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(1/4) Global Indios is a magnificent study which documents more than 100 lawsuits Indigenous enslaved people living in Castile brought to the Spanish courts to secure their freedom between 1530 and 1585. #twitterstorians #slaveryarchive 
(2/4) Plaintiffs had to prove their indigenousness, these lawsuits reveal the difficulties of determining who was an indio and who was not—especially since it was an all-encompassing construct connoting subservience and ...
cont. political personhood and at times could refer to people from Mexico, Peru, or South or East Asia. van Deusen demonstrates that the categories of free and slave were often not easily defined, ...
As she also decided to lock replies so one cannot actually respond. How is this an apology if you do not actually apologize specifically to MRO. #BrightAgesSoWhite The actual violent harm has not been named specifically or directed to the person who was targeted. #SlaveryArchive
Because really folks. MRO already had fascist sock puppet accounts coming to harass her by pulling pictures from the internet. Discussing more conspiracy theories about how she is not Black etc. How is this reparative if you are not addressing her? #SlaveryArchive
More ppl liked the above non-apology for actually attacking MRO w/ a fascist conspiracy theory vs. all the callouts to the white Bright Ages authors for their non-apology. They didn't actually spew that conspiracy theory, they just were white, silent, & deflected. #SlaveryArchive
Just to further clarify folks. #BrightAgesSoWhite #MedievalTwitter #ShakeRace #RaceB4Race #SlaveryArchive #TwitterHistorians This is the issue if you have NO CLUE about the alt-medieval academic ecosystem. Please look at the first two on the right. They are historians (D & S) .1/
Who medieval studies, and I specifically have discussed, as part of the alt-medieval (in long twitter threads), in this IHE article: 2/ insidehighered.com/views/2018/08/…
3/ I really want people to understand 2 things. How white supremacy is structural, STRUCTURAL & the WTGF WS, fascist ecosystem of medieval studies. Every white decision (including the BPOC supporting whiteness decisions) just further cements the structure of white supremacy.
Pleased to announce a major expansion of the Intra-American Slave Trade Database: slavevoyages.org/american/datab…. Thanks to support from @ACLS1919, new data more than doubles the number of documented voyages moving enslaved people within the Americas. Now 27,680 entries. (1/6)
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One major addition, thanks to the research of @drjkwilliams, is coverage of the maritime portion of the U.S. domestic slave trade, particularly forced movements of enslaved people to the Gulf South via New Orleans, 1820-1860: slavevoyages.org/voyages/Fw7wQw…. (2/6)
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An exciting aspect of new data on US trafficking is that the records @drjkwilliams gathered recorded names of enslaved people. (Most trade records omitted names). We’ve created a new database of the people who endured such journeys: slavevoyages.org/past/database. (3/6)
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William Moulden was born to Isaac and Mary Moulden in 1818. Under Pennsylvania law, Moulden was indentured to John Rudolph of Radnor Township, PA, until 1846 when he turned 28 years old. 1/9
Pennsylvania’s gradual abolition law was passed in 1780, the “first in the nation” to abolish slavery, but the law didn’t actually free anyone. Instead, the law created a system of indenture-hood. 2/9
It stipulated that all children born to enslaved mothers after March 1, 1780, would be indentured to their mothers’ enslavers until they were 28 years old. 3/9
What was Walt Whitman doing on a slave ship in 1856? /Thread
Whitman had recently published the first edition of Leaves of Grass. Reviews were mixed. He was struggling financially. He returned to journalism in New York. /2
Whitman accepted a commission from Life Illustrated to report on a ship named the Braman. This vessel had been about to sail to Africa before U.S. authorities, suspecting it was a slave ship, impounded it at the Navy Yard in Brooklyn (the slave trade was illegal since 1808) /3
My student Yasmine did this video about the logbook of a slave ship called the Mary, which was donated to @gtownlibrary to be preserved and studied. Please watch! #slaveryarchive
Here's a story about the logbook. georgetown.edu/news/library-a…
A digitized version of the logbook of the Mary is available at Digital Georgetown. An extraordinary artifact. repository.library.georgetown.edu/handle/10822/1…
A lot has been said about 1619, but not enough about 1520, the year of the first documented voyage of a ship disembarking enslaved Africans in the Americas. #twitterstorians #africanstudies
The Spanish Archives have made the original available to the public at pares.mcu.es/ParesBusquedas…
The corresponding entry on @slavevoyages is available below. slavevoyages.org/voyage/databas…
As Confederate statues come down, I'm reminded of what still needs to go up. Encourage @Reagan_Airport & @Amazon to memorialize those enslaved at Abingdon: "The Virginia portion of Amazon’s HQ2 should acknowledge what lies beneath" washingtonpost.com/opinions/2018/… #slaveryarchive #DC
If you visit Abingdon ruins today, you will be transported to the past - but not to the era of slavery -- to the 1990s. At this site of a former plantation, there is no mention of the enslaved, slavery, or enslavement. Signage is entirely about enslavers. #AbingdonEasyFix 2/10
Inside the old terminal's exhibit hall, at the bottom corner of one display case, you can find the only reference to slavery. #AbingdonEasyFix 3/10
#GUhist286 The Slave Ship
Rediker makes a point that other historians of the Atlantic slave trade confirm: many African captives feared that the European slavers were cannibals who were going to eat them.
