Olamide @Don_mikee

Houston, TX Joined October 2010

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives

a year ago

Black labor exploitation via share cropping in the 1950s — Debt Slavery.

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives

2 years ago

"I do not want to miss a good chance of getting us a slice of this magnificent African cake." —Leopold II of Belgium Before Hitler killed 6 million Jews.…. Leopold Il of Belgium killed over 10 million Africans in Congo and amputated the arms of countless others. A THREAD

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives

3 years ago

How Slavery continued after the 13th amendment ‘abolished slavery’ A THREAD! In 1866, a year after the amendment was ratified, Alabama, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, Florida, Tennessee, and South Carolina began to lease out convicts for labor.

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3 years ago

19 year old Frank Embree was tortured, castrated, skinned and then lynched in front of a cheering crowd, for a crime he didn’t commit in 1899. Though published photographs clearly depicted the faces of his assailants, no one was ever arrested. BlackHistorymonth A THREAD!