Category: World History
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How Australian Slave Traders Drowned Enslaved People Rather Than Give Them Freedom
Advertisements Between 1515 and the mid-nineteenth century, more than 12 million Africans were forcibly transported across the Atlantic to work as slaves. On their trip to the Americas, two million enslaved men, women, and children died. Australian South Sea Islander people, the descendants of men, women, and children known as “sugar slaves,” were abducted from […]
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Who Really Was John Hanson, Black Man Erroneously Called The First Black President Of U.S.?
Advertisements Years before the internet, the claim that John Hanson was the first Black president of the United States spread. In recent years, social media has promoted that false claim. In 2020, some social media posts proclaimed Hanson as the first Black president of the United States, rather than Barack Obama. In the posts, there […]
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How Christianity Played Major Role In The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Advertisements Slavery existed in most ancient cultures and still exists in varied forms in some countries today. Slavery was publicly utilized to build wealth in ancient and modern cultures, but it is now considered an act of injustice against mankind. Between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries, the trans-Atlantic slave trade was no exception. Christians who claimed […]
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How Three Ancient Egyptian Obelisks Ended Up In NYC, London, And Paris – Cleopatra’s Needle
Advertisements When it comes to analyzing Africa’s past and present, ancient Egypt has been a popular starting point. It is noted for numerous things, including its obelisks, which are tall stone-cut structures. These vertical structures, which were effectively tombstones created to identify graves and underground burial chambers in the kingdom of Axum, were carved out […]
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Chronicle Of The Seven Wonders Of The Ancient World
Advertisements The incredible works of art and architecture known as the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World serve as a monument to human creativity, imagination, and pure hard labor. They are, nevertheless, reminders of humanity’s ability for discord, devastation, and, possibly, embellishment. When ancient writers established a list of “seven marvels,” it sparked discussion about […]
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Queen Nanny Of The Maroons: Ashanti Woman Who Fought And Freed Over 1,000 Enslaved Africans In Jamaica
Advertisements Nanny was a Maroon leader and Obeah woman in Jamaica during the late 17th and early 18th centuries. She was also known as Granny Nanny, Grandy Nanny, and Queen Nanny. Enslaved Africans who escaped and established autonomous settlements in the Americas were known as maroons. Nanny was a runaway slave from Western Africa who […]
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Meet America’s Cruelest, Richest Slave Traders, Notorious For Raping Enslaved African Women – Isaac Franklin And John Armfield
Advertisements The two most brutal domestic slave dealers in America used a code to communicate. Slave trading was considered a “sport.” They were courageous “pirates” or “one-eyed men,” a metaphor for their penises, Isaac Franklin and John Armfield. The women they bought and sold were referred to as “fancy maids,” a term that connotes youth, […]
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How George Washington Used Dentures Made From Teeth Taking From Slaves
Advertisements George Washington, America’s founding father, and first president governed from 1789 to 1797 and won many battles as a military general as well as in the political arena as a leader and statesman. While he led Patriot armies to success in the country’s Struggle for Independence, he failed to win the war against tooth […]
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Meet The Nigerian Freedom Fighter Who Founded The Black Panthers In The U.K – Obi Egbuna
Advertisements Obi Egbuna, a Nigerian dramatist and political activist who immigrated to the United Kingdom in the 1960s, aspired to be an electrical engineer. However, he eventually recognized that he needed to become a social engineer. He attended the University of Iowa and Howard University in Washington, DC before coming to England in 1961 and […]
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Historians Reveal That Achilles In Ancient Greek Mythology Was Black, As Whites React – Black Achillis
Advertisements In a world where human bias has led to lies and usurping of ancient heritages, Black people have been at the receiving end of centuries of cultural appropriation, heritage theft, and other forms of whitewashing of Black history. European scientists, writers, and scholars have made it a point of duty to usurp the identity […]
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How Mexicans Of African Descent Founded Los Angeles In 1781
Advertisements The Los Angeles Pobladores, or “townspeople,” were a group of 44 Mexican settlers and four soldiers who founded the legendary city in what is now California on the 4th of September, 1781. The settlers were from various Spanish castes, with African heritage accounting for more than half of the group. Felipe de Neve, the governor […]
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Pioneer Slave Trader Who Deceived Africans With Jesus’ Salvation And Lured Them On His ‘Jesus’ Ship – William Hawkins
