“A Red Record”
1895
Read an excerpt from Ida B. Wells-Barnett’s analysis of lynchings in the US at the end of the nineteenth century.
The Black Middle Class Needs Attention Too
2020
Read excerpts and view charts from a report on the state of the Black middle class.
Preliminary Declaration from the Constitution of Haiti
1805
Read a translation of some of Haiti’s founding principles as an independent nation.
Arkansas Petition for Freedmen’s Rights
1869
Read a petition on behalf of formerly enslaved African Americans on indigenous territory requesting tribal citizenship and benefits.
“Walker’s Appeal”
1829
Black abolitionist David Walker wrote a powerful pamphlet on the effects of enslavement on African Americans and what enslaved people should do to escape.
“The Maroons in Ambush . . . in Jamaica”
1801
View this depiction of a maroon revolt in Jamaica.
“Les Fétiches”
1938
View Loïs Mailou Jones’s painting, which brought Négritude from literature to art.
Marcus Garvey at His Desk
1924
View this photograph of Marcus Garvey, the founder and leader of the Universal Negro Improvement Association.
The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments
1865, 1868, and 1870
Read the three Reconstruction Amendments.
Solomon Northup Remembers the New Orleans Slave Market
1853
Read an excerpt from Northup’s autobiographical account, Twelve Years a Slave.
The Capture of Black Seminoles
1836
Read Gen. Thomas Jesup’s diary entries from the Second Seminole War.
A Mother Searching for Her Children
1866
View this newspaper advertisement placed by a mother who was sold away from her family.
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