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A Brief History of U.S. Slavery

Was U.S. slavery different from other forms of slavery? Some commentators try to minimize the slavery’s impact on the United States. This is a brief history of slavery in the United States.

Citations:

Painter, Nell Irvin. “How We Think about the Term ‘Enslaved’ Matters.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 14 Aug. 2019.

Hudson, Nicholas. “‘Nation to ‘Race’: The Origin of Racial Classification in Eighteenth-Century Thought.” Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 247–264. Spring, 1996.

Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Tenth Anniversary Edition. New Press, 2020. Buy here!

Davis, Adrienne. “‘Don’t Let Nobody Bother Yo’ Principle’: The Sexual Economy of American Slavery.” Sister Circle: Black Women and Work, edited by Sharon Harley, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ, 2002. Buy here!

Diouf, Sylviane A. Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas. Buy here!

Lewis, Bernard. Race and Slavery in the Middle East: An Historical Enquiry. Oxford University Press, 1992. Buy here!

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HISTORY

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CORRECTION: No Evidence Taylor Brown Is Student

Based on the Federal lawsuit filed by Taylor Brown against the Town of Normal, Agitation Rising reported that Brown is a college student. Upon further investigation, there does not appear to be any evidence Brown was enrolled at any educational institution. Brown’s roommate, Ashontis Davis, who alleges Taylor Brown set the fire at their house, stated Brown was a student at Paul Mitchell Beauty School. Davis said Brown was suspended from the beauty school and was not enrolled anywhere at the time of the fire on February 8th, 2023. Agitation Rising confirmed with Paul Mitchell Beauty School that Brown was a student last year but was not a student at the time of the fire. All videos and articles have been updated removing the claim Brown is a college student.

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Was U.S. Slavery Different? Responding to Candace Owens & Ben Shapiro

Was U.S. slavery different from other forms of slavery? Some commentators try to minimize the slavery’s impact on the United States. I respond to Candace Owens & Ben Shapiro videos on U.S. slavery.

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Citations:

Gonzalez, Nancie L. “From Cannibals to Mercenaries: Carib Militarism, 1600-1840.” Journal of Anthropological Research, vol. 46, no. 1, 1990, pp. 25–39.

Federici, Silvia. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation. Buy here!

Diouf, Sylviane A. Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas. Buy here!

Lewis, Bernard. Race and Slavery in the Middle East: An Historical Enquiry. Oxford University Press, 1992. Buy here!

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Notes On McLean County Jail Part 13

Stats from the McLean County Jail, accurate as of March 21st, 2023:

Jail population: 216

Proportions by gender:
are female: 35 (16%)
are male: 181 (84%)

Proportions by race:
Black: 110 (50%)
Other Minority: 13 (6%)
Persons of a Colonial Complexion: 96 (44%)

Number of people over 50: 25 (12%)
Number of people sentenced: 13 (6%)
Number of people pretrial (felony): 186 (86%)
Number of people pretrial (misdemeanors): 8 (4%)
Number of people pretrial for drug offenses: 67 (31%)
Number of out of county residences: 68 (31%)
Number of people prescribed mental health medication: 65 (30%)

Average Population Data between December 1st, 2022-March 21st, 2023

Average Population
213
Highest PopulationLowest Population
237 (2/12/2023 & 2/17/2023)173 (12/23/2022)
Average charged with drug offenseAverage Age over 50
56 (26%)27 (13%)
Total ArrivalsTotal Releases
12981216

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Race: The History of a Word

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Historically, race has been an extremely important & commonly used word in the last like 500 years. But, like all words, the history of the word race is complicated. You see, the contemporary definition of the word race just didn’t pop up out of nowhere. It’s changed quite a bit. In this video we explore the etymology and history of this word from Plato & Aristotle all the way to David Hume & Voltaire.

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Citations:

Hudson, Nicholas. “‘Nation to ‘Race’: The Origin of Racial Classification in Eighteenth-Century Thought.” Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 247–264. Spring, 1996, https://doi.org/http://www.jstor.org/stable/30053821.

Ward, Julie K., and Tommy L. Lott, editors. Philosophers on Race: Critical Essays. Blackwell, 2002. Buy Here!

Lewis, Bernard. Race and Slavery in the Middle East: An Historical Enquiry. Oxford University Press, 1992. Buy here!

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Blood & Gold: The Transition to Capitalism | Caliban & the Witch

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Everything you’ve ever been taught about Witches is wrong!

Period!

Philosopher Sylvia Federici writes a new history of witches in Caliban and the Witch: Woman, the Body, & Primitive Accumulation. This video looks at Chapter 2, The Accumulation of Labor & the Degradation of Women: Constructing ‘Difference’ in the ‘Transition to Capitalism’.

This chapter covers the following: End of Feudalism, Transition to Capitalism, Colonization, Globalization, Race and Women: the Invention of a Capitalist Epistemology, The Greatest Land-Grab in Human History, The Price Revolution and the Criminalization of the Working Class, The Patriarchy of the Wage, and The Disciplining of Women

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CALIBAN & THE WITCH

Citations:

Federici, Silvia. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation. Buy here!

Marx, Karl. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Vol. 1, Penguin, 1992. Buy here!

Shakespeare, William. The Tempest. Buy here!

Locke, John. Two Treatises of Government. Edited by Mark Goldie, Everyman, 1999. Buy here!

Foucault, Michel. Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972-1977. Buy here!

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