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Black Sistory hopes to awaken the thoughts of chill-out minds and display the full spectrum of Black / Afro-American men and women of history.

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The presidency is America’s favorite magic trick. Watch one man wave a flag, deliver a freedom speech, and make accountability disappear.

#AmericanPuppetShow #PresidentialPuppets #SameStringsDifferentClown
#MonumentsToMonsters
#iamblacksistory by @blacksistory

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She gave workers a voice that America could not control. #LucyParsons #LaborDay #LaborMovement #iamblacksistory by @blacksistory

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Two Were Lynched! One Survived…

#ThomasShipp #AbramSmith #JamesCameron #MarionLynching #iamblacksistory by @blacksistory

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They wrote down his name. We tell his story. #WilliamTucker #FirstDocumentedBlackChild #fyp #iamblacksistory by @blacksistory

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William Tucker is remembered as the first documented Black child born in the English colonies that would become the United States. Born around 1624 or 1625 to Anthony and Isabella, two Africans forced into colonial Virginia, his entire recorded life is reduced to one line… “William, their child, baptized.” After that, the historical record dropped silent. His story stands as a powerful reminder that slavery not only exploited Black lives. It also erased countless Black names, stories, and futures. #iamblacksistory by @blacksistory

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Freedom for some is not freedom for all. #fourthofjuly #independenceday #iamblacksistory by @blacksistory

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America’s birthday was a lynch mob’s rehearsal! Generation after generation, the flag rose over plantations where the air smelled of feces, sweat, blood, and gangrene. Freedom wasn’t delayed. It was denied by design through generations of bloodshed. The Declaration was a promissory note written on black suffering, and they cashed it with the lash. Never forget the same hands that signed that declaration held the chains! Independence Day was a feast, and my ancestors were the meat! #iamblacksistory by @blacksistory

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Juneteenth is about remembrance, not about branding! Remember the struggle, respect the sacrifice! #iamblacksistory by @blacksistory

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I was never the first Black president. I was something just as important. #JohnHanson #JohnHansonTruth #iamblacksistory

*Please share, Instagram has limited my reach. As always, thank you!! And Mad Love ❤️ by @blacksistory

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John Hanson was born into slavery in Maryland around 1791, in a nation that preached freedom while buying and selling Black human beings. He spent the beginning of his life in bondage before eventually escaping and making the difficult journey to Liberia, a colony established for formerly enslaved and free Black Americans. There, he helped build a new life in a land that offered opportunities denied to him in the country of his birth.

John Hanson became a respected Liberian senator and played a role in the early development of one of the world’s first modern Black republics. His story was one of survival, determination, and political leadership. However, despite those accomplishments, his real legacy became buried beneath a persistent historical rumor.

For generations, people confused him with a different John Hanson, a white Maryland politician born in 1721 who served as President of the Continental Congress under the Articles of Confederation. The two men lived different lives, in different centuries, under completely different circumstances. However, their identities were repeatedly merged, leading to the false claim that the Black John Hanson was the first Black President of the United States.

The tragedy is that the rumor overshadowed the truth. John Hanson did not need a fictional presidential title to make his life important. He survived slavery, crossed an ocean, helped build a nation, and served his people in government. Those achievements stand on their own. His real story is far more powerful than the rumor that tried to replace it. #JohnHansonTruth #FirstBlackPresidentMyth #LearnTheTruth #iamblacksistory by @blacksistory

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Remember their names. Refuse their erasure! #MaggieAndAlmaHowze #MajorAndAndrewClark #iamblacksistory by @blacksistory

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In December 1918, four young Black people in Shubuta, Mississippi became targets of racial terror after a white landowner, Dr. Everett Johnston, was shot and killed. There was no evidence, no fair investigation, and no justice. Instead, suspicion fell on Maggie Howze, her sixteen-year-old sister Alma, and brothers Major and Andrew Clark. After Major Clark was brutally tortured into giving a false confession, a white mob stormed the jail, kidnapped all four prisoners, and hanged them from what became known as the Hanging Bridge. Alma was pregnant when she was murdered. Witnesses later reported seeing movement from her unborn child after the lynching. Their families were threatened with violence and prevented from claiming their bodies. The four victims were buried in unmarked graves while their killers walked free. No one was ever held accountable. The lynching of Maggie Howze, Alma Howze, Major Clark, and Andrew Clark remains one of the most horrifying examples of racial terror in American history, where accusation alone was enough to become a death sentence for Black people. #iamblacksistory by @blacksistory

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