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Wednesday Open Thread: African-American Real Estate Moguls
HAPPY HUMP DAY P.O.U.! We continue our series on African-American Real Estate Moguls with… Bridget “Biddy” Mason (1818-1891) “If you hold your hand closed, nothing good can come in. The open hand is...
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Saturday Open Thread: Namibia – Germany’s First Holocaust
GOOD MORNING PRAG-OBOTS! We conclude our look at Namibia – Germany’s First Holocaust with the History Channel documentary, 100 Years of Silence. Swakopmund Concentration Camp Prisoner ID Tag. These...
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Monday Open Thread: Slave Rebellions
GOOD MONDAY MORNING, P.O.U.! This week’s series will be devoted to Slave Rebellions. THE STONO REBELLION South Carolina The Stono Rebellion (sometimes called Cato’s Conspiracy or Cato’s Rebellion)...
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Tuesday Open Thread: Slave Rebellions
GOOD MORNING P.O.U.! 1811 GERMAN COAST UPRISING Louisiana (Photo: Maurice Thompson, The Story of Louisiana, (Boston: D. Lothrop Co., 1888)The New York Public Library, Humanities and Social Sciences...
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Wednesday Open Thread: Slave Rebellions
HAPPY HUMP DAY, PRAGOBOTS! GASPAR YANGA’S REVOLT Veracruz, Mexico Known as the Primer Libertador de America or “first liberator of the Americas,” Gaspar Yanga led one of colonial Mexico’s first...
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Thursday Open Thread: Slave Rebellions
GOOD MORNING, P.O.U.! THE CREOLE SHIP MUTINY Artist depiction of Madison Washington (Photo: NewsOne.com) The Creole case was the result of an American slave revolt in November 1841 on board the...
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Friday Open Thread: Slave Rebellions
HAPPY FRIDAY, PRAGOBOTS! THE NEW YORK CONSPIRACY OF 1741 African American slave being burned at the stake after New York Conspiracy of 1741 (PHOTO: Wikipedia)) The Conspiracy of 1741, also known as...
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Saturday Open Thread: Slave Rebellions
GOOD MORNING P.O.U.! THE BAPTIST WAR Jamaica Samuel Sharpe, leader of the Baptist War (PHOTO: Barrington Watson) The Baptist War, also known as the Christmas Rebellion, the Christmas Uprising and the...
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Tuesday Open Thread: Slave Rebellions II – The Rebels
GOOD MORNING, P.O.U.! Louis Delgrès Louis Delgrès (August 2, 1766 – May 28, 1802) was a mulatto leader of the movement in Guadeloupe resisting reoccupation (and thus the reinstitution of slavery) by...
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Thursday Open Thread: Slave Rebellions II – The Rebels
GOOD MORNING, P.O.U.! We continue our series on Slave Rebels…. QUEEN NANNY OF THE MAROONS Sketch of Nanny of the Maroons, National Library of Jamaica. Queen Nanny or Nanny (c. 1685 – unknown, circa...
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Wednesday Open Thread: African-American Real Estate Moguls II
HAPPY HUMP DAY P.O.U.! We continue our series on African-American Real Estate Moguls with… Bridget “Biddy” Mason (1818-1891) “If you hold your hand closed, nothing good can come in. The open hand is...
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Monday Open Thread: African American Ghost Stories III
GOOD MONDAY MORNING, P.O.U.! THE LALAURIE MANSION The LaLaurie Mansion located at 1140 Royalty Street in New Orleans (Photo: Wikipedia) (From: PrairieGhosts.com) MISTRESS OF DEATH: THE HAUNTED...
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Monday Open Thread: Slave Rebellions III
GOOD MONDAY MORNING, P.O.U. FAM! GABRIEL’S REBELLION Virginia Gabriel (1776 – October 10, 1800), today commonly—if incorrectly—known as Gabriel Prosser, was a literate enslaved blacksmith who planned...
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Wednesday Open Thread: Slave Rebellions III
HAPPY HUMP DAY, P.O.U.! THE STONO REBELLION South Carolina The Stono Rebellion (sometimes called Cato’s Conspiracy or Cato’s Rebellion) was a slave rebellion that commenced on 9 September 1739, in...
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Thursday Open Thread: Slave Rebellions III
GOOD MORNING P.O.U.! 1733 SLAVE INSURRECTION ON ST. JOHN The 1733 slave insurrection on St. John in the Danish West Indies (now St. John, United States Virgin Islands) started on November 23, 1733,...
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