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25/07/2024

Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), political party formed in 1964 as an alternative to the dominantly white and conservative Democratic Party of Mississippi. After President Lyndon B. Johnson formed a coalition between liberal Democrats and liberal and moderate Republicans to address issues of concern to African Americans, conservative Southern Democrats openly encouraged their members to vote for the 1964 Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater, who opposed civil rights legislation. In response, African American Mississippians formed the MFDP as an alternative group that would represent their interests at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. With the support of Martin Luther King, Jr., the MFDP nominated three African American women—Fannie Lou Hamer (one of the cofounders of the party) and civil rights activists Annie Devine and Victoria Gray—to run against the traditional Democrats in the state’s 1964 congressional elections.

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12/07/2024

Early Indigenous Inhabitants:

The island of Dominica was discovered by Christopher Columbus on November 3, 1493. However, it was primarily inhabited by the people for the next century.
When the Spanish attempted to settle, the drove them away.
French woodcutters, the first Europeans on the island, befriended the Caribs and lived together with them. The Carib village where Roseau now stands was called “ .”

European Influence and Slavery:

The French settlers renamed the Carib village “Roseau” after the river reeds (“ ”) that grew along the riverbanks.
By 1800, people of African ancestry constituted the majority of the island’s residents, working on and forming most of Roseau’s population.

Slavery was abolished on Dominica and throughout the British Empire in 1833.

12/07/2024

Maroons are descendants of Africans in the Americas and Islands of the Indian Ocean who escaped from slavery, through flight or manumission, and formed their own settlements. They often mixed with indigenous peoples, eventually evolving into separate creole cultures such as the and the .

12/07/2024

Ports connected us > we sailed on those vessels carrying goods> from country-to-country shore to shore. We knew the water ways and the languages too. I choose this way to do ancestry because people kept somewhat better records of things they owned and valued. investors were tied in as well.

12/07/2024

I finished listening to this. Great body of work ..If you have time listen to it..

Listen to this audiobook by Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson on Spotify

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19/05/2024

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I’ve not yet made one comment about the Diddy Video, but I know that I must. It is never ok to put your hands on a woman. After seeing the video I’m just disgusted. Here’s Gary With Da Tea💙

19/05/2024

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19/05/2024

Meet Bill Powell, a trailblazer in the 1960s who built his own golf course to teach kids.

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23/04/2024

The history of slavery in Sri Lanka is a topic that often remains overlooked. Let’s delve into it:

Pre-Colonial Slavery:
Slavery existed in Sri Lanka even before European colonialism. Communities such as the Moors, Portuguese, Dutch, British, and the Sinhalese and Sri Lankan kingdoms participated in the slave trade.
During the Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa periods, slavery was practiced in conjunction with Buddhist temples, royal households, and guilds.

Dutch and British Colonial Period:
When the British took over the island, pre-existing forms of slavery were already in place. Kandyan slavery, for instance, was delineated in the Niti Nighanduwa (treatise of law), and slave families were marked out in the Galpata vihara inscriptions from the 12th to 13th centuries.

Slavery also existed in the and in the and -controlled maritime provinces.

In the early 19th century, over 25,000 people were listed as slaves in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). However, their stories and circumstances are rarely discussed when we talk about Sri Lankan history.

Afro-Sri Lankan Slaves:
Both the Portuguese and Dutch colonial powers engaged in a small trade in African slaves in Sri Lanka. The area where slaves were traded and kept was adjacent to Colombo, Sri Lanka’s major port, which became its capital during various colonial periods.

Global Abolition Era:
The early 19th century witnessed the formal abolition of slavery in Great Britain, which until then had been the largest slave-trading power in the world.

Historians like Nira Wickramasinghe have delved into the lives of enslaved men and women, recovering their “whispers” and “silences” from Dutch and British legal archives, police documents, and petitions. Her book “Slave in a Palanquin: Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka” sheds light on these previously overlooked narratives.

In summary, Sri Lanka’s history includes a complex tapestry of slavery, spanning both pre-colonial and colonial periods. Understanding these stories helps us appreciate the resilience and resistance of those who lived through this challenging chapter of human history. If you’d like to explore further, I recommend looking into Nira Wickramasinghe’s work and other scholarly resources. 📚🌏

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19/04/2024

iF YOU DONT GIVE A DAG ON ABOUT NOBODY...GIVE A DAG ON ABOUT YOUR IMMEDIATE FAMILY & DO WHAT YOU CAN.