In 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt invited his friend and prominent African-American conservative, Booker T. Washington, to dine with the Roosevelt family at the White House.And the furor that rose up after this dinner was so intense, so relentless, so merciless …
Washington paid 6 pounds 2 shillings to “Negros for 9 Teeth”
The other day Vice President Mike Pence said, “And in this nation, especially on Juneteenth, we celebrate the fact that from the founding of this nation we’ve cherished the ideal that all, all of us are created equal, and endowed …
How The 14th Amendment got Ratified in Georgia
Born in Georgia in 1814, George W. Ashburn was a White man cut from a similar cloth as American abolitionist John Brown. Although Ashburn was a southerner, born and raised, Ashburn believed in the immediate, complete, permanent eradication of slavery …
Haitian Slave Rebellion 1791-1804
In 1789, Haiti was known as Saint-Domingue. It was a French colony, which through the brutal application of slave labor had become responsible for producing 60% of the world’s coffee and 40% of the world’s sugar, effectively making the slave …
Denmark Vesey
By 1822, pro-slavery American Conservatives had for decades portrayed themselves as Christian gentlemen, as reasonable men, who, if anything, were doing their enslaved African property a favor by keeping them as slaves. For they sincerely believed that Africans were inherently …
Christianity and Enslaved Africans in the United States (Part 1 of 2)
So first we talked about a slave rebellion where the majority of the enslaved Africans were African born and drew inspiration from their indigenous African religions. (Haitian Revolution)Then we talked about a conspiracy to start a slave rebellion that was …
Christianity and Enslaved Africans in the United States (part 2 of 2)
In 1828, American Conservatives were still debating the pros and cons of Christianizing enslaved Africans. It had only been 6 years since Denmark Vesey’s conspiracy had been suppressed in South Carolina. And there were still those factions of white conservatives …
Nat Turner: The Man God Asked to Fight the Serpent
We are on a plantation owned by a man named Benjamin Turner, and on this plantation is a young enslaved African named Nat that is being Christianized.Nat’s father had escaped north when Nat was still a young boy. His grandmother, …
What the 4th of July meant to the enslaved African
“Every law that defined slaves as property, every racist treatise declaring blacks inferior, every southern white man’s dream of upward mobility, rested on the presence of large numbers of blacks, but not on an understanding or familiarity with them.”– Oakes, …
“Ain’t I a Woman?”
Until you read a slave narrative or two you really don’t have any idea really, just how oppressive slavery was. How its vile sickness seeped into and touched every single aspect of a slave’s life. Most of us just think …
From Minty to Harriet
Minty was on her way to the dry-goods store for supplies when she came across a slave who she knew worked for a nearby family.He had wandered off without permission and there was an overseer in close pursuit. When the …
From Harriet to Moses
Going against the wishes of her husband, Harriet Tubman decided in 1849 to make a run for freedom. The first time she attempted to escape, she did so with two of her brothers.Her brothers got second thoughts as one of …