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Mary Prince A Slave

Phil — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 21:41:27 +0000

Mary Prince (1788-1833) was a Bermudian woman, born into slavery in Bermuda. The published story of her slavery was the first account of the life of a black woman to be published in England and the book had a galvanizing effect on the anti-slavery movement.Mary Prince (1788-1833) was a Bermudian woman, born into slavery in [...]

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Books about Black British History

Phil — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 13:00:24 +0000

A reading list of books related to the ongoing Black presence in Britain, Slavery, colonialism and black Settlement in the U.K The list is by no means exhaustive! Books about Black British History Staying Power-The History of Black people in Britain by Peter Fryer (Pluto Press 1984) Black England-Life before Emancipation by Gretchen Gerzina (John [...]

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Black Loyalists in 18th Century London

Marjorie Morgan — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 23:06:04 +0000

It was during the War of Independence in the colony of America that Britain gained herself these unlikely allies. Black loyalists fought for Britain against the American colonists. Free blacks were joined by thousands of slaves who had been promised freedom and land by Britain if they joined in this battle. The idea of British [...]

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Joseph Chatoyer – The National Hero of St Vincent

Phil — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 18:00:51 +0000

Joseph Chatoyer – The National Hero of St Vincent: by Veronica Williams. St Vincent and the Grenadines an island in the Caribbean is without doubt one of the most beautiful islands in the Caribbean. Like most of the islands in the Caribbean it was colonised by Europeans, namely the French and British for a period [...]

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Events on Haiti at Nottingham Contemporary

Phil — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 20:10:42 +0000

The programme at Nottingham Contemporary this autumn With its focus on Haiti and a number of international speakers, art exhibition, films etc - http://nottinghamcontemporary.org/events/whaton - Some highlights are: Kafou: Haiti, Art and Vodou (20 October – 6 January) http://nottinghamcontemporary.org/art/kafou-haiti-art-and-vodou Film: Bitter Cane (30 October) http://nottinghamcontemporary.org/event/bitter-cane David Scott on The Theory of Haiti (13 November) http://nottinghamcontemporary.org/event/theory-haiti [...]

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Frederick Douglass in Britain 1845-1847

Hannah_RM — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 07:00:28 +0000

“Let the Press of England Blaze with Antislavery Indignation!” Frederick Douglass in Britain 1845-1847 Rising to the podium with applause ringing in his ears, Frederick Douglass addressed a large crowd of over three thousand in Paisley, 1846. He urged the people of Scotland to denounce American slavery and to reject all contact with slaveholders. Britain [...]

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Black History Month 2012 – Africa Channel

Phil — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 04:01:33 +0000

BLACK HISTORY MONTH To mark Black History Month, The Africa Channel will be broadcasting some specially selected documentaries to inform, commemorate, inspire and raise debate. The UK Premiere of the intriguing five part series follows the life of Nelson Mandela, and uses his biography to tell a much broader story about the politics of struggle and reconciliation [...]

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Thomas Clarkson – Compensation for Slavery

Phil — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 04:20:43 +0000

Despite some 25 years of researching I have never managed to figure out how to file bits and pieces of interesting but ‘unconnected’ information. So, searching for something else, I came across my notes from this truly remarkable letter from Thomas Clarkson, in the collection of his papers at Wisbeach Museum. The letter, addressed to [...]

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Robert Wedderburn – Black Radical

Phil — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 04:00:47 +0000

Robert Wedderburn was born in Jamaica in 1762. His father was White Scottish, and his mother a slave. His family life was not one that involved a loving home. His father sold his mother to Lady Douglass, whilst she was pregnant with Robert. He did stipulate that when the child was born, he should be [...]

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Black British History Education Event 8/11/2011

Phil — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 04:01:09 +0000

Dear Friends, I hope you will be interested in an event that is taking place in two weeks time, on Tuesday 8th November at the Institute of Education in the University of London. The general picture of Black British history in our schools and universities is still very bleak. There are only two universities where [...]

