Day 2: History
Black British history didn’t start in the 20th century. Erasing Black ppl from period dramas because & #39;it& #39;s not historically accurate& #39; is just ignorant. The first known Black Briton is the skeleton of a woman with sub-Saharan ancestry, who lived around 200 AD.
Day 7: Sons of Africa was a political group formed by freed slaves in late 1700s London. The role slaves played in their own liberation is underplayed. Members included Olaudah Equiano & Ottobah Cugoano. They also educated poor Black ppl in London & campaigned against colonialism
Day 10 cont...Sancho was also a shopkeeper & the first published Black British author. He was a celebrated letter writer & abolitionist, hosting artists, politicians & writers in his shop. His letters were published posthumously in 1780. #BlackHistoryMonth https://abs.twimg.com/hashflags... draggable="false" alt=""> https://bit.ly/2GLJ1Rt ">https://bit.ly/2GLJ1Rt&q...
Day 13: Fanny Eaton, Jamaican-born domestic worker/ artist& #39;s model, immortalised in Pre-Raphaelite paintings. Artist, Gabriel Dante Rossetti wrote to another artist about Eaton& #39;s great beauty, significant given rigid Victorian beauty standards #BlackHistoryMonth https://abs.twimg.com/hashflags... draggable="false" alt=""> #BHM https://abs.twimg.com/hashflags... draggable="false" alt="">
Day 14 cont... SCT was a supporter of the Pan-African movement & fought prejudice all his life. African music influenced some of his classical compositions, such as African Suite, African Romances & Twenty Four Negro Melodies #BlackHistoryMonth https://abs.twimg.com/hashflags... draggable="false" alt=""> #BHM https://abs.twimg.com/hashflags... draggable="false" alt=""> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojdXsj5IhJA">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
Day 17: Where are the Black women in British history? It hasn& #39;t escaped me that most of my tweets so far are about Black men. The stories of Black women seem lost until we reach a certain point in history. Trust me I& #39;ve looked for more women to include 1/2
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Day 22 cont...she picked up the Black power thriller The Spook Who Sat by the Door, which became required reading at the FBI Academy. Her two Daughters of Africa anthologies collect writing from women of African descent & sales fund a bursary for an African female student #BHM https://abs.twimg.com/hashflags... draggable="false" alt="">
Day 27 cont... 9 Black leaders were arrested - Darcus Howe & Althea Jones-Lecointe represented themselves at trial, demanding an all-Black jury. All 9 were acquitted. This was the first time a judge admitted & #39;racial hatred& #39; in the Met Police #BlackHistoryMonth https://abs.twimg.com/hashflags... draggable="false" alt=""> #BHM https://abs.twimg.com/hashflags... draggable="false" alt="">
Day 30 cont...Former PM David Cameron is from a slave-owning family that benefitted from this compensation. The British government advised Caribbean islands to become tax havens, so Britain could still profit, but they& #39;re unable to gather taxes to benefit their own citizens #bhm https://abs.twimg.com/hashflags... draggable="false" alt="">
Day 31: Did your family benefit from slavery? The Legacies of British Slave-ownership project identifies the British individuals & companies that were connected to slavery & profited from it. You can search your family name & location https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/search/ ">https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/searc... #BlackHistoryMonth https://abs.twimg.com/hashflags... draggable="false" alt="">
https://www.taxjustice.net/2020/06/09/slavery-compensation-uk-questions/">https://www.taxjustice.net/2020/06/0... Tax Justice has lots of interesting articles on the economics of oppression and colonialism
Follow these accounts for the latest resources on Black Britain and more @100blackbritons @ShadesofNoir @BhmUK @BlackPastOnline @britsandpcs @bcaheritage the Black Cultural Archives Brixton.
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