Stephen Duncan
Stephen Duncan was a wealthy plantation owner and politician in the antebellum South who owned hundreds of enslaved people and built his fortune through the...
Author : joe bodego
Slavery Holiday and Celebration
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The bleakness and brutality of slave life were alleviated, in small measure, by the celebration of holidays. Most slaves in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries...
Belinda Sutton
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Belinda Sutton is most famously recognized for her 1783 petition to the Massachusetts General Court for a pension from the estate of her former master...
Blaise Diagne
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A Political Figure in the Evolution of Francophone Africa Blaise Diagne, born on the small island of Gorée off the coast of Dakar, was a...
Bertha Lee Pate Patton
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Bertha Lee Pate Patton, commonly known as Bertha Lee, was an American blues singer from the early 20th century. She was born on June 1,...
THE ALLEGED CURSE ON HAM
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Genesis 9:18–29 has been popularly understood to mean that Ham was cursed, and this understanding has often been used to justify the oppression of African...
Dorothy Donegan
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Dorothy Donegan was a highly accomplished and innovative jazz pianist who was known for her technical virtuosity and her ability to blend together a wide...
Eddie Murphy
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Eddie Regan Murphy was born on April 3, 1961, in Brooklyn, New York. He spent his early years in the projects of Bushwick with his...
Italy colonialism in Africa
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Italy was one of the European countries with colonies in Africa during the modern period. Lasting from 1890 to 1941, Italian colonialism in Africa included...
France colonialism in Africa
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The French presence in Africa dates to the 17th century, but the main period of colonial expansion came in the 19th century with the invasion...