#european settlers

[alwaysbewoke]

Jean-Baptiste Pointe DuSable was born in Saint-Domingue, Haiti (French colony) during the Haitian Revolution. At some point he settled in the part of North America that is now known as the city of Chicago and was described in historical documents as "a handsome negro" He married a Native American woman, Kitiwaha, and they had two children. In 1779, during the American Revolutionary War, he was arrested by the British on suspicion of being an American Patriot sympathizer. In the early 1780s he worked for the British lieutenant-governor of Michilimackinac on an estate at what is now the city of St. Clair, Michigan north of Detroit. In the late 1700's, Jean-Baptiste was the first person to establish an extensive and prosperous trading settlement in what would become the city of Chicago. Historic documents confirm that his property was right at the mouth of the Chicago River. Many people, however, believe that John Kinzie (a white trader) and his family were the first to settle in the area that is now known as Chicago, and it is true that the Kinzie family were Chicago's first "permanent" European settlers. But the truth is that the Kinzie family purchased their property from a French trader who had purchased it from Jean-Baptiste. He died in August 1818, and because he was a Black man, many people tried to white wash the story of Chicago's founding. But in 1912, after the Great Migration, a plaque commemorating Jean-Baptiste appeared in downtown Chicago on the site of his former home. Later in 1913, a white historian named Dr. Milo Milton Quaife also recognized Jean-Baptiste as the founder of Chicago. And as the years went by, more and more Black notables such as Carter G. Woodson and Langston Hughes began to include Jean-Baptiste in their writings as "the brownskin pioneer who founded the Windy City." In 2009, a bronze bust of Jean-Baptiste was designed and placed in Pioneer Square in Chicago along the Magnificent Mile. There is also a popular museum in Chicago named after him called the DuSable Museum of African American History.

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[news4dzhozhar]

[historyfiles]

Modern Antigua and Barbuda: Antigua gained European settlers in 1632 when English colonisers arrived from St Kitts, with the depopulated island becoming an English colony in 1667.

[elimu-assistant]

Understanding the Reluctance of Africans to Work on European Settler Farms in Kenya

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[dgtcreative2024]

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[korla-the-kenku]

I've heard about this before. Most earthworms in the upper half of North American went extinct. From what I remember, when European settlers came over, they would weigh their ships down with soil so that the ships would have an equal weight for the return ship bringing home imports.

North American forests actually didn't rely on earthworms to break down leaf litter. Native invertebrates did it at a slower rate. This was how local fauna had evolved.

Earthworms accelerate decomposition, which was problematic for these ecosystems that evolved with slow decay processes. This affected the soil, such as changes in pH, in texture and density, and nutrient enrichment.

These changes made the soil inhospitable for a lot of local plants and let invasive species get an edge in. This also affected the invertebrate species that had been doing the job before.

The soil change also affected other things. The old slowly decaying leaf liter traped and stored carbon. But invasive worms that devoured that leaf litter were releasing more carbon into the atmosphere, and preventing additional carbon storage by depleting the leaf layer. This is a worsening problem.

All of this damages older forests, though it seems to affect new forests much less. Either way it has changed our ecosystem from what it had been.

[firefistjaigio]

how the casually racist friendgroup reacts when someone says eugenicist rhetoric

[cavalierzee]

"Bring Them Home"

Europe Wants Their Immigrants Back!

[millionsofbooks]

something about the tiktok ban that i haven't really seen people here talking about is the experience of tiktok users not from the usa, which was, as far as i can tell, on the whole, very positive. it was actually really nice to, for a short period of time, be on a major social media network and able to interact with people across the world without usamericans constantly inserting themselves into every conversation.

usamericans kind of take over people's fyp regardless of where you're from. this is partly to do with the fact that the creators fund is only available to usamericans so most of the shitty content farms are from the us. then there's also the cultural aspect of the fact that being a citizen of the most powerful empire in the world is a significant privilege, and also a privilege that 99% of usamericans are seemingly unable to acknowledge, plus the us centrism and exceptionalism, plus the constant need to cast themselves as the underdog, and, well. it's annoying.

so, like. everything of what i've seen (which is not to say that other opinions don't exist, just that i haven't seen them) is that it was really nice when the usamericans were gone, and it kind of sucks that they're back.

