Baptist War; Sam Sharp Rebellion 1831 – 1832
The Baptist War, also known as the Sam Sharp Rebellion, the Christmas Rebellion, the Christmas Uprising and the Great Jamaican Slave Revolt of 1831–32, was an eleven-day rebellion that started…
Hiram Rhodes Revels
Hiram Rhodes Revels (September 27, 1827 – January 16, 1901) was an American politician, minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and a college administrator. Born free in North Carolina,…
Slave Bible
Select Parts of the Holy Bible for the use of the Negro Slaves in the British West-India Islands, sometimes referred to as a slave bible, is a censored version of…
Black Hebrew Israelite Founders Frank S. Cherry And William Saunders Crowdy
Black Hebrew Israelites (also called Hebrew Israelites, Black Hebrews, Black Israelites, and African Hebrew Israelites) are groups of African Americans who believe that they are the descendants of the ancient…
Zumbi
Zumbi (1655 – November 20, 1695), was a Brazilian quilombola leader, being one of the pioneers of resistance to slavery of Africans by the Portuguese in colonial Brazil. He was…
Elizabeth Key Grinstead
Elizabeth Key Grinstead (Greenstead) (1630 – January 20, 1665) was one of the first black people of the Thirteen Colonies to sue for freedom from slavery and win. Key won…
External debt of Haiti
The external debt of Haiti is a notable and controversial national debt which mostly stems from an outstanding 1825 compensation to former slavers of the French colonial empire and later…
Aunt Caroline Dye
Caroline Dye (1810 or 1843-1918) also known as Aunt Caroline, was a renowned African American Hoodoo woman, rental property investor, soothsayer, rootworker and conjuror based in Newport, Arkansas.
Alice of Dunk’s Ferry
Alice of Dunk’s Ferry (c. 1686–1802) was an African-American slave, toll collector, and centenarian, who was ‘one of Black America’s early oral historians.’
Rachel of Kittery, Maine
Rachel of Kittery, Maine (died 1695) was an African-American enslaved woman in the New England state of Maine, who was murdered by her enslaver, Nathaniel Keen, who was subsequently put…