In an era when many pastors stood on the fence, or worse, used the Bible to justify slavery with verses like “Slaves, obey your masters as you would Jesus”, one man chose to defy both his peers and the...
In 1848, when America was still entangled in the chains of slavery, a girl named Caroline Still was born into a home where freedom was more than an idea, it was a calling. Her father, William Still, one of...
Theodore Parker was far from a typical 19th-century preacher. A bold reformer and one of the most outspoken voices against slavery in pre–Civil War America, he challenged both church and society with his radical beliefs. While most ministers of...
Amos Dresser was a minister and abolitionist who, in 1835, while traveling in the South to raise money for his education, was arrested in Nashville, Tennessee, and publicly whipped, not for any violent act, but for the “crime” of...
The White Highlands of central Kenya were once the ancestral lands of communities such as the Kikuyu, Maasai, and Kalenjin. By the early 1900s, however, the British colonial government transformed this fertile region into the centerpiece of European settlement,...
On February 3, 1953, the islands of São Tomé and Príncipe witnessed one of the bloodiest episodes of Portuguese colonial rule, the Batepá massacre. What began as tensions over forced labour quickly turned into a campaign of mass violence...
On the evening of July 7, 1893, the small town of Bardwell, Kentucky, became the stage for one of the most horrifying spectacles of racial violence in American history. At the center of it all was Seay J. Miller,...
Barsirian Arap Manyei was a Nandi leader who spent 42 years in detention under British rule, making him Kenya’s longest-serving political prisoner. His so-called crime was not theft or violence, but his unwavering opposition to colonial authority and his...
On June 30, 1905, the town of Watkinsville, Georgia, became the site of one of the most horrific acts of racial violence in American history. That night, a large mob seized nine men from the Oconee County jail and...
In June 1905, in present-day Kericho County in southwestern Kenya, the British colonial administration carried out one of the deadliest punitive expeditions in East African history. Known as the Sotik Massacre, the assault claimed the lives of up to...
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