Asante
Asante, also spelled Ashanti, are people of south-central Ghana and adjacent areas of Togo and Côte d’Ivoire. Most of the Asante live in a region...
Asante empire
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Asante empire, Asante also spelled Ashanti, West African state that occupied what is now southern Ghana in the 18th and 19th centuries. Extending from the...
Ghana Independence 1957
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After years of suffering under British colonial rule, Ghana, known as the Gold Coast, became the first African State to achieve independence in 1957. Ghana...
Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr
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Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. is an author and religious leader who was the longtime pastor for Trinity United Church of Christ. Born on September 22,...
Manumission
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Manumission is defined as the formal process by which a slave owner can give his slaves their legal freedom. During the period of American slavery...
Black codes
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Black codes were restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans and ensure their availability as a cheap labor force after slavery was...
Yarrow Mamout
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Born in Guinea in West Africa, Mamout (c. 1736–1823) was enslaved at age 16. Accounts report that he was educated, as he could read and...
George Lisle
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George Lisle was the founder of Jamaica’s first Negro Baptist Church. He was also the first ordained black Baptist minister in America and also in...
South Africa Begins Apartheid 1949
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By the end of the nineteenth century, South Africa had been completely colonized by European Powers because it made a convenient port to supply ships...
John Marrant
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JOHN MARRANT freeborn black American, author, and minister of the Countess of Huntingdon’s Connexion; b. 15 June 1755 in New York; d. 15 April 1791 in Islington (London), England. John Marrant’s early...