While We Are Releasing Files Lets Release The "Ravaged Files"

After doing research for a story that The Justice Journal Blog™ marked for publishing, it became crystal clear that there is a bigger issue that needed exposure. The initial story was in regards to an 1866 tragedy that happened mainly in Texas, but also extended across a few state lines. It seems that as some 37 schools built for educating Black Americans during the Reconstruction Era in the United States were literally burned to the ground. The story states that the students attending these, built for the decedents of slaves, schools were chased, terrorized, and harassed by the white people of that time. The Teachers were treated even worse. The Black Teachers were sometimes beaten and or killed, while the White Teachers were mobbed and run out of town.

As sad as this story is The Justice Journal Blog™ could not validate this specific story through our normal research tools. This publication did find evidentiary information obscured in the overtones of such preview

documents as "The Journal of the Civil War Era" and the like. These often obscure and white washed references cite that there were actually over 600 total Black school burnings across the entire United States, during that violent racist period of American history. Because of these findings this article had to shift focus from to this story onto the real issue. The Ravaging of Black History files in America.

To write this expose' correctly we must first of all back up. We must go all the way back and include the research of not only black atrocities such as this, and there were many, but also Black lineage itself in the Americas. This is because all of this history has a common denominator. All of the information around recanting the history of being Black in America has a common thread. All of the knowledge of what it means to be Black in this country shares a common result. From who are Black Americans, to where did they come from, and to include, but not limited to, what has happened to Black Americans, are all nuanced exactly the same way.

Have any of the Black American readers of this journal ever done an Ancestry Search? If you have, do you not find it interesting that your results become shady around the 1870's? Of course you do. Do you accept what you are told? That this is because the first Census report listing Black folk by name was conducted in 1870? Of course you do not. Our investigations into this reveal that this "cover story" is just the tip of the same conspiracy spear that rips into the truth whenever Black people are referenced in the United States of America, and possibly around the world.

You as the reader may call this a "Conspiracy Theory" if you like. As you do, please keep your mind open to receive these truths before this publication opens our Article in this Justice Journal Expose'.

Black information has always been victimized by methods like the Archive Gatekeeping in Universities, museums, and other historical societies. They hold Black Records, and data, and only allow access to scholars, appointments, and people credentialed to their institutions.

Some records are never digitalized meaning only visiting these buildings allows you to see the information. Many families that would benefit from this info, do not have the resources to travel to these locations. Ledgers, journals, letters, birth records, are all privatized and owned by White families, making them nearly impossible to find. Records are mislabeled, and, or misclassified as "miscellaneous documents" to obscure the truth. School Curriculums teach nearly none of this history intentionally, and other entities, to include the Federal Government often destroy crucial documents to maintain control of the overall narrative of this country. The list of methods goes on and on but this publication will stop here and get to our article topic.

Our article today ask: "While We Are Releasing Files Let's Release The "Ravaged Files" as well. Lets take a look at this as it pertains to the average Black American, simply trying to access their families history, in a simple Ancestry Search. The information needed to track a families origins back to slavery is out there, but it is only accessible through "paywalled" information searches. This journal finds that there are two main types of paywalls one would run into if they wanted to do a search that traced their family past the 1870 Census Reports.

The first being Government Paywalls. Records such as "The Freedman's Bureau Archives, Slave Schedules (1850 and 1860 Census), U.S. Colored Troops (USCT) Military Service Records, WPA Slave Narratives (Federal Writers Project), U.S. Pension Files for formerly enslaved soldiers and widows, Southern Claims Commission Records, Early Black Church Records, and Plantation Records all Collected and obscured by the Library of Congress, among others. ALL of these are hidden behind Government paywalls. It is also vital to note that many of these records are now whitewashed or changed to reflect White Nationalist narratives. If these records were released and made free, many Black families could research and find out who they are and where they came from.

Then there are the Privatized paywalls that some of which you all know about. One of the biggest being Ancestry.com. The Ancestry organization has access to records before the 1870's but the problem is in that slave owners did not list the names of Black folk in their records. They only listed gender and age in a property manifestos. That means that one would need to purchase plantation records through other paywall entities as well, if they were even available and try to tie in the Plantation owners name and the age and sex of any potential ancestor. This type of search seldom reveals any real results. Ancestry.com also owns publications like Newspapers.com and Fold3 which have Military information and articles on lynching's, births, marriages and Reconstruction violence records, which occurred before the 1870 Census Report.

There are also many other privatized paywalls which carry information such as ProQuest and academic paywall, JSTOR, and Gale Primary Sources which are also academically credentialed access listings, but contain a wealth of information on plantations, African American newspapers and more.

The headlines today explode with stories about the files of Jeffery Epstein being released and most classify him as a monster. Yes this publication agrees that those files should indeed be released. The Justice Journal Blog™ also inserts that while we are releasing these files lets release access to all the files that could possibly help an entire community of new Americans, called Black

Americans find out who and what they are, and from where they come. Every other group of peoples in America today, the Germans, the Chinese, the European, the Swedish, and more, can trace their ancestral roots back to specific people, and a specific place, going back hundreds and in some instances thousands of years, but the Black community in this country can barely see past 150 years. Their story is fragmented. Their archives are restricted. Their documents are privatized. The institutions are gatekept. The entire American system limits access to their history. Add this tragedy to all the others and you can see what Being Black while American really looks like.