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Learotha Williams, Jr. PhD

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Professor of African American and Public History @TSUedu | Coordinator of the North Nashville Heritage Project | Historic Preservationist | Author | Foodie | Dude with a Camera | Wanderer | Memory Keeper Website: learothawilliamsphd.com

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Learotha Williams, Jr. PhD@learothawms.bsky.social · 5d ago

We have studied it, and found that Jefferson Davis’s response to the emancipation proclamation is pretty clear. Here are excerpts from his Jan. 5, 1863 counter proclamation in the Richmond Enquirer.

On and after February 22, 1863, all free negroes within the limits of the Southern Confederacy shall be placed on the slave status, and be deemed to be chattels, they and their issue forever. All negroes who shall be taken in any of the States in which slavery does not now exist, in the progress of our arms, shall be adjudged, immediately after such capture, to occupy the slave status, and in all States which shall be vanquished by our arms, all free negroes shall, ipso facto, be reduced to the condition of helotism, so that the respective normal conditions of the white and black races may be ultimately placed on a permanent basis, so as to prevent the public peace from being thereafter endangered.In view of these facts, and conscientiously believing that the proper condition of the negro is slavery, or a complete subjection to the white man, and entertaining the belief that the day is not distant when the old Union will be restored with slavery nationally declared to be the proper condition of all of African descent, and in view of the future harmony and progress of all the States of America, I have been induced to issue this address, so that there may be no misunderstanding in the future.
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5d ago

FLASHBACK: “Was the civil war fought over slavery?” REP. MIKE SPARKS (R): “I haven’t really studied it… we all need to study our history…🤔” (He backed keeping the KKK Grand Wizard bust in our capitol… up for re-election again in Rutherford County😬)

KEW@kidadaewilliams.com · last wk.

Congregants celebrate the reconstruction of First Baptist Church of Williamsburg. Established by enslaved and free Black Americans in 1776, in defiance of laws banning Black assemblage and congregation, it is one of America's oldest Black churches abcnews.com/US/wireStory...

Congregants celebrate the reconstruction of one of America's oldest Black churches

The First Baptist Church of Williamsburg, one of the oldest Black churches in the U.S., celebrated the reconstruction of its original meeting house with a re-dedication on Friday

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