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The Heroic Slave
Frederick Douglass based this story on the real-life heroism of Madison Washington, who led the largest successful slave revolt in U.S. history in 1841. His story is told through the eyes and words of two white men. First, Mr. Listwell from Ohio sees Madison enslaved in Virginia, then a fugitive in Ohio, and finally a recaptured returnee bound from Richmond to the slave markets of New Orleans. Lastly, Tom Grant, the mate on the slave transport Creole, describes the ship's takeover by its human cargo and its passage to the British Bahamas, where 128 men and women stepped out of bondage and into freedom. Douglass contributed the story in 1853 to a book of collected pieces by anti-slavery writers and reformers. It is his only known work of "fiction," and it is interesting especially for its p
Aims and Objects of Movement For Solution of Negro Problem Outlined - Paperback
by Marcus Garvey (Author)2024 Reprint of the 1924 Edition. In July 1914, Garvey launched the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League, commonly abbreviated as UNIA. Adopting the motto of "One Aim. One God. One Destiny", UNIA declared its commitment to "establish a brotherhood among the black race, to promote a spirit of race pride, to reclaim the fallen and to assist in civilizing the backward tribes of Africa." In this short pamphlet we encounter many of Garvey's s
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: or, Gustavus Vassa, the African - Paperback
by Olaudah Equiano (Author), Shelly Eversley (Editor), Robert Reid-Pharr (Introduction by)Edited and with Notes by Shelly EversleyIntroduction by Robert Reid-Pharr In this truly astonishing eighteenth-century memoir, Olaudah Equiano recounts his remarkable life story, which begins when he is kidnapped in Africa as a boy and sold into slavery and culminates when he has achieved renown as a British antislavery advocate. The narrative "is a strikingly beautiful monument to the startling combination
Reparations For Slavery And The Slave Trade: A Transnational And Comparative History
Slavery and the Atlantic slave trade are among the most heinous crimes against humanity committed in the modern era. Yet, to this day no former slave society in the Americas has paid reparations to former slaves or their descendants. European countries have never compensated their former colonies in the Americas, whose wealth relied on slave labor. Likewise, no African nation ever obtained any form of reparations for the Atlantic slave trade. In this book, Ana Lucia Araujo shows that these calls
Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong photos, including production stills, premiere photos and other event photos, publicity photos, behind-the-scenes, and more.
80 Life Changing Marcus Garvey Quotes | Inspirationfeed
80 Life Changing Marcus Garvey Quotes | Inspirationfeed
Coretta Scott King holds her sleeping daughter Bernice at the funeral...
Coretta Scott King holds her sleeping daughter Bernice at the funeral of her husband Martin Luther King Jr..
Photograph of Malcolm X and Kenneth Kaunda
NMAAHC Collections Search | National Museum of African American History and CulturePhotograph of Malcolm X and Kenneth Kaunda This black and white photograph depicts Malcolm X standing next to Kenneth Kaunda. Malcolm X wears a trench coat, a dark tie and light shirt, and dark fedora. Kaunda standing to his left wears a jacket and tie. The back of the photograph has a Lloyd Yearwood stamp. PHOTOGRAPH BY Yearwood, Lloyd W., American, 1925 - 2011
"Ground-breaking of the new Bright Hope Baptist church at 12th and Columbia Avenue in Philadelphia, Pa., Left to right: Charles W. Bowser, trustee of the church, Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Reverend William H. Gray, Jr., pastor of the Bright Hope Baptist church." 1963.
The Price Peace-Makers Pay | JoesPortico
MLK Day, discussing the ultimate price he paid for being a peace-maker.