#post-Emancipation

[forthosebefore]

St. John Colony outside Lockhart, Texas began in the early 1870s, when a group of Black families, led by the Rev. John Henry Winn, relocated here from Webberville.

The original 14 families purchased about 2,000 acres of land to establish a town and family farms. Originally named Winn’s Colony in honor of the reverend, the community’s name was changed after Winn organized St. John Missionary Baptist Church in 1873.

The community grew steadily and at its peak included homes of about 100 families, farms, stores, a school, cotton gin, and grist mill. The boundaries of the colony extended into Bastrop County. A post office, under the name Mackiesville, opened in 1890 with Lewis Mackey as postmaster. In addition to St. John Missionary Baptist, churches included Zion Union Missionary Baptist and Landmark Missionary Baptist.

The post office was closed in the 1920s, and the school was consolidated with Lockhart schools in 1966. The community graveyard, known as St. John Cemetery or Zion Cemetery, contains the graves of many of the area’s pioneers. Descendants of some of the founding families still reside in St. John Colony.

Learn more about post-Emancipation Black communities from The Texas Freedom Colonies Project: https://www.thetexasfreedomcoloniesproject.com

Image: Headstone of Jane Roland in the St. John Colony cemetery Source: Texas Historical Commission Facebook

Visit www.attawellsummer.com/forthosebefore to learn more about Black history.

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[dollya-robinprotector]

The school LIs and meanings of their 4-petals flowers

Note: All the little 4 petals flowers they are wearing are from Lyah and their placements represent how he feels about them. Except for Kylar. Kylar stole the flower.

From the dance post

[ozs-twink-boytoy]

If I may speak

[pinkeoni]

I don’t think the writers forgot what Jonathan’s dream school was— at least I hope they didn’t— but I think the point was that Jonathan didn’t even consider NYU as an option. It was about staying close to his family or what his girlfriend wanted. What he wanted wasn’t even in his periphery.

[theunholyvirginemilyprentiss]

(requested by @i-live-in-spite)

SPENCER REID | post-prison aesthetic.

— post-emancipation tortured genius

Check out my Masterlist for more aesthetic boards. Thanks for the request!

[giraffe-lesbian]

"Many characters weren't properly depicted in the Birds of Prey Movie (Cassandra Cain), simply didn't appear (Oracle), or had no/minimal involvement to begin with (Harley Quinn, Renee Montoya)" and "The Birds of Prey 2020 movie is an incredibly entertaining and symbolic movie that explores the way female characters (and subsequently female fans) have to navigate male dominated spaces" are two statements that can and should coexist.

[lucifer-is-a-bag-of-dicks]

why did I start this fic with a timeskip forward to a conversation involving a HUMAN LIE DETECTOR 😭😭😭😭😭😭

this plot has gotten progressively more complicated than I expected it to as I've advanced it and now I have to keep track of SO MANY THREADS because EVERYONE KNOWS SOMETHING DIFFERENT and I can't let ANY OF THEM get tangled in that first chapter now that we've reached it in the timeline because I can't rely on my usual cheat of a character just lying or obfuscating the truth to avoid a contradiction because HE'D HAVE KNOWN

I mean it was a sick ass opening for the fic and I still love it but why

why did I do this to myself

I have ADHD why did I write a mystery from several different angles where nobody has all the info

why

me rn

the next two chapters are almost done but I need to review them again for the fiftieth fucking time when I'm 100% mentally present and clear headed (an absolute rarity considering I live like 70% of my life in autism burnout) to make sure I have no contradictions AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

how do long fic writers do this all the time y'all are wizards

if I manage this without fucking something up it's gonna be an ADHD miracle I'm gonna be so fucking proud of myself, and if I do fuck something up c'est la vie I guess 💀 it's not gonna stop me from trucking on pffft I love this fic too much

I just wanna post these damn chapters because once they're done I get to write one I have been SO LOOKING FORWARD TO we're nearing the end of fic #3 lads and things are getting juicy

[poisonousquinzel]

"You could keep them from becoming like--"

"--Freeze. Yeah."

"That's what I was going to say. I wasn't going to say you, if that's what--"

I'm not crying, you're crying !

[leroibobo]

inside the tykocin synagogue in tykocin, poland, built in 1642. jews first arrived to tykocin almost a century earlier and turned it into a famous jewish intellectual center. after being desecrated during the holocaust, it was restored in the 1970s.

[ask-thearchivists]

Hey would the 4 of you mind rating these songs from 1-10? With 1 being the worst and 10 being the best. Because I wanna know what music you prefer.

(This all based solely off the preview that spotify is giving me)

The Coordinator: I am going to pretend I know how you made those noises with your mouth. In order it's 3, 7, 4, 7.

The Charmer: I think for me it's 6, 8, 3, and 5.

The Cartographer: I don't know? 1, 5, 4, 3?

The Curator: I don't know what you're all talking about that first song is an 8. And then 5, 5, 5.

[d1shfandomz]

persona 5 had so much potential to be one of the greatest social commentaries of its decade in, hell, not even just in gaming and they fucking blew it by giving us fanservice of minors with gigantic tits and totally not pedophilic romance options as opposed to thematically poignant queer relationship options and you expect me to not be pissed off?? like ur kidding

[lornacrane]

hey fuck the 4th of july I’m now only celebrating the 3rd of july which is emancipation day in the now-US Virgin Islands (St. Thomas, St. John, & St. Croix) celebrating when in 1848 my ancestors started burning the plantations and shops and everything bc the Danish monarchy told them they were going to be freed gradually over a couple of years and the formerly-enslaved people said absolutely not we’re gonna be free NOW

[dollya-robinprotector]

I've come here to say that Lya and Lyah are SOOOOOOOO pretty 🥺💖💕 (idk who the third one in your header is but they're also very very very pretty 🥺💖)

Thank you thank you~ If you are around my blog for some more time you will know the faces that usually appear here.

Lyah (dol pc 2), Lya (dol pc 1) , my avatar Dollya, and Kariya (dol pc 3)

I usually answer asks with them, but recently I got too occupied with work commissions and practices that I can barely touch the askbox anymore O(-( and of course, you can adore them, I'm happy that so many people like them consider how I just dumped literally any fetishes I have into a pot and messing around until they take shapes like PPG lol

[42-42-564]

why the hell did makas mom get custody just to travel the world alone and never see her

[soapdispensersalesman]

Happy Keti Koti everyone, Switi Manspasi🇸🇷💛

Today marks the 160th anniversary of the abolishment of slavery on Suriname and the Antilles, or actually the 150th as most enslaved worked until 1873 as they couldn't go anywhere.

[anthonycrowley]

oh i. i just came across a little factoid while i was trying to prove a point.

hmmmMMMMMMMM.