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Colonial newspapers contributed to the perpetuation of slavery. Advertised 250 years ago today: “To be SOLD ... ABOUT fifty choice SLAVES, among which is a good blacksmith, and several other valuable tradesmen." (Virginia Gazette [Rind] 1/7/1773) https://t.co/3kydZt5mWk
Colonial newspapers contributed to the perpetuation of slavery. Advertised 250 years ago today: “TO BE SOLD, A HEALTHY. country bred NEGRO LAD, about nineteen years of age, who is well acquainted with all kinds of country work." (Pennsylvania Packet 1/18/1773) https://t.co/WYPfSgY35s
Colonial newspapers contributed to the perpetuation of slavery. Advertised 250 years ago today: “WILL DISPOSE OF His Negro-Fellows, Painters ... LIKEWISE, A good HOUSE" WOMAN "Who can wash and iron exceeding well, and is a tolerable Cook." (South-Carolina Gazette 3/29/1773) https://t.co/AeLfRBAeSC
Colonial newspapers contributed to the perpetuation of slavery. Advertised 250 years ago today: “To be SOLD for CASH, or JAMAICA FISH, A likely, healthy, strong NEGRO WOMAN, 22 Years of Age, with her male Child of 3 Months old. Enquire of JONATHAN MASON." (Essex Gazette 2/2/1773) https://t.co/FOked0KOIW
Colonial newspapers contributed to the perpetuation of slavery. Advertised 250 years ago today: “RUN away ... a NEGROE fellow, named BOB ... he has a general pass ... and goes for a freeman ... I do hereby certify, he is a slave for life." (Pennsylvania Gazette 1/13/1773) https://t.co/QSOZ601G6W
Record of taxes on property, including enslaved persons, owned by John Rouzee, October 15, 1835 #openaccess #nmaahc https://t.co/FO20hfsmjO https://t.co/vRCyb9ZJWK
REMINDER: White people used to feed enslaved Black children in Florida to alligators as bait to fuel the industry. Particularly if they were disabled in any way.
This practice was so common, it was featured on stamps through the United States Postal Service and candy ads https://t.co/odeqzHTZUM
Twelve Years a Slave: Plus Five American Slave Narratives, Including Life of Frederick Douglass, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Life of Josiah Henson, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Up From Slavery
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In those years, the Company of the Indies, a French corporation that managed the empire’s colonies, controlled the slave trade in the Gulf South. Over six thousand Africans, after enduring the Middle Passage, arrived in Mobile, Biloxi, and New Orleans. After Spain took control of Louisiana, in 1762, another four thousand odd Africans arrived. They
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