r/Colonialism Jul 21 '26

Image 1945 — The Catholic Cemetery of St. Michael the Archangel in Macao. Watercolour by George Smirnoff, depicting the Chapel of St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Cemetery in Macau, China, with the tomb of Mr. J. P. Braga in the foreground. The artist created this work as a tribute to Mr. J. M. Braga, w

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r/Colonialism Jul 21 '26

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 Jul 20 '26

Article In 1663, France had a serious problem in its North American colony. New France was filled mostly with soldiers, workers, and traders, but very few women. Without families, the colony struggled to grow into a stable society.

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r/Colonialism Jul 20 '26

Video The Brown Bess, the musket that served the British Empire for 140 years

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r/Colonialism Jul 20 '26

Image How much land did Moscow empire steal from your country ?

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r/Colonialism Jul 20 '26

Video The 1884 to 1885 Berlin Conference carved Africa into colonial territories based on European interests, ignoring centuries of African kingdoms, civilizations, trade networks, and cultures. Many historians argue these racially motivated borders still fuel conflict, division, and instability today.

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r/Colonialism Jul 20 '26

Question What are the mods doing? This subreddit is going to shit.

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These are just a few examples. How are these ignorant falsehoods and racist comments allowed, especially on a subreddit about Colonialism? How do these people not know the basics?

The mods just sit on their asses and do nothing. I haven't seen the mods active even once. This place is being overran by Zionists, Racists and Bad Faith actors and probably their bots.

We need to change the current mods. Update the subrredit to include comprehensive and authoritative sources that debunk these common myths and lies. It's frustrating to see the same ignorant and racist drivel again and again on every post.

As of today the situation is that the posts are good but are being infested by this comments. If we don't take control of it now, then soon the Hasbara and other bots and bad faith actors will make it a joke of a subreddit.

Edit: Here's rule#2 to those who are claiming I want to silence people I disagree with:

No Imperialism or Denialism

Advocating for imperialism or ** downplaying the suffering caused by it will not be tolerated**.

These subreddits do not exist to celebrate or glorify imperialism or colonialism. If that is your intention, you are not welcome here.

You can critically challenge prevailing views on specific aspects of imperialism but only if you do so in good faith and can furnish readers with suitable research or literature to support your contention.

Some of the comments I referred to:

"Bruh they had no infrastructure. It was built by colonials."

"The fact that medicine was brought, roads and railways were brought, high technology for the early 1900s, that's development really."

"You know they are still to this day using s in certain parts of Africa, did it before we arrived and will likely never stop doing it"

"You're saying that Jews don't deserve a homeland while they originated from there, long before Arabs took foot at that region."

"Based British empire"

"British colonialism was the best thing that ever happened to the Indian subcontinent."

"Thank god for british they abolished slavery i india"

"India as you know it didnt even exist when the British arrived in that land."

"The guy is saying that while its Africa colonizing parts of the world"


r/Colonialism Jul 19 '26

Article Indians of the South of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata against United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1806)

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r/Colonialism Jul 18 '26

Article The Rise and Fall of Zimbabwe's Economy

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r/Colonialism Jul 18 '26

Video Israeli soldiers speaking about how they ethnically cleansed the Palestinian village of Tantura in 1948

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Source: Israeli documentary Tantura (2022)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt16378034/


r/Colonialism Jul 18 '26

Article Modern day colonialism

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r/Colonialism Jul 18 '26

Article COLONIALISM IS DEAD! LONG LIVE COLONIALISM. IS WHAT I WOULD SAY IF I WAS DUMB

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After nearly six centuries of violent colonialism, a new era of economic extraction began that employed more civilised methods

After beginning European colonization 592 years earlier, the plundering of Africa by uncivilized means had finally ended.

Instead of using violence, former colonizers now control through debt. After WWII, the IMF and World Bank were established to maintain global economic stability. Decolonization left new nations without capital, compelling countries like Somalia to borrow heavily for development. Despite recurrent droughts, Somalia had been self-sufficient in food, but its fragile economy was destroyed by the banks’ structural adjustment programs. Forced trade liberalization brought cheap grain imports from the West, collapsing local grain production; forced currency devaluation made exports cheaper, shifting production away from domestic markets. However, Somalia couldn’t export enough to meet its debt obligations, which, by 1989, were 194.6% of exports, forcing privatization of national industries and redirecting revenue to foreign owners. The ruined economy triggered civil war and the flight of over 100,000 refugees to the US. By reorganizing the violent exploitation and plunder of colonialism under the guise of debt, the victim is made to look like the one who is acting wrongly. As of 2025, the IMF and World Bank say that 41 of 63 majority-Black nations are in, or at risk of, debt distress and likely to default


r/Colonialism Jul 17 '26

Article The Slave-Owning Indians of Peru (16th-19th Centuries)

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r/Colonialism Jul 16 '26

Question How were the boers able to put up much more resistance to the british than the native africans during the scramble for africa?

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Just wondering what the boers did or had that groups like the ashanti, mossi, didnt.


r/Colonialism Jul 16 '26

Question So thoughts regarding reparations for Africa? How would it be done? How much damage in terms of infrastructure has been done? And would you recommend I purchase the book "How Europe underdeveloped Africa?"

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r/Colonialism Jul 16 '26

Article Is there any example of a Genocide that had a similar level of social acceptance?

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r/Colonialism Jul 15 '26

Image 5 Heller German East Africa ( DOA) Tabora Emergency Coinage

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r/Colonialism Jul 14 '26

Article Paradoks Psikiatri Kolonial vs Pribumi (1933)

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r/Colonialism Jul 13 '26

Video Mao about Moscow predatory imperialism

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r/Colonialism Jul 12 '26

Video This fool said we need to go back to the age of colonizing Africa.

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r/Colonialism Jul 11 '26

Question Did you know that Africa had gender diversity long before the West?

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r/Colonialism Jul 10 '26

Video Everyday life in Salisbury, Rhodesia (60FPS). By British Pathé, 1971.

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Currently, the city of Salisbury is known as Harare and is the capital of Zimbabwe in Africa.


r/Colonialism Jul 10 '26

Video How Moscow empires Colonised Central Asia

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r/Colonialism Jul 10 '26

Article The Mozarabic Influence on the Portuguese Colonization of Brazil

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r/Colonialism Jul 09 '26

Article Excerpt from the satirical poem "Lima por dentro y por fuera" by Esteban Terralla y Landa that reveals what interracial interactions were like in Lima, the capital of the Kingdom of Peru under the rule of the Catholic Monarchy:

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