Ida Bae Wells

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

Were Washington, Madison, Jefferson, etc, etc. etc., backwards slaveholding Southerners and not the real Americans? The confidence with with incurious people propagate myths in an attempt to school me is something to behold. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 15, 2022

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

People who use phrases like "the backwards slaveholding South" show they've completely accepted one of our biggest historical propaganda campaigns. The South is America. Was Virginia-- the oldest, wealthiest, most populous colony -- backwards? — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 15, 2022

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

I have an entire section on this in my Democracy essay in the 1619 Project. Virginia was the heart of the American Revolution. Virginians drafted our founding documents. Virginians dominated the early presidency. Virginia was the capital of the Confederacy. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 15, 2022