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jenifer daniels ♎ :verified:one of the best tweets I ever read was something to the effect of "slavery isn't Black history, it's white history"
ijwWas that @mekkaokereke perhaps? He did a long string of great “white history“ threads during Black History Month
Dan Ciruli@bulletsweetp @jentrification @jbouie @mekkaokereke It was amazing. And should be required reading for white people (who are taught a VERY incomplete version of our own history)
AmiW Streetart ❄️
Ishcabible@historianess
#GOP #Slavery #CivilWar #Religion
Our Governor, I live in Florida, basically said slavery was no big deal until the Civil War. Well, pardon my french, but it was a BFD for the slaves!!
Ostrich@JoeyD @jentrification @historianess It's also ahistorical as applied to white people. The overriding political rift for nearly a century in American consciousness was slavery. It was slavery when Jefferson wrote his first draft of the Declaration of Independence which includes a giant paragraph indicting the institution of slavery as unchristian and inflicted on the colonies by the King.
https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/declara/ruffdrft.html
Note, you can be an antiblack racist and also an abolitionist.
@JoeyD @jentrification @historianess A United States Senator was beaten to the point of being permanently disabled on the steps of the capitol over slavery policy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_of_Charles_Sumner
Schoolchildren are aware of the Missouri Compromise
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri_Compromise
@ostrich @jentrification @historianess
I have read a number of times that the Evangelical movement really took off in the South because of not wanting integration! That is not all that long ago!
@JoeyD @jentrification @historianess Actually the temperance movement and prohibition probably did a lot of that. Half a century earlier "evangelicalism" was conflated with abolitionism.
It was somewhere in the postwar period that advances in science caused the fundamentalist-modernist split and the fundies rebranded as the "true" evangelicals, mainly following conservative (anticommunist, anti-integration) politics.
OldAndCranky@jentrification incredible.
Wayne@jentrification I believe that history should be viewed through both sides of the story. It should be viewed from both the side of the oppressed and the oppressor. So that the oppressor can truely see the damage that was inflicted and that should never ever be repeated.
siquis@jentrification This made me reflect on how slavery is actually taught. In the UK, the focus is in the slave's conditions in forts, ships and plantations, including punishments. General statements on impact in Africa and specific examples of impact in Britain, plus the white men that lobbied for abolition, brief mention of black individuals. It is indeed taught from a white history perspective.
Humble Fan of Atty. Woowell, that is exactly on the button.
Joe Beam
Love4ALL@jentrification It is America's history, and its most important history, at that: both economically and morally. And it persists unchecked (and getting worse after some brief period of slight progress) to this very day. Further, America's power makes it the Earth's most pressing problem, for if we can't stand up to it here, how can we stand up to the other {racial / religious / gender / sexual preference} oppressors of the world. Peace be with you, dear sister.