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 (Atlantic slavery) uprising in the history of Barbados broke out. Now...
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...
Josiah Henson, was a spiritual leader, author and founder of the Black community settlement at Dawn in Ontario,...
Phillis Wheatley was the first published African-American female poet. She was born in West Africa around 1753, before...
Sojourner Truth was an African-American abolitionist, women’s rights activist, and symbol of Black womanhood. Truth was born into the Maafa (slavery) in New York; enduring nearly 30 years of bondage to...
Almost sixty years before the Haitian revolution, a group of West African Atlantians (enslaved people) took control of...
Angelo Soliman who achieved considerable fame as a “Princely Moor” in eighteenth-century Vienna, is historically recognized by some...
Venture Smith, was the son of a royal family, who was kidnapped from his homeland in Africa as a boy and sold into the Maafa (slavery). Venture became a figure of...
In 1734, Marie-Joseph Angélique was accused of setting a fire that destroyed the city’s merchants’ quarter in Montreal....
Salem Poor was a distinguished military hero during the American Revolutionary War. He is best remembered today for...
Billy was an enslaved African American who became a principal in a court case during the American Revolution (1775–1783). In 1781, the Prince William County Court tried Billy for treason for...
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…
