Fascinating Piece on Slavery

William Haskins · Apr 16, 2010

ta-nehisi coates, a brilliant writer on cultural issues, has posted a couple of fascinating pieces on emancipated slaves over at the atlantic -- focusing on everything from the cruelty of branding, to the obsession with racial purity, to the abolitionists' methods.

definitely check out the links in part two.

part one

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/04/honoring-chm-one-drop/38952/

part two

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/04/honoring-chm-one-drop-cont/39036/

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Slushie · Apr 16, 2010

From the cont'd piece:

There's a lot in there. The incident at the St. Lawrence Hotel refers to how some of the liberated slave children were originally taken for white and given lodging. When their identity was discovered they were summarily tossed out. I think that incident, as I've written before, underscores why the notion that a beige America is a some kind of civil rights strategy is naive. Racism creates races where there are none.

That last sentence is excellent.

I also really liked that picture from Harper's with the lone soldiers standing in the snowstorm. Love the movement of his jacket in the wind and the lines of the etching.

And check out that one eyebrow on Isaac White. lol

Fascinating Piece on Slavery

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