ICE, with faces covered, lurk at courthouses and outside homes and workplaces – and when the person they kidnap is taken away, how are we to know who the kidnappers really are? In macabre tribute to our colonial legacy of kidnapping and slavery, ICE’s Gestapo-type disappearances continue to shock and […]
American History / Articles / Early American History
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Marooned On Newtown Creek
The young man in this article about a hermit living on Newtown Creek, was living like a maroon. During slavery, many enslaved people would escape captivity – sometimes for a few days, sometimes for years, sometimes forever. The accounts of enslaved people relate many times that a person escaped, dug […]
Early American History / Interviews
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America’s Saint Paul: Bartolome de Las Casas
Why Does Most Of The Work Of The Most Important European Primary Source From 1492 Remain Untranslated Into English?
Articles / Book reports / Early American History / Prison
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The Old Plantations and Their Owners of Brazoria County, Texas by Abner J. Strobel
When still inside TDCJ hell, a friend asked me to see what I could find about the connection to plantations and the prison units he was imprisoned in: Ramsey Unit. Excerpts of my letter responding: There’s really not a major work on Ramsey Plantation / Prison. I consulted two resources […]
Articles / Early American History
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Military Waste – Ooops On Purpose
In 1676 there were rebellions all over the American colonies, Bacon’s Rebellion being the most famous. After rebellions were suppressed, commissioners were sent in to find out what had happened. In the collected grievances from the people of Charles City County, VA, overtaxation was a major complaint, with military waste […]