On this date in 1804, “Black Laws” were enacted in the state of Ohio. The Congress of the Buckeye state became the first legislative body in the country to enact Black Laws, intended to restrict the rights of free blacks.
learn more*On this date, in 1807, The Slave Trade Act was passed. officially An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade was a bill of the Parliament of the United Kingdom prohibiting the slave trade in the British Empire. It did not abolish the practice of slavery; it encouraged British action to press other nation-states to abolish their own slave trades. Many of the supporters thought […]
learn more*The Prospect Hill Plantation is affirmed on this date in 1808. This was a former 5,000-acre plantation in Jefferson County, Mississippi. In the early 19th century, the plantation was owned by planter Isaac Ross of South Carolina, who enslaved African people to farm cotton as a cash crop. In 1830, Ross and other major planters […]
learn more*This date, in 1808, affirms the West Africa Squadron was formed. They were a regiment of the British Royal Navy. Also known as the Preventative Squadron, its goal was to suppress the Atlantic slave trade by patrolling the coast of West Africa. Formed after the British Parliament passed the Slave Trade Act 1807 and based out of […]
learn more*On this date in 1808, Chile declared its Independence from Spain. This declaration eventually led to over a decade of violence and war, which did not end until the last royalist stronghold fell in 1826. At the start of 1808, the Captaincy General of Chile – one of the smallest and poorest colonies in the […]
learn more*On this date in 1808, The Spanish American Wars of Independence and Black history are shared briefly. These Spanish-American wars of independence began on this date and were the numerous encounters against Spanish rule in Spanish America during the early 19th century. Based on the Middle Passage and its suppression of African slave labor and […]
learn more*The Corps of Colonial Marines began on this date in 1810. They were two British Marine units raised from former Black slaves for service in the Americas. At the behest of Alexander Cochrane, the units were created at two separate points during the wars (Napoleonic Wars, War of 1812). They were later disbanded once the […]
learn more*Afro Mexicans are celebrated on this date in c 1500. Also known as Black Mexicans, they have a predominant heritage from Sub-Saharan Africa. As a single community, Afro Mexicans include individuals descended from Black slaves brought to Mexico during the Middle Passage era in the transatlantic African slave trade, as well as others of […]
learn more*November is Native American history month, and the birth of Chief Billy Bowlegs in c. 1810 is celebrated on this date. He was a Native American leader of the Seminoles and slave owner of Africans in Florida during the Second and Third Seminole Wars against the United States. Bowlegs was born into a family of hereditary chiefs descended from Cowkeeper of the Oconee tribe of the Seminole in the […]
learn more*The birth of Archer Alexander is celebrated on this date in c. 1810. He was a former slave and laborer who served as the model for the emancipated slaves in the Emancipation Memorial in Washington, D.C. He was the subject of an 1885 biography, The Story of Archer Alexander, written by William Greenleaf Eliot. Archer Alexander was born a […]
learn moreOn this date in 1811, Black slaves rebelled against their white masters in Louisiana. Charles Deslondes and other slaves began the revolt on the plantation of Manual Andry.
learn more*On this date in 1811, we affirm the Valongo Wharf. This was a Portuguese slave trade processing location in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Its location is between the current Coelho e Castro and Sacadura Cabral streets. We use this date because Rio de Janeiro was founded on March 1, 1565. In the mid-1400s, Brazil […]
learn more*Angola, Florida, is celebrated on this date, c1812. This Black community of up to 750 maroons in Florida from 1812 until Florida became a U.S. territory in 1821 when it was destroyed. The location was along the Manatee River in Bradenton, Florida, near Manatee Mineral Springs Park. The exact location is expansive, ranging from where […]
learn more*Black history and the War of 1812 are celebrated on this date in 1812. This was a conflict between England and the United States. Blacks fought on both sides though many fought for the same reason: freedom from chattel slavery. In the Revolutionary War, black and white patriots fought together, which helped convince many Northern states […]
learn more*William Tappan Thompson was born on this date in 1812. He was a white-American segregationist, journalist, and writer who promoted the Confederacy’s second national flag as “The White Man’s Flag.” Originally from Ohio, Thompson moved to Savannah, Georgia, where he co-founded the Daily Morning News and became an editor. Thompson left the paper in 1867 to travel to Europe. In 1868, […]
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