History

François Mackandal was a Haitian Maroon leader who was apprehended and burned alive by French colonial authorities for collaborating with Maroons to murder slave owners in Saint Domingue.

The tignon law was a 1786 law in Louisiana that forbade black women from going outdoors without wrapping their natural hair with a Tignon headscarf.

Bridgetower was a biracial Afro-European musician who started playing the violin at the young age of 10. He is well known for inspiring Beethoven's

Swaziland King Sobhuza II, KBE is the longest-reigning monarch, having served as monarch for 82 years and 254 days.

The Virginia casual killing act of 1669 declared that, should a slave be killed as a result of extreme punishment, the master should not face charges for the murder.

The largest slave rebellion in Barbadian history took place during the Bussa uprising in April 1816. The rebellion takes its name from the African-born slave, Bussa, who led the rebellion. During the slave trade era, many embittered Africans expressed their...

Cornelius Frederiks was a Namibian freedom fighter who actively fought a guerrilla-style war against German colonialists during the Herero-Nama war of 1904.

Ndaté Yalla Mbodj was the last great Lingeer (Queen) of Waalo (present day Senegal) who fought against the French colonialist army led by General Louis Faidherbe in 1855.

Kobina Gyan was king of the Elmina kingdom who was exiled to sierra leone in 1873 by the British colonial authorities for his refusal to take an oath of allegiance to the British.

Jacob Morenga, also known as the "black Napoleon", was one of the chief leader in the insurrections against the German Empire which took place between 1904 and 1908.