Thomas Fuller: The Virginia Calculator
Thomas Fuller was an Afrikan man in captivity in North America, who became known as the Virginia Calculator. Although illiterate, he was able to perform...
Category : Maafa
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 declared war. The ship, anchored 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,...
Ona Judge: The First Lady’s personal maid who freed herself from bondage and was ‘Never Caught’
Ona Judge, known as Oney Judge Staines after marriage, was a bondwoman who worked on George Washington’s Mount Vernon labor camp/plantation, in Virginia. Beginning in...
Ten Iconic Black Women of the Maafa
“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...
“The Burial of Slavery”: August 1, 1838
Few acts of collective forgetting have been as thorough and as successful as the erasing of slavery from Britain’s “island story”. ~David Olusoga On August...
Cudjoe Kossula Lewis: The “last African-American ancestor?”
Born in Africa as Oluale Kossula, he died in America in 1935 as Cudjoe Lewis. Ouale Kossula is widely recognised as the last known person...
Abram Petrovich Hannibal: A Nobleman of Russia
Abram Petrovich Hannibal also Gannibal or Ganibal was stolen from his parents in Afrika and brought to Russia as a gift for Peter I. Hannibal...