Advertisements According to history, Juan de Córdoba of Seville was the first merchant to send an African slave to the New World in 1502. The Spanish authorities only allowed merchants to sell one to three enslaved Africans because the slave trade was still in its early stages. By 1504, a small group of Africans, most […]
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History Of Vicente Guerrero, The First Black Indian To Rule Mexico As A President
Advertisements Vicente Guerrero is regarded as one of Mexico’s most prominent national heroes. He was a key figure in the founding of this magnificent state and assisted in the drafting of its first constitution. Despite his importance in Mexican history, few people are familiar with this honorable leader. Vicente Guerrero: Who Is He? Vicente Ramon […]
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How Assassins Shot Bob Marley In His Chest And His Wife In The Head In 1976 But They Escaped Death
Advertisements By 1976, Robert Nesta Marley and his Wailers band had become well-known and influential in Jamaica, where they had a string of hits, and internationally, where Marley was regarded as reggae’s leading exponent. However, tensions in his home country of Jamaica were anything but calm. Citizens were impoverished, and followers of Michael Manley’s ruling […]
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Jean-Pierre Adams, The French Football Star Who Has Been In Coma For 37 Years After Botched Surgery
Advertisements The humble, beautiful, yet terrible end of Senegalese-French man Jean-Pierre Adams is both enthralling and depressing. Before Ghana’s Marcel Desailly, Cameroon’s Kylian Mbappe, Guinea’s Paul Pogba, and Mali’s Ngolo Kante had a path to the French national team-Les Bleus (The Blues), Senegal’s Jean-Pierre Adams had already started down that path. Prior admissions had come […]
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How Enslaved Africans Were Dipped In Boiling Sugar-Juice As Punishment During Slavery
Advertisements With each passing day, we learn more about the innumerable atrocities committed by the world’s Caucasians against Black people. Africa’s history stretches back thousands of years, even beyond the slave trade. We are well aware that the Black continent was/is magnificent, glorious, and heroic. However, as we share our great memories, we must also […]
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How French Stole Buried Body Of African Warrior & Displayed Him As Wild Animal In Europe
Advertisements The Negro of Banyoles was half-naked with only a raffia decoration and a coarse orange loincloth, an African warrior displayed as a wild animal in a European museum with a spear in his right hand and a shield in his left, bending slightly forward, and his shoulders raised. A French trader named Jules Verreaux […]
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How P.T. Barnum, The Greatest Showman, Used An Elderly Slave To Launch His Career
Advertisements In the 1800s, he rose from humble origins as a poor rural child to become a great showman. P.T. Barnum, or Phineas Taylor Barnum, was a showman who specialized in presenting unusual attractions to audiences that were looking for something different. According to Smithsonian Magazine, his legacy in the freak show business stretched from […]
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Argentina Eliminated 90% Of Africans After Slavery Through Genocide, Disease, And Racial Dilution
Advertisements Without providing precise and credible narratives of African slavery, the history of our world can never be complete. More over 50 million Africans were enslaved in America and Europe, while more than 12.5 million were enslaved in the Arab world. Tens of millions of people survived the “middle passage” on ships between America and Europe, […]
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Murder Of Mahmoud Mattan, British-Somali Seaman Hanged With Faked Police Evidence In 1952
Advertisements After being convicted of murder, Mahmoud Mattan, a British-Somali man, was executed in September 1952. In Cardiff’s Tiger Bay, the father of three was wrongfully convicted of the murder of shopkeeper Lily Volpert. The British-Somali seaman, who was only 28 years old at the time of his execution, was the last man killed in […]
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How The UK Labeled Black Caribbean Children ‘Intellectually Inferior’ And Sent Them To Dustbin Schools
Advertisements The large exodus of Afro-Caribbean peoples to the United Kingdom took place between 1948 and 1971. As a result of the war’s casualties, more Caribbean residents were encouraged to migrate to British-ruled countries. The Windrush generation was born as a result of this. The 1971 Immigration Act allowed members of the Windrush generation to […]
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How the US and UK Banned the Movie ‘Babylon’ For Exposing Injustice Against Blacks In England In The 1980s
Advertisements In the 1980s, a film was released that reflected the music and injustices of the day, but its gritty nature alarmed authorities in both London and America, leading to its censorship and ban, respectively. Surprisingly, the themes of racism, bigotry, poverty, and class that the film addressed over four decades ago are still relevant […]
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Meet African War Hero Who Sank A German Ship With Bomb Made From Milk-Can But Was Refused Highest Decoration
