Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
Almost sixty years before the Haitian revolution, a group of West African Atlantians (enslaved people) took control of...
Angelo Soliman who achieved considerable fame as a “Princely Moor” in eighteenth-century Vienna, is historically recognized by some...
Venture Smith, was the son of a royal family, who was kidnapped from his homeland in Africa as a boy and sold into the Maafa (slavery). Venture became a figure of...
In 1734, Marie-Joseph Angélique was accused of setting a fire that destroyed the city’s merchants’ quarter in Montreal....
Salem Poor was a distinguished military hero during the American Revolutionary War. He is best remembered today for...
Billy was an enslaved African American who became a principal in a court case during the American Revolution (1775–1783). In 1781, the Prince William County Court tried Billy for treason for...
One of the most famous American entertainers of the nineteenth century, Thomas “Blind Tom” Wiggins was an African...
In 1628, the first Black person known to have lived in Canada was a native of Madagascar. He...
Every people should be originators of their own destiny. Martin Robinson Delany (May 6, 1812 – January 24, 1885) stands as one of the most formidable and multifaceted intellectuals of the...
“We now come to the harbour of Keelwa; from this port a very considerable trade carried on with...
Chloe Cooley was a young enslaved Black woman in Canada during the late 1700s. On March 14, 1793...
Patrick Henry Reason was one of the earliest African-American engraver and lithographer in the United States. His artistic skills were discovered when he was very young, and he rose to fame...
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…
