#stillenslaved — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #stillenslaved, aggregated by home.social.
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"We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The...conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced." -Frederick Douglas
"What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July?"
#Indigenous , #Black , #Women , and #Children are #StillEnslaved #StillWrong #NoJustice
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"The British used parts of North America as a penal colony. Convicts were transported by private companies and sold by auction to plantation owners. Between 1718 and 1776, it is estimated that 30,000-50,000 convicts were transported for penal labor to at least nine of the continental colonies." -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_States
This practice of enslaving convicts is still quite popular in the US.Wikipedia is good fun. The history stories...often not.