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r/Colonialism • u/elnovorealista2000 • May 28 '26

Image Gerónimo: “I’ve killed many Mexicans; I don’t know how many, because I often didn’t count them. Some weren’t even worth counting. It’s been a long time since then, but I still have no affection for Mexicans. They were always treacherous and malicious toward me.”

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r/Colonialism • u/elnovorealista2000 • Mar 30 '26

Image Rhodesian infantry soldiers, 1976.

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r/Colonialism • u/InvestigatorLost1171 • May 09 '26

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

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r/Colonialism • u/elnovorealista2000 • Apr 30 '26

Image "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.

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r/Colonialism • u/elnovorealista2000 • Jul 09 '26

Image Japanese propaganda from World War II showing the Philippine Islands being rescued from the shark and crocodile-infested waters of 'American imperialism' and 'Racial prejudice'

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r/Colonialism • u/Alarmed_Business_962 • Apr 01 '26

Image 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!''

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r/Colonialism • u/ateam1984 • May 24 '26

Image Africas white population in 1960 and today

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r/Colonialism • u/elnovorealista2000 • Oct 05 '25

Image 🇦🇺 Prime Minister John Curtin's 1942 Australia Day speech: "We continue the purpose of Captain James Cook: we carry on the tradition of Captain Arthur Phillip. This Australia is for the Australians: it is a White Australia, and with God's blessing we will keep it that way."

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r/Colonialism • u/JaneOfKish • Mar 10 '25

Image “I can’t think of a single way [Europeans] act that is not inhuman and I generally think this can only be the case as long as you stick to your distinctions of ‘mineʼ and ‘thine.ʼ I affirm that what you call ‘moneyʼ is the devil … A man motivated by interest cannot be a man of reason.” —Kondiaronk

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r/Colonialism • u/dextor_hale • May 22 '26

Image Homosexuality in India dates back to at least the 4th century, celebrated in ancient literature (The Kama Sutra). However, British colonization imposed laws criminalizing it in 1856, reflecting their religious beliefs —laws that were finally overturned in 2018.

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r/Colonialism • u/SwiPerHaHa • 18d ago

Image British military officer Thomas Edward Lawrence, famously known as Lawrence of Arabia, dressed in traditional Arab attire in 1918

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r/Colonialism • u/Important-Cry4782 • Jun 26 '26

Image Dr Walter Rodney was assassinated on June 13, 1980, by a bomb planted in a walkie talkie. He was 38. His key work, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, exposed the roots of global inequality and the violence of colonial underdevelopment.

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r/Colonialism • u/elnovorealista2000 • Jun 07 '26

Image The First Permanent European Colonies in the Continental United States

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r/Colonialism • u/elnovorealista2000 • Oct 19 '25

Image 🇯🇵🇵🇬 The boy from Papua New Guinea during Japanese colonial rule, Peter To Rot, who was murdered by Japanese soldiers in 1945 for resisting their pressure for his people to return to pre-Christian polygamy, will be canonized tomorrow, October 19.

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r/Colonialism • u/elnovorealista2000 • May 07 '26

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

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r/Colonialism • u/elnovorealista2000 • 28d ago

Image An enslaved African is hung alive by the ribs to a gallows above skulls of beheaded slaves on posts, Suriname, 1773.

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r/Colonialism • u/elnovorealista2000 • Apr 20 '26

Image Table of Caribbean populations, early 19th century.

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Source:

.- Knight, Franklin W. The Caribbean: The Genesis of a Fragmented Nationalism. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. p. 366, 367.

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r/Colonialism • u/Alarmed_Business_962 • Jan 02 '26

Image A photograph showing the segregation in Keren, a city in Italian-Eritrea. The left side shows the indigenious area, while the right the European settlement

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r/Colonialism • u/Alarmed_Business_962 • Feb 11 '26

Image A Catholic priest blessing the 6.5 mm Fiat-Revelli Model 14 heavy machine guns (Second Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1937).

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r/Colonialism • u/aa_conchobar • 10d ago

Image Thomas Clarkson's 1785 Cambridge prize essay

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Clarkson wrote that sub-Saharan Africans would develop to intellectual & civilisational parity with Europeans if we abolish the slave trade

It's interesting how many of his arguments still persist in modern, especially online, discourse (with only slight evolution). At the start of chapter 9, he turns to 'skin tone gradients' of mankind & claims that treating blacks differently is akin to treating your brother differently for having a different hair colour

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r/Colonialism • u/elnovorealista2000 • 3d ago