Procrastination is the Name of the Game

Please have a moment of silence for the people who were killed instead of freed when news of emancipation finally reached the furthest corners of the american south.

have another moment for the ledgers, catalogs, and records that were burned and the homes that were destroyed to hide the presence of very much alive and still enslaved people on dozens of plantations and homesteads across the south for decades after emancipation.

and have a third moment for those who were hunted and killed while fleeing the south to find safety across the border, overseas, in the north and to the west.

black people. light a candle, write a note to those who have passed telling them what you have achieved in spite of the racist and intolerant conditions of this world, feel the warmth of the flame under your hand, say a prayer of rememberance if you are religious, place the note under the candle, and then blow it out.

if you have children, sit them down and tell them anything you know about the life of oldest black person you've ever met. it doesn't have to be your own family. tell them what you know about what life was like for us in the days, years, decades after emancipation. if you don't know much, look it up and learn about it together.

This is Juneteenth.

Turns out you can roll a 7 on a d6

No doctor was ever summoned to investigate, and not even Patty's death seems to have exonerated her from charges of malingering. The enfeebled Patty was no longer valuable in the fields or as a "breeder", so the nature of her sickness was inconsequential.

Owners relied upon doctors to tell them whether slaves were malingering, but physicians were less than objective. Dr. W.H. Taylor, called in consultation for an enslaved man, prefaced his assessment with the phrase "remembering that simulation was a characteristic of his race." Dr. M.L. McLoud even wrote his master's thesis in the fraudulent illnesses of slaves. He shared an incident in which he had accidentally administered an overdose of ammonium carbonate, a corrosive white powder that was also used as smelling salts, to s slave shamming an epileptic fit.

The burning sensation shocked her into abandoning her performance, and McLoud, like many other doctors, began to advocate such veiled medical violence when confronted with questionable illness in slaves. But masters also responded to suspected malingering or prolonged illness with frank abuse. Thomas Chaplin wrote in his planters' journal, "Mary came out [of the sick house] today or rather was whipped out."

Owners and physicians also blurred the therapeutic line by referring jocularly to whipping as "medicine" for malingering slaves. One complaining woman was "treated with a cowskin or hickory switch to scourge her" [emphasis added]; other doctors recommended then an owner supply "9 drops of essence of rawhide" or "oil of hickory" to the back of a sick slave."

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flipped ver under cut >

felt like drawing THK again :33 punches through artblock w this.. I don't really like it but oh well 🙏🙏

alt ver. + sketch ->