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Today In Labor History April 8, 1864: The 13th amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, banning chattel slavery. However, it permitted a continuation of wage slavery and the forced labor of convicts without pay. And on this date in 1911, 128 convict miners, mostly African-Americans jailed for minor offenses, were killed by a massive explosion at the Banner coalmine near Birmingham, Alabama. While the Triangle Shirtwaist fire, which occurred just two weeks earlier, elicited massive public attention and support for the plight of immigrant women working in sweatshop conditions, the Banner explosion garnered almost no public sympathy, probably due to racism and the fact that they were prisoners.

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@adhdeanasl #JFC, victim blame much?! The Democrats didn't give people a choice, you know, the #LITERAL definition of their party. No DNC, no primary alternatives, just #GenocideJoe, an octogenarian with dementia.
When #CopMala took over, a black woman who defied Federal Court orders to keep California citizens locked up so she could use #SlaveLabor.
She was never going to win, when Americans hate Blacks but hate Women more. I guess #NeverAgain means nothing to you.

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“The skit highlighted the ramifications of these practices for #consumers who unknowingly purchase #toxic products or products made with #SlaveLabor,” she added. At one point in the faux ad, Gyllenhaal incurs a nosebleed after sniffing his supposedly lead-free button down—a nod to the fact that many shoppers are largely uninformed about both the origins and the content of the products they buy.

“Our outdated trade provisions reward companies like ‘Shemu’ with duty-free treatment

5/11

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You can save money by buying used and avoiding fast fashion.

You can save money by joining your local Buy Nothing group.

Honestly, there is no excuse to purchase from Temu or Shein when we know they're ruining the planet as commitedly as they're exploiting children, Uyghur people, and other marginalized groups in China.

@bicmay
Those used as slaves & those receiving #slavelabor wages & cond…
Built this country.

The irony of “#White House” built by black & brown folks… is a clue!
#vineyards were “stolen” often by #brutality & #violence From folks whose…
Ancestors created them!
#native people whose ancestors worked & lived on #land stolen.

#whitefolks have never required that truth on history.
After centuries…it’s the same.
The only “memory” of history believed #fact is of their own making…

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archive.org/details/graves-unm

In Graves Unmarked: Slavery and Abolition in Stoneham, Massachusetts by Ben Jacques

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#blackchattelslavery, #slavey, #abolition, #antiblackness, #massachusetts, #stoneham, #charlestown, #unitedstatesofamerika, #colonialism, #britishcolonialism, #britishempire, #slavemasters, #slaveowners, #enslavedpeople, #enslavedAfricans, #slavelabor, #slavercolonialism, #invadercolonialism

“In winter the bare trees are black against the snow and sky in the Old Burying Ground on Pleasant Street. Like frosting, snow decorates the gravestones of our town’s early families. The Bryants, the Bucknams, the Gerrys, the Greens, the Goulds, the Hays—our founders.

But beyond the cluster of 18th and 19th century stones, there are bare spots where no markers disturb the gentle slope of the earth. Here those with no status in colonial Stoneham lie in unmarked graves. Here are buried the town’s slaves.”

So begins the untold story of slavery and abolition in a town of farmers and shoemakers just north of Boston. Once part of Charlestown, the village was incorporated in 1725 as Stoneham, Massachusetts.

Internet ArchiveIn Graves Unmarked: Slavery and Abolition in Stoneham, Massachusetts : Ben Jacques : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive“In winter the bare trees are black against the snow and sky in the Old Burying Ground on Pleasant Street. Like frosting, snow decorates the gravestones of...