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Bellingen
BellingenNSW @Bellingen@mastodon.au · 4d ago
Australia’s trade in human flesh: blackbirding - follow the money... "Between 1860 and 1906 up to 62,000 Pacific Islanders were shipped to Australia to work primarily in sugar cane and cotton farming.." "...The Pacific Islanders came, they died, they were buried like dogs and more were sent for.” >> https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/aug/10/sydney-sugar-industry-slave-trade-pacific-islanders-ntwnfb #slavery #Blackbirding #SouthSeaIslander #IndigenousPeoples #FirstNations #PastoralIndustry #sugar #cotton ##plantations PALM
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bibliolater
✨ Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@social.vivaldi.net · 6d ago
📖 Not Built in a Day: How Slavery Made the Roman Empire "It traces how people entered, experienced, and left slavery, covering the little known story of slave revolts and the complex realities of enslaved people who themselves owned enslaved people." 🔗 https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Not-Built-in-a-Day/Emma-Southon/9781668089552 #Ancient #History #Histodons #Slavery #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon #Booksky
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wistquotes
WIST Quotations @wistquotes@friendica.world · Aug 06, 2026
A quotation from Frederick Douglass Americans! your republican politics, not less than your republican religion, are flagrantly inconsistent. You boast of your love of liberty, your superior civilization, and your pure Christianity, while the whole political power of the nation (as embodied in the two great political parties), is solemnly pledged to support and perpetuate the enslavement of three millions of your countrymen. You hurl your anathemas at the crowned headed tyrants of Russia and Austria, and pride yourselves on your Democratic institutions, while you yourselves consent to be the mere tools and body-guards of the tyrants of Virginia and Carolina. Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) American abolitionist, orator, writer Speech (1852-07-05), “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Corinthian Hall, Rochester, New York More about this quote: wist.info/douglass-frederick/8… #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #frederickdouglass #America #enslavement #hypocrisy #pretension #slavery #systemicracism #tyranny
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Bellingen
BellingenNSW @Bellingen@mastodon.au · Aug 06, 2026
Focus on Coffs Harbour and Nambucca Valley "NSW modern slavery report calls for urgent reform to protect migrant workers." A NSW parliamentary report into modern slavery has detailed "harrowing stories of mistreatment and harm..The report asked the government to investigate allegations of systemic labour exploitation in Coffs Harbour and the Nambucca Valley. "NSW Anti-slavery commissioner Dr James Cockayne said in a statement the report was "informed by evidence from almost 100 witnesses across NSW, including victim survivors of modern slavery, and 60 submissions"." >> https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-06/nsw-anti-slavery-report-urgent-reform-to-protect-migrant-workers/107003130 #exploitation #PALM #MidNorthCoast #HorticulturalIndustry #blueberries #CoffsHarbour #NambuccaValley #food #harm #slavery #regulation
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Bellingen
BellingenNSW @Bellingen@mastodon.au · Aug 05, 2026

Blackbirding by Ryan Butta

  • "Australia has long reassured itself that, despite genocidal treatment of First Nations peoples, at least it has no heinous past of slavery, unlike Britain and the US. Ryan Butta shatters this historical self-deception. The term “blackbirding” (its etymology in the African and West Indies slave trades) involved the coercion and kidnapping of up to 62,000 Pacific Islander people, many children, to labour mostly on Australian sugar cane plantations between 1860 and 1906."

"Long portrayed as somehow “other” than slavery, Butta uses forensic archival work and compelling prose to disturbingly illustrate why this was Australia’s slave trade – and how a colonial who’s-who profited handsomely from it. – Paul Daley " >> https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/aug/05/best-books-to-read-australia-august-2026

