Yennenga
Yennenga was a legendary princess, considered the mother of the Mossi people of Burkina Faso.
Rhineland Bastards
Rhineland Bastard (German: Rheinlandbastard) was a derogatory term used in Nazi Germany to describe Afro-Germans, believed fathered by French Army personnel of African descent who were stationed in the Rhineland…
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…
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…