Many Native Americans welcomed African Americans into their villages.
Even as slaves many African Americans became part of a family group, and
many intermarried with Native Americans – thus many later became
classified as Black Indians
Nancy Green a former slave, was employed in 1893 to promote the Aunt
Jemima brand by demonstrating the pancake mix at expositions and fairs.
She was a popular attraction because of her friendly personality, great
story-telling, and warmth. Green signed a lifetime contract with the
pancake company and her image was used for packaging and billboards.
Slave at Zanzibar Slave Market.
Extremely rare photo of packed slave merchant ship. SMH
A father stares at the hands of his five year-old daughter, which were
severed as a punishment for having harvested too little rubber. This is
what was happening in the Congo at the hands of the Belgians under King
Leopold. Let us be clear dear people who like to claim that because
their parents were immigrants to America they never benefited from the
slave trade. People were taken from Africa & exported as slaves to
other countries, but Africans were also enslaved & killed on the
continent. …
SLAVE WHIPPING AS A BUSINESS. People who lived in Richmond would send
their slaves here for punishment. When any one wanted a slave whipped he
would send a note to that effect with the servant to the trader. Any
petty offense on the part of a slave was sufficient to subject the
offender to this brutal treatment. For this service the owner was
charged a certain sum for each slave, and the earnings of the traders
from this source formed a very large part of the profits of his
business.
Mary Fields was born sometime around 1812 & was born a Slave in
Hickman County, TN. She was the first African American woman and the
second American woman to be employed as a mail carrier with the USPS.
She was able to hitch a team of six horses to a Stagecoach faster than
any other applicant & earned the nickname “Stagecoach Mary” because
of her reliability even in inclement weather that caused her to walk up
to ten miles in the snow to the Mail Depot. She never missed a day of
work.
i was at the doctors today and there was a guy sitting behind me with his baby, and the baby starts crying in its pram and the guy just stands up, faces the kid and says “Come on now, don’t cry, you’re better than that”
also, someone else asked him how old his baby was and he said without even a moments hesitation, “he’s 36 he’s just got a height problem” and I’ve only just come to terms with the fact I’ll never say something that funny in my life
It high-key sounds like you stumbled in halfway through a comedy about a dude who’s friend got magicked into a baby
Good Lord, how delicious! I wanna do that! The next time I’m in a cathedral, I’m doing it.
As she stood inside an ancient and empty church in Montefrío, Spain, Malinda Kathleen Reese belted out one of the best Christmas carols of all time-“O Come, O Come Emmanuel” and the end result was just heavenly.
I’m obsessed with this because A. Victorian Christmas Carols B. European Cathedrals C. It’s gorgeous and fuckin choristers are my favorite
You are now 18, standing on the precipice, trembling before your own greatness. who say you are too young and delicate to make anything happen for yourself. They don’t see the part of you that smolders. Don’t let their doubting drown out the sound of your own heartbeat.
Your bravery builds beyond you. You are needed
by all the little girls still living in secret,
writing oceans made of monsters and
throwing like lightening.
You are stronger than the world has ever believed you to be.
The world laid out before you to set on fire.
All you have to do
is burn. This is your call to leap. There will always being those You are the first drop of a
hurricane. You
don’t need to grow up to find greatness. ― Clementine Von Radics
Free Graphic Novels (DC, Marvel, Image, etc), Music, TV shows, and music on HOOPLA.
Free music that you can KEEP on FREEGAL
You are PAYING for all this with your tax money - USE THEM. Most likely systems will have all 3 or 2 out of 3, so if you aren’t sure call your local library’s reference/information desk and how you can get set-up or started.
Hey, highkey from a library worker:
Overdrive has a new mobile app called LIBBY I find it easier to use. It’s the same content as Overdrive just better for mobile. Overdrive and Libby both let you send items to your kindle as well.
Can confirm Overdrive is amazing.
I work in the largest library system in my state (17 branches in total).
I use it not only for ebooks, but movies as well.
Other FREE resources to check with your library for are:
Freegal Music (download and keep music, including current music)
Hoopla Digital (borrow ebooks, e-audiobooks, e-graphic novels, stream movies)
It’s very relaxed up at the North Pole ever since the top demands for toys changed from handcrafted to mass produced. Most of the elves are in “qualify control” these days (very important to check those video games for violence, y’know), and Santa and Mrs. Claus are basically reindeer farmers most of the year.
Then, in late autumn, Santa checks his list.
He checks it twice.
He checks it a third time, and then he calls Mrs. Claus over to the computer, because clearly he’s messed something up and deleted something he shouldn’t have. Mrs. Claus waves him out of the chair, sits down, and starts checking the settings.
Two children die in US government custody, and Trump blames Democrats.
I don’t have a lot of love for most American Democrats, but I’m pretty fucking sure those were your people acting under your orders, Mr. President. It was your administration that set up concentration camps at the border–and, yes, the facilities you are housing these people in do fit the definition of a concentration camp, Mr. President.
The Japanese didn’t deserve it during WWII, and Central/South Americans fleeing drug cartels and corrupt government don’t deserve it now.
