slavery – Green Social Thought https://www.greensocialthought.org Produce less. Distribute it fairly. Create a greener world for all. Thu, 22 Feb 2024 04:48:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.greensocialthought.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/cropped-ggef_logo_small-1-32x32.png slavery – Green Social Thought https://www.greensocialthought.org 32 32 Review: Black Subjugation in America https://www.greensocialthought.org/biodiversity-biodevastation/review-black-subjugation-america-0/ Sat, 22 Apr 2017 16:01:31 +0000 https://gst.riz-om.network/reprint/review-black-subjugation-america-0/ by Kim Scipes

Review of three books on black subjugation, slavery and white supremacy, and argues these three things need to be placed at the center of the Americqn experience.]]> by Kim Scipes

Review of three books on black subjugation, slavery and white supremacy, and argues these three things need to be placed at the center of the Americqn experience.

]]> The First Demand for Slave Reparations https://www.greensocialthought.org/biodiversity-biodevastation/first-demand-slave-reparations/ Thu, 30 Jun 2016 13:46:36 +0000 https://gst.riz-om.network/reprint/first-demand-slave-reparations/ by Herb Dyer

  This is written for those who argue against reparations for slavery on the grounds that slavery happened oh so very – too – long ago to be a rational idea; for those who contend that no living black people were slaves; who argue that no living white people were slave owners; for people who insist, therefore, that the time to ask for slavery reparations has long since passed. And, anyway, why didn’t the ex-slaves themselves demand reparations/compensation? Mary Frances Berry is a former chairwoman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and currently a Professor of History at University […]]]> by Herb Dyer

 

This is written for those who argue against reparations for slavery on the grounds that slavery happened oh so very – too – long ago to be a rational idea; for those who contend that no living black people were slaves; who argue that no living white people were slave owners; for people who insist, therefore, that the time to ask for slavery reparations has long since passed. And, anyway, why didn’t the ex-slaves themselves demand reparations/compensation?

Mary Frances Berry is a former chairwoman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and currently a Professor of History at University of Pennsylvania – among many other things. Berry’s 2006 book, My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations, chronicles the life and times of Callie House, a Tennessee ex-slave who had been born into slavery at the outset of the Civil War. Berry meticulously details the universal and grinding poverty faced by House and virtually all other ex-slaves and their children. House, despite the simultaneous rise of Jim Crow and the Ku Klux Klan, organized hundreds of thousands of black people into a sustained national movement which demanded federal government compensation for blacks’ 246 years of free labor provided to this country.

 

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