Black Seminoles
The Black Seminoles, also known as the Afro-Seminoles, are descendants of free and escaped African slaves who joined forces with the Seminole Native American tribe...
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Caesar Bowlegs
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Caesar Bowlegs (ca. 1843–1912) was a prominent Seminole Freedman whose life bridged African American and Native American histories in the post-Civil War era. Born into...
Dutch museums vow to return art looted by colonialists
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Estimated 100,000 exhibits may be repatriated to remedy historical ‘injustices’ Thousands of pieces of art deemed looted by Dutch colonialists could be returned to their...
Netherlands museum exhibition to tell story of Dutch slave trade
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The Netherlands’ national art institution, the Rijksmuseum, is to open its first major exhibition telling the stories of slaves and the Dutch people who enslaved...
This brave man led the first great uprising against Dutch slavery
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In Guyana, the former British colony on the western border of Suriname, a small island is located exactly where two rivers meet. There are the...
Dutch exhibition offers new insight into Berbice slave uprising
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The Dutch national archives are showcasing a unique set of letters sent by the leader of the first organized slave revolt on the American continent...
Négritude
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Négritude was both a literary and ideological movement led by French-speaking black writers and intellectuals from France’s colonies in Africa and the Caribbean in the...
Aimé Césaire
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Aimé Césaire (1913–2008) was a Martinican poet, playwright, politician, and intellectual whose work profoundly shaped postcolonial literature and thought. As a co-founder of the Négritude...
Hanging the Slave Traders
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The Newgate Calendar and Its Condemnation of the Slave Trade Publications bearing the title The Newgate Calendar first appeared in the mid-18th century. These volumes...
The Story Behind This Iconic Image of a Black Woman Pushing Aside a National Guardsman’s Bayonet
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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...