Advertisements During World War II, Job Maseko, a South African war hero, sunk an enemy ship with an improvised bomb hidden in a milk container. Maseko, a member of the South African Native Military Corps (NMC), was awarded the Military Medal for his “meritorious and courageous” action, which he described as demonstrating “ingenuity, resolve, and […]
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How The Only Black South African Soldier In Canada’s WWI Army Was Murdered By Allies (Charlie Some)
Advertisements Charlie Some, the lone black South African in the Canadian army, was known for going AWOL on certain occasions. So when he went missing on September 22, 1918, no one expected anything remarkable. Authorities would need approximately two days to find his body, which had been abandoned on Road 45, a tiny road near […]
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Meet Ella Williams, Famed To Be The World’s Tallest Woman In The Late 1800s
Advertisements Ella Williams, also known by her stage as Mme Abomah, was regarded as an amazing woman in the late 1800s, standing over eight feet tall and could comfortably support the weight of a man on her extended arm. Ella Williams, the world’s tallest woman, was born in 1865 in South Carolina, the United States, […]
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Meet Benjamin Odeje, England’s First Black Footballer Who Waited 42 Years To Be Recognized
Advertisements When Benjamin Odeje was called up by England schoolboys and made his debut against Northern Ireland in 1971, he had no idea that he was about to write the history of the game of football. Odeje, a teenage schoolboy from southeast London was born in Nigeria. He was instrumental in England’s 1-0 victory over […]
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Between 1967 And 1975, 15 Ships Got Stuck In The Suez Canal And Formed A Micronation
Advertisements The Suez Canal is one of the most important commerce routes in the world since it allows for more direct trading between Asia and Europe by eliminating the need to circumnavigate Africa and so shortening the length of the voyage. The Suez Canal, which is sometimes referred to as “the artery of international trade,” […]
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Ganga Zumba, The African Royal Who Escaped Slavery In Brazil And Created A Kingdom Of His Own
Advertisements Ganga Zumba is remembered by historians as a warrior, Black hero, and freedom fighter who played a pivotal role in the history and contemporary struggle of the Brazilian Black Movement, having led an alliance of “independent settlements”– Quilombo dos Palmares– that was central to the history and contemporary struggle of the Brazilian Black Movement. […]
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The Plan To Drain The Mediterranean, Merge Africa And Europe, And Cart Away Africa’s Resources From the 1920s
Advertisements The Alantropa concept may seem preposterous to many people now, yet it was regarded seriously by engineers, legislators, architects, and even the United Nations at one point in the 1920s when it was first proposed. Numerous articles in the German and worldwide press supported the initiative, and a unique section of the Deutsches Museum […]
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World War I Continued For Two Weeks In Africa After It Had Officially Ended In Europe
Advertisements It has been exactly 101 years since the official end of World War I (also known as “The Great War”) was declared. On November 11, 1918, at 11 a.m., four years after the outbreak of the war that began in 1914, the feuding groups reached a cease-fire agreement. Since then, the 11th of November […]
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The First Romans Were Black People Called The Etruscans – Read The Full History, Even Though Caucasians Disagree
Advertisements Before you dive into this article, please have an open mind. The debates around this topic have been enormous, and we will continue to present these facts in different forms and in a continous manner, till we come to a consensus from the two races which hold claim to Roman ancestory: The black and […]
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How Countries In Europe Came To Have Flags With Heads Of Black Men On Them
Advertisements Although the identity-building endeavor known as Europeanization only began two or three centuries ago (and was concretized and accelerated following World War I), European polities have always cherished sovereignty and tradition. Even after being united under distinct nations for so many years, the idiosyncrasies of areas like Basque, Sicily, and Lombardy continue to shine […]
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Early Irish People Were Blacks With Blue Eyes – New Documentary Reveals
Advertisements Just like we have always pointed out in our research and articles, the early Irish people, who are the ancient people of Ireland were black people. Although this new documentary does not confirm that they were mostly killed by the new Caucasians who joined them, it confirms that they were somehow (systemically) replaced by […]
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The Battle Of Stalingrad Between Germany, Axis Powers & The Soviets In World War II
Advertisements Fought between August 22, 1942, to February 2, 1943, the Battle of Stalingrad was a huge battle between Nazi Germany and the axis powers and the Soviet Union (also U.S.S.R) which took place in the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) during World War II. Often considered by historians as one of the greatest and […]
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The History Of Medusa: Was She A Monster Or Protector?
