Guy who is in charge of the Haitian revolution, he dies in the first part of it and some other guys take over (wasn't white, he was black), he gets captured and died in a prison in France, anti-slavery - equal rights for everyone Simon Bolivar Liberator, during the big revolutions ...
In the 1843 published version of his 1841 lecture “The Destiny of the People of Color,” African American physician, intellectual, author, classicist, and human rights activist James McCune Smith (1813–1865) reflected on the future of his oppressed people. From the midst of their shared stru...
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Then, in January 2010Haiti's worst earthquake in 200 years destroyed much of the capital, Port-au-Prince, and killed, according to Haitian officials, more than 200,000 people. The lost children of Haiti("60 Minutes") In the chaotic aftermath, dozens of gangs emerged. "They were working ...
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At around the same time that the porches at Kingsmill Plantation were built, shotgun homes emerged in New Orleans. A result of the major influx of Haitian free people of color who came to the United States in the early 1800s, shortly after the Haitian revolution, the shotgun home is an...
Before 1975, the Republic of Benin was known as Dahomey, its French colonial name. Three years after the coup that brought Major Kérékou to power, the name was changed to the People's Republic of Benin, reflecting the Marxist-Leninist ideology of the new government. After the collapse of...
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