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#OtD 19 Sep 1793 during the Haitian revolution, 600 British soldiers sent from Jamaica landed at Jérémie, Haiti. French property owners had made an agreement with Britain for Saint Domingue to become a British colony with slavery reinstated.

#OtD 21 Aug 1791 the Haitian revolution began as 100,000 enslaved people rose up and eventually overthrew both slavery and French rule, creating the world's first Black republic. This article looks at the significance of the revolution over 200 years on: https://t.co/z50t4WLkpQ

#OtD 11 Jul 1937 Jack Sirai, Japanese cook who went to Spain to fight the fascists in the civil war, was killed in combat. A volunteer in the US Abraham @LincolnBrigade, he was shot fetching supplies for his starving unit. More about the war in our pod: https://t.co/Kw7S0BTsYR

#OtD 8 Jul 1763 General Jeffrey Amherst, commander of British forces in North America, wrote to one of his colonels asking: "Could it not be contrived to send the small pox among the disaffected tribes of Indians? We must [...] reduce them". Learn more: https://t.co/A9vnFS2TLE

#OtD 2 June 1863 the Combahee River raid took place, Harriet Tubman led 150 Black Union soldiers. The only woman-led military operation during the American civil war. 750 slaves were freed and the estates of several slaveowners were looted and burned. https://t.co/Knywl5DzZK

#OtD 1 Jan 1863 Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, not because he was anti-racist but to undermine Confederacy: "I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races" https://t.co/s6STHbJtVW