#american slave trade

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

François-Auguste Biard (French, 1799-1882) L'Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies françaises le 27 avril 1848, 1849 Musée d'art Roger-Quillot, Clermont-Ferrand en dépôt à Versailles Exposition Le Modèle noir, musée d'Orsay, 2019 Quartier Faubourg-Saint-Germain, Paris, Île-de-France

[peachesingreece]

Reminder to avoid buying anything crochet new from big stores. Crochet (unlike knit) CANNOT be done by a machine and must be done by an actual human being. The person who made it was definitely not paid an appropriate amount for their labour. Most big stores use sweatshops anyway and I know it’s hard to completely avoid buying anything from a major store. But if those specific items don’t sell, we can send a message to companies that we don’t want items made fully by hand using slave labour

This summer, avoid any new crochet items. You don’t need THAT specific top that badly

[charlesoberonn]

[leroibobo]

the paradesi synagogue in kochi, kerala, india. the first synagogue on the site, built by the city's longstanding malabari jewish community, was destroyed by portugese who'd colonized the area in their persecution of locals. it was rebuilt in 1568 by spanish and portugese jews who fled persecution and later expulsion, hence the name "paradesi" ("foreign" in malayalam).

these sephardic jews and a community of jews of mixed african and european descent who were formerly enslaved ("meshuchrarim", "freedmen" in hebrew) joined the malabari jewish community of kochi and somewhat integrated. they were later joined by some iraqi, persian, yemenite, afghan, and dutch sephardic jews. the middle eastern and european jews were considered "white jews" and permitted malabari jews and meshuchrarim to worship in the synagogue. however, in what seems like a combination of local caste dynamics and racism, malabari jews were not allowed full membership. meshuchrarim weren't allowed in at all, but were instead made to sit outside during services and not allowed their own place of worship or other communal rights.

as the "white jews" tended to be rather wealthy from trade, this synagogue contains multiple antiquities. they include belgian glass chandeliers on its walls, hand-painted porcelain tiles from china on its floors, and an oriental rug that was gifted by ethiopian emperor haile selassie.

[politicalprocrastinator]

Netflix said "hey does anyone want to watch soft porn about George iii" and didn't wait for an answer

[nando161mando]

The ‘Victims’ of the minimum wage hikes, according to the ‘trade group’ and Fox ‘News’ are

[sanyu-thewitch05]

Link:

Never thought I’d ever post anything political on this blog, but crazy and terrifying he’s suggesting the US go back to slavery times

@queen-shiba

[pogasssm]

i’ve done a lot of self reflection and i’ve come to the realization that im not racist to all white people, i like the spicy whites

[thoughtportal]

[ben-the-hyena]

The more I thought of Chel, her motivations, and the more I read trivia and headcanons about her, the more I came up with my own backstory

She is actually not from El Dorado. Unlike everyone there she wore no gold and was perhaps not allowed to until a "god" gifted her gold earrings, dresses up differently and sexually in fact, she doesn't believe in their religion, she wants out and KNOWS gold is a precious currency outside of the city hence why she tries to steal some, and even her nose is different implying she may be of a different ethnicity. El Dorado people are fictional and the place where they live is ambiguous and for this the creators of the movie gave elements from different people in their aesthetic, Aztec, Ican, Mayan... yet her name is Chel, and in Mayan Culture Ix Chel is the goddess of water and midwifery. So is Chel Mayan and named after a god in protection like a lot of cultures ?

So perhaps she was captured after a war (we do see that the El Dorado people don't stay locked up and can go out of the waterfall and are quite war-like and strong) or held prisonner after a conflict against the Mayans, or was already a slave in Maya and they traded her like an object, and this is why she had many less rights than literally everyone else, resulting in her being a thief with no regards for them not hesitating in stealing from them and scamming them while wanting to get out as soon as she could. Heh, perhaps she hae to become a prostitute too hence her clothes in order to make a living

Also, in earlier concepts, she was meant to be Tzekel-Kan's sacrifice. So maybe she was HIS slave (which is why despite not believing in their religion she greatly knows about it and knew before everyone else he would try to sacrifice that guy) and how she had access to the temple to steal from it. And with HIM as a master who probably considered sacrificing her too at some point and in fact might have planned to (hence why she finally decided herself to steal and try running away when we see her for the first time) until Miguel and Tulio took her in, I too would love to get the fuck out of here as fast as I can

