Federal Writers’ Project: Slave Narrative Project I usually write history from a secondhand point of view. Luckily for us, the people who lived in those times left a written record of what it was like. […]
Let’s get right down to it, from the beginning, George Washington owned more slaves than Scarlett O’Hara and Rhett Butler in “Gone With The Wind”… The first president of the United States had enslaved more […]
I haven’t written about a black icon in ages. You know as a young child, I had heard the name Sojourner Truth in class, but we never quite covered why she was so important in […]
Ebenezer Creek is in Effingham County, Georgia. Why in the Effingham they would call it that, I don’t even know. It’s just Effingham crazy… anyway, our story begins there. So, let’s get some historical perspective […]
Hi readers,I have been working on a story that’s going to tie into this one, so I thought I would repost it so it will be easier to follow along. Yep… dastard is a funny […]
Chicot County is in Arkansas. If you know anything about Arkansas after the Civil War… is that they usually don’t allow that shat down there. Arkansas was a confederate state and left the Union in […]
The New Negro Alliance was an organization of black men and women based in Washington DC. It was founded in 1933 and its goal was to organize pickets, boycotts and other forms of nonviolent protest […]
So, when we start talking about slavery and 1739, we are talking about first generation African Americans. The ones that came straight out of the jungle and still had hair on their feet… okay they […]
If ” I wish a cussword would,” had a face, then that would be the face of Robert Charles. Robert Charles died in a hail of bullets and that’s the way he wanted it…(Pictured above, […]
Before the days of the Civil War, mass trials involving black men were hardly ever heard of. Mostly because black men never got to trial. They were usually summarily hung from the tallest tree they […]
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