Gordon – “The Scourged Back”
Gordon was an enslaved African-American who became an iconic figure during the Civil War, in exposing the brutality of the Maafa ( Atlantic slavery). A...
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Ten Things To Know About Olaudah Equiano
Olaudah Equiano was born an Igbo around 1745, in what is now eastern Nigeria. He came from a prosperous home; his father was a local...
Andrew Jackson Beard
Andrew Jackson Beard was born on March 29, 1849. He was a farmer, carpenter, blacksmith, a railroad worker, a businessman and finally an inventor. He...
Solitude of Guadeloupe
“As for Solitude, not only does her name now grace squares and avenues in Guadeloupe but she has also become a poem, a song, a...
Ignatius Sancho: A Man of Letters
Ignatius Sancho (c. 1729 – 14 December 1780) is the first known Black Briton to vote in a British election. He gained fame in his lifetime and after his death...
The Heroic Ancestor: Madison Washington
Madison Washington escaped Euro-American system of enslavement to freedom in Canada. However, Washington could not continue to live free in Canada while the woman he...
Anastacia: Saint of Brazil
Every day, at the Noir de Rio Museum, hundreds of people venerate an image of a Black woman wearing a mask and collar. They pray…...
The Hanging of Angelique
The Hanging of Angelique flips the script on the idea of Canada as a haven from slavery. During the night of April 10, 1734, Montreal...
The Black Jacobins
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by C. L. R. James is a classical study of the only successful slave revolt in...
Up From Slavery
“Ignorant and inexperienced, it is not strange that in the first years of our new life (after slavery) we began at the top instead of...