Quamina – Guyana National Hero: involved in the Demerara rebellion of 1823
Quamina Gladstone, commonly known as Quamina, was a Guyanese Coromantee captive who was the father of Jack Gladstone. Quamina and his son were involved in...
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The Christiana Riot of 1851
In 1851, in Christiana, Pennsylvania, one of the earliest armed confrontations took place between a group of African-Americans and Euro-American abolitionists and a Maryland posse...
Horace King: From Enslaved Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
[dropcap size=small]H[/dropcap]orace King was an African American architect, engineer, and bridge builder. King built the biggest American bridges in the mid 1800’s, and is considered...
Charles Ball: “Time Did Not Reconcile Me To My Chains”
Charles Ball was an enslaved African-American from Maryland, best known for his account as a fugitive, The Life and Adventures of Charles Ball (1837). Ball...
The Horrors of the Middle Passage
“It takes more than a horrifying transatlantic voyage chained in the filthy hold of a slave ship to erase someone’s culture.” – Maya Angelou Author’s...
A date to remember – 22 August 1791: The Haitian Revolution
“Revolution moves in a mysterious way, its wonders to perform.” –C.L.R. James “It was the first time in human history that enslaved people had destroyed...
Nat Turner’s Rebellion
“As the black spot passed over the sun, so shall the Blacks pass over the earth.” – Nat Turner [dropcap size=small]O[/dropcap]n Sunday, 21 August 1831,...
The Eliza Winston Case
On August 21, 1860, enslaved African American Eliza Winston was freed from her Mississippi enslaver in a Minneapolis court. After being granted legal freedom, however,...
Antoney, Isabella, and Pedro: The “first” African Americans
“Your country? How come it yours? Before the Pilgrims landed we were here. Here we have brought our three gifts and mingled them with yours:...
Mary Ellen Pleasant : The Mother of California’s early civil rights movement
[dropcap size=small]M[/dropcap]ary Ellen Pleasant was a 19th-century African American entrepreneur who used her fortune to further the abolitionist movement. She worked on the Underground Railroad...