Revival History

 Unthinkable! J. Marion Sims is called the "Father of Gynecology " due to his experiments on enslaved women in Alabama, who were often submitted as GUINEA PIGS by their plantation owners who could not use them for sexual pleasure. Anarcha was an African-American slave woman who was forced to regularly undergo surgical experiments while positioned on Sims' table, squatting on all fours and FULLY AWAKE without the comfort of ANY anesthesia. It's been calculated that Anarcha was operated on roughly 34 times between 1845 - 1849. These operations helped Dr. Sims hone his techniques and create his gynecological tools.  It would be more than appropriate to credit Anarcha, along with other nameless slave women, as the "MOTHERS OF GYNECOLOGY".

 To combat the high rate of death among slaves, plantation owners demanded females start having children at 13.  By 20, the enslaved women would be expected to have about five children.  An enslaved woman was a sex tool beneath the level of moral considerations.  She was an economic good, useful, in addition to her menial labor, for breeding more slaves. To attain that purpose, the master mated her promiscuously according to his breeding plans. The Master ,his son(s) and other members of his family took turns with her to increase the family's fortune & to satisfy his extramarital sexual desires. Guests and neighbors were also invited to this luxury. As an inducement, plantation owners promised freedom for enslaved female once she bore 15 kids Also The brutal enslavers also castrated Black males and use black females for gynecological research all while not providing them with anesthesia. J. Marion Sims “the father of modern gynecology” purchased Black women slaves and used them

 J. Marion Sims “the father of modern gynecology” purchased Black women slaves and used them as guinea pigs for his untested surgical experiments.   He repeatedly performed genital surgery on Black women WITHOUT ANESTHESIA because according to him, "Black women don't feel pain.” J. Marion Sims is called the "Father of Gynecology" due to his experiments on enslaved women in Alabama, who were often submitted as GUINEA PIGS by their plantation owners who could not use them for sexual pleasure. Anarcha, one of those women, was an African-American slave woman who was forced to regularly undergo surgical experiments while positioned on Sims' table, squatting on all fours and FULLY AWAKE without the comfort of ANY anesthesia. It's been calculated that Anarcha was operated on roughly 34 times between 1845 - 1849. These operations helped Dr. Sims hone his techniques and create his gynecological tools. It would be more than appropriate to credit Anarcha, along with oth

 Did you know that during slavery in the U.S. gay white slaveholders would buy male slaves to engage in forced homosexual sex acts?  These male slaves were purchase based entirely on the prerequisite of them possessing a large penis. Black men were routinely raped by their gay slave owners. The process was known as “breaking the buck”. It involves perhaps the most heinous and atrocious acts known to man. A strapping Negro slave, who was defiant, surly and may stir up trouble, was beaten with a whip till bloody in front of his entire slave congregation. The slave owner, deathly afraid of an uprising, would cut down a tree and, with the help of the overseer, would then pummel the deviant “buck” into submission. Once the slave was worn down, the white master had the other Negro slaves force him over the tree stump where his britches would be removed and he laid fully exposed and ripe for the taking. What came next caused fear and terror to ripple through every slave plantation across the

 "On June 23, 1855, a 19 year old slave woman named Celia murdered her master rather than allow him to rape her. She then attempted to burn his body, nearly succeeding in erasing all traces of the crime. She was arrested, convicted, and executed. This story gets at both the inhumanity of slavery and the sexual labor forced upon millions of African and African-American women during two centuries of chattel slavery in the United States. Robert Newsom, a prosperous farmer in Callaway County, Missouri, purchased Celia in 1850. She was 14. In the 1850 census, Newsom owned 800 acres and five male slaves. Celia was the first female slave he purchased and it seems that he did so in order to use her for sex, as well as to serve as the house cook. His wife had died in 1849 and he decided on a sex slave rather than a new wife. He first raped Celia before they returned to his plantation. She eventually had two children by him. In 1855, Celia took a slave named George as her lover. George pre

  Horrific Punishment of Slaves in Colonial Americ Slavery refers to a condition in which individuals are owned by others who control the general conditions of their lives, including where they live, what they eat, their work, movements, etc. Slave trade is one of the social phenomena in history that is associated with the cruelest and dehumanizing treatments. Since the enslaved people are nothing less than properties in the custody of their masters, they are treated in the most bizarre manners that have no human consideration attached. Punishment in the South – Louisiana The atrocities of these slaves took place both in the north and south and across the Americas but without question the degree of punishment differed in the south. Louisianian Slave owner Madame Laurie was on of the most infamous slave owners in state and ultimately the region. The conditions she subjected her enslaved were so heinous and despicable that even other slave owners were appalled. Journalists at the time co

