tore a nation apart in 1861, …
what do we call a #system where #freedom, money and power rise to the top while work, responsibility and rules grow below?
Perhaps unfreedom begins where people lose the last degrees of freedom needed for self-correction.
www.vonmallinckrodt.com
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If #slavery tore a nation apart in 1861, …
what do we call a #system where #freedom, money and power rise to the top while work, responsibility and rules grow below?
Perhaps unfreedom begins where people lose the last degrees of freedom needed for self-correction.
www.vonmallinckrodt.com
BenchEWS | Open Research on Sy... -
UK Rejects Jamaica’s Historic Demand for Reparations for Slavery – Orinoco Tribune
https://orinocotribune.com/uk-rejects-jamaicas-historic-demand-for-reparations-for-slavery/ -
https://www.europesays.com/people/220709/ Trump Administration Rewrites History With Change to Confederate Monument Description #ArlingtonNationalCemetery #ConfederateMemorial #ConfederateSoldiers #DefenseDepartment #DonaldTrump #InformationalPlaque #MosesEzekiel #PeteHegseth #Slavery #TheConfederacy
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@TomSullivan/117238600929337638
If Trump thought he could reinstitute #slavery, he'd do it.
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@TomSullivan/117238600929337638
If Trump thought he could reinstitute #slavery, he'd do it.
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/1193747/ Does the UK have a legal obligation to redress the harms of slavery? | Slavery #Britain #England #Europe #GreatBritain #jamaica #LatinAmerica #NorthernIreland #Scotland #ShowTypes #Slavery #TVShows #UK #UnitedKingdom #UnitedNations #Wales
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https://www.europesays.com/videos/90060/ ‘AVARICIOUS cash grab!’ Jamaica’s King Charles slavery reparations petition SLAMMED on GB News #Analysis #BreakingNews #british #GBNews #GBNewsLive #GBN #HISTORICAL #Jamaica #KingCharles #museum #news #NewsUpdate #past #petition #politics #Reports #Royal #slavery #uk #war #WorldNews
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Charles Mountbatten-Windsor snubs #slavery reparations petition while at Balmoral.
Or.
Man hides from reparations petition from former colony by hiding in present colony.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/26529444.king-charles-snubs-slavery-reparations-petition-balmoral/
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Jamaica takes case for reparations for Britain’s role in slavery to King Charles III
LONDON — Jamaica is taking its campaign for Britain to pay reparations for the ravages of the trans-Atlantic…
#EuropeSays #Britain #Europe #EU #Generalnews #Politicalendorsements #Politics #Raceandethnicity #slavery #Worldnews
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https://www.europesays.com/britain/119752/ Jamaica takes case for reparations for Britain’s role in slavery to King Charles III #Britain #GeneralNews #PoliticalEndorsements #Politics #RaceAndEthnicity #slavery #WorldNews
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PBS News Hour: Descendants of enslaved potter David Drake work to reclaim ancestor’s art. “The descendants David Drake, known as Dave the Potter, have traced their lineage back to the once-enslaved potter and launched an effort to reclaim his work. So far, the family has recovered six pieces of Drake’s highly valued glazed stoneware, and they’re working with museums to bring even more back into […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/01/pbs-news-hour-descendants-of-enslaved-potter-david-drake-work-to-reclaim-ancestors-art/ -
PBS News Hour: Descendants of enslaved potter David Drake work to reclaim ancestor’s art. “The descendants David Drake, known as Dave the Potter, have traced their lineage back to the once-enslaved potter and launched an effort to reclaim his work. So far, the family has recovered six pieces of Drake’s highly valued glazed stoneware, and they’re working with museums to bring even more back into […]
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PBS News Hour: Descendants of enslaved potter David Drake work to reclaim ancestor’s art. “The descendants David Drake, known as Dave the Potter, have traced their lineage back to the once-enslaved potter and launched an effort to reclaim his work. So far, the family has recovered six pieces of Drake’s highly valued glazed stoneware, and they’re working with museums to bring even more back into […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/01/pbs-news-hour-descendants-of-enslaved-potter-david-drake-work-to-reclaim-ancestors-art/ -
PBS News Hour: Descendants of enslaved potter David Drake work to reclaim ancestor’s art. “The descendants David Drake, known as Dave the Potter, have traced their lineage back to the once-enslaved potter and launched an effort to reclaim his work. So far, the family has recovered six pieces of Drake’s highly valued glazed stoneware, and they’re working with museums to bring even more back into […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/01/pbs-news-hour-descendants-of-enslaved-potter-david-drake-work-to-reclaim-ancestors-art/ -
PBS News Hour: Descendants of enslaved potter David Drake work to reclaim ancestor’s art. “The descendants David Drake, known as Dave the Potter, have traced their lineage back to the once-enslaved potter and launched an effort to reclaim his work. So far, the family has recovered six pieces of Drake’s highly valued glazed stoneware, and they’re working with museums to bring even more back into […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/01/pbs-news-hour-descendants-of-enslaved-potter-david-drake-work-to-reclaim-ancestors-art/ -
