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1847 Letter Reveals British Company Trafficked Enslaved Africans Decades After Abolition
4+ hour, 19+ min ago (332+ words) "By process of deduction, we can see these are people illegally trafficked from Africa," Al Nasir told the outlet. An 1847 letter provides new evidence that a prominent British company continued illegally trafficking enslaved Africans to Guyana decades after Britain outlawed…...
At Philadelphia’s President’s House, an anniversary gathering remembers slavery in America
4+ hour, 21+ min ago (673+ words) Attorney Michael Coard held up a sign saying "Kutuina Akulu," which in the Kimbuntu language means "avenge ancestors." (Cory Sharber/WHYY) In remembrance of the first documented enslaved Africans arriving in America, dozens gathered at the President’s House Site at…...
‘Preservation is also making the history’: Inspired by Harriet Tubman, two Eastern Shore aunties are determined to be the elders their community needs
5+ hour, 18+ min ago (1240+ words) It’s in the same way, they tell me, that our ancestors had secretly turned the 2,167 acres of Thompson’s plantation into a waystation for the Underground Railroad, where people escaping enslavement could receive critical supplies and guidance from allies, including Tubman’s…...
Revolution 250: America's Independence Story 1763–1783 - The National Archives - The Chiswick Calendar Events
2+ week, 6+ day ago (110+ words) Britain and America. One Story, Two Nations. 2026 marks the 250 anniversary of the signing of a document that changed the world: The US Declaration of Independence. They are recognising this momentous period in British American history with a powerful free exhibition…...
'Who is freedom for?': Slavery in colonial Maine
8+ hour, 8+ min ago (672+ words) Who is freedom for? That was the question Dr. Kate McMahon posed Aug. 18 during her lecture exploring the impacts of the American Revolution on enslavement in Maine, and the efforts of resistance and abolition by Black Mainers and allies. Sponsored…...
From the Archives: Savannah Squares in Photos From the 60s to 80s
11+ hour, 33+ min ago (15+ words) Savannah Morning News...
Marker at Liberty Hall Honors Enslaved People Who Lived and Labored at Historic Site
15+ hour, 3+ min ago (676+ words) UNION, NJ — A new historical marker at Liberty Hall Museum at Kean University now recognizes the enslaved African Americans who lived, worked and raised families at the historic property during the 18th and 19th centuries. The marker was unveiled Tuesday, Aug. 25, at…...
Samuel Luke Howe: one of MP's most hated abolitionists
16+ hour, 3+ min ago (454+ words) Joy Lapp gives a presentation Saturday at the Henry County Historical Society museum about abolitionist Samuel Luke Howe. MOUNT PLEASANT — Samuel Luke Howe was an Iowa slave abolitionist who fought hard to give slaves their well deserved freedom. Howe was…...
Quakers and the Post-Colonialist Fallacy
1+ day, 35+ min ago (335+ words) The influence of the reparations movement has led to fallacious pronouncements on historic Quaker philanthropy. The only known image of Elizabeth Heyrick (1769-1831), the Quaker anti-slavery activist, who, in the 1820s, first popularised the idea of ‘immediate emancipation’ for slaves in the…...
On August 25, remembering the ‘20 and odd’ Africans who arrived in Virginia in 1619
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (382+ words) More than four centuries later, the legacy of those first Africans extends far beyond slavery into the culture, struggles and identity of Black America, and America, as a whole. August 25 marks the anniversary of the 1619 arrival of the first documented…...