Advertisements In ancient Greek mythology, exists three monstrous sisters known as the Gorgons. Among them, the one called Medusa―the others being Euryale and Sthenno―became the most famous; her story told today across the world. As far as scholars/historians know, the earliest record about the story of Medusa (a name meaning ‘guardian’ or ‘protectress’) and her gorgon […]
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History Of The Second Italo-Ethiopian War (1935–1936)
Advertisements The Second Italo-Abyssinian War (or the second Italo-Ethiopian war) was a colonial war fought between October 1935 and February 1937, in what was Italy’s conquest of Ethiopia, a process which began after the 1885 Partition of Africa. Having been defeated in their first attempt at conquest at the battle of Adwa in 1896, allowing […]
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William Mumler: The 19th-Century ‘Spirit Photographer’ Who Claimed To Capture Ghosts
Advertisements It is never in doubt that losing a loved one comes with a lot grief. As such, many would give up the world, or go to the ends of the world just to be reunited with loved ones lost. When this is not the case, humans in grief, through whatever means they can, try […]
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The Historic Battle Of Marathon – Between The Greeks And Persians In 490 BC
Advertisements In many ways, the Battle of Marathon ―fought between the ancient Greeks (Athens aided by the Plateans) and the Persian Empire―is arguably one of the greatest battles ever recorded in human history. The reason for this assertion is simply because of the impact it had on the whole of western civilization and the world […]
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A Detailed History Of The Spanish Inquisition Of 1478-1834
Advertisements The Spanish Inquisition (Spanish: Inquisición española), also known as the Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition (Tribunal del Santo Oficio de la Inquisición), was a judicial institution established in 1478 by Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile, and one of several inquisitions that occurred between the 12th and 19th centuries. It […]
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BBC Documentary Discovers The Original Settlers Of The Americas Had ‘Negroid Features’
Advertisements The uniqueness of human evolution and translocation lies in that every detail of how we came to be, is recorded in the sands of the earth, and the ocean beds. All we need to do is dig and find the truths for ourselves. There is practically nowhere on the face of the Earth, that […]
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Meet The Black Translator, Who Was The First To Set Foot In Canada In The 1600s
Advertisements Black history has become so important in this age and time, that we are doing our best to document every bit of information, to fight against those who delete our achievements from the sands of time. In our research to discover various black icons of ancient and modern times, we stumbled on a very […]
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Alexander The Great Gained Power After Meeting With Ancient Egyptian Oracle Head
Advertisements It has been revealed that Alexander the great got inspired after an encounter with an Egyptian oracle. It was after this meeting, that alexander felt empowered to take on the world. According to Dr. Sujan Kumar Dass in Black People Invented Everything – The Deep History of Indigenous Creativity: “Ancient Egypt, at a time […]
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Scientists Now Support Elijah Muhammad’s Story Of Creation Of Caucasian Race Around 6,000 Years Ago
Advertisements Myth or high science? Is there evidence of the “Yakub story” by Elijah Muhammad of the Nation of Islam? If we removed the name Yakub from the story, how accurate is the timeline in which the caucasian appeared on earth? These and many more are the questions which this article will be trying to […]
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The Immortal Contributions Of President Kim II Sung Of North Korea To African Liberation
Advertisements The African continent which is the mother of humanity, under colonial rule, was a supply base of fuel and other materials to other countries. It was a place where backwardness and poverty had greatly prevailed as a result of colonial and neo-colonial agendas. But now it has become a continent developing on the trajectory […]
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History Of Genghis Khan And The Rise Of The Mongol Empire
Advertisements Genghis Khan (also referred to as Chingis, Jenghiz, or Jinghis, and originally known as Temujin,) was a warrior, founder and first Great Khan and emperor of the Mongol Empire―known among historians as the largest contiguous empire in history after his death. After his rise to power, Ghengis Khan united the Mongol clans, and with his forces began the conquest […]
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Battle Of Bamber Bridge – Black Soldiers Rioted Against Racist White U.S Soldiers In Britain In 1943
Advertisements On the evening of June 24, 1943, an event took place in the town of Bamber Bridge, just south of Preston. On that day, African-American soldiers―supported by their British friends―were engaged in a confrontation against their white American comrades. This unfortunate event would come to be known as the “Battle of Bamber Bridge”. Prelude […]