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24 Jan

This Day in Labor History: January 24, 1848. Gold is discovered at Sutter's Mill in California. Let's talk about how the California Gold Rush reflected the intersection of race, gender, and labor that helped define 19th century America!

When white Americans reached California to pan for gold in 1849, they were not expecting to see racial diversity. In many ways, California was the first time when Americans really dealt with racial diversity. But they weren’t the only people coming to the gold diggings.

That word spread around the world and there was faster ways to get there than walking across the California Trail if you lived in Asia or Latin America. There were Native Americans already living in California. There was the local Mexican population too.

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@ErikLoomis

23 Jan

This Day in Labor History: January 23, 1749.

A supposed slave conspiracy was reported in Charleston, South Carolina. This probably nonexistent conspiracy is a good window into the complexities of the slave labor system and the paranoia of slaveowners. Let's talk about it!

That slaves would revolt in the New World was well known. South Carolina had survived the Stono Rebellion in 1739 and were determined to not let that happen again. But other slave revolts throughout the early eighteenth century kept slaveowners across the Americas on edge.

There probably was not in fact an organized attempt by slaves to revolt in 1749. But slaves were seething with anger and slaveowners were paranoid and scared of their Africans. In 1748, a slave named Joe burned down a barn on the plantation of his owner, James Akins.

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Erik Loomis

@ErikLoomis

22 Jan

This Day in Labor History: January 22, 1599. Spanish troops began their attack on Acoma Pueblo in New Mexico. This incredibly violent incident and aftermath created a regime of labor under Spanish rule that would have devastating impacts on Native peoples! Let's talk about it!

From the moment Europeans came to the Americas, they had a pretty clear and consistent view of the labor regime they desired: people of color working for nothing or next to nothing.

Too often, our stories of American history downplay this because New England, which has played a huge part of national culture creation, was something of an exception, although not nearly to the extent that it gets portrayed.

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Erik Loomis

@ErikLoomis

20 Jan

Biden's in, now let's get with the real agenda:

1) Piss Christ goes up in the National Gallery
2) Christmas, abolished
3) Chick Fil A is forced to open at Sunday
4) Tacos on every corner
5) Boys and girls forced to wear each other's clothes starting in 1st grade

What else?

Confiscate all the guns of course
Wolves placed in major cities trained to eat white babies
Charter flights for migrant caravans

Oh, totally forgot about the required dildo presentations in high school health classes

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Erik Loomis

@ErikLoomis

20 Jan

This Day in Labor History: January 20, 1920. Filipino sugar workers on Oahu, Hawaii, went on strike to demand higher pay. Japanese workers soon joined and a cross-racial strike was on! Let's talk about it!

Hawaii became a target of U.S. imperialism from almost the moment that American missionaries arrived there in the early 19th century.

Often from middle class families from the Northeast with close ties to early industrialism, the missionaries wrote home to their families, suggesting they invest in Hawaii.

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Erik Loomis

@ErikLoomis

19 Jan

https://twitter.com/drfarls/status/1351542014483943424

Clearly missing films:
Lone Star
Hell's Hinges (original anti-western with William S. Hart)
Go West
The Gold Rush
The Hateful Eight
The Iron Horse
The Big Trail
The Petrified Forest
The Grapes of Wrath

Might include The Baron of Arizona as well.

https://twitter.com/drfarls/status/1351542014483943424

You could argue that The Grapes of Wrath is not a western. But you would wrong. It's a film about a journey into a mythical West that proves to be a mirage--a classic western story.

Also, where is The Big Country? Clearly missing

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