Ultimately, who are we? Based on our twisted and tangled family histories, African Americans and Afro Caribbeans are the ones whose ancestors were sold and traded to satisfy enslavers' mortgages...
Some 30 years before the United States' Emancipation Proclamation was signed, 800,000 slaves in the British colonies were declared freed. "August First" or Slavey Abolition Act, marks the day in...