#usa #eu : #africa / #history / #humanrights / #slavery / #reparations
„Slavery is not just a thing of the past. Its effects continue to be felt in #systemicinequality and #racism. This was reiterated on Monday by the UN Committee against Racial Discrimination ( #CERD ) as the world marks the International Day of People of African Descent.“
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Countries legally obliged to consider slavery reparations, says UN committee | Reparations and reparative justice | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/31/countries-legally-obliged-consider-slavery-reparations-un-committee -
40 safety breaches in SafeWork NSW blitz on Coffs Coast, Riverina farm businesses
"Labour-hire firms and agribusinesses across the Coffs Coast and Riverina have been issued with more than 40 safety notices in a SafeWork NSW blitz after allegations of slavery in the fruit-picking industry."
"The workplace safety watchdog has identified dozens of safety issues across labour-hire firms and agribusinesses operating on New South Wales fruit farms in the wake of serious modern slavery allegations in the fruit-picking industry." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-31/safework-blitz-on-modern-slavery-coffs-coast-riverina-farms/107096906
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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 -
Here's a gift link about the Harvard Reparations Project. Unsurprisingly commentors are against reparations and their arguments are weak. "Why should we be accountable for things done centuries ago?" But it's not centuries ago. Stop prejudice. Stop redlining. Stop lynching. Stop all the things you do to hold black and brown people down. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/25/metro/harvard-identifies-descendants-slavery-massachusetts/?s_campaign=8315:varf
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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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Arkansas Times: A researcher at the Old State House discovered slave auctions had once taken place on museum grounds. Her bosses told her to stay silent.. “Wahlquist said she informed her superiors of her discovery, but the reaction was not what she anticipated. ‘They immediately said, “Do not mention this to anyone.” They said to keep researching, but don’t say anything about it because they […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/19/arkansas-times-a-researcher-at-the-old-state-house-discovered-slave-auctions-had-once-taken-place-on-museum-grounds-her-bosses-told-her-to-stay-silent/ -
Arkansas Times: A researcher at the Old State House discovered slave auctions had once taken place on museum grounds. Her bosses told her to stay silent.. “Wahlquist said she informed her superiors of her discovery, but the reaction was not what she anticipated. ‘They immediately said, “Do not mention this to anyone.” They said to keep researching, but don’t say anything about it because they […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/19/arkansas-times-a-researcher-at-the-old-state-house-discovered-slave-auctions-had-once-taken-place-on-museum-grounds-her-bosses-told-her-to-stay-silent/ -
Arkansas Times: A researcher at the Old State House discovered slave auctions had once taken place on museum grounds. Her bosses told her to stay silent.. “Wahlquist said she informed her superiors of her discovery, but the reaction was not what she anticipated. ‘They immediately said, “Do not mention this to anyone.” They said to keep researching, but don’t say anything about it because they […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/19/arkansas-times-a-researcher-at-the-old-state-house-discovered-slave-auctions-had-once-taken-place-on-museum-grounds-her-bosses-told-her-to-stay-silent/ -
Arkansas Times: A researcher at the Old State House discovered slave auctions had once taken place on museum grounds. Her bosses told her to stay silent.. “Wahlquist said she informed her superiors of her discovery, but the reaction was not what she anticipated. ‘They immediately said, “Do not mention this to anyone.” They said to keep researching, but don’t say anything about it because they […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/19/arkansas-times-a-researcher-at-the-old-state-house-discovered-slave-auctions-had-once-taken-place-on-museum-grounds-her-bosses-told-her-to-stay-silent/ -
Arkansas Times: A researcher at the Old State House discovered slave auctions had once taken place on museum grounds. Her bosses told her to stay silent.. “Wahlquist said she informed her superiors of her discovery, but the reaction was not what she anticipated. ‘They immediately said, “Do not mention this to anyone.” They said to keep researching, but don’t say anything about it because they […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/19/arkansas-times-a-researcher-at-the-old-state-house-discovered-slave-auctions-had-once-taken-place-on-museum-grounds-her-bosses-told-her-to-stay-silent/ -
Slavery reparations: Why Ghana is leading the demand for compensation
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0j2r15dr1o"He also wants individual institutions that benefited from the slave trade to be held accountable and pay compensation. Among these is the Church of England.
