Hello internet friends!

These notes were originally scribed on January 19, 2023 while the author (ismatu gwendolyn) was fundraising for their tribe’s agricultural sovereignty efforts. They have been republished and expanded below with the hopes of creating a longer term resource.

Theses found within the shorthand:

Blackness was created to be ontologically synonymous with the societal position of slave.

The role of slave was designed to be less than the condition of being Human. (difference between human and Human and the creation of the building blocks of humanity, known as rights)

Nation state technology was still fairly new, the idea of the republic. also, revolutions as the primary means of advancing society forward was still fairly new (cite what time is it)