Black History Is Filled With Agents And Informants
In the Black Conscious community, we tend to pay a disproportionate amount of attention to the near-successes of our historical movements. What we fail to...
Category : History
The Shocking Photo of ‘Whipped Peter’ That Made Slavery’s Brutality Impossible to Deny
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By the time he made it to a Union encampment in Baton Rouge in March 1863, Peter had been through hell. Bloodhounds had chased him....
Is This the Wreck of the Last U.S. Slave Ship?
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The last ship to bring slaves to the U.S. was torched to hide the crime. Its remains may have just been found. More than 50...
The Last Slave Ship Survivor Gave an Interview in the 1930s. It Just Surfaced
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Roughly 60 years after the abolition of slavery, anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston made an incredible connection: She located the last surviving captive of the last...
Grace Wisher – The African American girl who helped make the Star-Spangled Banner
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Grace Wisher, a young African-American girl hailing from Baltimore, Maryland, played a significant role in the creation of the iconic Star-Spangled Banner. Born free, Grace...
5 Daring Slave Escapes
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1. Henry “Box” Brown After his wife and children were sold and shipped away to another state in 1848, Virginia-born Henry Brown resolved to escape...
Frank Mann
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Frank Calvin Mann was an engineer and designer who worked with entrepreneur and industrialist Howard R. Hughes on projects that included the Spruce Goose, at...
California is named after a black queen
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History is interesting. The deeper one digs, the more likely one can find many possibly true stories and explanations for the same incident. Take the...
Marcus Garvey’s final speech before he was jailed for mail fraud in 1925
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Marcus Garvey was Jamaica’s first national hero who advocated for Black nationalism in Jamaica and particularly the United States. Born on August 17, 1887, Garvey traveled...