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Isaac Lee

@isaacjlee.bsky.social

I am a PhD candidate in early American social history at UW-Madison. Studying slavery, local governance, and colonialism.

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Runaway advertisement for escaped freedom seeker Daniel Anderson who had been enslaved by James Young

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€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 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...

23.07.2025 23:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1334    πŸ” 799    πŸ’¬ 93    πŸ“Œ 64
A runaway advertisement from the Jamaica Mercury for freedom seeker Augustus Thomson/Dr. Caesar

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€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Department of anti-Government?

11.07.2025 12:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 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 members’ grievances and demands seriouslyβ€”esp. on the issue of scholasticide.πŸ—ƒοΈ

05.07.2025 18:25 β€” πŸ‘ 148    πŸ” 54    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 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€” πŸ‘ 1918    πŸ” 262    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 9

I don’t 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 what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

03.07.2025 18:58 β€” πŸ‘ 98571    πŸ” 38511    πŸ’¬ 4581    πŸ“Œ 2735
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Research at risk: Records of enslaved people seeking freedom | Cornell Chronicle A research project collecting records of freedom-seeking enslaved people in the pre-Civil War U.S. came to a halt when researchers received a stop-work order from the National Endowment for the Humani...

Research at risk: Records of enslaved people seeking freedom
Ed Baptist, my mentor and friend, explains the struggles for digital projects in this time of censorship
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

18.06.2025 18:44 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hell of a photo

07.06.2025 23:54 β€” πŸ‘ 25394    πŸ” 6443    πŸ’¬ 398    πŸ“Œ 387
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We will not stand for this.

06.06.2025 22:24 β€” πŸ‘ 288    πŸ” 73    πŸ’¬ 81    πŸ“Œ 30
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Western Association of Women Historians Promoting the interests of women historians since 1969

Congrats to UW-Madison’s Gloria Whiting, whose book β€œBelonging: An Intimate History of Slavery and Family in Early New England” has won the 2025 Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize from the WAWH! wawh.org/keller-sierr...

14.05.2025 21:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 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€” πŸ‘ 1685    πŸ” 1343    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0
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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."

20.05.2025 12:31 β€” πŸ‘ 206    πŸ” 75    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 5
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ICE efforts in DC thwarted by solidarity Kristi Noem has been denied another camera-ready moment of cruelty.

Read my latest:

08.05.2025 01:37 β€” πŸ‘ 3745    πŸ” 1003    πŸ’¬ 41    πŸ“Œ 69

Judge Dugan’s arrest is outrageous and a fear tactic to our independent judiciary. Trump has always thought he was above the law, but now he’s 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€” πŸ‘ 152    πŸ” 32    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 4
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HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds of protesters have now gathered outside a federal courthouse in downtown Milwaukee to support Judge Hannah Dugan

25.04.2025 20:25 β€” πŸ‘ 32424    πŸ” 8060    πŸ’¬ 616    πŸ“Œ 507

@pocan.house.gov @baldwin.senate.gov need to follow Rep. Clancy’s example and stand by Judge Dugan

25.04.2025 16:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Wisconsin Judge Arrested, Accused of Shielding Immigrant From Federal Agents Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested on suspicion that she β€œintentionally misdirected federal agents away from” an immigrant being pursued by the authorities, the F.B.I. director said in a social media pos...

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...

25.04.2025 15:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

After federal troops forced a fugitive slave named Anthony Burns back into slavery in the 1850s, one Bostonian wrote, β€œwe went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.” The abuse of power radicalizes people. We are seeing that now.

18.04.2025 01:33 β€” πŸ‘ 5052    πŸ” 1432    πŸ’¬ 31    πŸ“Œ 54
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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. That’s not a waste. That’s humanity. That’s America.

16.04.2025 02:20 β€” πŸ‘ 61772    πŸ” 13557    πŸ’¬ 1122    πŸ“Œ 649

DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States

15.04.2025 12:47 β€” πŸ‘ 40388    πŸ” 13432    πŸ’¬ 562    πŸ“Œ 510
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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 family’s home while intoxicated.

10.04.2025 19:44 β€” πŸ‘ 4273    πŸ” 1927    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 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€” πŸ‘ 811    πŸ” 128    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 3
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What’s the Matter with Abundance? | Malcolm Harris β€œAbundance” by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson is new packaging for a tried-and-failed attempt to escape from history on a rocket ship.

β€œRefusing to be forthright about society’s structural antagonisms opens the door to demagogues who peddle false conflicts that still ring truer than the liberals’ false peace.” Malcolm Harris

thebaffler.com/latest/whats...

29.03.2025 13:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 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€” πŸ‘ 2813    πŸ” 986    πŸ’¬ 50    πŸ“Œ 30

There’s a reason why it’s Louisiana and why the state has been at the forefront of authoritarian carcerality for a long time now.

27.03.2025 00:43 β€” πŸ‘ 218    πŸ” 79    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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WATCH: The Moment Masked ICE Agents Arrested Tufts Graduate Student Who Spoke Out in Support of Palestine β€œI can buy that badge from a fucking costume store,” says a witness to the β€œkidnapping” of Rumeysa Ozturk as she was on her way to break her Ramadan fast.

NEWβ€”After 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€” πŸ‘ 4045    πŸ” 1845    πŸ’¬ 117    πŸ“Œ 255
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UW student researchers reveal untold stories of Black β€˜Freedom Seekers’ The Freedom Seekers: Stories of Black Liberation in the American Revolutionary Era and Beyond project uncovers stories of enslaved people who escaped during the 17th to early 19th centuries. The resea...

Freedom Seekers in the Badger Herald! badgerherald.com/news/campus/...

20.03.2025 13:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"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€” πŸ‘ 437    πŸ” 135    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 11

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