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Inoculation was introduced to America by a slave

Few details are known about the birth of Onesimus, but it is assumed he was born in Africa in the late seventeenth century before eventually landing in Boston. One of a thousand people of African descent living in the Massachusetts colony, Onesimus was a gift to the Puritan church minister Cotton Mather from his congregation in 1706. Onesimus told Mather about the centuries old tradition of inoculation practiced in Africa. By extracting the material from an infected person and scratching it into the skin of an uninfected person, you could deliberately introduce smallpox to the healthy individual making them immune. Considered extremely dangerous at the time, Cotton Mather convinced Dr. Zabdiel Boylston to experiment with the procedure when a smallpox epidemic hit Boston in 1721 and over 240 people were inoculated. Opposed politically, religiously and medically in the United States and abroad, public reaction to the experiment put Mather and Boylston’s lives in danger despite r...

Elizabeth Key Grinstead (b. 1630 - d. c. after 1665)

Elizabeth Grimstead was one of the first women of  African  ancestry in the North American colonies to sue for her freedom from  slavery  and win. Elizabeth Key won her freedom and that of her infant son John Grinstead on July 21, 1656 in the colony of Virginia. She sued based on the fact that her father was an Englishman and that she was a  baptized   Christian . Based on these two factors, her English attorney and common-law husband William Grinstead argued successfully that she should be freed. The lawsuit in 1655 was one of the earliest " freedom suits " by a person of African ancestry in the English colonies. In response to Key's suit and other challenges, in 1662 the  Virginia House of Burgesses  passed a law that the status of children born in the colony would follow the status of the mother, "bond or free", rather than the father, as had been the precedent in English  common law  and was the case in England. This was the...

Jean-Baptiste-Point DuSable (1745-1818)

Jean Baptiste Point du Sable,  a frontier trader, trapper and farmer is regarded as the first permanent resident of what became Chicago, Illinois.  There is very little definite information on DuSable’s early years. He was born free around 1745 in St. Marc, Saint-Dominique (Haiti). His mother was an African slave, his father a French mariner. DuSable traveled with his father to France, where he embarked on a fruitful education. It was through this and the work that he performed for his father on his ships, that he learned several languages including French, Spanish, English, and many Indian dialects. DuSable arrived in New Orleans in 1765 whereupon he learned the colony had become a Spanish possession. Having lost his identification papers and been injured on the voyage to New Orleans, DuSable was almost enslaved. French Jesuit priests protected him until he was healthy enough to travel. DuSable migrated north, up the Mississippi river, later settling in an area near pre...

Montford Point Marines (1942-1949)

The first African American U.S. Marines were trained at Camp Montford Point, in Jacksonville, North Carolina.  African Americans, from all states, were not sent to the traditional boot camps of Parris Island, South Carolina or San Diego, California. Instead, African American Marines were segregated - experiencing basic training at Montford Point - a facility at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Approximately twenty thousand (20,000) African American Marines received basic training at Montford Point between 1942 and 1949. On June 25, 1941,  President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 8802, which barred government agencies and federal contractors from refusing employment in industries engaged in defense production on the basis of race, creed, color, or national origin. The order required the armed services, including the Marine Corps, to recruit and enlist African Americans. With the beginning of World War II African Americans would get their chance to serve in the previou...

Black Herman

Black Herman was an African-American magician who combined magic with a strong separatist and militant political message, and became one of the most important Black magicians in history. His mission was to promote his view of Black power by attracting attention and support using stage magic, occult magic and superstition. Born in Amherst, Virginia, Benjamin Rucker learned the art of illusions from a huckster named Prince Herman. The two ran a medicine show, performing magic tricks to attract customers for their "Secret African Remedy", a tonic that was mostly alcohol with some common spices added for good measure. When Prince Herman died in 1909, Rucker, then only 17 years old, continued to travel with the show, focusing on the magic and dropping the medicine show. Creating his own stage persona, Rucker took the name "Black Herman", partially in honor of Prince Herman, and partly as an homage to Alonzo Moore, the famous African-American magician who wa...