In the 18th Century, the Church's missionary wing ran plantations and owned hundreds of slaves, which helped fund its work across the Americas and beyond."
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The slaves revolted. That was "the loss" ---!?!-- the slaves then "had to pay" the slavers for the loss of their slaves.
This is story of Haiti.
France should be required by the Hague to repay the slaves, Haiti, every penny of rhe billions of dollars.
Shame on France. Shame.
Racists still work together to punish them for taking freedom, still, today.
It's why Trump is extra racist about freedom seizing Hatians.
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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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The Nation tours offered one during the pandemic that went to some of these new museums and memorials revealing the struggles and injustices of the institution of slavery in the American south. Too soon for me, but I would be grateful for a redux tour. The art in these new installations is extraordinary.
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News – Virginia Planter’s Garden Uncovered https://www.allforgardening.com/1926075/news-virginia-planters-garden-uncovered/ #ColonialWilliamsburg #garden #GardeningVirginia #JohnCustisIV #Plantation #Slavery #virginia
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Sydney’s sugar rush: how the colony’s most powerful profited from Australia’s slave trade
By Paul DaleyAustralia likes to think its history is untainted by slavery but a new book traces how a who’s who in the NSW capital profited from the capture and sale of ‘blackbirded’ Pacific Islanders
#Sydney #Slavery #IndigenousAustralians #Australianews #Race #Pacificislands #Vanuatu #Sugar #Colonialism #Queensland #Business #Australianbooks #Museums #Books #Shippingindustry #Forcedlabour #AsiaPacific #SouthPacific #TheGuardian #PaulDaley
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Focus on Coffs Harbour and Nambucca Valley
"NSW modern slavery report calls for urgent reform to protect migrant workers."
"A NSW parliamentary report into modern slavery has detailed "harrowing stories of mistreatment and harm..The report asked the government to investigate allegations of systemic labour exploitation in Coffs Harbour and the Nambucca Valley."
"NSW Anti-slavery commissioner Dr James Cockayne said in a statement the report was "informed by evidence from almost 100 witnesses across NSW, including victim survivors of modern slavery, and 60 submissions"." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-06/nsw-anti-slavery-report-urgent-reform-to-protect-migrant-workers/107003130
#exploitation #PALM #MidNorthCoast #HorticulturalIndustry #blueberries #CoffsHarbour #NambuccaValley #food #harm #slavery #plantations #regulation -
Blackbirding by Ryan Butta
* "Australia has long reassured itself that, despite genocidal treatment of First Nations peoples, at least it has no heinous past of slavery, unlike Britain and the US. Ryan Butta shatters this historical self-deception. The term “blackbirding” (its etymology in the African and West Indies slave trades) involved the coercion and kidnapping of up to 62,000 Pacific Islander people, many children, to labour mostly on Australian sugar cane plantations between 1860 and 1906."
