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...
On August 8, 1946, just one year after returning home from serving his country in World War II, United States Army Corporal John Cecil Jones was tortured and lynched by a white mob near Minden, Webster Parish, Louisiana. He...
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,...
When Cotton Mather published The Negro Christianized in 1706, his message went beyond a call to spiritual duty. It was also a calculated appeal to the interests of slaveholders. He argued that introducing Christianity to enslaved servants would not...
The scramble auction was one of the most inhumane and chaotic forms of selling enslaved Africans during the transatlantic slave trade. This method of auction had a fixed price system: every captive cost the same, no bidding allowed. That...
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...
Octavius Valentine Catto was a gifted educator, civil rights activist, and community leader, who dedicated his life to the upliftment of Black Americans through education, political participation, and equal rights. His remarkable achievements and unwavering activism, however, made him...
In the slaveholding South, even words could be treated as weapons. Preaching against slavery or distributing antislavery literature was not just unpopular, it was a crime. Few men knew this better than Rev. Daniel Worth, a Wesleyan Methodist pastor...
