On 16 June 1944, George Stinney Jr., 14 years old, was executed in an electric chair in South Carolina. small, Black, defenseless. designated guilty,...
September 10, 1793, northern Saint-Domingue. Toussaint Louverture, still allied with Spain, attacks the camp of La Tannerie held by the Black officer Bramant Lazzary,...
On February 23, 1802, in a narrow gorge of the Artibonite, Toussaint Louverture’s troops confronted the French army under Rochambeau. A French victory? A...
They were enslaved men, taken from East Africa, castrated, and trained to serve in the sultan’s palace. Yet these mutilated men would become masters...
August 1831, Virginia: a Black preacher named Nat Turner leads the bloodiest slave insurrection in American history. Two months later, he is publicly hanged,...
On October 17, 1806, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, father of Haitian independence, was assassinated at Pont-Rouge. Behind this regicide: a collapsed empire, a betrayed revolution, a...
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