In 1860 William Ellison was South Carolina's largest Negro slaveowner. InBlack Masters. A Free Family of Color in the Old South, authors Michael P. Johnson and James L. Roak write a sympathetic account of Ellison's life. From Ellison's birth as a slave to his death at 71, the authors...
In the years before the Civil War, Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man from upstate New York, is kidnapped and sold into slavery in the South. Subjected to the cruelty of one malevolent owner (Michael Fassbender), he also finds unexpected kindness from another, as he strugg...
Black history in the United States is a rich and varied chronicle of slavery and liberty, oppression and progress, segregation and achievement. Though captive and free Africans were likely present in the Americas by the 1400s, the kidnapped men, women and children from Africa who were sold firs...
Slave owners had the right to punish the slave who broke the rule or was against the system. Slaves were often beaten by their owners or killed. After the Civil War, one free slave reported that his owner killed an older slave who was teaching him to read. In theory, an owner who ...
Preface: The Perfect Slave Black Masculinity and the Cinema of Policing offers a critical survey of the contemporary field of images of black masculinity in early twenty-first-century United States.1 It argues that popular representations of black masculine authority have become increasingly important ...
Whereas the two largest slave societies, Brazil and the United States, might logically invite comparison, Dantas explains that the specific cities used in her study proved ideal for her purposes; both used slave labor, and each city also witnessed the considerable growth of freed men and women ...
Once a slave named Squire was hired-out by his owner. A talented performer, he was allowed to travel alone. The problem was that, when Squire traveled, he often failed to return. After numerous escape attempts, the police captured him and amputated his right arm as punishment. Confined to...
Cruz continued her career, first in Mexico, and then in the United States, the country that she took as her definitive residence. In the 1970s she was fully incorporated into the Salsa genre, especially after her musical association with other artists of the genre within the Fania All-Stars...
Black women in the United States have experienced substantial improvements in health during the last century, yet health disparities persist. These health disparities are in large part a reflection...
The first officially chartered Black-owned bank, True Reformers Bank, was founded on March 2, 1888, by the Rev. William Washington Browne. A former slave and Union Army officer, Browne was founder of the Grand Fountain United Order of True Reformers fraternal organization. True Reformers Bank ...