Slavery
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In 1807, Omar ibn Said, a Muslim scholar, was stolen from Senegal & sold into slavery in America. He left behind an autobiography written in Arabic. To mark the International Day...
๐งต"Unveiling the Untold Chapter: African Enslavement of White People and Its Profound Impact" https://t.co/uXAfFyHk5T
๐งต A look at slavery outside of the West: It has become popular to blame White people for slavery, to the point that many actually believe slavery was invented by or exclusively pr...
These slaves were sold to Muslims by VIKINGS, who would raid Eastern European lands and merchants from the city-states of Italy ๐ฎ๐น (Piso, Venice). https://t.co/uVBVEdLzvx
Seriki Williams Abass was a 19th century slave merchant who married 128 Wives. Born Ifaremilekun Fagbemi in Joga-Orile, a town in Ilaro, Ogun State, Abass was captured as a slave b...
Slave shackle being removed by a British sailor, 1907. The son of the man who took the photograph wrote the following account of what happened: https://t.co/YI4gnuiJ97
In 1837, Ghanaian King, Badu Bonsu II of Ahanta's head was cut off and sent to a museum in The Netherlands for resisting slavery. He was betrayed by his tribesman. He fought agai...
In 1730, Ayuba Diallo, a Fulani prince from Senegal was on his way home after selling 2 Mandinka slaves to an English slave ship, he was captured by a rival Mandinka faction, retur...
Story Of The "Igbo Landing" Of 1803. An event that Igbo slaves choose to drown in the ocean with their freedom than become another manโs property for the rest of their lives ! A...
STORY OF JAJA OF OPOBO: THE SLAVE BOY WHO BECAME KING AND WAS ENVIED BY THE BRITISH A THREAD Retweet To Educate Someone https://t.co/u0dorPiLVO
10 dynamite facts about slavery: 1. More whites were sent as slaves to north Africa than blacks were sent as slaves to the US or to the 13 colonies from which it was formed. https...
Great Britain would use its superpower might into bullying much of the world to abolish slavery, despite this evil being the global norm. A thread on how under the Union Jack, sla...
Sally Hemings, the woman Thomas Jefferson enslaved. She was called his "mistress," but how can you be a mistress when you were enslaved, a child, and could not consent? Had absolu...
After centuries of cruel chattel slavery, African slaves rise up to massacre their oppressors. A protracted & bitter war ensues, the rebels taking refuge in the marshes & rivers th...
186 years BEFORE Lincoln abolished slavery 130 years BEFORE British abolished slavery Shivaji Maharaj abolished slavery throughout his kingdom. He was the first king to impose a...
They are. They built ships and devised compasses to voyage hitherto unknown shipping routes and designed maps along the way. Then they landed on our shores, traded with, us selli...
Tippu Tip (1832-1905), one of the largest slave traders in East Africa. Often neglected in discussions on the evil African slave trade is that of the original slave capturers & s...
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When You get to read about 19th century in Yorรนbรก Country, You'd know that Our Forefathers were war-like, very militaristic, no political correctness, they practiced self preservat...
When Great Britain waged war against slavery despite it being the global norm. A thread ๐งต๐ฌ๐ง The uncomfortable truth is that the great evil of slavery, practised across all cultur...
THE STORY OF OYOTUNJI: A YORUBA KINGDOM IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A Thread! Retweet Yorubas during slavery maintained their culture | Mayor Ekiti seyi abike Nigerians doyin E...
The British royals have an est. $34.3B in assets, with #KingCharles set to receive ~$500M without paying inheritance tax. At its peak, the British empire colonized parts of every...
8. Feminist women in falling Rome: - Avoided motherhood - Slept around - Competed in male sports Feminist men in falling Rome: - Avoided marriage - Used prostitutes and rentboys...
History: Thomas Fuller, Unbelievable Slave With Impeccable Mathematics Skills Thread! Retweet and Comment An African sold into slavery in 1724 at the age of 14, was sometimes kno...