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History Lesson: Sara Baartman…1st Video Vixen
Interesting, I remember hearing this and finally was able to see this video. I had to share it…. your thoughts?Filed under: history, slavery Tagged: African American History, black history, Faces of...
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Important Moment In Black History
1705 Massachusetts makes marriage and sexual relations between blacks and whites illegal. via PBSFiled under: Black History, history Tagged: black history, Black History Month, slavery
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Moments In Black History
1857 Richmond, Virginia, passes a comprehensive slave code that, among other stipulations, prohibits self-hiring by slaves, restricts blacks from entering certain parts of the city, specifies street...
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Moment In Black History
1831 North Carolina passes a law enforcing prohibition against teaching slaves to read and write as well as against providing slaves with reading materials like books or pamphlets.Filed under: Black...
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Moments in Black History
1712 Pennsylvania prohibits the importation of slaves. 1760 New Jersey prohibits the enlistment of slaves in the militia without their master’s permission. 1785 Virginia deems any person with black...
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Moments In Black History
1636 Colonial North America’s slave trade begins when the first American slave carrier, Desire, is built and launched in Massachusetts. 1640 John Punch, a runaway black servant, is sentenced to...
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Moments In Black History
1640 New Netherlands law forbids residents from harboring or feeding runaway slaves. 1732 Slaves aboard the ship of New Hampshire Captain John Major kill both captain and crew, seizing the vessel and...
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