CaptainSonic

private-revolution:

liquornspice:

moniquill:

karnythia:

orup:

A father stares at the hands of his five year-old daughter, which were severed as a punishment for having harvested too little rubber.

This is what was happening in the Congo at the hands of the Belgians under King Leopold. Let us be clear dear people who like to claim that because their parents were immigrants to America they never benefited from the slave trade. People were taken from Africa & exported as slaves to other countries, but Africans were also enslaved & killed on the continent. For generations. That’s the legacy of the colonialism & imperialism that made the West so wealthy & created the “Third World”.

Not to detract from the point of this, but see this people who got this on the ‘steampunk’ tag?

The above is why dressing like this:

Is not fucking ON.

Horrific. And this shit is on-going.

Emphasis mine. If you’ve never heard of King Leopold, thank your history teachers, and go do some research on the horrific crimes that were committed against Congolese people under King Leopold.