Slavery in the US
History
Joseph Cinque, a Captured Slave, Led the Amistad Slave Revolt on this day in 1839
Joseph Cinque (Sengbe Pieh) was a Sierra Leonean slave who led an uprising on the Spanish slave ship, La Amistad. Later Pieh and the other slaves involved in the revolt were put on trial for the death of two...
History
Negro Dogs: How Vicious Dogs Were Used To Track, Attack, And Capture Runaway Slaves
A very popular slavery approach involved in the control and domination of African slaves was the use of highly trained, strong and aggressive Dog breeds like the bloodhounds and Dogo Cubano aka 'Negro Dog' which could tear a man...
Religion
Drapetomania: Fleeing From A Master Was Once Considered A Mental Disorder
Drapetomania was a conjectural mental illness that, in 1851, American physician Samuel A. Cartwright hypothesized as the cause of enslaved Africans fleeing captivity.
Samuel Cartwright was a medical doctor in the proslavery South. He supported slavery and even used medicine...
History
Slavery in the US: How Black Women Resisted Slave Breeding By Using Cotton roots as Contraceptives
Throughout the antebellum era, slave breeding was a highly profitable investment. Slaves were scarce. The cheap labor they provided in plantations wasn’t cheap anymore and slave children sold like wildfire.
The couple of years following the prohibition of slave importation...
Latest News
Cameroon’s Italia 90 World Cup Team to Get Houses Promised To Them 30 Years Ago
Cameroon's famous side that reached the quarter-finals of the 1990 World Cup in Italy before being defeated 3–2 by...
Africa Ranking
Misery Index: South Africa Has The Third Most ‘Miserable Economy’ In The World
South Africa has been ranked as the world's most miserable economy after Venezuela and Argentina.
Bloomberg's Misery Index, which ranks major economies by inflation and...
History
Fighting Slavery With Suicide: The Fascinating Story of Africa’s Kru People
The Kru or Kroo are a West African ethnic group who are indigenous to eastern Liberia. During the Slave trade era, they were also infamous amongst early European slave raiders as being especially averse to capture
Society & Culture
The Mbuti People Of Congo And Their Sister Exchange Form Of Marriage
In the Mbuti tribe, marriage is by sister exchange: Based on reciprocal exchange, men from other bands exchange sisters or other females in his...
History
Slavery Abolition Act 1833: Slavery Was Abolished Throughout The British Empire On This Day
The Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 that abolished slavery in most British colonies, freeing more than 800,000 enslaved Africans in the Caribbean and South Africa and making the purchase or ownership of slaves illegal
