Category Archives: Slavery

Sunday Open Thread

Posted on October 11, 2015 by rikyrah

Have a Blessed Sunday, Everyone FEATURED SOUND FILE: Sit Down Servant-STAPLES YRICS: SIT DOWN SERVANT One Group Member – Woh oh oh oh, sit down Soloist – Now now now now no Group –Sit down! Soloist –Woh oh oh, please … Continue reading →

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Texan mom wins fight against textbook that ‘erased’ slavery

Posted on October 5, 2015 by SouthernGirl2

A Texas mom shocked that her son’s textbook merely called African slaves “workers” is thrilled that publisher McGraw-Hill  has promised revisions. But changing a single caption is hardly enough to combat what some educational experts call a wave of ideologically-fueled … Continue reading →

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Bree Newsome: America, Tear Down THIS Confederate Flag!

Posted on June 27, 2015 by rikyrah

CONTEXT & AMERICA’S HYPOCRISY Ronald Reagan’s Mantra: “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down THIS WALL! America’s got a nerve, doesn’t it? Telling other countries to tear down their walls and allow freedom to reign, while BUILDING walls of discrimination, inequality, imposing racial … Continue reading →

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Homer G Phillips Hospital Investigated for Black Stolen Babies |Black Mothers Told Their Babies Had Died

Posted on May 8, 2015 by rikyrah

Homer G Phillips Hospital, St. Louis, MO, 2012 Photo: Charles Swaney Creative Commons BY-NC-ND PURE EVIL The stench of St. Louis, MO continues to permeate the fabric of CRIMINAL ACTIVITY & COVERUPS. In this April 29, 2015 photo, Zella Jackson … Continue reading →

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BlackHistory: #AmeriKKKa Selling humans for profit

Posted on February 25, 2015 by SouthernGirl2

America has committed crimes beyond description against black people, caused destruction of families and untold sufferings.

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Black History |The Slave Trade | Conditions on Slave Ships

Posted on February 18, 2015 by SouthernGirl2

Conditions on Slave Ships How the slaves were “packed” There are two ways for the captains to load their boats with slaves. One system is called loose packing to deliver slaves. Under that system, captains transported fewer slaves than their … Continue reading →

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Black History | Slave Auction Block

Posted on February 17, 2015 by SouthernGirl2

As in any mercantile system, slave agents recorded, insured, advertised, displayed, and finally, sold their “wares” to the highest bidders. To prepare for sales, dealers fed, cleaned, and oiled down slaves to hide disease and to improve appearance. Sales took … Continue reading →

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Black History | Breeding American Slaves

Posted on February 14, 2015 by SouthernGirl2

Slave breeding in the United States were those practices of slave ownership that aimed to influence the reproduction of slaves in order to increase the wealth of slaveholders. Slave breeding included coerced sexual relations between male and female slaves, promoting … Continue reading →

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Black History | Wet Nursing

Posted on February 13, 2015 by SouthernGirl2

The back story, is slavery. Understand that the system of slavery functioned by removing all agency from black bodies. The removal of identity, autonomy, culture and humanity was a necessary facet of slavery. To white slave masters, the only way … Continue reading →

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Black History | The Slave Whipping Post

Posted on February 11, 2015 by SouthernGirl2

The ordinary mode of punishing the slaves is both cruel and barbarous. The masters seldom, if ever, try to govern their slaves by moral influence but by whipping, kicking, beating, starving, branding, cat-hauling, loading with irons, imprisoning, or by some … Continue reading →

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