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When the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, Texas slave owners didn’t tell their slaves until June, 19, 1865!
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Slave owners would split up families at slave auctions, selling them to plantations in different states just to maximize their profits!
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When George Washington lived in Philadephia (America’s first capital city in the 1790’s), he’d send his professionally trained enslaved chef (named Hercules) back down to Virginia every 5 months to ensure that he would not become free (Pennsylvania state law allowed any slave to declare freedom after living in the state for at least 6 months)! Martha Washington (the first First Lady) was world famous for her ‘recipes’ that were all created by Hercules!
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The life expectancy of the average slave from birth was 29 to 21 years old, while that of a white person in the south was 40 to 43 (double)!
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One third of slaves died within the first three years of their arrival to the United States.
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Infant and child mortality rates for slaves were twice as high as southern white children (as of 2021, it’s actually worse - 4 times as high)!
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In 1830, 36% of American households had slaves.
By comparison, in 2017 40% of US households pay for lawn care services.
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U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B. Toney said in the 1857 Dred Scott case, “A Black man has no rights a white man is bound to respect.” This became the law of the land
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The U.S. Constitution designated black people as three-fifths of a person for the purposes of determining congressional representation!
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The term ‘lynching’ and possibly the town of Lynchburg, Virginia are named after one (of two) military officers with the last name of ‘Lynch’ (no relation). Captain William Lynch and Colonel Charles Lynch’s methods torturing of British soldiers and slaves alike, that not only coined a new term, but also created a level of domestic terrorism so enduring, that it outlasted slavery, several world, domestic, and international wars, Jim Crow, and every other major event in American history since!
