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With all the usual bullshit mythmaking & rah-rah kicking up for July 4th, I want to uplift an ancestor who was a true American hero who fought for liberation from racial oppression & chattel slavery. Denmark Vesey should be studied & celebrated in (contd)👇🏾👇🏾
05:50 PM - Jul 02, 2023
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Lasberry Nuguyen
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09:12 AM - Jul 03, 2023
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Blackity Black
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Stamped from the Beginning— “In 1818 a 51-year-old free Carpenter named Denmark Vesey started recruiting the thousands of slaves in and around Charleston that would form his Army. One estimate says 9000. Vesey was well known locally as one of the founders of Emmanuel AME church.”
06:55 PM - Jul 02, 2023
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Bowerydoll
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Lift. Him. UP.🖐🏾❤🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
06:58 PM - Jul 02, 2023
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Blackity Black
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“—the first African Methodist episcopal church in the south. Before receiving his freedom in 1800 Vesey had traveled the Atlantic with his seafaring owner acquiring a tremendous pride in the agency, culture, and humanity of African people. He had also been inspired by the American, French, and—,”
06:59 PM - Jul 02, 2023
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Carl Angoli
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Thank you for this. I enjoy learning things like this and want to learn these stories about America.
06:13 PM - Jul 02, 2023
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Bowerydoll
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You're welcome🖐🏾🔥Never stop learning.
06:22 PM - Jul 02, 2023
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