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Samuel Green, the Abolitionist Who Was Convicted for Possessing a Copy of an Anti-slavery Novel
Samuel Green was an African-American self-emancipated abolitionist who was jailed in 1857 for possessing a copy of the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Africa Ranking
Top 20 Most Terrorized Countries in Africa (2023)
The Global Terrorism Index (GTI) has released a report ranking the most terrorized countries in Africa, with Burkina Faso, Somalia, Mali, Nigeria, and Niger taking the top five spots.
The GTI report indicates that terrorism deaths in Sub-Saharan Africa have...
History
Velekete Slave Market: The Marketplace Where African Chiefs Sold Enslaved People to European Slave Traders
The Velekete Slave Market served as a business point between African middlemen and European slave merchants and facilitated the forced migration of thousands of Africans to the Americas, where they were subjected to generations of enslavement and exploitation.
History
John Newton: The Slave Trader Who Wrote the Beloved Hymn ‘Amazing Grace’
John Newton was an 18th-century slave trader who later became a clergyman and wrote one of the most beloved hymns of all time, "Amazing Grace.
History
Cécile Fatiman: The Vodou Priestess Who Helped Ignite the Haitian Revolution
Cécile Fatiman played a crucial role in the Haitian revolutionary movement by leading a ceremony that is said to have sparked the initial uprising against the French that resulted in the establishment of Haiti as the first independent black nation in the world.
History
Zong Massacre: The Tragic Story of How 133 Enslaved Africans Were Thrown into the Atlantic for Insurance Money
In November 1781, the captain and crew of the British slave ship Zong threw 133 African slaves overboard, killing them. The reason for this act of brutality was to claim insurance money.
History
Thomas Earle: The English Slave Trader Who Became the Mayor of Liverpool in 1787
Thomas Earle was a prominent slave trader in the 18th century who played a significant role in the transatlantic slave trade. Born in Liverpool in the 1750s, Earle made a fortune as a slave trader and merchant during the peak of the slave trade era.
History
Memories of Slavery: The Dark History of Sierra Leone’s Bunce Island
Bunce Island was a former slave castle located in the Sierra Leone River and was one of the largest centers of the transatlantic slave trade in West Africa. During the 17th and 18th centuries, thousands of Africans were captured,...
History
Sarah Forbes Bonetta, the Enslaved Yoruba Princess Who Was Gifted to the Queen of England in 1850
Born Omoba Aina, Sarah Forbes Bonetta was an Egbado princess of the Yoruba people, who was taken to England and presented to Queen Victoria as a “gift” from the king of the Blacks to the Queen of the Whites.
Religion
The Origin Story of the Bukusu People of East Africa
A creation myth is an account of how the world got started and how humans initially inhabited it. They are present in almost all known religious systems on earth and are frequently regarded as sacred stories..
Creation myths, which are...
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Samuel Green, the Abolitionist Who Was Convicted for Possessing a Copy of an Anti-slavery Novel
Samuel Green was an African-American self-emancipated abolitionist who was jailed in 1857 for possessing a copy of the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe.