Important moment to observe today

[randr]

Bell ringing to commemorate the arrival of the first slaves to America.
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[WhiskeyGrinder]

1. I encourage everyone to get into the #1619project. The Pulitzer Center provides a free PDF of the

NYT Magazine project that ran last week. Read it.

http://pulitzercenter.org/sites/default/files/full_issue_of_the_1619_project.pdf

[littlemissmartypants]

4. Thanks so much for this, WhiskeyGrinder. nt

[Ponietz]

2. Extremely important but, remember, Spaniards brought slaves to America almost 100 years earlier

[link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/08/23/everyone-is-talking-about-thats-not-actually-when-slavery-america-started/|

“As the New York Times noted recently in a blockbuster issue of its magazine, African slavery started in America in 1619. That’s true, but only if you ignore a significant chapter of American history: the Spanish-Afro-American historical experience in Florida.

“In many parts of the United States, including Florida, Texas and New Mexico, Spanish speakers arrived first. That matters not just for historical accuracy. It also helps reframe the current rhetorical and political upheaval that surrounds immigration from Spanish-speaking nations to the United States, by reminding us how Spanish-speaking black slaves helped build the nation that we now have.

“There is a tendency of many people who write the history of America to have a view of the world centered on Jamestown and the Anglo American experience. When history fixates on the 13 original American colonies, the rest of the map, including Florida, seems to fall away. But it’s worth expanding that picture to include Spanish-occupied territory in what is now the United States.

“When we consider those lands, we see that slavery actually dates back a full century before 1619. Slavery in Florida reveals how a multinational slave trade built on personal greed and white supremacy forced Africans and African Americans to build North American wealth in which they would not be able to share. Then, adding insult to injury, these early black slaves were erased from the standard narrative of American history.”
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[randr]

3. During the Spanish Inquistion many Jewish slaves

were brought to the American south west. A bit of cowboy jargon has been traced to this as well as musical influences.
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