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Jenny Eeles
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@BigMarkyB @GordonDunsmuir There's an interesting bit about slavery as it regarded abolishment & in what way the Scottish colliers were some of the last to benefit in Cosmo Innes', 'Sketches of Early Scotch History' (1861)

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@BigMarkyB @GordonDunsmuir Also in Andrew MacGeorge's 'Old Glasgow' (1880) there's quite a bit on native serfs and slavery.

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Jenny Eeles
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@BCCletts I know this one 😉

Articles from the 1850-1875 group & as cited below each quote and passage from James Grant's 'Old and New Edinburgh' (1880), vol. 1, Chapter 17.

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@BCCletts So technically Scotland was paid £100,000 to take on a share of England's £20m debt - & that's not what the debt would translate as now - literally £20m worth of debt as of 1707.

#ScotRef #DissolveTheUnion #JustifyTheUnion #UseTheMandate #AboutTime #SameOld #EnglishDebt
@BCCletts Apparently that's the equivalent of almost £2.1 billion today...

#ScotRef #DissolveTheUnion #JustifyTheUnion #UseTheMandate #AboutTime #SameOld #EnglishDebt #DoWeNeverLearn

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Jenny Eeles
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@delboy1978uk Working tonight so l'm passing out but I'm sure they're easily found. It was pretty interesting that there seemed to be nothing in Sept 1878, then investigations in Oct 1878, and by the start of Feb 1879 the verdict was read (unanimously guilty) & everyone involved was in jail.
@delboy1978uk Ok so, I'd taken more articles than I'd thought. The jailing of the #GlasgowBankers really interested me. If anyone would lik any of the articles in this thread typed up for an easier read, let me know.

From the 'Glasgow Herald,' 2nd of October, 1878 we have this:
@delboy1978uk According to the 'Glasgow Herald,' 25th of October, 1878, the #BankOfGlasgow goes into liquidation.
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John Hayward
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Slavery really does touch everything in American history.

Slavery is not “the foundation on which this country is built.”

Understanding how profoundly it affected US history & culture is very important.

Transforming that into a smear on the American Dream is stupid & immoral.
Slavery has left its literal & metaphorical scars on America since its birth. But ours is the first nation ever conceived in liberty & dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
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Interesting bit about Sati. Not only wife even mistress used to go to the funeral pure with the dead man. In 1817 govt announced that mistresses can't becomes sati.
This didn't stopped mistresses though. In 1818 Mankumari from Bundelkhand who was living with Banshidhar became Sati. And incident of Sati happened at Sahabad district where a 50 year old women who was living with a man for a long time. They had a 10 year child who became orphan.
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Last night I posted about the term “domain driven design,” frequently abbreviated “DDD” - which is a common large bra measurement in the US, & often part of dirty movie titles.

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Lisa Gilbert
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Thread. Last month I published an article about how resistance within slavery needs to be something we center in social studies classes
#historyed #sschat #socialstudies #slavery #slaveryarchive
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Interesting how some people think that decolonizing science&academia basically means/they take it as they're gonna get Reverse Colonized 😐
It's like your whole discipline has white fragility now? because not only is it as if your concept of self has extended to your field-
as though it is now whiteness itself-as in, any collaboration is somehow diluting or bowdlerizing the 'purity' of your discipline
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