Thread by @margoncalv

I highly recommend @Tolerance_org's complete set of videos on American Slavery, so let's put them together in a single thread:

1/10: Historian @DrIbram uses the case of Elizabeth Key to trace how Virginians changed British law to protect the growing institution of slavery in the 17th century.

2/10: Historian @arothmanhistory traces how the labour of enslaved people in an area just outside post-Louisiana Purchase New Orleans rippled across the globe to create wealth for the growing nation.

3/10: Scholar @agordonreed explores how the Constitution, written when slavery was seen as a "dying institution", actually protected the institution and allowed enslavers to aggressively defend its expansion.

4/10: Historian @DainaRameyBerry describes the sale of an infant named Rachel to explore how enslaved people were commodified.

5/10: Historian @TeraWHunter discusses Henry "Box" Brown's escape from slavery and his work as an abolitionist

6/10: Historian @edward_l_ayers describes how the age and gender of enslaved people, along with the labor needs in different parts of the country, affected the domestic slave trade.

7/10: Scholar @HistoryGonWrong discusses the importance of slavery to the economies of Southern and Northern states, its central role in leading to the Civil War and ensuing myths about that role.

8/10: Historian @marthasjones_ traces the development of racist ideas about people of African descent from the colonial period through the early 19th century.

9/10: Historian @DrIbram discusses how the foodways and music of enslaved Africans helped shape American culture as we know it today.

10/10: Scholar @agordonreed discusses the challenges of using texts created by enslavers to understand the lives of enslaved people.

Also, I'm going to leave the link to Teaching Tolerance's website, which has additional resources on the topic
tolerance.org/frameworks/tea…