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Seneca Village: The Thriving Black Settlement in New York That Was Demolished to Build Central Park

Long before Central Park became New York City’s most iconic green space, its land was home to a thriving, self-sufficient settlement known as Seneca Village. Founded in 1825 by free African Americans, the community represented one of the first...

Donatien de Rochambeau: The French General Who Sent Africans to Their Death in the World’s First Gas Chambers in Haiti

The Haitian Revolution was a shockingly brutal conflict. While the Haitian people were prepared to fight to the end for their freedom, the French army was determined to use extreme brutality to put down the slave uprising. One figure...

William Gregson: The British Slave Trader Whose Voyages Claimed Over 9,000 Enslaved African Lives

In 18th-century Liverpool, the docks bustled with ships and merchants chasing wealth, but much of that fortune was built on the lives and suffering of thousands of enslaved Africans who were treated as mere cargo. One of the men...

Slave Insurance: How Slave Masters in the US Profited from the Death and Injuries of Enslaved Africans

In the United States before the Civil War, slavery was not only a social system but also a business. Every part of enslaved life was measured and turned into profit. From the crops they grew to the children they...

The Lynching of Brothers Ephraim and Henry Grizzard in 1892

In April 1892, Henry and Ephraim Grizzard, two African American brothers from Middle Tennessee, were lynched after being accused of assaulting two white sisters in Goodlettsville. The charges were never proven, yet both men were killed by white mobs...

Sotik Massacre of 1905: The Little-Known British Massacre in Kenya That Claimed 1,850 Lives

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...

Jonas N’Doki: The African Performer Executed in Nazi Germany for Having Affairs with White Women

In June 1942, an African man named Jonas N’Doki was executed in Nazi Germany, not for murder, treason, or political rebellion, but for what officials branded as “sexual misconduct with White women,” a charge driven more by racism and...

Rev. Elijah Parish Lovejoy: The First White American Killed for Standing Against Slavery

Elijah Parish Lovejoy was a white preacher with a printing press and a dangerous habit, telling the truth about slavery. In 1837, a mob stormed the warehouse where he kept his press. He stood his ground, they shot him...

Julien Fédon: The Man Who Led Grenada’s Bloodiest Rebellion Against Slavery and Vanished

In March 1795, a violent rebellion erupted in Grenada, marking one of the most significant uprisings against British colonial rule in the Caribbean. At the center of the revolt was Julien Fédon, a free biracial French-speaking planter inspired by...

How the Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade Gave Birth to Slave Breeding in the U.S.

When the United States Congress voted to abolish the transatlantic slave trade in 1808, many hoped it would signal a decline in the horrors of slavery. But instead of ending human bondage, this legal milestone gave rise to one...
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Seneca Village: The Thriving Black Settlement in New York That Was Demolished to Build Central Park

Long before Central Park became New York City’s most iconic green space, its land was home to a thriving,...
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