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Saturday Open Thread: Black History Facts
This week's open threads gave some detailed background on several black history facts. On this last day of Black History Month, I am going to highlight a current NFL player's ancestor's fight against slavery. When all else failed, black mobs sometimes prevented the capture of fugitives As kidnappers captured free and fugitive Northern blacks, intent on enslaving them, … [Read more...] about Saturday Open Thread: Black History Facts
Friday Open Thread: Black History Facts
Civil Rights activism predates the Civil Rights Movement by more than a century. Most people know that Northern states such as New York allowed slavery for a time and then abolished it. What many don’t realize is that before the South adopted Jim Crow, the North had it, virtually everywhere, and that a lot of courageous now mostly nameless and faceless black folks fought … [Read more...] about Friday Open Thread: Black History Facts
Thursday Open Thread: Black History Facts
The line between West Indians and African-Americans was fuzzy... Most of us already know that the slave trade circulated blacks between the U.S. and the Caribbean. We also probably know that after the Haitian Revolution, many Haitian slaveholders moved to Louisiana to start over, bringing their Haitian slaves with them. But West Indians also turned up in free states very … [Read more...] about Thursday Open Thread: Black History Facts
Saturday Open Thread: African Kings and Queens in the past
Shaka kaSenzangakhona (c. 1787 – c. 24 September 1828), also known as Shaka[a] Zulu (Zulu pronunciation: [ˈʃaːɠa]), was one of the most influential monarchs of the Zulu Kingdom. He is widely credited with uniting many of the Northern Nguni people, specifically the Mthethwa Paramountcy and the Ndwandwe into the Zulu Kingdom, the beginnings of a nation that held sway over the … [Read more...] about Saturday Open Thread: African Kings and Queens in the past