Juan Garrido: The first “African American”
February 10, 2017
On 19 October 1840, the American schooner Hermosa struck a reef near Spanish Key in the Abaco Islands....
Jean-Jacques Dessalines was a pivotal military leader during the Haitian Revolution and is recognized as the founding father...
Born during the Maafa around 1775 or 1776, Gabriel became a skilled blacksmith, a literate artisan, and a revolutionary organizer who sought to transform Virginia. In the summer of 1800, he...
Henri Christophe (c. 1767–1820) was one of the commanding figures of the Haitian Revolution and the founder of...
On the morning of 9 September 1739, a group of African captives in South Carolina began an uprising...
Samuel “Sam” Sharpe was one of the principal leaders of the Baptist War, the largest uprising of captive people (Xaymacans) in Jamaican history and the Caribbean territories under British oppression. Also...
In the final days of 1831, western Jamaica erupted into the largest uprising of captive people (Xaymacans) in...
On August 17, 1795, the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao witnessed one of the most significant and far-reaching...
Keti Koti is an Afro-Surinamese commemoration that brings together remembrance, spiritual tradition, and cultural celebration to mark the formal end of the Maafa in Suriname and the Dutch Caribbean on 1...
In 1820, the Antelope was seized off the coast of Florida with approximately three hundred African captives crowded...
Lunsford Lane (1803–1879) was a remarkable nineteenth-century entrepreneur, abolitionist, and author who rose from captivity as a house...
Joseph Ignace of Guadeloupe (c. 1769–1802) was a renowned freedom fighter and French Republican military officer, celebrated as one of the foremost heroes of Guadeloupe’s resistance to the Maafa. On May...
Meserette Kentake, founder of Kentake Page, was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, and is of Yoruba descent (mtDNA). Now based in London, she holds a BSc in Counselling Psychology but is most passionate about…