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Job Vacancy – The National Portrait Gallery – PT

Phil — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 12:54:01 +0000

The National Portrait Gallery houses a unique collection of all forms of portraiture of the people who have made or who are currently contributing to British history and culture. With more than 1.8 million visitors each year, the Gallery is one of the country’s most important and popular galleries. Faith, Slavery and Identity Programme Internship [...]

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Captain Paul Cuffe

Phil — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 20:03:29 +0000

(NEW BEDFORD, Mass.) — It took nearly two hundred years but New Bedford now has a lasting tribute to Captain Paul Cuffe in the form of a park, dedicated today in his honor at the southern foot of historic Johnny Cake Hill. Paul Cuffe (1759-1817) was the free-born son of an African father and a [...]

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Conference on Writing Slavery

Phil — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 13:00:27 +0000

Call for Papers Writing Slavery after Beloved Literature, Historiography, Criticism International Symposium Université de Nantes – France March 16-17, 2012 Can Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987) be considered as a watershed in the contemporary representations of slavery and the slave trade, not only in the literary field, but also in historiography and Cultural Studies? This Symposium will attempt to [...]

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The Slave Trade – James Walvin

Phil — Wed, 04 May 2011 20:11:00 +0000

When I was asked to review “The Slave Trade” By James Walvin, It was with some trepidation because I had read many books on the Slave Trade during my time as a student and expected some weighty and wordy tome that would have to be waded through and then deciphered before I could even begin to think of writing [...]

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The Book of Negroes: 1783 & 2007

Phil — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:25:39 +0000

Aminata Diallo, an 11-year-old child, is taken from her village in West Africa and forced to walk for months to the sea in a coffle � a string of slaves. Eventually, she arrives in South Carolina where she begins a new life as a slave. Years later, she finds freedom, serving the British in the [...]

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Eric Eustace Williams

Phil — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 20:00:59 +0000

Eric Eustace Williams (25 September 1911 � 29 March 1981) was the first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago He served from 1956 until his death in 1981. He was also a noted Caribbean historian. Eric Williams was a descendant from the de Boissiere family which made its fortune trading African slaves illegally after slave [...]

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C.L.R. James – Writer

Phil — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 21:25:41 +0000

� CLR (Cyril Lionel RobertJames was a Marxist writer, political commentator, and Cricket lover. One of his most famous works is “The Black Jacobins”; a biography of “Tousaint Louverture” the Haitian Revoloutionary. Born in Trinidad, he attended the Queen’s Royal College on the island before becoming a cricket journalist and also writing fiction. In 1932, [...]

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Paying Tribute to the Black Hair Conversation

msafropolitan — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 20:07:31 +0000

This is a Contributed Article by Minna Salami from http://www.msafropolitan.com/ I like the perspective that India.Arie and Akon have in ‘I am not my hair’.It’s not a new song, most of you have heard it, danced to it, chanted it, maybe even as a spiritual practice of sort! Jokes aside, a very powerful message often [...]

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Bernie Grant – MP

Phil — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 22:19:13 +0000

The Late Bernie Grant was Britain’s foremost black spokesman, a champion of social and racial justice, and a pioneer for diversity. Born in Guyana, and resident in Britain since 1963, Bernie Grant worked as a British Railways clerk,he was also National Union of Public Employees area officer, and as a partisan of the [...]

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KS3 Britain’s Black History – Black Britons

Phil — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 10:48:09 +0000

Black History for Schools Teachers looking for black history for schools? There has been a Black Presence in the British Isles since Roman time. In more recent Centuries the black presence is well documented should you care to look for it. Teachers TV offers this Introductory video, which you can download from their site to start [...]

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Joseph Emidy – Musician

Phil — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:56:28 +0000

Joseph Emidy (also spelt Emedy or Emedee) had been second violin in the orchestra of the Lisbon opera house before being pressed into the Royal Navy in 1795. Born in West Africa in c.1775 JOSEPH ANTONIO EMIDY was enslaved as a child by Portuguese traders, taken to Brazil and subsequently Portugal where he became a [...]

