Free People of Color

Black Women Enterprising Freedom in Colonial Santo Domingo

Black women have been “winning” for Black freedom since the sixteenth century. Groups of enslaved African and African-descendant women who

“La negra tiene tumba’o, nunca camina de la’o.” -Celia Cruz In 1985, West German band Boney M. released its eighth album, Eye Dance,

Throughout the Antebellum era, the institution of slavery worked to strip Black women of their humanity and human rights and

This post is part of our forum on “The Significance of the Black Family in the US.” In today’s post,

This post is part of our forum on “The Significance of the Black Family in the US.” In 1795, on