Tag Archives: slavery

The Whiteness of Audubon’s Snowy Egret

Posted on November 22, 2024 by Stephen Carr Hampton

Nicolas Mirzoeff’s essay, The Whiteness of Birds, brought my attention to this painting. There are layers here that probably tell us more about people than the about the ecology of the bird – about white history, white nature, white autonomy, … Continue reading →

Posted in my own thoughts | Tagged Audubon, black-history, haiti, print, Rice Hope Plantation, slavery, snowy egret | 2 Comments

Indian Removal and the Black Belt: Connecting ethnic cleansing and slavery

Posted on October 2, 2024 by Stephen Carr Hampton

The 100-million-year story of the Black Belt, a crescent-shaped swath from Virginia to Louisiana, has been told many times – how a geological formation from the Cretaceous, visible today in the dark soils it created, can be seen in the … Continue reading →

Posted in my own thoughts | Tagged Black Belt, black-history, By the Fire We Carry, ethnic cleansing, Indian removal act, plantations, Rebecca Nagle, slavery, Trail of Tears | Leave a comment

A reverse land acknowledgment: Place names honor ethnic cleansing and slavery

Posted on April 4, 2022 by Stephen Carr Hampton

I live in Port Townsend, Jefferson County, Washington. It was originally called qatáy by the S’Klallam, a place with a small lagoon and a series of freshwater ponds that allowed for kayak portages from Puget Sound to the Strait of Juan … Continue reading →

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John Sutter’s heart of darkness

Posted on June 18, 2020 by Stephen Carr Hampton

In Joseph Conroy’s novel Heart of Darkness, the ivory trader Mr. Kurtz moves deep into the “savage interior” of the Congo and builds a vast slave plantation where he rules by terror. Severed heads are perched on the posts of … Continue reading →

Posted in news | Tagged Apocalypse Now, Donner Party, genocide, Gold Rush, heart of darkness, Maidu, Miwok, slavery, slaves, statue, Sutter, Sutter's Mill | 1 Comment

Slavery in the US before 1619; why are we ignoring it?

Posted on August 31, 2019 by Stephen Carr Hampton

When English pirates arrived in Jamestown, Virginia in 1619 and sold 20-32 African slaves (which they had stolen from a Portuguese vessel off the coast of Spanish-controlled Veracruz, Mexico) to the settlers there, it was the first time that a … Continue reading →

Posted in my own thoughts, news | Tagged 1586, 1619, Drake, Estevanico, florida, Guale, Guasco, Narvaez, revolt, Roanoke, San Miguel de Guadalupe, Sapelo, slave, slavery, Spaniards, Spanish, St. Augustine | Leave a comment

How reparations could work: Using the US’s past affirmative action for whites as a model

Posted on April 9, 2019 by Stephen Carr Hampton

Reparations for on-going injustices against Native and African Americans are entirely feasible. Historic government programs for white people serve as a model. The giant Monopoly game Imagine the US economy thru history as a giant Monopoly game. In the beginning, … Continue reading →

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The Electoral College: White lives matter

Posted on November 4, 2017 by Stephen Carr Hampton

In the wake of Trump’s election, in which he lost the popular vote by nearly three million, much has been said about the use of the Electoral College. Only four times in US history has the winner of the electoral … Continue reading →

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The Slave Trade that Textbooks Ignore

Posted on October 6, 2015 by Stephen Carr Hampton

The release of new textbooks in Texas, which diminish the African slave trade by describing the slaves in the US as “workers” or “immigrants”, has sparked outcry. Many have commented that this is a classic attempt at erasure, to erase the … Continue reading →

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ISIS’s “Theology of Rape” is Nothing New to Native Americans; It Happened Here

Posted on August 25, 2015 by Stephen Carr Hampton

On August 14, the New York Times published an article describing how ISIS uses their Islamic beliefs to justify rape and sex slavery. The story explains how ISIS soldiers pray before and after each rape, and even go to the … Continue reading →

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On this date… August 20, 1705… Florida

Posted on August 20, 2013 by Stephen Carr Hampton

Not much remained of the original inhabitants of Florida by 1705. The villages and towns of the Apalachee, Timucua, Ais, Jeaga, Calusa, Tocobaga, and Matecumbe had all been devastated by the Yamasee, who worked as slavers for the British. All … Continue reading →

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