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Tackling The National Debt 1771 Style

Phil — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:53:05 +0000

Today Most Western countries are struggling to pay off their national debt and keep their houses in order, it seems though, that things have been the same many times before. The 1770′s were no different. People came up with unpopular and outlandish ideas to balance the books, just as they do today. The article below [...]

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W.E Du Bois

Phil — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:48:36 +0000

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was born on (February 23, 1868? he was an American civil rights activist,Pan-Africanist,sociologist,historian,author, and editor. He grew up in Great Barrington, a predominately Anglo American town. His Mother, Mary Silvina Burghardt’s family was part of the very small free black population of Great Barrington, having long owned land in the [...]

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Ignatius Sancho: African Man of Letters

Phil — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:50:11 +0000

Ignatius Sancho was the first African prose writer whose work was published in England. Ignatius Sancho was the first African prose writer whose work was published in England. A former slave and renowned shopkeeper, Ignatius Sancho came to England at the age of two, it was 1731. His first recollections were of growing up in [...]

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Joseph Knight – Escaped Slave

Phil — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:53:31 +0000

Joseph Knight was born in Africa, and taken as a slave to Jamaica. He was sold to a Scottish landowner. He was taken to Scotland in 1769. Three years later a ruling in England (see Somersett’s Case) cast doubt on the legality of slavery under the common law. Assuming this applied to the rest of [...]

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Sarah Forbes Bonetta

Phil — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:08:48 +0000

Sarah Forbes was a Yoruba girl captured by the King of Dahomey in 1848 during a war in which her parents were killed. She was given as a present to Commander Forbes when he was visited Dahomey as an emissary of the British Government in 1850, and she subsequently took Forbes’ name as well as [...]

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Francis Barber-Servant

Phil — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:10:56 +0000

Francis Barber was a servant and companion to the writer Samuel Johnson.? Francis Barber was born in Jamaica around 1735. He came to Britain with a planter from the island. For one year he went to school in the small village of Barton nr Darlington in Yorkshire England. Then, as he got older he entered [...]

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Olaudah Equiano-Abolitionist

Phil — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:44:59 +0000

Olaudah Equiano, later to be known as (Gustavus Vassa) was born in what is today, Nigeria. Kidnapped from his African village at the age of eleven, and sold to a Virginia planter. He was later bought by a British naval Officer, Captain Pascal, as a present for his cousins in London. Equiano bought his freedom [...]

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Hispanics of African ancestry facts

Phil — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:05:00 +0000

Examiner.com 1492-1493- A black navigator, Pedro Alonso Nino, travels with Christopher Columbus 1494- The first Africans arrive in Hispaniola (current day Haiti – Dominican Republic) with Christopher Columbus. They are free persons. 1501- The Spanish king allows the introduction of enslaved African into Spain 1511-The first enslaved Africans arrive in Hispaniola. 1513-Thirty African accompany Vasco [...]

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Julius Soubise-Aristocrat

Phil — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:52:56 +0000

Julius Soubise was unusual for a Black man living at his time. He led an extremely privileged lifestyle. He came to England from the West Indies, carried by Captain Stair Douglas of the Royal Navy. Catherine Hyde, the Duchess of Queensberry met Soubise and persuaded the Captain to part with him as she found the [...]

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Ottobah Cugoano – Abolitionist

Phil — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:05:28 +0000

Ottobah Cugoano was born around 1757 in Ghana, he was kidnapped as a slave at around thirteen. He came to England from Grenada in 1752 and was set free. He was advised to be baptised to avoid being resold into Slavery he took the name John Steuart. He had close association with Oloudah Equiano and [...]

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Granville Sharpe

Phil — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:17:21 +0000

Sharpe was Possibly the Most Prominent of the Abolitionists and today, is certainly the most celebrated.? Sharp wrote numerous articles about slavery, religious history and now and then turned his hand to Social theory. He was born in Durham on 10 November 1735 and was one of eight children. He was sent to London [...]

