Joshua D. Rothman

@rothmanistan

Professor of History, scholar of slavery. Researching lives of slave traders, looking for humanity's virtues, learning from those who made a way out of no way.

Joined October 2014

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  1. Jun 26

    In the Trump era, no one can remember the 1960s and 1970s?

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    Jun 25

    "I don’t believe that the Civil War was ultimately fought over the issue of slavery,” Corey Stewart tells . It doesn’t actually matter what Stewart believes—he happens to be wrong:

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  3. Jun 26
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    Jun 26

    I never knew Willie Lee Rose. But I do know the influence of her work on my own. RIP.

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  5. Jun 26

    “In the spirit of civility, are you sure you really want to say the sky is blue? Seems harsh.”

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  6. Jun 26

    Minnesota man and pretend Virginian does not believe that people who said quite proudly that they started a war to protect slavery actually started a war to protect slavery.

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  7. Jun 24

    “What we have witnessed is eerily similar to tactics used during other periods in US history, most notably, slavery.”

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    So here's what fascinates me.... Why does anyone accept that these facilities are only for migrant children?

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  9. Jun 21
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  10. Jun 21

    Wait wait wait. She went to the border. To see kids taken away from their parents. Who may never see them again. And wore a jacket that literally says “I really don’t care?”

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  11. Jun 21

    We’ve been over this. It was Russian interference and 77,000 votes in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.

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    Jun 21

    In the speech that McCarthy referred to, Lincoln also said: "If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature."

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  13. Jun 21
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    Jun 21

    in 1964, 3 civil rights workers-Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, Michael Schwerner-kidnapped & murdered by KKK near Philadelphia, MS. in 2005, Edgar Ray Killen convicted of manslaughter on crime’s 41st anniversary.

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  15. Jun 20

    If you believe in such things, there's gonna be a higher judge of your performance whether you like it or not. And you're not gonna like the verdict.

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  16. Jun 20
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  17. Jun 19

    I can’t believe she called him “Mr. President.”

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  18. Jun 19
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  19. Jun 18

    But they knew exceptional cruelty and injustice when they saw it. And even some of those inclined not to look at slavery squarely saw it for what it was. 8/8

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  20. Jun 18

    They did not always succeed. In fact, they often failed. The forces of the state and of capital were powerful and had the "law" on their side. 7/

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