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Dec 10, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
I saw a review of #Emancipationmovie that criticized it as a "superhero" film. I suppose this reviewer hadn't read many slave narratives:
1) Harriet Jacob's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
Jacobs hid in an attic w/ 3 ft ceiling FOR 7 YRS before escaping slavery. 1/62) Henry "Box" Brown hid in a coffin size box THAT WAS MAILED TO THE NORTH. Can you imagine how long he had to lie in his own urine & feces to be free? #Emancipationmovie 2/6
Jan 7, 2021 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
I forgot who Tweeted this morning about AT THE HANDS OF PERSONS UNKNOWN. This is a phrase used to describe lynching a of Black folks.
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AT THE HANDS OF PERSONS UNKNOWN: THE LYNCHING OF BLACK AMERICA is also a history book by Phillip Dray. It’s excellent & it discusses how media was used to coordinate white mob violence. 2/
Sep 29, 2020 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
For those of you who wonder why I insist on calling the first Black woman to publish a book in North America Phillis Wheatley Peters, instead of Phillis Wheatley—and why I politely (I hope) remind people of the “Peters” here are the reasons:
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First, the woman known as Phillis Wheatley—for this was not her birth name given by her parents—married John Peters in 1778 , she went by “Phillis Peters.” This was her choice.
