Thread by @Nettlesbrown

In 1831 in Jamaica, around 60,000 enslaved people went on strike for their liberty, burning sugar cane fields, and destroying sugar mills. These courageous souls exhibited incredible discipline, jailing slaveowners on estates but never harming them. 1/6

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Conversely, when the tide turned against the rebellion, the white British Jamaican government reacted quite brutally, slaughtering hundreds in the ensuing conflict, on scaffolds or by firing squad. 2/6

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Currently, the economic systems of Jamaica continue to suffer as a result of the black loss of inherited family wealth over those many colonial generations, and because of their historically imposed reliance on foreign capital and other financial arrangements.
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During the two-hundredth anniversary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, black British activists demanded an official apology for this brutal history of slavery. The Queen refused. 4/6

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When Jamaican activists asked for a public apology, the basis of her absurd refusal was the view that slavery was not a crime against humanity at the time it was established by the British there. 5/6

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Together I think we all must challenge the problematic dominant white frame of today, including the British Royal imperial expansion, economic exploitation, and extraction of resources of non-white colonial subjects.

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