At the beginning of the 19th century very few people in Africa were practising Christians apart from Ethiopians, Coptic Egyptians and people living in the remnants of the Kongolese Empire (modern ...

The Monroe family, 19th century Black California pioneers, rose from slavery to become landowners in Coloma, California. ‘We’re Just a Little Hurt’—Canadian, Minnesota Border Towns Wonder ...

Thus, in the context of 19th-century Norristown, Shadd stands out as a groundbreaking Black educator and very likely the first Black person to teach in any Norristown school. We found no evidence ...

In Stanisław Wasylewski’s monumental work Życie Polskie w XIX Wieku (19th-Century Polish Life), he ... when the Tsar decreed an amnesty – although people would still be imprisoned for wearing black up ...

Born into enslavement in Tennessee, Gillespie resettled in Milwaukee by the mid-1850s and challenged local officials who ...