Sterling Stuckey, an eminent black historian who challenged his white colleagues by documenting how uprooted Africans not only retained their culture while they survived slavery but eventually ...

23 years ago, The African American Museum in St. Martinville opened it’s doors with the mission of showing visitors who the Africans were before arriving in Louisiana.

Four hundred years after enslaved Africans were first brought to Virginia, most Americans still don’t know the full story of slavery. Curated by Mary Elliott All text by Mary Elliott and Jazmine ...

The slave ship incident may have awakened the U.S. public to the persistence of such inhumane practices, but the discussion about slavery in Africa has been raging just beneath the surface of ...

To mark the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slavery, the South African musician Hugh Masekela, recently performed inside Elmina slave fort alongside musicians from Britain, the Caribbean and ...

ENGL 5029-001: British Literature and Culture Before 1800, Slavery and Eighteenth-Century Literature (Spring 2019) Published:10/4/2018 10/4/2018 ... Colonies. The rise of chattel slavery in the ...

reporter: lamont collins of the roots 101 african american museum says dating back to slavery, in times of oppression and struggle, food has always been a safe space in black culture. >> it was ...

I also read weathered slave ships’ logs and was amazed that Africans were never, not once, referred to as humans. They were called “beasts,” among other things.

with that discovery began trade and slavery and ultimately a rich african culture. ... slave traders imported 1,300, 000 slaves in the bahia before slavery was abolished in brazil in 1888.

Sapelo, a barrier island about the size of Manhattan, has about 50 residents, primarily descendants of African slaves who settled here after slavery was outlawed.