"Long portrayed as somehow “other” than slavery, Butta uses forensic archival work and compelling prose to disturbingly illustrate why this was Australia’s slave trade – and how a colonial who’s-who profited handsomely from it. – Paul Daley " >>
https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/aug/05/best-books-to-read-australia-august-2026* Book :"As Australia becomes more willing to confront the violence and trauma of its colonial past, one chapter has remained largely hidden: the Australian slave trade known as blackbirding." >>
https://www.simonandschuster.com.au/books/Blackbirding/Ryan-Butta/9781923135703
#slavery #history #EngineeredForgetting #OceanicPeoples #blackbirding #Australia #sugar #plantations #books #EuropeanColonisation #violence -
Vulnerable workers bearing the cost of providing Australia with cheap food
"Across Australia's fruit and vegetable industry, Fair Work Ombudsman investigations have repeatedly uncovered widespread non-compliance...: systemic worker exploitation, forced labour, debt bondage and, in some cases, human trafficking and servitude."
"In Coffs Harbour, 61 per cent of growers and labour hire companies inspected were found to be breaching workplace laws, including underpaying workers. The figure rose to 72 per cent in the Riverina and 83 per cent in Victoria's Mornington Peninsula and Yarra Valley....Oz Group, a co-operative representing more than 140 berry growers across NSW's Mid North Coast, said in its 2020 statement it "does not accept any form of slavery-like practices within the co-operative or throughout its supply chain".However, in its 2025 statement, the co-operative said, "addressing modern slavery requires ongoing effort and collaboration" and it remained "committed to continuous improvement"." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-04/australias-hidden-modern-slave-labour-workforce-exposed/106968610
#exploitation #work #ForcedLabour #food #slavery #CoffsHarbour #HorticulturalIndustry #governance #regulation #ModernSlaveryAct #TokenisticLaw #NSW #MidNorthCoast #blueberries -
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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First poster for the ‘Hershey’ biopic, in theatres on Nov. 25
Do you think they’ll include the child slavery story angle?
#Corporations #ChildLabour #Slavery #Capitalism #Movies #Cinema #Hollywood #Whitewashing #HumanRights
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Caribbean calls for return of British Virgin Islands – and for King Charles to back decolonisation | Caribbean | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/jul/14/caribbean-british-virgin-islands-king-charles-decolonisation-caricom-reparations-commission -
Diorama of enslaved people dancing and playing music (1820) by Gerrit Schouten.
Source: Rijksmuseum
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/ab7f5426-9808-4ec5-a39a-bedbc6c12703
#models #thatched-rooves #performances #string-instruments #indigenous #percussion #dancing #drums #dutch #dioramas #slavery #wind-instruments #art #publicdomain
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The forgotten story of abolition in revolutionary France – the first emancipation. #Abolition #Abolitionofslavery #abolitionism #BastilleDay #CivilRights #Civilwar #Colonialism #DeclarationofIndependence #Democracy #Emancipation #Frenchempire #FrenchRevolution #Haiti #Napoleon #Revolution #Robespierre #Slavery #ToussaintLouverture #USCivilWar
https://iwpost.com/the-forgotten-story-of-abolition-in-revolutionary-france-the-first-emancipation/?fsp_sid=11768 -
Ezra Klein talking with Bryan Stevenson.
Heart wrenching, heart warming, very moving with the core message: If we are able to confront ourselves with our history, we are able to connect with hope, love and what is precious to us in order to find a good, peaceful future.https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/03/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-bryan-stevenson.html
#EzraKlein #NYTimes #BryanStevenson #history #Slavery #christianity
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The Confederate Question Never Closed
An old professor's epigram, tested against the monuments, the forts, the flag, a Supreme Court ruling from this spring, and the counterfeit history of emancipation now spreading online. An old history professor of mine once offered a sentence that has outlasted most of what I learned in his classroom. The South lost the battle, he said, and won the war. He meant that the Confederacy was more alive in the present than it had been on the April morning when Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox. The claim sounded like provocation at the time. It reads now like a weather report. Army forts carry the names of men who took up arms against the United States. The Supreme Court has just rewritten the rules that protected Black voters in the states most determined to suppress them. A battle flag the rebel armies never managed to carry into Washington was paraded through the Capitol in 2021. My professor's epigram deserves a hearing, and it deserves a harder examination than its admirers usually give it, because one half of it is true in a way that should alarm anyone who wants a working democracy, and the other half is false in a way that can disarm the people who would defend one. […]https://bolesblogs.com/2026/07/02/the-confederate-question-never-closed/
