Elizabeth Hemings was an enslaved woman who was given as a wedding gift to John Wayles and Martha Eppes, she spent her life in servitude, eventually bearing children with Wayles, one of whom, Sally Hemings, would later gain prominence...
Ne Buela Muanda was a prophet in the spiritual history of the Bakongo people who, around the 1450s, foretold the arrival of the Portuguese and the subsequent spiritual and physical enslavement that the Bakongo and other African tribes would...
On August 19, 1886, in the small town of Jackson, Tennessee, a terrible injustice occurred when Eliza Woods, an African-American woman, was brutally lynched by a mob after being falsely accused of poisoning her white employer, Jessie Woolen.
Eliza Woods...
In the late 19th century, as European powers scrambled to colonize Africa, numerous indigenous leaders faced the difficult challenge of resisting foreign domination. Among these was Andreas Lambert, a revered chief in present-day Namibia. Lambert’s resistance against German colonial...
On July 30, 1866, a peaceful demonstration of Black Americans in New Orleans was violently attacked by a mob of white rioters, many of whom were ex-Confederates. The massacre, which occurred outside the Mechanics Institute, resulted in at least...
The creation story of the Bakongo people, an ethnic group primarily defined as the speakers of Kikongo, offers a fascinating perspective on the origins of the universe. The Bakongo have historically inhabited regions along the Atlantic coast of Central...
Mary Thomas, famously known as Queen Mary, was an important figure in the labour history of the Danish West Indies. Born around 1848, Thomas emerged as a formidable leader during the 1878 "Fireburn" labor riot on the island of...
Apartheid-era South Africa is often rememberes for its strict and oppressive racial segregation policies. Implemented by the National Party government in 1948, these laws categorized the population into four main racial groups: White, Native (black), Coloured, and Indian. Each...
John Brown was a prominent leader in the American abolitionist movement during the decades leading up to the Civil War. He became known as the leading advocate for using violence to end American slavery after years of peaceful efforts...
