Race Jones
gangster. grace. alchemy
truly heartbreaking
“slavery by another name”
I'm surprised people are just now finding out about this
From 2003:
Man was slave in 1960s, lawyers say
Lawyers seeking reparations for African-American descendants of slaves say they have located a 104-year-old man in rural Louisiana who says that he and his children were enslaved throughout much of…www.chicagotribune.com
From 2016:
Miss. man claimed to be 130-year-old last slave
Man claiming to be nation's last living slave at 130 years old sparks scholar's interest.www.usatoday.com
Edit: The other article wasn't hittin right
Damn so they never saw a TV or a paper they showed them slavery was over,if they could read?I'm surprised people are just now finding out about this
From 2003:
Man was slave in 1960s, lawyers say
Lawyers seeking reparations for African-American descendants of slaves say they have located a 104-year-old man in rural Louisiana who says that he and his children were enslaved throughout much of…www.chicagotribune.com
From 2016:
Miss. man claimed to be 130-year-old last slave
Man claiming to be nation's last living slave at 130 years old sparks scholar's interest.www.usatoday.com
Edit: The other article wasn't hittin right
Oh I'm sure *you* knewyea its not new, well at least not for me
i just felt so much pain listening to our brotha speak
really sad shit
Oh I'm sure *you* knew
I've just seen it floating around again the last day or so...and people acting like this just came up
Maaan...it's no less heartbreaking now than it was when I first saw it!
I feel you...it's not easy to digest...like at allyeah the book “slavery by another name” really made me depressed
it touches on this in depth too
and people have to read more, thank you for posting the article links. im going to check those out too
I may have saw this headline at some point and filed in my "Not surprised" section and didn't really investigate into it.
I knew that sharecropping was basically slavery remixed for decades.
The enslaved black people of the 1960s who did not know slavery had ended - Face2Face Africa
The Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 which changed the status of over 3.5 million enslaved African Americans in the South from slave to free, did not emancipate some hundreds who were slaves through to the 1960s. This was revealed by historian and genealogist Antoinette Harrell who unearthed...face2faceafrica.com
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