Frederick Douglass was born Fredrick Bailey in February 1818 on Holmes Hill farm, near the town of Easton...
Zamor was a French revolutionary of Bengali origin, who as a boy of eleven, was sold into slavery...
Lear Green was an enslaved African American young woman who escaped from Baltimore slaveholder James Noble by hiding in an old wooden sailor’s chest. The chest containing Green was delivered to...
Peter Hill was the first known African American clockmaker, and the only Black clockmaker known to have worked...
Jenny Slew was a Black woman kidnapped into American slavery, who later petitioned for her freedom in court....
The most outstanding Maafa (Atlantic slavery) revolutionary movement in Brazil were the series of Islamic risings in Bahia from 1808 to 1835. The Malê uprising was the most important. Well organized...
Edward Garrison Walker, the son of David Walker, came to prominence in his own right as an attorney...
On December 21, 1855, at 2.30pm, Celia an enslaved woman was hanged for the murder of her abusive...
Lewis Hayden was an African-American leader who escaped with his family from the Maafa (slavery) in Kentucky to Boston, where he became an abolitionist and lecturer, businessman, and politician. Lewis Hayden...
“The legend of the Palmares quilombo and its greatest leader, Zumbi, are central to the history and ongoing...
“The Island of Gorée is an exceptional testimony to one of the greatest tragedies in the history of...
“There was a militarily gifted and exceptionally daring woman in the front line: Carlota, of Lucumbi origin…” In 1843, Carlota Lucumí, an enslaved African woman, led a major Maafa/Atlantic slavery uprising...
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…
