Did you know that #Shinzo Abe's grandfather was known as a #monster?
This is a 19-point #thread on the tumultuous years during & after #WW2 from Japan's POV, on the #problem of #US peace-keeping efforts & on Japan's ongoing nepotism issues.
3/ To make this profitable, he lowered the wages of workers to such an extent, that by 1937, #slave labour was deemed acceptable as long as it benefitted the #war with China & profited the #investors.
This documentary is crazy. To think that this is happening in 2024 is insane. People treated like slaves in concentration camps, brainwashed to extremes.
"When you have a naming convention around who your employees are,” Michael says, “you’re giving people a greater sense of belonging, a greater sense of home, and a feeling of loyalty. It elevates the feeling of it just being a job, it’s like you are part of something bigger.”
Michael Powers, the director of employee experience and engagement at Toast
THIS SAME CONCEPT CAN BE USED BY #corporate TO REPROGRAM AND ENSLAVE HUMANITY
The sea in #Normandy looks different if you’ve chosen (a local bookstore accommodated) to read #Condé, #Glissant, and a book on regional entanglements in the #transatlantic slave trade and the slave economies. #slavery#history
Glissant, in his “discours antillais”, talks about “inquiète tranquillité”:
“The uneasy tranquillity of our existences, by so many obscure relays tied to the tremor of the world.”
These quaint little fishing towns are so deeply entwined in the trade - local shipping companies got rich by trading slaves, the whole hinterland was engaged in weaving cotton cloth (called „indienne“) which was in turn sold to #African#slave traders. Last photo shows the #cloth distributed all over the region in which #cotton was woven into #textiles in the #earlymodern workshop system.
@histodons This, for example, is Honfleur, a little port close to Le Havre on the other side of the Seine estuary. It’s a nice old touristy place, although one can see it used to be a rich port. The local part of the exhibition on #slavery where I got the book details the involvement in the #slave trade: 140 ships in the “long” 18th century before abolition 1822, 50 000 African men and women enslaved, shackled and transported. From one small port in Normandy of then ~9 000 population.
Did you know that a Roman #slave really wanted a hat?
In #Ancient#Rome, a slave was considered property. He had no personhood.
But if a master decided to free the slave, he brought him before the magistrate, explained his reasoning for the manumission (freeing), and after some ceremony, the slave was free.
To show his new status, he’d shave his head & wear from then on a felt cap - the symbol of #liberty carried by Libertas, the Roman #goddess of #freedom.
@bkoehn@ProPublica I was there about 8 years ago and did several tours and I never felt like they shied away from the city's role in the #slave trade. I'm sure they could always do better, but I felt that #Charleston did a great job of representing their #history, both good and evil.
Now, #Savannah... we could talk about how they represent themselves.