Austin Channing Brown

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Black History Week One

7 Medieval African Kingdoms You Should Know because our history doesnt begin with slavery.

 

The Atlantic Slave Trade During Its Heyday & The Remarkable Life of Olaudah Equiano because our survival is truly remarkable.

 

African Resistance to Slavery because "Africans started to fight the transatlantic slave trade as soon as it began."

 

The Half Has Never Been Told because we continue to tell only half the story of slavery (if that much). 

 

When Slaves Go On Strike because "slaves freed themselves." 

 

Reconstruction: The Second Civil War because the end of the Civil War only initiated a new wave of terror and injustice against black people

 

History's Lost Black Towns because you cant erase our history