Marie Couvent: A Controversial African-American Philanthropist
“Marie Couvent was the first [Black] woman to set the example of an enlightened charity, and that for a long time she was the only...
Category : Maafa
Thomas Peters: One of the Black Loyalist Founders of Sierra Leone
In 1999, Thomas Peters, one of the founding fathers of Sierra Leone, was honored by the Sierra Leone government by being included in a movie...
JUNETEENTH
“The year 1865 came in, speaking joyful words in our ears… We hail it with joy, because it finds us surrounded with light… This year,...
Antonio Maceo: The Greatest Soldier and General of the 19th Century
“There can be but one result for the Cubans. That is victory…” Antonio Maceo was born in the province of Santiago de Cuba in 1845...
Her name was Redoshi: The last survivor of the Maafa in America?
Redoshi was born in modern-day Benin and abducted from her home aged 12 before being sold as a child bride. She was renamed Sally Smith...
Thomas Fuller: The Virginia Calculator
Thomas Fuller was an enslaved man who became known as the Virginia Calculator. Although illiterate he was able to perform the most difficult mathematical calculations....
Charity Still: Who twice liberated herself from the Maafa
Charity Still, the mother of William Still, twice liberated herself from the Maafa/Atlantic slavery with her children. After her first self-liberation, she was recaptured with...
January 24, 1773 – The Slave Ship, New Britannia, is destroyed!
On January 24th, 1773, the captive people aboard the New Britannia, revolted. The ship which was on the Gambian river, in Senegambia, was blown up,...
Makandal: The Haitian Maroon Leader
François Makandal (or Mackandal) is a legendary historical icon of Haiti. He was a Maroon leader who organized the first real attempt at the destruction...
Amelia’s Song: From Sierra Leone to South Carolina
“Ever since they left Thies, the women had not stopped singing. As soon as one group allowed the refrain to die, another picked it up,...