Colonialism

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A French colonial soldier drags two Algerian men in chains, a stark symbol of colonial oppression.

Posted 9th May 2026u/InvestigatorLost1171

‘The Massacre at Chios’ (1824)by Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863)

Posted 9th May 2026u/Lemming_12

A sign of the times. Johannesburg, South Africa, 1956.

Posted 9th May 2026u/Front-Coconut-8196

The six varieties of colonial architecture in what is now the territory of the present-day United States.

Posted 7th May 2026u/elnovorealista2000

A contemporary French depiction of Italian POW's under Ethiopian captivity, after the First Italo-Ethiopian War ended with Italy’s defeat at the Battle of Adwa. (1896)

Posted 7th May 2026u/Alarmed_Business_962

In 1675, the Carib people found some shipwrecked and starving Africans on an island called Bequia. They rescued them and took them to their island, St. Vincent, where they enslaved them. One day the Africans rebelled, killing the Carib men and raping the Carib women, and adopted Carib customs.

Posted 6th May 2026u/elnovorealista2000

The Kalinago genocide perpetrated by English and French settlers on the island of Saint Kitts in 1626.

Posted 4th May 2026u/elnovorealista2000

What Colonialism ACTUALLY Broke In Just 4 Generations

Posted 3rd May 2026u/InsaneTensei

A Polish woman doing some embroidery work outside her thatched home, at the Polish refugee camp at Tengeru (British-ruled Tanganyika) after the release of Poles from Soviet captivity (1943).

Posted 2nd May 2026u/Alarmed_Business_962

"The Reconquista of the Bay of All Saints," a work by the Spanish painter Juan Bautista Maíno, 1635.

Posted 2nd May 2026u/elnovorealista2000

'Mare Clausum' ("Closed Sea") claims between the Spanish & Portuguese Empires, maintained from the 15th to 18th centuries, though the Portuguese relinquished theirs much sooner. The intention was to establish enormous swathes of the worlds Oceans under exclusive imperial control

Posted 2nd May 2026u/zig_zag-wanderer

"Sleeping Sickness" — This illustration depicts a large African man leaning against a tree, asleep, while Spain, Germany, Italy, France, Belgium, Turkey, Portugal, and England fight over territories in Africa; a work by Gordon Ross (1873-1946), 1911.

Posted 30th Apr 2026u/elnovorealista2000

Posted 30th Apr 2026u/PirateAnnual1101

Criollos and Creoles: the communities of whites born in the New World. (Part 1)

Posted 27th Apr 2026u/elnovorealista2000

Criollos and Creoles: the communities of whites born in the New World. (Part 2)

Posted 27th Apr 2026u/elnovorealista2000

Natives carrying sick and wounded soldiers of the French colonial troops, protected by tirailleurs malgaches, Madagascar - 1901

Posted 27th Apr 2026u/defrays

What was coexistence and segregation like between the Spanish, English, and Indians in the New World?

Posted 23rd Apr 2026u/elnovorealista2000

Australia's colonial expansion (1788-1911)

Posted 21st Apr 2026u/RatioScripta

Table of Caribbean populations, early 19th century.

Posted 21st Apr 2026u/elnovorealista2000

A comparative chart on the population of Hispaniola, the Caribbean island divided between the French colony of Saint-Domingue and the Spanish colony of Santo Domingo at the end of the 18th century.

Posted 19th Apr 2026u/elnovorealista2000

Letter from a Chinese Writer to the Dutch Government and People: China–Netherlands Historical Ties, WWII Anti-Fascist Alliance, Complexity of Colonial Legacy, Netherlands’ Responsibility for Chinese Indonesians, Call for Attention and Assistance to Victimized and At-Risk Chinese Indonesians

Posted 19th Apr 2026u/Slow-Property5895

The village of San Lorenzo de Los Mina was a maroon enclave founded in Spanish Santo Domingo in 1677 by slaves who had escaped from French Saint-Domingue, according to Fray Cipriano de Ultrera, on the banks of the Ozama River.