The Negro Hockey League of the Maritimes (1890s-1920s)

Nova Scotia is considered the place of origin of modern ice hockey. The quantity of natural ponds ideal for skating, combined with the British gaming tradition helped facilitate the geographic and social conditions necessary for the development and creation of the game now known as Canadian Hockey. The roots of Canadian Hockey originated with the North American Indians but early African-Canadian players also helped shape the sport. By the mid-1890's, in an era when many believed blacks could not endure the cold, these African-Canadian athletes defied myths and developed a revolutionary style of hockey that was fast moving, tough, acrobatic, exciting, and entertaining. During the late 1890's games between black club teams in Nova Scotian towns and cities were arranged by formal invitation. By 1900, however, the Negro Hockey League of the Maritimes was created and was headquartered in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The Negro Hockey League produced players and athletes comparable to an...

Shunned AmEricans

So-called African Americans have become “shunned Americans” on our own homeland, despite the fact that America is our habitat.  Extreme and vicious measures have been taken to eliminate us in systematic acts of genocide based primarily on slander, error, and Hollywood misconceptions. It has not been an easy task to re-establish ourselves as the first people of America, because television, falsified   his -story, buried documentation, and the public fool/school system has made lying, supplanting, usurpers appear to be valid truth tellers and the discredited, but actual, claim holders appear to be lying identity thieves. Burying this truth appears to be a perpetually ongoing effort.   Even so, although it is not well known, the fact that so-called Black people were here first, is a thoroughly documented and well established fact, nonetheless. The Americas were full of melanin rich, copper colored, chocolate brown people, of the Negroid phenotype, when the first C...

EboLIE.!!!

EboLIE.!!! That disease was made to kill some Africans/African Americans off yes, mainly Africans, but it is not meant to wipe us out and kill us off completely . They developed other methods that do this. Ebola is only one of many. Ps They do want to develop a much stronger virus to do so. But it is down the line in there agenda. In my opinion Colloidal Silver is the answer to curing the body of "any and all illnesses."

The Release Of Two African-American Men

       "The release of two African-American men from prison in North Carolina after 30 years of incarceration for a murder they didn’t commit is yet another example of the American justice system’s racist targeting of African-Americans as the supposed primary criminal class in the country.        Between this outrageous case, the recent police broad daylight execution of Mike Brown, and the choke hold killing of Eric Garner, we must ask: isn’t it time we launch a movement to defeat the raci st law enforcement and criminal justice system’s systematic war on Black-America?        Why do we still pretend as if these are random isolated unconnected occurrences? This week’s news of the release of Henry Lee McCollum and Leon Brown after 30 years in jail for the 1983 rape and murder of an 11 year-old girl, represent another case of the gross miscarriage of justice." African Globe Staff

Black power is in your pocket...

Martin Luther King’s said in his mission statement for ‘Operation Breadbasket’: “Negroes need not patronize a business which denies them jobs, advancement [or] plain courtesy’’. He also advised African-Americans to support their own businesses. That they’d failed to take heed of this advice is now devastatingly apparent from New York to New Orleans and from Califo rnia to Chicago. The ‘Negro’ had dropped the collective ball in pursuit of individual goals. They had failed to realize that the most important battle against white supremacy is economic. Indeed, everything the Devil has done has been for monetary reasons…every African enslaved; every Native-American scalped; every foreign land stolen; every foodstuff poisoned; every tree felled; every school closed; every prison built; every bomb dropped; every oil well drained; every human killed; every animal slaughtered; every politician bought…the list goes on and on. ‘Money is the root of all evil’. And money best represents ...

The Debate - Ebola Man Made?

