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The Columbian Exchange describes the widespread transfer of plants, animals, people, dis8ases, and technologies between the Americas and the Old World after 1492.
#ColumbianExchange
#GlobalHistory
#EarlyModernWorld
#TransAtlantic
#HistoricalChange
#ColumbianExchange
#GlobalHistory
#EarlyModernWorld
#TransAtlantic
#HistoricalChange
January 15, 2026 at 8:59 PM
The Columbian Exchange describes the widespread transfer of plants, animals, people, dis8ases, and technologies between the Americas and the Old World after 1492.
#ColumbianExchange
#GlobalHistory
#EarlyModernWorld
#TransAtlantic
#HistoricalChange
#ColumbianExchange
#GlobalHistory
#EarlyModernWorld
#TransAtlantic
#HistoricalChange
The Immorality Act was a series of apartheid-era South African laws that criminalized relationships between white people and people of other racial groups. Enforced through policing and surveillance.
#Apartheid
#SouthAfricanHistory
#RacialLaws
#LegalHistory
#ImmoralityAct
#Apartheid
#SouthAfricanHistory
#RacialLaws
#LegalHistory
#ImmoralityAct
January 15, 2026 at 3:57 AM
The Immorality Act was a series of apartheid-era South African laws that criminalized relationships between white people and people of other racial groups. Enforced through policing and surveillance.
#Apartheid
#SouthAfricanHistory
#RacialLaws
#LegalHistory
#ImmoralityAct
#Apartheid
#SouthAfricanHistory
#RacialLaws
#LegalHistory
#ImmoralityAct
Troppenkoller was a colonial-era German medical term describing mental and physical breakdown among European soldiers in tropical environments.
#ColonialMedicine
#MilitaryHistory
#TropicalMedicine
#HistoryOfPsychiatry
#GermanColonialism
#ColonialMedicine
#MilitaryHistory
#TropicalMedicine
#HistoryOfPsychiatry
#GermanColonialism
January 13, 2026 at 6:52 AM
Troppenkoller was a colonial-era German medical term describing mental and physical breakdown among European soldiers in tropical environments.
#ColonialMedicine
#MilitaryHistory
#TropicalMedicine
#HistoryOfPsychiatry
#GermanColonialism
#ColonialMedicine
#MilitaryHistory
#TropicalMedicine
#HistoryOfPsychiatry
#GermanColonialism
The Mamluks were ensl9ved soldiers who rose to rule Egypt and Syria between 1250 and 1517. Recruited mainly from Turkic and Circassian youths.
#Mamluks
#MedievalHistory
#IslamicWorld
#tactics
#MiddleEastHistory
#Mamluks
#MedievalHistory
#IslamicWorld
#tactics
#MiddleEastHistory
January 10, 2026 at 8:43 AM
The Mamluks were ensl9ved soldiers who rose to rule Egypt and Syria between 1250 and 1517. Recruited mainly from Turkic and Circassian youths.
#Mamluks
#MedievalHistory
#IslamicWorld
#tactics
#MiddleEastHistory
#Mamluks
#MedievalHistory
#IslamicWorld
#tactics
#MiddleEastHistory
Contubernium was a quasi-marital union in ancient Rome, usually between en5lav8d people or between an en5lav8d person and a free partner.
#AncientRome
#Roman
#Contubernium
#SocialHistory
#RomanLaw
#AncientRome
#Roman
#Contubernium
#SocialHistory
#RomanLaw
January 9, 2026 at 6:40 AM
Contubernium was a quasi-marital union in ancient Rome, usually between en5lav8d people or between an en5lav8d person and a free partner.
#AncientRome
#Roman
#Contubernium
#SocialHistory
#RomanLaw
#AncientRome
#Roman
#Contubernium
#SocialHistory
#RomanLaw
Sabinada Revolt (1837–1838) was a republican uprising in Bahia, Brazil, led by middle-class folks and military officers....
