Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
Sarah Forbes Bonetta—born Omoba Aina, or Ina, around 1843—lived a life shaped by extraordinary rupture, displacement, intellect, and...
On the morning of 9 September 1739, a group of African captives in South Carolina began an uprising...
Samuel “Sam” Sharpe was one of the principal leaders of the Baptist War, the largest uprising of captive people (Xaymacans) in Jamaican history and the Caribbean territories under British oppression. Also...
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...
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 age of only fourteen. Torn from...
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...
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 the nexus of inequality, political repression...
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...
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 in the United States after arriving...
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…
