One Way (Middle) Passage - was a journey of 500 miles across the Atlantic to America. As many as 200 black men, women, and children were packed below decks, squeezed onto platforms built in tiers spaced so close that sitting upright was impossible. Maroons - were a group of runaway slaves that for...

During four hundred years of slavery, black people did not accept the idea as easily as many thought. According to Americans in the 19th century, several factors led to violent slave rebellions regarding plantation slavery and the black slaves who labored under that system. Whites generally believed...

It could be considered almost ludicrous that most African-Americans were content with their station in life. Although that was how they were portrayed to the white people, it was a complete myth. Most slaves were dissatisfied with their stations in life, and longed to have the right of freedom...

Black Americans Black Americans are those persons in the United States who trace their ancestry to members of the Negroid race in Africa. They have at various times in United States history been referred to as African, coloured, Negro, Afro-American, and African-American, as well as black. The...

THE BLACK RESISTANCE During four hundred years of slavery, black people did not accept the idea as easily as many thought. When Europeans took thousands of Africans from their native land against their will, one can only expect resistance. Through the struggle, enslaved Africans formed slave rh...

Born October fourteenth, forty-five years ago, I wasn't always free. I couldn't always read and write. At this moment I am a free woman, telling my story, writing my story. Life for me wasn't always in Boston nor was the road smooth and straight. It wasn't too long ago that I...

Fires of Jubilee The author, Stephen B. Oates described this book as a book that's adventurous and never ending. The authors purpose of this book was to bring back the past and tell us what we didn't know about the slave rebellion. Tell us what was actually happening behind the grea...