Master Slave Husband Wife
The 2024 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography by Ilyon Woo that tells the story of Ellen & William Craft + their escape from slavery in 1848 Georgia. Ellen, whose father was a white plantation owner was enslaved by her half sister, working as a seamstress + house servant. William, her husband, worked as a hired out carpenter for his master. Ellen who was extremely light skinned disguised herself as a wealthy southern planter while William portrayed her slave in order to make their escape. The 1st half of this book is a gripping tale - the 2nd half however looses the thread as Ellen + William travel to England - their story gets lost amid the politics + the stories of other abolitionist who help them on their journey.
#masterslavehusbandwife #ellencraft #williamcraft #africanamericanhistory #abolitionists #americanhistory #blackhistory #booklist #mybookshelf #books #pulitzerprize #biography
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@wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org
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May 04, 2026
wendythedruid
@wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org
53yo Druid, Trans, Mom, Resister, Shitty Writer @keirax17 - Life Partner @HarahCookie - Life Partner #liberal #reading #author #druid #nature #meditation, #spirituality #Pagan #earth #eco #trans #queer #lgbtqia
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May 4, 1970. Four students killed at Kent State. May 4, 1886. Haymarket. May 4, 1626. Peter Minuit "purchased" Manhattan — the founding fraud. The dead are watching, and they are not impressed. We remember not as ceremony but as muscle memory. The body knows the sound of a federal letter the way a deer knows a footstep.
https://twp.ai/9OV23i
#History #KentState #Haymarket #May4 #Memory #Protest #StudentMovement #NeverForget #AmericanHistory #lgbtqia #trans
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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
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Apr 27, 2026
CarveHerName
@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
Every day women have, and are, making history. Follow for daily posts. We check replies irregularly during the week, and less at weekends. If you would like to support us then we love likes, follows and reposts. We also have a kofi for donations or subscriptions. And in the UK we have an affiliate bookshop.
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#OnThisDay, 27 April 1925, Edna Ferber wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction with her novel 'So Big'.
She donates the prize money to the Authors League to support sick and elderly authors.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #ReadMoreWomen #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
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Apr 02, 2026
CarveHerName
@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
Every day women have, and are, making history. Follow for daily posts. We check replies irregularly during the week, and less at weekends. If you would like to support us then we love likes, follows and reposts. We also have a kofi for donations or subscriptions. And in the UK we have an affiliate bookshop.
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#OnThisDay, 2 Apr 1917, Jeanette Rankin is sworn in, becoming the first woman to sit in the US Congress.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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@audubonballroon__dup_50798@mastodon.social
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Mar 02, 2026
Audubon Ballroon (he/him)
@audubonballroon__dup_50798@mastodon.social
Black AuDHD Rape Survivor lived in US, lived/visited six continents. Understand now can sound like attacking others bc can't read tones. +447341446247 Stands for everyone but Black Women most of all. In the context of binary gender and ethnicity/race they are the most marginalized. In the context of gender/ethnicity/race/sexuality Black Lesbian/Trans Women are the most marginalized and so on...
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Harlem Renaissance started in 1917
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem_Renaissance
Great Depression started in 1929
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression
#blackhistory #blackculture #ushistory #americanhistory #history #whitehistory #blackmastodon
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@inglesport@mastodonapp.uk
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Feb 23, 2026
Inglesport
@inglesport@mastodonapp.uk
The UK's premier caving, climbing, and outdoor store based in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales. Gear Shop & Café. Trading for 40 years.
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12,000-year-old elk hide, sewn with hand-spun cord, found in an Oregon cave. Likely the world's oldest known sewing.
Our nan claims she's been at it just as long. 🧵
Dry caves preserve everything. Ancient humans were extraordinary. What do you reckon they were making?
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-12000-year-old-scraps-of-elk-hide-may-be-the-worlds-oldest-known-examaples-of-sewing-180988200/
#caving #history #americanhistory #ancienthumans #archaeology
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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
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Jan 30, 2026
CarveHerName
@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
Every day women have, and are, making history. Follow for daily posts. We check replies irregularly during the week, and less at weekends. If you would like to support us then we love likes, follows and reposts. We also have a kofi for donations or subscriptions. And in the UK we have an affiliate bookshop.
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#OnThisDay, 30 Jan 1913, Ida B Wells forms the Alpha Suffrage Club in Chicago, Illinois, to give a voice to Black women who had been excluded by national suffrage organisations because of their race.
In March 1913, the club headed to Washington DC to take part in the national Women’s Suffrage Procession. They were told to march at the back, in a segregated section, so as not to upset white southern women.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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