Slavery in the US

Joseph Cinque, a Captured Slave, Led the Amistad Slave Revolt on this day in 1839

Joseph Cinque (Sengbe Pieh) was a Sierra Leonean slave who led an uprising on the Spanish slave ship, La Amistad. Later Pieh and the other slaves involved in the revolt were put on trial for the death of two...
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Lemuel Walters: The Man Lynched in 1919 for Dating a White Woman

Lemuel Walters was a Black man in Longview, Texas, who was lynched in June 1919 after being accused of...