#SabinadaRevolt
#BrazilianHistory
#BahiaHistory
#RegencyPeriod
#19thCenturyHistory
#SabinadaRevolt
#BrazilianHistory
#BahiaHistory
#RegencyPeriod
#19thCenturyHistory
January 9, 2026 at 3:36 AM
Sabinada Revolt (1837–1838) was a republican uprising in Bahia, Brazil, led by middle-class folks and military officers....
#SabinadaRevolt
#BrazilianHistory
#BahiaHistory
#RegencyPeriod
#19thCenturyHistory
#SabinadaRevolt
#BrazilianHistory
#BahiaHistory
#RegencyPeriod
#19thCenturyHistory
The Battle of Liberty Place erupted in New Orleans on September 14, 1874, when the whyt8 supr8macist White League fought police and militia loyal to Governor William Kellogg.
#Reconstruction
#BattleOfLibertyPlace
#WhiteLeague
#NewOrleansHistory
#PostCivilWar
#Reconstruction
#BattleOfLibertyPlace
#WhiteLeague
#NewOrleansHistory
#PostCivilWar
January 7, 2026 at 4:18 AM
The Battle of Liberty Place erupted in New Orleans on September 14, 1874, when the whyt8 supr8macist White League fought police and militia loyal to Governor William Kellogg.
#Reconstruction
#BattleOfLibertyPlace
#WhiteLeague
#NewOrleansHistory
#PostCivilWar
#Reconstruction
#BattleOfLibertyPlace
#WhiteLeague
#NewOrleansHistory
#PostCivilWar
3rd Anglo-Ashanti War........ Blimey
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January 6, 2026 at 6:11 AM
Samuel Bellamy, was an English pirate who briefly terrorized the Atlantic in 1716–1717. A champion of egalitarian crews, he commanded the Whydah Gally before it wrecked off Cape Cod.
#SamuelBellamy
#GoldenAgeOfPiracy
#WhydahGally
#PirateHistory
#SamuelBellamy
#GoldenAgeOfPiracy
#WhydahGally
#PirateHistory
January 4, 2026 at 7:26 AM
Samuel Bellamy, was an English pirate who briefly terrorized the Atlantic in 1716–1717. A champion of egalitarian crews, he commanded the Whydah Gally before it wrecked off Cape Cod.
#SamuelBellamy
#GoldenAgeOfPiracy
#WhydahGally
#PirateHistory
#SamuelBellamy
#GoldenAgeOfPiracy
#WhydahGally
#PirateHistory
Quilombo refers to autonomous communities formed by escaped enslaved Africans and their descendants in colonial Brazil. These settlements resisted slavery through collective defense, agriculture, and cultural continuity.
#Quilombo
#Palmares
#AfroBrazilianHistory
#BlackResistance
#MaroonCommunities
#Quilombo
#Palmares
#AfroBrazilianHistory
#BlackResistance
#MaroonCommunities
January 2, 2026 at 10:40 AM
Quilombo refers to autonomous communities formed by escaped enslaved Africans and their descendants in colonial Brazil. These settlements resisted slavery through collective defense, agriculture, and cultural continuity.
#Quilombo
#Palmares
#AfroBrazilianHistory
#BlackResistance
#MaroonCommunities
#Quilombo
#Palmares
#AfroBrazilianHistory
#BlackResistance
#MaroonCommunities
Captain Thunderbolt, was an Australian bushranger active during the 1860s. He became known for mail coach and inn robberies across New South Wales, often aided by his partner Mary Ann Bugg
#CaptainThunderbolt
#AustralianHistory
#BushrangerEra
#ColonialAustralia
#MaryAnnBugg
#CaptainThunderbolt
#AustralianHistory
#BushrangerEra
#ColonialAustralia
#MaryAnnBugg
January 1, 2026 at 8:25 AM
Captain Thunderbolt, was an Australian bushranger active during the 1860s. He became known for mail coach and inn robberies across New South Wales, often aided by his partner Mary Ann Bugg
#CaptainThunderbolt
#AustralianHistory
#BushrangerEra
#ColonialAustralia
#MaryAnnBugg
#CaptainThunderbolt
#AustralianHistory
#BushrangerEra
#ColonialAustralia
#MaryAnnBugg
Lex Fufia Caninia sharply restricted manumissions in ancient Roman wills, preventing elites from freeing large numbers of ensl*v8d people at death.
