Author: Pirates of the Slave Trade | Builders and Defenders Database | Friend of @FortNegley | Director: @FortNegleyDesc | I always have some history for you.
Nashville, TN
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Dr. Angela Sutton (She/Her)🏳️🌈🏴☠️ retweeted
WHISTLEBLOWER: “I was walked out of the building and fired… to silence me for speaking out about the truth. But I’m not going to let that happen.”
Paul was fired from HUD’s office of Fair Housing for calling out the Trump regime ignoring/enabling civil rights violations.
Great news! The short documentary, What Happened to Bass Street, is going on its festival journey. May the unbridled enthusiasm of the Juneteenth test screening at @FortNegley follow this film wherever it goes.
Did you know that #Nashville's Cameron School was built within a stone's throw from @FortNegely? That's no coincidence! @Pubhistorian & I will connect some of the early history of Cameron with the Black veterans of the Civil War- and you know I'll be talking about Bass Street!
Just some of the talent behind "What Happened to Bass Street," the short documentary film that investigates Bass Street, a missing neighborhood of Nashville, TN founded by Black Civil War veterans.
From left to right there's me, Prof. @dsharfstein, writer @AuntB, descendant Jackie Scruggs, descendant and co-producer Jeneene Blackman, Prof. @ArchaeoAndrew, archaeologist @ClelstheArchaeo, descendant Vernice Scruggs, and Pastor Thompson of the Bass Street Church.
Dr. Angela Sutton (She/Her)🏳️🌈🏴☠️ retweeted
Tomorrow! Find out What Happened To Bass Street! First screening is 4pm at Fort Negley To kick off Juneteenth!
You are invited!
June 19, 4pm, @FortNegley Visitors Center. Featuring descendants of Bass Street at Fort Negley and all your favorite experts: @learothawms, @Pubhistorian, @dsharfstein, @AuntB, and more!
After Jim Hutchinson was freed from slavery in 1865, the federal government gave him 40 acres in South Carolina. Soon after, that land was taken back. Learn about how the government’s ultimate betrayal fueled a racial wealth gap that persists today.
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Dr. Angela Sutton (She/Her)🏳️🌈🏴☠️ retweeted
The brochure is for the new Builders and Defenders database, which contains the names and biographical information about 19,000 enslaved & free Black Civil War era builders and defenders of Nashville. Find out if you are a descendant of this @FortNegley population. @NegleyFriends
Dr. Angela Sutton (She/Her)🏳️🌈🏴☠️ retweeted
"By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave master?"
Remembering Walter Rodney, the revolutionary anti-imperialist, socialist, and Pan-Africanist, who was assassinated on this day in 1980.
Dr. Angela Sutton (She/Her)🏳️🌈🏴☠️ retweeted
Don’t ever talk to me about how Black people aren’t owed reparations because no one alive has suffered what the reparations are for. These survivors for more than a century have stubbornly refused to die, only to be denied justice again and again. That is despite the fact that the state of Oklahoma’s own task force recommended reparations. When it comes to descendants of slavery, this country has always engaged in the tactic of delay until death. That is why reparations MUST include descendants. What is the statute of limitations on crimes against humanity?
BREAKING: The Oklahoma Supreme Court has dismissed the Tulsa Race Massacre case, in what was likely the final opportunity for survivors to receive justice
whatimreading.net/p/oklahoma…
Many of these objects used to enslave and by the enslaved were manufactured in New England and made these industrialists from the North wealthy. Another reminder that the whole nation profited from slavery, not only the South.
In an exploration article for history's annual newsletter,
@sethrockman discusses his forthcoming book, Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery (@UChicagoPress, 2024). A thread ⬇️🧵
Behind the scenes at the filming of the documentary titled "What Happened to Bass Street?"
(Produced by Jeneene Blackman & myself, directed by SECK)
Dr. Angela Sutton (She/Her)🏳️🌈🏴☠️ retweeted
Capturing descendants from the Bass Street Church for a documentary! The church's original location was at the foot of @FortNegley as it was started by Black Civil War veterans.
