Yusuf Toropov

Hi. As near as I can make out from genealogical dives a few years back, my third-great-grandfather was a #slaver in Missouri.

Which, as I see it, makes it something of a moral imperative for me to share this video on how the US #history narrative on #slavery has been corrupted.

*The last slave was freed in 1942, not 1865.*

Eager to discuss with #BlackMastodon and all of #Mastodon during US #BlackHistoryMonth.

#NEOSLAVERY: THE PART OF HISTORY YOU'VE ALWAYS SKIPPED

https://youtu.be/j4kI2h3iotA

Feb 4, 2023 at 12:23pmWeb
Show threadKris SamselFeb 4, 2023

@YusufToropov In Mississippi? One Trump supporter kept slaves until 1963! Lowlifes and idiots!

https://www.livescience.com/61886-modern-slavery-united-states-antoinette-harrell.html

Black People Were Enslaved in the US Until as Recently as 1963

White landowners enslaved black Americans for at least a century after the Civil War.

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Show threadYusuf ToropovFeb 4, 2023
@humansriseup My personal view is that the ruptures will remain unhealed until the country has a productive discussion about reparations.
Show threadYusuf ToropovFeb 4, 2023

@humansriseup

The form slavery took after 1865 was in fact considerably more brutal than the antebellum version, as the video I posted demonstrates.

Below, an except from the article you posted for the benefit of people who might not have yet read it.

Show threadYusuf ToropovMay 3, 2023

@humansriseup When someone can make and defend a legal claim to own you, they may make certain allowances for your survival and health and your capacity to reproduce, so as to protect their "investment."

That impulse vanishes in a peonage system. They just work you to death.

Show threadInfrogmationMay 3, 2023

@YusufToropov @humansriseup

Good points and good video - but I must take issue with the suggestions that antebellum slavery was "less brutal" and that expense of slaves prevented significant mistreatment.

In the big cotton plantations of the deep south, enslaved people were regularly worked to death at fairly young ages, and there was regular use of torture to get as much work from them as possible.
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Show threadYusuf ToropovMay 3, 2023

@Infrogmation @humansriseup

I stand corrected.

Show threadInfrogmationMay 3, 2023

@YusufToropov @humansriseup

The high death rate was just considered an expense of doing business, like machinery wearing out.

Enslaved people were encouraged and even forced to procreate on the deep south plantations of Louisiana and Mississippi, but birth rate never kept up with the high death rate.

New shipments of enslaved people had to be purchased and transported in regularly - from states like Virginia which made an industry of raising people like livestock.
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Show threadKris SamselMay 4, 2023
@Infrogmation @YusufToropov Today’s immigration. $7.25 an embarrassment to all workers. Knee bending elected ones dodge raising to livable wage. Would be over $20.00 an hour. Bezo’s and Elon can’t have that! American workers. Been treated like a dog. Since 1776!
Show threadThe Armchair ActivistFeb 4, 2023
@YusufToropov Well done, Yusuf. A number of my great-grandfathers were slavers as well as bioparents to many of the people they enslaved. I am the issue of the tainted lines. Weird existentialist dilemma that never dies. But those evil men and their predecessors an descendants are my family, whether they (or I) like it or not.
Show threadJofish5000Feb 4, 2023
@YusufToropov thank you for sharing this, bookmarking for later. It’s so important to share America’s history especially on slavery, the treatment of black Americans & how it shapes America today. People like DeSantis want to bury the uncomfortable truths on how America was built. After the civil war students of the south were taught in school how fantastic slavery had been. The atrocities of building the “American dream” covered up in textbooks for generations to learn.
Show threadYusuf ToropovFeb 4, 2023
@Jofish5000 #slavery as an experience got worse after the #civilwar, not better, but we can't bring ourselves to express that demonstrable fact in our US #history textbooks