#1619issue

[blackafemmetalks]

The 1619 Project (Published 2019)

American slavery began 400 years ago this month. This is referred to as the country’s original sin, but it is more than that: It is the country’s true origin.

Sharing this because I’ve been seeing this around other social media, but not around tumblr as much. The 1619 Project that details and preserves the history of black Americans in the United States. If you are a reader and wanting something to do for Black History Month, this offers a great opportunity to learn and familiarize yourself with black history.

Here is a short description: 

The 1619 Project is an ongoing initiative from The New York Times Magazine that began in August 2019, the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It aims to reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of our national narrative.

[itshardtoactnormal-blog]

The 1619 Project

American slavery began 400 years ago this month. This is referred to as the country’s original sin, but it is more than that: It is the country’s true origin.

The same people complaining that the 1619 Project focuses too much on the role of race in shaping our country also oppose any effective civil rights law enforcement now. That's not a coincidence.

[renniejoy]

American Capitalism Is Brutal. You Can Trace That to the Plantation.

Slavery helped turn America into a financial colossus. And our economy is still shaped by management practices invented by enslavers and overseers.

[thankyoumskobayashi]

American Capitalism Is Brutal. You Can Trace That to the Plantation.

Slavery helped turn America into a financial colossus. And our economy is still shaped by management practices invented by enslavers and overseers.

this is a very informative read. if you can handle reading on horrors including slavery, human rights violations, and american capitalism right now, i encourage you to do so. this journalist-historian is spilling the tea on where our horrifying capitalist situation comes from.

please read the following list before you click the link!!!

list of topics/possible triggers discussed as far as i remember: slavery, cruelty, human rights abuses, cotton picking, overseers, management systems, corporate management, employee lack of privacy, invasion of employee privacy, prevention of slave revolts, prevention of unionized labor, maximizing profit, profit by human rights abuse, financial systems, industrial revolution, use of people as money, investment in economies, economies considered "too big to fail," banks, big banks, bank-issued bonds, price of a human person, financial disasters, housing crisis 2008, great depression 1939.

[historybizarre]

The 1619 Project

American slavery began 400 years ago this month. This is referred to as the country’s original sin, but it is more than that: It is the country’s true origin.

The 1619 Project is a major initiative from The New York Times observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It aims to reframe the country’s history, understanding 1619 as our true founding, and placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of the story we tell ourselves about who we are.

If you are unable to access the above link from the New York Times (which does have a paywall), the entire issue is available as PDF download from the Pulitzer Center, which also offers reading guides for the essays and creative works, along with suggestions for how different items might meet Common Core standards in US classrooms.

[swan2swan]

How America’s Vast Racial Wealth Gap Grew: By Plunder

It wasn’t just slavery but segregation, redlining, evictions, exclusion — and outright theft.

Today’s racial wealth gap is perhaps the most glaring legacy of American slavery and the violent economic dispossession that followed. The fate suffered by Elmore Bolling and his family was not unique to them, or to Jim Crow Alabama. It was part of a much broader social and political campaign. When legal slavery ended in 1865, there was great hope for formerly enslaved people. Between 1865 and 1870, the Reconstruction Amendments established birthright citizenship — making all black people citizens and granting them equal protection under the law — and gave black men the right to vote. There was also the promise of compensation. In January 1865, Gen. William Sherman issued an order reallocating hundreds of thousands of acres of white-owned land along the coasts of Florida, Georgia and South Carolina for settlement by black families in 40-acre plots. Congress established the Freedmen’s Bureau to oversee the transition from slavery to freedom, and the Freedman’s Savings Bank was formed to help four million formerly enslaved people gain financial freedom.

When Lincoln was assassinated, Vice President Andrew Johnson effectively rescinded Sherman’s order by pardoning white plantation owners and returning to them the land on which 40,000 or so black families had settled. “This is a country for white men, and by God, as long as I am President, it shall be a government for white men,” Johnson declared in 1866. The Freedmen’s Bureau, always meant to be temporary, was dismantled in 1872. More than 60,000 black people deposited more than $1 million into the Freedman’s Savings Bank, but its all-white trustees began issuing speculative loans to white investors and corporations, and when it failed in 1874, many black depositors lost much of their savings.

More from the 1619 Project. Also, never elect a president named Andrew.

[buffleheadcabin]

American Capitalism Is Brutal. You Can Trace That to the Plantation.

Slavery helped turn America into a financial colossus. And our economy is still shaped by management practices invented by enslavers and overseers.

[nerdygaymormon]

The 1619 Project

American slavery began 400 years ago this month. This is referred to as the country’s original sin, but it is more than that: It is the country’s true origin.

Helping us understand the enduring legacy of slavery and segregation, and how this shaped the country that the United States is now.