Ionia Rollin Whipper
Ionia Rollin Whipper was born on this date in 1872. She was a Black obstetrician and public health outreach worker. From Beaufort, South Carolina, both...
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Slavery Abolition Act, 1833
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Slavery Abolition Act, (1833), in British history, was the act of Parliament that abolished slavery in most British colonies, freeing more than 800,000 enslaved Africans...
Who were the Moors?
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If the term seems familiar from art and literature—but still confusing—there’s a good reason. If the term “Moor” seems familiar but confusing, there’s a reason:...
A Negro Schoolmaster in the South
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W. E. B. Du Bois’s 1899 account as a young, black schoolmaster in the South By W. E. Burghardt Du Bois Once upon a time,...
John Brooks Slaughter
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John Brooks Slaughter, a computer scientist is a professor of education and of engineering at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He previously...
Benjamin “Pap” Singleton
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Benjamin “Pap” Singleton was an African American man who played an important part in the massive emigration of ex-slaves from the South to the West....
In the 1912 Olympics, Jim Thorpe, a Native American, Won Two Gold Medals With Shoes Someone Had Thrown in the Trash
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This is Jim Thorpe (May 22 or 28, 1887 – March 28, 1953). He was the first Native American to win a gold medal for...
Zong slave ship trial
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Hearing arguments in the case of the Zong, a slave ship, the Chief Justice of the King’s Bench in London states that a massacre of...
Leusden Slave Ship Tragedy
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The history of this slave ship has gone almost entirely unnoticed until now. This is remarkable given that its final voyage ended in the single...
The Zong massacre
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In August 1781, a British slave ship, the Zong, left Ghana with 442 slaves aboard – twice the number it was designed to carry –...