Jou - Daily Calendar

Jou is our history, one day at a time. Every morning it opens on today. You get the entries that belong to this date, drawn from thousands of them, reaching from the Taíno settlements before the ships to the present. Each one is written to be read in ten seconds or in two minutes, whichever you have: a headline, why it matters today, then the detail if you want it. We wrote it the way we would tell it to each other. Our ancestors are the ones acting. The people who claimed to own them are named for what they were. When a law was passed to stop something, we say what our people were already doing that made the law necessary. THE NOTICES Alongside the day's history sits something else. When someone escaped, the enslavers of Saint-Domingue paid the newspapers to hunt them. There are 10,412 of those notices, advertising 13,711 of our ancestors. A notice is what an enslaver pays for after…