Runaway advertisement for escaped freedom seeker Daniel Anderson who had been enslaved by James Young
In August 1783, an enslaver named James Young posted an ad seeking the return of Daniel Anderson. But as @coryjamesyoung.bsky.social reveals, Anderson had already eluded capture for five years and had not intention of returning. Read his story: freedom-seekers.org/story/daniel...
01.08.2025 16:40 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
The video is shocking - but felony charges have been filed: against the protestors who are being beaten up.
www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2...
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A runaway advertisement from the Jamaica Mercury for freedom seeker Augustus Thomson/Dr. Caesar
It was a typical advertisement. But the story of Dr. Caesar (or Augustus Thomson) is anything but typical. Follow his journey from Jamaica to the door of his absentee enslaver in Britain on our website: freedom-seekers.org/story/doctor...
23.07.2025 13:29 β π 4 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
The Department of anti-Government?
11.07.2025 12:52 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Great stuff from Joan Scott. So disappointing to see so many full and emeritus folks defend an organization that has: (1) failed to advocate for young scholars entering a collapsing profession; and (2) refused to take its membersβ grievances and demands seriouslyβesp. on the issue of scholasticide.ποΈ
05.07.2025 18:25 β π 148 π 54 π¬ 5 π 1
That infamous NYT article about Mamdani is, among other things, a perfect example of what Barbara and Karen Fields call racecraft.
04.07.2025 11:55 β π 1918 π 262 π¬ 10 π 9
I donβt think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make whatβs happening now look like childβs play. And people are disappearing.
03.07.2025 18:58 β π 98571 π 38511 π¬ 4581 π 2735
Hell of a photo
07.06.2025 23:54 β π 25394 π 6443 π¬ 398 π 387
We will not stand for this.
06.06.2025 22:24 β π 288 π 73 π¬ 81 π 30
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Congrats to UW-Madisonβs Gloria Whiting, whose book βBelonging: An Intimate History of Slavery and Family in Early New Englandβ has won the 2025 Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize from the WAWH! wawh.org/keller-sierr...
14.05.2025 21:57 β π 1 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Important thread and it's extremely important to know that this isn't over. I particularly want to stress that if you are in a district Represented by a Republican who voted for the bill, an immediate thing to do alert the public and the media in your area. Indivisible has other suggestions.
22.05.2025 13:27 β π 1685 π 1343 π¬ 5 π 0
Under growing international pressure, Israel has allowed a trickle of food into Gaza for the first time in more than 11 weeks. But Mahmoud Alsaqqa with Oxfam says it's "merely a drop in the ocean" compared to the desperate need. "People here in Gaza are starving."
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Judge Duganβs arrest is outrageous and a fear tactic to our independent judiciary. Trump has always thought he was above the law, but now heβs enabling his goons to push that limit as far as it can go. His reckless deportations and flaunting of the Constitution will fail.
25.04.2025 22:05 β π 152 π 32 π¬ 10 π 4
HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds of protesters have now gathered outside a federal courthouse in downtown Milwaukee to support Judge Hannah Dugan
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@pocan.house.gov @baldwin.senate.gov need to follow Rep. Clancyβs example and stand by Judge Dugan
25.04.2025 16:04 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
After federal troops forced a fugitive slave named Anthony Burns back into slavery in the 1850s, one Bostonian wrote, βwe went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.β The abuse of power radicalizes people. We are seeing that now.
18.04.2025 01:33 β π 5052 π 1432 π¬ 31 π 54
AOC: I saw on Fox, Jeanine Pirro says that they found so many babies and two year olds and four year olds receiving social security. I got a notice for you Jeanine Pirro: those babies receive social security because their parents died. Thatβs not a waste. Thatβs humanity. Thatβs America.
16.04.2025 02:20 β π 61772 π 13557 π¬ 1122 π 649
DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States
15.04.2025 12:47 β π 40388 π 13432 π¬ 562 π 510
Gay Venezuelan stylist sent to Salvadoran prison after a disgraced Milwaukee cop's report
Now a contractor for ICE, the officer was on the Brady list of disgraced cops in Milwaukee. His report helped send a man to a notorious prison in El Salvador.
A disgraced former Milwaukee cop with credibility issues helped seal the fate of a gay Venezuelan makeup artist sent to El Salvador's notorious prison. Cross was fired from his position as a Milwaukee Police Sergeant in 2012 after driving his car into a familyβs home while intoxicated.
10.04.2025 19:44 β π 4273 π 1927 π¬ 1 π 226
Trump administration is disappearing people AND triggering massive economic pain, and let it be known that we're against both
09.04.2025 11:28 β π 811 π 128 π¬ 15 π 3
Whatβs the Matter with Abundance? | Malcolm Harris
βAbundanceβ by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson is new packaging for a tried-and-failed attempt to escape from history on a rocket ship.
βRefusing to be forthright about societyβs structural antagonisms opens the door to demagogues who peddle false conflicts that still ring truer than the liberalsβ false peace.β Malcolm Harris
thebaffler.com/latest/whats...
29.03.2025 13:52 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Disappearing people to avoid the jurisdiction of the court in which they were taken by the state is authoritarian to the core and runs afoul of the spirit of Article III, the Due Process Clause, and the principles that emerged from the Glorious Revolution and the American Revolution. Arbitrary rule.
27.03.2025 17:10 β π 2813 π 986 π¬ 50 π 30
Thereβs a reason why itβs Louisiana and why the state has been at the forefront of authoritarian carcerality for a long time now.
27.03.2025 00:43 β π 218 π 79 π¬ 1 π 2
WATCH: The Moment Masked ICE Agents Arrested Tufts Graduate Student Who Spoke Out in Support of Palestine
βI can buy that badge from a fucking costume store,β says a witness to the βkidnappingβ of Rumeysa Ozturk as she was on her way to break her Ramadan fast.
NEWβAfter a day of uncertainty on where agents took Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk, she appears to be in a Louisiana facility.
1400+ miles from Somerville, Massachusetts, where she was taken.
A judge ordered to not take her out of state without 48 hour notice. She was detained last night.
26.03.2025 21:09 β π 4045 π 1845 π¬ 117 π 255
"You know, if we don't fight back, this is the start of this, but striking workers are gonna be next in line to be fired and imprisoned. You know, they'll make striking illegal. I mean, that's just the next step in the process, in my opinion." - Shawn Fain, UAW President
14.03.2025 01:15 β π 437 π 135 π¬ 5 π 11
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