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SlaveCodes.org publishes slave codes from the days of chattel slavery across the Americas. The codes are translated in English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese.
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We are all the products of many fathers. Hardback an audiobook read by yours truly out October 28 pre-order now.

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June 16, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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That book made it easier for me to see relationships between braiding as communication technology, as a site of collaboration between the braider and person who's hair is being braided, and code.

Afro-Colombian braiding traditions. Braids as maps, warnings, intention, risk management, collaboration
How Braids Were Used As Escape Maps
Braids for Afro-Colombian women is rooted in rebellionSources: Aj+ Español, The Washington Post, Travel Noire
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May 20, 2024 at 7:10 PM
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March 14, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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None the less it has helped draft up something quick to build a tool I might use in the future for @slavecodes.org !
March 14, 2025 at 7:01 AM
To support #2 - Oliver Cromwell's conquest of Ireland led to Irish indentured servants across Jamaica, Barbados, and elsewhere. Colonists used a new term - white - instead of christian to distinguish indentured servants from (christianized) enslaved blacks to remove ambiguity of rights between them.
March 6, 2025 at 4:10 PM
It took several months to get through the transcription but happy to have gotten it done for #BlackHistoryMonth.
February 27, 2025 at 5:23 PM
slaveryandfreedomlaws.lib.unb.ca/tags/baptism

To further substantiate this, here is a link to 32 British pieces of Slave Legislation on baptism. In the de jure sense, it was law to baptize slaves as an attempt to stop indigenous African religions from being practiced.
Laws related to: Baptism | Laws of Enslavement and Freedom
slaveryandfreedomlaws.lib.unb.ca
February 1, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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January 21, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Thank you for speaking and answering my questions last night at the Commonwealth Club!

The Collins machete story was intriguing!
January 11, 2025 at 1:16 AM
It was usually one of the first laws in a corpus of slave codes to baptize the enslaved.

You'll find that to be the case in most every slave code.
December 18, 2024 at 2:17 PM