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Frederick Douglass was quite hopeful about the Black person's place in the post-emancipation United States and was vocally opposed to the campaign to relocate people of African descent to the African continent. Ironically, in the same year, 1852, that Douglass famously asked, What To The American
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The Most Noble Experiment in Human History is on a Ventilator - African American News Today - EIN News
here is that no African Americans in the United States there are millions of successful African Americans in the United States. here is that no African Americans in the United States there are millions of successful African Americans in the United States.
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In order to encourage the slave trade, the Virginia Assembly offers exemptions
In order to encourage the slave trade, the Virginia Assembly offers exemptions from local duties to Dutch ships bringing in Africans.
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The “R-word”Reparations
I think I heard the word “reparations” for the first time while I was a college student at Northwestern University (NU) in Evanston, Illinois. However, it was not in the classrooms of that admittedly proud, prestigious (and pricey) institution. It was through the Black Student Union on
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(1862) John S. Rock, “A Deep and Cruel Prejudice”
New Jersey-born John Sweat Rock was one of the first African American dentists in the United States.  He was also a medical doctor and in 1861, after studying law, was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1861.  On January 23, 1862, Rock addressed the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society in
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The U.S. Supreme Court declared Joseph Cinquez and
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Series of events in African American history
Between the years of 1500-1884, there was a series of events that happened in African American history. Between the 1500-1600s, there were slave revolts in the West Indies; from 1655-17-38, there was the war between the British and Maroons; in 1750, there was a British free trade in human flesh; in
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September 2: Wealthy Black Abolitionist James Forten Was Born Today in 1766
Photo credits: YouTube/Robert Douglass The businessman and abolitionistJames Fortenwas born free in Philadelphia in 1766. He attended a Quaker school headed by abolitionistAnthony Benezet. At the age of fourteen he went to sea and became a powder boy on the Royal Louis, a colonial privateer under
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Revisiting reparations: Is it time for the US to pay its debt for the legacy of slavery? - African American News Today - EIN Presswire
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Samuel L. Jackson's Enslaved and the lost history of Canadian slavery - African American News Today - EIN Presswire
Samuel L. Jackson's new documentary Enslaved is among a number of other productions about the transatlantic slave trade. But as popular culture tries to address the international tragedy, it is still far from accurately portraying that history onscreen — especially when it comes to Canada.
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Voter Suppression a Lasting Legacy of the Transatlantic Slave Trade | Dallas Weekly
“In Federalist No. 54, James Madison wrote about the chief concern of the representation of slaves concerning taxation and representation,” said Maxim Thorne, an attorney and managing director of The Andrew Goodman Foundation. “This federalist paper states that slaves are property as well as
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(1920) Archibald Grimke, “The Shame of America, or the Negro’s Case Against the Republic”
Archibald Grimke was born enslaved in Charleston, South Carolina in 1849.  After the Civil War, Archibald and his younger brother Francis, enrolled at Lincoln University.  Archibald graduated in 1872 and then entered Harvard Law School.  After graduation he practiced in Boston.  By the 1880s Grimke
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Slave Revolt in Long Island
Slave revolt, Newton, Long Island (N.Y.). Seven whites killed. Two Black male slaves and an Indian slave were hanged, and a Black woman was burned alive.
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10 Great Databases for Slave Genealogy
Explore information on more than 35,000 slave voyages that forcibly transported over 12 million Africans to the Americas, including North America, the Caribbean, and Brazil, between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. You can search by voyage, examine estimates of the slave trade, or search
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Trump Takes Credit For Making Juneteenth 'Very Famous'
Despite history’s efforts, Donald J. Trump said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal this week that it was he who made the day so
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Affront to humanity – British protesters topple a statue of a slave trader - Face2Face Africa
A bronze statue of a 17th-century slave trader has been pulled down by anti-racism protesters in England. Black Lives Matter protesters brought down the statue of the slave trader of Edward Colston on Sunday. The demonstrators in Bristol in Southwest England tied a rope to the Grade II-listed
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UN experts warn pandemic, lockdowns could fuel exploitation | Africanews
Despite its illegality the world over, forced labor continues to thrive in some parts of the world. On December 2 every year, the International day for the abolition of slavery aims to shed light on this
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All Caribbean stories are known as Ananse stories even if Ananse does not appear in them. Ananse is the god of joke and trickery from the Ashanti peoples of Ghana. He was the unseen passenger on the slave ships and played a very important function in keeping the dispossed Africans connected to the
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For Democratic Society, Some Monumentally Hard Decisions Ahead
Lincoln standing high over an African American on one knee. But century not our own. African Americans, most of them former woke moderns to cancel these African Americans sense of their are complaints that the African American is naked from the
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Statue Of Protester Is Removed In England, One Day After Replacing Slave Trader : Live Updates: Protests For Racial Justice : NPR
Officials in Bristol say the artist didn't have approval to erect the work on the plinth where the Edward Colston statue used to stand. The mayor says the search for a replacement will not be rushed.
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Reparations to African Americans should be payed by Wall Street : Indybay
African Americans are used as in prisons. Reparations to African Americans should be payed by Wall the Wall Street corporations for African Americans. Especially now while they George Floyd, and other African Americans murdered because of police brutality
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Kars’ work on the 1763 rebellion reads more like historical fiction - Stabroek News
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'What To My People Is The 4th Of July?': Daveed Diggs Performs 2020 Rendition Of Groundbreaking Frederick Douglass Speech - Blavity
Daveed Diggs recited a poem written by Pharoahe Monch, W. Kamau Bell, Safia Elhillo, Camonghne Felix, Idris Goodwin, Angel Nafis, Nate Marshall, Danez Smith and Lauren A. Whitehead.
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‘Black communities have been robbed:’ Will reparations for black Americans finally get real consideration? - African American News Today - EIN News
permanent emotional trauma” experienced by black Americans. The proposed reparations, he to study reparations proposals for African Americans. The legislation, repeatedly of enslaved black Americans. “This reparations package for Black Americans is about
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Bacon's Rebellion
African Americans fought in the first armed rebellion against British authority in the colonies, Bacons Rebellion, in 1676. Nathaniel Bacon was a member of the rising generation of colonial planters who resented British rule and, particularly, the British protection of Indian lands that lay just
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