SLAVERY
Rosa Parks, the woman who dared to say no to racial discrimination
Rosa Parks was an African American civil rights activist, whom the US Congress called "the first lady of civil rights and the mother of the freedom movement"....
Read MoreBussa, a Barbadian who led the world's largest slave revolt in 1816
Bussa was a Barbadian who led the largest slave revolt in 1816 known as the Bussa Rebellion. Bussa was born in West Africa, and...
Read MoreCuffy, the slave who organized an insurrection of 3000 slaves in Guyana
Kofi or Cuffy was Akan (tribe from Ghana) who was captured and taken to Guyana. He became famous thanks to the revolt of more than 3000 slaves that he...
Read MoreHaitian Revolution and birth of the Republic of Ayiti on January 1, 1804
The Haitian revolution started with the caiman wood ceremony organized by the hougan Dutty Boukman, assisted by Cécile Fatiman. This first act of the slave revolution would have...
Read MoreFrom 1641 to 1652, 300 000 Irish were sold into slavery by the English
They came as slaves. Vast human cargoes carried on large British ships bound for the Americas. They were dispatched by the hundreds of thousands and included men,...
Read MoreThe black code of March 1685
The title "black code" was given to the royal ordinance or royal edict of March 1685 concerning the police of the islands of French America from its Saugrain edition...
Read MorePaul Bogle, the slave who became a Jamaican national hero
Paul Bogle is a Jamaican national hero. He was born before the abolition of slavery, between 1815 and 1820. It was during his youth that slavery was abolished in Jamaica, but...
Read MoreOlaudah Equiano, a Nigerian slave who became a great figure in abolitionism
Born in 1745 in what is now Nigeria, Olaudah Equiano was taken from his village and sold into slavery. He endured the horrors of crossing a ship...
Read MoreWomen of Nder: Senegalese Resistance to Slavery
This is a particularly tragic fact that has long remained in the memory of Senegalese. The story of the women of Nder who, on a Tuesday in November 1819, collectively sacrificed themselves to...
Read MoreChristiane Taubira demands compensation for the overseas departments, the first victims of slavery
Economist, ethnologist, former director general of the Caribbean confederation and member of parliament, Christiane Taubira proposed in 1999 that slavery and the slave trade be qualified as crimes against humanity. This request marks...
Read MoreThe bottom line of slavery: what you have never been told
David Duke cites Jewish historians who attest to the dominant role of Jews in Western slavery from at least Roman times and describes media censorship regarding...
Read MoreWho was Abraham Petrovich Hanibal?
Abraham Petrovich Hanibal, or Abram Petrovich Gannibal born in 1696, died May 14, 1781. He is the maternal great-grandfather of the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin. The life of Abraham Hanibal is a...
Read MoreTake note of the ACTe memorial: the black man is naked
The ACTe memorial, opening on July 7, 2015 after being inaugurated by François Hollande on May 10, displays the ambition to offer a place dedicated to the collective memory of slavery...
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Beautiful African names for our children and their meanings
Negro Nations and Culture - Cheikh Anta Diop (PDF)
The book of Enoch (PDF)
Kamite Revival Library (PDF)
Adindra: West African symbols evocative of traditional wisdom
The Book of Enoch, an ancient text that reveals the creation of the world
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho (PDF)
Dr. Sebi's alkaline diet for better health
Think and Get Rich - Napoleon Hill (PDF)
The ideal 42 of Maat of the Temple of Isis and the 77 commandments of Maat
