Denmark Vesey
Denmark Vesey (1767 – July 2, 1822) was a free black who masterminded what would have been the largest Maafa (slavery) uprising in American history. A skilled...
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New York Maafa Uprising of 1712
In the firelit streets, captive Africans move as one—armed, resolute, and unbowed—turning a city built on their bondage into a battlefield for freedom....
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...
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...