Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
Samuel “Sam” Sharpe was one of the principal leaders of the Baptist War, the largest uprising of captive...
In the final days of 1831, western Jamaica erupted into the largest uprising of captive people (Xaymacans) in...
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 and the Dutch Caribbean on 1...
In 1820, the Antelope was seized off the coast of Florida with approximately three hundred African captives crowded...
Lunsford Lane (1803–1879) was a remarkable nineteenth-century entrepreneur, abolitionist, and author who rose from captivity as a house...
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 as the Lei Áurea — the Golden Law...
William Davidson (c.1781–1 May 1820) was a Jamaican‑born, Black British radical in early nineteenth-century Britain. His execution for...
José Leonardo Chirino (25 April 1754 – 10 December 1796) stands as one of the most significant anti-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 Circle Be Unbroken, to capture the...
Redoshi was born in modern-day Benin and abducted from her home aged 12 before being sold as a...
Charity Still—born Sidney Steel—was the mother of abolitionist William Still and a foundational figure in the Still family’s...
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, killing everyone on board. This act...
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…