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The Black Radicals – William Davidson

Phil — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:45:30 +0000

William Davidson was a Co Conspiritor in a plan to blow up Parliament.

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Black British Timeline

Phil — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:16:42 +0000

Black British Timeline First era of large scale settlement of blacks in Britain. Spans period of Britain’s involvement in the tri-continental slave trade. Black slaves were in attendance as sea captains sauntered through the streets. In Tottenham, All Hallows Church baptismal register records “John Cyras, Captain Madden’s black” in March 1718, and at St Mary’s [...]

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Slavery – A Brief Overview

Phil — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:19:30 +0000

What is unique about slavery in the Atlantic world is both its magnitude (a very large number of slaves) and its modernity (slavery occurred in the very recent past).? When studying slavery in the Atlantic, then, we must account for why slavery should be so intimately connected with modernity and with the rise of the [...]

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Ayo Johnson & Vincent Magombe on Africa Today – PART 1

Phil — Mon, 04 May 2009 21:49:36 +0000

Western media depiction of African affairs — Part 1 Vincent Magombe Ebere Nzewuji Ben TV Vuyiswa Ngqobongwana.

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Black heroes played key roles in the Texas Revolution

Phil — Fri, 01 May 2009 08:52:14 +0000

By SARAH MOORE April, 19, 2009 A free African-American in 1836 rendered “valuable assistance” to the Texas Army during the Texas Revolution, according to a historical marker on his grave near Nacogdoches. Records show that William E. Goyens and many others -slaves and freemen and indentured servants – all were involved in the revolution 173 [...]

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Water Spirit is Focus of National Museum of African Art Exhibition

Phil — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:40:13 +0000

WASHINGTON, DC.- Beautiful and seductive, protective yet dangerous, the water deity Mami Wata (pidgin English for “Mother Water”) is the focus of a traveling exhibition that opened Wednesday, April 1, at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art. “Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas” explores 500 years of the visual [...]

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Obama, race, reality and reconciliation

Phil — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:59:03 +0000

Two months into the administration of the first African-American president, Liz Sidoti of the Associated Press takes a look today at some of the “old racial stereotypes and Internet-fueled falsehoods” about President Barack Obama that have “flourished.” There was that New York Post cartoon portraying the president as a monkey, that California mayor resigning after [...]

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12 Things The Negro Must Do

Phil — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:20:31 +0000

Found an Interesting post today called 12 Things The Negro Must Do – How Not To Become Scapegoats For Degenerate Black Community Behavior. It was written in around the turn of the last century by a woman called Nannie Helen Burroughs. Nannie Helen Burroughs – Nannie Helen Burroughs (1879-1961) was an educator, orator, religious leader [...]

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Memorial Plaque dedcated to Olaudah Equiano

Phil — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:47:40 +0000

About 300 people attended Monday night’s dedication in St, Margaret’s Church, Westminster Abbey, of a memorial plaque to Olaudah Equiano (c.1745-97), the leading black abolitionist. Equiano had been baptised at the Church in February 1759. While people waited for the start of the service the Church organist played the ‘Trumpet Voluntary’ by John Stanley (1712-86) [...]

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African Sailors in Britain

Phil — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:07:00 +0000

Sailors from Africa, the West Indies and India have contributed to the life on board British ships during times of both peace and war. In times of conflict such as the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815) and of large-scale international trade, large numbers of men were required to fight and work on board Royal Navy ships and [...]

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-03-08

Phil — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:10:00 +0000

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A case for an apology and reparations for Africans and people of the African Diaspora

Phil — Tue, 04 Jul 2000 16:38:51 +0000

Letter by Courtenay Francis Raymond Barnett Arawak House, Queen Street, P.O. Box 45, Grand Turk, Turks and Caicos Islands Prime Minister Anthony Blair 10 Downing Street London SW 1 ENGLAND Dear Prime Minister Blair, Subject : A case for an apology and reparations for Africans and people of the African Diaspora I was born on [...]

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