Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
Caesar was an African healer living under forced servitude in early South Carolina whose knowledge of botanical medicine...
José Leonardo Chirino (25 April 1754 – 10 December 1796) stands as one of the most significant anti-Maafa...
“Her fight is preserved in Brazilian history, and her warrior personality is, to this day, an example for other women.” — Andrade and Lelis (loose translation) In the late sixteenth century, in the...
Ottobah Cugoano was a pioneer of the Black radical tradition, becoming a prominent leader in the British abolitionist...
“Marie Couvent was the first [Black] woman to set the example of an enlightened charity, and that for...
In 1999, Thomas Peters, one of the founding fathers of Sierra Leone, was honoured by the Sierra Leone government with inclusion in a movie celebrating the country’s national heroes. A statue...
“There can be but one result for the Cubans. That is victory…” Lieutenant General José Antonio de la...
Redoshi was born in modern-day Benin and abducted from her home aged 12 before being sold as a...
Thomas Fuller was an Afrikan man in captivity in North America, who became known as the Virginia Calculator. Although illiterate, he was able to perform the most difficult mathematical calculations in...
Charity Still—born Sidney Steel—was the mother of abolitionist William Still and a foundational figure in the Still family’s...
On January 24th, 1773, the captive people aboard the New Britannia declared war. The ship, anchored on the...
François Makandal (also spelled Mackandal) is a legendary figure in Haitian history. As a Maroon leader, he orchestrated one of the earliest and most sustained efforts to dismantle the French system...
Meserette Kentake, founder of Kentake Page, was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, and is of Yoruba descent (mtDNA). Now based in London, she holds a BSc in Counselling Psychology but is most passionate about…
