Camp near Kinston
Feby 22d 1864
Dear wife,
Your letter by Tom has been Read. I am glad to hear that you are all well. I am well & hearty. I am sorry that Mrs. Lynchis trying to be so large. I think the best way you can manage is for her to stay to…
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Superior Court, Edgecombe County
Fred Philips Administrator of Wright Locust
Against
Augustus Locust, Primmy Washington, Charity Battle, Isham Locust, Harry Locust, Martha Ann Woodley, Mourning Jones, George W. Locust, Jo Anna Locust, Zaney Barnes, and El…
Doe on the demise of Mary Ann Jones v. William Norfleet, 52 NC 473 (1860).
This ejectment action was tried in Edgecombe County Superior Court.
The plaintiff, “a colored woman,” claims title to a parcel of land under the 1860 will of Henry S. Lloyd, which…
She was a good girl.
Richard Arnolds, Will
In the name of God, Amen, I Richard Arnold of Caswell County, North Carolina being of sound and perfect memory (blessed be God) do this nineteenth day of April in the year of Our Lord Eighteen hundred and thirty, make and publish…
“A woman with Iron Horns and Bells on, to keep her from running away”
Source: Moses Roper, A narrative of the adventures and escape of Moses Roper from American slavery (London, 1837)
As shown on http://www.slaveryimages.org, compiled by Jerome Handler and Michael Tuite, and sponsored by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and the University of Virginia Library.
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Anna Julia Cooper: The Original Black Girl From the Future
In honor of DC’s Emancipation Day, I ventured on a #quirkyblackgirl field trip to Anna J. Cooper’s house. On the corner of the location of her Ledroit Park home, we read out her accomplishments. Afterwards, we discussed how we would continue her legacy. Jess Solomon mentioned that Anna embodied the saying, #blackgirlsarefromthefuture. (For those not familiar with the saying, or its creator, Renina Jarmon, educate yourselves.)
Anna J. Cooper was born a slave and went on to become the fourth black woman to receive a PhD. It could be argued that she laid the groundwork for what we now call “intersectionality” in social justice/feminist/critical race theory. It is safe to say that there would be no bell hooks or Patricia Hill-Collins without Anna J. Cooper. Not even one generation removed from slavery, Anna had the foresight to identify and articulate her oppression in gendered and racial terms. Further, she began using the term “Black” in a time when using any term other than Negro or Colored, was grounds for a fight. Black women always have to be a few steps ahead of the game to survive what Melissa Harris-Perry coined as “the crooked-room”. Anna certainly found her footing in the crooked-room of post-slavey America and she had the courage to publish her controversial writings in time where physical retribution was not unlikely for outspoken black Americans.
For all of those reasons, Anna Julia Cooper was a trailblazer - a black girl from the future - way ahead of her time.
“Black women writers have made it their prominent purpose to go behind the veiling screen (white) abolitionist memory left in the archives, and in white western public memory - which has been recently rejuvenated militantly in ubiquitous bicentennial celebrations. They…
In September of 1829 slavery was prohibited in Mexico. Because the politically connected Texans were outraged, one month later, the law was changed to allow slavery only in Texas. A few months later in early 1830, Mexico altered its policy under a new government that was less interested in catering to Texas. Mexico passed a law that prohibited further American settlement, and banned importation of additional slaves into Texas. The Mexican abolition movement, following the pattern seen around the world, had apparently pressured for more restrictions. This was a strict proviso, but for the Texans it was survivable, as they already had thousands of slaves within Mexico. The law must have created difficulties for the Texans and been a great source of irritation to them as they worked to develop their slave labour based agricultural economy. There were other grievances by this time, such as the amount of taxes the Texans were required to pay, but none struck home so much as the “bread and butter” issue of slavery. Without it, the Texans could not make a profit and ultimately would be out of business.
As the American population of Texas grew increasingly disgruntled with the various restrictions imposed by Mexico, an independence movement developed led by Stephen Austin. He presented a petition for independence to the Mexican government in 1833, and was then arrested and jailed until 1835. In 1835, there were about 20,000 Texans and 4000 slaves in Texas. In December of 1835 the newly crowned dictator General Antonio Santa Anna amended the slavery laws to ban slavery in Texas.
The settlers and their newly freed leader Austin quickly announced that they would secede from Mexico. To the great dismay of the Texans, however, in December of 1835 President Santa Ana extended the slavery ban to Texas to appease Mexican abolitionists. The Texans immediately rebelled and declared that they were seceded from Mexico, and declared the Republic of Texas. One of their first actions was to ban free blacks from the Republic. Not content with the possibility of withdrawing from Texas, the Texans enlisted the help of citizens of the United States in order to preserve slavery and the huge tracts of cotton growing land. This resulted in the famous siege and battle at the Alamo, a Catholic mission taken over by the Texans.
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Just when I think nobody reads any of my posts, somebody will go digging through the crates and find something and prove me wrong.
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Remember: the “liberal” city I live in was NAMED after this dude.
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