#1865

🎻🖊️DeMisty D. Bellinger

DeMistyB

1/ When I was a kid, when the Juneteenth parade rode near my house on Martin Luther King Dr., I had no idea what Juneteenth was. I just knew it

Old Weird Scotland

WeirdScotland

Writing a novel set in Victorian Scotland? Need some baby name ideas? Follow these simple rules for to get those quintessential genuine Scottish names. #OldWeirdScotland RULE #1 Any last name

Mindful Primate

MichellesDude

Guide To the #ImpeachmentHearings - a short THREAD.Tomorrow will begin a series of public hearings that will determine — to paraphrase Lincoln — "whether that nation, conceived in liberty and

Dr. Sarah Bond

SarahEBond

April 13 (the Ides of April): The Roman shipping season officially reopens, particularly for transport of the annona (grain supply) from Alexandria in Egypt to the city of Rome. The

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tpwkhollands

THE HISTORY OF JUNETEENTH: A THREAD On June 19th, 1865, Union soldiers landed in Galveston, Texas with news that the Civil War ended and the enslaved were free. These troops

Lauren R. Welch

Lrochellew

Juneteenth is a couple of days away! On June 19, 1865, enslaved African-Americans in Galveston, TX, were told they were free. Now, 155 years later, people in cities across the

Roscoe B Davis🎖⭐️⭐️⭐️

RoscoeBDavis1

The fake news media sure glazed over these idiots wearing Ashanti tribal Kente cloth. The Ashanti Tribe were notorious SLAVE TRADERS. These idiots were too busy trying to virtue signal

Civil War Humor

CivilWarHumor

#OTD in 1865, the morning after Appomattox, Grant realized he had a few more surrender details to iron out with Lee. Grant being Grant, he didn’t want to waste time

Dennis

Mwasbid

Africans were taken to America as slaves, one of the British colonies in the 1600s. They were beaten, denied basic human rights, subjected to unpaid hard labour and tortured by

PA Stands Up

PAStandsUp

Do you believe that #BlackLivesMatter ? We have a ton of ways for you to get involved this weekend. Help us spread the word! [THREAD] Juneteenth, sometimes called Black Independence

The Met Skipper

themetskipper

Happy 191st Birthday to the Metropolitan Police Service.Founded in 1829 by Sir Robert Peel the first Metropolitan Police officers took to the streets of London on 29th September 1829. The

Zack

zackferguson

So I fell into a bit of a Wikipedia hole last night, learning about all the human beings behind our favourite medical eponyms. Almost all of them - depressingly -

Erik Loomis

ErikLoomis

This Day in Labor History: November 25, 1865. Mississippi created the first Black Code, attempting to reinstitute slavery in all but name. Let's talk about how far southern whites would

Tera Hunter

TeraWHunter

I want to talk about emancipation, for anyone who is interested. As Juneteenth is being discussed there is a lot of misunderstandings about the Emancipation Proclamation, how slavery came to

Frederic Humbert

Frederic

Rugby League was created 125 years ago, when 22* clubs met in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, on Aug. 29 1895 to secede from RFU and create Northern Union. This thread is my

Brooks D. Simpson

BrooksDSimpson

Ulysses S. Grant, May 6, 1864, in the Wilderness, Virginia, upon hearing an excited officer declare that he knew what Lee would do next after the Confederates launched an attack