#chattle slavery

[youtwitinmyface]

The "Irish Slavery" Myth explained

[gingerswagfreckles]

Did you guys know that the KKK also hates Israel. Did you know that just because a group hates Israel does not mean that they are anti-Zionist Pro-Palestinian freedom fighters. Did you know that antisemitism is real. Did you guys know about this.

[magnoliamyrrh]

...... yea. you know for many years now ive considered the culture of african mauritanians to be very, very beautiful - their traditional houses are decorated in a very beautiful style and the henna they make is very, very unique, their music is beautiful and captivating and very warm as well. in general ive been wanting to visit west africa, mauritania being one of the places, for many years...... i knew there were issues bc obviously they are everywhere, but i cant believe i didnt know abt the extend of all this nightmare for these people. god help them i dont even know what to say

[biprotagz]

ive gotta read more Black thought books bc. my brain won't stop thinking about the cultural condition (detachment, alienation) of the african american.

[cosmic-walkers]

so there's no button for my situation here, but like a lot of other black Americans our ancestors didn't really immigrate here, they were taken and enslaved...so like guess I ill just pick the imaginary enslaved immigration option.

Hey I just realized I don't think I know any American irl who doesn't have an immigrant ancestor within living memory and want to see if that's a me thing or just an average situation

[doculicious]

Slaves were not immigrants!!!!

Happy Juneteenth 2023 USA

[adickaboutspoons]

Let's talk costuming significance! Because there's some really interesting stuff going on! So Zheng Yi Sao drops the soup bitch mask when she buys the Roman puzzle box full of indigo, correctly identifying it as extremely valuable. And there's a LOT going on there - because indigo dye has a long history of being a hot comodity, even being referred to as "blue gold", but along with that, especially at the height of Spanish colonization, that was of course heavily tied up in slave labor. And I think it's curious that, in a show that has been quite careful about depictions of and references to slavery, and unequivocally condemning and punishing those who endorse or practice it (think the British officers who called Olu a slave and got a knife through the hand, or the French Party Boat where the hoity toity people were either left to the fire or jumping overboard while Abshir and the other POC make a safe escape in a treasure-loaded skiff with a bright-looking future on the horizon) that Zheng buys the Revenge Crew as an ancillary purchase along with the indigo (I want to make it clear that I am in no way suggesting that this is in any way comparable to the horrors of the institution of chattle slavery. However, it IS strange that she is is framed so sympathetically, to the point that she is presented as a viable romantic possibility for actual ray of sunshine Olu, while at the same time using the labor of the Revenge Crew without any mention of any compensation other than a bedroll on the deck and some really good soup...). BUT! ALSO! I think it's notable that every one of her subordinates are attired head-to-toe in indigo-dyed fabric. Like, that is SUCH an ostentatious display of wealth on her part. She is SO successful that she can afford to "waste" blue gold on her peons. And that is just FASCINATING.

And just another, completely unrelated costume note - How Hornighost's clothes were actually a HUGE clue as to Ed being in limbo (not purgatory, writers. Purgatory is a different thing). So here's his "favorite shirt":

I'm particularly interested in the great big ring just behind his right elbow with all the ropes hanging from it. That is sailcloth, my v. dears, the large-gauge grommets being the places where the sails could be rigged to the yardarms. And "burial at sea" wasn't just a matter of pitching a corpse overboard - first the body was sewn into a weighted shroud - usually sailcloth. Couple that with the way the dangling ropes are giving strong Marley-weighed-down-in-the-chains-of-vice-he-forged-in-his-miserly-life, and the shroud-like cape thrown around his shoulders, and you've got a brilliant costume that is shouting "THIS iS A DEAD GUY".

[alpaca-clouds]

Castlevania and the Messy Politics of Personhood

There is a theme in the Castlevania show that is brought in both the original show, and Nocturne, and that I have seen barely discussed within the fandom. So I wanted to discuss it for a bit. The fact that this theme is reiterated on again and again to me reads as it being there on purpose, rather than being incidental.

The theme is of course personhood. And it is quite interesting.

Within the original series, we have this brought up several times. Because throughout Castlevania personhood is something that is often in doubt.

The most obvious example of this is of course humans vs. vampires.

