#Plantations

Kelvin

realkelvin07

Palm Oil is one commodity that is special because the largest plantations are in Edo State, Nigeria, and the global Palm Oil trade started in Nigeria. Infact in 1963, Nigeria

Unfuck Your Habitat

TeamUfYH

I'm seeing lots of people totally stunned by the fact that RI's official name is "The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations." What could a tiny New England state

The Associated Press

AP

“Please pay attention to our lives.” @MargieMasonAP and @robinmcdowell spoke to dozens of women on palm oil plantations who describe rapes, harassment and punishing physical effects of their brutal work,

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

Matthew Struebig

mattstruebig

Does certifying oil palm help alleviate poverty? Here's a sneak preview of our RSPO evaluation in Indonesia – the world’s biggest producer…led by Truly Santika with @emeijaard @tropicalscience @c_l_morgans &

Lubaaba 🖤💚

Lubaabanama

This is brilliant to see. Acknowledgement & provenance is first step to productive change to make our incredible public institutions truly world class. The resources that founded @britishlibrary, @britishmuseum @NHM_London

Michael Kofi A.||♤🇬🇭

MikeKofiA

The Seminole War ,which was a 42 year gureilla campaign against the U.S., included not only Native Americans but escaped slaves from South Carolina. Because America needs to maintain the

Al

alexandreashea

Ok so I watched the Chris Harrison interview and y’all are nuts What happened in that interview was a very healthy conversation (aside from the few times Chris did what

Carl Zha

CarlZha

US politician and Western MSM started new round of campaign accusing China using millions of #Uyghur slaves to work on #Xinjiang cotton "plantations". Reports source none other than Adrian Zenz,

Angry Staff Officer

pptsapper

About to dive into this! Holy shit do I feel this so hard. I too was blinded by the Lost Cause growing up, even as a northerner. Everything I do

Emily Dolhansky

emilydolhansky

There’s been a lot of renewed interest in large-scale tree planting programs in the US, but most people don’t understand how planting works and why getting trees in the ground

Madeline Grant 🇭🇰

Madz_Grant

Jane Austen already engages with slavery in all kinds of waysThere’s that pregnant silence at the Mansfield Park dinner when Fanny asks Sir Thomas about the plantations that sustain the

serial/landscape/serials

lscapeisaverb

The executive order for Architecture is inappropriate for (or dismissive of?) Landscape Architecture. Why? Context.But I’m not referring to the language. I’m referring to the precedents, the place impacted, and

B.T. Harman

BT_Harman

Let's start in the year 1735...Surprisingly, the founders of the colony of Georgia vote to ban slavery. Of the 13 American colonies, they're the only one with such a ban.Many

(You) Kipper

YouKipperLad

"Mosley made contact with responsible Black leaders and talked to them in their own homes. It was to the great credit of Union Movement that in the early 1960s an

romeoஇ🐅

scorpionslimes

Hey twitter users. Just here to drop a quick history lesson because I never learned about this in school and I'm pretty sure yall didn't either. Let's go. Why are

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