Keti Koti is an Afro-Surinamese commemoration that brings together remembrance, spiritual tradition, and cultural celebration to mark the...
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 servant in Raleigh, North Carolina, to become a prominent advocate for freedom in...
On 13 May 1888, a brief law signed in Rio de Janeiro brought a formal end to centuries...
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 freedom fighters in eighteenth-century Venezuelan history. A legally free man of African and...
This essay explains how the term Maafa is used across Kentake Page. The term Maafa was introduced by...
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 history of resistance. She liberated herself from the Maafa twice. During her first...
On January 24th, 1773, the captive people aboard the New Britannia declared war. The ship, anchored on the...
Ona Judge, known as Oney Judge Staines after marriage, was a bondwoman who worked on George Washington’s Mount...
Few acts of collective forgetting have been as thorough and as successful as the erasing of slavery from Britain’s “island story”. ~David Olusoga On August 1, 1838, the British ended the...
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…