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hanspetermeyer
Rev.Hans :mstdnca: @hanspetermeyer@mstdn.ca · Aug 02, 2026
“American society’s use of Civil War to rhetorically veil the slaveholders’ rebellion has consequences. After the redemption of the Confederacy, ex-Confederates and their heirs helped create a regime of anti-Black violence by instituting a legal architecture of disenfranchisement and lynching. That is what makes confronting how we refer to the Civil War a civic imperative.” #uspoli #slavery #jan6 https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/opinion/civil-war-slaveholders-rebellion-slavery.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=hanspetermeyer%2Fmagazine%2FREV.HANS+RECOMMENDS
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blogdiva
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 @blogdiva@mastodon.social · Jul 31, 2026
Boosted by Trending Bot @trending@homestead.social
RE: https://thelounge.network/@LogicalApex/117015592498964606 indentured servitude is #slavery by #debt. #healthCare tied to #employment is an engineered debt. the usa health care by employment is a form of indentured servitude. in other words: EMPLOYMENT IN THE UNITED STATES IS A FORM OF DEBT SLAVERY. doubly so if you have debt by #studentLoans. #PuertoRico outlawed debt slavery because post-slavery plantation workers were locked into their jobs by debt ―always to the plantation owner― they couldn’t retire in bankruptcy. like today's student loans.
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Frazell Thomas @LogicalApex@thelounge.network
RE: https://mstdn.social/@DemocracyMattersALot/117015564383055179 This is the main reason employers don't want fundamental changes to the US healthcare system. Their share of the costs has increased heavily over the last two decades, but they love its impact on employee retention. This is a feature not a bug. #healthcare #affordableHealthCare
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bibliolater
✨ Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@social.vivaldi.net · Jul 28, 2026
🇺🇸 📜 The Declaration of Causes of Seceding States "Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world." 🔗 https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declaration-causes-seceding-states #History #Histodons #Slavery #Georgia #Mississippi #SouthCarolina #Texas #Virginia #USA #US #UnitedStates #America
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Maeve
Maeve @Maeve@kbin.earth · Jul 17, 2026

Brzezinski Interview | David N. Gibbs

Brzezinski Interview | David N. Gibbs #capitalism #fascism #zionism #imperialism #genocide #slavery #novusordoseclorum #foundingfatherswereprotofascists #uk #eu #usa #israel #uae #ksa #qatar #pakistan Hover or focus to reveal Sensitive
Question: The former director of the CIA, Robert Gates, stated in his memoirs that the American intelligence services began to aid the Mujahiddin in Afghanistan six months before the Soviet intervention. Is this period, you were the national securty advisor to President Carter. You therefore played a key role in this affair. Is this correct? Brzezinski: Yes. According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahiddin began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan on December 24, 1979. But the reality, closely guarded until now, is completely otherwise: Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention [emphasis added throughout]. Q: Despite this risk, you were an advocate of this covert action. But perhaps you yourself desired this Soviet entry into the war and looked for a way to provoke it? B: It wasn’t quite like that. We didn’t push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would. Q : When the Soviets justified their intervention by asserting that they intended to fight against secret US involvement in Afghanistan , nobody believed them . However, there was an element of truth in this. You don’t regret any of this today? B: Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter, essentially: “We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war." Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war that was unsustainable for the regime , a conflict that bought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire. https://archive.fo/KUO0A Just a reminder
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Lazarou
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 @Lazarou@mastodon.social · Jul 21, 2026
RE: https://newsie.social/@ProPublica/116958206847346564 Pretty soon the USA is going to run out of people to pick the food to feed them, I guess that's when the chain gangs for "communists" come into play.... #USPol #USPolitics #Fascism #ForcedLabour #Slavery
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ProPublica @ProPublica@newsie.social
NEW: ProPublica journalist Max Blau spent a year reporting on abuses of farmworkers. It left him wondering: Is there any way to find out whether the produce he buys at the grocery store comes from farms with a record of mistreating workers? https://projects.propublica.org/blueberries-farmworker-mistreatment/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post #News #Food #Farm #Agriculture #Ethics #Labor #Groceries #Immigrant #Workers
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blogdiva
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 @blogdiva@mastodon.social · Jul 20, 2026
RE: https://flipboard.com/@globalnews/global-news-cu8h0oq4z/-/a-Ds_0FyFnRP2jQqNG9RW65w%3Aa%3A749442239-%2F0 keep an eye on this. #MAGA #GOP #Republicans want to turn all #prisons & #ICE dentention centers into slave-work concentration camps. this is them preemptively feigning to care about slavery. they want to extort other countries into accepting #USA slave labor. this is what the #deportations are about ― #slavery.
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audubonballroon
Audubon Ballroon (he/him) @audubonballroon@mastodon.social · Jul 19, 2026
'However, some of the almost 4,000 [Black People] who were lynched between 1882 and 1962 [and there were far more than 4,000 according to Jeff Fager further below] were lynched in settings that are appropriately described as (1/3) #slavery #whitehistory #blackhistory #blackmastodon
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peterjriley2024
Peter Riley @peterjriley2024@mastodon.social · Jul 18, 2026

But it’s legal to rip-off a million or two That comes from the labour that other folk do; To plunder the many on behalf of the few Is a thing that is perfectly legal.

  • Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger (1977) *

(Bosses are always keen to “reduce the cost of labour.” )

https://theconversation.com/australian-companies-to-face-fines-and-criminal-action-if-they-fail-to-prevent-modern-slavery-287667

#Capitalism #exploitation #minimumwage #slavery #workingpoor

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blogdiva
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 @blogdiva@mastodon.social · Jul 17, 2026
RE: https://flipboard.social/@ScienceDesk/116936566009455008 toldya so. #IVF #abortion #reproduction #slavery #embryos
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MikeDunnAuthor
MikeDunnAuthor @MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social · Jul 16, 2026
Today in Labor and Writing History July 16, 1862: Ida B Wells was born, Holly Springs, Mississippi. She was most famous for her nation-wide anti-lynching campaign, launched after the murder of three black businessmen in Memphis, Tennessee. Wells was born into slavery, in Mississippi, and spent her lifetime fighting racism and prejudice. She worked as a journalist, where she documented lynchings. She also founded the NAACP. Her autobiography, “Crusade for Justice,” was published posthumously in 1970. #workingclass #LaborHistory #IdaBWells #slavery #lynching #naacp #racism #mississippi #BlackMastodon
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MixMistressAlice
Mix Mistress Alice💄 @MixMistressAlice@todon.eu · Jul 12, 2026
"Born in August 1950 Dexter Wansel is one of the most influential figures of the Philly Soul. As the A+R Director for Philadelphia International Records, songwriter, arrangeur and producer Wansel was responsible for legendary records from acts like Lou Rawls, Patti LaBelle, The Jacksons, Teddy Pendergrass, Instant Funk, MFSB and Yellow Sunshine."—Signed Media Dexter Wansel: Interview with the songwriter, producer and architect of the 'Philly Sound' > https://youtu.be/IiX8U40L7ng?si=-PUTlHbDjV9CdJuZ #Dexter_Wansel #interview #TSOP #Philly_Soul #The_Sound_Of_Philadephia #Philly_Sound #music #history #Philadephia #astronomy #segregation #USA #music_producer #songwriter #music_arranger #civil_rights #red_lining #gentrification #real_estate #slavery #immigration #discrimination #USA #respect podcast #soul #jazz #funk #disco #blues #Philadelphia_International_Records #mainline #artists
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amyfou
AmyFou 🕊️ @amyfou@lingo.lol · Jul 10, 2026
Today I got to visit a place where I was able to stand on the exact spot where Frederick Douglass once stood in order to tell people that slavery is terrible and bad. This is the Coffin House in Fountain City IN, and it was a stop on the Underground Railroad. https://www.indianamuseum.org/historic-sites/levi-and-catharine-coffin-state-historic-site/ #History #UndergroundRailroad #US #slavery #Indiana #CoffinHouse 1/2
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dbattistella
DB 🌱💦 @dbattistella@mstdn.ca · Jul 06, 2026
"The main aim of the slave states was to block federal power—via the rule of the democratic majority—to take measures to limit or end slavery, and to prevent its westward expansion. From the very beginning, the southern slave states insisted on the national government relinquishing as much power to the states as possible—and to give them the power to block federal actions binding on the entire United States." #USpolitics #USConstitution #Slavery https://www.savageminds.co/p/slavery-states-rights-and-american
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bibliolater
✨ Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@social.vivaldi.net · Jul 05, 2026
🇿🇦 🎥 🇿🇦 🎥 🇿🇦 🎥 The Forgotten Slaves of South Africa 🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yLfPFGC1O8 #History #Histodons #Slavery #SouthAfrica
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