It was hard for successful rebellions to keep hold of Caribbean islands for a long time. African people were far from passive and they offered fierce resistance to being captured and sold into a ...
Irene Moore Davis, president of the Essex County Black Historical Research Society and assistant curator at the Amherstburg Freedom Museum in Essex County, says one piece of local Black history often ...
What exactly triggered the Stono Rebellion is not clear. Many slaves knew that small groups of runaways had made their way from South Carolina to Florida, where they had been given freedom and land.
“This is a rebellion that is a cultural resistance ... Others dress in the vivid colors of African deities such as the fiery red and black of Ogun, the African god of war and iron, or ...
Rwanda's leader also threatened to “deal” with any confrontation with South Africa, which has complained that fighting in eastern Congo has left South African peacekeepers dead. In his first ...