#Transatlantic

🕯 Mitchell Mhlanga 🇱🇸

MimiReeds

Did you know: African History..:In the 1780s Liverpool-based vessels alone carried more than 300,000 Africans into slavery. By 1795 Liverpool controlled over 60 per cent of the British and over

John Harris

drjohnaeharris

What was Walt Whitman doing on a slave ship in 1856? /Thread Whitman had recently published the first edition of Leaves of Grass. Reviews were mixed. He was struggling financially.

Uncle Patrick

favourite_uncle

I don't think the AC-130 even cracks the Top 10https://twitter.com/isaiah_bb/status/1360462832882565120 1. SR-71 BlackbirdThere's at least 1 anecdote of this plane outrunning anti-aircraft missiles over Libya 2. A-10 Thunderbolt II,

Alex Halpern

alexchalpern

Thread:Over the past 24 hours, Wiley has:Called Jews “cowards”, “racists”, and “snakes”.Told Jews to “crawl out from under your little rocks and defend your Jewish privilege.”Posted an Instagram photo claiming

Jashvina Shah (Mrs. Spencer Reid)

icehockeystick

hey who wants to hear about 18th century pirates remember them/! Each favorite gets a pirate fact 1. There have been two authenticated pirate wrecks found - Bellamy’s ship off

Hannah Cusworth

hannahcusworth

Thanks so much to @mishaewen for the book recommendation. It’s so good to have things I’ve seen glimpses of referenced in other books or heard mentioned briefly in a podcast/lecture

Sahil Bloom

SahilBloom

In 1865, a 30-year old financier named Jim Fisk made a fortune betting on the fall of the Confederacy.It was the original "big short" - a financial scheme you have

Elizabeth Barnes

e_j_barnes

@KAnthonyAppiah - a philosopher I have tremendous respect for - is taking a fair bit of heat from #disabilitytwitter for his recent @nytimes "The Ethicist" column. But I'd like to

Pierre Morcos

morcos_pierre

[Thread] Announced by President Macron in his New Year’s greetings to the armed forces, the updated Strategic Review has just been released. My take on this 55-page-long document (only

Quartermaster Hanley 💚✊🏳️‍🌈

MattHanley

When lefties say that British history isn't taught properly, omitting huge gaps about colonial crimes, this is what we mean.I'm teaching Life in the UK history towards my refugees' Citizenship

Faizan Siddiqi

faizansiddiqi

Don’t let your mentors confuse you, biz isn’t all that complicated: sell 1 thing to 1 person you don’t know, then repeat. Best case, get faster at it along the

Ryan Heath

PoliticoRyan

THREAD: What the world wants from John Kerry in 2021Re-joining the #ParisAgreement isn't enough, say 25 climate ministers and advocates we interviewed from six continents. Deeds before words: Legislating a

Sara Sheridan

sarasheridan

A #SaturdayMotivation thread of our amazing Scottish foremothers who knew being divisive is the path to change.1st, Rose Klasko Kerrigan, sacked at 14 for speaking against WWI. She scandalized Glasgow’s

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SbyBT

BYLINE TIMES BOX SET : Steve BannonDo your own Psychometric profile of the Trump Campaign Manager and Breitbart Supremo, who co-founded Cambridge Analytica, befriended Nigel Farage and advised Boris Johnson.

Tom Allen

tomallenhistory

1/ I have done some source work this week with Y8 on how Akan culture survived in Barbados as part of our enquiry comparing the impact of transatlantic slavery on

David Henig

DavidHenigUK

As promised, a little story. Of how the EU ask of the UK on the level playing field is indeed new, how that came about, and why we should have

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