We see several times that vampires in this universe do not consider humans to be persons. Instead humans will in the vampire language usually be reduced to animals. At times literally, with vampires calling humans animals, at times more through the word "livestock", that is especially frequently used by Carmilla and her court.

Meanwhile several of the humans in the show also will use similar language to doubt the personhood of vampires. Of course this is mostly done by our Belmont characters. Trevor in the original series quite often describes vampires as animals and monsters. Richter in Nocturne also uses the same language. Ironically, though, in the original series there is another character who uses the same language: Hector over the course of the series also will often compare vampires to animals, which is especially interesting in his case as yes, he uses this language to doubt the personhood of vampires, he means this as a positive attribute, given that he fears animals (and therefore vampires) less than humans.

Of course, though, this is not the only times the personhood of people is discussed. After all, slavery plays a large role in both series - though of course this is very much more elaborated in Nocturne (where through the historical context the topic is more important) than in the original series.

Isaac of course is mainly motivated by the fact that he had his humanity and personhood stripped away by being enslaved at a young age. This is what fills his anger and hatred against humanity, which makes him want to kill all humans.

Same with Hector, who obviously ends up getting stripped of his personhood by Lenore. This, obviously, is not fully explored the way it could have been through the rushed manner in which season 4 was put out. But it was another time this these was picked up.

There are some hints dropped here and there, that both Carmilla and Lenore in their respective pasts had their personhood stripped from them as well. Though this is never spelled out.

We see it too, a bit, in how the Speakers are of course verbally stripped of their personhood during the pogrom during the first season/prelude to the show.

Nocturne obviously leads into this theme a lot more, given how through playing around with the theme of colonization and class so much, it has ample opportunity to bring this up.

If you look into the anthropology of slavery, you will find that this is always a core principle of slavery. I know especially Americans are always tempted to think of slavery only as chattle slavery as it was done in the US history. But of course slavery was a thing long, long before this. In fact, we do know that slavery predates history - it was already an established concept in some ways even before humans started to write down stuff.

And a central thing about slavery as long as it was around was, that slaves were stripped of their personhood and were considered objects. While of course during most times slaves were capable of regaining their personhood (usually people were made slaves by depts, which they could pay off, or could earn their freedom in other ways), this was a concept that was core to slavery from the beginning.

Nocturne, of course, references chattle slavery specifically, as it is set in this time. Annette was enslaved in this, and she was stripped of her personhood not just by being made a slave, but also by people deciding that her race made her a non-person. This very much brings in something that is an important point in this discussion: The acceptance of someone's personhood is a thing, that often works rather randomly.

And yes, by making Annette and Edouard come from Haiti, they managed to bring this in rather well. Because Haiti was one of the places, where the part-white off-spring were considered people - unlike the fully white people. (In other places, like the US, everyone who had just "one drop of Black blood" was a Black and therefore a non-person and a slave.)

However, Castlevania the show also brings in one additional aspect, that it is very clearly interested in discussing especially during seasons 3 and 4 and then in Nocturne: The night creatures.

The night creatures are obviously based on the monster encounters in the game. In the game these creatures for the most part are not really explained in great detail. For the first almost 20 years of the franchise the franchise was never really interested in those creatures. They were just monsters that lived in the castle and served Dracula, because reasons. Curse of Darkness of course then explained that at least some of those "innocent devils" were created by the forgemasters, though even with this the games never have any interest in exploring these creatures as characters in one way or another.

In season 3 and especially season 4 Isaac starts to realize, that indeed at least some of the night creatures - who are created with human souls - retain indeed their personhood in some way. And he starts to wonder (undoubtedly after knowing what it is to be stripped of personhood) if it would be better if he allowed them to live as people.

Nocturne absolutely picks this theme up afterwards, by giving Edouard an entire story of being turned into a night creature, and through this being stripped of his personhood.

So far Nocturne Season 1 very well sets up the theme of the night creatures trying to regain their personhood and getting it recognized by other characters. We will see, where that theme ends up going during season 2, I assume.

I admittedly feel that - maybe mainly due to the rushed season 4 of the original series - this theme is never quite fully explored in a way that really goes into this. I have high hopes that Nocturne does it in the end, but of course that will largely depent on whether or not the creators get to actually make all the seasons they want to make. The crew (most of whom sadly have been let go, because so far no season 3 was ordered by Netflix) have been very vague about how many seasons they would have liked, though Sam and Adam Deats have spoken online about at least wanting a third season. But... I mean, we all know Netflix, right?

