“Her fight is preserved in Brazilian history, and her warrior personality is, to this day, an example for...
Ona Judge, known as Oney Judge Staines after marriage, was a bondwoman who worked on George Washington’s Mount...
“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...
Palmares, or Quilombo dos Palmares, was Brazil’s largest and most enduring freedom polity and one of the most...
On 14 April 1816, the largest Maafa uprising in Barbados’s history broke out. Now known as Bussa’s Rebellion,...
The Demerara Revolt of 1823 was the largest uprising in Guyana’s history and one of the largest revolts in the British Caribbean. Beginning on 18 August 1823, it unfolded principally across...
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and...
On the night of 2nd March 1795, Julien Fédon, launched a revolution against British rule in Grenada, to...
Samuel Green was an African American self-emancipated man, Methodist exhorter, farmer, and Underground Railroad agent. In 1857, amid suspicions that he had assisted people liberating themselves from the Maafa—including the group...
Frederick Douglass was born Fredrick Bailey in February 1818 on Holmes Hill farm, near the town of Easton...
Jenny Slew was a Black woman kidnapped into American slavery, who later petitioned for her freedom in court....
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 sold to Robert Newsom when she...
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…
