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Were There Irish Slaves in America, Too?
Written by:
David Emery
Sep 23, 2016
Questionable sources maintain that the plight of so-called "Irish slaves" in early America was w ...
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No, the Phrase 'Knocked Up' Didn't Originate with Slavery
Written by:
Izz Scott LaMagdeleine
Feb 11, 2023
The earliest known usage of the term comes from a diary entry about a widow.
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Is San Francisco Considering Plan To Give $5M to Each Eligible Black Person for Reparations?
Written by:
Nur Ibrahim
Jan 17, 2023
Racial inequality and injustice have long been a part of the city’s history.
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Did Dems Oppose 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments That Gave Freedom, Voting Rights to Slaves?
Written by:
Nur Ibrahim
Nov 7, 2022
It's all but impossible to capture the complexities of history in a meme.
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Were 'Cakewalks' Dances Performed by Black Slaves on Plantations?
Written by:
Jessica Lee
Feb 19, 2022
Several readers asked us if the word — which is often used to describe something that's easy to ...
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Did Maps in Cornrows Help Black Slaves Escape Slavery?
Written by:
Jordan Liles
Feb 17, 2022
A rumor on Facebook claimed that Black slaves would create maps in cornrows to help others escap ...
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Were Some Slave Owners Paid Reparations by US Government When Slavery Ended?
Written by:
Madison Dapcevich
Jun 20, 2021
Reportedly, each former slave owner in the District of Columbia was paid $300 — the equivalent o ...
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Did Florida State Rep. Kimberly Daniels Once Say, 'I Thank God for Slavery'?
Written by:
Dan MacGuill
Jan 2, 2019
The Jacksonville Democrat's pronouncements as a preacher came under intense scrutiny in 2018.
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Did Michele Bachmann Say 'Kanye is Right' and Slavery was 'a Choice'?
Written by:
Kim LaCapria
May 2, 2018
A phony quote from the former U.S. representative circulated after the musician made controversi ...
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Was the NRA Founded to Protect Black People from the Ku Klux Klan?
Written by:
David Emery
Mar 28, 2018
Revisionist accounts of the origin of the National Rifle Association say it was formed to help f ...
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Did a Vermont Woman Post a Joke About Trump 'Bringing Back Slavery'?
Written by:
Dan MacGuill
Jan 25, 2018
Heather Wick faced an online backlash after a racially insensitive Facebook post in 2017, and ag ...
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Controversial Roy Moore Remarks on Slavery Resurface on Social Media
Written by:
Kim LaCapria
Dec 8, 2017
The Alabama politician once again became a topic of debate just days before the end of a high-pr ...
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Do These Photographs Depict the Libyan Slave Trade?
Written by:
Dan MacGuill
Nov 28, 2017
An emotive Facebook post about the slave trade in Libya used photographs that were either unrela ...
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Does the California NAACP Want to Replace the National Anthem?
Written by:
Alex Kasprak
Nov 8, 2017
The group has proposed state legislation aimed at replacing "The Star-Spangled Banner" as the na ...
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Were Black Children Used as Alligator Bait in the American South?
Written by:
David Emery
Jun 9, 2017
Tales of youngsters chained up as "alligator bait" in the deep South of the 18th and early 19th ...
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President Trump: Andrew Jackson Could Have Prevented the Civil War
Written by:
David Emery
May 1, 2017
Does Trump's suggestion that Andrew Jackson could have stopped the Civil War have any basis in h ...
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Did Ben Carson Liken Slavery to Immigration?
Written by:
David Mikkelson
Bethania Palma
Mar 6, 2017
The retired neurosurgeon and former presidential candidate made a controversial comment about im ...
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Obama-Led U.N. Has Just Made It Official, U.S. to Immediately Pay Blacks 'Reparations'
Written by:
David Emery
Dec 20, 2016
Untrustworthy web sites reported that at President Obama's behest, the United Nations ordered th ...
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UN Demands U.S. Pay Reparations for Slavery
Written by:
Kim LaCapria
Sep 28, 2016
The United Nations has not ordered the United States to pay reparations to black citizens for sl ...
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Did Tiffany Chokers Originate as Slave Collars?
Written by:
Kim LaCapria
Sep 27, 2016
Tiffany & Co. never made or sold slave collars, and a viral image of a slave collar is not from ...
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