Slavery

My Weekly Medium Roundup — Here’s what I published this week and a few stories by others that I enjoyed Slavery has been a reality since the beginning of recorded history and people of all races have been enslaved. The Truth About Slavery It’s ugly and white people did NOT invent itjacquelynlynn.medium.com A few of my previous articles that are worth another look: Some reader responses to our Shareable Saturday emails:

Air Force Veteran, Fred Miller, Unknowingly Buys Plantation where Ancestors were Slaves Before Emancipation. — I may have discovered the neatest story, swelling my American history-loving heart. Initially, 60 Minutes is where I discovered the story and I went down the rabbit hole to find information to satisfy my every question. Come along with me to Sharswood Plantation. Sharswood Plantation has the cutest, white, 2640…

excerpts from Zora Neale Hurston’s “Barracoon” — what I know about de juju de dogs bark take the enemy by surprise quietly as possible fight him face to face like a man sit up wid de dead man dey teachee us mo’ war integrity destroyed kill de leopard the king sacrifices many slaves dat my boy hurtee his Mama de six chillun…

Animism 2.0 and the grotesqueness of modern socialization — The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy points out that philosophy has neglected the topic of animism. One explanation for this lack of interest is that “The modernist view (championed by the likes of Hume, Tylor, and Frazer) according to which animism is an unsophisticated, primitive, and superstitious belief was carried over…

Let me start you with something from late 2017 via Jason Fried, the CEO/co-founder of Basecamp: As a general rule, nobody at Basecamp really knows where anyone else is at any given moment. Are they working? Dunno. Are they taking a break? Dunno. Are they at lunch? Dunno. Are they…