The story of this exodus—of men and women who had once been enslaved—is one of harrowing survival. The Black Loyalists fled to the British not out of fealty to a distant crown, but because the British offered what the American Republic did not: freedom. And now, in the winter of 1782, they waited. Waited to see whether freedom, once granted, could be taken back.
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Image: Black Loyalist Richard Pierpoint, artist, Malcolm Jones, Canadian War Museum.
#history #canada #Blackmastodon #politics
#OnThisDay, 5 Jun 1988, Aussie Kay Cottee sails back into Sydney, Australia. She is the first woman to complete a single-handed, non-stop circumnavigation of the globe without any assistance.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AustralianHistory #Histodons
#OnThisDay, 23 May 1907, 19 women take their seats in the Finnish Parliament. They are the first women Parliamentarians in the world.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #EuropeanHistory #Histodons
#OnThisDay, 23 May 1941 Giliana Balmaceda (Gillian Gerson) lands in occupied France. She is the first woman to be a Special Operations Executive agent in France, and scouts out escape lines and collects documents to be forged.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #EuropeanHistory #Histodons
#OnThisDay, 5 Jun 1833, Ada Lovelace meets Charles Babbage, triggering their collaboration on the Analytical Engine and writing the first published program.
Image by Sydney Padua
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM #Histodons
#OnThisDay, 24 May 1976, at least 400 women walk out on strike at the Trica factory in London, demanding equal pay with their male colleagues. Around 100 men come out on strike in support of the women.
The strike lasts 21 weeks before the American owners of the factory agree to all demands.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #TradeUnionHistory #Histodons
58 years ago:
“Man, I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong. No Viet Cong ever called me nigger."
For this refusal—for standing on faith in a country that demanded obedience—he was made an example. The response came swift: they stripped him of his title, suspended him from boxing, fined him $10,000, and, on June 20, 1967, sentenced him to five years in federal prison.
#History #Histodons #Politics
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Video: Muhammad Ali Refuses Army Induction, April 28, 1967.
https://youtube.com/shorts/Z2xrr2OuoYg?si=sgOcYyfS8d5ZJq1Q
Ancient Egyptian Drawing Now Theorized To Represent the Milky Way’s Great Rift
By Livia Pereira
Original paper:
https://www.sciengine.com/JAHH/doi/10.3724/SP.J.140-2807.2025.01.06
Astronomy-History at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/891
📖 **Peak Human: What We Can Learn from the Rise and Fall of Golden Ages**
“_In Peak Human, acclaimed historian Johan Norberg examines seven of humanity’s greatest civilizations – ancient Athens, the Roman Republic, Abbasid Baghdad, Song China, Renaissance Italy, the Dutch Republic and the Anglosphere – and asks: how do we ensure that our current golden age doesn’t end?_”
🔗 https://atlantic-books.co.uk/book/peak-human/.
#Nonfiction #Book #Bookstodon #History #Histodons @bookstodon @histodons
On May 1, 1865, in the 1st spring of freedom, Black Charlestonians held a procession to honor Union soldiers buried in a mass grave.
They came with roses. With hymns. With children.
It was the 1st Memorial Day.
But America gave the credit to others & buried the memory.
#MemorialDay #History #Histodons #Politics #photography #blackandwhite
#blackmastodon
#blackandwhitephotography
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Image: Black American Civil War Memorial, Spirit of Freedom statue by Ed Hamilton 1997, NPS Photo Washington DC.
“The simple act of walking through a schoolhouse door that had been barred to me, and all people of my color, by the governor of this state - that simple act represented an end to legal segregation in the American South.”
#OnThisDay, 11 June 1963, Vivian Malone defies the Governor of Alabama to become the first Black female student at the University of Alabama.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
What Is the Origin of the Calendar?
The modern calendar borrows influences from a collective of early calendars such as the Jewish, the Babylonian, the Roman, and the Egyptian calendars.
