— Diana Brown, How Stuff Works Slavery is a stain on nearly every nation’s history book. And it’s been abolished by law in 167 countries. Unfortunately, despite these laws, the abhorrent practice still continues today, with 2017 estimates suggesting that more than 40 million people worldwide are victims of some form of modern slavery. Stuff They Don’t Want […]
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Slavery Under Another Name: What Were the Black Codes? | How Stuff Works
— Dave Roos, How Stuff Works On April 9, 1865, the long and bloody American Civil War finally came to an end. It had already been two years since President Abraham Lincoln issued his Emancipation Proclamation, but after the Confederacy’s surrender at Appomattox Courthouse, word slowly spread among the more than 4 million enslaved Black men, women […]
View MoreFrom Slave to Millionaire Philanthropist: The Biddy Mason Story | How Stuff Works
— Dave Roos, How Stuff Works On Aug. 15, 1818, a baby girl named Bridget was born into slavery in Georgia. She was sold as an infant to new masters who called her Biddy. When Biddy turned 18, she was presented as a wedding gift to Robert Marion Smith and his wife Rebecca in Mississippi. This […]
View MoreFirst Enslaved Africans Brought to Jamestown, Virginia | EJI, Equal Justice Initiative
By EJI Staff, EJI, Equal Justice Initiative The stage was set for slavery in the United States as early as the 14th century when Spain and Portugal began to capture Africans for enslavement in Europe. Slavery eventually expanded to colonial America, where the first enslaved Africans were brought in the Virginia colony at Point Comfort on […]
View MoreBozeman Women Advanced Standing of Black People in Montana | U.S. News
Three daughters of Missouri slaves who were born in Bozeman in the 1870s quietly worked to advance the standing of Black people in Montana. By Gail Schontzler, Bozeman Daily Chronicle, Associated Press, U.S. News BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — Bozeman was a scrappy upstart wild West town in the fall of 1864 when Richard and Mary McDonald, a […]
View More‘So much to learn’: The untold stories of slavery in Canada | CTV News
By Jonathan Forani, CTV News TORONTO — A pregnant teen escaping captivity in a wintry Quebec. A young woman forced to pose nude for a painter in Montreal. The son of a free man tied up in a Toronto shed. These are Canadian stories, just a few among hundreds of Black slave narratives from the […]
View MoreEnslaved Africans Attempt Escape in Washington, D.C.; Later Captured and Punished | Equal Justice Initiative
On Sunday, April 16, 1848, at least seventy-five black men, women, and children were aboard a sixty-four-foot cargo ship nicknamed the Pearl, trying to escape enslavement in the Washington, D.C. area. They set off one day before, because Saturday was a traditional day of rest for enslaved people and the two white abolitionists who charged the ship […]
View MoreBlack People Revolt Against Slavery in New York City | Equal Justice Initiative
On April 7, 1712, a coalition of enslaved black people in New York City set fire to a building in the city center and launched a revolt. Armed with hatchets, knives, and guns, they attacked white people who came to fight the fire, killing nine and injuring seven. During the early 18th century, New York […]
View MoreThomas Sims Captured in Boston After Fleeing Enslavement | Equal Justice Initiative
In early 1851, Thomas Sims, an enslaved black man living in Savannah, Georgia, successfully escaped bondage and fled to Boston, Massachusetts — where slavery had been abolished. Only a few weeks later, on April 3, 1851, Sims was arrested by a United States Marshal and members of the local police force and taken to the […]
View MoreThe enslaved black people of the 1960s who did not know slavery had ended | Face2Face Africa
The Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 which changed the status of over 3.5 million enslaved African Americans in the South from slave to free, did not emancipate some hundreds who were slaves through to the 1960s. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] This was revealed by historian and genealogist Antoinette Harrell who unearthed shocking stories of slaves in Southern states […]
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