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Louis Armstrong & Billie Holiday, Carnegie Hall New York, 1946.

@TheRabbitHole True, but misleading. The U.S. got about 388k direct enslaved Africans, while the broader Atlantic slave trade sent about 10.7M Africans to the Americas.

Thomas Sowell on the complicated history of slavery

Fulani woman in Niger, 1956.

3/3 Did leaking alcohol fumes terrify the captain? A snapped towline may have left them helplessly watching their empty ship sail away. The ocean swallowed their final moments. When paranoia drives you to abandon a safe haven, does survival become impossible?

2/3 The ship was completely seaworthy. The captain, his family, and crew left behind their money and dry clothes. Only a lifeboat and navigation tools were missing. A single thick rope trailed into the dark water, pointing to a panicked, temporary evacuation.

THE MYSTERY OF THE MARY CELESTE

30 years ago, michael jackson released ‘they don’t care about us’

A young girl in a school for black civil rights activists being trained to not react to smoke blown in her face, 1960.

Saundra Brown, the first black woman on the Oakland police force, gets instructions on how to shoot a shotgun, 1970

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Name a football club without letter "E" Impossible

Michelle Obama at the Princeton University in 1985.

3/3 The audacity of the escape terrified the capital, triggering a massive pro-slavery riot. It proved that the hunger for liberty could never be fully contained. If the wind had just held for a few more hours, how would American history look today?

2/3 It was the largest non-violent escape attempt in US history. The ship sailed down the Potomac toward freedom, but the wind abruptly died, leaving them stranded. A heavily armed posse hunted them down, capturing the ship and selling most passengers to the Deep South.

TODAY IN HISTORY || THE PEARL INCIDENT

3/3 Doctors found zero toxins. Experts blame mass psychogenic illness—a physical breaking point triggered by severe psychological stress. If shared anxiety can hijack a thousand minds at once, how safe is our own grip on reality?

2/3 This wasn't joy; it was agonizing. Victims suffered severe crying fits, pain, and exhaustion, completely unable to stop their bodies from convulsing. The contagion spread rapidly across villages, infecting over 1,000 people and forcing schools to close for months.

THE TANGANYIKA LAUGHTER EPIDEMIC