How slavery became America’s first big business
Of the many myths told about American slavery, one of the biggest is that it was an archaic practice that only enriched a small number...
Category : History
The sugar that saturates the merican diet has a barbaric history as the ‘white gold’ that fueled slavery
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Domino Sugar’s Chalmette Refinery in Arabi, La., sits on the edge of the mighty Mississippi River, about five miles east by way of the river’s bend...
How Did African-American Farmers Lose 90 percent of Their Land?
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A combination of obscure legal mechanisms and racist institutions enabled—and continues to enable—developers to weasel it away. Emancipated slaves never received their promised 40 acres...
The little-known story behind Marcus Garvey’s fierce fight with WEB DuBois
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Marcus Garvey is famed for being Jamaica’s first national hero who advocated for Black nationalism in Jamaica and particularly in the United States. Born on...
Research Reveals That Black Children Were Fed to Hogs and Used as Alligator Bait in the Early 1900s
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A man named Johnny Lee Gaddy recently shared with peonage researcher, Dr. Antoinette Harrell, that in 1957 he witnessed African American children being literally fed...
Slave Narrative-NATHAN BEST & Frank Childress
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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...
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...