Slavery in the US
History
Charles Sumner, the US Senator Who Was Almost Killed for Speaking Against Slavery
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The Beating of Charles Sumner, occurred on May 22, 1856, in the United States Senate chamber, when Preston Brooks, used a walking cane to attack Senator Charles Sumner.
History
James Derham, the first African American to Practice Medicine in the United States
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Dr. James Durham has been widely acknowledged as the first recognized African American to practice medicine in the United States.
History
Denmark Vesey Was Hanged On This Day in 1822 For Planning The Most Extensive Slave Revolt in U.S. History
Denmark Vesey was a self-educated Black man who was hanged alongside his co-conspirators for planning what is today regarded as the most extensive slave rebellion in U.S. history.
History
On This Day: Rhode Island Enacted Its 1st Law Declaring Slavery Illegal
Slavery in the United States wasn’t abolished at the federal level until after the Civil War, but on this day in history, May 18, 1652, the first anti-slavery statute in the U.S. colonies was passed in what’s now the state of Rhode Island.
History
Female Slave Traders: Meet Niara Bely, the African Queen Who Doubled as a Slave Trader in the 1800s
Niara Bely Also known as Elizabeth Bailey Gomez, was a African queen who also doubled as a slave trader in nineteenth-century Guinea.
History
Jesus of Lübeck: How Africans Were Lured into England’s First Slave Ship
John Hawkins urged the Africans to enter his ship “Jesus of Lubeck,” also known as “The Good Ship Jesus.” for salvation, those who entered soon found they were barred from disembarking.
Jesus of Lübeck was a sailing vessel built...
Society & Culture
Memories of Slavery: The Dark History of Sierra Leone’s Bunce Island
Tens of thousands of Africans who were targeted for buying and selling on account of their rice-growing skills were shipped to the North American colonies of South Carolina and Georgia to be forced into slavery.
History
Slave Brokerage: How Early U.S. Newspapers Facilitated The Sales And Purchase Of Slaves
In the earliest history of US stock brokerage, one stock stood out both in nature and the revenue it generated – humans. The more preferred name for the merchandise was slave, and the stock market were the first US newspapers
History
Georgia City Votes To Remove Market House Where Slaves Were Sold
After 225 years, a former slave market in Georgia will be removed.
Officials in a small city in rural Georgia have voted to remove a rare, 18th-century Market House where slaves were once sold.
The open-air structure dating back to the...
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...
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