It was unlike any book they had ever seen,” Carrie Gibson writes in The Great Resistance: The 400-Year Fight to End Slavery ...

AAPG copy 39088019788785 signed by author, "To Gwendolyn Knight and Jacob Lawrence, with admiration and affection." 1. Land of Their Ancestors. Ghana. Mali. Songhay. Other States -- 2. The African Way ...

If you stand outside the International African American Museum and look over the harbor toward the Atlantic—the direction from which slave ships once sailed from Africa bringing their shackled cargo ...

It's estimated that over 11 million Africans were enslaved, with more than 1 million dying during the brutal transatlantic voyage to the New World. Once slaves were captured throughout the continent, ...

“In Slavery’s Wake,” at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, looks beyond the United States to tell a global story. By Jennifer Schuessler “In Slavery’s Wake,” a new exhibition ...

Prologue: Tragedy and sacrifice in the history of slavery -- The political economy of slavery in Africa -- Why Africans? The rise of the slave trade to 1700 -- Slavery and the African population: a ...

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CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — The International African American Museum will premiere its new Speaking Truth exhibit Monday, showcasing reflections on the truths of some family histories and the lasting ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A member of Florida’s African American History Task Force claims the body was largely cut out of the development of the state’s new African American History standards. The ...

Every writer of history wants to craft a work that sticks to the ribs of the reader, and no meal does that better than one made from sacred cows. That’s what John Samuel Harpham aims to do in The ...