#MarilynLands, a Dem who made #ReproductiveRights a centerpiece of her campaign in deeply #conservative#Alabama, won a special election to the Alabama Legislature.
Lands’ victory in the suburban district in the #DeepSouth state was celebrated by #Democrats who have attempted to portray the state #GOP as too extreme on #abortion & reproductive rights.
“Today, #Alabama women & families sent a clear message that will be heard in Montgomery & across the nation. Our legislature must repeal AL’s no-exceptions #AbortionBan, fully restore #access to #IVF, & protect the #right to #contraception,” #MarilynLands said.
In 1640, John Punch, a Black-American indentured servant, received a sentence of lifelong slavery for running away to Maryland with two white indentured servants. Unlike Punch, the two white servants were given only an additional four years of servitude as punishment. Punch’s case served as the starting point for the establishment of race-based slavery through legal means in British North America.
RE (post 1808)
large scale slave cargo...was being provided by the upper southern states like Virginia and North Carolina to the lower Deep South
This really exposes the term that VR and NC were "Slave States" because they SOLD their native born children of enslaved people to the #deepsouth States