History

A man between two worlds, two colors, two shattered dreams. Jean-Pierre Boyer, the mixed-race son of a French tailor and a formerly enslaved Congolese...

In August 1619, about twenty Africans captured in Angola landed at Old Point Comfort, in Virginia. Torn from the Portuguese ship São João Bautista...

Between 1802 and 1803, several thousand Black and mulatto soldiers who had been captured were executed by drowning in the harbor of Cap-Français, in...

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Great Dismal Swamp, a marshland located between Virginia and North Carolina, sheltered entire communities of fugitive slaves....

From Guinea-Bissau to Cape Verde, the PAIGC led one of Africa’s most emblematic anti-colonial struggles, balancing Pan-African myth, military victory, and a complex legacy. One...

In 1915, after the lynching of President Vilbrun Guillaume Sam, U.S. Marines landed in Port-au-Prince and placed Philippe Sudre Dartiguenave at the head of...

Born the son of a slave in Georgia, Eugene Bullard found in France the freedom that America denied him. A legionnaire at Verdun, the...

Adopted by the British Parliament in March 1807, the Slave Trade Act prohibited the slave trade within the British Empire. The result of nearly...

The history of the enslavement of African peoples is complex and often misunderstood. Correcting these misconceptions is essential to fostering a more accurate and...