#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".

[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.

[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

[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???

[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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[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

[magnoliamyrrh]

lol another quote among the many ive been thinking about lately, in regards to why i find some libs and leftists so much more aggravating than many conservatives who are just straight about their bullshit

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

and yea yea c.s lewish was a british dude who had certain kinds of ideas etc but lets be real this quote fucking slaps. and is also a good representation of why probably in romania more than maybe ever before during soviet rule life became a 24/7 horrible satire and why it inflicted so much mental damage. second thing this brought to mind is all that research i did on chattle slavery in mauritania, and one of the most haunting quotes from an ex-slave, "the slaves here are what the americans wish they had in their plantations" due to how deeply dug through the use of islam and cultureal acceptence slave status is

also, much less dramatically. id rather someone hate me to my face than spin their hatred 70 ways in some progressive loving wokie way and end up w the same shit

[tiny-pteranodon]

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there is footage on youtube of chattle slavery in the 60s in saudi arabia

naked people tied to chains (a lot like animal markets today)