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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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William Beckford: The London Lord Mayor Who Built His Fortune on the Back of 3,000 Enslaved Africans

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Thomas Roderick Dew: The Pro Slavery Scholar Who Defended Virginia’s Slave Breeding Economy

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Rebecca Latimer Felton: The Lynching Supporter Who Became America’s First Female U.S. Senator

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The Lamogi Rebellion: The Forgotten Uprising in Northern Uganda That Shook British Rule

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Bartolomé de las Casas: The Priest Who Fought to Free Native American and Proposed the Enslavement of Africans in Their Place

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The Knights Of Liberty: The Secret Black Organization That Planned An Armed Revolt Against Slavery In The United States

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A Filtered Gospel: How Christianity Was Curated for Enslaved Africans

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Jaja of Opobo: The King Exiled for Daring to Tax British Traders in His Kingdom

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Gungunhana: The African Leader Who Lost His Empire and Died in Exile After Defying Portuguese Colonial Rule

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Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World: The Anti-Slavery Pamphlet That Terrified American Slaveholders in the Early 19th Century

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Carl Braden: The Activist Who Was Jailed For Helping An African American Family Buy A House

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

For decades in the mid 19th century, a brick slave jail in Lynchburg, Virginia, functioned as one of the busiest holding points in the...

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Top Worst Performing Currencies in Africa (2026)

According to bloomberg, African currencies faced significant challenges in 2026, with some experiencing alarming decline against the United States...