Tag Archive | "slaves"
Posted on 17 June 2011. Tags: Black, Caribbean, Iraq, Negroes, Slavery, Trans-atlantic slave trade, Zanj, slaves
Some authorities argue that the very idea of Race should be abandoned. They say that there are no pure Races, that all so-called Races are the result of intermarriage between people of different stocks. There is only one Race, the Human Race. In the United States the division of the population into White and Black ...
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Posted on 29 May 2011. Tags: African American, American South, Bible Belt, Church, Georgia, Mississippi, Religion, black church, slaves
The Black Belt is a Region of the Southern United States. Although the term originally described the Prairies and dark soil of Central Alabama and Northeast Mississippi, it has long been used to describe a broad Agricultural Region in the American South characterized by a history of Plantation Agriculture in the Nineteenth Century, and a ...
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Posted on 23 August 2010. Tags: 1771, Debt, Oxford Magazine, Servants, slaves
Today Most Western countries are struggling to pay off their national debt and keep their houses in order, it seems though, that things have been the same many times before. The 1770's were no different. People came up with unpopular and outlandish ideas to balance the books, just as they do today. The article below ...
Posted in Black Britain, Black History, Books, Business, Europe, Finance, Slavery
Posted on 01 October 2009. Tags: 19th Century, Britain, British, Ghana, black man, emancipation, seamen, slaves, traffic
Ottobah Cuggano was born around 1757 in Ghana, he was kidnapped as a slave at around thirteen. He came to England from ...
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Posted on 18 September 2009. Tags: Africa, Anti Slavery, Legal, Parliament, Slavery, abolitionist, christian, slaves
Sharpe was Possibly the Most Prominent of the Abolitionists and today, is certainly the most celebrated.? Sharp wrote numerous articles about slavery, ...
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Posted on 01 May 2009. Tags: African American, Alamo, Bricks Without Straw, Freedmen, Revolution, San Jacinto Day, Texas, War, mulatto, slaves
By SARAH MOORE
April, 19, 2009
A free African-American in 1836 rendered "valuable assistance" to the Texas Army during the Texas Revolution, according to a historical marker on his grave near Nacogdoches.
Records show that William E. Goyens and many others -slaves and freemen and indentured servants - all were involved in the revolution 173 years ago.
But in ...
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Posted on 30 March 2009. Tags: Administration, American, California, Elections, History, News, Obama, Racing, University, cartoons, race, schools, slaves, writing
Two months into the administration of the first African-American president, Liz Sidoti of the Associated Press takes a look today at some of the "old racial stereotypes and Internet-fueled falsehoods'' about President Barack Obama that have "flourished.''
There was that New York Post cartoon portraying the president as a monkey, that California mayor resigning after circulating ...
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Posted on 20 March 2009. Tags: Africa, Africans, Black, Blacks, Caribbean, Caribbeans, Cuba, Discrimination, Havana, Moors, Racing, Racism, Science, War, bi-racial, black person, black woman, caribbean land, chinese man, contemporary science, cuban girl, cubans, ethnicity, genealogical tree, genealogy, great grandmother, human genome, mixed, race, racial classifications, racial differences, skin color, slaves, society, spanish settlers, sugarcane fields, thirty years, yucatan
I don’t remember ever having asked myself what race I belonged to. I was born advantaged in a society that discriminated against non-whites.
So, am I white? The answer isn’t so simple. On my identity card, it says my skin color is white. So, am I white? Let’s have a look at my genealogical tree; since ...
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Posted on 06 March 2009. Tags: Africa, Africa, Africans, America, American, Americas, Black, Black History, Blacks, Books, Britain, British, Canada, Caribbean, Caribbeans, Community, Doctors, Egypt, Europe, Events, Exodusters, France, Guyana, Halifax, Health, History, Illegal, Kansas, Knights, Military, Music, News, North America, Notices, Parties, Personalities, Police, Prison, Racing, Racism, Racist, Trade, War, Washington, Women, children, farming, football, kids, negro, notice, president, race, schools, segregation, slaves, society, stories, street, violence
Black Canadians in Canada:
Total Population of Canada: 30+,000,000
Number of Black People living in Canada: 670,000
Percentage of Canadian Population that's Black: 2%
Percentage of the Black Canadian Population living in:
- Toronto - 47%
- Montreal - 20%
- Ottawa - 6%
- Vancouver - 3%
- Halifax - 2%
Where Black Canadians ...
Posted in Politics, The Americas
Posted on 02 March 2009. Tags: Africa, America, American, Americas, Antigua, Army, Black, Black British, Blacks, Britain, British, Canada, Death, France, Hair, Health, Jamaica, Liverpool, London, Military, Moors, Navy, News, Nurse, Soldiers, Trade, Troops, Trumpet, Wales, War, Williams, equality, negro, senegal, slaves, surgeon
It would of course be easy to leave such men as
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Posted on 02 March 2009. Tags: Black, Black British, Black History, Blacks, Books, Britain, British, England, English, History, London, Racism, Seacole, University, War, Women, equality, football, negro, reading lists, slaves, society
* Staying Power-The History of Black people in Britain by Peter Fryer (Pluto Press 1984)
* Black England-Life before Emancipation by Gretchen Gerzina (John Murray,1995)
* Black Settlers in Britain 1555-1958 by Nigel File and chris Power (Heinemann,1981; reprinted 1995)
* Black Edwardians-Black people in Britain 1901-1914 by Jeffrey Green (Frank Cass 1998)
* Wonderful adventures of Mary Seacole ...
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Posted on 02 March 2009. Tags: Africa, Africa, Africans, American, Army, Black, Blacks, Britain, British, Census, Congo, Crime, Economics, Education, Ethiopians, Events, France, Genocide, Hair, History, Holocaust, Media, Murder, News, Personalities, Politics, Racing, Racism, Racist, Spurs, Uganda, War, beauty, ethnicity, exploitation, mixed, president, race, revellers, schools, slaves, violence
Rwandan Genocide: Why it happened and Why it shouldn’t have happen The year 2004 marked the 10th anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide in which 1,000,000 Rwandans were slaughtered over the course of 100 days, although some officials reported a span of 8 weeks….
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