“The Burial of Slavery”: August 1, 1838
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...
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Ngola Janga (or Palmares) of Brazil
Palmares or Quilombo dos Palmares is the largest and most famous of Brazilian quilombos, and perhaps the quilombo that survived the longest. It was established...
The War of General Bussa: The largest Maafa revolt in Barbados
On 14 April 1816, the largest Maafa (Atlantic slavery) uprising in the history of Barbados broke out. Now known as Bussa’s Rebellion, the revolt lasted...
The Demerara Revolt
There were three major Maafa (Atlantic slavery) revolutions in the Caribbean during the early 19th century: Barbados (1816), Demerara (1823), and Jamaica (1831-32). The Demerara...
Josiah Henson: Founder of the Black community settlement of Dawn in Ontario, Canada
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...
Phillis Wheatley: The first published African-American female poet
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...
Sojourner Truth: Aint I A Woman?
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...
The 1733 St. John Insurrection
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...
Angelo Soliman: Father of Pure Masonic Thought
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...
Venture Smith: The son of a prince who was abducted into slavery
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...