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In Hulu’s soapy “Washington Black,” about an early-nineteenth-century slave who escapes to Halifax, Brown rises above the ...
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem yanked the protections for the three nations in June and July and offered each a ...
Many African abolitionists who fought and lost their lives in the struggle against slavery have gone unacknowledged.
Robert Smalls​ escaped slavery in Charleston by commandeering a Confederate ship and became a top Union naval officer and South Carolina lawmaker.
Wikimedia Commons/Richmond Compiler The Creole Rebellion of 1841 The Creole was just another slave ship crossing the Atlantic in November 1841, carrying human cargo to Southern markets. Then Madison ...
The president once promised he’d prioritize Americans’ bottom line above all else. He’s abandoned that pledge.
Wikimedia Commons/Nyttend Nat Turner’s Rebellion Nat Turner could read, preach, and see visions that convinced him he was a prophet. In August 1831, his divine calling led to the deadliest slave ...
Approximately 1.5 million Africans were captured, enslaved, and deported to the New World by Benin's tribal leaders.
Benin's citizenship law carries significance in part because of the role it played in the transatlantic slave trade.
U.S. singer Ciara is one of the first public figures to become a citizen of Benin under a recent law by the small West ...