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James G. Birney: The American Slaveholder Who Freed the Africans He Held, Became an Abolitionist, and Ran for President Twice

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Ludwig Cramer: The Sadistic German Farmer In Colonial Namibia Whose Brutality Left His African Workers Covered In Scars

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Church of England Chapel: The Colonial-Era Church Built Above a Slave Dungeon Holding Enslaved Africans in Ghana

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Aguthi Concentration Camp: The British Prison Where Kenyan Freedom Fighters Were Tortured During Colonial Rule

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The Hidden History of Slave Revolts Sparked by Preachers

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Massasoit Guards: The Black Militia That Protected Boston’s Black Community From Slave Catchers in the 1850s

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Sarah Baartman: The Disturbing Story of the African Woman Displayed in Europe and Exhibited in a Museum After Death

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William Henry Brisbane: The Pastor Who Freed His Slaves After Years of Cruelty and Became an Abolitionist

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Robert Morris: The Black Lawyer and Abolitionist Who Fought Slavery and Defended Escaped Slaves in the US

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Hola Concentration Camp: The British Camp That Revealed the Brutality of Colonial Rule in Kenya

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Marie-Marguerite d’Youville: The Slave Owner Who Was Made A Saint By the Catholic Church

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Robert Reed Church: The Enslaved Man Who Rose to Become One of America’s First Black Millionaires

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Ernest Ouandié: The Cameroonian Teacher Executed for Fighting French Colonialism and Neocolonialism

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Morris Jacob Raphall: The Rabbi Who Used the Bible to Justify the Enslavement of Africans

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The Camilla Massacre of 1868: The Mass Killing Triggered by African Americans Gaining the Right to Vote in Georgia

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Toussaint Louverture: The Revolutionary Who Led the Most Successful Slave Rebellion in History

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How Black Churches Helped Former Slaves Build Schools and Organize Their Communities After Slavery

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Bass Reeves: The Formerly Enslaved Man Who Became One of the Most Successful Deputy U.S. Marshals in the American West

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The Colonial Treaty Trick: How Europeans Used Deceit to Claim African Kingdoms

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The Plantation of “Big Jim” McClain, Where Enslaved Africans Were Forced to Breed Under Supervision

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The Hidden History of Slave Revolts Sparked by Preachers

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