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The 1851 Christiana Riot involving slave recapture viewed as the propeller of the U.S. Civil War
The Christiana Riot which took place in 1851 at Lancaster County, Pennsylvania arose when Southern slave catchers and Northern abolitionists who despised slavery clashed. In the years before the abolition...
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Ever knew the Electoral College was a compromise of slavery?
The United States Electoral College consists 538 electors with a majority of 270 electoral votes required to elect the President. The state’s entitled allotment of electors equals the number of members...
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Beyond rape and assault claims, here’s the real reason Blacks were lynched
By 1900, 20,000 Blacks owned businesses in the U.S. despite hurdles put in the way. The National Negro Business League was formed to meet and deliberate at conventions, show each other that they could...
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Sonny Jones; Beaumont’s first Black bus driver decades after the 1943 riots
When the Beaumont Riot of 1943 was contained after hours of ransacking black homes and businesses on the flimsy claim of a black man raping a white, the society was even more polarized. Given that destruction...
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Hardest hit Nigeria acts swiftly to reverse U.S. permanent residency visa restriction
The United States’ latest permanent residency visa restriction involving nationals of Nigeria, Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan and Myanmar has received swift reaction from Africa’s most populous nation....
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When a psychologist prescribed escape attempts of slaves in 1851 as mental illness curable by whipping
The labor of enslaved Africans used in the cotton and tobacco fields on southern plantations reaped in great sums for the white slave owners. With calls for the abolition of the pernicious act mounting,...