I personally would have loved to see that theme a bit more explored in a potentially differently paced seasons 4 and 5 of the original show, as because of the very breakneck spead of season 4, it never fully gets to resolve the issue. Which is too bad, because the fact that it is not resolved greatly dampens the outcome of the Styria arc, that built much more clearly on this theme than the stuff going on with the main trio.

It is probably one of the main reason why as a fanfic writer, I ended up writing so much based around the Styrian storyline, that explores this theme centrally. With both Striga and Morana needing to accept that Isaac and Hector are people (something especially Morana struggles with), while the same is true the other way around. While also the night creatures need to explore their own personhood and humanity, given they are literally monsters. My current multichapter in the series - The Angel of Silence - obviously is the story that most clearly challenges this idea, with Abel, whose personhood additionally gets doubted on the basis that not only he is a monster, but he is also disabled, having to deal with a vampire, who does not want to accept him as a person. While also dealing with the fact that he himself often does not fully recognize people as such.

[yourtoradorasextendedwarranty]

I love getting comments saying the Irish were ONLY ever indentured servants in the US as if the contacts they were forced under were actually upheld. It's even funnier when you understand that the Irish weren't even considered people by the British.

"oh well chattle slavery is different" see. Here's the thing. They actually aren't. It's a historical calling to make it seem like African slaves in the US were by far treated the worst and somehow lived in the worst type of conditions. Except that's ignoring one specific point. Or several rather. Which is that when something is expensive, you tend to take care of it. Especially if you believe you own it. What's more, the Irish were not just slaves in the US, other countries often hit the England to kidnap Irishmen.

What's more the English themselves might have outlawed slavery. But it's ok if they're "indentured servants" right?

How many Irishmen have to confirm what we already know? But no no. Black people in America are totally the only people who were slaves and the only place slaves were mistreated. Totally not the case ANYWHERE else or with any other group.

But here's the point people miss about "Indentured Servitude". If you're forced under one of these supposed contracts, and then you leave for another country, who's going to enforce that contract? Especially for a people not considered white, or even people at the time. Seriously people need to get their head out of their ass and think critically.

"Oh no see, the English kidnapped the Irish and forced them into servitude. But it's ok. Because there were contracts. They totally upheld them guys". Sure.

[red-red-spout]

God The Rats in the Walls is such an interesting story. So very, very Lovecraft - not even focusing on the like, primordial eldritch horror stuff so much as the kind of... underlying politics of it all, it's all so, very, very usamerican old-money pseudo-aristocracy, something so obviously informed by howard phillip's own familial background. You're some american businessman but your family claims noble descent.. you have no real knowledge of it, but finding the thought of it appealing move to england to rediscover your supposed noble roots - your noble bloodline is irreparably stained by the sins of your ancestors against those who served under them, the unfathomable well of human suffering that your ancestors quite literally fed on.. also those sufferers are like, literal subhuman ape-men, troglodyte livestock whose phrenology precludes rational thought.

Note: The whole lovecraft cat name thing? Apparently he did that irl too but the protagonist in this story also uses that name for his favorite (black) cat. Note for context that the character in question is from a family of southern plantation owners, which is... I think very important to a thematic analysis of the narrative, especially given the... earlier history which forms the supernatural component of the story. Now, after coming to America the family may not literally have eaten their human property, but they very much kept up the tradition of keeping people as livestock - and the exploration of the notion of the tainted legacy of the fictional past is, I think probably to some degree a metaphor for the very real history of american chattle slavery as dealt with by the descendants of those who made their wealth off slavery.

[gingerswagfreckles]

Multiple posts with over 25k notes stanning the Houthis. The fucking Houthis. Who brought back chattle slavery to Yemen, who are directly responsible for the Yemeni famine that has caused hundreds of thousands of deaths, who redirect international food aid into their military faction, who have "a curse upon the Jews" on their flag, who rounded up and expelled the last few dozen Jews remaining in Yemen in 2021, who openly sex traffic Ethiopian women, who don't allow women to travel without a male guardian even for essential medical care, who torture and execute their political enemies, who have started to oppertunistically attack random ships that are neither coming nor going from Israel to fund their oppressive regime. Those Houthis. Those Houthis. Multiple posts with over 25k notes about how they are "coming through" for Palestine.

