Drapetomania
In 1851, Dr. Samuel A. Cartwright, a prominent Southern physician, published a paper in De Bow’s Review, a widely circulated periodical in the antebellum South....
Category : History
The Freedmen’s Savings and Trust Company
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The Freedmen’s Savings and Trust Company commonly referred to as The Freedmen’s Bank, was incorporated on March 3, 1865. It was created by the United...
The 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion
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The 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion was activated as a result of a recommendation made in December 1942 by the Advisory Committee on Negro Troop Policies,...
Gold and Glory Sweepstakes
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From 1924 to 1936, the Midwest’s best and brightest black drivers and mechanics competed in what became known as the Gold and Glory Sweepstakes. Here,...
The Compromise of 1850
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The Compromise of 1850 was a set of bills passed in Congress which tried to settle the issue of slavery, which was about to split...
Paul Cuffee
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Paul Cuffee, a sea captain and an entrepreneur, was perhaps the wealthiest black American of his time. Cuffee was born on Cuttyhunk Island, off Southern...
The Free Soil Party
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The Free Soil Party was an American political party that only survived through two presidential elections, in 1848 and 1852. Essentially a single issue reform...
The Abolition Movement
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As the enslavement of African-Americans became a preferred aspect of the United States’ society, people began questioning the morality of bondage. Throughout the 18th and...
Gabriel Prosser
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GABRIEL’S INSURRECTION, a slave uprising in Virginia in 1800. The democratic ideals expressed in the slogan of the French Revolution (1789)—”liberty, equality, fraternity”—resonated in France’s...
Henry Christophe
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Henry Christophe, born into slavery on Grenada, rose through sheer determination to become a pivotal figure in Haiti’s fight for independence. Illiterate and unschooled, he...