I'm glad that "they" kept and continue to keep meticulous records on everything that they do and have done to the indigenous man and woman. Because we are able to visually see and audibly hear their evils that have been and are done in the name of "Science" and "Religion." Before I learned of their atrocities I was in utter disbelief because, they have to live on the same Earth that I live on.    The Ebola virus has a patent just like Aids, syphilis, herpes and all other "man made" viruses that have desolated man. (Oh and before I go any further "Obesity" is also a disease.) Whether here in North America, South America, Australia, Africa, Europe or Asia diseases affect everyone whether your the one with a disease or not.  Many of you may have asked yourselves why. Why would there be a patent on something that is so deadly towards the whole of man and mankind? Well, the answer is simple. The "Powers That Be" think ...

Judge Me by the Color of My Skin

Every time, We curse Our Sacred Features; i.e. hair, lips, nose, eye color, and skin color, these self-negating thoughts block the development of our personal logic circuit. Consequently, We as a as People are blocked from authentic thought s and concepts. We have been so traumatized by this Branch of Hell, called America, that the mere mention of anything considered militant, radical, Pro-Black induces a panic attack. The fear of white reprisal for independent, self-reliant thoughts and behaviors has trapped Us in a debilitating, intellectual limbo that shuts down the reasoning capacity. The proof this psychic/mental malaise is in the Conspiracy of Silence in African-American Culture. Children intuitively sense that something is terribly wrong about the savagely brutal cycles of poverty, injustice and degradation. Yet, all the “adults" are talking about Satan Claus, Disney Land and Basketball Wives. Those irrepressible Freedom Fighters who have the temerity to speak agai...

John Punch

Beginning of African Enslavement In the English Colonies and the USA John Punch is one of the first servants on record to be sentenced to slavery on the grounds of race in what we now call the USA. In other words, this was the beginning of African enslavement in the English colonies and subsequently the USA. Punch was a servant of the Virginia planter Hugh Gwyn, a wealthy landowner, a justice and one of the few members of the House of Burgesses, representing Charles River  County (which would become York County in 1642). In 1640, Punch ran away to Maryland with two European indentured servants of Gwyn. The three men were returned to Virginia and on 9 July, the Virginia Governor's Council, which served as the colony's highest court, sentenced the two Europeans to have their terms of indenture extended by four years each, but they sentenced Punch to a life of servitude. In addition, the council sentenced the three men to thirty lashes each. Wikipedia

Virginia and the Negro

Virginia and the Negro [African] in the 17th Century and Established the Standard for Slavery in the USA "Negroes [Africans] first appeared in Virginia in August 1619, transported aboard a Dutch frigate, not as slaves but as indentured servants. These twenty Negroes, three of whom were women, bound themselves as indentured servants, to work for masters for a specified length of time in return for their passage across the Atlantic. For the next seventy-five years, indentured s ervitude by both Negroes [African] - and whites provided a satisfactory solution to the need for a labor supply. By 1691, this situation had undergone a dramatic change and it became customary to hold black indentured servants past their term of service. A variety of factors contributed to this change in status for Black indentured servants. The supply of free labor decreased while their costs went up. Britain began to take control of the lucrative African and Caribbean slave trade so that there wer...

Activists Ask YouTube Pranksters To Stop Pulling Stunts Like 'Selling Guns In The Hood' In Black Neighborhoods Before They Get Killed

YouTube personalities  Etayyim (ET)  and  Mohammed (MOE)  of  OckTV  are playing with fire and have been asked to stop. At this point it doesn't look like they will. The two have been pulling pranks like  "Do You Have A Problem"  "Fight Me Now in the Hood" and  "Selling Guns in the Hood"  in the predominantly African American sections of Brooklyn, New York. During the gun prank one guy pulls out his own pistol and points it in the face of one of the jokesters while telling him, "I already got a f*cking gun." The  New York Daily News  talked to a couple of community activists who say the brothers are risking their lives for laughs and YouTube views. “How stupid are they?” asked community advocate Tony Herbert. “They are particularly targeting minority neighborhoods. Somebody is going to get hurt. They are putting their lives in jeopardy.” “The ignorance is ridiculous,” added Edward Lovell of the Natio...