slaves
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Booger Says a Beautiful Thing
Every week, just outside of Charleston, S.C., hundreds of (mostly white) people pay for tours of the beautiful antebellum home that housed generations of white enslavers at the Magnolia Gardens Plantation. The home is located on the Ashley River, surrounded by a romantic-style botanical garden that was built and cared for by the enslaved. The…
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Churches Across the U.S. Are Launching Reparations Programs
The topic of reparations is a touchy one…for white people. While the American government hasn’t touched the topic in a serious way, churches across the country are taking it upon themselves to try and make amends for the role they played in the slave trade. According to the Associated Press, there is a renewed interest…
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Georgia's First Capital Votes to Remove Former Slave Market From Town's Center
In Louisville, Ga., one of the last remaining former slave markets is finally being removed from the town’s center. CNN reports that an advisory committee of 14 members was formed in July to determine what to do with the Old Market House. The structure has been in the town—the first capital of the state—since 1795…
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A Handmaid’s Tale About the Coronavirus: Why (Some) White People Want to Be Oppressed So Badly
I will never understand why some white people (notice I didn’t say “all white people,” so please don’t email me explaining how you don’t own a gun and how your name isn’t Karen) want to be oppressed to the point of taking up arms. Yet, here we are in 2020, the most underbidding Spades hand…
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Was Bernie Buggin’? Sanders Reportedly Compared White Vermont Marble Workers to Black Slaves
The longer I look at Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the more he goes from being the radical old white guy with the alternative ideas to the white guy who’s way too comfortable around black people. You know, the white guy who was in the all-black church choir, the one who went against the grain in…
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Despite Controversies, Cynthia Erivo as Harriet Tubman Proves to Be a Winner at Box Office
There’s a famous quote that has been attributed—perhaps falsely—to Harriet Tubman through the years about how she would’ve been able to free many more slaves only if they realized they were actually enslaved. Or something like that. I bring that up to say that despite some racially-charged, micro-aggressive attitudes (some by blacks) towards the new…
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Meet ‘Angela,’ One of the 1st Slaves to Arrive in America
What if we could put names and faces to the Africans who were brought over to America as slaves in 1619? Would it humanize slavery instead of making it a category in American history that people love to conveniently forget or urge black folks to “just get over it”? The first Africans arrived at Point…
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Wheel of Fortune Apologizes for Using Slave Images
Wheel of Fortune—the game show that stole the concept of the kindergarten-game hangman and turned it into a $100 million empire—has apologized for using slave imagery in a March episode. The New York Daily News reports that Wheel of Fortune producers issued an apology for including images of slaves during the show after a viewer…