Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
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...
Ona Judge, known as Oney Judge Staines after marriage, was a bondwoman who worked on George Washington’s Mount Vernon labor camp/plantation, in Virginia. Beginning in 1789, she worked as a lady’s...
Few acts of collective forgetting have been as thorough and as successful as the erasing of slavery from...
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 uprising in Barbados’s history broke out. Now known as Bussa’s Rebellion, the Rising lasted for over two days before being suppressed by British military...
The Demerara Revolt of 1823 was the largest uprising in Guyana’s history and one of the largest revolts...
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 she was kidnapped and sold into the Maafa (slavery) at the tender age...
Sojourner Truth was an African-American abolitionist, women’s rights activist, and symbol of Black womanhood. Truth was born into...
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 as the “First Moorish Freemason.” Soliman was born in Africa, around 1721. His...
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…
