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Freedom Canon

History Was The Receipt.

Historic Black figures, Reconstruction, public memory, and the records power keeps trying to make small enough to ignore.

Freedom Canon Black history merch concept sheet
Rights and source review required before sale

Public memory is a power map.

Freedom Canon tee with historic Black figures in BTP newspaper style rights review

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The Freedom Canon Tee

We do not need permission to remember.

Historic Black figures rendered as public-memory explainers, not nostalgia merch.

Vendor
Printful / Printify sample test
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Bone premium tee with public-history collage print
Rights
public_domain_history_review
Margin
50% target after rights and blank check
Source card requiredImage source review requiredNo modern living figures
Freedom Canon hoodie with Reconstruction and 15th Amendment artwork rights review

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Freedom Was Not Temporary Hoodie

They tried to make freedom temporary.

Reconstruction, the 15th Amendment, and the record they keep trying to shrink into a footnote.

Vendor
Printful / Apliiq sample test
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Black heavyweight hoodie, Reconstruction back print
Rights
public_domain_history_review
Margin
45% target after sample cost check
Historical source card requiredNo campaign languageSample gate required
Freedom Canon poster reading Public Memory Is A Power Map rights review

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Public Memory Is A Power Map Print

Public memory is a power map.

A history explainer print for the record power tried to edit out of the room.

Vendor
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18x24 matte art print
Rights
public_domain_history_review
Margin
55% target after print quote
Source card requiredText proof requiredRights review required

Every figure gets a receipt card.

Freedom network / public memory

Harriet Tubman

Public record: Public-domain historic record and Library of Congress style source review required before final art.

BTP lesson: Power calls freedom illegal until the record makes the law catch up.

Status: rights review required

Abolition press / public argument

Frederick Douglass

Public record: Public-domain speeches, newspapers, and portrait-source review required before final art.

BTP lesson: The press was not commentary. It was infrastructure.

Status: rights review required

Public testimony / movement language

Sojourner Truth

Public record: Public-domain speech and archive-source review required before final art.

BTP lesson: The record still talks when power wishes testimony would disappear.

Status: rights review required

Investigative journalism / anti-lynching record

Ida B. Wells

Public record: Public-domain pamphlet/newspaper source review required before final art.

BTP lesson: She made terror answer to documentation.

Status: rights review required

Self-liberation / Reconstruction power

Robert Smalls

Public record: Public-domain congressional and naval history source review required before final art.

BTP lesson: The people power tried to own became the people who rewrote the room.

Status: rights review required

Source review first. Checkout later.

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