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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Private Felix Hall: The Black Soldier Lynched on a U.S. Military Base in 1941

On the morning of March 28, 1941, deep in a wooded ravine at Fort Benning, Georgia, the lifeless body...