Posted 16th Apr 2026u/elnovorealista2000

Indigenous Chiefs of Brazil in a Book of Illustrious Men of the 16th Century.

Posted 14th Apr 2026u/elnovorealista2000

The Faces of the 1914 Amalgamation: Identifying an Unnamed Official in Lugard’s Staff

Posted 12th Apr 2026u/monCherBussa

January 1914, Amalgamation Day: Charles Lindsay Temple, Lieutenant-Governor of Northern Nigeria. Colorized from a private archive.

Posted 6th Apr 2026u/monCherBussa

Fascist Italian anthropologist, Lidio Cipriani, moulding a facial cast on a South African Zulu for racial anthropological studies. He contributed to the intellectual climate behind Mussolini's racial laws in the Italian Empire. (1927)

Posted 2nd Apr 2026u/Alarmed_Business_962

Representation of aborigines from the island of La Gomera — Canary Islands, Spain, according to Leonardo Torriani (1588).

Posted 2nd Apr 2026u/elnovorealista2000

Iconic photos of Mr Scirè, dubat-veteran of the East African Campaign (WWII). During the UN mission "Restore hope", Somaliland (1993) he walked up to the Italian command, in Dubat uniform, and said: ''I knew you've come back, I'm here to enlist again; once more!''

Posted 1st Apr 2026u/Alarmed_Business_962

Rhodesian infantry soldiers, 1976.

Posted 30th Mar 2026u/elnovorealista2000

Christmas in Salisbury, Rhodesia. 1976

Posted 30th Mar 2026u/elnovorealista2000

Need tracking down: Africa, Hamilton (Lady Grizel) A Sportsman's Paradise, typescript (1907)

Posted 28th Mar 2026u/rhynwilliams

An indigenious painting of the Battle of Adwa, leading to the Italian retreat out of Ethiopia (First Italo-Ethiopian war, 1896)

Posted 22nd Mar 2026u/Alarmed_Business_962

A map titled "Negroland and Guinea" created by cartographer Herman Moll around 1732. The map includes European settlements belonging to England, Holland, and Denmark.

Posted 17th Mar 2026u/elnovorealista2000

Photograph of a tribal chief from Mankon (Cameroon), wearing the uniform of the Imperial German Guard. The Guard was part of the Cuirassier Regiment of the 1st Cavalry Division of the Reichswehr.

Posted 14th Mar 2026u/elnovorealista2000

Waldseemüller's Map, or Universalis Cosmographia, is a world map printed by the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller, originally published in April 1507.

Posted 9th Mar 2026u/elnovorealista2000

Adolf Ludvig Gustav Fredrik Albert Badin, known originally as Couschi. was a Swedish court servant (Kammermohr) and diarist. Originally a slave, he was the foster son and servant of Queen Louisa Ulrika of Sweden and a servant to his foster sister Princess Sophia Albertine of Sweden.

Posted 7th Mar 2026u/elnovorealista2000

In the book "Historia de la Nación Latinoamericana" by the Argentine historian Jorge Abelardo Ramos, published in 1968, he explains that the practice of scalping in what is now the United States of America has a colonial origin:

Posted 7th Mar 2026u/elnovorealista2000

The Jewish Soldiers of the Dutch Invasion of Pernambuco in Brazil

Posted 7th Mar 2026u/elnovorealista2000

Japanese poster from the Second World War showing the Philippines being rescued from the shark and crocodile-infested waters of 'American Imperialism' and 'Racial Prejudice'.

Posted 2nd Mar 2026u/elnovorealista2000

'After Many Years. Britannia: "Daughter!" Columbia: "Mother!"' 1898, Louis Dalrymple

Posted 3rd Mar 2026u/zig_zag-wanderer

Le Petit Journal cover, 1896. After the Ethiopian Victory at Adwa.

Posted 2nd Mar 2026u/the_eastern_sage

All coins of Trust Territory of Somaliland 1950-1960

Posted 2nd Mar 2026u/ZanzibarOrcCoins

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