Showing posts with label French Slavery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label French Slavery. Show all posts
Sunday, May 20, 2012

Fabrice Monteiro's Amazing Images of Brown. Fugitive Slaves In Slave Torture Devices

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"Marrons. Les esclaves fugitifs" (Brown Runaway Fugitive Slaves) photographed by Fabrice Monteiro "Brown. Fugitive...
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Haitian History & Future Prospects

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From History Whiz , "Slavery and the French Revolution" -- Even before 1789 critics had attacked the slave trade and slavery i...
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Saturday, April 21, 2012

Paris torture instruments auction suspended after protests

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Hands crusher (Collection Fermand Meyssonnier/Etude Cornette de Saint Cyr) According to the Lebanon Daily Star , "French torture ...
Friday, April 13, 2012

Les esclaves et le Blues: Slaves and the Blues

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Les esclaves et le Blues: Slaves and the Blues
Monday, March 19, 2012

Manila The African Money Of The Slave Trade

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MANILLAS: AFRICAN BRACELET MONEY Copper was the "red gold" of Africa and had been both mined there and traded across the Sahar...
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Monday, March 12, 2012

Haitian Soldiers Memorialized At The Siege of Savannah Monument

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The Siege of Savannah--On Oct. 9, 1779, a Haitian regiment known as the Chasseurs Volontaires de Saint-Domingue served as a reserve uni...
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Friday, October 21, 2011

An Exhibition Has Uncomfortable Echoes Of The French Colonial 'Human Zoos'

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On Monday 2 May 2011, Charles Forsdick and David Murphy reported in the UK Guardian , "France must acknowledge its colonial past: ...