#RomanLaw
#Manumission
#AugustanReforms
#AncientHistory
#RomanSociety
#RomanLaw
#Manumission
#AugustanReforms
#AncientHistory
#RomanSociety
December 6, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Lex Fufia Caninia sharply restricted manumissions in ancient Roman wills, preventing elites from freeing large numbers of ensl*v8d people at death.
#RomanLaw
#Manumission
#AugustanReforms
#AncientHistory
#RomanSociety
#RomanLaw
#Manumission
#AugustanReforms
#AncientHistory
#RomanSociety
Luís Gama, born ensl*v8d in 1830 Brazil, freed himself through legal action and became a brilliant self-taught lawyer, writer, and abolitionist.
#LuísGama
#Abolitionism
#BrazilianHistory
#BlackIntellectuals
#AfroBrazilianHeritage
#LuísGama
#Abolitionism
#BrazilianHistory
#BlackIntellectuals
#AfroBrazilianHeritage
December 4, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Luís Gama, born ensl*v8d in 1830 Brazil, freed himself through legal action and became a brilliant self-taught lawyer, writer, and abolitionist.
#LuísGama
#Abolitionism
#BrazilianHistory
#BlackIntellectuals
#AfroBrazilianHeritage
#LuísGama
#Abolitionism
#BrazilianHistory
#BlackIntellectuals
#AfroBrazilianHeritage
The “Bl00dy C0de” refers to England’s harsh 18th/19th-century criminal laws that expanded the ultimate price to over 200 offenses, many minor. Designed to deter crime amid social change, it instead exposed deep inequalities.
#EnglishLaw
#CrimeHistory
#PenalReform
#18thCenturyLaw
#inequalities
#EnglishLaw
#CrimeHistory
#PenalReform
#18thCenturyLaw
#inequalities
December 2, 2025 at 3:31 AM
The “Bl00dy C0de” refers to England’s harsh 18th/19th-century criminal laws that expanded the ultimate price to over 200 offenses, many minor. Designed to deter crime amid social change, it instead exposed deep inequalities.
#EnglishLaw
#CrimeHistory
#PenalReform
#18thCenturyLaw
#inequalities
#EnglishLaw
#CrimeHistory
#PenalReform
#18thCenturyLaw
#inequalities
The W****craft Act of 1541, passed under Henry VIII, criminalized magical practices ranging from s*rcery to prophecy, treating them as felonies punishable by D****.
#Actof1541
#TudorHistory
#HenryVIII
#LegalHistory
#EarlyModernEurope
#Actof1541
#TudorHistory
#HenryVIII
#LegalHistory
#EarlyModernEurope
December 1, 2025 at 5:46 PM
The W****craft Act of 1541, passed under Henry VIII, criminalized magical practices ranging from s*rcery to prophecy, treating them as felonies punishable by D****.
#Actof1541
#TudorHistory
#HenryVIII
#LegalHistory
#EarlyModernEurope
#Actof1541
#TudorHistory
#HenryVIII
#LegalHistory
#EarlyModernEurope
Home Children were over 100,000 British youths sent to their other dominions between the 1860s and 1970s, often separated from families
#BritishHomeChildren
#ChildMigration
#SocialHistory
#CanadaHistory
#WelfareReform
#BritishHomeChildren
#ChildMigration
#SocialHistory
#CanadaHistory
#WelfareReform
November 30, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Home Children were over 100,000 British youths sent to their other dominions between the 1860s and 1970s, often separated from families
#BritishHomeChildren
#ChildMigration
#SocialHistory
#CanadaHistory
#WelfareReform
#BritishHomeChildren
#ChildMigration
#SocialHistory
#CanadaHistory
#WelfareReform
Kaff1r began as the Arabic kāfir, meaning “non-believer,” but centuries of colonial use in southern Africa transformed it into a violently rac**t slur.
