Slave Narrative-NATHAN BEST & Frank Childress
NATHAN BEST. Age 92 Inmate of Beauvoir, Confederate Soldiers’ Home, on Beach between Biloxi and Gulfport. About 5 ft. 5 in. tall, weight 115. Dark...
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Slave Narrative-Charlie Bell
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Charlie Bell: Royal Alley Meridian, Miss. Age, 81 years Height, 5 feet, 6 inches Weight, 165 pounds Color, medium brown Hair, kinky white Beard, kinky...
Slave Narrative-Rose Holman
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Rose Holman Age about 84, height 5 feet, weight 115 lbs., color black, physical condition bad. Supported by 83 year old husband’s monthly W.P.A. earnings. “I...
The starving time
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“The starving time” was the winter of 1609-1610, when food shortages, fractured leadership, and a siege by Powhatan Indian warriors killed two of every three...
In Germany’s extermination program for black Africans, a template for the Holocaust
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Decades before the Nazis turned to the Jews, German colonialists in Southwest Africa – now Namibia – dehumanized, built death camps for, and slaughtered tens...
Rediscovering the history of African slavery in Iran
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By Jillian Kestler-D’Amours ST CATHARINES, Canada – Behnaz Mirzai’s students often say her office is like a museum. With shards of ancient pottery recovered from the mountains...
Hundreds of black deaths in ‘Red Summer’ of 1919 are being remembered
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America in the summer of 1919 ran red with blood from racial violence, and yet today, 100 years later, not many people know it even...
The Lynching of Leo Frank
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In 1913, Leo Frank was convicted of murdering Mary Phagan, a 13-year-old employee of the Atlanta pencil factory that Frank managed. After Georgia’s governor commuted...
Jews and the African Slave Trade
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The role some Jews played in the Atlantic slave trade, both as traders and as slave owners, has long been acknowledged by historians. But allegations...
The Brutal Slavery of over 12 million Africans by Arab Islamic Slavers – Bitter History
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The harrowing experiences of the African man during the era of slavery remain an open book in our history as people. A lot has been...