Always nice to see a picture of Black people enjoying themselvesA couple having fun in the sun, Atlantic City, 1950s
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Always nice to see a picture of Black people enjoying themselvesA couple having fun in the sun, Atlantic City, 1950s
First Hydraulic Brake.... before Drifting was a thing..... #Pioneering lolol...
2-1-4-3 in that order....
How cornrows were used as an escape map from slavery across South America - Face2Face Africa
Cornrows have become a crowd favorite for women of every culture in the last ten years. Whereas it used to be worn by children, especially young African and African American girls, the style has become widely popular among women of all ages. The journey to freedom was never easy, but African...
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Respect Our Roots: A Brief History Of Our Braids | Essence
Experts explain the tangled history of braids in our culture and confirm that they will always be more than just a hairstyle.
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One of the greatest threads on the board.
Sam and Jane Harper, former slaves, were transported by John Brown from Missouri to freedom in Windsor Ontario, Canada in 1858. This photo was taken in December 1894.
Sam and Jane Harper, former slaves, were transported by John Brown from Missouri to freedom in Windsor Ontario, Canada in 1858. This photo was taken in December 1894.
Sam and Jane Harper, former slaves, were transported by John Brown from Missouri to freedom in Windsor Ontario, Canada in 1858. This photo was taken in December 1894.
This picture is dope! The John Brown stories are interesting in their own right... If y'all get a chance to, check out "The Good Lord Bird" on ShowtimeSam and Jane Harper, former slaves, were transported by John Brown from Missouri to freedom in Windsor Ontario, Canada in 1858. This photo was taken in December 1894.
Sam and Jane Harper, former slaves, were transported by John Brown from Missouri to freedom in Windsor Ontario, Canada in 1858. This photo was taken in December 1894.
John Brown was one of the few honorable cacs that walked the face of the earth in the entire world.
Indeed
Don't forget about the number 1 and 2 things: no breast and butt implants
Breat implants, if they are not overdone (like Dominique Simone later in her career) are okay. Titties make women feel more like women. I get it
There is absolutely no good reason for butt implants
Ric Flair with a young Dwayne Johnson
[1862] US soldier Cathy Williams
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Cathay Williams was born to an enslaved mother and a free father in Independence, Missouri in 1844. During her adolescence, she worked as a house slave on the Johnson plantation on the outskirts of Jefferson City, Missouri. In 1861, Union forces occupied Jefferson City during the early stages of the Civil War. At this time, captured slaves were officially designated as contraband and were forced to serve in military support roles such as cooks, laundresses, or nurses. Before her voluntary enlistment, at just 17 years old, Williams served as an Army cook and a washerwoman. In this role she accompanied the infantry all over the country. Williams served under the service of General Philip Sheridan and witnessed the Red River Campaign and the Battle of Pea Ridge.
Cathay Williams (U.S. National Park Service)
Cathay Williams was born to an enslaved mother and a free father in Independence, Missouri in 1844. During her adolescence, she worked as a house slave on the Johnson plantation on the outskirts of Jefferson City, Missouri. In 1861, Union forces occupied Jefferson City during the early stages of the Civil War. At this time, captured slaves were officially designated as contraband and were forced to serve in military support roles such as cooks, laundresses, or nurses. Before her voluntary enlistment, at just 17 years old, Williams served as an Army cook and a washerwoman. In this role she accompanied the infantry all over the country. Williams served under the service of General Philip Sheridan and witnessed the Red River Campaign and the Battle of Pea Ridge.
So these were mostly biracial children who happened to look white?The ‘white’ slave children of New Orleans in rare photographs, 1863
Transcript of the Harper’s Weekly article, January 30, 1864: Isaac White is a black boy of eight years, but none the less intelligent than his whiter companions. He has been in school about seven months, and I venture to say that not one boy in fifty would have made as much improvement in that space of time.
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On January 30, 1864, Harper’s Weekly started to publish portraits of children captioned “Emancipated Slaves—White and Colored,” as part of a publicity campaign to raise funds for schools for recently emancipated slaves in New Orleans. The children featured in these photographs drew attention to the fact that slavery was not solely a matter of color. If a child’s mother was a slave, then he or she was a slave as well.
The images included children with predominantly European features photographed alongside dark-skinned adult slaves with typically African features. It was intended to shock the viewing audiences with a reminder that slaves shared their humanity, and evidence that slaves did not belong in the category of the “Other”.
By disseminating images of seemingly white children, the campaign organizers alluded to the horrific conditions of slavery while creating a palatable image of emancipation for anxious audiences. These were not the lustful, violent slaves of planters’ nightmares, but rather docile, sentimentalized children and patient, pious adults.
The pointed use of children naturalizes stereotypes of mixed-raced individuals. As historian Walter Johnson has described, frailty, delicacy, and submissiveness were all characteristics identified by slave traders and buyers as inherent to the special status and high value of light-skinned slaves on the slave market. These qualities could be read on the bodies of children without the artifice of costuming or attributes that an adult subject might have necessitated.
At the same time, these images participated in the wider discourse of photography’s indexical relationship to nature and its ability to reveal the unseen. The pale bodies of these young children visualized miscegenation, which was and would continue to be a great source of anxiety in the wake of emancipation, but the effects of which had primarily been hidden from public scrutiny before the war.
Moreover, through this campaign, miscegenation resulting in white slaves would be constructed as part of the history and not the future of a post-Civil-War United States. With the end of slavery legally decreed, abolitionism would need to find a new cause to champion.
Transcript of the Harper’s Weekly article, January 30, 1864: Augusta Boujey is nine years old. Her mother, who is almost white, was owned by her half-brother, named Solamon, who still retains two of her children.
Depicted as eager to learn, patriotic, and pious, these New Orleanian children would also be used to vindicate the much-maligned abolitionist movement, which had been considered a radical political third rail in the struggle to preserve the Union in the late 1850s.
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/white-slave-children-photographs/
Same shit they doing to the elephants