Black Volunteers in the Nation’s First Epidemic
1794
Read Absalom Jones and Richard Allen’s narrative of the African American community’s response to the 1793 yellow fever epidemic.
Phillis Wheatley’s poem on tyranny and slavery
1772
Take a deep dive into one of Wheatley's best-known poems.
Diversity in Contemporary Black Communities
by Mamadi Corra
Learn more about shifts in the foreign-born Black population and its consequent impacts on the diversity of African Americans today.
A Founder’s Journey from Slave Trader to Abolitionist
with Michael Thurmond
Learn how James Oglethorpe, founder of Georgia, helped to secure Ayuba bin Suleiman Diallo’s freedom.
The First Age of Reform
by Ronald G. Walters
Learn more about the debates related to colonization in the context of other antebellum reform movements.
Lord Dunmore's Proclamation
1775
Learn more about the proclamation offering freedom to enslaved people who joined the British army.
Kongo, Christianity, and the Diaspora
with John K. Thornton
Learn more about Kongolese cultural practices merging with Christianity and evolving across the Atlantic.
Kongo and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
with John K. Thornton
Explore the development and evolution of, and forms of resistance against, the Kongolese-Portuguese slave trade.
Christianity and the Kingdom of Kongo
with John K. Thornton
Take a deep dive into Nzinga a Nkuwu (João), Nzinga Mbemba (Afonso), and the Kingdom of Kongo's move to Catholicism.
Ayuba bin Suleiman Diallo to His Father
ca. 1733
Read a translation of the letter that helped to secure Diallo’s freedom from enslavement.
Slavery and Freedom in Brazil
by Keila Grinberg
Explore the pervasive impact of slavery in Brazil, and the long fight to abolish the system of enslavement.
“M. L. King Meets Nixon in Ghana”
1957
Read this piece from the Pittsburgh Courier that connects the Black Freedom struggles in Ghana and the US.
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