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I'm surprised people are just now finding out about this
From 2003:
www.chicagotribune.com
From 2016:
Edit: The other article wasn't hittin right
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
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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…
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
yea its not new, well at least not for me
i just felt so much pain listening to our brotha speak
really sad shit
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…
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
This is crazy.
Reminds me of that movie Antebellum.
I didn't know it was happening way into the 1960s, but yeah, it's an often buried fact that the Emancipation Proclamation wasn't the end of slavery for a lot of people.
Interesting enough, this is another one of those things that a lot of white people are just learning about and are shocked about. It's like yeah, now ya'll are starting to understand why some people call you the devil right. lol
Interesting enough, this is another one of those things that a lot of white people are just learning about and are shocked about. It's like yeah, now ya'll are starting to understand why some people call you the devil right. lol
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!
yeah 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 knew about this. I saw Slavery By Another Name.
My grandpa told me about how a lot of Black families stayed on the plantation and the White family "took care of them". They were basically slaves.
My grandpa told me about how a lot of Black families stayed on the plantation and the White family "took care of them". They were basically slaves.
I feel you...it's not easy to digest...like at all
You're so right...we do need to read more! It's becoming more apparent everyday
You're welcome...if I find better ones I'll post
For anyone interested:
Slavery By Another Name by Douglas A. Blackmon: 9780385722704 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
This groundbreaking historical expose unearths the lost stories of enslaved persons and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
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.
I knew that sharecropping was basically slavery remixed for decades.
Yep, my grandfather worked on sharecropping farm. Back then it was common for black men especially to go about as far as finishing elementary school and the wind up on the sharecropping farm because of lack of opportunity to do anything else.
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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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...
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I remember watching this a couple of years ago. I was surprised but not surprised. It’s really sad to see.