Enslavers

No part of our land or seascape should bear the name of these enslavers and colonialists.

The divide enslavers created between Black people based on skin tone isn’t just evident in families.

To celebrate their newly realized independence, Haitians began to indulge in the things that their enslavers had prohibited, including soup joumou.

Enslaved Black people were shipped from those countries to Charleston from the late 1600s to early 1800s and sold to enslavers in various parts of the state.

Yet, somehow, in the 19th century, the thinking went that the former enslavers of the Haitian people needed to be compensated, rather than the other way around.

And the slaveholding planter class would witness the rise of an organized movement to stop the expansion of slavery and curb the power enslavers held over key institutions like the Senate and the Supreme Court.

Armed conflict between American-identified enslavers and a Mexican state that outlawed slavery in 1829 was among the causes of the Mexican-American War, which won for the United States much of the Southwest and California.

Shatha initially tried to avoid the wrath of her enslavers by saying she was the mother of her three-year-old brother.

Fearing the influence of a society that had successfully fought and won against their enslavers, the United States and European powers refused to recognize Haiti, the second republic in the western hemisphere.