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How a Former Slave Became the Rockefeller of New York City’s Oyster Restaurants
Thomas Downing — a freeman born to formerly enslaved people in Virginia — became one of the city’s wealthiest citizens as the ...
Enslaved people took refuge at pioneering hotel on NC Outer Banks. But perils awaited
A major flash point came when Union soldiers entered Hotel De Afrique and “attacked the defenseless occupants with knives and ...
Walking through history and Savannah’s stories of slavery
A 90-minute walking tour details the city’s role in promoting slavery throughout the South and the driving force of faith to survive and triumph over it.
Reverend, a slave, and the Black Heritage Trail of NH
The final twist to the story is that, thanks to an act of grace and courage by a modern lawyer, Jack McGee, the home site of ...
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Erie’s first black resident, Boe Bladen, the original owner of Glenwood Estates land
As we continue our observance of black history month, we do a deeper dive into the life of the first black property owner in the region. Bladen not only was the first black property owner, he was ...
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Born Enslaved, This Black Millionaire Attempted to Colonize Mexico and Aspired to Be the Emperor of Ethiopia
In 1904, two Americans boarded the steamship Kaiser Wilhelm II and set off for Africa. One was Kent J. Loomis, brother to the ...
Author Tara Roberts dives into history with memoir on Transatlantic Slave Trade shipwrecks
A Memoir of History, Home, and Belonging is a powerful narrative intertwined with the historical experiences of slaves. (7News) ...
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Holocaust Remembrance Day versus slavery heritage
THE world set aside January 27 every year as International Holocaust Remembrance Day to remember one of the worst human tragedies of all times. The holocaust was a systematic genocide against European ...
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KEY WEST’S MEL FISHER MARITIME MUSEUM INSTALLS NEW PERMANENT EXHIBIT
In 1700, the English merchant slave ship Henrietta Marie sank 35 miles west of Key West, shortly after offloading 190 captured Africans in Jamaica. Nearly 325 years later, using the shipwreck and ...
Rare portraits reveal the humanity of the slaves who revolted on the Amistad
On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...
Show explores role of forgotten Black abolitionists
It will begin by focusing on Olaudah Equiano, one of the most famous Black abolitionists of the 18th Century, whose powerful ...