Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
Samuel “Sam” Sharpe was one of the principal leaders of the Baptist War, the largest uprising of captive...
On August 17, 1795, the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao witnessed one of the most significant and far-reaching...
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...
“I am Toussaint Louverture; perhaps my name has made itself known to you. I have undertaken vengeance. I...
José Leonardo Chirino (25 April 1754 – 10 December 1796) stands as one of the most significant anti-Maafa...
“Her fight is preserved in Brazilian history, and her warrior personality is, to this day, an example for other women.” — Andrade and Lelis (loose translation) In the late sixteenth century, in the...
Ottobah Cugoano was a pioneer of the Black radical tradition, becoming a prominent leader in the British abolitionist...
François Makandal (also spelled Mackandal) is a legendary figure in Haitian history. As a Maroon leader, he orchestrated...
“Slavery is not an indefinable mass of flesh. It is a particular, specific enslaved woman, whose mind is as active as your own, whose range of feelings is as vast as...
On the night of 2nd March 1795, Julien Fédon, launched a revolution against British rule in Grenada, to...
Frederick Douglass was born Fredrick Bailey in February 1818 on Holmes Hill farm, near the town of Easton...
Lewis Hayden was an African-American leader who escaped with his family from the Maafa (slavery) in Kentucky to Boston, where he became an abolitionist and lecturer, businessman, and politician. Lewis Hayden...
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…
