LAPLACE, La. — One of the largest slave revolt plantations in American history is Black-owned for the first time. Over 200 years ago, scores of slaves escaped a plantation in LaPlace and marched along ...
July 14 marks the date of Denmark Vesey’s planned rebellion 201 years ago. Since the dawn of slavery in this country, “there has been slave resistance.” In an original study, historian Herbert ...
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The rooms inside Woodland Plantation in LaPlace are nearly bare, and for good reason. There’s nothing to hide the whole history of what plantation life was. “They think ...
The Stono Rebellion of 1739 has largely been overlooked when discussing Black Americans’ fight for liberation throughout history. Still, it is one of the most forceful displays of resistance in the ...
In acknowledgement of Black History Month, The Royal Gazette continues the publication of stories throughout February on African-American, Black Bermudian and global African people, events and ...
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Apongo was a rebel leader in Jamaica – a diary entry sheds light on his west African origins
The search for Apongo is a small part of historians’ ongoing work to recreate the lives of Africans taken in the ...
Adolphe Duperly's painting depicting the destruction of the Roehampton Estate in Jamaica during the Baptist War in January 1832. Wikimedia Commons During the era of slavery in the Americas, enslaved ...
It's one of the most dramatic stories of the 18th century, and the only completely successful slave rebellion in the world: In 1791, inspired by the French Revolution, hundreds of thousands of slaves ...
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