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Mon, 23.06.2025

Slave Fortresses in Africa, a story

*Slave Fortresses in Africa are affirmed on December 20, 1441. A fort was built to protect someone or something, and a slave fort or slave castle kept enslaved victims until ships were ready to set them aboard and forcefully kidnap the enslaved people. A slave fort was a militarized factory (trading post) that evolved at […]

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Tue, 08.04.2025

The Demerara Rebellion Begins

*The Demerara Rebellion of 1823 began on this date in 1823. This uprising involving about 12,000 African slaves took place in the British colony of Demerara-Essequibo in what is now Guyana. The rebellion took place a few months after the founding of the Anti-Slavery Society and had a substantial impact on Britain. Although public sentiment […]

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Tue, 08.04.2025

The Slave Compensation Act Becomes Law

*The Slave Compensation Act 1837 was an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom, signed into law on December 23, 1837. Together with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833, it authorized the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt to compensate slave owners in the British colonies of approximately £20 million for the freeing of […]

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Tue, 08.04.2025

The Berbice Rebellion, a story

*The Berbice Rebellion began on this date in 1763. This was a year-long slave rebellion in Guyana that lasted into 1764. The Dutch colony of Berbice was owned by four Amsterdam merchants who founded the Society of Berbice as a public company listed on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange. The colony was unsuccessful compared to other […]

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Wed, 02.04.2025

Thomas Coleman, Segregationast born

*Thomas Coleman was born on this date in 1910. He was a white-American highway engineer, sheriff deputy, and segregationist. On August 20, 1965, voting rights activists were released from jail in Fort Deposit, a small town in Lowndes County, Alabama. After release, the group waited near the courthouse jail while one of their members called […]

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Thu, 13.02.2025

The Fairvue Plantation is built

*The Fairvue Plantation is affirmed on this date in 1832. The Fairvue was a plantation house in Gallatin, Tennessee. It was built for Isaac Franklin. Franklin retired to be a planter there after a career as a partner in the South’s largest slave-trading firm before the American Civil War. After his death, his widow inherited […]

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Sun, 19.01.2025

The Barbados Slave Code is enacted

*The Barbados Slave Code was enacted on this date in 1661. Officially titled as An Act for the better ordering and governing of Negroes, it was a law passed by the Parliament of Barbados to provide a legal basis for slavery in the English colony of Barbados. Throughout British North America, slavery evolved in practice […]

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Sun, 19.01.2025

The Bussa Rebellion begins

*The Bussa Rebellion began on April 14, 1816. Lasting three days, it was the largest slave revolt in Barbadian history. The rebellion, which took its name from the African slave Bussa, who led it, was the first of three mass slave rebellions in the British West Indies. It was eventually defeated by the colonial militia […]

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Tue, 07.01.2025

The Freedman’s Savings Bank Opens

*The Freedman’s Savings Bank opened on this date in 1865. It was the first federal bank in America. Also known as the Freedman’s Saving and Trust Company, it was a private savings bank chartered by the U.S. Congress to collect deposits from newly emancipated slaves. At the end of the American Civil War, the poor […]

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Thu, 05.12.2024

The ‘Navassa Island Riot’ ocurrs

*The ‘Navassa Island Riot’ is affirmed on this date in 1889. Navassa Island is a small uninhabited island northeast of Jamaica, south of Cuba. In September 1875, the fierce 1875 Indianola hurricane swept over the island, destroying much of the company’s infrastructure, including the rail line and workers’ homes. The storm caused an estimated $25,000 […]

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New Poem Each Day

Poetry Corner

Our mothers, when asked may speak of us in terms of our accomplishments. My daughter is a flower shedding buds of brown babies. She holds two diplomas in her fist as... FEMINISM by Carolyn Rodgers.
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