As any Portuguese person have heard since primary school, Portugal became the first country to abolish slavery #OTD in 1761 thanks to the Marquis of Pombal (this guy👇).

Except it didn’t. There was in fact a royal decree related to slavery in 1761 (in September). It stated that enslaved Africans would become free upon entry into metropolitan Portugal, but it didn’t alter the legal condition of the enslaved people already in Portugal nor born there after that date.

The term ‘Global South’ always makes me a bit uncomfortable.

Maybe it’s my old pet peeve about geographically inaccurate terms and a certain distaste for collective descriptors in general. Maybe it’s because it often seems just ‘Third Word’ or 'Developing countries' in disguise. But it has long gone beyond developmentalist thinking and come to stay also in Humanities and Social Sciences.

@AlinaSajed traces its meaning and history and how it relates to ‘Third world’ (via @E_IR):
e-ir.info/2020/07/27/fro…

I highly recommend @Tolerance_org's complete set of videos on American Slavery, so let's put them together in a single thread: 1/10: Historian @DrIbram uses the case of Elizabeth Key to trace how Virginians changed British law to protect the growing institution of slavery in the 17th century.