This passage from Rediker's The Slave Ship, about captive African women singing their histories, is powerful. #slaveryarchive #GUhist286
#GUhist286 9. Day 1. What is slavery? Here is sociologist Orlando Patterson's definition: "Slavery is the permanent, violent domination of natally alienated and generally dishonored persons.” (Slavery and Social Death, p. 13.
#GUhist286 10. Day 1. Another definition of slavery: In January 1865, Rev. Garrison Frazier, a freedman, told U.S. leaders Stanton and Sherman that "Slavery is, receiving by irresistible power the work of another man, and not by his consent.” freedmen.umd.edu/savmtg.htm
#Guhist286 11. Day 2. Before 1619. How did the ancient practice of slavery start to take its distinctive Atlantic and American form? A big question (and debate) is about the relationship between slavery and racism. Read the intro & chap. 1 of Berlin's Generations of Captivity.
I'm teaching the history of slavery in North America this semester. Anybody want to follow along here on Twitter if I post sources, readings, etc?
Well, you've convinced me. Thanks for the enthusiastic response, folks. I'm amazed. Here goes #GUhist286. This course is designed for my @Georgetown undergrads. I'll post relevant materials on this thread over the next few months and try to keep up as best I can.
Do you want to talk about slavery and the American Revolution?
This letter from "humanity" to John Adams in January 1776 is extraordinary:
"Are we claeming freedom fighting for it and practes slavery. God forbid."
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masshist.org/publications/a…
This letter from "humanity" to John Adams in January 1776 is extraordinary:
"Are we claeming freedom fighting for it and practes slavery. God forbid."
#slaveryarchive
masshist.org/publications/a…
Prophecy: "Nuengland bhold the hand of the lord is upon you and is about to bring your owen wa upon your had except ye reform this thing"
"Whot has the negros the afracons don to us that we shuld tak tham from thar own land and mak tham sarve us to the da of thar deth. Ar tha not the work of gods hand. Has tha not immortel soles. Ar we not the sons of on adam. How than is it that we hold that pepel in slavery."
This piece by historian Kirk Savage is remarkable. #slaveryarchive
From the article above, here is Asa Fitzgerald's 1870 transfer of land to the people he had owned "in consideration of services performed by them and their ancestors while in slavery." #slaveryarchive
Read the article to find out how this came about and what happened after. It's a complex, compelling story from the untold annals of American slavery.
This fine new WAPO piece on pushback against frank discussions of slavery at historic plantations reminds me of one of my favorite stories that I heard working with @BlainRoberts1 on *Denmark Vesey's Garden*...
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washingtonpost.com/history/2019/0…
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washingtonpost.com/history/2019/0…
...It was relayed to us by an excellent African American tour guide named Sandra Campbell. She recalled giving a private tour to an elderly white couple who had hired her to drive them around downtown Charleston and then out to Middleton Place plantation. Apparently unaware...
..that Campbell incorporated slavery into her city tour, the husband objected when she observed that the first white settlers to Charleston brought enslaved Africans with them. "I don’t think we want the city tour,’” he announced to Campbell, "Let’s just to go the plantation"...
I've seen a lot of buzz about @librarycongress acquiring the manuscript of Omar Ibn Said's memoir. This is exciting news, to be sure -- but the characterization of the event strikes me as unproductive in crucial ways #slaveryarchive #twitterstorians. 👇🏻Thread 1/20
First, it's important to note that this is a well-known text. It's included in Allan D. Austin's "African Muslims in Antebellum America: A Sourcebook" (1984, rev. 1997)
taylorfrancis.com/books/97811360… 2/20
taylorfrancis.com/books/97811360… 2/20
It's also been published as a standalone volume translated and edited by Ala Alryyes (2011)
uwpress.wisc.edu/books/4789.htm 3/20
uwpress.wisc.edu/books/4789.htm 3/20
