On this day in 1940, Marcus Garvey, the father of the black nationalist and pan african movements, died.
“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.” —Marcus Garvey
They won’t teach you in school that between 1803 and 1830, the British committed a genocide on the black population of Aboriginal Tasmania, an island located about 200 miles off the southeast coast of Australia.
This is a famous engraving by William Blake, based on the firsthand accounts of John Gabriel Stedman. It’s a stark, painful reminder that the wealth of many nations was built on unimaginable human cruelty.
The trans-Atlantic slave trade, which began as early as the 15th century, introduced a system of slavery that was commercialized, racialized and inherited.
White workers give yall the illusion that racism doesn’t exist because white people work too.
Notice the race of the capitalist… The owners being white tells us who’s in charge.
Toussaint Louverture (c. 1743 April 7, 1803) was a Haitian general and statesman who led the Haitian Revolution. Born enslaved on the Bréda plantation in Saint-Domingue, he rose through military and political ranks to abolish slavery and govern the colony. His leadership set the stage for the creation of Haiti, the first independent Black republic.
Leopold of Belgium ruled Congo as his private property for 23 years. He cut off the limbs of Congolese who did not meet their daily quota on the plantation. At the end of his rule, he had killed 15million Congolese people. But we are taught only about Hitler. 😭😭