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...
Palmares, or Quilombo dos Palmares, was Brazil’s largest and most enduring freedom polity and one of the most significant communities of African resistance in the Americas. Situated in the forested highlands...
On 14 April 1816, the largest Maafa uprising in Barbados’s history broke out. Now known as Bussa’s Rebellion,...
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, Canada. He is widely believed to be the model for “Uncle Tom” in...
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...
Almost sixty years before the Haitian revolution, a group of West African Atlantians (enslaved people) took control of the island of St. John and held it for six months against Danish...
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...
In 1734, Marie-Joseph Angélique was accused of setting a fire that destroyed the city’s merchants’ quarter in Montreal. Authorities claimed that Angélique started the blaze in an attempt to escape captivity....
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…
