Ida Bae Wells

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

Harriett Tubman has been become homogenized and softened in collective memory, because in dealing with her trauma, her brilliance, her belief in armed resistance, her military prowess, means we have to deal with the ugly truth of slavery. We prefer our softened myths. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 20, 2022

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

I've been reading this biography of Harriett Tubman and in the author's preface she notes how most of what regular folks know of Harriett Tubman comes from children's books, and she's right. It's part of how we collectively minimize and erase Black resistance to slavery. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 20, 2022

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

And then, in reading this section on Harriett Tubman's support of John Brown, it made me think of how the way we talk about Harper's Ferry versus the Alamo says everything about how we refuse to deal with slavery and its legacy. One was a fight for freedom, one slavery. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 20, 2022