 You mean to tell me that someone down your ancestry line survived being chained to other human bodies for several months in the bottom of a disease-infested ship during the Middle Passage, lost their language, customs and traditions, picked up the English language as best they could while working free of charge from sunup to sundown as they watched babies sold from out of their arms and women raped by ruthless slave owners,....Men emasculated and made a spectacle of... took names with no last names, no birth certificates, no heritage of any kind, braved the Underground Railroad, survived the Civil War to enter into sharecropping,... learned to read and write out of sheer will and determination, faced the burning crosses of the KKK, everted their eyes at the black bodies swinging from ropes hung on trees,... fought in World Wars as soldiers to return to America as boys, marched in Birmingham, hosed in Selma, jailed in Wilmington, assassinated in Memphis, segregated in the South, ghett

Slavery in Muslim cultures and the Atlantic slave trade Slavery in Muslim history lasted much longer than the Atlantic slave trade - although slavery had existed in many cultures long before Islam. The Muslim slave trade from Africa seems to have enslaved roughly similar numbers (estimates vary between 11 and 14 million Africans) to the Atlantic slave trade, and the transportation conditions endured by victims of the Eastern trade were probably just as horrible in their own way as those of the Atlantic slave trade. One poignant fact is that when the Atlantic slave trade was abolished the Eastern trade expanded, suggesting that for some Africans the abolition of the Atlantic trade didn't lead to freedom, but merely changed their slave destination. Slavery played a significant part in the history of Muslim civilisation, but it was a form of slavery that was inherently different from the 'slave trade' in that the Muslim concept of slavery regarded those enslaved as people who

 Slavery, one of America’s greatest tragedies, caused immeasurable suffering and loss of human life. The Stanford prison experiment is frequently cited when people discuss the brutality demonstrated by humans with power. But we don’t need to look any further than our own history for these examples.10 INTERESTING FACTS YOU NEVER KNEW ABOUT SLAVERY by Brittany Kane.  Slaves could be punished for any number of “offenses,” including theft, laziness, running away, or even speaking their native language. By some accounts, enslaved people were even disciplined for sport. Here are 10 of the most horrible punishments recorded for slaves in America. Warning: This content contains graphic descriptions of various physical abuses and tortures and may act as a trigger to sensitive individuals. Great care has been taken to respect the lives and histories of the people represented as slaves. Please read at your own discretion. 10 Whipping In America, slaves, including pregnant women and children, wer

 Slavery in the Bible is a hard thing to wrestle through. I rejoice in my African American brothers and sisters who instead of turning away from the Bible in disgust, seek wisdom and understanding on this matter. Praise God for preserving our faith in him.  As descendants of Africans who experienced the unprecedented atrocity of the transatlantic slave trade (TAST), any type of "slavery" triggers us. Indeed it should, because slavery, belonging to another human to do their bidding unpaid, is a symptom of the fall. Nevertheless we have clear instructions in both the Old Testament and the New Testament that does not wholesale denounce the institution of slavery but guides both the enslaved and the masters to navigate within the fallen institution.  The question is why? My answer, in short, is that the slavery of the Ancient Near East (ANE) and Greco-Roman (GR) time was generally less inhumane than that of TST. I offer a few more points to explain my rationale and will point yo

 During the 1650s, over 100,000 Irish children aged 10 to 14 were taken from their parents and sold as slaves in the West Indies, Virginia and New England. In this decade, 52,000 Irish (mostly women and children) were sold to Barbados and Virginia. Still 30,000 Irish men and women were also transported and sold to the highest bidder. In 1656, Cromwell ordered that 2000 Irish children be taken to Jamaica and sold as slaves to English settlers. Many people today avoid calling the Irish slaves called what they really were: Slaves. They use words such as "indentured servants" to describe what happened to the Irish. However, in most cases from the 17th and 18th centuries, Irish slaves were nothing more than human cattle. The Irish Slave Trade – The Forgotten “White” Slaves The Slaves That Time Forgot. They came as slaves; vast human cargo transported on tall British ships bound for the Americas. They were shipped by the hundreds of thousands and included men, women, and even the

