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Dark History

Evidence-led accounts of exploitation, persecution, and state violence, with attention to victims and historical context.

Handwritten April 21, 1692 warrant ordering the arrest of nine people accused of witchcraft.

Salem, 1692: When Accusation Became a Death Warrant

Through warrants, examinations and prison petitions, follow how the Salem accusations became a judicial system that punished denial and multiplied its own evidence.

E. D. Morel’s 1904 map of the Congo Free State with shaded concession areas including ABIR and Anversoise

Rubber, Hostages, and Testimony in the Congo Free State

Rubber extraction in Leopold II’s Congo depended on more than quotas. Witnesses described hostage-taking, food requisitions, and violence whose full human cost cannot be reduced to one exact number.

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