[mesetacadre]

not a marxist (yet) so can i ask if it's generally agreed upon that capitalism is the primary contradiction why theres a subset of ppl saying it's actually settler colonialism or it's actually this other thing?

You're getting a little bit confused over these terms. The primary contradiction of capitalism is class, because the antagonism between the exploiter class (the capitalist class, the group of people who own the means of production) and the exploited class (the working class, the group of people who sell their labor power in exchange for a portion of the value they create, a salary) creates a struggle between them that will, eventually, cause the collapse of capitalism, and if the working class is prepared, replaced with socialism. If you see people saying that capitalism creates its own demise, this is what they mean.

There are other contradictions within capitalism, more or less inherent, more or less specific. For example, the conflict between different sectors of the capitalist class that manifest through means like parlamentarism or interimperialist wars can create a deepened crisis that could lead to an overthrow by the working class, or it could not.

Settler colonialism, on the other hand, is a particularly oppressive form that imperialist capitalism (the current a highest stage of capitalism, as described by Lenin) can take in the imperial periphery, such as in Palestine or the Sahrawi Republic (Western Sahara). Within these states or territories that suffer settler colonialism, the primary contradiction does become the settler-indigenous* relation. It becomes the more pressing matter, the main and precedent form of oppression, and the specific contradictions it spawns will contribute to its collapse. Such has been the case in most of the world already, take South Africa, Zimbabwe and Algeria as examples. It is also important to note that a vanguard party, like the PFLP, could successfully take advantage of the collapse of Israeli colonialism and inmediately organize a socialist revolution, given it possesses enough strength and organizes a sufficient portion of the Palestinian working class, but it isn't a given. Not understanding this is the mistake more immediatist forms of communism make, such as some trotskyists saying "the palestinian working class should rise up against the palestinian bourgeoisie".

Settler colonialism is distinct from "normal" manifestations of imperialism in this fact, in the precedence the class struggle takes. Other places, such as in Burkina Faso, Cuba, or Vietnam, are places in the imperial core in which their socialist revolutions did not have to ally with non-communist elements to kick out the imperialist capitalist class and then maybe do their own revolution, because the absence of the more "aggressive" settler colonialism allowed them to get rid of imperialist subjugation and capitalism in one fell swoop. In most places in Africa, however, the more explicit forms of European colonialism (and not settler-colonialism) did eventually fall to popular uprisings or under their own weight, but were replaced by their own national bourgeoisie who still sold off their country to imperialists anyway.

Capitalism or settler colonialism are not contradictions by themselves, the contradictions are the mechanisms and elements that these systems create which have the potential to make them extremely weak or outright collapse.

[thebellekeys]

I cannot think of a single valid reason why Israel should even be allowed to participate in Eurovision in any year much less this year...

[rotzaprachim]

sometimes I really get depressed about the fact that the friend I thought was normal and well meaning and even had a chat with about this still kept making “get to know I/p” kinda of flyers about how Hamas is brave freedom fighters who did nothing wrong and Israeli civilians weren’t hurt and how everything bad in our local rural area is *connected* to the non military civilian partnerships with Israeli clean energy research … I don’t know how much reach this girl has but she WAS THE ONE in charge of the local I/p “education” and “fact finding” and she still wanted me to come “share my side” to prove she wasn’t antisemitic even after I asked her yo change the wording on the flyers. It’s so minor but depressing as hell and I don’t want to think about who she’s influencing

[maslimanny]

Love Cardinals 😍😍

[galleryofart]

So Through the Plymouth Woods Passed Onward the Bridal Procession

Artist: Newell Convers Wyeth (American, 1882-1945)

Date: 20th century

Collection: Private collection

[thoughtportal]

Ernie Chambers

[worstloki]

you are a disgusting piece of shit like kill yourself or die along with those terrorists

Hope this helps 👍