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Belinda Sutton: The remarkable Ghanaian...

Belinda Sutton: The remarkable Ghanaian slave who...

The legacy of Eliza Moore,...

The legacy of Eliza Moore, one of...

Belinda Sutton: The remarkable Ghanaian slave who won the first reparation petition, by Gift Luckson

Belinda Sutton: The remarkable Ghanaian slave who won the first reparation petition, by Gift Luckson Belinda Sutton (born 1713 in Africa), also known as Belinda Royall, was a woman born in what is now Ghana who was enslaved by the Royall family at the Royall House and Slave Quarters in Medford, Massachusetts, USA. Background Additional details of Sutton's family life are under ongoing research. Baptism records for a son Joseph, and a daughter Prine, appear in church records. Belinda was abandoned by Isaac Royall Jr. when he fled to Nova Scotia at...
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Roots

The life and...

EBENEZER OBEY’S HIT ALBUM AND HIS FEUD WITH BARRISTER In 1972, the Nigerian music legendary, Chief Ebenezer Obey, celebrated Olabisi Ajala and his adventures, in...
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Roots

The life and...

Moshood Adisa Olabisi Ajala, popularly known as Ajala the traveller in his heydays, wanted to capture the world but was eventually consumed by his...
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Feature

NEPTUNE FEATURE: The...

NEPTUNE FEATURE: The sad state of University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (Photos) Story from Rakiya MOHAMMED University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, (UMTH) once known to be...
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Africa

Story of Thomas...

The first black slave in American with a mental calculator for a brain, the man who could solve complex maths problem in his head. An...
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From The Archives

How the lone...

When explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark decided on an expedition to the Pacific Ocean in the 1800s, they talked on and on about...
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Facts

DNA evidence links...

Archer Alexander’s fame came largely after his death. Depicted in bronze kneeling before President Abraham Lincoln, his story also received renewed attention recently amid...
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Africa

The oldest tribes...

It is commonly believed that human lives evolved out of Africa millions of years ago. Many indigenous African tribes are direct descendants of some...
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Feature

When Harriet Tubman...

As clouds flitted across the moonlit sky on the night of June 2, 1863, three gunboats snaked up the Combahee River in South Carolina’s...
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Roots

How love is...

Every culture around the world has important values that they are unique to other cultures. These values and morals are taught to every generation...
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