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The Imbangala and Portugal’s System of War and Slave Raiding in Africa

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Ali Soilih: The African President Overthrown in a French-Backed Coup for Trying to Transform Comoros

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Christianity and Slavery: Did Conversion Change the Lives of Enslaved Africans?

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Cyrus Guy: The Black Man Lynched for Allegedly Insulting a White Woman (1869)

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The 1712 South Carolina Law That Made Castration a Punishment for Runaway Slaves

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Berbice Rebellion: How Enslaved Africans Nearly Overthrew Dutch Rule in Guyana in 1763

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Perry Massacre: How a Manhunt Turned Into Violence Against Black Families in Florida in 1922

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Robert Wedderburn: The Preacher Who Attacked Slavery and Christianity and Was Jailed for His Views

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Mary Peake: The Teacher Who Started a School Under a Tree for Children of Former Slaves in 1861

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William Parker: The Escaped Slave Who Led an Armed Resistance Against Slave Catchers in Pennsylvania

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Rev. Jacob Gruber: The Preacher Arrested in 1818 for Calling Slavery a National Sin

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The Hola Massacre of 1959: How Anti-Colonial Detainees Were Beaten to Death in a British Detention Camp in Kenya

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Remembering Bowman Cook and John Morine, the Black Veterans Lynched in Jacksonville in 1919

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The Opelousas Massacre: How Hundreds of Black Americans Were Killed to Crush a Political Movement in 1868

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André Matsoua: The African Resistance Leader Who Died in a French Prison

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Partus Sequitur Ventrem: The 1662 Law That Made the Children of Enslaved African Women Enslaved by Birth

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Isaiah Nixon: The American Veteran Who Survived a War Abroad Only to Be Murdered for Voting at Home

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The Élisabethville Massacre: How Belgian Colonial Authorities Massacred Congolese Miners for Demanding a Wage Increase

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Emmett Till: The 14-Year-Old Boy Who Was Lynched for Whistling at a White Woman in 1955

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George Washington Williams: The Black American Who Exposed King Leopold II’s Reign of Terror in the Congo

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Mawu-Lisa: The Dual God Who Created the World According to the Fon People

In the spiritual beliefs of the Fon people of Dahomey (present-day Benin), the universe was created not by a...

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The 1712 South Carolina Law That Made Castration a Punishment for Runaway Slaves

In 1712, colonial South Carolina passed a law establishing increasingly severe punishments for enslaved people who repeatedly ran away. The law, titled “An ACT...

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