Counter History of Late 19th C/Early 20th C By bananaslug Period: 1492 BCE to 1965 BCE Free Enterprise Jul 30, 1492 Spanish Inquisition/Expulsion of Jews from Spain (p. 58-65) http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/expulsion.html Oct 12, 1492 Auto da fé part of Spanish Inquisition (p. 184) http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/2155-auto-da-fe Period: Oct 12, 1492 to Dec 31, 1920 Counter Histories of the Americas Oct 10, 1740 Fort Mose Fugitive Slave Colony (p. 109) http://www.blackpast.org/aah/fort-mose-florida Oct 10, 1750 Spanish race categories/Las Castas paintings (p. 7) https://nativeheritageproject.com/2013/06/15/las-castas-spanish-racial-classifications/ Oct 10, 1776 American Revolution (Age of Reason/Englightenment, p. 137) Feb 14, 1779 Death of Captain James Cook (p. 45-58) http://www.sacred-texts.com/pac/hhl/hhl15.htm Oct 10, 1781 The Zong Massacre (p. 72-80) http://abolition.nypl.org/images/abolition/6/128 Oct 10, 1789 French Revolution (Enlightenment/Age of Reason, p. 137) Oct 10, 1791 Haitian Revolution led by Toussaint L'Ouverture 1791-1804 (p. 6, 52, 55, 147) http://www.slate.com/articles/life/history/2015/08/the_most_successful_slave_rebellion_in_history_created_an_independent_haiti.html Aug 30, 1800 Gabriel Prosser-led slave revolt (p. 64) Oct 10, 1800 Quasheba Folktales of Black Female Resistance (p. 126-131) http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/resources/sociology-online-papers/papers/sheller-quasheba-mother-queen.pdf Oct 12, 1810 Daedalus Ship irreparably damaged in hurricane in Jamaica (p. 109 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Daedalus_(1780) Oct 12, 1820 Minstrelsy popularized (Ethiopian Delineator, p. 152-154) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/foster/sfeature/sf_minstrelsy_2.html Jul 2, 1822 Denmark Vessey-led slave revolt (p. 64) Aug 21, 1831 Nat Turner Rebellion (p. 64, 109) Oct 10, 1840 Turner's painting of the Zong (p. 69-80) http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/classes/4c/turner.004.htm May 8, 1858 Chatham Convention (page 16) http://www.wvculture.org/history/jbexhibit/chathamconventionmason.html Oct 16, 1859 "their war of independence" (i.e. Harpers Ferry Raid) (p. 16, 69, 100, 105, 137, 143, 197) http://www.blackpast.org/aah/harpers-ferry-raid-1859 Nov 2, 1859 November 2, 1859/"Right" day for Harpers Ferry Raid (p. 100, 196) Oct 10, 1865 U.S. Civil War 1862-1865 (109, Jun 25, 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn (p. 84-85, 104-105, Oct 10, 1877 Radical Reconstruction ends (1865-1877) Oct 12, 1894 La Terre de Lépreux opens in Carville, LA (p. 3, 35-65) http://www.hrsa.gov/hansensdisease/museum/ Oct 10, 1897 Augustus Saint-Gardens Sculptures of Civil War (p. 157-180) http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/05/the-sculptor-who-brought-dead-civil-war-heroes-to-life/257651/ Oct 10, 1898 Spanish American War (p. 38-43, 206-213) https://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/1898/intro.html Oct 11, 1898 U.S. on-again-off-again military occupation of Cuba 1898-1934 Oct 10, 1906 San Francisco Earthquake (p. 204) Oct 11, 1912 U.S. Military Occupation of Nicaragua (1912-1933) Oct 10, 1913 National Women's Party is Founded (Suffragettes, p. 22) http://nationalwomansparty.org/the-national-womans-party-and-the-meaning-behind-their-purple-white-and-gold-textiles/ Mar 21, 1915 The Birth of a Nation screened at the White House with President Woodrow Wilson (p. 40-41) http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_birth.html Oct 11, 1915 U.S. Military Occupation of Haiti (1915-1934) Oct 11, 1915 Opening of the Panama Canal Oct 11, 1916 U.S. Military Occupation of Dominican Republic (1916-1924) Oct 10, 1920 Lynching in the U.S. post-Reconstruction (1880s) to Civil Rights (1960s) (p. 31, 37, 99, 152), http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/shipp/lynchingyear.html Oct 10, 1920 Black Star Ship Lines/Marcus Garvey's Co. (p.14, 54) http://www.blackpast.org/aah/black-star-line-1919-1923 Oct 11, 1929 Walter White publishes a book on "Judge Lynch" (p. 99) https://www.csun.edu/~bashforth/305_PDF/305_ME3/LanguageVarieties/ABiographyOfJudgeLynch.pdf Oct 12, 2016 Parker House Luxury Hotel in Boston opens in 1855 (p. 74-75) https://www.omnihotels.com/hotels/boston-parker-house