fakeisthenewreal + slavery   5

Letters of Note: To My Old Master
Although you shot at me twice before I left you, I did not want to hear of your being hurt, and am glad you are still living.
letter  slavery  history  usa 
february 2012 by fakeisthenewreal
Certificates of Freedom, 1844
"Know Ye, that John Jones is a free person of color" (astounding)
history  document  slavery  illinois 
october 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Rhizome.org: Mendi+Keith Obadike Launch Big House / Disclosure
sounds awesome: "200-hour long house song ... March 1st-8th [at] Northwestern ... created in honor of 200th anniv of British abolition of slave trade & Chicago’s Slavery Era Disclosure Ordinance (2002)" (but 8 days is only 192 hrs!)
chicago  art  slavery  viarhizome 
february 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Ties That Bind Sharpton to Thurmond | World Latest | Guardian Unlimited
"`I doubt you can find many native South Carolinians today whose family, if you traced them back far enough, didn't own slaves,` said Ellen Senter, Strom's niece." (lots of troubling ways to parse that)
slavery  usa  south.carolina  viakottke  genealogy 
february 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Secret Six - Wikipedia
American terrorists we can be proud of. "John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave..."
terrorism  slavery  usa  history  wikipedia 
january 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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