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Dr Estelle Paranque
@DrEstellePrnq
✍🏻 Author 📚Historian 👩🏼‍🎓 Assist. Professor 🎬 YouTuber 🧐 RF @RenWarwick. Author and editor of 5 books. latest: BLOOD FIRE & GOLD. All views my own.
Jun 18, 2020 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
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The disturbing history of enslaved mothers forced to breastfeed white babies in the 1600s
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Aug 2018 ImageImageImageImage Slave trade brought many advantages to western societies. The main duty of a slave was to work on plantations increasing productivity. Slaves often worked long tedious hours in the sun with no pay or reward for their hard labour.
May 8, 2019 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
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I’d like to clarify a few things :)
I finished my PhD two and a half years ago. This summer I will have my fourth book out. And I’ve received many support and kind messages and I am grateful but I have also seen some snarky comments that I will address because I won’t let anyone dismiss my hard work without having a word or two about it. I have worked relentlessly. Dedicating my evenings and weekends, taking maximum 10 days off per year, why? Because I was in a precarious situation and could not control what was happening to me so I decided to
Jan 27, 2019 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
THREAD: I’ve tried to stay away from this as I’m gonna sound like a broken record. And I’m sorry in advance.
Of course they’re not “fake history”. And yes historians can publicly respond. And all of them, even the ones who disagree. But I cannot help and wonder /1 Why is it so hard for producers, film makers, etc. To follow more what actually happened. Does that mean that history is not entertaining enough by itself?
Example: for centuries Catherine de Medici has been portrayed in plays, drama, books as this evil queen. Yet she’s not. /2