Keti Koti
Keti Koti is an Afro-Surinamese commemoration that brings together remembrance, spiritual tradition, and cultural celebration to mark the formal end of the Maafa in Suriname...
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The Antelope and the Cruel Fate of Black Children in U.S. Law
In 1820, the Antelope was seized off the coast of Florida with approximately three hundred African captives crowded aboard—most of them children, with an average...
Lunsford Lane: Entrepreneurship, Resilience, and Legacy within the Maafa
Lunsford Lane (1803–1879) was a remarkable nineteenth-century entrepreneur, abolitionist, and author who rose from captivity as a house servant in Raleigh, North Carolina, to become...
The Day Captivity Ended in Brazil
On 13 May 1888, a brief law signed in Rio de Janeiro brought a formal end to centuries of organised African captivity in Brazil. Known...
William Davidson: A Jamaican Radical in Cato Street
William Davidson (c.1781–1 May 1820) was a Jamaican‑born, Black British radical in early nineteenth-century Britain. His execution for the Cato Street Conspiracy places him at...
José Leonardo Chirino: Freedom Fighter of Coro
José Leonardo Chirino (25 April 1754 – 10 December 1796) stands as one of the most significant anti-Maafa freedom fighters in eighteenth-century Venezuelan history. A...
What is the Maafa?
This essay explains how the term Maafa is used across Kentake Page. The term Maafa was introduced by Marimba Ani in her 1988 book, Let the...
Her name was Redoshi: The last survivor of the Maafa in America?
Redoshi was born in modern-day Benin and abducted from her home aged 12 before being sold as a child bride. She was renamed Sally Smith...
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 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,...