Thread by @blackrepublican

A History of #Racism

The Colonial Roots of Racism

"The history of #racism in the Western world is broadly associated with slavery as an early form of colonialism, and it is in that context, that something called race is created."

"Give us, us free!"

The History of Racialism: Why Europeans Invented Racial Slavery

Reaching back across the centuries, this program sheds light on historical attitudes toward human differences.

Anthony Bogues, Brown University: What is Racial Slavery?

What is racial slavery and how is it different from other forms of slavery?



#RacialSlavery
#WhiteSupremacy

"I want you to think of the world in 1774." — Anthony Bogues, Brown University

How did the Haitian Revolution change the world?

#RacialSlavery #Haití #HaitanRevolution

“Until Haiti spoke… no Christian nation had abolished slavery.

Until she spoke…the slave trade was sanctioned by all the Christian nations of the world...

Until #Haiti spoke, the church was silent and the pulpit dumb.”

- Douglass, 1893

"I am #Nigerian because a white man created #Nigeria and gave me that identity. I am black because the white man constructed black to be as different as possible from his white. But I was #Igbo before the white man came."

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

"The Atlantic slave trade was well under way before there even was such a thing as the “Black Race” or the “White Race,” both previously being a host of various nationalities, ethnicities, religions, cultures, languages, and phenotypical features."

alsoacarpenter.com/2019/08/20/wha…

The following information is intended for those people who use false comparisons inorder to make the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade, like every other form of slavery.

It wasn't like every other form of slavery.

"It has no equivalent in history."

Never forget or minimize this...

“the system of racialised perpetual hereditary chattel slavery that was developed in the New World by Europeans has NO EQUIVALENT
in history."

— @Limerick1914

"They don't see race, but they benefit from racism."

— Charisse C. Levchak