Europe – Great Britain – Scotland
Slavery and Freedom on a Canadian Shore: Africa’s Children in Nova Scotia, 1750-2009
In the account below Nova Scotian historian Sharon Robart-Johnson describes the research and writing that culminated in her book, African’s...
Bernie Grant (1944-2000)
Born on the 17th of February 1944 in Georgetown, Guyana, Bernie Grant was elected to the British House of Commons...
Dorothy Porter Wesley (1905-1995)
Dorothy Porter Wesley (1905-1995), a scholar-librarian and bibliographer was born in Warrenton, Virginia in 1905, to her father, Hayes Joseph...
The History of Belize
In comparison to many countries that have ancient histories spanning over thousands of years, Belize (a small country right below...
Carl H. McCall (1935- )
Carl McCall, former comptroller for the State of New York, was the first African American nominated by the Democratic Party...
Robert S. Duncanson (1817-1872)
Robert S. Duncanson was a landscape and portrait painter born in northern New York in 1817. His father was Scottish...
Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield (1819-1876)
Born a slave in 1819 in Natchez, Mississippi, Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield had little reason to dream of the life that...
James McCune Smith (1813-1865)
Although many twenty-first century readers are aware of his work only through his introduction to Frederick Douglass’s My Bondage and...
Elijah McCoy (1843-1929)
Elijah McCoy, one of the two most prolific black inventors of the 19th Century (the other was Granville T. Woods),...