by Mike Cohen
https://www.thecollector.com/what-is-the-origin-of-the-calendar/
Books on calendars at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/2284
Maya calendar:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/12329
How Thomas Nast’s Cartoons Transformed American Life And Culture
By Kaleena Fraga
https://allthatsinteresting.com/thomas-nast-cartoons#34
The Man With the Carpet Bag
The Wrong Side and The Right Side (of History) - Albert Camus On Being 'Human and Simple'
By Paul Sorene
More information:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Camus
Behind the Scenes Tour at the Mitchell Library
14 June, Mitchell Library, Glasgow. Free, ticketed
An exclusive guided tour of the Mitchell Library – one of Europe’s largest public libraries. Dawn Vallance, Principal Librarian at the Mitchell Library, will lead a tour of the vast back stacks of the Mitchell, not usually accessible to the public.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/behind-the-scenes-tour-at-the-mitchell-library-tickets-1374282378589
#Scottish #literature #libraries #architecture #history #Glasgow #MitchellLibrary
In the bone-deep chill of 1792, they gathered on the edge of the Atlantic—over 1000 Black Loyalists, weary of the lies carved into the soil of Nova Scotia. 10 years they waited for land that never came. Now they would leave. Not in retreat, but defiance. Toward Sierra Leone, and the freedom they would build themselves. A home worthy of their struggle. #history #photography
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Image: Founder of Sierra Leone, Thomas Peter's statue in Freetown Sierra Leone. Source: https://flic.kr/p/2amHbqo
Ronnie Dugger, founding editor and longtime publisher of the Texas Observer and for many years the crusading conscience of the progressive movement in Texas and beyond, died of complications of dementia at a hospice center in Austin on May 27. He was 95. https://www.texasobserver.org/ronnie-dugger-1930-2025/
#politics #USpol #journalism #RIP #Texas #media #history #news
#OnThisDay, 28 May 1944, Sonia Butt parachutes into occupied France as an explosives expert for the British Special Operations Executive. She'd turned 20 two weeks earlier.
She trained the maquis and coordinated sabotage operations. She was never captured.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 28 May 1990, Maiden, captained by Tracy Edwards, crosses the finishing line to become the first all-woman crew to complete the Round the World yacht race.
Leyland Motors For All Time
https://justin-farrimond.pixels.com/featured/leyland-motors-for-all-time-justin-farrimond.html
One of seven clocks erected by Leyland Motors in 1931 on trunk roads throughout the country. This one was originally on the A6 at Shap Fell before being moved to the current site in Kendal, Cumbria, in 1973.
#PhotoOfTheDay #Heritage #Photography #ArtPrint #Travel #History #Clock #Kendal #Cumbria #Vintage
Faces.
We express ourselves through the set of our mouth, the light that comes from our eyes, a tilt of the head.
So much we say without having to utter a word.
Through the Ages art print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/through-the-ages-steve-henderson.html?product=art-print
#art #artwork #women #history #face #drawing #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #ayearforart #indigenous #communication #artist #decor
The past 3 weeks, I have traced the arc of the Black Loyalists’ journey. Some of you have asked about a place where everything can be read together.
Read free the 3-part extended series here:
I: A Record of Ink and Sacrifice
https://400years.substack.com/p/a-record-written-in-ink-and-sacrifice
II: No Certainty But the Sea
https://400years.substack.com/p/no-certainty-but-the-sea
III: A Town of Huts
https://400years.substack.com/p/a-town-of-huts
These are not monuments. They are evidence.
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Image: Rev. Soldier Re-enactor, by Ken Bohrer, American Rev Photo.
"You need not be afraid to give us our rights for fear we will take too much, for we won't take more than our pint'll hold."
#OnThisDay, 29 May 1851, Sojourner Truth addresses the Woman's Rights Convention in Ohio.
Her speech is commonly known as 'ain't I a woman' although that comes from a dubious transcript that uses racial tropes.
Read more about that at https://www.thesojournertruthproject.com/compare-the-speeches/
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
Walter Funk’s postwar testimony confirms Hitler’s early financial ties to Ruhr industrialists Emil Kirdorf and Fritz Thyssen exposing how corporate collusion with fascism was systemic in nature.
Kirdorf chaired Deutsche Bank’s committee and hosted 300+ industrialists at his 1927 birthday. Thyssen, Europe’s steel magnate, funneled industry funds to the NSDAP. Both leveraged the Bergbauverein to bankroll Hitler, with Kirdorf controlling its treasury.
In 1783, nearly 3,000 Black Loyalists arrived in Nova Scotia—free in name, but not in fate. Promised land and liberty, they built settlements from bark and memory, while the empire marked their freedom with boundaries. It is a story of what they built, what was taken, and what remains. #Juneteenth #Histodons #politics #BlackMastodon #history #photography
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Image: Temporary shelters the Black Loyalists lived in on their arrival in Nova Scotia in 1783. Black Loyalists Heritage Center, NS.
