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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Deglassco ("Dr. D. Elisabeth Glassco") wrote:
A nation’s story isn’t just about what happened. It’s about who gets to say what it meant. That’s why 1619 was intolerable. It refused to defer. It refused to flatter the founding. It did not erase 1776. It completed it. And in doing so, It crossed a line. Invisible to many, But real.
9/13
Image: An 1847 ad placed by Nautilus Mutual Life Insurance (later renamed New York Life Insurance) offering insurance on enslaved people. The Daily Democrat,. Source: EJI, https://eji.org/report/transatlantic-slave-trade/new-england/#industries-reliant-on-enslaved-labor