 Excellent article in Free Press on Detroit’s history we should all know, but were not taught.  Detroiters will immediately recognize the cities and street names. Detroit's Underground Railroad flourished in a city of slaves and slaveholders (by Jamon Jordan in the Detroit Free Press) Twenty years ago this month, the Gateway to Freedom Underground Railroad Monument was unveiled on the Detroit Riverfront. A sister sculpture, the Tower of Freedom, made its debut the same day on the river's opposite bank in Windsor, Ontarrio.  Both monuments were created by Ed Dwight, a celebrated sculptor who was also the first African American trained to be a NASA astronaut. Gateway to Freedom features a trove of information illuminating Detroit's important role in the abolitionist movement. It lists the names of important freedom fighters and Underground Railroad conductors” like William Lambert and Laura Smith Haviland, as well as some of the “stations,” including Seymour Finney’s barn in

 WHY SOME PEOPLE DON'T ENJOY S€eX... 1. LACK OF LOVE Love is the greatest aphrodisiac; when you are in love with someone, you find everything about them sexy, you surrender to pleasure. Sex is more than getting to the climax, it's an act of intimacy, it's also about the journey that leads to the climax and the reason why the climax is special. That's why you should marry  the one you are in love with. 2. THINKING TOO MUCH When you are making love, free your mind and pleasure will follow. Put the stress aside, stop thinking about the baby, about the bills, about your responsibilities, whether your skin is too sweaty, whether you're making too much noise, whether you're doing it right, whether you are hard or wet enough. Stop worrying, you and your spouse deserve this moment of pleasure. Pleasure is first sought after in the mind. 3. COMPARISONS  When you compare and make your expectation of what good sex is based on what you read in magazines, what you read onlin

 ~ The Execution of Charles I, A Guest Post By Lissa Bryan ~ January 30, 1649 was a bitterly cold day. That morning, a king asked to be dressed in two shirts, lest people see him shiver and take it for fear. Charles was born in 1600, three years before the death of England’s Queen Elizabeth I. His father was James VI King of Scotland. James was the son of Mary Queen of Scots, whom Elizabeth had executed.  Elizabeth and James had a bit of unease over that, as one can imagine. But James had grown up without knowing his mother and had likely been raised to see her as an immoral woman, since he was Protestant and she was Catholic … and she had been accused of murdering his father. James married Anne of Denmark and Charles was their second son. (The first died of typhoid when Charles was 12.) James became King of England after Elizabeth I’s death in 1603.  Charles was likely raised with very strict notions of the rights of the monarchy. James had once written a book about the divine right o

 A wife asked her husband to drop her off at a friend’s house, where a wedding reception was taking place. He responded that he would be too busy throughout the day in the office, and gave her some money to take a taxi. He left for the office. The wife took a Taxi to the wedding reception, there she met a fine Girl and they got talking to each other. Soon they became friends. In the evening when everyone was leaving, the Girl asked the Woman how she was going home. She replied that her husband was too busy in the office to pick her up so she would use a taxi. The Girl responded; “My boyfriend brought me here and would be coming to pick me up. I just spoke to him on the phone and he’s on his way.  Why don’t you join me in his car and we would drop you at your house” The woman agreed. A few minutes later, her husband’s car arrived. The Girl jumped into the front passenger seat of the car and asked the Woman to sit at the backseat, which she did confused and perturbed. Then the Girl intro

 More from Barzilla Merrill, 154th New York. This is his account of Burnside's Mud March in January 1863. "The 17th [January] about 2 o’clock in the morning we had orders to march and have our tents and haversacks and we took our blankets and three days rations and of course we had to obey and we started in the dark and on muddy roads, Our course was up the [Rappahannock] river. By the by, we had to take our guns, cartridges, and belts, and when we had marched about four miles, we had an order to halt, load our guns, and put on our bayonets, and, as I said before, we had to obey, and we did this all in the dark. Then the order was to march. This was obeyed and we moved through mud until break of day which fetched us about 9 miles from our old camp up the river. Then we made a short stop and then we moved about half a mile or so. Then we were halted right in the woods and not far from the bank of the river [where we] got some breakfast and rested for a while. And about the nex

 On January 29, 1536, Katharine of Aragon was laid to rest in Peterborough Cathedral. Around this time, some forty miles away, tragedy struck. Anne Boleyn miscarried her last pregnancy. It's commonly believed that Anne miscarried on the same day as Katharine's funeral, but chronicler Charles Wriothesely wrote that it occurred three days before Candlemas, on the 30th. It's possible that the claim it happened on the day of the funeral of Anne's rival was seen as symbolic, and thus became part of the narrative. In any case, Eustace Chapuys and Wriothesely both reported that Anne blamed the shock she’d undergone when her uncle, the Duke of Norfolk, told her about the king’s jousting accident a few days previously. In the Tudor era, it was believed any upset, no matter how slight, could have deleterious effects on a pregnancy. But Chapuys denies that possibility: "But it is well known that is not the cause, for it was told her in a way that she should not be alarmed or