PhD Candidate @GWHistoryDept Studying Race and Historical Memory | MA Museum Studies @MorganStateU | BA History @ubaltmain | TV watcher
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Think for one moment. In every single war that America has fought, we have never asked for land afterward—except for enough to bury the Americans who gave the ultimate sacrifice for freedom.
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The US has acquired numerous territories through conflict, including:
1848, Mexico ceded 55% of its territory:
archives.gov/milestone-docu…
1898, Spain ceded Guam, Puerto Rico & The Philippines.
history.state.gov/milestones/186…
1899, US acquires American Samoa after the 2nd Samoan Civil War
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripartit…
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My favorite part of watching #GildedAge is pointing out all the places that are probably Starbucks now.
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Mary Ann Shadd Cary once stated "Self-reliance is the fine road to independence". Her life's work and rich legacy as an activist, educator and social responsible journalist greatly affirmed her political convictions.
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This "history" account has almost 400,000 followers and so a basic corrective about the origins of colonial slavery in the Americas is required to counter this insidious narrative.
Work from home dad Chronicle #7678. My favorite part of watching Blues Clues is thinking about the logistics of Blue setting up these intricate ass clues.
Back to reading about slavery and stuff.
No better feeling as a grad student then when your funding kicks back in at the start of the year.
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Me after watching bubble guppies for two hours with the 1.5 year old: this show makes zero sense. Also me: line up everybody line up line up.
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BREAKING: The family of Henrietta Lacks is settling a lawsuit against a biotechnology company they accused of taking her cervical cells without her knowledge. They accused the company's leaders of reaping billions of dollars from a racist medical system. apnews.com/article/henrietta…
The perniciousness of this narrative goes beyond the false narrative that slavery had some underlying benefit to the enslaved. It also promotes the idea that Africans and their descendants did not posses those skills until they were enslaved. That those skills did exist in Africa
Watters: This is historical fact that slaves did develop skills while they were enslaved and then used those skills as blacksmiths, in agriculture, tailoring, in the shipping business, to benefit themselves and their families..
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What’s it like having a 1.5 year old you ask. Well mine just got finished trying to feed her shadow veggie straws.
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Wait until you hear how they talk to their TAs.
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Just some numbers to keep in mind while y’all enjoy your day off. #HappyJuneteenth
1619 around 20 captive AA came to the colony of Jamestown.
In 1790 the federal census counted almost 700,000 enslaved Africans and there descendants in the United States
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By 1808 over 400,000 enslaved Africans were brought to British North America.
By 1860 there were around 4.4 million African Americans in the United States.
Of that 3.9 million were enslaved
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