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For five years in the late 1840s, J. Marion Sims subjected Anarcha, Betsey, Lucy, and other unnamed enslaved women to…

Museums are buildings or institutions that care for and display a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural,…

The Little George Ship Revolt occurred in June 1730 on the British ship, Little George. This little-known revolt was one…

Marie-Madeleine Lachenais was the beautiful mistress and political advisor of two solid Haitian leaders. For a period of 36 years,…

There are so many little-known black inventors and Charles S.L Baker is one of them. This African American genius was born enslaved…

An extremely famous figure in Niger, Queen Sarraounia Mangou, embodies the resistance of Nigeriens against the French colonization at the…

Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, lots of people kidnapped from Africa were forced into slavery in the American colonies…

The Story of how enslaved African mothers were forced to breastfeed and nurture white babies during the times of slavery…

The unfortunate story of Frank Embree is a very alarming one; that exposes the defenselessness of being born black in…

The Abolitionist movement was a systematic effort to end slavery in the United States. The first administrators of the campaign,…