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May 22, 🇲🇶 Martinique: Abolition Day This is the National Day of Martinique and commemorates a slave rebellion in 1848 on Martinique that forced Governor Claude Rostoland to issue a decree abolishing slavery. Read more at officeholidays.com/holidays/…
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🗣️Gloriyé! On May 22, #Martinique commemorates the abolition of slavery⛓️‍💥 This day honours the courage of those who resisted, reclaimed their freedom, and shaped the island's history. 💪🏾 🖼️Statues: Cap 110 Memorial in Anse Caffard. #OECS #AbolitionOfSlavery #177thAnniversary
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Upcoming Genealogy Workshop with LAURITA MARIE May 25, 2024 12:00pm.
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Happy Independence Haiti! Jean-Jacques Dessalines led armies to defeat France to become the first free colonial society. It was the greatest slave uprising since Spartacus. It was a powerful reminder that Black liberation Could be achieved.
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New Orleans in the 1960s was sharply divided over the practice of segregation, and the "Citizens’ Council of Greater New Orleans" advocated some pretty silly stuff, including a protest against black musicians.
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Join us for a film screening and Q&A about "Forgotten Occupation: Jim Crow Goes to Haiti" on Monday, January 15, 2024 · 1 - 5pm CST Get details and tickets at this link - lmaah.com/film
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Calling all middle and high school art teachers and students - (Literary, Visual, and Performance) Louisiana Museum of African American History  presents THE HIDDEN HISTORY FESTIVAL October - December 31, 2023  Cash prizes lmaah.com/
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Hidden History retweeted
As in TN recently, #OTD 150 years ago, White supremacists tried to expel three Black and White officeholders in Colfax, Louisiana. On Easter Sunday in 1873, they used violence, killing over 150 Black people in the deadliest attack on democracy during the Reconstruction era. A🧵1/
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#tdih 1873 Louisiana: Colfax Massacre on Easter Sunday. Republicans had narrowly won 1872 election to retain control of state & a Black militia defended the victory, but KKK & more white supremacists used brutal violence to overturn results. See ⬇️ 🧵 zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/…
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#tdih 1811: 500+ Africans, from 50 nations & speaking dozens of languages, waged a strategic battle for their freedom & to end slavery & white supremacy. Which side did U.S. troops and territorial militias take? Read ⬇️ by Leon Waters. @HiddenHistoryLa zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/…
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The Christmas Rebellion of 60,000 enslaved Africans in Jamaica on Christmas Day 1831, was the largest uprising in the history of the British West Indies. It led to the abolition of slavery in 1833 and full emancipation in 1838. tribunemag.co.uk/2021/12/chr…
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Please join us as we celebrate September with three Conversations in Color events! First will be Dr. Laura Rosanne Adderley and Leon A. Waters discussing the 1811 German Coast Uprising on Wednesday, September 14. conta.cc/3DcIXVz
In this letter written 6 years after the sale of 1838, Fr. Vespre notifies Fr. Mulledy that their agent in New Orleans had negotiated a new payment arrangement with Gov. Johnson for the money due to the Jesuits from the sale of enslaved people 1838. slaveryarchive.georgetown.ed…
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Leon A. Waters points to the Dow Chemical plant, built atop the plantation where his great-great-great grandfather, Hannibal Waters, was enslaved. Descendants are now fighting to save their ancestors’ graveyard. “My whole history is right here,” he says. – at Norco, LA
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