Are you people fucking insane? I wish I had a nicer way to say this but this website is literally filled with some of the stupidest and most hateful people I have ever had the misfortune to encounter. How many times do you people need to learn that some idiot on Twitter is not where you should be getting your news???

[grayheartart]

Democrat Propagandist Sunny Hostin of The View Trivializes The Holocaust and Chattle Slavery With Brain Dead Comparison to Jan 6th Capitiol Riots.

There goes the Democrats, once again, taking tragedies and reducing them to dishonest, empty talking points for political mud slinging. Last I checked 6 million people didn't fucking die horribly during the capitol riots, you Democrat scum.

[americascomic]

it bothers me when I see people say "we're approaching a dystopia" as if our country's history didn't have the utter horror of hundreds of years of chattle slavery, not to mention the utter brutality that followed.

The amount of aesthetics and culture and control and societal surveillance needed

[feruchemical]

i understand that with the themes of mistborn and the conditions of the skaa (read: chattle slavery) it would be a little? fucked up? to portray skaa with afrocentric features but honestly for the fact that scadrial is so Hot and Hot and Sun and Hot its weird most the characters are depicted with straight hair and paler skin. anyways all this to say one must imagine kelsier fortnite mistborn sunburnt to all hell and back

[herbreishcreolenegra]

Small ethic groups in America (DECENT CATEGORY)

Soulaan- Afro American decent of Afro Americans that are decedents of chattle slavery

Hawaiian- Asian/White decent of Hawaii which is indigenous

Sentinel- tribe of indigenous black Africans On the Indian shore that migrated during chattel slavery.

Native America- Asians that traveled to north America that were the first here.

[ivygorgon]

AN OPEN LETTER to THE U.S. CONGRESS

Democracy for Palestinians

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It's almost half a year of Israel’s war on Gaza.

The time to put an end to the United States’ double standards for Israel and Palestine is grossly past due. Congress is quick to believe findings of rape and sexual violence against Israeli women by Hamas, yet it remains silent, denies, and make excuses when the UN presents documented cases of Israeli soldiers committing these same war crimes against Palestinian women.

A UN report dated, February 19, states in part, “We are particularly distressed by reports that Palestinian women and girls in detention have also been subjected to multiple forms of sexual assault, such as being stripped naked and searched by male Israeli army officers. At least two female Palestinian detainees were reportedly raped while others were reportedly threatened with rape and sexual violence,” the experts said. They also noted that photos of female detainees in degrading circumstances were also reportedly taken by the Israeli army and uploaded online.

History has taught us that when one group of people applies supremacist language, practices, and policies towards themselves and dehumanizing language, practices, and policies towards another group, the conditions for atrocities are set—including rape as a weapon of war. Cases are well documented, including; The Age of Discovery, Chattle Slavery in the US and Caribbean, The Holocaust, The Nanjing Massacre, The Bangladesh Genocide, The Arminian Genocide, The Rwanda Genocide, and the list goes on.

You are in a position of political power; you can change the trajectory of this war and save thousands of lives. If we could protect, feed, and heal the people of Gaza without you, believe me, we would. But we cannot. Politicians hold the symbolic and material votes. You have the power to call for a ceasefire, to reinstate funding to UNRWA, and to vote against aid packages to Israel.

Israel’s mass killing of Palestinians, which has gone on for nearly a century from Gaza to Jenin to Jerusalem, must be stopped. And yet, the Biden administration has fanned the flames of genocide, promising to send Israel more weapons and military funding. I will not accept politics-as-usual of words of concern without U.S. policy change. That approach gives Israel a free pass to keep massacring the Palestinian people. Peace is not possible without justice, which begins with an end to Israel’s military occupation, theft of native Palestinian land, and attacks on Palestinian lives.

Take action to deescalate today. Call for an immediate, permanent ceasefire and an end to all U.S. complicity in Israel's violence, including ending U.S. military funding to Israel.

Stop arming, Israel! These massacres are funded into existence by our U.S. tax dollars, and not a single penny more should be sent.

AIPAC donations must be rejected to ensure the credibility of our Democracy.

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