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Dr. Moiya McTier
@GoAstroMo
“genuinely funny astrophysicist,” folklorist, worldbuilder | Writer (#MilkyWayBook) | Host (#FateandFabled, @ExolorePod, @PaleBluePod) | goastromo *everywhere*
Jun 17, 2020 • 11 tweets • 7 min read
This Friday is #JUNETEENTH2020

(learn more here: juneteenth.com/history.htm)

Some people like to say that 246 years of slavery wasn’t that long, so last year I gave a talk that put the history of slavery into an astronomical context

Here’s that talk

1/n Quick aside to remind you that slavery wasn’t over just because Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation

Slaveowners resisted. And lied

There were enslaved Black people who weren’t told of their freedom until well into the 1960s

google.com/amp/s/www.vice…

#Juneteenth

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