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Thank you for an enjoyable and interesting discussion, despite the subject matter being somewhat dispiriting.
https://spoutible.com/pod/...
10:05 PM - Mar 07, 2024
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Ericlo
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I look forward to our conversation next week on sugar "white gold". All are welcome to participate - speaking, texting and/or listening -.
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10:18 PM - Mar 07, 2024
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#The1619Project
Chapter 3, Sugar by KG Muhammad
Pg 85
"But the gains of Reconstruction were short-lived. As W.E.B. Du Bois so eloquently wrote in his 1935 book Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880: "The slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery."⁵⁵"
09:07 AM - Mar 08, 2024
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#The1619Project
Chapter 3, SUGAR by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
Page 76
""The Negro-trade, he emphasized, was the foundation of "an inexhaustible Fund of Wealth and Naval Power to this Nation."⁹
Postlethwayt's bullish report was backed by solid evidence."
11:00 PM - Mar 08, 2024
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"The next time we walk the streets of Lower Manhattan, the docks of Liverpool or the grounds of Harvard University, we should think at least in passing of the millions of enslaved workers who helped make some of that grandeur possible, and to the ways that slavery’s legacy persists today."
11:51 AM - Mar 09, 2024
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#The1619Project
Ch. 3, Sugar by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
Page 74
"And sugar is no average foodstuff. What was once a luxury to adorn the lavish banquets of elites has become a toxic foodstuff for the masses. America's high rate of sugar consumption is a major factor in our poor national health."
12:11 PM - Mar 09, 2024
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Pg 73
"from the mid-sixteenth century on, a succession of European nations--Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, France and Britain--plied an international slave trade, with African elites and dealers on one side of the ocean and an insatiable demand by white colonists for enslaved labor on the other."
06:12 PM - Mar 09, 2024
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Harvard University’s Khalil Gibran Muhammad has analyzed how American sugar production cemented slavery within the U.S. economy -- and how its legacy endures.
Before cotton, sugar established American reliance on slave labor - YouTube

It has been 400 years since the first African slaves arrived in what is now the U.S. In observance, The New York Times' 1619 Project spotlights lesser-known ...

06:27 PM - Mar 09, 2024
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Retweeted by Khalil Gibran Muhammad on X:
During a recent panel discussion, KhalilGMuhammad notes, “I think for us to pretend like Black people’s role in pursuing a more expansive democracy is not, at root, behind [these developments] is to kid ourselves."
05:09 PM - Mar 10, 2024
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K. G. Muhammad on X:
Shafiqah Hudson, creator of #YourSlipIsShowing , who exposed Russian and racist backed fake social media in 2014 before 2016 election, died last month. For her pro-democracy activism she was attacked by trolls, ignored by tech & suffered the toxic stress of gender-based threats.
10:52 AM - Mar 11, 2024
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Our discussion on Thursday will be based on Chapter 3, Sugar, and any other relevant material, e.g.,
lived experiences;
the accumulation of capital through cultivation of sugar, tobacco, indigo, rice and cotton, and collaterizing human beings and cleared land;
Toxic foodstuff for the masses.
04:56 PM - Mar 11, 2024
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