https://archive.org/details/graves-unmarked

In Graves Unmarked: Slavery and Abolition in Stoneham, Massachusetts by Ben Jacques

Topics
#blackchattelslavery, #slavey, #abolition, #antiblackness, #massachusetts, #stoneham, #charlestown, #unitedstatesofamerika, #colonialism, #britishcolonialism, #britishempire, #slavemasters, #slaveowners, #enslavedpeople, #enslavedAfricans, #slavelabor, #slavercolonialism, #invadercolonialism

“In winter the bare trees are black against the snow and sky in the Old Burying Ground on Pleasant Street. Like frosting, snow decorates the gravestones of our town’s early families. The Bryants, the Bucknams, the Gerrys, the Greens, the Goulds, the Hays—our founders.

But beyond the cluster of 18th and 19th century stones, there are bare spots where no markers disturb the gentle slope of the earth. Here those with no status in colonial Stoneham lie in unmarked graves. Here are buried the town’s slaves.”

So begins the untold story of slavery and abolition in a town of farmers and shoemakers just north of Boston. Once part of Charlestown, the village was incorporated in 1725 as Stoneham, Massachusetts.

TIM FOWLER
Mixed media British artist

https://www.winsornewton.com/na/articles/artists/featured-artist-tim-fowler/

#BlackMastodon #BlackFriday #TimFowler #BlackBritishArtist #MixedMedia #Caribbean #Africa #EnslavedPeople #BananaTrade

Responding to Smith’s actions, descendants of people whom Williams family enslaved should sue Williams family for value of their enslaved labor. And use Smith’s same yardstick (inflated from original claim of $51 million to $3.6 billion).
#Reparations
#EnslavedPeople

A school took his family name off a building. He’s demanding $3.6 billion. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/02/13/richmond-university-slavery-name-removal/

Responding to Williams’s actions, descendants of people whom Williams family enslaved should sue Williams family for value of their enslaved labor. And use Williams’s same yardstick (inflated from original claim of $51 million to $3.6 billion).

#Reparations
#EnslavedPeople

A school took his family name off a building. He’s demanding $3.6 billion. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/02/13/richmond-university-slavery-name-removal/

Then at this point, the descendants of people enslaved by the Williams family should sue the Williams family for the value of their enslaved labor.

And since Williams inflated his original claim of $51 million to $3.6 billion, the descendants should feel free to do likewise. Use Williams’s same yardstick.

#enslavedpeople

“A school took his family name off a building. He’s demanding $3.6 billion.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/02/13/richmond-university-slavery-name-removal/

@popcornreel
You have a good point that how we phrase things creates meaning. But that absolutely is #semantics
Avoiding use of the word #slave in favour of #enslavedpeople probably is a good idea precisely because it is a good use of semantics and #rhetoric to make an important point
but people who don't think about things that deeply should not then be labelled as bigots for not being #politicallycorrect
#progress depends on rigorous but generous attitudes in how debate is carried out

@popcornreel "When you say “slave” you speak the language and mindset of the people who did this to us. This is important. It is not semantics."
I will disagree. My ancestors were slaves in Egypt once. We have no need for such particular verbiage.

#history #language #enslavedpeople #Black #Mastodon #words

LANGUAGE: It’s enslaved persons, not “slaves”. We are people who were ENslaved. When you say “enslaved”, you make clear that someone else did this to us. When you say “slave” you speak the language and mindset of the people who did this to us. This is important. It is not semantics. #history #language #enslavedpeople #Black #Mastodon #words

I have see this previously. Both haunting and calming. It reaches into your soul live or in video. “As a tribute to all #enslavedpeople buried in cemeteries in unmarked graves, artist #CraigWalsh illuminated trees with faces to honour their souls

This installation is called #Monuments and is Charlotte NC” https://twitter.com/gunsnrosesgirl3/status/1599045368544514049?s=46&t=ETKdkoeZr37EuztkO4U6zw

I have see this previously. Both haunting and calming. It reaches into your soul live or in video. “As a tribute to all #enslavedpeople buried in cemeteries in unmarked graves, artist #CraigWalsh illuminated trees with faces to honour their souls

This installation is called #Monuments and is Charlotte NC” https://twitter.com/gunsnrosesgirl3/status/1599045368544514049?s=46&t=ETKdkoeZr37EuztkO4U6zw

@Researchbuzz will #AmazonUS workers qualify as #ModernSlavery #EnslavedPeople

Looking for #histodon s or #geneology folk in Re: #FoodPathways #SouthCarolina #colonial #carolinacompany #Beaufort #PortRoyal #nativeAmerican #enslavedpeople #history. Also #HarrietTubman. Read a little, visiting with friends again next year; we do a little background reading before we visit. #LowCountry expedition