1. Dred Scott
Sojourner Truth Life was very hard in the days of slavery for all African Americans. The Civil war would not come to pass for another sixty years and there were few whites who opposed slavery. Isabella Bomefree was born around 1797 on the estate of a Dutch patroon ("a landholder in New Netherla...
Would you agree that African culture survived more strongly in the Caribbean colonies than in North America? In 1562 John Hawkins, the first English slave-trader arrived in Africa with a fleet of three ships. Into these ships he put the three hundred black Africans he had abducted from Sierra Leo...