by BullockJames | Sep 22, 2010 | African American History, People
Hiram Young of Independence, Missouri manufactured freight wagons and equipment in the 1850s. Born about 1812 in Tennessee, he entered Missouri as a slave and worked for George Young of Greene County. In 1847, Young obtained freedom, either from his owner or...
by PowerDesmond | Sep 22, 2010 | Global African History, People
Boston King, one of the pioneer settlers of Sierra Leone, was born enslaved on the Richard Waring plantation near Charleston, South Carolina around 1760. Through the age of 16, King was trained as a house servant before being sent to apprentice as a carpenter in...
by BowenScott | Sep 16, 2010 | African American History, Perspectives
In the following article, Dr. Gary B. Nash, Director, National Center for History in the Schools and Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Los Angeles, describes his new book, Forbidden Love: The Hidden History of Mixed-Race America. His book...
by HansonMarianne | Sep 14, 2010 | African American History, Groups & Organizations
Founded in 1790, the Brown Fellowship Society is the oldest all-male Funeral Society in Charleston, South Carolina. It also provides a major historical example of how racism affected the African American community itself, in that lighter-skinned African Americans in...
by RogersBrittany | Sep 13, 2010 | Global African History, People
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] A Tale of Three Dumas Minidoc Alexandre Dumas père, prolific playwright, novelist, travel writer and historian, was born on the 24th July 1802 to Marie Louise Labouret and her husband Thomas Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie, who was...
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