Slavery is an ugly thing. Clothing for slaves was even worse. The women of Zanzibar wrapped themselves in plain white cheap cotton cloth ...
Paul Rucker’s eye-opening work forces people to look at the bias and bigotry that have been sewn into the fabric of America.
Slavery is the condition in which one human being is owned by another. Under slavery, an enslaved person is considered by law as property, or chattel, and is deprived of most of the rights ordinarily held by free persons. Learn more about the history, legality, and sociology of slavery in this article.
Thank you INFO for this thread pham. This thread give me power when I see this stuff and reminds of what our ancestors went thru to get me to this...
From a servant sporting goalie gloves to a 16th-century child soldier in studs, the self-portraits of Senegalese photographer Omar Victor Diop reframe African revolt through the lens of football fandom
By Stacy M. Brown — The NNPA has launched a global news feature series on the history, contemporary realities and implications of the transatlantic slave trade. Read 5 part series here
Issue from 1838 of the American Anti-Slavery Almanac, first published in 1836 by the American Anti-Slavery Society and an attempt to bring awareness about slavery to nineteenth-century America.
(via What is this? | inside the CHS) Inna, The Booroom Slave, lithography; printer’s ink and watercolor on wove paper, 1838, Hartford, after a work by Henry Thomson, printed by D. W. Kellogg & Co....
From carnival-goers in the West Indies to voodoo ceremonies in west Africa, Nicola Lo Calzo’s photography confronts us with memories of slavery
Along the coast of West Africa in the C19th and early C20th Yoruba people were often called “Aku” after their typical greeting “E ku …”
Slavery is thriving in Libya, where thousands of black Africans hoping to get to Europe instead find themselves bought and sold, forced to work for nothing, and facing torture at the hands of their owners.
A Library of Virginia exhibit exploring the slave trade in Virginia before the Civil War is making its way to Lynchburg.
Simone Elizabeth Saunders’ love-based practice adds its own texture to the magic of Black joy and resilience. On Instagram, she writes: I celebrate the wins. I know the darkness in this world, so do you. It can drag us down. And when I post, positive messaging is key for me. To share light and love and to look at the world as vibrant and colourful as it can be….It’s reflected in my textiles, to uplift narratives often tethered to dark undertones, with the gift of bright hues. More
William Ellison One of the largest slave owners in South Carolina in the 1860s, Ellison was born a slave and was bought by a white slave owner named William Ellison who educated him. By the age of 26, in 1816, he was freed by his master and he changed his name to William Ellison Jr...
THE STORY OF AFRICAN ENSLAVEMENT AND HOW WE GOT HERE Warnings, Notes, and Disclaimers SPECIFIC TRIGGER WARNINGS: Racism, violence, rape, abuse, everything, etc. IMAGE WARNINGS: Graphic black/white images of violence and abuse NOTES: February's Info Posts will be dedicated to Black History Month.…
Surinam Slave Trade "Going now to take my leave of Surinam, after all the horrors and cruelties with which I must have hurt both the eye and the heart of the reader, I will close with an emblematical picture of Europe supported by Africa and America, accompanied by an ardent wish that the friendly…
When sculptor Stephen Hayes came across a three-century old diagram that had become an iconic image of the inhumanity of the slave trade, he was surprised. The Brookes slave ship plan first published in 1788 and portrayed slaves arranged on the ship’s lower deck and poop deck. The image, in accordance with the Regulated Slave Trade Act of 1788, depicted the conditions that reportedly allowed to slavers to stow 454 African slaves, by allowing a space of 6 feet, or less, per person.
In Black history, slavery is by far the most researched, discussed and read topic. Day in and out, there are more and more stories revealing how enslaved Africans were forcefully taken from their homes and thrown on ships only to be sold into slavery that lasted for well over 400 years. In many African traditional cultures,...
Delving into the history of the transatlantic slave trade, aka the triangular trade, this article covers the methods, conditions and treatment of Africans brought to the Western hemisphere.
Even in their liberation, enslaved African-Americans were treated as commodities to be traded, it felt as though their dignity and worth as human beings
