17th Century (1600-1699)
Stephen Bishop (1821-1857)
Stephen Bishop was an American cave explorer and geologist who became one of the first people to explored Mammoth Cave...
Bedford Stuyvesant, New York (1636- )
Bedford Stuyvesant, New York, is the oldest Black community in Brooklyn. Established by the Dutch in 1636 as part of...
Harlem, New York (1658- )
Harlem began in 1658 as a Dutch village founded by settlers who named it after the city of Haarlem, in...
The Obas of Benin (1200 to the present) : A Brief History of the Rulers of A West African State for Eight Centuries
In the following article, Collins Edigin, a historian at the University of Benin in Benin City, Nigeria, describes the rule...
Antônio Vieira (1608-1697)
Jesuit priest, missionary, diplomat, orator, and theologian Antônio Vieira was born in Lisbon, the capital city of Portugal, on February...
North from Mexico: The First Black Settlers in the U.S. West
The first Black settlers in what is now the western United States were Spanish speakers who came north from what...
The 1619 Project (August 14, 2019-)
The 1619 project was a collection of essays, poems, and photos surrounding the origins of slavery and subsequent inequalities in...
First Africans in the Jamestown Colony (1619)
In 1619, 12 years after the first permanent English colony was established at Jamestown, Virginia, a small cargo of enslaved...
The Evolution of Slavery in Virginia, 1619 to 1661
As you will see below, historians agree that the first twenty Africans landed in Virginia in 1619. What is in...