#southafricanhistory
#Colonialism
#SouthAfricanHistory
#Antihate
#AntiRacism
#southafricanhistory
#Colonialism
#SouthAfricanHistory
#Antihate
#AntiRacism
November 30, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Kaff1r began as the Arabic kāfir, meaning “non-believer,” but centuries of colonial use in southern Africa transformed it into a violently rac**t slur.
#southafricanhistory
#Colonialism
#SouthAfricanHistory
#Antihate
#AntiRacism
#southafricanhistory
#Colonialism
#SouthAfricanHistory
#Antihate
#AntiRacism
Dysaesthesia Aethiopica was an 1851 pseudo-medical label invented by Samuel Cartwright to depict ens***ed Africans’ fatigue, resistance, or refusal to work as a supposed disease.
#evil
#MedicalAbuse
#fakeScience
#History
#PseudoDiagnosis
#evil
#MedicalAbuse
#fakeScience
#History
#PseudoDiagnosis
November 27, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Dysaesthesia Aethiopica was an 1851 pseudo-medical label invented by Samuel Cartwright to depict ens***ed Africans’ fatigue, resistance, or refusal to work as a supposed disease.
#evil
#MedicalAbuse
#fakeScience
#History
#PseudoDiagnosis
#evil
#MedicalAbuse
#fakeScience
#History
#PseudoDiagnosis
Wergild, the early Germanic system of compensatory justice, placed a monetary value on every person to prevent endless feuds.
#EarlyLaw
#AngloSaxonHistory
#Medieval
#LegalAnthropology
#middleage
#EarlyLaw
#AngloSaxonHistory
#Medieval
#LegalAnthropology
#middleage
November 26, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Wergild, the early Germanic system of compensatory justice, placed a monetary value on every person to prevent endless feuds.
#EarlyLaw
#AngloSaxonHistory
#Medieval
#LegalAnthropology
#middleage
#EarlyLaw
#AngloSaxonHistory
#Medieval
#LegalAnthropology
#middleage
The C0ntagious Dis8ases Acts (1864–1886) were British laws allowing forced medical examinations of women suspected of pro$**tution near military towns to control ven8real dis8ase.
#medicalhistory
#VictorianHistory
#WomenRights
#JosephineButler
#HistoricalLaws
#medicalhistory
#VictorianHistory
#WomenRights
#JosephineButler
#HistoricalLaws
November 24, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The C0ntagious Dis8ases Acts (1864–1886) were British laws allowing forced medical examinations of women suspected of pro$**tution near military towns to control ven8real dis8ase.
#medicalhistory
#VictorianHistory
#WomenRights
#JosephineButler
#HistoricalLaws
#medicalhistory
#VictorianHistory
#WomenRights
#JosephineButler
#HistoricalLaws
Drapetomania was a pseudoscientific term coined in 1851 by American physician Samuel Cartwright, who falsely claimed that ensl****d Africans who fled captivity suffered from a mental disorder
November 23, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Drapetomania was a pseudoscientific term coined in 1851 by American physician Samuel Cartwright, who falsely claimed that ensl****d Africans who fled captivity suffered from a mental disorder
Chief Nana Olomu. Britain did not like him at all......
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November 22, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Occupation of Araucanía. Nah......Again???
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November 22, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Fante Confederacy. Built on the Fold Coast when........
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November 20, 2025 at 1:48 AM
40 y8ars a sla........The story of Prince Abdul
YouTube video by Grey Geezy
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November 19, 2025 at 3:43 AM