Author : samepassage
Aimé Césaire
Aimé Césaire was born June 26, 1913, in Basse-Pointe, a small town on the northeast coast of Martinique in the French Caribbean. He attended the...
Hanging the Slave Traders
Books with the title of The Newgate Calendar were published as early as the mid-eighteenth century. Mostly they were collections of “Last Dying Speeches” of criminals and short biographies...
The Story Behind This Iconic Image of a Black Woman Pushing Aside a National Guardsman’s Bayonet
She speaks to many of us — a black woman, dressed in a buttoned shirt and jeans, pushing aside a National Guardsman’s bayonet as though...
The East African Arab Slave Trade
Arabs were involved in the Slave Trade in Africa during the East African Arab Slave Trade which began around the 9th Century as Muslim Arab...
Buck Franklin
Buck Franklin was an attorney in Tulsa, Oklahoma, who is most notably known for defending the survivors of the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. He...
How a long-dead white supremacist still threatens the future of Virginia’s Indian tribes
Virginia’s Indian tribes have faced numerous obstacles in their decades-old quest for federal recognition. But one person has long stood in their way — and...
Less than a century ago, 20,000 people traveled to Kentucky to see a white woman hang a black man
Daviess County sheriff Florence Thompson had held the position for only a few months when the Rainey Bethea case landed on her desk. Bethea had...
Anthony Crawford
In Abbeville South Carolina Saturday, October 21, 1916, a white mob lynched a black leader named Anthony Crawford for cursing a white man. A 56-year-old...
Scars of Gordon, a whipped Louisiana slave, 1863
The famous “whipped slave” photograph pictures the runaway slave Gordon exposing his severely whipped back to the camera of two itinerant photographers, William D. McPherson...