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

La Amistad, 1839 by unknown

This 1839 oil painting of La Amistad shows the ship off Long Island, New York, next to the USS Washington. The Portuguese were the first and the last to partake in the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The Spanish were also major transatlantic slavers and committed a genocide of the Native Cuban peoples when they colonized Cuba. The Spanish empire enslaved people of African origin and they often depended on others to obtain enslaved Africans and transport them across the Atlantic. Spanish colonies were major recipients of enslaved Africans, with around 22% of the Africans delivered to American shores ending up in the Spanish Empire. The story of the Amistad began in February 1839, when Portuguese slave hunters abducted hundreds of Africans from Mendeland, in present-day Sierra Leone, and transported them to Cuba, then a Spanish colony. Though the United States, Britain, Spain and other European powers had abolished the importation of enslaved peoples by that time, the transatlantic slave trade continued illegally, and Havana was an important trading hub. The Spanish plantation owners Pedro Montes and Jose Ruiz purchased 53 of the African captives as enslaved workers, including 49 adult males and four children, three of them girls. On June 28, Montes and Ruiz and the 53 Africans set sail from Havana on the Amistad (Spanish for “friendship”) for Puerto Principe (now Camagüey), where the two Spaniards owned plantations. Several days into the journey, one of the Africans—Sengbe Pieh, also known as Joseph Cinque—managed to unshackle himself and his fellow captives. Armed with knives, they seized control of the Amistad, killing its Spanish captain and the ship’s cook, who had taunted the captives by telling them they would be killed and eaten when they got to the plantation. In need of navigation, the Africans ordered Montes and Ruiz to turn the ship eastward, back to Africa. But the Spaniards secretly changed course at night, and instead the Amistad sailed through the Caribbean and up the eastern coast of the United States. On August 26, the U.S. brig Washington found the ship while it was anchored off the tip of Long Island to get provisions. The naval officers seized the Amistad and put the Africans back in chains, escorting them to Connecticut.

[manwalksintobar]

I Mean Maybe None of Us Are Actually From Anywhere // Hanif Abdurraqib

it's so hard to trace these things right I just rolled out of bed one morning and I had this head of good hair and when I say good hair I mean it was passed down from someone who was once dragged through a field by it until their scalp became a wide open mouth but it looks fly tucked underneath this fitted hat on the dance floor no you cannot borrow this dance you cannot stand over another dark and shaking body and breathe in the smoke we leave in our wake I get that we are all human or whatever but I don't even know what that would do to your bones I don't know if

your bones bend like mine I come from a boxed in culture I come from people who traveled entire oceans wrapped around each other I was born from a woman who is now inside a box so you see some things are just natural for me you're right maybe there is no such thing as a country maybe there is just gutted land and rows of sharp teeth that have torn at my flesh for so long I'm not exactly sure which wound is the one I belong to I mean the only way I recognize my skin is when it is open and spilling how can I even keep track you know it must be nice to wrap your hands around an unscarred body it must be nice to wrap your tongue around all of the words in that song without also asking to bleed out on a sidewalk look all I know is I began running when the fire started and I haven’t stopped since maybe I come from running maybe running is a country maybe everyone who lives there misses someone they thought would live forever

I’m glad you don’t know how to find it I’m glad that you haven’t caught me yet I’m glad you have a black friend I’m sorry that your black friend may die soon and then there will only be me

[itsstillsweetiebythealtar]

New Patreon Post!!

Slavery in South Carolina and European Immigrants Shifting Views Towards Slavery

This post is by far my longest post on Patreon, is a refurbished version of a paper I did during a capstone class for my anthropology program. I would love for any of you interested in the role of non-English slave owners within the American south to give it a read. ❤️❤️❤️

[femmchantress]

It’s weird thinking about the (comparative) decline of the old money’d southern port cities vs. the modern southern commercial metropolitan centers. Like, thinking about how New Orleans, Savanna, Charleston, and Mobile used to be incredibly prominent and relevant locations on the American cultural, political, and economic map (let alone within the context of just the south); whereas today they’d never match up to the large and rapidly growing economic and political centers of of Atlanta, Charlotte, Dallas, Memphis, etc.

There are some exceptions to this rule of course, but it’s a fascinating observation overall. I wish I knew more about modern American economic and social history and like, what scholars and historians attribute this to.

[professorfaber]

Starting to think people are just like genuinely unaware that the majority of the German diaspora in Latin America predates Nazism by decades. Nazis fled to these countries because of the German-speaking communities there, not the other way around. Like I get that it’s just jokes but there’s seemingly an underlying association of any Latin American with a German-sounding name and a light complexion with being the child or grandchild of a war criminal and I think we should all take a step back and appreciate how incredibly dumb this is

[cultlifecollective-blog]

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