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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."

#slaveryarchive
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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."
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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.
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Let's get back to history, shall we? I just read a debate in Congress from 1864 that started out on the question of whether black people should be permitted to carry the mail, which quickly descended into lunatic anxieties about interracial sex.
Here is one volley from the debate. This was Sen. Willard Saulsbury of Delaware, a Democrat. Read to the end. (Cong. Globe, Senate, 38th Cong, 1st Sess., p. 840)
To continue: poking fun at Saulsbury, James Lane (a Republican from Kansas) said he was not worried about "amalgamation" because "the ladies of Kansas" would never choose a black man for a husband.
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The following articles should be read together. The first explains how U.S. foreign policy displaced Maya communities in Guatemala, and the second explains how the U.S. government turned the desert environment on the Mexican border into a death trap for migrants.
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