Crispus Attucks: The African American Martyr of the American Revolution
“First man to die for the flag we now hold high was a Black man” (a line from Stevie Wonder’s song “Black Man”). Crispus Attucks...
Category : Maafa
Julien Fedon: Warrior of Grenada
On the night of 2nd March 1795, Julien Fédon, launched a revolution against British rule in Grenada, to abolish the Maafa. The uprising, which continued...
Samuel Green: The African American Underground Railroad agent who helped Harriet Tubman
Samuel Green was an African-American self-emancipated anti-slavery activist who was jailed in 1857 for possessing a copy of the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin by...
Frederick Douglass: The Greatest African-American Leader of the Abolitionist Movement
Frederick Douglass was born Fredrick Bailey in February 1818 on Holmes Hill farm, near the town of Easton on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. The farm was...
Lear Green: Escaped to freedom in a small sailor’s chest
Lear Green was an enslaved African American young woman who escaped from Baltimore slaveholder James Noble by hiding in an old wooden sailor’s chest. The...
Peter Hill: The First African-American Clockmaker
Peter Hill was the first known African American clockmaker, and the only Black clockmaker known to have worked in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth...
Jenny Slew: The first enslaved person to win her freedom via jury trial
Jenny Slew was a Black woman kidnapped into American slavery, who later petitioned for her freedom in court. Slew was the first ‘enslaved’ person to...
The Malê Revolt of Brazil
The most outstanding Maafa (Atlantic slavery) revolutionary movement in Brazil were the series of Islamic risings in Bahia from 1808 to 1835. The Malê uprising...
Edward Garrison Walker: The son of David Walker
Edward Garrison Walker, the son of David Walker, came to prominence in his own right as an attorney in 1861; he was one of the...
The Hanging of Celia
On December 21, 1855, at 2.30pm, Celia an enslaved woman was hanged for the murder of her abusive enslaver, Robert Newsom. In 1850, Celia was...