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Louis Rwagasore: The Burundian Prime Minister Assassinated by Belgium for Threatening Colonial Interests

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Mekatilili wa Menza: The Kenyan Heroine Who Helped Lead a Rebellion Against British Colonial Rule

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John Gregg Fee: The American Pastor Who Was Forced Into Exile for Establishing Antislavery Churches in Kentucky

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The Dark Science Behind the West’s Obsession with African Skulls During the Colonial Era

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Elijah McCoy: The Black Inventor Behind One of History’s Greatest Engineering Innovations

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Rev George W. Lee: The Civil Rights Leader Assassinated for Helping African Americans Register to Vote

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Rev Frederick Ross: The Pastor Who Used the Bible to Fight Those Who Opposed Slavery

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The Chattanooga Five: The Women Who Survived a KKK Attack, Then Sued and Bankrupted the Klan

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How European Powers Backed African Rulers Who Participated in the Slave Trade, and Targeted Those Who Resisted

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Lewanika: The African King Whose Trust in Missionaries Helped Cost His Kingdom Its Independence

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Adolf Götzen: The German Colonial Governor Whose Campaign Claimed Up to 300,000 African Lives

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Thomas Elkins: The Black Inventor Who Helped Shape Modern Living While Defying Slavery

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King Koko of Nembe: The African King Who Renounced Christianity and Took Up Arms Against the British

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Prince Dom Nicolau of Kongo: The African Prince Who Waged One of Africa’s Earliest Public Campaigns Against Colonialism

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Franz Claasen: The Enslaved African Who Was Rewarded With A Plantation for Helping His Enslaver Escape a Slave Revolt

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Richard Wilkerson: The Black Man Lynched for Defending a Black Woman in Tennessee in 1934

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Yuhi V Musinga: The African King Deposed and Exiled for Refusing to Be Baptized as a Roman Catholic

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How Colonial Authorities Burned Villages and Imposed Taxes to Force Africans Into Labor Systems

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Seth Woodroof: The Slave Trader Who Ran Lynchburg’s Most Notorious Slave Jail in the 1800s

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Patrick Hues Mell: The University Professor and Pastor Who Used the Bible to Defend Slavery in America

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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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Elijah McCoy: The Black Inventor Behind One of History’s Greatest Engineering Innovations

Elijah McCoy was an African-Canadian mechanical engineer and inventor, born to parents who had escaped slavery. He is best known for developing an improved...

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