A Black Family Now Owns the Site of America’s Largest Slave Revolt
Growing up, Dayna James never thought she’d willingly step foot on a plantation, let alone thank God for one. On an early ...
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Shonga: Rice farmers seek intervention as dry season flood submerges 3,000 hectares
TUNDE OYEKOLA examines the unprecedented dry season flooding in three Kwara LGAs, where over 5,000 rice farmers lost more than 3,000 hectares of farmland worth N11.5bnAs Nigeria grapples with the ...
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We lost investments, livelihood to flood - Kwara rice farmers
Sulieman Mohammed, who has started witnessing his breakthrough in dry season rice production was devastated when a flood last week, washed away his entire investment. The incident left him in agony ...
Preserving the Gullah Geechee heritage: What's being done in the Wilmington area
The Gullah Geechee descended from Africans enslaved on the rice, indigo and cotton plantations. Efforts are underway to ...
7 things to know about Gullah Geechee heritage in the Wilmington area
The Gullah Geechee Heritage Corridor stretches from the coast of Florida to the coast of North Carolina. Here's what you need ...
Rare portraits reveal the humanity of the slaves who revolted on the Amistad
On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...