Phillip James Glasgow

@MuddyMagee
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I used to hate the fool in me, now I tolerate him all day long

Auckland, New Zealand
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Phillip James GlasgowMay 25
Dr. D. Elisabeth GlasscoMay 25
The first Memorial Day didn’t begin with Confederate widows or small ceremonies in the white South. It began in Charleston in 1865, when 10,000 newly freed Black Americans gathered to bury Union dead abandoned in a mass grave at a former Confederate prison camp. What happened there was more than mourning. It was a declaration about freedom, memory, and who would define the meaning of the Civil War.
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Image: Frances Benjamin Johnston, Saluting the Flag at the Whittier Primary School, ca 1899.
Phillip James GlasgowFeb 23
Dr. D. Elisabeth GlasscoFeb 21
In August 1863, Frederick Douglass stopped recruiting Black soldiers. He forced the Union to confront its contradictions: unequal pay, denied rank…violence against Black troops. He walked into the WH, challenged Abraham Lincoln directly, and left unconvinced by policy but clear about power. He resumed speaking not because justice had been secured, but because pressure, not faith, is what moves a nation forward.
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Image: Recruiting broadside endorsed by Douglass (Gilder Lehrman).
#history
Phillip James GlasgowFeb 12
Dr. D. Elisabeth GlasscoFeb 12

Born 99 years ago on February 10 in Laurel Mississippi, Leontyne Price is one of the greatest opera singers who ever lived…and she’s still with us!

Long live Leontyne!

#music

Video: Leontyne Price singing singing the anthem for the United Negro College Fund in 1984. Sponsored by The Ad Council.

https://youtu.be/SufPT9HoU6Q?si=AesFTItyb2Kxy8zj

Video: Leontyne Price singing “Ave Maria” in Montreal in 1982.

https://youtu.be/30eNxYjmEqU?si=Q9CYfbBHWlF6mPVV

UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND 1984 PSA (Leontyne Price)

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Phillip James GlasgowFeb 1
Dr. D. Elisabeth GlasscoFeb 1

To understand the modern American state, you have to look at what it learned to do at night. In the slave South, violence didn’t arrive as spectacle. It arrived on schedule. Names checked. Horses assigned. Lanterns lit. By law, patrols could stop, search, whip, detain—without warrant or cause. Suspicion was enough. This wasn’t chaos. It was governance.

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Image: 1823 illustration by Johann Moritz Rugendas. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Capitao-mato.jpg

Phillip James GlasgowDec 28
Dr. D. Elisabeth GlasscoDec 28

They were many. Not just rulers, but households, elders, children—lives lived inside systems of memory, labor, belief, and power that did not require a single name. So, to say “Africa is a country” is not a cartographic error. It is the residue of training—what remains after empire leaves but its grammar stays.

Africa moved as many worlds. It still does.

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#history #blackmastodon

Image: Map of the ethnic diversity of Africa, overlaid with country borders. Source: National Geographic.

Phillip James GlasgowNov 17, 2025
Dr. D. Elisabeth GlasscoOct 16, 2025
The myth of “shared suffering” in Vicksburg turned history into faith—and faith into amnesia---for although the first war ended in 1865; the second one still shapes how Southerners see suffering, loss, freedom, sacrifice—and the redemptive struggle for truth.
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Image: Confederate General Lloyd Tilghman dies with flair. Monument at Vicksburg National Military Park, Vicksburg, MS. Source: RoadsideAmerica.
#history #Histodons #CivilWar #Mississippi #BlackMastodon #Photography #BlackAndWhite
Phillip James GlasgowAug 24, 2025
Dr. D. Elisabeth GlasscoAug 24, 2025
On the surface, Bruce Springsteen is the workingman’s troubadour—the bard of highways and mill towns. But for a Black listener, his voice carries another weight: it echoes the sorrow songs, borrows from Black survival, & exposes the fracture at America’s core.
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#history #photography #music #blackandwhite #blackmastodon #histodons #newjersey
Image: Bruce Springsteen Up The River with Clarence Clemons, Dec 31, 1980, Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Uniondale, NY, Photographer: Brooks Kraft.
Phillip James GlasgowAug 1, 2025
Dr. D. Elisabeth GlasscoJul 31, 2025
They called it the old country. Not some distant ancestral land in Africa passed down in myth or memory—but Mississippi. Georgia. Alabama. The South. Before the first Great Migration, Black families who left that soil for the North spoke of it the way European immigrants spoke of Ireland or Poland: a place left behind, a place remembered, a place escaped.
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Image: Family Chopping weeds from cotton in White Plains, Ga, in 1941. Jack Delano, LOC.
#BlackAndWhite #Photography #History
Phillip James GlasgowJun 1, 2025
Dr. D. Elisabeth GlasscoJun 1, 2025

This past week, 99 years ago, Miles Dewey Davis III was born in Alton, Illinois.

On November 12, 1989, on 60 Minutes, Harry Reasoner asked him if Black musicians were better at jazz and blues because of slavery. The question could’ve gone sideways.

What Davis said—quietly, precisely—was about rhythm, memory, race, and the meaning of swing. #music #Jazz #Histodons #history #blackmastodon #photography #blackandwhite

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Image: Miles Davis, Hackensack, New Jersey, 1954, photo by Francis Wolff.

Phillip James GlasgowMay 29, 2025
Dr. D. Elisabeth GlasscoMay 29, 2025
In 1783, nearly 3,000 Black Loyalists arrived in Nova Scotia—free in name, but not in fate. Promised land and liberty, they built settlements from bark and memory, while the empire marked their freedom with boundaries. It is a story of what they built, what was taken, and what remains. #canada #histodons #politics #BlackMastodon #history #photography
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Image: Temporary shelters the Black Loyalists lived in on their arrival in Nova Scotia in 1783. Black Loyalists Heritage Center, NS.