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…
Slave Trade Act of 1794
The Slave Trade Act of 1794 was a law passed by the United States Congress that prohibited American ships from engaging the international slave trade. It was signed into law…
Slavery in the United States
The legal institution of human chattel slavery, comprising the enslavement primarily of Africans and African Americans, was prevalent in the United States of America from its founding in 1776 until…
Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves 1807
The Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves of 1807 (2 Stat. 426, enacted March 2, 1807) is a United States federal law that provided that no new slaves were permitted to…
Margaret Garner
Margaret Garner, called “Peggy” (died 1858), was an enslaved African-American woman in pre-Civil War America who killed her own daughter rather than allow the child to be returned to slavery.
Partus sequitur ventrem
Partus sequitur ventrem (L. “That which is born follows the womb”; also partus) was a legal doctrine passed in colonial Virginia in 1662 and other English crown colonies in the…
Freedman’s Savings Bank
The Freedman’s Saving and Trust Company, known as the Freedman’s Savings Bank, was a private savings bank chartered by the U.S. Congress on March 3, 1865, to collect deposits from…