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Jul 6, 2024 • 17 tweets • 15 min read
Leopold himself would disagree with you--see highlighted quote.

10 million were not killed, but there was a population loss of 1-2.5 million, and the Congo Free State was riddled with atrocities. I'll go these through these horrors below.

Source: google.com/books/edition/…

Image Murder and the burning of hundreds of villages by soldiers in the pursuit of rubber. Admitted in diaries, told to missionaries, and collected in oral histories.

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google.com/books/edition/…
aequatoria.be/04frans/030the…
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…



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Jan 23, 2024 • 22 tweets • 26 min read
@Evolving_Moloch Not only is it a masterpiece, but contrary to popular belief, it’s one of the most accurate historical movies ever made.

Almost every critic who alleged historical inaccuracy, didn’t even know when the film is set, which is in Postclassical Maya.

Source: google.com/books/edition/…



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Image @Evolving_Moloch In Postclassical Maya, captives selected for human sacrifice were painted in a light blue pigment which is now called Maya Blue.

In Apocalypto, sacrificial captives are painted in this color as well.

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google.com/books/edition/…
cambridge.org/core/journals/…



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Mar 29, 2023 • 26 tweets • 16 min read
It is often said that the West is rich due to slavery and colonialism.

But by 1500, long before the Atlantic slave trade and long before England or France have a single colony, Western Europe was far richer than the rest of the world.

This divergence, however, began in 1300 AD. Image During the Middle Ages the Islamic world was ahead of the Western world intellectually, and was the leader in science and philosophy globally.

By the year 1300 that began to flip, and by the year 1420 the gap became gigantic. The Renaissance was a big deal. Image
Mar 14, 2023 • 35 tweets • 13 min read
A History Of Black Excellence, What You May Not Know.

Beginning with Diébédo Francis Kéré, the 2022 Pritzker Prize winner—the Nobel Prize of architecture. Kéré is the first person from Africa and the first black person to win it. Image Kéré constructs hospitals and schools all over Africa, but mainly for his home village of Gando, in Burkina Faso. He integrates innovations in European design with traditional African architecture motifs, to fit the needs of the people.


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Feb 24, 2023 • 5 tweets • 6 min read
@MaraviWarrior @regularJay22 Even African nations which contained a spectrum of slaves, such as Ghana, also practiced chattel slavery. Chattel slaves in Ghana were known as “Akyere” and “Donko”.

Sources: google.com/books/edition/…
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Feb 22, 2023 • 15 tweets • 15 min read
@Sturgeons_Law This is untrue. First, manumission wasn't a road to power, but castration was. In the Islamic world black slaves, unlike white slaves, could almost never achieve any political power, unless they remained slaves and were castrated.

google.com/books/edition/… google.com/books/edition/… @Sturgeons_Law More slaves died from the castration process than those who survived it. Mortality rate estimates range from 50% to over 90%.

Sources: google.com/books/edition/…
jstor.org/stable/pdf/403…