Coleman Hughes reveals 90% of New World slaves were captured and sold by other African tribes
Standard history curricula treat American chattel slavery as a uniquely Western sin. This selective memory requires ignoring the rest of the documented record. Isolating the American experience hides a much grimmer truth: human bondage was the absolute global default.
Coleman Hughes outlines the missing data in how we teach the history of human bondage.
The Arab slave trade trafficked between 10 and 18 million Africans over 13 centuries.
Historian Robert Davis estimates North African Barbary pirates enslaved more than a million white Europeans.
Russia emancipated 20 to 25 million serfs in the 1860s, freeing more people than American abolition did.
In the transatlantic trade, European merchants primarily purchased enslaved people from African coastal merchants. Rival African tribes captured and sold 90 percent of those brought to the New World.
Teaching slavery as a tragedy isolated to one continent creates a curated version of the past. True historical literacy requires looking at the entire record.
Source: @JTLonsdale@coldxman
Elon Musk deserves every single penny he has made.
And I hope he becomes the world’s first trillionaire.
He’s using his wealth to help blind people see and paralyzed people walk. I’d rather that money stay in his hands than go to Elizabeth Warren, who’d likely see it wasted on fraud in Somalia or some other government boondoggle.
Yes, he has a massive slice of the pie — but he’s made the entire pie dramatically bigger for everyone on Earth. That’s why we enjoy a higher quality of life than any civilization in human history.
Capitalism isn’t just worth defending, it’s worth celebrating.
This is one of my favorite videos of all time. As a child psychologist, it’s a perfect example of joint attention, preverbal communication, and coregulation.
JK Rowling, after the UK Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex, posted a photo of herself smoking a cigar and drinking a cocktail with the caption:
"I love it when a plan comes together."
She funded the legal challenge, won in the highest court in the UK, and celebrated with a cigar. Is Rowling the most consequential author alive right now?
Elon Musk just told a story that should terrify every AI company on Earth.
His son Saxon is autistic.
Saxon couldn’t understand why the family went to restaurants.
You can get the same food delivered.
You can call your friends over.
You can eat better at home for half the price.
So why go?
Musk: “He had an epiphany and said, ‘Oh, the reason people go to restaurants is to hang out with strangers.’”
A kid who takes the world literally just decoded something the rest of us never thought to question.
We like being around people we’ll never know.
Look at what we already built.
Delivery apps so you never wait in line.
Remote work so you never share an office.
Self-checkout so you never talk to a cashier.
Every innovation of the last 20 years was a bet against human proximity.
Every one paid off.
Until it didn’t.
Loneliness is now a public health emergency.
Depression has doubled since the smartphone.
The average American has fewer close friends than any generation in history.
We didn’t remove friction.
We removed the thing friction was hiding.
Now look at what’s coming.
AI agents that handle your emails.
AI companions that replace your conversations.
AI assistants that make every human interaction optional.
Same playbook. Same bet.
Except this time we’re not engineering out strangers.
We’re engineering out humans entirely.
The coffee shop where nobody knows your name.
The subway where no one speaks.
The restaurant where you’ll never see that couple again.
Those aren’t failed connections.
They’re the background radiation of belonging.
We don’t just need people who know us.
We need to exist in rooms full of people who don’t.
That’s what a kid understood at a dinner table that billion-dollar companies still can’t grasp in a boardroom.
We spent 20 years building a world you never have to show up to.
AI is about to finish the job.
And nothing it builds will ever replicate sitting in a room full of strangers and not feeling alone.
A little history for those frauds wanting to “restore Palestine”:
1: Before Israel, there was the British Mandate, not a Palestinian state.
2: Before the British Mandate, there was the Ottoman Empire, not a Palestinian state.
3: Before the Ottoman Empire, there was the Islamic state of the Mamluks of Egypt, not a Palestinian state.
4: Before the Islamic state of the Mamluks of Egypt, there was the Ayyubid Arab-Kurdish Empire, not a Palestinian state.
5: Before the Ayyubid Empire, there was the Frankish and Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem, not a Palestinian state.
6: Before the Kingdom of Jerusalem, there were the Umayyad and Fatimid empires, not a Palestinian state.
7: Before the Umayyad and Fatimid empires, there was the Byzantine Empire, not a Palestinian state.
8: Before the Byzantine Empire, there were the Sassanids, not a Palestinian state.
9: Before the Sassanid Empire, there was the Byzantine Empire, not a Palestinian state.
10: Before the Byzantine Empire, there was the Roman Empire, not a Palestinian state.
11: Before the Roman Empire, there was the Hasmonean state, not a Palestinian state.
12: Before the Hasmonean state, there was the Seleucid Empire, not a Palestinian state.
13: Before the Seleucid Empire, there was the empire of Alexander the Great, not a Palestinian state.
14: Before the empire of Alexander the Great, there was the Persian Empire, not a Palestinian state.
15: Before the Persian Empire, there was the Babylonian Empire, not a Palestinian state.
16: Before the Babylonian Empire, there were the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, not a Palestinian state.
17: Before the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, there was the Kingdom of Israel, not a Palestinian state.
18: Before the Kingdom of Israel, there was the theocracy of the Twelve Tribes of Israel, not a Palestinian state.
19: Before the theocracy of the Twelve Tribes of Israel, there was an agglomeration of independent Canaanite city-kingdoms, not a Palestinian state.
20: Before the agglomeration of independent Canaanite city-kingdoms, there was God.
The Kingdom of David — a historic map for those wondering how the region looked over 2,000 years ago.
🚨TODAY: The Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias published a report detailing how the Biden Administration’s prosecutions, policies, and practices demonstrated anti-Christian bias throughout the federal government.
The report details the Biden Administration’s radical efforts to punish Christians and highlights @POTUS’s efforts to restore religious liberty.
Read the report here: https://t.co/ZTipLLkCNG