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Four Walls @FourWalls (86740) • United States 20 Feb

Yesterday was mostly filled with a visit to the Legacy Museum, which details the evils of slavery. It’s in Montgomery, Alabama, and part of it is located on the site of slave factories. Not too far from the museum (on the bus...

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Will Trump Reintroduce Slavery?

kay lar @jaylar (3724) • Kingston, Jamaica 21 Sep

The prisons are full of Trump's most despised race. They live and eat and get medical care out of the pockets of taxpayers. Why not use them as slaves? Many of the illegal aliens that were deported worked on farms. Will...

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Self Hate

kay lar @jaylar (3724) • Kingston, Jamaica 24 Mar 25

Many years ago I heard a story I dismissed without pause. Recently, I heard it again and accepted its truth. Not to delve into details; during slavery a master was beating his slave when a free black man intervened. After...

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Daily Bible Study

Valerie J. Routhieaux @just4him (323168) • Green Bay, Wisconsin 8 Mar 24

Day 50 – Slavery Exodus 2:1 A man of the house of Levi went and took as wife a daughter of Levi. 2 The woman conceived and bore a son. And when she saw that he was a beautiful child, she hid him for three months. 3 When she...

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Believe it or Not

celticeagle @celticeagle (189880) • Boise, Idaho 2 Jan 24

In 1849 a Virginia slave named Henry "Box" Brown arranged to have himself shipped in a wooden box to an abolitionist in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where slavery had been abolished. To get out of work the day of his escape he had...

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Juneteenth National Independence Day

celticeagle @celticeagle (189880) • Boise, Idaho 19 Jun 22

Federal troops arrived in Galveston Texas to make sure all enslaved peoples were known to be free. It was June 19, 1865, when enslaved African-Americans became aware of their freedom in Texas and all through the southwestern...

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Slavery Rates...See?!?

Shavkat @Shavkat (141905) • Philippines 14 Nov 21

I thought I am going to be an amateur novel writer. I saw an advertisement on Facebook. I contacted the person who posted it and gave a short briefing with this image. I was shocked that they are looking for slaves and not an...

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Thursday, 14 Oct 21

Bensen32 @Bensen32 (28658) • United States 14 Oct 21

Good day to you all, Hope you all are doing well. I am feeling much better so that is a good thing. Another busy day today at work and the time few by. So, I was reading that the Rolling Stones are pulling a classic song from...

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Daily Bible Study

Valerie J. Routhieaux @just4him (323168) • Green Bay, Wisconsin 10 Jul 21

Day 27 Exodus 4:18 And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said unto him, “Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto my brethren which are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive.” And Jethro said to Moses,...

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About Juneteenth

Jim Bauer @porwest (112876) • United States 16 Jun 21

It seems that Juneteenth—what was before an unofficial day in most of the country that celebrates the end of slavery in the United States through the Emancipation Proclamation signed into law by president Abraham Lincoln—may...

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Why I'm glad I am not a cat person

The Horse @TheHorse (238317) • Walnut Creek, California 6 Mar 21

So I have the front door open, letting the evening air bathe me in soft aromatic breezes. Kitty is on my welcome mat, outside the front door, guarding. Suddenly, I realize it's 10 PM and I have a Covid shot at 8:30 AM. I have to...

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Amazing Grace Stories of John Newton and Harriet Tubman.

eileenleyva @eileenleyva (27555) • Philippines 17 Feb 21

The other day, I watched Amazing Grace, the John Newton story. Newton, a sailor and a slave, penned the lyrics after he discovered Christ amid a journey at sea that would have claimed his life. Despite that, he sailed slaves from...

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He helped change slavery but he still ended up in jail for it.

AmberLynn @ScribbledAdNauseum (104615) • United States 20 Oct 19

Disclaimer: I feel it's probably necessary for me to say that the nature of the slavery was not the ordinary and might be a trigger to some. I'm not going to go into detail as to keep this "PG" but felt it still necessary...

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What bothers me about the trade issues with China

Gary Sibio @garysibi (702) • Chicago, Illinois 18 Aug 19

When talking about Trump's dealing with trade with China, two reasons are always brought up: 1) The trade imbalance 2) The theft of intellectual property I'm not arguing that these things are insignificant but there is another...

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No, This is Not For Me....

Sue21 @lovinangelsinstead21 (36847) • Pamplona, Spain 28 Jun 19

My love for "Greensleeves" the song and the music is what got me thinking of the love that Henry the Eighth might have had for that Lady Anne Boleyn. For me they can keep that kind of love that seeks only to enslave. To me he...

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Why does Human Sex Trafficking Flourish in an Anti Slavery Society?

ParaTed2k @ParaTed2k (22940) • Sheboygan, Wisconsin 9 Jun 19

We sing songs about freedom, we even sing songs about sex. We consider sex one of the liberties we enjoy as adults. We even had a "sexual revolution" to make sex more free. We sing songs against slavery and human bondage. We look...

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Slavery, Human Trafficking, two different ways to spell the same thing.

ParaTed2k @ParaTed2k (22940) • Sheboygan, Wisconsin 25 May 19

I wish we didn't have to play political or social word games. We have to call the modern slave trade "human trafficking" because the term "slavery" has basically been patented by history. The term slavery itself has nothing...

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Vertigo

Junbals @Junbals (1421) • Philippines 8 Apr 19

The late Fr. Venancio Calpotura, SJ, the former head of the Ignatian Spirituality in Manila, used to tell a story about a woman who was brought to him by her family, because she had vertigo, a disease that results in dizziness, in...

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Human Trafficking happens because slavery is still popular

ParaTed2k @ParaTed2k (22940) • Sheboygan, Wisconsin 25 Mar 19

We talk about the slavery of the past and wonder how on Earth such a horrific thing could not only be legal, but considered a "right". How can someone be so inhuman as to buy and sell other human beings? How can people be so full...

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Last Minute Stocking Filler Books

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 20 Dec 18

Some books I recently reviewed are well worth considering as Xmas presents. Rob Boffard – Adrift – A space tour bus full of passengers ends up marooned with limited supplies and draining power when a mysterious ship attacks the...

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